America's Closing Journey

Preface                                                                                                

1. Subservient Love: The Cornerstone of Creation                                 

2. The Heaven-born Desire to Live                                                   

3. Truth on the Scaffold Wrong on the Throne                                               

An Appeal                                                                                        

PREFACE

“Divide and conquer” is the age-old tactic for military success.  This defense-breaching principle applies to the ruin of friendships, marriages and nations.  And when a nation becomes divided, politicians and philosophers alike have encouraged national unity if a nation is to survive.  Even the New Testament Savior of the human race, Jesus Christ acknowledged the value of unity when He said, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation.”

The greatest gift next to life is our mutual peace and freewill.   But our freedom of choice must work to the benefit of all, for to bless one class of people to the neglect of another is dishonorable.  And yet, our society continuously blesses one class of people to the acceptable devaluation of another.  One catastrophic example: I have spent time with children infected with the AIDS virus at a children’s camp called The Boggy Creek Gang in central Florida.  This camp is a wonderful getaway for chronically ill children who spend much of their lives in hospitals.  It was built by General Norman Schwartzkoff and Paul Newman who used their clout to raise thirty-four million dollars to build it.  Did you know that children bear this terminal disease because of the decisions of grownups to spread adultery?  This is the only reason children have this terminal disease.  If there was no adultery the kids would not have AIDS.  And adultery is encouraged in every aspect of our society from the financial dynasties of pornography and television to the lifestyles of homosexuality and various addictions.  This is where we see a gruesome consequence from the violation of the 7^th Commandment of GOD that says, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”  And few in our society have the humility to acknowledge that American law contributes to the murder of innocent children.  This murder of children violates the 6^th Commandment, which says, “Thou shalt not kill.”  And now, to evade responsibility, most who are collaborators with this murder choose to pass the responsibility to another, which violates the 9^th Commandment that says, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”  Adultery has literally stolen the lives of these children, which violates the 8^th Commandment that says, “Thou shalt not steal.”  Do you see that to violate any one of the Ten Commandments is to violate them all?

These children were handed the death-sentence because others demand their unbridled freedom, regardless of the cost to others—even to the literal sacrifice of the lives of children.  Our society has adopted a cruel indifference preventing them from seeing the great lesson of the 6^th Commandment, which teaches, to neglect to save life is to kill.  The value of life needs to be held as sacred to us all because to insure the security of others is to insure the same security for ourselves.  And so, to remove the security of life for others is to remove that same security of life for ourselves.  The threat of harm to innocent life is all around us; and in each case the threat is joined to the desecration of the Ten Commandment Law given by the Creator of the Universe to the human race over 3,400 years ago through the hands of the one man who could be entrusted with their care: “Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.”  When these ten simple laws of life are examined it becomes obvious that if everyone kept the last six Commandments (the ones that deal with our personal safety with one another) there would be no personal harm done to any man, woman, or child.  But our society actually encourages the continued violation of the Ten Commandments, all under a distorted definition of freedom, which is really no freedom at all for those victimized by its abuse. 

       To be true to principle we must acknowledge that the liberal lifestyle is not alone in their disregard of what the Holy Bible calls “the law of liberty.”  We see conservative Christians also violating the Ten Commandments.  They are eager to point out the sins of liberal thinkers but are arrogantly blind to their own violations.  The world’s most influential church, the Roman Catholic Church, has removed any obligation to obey two of the Ten Commandments: the 2^nd and the 4^th.   The 2^nd Commandment was removed entirely, while the 4^th Commandment has been substituted with the world’s oldest tradition of pagan idolatry: “the venerable day of the sun.”  Protestants are in agreement with the Catholic Church in their defiance to the 4^th Commandment.  In summation, their work is to evangelize the world into a universal overruling of the Ten Commandments; and this is declared as the working of righteousness.  Basically, the Conservative Christian declares to the Liberal Agnostic: “My sins are acceptable, but yours are not.”  This selfish pick and choose obedience, where it is literally said, “this one I will follow, this one I will not; this one I will obey, but this one I will not” reveals their blindness to understand that to trespass the boundaries of any of the Ten Commandments threatens the removal of them all.  Today’s Christianity has the Sacred Law of GOD divided against itself; and, as said before, anything divided against itself cannot stand the test of time.  The ignorance of our religious leaders on this principle, whether willful or innocent, makes them unfit to govern themselves let alone be entrusted with any moral dominion in our society. 

       And now, the U.S. Constitution is being divided against itself.  The pendulum is swinging so far to the Conservative Right that some of our leaders including our President are leading a charge to change our Constitution.  Alter the Constitution?  Open the door to change the document that has stayed the hand of religious tyranny in this country for over two hundred years?  Once that door is opened everyone will want to get their hands in there and meddle with the wisest guidelines of secular government ever given to men.  How many times do bills pass through Congress with additional legislation included that has no association with the bill’s intended purpose?   That is exactly what would happen should our Constitution be exposed for so-called modification.  Make no mistake: amending our Constitution is just a pretext to open the floodgates to wash away the very freedoms of our Constitution.  “We the people” need to hold back as long as we can this tide that threatens to drown us all.  The first amendment reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”  In writing the first amendment our forefathers understood the ethical logic of Jesus Christ when He spoke the following magnificent words to His disciples on the night of The Last Supper: “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them.  And they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.  But ye shall not be so.” Luke 22:25,26.  Our forefathers honored this explicit command of Christ by giving it “top billing” in the United States Constitution.  All who claim to follow Jesus Christ are to regard religious tyranny as a sin.  Fact: every freedom held as sacred by us as Americans has its origin in the Gospel of Jesus Christ: everything from freedom of speech to freedom of worship.  And these freedoms can only be insured through man’s freewill choice to honor the Ten Commandments.  Not eight.  Not nine.  But Ten.   The relationship of GOD’S Ten Commandment Law to the United States Constitution is simple: On the one table of stone GOD Himself engraved the first four Commandments: these address your personal relationship with GOD, and no one has the right to impose on you how your relationship is carried out.  This allows the wide variety of religions to carry out their chosen convictions.  But on the second table of stone are engraved the last six Commandments.  In these lie the perfect rule of government to order our daily lives.  Our forefathers understood that honoring the last six would guaranty the mutual safety of every American citizen.  The obvious lesson of history reveals that these are the ones that when violated have caused every tragedy to befall the human race throughout time.  And the study of religious history reveals that whenever the first four Commandments are violated this always leads to the violation of the last six.  This has ever been the danger of uniting church with state.  In the eyes of Jesus Christ this is an unholy union, for the union of church and state led to His own torture and crucifixion.In order to uplift the grand goal of human ideals we need to work to remove from American law every threat that can be used for the purpose of weakening the freedoms of the Constitution: everything from imposing the “Christian” GOD on anyone, either by public prayer, or the legislation of Sunday laws (a day that has no formal sanction in the New Testament), to any behavior that defies the last six Commandments: the one’s that preserve our personal safety with one another.  Jesus declared of all who make a public display of prayer to be hypocrites (Matt.6:5).  He would prefer us to follow His words: “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” Matt.6:6.  Man’s method flatters to arrogance.  Christ’s method humbles: quieting the soul to the blessing of humility.  We as Americans can rejoice in the freedom of speech to expose the reckless hypocrisy of both Conservatives and Liberals, showing logically and ethically their mutually harmful course; but also providing the only solution, which is to uplift the Law that rules in the heavens, the Law that stands as the rainbow over the Ten Commandments: the Law of Unselfish Love.  “Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”  Only by obeying this Law can America survive.  In summation, when we refuse to sacrifice any innocent life, then, and only then, will we have reached the epitome of human nobility in this country, showing the world the essence of true freedom.  This is the standard our forefathers intended for this country; and the cry of conscience bears witness.  

The obvious lesson of history

       Today, America is descending slowly but surely into the class of fallen nations.  Environmentally, economically and emotionally, America is sustained by a very fragile support structure.  Our vulnerability to the ever-increasing assaults of nature, selfishness and industry guarantees that should an economic collapse become imminent a great change in our society’s manner of living will take place.Within this feeble framework a social hatred is brewing in America, and many professed Christians are among them.  With the tide of power shifting decisively towards the “Religious Right” the eventual outcome should be obvious to all.  Today’s flow of events ushering America to the brink of ruin are paving the way for the resurrection of a church/state union.  And once our religious leaders take the throne of human government their decisions will swiftly lead this country to collapse, for they will legislate ancient sins of religious decadence to the throne of modern federal law.  And this chosen course is nowhere sanctioned in the Holy Bible: it has no blessing from “the God” of Creation.  Please, never blame GOD for the atrocities of men—especially of men claiming His service!  This volume will prove logically, ethically, and Biblically that our religious leaders have turned their backs on the example set forth by the One they claim to serve, Jesus Christ.  He set for us an example of conduct that shuns all association with tyranny.  Christ forced the will of no man.  And yet, all throughout the history of the Roman Catholic Church, popes and prelates denied the perfect doctrine of Christ by commanding murder, torture and theft as having the approval of GOD, and they commanded all civil leaders to carry out the most gruesome atrocities against anyone who would not acknowledge the supremacy of the pope in the affairs of men.  As a result of their autocracy over fifty million men, women and children perished at their hands.  And the simple rudiment of Bible prophecy is clear: “The thing that hath been it is that which shall be.”  In other words, the history of bloodshed at the hands of the Roman Church is the prophecy for its resurrection.  You are about to learn how this “revival” of tyranny will be spearheaded by Protestant America by renouncing our Constitutional liberties.  And just as it was in the past, this fascism will hide behind the Good Name of Jesus Christ. The rise and fall of every nation through history illustrates this same lesson of how the time of a nation’s fall corresponds to its abandonment of human decency.  Nazi Germany predicted a thousand year reign.  It barely made it to ten.  When “Christian America” takes up the same banner (and it will) its length of days will be similar.

       Logically and ethically this volume will show that the Holy Bible addresses each and every aspect of a nation’s survival while pointing the reader to the deepest aspirations of the human heart, assuring of their perfect fulfillment for those who live under Christ’s standard of decency.  In light of this message it will be expressed in detail the easily provable fact of how today’s religious leaders have denied the Bible’s directive calling for obedience to GOD’S Law: the only Law where we are safe in one another’s care.  Jesus said it plain enough: “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.”  But the absolutes of Scripture have been overruled by vain traditions found in today’s Christianity that are eternally aggressive against the simple teachings of Jesus Christ.  And all church denominations to this day enforce a protocol that is diametrically opposed to GOD’S Perfect Law: the only Law that promotes and secures the utopian government that every human being deeply aspires to see exist.  Christians are called to duplicate the social fabric of heaven on earth; but as a result of the church abandoning the Law of the Gospel, this version of Christianity is giving the Judas kiss to an entire world.  You will be given the opportunity to examine the list of contradictions between the views of powerful church leaders and the Bible they claim to follow.  This masquerade of obedience to GOD will show the whole support structure of today’s Christianity to be founded on a system of religion that actually encourages defiance to the very Law of GOD that Jesus Christ died to honor & defend, securing the salvation of man.  The church’s defiance of GOD’S Sacred Law dishonors the sacrifice of Christ.  They view His obedience as a license for disobedience.  In light of this, two principles will be upheld throughout this volume:1. You will never be asked to abandon your power of reason and  judgment in all that is presented.2. You will never be asked to violate your conscience concerning justice, mercy, or love. 

As things wind down 

       Today, the human race faces the challenge of its history.  Stress is building between man's industry and the biosphere of earth.  Man's erosion of the stability of life is guaranteed to reciprocate an equivalent retribution just as the most simple law of science reveals: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.  Or as society likes to put it: What goes around comes around.  Common sense can discern the many merciful warnings that are evident all around us showing the harsh and devastating repercussions from man's meddling with the laws of life.  Most of our leaders are blind to the simple reality: to tear down the structure of nature supporting intelligent life is to initiate the extinction of all intelligent life.  And yet, the arrogance of man is so prevalent that he presumes the intellectual aptitude to defeat this Frankenstein threatening global annihilation of the human race.  Due to man’s refusal to humble himself on this the severe retribution of nature against man’s assault on the "vital organs" of earth's ecosystems is merely a matter of time.  To define this grand challenge of our generation a basic understanding of life and the laws of regeneration is imperative.  The cause and effect of where we are today and where it is leading must be understood; for when nature’s backlash suddenly rises from obscurity the people of earth will (with trembling hearts) surrender their wills to those who claim they can turn things around and avert the approaching threat to human survival.  This volume will show that in the time of crisis our religious leaders will take the throne of human government.  And as a result of the failure of their solution to end the crisis the greatest sorrow this world has ever known will be experienced by man.  With the mass of evidence showing the continuing harm to the life, land, water and air it becomes rather absurd that man does not acknowledge his destructive and ultimately suicidal course.  There can only be one reason for this blindness: the selfish pride of the human heart.  These study lectures are not to focus on the science but rather the cause and effect of man's cruel indifference because how we deal with civilization's continuing survival reflects how we treat one another.  As long as selfishness is allowed free reign in our relationships with one another we really are not safe with one another.Our first lecture will study the two governments competing for the supremacy of this world.  The one government says: I must secure your safety and happiness, and for those you love, no matter what it costs me, and only then are you safe with me.  The other government says: I must think of me.  If that means I have to sacrifice you and those you love for my needs so be it.  Now, which of these two is the predominant force ruling this world?  Which one would you rather see on the throne of life's government?           

1. Subservient Love: The Cornerstone of Creation 

                                               PART 1:  The Great Opposition 

       Earth! There are so many superbly beautiful things about our world: places that are breathtaking; loving relationships between family, friends and animals; technology that saves life and gives tremendous comfort.  Even the astronomical views revealed by today's telescopes and interplanetary spacecraft: the scale and magnitude of these displays are spectacular beyond belief.  And when we compare today's knowledge and understanding to previous ages we can see that because of the increase of knowledge our standard of living and freedom is unmatched by any generation throughout human history.  As astonishing as our way of life is, there is a corresponding side to life that is appalling to every hope of the human heart: everything from justice and mercy to love.  We need to look at the government that commands affliction, injustice—and death on the life of earth, and compare this ruling authority with our conscientious desires and just expectations.  Because as wonderful as life is for many people there are equal numbers in terrible affliction and even peril: many of whom, right now, view death to be a savior from their pain.  

       Have you ever examined the contrast between the world you desire to live in and the one that exists?  Give some thought to the perfect world of your design.  List each of your ideals and compare those ideals with the list of threats that dominates intelligent life.  One swiftly discovers that none of our fondest hopes are being met to an even basic approval.  A governing power exists in this world that is at war with the ideals of humanity; and this antagonistic authority is against not only men, but against all intelligent life.  Both man and beast are crying out for deliverance from the never-ending afflictions, and above all the inevitable death that swallows-up every living thing.  Truly, there is no all-inclusive peace on earth—yet.  Look at the victims found in every species of life.  Boundless numbers of creatures are killed every day, many by willful slaughter, others by accidental injury or disease.  The continuing sacrifice of those that perish although it lends to the perpetuation of the living remains an injustice for the victims, for their personal sacrifice does not come easily because the strongest desire of all life is to preserve itself.  But while there is a war, taking place between sacrifice and self-preservation, sacrifice is the only government through which life continues on earth.  Nevertheless, a general safety among the life of earth does not exist—yet.  The drive to survive is the primary force perpetuating life; and yet the heart cries for deliverance from the tyranny that is employed to inflict the sacrifice of life.  It is the governing force of tyranny that is responsible for all of the violence among the creatures of earth.  What is tyranny?  Simply, it is the use of one's free will to deny another their free will.  This desertion of the conscience works against the mutual safety of life and prevents the human concept of utopia from ever being realized, for utopian life can only exist in the surroundings of universal peace.  Boil it down and the moral of the story becomes clear: Life on earth is not fair.  Little children recognize this, for every normal child born into this world is gifted with an inborn sense of justice, mercy, and love.  But how quickly the example of life's cruelty combined with their lonely desire to understand the answer to the simple question, "Why is there pain and death?"—these among other factors lead them to give up their strength of will to live up to the voice of conscience.  Integrity to our conscience is a great strength, for it provides the fortitude to hold to our convictions.  But there are harmful influences, which demand that we violate our conscience.  In fact, the whole system of life on earth commands the abandonment of human ideals.  Even "civilized" men participate to promote an essentially unjust and selfish system.  The command to desecrate one's conscience may be found in every authority that exists in society, from government and law, to business and medicine.  Even the world's religions vandalize the conscience by promoting doctrines that are antagonistic to human ideals.  In summation: the denial of conscience is thematic to life on earth.  But built into every conscience is a cry for justice mercy, and love.  This common hope between all people merely confirms the aforementioned moral of the story: Life is not fair.  How many innocent men have gone to the electric chair or the gas chamber?  How many guilty men roam free?  How many refuse to acknowledge the judicial system's murder of innocent life?  How many elderly die from loneliness and neglect or hospital patients from malpractice?  How many innocent children have died from AIDS because grownups choose to perpetuate adultery and are encouraged to do so by society?  How many lies and thefts are associated with everyday business?  The encyclopedia of sins and shortcomings is a never-ending set of volumes in this world; for their continued employment has been a constant factor in the suffering of life throughout history.  

       All throughout time on earth there have been aspirations of intelligent life that unless these hopes are met, true peace can never be achieved.  The frustration brought about by the continual collision between our aspirations and the hardships of reality trains a cruel indifference in our society.  This is a leading reason why we see so many people turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the global heartache that is smothering the earth.  Being happy is not wrong.  Living a joyful life is not a sin.  It is just a matter of how we achieve the happiness—how we define the supreme joy.  To some it is drugs or alcohol; and to others it may be wealth, pornography, or fine cuisine.  But none of these things are of any value at the moment of death.  It is what we carry to the grave that determines the value of our existence—on what we have established our self-worth.  In other words—character.  When our life's work promotes the welfare of others this is seen as the great standard that works to offset the awful tyranny ruling the earth.  There are many charitable foundations and organizations whose sole intent is to lessen some of the hammer-blows of life: The Salvation Army, The Peace Corps, Greenpeace, ADRA, World Health Organization, churches, and the list goes on and on.  As wonderful and numerous as these essentially unselfish groups are, they cannot keep up with the never-ending hardships among men.  Let's dig a little deeper into this thematic principle of sacrifice for it reveals a system of government that in its essence is perfect, but in our situation it has become polluted by the infiltration of forces that work against its supreme benefit.  Thus, the laws that secure its achievement have been violated.  The government of sacrifice, which should be limited to only the microscopic forms of life, (where there is no developed nervous system in which pain is experienced), has escalated beyond the microscopic forms, and now demands the sacrifice of the highest form of intelligence, man.  All throughout time on earth, human life has been sacrificed in every conceivable way, whether through religion, war, or just plain greed.  And this value system is viewed as unstoppable and even acceptable to this day.  Our sensibilities have become so deadened because of man's foolish pursuits that the wound of indifference caused by this callous disregard for life has led our society to accept a path of existence that is easily proven to be suicidal.  Why else would we condone so many things that are destructive to life in general?  We must understand the cause and effect of this chosen course of men.  Before we do some investigation into mankind's harmful practices let us begin with the only solution to our dilemma.  It is very simple.  Deliverance from the heavy-handed cruelty that rules over life must come from a power beyond man's control—beyond man's ability of manipulation.  We've had a few thousand years to put into practice true equality, and the result to this day remains a dereliction of duty.  Try as we may, the fountain of youth will never be invented, the selfish nature inherent in all men will never be removed, (regardless of genetic manipulation, for the lifestyle one chooses influences the structure of genes), nor will the avenues of temptation be eliminated through which man has ever surrendered his will to those base lusts that can never be satisfied regardless of their indulgence.  Deliverance from the oppressive qualities of life is an age-old desire of mankind.  What is not acknowledged is that the afflictions of life exist because simple laws have been held back, preventing utopian life and giving men a taste of what life could be.  In order to overcome the obstacles that hold back our mutual safety we must first be able to identify the laws that secure our mutual safety.  

PART 2:  The First Principle 

       But where do we turn to begin our research?  There is a marvelous storehouse of knowledge today.  The variety of subjects one can choose to study seems as infinite as the boundaries of the universe.  While a certain number of these fields of study are destructive, leading mankind to the threshold of extinction such as the technology of war there are some areas of research that, when rightly engaged, will uplift the nobility and dignity of man.  One of these studies is the science of symbiosis.  This is the one tangible science revealing the form of government that rules in the heavens: an administration of laws promoting unselfish love.  The concept of a universe whose every component works for the sole purpose of protecting the existence of life is the most important lesson for modern man to learn; for man's charted course is continuously at war with this principle.  An illustration, which validates creation's governing force, is to examine the various components of the human body.  Your heart exists to serve you.  It has no other purpose.  Every part of your body that keeps you living and breathing exists to serve.  Even the various microorganisms in the bloodstream and tissues: all working in harmony to the benefit of the whole.  And then there is the brain, the command post where the inner workings of human physiology are carried out as well as all creative endeavors of the consciousness that bring joy to the heart of man.  And should any of the organs become overtaxed and infected with disease the whole body unites and comes to its rescue.  It is through the plural, harmonious contribution from the body's living machinery that your life continues.  But, when any one of the vital organs stops working the whole living mechanism supporting your conscious life comes to an end.  That is how vital the human machinery is in its contribution to the perpetuation of life; and how vital obedience is to the law of unselfish love.  Our care for our body should reflect its meticulous care for us.  And even though abuse of the human body is predominant in man’s lifestyle the body doesn’t respond and treat us in the same fashion.  It is as the abused dog who still returns to his master hoping to please. The law of symbiosis, which maintains the life of the human body, applies to every aspect of life on earth.  This includes the relationships between whole communities of plants and animals within their respective environments.  These are called ecosystems, where each one contributes to support the health of the biosphere of our world.  Symbiotic relationships exist between every plant and animal, where today no species can exist without the contribution from the other families of mammals, plants, foul and fish.  Science calls this “the balance of nature.”  The observation of this inter- & co-dependence between the varieties of life presents a simple conclusion.  Because of the requirement for mutual cooperation between the various species, (in order to perpetuate life as a whole), an academic summation becomes instantly obvious: that life on earth had to be created mature and complete in order to exist at all.  Flowers cannot exist without bees, nor can the bees exist without the flowers.  This is one of hundreds of examples, where to remove one leads to the death of the other.  It is no different than the vital organs of the human body, where their collective contribution keeps us living and breathing.  They could never stand alone.  The symbiotic relationships between the plants and animals promote a stable and healthy environment for life to thrive.  But the charted course of man is in opposition to this life-promoting government.  Man's opposition to the fundamental law of creation is evidenced by the massive scale of intrusion whereby man assaults the environment by industrial pollution, biological manipulation, and by the stripping of earth's living resources.  This chosen compass heading, held since the dawn of civilization, is predicated on the false assumption that an infinite mercy exists to withstand man's assault against the land, water and air.  As marvelous and resilient as the earth is in its ability to maintain a healthy status, there exists a limit in its ability to heal itself, just as the human body has its limits of healing.  

PART 3:  Summation Without Contradictions 

       In view of the universal principle that directs every part of creation to support the existence of life we must now ask the question: Does life exist because of the natural assembling of the universal elements or by Divine Creation?  Does there exist an intelligent Creator or does science point away from His existence as current scientific thought asserts? A computation has been made by the world's leading astrophysicists, Sir Frederick Hoyle and Chandra Wychramasie, calculating the quantity of information found in every substance of our universe both living and non-living.  This information has been measured in what is called Exponential Bits of Information (EBI).  The sum total of the information presently calculated from the known elements, with all of their relationships, adds up to 235 EBI.  Don't let the apparently low number of 235 mislead you: the universe is extremely complicated.  The complexity of our universe will keep scientific research busy for an eternity of time.  Now, let us turn our attention to the complexity of life.  Today's science would have us believe that the complexity of simple microscopic life cannot compare to the vast complexity of the universe; for if the complexity of life was remotely similar to the complexity of the universe, the theory of evolution would have the greatest endorsement possible to substantiate Charles Darwin's atheistic hypothesis as valid.  Keep one thing in mind: in the days of Darwin it was believed that living cell structure had the complexity of a "ping-pong ball."  Today’s study of living cell complexity tells a completely different story however, a story with catastrophic consequences to the theory of evolution.  The simplest non-replicating protein molecule (the most basic building block of life that does not reproduce) has been measured to have 1500 EBI.  This difference in the complexity between living and non-living matter is so staggering that it teaches a most basic scientific lesson: no matter what arrangement or combination is made of the known elements of the universe, it is impossible to organize the existence of life from non-living matter.  Now, let us take this a step further.  One living cell within the human body contains a trillion little machines.  Each of these living machines depends on each and every one of the others to survive.  They serve one another and rely on one another to maintain the existence of that cell.  The law of symbiosis rules within the structure of that cell.  Just one simple cell of the human body has been measured to contain 20,000,000,000 (billion) EBI.  Remember, this is comparing the entire universe, which spans vast stretches of space, to that of one microscopic cell of life.  This spectacular difference does not take into account the far greater “miracle” that many varieties of living cells co-exist, having symbiotic relationships between themselves and with the vital organs, muscles and skeleton.  The creature then exists in an eco-system comprising a vast diversity of other creatures; again, relying on the law of symbiosis to continue their survival.  All of these creatures co-exist in harmonious balance to their habitat, with an inborn strength of adaptability to meet the dynamics of environmental changes.  The margin of change within the environment is minimal enough to perpetuate all major species of life.  The constancy of life is maintained through earth's constant position in its relation to the sun, moon, and planets, providing minimal deviation in climate through the four seasons of the earth's orbit around the sun.  The constancy of our climate from millennia to millennia is also due to our solar system's constant position in its relation to the stars of our Milky Way galaxy.  Even our galaxy's perfect balance among the estimated 120 billion other galaxies—with a margin of fluctuation so low that it staggers the imagination.  

       The difference in complexity between living and non-living matter shows that natural order had absolutely no say in the creation of life.  Therefore, there must exist an Intelligent Creator.  A Creator whose knowledge is as infinite as time and whose power is as infinite as space.  And most importantly, because unselfish love is the cornerstone of Creation's government, GOD must be a GOD of Infinite Love.  As time is infinite, as space is infinite, so must His Love be infinite.  The relationship between GOD and His Creation must be founded on the very laws He established: the laws of sacrifice and love.  And for GOD to change or remove any established laws that govern His creation is to remove the sense of reliance that men need to move forward in their growth and understanding.  

       Let's examine another common science supporting the existence of a Divine Creator: Geology.  The surface of the earth rests on bedrock of granite.  This granite encircles the earth.  Under a microscope a thin slice of granite reveals a beautiful mosaic of patterns, shapes and colors.  The black segments within this mosaic are a common mineral called mica.  On the surface it would seem that the black mineral holds the least value among the minerals to study in the granite, but a microscopic examination reveals that scattered throughout the mica are little halos.  These halos are the radioactive decay from the element polonium, and they were captured in the granite during the crystallization process.  This is fascinating to the student of science for the lifespan of these halos is extremely short; and yet, they were fossilized in the granite before the halos could vanish.  The most intriguing of the halos is the one called polonium 214.  The half-life of polonium 214 is 164 microseconds (or 0.000164 seconds).  In order for the polonium 214 to be captured in the mica, the granite rock had to be transformed from hot molten rock into cool crystallized stone in less time than it takes you to blink.  This is how quickly the tremendous tonnage of granite, which encircles the whole earth was created—Instantly!  Dr. Robert Gentry did the research of this work.  His findings have been in scientific journals and available for scrutiny for over 25 years.  His research has never been disproved or refuted scientifically.  No matter where you go throughout the earth, choose any specimen of granite and you will see the same result.  Polonium halos preserved in the earth's bedrock champions the truthfulness of the creation account specified in the book called Genesis, the first book of the Holy Bible: written by the hand of Moses—Dictated to him by the Creator Himself: "And God said, Let there be..."  Man has no problem materializing his inventions with marvelous speed and accuracy; but the difference between man and GOD is that GOD'S creations are infinitely more incredible in their complexity, the speed of their accomplishment, and the magnitude of their influence.  

