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The Church Today is Being Completed in A Most Dangerous Time
“Be sober, be vigilant; your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8).
Cloaked in beguiling prose today we have entered a very dangerous time, the completion of God’s true Church.
We know this because the end stages of the end times appears with Israel on the horizon. The return of the Jews to the promised land of their fathers is the alarming trumpet sound for the Church to prepare for the departure in the rapture.
Dangerous Times
Why are these times so dangerous? Satan is trying desperately to hinder the completion of God’s true Church. In the past Satan has successfully persecuted believers; all the apostles were martyred but John, who wrote down his vision in the book of Revelation. There is abundant evidence in documents throughout the ages of the persecution, stoning, burning at the stake, imprisonment and outright slaughter of Christians (the Spanish inquisition comes to mind in The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition ‘Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición’, commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition. It was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control; It became the most substantive of the three different manifestations of the wider Christian Inquisition along with the Roman Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition. It was a very deadly time if you were of God’s true church).
However, persecution of the true Church only led to spiritual growth and maturity. Thus Satan, enemy of God and the true Church, is employing his last device against the Church and that is infiltration!

Infiltration!
This new tactic we read of in Acts 16: 16-16, “And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, these men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation.” Scripture has much to say about divination, which is using prophetic techniques to learn secret information of the future, this is divination. Today it is like it was in Jeremiah's day: "Then the Lord said to me, The prophets are prophesying falsehood in my name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divinations, futility and the deception of their own minds" (Jeremiah 14:14). For example, the "prophet" Rick Joyner went into a trance, visited heaven, and talked to the apostle Paul. Here is what the departed "Paul" told Joyner: "If what I have written is used as a foundation, it will not be able to hold the weight of that which needs to be built on it ... You must see my teachings through the Lord's teachings, not try to understand Him from my perspective." (Joyner, The Final Quest, 133). Necromancy (communicating with the dead) is a technique for gaining secret information that is forbidden. When forbidden techniques are used, deception is gained. The information from Joyner's "Paul" is contradictory to the New Testament where Paul claims that his writings are foundational and authoritative. I do not deny that various practices from guided imagery, to EMDR (a technique used by some practitioners of "Theophostic Ministry" to help people find hidden memories and gain personal revelations from God), to contemplative prayer (which uses techniques to silence the mind in the hope of hearing God's voice), and many others "work." They do. I deny that they are from God. God has chosen the valid means by which we can hear from Him. Those means are revealed in the Bible. Going outside of God's ordained means is rebellion which constitutes divination. Samuel told Saul: "For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and insubordination is an iniquity and idolatry; because you have rejected the word of the Lord He has also rejected you from being king" (I Samuel 15:23).
Demon Possessed
Getting back to the damsel with divination the Apostle Paul knew something was wrong; although she was telling the truth, it was an imitation of the real thing, a deception. As a result Paul said, “I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her and the demon came out the same hour” verse 18.
If Satan, through his demonic spirit, could preach the gospel, he would literally create ‘demonic inspired believers.’
A point of interest is, real and fake Christians look almost the same today. True Christians, who have surrendered their lives, are looking steadfastly to the goal of joining Jesus Christ in eternity. The gospel of Satan is almost perfectly identical to the real gospel, but it will lead unto damnation by the Lord.
National Deception
Here we should read 2 Corinthians 11:3, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled (bewitched) Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” The original deceiver is at work; his aim is to remove us from ‘the simplicity that is in Christ.’ The simplicity of Christ means that whoever believes in Christ, asks for forgiveness from their sins and follows him will be saved unto salvation.
The Holy Roman Church
The false teachers will use Holy Scripture, quote it often, but their motives are from below leading in another direction. The Holy Roman Church at Rome, whose colors are purple and scarlet, helped the Nazis imprison the Jews (God’s chosen people) during WW2, through their own admission hold Satanic black masses in St. Peter’s Church in the Vatican, have priests who are some of the world’s worst pedophiles, are known in the past for having been debauched, degenerate popes who partied and whored about like commoners. This is not the true Church, but only an imitation, a deception.
The True Church
The true Church has existed for over 2,000 years, taken up residence over the entire world, even in the deepest remotest parts of the planet. We may not know each other, speak different languages, and have different cultures and often opposing customs, but the true Church is united in Christ through the Holy Spirit, residing in each true born again believer.
The Greatest Danger
One of Satan’s perfected deceptive practices is to create enemies in the minds of believers. At this time Satan is promoting Islam as one of the greatest dangers in the minds of men. He is detouring the attention of Christians from the real enemy, Satan in the apostate church, to a presumed one, Islam. We should carefully note what scripture says and not what the left wing media wants you to believe.
The Antichrist & False Prophet
The most horrific catastrophe that is going to come upon the world is going to be initiated by The Holy Roman Church at Rome under the leadership of the antichrist and the false prophet (the Pope).
Islam of Little Danger
The Muslim world is of little danger to God’s true Church. Dr. Elia Morise, an Egyptian Arab, continues his reports of many Muslims breaking through to a living faith in Jesus Christ. He is not neglecting any of the nations, tribes or continents. We will be very surprised when the rapture takes place; there will be many more Christians from countries we thought were closed to the Gospel, like China, India and parts of Asia & deepest Africa.
Another Jesus – Another Spirit – Another Gospel
So then what is the greatest danger at this time in history? Please read 2 Corinthians 11:4, “For he that cometh (Antichrist) preacheth another Jesus, whom scripture has not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.” Here it is plainly documented, there is coming another Jesus (antichrist), there is another spirit (not of God) and another gospel. The worst part is one may not recognize the difference because your spirit is not aligned with God’s. There are those that will be deceived because they know not the true gospel.
Satan as an Angel of Light
Note very carefully that this speaks of Christians, of “Jesus,” “spirit,” “gospel.” In 2 Corinthians 11: 13-15 we read our Lord saying, “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel: for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing for his ministers to be transformed into ministers of righteousness: whose end shall be according to their works.”
That brother is the greatest danger to the world, and in particular to God’s true Church.
Wrong Enemies
There are members of the apostate church (Catholic Church) who call Jesus Lord, but scripture says, “Not everyone who saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of the Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works?” Mathew 7:21-22). Jesus is talking about members of the Roman Catholic Church who call Jesus Lord. They are the most dangerous enemies of the true Church. Jesus said, “And then I will profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity” (Matthew 7:23).
Again this is not addressed to the communists, the atheists, the Nation of Islam, the Buddhists or the Agnostics, it clearly states, it is in the midst of the Church, “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power therefore: from such turn away.” (2 Timothy 3:5).
Jesus’s Chosen
The good news is those that are his, will not be deceived, and will turn away from the things of this world drawing closer to Jesus day to day.
Our comfort is 1 Corinthians 2:9, “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”
May God be with you.

cesspool jones Loc: atlanta

far-left liberal females (there are no men) cannot understand that islam is the test of faith for what is written in the bible simply for the fact that islam is really st. lucifer in disguise.

DavidBoarman Loc: Dallas, TX (now living in Oceanside, CA)

Very well explained. I agree with about 99% of what you convey, and that which I do not find full agreement is extremely minor and has nothing to do with the doctrine of salvation. :)

God bless.