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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph. 6:12

A word of caution to readers:
Before I go to these complex and difficult spiritual realities, I caution you: The truths hereafter will be hard to accept if you are not spiritual, soundly grounded in and esteem the words of God more than your necessary food. [Job 23:12] The teachings hereafter defy man's authority and man's rule in the church; [Mat. 15:6] They cut through titles, positions, pretenses, and render all subjected to God's word.[Heb. 4:12] These are hard utterances, but they are needful biblical utterances that function as a balm for the spiritual cancer upon wicked church leadership today. [Jer. 8:22;51:8; John 6:60; Heb.5:11]

Although I do not intend to be rude, as Paul said he was, some will be angered by these teachings; my intent is not to anger, but such anger may indicate a number of things: 1.) many are not as spiritual as thought, [1 Cor.3:1-3] 2.) many are unwilling to accept truth when it cuts through their traditions and worldly behavior, [Mat. 15:6] 3.) many are so tied to a preacher that God's word has second or third place in their lives, [Mat. 8:22] 4.) many simply love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil, [ John 3:19] and 5.) many have received a lying spirit and can never see the truth.[2 Chron.18:22; Jonah 2:8; 2 Thes.2:10-12]

These Bible truths will open eyes that want to be open; these words are fire; their burn will offend. That offense is the first level of an awakening--it is the shaking of you by God through His word. After offense, however, if you will allow it, comes a recognition of one's undone state and an epiphany or realization of the truth in my offense that caused your anger; and then comes the gentle acceptance of that truth by those who will be saved.

God will test you--how strong His word is in you when weighed against your loyalty and respect for the world and mankind. [Mat.15: 6-9; I Cor. 11:28; 2 Cor 13:5]

Finally, the teachings you are about to receive should be measured by the word of God. [1 Cor. 2:13] Paul says prove all things and hold fast to that which is good; [1 Thes. 5:21] that includes these teachings and those of others ministers as well. But once you have proved these teachings true through the word, you cannot simply dismiss them and not act upon them. You are obligated by God to act upon this knowledge. To not act is an act of rejection and rebellion against God! [Ezek. 33:3-5,11-13, 31-33; Hos. 4:6; James 4:17]

I have asked God to help the understanding of all who read this message of fire and light. It was very difficult to develop and write. It is a word from God to the church leadership primarily and congregants trapped within the spiritual prisons wicked leaders have devised for God's people.

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Paul wrote the epistle to the Ephesians while in prison in Rome. It is speculated that this Ephesians epistle was also sent to the Ladocian Church, mentioned in Revelation 3. Paul spoke of the church at Ladocia when writing to the church of the Colossians. [Col. 2:1]

The establishment of the Ephesians Church is outlined in Acts 19; there, Luke writes, Apollos was at Corinth and Paul was passing through the upper coasts of Ephesus and found certain of John the Baptist's disciples. After examining their baptism and belief, Paul expounded the word of God more perfectly to them and baptized them in Jesus name, and they received the Holy Spirit. These new Christians were all Jewish, but not of the standard order because they had been with John, and they desired truth when it came, from whatever source it came. A marvelous example for us.

From reading Acts 19, we see that Paul found fertile ground in Ephesus: he taught in the Jewish synagogues for three months, and when a dispute arose by some Jews whose hearts were against the things of God, he separated the disciples from those Jews, taking them with him, and he then taught in the school of Tyrannus. There he disputed with all comers for three years. It was at the Ephesians Church that the word of God was preached powerfully and was able to be received by to all Asia. At the Ephesians Church God worked special miracles by Paul so that he was able to send from his body handkerchiefs and aprons that drove out diseases and evil spirits from people who received them. [Acts 19:11-12]

This church and its saints were mightily developed in God through the sound and prolonged teaching of God's rightly divided word and through special miracles done at the hand of Paul.

Another aspect of this church was its diverse racial congregation of Jews, Greeks, and Asians. The ignorance of racial distinction was not of significance in this church to bring divisions among the people of God. Jews in this church were from the synagogue--the educated class--and the Greeks were the most learned of their day. So the Ephesians Church was one of the most highly educated and most integrated of all churches. Paul himself stayed in Ephesus and taught them for three years. And with their great learning and Paul's great teaching, they had great potential in God. Indeed, when one reads the letter Paul writes to them, one can see that Paul did not talk to them as he would to the Corinthian Church; he talked to them as saints who were capable of understanding the mature things of God.