       The discovery of the instantaneous creation of granite theoretically should carry over into every aspect of creation; for if the bedrock of planet earth did not come into existence through slow crystallization over 300 million years, as is commonly taught, neither did man evolve into the full stature of his present existence through a slow ascendancy over millions of years.  As the granite was created mature and complete so was man created mature and complete.  This view is also in harmony with the law of symbiosis as well as the creation account recorded in the Biblical Genesis, and there is no contradiction.  The existing thinking today actually promotes contradictions, where irrefutable science is rejected and the only remedy left to resolve the contradictions is to follow someone’s opinion, a view contrived outside of ethical logic.  To allow the human passions to overrule the noble power of reason literally cripples the intellect.  This is the worst course of action that could be taken when making determinations.  Men refuse to build bridges between the competing arguments.  They always seem to bless one class of evidence to the neglect of another.  This leads to the continuing false view that our gut instinct is our best judgment.  The problem with this thinking is that the rulership of our sense of reason is undermined and the base instincts of our human nature prevail in the decision making process.  This is why we see feelings as the leading counselors in the decisions of life when the virtue of ethical logic should reside at the throne of every mind.   

       Let's examine this evidence supporting Divine Creation in light of current scientific thought.  The foundation of evolution rests on life's formation by natural means, which we have just discovered is technically impossible.  This hypothesis has been united with the opinion that life's diversity exists through the slow process of mutation, where the most-simple building blocks of life develop over long periods of time to eventually evolve into the stature of man.  But mutation as a plausible explanation for life's varieties has also been proven theoretically impossible: "A mutation as little as a billionth of an animal's genome is relentlessly fatal," according to the world's leading geneticists, Barney Maddox and Francis Collins.  This is why we call them birth defects, and is why all species of life have safety mechanisms in their reproductive process to prevent even the slightest mutation from the pattern of inheritance.  These "checkpoints" in the reproduction process prevents the species from crossing over any boundaries that would blur the distinctions between the different families of life and thus destroy the balance of nature and the symbiotic harmony that exists between them.  Today’s scientists have given what they call “adaptive radiation” (life’s ability to adapt to environmental changes) a range of flexibility that crosses the clear boundary of the law forbidding mutation.  It is also interesting to note that while the theory of evolution demands the uninterrupted ascent of life, from the simplest to the most complex, there does not exist one bridging species, either living or in the fossil record connecting any of the families of life on earth: they remain separate and distinct.  This is also in harmony with the law of symbiosis and the Biblical Genesis; and once again there is no contradiction.  Our nearest relative in the animal kingdom is the chimpanzee.  The difference between us has been measured to be 48,000,000 Nucleotide.  Due to the law of inheritance forbidding a mutation of even one in a billion of an animal’s genome, it becomes obvious that a chimpanzee will forever remain a chimpanzee.  

PART 4:  Tyrants Never Willingly Relinquish Their Authority 

       To complete this portion of our study we need to expose the greatest hoax of American education.  "Nebraska Man," the so-called "missing link" connecting the primate family with man was the archeological discovery that brought the theory of evolution into the public education system of the United States.  There was a lawsuit brought to court by atheist scientists against the traditional Creationist platform of education.  The Creationism that was taught was always coupled with common guidelines of morality—the two went hand in hand.  But the court case of evolution against Creationism changed all that.  The atheists won the lawsuit and the theory of evolution became the new belief in man's creation within our public education system.  GOD was removed and thus weakened His call for man to uphold the high standards of morality in which our mutual safety is dependent.  One tooth, dug up from the earth, heralded to the world as "Nebraska Man," was the only evidence needed to overthrow the centuries-old platform of education to our children.  A short time after the lawsuit was over the rest of the skeleton of "Nebraska Man" was found; and the skeleton that was dug up was nothing more than a pig.  The court ruling was not overturned as it should have been and society was left destitute of truth, all because of the betrayal perpetrated by hypocrites pretending to be impartial in their scientific research.  Fact: The minds of the scientists were already made up prior to their research.  Prejudice was their true motivation: a hateful prejudice, not against men but against GOD.  The authority held today within atheistic science will never be relinquished due to the sting of humiliation that these men would have to face were they to acknowledge that the foundation of their belief system is in fact a lie.  Evolution is a faith not a science; and many have gone to their graves believing and teaching this faith.  What is the legacy of these men?  Their legacy demonstrates their willingness to exalt lies to throne of knowledge and by so doing dethrone the sacred authority of truth in the guiding of mankind.  What is the leading factor that has led science, religion, law, and medicine to fall into the trap of exalting falsehood as the standard of measurement, and thus traditions that are oppressive to truth are passed from generation to generation?  They displace evidence from the context of its environment and create fables around it according to their own vain imagination.  Impulsive, selfish estimations are continuously exalted to the throne of the decision making process.  Negligence of truth is now declared a virtue.  What lies at the heart of it all?  It is the lust for self-exaltation that lies at the root of this and all injustice.  It explains why we see so many men who are willing to promote confusion, contradictions, and only partial solutions; for through the actions that avoid true solutions their authority continues; and so does the abuse.  Here we are today with a whole host of opinions being given to our children, which are declared as impartial science.  The façade of humble estimation that was first given to establish the trust of the common man has now transformed into arrogant declarations, lording an authority that has no right to exist.  The tone of humility no longer exists.  What is truly sad is that when we examine this intellectual fascism elsewhere we discover that every field of study employs supremacy-tactics to suppress the precious nature of truth.  The suppression of truth always leads to increasing abuse, for as the evidence accumulates in opposition to the accepted falsehood those who follow the lie go to greater lengths to maintain their hold on power, a power that was granted to them through the promotion of a lie.  Men in general find no honor in humility, therefore revisions rarely if ever come.  Man is betrayed whenever plain evidence is disregarded.  All would agree that every falsehood taught as truth perpetrates a disservice to man and against life itself.  In summation, it is impossible for the theory of evolution to have any legitimacy because symbiotic law demands that if evolution was true life could not exist at all.  Did you hear that?  If the theory of evolution was true life could not exist, period, for the concept of evolution is predicated on life's ability to exist apart from the harmonious contributions from the many other creatures, both great and small.  It's like saying that the heart can function apart from the body: it is a technical impossibility. 

PART 5:  The Cost of Misunderstanding 

       Why is it that man wants to hold to this idea of a godless creation? Why is it that men want to put the Creator of heaven and earth at arms length?  To believe in a personal Creator naturally requires accountability to Him.  But man runs from this accountability just the way the Bible describes that our Premier Father and Mother, Adam and Eve, hid themselves from GOD in the Garden of Eden when they adopted the foolish idea that GOD was a liar and could not be trusted.  And that distrust led them to eat of the one fruit that GOD had personally warned them was poisonous.  The denial of GOD’S Word is what began the whole cycle of death on earth, and this lies at the heart of all of man’s problems.  It is a war against GOD’S Word: the Word spoken in perfect love that has caused this great tragedy for life.  All creatures on earth have become victims to man’s disregard of GOD’S Word.  And when men exalt lies, be they scientists, doctors, educators, lawyers, or priests, they are in fact serving a system of government that works against their own deepest aspirations; for GOD has given all men a psychological profile: an inherent sense of justice, mercy, and love.  But men, by the tens of millions, have seared their conscience against this Heaven-born Love, and the laws of government that support its existence.  When we cannot rest in the knowledge that our Creator truly loves us and only works to achieve our good we create other theories to give us a sense of value.  The only way to establish true self-esteem is to search and discover the scientific and moral truth of GOD'S supreme love for us.  And once the principle of unselfish love is discovered as the leading attribute of our Creator, our value as individuals swells to a lofty summit; for we learn that GOD Himself lives to serve no less than the heart or the lungs exist to serve.  But how much greater is GOD than your heart!  Symbiotic law, which is the cornerstone of universal government proves both the existence of GOD and His self-emptying love towards His Creation.  

       The most fundamental principle taught within the Bible teaches that all of GOD'S ways work to the promotion of life not its destruction.  But men refuse to believe this principle and are actually at war with the governing laws of creation; and, as a result, injustice, disease and death are the leading characteristics seen among the life of earth.  Competition and death have become so commonplace that atheistic science assumes that death is the ruling force of all Creation—good and evil are eternally kindred forces.  Current astronomical science teaches that the sun will one day become what is called a "Red Giant," swelling in its diameter beyond the orbit of Mars, and thus, swallow the earth and effectively destroy our solar system.  And the "Big Bang Theory" declares that all of the stellar matter will eventually collapse in on itself, bringing an end to the whole structure of Creation, as we now know it.  “All of the stars of heaven will cease to exist,” so they say.  Life has the most miserable destiny according to current atheistic thought; and this is assured to the common man as impartial science and trustworthy.  This intellectual coercion, shrouded under a façade of piety is just another example of tyranny against truth; and it is no different in spirit than the religious tyranny that Roman Catholicism exercised during the dark ages of western civilization.  Of those days it has been said: "The noontide of the papacy was the world’s moral midnight."  The same might be said for the atheistic authority that rules in our day: "The noontide of atheism is the midnight of true knowledge."  In our day the same tactics employing deception and oppression are being carried out through government.  People don't know they're being betrayed until they see the truth.  When men in leadership roles are confronted with the plain evidence overturning their opinions (whether of science or religion) the evil passions that all people possess are eager to rise up and respond with an arrogant pride and/or persecution.            Is it any wonder that people by the millions reject the existence of GOD?  We need to understand the contrast between the fables of man and the laws of true government.  Because when evil things happen, be it man-made or by natural disasters, anger wells up and is typically directed towards GOD.  Even those who profess to be atheists lash out the name of Christ or take GOD'S name in vain when frustrated or hurt.  On nearly every television show the words, “Oh my god!” are continuously spoken to some trivial matter.  Why do they keep saying His Name when they say they do not believe in Him?  Or even if they do why do they use His Name in such a petty manner?  The human heart instinctively accuses GOD for the slightest discomfort as well as the global epidemic of wars and pestilence, famine and starvation.  A simple principle removes all of man’s accusations against GOD: What is within the power of man to accomplish GOD cannot be held responsible for.  It is within our society's capability to feed and provide medical care for every man, woman, and child on earth; and yet, 15 million people in Africa died in just the closing three months of the year 2002.  Just from October through December, 15 million men, women, and children stopped breathing: all because there was no food and water.  No posture of "United We Stand" in their behalf.  Seven astronauts die and we hold all-night vigils: every newspaper gives it front-page attention.  What is the loss of seven lives when compared to the loss of fifteen million lives?  Do you see the vulgar parody in the priorities of our society?  We seem to view those Africans as well as the starving people of India and other lands as having little or no value.  But these are people!  People who could learn of the Love Born of Heaven and rejoice in the knowledge of that Love.  The lack of care for the human family by the wealthy people of earth is pathetic beyond words.  Decade after decade, an estimated average of 20,000 people starve to death every day in Africa alone and GOD is held as the scapegoat to take the blame; all because of man's cruel indifference to the needs of suffering humanity.  There is a scientific and moral fact behind this atrocity: The afflictions of earth exist because of man's intent for them to be so.  This is a hard saying but it is true.  What is the destiny for this chosen leadership where self-exaltation with no remorse continues day after day, year after year; and with no revision in sight?  Let's examine the Source of the government that opposes GOD'S established Law of Subservient Love.  

PART 6:  The Great Concealment

       On earth tyrants are commonplace.  They are found in the family setting, churches, corporations and governments.  The Bible tells of the greatest tyrant of all, a self-imposed dictator that arose to prominence in heaven whose name was Lucifer (meaning Day of the Sun).  Through the art of deception this “cherub” (meaning, four-winged angel) inaugurated a mutiny against the established laws of heaven.  Because of this covert espionage against GOD’S Love and Truth he was given a new name, Satan (meaning Adversary).  Now comes the question: Who is Satan?  The Bible spells out every characteristic of this Being of angelic origin.  He is the leader of a rebellion against his own Creator.  The Bible said that in the beginning “there was war in heaven.”  And after losing this battle for the supremacy of heaven he was cast out with his angelic army consisting of a third of all the angelic host.  He then carried his government of self-exaltation to the destruction of all others to earth luring our Premier Father and Mother, Adam and Eve, into joining his rebellion against GOD, of which the human race today is linked by inheritance, and is therefore condemned to the same fatality. The rest of the universe is free from his moldering influence, for the earth is the only place of his throne.  Jesus Christ called him, "the prince of this world."  And what is the result of his dominion and control over the natural forces of his realm?  He has most of the creatures slaughtering and eating themselves!  The Bible teaches that he has the legal right and aptitude to create hurricanes, tornados, floods, earthquakes, thorns, poison ivy, mosquitoes, ticks, lice and disease.  All of these ravage the earth through his cruel manipulation.  All of the afflictions and abominations of this world are of Satan not of the GOD of heaven.  His liberties include the exercise of mind control over his victims; for his presence is hidden from human view; and through his weaponry of deception through the avenues of temptation and impulse he leads life to every form of degradation we see today.  He exercises his rage against life through the creatures of earth to carry out every conceivable atrocity.  The suffering of life is his only entertainment.  All sadistic glee has its origin in him.  No matter what despicable thing you can imagine it is being carried out every moment of every day.  This is the system of government that has held sway since Satan seized the dominion of earth from Adam and Eve, and then claimed it as his own.  He is the quintessential tyrant.  As said before, Satan succeeded in deceiving a third of all the angels to follow him.  How?  By concealing his true purpose.  He presented a façade of care and benefit when treachery against GOD’S established government was his true motive.  Satan inaugurated a form of government whose primary goal works to exalt himself to the throne of all life, and he is willing to destroy all others who oppose his ascent, whether it be GOD (Christ on the Cross), angels, or man; and this alone is why we see the constant conflict between our cherished ideals and the "dog eat dog" manner of society.  Whenever you see men willing to exalt themselves they are merely following the pattern set forth by Satan, whether of politics or religion.  This is what lies at the heart of the Antichrist system of government; for it is the antithesis of the utopia GOD set forth in the beginning.  GOD established the government that says, “Give of yourself for others no matter what it costs you; and only by this are they safe with you.”  Satan's government strives to the antithesis: “Sacrifice others for yourself, no matter what it costs them.”      

      As Satan concealed his true objectives before the angels of heaven he conceals his chilling influences on earth.  Most people, including multitudes of Christians don't even believe in his existence.  “He’s merely a metaphor for evil: an allegorical figure,” declare many theologians. Did you know that there is an organized Church who openly worships Satan?  It is listed among the churches here in the United States.  You can even find it listed in the Yellow Pages.  He uses the freedoms of this land to carry out his plan to overthrow the very existence of freedom; and the natural selfishness of man has been instrumental in his success.  CEO's of major corporations worship him; also bankers, lawyers, and musicians.  "The Master," as he is called, makes many promises to those who worship him, and he fulfills the base lusts and brings temporal riches to those who serve him.  He determines the fads of movies, art, music, language and culture: ever stressing the need for something controversial in the path of man's continuing degradation and misunderstanding of what constitutes true morality.  What his followers are blind to recognize is the indispensable value of the words of Jesus Christ concerning Satan: "He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth; for there is no truth in Him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar and the father of it."  The assurances Satan extends to his followers are merely ropes of sand, for the fate of Satan is clear according to the many prophecies of the Bible.  In one passage alone, GOD says to Satan, "I will destroy thee, O covering cherub...I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth...and never shalt thou be anymore."  This will also be the fate of all who follow him and/or obey his government.  We will give careful scrutiny to this. 

       The argument is often presented, "Angels don't exist. We cannot see them; therefore, it is impossible to prove their existence," says the agnostic.  Let's examine this.  We exist with the awareness of three dimensions.  The laws of physics reveal the existence of ten dimensions.  Our senses are very narrow when compared to the full range that exists for each of them, whether of light, sound, smell or touch.  We can hear musical tones from 16-16,000 vibrations per second.  Common animals hear well beyond that range, even sensing levels of volume imperceptible to us.  Our sense of smell is also very limited when compared to that of the animals.  Even our sensitivity to light is inferior to the cat and other creatures.  And then there's our sense of direction.  Both birds and fish have a sense of magnetic north, and use that sense in their yearly migration patterns.  This is common knowledge.  Therefore, it is highly conceivable that angels exist without our notice of their presence.  It becomes rather arrogant of men to declare that because they cannot perceive anything beyond their limited senses it must not exist.    

         The Bible teaches that there are holy and unholy angels working to gain the allegiance of every mind.  They represent the two forms of government competing for the supremacy of this world.  The Bible also teaches that GOD has assigned a holy guardian angel to everyone, from birth ’til death: to protect, lead and restore each person to a saving knowledge of the Creator, and the Laws of His government: Laws in which we are safe in one another's care.  Said Jesus Christ of all the little children, "their angels always behold the face of My Father who is in heaven." Christ's words, "their angels" is in the personal possessive tense.  And when circumstances allow, holy angels are commanded to intervene and spare many lives every day.  Then why is it that many die needlessly including multitudes of innocent people?  As said before, what is within the power of man to accomplish GOD cannot be held responsible for.  And concerning natural disasters, these fall under the jurisdiction of Satan.  It is his authority that has led to every atrocity against life, while in mockery acknowledging GOD’S sovereign power.  Said Satan to GOD, “But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.  And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand.” Job:1. 

PART 7:  The Great Antithesis 

      It’s time to analyze the purpose of the war against GOD.  The opposite of the universal law of unselfish love is self-serving greed.  This government of Satan, which currently holds the dominion of earth lies at the heart of man's rebellion against GOD and the Laws of His government.  And the effect of selfishness is quite the opposite to that of love.  There is a parasitic quality to this chosen government.   Thematically, it leads to the seeking of its own welfare regardless of the harm to others.  Essentially, this principle is suicidal because to defy the government that promotes the security of life is to collapse the structure supporting life.  This charted course of fallen angels and now man only guarantees their eventual destruction along with the world in which they live.  The Bible calls this the government of sin; and sin is the predominant force on earth.  The goal of sin is simple: the destruction of the earth and all the life it contains.   Most men are blind to this concept including many of the religious leaders here in America who openly advocate the transgression of the Ten Commandments of GOD: the same Law that condemns Satan.  GOD said, “Thou hast sinned.” Eze.28:13-19. His violations will ultimately destroy him and all who have followed him.  A clear illustration of this disease of the human character is the disease of the human body called cancer.  The cancer lives only until it kills its host, and then it dies with its host.  This is the destiny for mankind in this present world.  We are the cancer and the world is our host.  When we examine the ratio between the rate of destruction to our environment and the rate of the earth's ability to cleanse and rebuild its ecosystems it becomes obvious that man's everlasting survival is impossible in this present world.  Man will exist until he effectively destroys one of the "vital organs" of the earth's ecosystems, at which time the whole structure of life on earth will collapse, just as heart, liver, or kidney failure in the human body brings the life to an end.  What will be the future of man then?  How do we beat the odds?  To many minds space stations and interplanetary colonies are the only savior.  While to others, pride in knowledge is their savior.  But the leading safety net for most people is their traditional beliefs in religion.  These are viewed as the means of securing their personal survival when all else comes to an end.  When the Europeans came to North America the Native American Indians immediately recognized that these men were at war with Creation and had no intentions of working in harmony with the laws of nature.  All throughout history, man's disregarding of the laws that perpetuate life has worked its ruinous result.  The now parched landscapes of the Middle East (the cradle of civilization) where once there was lavish and fertile terrain are examples of man's violation of the laws of regeneration.  This lesson of history is repeated generation after generation and in territory after territory.  The prophet Joel wrote, "The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness."  Just in the past decades, man has created massive "dead zones" in large bodies of water such as the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico where nothing can live.  There is plenty of photographic evidence showing the "before and after" where once there were immense under sea gardens with flourishing life, but now a barren sea floor with nothing but underwater tumbleweeds.   Words of warning are given little respect when legislators reject the sound logic and wisdom revealed by those who have the common sense to see the dangers of what men call "progress."  Why are the legislators ignoring the needed revisions in these threatened areas?  Bribery and job security!  Why do the oil tycoons influence legislators to reject the evidence pointing to ecological disasters of epic proportions—global warming and the like?  Their insatiable lust for wealth.  The wealthy men from the electing population lobby for their authority, demanding the continuation of this worsening problem.  "Steady as she goes" is the command: the same words given by the captain of the ill-fated Titanic.  The rise and fall of every nation in history can be traced to its growing indifference to the needs of life.  The indifference of man to earth's ecology has reached such a pervasive level that it now threatens the overall health of the earth.  Our blind, destructive manipulation now spans the globe, and sooner or later it is going to boomerang back upon us.  Swift will be its vengeance, just as the tornado and the earthquake.  And yet, pride is so deep in the human psyche men seem to think that we can destroy this Frankenstein of our own devising.   

PART 8.  The Only Safe Government 

       Many learned men have given lectures on the outcome of nations that give sanction to indifference and self-serving greed.  Among them was Jesus Christ.  Among his many discussions is one showing the contrast between the two forms of government competing for the supremacy of this world.  These two governments were perfectly illustrated in a conversation that took place between Jesus and His Apostle Peter.  The theme of this passage defines the true meaning of love.  Two different words for love were used in the original Greek text of this passage.  Jesus used the word, agape to represent GOD'S manner of love, while Peter used the word phileo to represent Man's version of love.  When we examine the meaning of these two very contrasting words (in light of the deeds of Christ verses the deeds of Peter) we become enlightened to the precious lesson that all people deserve to understand.  

       Beginning in the book of John, chapter 21, verse 15, we read: "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me [with unselfish love] more than these [the other disciples]?  He saith unto Him [with his head lowered], Yea, LORD; Thou knowest that I love thee [with a limited, selfish love].  He saith unto him, Feed My lambs.  He saith unto him the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me [with a love that will seek the other's well-being regardless of the cost to yourself]?  He saith unto Him, Yea, LORD; Thou knowest that I love Thee [only with a futile love that exerts in vain].  He saith unto him, Feed My sheep.  He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me [with merely a limited, selfish love]?  Peter was grieved because He said unto him the third time, Lovest thou Me [with a failing love]?  And he said unto Him, LORD, Thou knowest all things; Thou knowest that I love Thee [with the only love I am capable of].  Jesus saith unto him, Feed My sheep." John 21:15-17.  

         A short time after this conversation came the day of Pentecost.  On this great day for the human race the Apostles of Christ received the promise of GOD’S presence in their lives through the gift of the Holy Spirit; and accompanying His presence was heaven’s gift of agape love.  This free gift is offered to all.   Said Christ, “If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him.”  Therefore, you and I, the weakest of the weak can demonstrate the same Love to our fellow man that drew GOD Himself to redeem a fallen race.  It is this Love that most of the people of earth are at war with, including most professed Christians, because agape demands the abandonment of sin; and freedom to sin has become more important to them than GOD’S deliverance from it. Peter had learned this profound lesson of true love just a few days before the above conversation when he had promised to Jesus with absolute confidence that he would not abandon Him no matter what obstacles stood in his way.  And even though everyone else would forsake Him Peter promised that he would not.  But Peter did not understand the flaws of his character; and this assurance he held out to Christ was merely a rope of sand because he did abandon Him in the time of Christ's betrayal, torture, and crucifixion.  But Jesus prayed for Peter, that his faith in GOD and the government of heaven would remain intact and not be swept away.  This prayer was answered at the very moment Peter denied having any association with Jesus, (at the place where Jesus was being held prisoner after His arrest).  In the book of Luke, chapter 21, we read, "And the LORD turned and looked upon Peter."  At the very moment of Peter's third denial of Christ he looked into the eyes of Jesus beholding him.  When Peter saw that look on his Master's face, that tender expression, that quiet, merciful face showing to Peter the depths of unreserved love and forgiveness the Bible says, "And Peter went out and wept bitterly."  Peter was brought to the place where he was most vulnerable to his own destruction; for the waves of guilt were about to flood the soul of Peter in which suicide would seem the only remedy.  But Christ would never betray Peter's vulnerability just as it was predicted centuries before concerning the character of the coming Messiah: "A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench; He will bring forth justice and truth."  Right after that moment of the Savior's expression of love to the wounded soul of Peter the Bible says, "And the men that held Jesus mocked Him, and smote Him.  And when they had blindfolded Him, they struck Him on the face, and asked Him saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?"  This, dear reader, was Satan's retribution for the Savior's mercy to His beloved Apostle Peter.  All throughout earth's history none has ever been more humble than Christ's Apostle Peter.  Years later, when Peter was crucified at the hands of Rome he requested that he be crucified upside down for he felt himself unworthy to die the same way as his Master died.  And there was Peter, hoisted up and placed among the other crucified victims.  His Cross upside down!  What a witness in humility!  How different is the history of pompous men ruling the church throughout the centuries when contrasted with the life of Peter: men who claimed the right to kill, steal, and lie, flooding the world with their disgraceful tyranny.  Christ declared of any Christian who exercises religious tyranny that they are sinning in the eyes of heaven.  And any defiance of Christ’s words disproves any declaration of service to GOD.  This was made perfectly clear on the night of The Last Supper when Christ spoke these magnificent words to His disciples: "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so."  It is the subservient love of GOD towards man that has saved us from a sure extinction.  And subservient love is the perfection to which GOD calls all men.  "Thus saith the LORD" "thy Redeemer," "I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their GOD, and they shall be My people. For I will forgive their iniquity [selfishness], and their sin [all violations of the laws of heaven] I will remember no more."  Only by love is love awakened!  Only by trust is trust awakened!  Only by the true knowledge of GOD can faith in His unwavering love for us be awakened.  And only by the hidden but ever present Spirit of GOD urging the human mind to live up to one's conscience as led by Him can true godliness be drawn from the heart.  Anything "good" that is accomplished apart from the Spirit of humility and thanksgiving is a fruit of pride and not of unselfish love, and is therefore disqualified of heaven's consent.  The Spirit of Heaven's Love living in the human heart shows to the world that Jesus Christ is Who He says He is; and it is this same government that Christ obeyed, that when we obey, makes us safe in one another's care.  He is the Living Embodiment of the Ten Commandment Law and we are also called to “walk even as He walked.”  Anything apart from this is a betrayal to all that is good and noble in life.  

