The apostle Peter tells us this: "Be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless." II Peter 3:14 What will happen to you if Jesus returns and finds you fretting about things, or if you are sitting in church groups where scripture has been discarded? Will you be blameless and without spot if you are sitting in a church where they fail to follow scripture? You must awaken and make changes before Jesus returns for the church.
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Chosing between the doctrine of your church and doctrine of the Bible:
Church was teaching: Tongues are of the devil
But I saw a scripture that said: "Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues." I Corinthians 14:39
I had to choose between the church I was attending and the New Testament Bible.
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II Corinthians 5
11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;
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The day of the Lord will come:
II Peter 3
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of HIS coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Will you be "blameless" if you choose to sit in a church that is teaching things that are opposite to that which is in the Holy Bible, or if that church is adding religious type things that are not in the Bible and teaching their congregations to do those things which are not in the Bible?
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Dream given to me in 1979: The poison gas dream
1979 ... Destruction was everywhere ... I went into a room where a man was speaking to a group of people. I sat down to listen. Another man rushed into the room and said: "Stop ... Wait ... Can't you see?... It's too late... It's already begun."
In the dream, the speaker resumed speaking.
I looked out the window to see "what" had already begun.
I was very shocked! There was a tall pole. On the top of the pole was a yellow civil-defense type warning speaker. It was set there to protect us. But coming out of the speaker was a gas which I knew was a poison gas, and that gas was coming directly toward those of us sitting in that room and I knew that gas would kill us.
The shocking thing to me was this: The very thing that was set up to warn us was being used to distribute the poison gas that would kill us!
I looked at the man who was sitting next to me. He had a big smile on his face and he was looking directly at the man who was speaking and he seemed to be intently listening. But then I realized this man was a corpse. He was dead. I looked at the other people in the room and saw they, too, were dead. And as I sat among them listening to that speaker, I began to become drowsy and I knew the gas from the speaker was killing me too.
(God was showing me the gas that was coming from the preachers who were speaking at the churches.)
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Jesus says:
John 4
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and in truth.
We who worship God do not worship by crosses and statues and things which are seen by the natural eyes ... we worship God "in spirit" and "in truth", by that which we cannot see with our natural eyes.
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Example in Old Testament where the Book of the Law of the Lord was lost and then found.
II Kings 22
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,
4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house,
(They began to repair the house of the Lord which had broken down. And when they were working on the repair, they found a book of the law of the Lord, which had been discarded.)
8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.
10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,
13 Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
15 And she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,
16 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
17 Because they have forsaken ME, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore MY wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the Lord, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.
20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
We cannot depart from portions of scripture and remain in churches which teach and observe that which is opposite to scripture and stay in places where things not in the Holy Bible have been set up in those churches as religious acts when they are not in the New Testament Bible. To remain in such is to bring upon ourselves the wrath of God of the great tribulation and damnation from God.
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Hebrews 3
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
There is so much sin in the churches today!
I Corinthians 6
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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I Corinthians 7
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A terrible fate awaits you when Jesus returns, if you are sitting in a church where scripture has been discarded:
II Thessalonians 2
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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(The following scripture was not recorded, but please consider this scripture.)
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Our salvation is in Jesus, The Word, the Holy Scriptures.
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