This letter contains some of the greatest truths of the faith: It is in this letter that Paul discusses the symbolism of the marriage institution that had been hidden from God's prophets and is hidden still from many who rush through God's word and call that rush study--their understanding can never be open to understand the word of God when they give Him such little time, diligence, and respect. [Lke. 24:45; 2 Tim. 2:15] As Paul develops the role of the wife to her husband in Ephesians 5, at the end of that dissertation, he says that all the specifics of the marriage aside, he spoke as an allegory. It took, and still does take, intelligent and mature saints to see and understand this great symbolism. But suffice it to say, because the marriage is so symbolic of the role of the church to Christ after all things are put under His feet, [Dan. 7:13-27; Rev. 19:7-9; 21:911, 22-23] God has jealously guarded and restricted the institution of marriage [Mat.5:31-32;19:3-9; Rom. 7:2-3; 1 Cor.7: 10-15; 2Cor. 6:14; Eph. 5:22-33] because these earthly unions are to reflect our heavenly union with him in the end of all things. [John 14:2-3; 1 Cor.15:24-28, 51-57; Phil.3:20-21; 1Thes. 4:15-17]

This letter also discusses the method of understanding the supposed dual and triplicate spiritual nature many Trinitarians place on God. Paul vehemently asserts that "There is one body and one spirit [not three] even as you are called in one hope of your calling...one God and the father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." [Eph. 4:4-6] For many bewildered saints today, Paul is clearly teaching the oneness of God, a concept taught throughout Jewish theological literature--"Hear O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord." [Deu. 6:4]

With the Romans, Paul taught the complex notions of Predestination and the Sovereignty of God, [Rom. 9] and in the Book of Ephesians he discussed those notions in great detail also. [Eph. 1:4-18]

Through this Ephesians Church he discussed and made known to us the great spiritual battle in which we are engaged.[Eph. 6:10-18] And he made that known through great frankness and high symbolism because the Ephesians were able to comprehend the revelations given to Paul by God. This was a body of great spiritual significance that aids us even today.

Looking closer and focusing our attention on this Sixth Chapter of Ephesians, Paul writes of the greatest battle modern Christians must perceive and confront. It is not a battle of the physical but a battle of spiritual forces arrayed against us. And if we do not perceive the forces arrayed against us, we cannot fight them; we will surely lose the battle. But lest Satan should get advantage over us in this battle, we must not be ignorant of his devices.[2 Cor.2:11] His devices are spiritual because he is spiritual, but they bring about physical realities. Paul told the Corinthian Church that Satan, through his subtle acts can beguile and corrupt the mind of the saints. [2 Cor. 11:3] That shows us that his spiritual deceptions and wiles can bring about mental realities.

It needs to be stated for purposes of clarity that there are many ways a behavior can be explained. This discussion will look at physical behavior and explain it spiritually because many such, not all, behaviors are prompted by spiritual realities.

An example of this spiritual-physical nexus is Daniel's prayer to God seeking knowledge of a certain scripture. Aside from the clear but implied scriptural teaching that to get an understanding of certain aspects of God's word, one must seek God in prayer, this passage also shows the reason Daniel had to continue 21 days in prayer, which is a physical reality, to get an answer for a spiritual reality.

The angel, when he finally got to Daniel, told him that the very first day he started praying, God answered him but because of spiritual hindrances that the angel experienced and the way he resolved them, it took longer; so Daniel had to pray 20 days longer than necessary. [ Dan. 9]

Notice this warfare that was going on. Satan did not want Daniel to have that knowledge of God's word and he hindered and delayed the angel carrying the spiritual answer. This is a spiritual war we fight, that is what Paul is saying in Ephesians.

Almost 2000 years ago, Paul said to the Thessalonians that the mystery of iniquity already works. Surely if it was already working then, it is closer and more active now than it was then; we are 2000 years nearer the soon coming of Christ. Paul also said that at the end time, the man of sin shall be revealed. When he is revealed, we will see him exalting himself above all that is called God and will sit in the temple of God as if he is God.

Satan could not then be revealed because the saints of light [Col.1:12] were his hindrance--"He who now lets will let until he be taken out of the way." The saints are he who lets/hinders Satan, which Paul spoke. But when we are raptured, taken out of the way, Satan will then reveal the man of sin. Paul said he will come with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in those who perish because the have not received the love of the truth. [2 Thes.2:4-10] He will be the anti-Christ, but John said that many anti-Christs are already in the world. Therefore, what the major anti-Christ will be is already seen in part and can be understood more by examining those small representatives and the word of God. [1 John 2:18]

But notice Paul said then, 2000 years ago, that the mystery of iniquity was already at work and only the saints can hinder Satan. As there are fewer saints because of backsliding--Paul called this a great falling away [2 Thes. 2:3]--and of other reasons, Satan is becoming bolder. He is revealing himself more and taking bolder stands than before. The mystery of iniquity has intensified and many saints have turned from God's righteousness and gone about to establish their own righteousness. [Rom. 10:3]

This period in which we live must be viewed as the end time, as spoken by prophesy--a time when there is a great falling away first and Satan is most active among men with all power, signs, and lying wonders. [2 Thes.2:3-7] When the final time comes, he will stand in the temple of God, showing himself to be God. This will be literal and is partially occurring now in the preacher-centered churches of today.