       GOD'S Love is the great magnet drawing men to His salvation.  And GOD has placed the seeds of His love into the hearts of all people.  Why then do these seeds not germinate, grow, and come to fruition in the lives of most among men?  What has prevented the human race from obeying heaven's government of subservient love and joining the ranks of Christ's true followers?  Why are so many professed Christians heartless, unloving, uncaring, and conceited in their ignorance?  There are many reasons; but in summation, the choices are not made known and people are kept in the darkness of misconception.  So many men who profess their loyalty to GOD'S government have perpetuated a long tradition of lies: actually working to mar the true character of GOD before all people.  And this mystical and even cruel caricature is declared as Biblically supported and blessed of heaven.  Fact: Most religious leaders are as biased in their study of the Scriptures as the atheist who rejects the most plain evidence in his devotion to science; or the medical industry that rejects the purpose of its existence by treating disease with poisons rather than fortifying the body’s natural arsenal of defense; or the lawyer who rejects the purpose of justice, whose lust for power has led innocent men to the electric chair and the gas chamber while allowing the guilty to go free.  It is the selfish pick and choose philosophy that rules our society; and as long as the injustices resulting from selfish determinations are allowed free reign society's growth in character will be forever held in check.  The moral of the story is this: men are unfit to govern themselves; and there is only One who is fit and able to rule, and His name is Jesus Christ.  Throughout human history man's desire to receive and express the Love Born of Heaven has been and will ever be limited in a society whose intentions work to the antithesis of Love; for self-exaltation at the expense of others reigns supreme.  All the governments of earth are drowning in selfishness, including the United States.  But the United States of America was the first nation in human history to uplift the liberties of the Gospel established by Christ as its founding law.  Christ's command to His disciples, forbidding any use of religious tyranny became the first amendment to our Constitution.  All principles of freedom, founded on the liberty to live up to one's conscience, a liberty set forth by Jesus Christ, are embodied into the American Constitution, for the U.S. legally secures the value of GOD'S gift of a free will.  And it is only through one's liberty of conscience that this Love Born of Heaven can be imparted.  GOD never forces His will on any man.  GOD'S government never violates His gift of a free will.  Therefore, it is impossible for anyone to associate the teachings of Jesus Christ with the license to legislate religious tyranny.  

PART 9. The Closing Scene of World History 

       Before this present world comes to an end man is to enter a final phase of human experience that has been given no attention either by Hollywood, science, government, or religion.  How do we know this?  All of the popular views held in Christ's day betrayed the people who entrusted their leaders to provide truthful answers on the will of GOD and the fate of their nation.  When Christ came the religious leaders united with the civil Roman authority to have Him put to death in the most torturous capital punishment of human history called crucifixion, where the human body was nailed to a crucifix, and the convicted man lingered in a slow agonizing death of suffocation often lasting up to a week.  The Bible scholars of those days were blind to discern that every lesson of the Bible was designed to educate them to recognize and accept Jesus Christ.  Although today's churches flatter themselves as being somehow superior to the ancient Jews, they are no more wise or unselfish than those self-serving men of old.  

         As a result of the arrogant views of men in opposition to GOD'S command, "love thy neighbor as thyself," the closing scenes of earth's history are to be inaugurated by an event: an event forecasting annihilation of the human race.  Christ gave several prophecies on this final phase of earth's history.  Among them includes these words, "Fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven."  Jesus said that there would be, as a result of these fearful sights, "men's hearts failing them for fear of what is coming upon the earth."  What is to come?  Let the world’s wisest man, King Solomon, choose the direction of our research.  As a wise old man he wrote, "The thing that hath been it is that which shall be."  The history of our past is the prophecy of our future.  What does Scripture teach about fearful sights and great signs from heaven?  In the book of Job, it is written that Satan caused fire to fall from the sky and burn to death both people and animals (Job 1:6).  The Bible teaches that Satan is about to do it again, but on a much grander scale (Revelation 13:13).  This is the coming threat to man's survival that will bring the final competition between men over who will rule the world.  Remember the old proverb, "There are no atheists in fox holes."  Religion will become the object of adoration at this time; and the world's most influential and wealthiest religion is Christianity.  Therefore, it is today's Christian leaders who will be given the throne of human government.  Men like the pope, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, among others will be handed the authority to influence laws in an attempt to preserve the human race.   But the history of the church bears a record of unfaithfulness to GOD.  Papal Rome and Protestant America to this day have proven themselves unfit to govern themselves let alone anyone else.  Their ill procedures of handling corruption are well known: everything from the Catholic bishops and cardinals covering up the sodomy of little boys to world famous Protestant evangelists swindling little old ladies out of their homes: ladies who came to these men for healing from their afflictions.  The healing never came but they still lost their homes.  These people entrusted their lives to their religious leaders for guidance and truth just as the Jewish people trusted their leaders in the days of Christ.  That trust was betrayed.  False assurances built the cathedrals of old and the crystal cathedrals of America.  The betrayal of truth has always led to building monuments that have no right to exist; for they are founded on the sand of self-exaltation, not the rock of truth, as it is "in Christ."  Protestant America, whose constitutional law uplifts liberty of conscience, is gradually accepting tyrannical principles that will lead America to become the most religiously intolerant nation among men.  This is simply based on their views of the character of GOD and their selfish maligning of GOD'S Ten Commandment Law.  The coming threat forecasting annihilation of the human race will lead to a horrific system of religious tyranny that the world has yet to face.  This tyranny will become so severe that our religious leaders will command the civil authorities to impose the death sentence on all who refuse subservience to the legislated decree of the church, which, at its very foundation, defies the Ten Commandment Law: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand [by carrying out through their actions the law allowing religious persecution] or in their foreheads [through their intellectual acceptance of the religious tyranny]: And that no man may buy or sell [provide life support for family or friends], save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."  "And whosoever would not worship…should be killed."  This is the clear prophecy of America’s future uniting religion with government.  This volume will identify logically, ethically, historically and Biblically “the mark,” “the name of the beast,” and “the number of his name.” When deplorable men are handed the throne of human government the so-called “heretics” will be forbidden to buy food for their children; medical care for their elderly loved ones: they will have their homes and their properties confiscated, bank assets seized, and they will be forced to suffer hunger and privation (Rev.13:15-17).  All of this has happened before, on more than one occasion.  Remember, “The thing that hath been it is that which shall be.”  The edict of the Roman emperor, Justinian, in the 6^th century illustrates what is to come.  The Catholic historian, Bower, gives a review of this history:  "By an edict which he [Justinian] issued to unite all men in one faith, whether Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, such as did not, in the term of three months, embrace and profess the Catholic faith, were declared infamous, and, as such, excluded from all employments both civil and military, rendered incapable of leaving anything by will, and their estates confiscated, whether real or personal.  These were convincing arguments of the truth [?] of the Catholic faith; but many, however, withstood them, and against such as did, the imperial edict was executed with utmost rigor.  Great numbers were driven from their habitations with their wives and children, stripped and naked.  Others betook themselves to flight, carrying with them what they could conceal, for their support and maintenance; but they were plundered of the little they had, and many of them inhumanely massacred by the Catholic peasants, or the soldiery, who guarded the passes."—Bower, The History of the Popes, Vol. 1, p. 334.  This history will be repeated here in America: "The thing that hath been it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun."—Solomon.

            There is a lesson of the past that perfectly illustrates the extremes men are willing to go when the frantic lust for survival assumes the power of a government’s determination.  When the Conquistadors of Spain came to the Aztec people of Mexico they witnessed the most barbaric slaughter of human life.  It is recorded that within one year, the Aztecs sacrificed 250,000 lives to appease an angry GOD.  In a single ceremony alone over 80,000 lives were slaughtered on their altar.  With such numbers of human life extinguished the blood flowing down the steps of their temple coagulated into a huge mound at its base.  Graphic details were recorded on what the people endured.  When asked why the priests sacrificed so many from among their people, the response of the priests was given, "To prevent the end of the world."  Our religious leaders today will choose this same theology as the end draws near, partly because of their belief that GOD will not allow this world to follow its natural course to utter destruction, and partly because they believe Jesus Christ comes to establish a kingdom in Jerusalem for a thousand years.  In this they refuse to hear the simple words of Christ: "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight…but My kingdom is not from hence."  And yet, the leaders of Christianity keep fighting to build the kingdom of this world, a world Christ said that He would have no association with.  Instead, He gave a strict command to take to the world the message of GOD'S coming kingdom founded on the Ten Commandment Law and how that kingdom will be restored to the dominion of earth.  This everlasting kingdom, fulfilling GOD’S intended design can only be inaugurated after GOD destroys every trace of earth’s sinful existence through nature’s arsenal of molten rock.  This is the hellfire spoken of in the Bible.  It’s called “the lake of fire.”  The Bible teaches that once the heritage of sin is disintegrated “to ashes upon the earth” the fire then goes out.  At that moment Christ will then say, “Behold, I make all things new.”  The earth will then be recreated, restoring it to its pristine beginning before sin entered our world.  Remember the fate of Satan according to the Words of GOD Himself: “I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth…and never shalt thou be anymore.”—Ezekiel 28.  GOD declares the same fate awaits all who maintain a life of sin: “The wicked shall be ashes.” “They shall be as though they had never been.” Malachi 4; Obadiah 16. As the seed must die in order to grow and bear fruit, so this world must perish that another may be born.  The Bible repeatedly affirms the end of this present world.  Wrote the prophets: "The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again” [in its present sinful state].  "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch."  This is the fate of our present world; and all the sacrificing of human life will not prevent that which GOD has said must come to pass.  But Jesus Christ gave us a promise: "Behold, I make all things new."  "For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before me saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain; and it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one [seventh-day] Sabbath to another [not the first-day, Sunday, as is being enforced today] shall all flesh come to worship before Me saith the LORD."  The seventh-day Sabbath of the 4^th Commandment is the seal of the Christian’s faith, resting in GOD’S creative and redeeming power.  The 4^th Commandment is as eternal as is every law of GOD.  “Let no man deceive you.”—Paul  “Let no man take thy crown.”—Jesus    There are wonderful prophecies GOD has given describing something of the new earth; where "the wolf...shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.  And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.  They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea."  This is the true future of man, and all are given opportunity to learn and to follow the government that fits them for this perfect destiny ordained of GOD.  This destiny alone meets every cry of the human heart for justice, mercy and love. The Bible’s many prophecies of the future, forecasting both the end of fallen angels and sinful men as well as the eternal wonders of the new earth, all are perfectly logical, and the evidence is overwhelming both scientifically and morally.  This is the great blessing of Bible prophecy: that you know what is to come before it comes, that none be caught off guard; and preparations can be made, morally, mentally and physically as Paul said, "But ye brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief."  But a final trial is coming that all men must pass through; and it is founded on these words spoken by Satan himself: "All that a man has will he give for his life." This is the last temptation to befall the human race.  This temptation will impose through government legislation the capitulation of obedience to GOD’S Holy Law; for the world is unanimously against it; and steps are being taken to unite today’s Christian views with law enforcement to impose the dogma of the church on the citizens of earth.  And the following words of Christ will become very important as the end draws near: "He who seeks to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever loses his life for my sake the same shall find it." 

       Holding to the truth of GOD’S way of salvation must become more important than one’s self-preservation in this present world.  As all must eventually die it makes little difference whether one dies by execution or by cancer. The greatest hypocrisy this world will ever know is the revelation that those claiming to be the representatives of GOD or scientific truth are merely traitors to their profession.  Treachery rules among the leaders of earth: in science, medicine, law, religion and government.  Said Christ, "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.  Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.  Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven."  "For every tree is known by his own fruit.  For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.  A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh."  GOD knows His own in every walk of life, and He will lead them and gather them to stand together for the last great conflict between true love and its obvious counterfeit.  

 PART 10. Last Word on the Course of Events 

       Because man fell prey to Satan's deception he enjoined himself to a government that works contrary to the laws promoting the security of life and its regeneration.  It is written in the Bible that GOD Himself had to intervene to save man from his extinction and show man the Laws whereby our mutual safety is secure in one another's care.  These Laws are simple, and they are called the Ten Commandments.  All who follow these Laws are led by the Love Born of Heaven and are safe in the eyes of GOD to inherit everlasting life.  All others who reject this one and only perfect government have chosen the path of destruction; for to choose sin is to commit suicide.  And GOD will never remove His gift of a free will.  GOD must allow them the choices they have made whether for good or for evil; for life or for death.  Those who make alliances with evil and remain therein are to die what the Bible calls "the second death."  This is a death from which there is to be no resurrection: an eternal death of unconsciousness.  "In that very day his thoughts perish,” wrote the psalmist.  They are to never have life ever again, for this is their choice.  Sin is the path of suicide: it never benefits regardless of its resemblance to virtue.  No other knowledge than the complete message of the Bible addresses with any precision the logic of this predicament that all life on earth has been facing throughout its history.  Biblical Christianity alone, which was the first and true religion of earth, according to the book of Genesis teaches that the demand for sacrifice went beyond the lowly creatures and even man to include the Creator Himself Who became the Savior, Jesus Christ.  The leading attribute of Jesus Christ according to the Bible is that of Creator.  He spoke into existence the whole of Creation: “All things were created by Him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”  Over 800 verses of the Bible testify to this fact.  Only the Father of man could legally redeem the children of man.  Our Creator chose to give up His throne and pass through a metamorphosis inconceivable in its scope when He humbled Himself to become the lowly, self-sacrificing Jesus Christ, and allow Himself to be literally nailed to a tree.  Sinful men united to murder their own Creator: a GOD who lives to serve!  To remove the source of life is to remove the existence of life: this has ever been the goal of sin.  Man to this day works to the destruction of GOD and Creation, and today's science and religions have united to achieve that end; and this foolishness is declared as the working of righteousness and integral to the perpetuation of life.  It is the transgression of GOD’S established laws that has brought every woe to life.  And if men will not honor GOD'S Holy Law here they would not honor it in heaven or in the new earth: it would not be safe to bring them there.  One lifetime is the probation given to men; and if one lifetime will not convert the soul, leading to repentance and the renouncing of sin, a thousand lifetimes would avail nothing.  The day is soon to come for those who truly desire to follow GOD when these marvelous words will be fulfilled: "And GOD shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain [for anyone throughout the whole of Creation]: for the former things have passed away."  All the things that men have lied, stolen, and killed for, the thrones, the fame and the riches—none of these can compare to the wondrous beauty GOD has planned for the redeemed of the human family, "As it is written, eye hath not seen; ear hath not heard; neither hath entered into the heart of man the things GOD hath prepared for those who love Him."  

       The riches of this world cannot compare to the riches of beauty and knowledge GOD will bestow throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity.  And the greatest among all riches is the ever-increasing knowledge of our Creator's Love when He unresistingly went to the Cross at Calvary.  GOD has placed in the heart hopes and dreams that only eternity can fulfill.  GOD’S gift of eternal life is found in a promise: a promise made by Jesus Christ: "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you [in heaven].  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again [at the 2^nd Advent], and receive you unto myself [“in the clouds”]; that where I am [with GOD the Father], there ye may be also."

            Everlasting life is a promise of GOD to those who "love Him and keep His commandments;" and there is no lie, nor contradiction in this.  Hold to this promise.  Never let it go.  For this is one "hope that maketh not ashamed."   A world is coming whose characteristics of existence will be so far above the natural wonders of our world that the Word of GOD gave several prophecies of how all of the creatures of earth will be perfectly safe.  This includes man and beast. “And none shall make them afraid.”  Carnivorous behavior will not exist.  Old age and death will forever be vanquished.  And nothing will threaten their safety and happiness ever again, for man will abide by the Law ordained for the preservation of life forever.  Man, the Crowning Creation of GOD, will thrive in a tapestry of life whose endeavors will continue throughout eternity.  In addition, our Creator has designed our universal home with such a degree of diversity and complexity that men will be busy in its study and exploration forever.  And it will be discovered that ungodly aliens do not exist, other civilizations of other worlds will never be destroyed by wars, disease, asteroids or supernovas.  And above all it will be discovered that man did not have to fall into sin to learn that GOD would come to redeem them from their afflictions and fulfill every aspiration that He Himself placed in their hearts in the beginning.          

2. The Heaven-born Desire to Live 

The Key to Satan’s Success 

   Let us explore the critical nature of the very first lie ever spoken on earth.  This lie was the springboard that led our world into sin.  Its purpose was to slander GOD’S character and the perfect value of His Word.  By believing this lie our Premier mother, Eve, ignored GOD’S only warning, which was to stay away from the one poisonous fruit in the Garden of Eden.  GOD said, “for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Gen.3:4.  Eve ate the poisonous fruit.  She then brought the fruit to Adam, and he also ate.  This brought the curse of death to the earth.  From this point on, man was incapable of being entrusted with the care of life. Said Satan to Eve, to deceive her into eating the poisonous fruit, “Ye shall not surely die.” Gen.3:4.  The very first sin was committed on earth when Eve believed she wouldn’t die. The whole world is chained to the false belief that Satan’s words are a true statement.  But Jesus said of Satan, “he is a liar, and the father of it.” John 8:44.  And yet, the belief in the natural immortality of the soul is embraced as a doctrine of faith by every major religion of earth including Christianity.  They all teach, “Ye shall not surely die.”  Is their fundamental belief true that one’s consciousness continues after death with awareness and physical sense even after the death of the body, which provides all of life’s experiences?  Does the blind receive sight at death or the deaf child his hearing?  Does the victim of brain damage receive intellect or the amputee a limb?  We will explore everything the Bible says on this subject and resolve the contradiction between the first lie of the Devil and the Bible’s definition of death. 

Memory text: “Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He [Jesus Christ] Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” Heb.2:14,15.  

       There is no greater bondage than the fear of having one’s conscious existence come to an end forever.  Next to people’s hunger to discover a loving GOD Who lives to serve, man’s instinctive fear of death is the greatest leverage to lead people to consider the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But this fear of death is not given any consideration by most people; and with countless others its Biblical meaning has been perverted; and we must understand how this slanders the Gospel of Christ.  To get our bearings, let’s review the first time death is mentioned in the Bible.  In the beginning GOD told Adam, “And the LORD GOD commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden ye may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ye shall not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”  The only warning ever given to Adam was very simple and plain.  No mystical meaning of death is allowable in this context.  GOD said that should Adam eat of that fruit he would die, i.e. cease to exist, period.  Adam did not exist until GOD created him, and GOD assured him that neither would he exist after he died, because, as Solomon, the Bible’s wisest man said, “in all points as he came, so shall he go.” Eccl.5:16. Today’s churches have removed the Bible’s definition of death by invalidating the plain meaning of the words "die," "death," "perish," "devour," "destroy" and "consume," implying that they are synonymous to life’s continuation, not its end.  Every dictionary including those of the Greek and Hebrew languages defines the above words as antonyms to life, never synonyms.  And yet, today’s dominant Christian view directly contradicts many verses of Scripture, as we will see, and actually works against the Gospel of Jesus Christ and "the power of His resurrection." Phil.3:10.  Billions of people refuse the Gospel call simply because they don’t believe they are going to die.  The whole world says "Amen" to Satan in his inaugural deception, which led our world into sin.  Once GOD’S foundational warning of death is overruled the rudiments of the Gospel are viewed as foolishness and is the leading reason Christianity has no power to wake up the world from its stupor of complacency. GOD does not speak in riddles or use mystical symbolism when He speaks of these issues with His children: "I have not spoken in secret…I, the LORD, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right." "All the words of My mouth are with righteousness; nothing crooked or perverse is in them. They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge." Is.45:19; Prov.8:8,9.

Defining death from Scripture 

       Man’s understanding of the true meaning of death is vital in the sight of GOD because the very first doctrine of Christ that the Holy Spirit led the Apostle Peter to teach on the day of Pentecost outlined clearly that to be dead is to be unconscious.  Said Peter very simply, "Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried…For David is not ascended into the heavens." Acts 2:29,34.  If David, who is listed among the greatest of GOD’S servants is not in heaven where is he?  Don’t let the Vatican answer, or the mainstream Protestant churches.  At virtually every funeral their priests assure the family of the deceased that their departed loved one is now "with Jesus." "Bill’s looking down from heaven" is one many assurances given by nominal Christianity.  Is their assurance given to the family true or are they merely extending to the bereaved a rope of sand?  Jesus did not tell the Pharisees how Abraham is watching from heaven, but rather said, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad." Jn.8:56.  In other words, before his death, Abraham was given a vision showing him the coming of Christ: that through his family the Savior of the world would come; and this comforted him until his death. Let us allow the Bible to answer the question of where David is. The wisest man who ever lived, Solomon, gave the clearest words in the Bible concerning what happens to all people when they die.  As you read his words keep one thing in mind: Solomon is the only man to whom GOD said, "Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart: so that there was none like thee before thee; neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee." I Ki.3:12.  GOD assures the devoted Bible student that the counsel given by this man is a true witness; and all who refute GOD'S personal assurance on this have exalted their own opinion above the Word of GOD. Said Solomon, as a wise old man at the end of his life’s journey, "The living know that they shall die but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun…for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." "As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return, to go as he came…that in all points as he came so shall he go." Eccl.9:5,10; 5:15.  The Bible teaches that we did not exist before we were formed in the womb; and neither shall we exist after we die. Every testimony of after-death experiences, séances, voices and appearances of the deceased, each of these supernatural manifestations works to overthrow these words of the Holy Bible.  Miracles of satanic origin are ever working to overrule GOD’S Word, always getting back to Satan’s very first words recorded in the Bible: "Hath GOD said…?" Gen.3:1.  Miracles are evident all around the world to secure people’s rejection of GOD’S Word; and Satan, who was given dominion of the world has jurisdiction to utilize his deceptive magic.Even the mainstream churches, that claim allegiance to the Bible’s every word, disagree with both Peter the humble Apostle and Solomon, the Bible’s wisest man.  Every mainstream denomination: Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Congregational, Evangelical, Episcopal, Pentecostal, First Church of Christ, etc., all say, "These men of the Bible do not speak the truth."  The highly revered Bible scholar, Ken Taylor, the author of the very popular Living Bible (a paraphrase translation), said these words in his footnotes below those words of Solomon: "These words are Solomon’s discouraged opinion, and do not reflect a knowledge of GOD’S truth on these points."  This highly revered man in the Christian church has just called the Bible’s wisest man a liar. Worse than that, he declares that the words of GOD Himself are a lie when GOD personally assures the devoted Bible student that we can trust Solomon’s testimony (I Ki.3:12).

Ken Taylor and every mainstream-Christian church declare their wisdom to be superior to the Word of GOD, actually exalting their own authority above the authority of GOD’S Word while hypocritically claiming their subservience to that word.  This is one of many contradictions of nominal Christianity to the plain “Thus saith the LORD.”

       Another example from men of supposed scholarship: Dakes Annotated Bible has this to say on Solomon’s words in Ecclesiastes, "This is true as far as the dead bodies are concerned. They do not know anything and they are not conscious in the least, for they came from dust; but the souls and spirits of all men are immortal and continue in a full state of consciousness between death and the resurrection of their bodies. The bodies do not have reward at death and will not have until the resurrection; then rewards will be meted out to the righteous before the millennium and to the wicked after the millennium. The souls and spirits have some reward at death, being admitted to heaven if they are righteous, and to hell if they are wicked."—Dake Annotated Reference Bible. Solomon said, "they have no more reward."  Dake says they "have some reward."  Solomon said, "the dead know nothing."  Dake says the dead "continue in a full state of consciousness."  Do you see the open war against the Word of GOD?  "Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your GOD which I command you." Deut.4:2.  According to these men, "All scripture is [not] given by inspiration of God" II Tim.3:16.Let’s get to the heart of the matter: To be conscious means to be aware: to have senses, emotions, thoughts and calculations; this is the only definition of consciousness.  The editors of the Dake Bible as well as all popular theologians have created an absurd, mystical definition of what defines consciousness by saying the human body has consciousness.  The body is conscious?  The blood is aware?  The lungs think? The fingers calculate?  Neither the Bible nor common sense can give sanction to this mystical rubbish.  The consciousness applies only to the awakened mind housed in a corporeal frame, and through this union the experience of life exists.  Scripture says in Genesis 2:7, "And GOD breathed into the nostrils of Adam the breath of life and man became a living soul."  The Bible says that a living soul requires the marriage of a spirit to a living, breathing body, all formed and united by GOD; and the two become one.  This is the Biblical definition of a "soul."  But upon death there is a divorce of that union of spirit and body, and therefore the consciousness cannot exist; and thus, the soul, which is the union of the two, ceases to exist.  Solomon, in his closing words of Ecclesiastes wrote, "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto GOD who gave it;" because, "In all points as he came so shall he go." Eccl.12:7; 5:15.  

Other Bible writers Who agreed with Peter and Solomon 

       Let us delve a little deeper into the wellspring of the Bible.  The Apostle Peter and Solomon were not alone in teaching that unconsciousness is the true meaning of death.  GOD discusses death in every book of the Bible.  The psalmist wrote that at the moment any man dies, "in that very day his thoughts perish" [Hebrew word, eshtonoth, meaning thoughts]. Ps.146:4.  And concerning the faithful of all ages who lie in the grave, David himself wrote: "The dead praise not the LORD; neither any that go down into silence." Ps.115:17.  So, none of the dead are praising the LORD today, including David, as Peter said. Long before the Prophets and Apostles, a man named Job understood clearly the meaning of death: "For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh [it does not say "in my spirit"] I shall see GOD." Job 19:25,26.  Job understood that after his death he would not see GOD until the resurrection at the Second Coming of Christ.  Said the LORD Jesus Christ in compliment to those words of Job, "This is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day." Jn.6:40. A very important New Testament illustration: When Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha died, Martha said to Christ "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." Jn.11:24.  And when Christ raised Lazarus from the dead (after being in the grave for four days) Lazarus gave no description of heaven or of any conscious experience when he returned from the grave.  Throughout the Bible there is no testimony of any after-death experience given by anyone.  But the one Bible passage that trips people up is where the witch of Endor conjured up the appearance of the dead prophet Samuel (I Sam.28:15).  This was merely a demon impersonating the great prophet of GOD.  Even Christ Himself when resurrected gave no testimony, but told Mary, "I have not yet ascended to My Father in heaven." Jn.20:17. How different is the church’s view!  None can claim obedience to the teachings of the Holy Bible and at the same time deny its most simple words; but this is precisely what is being done.  Today’s Christianity has perverted the meaning of other verses of Scripture, thereby creating contradictions within the Word of GOD on this and other sacred doctrines.  We must understand the church’s use of mysticism in its interpretation of the Bible’s plain language.

       Now all of us have been handed a lot of ideas in our upbringing; and very few people can claim that the things they believe were discovered on their own.  What is marvelous to consider is that when the Holy Bible is taken to other countries and the people there are not taught the "tradition of men," the Bible’s simple teaching on death rises to prominence in their understanding from the very beginning of their studies.  GOD has spoken plainly, but men have chosen to remove GOD’S intended lessons and replace them with ancient doctrines of pagan idolatry, which were held by men of the most primitive ignorance.  Said Paul, "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron." I Tim. 4:1,2.  All of this has but one goal: to keep the sinner trapped in his or her sins, "and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death." James 1:15. 

The Bible does teach thatsome are "alive" in heaven today 

       The Scriptures teach that only Enoch, Elijah, Moses and those resurrected with Jesus Christ are in heaven today (Gen.5:21-24; II Kings 2:11; Matt.17:1-3, Jude 9; Matt.27:50-53).  Enoch and Elijah, who were translated from the living, are archetypes of the multitudes who will be translated to glory from the living (I Th.4:17).  Moses and those resurrected with Jesus are the archetypes of the vast throng who will be raised from an unconscious death at Christ’s second coming.  These are the only ones alive in heaven today.  All others, without exception, must wait unconscious in the grave until the coming of Christ before they can taste once more of life.  This includes Mary, the mother of Jesus, and all the dead saints whom Catholicism teaches are not dead but intervene with their blessings in the lives of those faithful to the Catholic Church. Please note: all the faith in the world will never transform a lie into truth. No matter how much faith one can muster, it will never make 2+2=5.  In the eyes of all Christendom faith has become synonymous with presumption; and presumption has no part in the kingdom of heaven. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of GOD." Rom.10:17.  To circumvent the truth on this and other doctrines of Scripture the church has to boast of its superior authority to the Word of GOD: “The church is above the Bible.”—The Catholic Record. Every after-death experience, every miracle of the "Virgin Mary" [which have been numbered upwards of ten thousand, even giving visions to Pope John Paul II and other Biblically illiterate souls (Matt.22:29)]; every personal contact with departed loved ones; every answered prayer from departed loved ones or the dead saints: all of these are a deception to lead people to think their life goes on after death, either in bliss or in fiery torments.  (We will address Christianity’s universal doctrine of eternal hellfire momentarily).GOD commanded the children of Israel to have nothing to do with the dead, period; and all who are associated in this deception GOD says it is an "abomination" in His sight (Deuteronomy 18:9-13; Is.8:19).  King Saul, the first king of Israel, shut the door on GOD’S salvation forever when he searched out a witch to be his intercessor to gain an audience with the dead prophet Samuel.  In effect, Saul turned to Satan for salvation; for Saul knew well the commandment of GOD to shun any association with the dead as specified in the book of Moses.  The witch at Endor even acknowledged Saul’s previous persecution of all who practiced witchcraft (I Sam.28:9); but Saul’s feverish desire controlled his better judgment, and this made GOD’S Word void, forever in his life.  And the one who appeared before Saul was not the prophet Samuel.  He looked like him; he sounded like him; but it was not him.  It was a demon angel working to deceive Saul to his eternal ruin.  Satan secured the eternal ruin of the life of Saul, the first king of Israel through corrupting Scripture’s doctrine on the state of the dead.  And today’s Christianity is poised to fall into the exact same trap. You see if men will not honor GOD’S Word here they would not honor it in heaven.  It would not be safe to take them to heaven.  And the great controversy between Christ and Satan deals specifically with The Honor of GOD’S Word.  

The church’s arsenal to oppose the truth 

       So why does virtually every church disagree with the Bible and even misuse other statements of Scripture to contradict the plainest words of Scripture?  Let’s examine this.  The two leading texts that have been used to secure the contradiction to the plain "Thus saith the LORD" are these words of Christ while on the Cross, and His Apostle Paul:     1. "Verily, I say unto thee[,] today thou shalt be with Me in paradise." Lu.23:43. (Please notice the placement of the comma in the text)    2. "We are confident, yea, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the LORD." II Cor.5:8.In the first text, something as simple as a comma has been used to lead the world to believe a lie, and has perverted the meaning of Christ’s words to that faithful thief who was crucified at His side—that condemned thief—the only man on earth who called Jesus "LORD" in the day He died for the sins of the world (Lu.23:42).  Fact: there was no punctuation in the original Greek manuscripts that the Apostles themselves wrote.  It was added centuries later when pagan rites and ceremonies had secured their success in contaminating the purity of the Christian faith.  The text should read thus: "Verily, I say unto thee today[,] thou shalt be with Me in paradise."  This view is verified due to Christ’s own words after His resurrection when Mary Magdalene recognized Him and with joy was clinging to His feet.  He said, "Touch Me not for I am not yet ascended to My Father in heaven." Jn.20:17.  Is not "paradise" with the Father in heaven?  Therefore, Christ did not go to heaven on Friday before the Passover Sabbath as nearly every church teaches that He did.In the second text, Paul’s passage in II Corinthians 5 is discussing his fervent impatience to be free of "this body of death" (Rom.7:24) and receive the "glorified" body (Rom. 8:17) to be received at Christ’s second coming, as Paul described in I Corinthians 15:20-23: "In Christ shall all be made alive [they are not alive now] But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits [He is alive], afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming [at the second coming the saints will then be made alive]. Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to GOD the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power…The last enemy that will be destroyed is death."  Paul was not giving a study on the state of the dead in II Corinthians 5, but was upholding the fact that a glorified body untainted with selfish lusts awaits every faithful believer when Christ comes as Paul stated in I Corinthians 15.  Paul does not contradict himself. 

Common sense abandoned 

       Jehovah, the angel Gabriel, Job, Jesus and the Apostle Paul called death "sleep" (Deut.31:16; Dan.12:2; Lu.8:52-55; Jn.11:11-14; I Cor.15:51; I Th.4:14).  Job said: "So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." Job 14:12.  Simple questions must now be asked, Are you awake while you’re asleep?  Are you conscious while unconscious?  The obvious answer is no.  Or have you ever been knocked out?  Many people have.  I was knocked out for six and half hours when I was a victim of a hit and run accident.  The span of time between my going unconscious and my coming to went by in the blink of an eye.  This is how fast the passage of time will seem to David between the time of his death and the time of Christ’s coming to raise him from the dead—in the blink of an eye.All would agree that every falsehood taught as truth perpetrates a disservice to man.  And yet, every popular Study Bible from Dake, Nelson, Zondervan, Holman, or Cornerstone, they all avoid the truth as it is “in Christ” concerning the Ten Commandment Law, the state of the dead, and the true prophetic history of the Christian Church.  They avoid these life-giving doctrines like the plague.  Not one of them addresses the Bible’s many warnings that disqualify the soul from everlasting life.  None prepare their readers to stand in humble obedience before the LORD Jesus Christ.  And all, without exception, contribute to the downfall of souls.  Biblically antagonistic theologians are handing a "peace and safety" message to the Christian church; and their outward piety is no indication of inward godliness as the Savior Himself warned the church leaders of His day: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.  Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity." Matt.23:27,28.  This same condition exists with our religious leaders today.  We, corporately, are no wiser in our generation; for by promoting Satan’s first lie as a true statement the eternal loss of GOD’S children cannot be measured—not until the Judgment.  There is a great need today for the Spirit of reformation to give backbone to the church as when John the Baptist said: "O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance" Matt.3:7,8. Said Peter of the Vatican and all other apostates claiming service to GOD but who walk in denial to His warnings: "They that are unlearned and unstable wrest [Paul’s writings], as they do the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction." II Pet.3:16.  The whole controversy between Christ and Satan lies over the legitimacy and comprehension of the Word of GOD.  The churches give a pleasing fable, but GOD said,  "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hos.4:6.  Satan is diligent to tempt the minds of men with thoughts that are rebellious to Scripture, whose sole intention is to create contradictions and confusion, leaving the human mind off balance in its understanding, thus affording Satan the upper hand.  Through confusion ignorance prevails.  And through ignorance, sin remains in the life.  How do you best sabotage Biblical truth?  By standing between Scripture and those who desire its knowledge, creating a detour through confusion.  Today’s theology has the Bible writers all contradicting themselves.  These contradictions have one purpose: to keep you off balance in your understanding.  And when you’re confused where do you turn for understanding?  The very ones who promote the confusion: thus securing your failure of understanding.  And yet, the Bible contains the perfect instruction for all: "Seek ye out of the book of the LORD and read: no one of these shall fail." Isa.34:16.  In spite of this, most people refuse to harness truth on their own and they turn to their leaders for answers.  It has been the work of most professed Christians to seek confirmation to live a sinful life.  The sinful heart naturally gravitates to lies.  Many a man when shown the error of his way from a plain "Thus saith the LORD" will politely say, "I’ll go pray about it."  In other words, "I’ve rejected what the Bible says: I just need to go and work out how to justify my rebellion."  The Bible says to do the opposite: "Lean not unto thine own understanding" and "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help." Prov.3:5; Ps.146:3.  The Bible leads us to the same Holy Scriptures that led Jesus Christ to the Cross and held Him there until His death: "To the law [the Ten Commandments] and to the testimony [the written Word of GOD]: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Is.8:20. 

The simple answer to the question of how Christ conquered death

       Most ministers do not understand how Jesus conquered death. The typical statement of Easter sermons is, "the resurrection of Christ is a great mystery."  There’s nothing mysterious about it.  GOD does everything with logical precision.  The legal framework of GOD’S plan of salvation is well within the boundaries of understanding.  The Bible says, "The soul that sinneth it shall die;" and "The wages of sin is death." Eze.18:4; Rom.6:23.  Death is to be the eternal prison for every sin that is committed.  Death (or nonexistence) is GOD’S legal domain for sin—a vault to hold all the bitter fruits of selfishness.  That is the sole function of death.  It has no other purpose.  So, when Christ became a man He was "made of a woman, made under the law." Gal.4:4.  "Under the law" means that when Christ united the sinful human nature to His Divine nature He came under the same death sentence that we all received as an inheritance from Adam; and we were all a part of him when he sinned thus bringing condemnation to himself and to his family.  Jehovah Himself, in becoming a man adopted man’s condemnation of death.  And when Jesus Christ was forced into the grave at the hands of lawless men, having never united His will with sin, either by thought or deed, the grave had no legal right to hold Him: it had to set Him free; for death can only hold sin of which Christ had none!  On the day of Pentecost Peter said, "it was not possible that he should be holden of it." Acts 2:24.  And because He is our Creator, [the Father and now son of the family of Adam (Rev.22:16)], the whole of mankind is to share in this victory that our "Everlasting Father" and "Creator," Jesus Christ gained on the behalf of His children (Is.9:6).  The essence of the legal framework of salvation is this: Only the Father of Adam had the legal right to redeem the family of Adam.  This is why we see the genealogy of Christ (from Mary’s lineage) recorded this way in the book of Luke: "And Jesus Himself…being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of…Noah…the son of Adam, the son of GOD." Luke 3:36-38. Said Christ of Himself, "I am the root and the offspring of David," Rev.22:16. This is why even “the wicked” are to be raised from the dead in the second resurrection (Jn.5:28,29; Rev.20:6); for Christ has saved the whole human race from what the Bible defines as the first death; and the first death is a bequest of the Gospel and rests in the legal and legitimate fact that Christ has redeemed us from the condemnation that we all inherited from Adam’s original sin: placing the entire human race in the position of Adam before he sinned—while he stood in the place of his innocence.  Through Christ all mankind is now viewed by our heavenly Father as though we had never sinned!  The new probation restores our ability to choose GOD’S deliverance from all sin and be restored to eternal life.  This is the essence GOD’S message of salvation.Even though the whole human race will be raised from the grave the Apostle Paul said that only those who participate in "the first resurrection" (Rev.20:5) at the Second Advent of Christ will be given immortality: "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming." "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory." The return to consciousness is yet future for all who lie in the grave.  All who do not participate in "the first resurrection" of the godly among men will "perish" and will not be given immortality as John 3:16 so clearly says: "For GOD so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The Bible words of "perish," "death," "die," "devour," "destroy," and "consume" are not mystical symbols for continued consciousness. "Let no man deceive you." Eph.5:6. 

Deductive reasoning is a close companion in the study of Scripture 

       GOD never demands His children to step away from their reasoning powers. "Come now, and let us reason together saith the LORD."  And, "Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind," wrote Paul. Isa.1:18; Rom.14:5.  There is clear evidence showing how the pagan traditions of mysticism, (which always work against logic and reason) entered the Christian church soon after the death of the Apostles.  And the purpose of mysticism is simple: to confuse the mind so that it cannot understand GOD’S commands and purposes for His children.  To allow mysticism (emotional feelings promoting self-idolatry) to rule in one’s life is a sin in the eyes of heaven, for mysticism exalts itself above reason.  It is also listed in the Bible as among "the works of the flesh," and is synonymous with "sorcery" (Gal.5:19-21).  When emotions are allowed to rule as one’s only counselors in life the character will never grow.  This is why Solomon said, "With all thy getting get understanding." Prov.4:7. Through your gathering of understanding, Satan becomes helpless to rule in the life of the Bible-believing Christian. 

Corrupt evangelism 

       The books of heaven have recorded tens of thousands of lies spoken at evangelistic crusades.  False pretenses have brought tens of thousands to the Christian church.  And without GOD’S leading hand to deliver His children out of the many errors taught by the various churches all would come under Satan’s delusions.  And most in fact do. One epic example: C. Everett Koup was the Surgeon General under President Ronald Reagan.  He gave the opening statements for Billy Graham’s nationally televised crusade, which aired on CBS television in the early 1990’s; and his very first words were, "Every soul lives forever." The very first words of that evangelistic crusade were a lie and refuted the most basic doctrine of the Word of GOD.  Please remember, these are men who believe and teach that your unbelieving mother, father, son, daughter, or friend will be held in a fiery torture chamber to suffer excruciating pain throughout eternity as examples of those who dare to reject “GOD’S love.”  Every lost man, woman, and child, who lived a brief moment of time in a life of sin, who didn’t ask to be born who they are, when they are, and what they are, will all be rewarded, including little children, with an eternity of agonizing torture in the flames of hell.  And to this they heartily say, “Amen!”  This is why C. Everett Koup said, “Every soul lives forever.”  To create fear, they present Christ as a torturing Savior.  This is their prime tool of evangelism, and is another example where the whole Christian world has said "Amen" to a lie; and any decent, compassionate human being now has the legitimate right to claim their own sinful standard of mercy to be superior to that of GOD’S. The declaration, “If this is Christianity I don’t want it” is the cry of our agnostic society.  Fact: the leading reason we have an “ungodly” society is because of churchmen perverting the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  “Woe unto those who decree unrighteous decrees.” Isa.10:1.  We will show the Bible’s definition of the fate of all deluded souls momentarily, but this future view, among other prophetic views held by today’s Christianity is why GOD calls Protestant America, “the false prophet.” Do the religious leaders repent of their contribution to the sinful degradation of our society today?  Never. Protestant leaders from Jerry Falwell on down lead their congregations to cheer and give applause to those they believe will suffer an eternity of torture in hellfire.  I heard one minister at the International Seminary in central Florida describe how my "lost" mother will writhe in agony in the flames of hell forever.  And after his demonic discourse he said, "Now let’s stand and give GOD a round of applause."  Said Christ to the leaders of His people, then and now, "If ye were blind ye should have no sin; but now you say, We see. Therefore your sin remaineth." Jn.9:41. The 9^th Commandment forbids the bearing of false witness: the harboring of any lie.  Ministers trample this law under foot, with a self-righteous spirit, assuring themselves that they are safe.  There is a grotesque spirit ruling the Christian church today.  It is a spirit that refuses perfect obedience to the Word and Will of GOD.  Our religious leadership perpetuates the very snare that entrapped our Premier Mother Eve to disobey GOD’S Word: “Ye shall not surely die.” 

Incontrovertible proof that our religious leaders are lying 

       The Bible calls all deceivers "stiffnecked," "blind guides," "ravening wolves," and "generation of vipers," for they lead all people to shun the most obvious of all evidences supporting the Biblical view being presented to you.  "The tree of life," whose fruit alone provides GOD’S gift of immortality (I Cor.15:51-54), the fruit that Adam was denied access to when he sinned (Gen.3:22-24), ushering his eventual death (Gen.5:5), is only found in the city of GOD, the New Jerusalem—nowhere else (Rev.2:7; 22:2,14).  Through the fruit of this tree alone is man given immortality.If the most simple teaching of GOD’S salvation is rejected by the leaders of Christianity what of the "weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith?" (Matt.23:23)  How many more could have been brought to the kingdom of heaven if the Bible doctrines of salvation were presented in the purity of truth without the cancerous sapping of spiritual blackmail, pagan philosophy and mystical allegories.  Because of this unjust and mystical rubbish, presented to the whole world as GOD’S truth, most ministers of the church do not understand the rudiments of the Gospel and how the Bible must forever remain to them as a sealed book, because every rudiment of salvation has been literally deleted and replaced with arrogant declarations of unconverted sinful men.  The ignorance of previous generations is no excuse for today’s rebellion against Biblical truth. 

Summation 

       The near universal belief of conscious awareness after death is the most sinister fraud against the message of salvation because people don’t believe they’re going to die!  Satan is the author of this continuing lie, and yet, the churches “know not” that they are serving Satan in its promotion.  The contradictions men have devised, where Paul’s words contradict himself as well as Peter, or where Jesus contradicts Solomon, James contradicts Paul: each of these destabilizing influences proves the illegitimacy of our religious leaders views.  The Bible always agrees with itself in every doctrine, and there is harmony between every passage edifying the church.  "And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." I Cor.14:32,33. In the near future, Satan is going to raise the stakes in his game of deception; and those who believe their departed loved ones and friends are in heaven will be visited by demons impersonating their departed loved ones and friends (Deuteronomy 18:9-13; I Samuel 28:7-20).  The Bible clearly teaches (as we will see) that demons will appear, professing to be holy angels and even the Apostles.  The Apostle Paul warned the church of Galatia of the dangers of this very deception: "But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that we have preached to you, let him be accursed." Gal.1:8.  They will appear before the leaders and congregations who do not understand this rudiment of salvation; and the counsel they give will lead to "sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death." Ja.1:15.  That is what this deception is all about: to keep men fastened to sin.  And GOD does not have the legal right to protect his children when "they receive not the love of the truth" but "believe a lie" (II Thess. 2:10-12). 

The boundaries of GOD’S protection lie only in truth 

       Why is this issue so important to have a full understanding of?  For men to remove the true fate of those who choose to remain bonded with their sins is to assault the Great Love of GOD in His rescue of the human race; and this in turn removes the truest sense of urgency of the Gospel call, that men might turn from their chosen path of sin, and embrace the Love of GOD demonstrated through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  By perverting the meaning of death the church has removed the logical and legal framework of Christ’s salvation, literally amputating the superlative doctrine of all Scripture. All throughout history demons have appeared before men as angels, saints, loved ones, ghosts and goblins, and have been promoted in every culture and religion, literally haunting people by the millions, frightening little children to tears generation after generation.  Even the Devil’s impersonation of the Virgin Mary has rapped in vision vulnerable little Catholic girls, showing them the tormented souls of countless men in the flames of hell, speaking the soft-spoken words: "This is where the sinners go."  This was the testimony of a Catholic lady named Conchita Gonzalas, in the movie, Armageddon. A dear Catholic friend of mine, Joanne, was truly assaulted with a satanic encounter when she believed the Bible’s teaching on the value of obedience to all ten of the Commandments of Jesus Christ (not just obedience to eight, which the Vatican promotes) as well as the Bible’s definition of death.  As she rejoiced in the logic and plainness of the Scriptures she was soon lured into a satanic deception aimed at hers and her family’s destruction.  A supernatural manifestation was shown to her little girl, who came to her and said, "Mommy, my guardian angel is visiting me in my bedroom: come and see."  Joanne and her Pentecostal friend went into the bedroom but could not see the angel; only her little girl was allowed this rapturous vision.  Being leery, the Pentecostal friend prayed, "I pray this house be covered in the blood of Jesus."  Suddenly, blood covered the walls of the little girl’s bedroom that only Joanne’s little girl was allowed to see.  Joanne began to ask questions of the angel.  The angel would answer to the little girl and the girl would relay the answer to her mother.  After only a few minutes, the “Virgin Mary” appeared; and soon after came the appearance of “Jesus” Himself.  Joanne asked a question to the one who appeared as Jesus, "What was the great work you did while you were here on earth?"  The response was silence. Joanne asked her little girl, "What did he say?"  She said, "He’s just sitting there smiling, mommy."  Joanne then knew that this was a demonic deception threatening the soul’s salvation of her own little girl. She then said, "In the name of the LORD Jesus Christ I command you to leave my daughter."  And they all left, including the blood on the walls. Do you see how intense things are progressing in the last great struggle over the souls of men?  I know this woman.  This was her testimony to me.  And she was not lying. 

       Other well-known testimonies include a woman who claimed Christ showed her the lake of fire; and as they walked along its banks, the poor, tortured souls would cry out, "Help me LORD,” “have mercy LORD;” and this woman said that Christ just kept walking, facing ahead, showing no emotion, ignoring their pleas for help.  Another devout Catholic lady was given visions by Satan’s impersonation of the “Virgin Mary,” who commanded this lady to write a book, where she took a dictation, word for word from “Mary.”  And this is promised to every Catholic to be GOD’S leading hand.  In the middle of the book, these words of "Mary" are recorded, "I tell you the truth."  You can find this book right next to "His Holiness," the pope’s book in Walmart.  Sadly, in the eyes of heaven, these books are no less ungodly than the books of Harry Potter, Agatha Christie, or Stephen King; for to work against the truth as it is "in Christ" is to work against life, period!Why does not GOD have the legal right to protect people, including little girls from the deceptive magic of Satan?  The rules of engagement between Christ and Satan are little understood in the church; and this ignorance makes them vulnerable.  To venture onto Satan’s enchanted ground is to come under his jurisdiction; and he will stretch his authority as far as he is allowed. 

       It all lies over the issue of people’s free will.  Because of their freedom to believe as they themselves choose to believe (or are led to believe through the opinions of others) this makes them subjects of Christ or of the Devil in the principles of life, and there is no neutral ground. One sad example: Princess Diana went to see a psychic.  And this psychic told her that she was to die in a car accident.  This "prophecy" came to pass and Diana died a horrible death.  Of her own free will Diana surrendered to the jurisdiction of Satan and was overcome, plain and simple.  Only in the judgment of heaven will people see how many have followed a similar path as that of Diana, surrendering their wills to fortunetellers, psychics, tarot cards and crystal balls.  GOD gave to us a list found in Deuteronomy 18:9-13 that warns of every harmful practice that leads people to come under the legal jurisdiction of Satan.  This knowledge is 3,400 years old and people still don’t get it: even ministers of the church!   The most fearful responsibility this world will ever know is the work of GOD.  Too many men eagerly take up the work for which they are unfit.  And far too many take this work and use it for selfish ease and gain.  The ease loving ministers have no concept of their responsibility before the GOD of heaven; for if they did the example they would set before their congregations would be far different than they are. The “Oral Roberts” of this world, who claim GOD as some common mobster and thug who collects protection money; the “Benny Hinns” whose power to "slay in the spirit" is absolutely condemned of Scripture because it is nothing short of demon possession [which is one of only three reasons in Scripture for the loss of strength in the presence of Divinity (1. Rebellion against Christ: Jn.18:6; Matt.28:4; 2. Direct vision from GOD: Dan.10:16-18; Hab.2:2; and 3. Demon possession: Mk.3:11)]; the “Schullers” whose "peace and safety" message is not preparing one soul to stand in the battle of Armageddon (I Th.5:3).  The “Rod Parsleys” who work the congregation into a frenzy akin to an insane asylum declaring, “Now the Holy Spirit is here,” in total opposition to the Bible’s litmus test of godliness, “Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.” Ja.3:13-18.  Then there are the “D. James Kennedys”, the “Pat Robertsons” and “Jerry Falwells” who strive to gain an authority over government that Christ never ordained and commanded should never exist (Lu.22:24-26).  All these men continue to perpetuate lies that betray the truth as it is "in Christ" leading their flocks to their eternal ruin because they all endorse the free exercise of sin against the Ten Commandment Law: with no humility and no repentance. 

The final drama 

       Which leads us to the very last issue of our study on death: the punishment of “the wicked.”  Here we are today with a whole host of prophetic views being given by Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Pope John Paul II, Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye, Jack Van Impe, Perry Stone, Jimmy Swaggert, Oral Roberts and many others.  Now remember, these are men who are working to lead the whole world into universal transgression of GOD'S Holy Law, for they selfishly pick and choose which ones they will obey and trample the ones they will not.  Their lawlessness, their prophetic views, their whole concept of the GOD of heaven is demented.  This is easily proven through one universal doctrine held by them all: the doctrine of eternal torture in the fires of hell for all who "obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." II Th.1:8.  It is rather easy for them to promote this doctrine considering they don't believe they will be among those who will be roasting, toasting, cooking, stewing, baking, broiling, frying and crying for all eternity. So anyone who is baptized into the Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Evangelical and many other churches is publicly acknowledging their acceptance of this doctrine of everlasting torture in hellfire; for one's chosen denomination makes them accomplices with the doctrines of that denomination.  But let's look at the Bible’s definition of GOD'S perfect justice and see how it will be played out in the end of time.  The words of Paul exalt the perfect justice of GOD: "Be not deceived GOD is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." Gal.6:7.  GOD’S judgment of the deeds of men must be flawlessly calculated.  Said our LORD Jesus, "Every idle word that men shall speak it shall be held against them in the judgment." Matt.12:36.  No more, no less should the sins of unrepentant men be counted against them. “The lake of fire” is coming to this world but the mainstream Christian churches do not uphold the plain fact taught over and over again in the Bible that the fire goes out.  To overrule this fact, all of them teach that a brief life of sin, a life contaminated with the inheritance of a selfish nature, a life that none asked to born into, will be rewarded with an eternity of suffering in the flames of hell for everyone who rejects the love of Jesus Christ.  Essentially, these men teach that the Nazi concentration camps of Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz will seem like “a summer camp” compared to the eternal concentration camp GOD has in store for everyone who rejects “His love.”  Plainly, this is a contradiction in terms; but men have always rejected the most obvious evidence when it threatens their sinful lust to remain in power. This tradition of pagan idolatry brought into the church through Rome, which provides ample leverage to espouse the use of tyranny as well as assassinate the character of GOD’S Love demonstrated on the Cross of Calvary is found in nearly every church.  One example: The Light House Baptist Church in central Florida put this statement on its billboard for all to see: "Where will you spend eternity: smoking or non-smoking?"  This sadistic humor is the most corrupt statement that could ever be associated with the Cross of Christ.  This “belief” is an oxymoron at the highest level: to teach in the same breath that "GOD is love" (I Jn.4:8) and a sadistic torturing tyrant.  This doctrine makes Nero, Hitler, or any of the world’s sadists look like nice guys for they at least killed their victims after they tortured them.  When men torture their fellow man they are viewed as having the most despicable character of any creature; but when GOD does it they declare it as something holy, just and good.  It only meets their sinful desire to hate and not love.  This doctrine places the Christian on dangerous ground as the Apostle John so clearly stated, “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” I Jn.3:15.That threat of purgatory, Rome’s doctrine of writhing in the flames of hell forever and ever, which both papal and protestant priests use to frighten men into submission to their authority, not GOD’S [by which Satan seduces this acceptance through a variety of deceiving miracles (Rev.13:14)], the Bible teaches that these men will give an account of their bearing false witness against GOD’S truth in the great day of judgment, when every man stands before His Throne, to display before the witnessing universe their relationship with the Ten Commandment Law (Eccl.12:13,14).  As said before, this is the goal of Satan’s mechanisms of deception: to keep men fastened to sin and thereby disqualified from both the companionship of the Holy Spirit and the kingdom of heaven.  And to bear false witness against Christ is blasphemy of the Holy Ghost: "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." Matt.12:37. Fact: The vast majority of Christian ministers will hear these words in the day of judgment: "Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?" Jer.13:20. "But unto the wicked GOD saith, What hast thou to do to declare My statutes, or that thou shouldest take My covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest My words behind thee." Ps.50:16,17.  Only at this time will they, with their flocks, come to the full realization that, "the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." Jer.8:20.Before we review the plain "Thus saith the LORD" on the fate of the wicked, let us examine two lessons of Sacred Writ: 1. How Christ suffered the punishment for the sins of the world. 2. The parable of Christ that has been wrested from its intended lesson and corrupted by sinful hearts to espouse an everlasting fiery hell for the wicked.