The first step, a falling away from God's word, is already present; many ministers are going through revisionist interpretations of God's word in order to make it say something God never intended it to say. Their revisionist interpretation (or said differently, their new way of dividing God's word) is not based on any enlightenment or revelation received from on high; it is simply a revision of past interpretations of God's word to cover their present ungodly behavior. These ministers who engage in revisionist interpretations were prophesied of in Isaiah 4:1, where seven women (seven is symbolic of a complete number; women are symbolic for churches) will take hold of one man, saying, we will eat our own bread and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

How perfectly God saw these modern ministers and the worldly church of today. They behave as they want to; His word is no lamp to their feet. [Psa. 119:105] Yet they call themselves godly and Christian, using Jesus name to take away their reproach. The eagle-eyed Prophet Isaiah also said that they would eat their own bread, which is to say, they will go about to establish their own righteousness. [Rom. 10:3] And they wear their own apparel, which is to say, by their righteousness shall they live--indeed, a man is right in his own eyes, but not in the sight of God. [Psa. 12:1; 14:2-4; Prov. 3:7; 12:15; Isa.55: 8-9; 64:6] They only use God's name as a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof, for they would have none of His counsel. [Isa. 4:1;30:1; 2 Tim.3:5]

And since this is the time we live in, we cannot afford ignorance; indeed, God's people are destroyed because of their ignorance. [Hos.4:6] We must understand that our fight is against spiritual principalities and powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, and against spiritual wickedness in high places. It is the spiritual wickedness in high places I focus this teaching on. [Eph. 6:12]

But the great Apostle Paul warned us in the Book of Acts 20: 29-31 of the greatest deception Satan would use today specifically on the church. After three years of teaching the Ephesians, when he was about to leave Ephesus, he said,

...After I depart shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them....

Notice Paul categorizes this attack and assault on the church in two types of false leaders: 1.) Grievous wolves that shall come into the church from outside the church with the express purpose of devouring the flock. The other category is 2.) Grievous wolves that come from existing church members. These are not new faces coming from afar; these are faces we know; faces once known of God but now walking in their own way. Both groups are false leaders with one purpose in mind: to eat sheep as their meal. But the second category is the most devastating of all. These are those false leaders who will arise from the flock; once saved members, ministers, pastors, bishops, etc., but have long since gone away from God's word, as they feast off their own bread and teach others through precept and example to eat with them. [Isa. 28:13]

This first group was implied in the Old Testament when God told Joshua to destroy all the people before them. However the Gibeonites worked wilily with Israel. They took old clothing, dry and moldy bread and pretended to be from a far country and sought to make a league with Israel to not be destroyed. And because Israel thought they were from a far country, they made a league to not destroy them. This is the deception of Satan. [Joshua 9]

The extreme danger of False Brethren Arising from within:
This second group poses the most severe problem for saints. They become almost invisible. And if invisible, Satan then seems as if he does not exist or is not influencing and manipulating them. Satan has always used the deception of nonexistence and invisibility. As long as he can stay invisible, he can do his devilish work through many, and they will think the actions they do, they do of themselves and not of the devil.

Jesus saw Satan influencing Peter and realized that Satan was in the very midst of the disciples and Jesus himself. But Jesus called him out in Peter immediately: "He turned and said to Peter, get thee behind me Satan. Thou art an offense to me; for you say not the things of God, but those of men." [Mat. 16:23] Jesus readily discerned Satan's influence upon Peter and removed it by His word.

Jesus knew Satan had influenced Peter when he said that Jesus was not to be abused and killed. Certainly, in a human sense, we can readily see that Peter was just being supportive of Jesus, but he went contrary to God's word and engaged in sentimental dialogue that was of no value; it was a man-centered way of looking at spiritual realities. The purpose of Jesus' coming was not viewed in a God-centered way. Satan was, therefore, able to play on Peter's emotions, as he tried to defend and protect Jesus from harm, but it was for the purpose of dying that Jesus came into the world. [John 18:37]

As Peter was seduced by Satan on the guise of love and human sentimentality that defied the word and will of God, that is how Satan attempts to seduce us as well. Peter had no idea that he was seduced and under satanic influence. Jesus, however, was light, and light always makes manifest. [Eph. 5:13] So Jesus gave Peter some idea of his distorted notions and that he was not speaking under his own influence but through and under the subtle influence of Satan. As quickly as Satan moved, Jesus moved to counter him in rebuke. Paul wrote that we are to rebuke the sinners among us sharply. [1Tim.5:20; Tit.1:13] We have not rebuked enough of these sinners to make them sound in the faith, but we have allowed them to linger among us and call themselves ministers. Yet they are not God's ministers because they are not in the doctrine of Christ but in a preacher-centered sentimentality. [2 John 9]