1. What was the punishment that Christ suffered? In the garden of Gethsemane, the stress of bearing the sins of the world was go great upon Him that His blood vessels ruptured, producing the sweat of blood that dripped from His skin to the earth. One thing must be understood as we review the events leading to the Cross: the punishment of sin that Christ suffered, occurred while He was alive, not after His death—this is important; for it is directly related to the punishment that “the wicked” are to endure before their death in "the lake of fire:" the time when they are reduced "to ashes upon the earth." As our Savior hung as a spectacle condemned by both Jews and Romans (a condemnation that exists even unto this day) the Bible says, "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour." Matt.27:45. From noon ‘til three the Father made it pitch black so that none could witness the dying agonies of His dear Son.  This agony of the Savior words cannot describe; but the duration of Christ’s suffering was short.  The suffering that our Savior, Jesus Christ endured was not due to the double scourging of Pontius Pilate; nor was it the nails that pierced His hands and His feet when He was literally nailed to a tree as the supreme “trophy” for the “big game hunter” of sinful man; nor was it due to the difficulty of breathing while mounted on the crucifix, where it is said that crucified victims typically lived up to a week in this brutal execution before they suffocated and perished.  No, no! His agony was carrying the sins of the entire human race: the guilt, the torment, the feelings of responsibility for the gargantuan cry of woe emanating from this world throughout its agonizing history where trillions of life forms that Christ intended to receive blessing, peace and joy in the day He created them—all are perishing—drowning in desperation, fear and pain!  (Never forget, over 800 verses of Scripture verify Christ as the Creator of all things.)  In addition, the weight of sin was coupled with the thought of being forever removed from the presence of His Father.  He could not see the victory that the Bible prophesied was surely His while in His agony.  This was not a time when He could sing praises to GOD.  Medically speaking, He literally died of the broken heart (Jn.19:34). Our LORD and Savior entered the grave without the comfort of the foreknowledge of His being delivered from it.  He thought sin was so distasteful to the Father that His separation from Him was to be eternal (Matt.27:46).  But He chose to lay down His existence—forever.  His willing condescension to become a man and the humiliation He bore will never be measured, for who can measure the self-emptying love of GOD, whose Love is as infinite as time and space?  As His life faded, in the end Christ placed His fate in the hands of His Father regardless of the outcome, because the salvation of His children was more important to Him than that of His own life.  This was The Incarnate Love Born of Heaven.  This is the same Love that rules the whole universe: the same Love the whole world including apostate Christianity is defiantly at war with because they reject the Holy Law of GOD that commanded our very salvation.  His closing words to His Father were, "into thy hands I commend my spirit." Lu.23:46.  Wrote Solomon, "The dust shall return unto the earth and the spirit shall return unto GOD who gave it." Eccl.12:7.Christ died the same death that those who must face the second resurrection must face: the Bible calls it "the second death."  This is a death from which there is no hope of a resurrection.  Such will be the case with the wicked in the end of time, as we will see the Bible texts clearly and without perverting the meaning of words.  Men, corrupting the meaning of Scripture is the whole reason the doctrine of eternal torture by fire came into existence in the first place.  The Protestant teaching of everlasting torment is merely an extension of the pagan/Catholic doctrine of purgatory whose essence teaches that Christ’s sacrifice is insufficient and His method of justice corrupt by any standard. "False shepherds" have always held perverted views on the character of GOD.  GOD summed it up to the religious leaders this way, "Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit….These things thou hast done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes." Ps.50:19-21.Let’s sum up the simple arithmetic of this problem: if the wicked are to suffer in the flames of hell throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity then Christ didn’t suffer the punishment for the sins of the world (as all the churches agree that He did); for He must suffer that punishment, otherwise we still need a Savior—Jesus must join the wicked in the eternal fiery abyss.  To refute this simple deduction, the abstract statement is given, "He conquered hell."  What did Christ conquer? Most ministers of the Gospel don’t understand how Christ conquered the domain of death let alone what He has saved the sinner from.Christ said to the religious leaders, then and today, "Ye shall die in your sins." Jn.8:21,24.  Death means just what is says in the Bible: no mystical meaning; no allegorical definition—no spaced-out wonder.

2. "And the disciples came and said to Him, Why do You speak to them [the religious leaders] in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given…Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand." Matt.13:10,11,13.The most common passage used of today’s churches to support the teaching of GOD’S eternal torture chamber is in Luke, chapter 16: the story of the rich man and Lazarus.  This parable of Jesus Christ describes the rich man, "in hell," "being in torments," crying to "Abraham" to send the beggar, "Lazarus" who "was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom" to his "five brethren," "lest they also come into this place of torment."  And Abraham’s response, "If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead." Lu.16:19-31To declare this parable of Christ as a literal story illustrating the fate of the wicked is a Biblical absurdity.  With the exception of its moral (ver.26), every aspect of the parable contradicts Christ’s own doctrine (Matt.10:28).  Also, this was a well-known story in Christ’s day.  It was called "The Fable of Tantalum." (See The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Eddersheim, pg. 669).  But in the original, as was taught by the rabbis, the rich man was the one in heaven, and the poverty and ill ridden Lazarus was the one in fiery torments.  You see, in Christ’s day, the Jews taught that the rich were rich due to their godliness and therefore had a guaranteed entrance into heaven; and the poor and sickly were in their condition due to their ungodliness and therefore condemned to eternal damnation.  This theology made the rabbis very rich, for the flattery of the wealthy class received its reward. Jesus reversed the roles of these two characters in this story by placing Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom and the rich man in torments, thereby exposing the popular doctrine as false.  This is affirmed in Luke 18:24-26, when He said, "How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?"—If the rich were most likely lost, what of those without the blessings of good health and prosperity?  The church today has taken Christ’s one intended lesson in His parable (ver.26) and has literally amputated it, replacing it with an artificial doctrine that assaults the Love Born of Heaven and promotes "doctrines of devils" that the Apostle Paul warned would enter the church (I Tim.4). Although the majority of ministers shun the concept of GOD'S Love in its fullness, this does not discount the willingness of GOD to accept their repentance.  It is only through their desire to hold to their own hideous character that they attribute the spirit of their own cruelty to that of a loving GOD. 

Scripture’s outline: clear and concise 

       When the Millennium Sabbath for the saints is concluded (II Pet.3:8; Rev.20:4) they return with Christ in the New Jerusalem to carry out the verdict against the wicked (Rev.20-21). This is the time of the second resurrection, the time of "the judgment and perdition of ungodly men."  The Bible says that the whole surface of the earth will be broken up and transformed into one seething ocean of lava called the "lake of fire."  The mountains you see today will no longer be.  The great oceans will be transformed into vast clouds of steam.  The whole of earth’s terrain will not remain.  This is what the Bible teaches is the last great drama of earth’s sinful history. But the Bible teaches that the fire goes out after reducing every trace of man’s sinful existence "to ashes upon the earth."  Satan, his demons, and his pawns among men, the Bible says, "they shall be as though they had never been." "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner…are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."  Please note: Sodom and Gomorrha are not burning today.  It is the destruction that is "eternal" not the fire. "For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch…for they shall be ashes…in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts." Ob.16; Ju.7; Mal.4:1-3. There are many passages on this fate of death for the ungodly in the end of time: the most potent being the highly detailed Prophecy of Satan’s own fiery doom:    "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more." Eze.28:12-19.  And all who have violated the same Ten Commandment Law that condemns Satan will receive this same fate as Satan:"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city [New Jerusalem, (whose descent from Heaven corresponds to the second resurrection), at which time Christ makes Himself known to the vast throng who will then stop in their tracks: "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." (Rev.20:11,12)]: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are [the Vatican and Protestant America: the two tyrannical religions insincerely professing Christ as their Savior], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." Rev.20:7-10.  In these words is described the scene that after all the wicked among men have perished (as John 3:16 says) Satan will suffer on.  “Day and night” he must experience the pain he caused others to feel: no more and no less (Gal.6:7).  This is the perfect justice of GOD (Matt.7:2).  After which time the prophecy of Satan’s demise will be fulfilled: "I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth…and never shalt thou be any more."  Once Satan is forever vanquished Christ will say, "It is done." Rev.21:6.  

Misusing Scripture to maintain a self-serving authority 

       The great stumbling block for the renegade churches on their doctrine of eternal torture, among their other "doctrines of devils" (I Tim.4:1), is their misuse of the Bible words, "for ever," "eternal," and "everlasting." 54 times "for ever" is used in Scripture to describe that which has ended; therefore, it is the outcome of the punishment that is "eternal," "for ever," and "everlasting," not the punishing. "And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth." "Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them." "For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be…. But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away…Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." Rev.11:18; Ps.21:9; 37:10,20,36. The justice of GOD that is to be meted out against the wicked in the Great Day of Judgment, the suffering that is to be experienced by those condemned to eternal death will match exactly to the suffering they have caused others to feel through their heartless indifference, no more-no less.  This is the justice of GOD!  Said Paul, "Be not deceived: GOD is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." Gal.6:7.  This is to be their final experience of life before they perish and cease to exist forever.  But prior to their demise they are to see the Love that GOD had for them in His patient tender calls for them to obey their own conscience concerning justice, mercy and love.  But their continued rebellion against their innermost convictions has reaped its reward: everlasting death.  "But your iniquities [or selfishness] have separated between you and your GOD, and your sins [transgressions of His Holy Law] have hid His face from you that He will not hear." "For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon—that He may do His work, His strange work, and bring to pass His act, His strange act." Is.59:2; 28:21.  To a loving GOD the destruction of life is foreign to His purposes and strips away His hopes for the life that He created to only receive bountiful blessings with eternal joy and peace. But GOD will never remove man’s liberty of conscience.  They chose to die.  GOD will not take their choice away: "As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die?" Eze.33:11.  To not hear the mournful hope in His tone of voice is to not understand His Love.  But after GOD’S perfect justice is meted out then the great lake of fire will go out.  Sin and sinners will be no more.  Wrote the prophet John, "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away…And GOD shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain [for any living thing throughout creation]: for the former things are passed away." Revelation 21:1,4.  The pulse of universal peace and harmony will extend throughout the whole of the universe: to be the playground, the classroom, and the sanctuary for the children of GOD—forever.  Said Paul: "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things GOD hath prepared for those who love Him." II Cor.2:9.  This has been and will ever be the intended purpose of GOD for His children.  And the assurance is given, "Affliction shall not rise up the second time." Na.1:9. The redeemed of this world will have such a bitter taste in their mouth for the fruit of sin that they will never again choose to eat of its poison.  Remember, the greatest gift next to life is liberty of conscience.  Men will freely choose the ways of GOD forever and believe His Word—forever.  Universal peace and freedom will endure throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity, fulfilling the great closing words of childhood fables, “And they lived happily ever after.” Amen.   "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind…And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree [immovable] are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD." "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful." Rev.21:1; Is.11:6-9; 65:17, 21-25; Rev.21:5.         

3. Truth on the Scaffold Wrong on the Throne

The Dishonest Rendering of Church History

By the Vatican of Rome   

       Lies rule a sinful world.  The deceptions welcomed and promoted in every field of labor, impulsive speculations based on personal pride and prejudice, society’s allowance for the many lies of exaggeration in politics, business and war, even the withholding of information in which others are harmed in its wake, all of these are transgressions of the 9^th Commandment of Jesus Christ.  Christ gave to the world those tables of stone—the Decalogue of Jehovah (Jn.8:58).  They are GOD’S Criterion of Virtue.  And yet, even men in the Christian church lack the basic humility to see that every hint of falsehood promoted by the church is condemned of heaven (Ps.101:7).  As a whole the human race gives more reverence to fiction than to truth—vain imagination more than wisdom. This lecture will prove logically and ethically that the Bible’s prophetic history of the Christian era has been replaced with a fictional fairytale devised of the Vatican for the purpose of maintaining her reputation of religious supremacy.  And when it is discovered that the true history of GOD’S Church has been surgically removed from the knowledge of men, it will be seen that these religious leaders’ assurances of what the future holds are likewise corrupt and will not stand.  Understanding Bible prophecy is the key to differentiate the obedient from the disobedient.  And as we study the dissimilarity between Scripture and the Vatican’s view of prophetic history, it will be clear to any reasonable person so as to make one laden with regret over how the obvious chronology of history could be so arrogantly overruled but still be accepted by the mass of today’s church congregations.  "And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." Matt.15:14. The choice given to every man by the Creator of heaven and earth is simple: everlasting life for the obedient: eternal death for the disobedient.  Obedient to what?  Truth!  The once ruler of Judea, Pontius Pilate, asked the question of Jesus Christ, "What is truth?" Jn.18:38.  Jesus gave the answer to this question—to those who believe—in His Grand Prayer, "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." Jn.17:17.  The Holy Bible will judge every man who has ever lived (Jn.12:48), whether they were aware of it or not (Zech.13:6), and the Bible gives allowances for every case (Eze.18:30).  On this simple fact, the Savior has warned, "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." Matt.7:21.  The will of GOD is found in the Word of GOD.  The greatest testament to this fact is found in the life of Christ.  Jesus had to know Who He Was—by faith; believe the written testimony concerning what He was to accomplish on the behalf of man—by faith; and overcome the sinful nature He adopted when He became a man—by faith (Rev.3:21).  What was His standard against ignorance?  "It is written."  Every aspect of the human condition, the flaws of human character, the destructive relationships between men and GOD, and with one another, are pinpointed to exact measurement.  The Bible has omitted nothing that deals with the history and character of GOD’S people.  Said the King of the redeemed, "But take ye heed, Behold, I have foretold you all things." Mk.13:23.  When the whole of mankind stands before Jesus Christ in the end of time it will be seen who loves GOD’S “truth” and who does not: "Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not." Mal.3:18. Jesus said, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  Ye shall know them by their fruits." Matt.7:15,16.  Jesus then describes in the Day of Judgment how multitudes of unrepentant sinners come to Him claiming to have served Him.  And His response: "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Ver.23.  Jesus can have no association with those who chose sin over Him.To distinguish GOD’S obedient church from the disobedient—the sincere servant of GOD from the one merely using GOD to satisfy a sinful ambition, one must allow Scripture to define sin and repentance, for this lies at the heart of the plan of salvation.  And when we lay the foundation of Bible literacy to understand the plan of salvation we are blessed to discern the boundaries of GOD’S jurisdiction in the lives of men: where He has the right to bless and protect, and where He is legally helpless to intervene to protect His children from the jurisdiction of Satan’s mechanisms of destruction.  GOD’S legal framework to rescue humanity must be understood, for the many traps of Satan used to deceive men to keep them united with their sins (Eze.28:15,16; Rev.12:17), thus causing their ruin (Is.59:2) are not known in the world, and little understood within Christianity (Hos.4:6).  Therefore, it is the primary goal of Satan to keep men ignorant to Scripture (Matt.22:29) and disobedient to GOD (I Sam.15:22).  To accomplish this, Satan works to discredit Scripture, malign its lessons, and corrupt every trace of GOD’S intentions in how He deals with the sin problem.  This is evident from Satan’s very first words recorded in the Bible: "Hath GOD said…? Gen.3:1. Sin is so much more than men give recognition: "Thy commandment is exceeding broad." Ps.119:96.  The Bible’s prophecies for the Christian era declare that the Vatican has overruled GOD’S Law just as did the Jews of ancient times (Dan.7:25; Jn.7:19; II Th.2:1-12).  The parallels between the generations are so obvious, and yet man’s blindness to his transgression continues.  Because of this, each of the prophetic views held today come from men who live in open sin; and their true work is to overshadow the churches guilt of proselytizing sin as part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  But faith and sin are not partners in salvation.  GOD’S call to repent (Prov.28:13) means to separate from the sins that disqualify the soul from the companionship of the Holy Spirit, for without the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit none can receive the everlasting inheritance (Is.59:2; Rom.8:11; Jn.3:3). The Apostles of Christ warned the church to turn away from every transgression of GOD’S Ten Commandment Law: "For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." II Pet.2:21.  But their love affair with tradition overrules reform: their complacency has surrendered the will to accept a life of sin.  They demand to be saved in sin instead of from sin.  This works against the first fruit of believing the Gospel, which is repentance.  If a man who abuses his wife apologizes, then moments later abuses her again, of what value was his apology?  This illustrates what is so common among church members: a shallow repentance, where a general lack of remorse prevents the needed reform.  They refuse to understand the detestable nature of sin and separate from its moldering influence. Without meeting the Bible’s conditions of salvation this opens the floodgates for fraudulent doctrine to bear sway over the church.  This lecture will study the historical cause and effect of how the amalgamation of truth and error came to rule the Christian church. 

Part 1: "But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." Rom.5:20 

       As we begin let us review the pinnacle doctrine exemplifying GOD’S “mercy” (Ex.20:6) to His children who didn’t ask to be born who they are and what they are: sinners condemned to death.  When Jesus said, "It is finished" the whole destiny of the human race changed.  On the Cross of Calvary our “Everlasting Father” (Isa.9:6) carried to the grave the punishment of every sin committed by the human race, effectively removing man’s entire sinful history first begun with Adam.  How did He do this?  The Father of Adam became the Son of Adam (Lu.3:23-38; Rev.22:16), humbling Himself to become one with the fallen race.  Fully GOD and fully man Christ became "the Last Adam," and the New Sinless Father of the Human Race.  Jesus has removed our inherited condemnation received from "the first man Adam" whose original sin, causing his eventual death, had become the legacy passed on to all succeeding generations of mankind (Rom.5:8,12).  Jesus Christ lived the life Adam could not, bore the punishment for the sins of his family, and then conquered sin’s jurisdiction of death.At the very heart of the Gospel of Jesus Christ lies “the power of His resurrection.”  To accomplish this He had to come to “destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.” Heb.2:14.  Satan’s authority over the life of earth has led every human being to suffer the punishment of the sin he brought to this world.  This punishment is death.  Now, GOD has ordained the legal dominion of death to contain sin (Eze.18:4; Rom.6:23).  Death has no other purpose.  And because Christ never sinned (II Cor.5:21; Heb.4:15) the grave had no legal right to hold Him: it had to set Him free (Acts 2:24); and this now includes you and me (I Cor.15:22).  How can this be?  Legally, the whole human race now stands in the position of Adam before he sinned—when he stood in the place of innocence before GOD (Rom.4:6).  Through the holy history of Christ as man’s "Everlasting Father," every man, woman and child now stand before our Heavenly Father as though they had never sinned (I Cor.15:22; Rom.5:18).  This is the guaranteed deliverance given to everyone through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  And man is merely asked to "believe" the great love of our Creator in what He has accomplished on our behalf (Jn.5:24). 

       While GOD has pulled us out of the raging currents of sin’s death-sentence this does not guarantee that men would not jump right back in and drown themselves.  And even though all men will be resurrected not all will be granted eternal life.  Adam also bequeathed a sinful nature to all generations of his children: the propensity to make choices leading to self-destruction.  This aspect of our dilemma must also be addressed, for sin and GOD cannot coexist (Isa.59:2).  Now comes the call of Christ to every man: "Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect." Matt.5:48.  With this new probation, restoring man’s freedom to choose GOD’S gift of liberty from sin and the grave, man is given the privilege to honor this gift: to give evidence of its appreciation.  To accomplish this, Christ comes to live in the life of the believer through the Person of the Holy Spirit (Jn.14:18-20) whose indwelling Presence will provide the needed faith, courage and understanding to fulfill what GOD has called all men to do: repent from and forsake all sin (Prov.28:13). The sinless history of Jesus Christ as the new history of man even extends to cover all ignorant sins.  But also consider that this precious covering extended to all men cannot cover a single known sin that is not repented of nor forsaken: "And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him...But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him." Nu.15:27-31.  The New Testament concurs: "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:" Acts 17:30.Although this gesture of infinite value through GOD’S sacrifice is offered to every man the Apostle Peter said that the great majority of professed Christians will find themselves without a Savior in the day of judgment: "And if the righteous [referring to the church members] scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?" I Pet.4:18.  Said the LORD Jesus Christ, "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." "For many are called, but few are chosen." Matt.7:14; 22:14.  We have to understand why so many from the church population choose not to stand with the Savior of men, but rather against Him.  There are many devices of Satan designed to entrap GOD’S children to violate the same Ten Commandment Law that has condemned him (Eze.28:16).  This alone is the platform of Satan’s accusations against men (Rev.12:10) and his defense against the Tribunal of Heaven (Jn.16:7-11).  These common traps of the Devil explain the failure of most men to repent from sin, and how they will never hear the beautiful words of GOD’S approval to the faithful, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." Matt.25:21.

       To sum up the answer, as to why so many from among the various churches will be lost, Paul said: "They received not the love of the truth that they might be saved." "For not the hearers of the law are just before GOD, but the doers of the law shall be justified." II Th.2:10; Rom.2:13.  It is the legal framework of GOD’S Holy Law that is the means of discerning between the righteous and the wicked: the standard to judge who is worthy to receive immortality and who is not (I Cor.15:51-56).  Remember, it was Satan’s transgressions of that same Law that led him to be cast out of heaven (Eze.28:16) along with a third of the angels who followed him (Rev.12:9).  It is the spirit of Satan’s bitter hatred of GOD’S Law that he imparts to men, prodding them to take up the same banner of defiance (Rom.8:7).  Scripture calls for men to see GOD’S Law in a different light.  David wrote in the psalms: "O how love I thy law.…Thy law is the truth." Ps.119:97,142.  GOD’S Law is the truth men do not want.  All throughout Israel’s history GOD meticulously worked with them to maintain their allegiance to His Holy Law.  As long as they followed the leading of the Holy Spirit, surrendering their will to the Law’s jurisdiction to bless the obedient, their kingdom would never fall (Deut.28:1-13).  The rise and fall of every nation depends on its allegiance to the Law of GOD (Jer.18:7-10). In Christ’s day the Sacred Law of Jehovah was circumvented and overruled by traditions of manmade philosophy (Matt.15:3-9); so the Jews wound up transgressing the very Law they boasted their obedience to; and they crucified the Giver of the Law, who was none other than Christ Himself (Jn.8:58). 

       As we will see, men’s traditions today imitate the same self-righteous spirit and likewise transgress the Holy Law of Jehovah while telling the world of their obedience to it.  The assurance that the church extends to the world is just a rope of sand.  Our study will show that the leaders of Christianity are leading the flocks into the condemnation of sin, not GOD’S deliverance from sin.  They desire to be saved in sin instead of from sin.  A simple command of the brain is all that is needed to forever vanquish the practice of sin from the life; and daily discipline strengthens the muscle of command; but this determination is rarely seen.  Said Jesus, "If ye love Me keep My commandments." Jn.14:15.  In the end, most, even among Christians, will be shown to have no love for the GOD Who Lives to Serve—the GOD Who Died on Calvary’s Tree.  Instead, they will be displayed as partners with the congregation who cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him." Jn.19:15.  Sin murdered Jesus Christ; and all who continue in sin are associated as accomplices to His execution.  

Part 2: Bible Illiteracy Among Bible Scholars 

       In the days when Christ walked among men a group of religious scholars called Sadducees approached Jesus attempting to make a mockery of His doctrine.  At the end of their discussion Jesus said, "Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God." Matt.22:29.  These were men who boasted their vast knowledge of the Scriptures.  By this reputation of academic excellence they received the honor of men.  They could recite from memory entire passages from "the law and the prophets."  But Jesus said they were Biblically illiterate.  How profound are the Savior’s words—then and now.  A minister can know the Bible backwards and forwards, but to not know the intended lessons of GOD’S Word makes him Biblically illiterate and therefore vulnerable to his own eternal ruin along with those who are led by him.  "One sinner destroyeth much good.” Eccl.9:18.The Bible exposes the glaring illiteracy of the world’s ruling church, the Roman Catholic Church, to the Bible’s conditions of salvation, for the rudiments of salvation were abandoned over 1700 years ago by the Church of Rome.  When the pope was exalted as supreme Ruler of the Church, adopting the titles, "Vicar of the Son of God," "the Holy Father," "the Holy See," and "His Holiness;" his sins became the sins of every man under his rule.  And through the deceiving of one, Satan is able to deceive the multitudes.  This has always been the danger of entrusting many lives into the hands of one sinful man.  “Give us a king to judge us" (I Sam.8:6) is the cry of the whole Christian world when they look to the pope to rule in the affairs of men.  Three reasons men cry for a king: 1. They don’t want to take responsibility for their own lives. 2. When they fail they have someone else to blame.  But the primary reason stated by GOD: 3. "They have rejected Me that I should not reign over them" (I Sam.8:7).  When you understand the contrast between GOD’S way and that of sinful men professing His service you will know why we have an atheistic dominance today ruling in the affairs of society.  Our secular society has seen so much hypocrisy displayed in the church that they rightly declare, "If this is Christianity I don’t want it!"  And they fight tooth-and-nail to not relinquish any control to the leaders of the church.  But this is about to change, and the change will bring catastrophic consequences to the civilization of earth (Lu.21:11; Rev.13:8).  In essence, our society is safer with an agnostic man in government than a power-hungry Christian. 

The Bible’s Infallible Prophecy of Roman Catholicism  

         Let us now review the one ancient Bible prophecy of the 6^th century B.C. showing conclusively the predator kingdom ruling in the days of Christ and His Apostles, and how this same kingdom extends to our day in the timeline of prophetic history.  In the 6^th century B.C. "A great image" was shown to King Nebudchadnezzar in a dream.  "This great image" portrayed the world's kingdoms to the close of time.  The image had four sections representing the four kingdoms that would bear rule over the earth until the 2^nd Advent of Jesus Christ.  The four kingdoms are as follows: 1) Babylon; 2) Medo-Persia; 3) Greece; 4) Rome.  We live today in the fourth and last kingdom of earth before the coming of Christ.  (In Daniel, chapter 7, GOD reviews these same four kingdoms, assigning their traits of behavior to those of animals.)  Here is Nebuchadnezzar's dream—the infallible prophecy given by the GOD of heaven: "This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay"...."Thou [Nebudchadnezzar] art this head of gold [Babylon]. After thee another kingdom inferior to thee [Medo-Persia], and another third kingdom of brass [Greece], which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom [Rome] shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise [pagan era]. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron [the Vatican era], forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay....And in the days of these kings shall the GOD of heaven set up a kingdom [Mk.1:15], which shall never be destroyed [Rev.1:8]: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms [including the Vatican], and it shall stand for ever." Dan.2:32,33,38-41,44. The "iron," representing both phases of the Roman dominion, pagan and papal, is easily verified by the study of history.  We live today in the age of the final kingdom of earth’s sinful history.  This kingdom is the Vatican of Rome.  Remember the Bible’s prophetic destiny of Rome: the prophecy states that Christ will smash to smithereens the papal authority: "Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.  Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them." Dan.2:34,35.  This is the fate of the papal system of Christianity.  This disqualifies the Vatican’s claim to be the sole administrator of salvation, and removes any perception of Rome’s approval from the GOD of heaven.  It also shows the great danger of men submitting to her doctrines, which lie at the heart of Christ’s retribution against her when He comes.  But never forget, the righteousness of Christ covers all ignorant sins.  Catholics by the millions are sinning ignorantly, and GOD does not hold them accountable for the sins willfully carried out by their leaders except as they knowingly turn from GOD and participate in those sins (Eccl.8:11; Prov.1:11-31).

       Logically, we must now ask the question, "What is the great sin of Rome that leads Christ to obliterate her when He comes?"  In the following words of Pope Nicolaus both sin and blasphemy have been exalted to rule the church.  His beliefs represent what lies at the heart of the Vatican’s version of Christianity to this day.  It is the pope's teaching, verses the Bible's teaching that warns every man of the Vatican’s dramatic extinction when Christ returns.  Herein lies the true purpose of Romanism as defined by Pope Nicolaus (as contrasted with the Holy Word of GOD): 

Said Pope Nicolaus: "The Roman Pontiff judges all men but is judged by no one."  

Said Christ, the LORD: "For the Father judgeth no man." John 5:22; "I judge no man." John 8:15; "He that rejecteth Me, and receive not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." John 12:48.  

The pope continues: "I am all in all and above all."  

Said Christ, "Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased." Matt. 23:12. The great Antichrist of Scripture is defined thus: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things." Daniel 11:37,38.  

"Wherefore if those things that I do be said not to be done of man but of GOD what can you make me but GOD?"

Said Christ, "Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." Matt.24:4,5. Various popes of the last 100+ years concurred with Nicolaus: "We hold the place of Almighty GOD on earth."—Pope Leo XIII, Apostolic Letter, June 20, 1894. "The Pope...is Jesus Christ himself, hidden under the veil of flesh." –Pope Pius X. "You know that I am the Holy Father, the representative of GOD on earth, the Vicar of Christ, which means that I am GOD on the earth." –Pope Pius XI, April 30, 1922.  The blasphemy of claiming attributes of Deity is defined in Scripture thus: "The Jews answered Him [Christ], For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God." John 10:33.  

"Wherefore no marvel if it be in my power to change time and times, to alter and abrogate laws."  

The great Antichrist of the Bible is defined thus: "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and think to change times and laws." Dan.7:25.  Catholicism has officially removed the 2^nd Commandment, and altered the Sabbath of the 4^th Commandment from Saturday to Sunday, claiming for themselves the authority that belongs to GOD. 

"To dispense with all things, yea, with the precepts of Christ."  

The selfish pick-and-choose theology, deciding which precepts given by Jesus Christ are worthy of honor and which of them are not is to be partial in obedience to His government.  To be only partly saved is to be wholly lost: "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." Ja.2:10.  In essence, to do away with “one jot or one tittle” of the Law of Christ is to call Him a liar: "Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My words shall not pass away." Mark 13:31.  

"I conclude, commanding, declaring, and pronouncing, to stand upon necessity of salvation, for every creature to be subject to me." 

On the night of The Last Supper Christ forbid any dictatorship: "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But Ye shall not be so." Luke 22:25,26.  Whenever Christians lord authority over men, this is a sin in the eyes of heaven.  The Apostles complimented the Savior’s words by saying that the use of tyranny violates the 6^th Commandment, "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him."  "For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God." I Jn.3:15; Ja.1:20. The steps that led to this self-exalting religion calling itself “Christian” will never be retraced.  The prophecy of Rome is clear.   

Part 3: Rome Rejects The Apostles’ Model for the Christian Church(Some of the following passages have been extracted and edited from Our Authorized Version Vindicated by Benjamin Wilkinson, Professor of History, Columbia Missionary College) 

       When the Apostle Paul foretold the coming of the great apostasy of Christianity in his sermon and later in his epistle to the Thessalonians, he declared that there would "come a falling away" (II Thess.2:3); and then he added that the "mystery of iniquity doth already work" (II Thess.2:7).  Paul discerned that the roots of apostasy were already taking hold, and that an amalgamation was forming between truth and error: godliness and ungodliness.  Later, on his journey to Jerusalem, when he had gathered together the bishops who were over the church of Ephesus, he said, "Of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears." Acts 20:30, 31.The Holy Spirit deemed it of great importance to record this prophecy, to warn us that even from among the elders and bishops there would arise perverse leadership.  This prophecy has been fulfilled.  Until we sense the importance of this prophetic warning of the Holy Ghost, and come to recognize its colossal fulfillment in the religion of today’s Christianity, the truths of both Bible prophecy and even salvation itself will forever remain hidden to our understanding.

       The Apostle Paul wrote practically all of his epistles to the Gentile churches—to Corinth, to Rome, to Philippi, etc.  He wrote almost no letters to the Jewish Christians.  Therefore, the great burden of his closing days was to anchor the Gentile churches of Europe to the Christian churches of Judea.  In fact, it was to secure this end that he lost his life.  Said one author, "St. Paul did his best to maintain his friendship and alliance with the Jerusalem Church.  To put himself right with them, he traveled up to Jerusalem, when fresh fields and splendid prospects were opening up for him in the West.  For this purpose he submitted to several days restraint and attendance in the Temple, and the results vindicated his determination."—Stokes, The Acts of the Apostles, Vol.2, p.439. 

      This is how Paul used the churches of Judea as a base: "For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews." I Thess.2:14.  There is not a word here of the church of Rome being the model after which the other churches were to be formed; it had no such preeminence—this honor belonged to the churches of Judea.  It was according to them, not the church at Rome, that the Asiatic churches were modeled.  The purest of all the apostolic churches was that of the Thessalonians, and this was formed after the Christian churches in Judea.  Had any preeminence or authority belonged to the church of Rome, the Apostle would have proposed this as a model to all churches, which he formed, either in Judea, Asia Minor, Greece, or Italy.  Even Peter, (claimed by Catholic teaching to have handed the scepter of church authority to the pope), gave no indication of Rome’s exalted status.  As a matter of fact, Peter was crucified for testifying against the very sins that the Vatican to this day united to the Christian faith.  Rome declares that these sins are acceptable to GOD; but the very words of Peter condemn the religion of Rome to this very day (II Pet.2:21).   

Now, The Record of True Christianity 

"And the woman [the church of Christ (Jer.6:2)] fled into the wilderness [a land largely uninhabited], where she hath a place prepared of God [a refuge ordained of heaven], that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days [or 1,260 years (one prophetic day equals one literal year in the Bible’s time-prophecies of Daniel and Revelation: Nu.14:34; Eze.4:6)]." Rev.12:6.

       Said Christ of the coming tyranny, "If they [the religious leaders] have persecuted me, they will also persecute you” “Yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.” ”But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me." Rev.12:6; Jn.15:20;16:2;15:21."A thousand two hundred and threescore days" the Commandment-keeping Church of Christ sought refuge from the tyranny of papal Rome in the wilderness regions. 

       The first large scale tyranny exercised by the Roman church through her sway over the civil leaders was when, in the 6^th century, Emperor Justinian became the pope’s personal assassin:

"By an edict which he [Justinian] issued to unite all men in one faith, whether Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, such as did not, in the term of three months, embrace and profess the Catholic faith, were declared infamous, and, as such, excluded from all employments both civil and military, rendered incapable of leaving anything by will, and their estates confiscated, whether real or personal. These were convincing arguments of the truth[?] of the Catholic faith; but many, however, withstood them; and against such as did, the imperial edict was executed with utmost rigor. Great numbers were driven from their habitations with their wives and children, stripped and naked. Others betook themselves to flight, carrying with them what they could conceal, for their support and maintenance; but they were plundered of the little they had, and many of them inhumanly massacred by the Catholic peasants, or the soldiery, who guarded the passes."—Bower, The History of the Popes, Vol. 1, p. 334.

"And they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of times." Daniel 7:25. 

       The Bible teaches this period of history to last 1,260 literal years: as fulfilled from Justinian’s decree, granting the pope supreme authority in 538 A.D. until Napoleon’s general, Berthier, carried the decree of France removing all papal authority in 1798, when he entered Rome, arrested the pope, and threw him in prison until his death (Rev.13:3).  By civil license papal rule was given, and by civil license it was taken away.  The Bible gives seven prophecies of this 1,260 year time-period when the true Church of Christ should hide for its very existence (Dan. 7:25, 11:33, 12:7; Rev. 11:2, 12:6, 12:14, 13:5).  Jesus said, "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another." Matt.10:22,23. History does not provide any record of cruelty greater than that manifested by Roman Catholicism toward the humble Christians called the Waldenses.  It is impossible to write fully the inspiring history of this persecuted people, whose origin goes back to apostolic days and whose history is ornamented with stories of gripping interest.  Rome has obliterated the records.  Dr. DeSanctis, many years a Catholic official at Rome, an official Censor of the Inquisition, and later a convert to Protestantism, thus reports his conversation with a Waldensian scholar as he pointed to the ruins of Palatine Hill in Rome: "See," said the Waldensian, "a beautiful monument of ecclesiastical antiquity. These rough materials are the ruins of the two great Palatine libraries, one Greek and the other Latin, where the precious manuscripts of our ancestors were collected, and which Pope Gregory I, called the Great, caused to be burned."—DeSanctis, Popery, Puseyism, Jesuitism, p.53.

       The destruction of Waldensian records beginning about 600 A.D. by Gregory I was carried out with thoroughness by the Papacy.  Pope Gregory I also issued a bull against the community of Christians who obeyed the seventh-day Sabbath of the 4^th Commandment in the city of Rome (Wilkinson, Truth Triumphant, p.258).

       So systematic has been the work of extermination against Christ’s true Church that the historian, Gilly had this personal testimony: "It is a singular thing," says Gilly, "that the destruction or rapine, which has been so fatal to Waldensian documents, should have pursued them even to the place of security, to which all, that remained, were consigned by Morland, in 1658, the library of the University of Cambridge.  The most ancient of these relics were ticketed in seven packets, distinguished by letters of the alphabet, from A to G. The whole of these were missing when I made inquiry for them in 1823."—Gilly, Waldensian Researches, p.80.

       Imagine, an entire library, devoted to the historical existence of simple mountain Christians who never forced the will of anyone, who lived out the Ten Commandments of Christ in their godly, gallant lives, miraculously disappears from the library at the University of Cambridge.  Why is the Vatican to this day so determined to remove the existence of these peoples?  Because the history of the Waldenses expose the falsified history promoting Rome as the premier Christian Church.  And most importantly, Satan works to obliterate the knowledge of how the Waldensian people kept the Ten Commandments of Jesus Christ (Jn.8:58): they were obedient to GOD’S Holy Law when the Vatican exalted its religion above the Holy Law of Jehovah, thus serving Satan’s purpose to unify men against the very Law that has condemned him (Eze.28:16; Rev.12:17).

       Many of today’s historians attempt to fix the beginning of the Waldenses from Peter Waldo, who began his work about 1175.  This is a mistake.  The historical name of this people, as derived from the valleys where they lived, is Vaudois.  Their enemies, however, always seek to date their origin from Waldo.  Waldo was an agent raised up of God, among many throughout history to combat the errors of Rome: the earliest known being the great Vigilantius (364-408 A.D.).  The historian, Gilly, who made extensive research concerning the Waldenses, pictures Waldo in his study at Lyon, France, with his associates: a committee "like the translators of our own Authorized Version."  They were Bible scholars in the truest sense of the word: believing the words of Christ, "If any many will do His will he shall know of the doctrine." Jn.7:17.  Nevertheless the history of the Waldenses, or Vaudois, begins centuries before the days of Waldo.  There remains, in the ancient Waldensian language, "The Noble Lesson" (La Nobla Leycon), written about the year 1100 A.D., which assigns the first opposition of the Waldenses to the Church of Rome to the days of Constantine the Great, when Sylvester was Pope.  This may be gathered from the following extract: "All the Popes, which have been from Sylvester to the present time" (Que tuit li papa, que foron de Silvestre en tro en aquest).  Thus when Christianity, emerging from the long persecutions of pagan Rome, was raised to imperial favor by the Emperor Constantine, the Italic Church in northern Italy—later the Waldenses—is seen standing in opposition to papal Rome.  Catholics were viewed as “the newcomers.”

       Now, the scholars of the Reformation held that the Waldensian Church was formed about 120 A.D., and from that date on, they passed down from father to son the teachings they received from the Apostles, which included obedience to the seventh-day Sabbath of the 4^th Commandment, as recorded through various historians, both Catholic and Protestant, (Socrates, Ecclesiastical History, b.5, ch.22, found in Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, 2^nd Series, vol.2; Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History, b.7, ch.19, found in Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, 2^nd Series, vol.2; Allix, The Ancient Churches of Piedmont, p.154; Benedict, A General History of the Baptist Denomination, vol.2, p.414; Blair, History of the Waldenses, vol.1, p.220).  Their Bible was of the family of the renowned Itala.  It was that translation into Latin from the Apostles original Greek text which represents the Latin “Received Text.”  Its very name “Itala” is derived from the Italic district, the regions of the Vaudois.  Of the purity and reliability of this version, Augustine, speaking of different Latin Bibles (about 400 A.D.) says: “Now among translations themselves the Italian (Itala) is to be preferred to the others, for it keeps closer to the words without prejudice to clearness of expression.”—Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, (Christian Lit. Ed.1), Vol.2, p.542.  The old Waldensian liturgy, which they used in their services down through the centuries contained "texts of Scripture of the ancient Version called the Italick."—Allix, Churches of the Piedmont, (1690), p.37.  Various historians estimate the Itala’s translation, from the days of the Apostles to no later than 157 A.D.  We are indebted to Beza, the renowned associate of Calvin, for the statement that the Italic Church dates from 120 A.D.  From the illustrious group of scholars, which gathered round Beza in 1590 A.D., we may understand how the Received Text from the Apostles was the bond of union between great historic churches.  The Apostles Greek manuscripts became both the Itala [the original Vulgate (long before Jerome’s Gnostic based text that has since usurped the title)], as well as the Greek Bible of the great scholar, Lucian of Antioch (c. 250-312 A.D.), whose editing of the Apostles original Greek manuscripts produced a complete Bible from Genesis to Revelation that was preserved by the Greek Church until the Dutch scholar, Erasmus, restored them to western Christianity.  Protestant scholars compared Lucian’s Greek text with the Waldensians Latin text (given to them by the great Waldensian pastor, Olivetan); and through these diligent comparisons produced the most beloved King James Bible.  

Part 4: The hidden heritage of American liberty 

“The noontide of the papacy was the world's moral midnight. The Holy Scriptures were almost unknown, not only to the people, but to the priests. Like the Pharisees of old, the papist leaders hated the light which would reveal their sins. God's law, the standard of righteousness, having been removed, they exercised power without limit, and practiced vice without restraint. Fraud, avarice, and profligacy prevailed. Men shrank from no crime by which they could gain wealth or position. The palaces of popes and prelates were scenes of the vilest debauchery. Some of the reigning pontiffs were guilty of crimes so revolting that secular rulers endeavored to depose these dignitaries of the church as monsters too vile to be tolerated. For centuries Europe had made no progress in learning, arts, or civilization. A moral and intellectual paralysis had fallen upon Christendom.”—E.G. White, The Great Controversy, p.60.

       Western civilization entered the abyss of the Dark Ages, when, in 1229, at the Council of Toulouse, Pope Gregory IX decreed the common man to be forever denied the right to read the Holy Bible; and he imprisoned and murdered anyone who publicized GOD’S Word, of which the Waldenses were famous for doing in their missionary work throughout Europe.  During this time the pope created two orders of monks to combat the Waldensian threat against Vatican supremacy: "It has been affirmed that the orders of the Franciscans and Dominicans were instituted to silence the Waldenses."—Gilly, Waldensian Researches, p.98, note 2.  The Waldensian threat was not that of conquering armies nor secret agents infiltrating the hierarchy of the Vatican to overthrow them from within.  To the contrary, it was solely their character of humble Christlikeness that infuriated the papal dignitaries, just as the life of Jesus Christ exposed the ungodly lives of the Jewish leaders.  Those in the church who work to oppose the lives of those who carry GOD’S Truth will hear Jesus say in the Judgment Day, "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matt.25:40. One hundred years later, in the 1300’s, John Wycliffe (“the Morning Star of the Reformation”) was enlightened by a Waldensian missionary named Lollard whose influence on the life of Wycliffe sparked the flame of revival and reformation that ultimately led to the Grand Protestant Movement of later years whose momentous stories of victories and tragedies eventually led (by the hand of GOD) to the founding of the United States of America.  Our Constitutional liberties, held as sacred to us as Americans, were passed down generation by generation through the steadfast hands of the Waldensian Church.  And before them, this true liberty was first given by none other than Jesus Christ: "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." Jn.8:36.

       Historically, we owe our heritage of freedom to a group of true Christians, of various names, that we virtually know nothing about, whose history has no place in American education; whose contribution to the growth of godliness in civilization can only be measured in the judgment of heaven.  What we do know, historically, is that wherever the Protestant movement took hold, in those countries crime virtually ceased.  (Such was always the case among the Waldenses).  Godliness removes crime.  Sin promotes it!  When people discovered the freedom of Christ through the knowledge of the Gospel a whole host of temptations and superstitions disappeared.  The standards of decency held by American society owe their existence to a people [the true Israel of GOD (Rom.2:28,29; Gal.3:29)] whose history has been severed from public knowledge by papal saboteurs. The following is a list of these humble peoples—with different names throughout both Europe and the East but they all held to the same freedoms of conscience that we enjoy today in the United States; for truly, without them and their sacrifice we would not have our nation today.  Please read these names carefully, and take your time, for the godly Americans are merely a continuation of these great and noble peoples: The Albigenses, the Arnoldists, the Berengarians, the Celts, the Claudians, the Henricians, the Insabbatati, the Jacobites, the Leonists, the Lollards, the Messiahans, the Nazarenes, the Passagians, the Paterines, the Paulicians, the Petrobusians, the Runerians, the St. Thomas Christians, the Subalpini, and the Vaudois (or Waldensians).  Their Bible, the Itala, was the Bible of many other great men and women of the Church in the Wilderness: Patrick of Ireland, Columba of Scotland, Aiden of England, Dinooth of Wales, Hilda the Abbess of Whitby, and Columbanis of Europe. 

       And in the days of the Reformation, the great Waldensian pastor, Olivetan, [who, the historian, Leger said, was a relative of the Reformer, Calvin (History of the Vaudois, p.167)] supplied the Latin Bible text that became the beloved Geneva Bible in English, before the Greek manuscripts of Lucian were restored to western civilization through the research of the Dutch scholar, Erasmus; thus, paving the way for the most beloved King James Version.Today’s history has been altered to slander the Gospel-obedient servants of Christ by degrading their value and even their existence.  They are not even known among most Christians.  This ignorance is appalling; and yet, it is typical of the way things are run in this world.  As corrupt estimations of judgment have placed many innocent men to perish in the electric chair, so has Roman Catholicism worked to eradicate these innocent people, both in their slaughter as well as the history of their existence.  These were peoples of different countries and names but who were united in fundamental doctrines.  And they all held to the words of “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” that say, "Blessed are they that do His commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city." Rev.22:14. Please note: Modern Bible translations have removed these very words calling for obedience to GOD’S Holy Law just as today’s translators and theologians have removed true obedience by their doctrine. The Church in the Wilderness was the true Israel of GOD after the death of the Apostles (Matt.21:43).  The banner of true Christianity was passed from the hands of the Apostles to these faithful souls—not the pope of Rome.  This is verified by the prophecy of the 6^th century B.C. describing the difficulties Christ’s Church would face after the rise of the Vatican to civil rule: "the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days." Dan.11:32,33.

       These various peoples, united in apostolic doctrine, have been blotted out from history and substituted with the self-exalting history of those who work to evangelize the world into a universal system ruled by sin, thus, bringing to pass the objective first begun at the Tower of Babel: the mutiny of humanity against the Ten Commandments of GOD (Gen.11:1-9).  During the Age of Nimrod (who was the world’s first religious sovereign, whose worship may be found in every continent and ancient culture of the earth), this was a time of human history when GOD had to come down from heaven to confuse the communication between rebellious men to prevent another universal lawlessness just like the cruel regime that led to the flood of Noah’s day: “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Gen.6:5.  Within a few generations after the flood, while Noah was still alive, this near-unanimous apostasy of men would have forced GOD to destroy the world once more, even before Jesus could come to redeem men from sin’s condemnation!  This is how swiftly the feet of men run to evil!  The vast majority of Noah’s children dishonored their righteous father.  And as Noah is the father of all who live today, men still dishonor him in violation of the 5^th Commandment: “Honour thy father and thy mother…”  GOD thwarted the global unification of sinful men, then, but He will not prevent it today.  He must allow sin to run its course that all may see its objective that prophecy has spoken of: "The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left." Is.24:46. 

Part 5: To address the so-called "Church Fathers" (Some of the Passages have been extracted and edited from Our Authorized Version Vindicated by Benjamin Wilkinson) 

       The last of the Apostles to pass away was John.  His death is usually placed about 100 A. D.  In his closing days, he cooperated in the collecting and forming of those writings we call the New Testament.  An ordinary careful reading of Acts, Chapter 15, will prove the scrupulous care with which the early church guarded her sacred writings.  While John lived, heresy could make no serious headway.  All soon foresaw the doom of heathenism as a controlling force before the superior truths of Christianity.  But John had hardly passed away, however, before perverse teachers infested the Christian Church.  Men began to mingle their pagan views with Christianity.  Bible translations became infected with the infiltration of doctrines that were antagonistic to GOD’S Holy Law and the Gospel itself.  These years were times that saw the New Testament books corrupted in abundance.  "Mutilations of the Sacred Scriptures abounded."—Gilly, Vigilantius and His Times, p.116.  Eusebius (A.D. 260-340) is witness to this fact.  He relates that the corrupted manuscripts were so prevalent that agreement between the copies was hopeless; and that those who were corrupting the Scriptures claimed that they really were correcting them (Eusebius, Eccles. History, Book III, ch.24).  How much do we see this today in the plethora of modern translations!  When the warring sects had been consolidated under the iron hand of Constantine, this heretical potentate adopted the Bible which combined the contradictory versions into one, and so blended the various corruptions with the bulk of pure teachings.  This contamination of the Word of GOD added leverage to the great apostasy that captured the throne of Christendom and continues with us today.  Beginning shortly after the death of the Apostle John, four names stand out in prominence whose teachings contributed to the victory of apostasy and to the final issuing of manuscripts of a corrupt New Testament.  These names are, Justin Martyr, Tatian, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen. 

       We shall speak first of Justin Martyr.  The year the Apostle John died, 100 A.D., is given as the date in which Justin Martyr was born.  Justin, originally a pagan and of pagan parentage, afterward embraced Christianity; and although he is said to have died at heathen hands for his religion, nevertheless, his teachings were of a heretical nature.  Even as a Christian teacher, he continued to wear the robes of a pagan philosopher.  In the teachings of Justin Martyr, we begin to see the perversion of Bible doctrine among the heretical sects just fifty years after the death of the Apostle John. But it was in Tatian, Justin Martyr’s pupil, that these regrettable doctrines were carried to greater lengths, and by his hand committed to writing.  Tatian wrote a Harmony of the Gospels, which was called the Diatessaron, meaning four in one.  The Gospels were so notoriously corrupted by his hand that some years later a bishop of Syria was compelled to throw out of his churches no less than two hundred copies of this Diatessaron because church members were mistaking it for the true Gospel (Encyclopedias, "Tatian"). 

       Now we come to Tatian’s pupil known as Clement of Alexandria, 200 A. D.  He went much farther than Tatian in that he founded a school at Alexandria, which inaugurated the academic promotion of heretical teachings.  Clement expressly tells us that he would not hand down Christian teachings, pure and unmixed, but rather clothed with precepts of pagan philosophy.  His influence in the depravation of Christianity was tremendous.  But his greatest contribution, undoubtedly, was the direction given to the studies and activities of Origen, his famous pupil.

       When we come to Origen, we speak the name of him who did the most of all to create and give direction to the forces of apostasy down through the centuries.  It was he who mightily influenced Jerome, the editor of the Latin Bible known today as the Vulgate.  The original Vulgate, the Itala, which was translated directly from the Apostles manuscripts was usurped of its authority and replaced with a corrupt translation seeking to add and remove portions of GOD’S Word in direct violation of GOD’S explicit command to leave His Word intact (Deut.4:2; Rev.22:18,19).  Origen had so surrendered himself to the furor of turning all Bible events into mere stories of fiction that he, himself says, "The Scriptures are of little use to those who understand them as they are  written."—McClintock and Strong, Art. "Origen." In order to estimate Origen rightly, we must remember that as a pupil of Clement, he learned the teachings of the Gnostic heresy and like his master, lightly esteemed the historical basis of the Bible.  As the historian Dr. Schaff says, "His predilection for Plato [the pagan philosopher] led him into many grand and fascinating errors."—Schaff, Church History, Vol. II, p.791.  He adopted the various heresies, even studying under the heathen philosopher, Ammonius Saccas, founder of Neo-Platonism.  He taught that the soul existed from eternity before it inhabited the body, and that after death, it migrated to a higher or a lower form of life according to the deeds done in the body; and finally all would return to the state of pure intelligence, only to begin again the same cycle as before.  He believed that the devils would be saved, and that the stars and planets had souls, and were, like men, on trial to learn perfection.  In fact, he turned the whole Law and Gospel into fiction.  Such was the man who from his day to this has dominated the endeavors of destructive textual critics.  One of the greatest results of his life was that his teachings became the foundation of that system of education called Scholasticism, which guided the colleges of Latin Europe for nearly one thousand years during the Dark Ages.  Origenism flooded the Catholic Church through Jerome, the father of Latin Christianity.  A final word from the learned Scrivener will indicate how early and how deep were the corruptions of the sacred manuscripts: "It is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound, that the worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected, originated within a hundred years after it was composed; that Irenaeus (A. D. 150), and the African Fathers, and the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian Church, used far inferior manuscripts to those employed by Stunica, or Erasmus, or Stephens thirteen centuries later, when moulding the Textus Receptus."—Scrivener, Introduction to N.T. Criticism, 3^rd Edition, pg. 511. Thus the basis was laid to substitute a mutilated Bible with the True Bible—and perverted doctrine with True Doctrine.

       Through unskilled, unsanctified study of the Holy Scriptures, the foundation was laid establishing beliefs that came to rule the churches. A paganized Christianity now rules in both Catholic and Protestant churches.  Virtually every popular teaching today of both salvation and prophecy has the Bible divided against itself: everything from what Jesus has saved us from to the fate of the wicked.  Through imposing theological hypocrisies where Paul contradicts himself, James contradicts Paul, Jesus contradicts Solomon [the Bible’s wisest man according to GOD Himself (I Ki.3:12)], etc., the student of Scripture is left unbalanced in their understanding.  And through this confusion the Bible student is forced to turn to today’s so-called scholars for the "true" explanation.  Praise the LORD for the end of all deception that presently rules the world, both in and out of the church: "all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." Rev.21:8  And after that fire goes out, imagine a “new earth” where fraudulent values have no existence, and truth alone will rule—resting on GOD’S foundation of subservient love.  How precious will be that day. History has been so maligned and surgically altered to create the illusion (a mirage) that the Vatican is a legitimate representative of GOD that people, by and large, are left believing an iniquitous lie, and the majority of Christians are left illiterate to the simple teachings of Scripture.  This is why GOD said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;" and Peter said, "And if the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?" Hos.9:12; I Pet.4:18.  Why so few? “They received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.” II Th.2:10.  GOD calls all men to hear the words of David and bridge them to Paul’s words: “Thy law is the truth.” Ps.119:142. 

Part 6: Espionage that makes “The Cold War” Look like child’s play           

       The values held by most people are predicated on their understanding of the history of the Christian Church.  Virtually all attention that is given about Christianity in the news media, television, movies and history books gives glory to Catholicism.  Through this exalted relationship between the Roman church and the world, the Vatican has been adorned with the reputation of providing the world with the elite Christian church, the Holy Bible, the celebrations of Christmas and Easter, and up-building intellectual thought and civility among men. But what we have just read shows conclusively that the history of GOD’S True Church has been deliberately cut off from public knowledge through the systematic destruction of every record of her existence, thus creating the mere illusion (a mirage) of Rome as GOD’S representative on the earth.  All the faith in the world will never transform a lie into truth, even if the whole world is united in believing it.By tracing the chronology of Bible prophecy to the rise of America, this collaboration will give but one more evidence showing the illegitimacy of today’s flattering view of Rome as GOD’S Church; and that within the Vatican priesthood lies a secret society, whose vow, recorded in the United States Congress, reveals the most despicable value system that could ever be associated with humanity, let alone those professing service to the LORD Jesus Christ (full exposition given in Part 7).  These trained agents, created by the pope in the 16^th century, have been systematic in their work to root out every vestige of Protestantism, systematically altering Scripture’s theology and history to not only remove Catholicism’s every association with the Bible’s list of crimes against humanity but to infiltrate every governing position of religion, banking, education, law and government to secure the restoration of Rome on the throne of human government, of which Bible prophecy says must come to pass just prior to the coming of the LORD Jesus Christ in the clouds of glory. Never forget, Scripture shows logically and ethically that the GOD of Heaven has commanded the prophetic destiny of the Vatican to be that of eternal destruction in "the lake of fire" at the end of earth’s sinful history (Rev.19:19,20).  And even if given a million more years Rome will never abandon the foundation of her traditions whose origins can historically be traced all the way back to the Tower of Babel, the time when men had united in their determination to sin against the Holy Law of GOD.  The Vatican today is merely the instrument to fulfill that age-old objective.  As said before, the ten commandments that the Vatican presents to the world is not the same version originally given by Jesus Christ on Mount Sinai (Jn.8:58).  They have arrogantly edited three of the Ten Commandments of Jesus Christ: by removing the 2^nd, humiliating the 4^th, and dividing the 10^th into two (to maintain the same number). The 2^nd Commandment, forbidding the adoration of statues, was removed entirely.  To illustrate this: today, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome stands a statue of Peter, in which tens of thousands of Catholic pilgrims every year pray to, bow before, and touch the feet, wearing away the stone.  Most have no idea that this very same statue was originally named Jupiter and was first worshipped in the Pantheon of pagan Rome.  Pagan idols from the Pantheon were adopted into the religion of the Roman Catholic Church.  The adoration of statues is integral to Catholicism, in explicit defiance to the 2^nd Commandment, by drawing people away from GOD to the things made of sinful men.  GOD gave His explicit command on this, but men will ever refuse the plain “Thus saith the LORD:” “The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.  Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.” Deut.7:25,26.

       The authority of the 4^th Commandment uplifting Christ as Creator, of which over 800 verses of Scripture verify to be the leading attribute of Jesus Christ, has been usurped by the pope through his removing the 7^th day Sabbath rest of Jehovah, and calling the world to rest on his day, the 1^st day, claiming the divine authority to remove Christ and substitute himself in His place.  As the Bible prophesied, in blasphemy he openly declares the change of solemnity from Sabbath to Sunday, "the venerable day of the sun" (Dan.7:25): "Sunday is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters."—Cardinal Gibbons. "The LORD’S day" (Rev.1:10) is the seventh-day Sabbath (Is.58:13) not the first-day.  In every reference Bible, the margin-reference for "The LORD’S day" erroneously takes you to Acts 20:7 where it says, "And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight."  Just look at the context: 1. This meeting was on Saturday night, not Sunday morning, because the Bible defines the new day to begin at sundown, not at midnight as is held today (Gen.1:5).  2. There is no association between Paul’s Bible study (after the day’s Sabbath devotions) and Sunday sacredness. The heart of the issue is this: the Roman church absorbed the pagan tradition of the roman god, Attis, who, before the rise of Rome was Apollo in Greece; and before Greece this same sun god was Mithra (meaning Lord), the sun god of Persia and ruler of the Zodiac, whose day of worship, Sunday, was called "the lord’s day."  This ancient pagan tradition was absorbed into the religion of the papacy.  Sunday sacredness has been traced archaeologically to ancient Egypt.  And legend carries it all the way back to Nimrod and the Tower of Babel. Sunday sacredness is the world’s oldest tradition of pagan idolatry, whose origin lies in the worship of Nimrod (Gen.10:9,10); who, ancient legend says, ascended to the sun after he died (Hislop, The Two Babylons).  Sun/Nimrod worship is found in every ancient culture and continent of the earth, whose traditions of sun worship, mother worship, witchcraft, prayers to the dead, incantations, the sacrificing of human life, and miracles manifest of demons (of which Pharaoh of Egypt witnessed with no excitement (Ex.7:8-11), became the predominant doctrines in the Roman church.  GOD condemns the church’s claim of His approval to any doctrine that secures the destruction of His children. The last of the Holy Laws of Jehovah, the 10^th Commandment, had to be divided into two commandments by the Vatican to cloak their removal of GOD’S 2^nd Commandment.  Otherwise, people would be saying, "I thought there were ten."  The Catholic Catechism verifies the arrogance of Rome against the Sacred Law of GOD.  Here is their version of the closing commandments: "9) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife; 10) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods." –Baltimore Catechism No.3, p.115.  In essence, Rome lusts for the power that is only safe in the hands of GOD, creating a lawlessness bringing all life to ruin.  But the Holy Law of GOD is from everlasting to everlasting.  It is "The Testimony" of His Character of Love (Rev.11:19).  It reveals the perfect rule of Government (Jn.15:10).  The Bible says it is GOD’S "Testimony" in both the ark of Israel, (still hidden in Jeremiah’s grotto, but not for long) as well as the ark in the temple of heaven (Ex.26:34; Rev.15:5).  Christ, hanging on the Cross of Calvary, dying for the sins of the world, fulfills the 2^nd Commandment (Ex.20:6).  GOD’S very “mercy” Rome claims the divine authority to remove.

       It was man’s original transgression of GOD’S Law that brought death to the earth.  It was Christ’s obedience to that law that brought our deliverance!  GOD’S law commanded our salvation, and our obedience to it secures our salvation!  Jesus verifies this: "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." "If ye love Me keep My commandments." Matt.19:17; Jn.14:15.  This is the only way the Holy Spirit can have the legal right to dwell in the soul of the believer (Is.59:2; Rom.8:11).  “Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” Rom.8:9.So why is the church at war with the very Law that both honors GOD and protects human beings?  "Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches." "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." "Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein." Ps.73:12; I Tim.6:10; Jer.6:15,16.The whole issue of sin that presently dominates this world has its origin in men choosing to discard the Law GOD gave to bless, to guide, and protect the creatures formed by His hands.  GOD cannot and will not change His Laws, either of physics or morality, simply because men demand it to be so.  "The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness. He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name [not man’s: not Jerry Falwell’s or Jessie Jackson’s]. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever." Ps.111:7-10. The Bible teaches that none can have a good understanding as long as they refuse GOD’S Commandments; and ruling Christianity has rejected them for over 1700 years.  Due to the church’s acceptance of a life of sin these men are unfit to govern themselves let alone anyone else; and yet, they work in the political arena to gain an authority that Christ forbid them to have (Lu.22:25,26).  Bible prophecy says the day is coming when they will take the throne of human government; and through their initiating religious legislation, creating a national apostasy against the Law of GOD, they will bring America to environmental, economic, and spiritual ruin (Deut.28:15-45; Ps.119:126).  Rather than take responsibility for their contribution to the ruin of this land and the millions of souls deceived by them, they will point away from themselves and accuse those who obey the Holy Law of GOD.  This has always been and will ever be (I Ki.18:17).  Merely connect the first act of religious tyranny with that of the last: "Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." And, "the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." Gen.4:8; Rev.13:15.

       The churches have been deceived in the most fundamental issue of the Gospel; and this explains why the vast majority of professed Christians will be lost because they are being suckered by the Devil to take someone else’s opinion on salvation (based on traditions of sin, pride and prejudice) when their very soul’s salvation hangs in the balance. "Search the Scriptures," Christ commanded.  Most Christians haven’t even read the Bible, and the majority that do study their Bibles have preconceived opinions as to what is being said based on the traditions of their upbringing.  The church is filled with men who go to their knees with their minds already made up!  As a result, most do not know the legal framework of GOD’S Salvation.  Even the Apostles stood in the way of Christ by clinging to manmade doctrines that opposed the purposes of GOD.  Jesus said: "O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken." Lu.24:25.  But the simplicity of the Gospel reveals itself over and over again: "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." Jn.14:21.  The commandments that Christ speaks of are none other than the Decalogue of Jehovah.  “Remember,” Christ gave to the world the Ten Commandment Law: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was I am.” (Jn.8:58). There is a general blindness where people have no conception of Satan’s platform of accusations against men, "which accused them before our God day and night." Rev.12:10.  GOD desires His church to cooperate with heavenly agencies: Christ’s intercession as man’s High Priest (I Tim.2:5), the drawing power of the Holy Spirit (Is.26:12), of ministering angels (Heb.1:14), and the Word of GOD (Ps.119:49).  It is through the union of man’s cooperation with these heavenly agencies that Satan’s mouth will be shut forever.  The end of sinning sinners in the church is what GOD is waiting for! 

       Every sin committed by Christians brings reproach on the good name of Jesus Christ (Heb.6:6).  "Sin," Biblically defined "is the transgression of the law." I Jn.4:8.  And yet, the ruling churches have decreed that man can be saved in their transgression of GOD’S Law.  Thus, through accepting a life of sin they disqualify the companionship of the Holy Spirit (Is.59:2), whose companionship secures eternal life (Rom.8:11).  This encouraging-sin principle lies at the heart of Vatican theology: the belief that GOD gave the church the authority to change His Holy Law and live a life of sin.  Every author of every book in the Bible taught the opposite: "Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" Rom.6:1,2. "For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." II Pet.2:21,22. "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven." Matt.5:18,19.  The Greek word for the least unequivocally states that the transgressors of GOD’S Holy Law are considered unworthy of receiving everlasting life.  This Greek word does not refer to a lower position among the redeemed as is illustrated in Matt.11:11: "Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." These are two distinctly different Greek words.The Roman church has disregarded the Savior’s Commandments to the point where they don’t even recognize sin.  Sin is no longer sin, and the Bible’s lessons on the faith Christ hopes to see in His children are lost.  “Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” Lu.18:8.  A three-hundred volume dissertation could be devoted to the church’s misuse of the Bible’s teachings on faith: how they have continuously removed words from their context, fabricating doctrines outside the subject of discussion; always promoting contradictions just as the LORD warned to never do: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!" Isa.5:20,21.  But GOD maintains a concise view: "Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little." "Come now, and let us reason together saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers." Isa.28:9,10; 1:18-21.

       Always remember: Faith and sin are not partners in salvation (Heb.12:29).  But this is what happened when Rome degraded Christianity with the unholy union between Scripture and manmade philosophy, advocating the acceptance of sin in the life of the believer.  GOD urges our leaders to change course: "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." II Cor.6:14-18.

           Despite every gift from on High: every plea, every admonition, and every warning, an examination of both the historical and present day evidence shows that nothing has changed in the papal doctrines promoting her right to rule the world.  Their objective will come to pass, but it is not GOD’S will that they follow this path.  The book of Revelation assures the Bible student that this final apostasy will come to pass ushering the end of the world: "The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. [Read Daniel 7:1-12 where verses 7 & 8 are directly associated with this passage depicting the disastrous fate of the world’s last ruling power: the Vatican of Rome.] And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth [Rome has always been know as "the city on seven hills." (various Encyclopedias)]. And there are seven kings: five are fallen [Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, pagan Rome, civil authority of papal Rome], and one is [Atheism (John was taken in vision forward in time to the generations of our day: Rev.4:1)], and the other is not yet come [Apostate Protestantism usurping the authority of the American Constitution]; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not [the civil authority of the Vatican], even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth [the world’s final kingdom of Rome (Dan.2)]."

     "How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her." Rev.17:8-18; 18:7-20. 

Part 7: The Great Saboteurs of Today’s Christianity 

       What I share with you now is not a conspiracy theory but a historical fact.  It is the means of fulfilling the prophecy that says, "All the world wondered after the beast…And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." Rev.13:3,8.

Every scholar of the Reformation: Wycliffe, Huss, Luther, Tyndale, Wesley, Knox, Calvin, Zwingli, Tausen, and Petri, and many others, recognized the sins of Rome, pointing to papal Rome as the beast of Revelation 13, and the pope of Rome as the great Antichrist of the Bible.  They publicly exposed the Vatican’s apostasy, pointing to the pope of Rome as "the beast," "that man of sin," "the son of Perdition," "that Wicked," with "his number…six hundred threescore and six" (or 666).

       Vicarius filii Dei (or Vicar of the Son of God) is the Pontiffs official title of which he himself claims.  This Latin title numerically adds up to 666 in each of the three Biblical languages of Hebrew, Greek and Latin.   The pope’s title was in common use until the seventeenth century, when accusations from Protestant scholars identified the pope as the great "Antichrist" of the end times.  The necessity to silence these accusations forced the Vatican to remove his title from the "Triple Tiara" crown worn by the pope as the coronation miter.  Nevertheless, the numerical value of each of the letters of the pope's title adds up to exactly 666 in the same three languages used on the placard Pontius Pilate posted on the Cross of Christ.  The same three languages pointing to Christ point also to the Antichrist.  Because these great Reformers (most of whom came from the Catholic priesthood) brought to light the true prophetic history of the modern era, they all faced the threat of death from Rome.  History is filled with the drama between righteousness and unrighteousness: between GOD’S working to enlighten men and Satan’s response, prompting bloodshed among men to hinder the Gospel’s progress. To purge the world of the Protestant Reformation, the Vatican inaugurated a new priesthood, the Jesuit Order, whose sole function to this day is to counter the work of Reformation with a theological fairytale that removes all association of the pope with the Biblical Antichrist.  It is this invention being pawned off as infallible doctrine that rules the thinking of every mainstream Protestant today.  Rome is now viewed as exempt from all condemnation of Scripture.  Said Jerry Falwell, "The pope is the best hope we Baptists have."  Said Billy Graham, "The pope is the spiritual leader of the world."  The Scripture says, "And all the world wondered after the beast." "Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." Rev.13:3,18.

       Why has the Protestant movement, whose work was led of GOD to divorce men from pagan sins and traditions, been overturned by our religious leaders?  It is due to the infiltration of men of corrupt minds into the church: "blind guides," "false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ…transformed as the ministers of righteousness." "For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things." Matt.23:16; II Cor.11:13,15; Phil.3:18,19. In the chronology of Bible prophecy it is easily shown that the focus of the book of Revelation is the history of Rome, (being the final ruling kingdom of world history before the coming of Christ).  Due to this fact it is not hard to associate GOD’S various titles describing her character: "the beast," "the Great Whore," "Babylon the Great," and "mother of harlots."  These are GOD’S titles for the Vatican, not man’s; but the Vatican will not believe the plainest prophecies from GOD’S Word.  Why?  "Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits." Is.30:8-10.  The Vatican priesthood demand salvation according to their terms, not GOD’S.  And with millions of Christians exalting the pope to the throne of the Christian church, it becomes evident that Protestant America has become the servant of Rome; for the Bible views Christian America as the harlot daughter of the Vatican, having been assigned the unfavorable titles, "the false prophet" and "another beast" (Rev.16:13; 13:11-17) whose end will be identical to that of the Vatican: fiery destruction in "the lake of fire" (Rev.19:20).  Prophecy declares that Protestant America will repeat the Roman Catholic Inquisition of the Dark Ages and carry it to the rest of the world.  In simple terms: America has become the Vatican’s hired assassin, skillfully disguised behind the grand principles of democracy and freedom.

       In the days of Christ the prophecy gurus led the children of Israel to believe a prophetic scenario that guaranteed the rejection and crucifixion of the world’s Redeemer.  The same can be said of today’s prophecy gurus, where each is easily proven to serve the purposes of Rome, not Jesus Christ.  Sin remains their god, not Jesus Christ, for the rulers will never repent of their transgressions of GOD’S Holy Law (Rev.16:10,11).  It is Rome’s love affair with sin and tradition that overrules obedience to GOD.  In essence, the whole Christian world is corporately being led to declare, "We will not have this man [Jesus Christ] to reign over us," "We have no king but Caesar" [the pope]. Lu.19:14; Jn.19:15. 

A history of the Jesuit Order 

       When the Reformation began to free the captives from papal tyranny and superstition, a man named Ignatius Loyola came to the pope with an offer that the pope greatly delighted to hear.  He said, in essence, "Let the Augustinians continue to provide monasteries of retreat for contemplative minds; let the Benedictines give themselves up to the field of literary endeavor; let the Dominicans retain their responsibility for maintaining the Inquisition; but we, the Jesuits, will capture the colleges and the universities.  We will gain control of instruction in law, medicine, science, education, and so weed out from all books of instruction, anything injurious to Roman Catholicism.  We will mould the thoughts and ideas of the youth.  We will enroll ourselves as Protestant preachers and college professors in the different Protestant faiths.  Sooner or later, we will undermine the authority of the Greek New Testament of Erasmus, and also of those Old Testament productions, which have dared to raise their heads against the Old Testament of Jerome’s Vulgate and against tradition.  And thus will we undermine the Protestant Reformation, and bring the world back to your holiness the pope."Thus began an institution that continues with us today.  During their history, there were so many inhumane atrocities carried out against men that the Jesuits were kicked out of every country they ever entered from Europe to Asia.  This unruly lot tainted the reputation of the Vatican to such an extent that the pope himself disbanded them. But then came the United States of America, uplifting liberty of conscience, of which Rome to this day covertly works to oppose as the Vatican’s highly venerated Pope Pius IX wrote in his Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854: "The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience is a most pestilential error: a pest above all others most to be dreaded in a state."  This is the same pope who condemned Abraham Lincoln but gave his blessing to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis.  It was at the dawn of America’s independence that the Jesuit Order was restored to active service by the pope.  At this point in history, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson, "Like you I fear the resurrection of the Jesuits."

       Recorded in Congress is the Jesuit oath of induction.  Here are the closing words of the Jesuit oath: "…I do further promise and declare, that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth, and that I will spare neither sex, age nor condition, and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants’ heads against the wall, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poison cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity or authority of the person or persons whatsoever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith of the Society of Jesus."—House bill 1523, Contested election case of Eugene C. Bonniwell, against Thos. S. Butler, February 15, 1913, pages 3215-16.

       During this time a man who was scheduled to speak before congress on the covert activities of the Jesuit Order here in America was murdered in Texas while traveling east to Washington D.C.

       To illustrate how deception and murder has been tucked away, sheltered from public knowledge, in the 19^th century, a devout Christian and ex-Catholic priest, Father Charles Chiniquy, wrote a book, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome.  In this book he chronicled his interviews with America’s president, Abraham Lincoln.  Many private conversations with Abraham Lincoln were preserved by Charles Chiniquy in his book revealing Lincoln’s knowledge of Rome’s involvement in the Civil war as well as his foreknowledge concerning his death.  Recorded for you below, from pages 300-303, are the words of Abraham Lincoln recorded by Charles Chiniquy.

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       "Two cankers are biting the very entrails of the United States today: the Romish and the Mormon priests. Both are equally at work to form a people of the most abject, ignorant and fanatical slaves, who will recognize no authority but their supreme pontiffs. Both are aiming at the destruction of our schools, to raise themselves upon our ruins. Both shelter themselves under our grand and holy principles of liberty of conscience, to destroy that very liberty of conscience, and bind the world under their heavy and ignominious yoke.    

       "The Mormon and the Jesuit priests are equally the uncompromising enemies of our Constitution and our laws; but the more dangerous of the two is the Jesuit—the Romish priest, for he knows better how to conceal his hatred under the mask of friendship and public good; he is better trained to commit the most cruel and diabolical deeds for the glory of God.    

       "Till lately, I was in favor of the unlimited liberty of conscience as our Constitution gives it to the Roman Catholics. But now, it seems to me that, sooner or later, the people will be forced to put a restriction to that clause towards the papists. Is it not an act of folly to give absolute liberty of conscience to a set of men who are publicly sworn to cut our throats the very day they have the opportunity? Is it right to give the privilege of citizenship to men who are sworn and public enemies of our constitution, our laws, our liberties, and our lives?    

       "The very moment that popery assumed the right of life and death on a citizen of France, Spain, Germany, England, or the United States, it assumed to be the power, the government of France, Spain, England, Germany, and the United States. Those States then committed a suicidal act by allowing popery to put a foot on their territory with the privilege of citizenship. The power of life and death is the supreme power, and two supreme powers cannot exist on the same territory without anarchy, riots, bloodshed, and civil wars without end. When popery will give up the power of life and death, which it proclaims as its own divine power in all its theological books and canon laws, then, and then alone, it can be tolerated and can receive the privileges of citizenship in a free country.    

       "Is it not an absurdity to give to a man a thing which he has sworn to hate, curse, and destroy? And does not the Catholic Church of Rome hate, curse, and destroy liberty of conscience whenever she can do it safely? I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and to his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws, that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity! This does not seem to be understood by the people today. But sooner or later, the light of common sense will make it clear to every one that no liberty of conscience can be granted to men who are sworn to obey a pope, who pretends to have the right to put to death those who differ from him in religion.    

       "You are not the first to warn me against the dangers of assassination. My ambassadors in Italy, France, and England, as well as Professor Morse [founder of the Morse Code], have many times warned me against the plots of the murderers, which they have detected in those different countries. But I see no other safeguard against those murderers but to be always ready to die, as Christ advises it. As we must all die sooner or later, it makes very little difference to me whether I die from a dagger plunged through my heart or from an inflammation of the lungs. Let me tell you I have lately read a passage in the Old Testament, which had made a profound, and, I hope, a salutary impression on me. Here is that passage."

The president took his Bible, opened it at the third chapter of Deuteronomy, and read from the 22^nd to the 28^th verse:

     "Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your GOD He shall fight your you. And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, O LORD GOD, Thou hast begun to shew Thy servant Thy greatness and Thy mighty hand; for what GOD is there, in heaven or in earth, that can do according to Thy words, and according to Thy might! I pray Thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee: speak no more unto me of this matter. Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and westward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan."  After the President had read these words with great solemnity, he added: "My dear Father Chiniquy, let me tell you that I have read these strange and beautiful verses several times these last five or six weeks. The more I read them, the more it seems to me that GOD has written them for me as well as Moses. Has He not taken me from my poor log cabin by the hand, as He did Moses in the reeds of the Nile, to put me at the head of the greatest and most blessed of modern nations, just as He put that prophet at the head of the most blessed nation of ancient times? Has not GOD granted me a privilege, which was not granted to any living man, when I broke the fetters of 4,000,000 of men and made them free? Has not our GOD given me the most glorious victories over our enemies? Are not the armies of the Confederacy so reduced to a handful of men when compared to what they were two years ago, that the day is fast approaching when they will have to surrender?  

       "Now, I see the end of this terrible conflict, with the same joy of Moses at the end of his forty years in the wilderness. I pray GOD to grant me to see the days of peace, and untold prosperity, which will follow this cruel war, as Moses asked GOD to see the other side of Jordan and enter the Promised land. But do you know that I hear in my soul, as the voice of GOD, giving me the rebuke, which was given to Moses?    

       "Yes, every time that my soul goes to GOD to ask the favor of seeing the other side of Jordan, and eating the fruits of that peace, after which I am longing with such an unspeakable desire, do you know that there is a still, but solemn voice, which tells me that I will see those things only from a long distance, and that I will be among the dead, when the nation which GOD granted me to lead through those awful trials, will cross the Jordan, and dwell in that Land of Promise, where peace, industry, happiness, and liberty, will make everyone happy; and why so? Because He has already given me favors, which He never gave, I dare say, to any man, in these latter days.   

       "Why did GOD Almighty refuse to Moses the favor of crossing the Jordan, and entering the Promised Land? It was on account of this own nation’s sin! That law of divine retribution and justice, by which one must suffer for another is surely a terrible mystery. But it is a fact, which no man who has any intelligence and knowledge can deny. Moses, who knew that law, though he probably did not understand it better than we do, calmly says to his people, ‘GOD was wroth with me for your sakes.’     But though we do not understand that mysterious and terrible law, we find it written in letters of tears and blood wherever we go. We do not read a single page of history, without finding undeniable traces of its existence.    

       "So many plots have already been made against my life, that it is a real miracle that they have all failed, when we consider that the great majority of them were in the hands of the skillful Roman Catholic murderers, evidently trained by Jesuits. But can we expect that GOD will make a perpetual miracle to save my life? I believe not. The Jesuits are so expert in those deeds of blood that Henry IV said that it was impossible to escape them, and he became their victim, though he did all that could be done to protect himself. My escape from their hands, since the letter of the pope to Jeff Davis has sharpened a million daggers to pierce my breast, would be more than a miracle.    

       "But just as the LORD heard no murmur from the lips of Moses when He told him that he had to die, before crossing the Jordan, for the sins of his people; so I hope and pray that He will hear no murmur from me when I fall for my nation’s sake.     "The only two favors I ask of the LORD are, first, that I may die for the sacred cause in which I am engaged, and when I am the standard bearer of the rights and liberties of my country.    

       "The second favor I ask of GOD is, that my dear son, Robert, when I am gone, will be one of those who lift up that flag of liberty which will cover my tomb, and carry it with honor and fidelity, to the end of his life, as his father did, surrounded by the millions who will be called with him to fight and die for the defense and honor of our country."Never had I heard such sublime words. Never had I seen a human face so solemn and so prophet-like as the face of the president, when uttering these things. I was beside myself. Bathed in tears, I tried to say something, but I could not utter a word.I knew the hour to leave had come. I asked from the president permission to fall on my knees, and pray with him that his life might be spared; and he knelt with me. But I prayed more with tears and sobs, than with words.Then I pressed his hand on my lips and bathed it with my tears, and with a heart filled with an unspeakable desolation, I bade him adieu! It was for the last time! The hour was fast approaching when he was to fall by the hands of a Jesuit assassin, for his nation’s sake." 

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       The records of the court proceedings on the assassination of Lincoln prove he was murdered by Roman Catholic conspirators, four of whom were hanged for the crime in July, 1865.  John Surrat, one of the masterminds of the plot, escaped from the Ford Theatre with the hit man, John Wilkes Booth, on the night of April 14, 1865.  John Surrat was tracked by the State Department to Canada, where he was sheltered by Catholic priests; and from Canada to London, where he was sheltered by priests in a Catholic rectory; and from London to Rome.  When finally caught, he was found in the Pope’s private army, from whence he was brought back to the United States and hanged for his crime.Throughout the history of the Reformation compelling stories of tragedy after tragedy mark the path of the Jesuit Order of the Roman Catholic Church.  Even the great holiday of England, Guy Fawkes Day, tells the story of the Jesuit plot in the year 1605 to kill England’s King James by blowing up the Parliament building with King James and his family attending by placing an enormous quantity of gunpowder in an adjacent building.  But there were devoutly decent Catholics who were loyal to the king, and they brought him word of the threat against his life, and the plot was foiled.  The mastermind of the plot was discovered to be the leading Jesuit priest of London. The Jesuit influence is readily seen today.  But in our day these priests masquerade as harmless Christians seeking the public good.  And there may be some among them who are not allowed into the ranks of espionage.  President Clinton named the Jesuit, Quigley, as his mentor.  This is just one example of their secular influence at the highest level of America’s leadership.  But there is an ever-growing religious influence as well; but on this front the Jesuits identities are being withheld from public knowledge.  One obvious example: on the TV show, International Intelligence Briefing, nationally broadcast on TBN Christian television, the world famous Evangelical author, Hal Lindsey (author of The Late Great Planet Earth) blatantly quoted the Vatican version of the Ten Commandments.  He actually said how kids today are violating the 4^th Commandment by dishonoring their parents.  "Honour thy father and thy mother…" is the 5^th Commandment, not the 4^th (Ex.20:12).  The 4^th is "Remember…the seventh-day…the Sabbath of the LORD thy GOD" (Ex.20:8-11).  Never forget, the Vatican removed the 2^nd Commandment of GOD, making the 3^rd the 2^nd, the 4^th the 3^rd, and so on.  Hal Lindsey is supposed to be a Protestant.  Why is he promoting Vatican theology?  There’s no getting away from it: He's either a Jesuit or the servant of Jesuits.  But above all he is a puppet for Satan who is consolidating his forces for the last great battle over his supremacy of this world called “Armageddon.”  Hal Lindsey serves the Biblical Antichrist, shepherding tens of thousands of Bible illiterate Christians to believe the Vatican doctrines of "the future Antichrist" and "the seven-year tribulation," which are being pawned off today as Protestant doctrine.  This theology first appeared way back in the year 1575, being conceived by the Jesuit, Francisco Ribera.  He invented this "Future Antichrist/Seven-year Tribulation" doctrine to counter the Reformers unanimous view that the pope of Rome is the great Antichrist of the end times.

       Only one verse was chosen to build this Counter-reformation theology.  The Jesuits corrupted one sacred text; but this wasn’t just any text.  This text is among the pinnacle verses of the entire Gospel message, and the Roman Catholic Church has publicly raped it in front of the whole world: Daniel 9:27!  Christian society has been flooded with a grotesque alteration of GOD’S Word that literally cuts out the very heart of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for Rome’s doctrine rapes the one and only prophecy telling the whole world through simple arithmetic the exact year Jesus Christ would die for the sins of the world.  On Rome’s theological foundation of sand lies all of today’s popular views of Prophecy.  The most recent flood of publicity given to this future Antichrist/seven-year tribulation doctrine is through the Left Behind series by authors LaHaye and Jenkins.  Even movies now promote this “old” Jesuit theology.  The Apostates have taken this most precious verse of Scripture and have assigned it to their fabricated Antichrist of the future; and yet, this passage called The “Seventy weeks” Prophecy centers on the coming of Jesus Christ: the focus is on Him, not Antichrist.  The great Antichrist of Bible prophecy, the pope, has his own verses allotted to him in Scripture, but The “Seventy weeks” Prophecy belongs to Jesus Christ and Him alone.  Here is the one prophecy proving to the world that Jesus Christ is who He said He is: declaring the precise years in world history our Creator would begin His public ministry and lay down His life for His children:"Seventy weeks [which equals 490 literal years (Nu.14:34; Eze.4:6)] are determined upon thy people [the Jews] and upon thy holy city [Jerusalem], to finish the transgression, and…to anoint the Most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem [given in 457 B.C. by Artaxerxes (Ezra 7)] unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks [69 weeks or 483 literal years bringing us to 27 A.D. the time of Christ’s baptism and public ministry]…And after threescore and two weeks [in the 70^th week] shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself [but for the sins of the world]: and the people of the prince that shall come [Titus with his Roman army] shall destroy the city and the sanctuary [Jerusalem and its temple in 70 A.D.]; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined [when Jerusalem was surrounded and the orthodox Jews were starved into submission.  Of this deplorable event Jesus Christ warned His disciples (Matt.24:15-20; Lu.23:26-29), and not one Christian died in the siege]. And he [Jesus Christ] shall confirm the covenant [the promise of salvation made with the family of Adam] with many [the Jewish nation] for one week [the last seven years of the 490 year prophecy]: and in the midst of the week [in the year 31 A.D. (just 3 ½ years into His ministry)] he [Jesus Christ] shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease [only Christ could bring an end to the sacrificial system inaugurated in Genesis 3:21 and formally expanded through the Mosaic law.  At the death of Christ the rending of the temple veil by an unseen hand proved the end of the sacrificial system (Matt.27:51)], and for the overspreading of abominations [the flood of man’s transgressions] he [Jesus Christ] shall make it desolate [sweeping the corrupt Jewish religion away], even until the consummation [the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in 70 A.D.], and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate" [the apostate Jewish system would fall at that time]. Dan.9:24-27.  Our religious leaders now tell the world that Daniel 9:27 is not about Jesus Christ dying for the sins of the world but of their fabricated future Antichrist: thus, removing the pope from any condemnation.  In this theology they call Christ a devil in Bible prophecy just as the Jews did in real life (Jn.7:20). "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…" Isa.5:20.  And yet, Jesus referred to the 70^th week when He began His public ministry: “The time is fulfilled [the 69 week period (Dan.9:25)], and the kingdom of God is at hand [the 70^th week begins]: repent ye, and believe the gospel” [separate from sin and believe on the Son of GOD]. Mk.1:15.  Fact: The last 7 years of the “Seventy weeks” prophecy were fulfilled in the days of Jesus Christ, not at the end of earth’s history as is taught today in the seven-year tribulation doctrine.  Time-prophecies of Scripture are never interrupted: they always run to the end of their appointed time. “In the midst of the week” (Daniel 9:27b), or halfway through the seven years, brings us to the year 31 A.D., the year of the crucifixion of Christ.  In the year 31 A.D. sinful man put to death the Creator of heaven and earth—a GOD who came to save and Who lives to serve (Lu.22:27). From the halfway point of the last seven years, (the year of Christ’s crucifixion), we add the final 3½ years to finish out the remaining time of Daniel’s prophecy.  GOD the Father’s longsuffering for the Jews even extended beyond the crucifixion of His dear Son!  3½ years after the Cross of Christ, in the year 34 A.D., the stoning of Steven brought an end to the Jewish nation as GOD’S "peculiar treasure," thus ending the 490 Year Prophecy of GOD’S long and patient forbearance with the Jew’s incurable apostasy.  Said Steven just before he was stoned, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God." Acts 7:56.  The Father and the Son looking down from heaven at this moment of history marked the end of the Jews forever as GOD’S nation to the world.  Said Christ to the Jews, "The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." Matt.21:43. That "nation" would be the Waldenses (Rev.12:6).     Today’s prophecy gurus have publicly raped before the whole world the most beautiful, powerful, and important prophecy of "the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality" (I Tim.6:15,16).  

Part 8: The Basis for Armageddon  

       GOD has given us the simple answer to the question, “What is Armageddon?”  Simply ask yourself: Which one of the Ten Commandments has Mainstream Christianity united with the world to unanimously trample under foot?  The answer to this question is the basis for Armageddon.  There is one Commandment that calls for resting in Christ through faith, and this is the one that has been rejected by the ruling churches.  Fact: the one Commandment that the whole world is united against is the 4^th Commandment: GOD’S Memorial of Creation, His chosen rest on the seventh-day: the Holy Sabbath; and in its place sinful men have appointed the first-day, Sunday, as the day of rest: a day ordained of the Vatican.  Sunday sacredness has no sanction from Scripture and is the epitome of salvation by works, for it exalts the law of man above the Law of GOD: it undermines the authority of GOD and the sacrifice of Christ.  It is identical in character to the offering of Cain when he exalted his method of salvation above that which was ordained of GOD.  Prophecy declares that this sin will last to the end of the age and will never be repented of either by the Vatican or Protestant America.The battle of Armageddon is simply the last battle in the longstanding civil war of Christianity where one group professing Christ unites with the civil authorities to wage war against another group: "they that keep the commandments of GOD, and the faith of Jesus." Rev.14:12.  This civil war among Christians has a long history.  It first began toward the close of the second century when Victor I, the bishop of Rome, in lordly tones excommunicated the apostolic churches of Asia-minor for not following Rome’s religious adultery of uniting Christianity with sin (B.G. Wilkinson, Truth Triumphant, p.122).  Rome’s influence over the civil authorities to carry out her dogma has ever been a spreading cancer that the Bible says will bring the dramatic end to earth’s sinful history.  It is the age-old union of church and state whose final display of religious tyranny ushers the utter destruction of the earth through her political sway over the nations of the world (Rev.18:7-24). Step by step the Vatican-ordained theocracy exalting the pagan Sunday is taking control over the civil authorities of earth.  To give you an idea of the extent of papal Rome’s power over the world economy, in Muslim Pakistan they work on Friday (Islam's holy day) but they don't work on Sunday.  This is the leading reason Pakistan’s leaders are being threatened by orthodox Muslims.  Why do they transgress "Allah’s" holy day of Friday?  Because world commerce demands that every day but Sunday is for labor, that economic security be maintained.  Step by step this religious theocracy exalting Sunday sacredness is forming, but Jehovah is not on the mercy seat of the temple—the pope is (II Th.2:4).  Religious men desire the power of a theocracy but not the Law on which it was founded nor the character of its redeeming qualities. All throughout her history papal Rome has appointed secular authorities to carry out her dogma: claiming innocent hands while herding multitudes of men and women to their deaths (Dan.7:21;11:21; Rev.13:4,7).  This has always been the danger of uniting church with state.  It was the union of church and state that crucified the world’s Redeemer (Jn.19:15).  It was the union of church and state that worked to destroy Christ’s Church in the wilderness (Rev.12:14-17).  And it will be the union of church and state that brings the final religious tyranny in our generation (Rev.13:15), likewise masquerading as servants of GOD.  As said before, the hired assassin for the Vatican today will be Rome’s harlot daughter, Protestant America.  Rome always comes out smelling like a rose while others take the fall for her; and the U.S. will fall to national ruin when Sunday is enforced by federal law (Ps.119:126).  But the day is coming, although it will then be too late, when “the wicked” among Christians realize that Rome is evangelizing the world into universal transgression of the Holy Law of Jehovah (Rev.16:10-14).  And the aroma of the rose coming from the Vatican will be discovered to be nothing more than a Glade Air Freshener, masking the stench of the very principle used to crucify the world’s Redeemer: "the tradition of men."  Said Christ the LORD, "Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?…Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition." "For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men…Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." Matt.15:3,6; Mk.7:8,9.  In essence, the Bible prophesies the eternal ruin of multitudes of Catholics and Protestants alike because of their worship of and obedience to the Unbiblical religion of the Vatican whose method of salvation works to overrule the authority of GOD in identical fashion to Satan’s rebellion and subsequent condemnation before GOD (Rev.13:16-18).  In reality, multitudes of today’s Christians merely continue the age-old idolatry of worshiping a sinful man and his religion above the GOD of heaven (Rev.14:9,10).  As we reviewed in Part 5 the so-called "Church Fathers" (pawned off as Christ’s obedient disciples) refused the proven grammatical/historical interpretation of the Scriptures; and they determined to marry in an unholy union the purity of the Scriptures to the self-righteous philosophy of pagan idolatry.  In those early days there were two dominant schools of theology: the school of Antioch in Syria, which upheld Judean principles, and the school of Alexandria in Egypt, which promoted the mingling of pagan traditions and mystical modes of thought to the purity of the Christian faith.  Thus, two churches were born.  As Cain and Abel represented two branches of the human race: one righteous, and one unrighteous, so the newly formed Christian church had two offspring, representing two branches of Christianity: one righteous, and one unrighteous.  It is the civil war between these two views of Christianity that festers until the final battle of Armageddon.  

Summation of our day 

       Thematically, there is a cunning evasion by our religious leaders to the issues facing the human race in the end of time.  The loud cry of the "angel" of Revelation 18:1-5 unites with the three angels message of Revelation 14:6-12 ushering GOD’S last call to the human race.  The message of these four angels is the closing message of the Gospel.  GOD’S call for men to leave “Babylon” is the call to leave the lawless systems of the papacy and apostate Protestantism; for “Babylon the great” (Rev.18:2) represents the Vatican (Rev.17:5).  This is to be the Great Cry among the commandment-keeping people of God.  It is the age-old call of the prophets to the unrepentant who boast of their service to GOD.  And the religious leaders response will be one of persecution against the faithful, obedient servants of Christ who give this final cry (Rev. 13:15-17) just as the prophets of old had to endure the severity of trials, afflictions—and death (Heb.11). The following fact alone proves that the battle of the Church in the political arena today is nothing more than pretentious Christians uniting to usurp the authority of government in order to impose the worship of GOD through the desecration of the 4^th Commandment: the seventh-day Sabbath.  Our religious leaders actually believe that if America is threatened with national ruin, if we legislate Sunday sacredness we can be assured of GOD'S continued protection.  A national Sunday law is incorporated into the Emergency Powers Act, which clearly illustrates this apostate belief of our religious leaders.—Dr. Samuele Bocchiocchi, Complete Works on CD.  This lie alone guarantees the ruin of this nation, for GOD has no partnership with sin, and Sunday sacredness leads men to oppose obedience to the 4^th Commandment.  It cannot be said enough: Faith and sin are not partners in salvation.  And the Vatican’s sin against the 4^th Commandment has existed ever since they took political control 1,700 years ago. In prophetic utterance, GOD assigns the seventh-day Sabbath as the sign of His deliverance (Deut.5:15).  This will be fulfilled in the battle of Armageddon, for the whole world has united against the day GOD ordained in the beginning (Gen.2:1-3); the day Christ Himself kept as an example to His disciples (Lu.4:16); the day our Creator lay lifeless in the tomb (Dan.9:26a); the day held by Christ’s Apostles (Acts 13:42) and His faithful Church in the wilderness regions (Rev.12:6); and the day prophesied to be kept throughout eternity in the new earth: "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD....it shall come to pass, that....from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD." The church is blind to the most-simple words of GOD.  How sad is their pitiful discernment in the things of righteousness.  In essence, the church has cried for the murderer, "Barabbas," in place of “Jesus Christ” by choosing Sunday over Sabbath (Lu.23:18).  This controversy between obedience and rebellion goes all the way back to the offering of Abel vs. the offering of Cain: the offering of faith in Christ’s righteousness vs. the offering of works of self-righteousness—the offering in which GOD had respect vs. the offering in which GOD had no respect.  GOD even personally warned Cain that through his method of salvation “sin lieth at the door.” (Gen.4:4-7).  And so it is today.In every case that we see today in our society, from government to civilian: from our President's claimed allegiance to Christ to the Terry Shiavo legal battle, Christians are flexing their muscle.   And they will keep flexing until they are handed the throne of human government.  The three-fold union of Catholicism, Apostate Protestantism, and witchcraft will "deceive the world."  And Satan is only waiting for Divine permission to set in motion the final scenes of earth's history (Rev.7), which will lead to “the seven last plagues” of Revelation 16, ushering the 2^nd Advent of Jesus Christ in the clouds of glory.  The "mark of the beast" is the sign of Vatican supremacy: Sunday sacredness, of which Cardinal Gibbons unequivocally stated: "Sunday is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters."  Said Christ, in warning of this time, "Fearful sights and great signs shall there be in heaven." Lu.21:11.  As earth's destruction becomes imminent the religious zealots who know not Jesus Christ nor the Father (Jn.16:2-4) will lead the world to increase the extent of their sins, thus, driving GOD'S protecting care even further away (Hos.9:12).  Our religious leaders have eternally determined to trample the Decalogue of our LORD and Savior: the very Law that Christ died to defend that we could be resurrected and restored to GOD’S intended destiny for the human race.  Bible prophecy declared that when Christ would come He would "magnify the law, and make it honourable." Isa.42:21.  This is the Law whereby we are safe in one another's care.  This is the Law that will be honored in the new earth (Jer.31:33).  The church’s selfish pick-and-choose version disqualifies their acceptance with GOD The Father, for their continuing applause given to sin continues to murder His Dear Son (Heb.6:4-6).  It is the church's lawless behavior towards the Ten Commandments of Jesus Christ (Jn.8:58) that brings the world to ruin, not the gays or drug runners, or Muslims, or any other class of people: "For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved [those whose names are on the church books], where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" I Pet.4:17,18.  The Bible teaches that GOD holds the shepherds most accountable (Eze.34).  When “the LORD” sent the destroying angel at the height of Judah’s apostasy He said, "Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. [This was a mark of GOD’S approbation; not to be confused with the mark of condemnation in the book of Revelation.] And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. Eze.9:4-6.  In that passage of Ezekiel we read of Jehovah’s slow departure from the temple; how He slowly stood up from the mercy seat in the sanctuary.  He then slowly moved to the entrance of the sanctuary.  From there He slowly went to the outer court of the sanctuary.  And from there He slowly ascended the hill overlooking the sanctuary and Jerusalem.  The longsuffering of Jehovah for His wayward children had reached its limit.  By their choice, not GOD’S, they had forever sealed their doom.  The religious leaders drove Him away; and the mournful words of GOD keep being repeated all throughout history and in all religions: "they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them." I Sam.8:7.  A million years of life would not have changed their minds: "Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant." Isa.30:12,13.

       When Jehovah emptied Himself of His Omnipotence and became the LORD and Savior, Jesus Christ (Hos.13:4), He found Himself once more overlooking Jerusalem.  And Jerusalem once more had rejected Him—the GOD who lives to serve.  Said the Savior, weeping, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." Matt.23:37,38.The Vatican is quickly reaching the limit of GOD’S forbearance once more.  Slowly but surely GOD leaves His children to their chosen destiny of everlasting death.  Said the King of kings, "If ye love Me, keep My commandments." "But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man [Christ] to reign over us." "We have no king but Caesar" [the pope]. Jn.14:15; Lu.19:14; Jn.19:15.

       All must understand that the character of the Vatican today is no different than the character of its past.  All of the tactics employed to remove the pope’s association with sin cannot remove the fact that Rome’s theology today is no different than when the church gave her approval to the slaughter of fifty million men, women and children throughout her 1,260 year civil rule.  The St. Bartholomew massacre in France illustrates just one of many examples of Rome’s cold-blooded murder of the servants of Jesus Christ.  Beginning at midnight, 70,000 Protestants were suddenly murdered in a fury of bloodshed.  The Protestants were promised by the king of France that their civil liberty was secure.  But the cowardly king yielded to Rome’s demand.  Little old ladies and babies, all inhumanely butchered through the coming days and weeks.  To commemorate the slaughter, Rome commanded every Catholic church to ring their steeple bells in triumph; three fresco paintings by Vasari were commissioned for the occasion; a commemorative medal was struck; and celebrations with a parade were held by hypocrites of unsurpassed evil: men who claimed to serve Christ (See Henry White, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew, ch.14, par.34). Every time a "heretic" was burned at the stake, imprisoned, beheaded, starved, tortured, or sent out naked in the middle of the night during a freezing blizzard, "Praise be to God" was the Vatican’s happy declaration.  It is no different than militant Muslims saying today, "Praise be to Allah" when jetliners full of passengers slam into skyscrapers. It must always be remembered that the Roman church did not relinquish her civil authority willingly, but was forced to forfeit her “iron” fist of tyranny through the many wars that have existed throughout European history. 

       Every war that has ever existed in both Europe and America has been over the authority of Rome to rule the lives of men.  This is why Daniel identified Rome as the final power of world history whose goal is to do the will of Satan (Rev.13:2) and eradicate the faithful servants of Christ: those who obey His Commandments (Rev.12:17).  And the greatest leverage used to reject the Holy Message of Jesus Christ by both the Jews of old and today’s Christian leaders is the depravation of Bible prophecy: "Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet." Jn.7:50-52.  Our understanding of prophecy is an integral part of our safety in these closing days: "And Moses said unto him....would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!" "For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." Nu.11:29; Rev.19:10.  False views of prophecy led to the crucifixion of the Son of GOD and twice the destruction of the Jewish nation.  This is precisely what is to be repeated in our generation, but now on a global scale. 

       Among the most dangerous prophetic doctrines of today is the teaching that the 2^nd Advent of Christ will bring a temporal kingdom of peace to the people of earth: that Christ will come to Jerusalem and take the throne of human government for a thousand years in this sinful world.  The words of Christ are so clear but men will never hear: "Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight…but now is my kingdom not from hence." Jn.18:36.  And yet, the churches keep fighting to build the kingdom of this world, a kingdom Christ said He would have no association with.  This most popular doctrine is based on the false belief that Christ comes to establish a millennial kingdom on the earth rather than in heaven, and the church is told by its leaders to just hold on until He comes even as the world is being threatened with global annihilation leading up to and during “the seven plagues” of Revelation 16.  Despite the coming ruin that sweeps the globe, the church’s command, "Steady as she goes" will continue: the same words given by the captain of the doomed ship, Titanic. But the Bible gives another view of what is to come: Jesus comes with all of heaven’s angels; and the saints meet the LORD in the air (I Th.4:16,17) not on this sinful world.  And there is nothing secret about His 2^nd Advent (Matt.24:29-31; Rev.1:7).  Our Savior comes to sweep His Church Bride off her feet and carry Her home to His Father’s house in heaven (Jn.14:2,3), leaving the earth in complete and utter ruin (Ps.50:3-6; Na.1:5,6; Mi.1:3,4; Is.24; Jer.4:23-28, 25:31-38).  Satan will, at that time, be confined to a completely dark, devastated, and uninhabited earth for a thousand years with no one to hurt, tempt, or destroy (Rev.20): only to contemplate the measure of GOD’S wrath that is to be meted out to him at the close of the thousand years: the time of the second resurrection and final eradication of sin’s dominance over the earth.  The term "bottomless pit," (Rev.20:3) where Satan is held, is synonymous with the words "without form and void" in Genesis 1 and Jeremiah 4, signifying a lifeless earth.  This is the Millennium Sabbath spoken of in II Pet.3:8, Revelation 20, Isaiah 24, and Jeremiah 4:23-28.  During this thousand years the saints in heaven will review earth’s history (I Cor.6:2,3).  They will then return with Jesus in the New Jerusalem (Rev.21:10-14) for the second resurrection (Rev.20:6): "the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." II Pet.3:7.  Satan then marshals his forces, whose number is as the sands of the sea, leading them to surround the city of GOD, New Jerusalem (Rev.20:7-9), at which time Jesus then makes His presence known (Rev.20:11) and the final siege of sinners against the Holy Love of Christ comes to a dramatic halt: sinful angels and men stop in their tracks.  And the judgment begins (Ju.1:14-15; Rev.20:12,13).  This judgment will prove in the minds of everyone standing there that “GOD is love.”  At this revelation every knee will bow before Jesus Christ, including Satan himself.  But it is too late.  They chose to sin, and sin is the path of suicide: GOD cannot take their choice away (Deut.30:19).  Death by fire ensues.  After the fire goes out the earth is made new, and Eternal Life in the “new earth” will begin.

The church congregations have no concept that things are just as depraved today among our religious leaders, as when the Roman soldiers, guarding the tomb of Christ, came and told the leading Jews of how an angel, descending from heaven, called Christ forth from the grave.  And the religious leader's response: "Here's fifty bucks. Keep your mouth shut."—Author’s paraphrase of Matt.28:12.  This is the insanity of sin ruling the minds of the workers of iniquity.  Sad will be the day when these men stand before GOD and discover that everything their heart truly desired they worked to oppose.  As Jesus said, as He was being crucified, "…they know not what they do."

An Appeal 

          “Once upon a time” all was harmonious in the paradise of Creation.  Every living thing stood in the fullness of GOD’S intended purpose; and the purpose for all life was simple: live to the service of others.  Herein lies the greatest joy.  As long as angels and man focused their intelligent attention to the study of GOD’S subservient love towards His Creation, aspiring to its full understanding, GOD would remain forever praised and exalted as The Elite Minister of this Love.           When GOD created life He created a vast spectrum of creatures from the most simple to the most complex.  He assigned to each a specific duty accompanied with a psychological/emotional constitution whose greatest joy was to be found in fulfilling that specific duty—all under the umbrella of subservient love.  Through this balance of nature all would be peaceful and constant. But then it happened: “And there was war in heaven…” Rev.12:7.  This war, inaugurated by the competitive iniquity of Satan [the once great “covering cherub” of GOD (Eze.28:16)], came to our world, took it over, and presently dominates the life of earth.  Every creature cries for deliverance from life’s oppression, agony and death: all carried out under Satan’s authority.  It is sad to think of how so many men are willfully ignorant to the simple framework of Laws through whose obedience would insure the security of every creature.  But by man’s constant succumbing to temptation, Satan’s jurisdiction increases making it more and more difficult to escape because violating GOD’S Law always hardens the heart against GOD’S call to obedience and thus fulfills Satan’s perverted desire to bring hardship and affliction to the life of earth.  He first leads men to serve him, but then he betrays their service and destroys them.  Men are so deluded to think that any benefit exists by living a sinful life. 

       It is only on the knowledge of Heavenly Laws that we are to build our understanding and discipline.  But man has chosen another set of laws, built upon a foundation of sand.  Said the Savior, “And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.”  Matt.7:26,27.  Ruin has become the chosen destination of sinful men.  And by remaining in sin, mankind is literally committing suicide.To focus our passion for truth about the GOD of Creation is the most rewarding endeavor to the human conscience.  The accumulation of understanding who He is and what He stands for is the greatest wealth that can be bestowed upon any man or woman in a death bound world. Does the beauty of GOD’S truth caress you in the morning? Does His humbling yet encouraging knowledge cradle you in the evening? The truth I’m referring to is a working knowledge creating faith in a living GOD—a GOD who lives to serve, not take.  This is the true wealth and joy in life, and its knowledge surpasses all the things that selfish men state as being the epitome of life in a fading world.

       What is a brief 70 years of selfish pleasure when compared to an eternity of mutual peace, safety and exploration of all the things you truly desire to learn.  You cannot fulfill your aspirations in a mere 70 years.  GOD gave you hopes and dreams that only eternity can fulfill!There was once a span of time before stars, angels, and man when GOD sat alone on His throne.  Our Creator, to one purpose devoted Eternity Past: “that your joy might be full.”—Jesus Christ. Should the world continue another generation the day is soon to come when your breath will cease.  What do you carry in your heart as you enter the sleep of death?  Multitudes only carry pride, and memories of fulfilled lusts that never truly satisfy like the temporary fix of drug addiction.  Will your epitaph read, “He lived for the welfare of others—for the poor, the sick, the ignorant to life’s true lessons”?  To most, their definition of love is the antithesis of the Law whereby we are safe with one another.  Oh, that people understood the true intentions of the “prince of this world” and the sophistication of his betrayal against them!  Most of mankind will discover, only at the end of earth’s present history, that they were only pawns carrying out the purposes of Satan because they chose not to make revisions in their values and elevate the true nobility GOD ordained for them to have: a nobility their hearts deeply desired to understand and explore its boundaries of expression.  GOD loves His children too much to give heed to the spirit of indifference to their heart’s hidden cry, even though most are deaf to their own true desires. 

       This is why I write to you, as a fellow sinner in need of Grace, because GOD has promised us, the human race, that there is to be a restoration of this world.  And if you make yourself vulnerable to His ways, as identified in every parameter of the Holy Bible, you will never be betrayed.  All who genuinely cry to GOD never cry in vain as Christ promised: “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast him out.”  “I am the way, the Truth and the Life.”  “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me.”

       But the life-style most preferred is merely a form of self-worship, and is identical to the trap that was laid for Jesus Christ when “the devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and saith unto Him, All these things will I give thee, if Thou wilt fall down and worship me.” Imagine, an angel telling his own Creator to worship him!  Always remember, the leading attribute of Jesus Christ is that “He created all things.”  Over 800 verses of the Bible verify this.  Only our Creator could save us from the power, condemnation and presence of the sin that presently rules this world.

       GOD did not create you to die but death has become the choice of most who continue to exalt sin to the throne of their lives.  Because men hold on to sin they will have to be destroyed with their sin; for all sin must perish.  If Christ is not allowed to bear it the sinner must bear it.  This is why GOD calls all men to "Repent:" to separate from the sins that threaten the life of the soul, and allow Christ to bear them.  He died in order to bury our sins in the grave and leave them there.  Jesus must be allowed to bear them—by faith.     When men choose to remain deaf to His “still, small voice,” whose tender tugs upon the conscience become weaker and weaker until His voice is no longer heard, they have, at that point cast away the only method GOD could legally reach the heart and the mind.  It has ever been the deep-reach of the Holy Spirit into the citadel of the soul with gentle, loving tugs, saying to every man, woman and child the precious words of Christ, “Follow Me.”     

     To be held in torturing shackles in some dark, cold dungeon with the companionship of the knowledge of Christ’s great love is infinitely better than sitting on the throne of the world without it.