This second category is so dangerous that we must warn against it constantly. I have mentioned ungodly ministers before, but I will be more direct in this discussion. They are a deadly lot for a number of reasons: They are already in the church--they are not coming from afar, as the Gibeonites did; they know all who are there, and they have been accepted as members/ministers in good standing. Therefore, they easily and almost invisibly poison the saints of God with progressively slight deviations from the word until they bring the whole of Satan's deceptive regime into the church and upon poor, unwary saints who are asleep with the assumption that "My pastor/bishop is OK; he would not lie!" Yet, it is this type of unwarranted assumption that is the little fox that destroys the vine--not the big, gross ones. [Song of Solomon 2: 15; 1Cor.5:6]

When saints make concessions and allowances for little foxes of leadership, they give place to the devil, and that is contrary to God's word. [Eph. 4:27] Saints in light [there are saints in darkness, as Paul implies from this scripture--Col. 1:12] are to stand our ground, not give place to Satan. Remember how swiftly Jesus rebuked Peter when he was influenced by the devil. We are to give no place to Satan, but resist him, and he will give place to us. [James 4:7; 1 Pet. 5:9] This is the authority and power of Sons of God. [Rom. 8:17]

Before we can rebuke the devil, we must be able to identify him. The rightly divided word of God is the only thing that can build up our spiritual discerning abilities. Everyone who uses milk of the word is unskillful in the word of God and has very limited spiritual discernment abilities. [Heb. 4:12; 5:14]

When a minister has backslidden and is under Satan's influence, as backslidden ministers are, [Mat. 12:44-45] he knows he does not have the standing and power of God upon him, so he gives place to Satan--a small deviation here, and a small deviation there, until he is given totally over to the wicked one; he is deceived and seduced into devilish behavior. Such a minister becomes agitated and hostile to the true minister of God, especially one he knows he cannot gainsay against. His rage against the true minister of God is because of the satanic spirit he is under. Were that minister of the mind and influence of Christ, he would love the frank-talking, right-living, God-anointed minister of Christ who walks by faith and not by sight and rightly divides the word of God. [2 Cor. 5:7] Instead, he has become self-deceived. [Prov. 16: 2; Jer. 17:9; Obadiah 3-4; Gal:3]

I have been saved for over 35-years; during that time, I have seen ministers, pastors, bishops, evangelists, teachers, just plain Christians rise and fall; I have seen them under demonic influence and demonic possession. Some have known and acknowledged that they have fallen, and they went back into the world. Others have fallen and were so deceived by Satan and themselves that they literally thought, and some still think, that they can stay in the church, in sin and alienated from God and deceive the people of God.

The true minister of God receives a response from these devil-deceived once-saved ministers much like Jesus received from the Maniac of Gadara [Mark 5] and much like Jeremiah and Amos received from the Jews who were unwilling to hear God's word from them. Negativity is always the greeting for those who bear unpleasant news. And the news from the Lord concerning the backslidden ministry is not good, instead God is saying call a solemn assembly and sanctify a fast. [Jer. 11:21; Amos 2:12; Joel 1:13-14]

False church leadership have given themselves over to the influence of Satan without ever examining themselves and their teachings to see if their behavior and/or teaching is God inspired or Satan prompted. But Paul says let a man examine himself to see if he is yet in the faith. [1Cor.11:28; 2 Cor. 13:5; Gal. 6:4] Without that checkup, mandated by God for a purpose, one will accept the destruction of the little fox--gradualism away from the word-- and never see that he has moved away from God's truth.

Small sins grow into vile behavior:
Over the years, I have seen men, ministers, pastors, bishops who were once saved had good ministries and were good preachers, teachers, and deliverance ministers fall from God gradually and suddenly; they turn and harden themselves in sin, lose touch with God, degenerate in their understanding of God's word and simply lose their ability to preach, teach, or guide one to Christ. Instead of getting stronger in the Lord and in the power of his might, many ministers have aged and gotten weaker in the Lord; they know less of God's word; they have less of God's spirit; they have grown away from God. Yet many of these have remained in positions of leadership in God's house and have destroyed many for money and by ignorance. They listen to the whisperings of Satan and their carnal natures, yet they pay no attention to the voice of God.

The little foxes (things of God that seem trifle and of insignificance) are so tiny to them they are not seen by them. But though they are small foxes they are canine, (dogs) and we are warned to beware of dogs, who are false prophets. [Phil. 3:2] Isaiah said that Satan's watchmen are all blind; they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. They are greedy dogs that can never have enough, and they are shepards that cannot understand; they all look to their own way, everyone for his gain....[Isa. 56:10-11] If these little foxes make minister and congregations not see themselves through self-examinations, God has raised up ministers who will call them out, even as Jesus called Satan out of Peter.

God knows these present day crop of Mercedes Benz ministers, even though they often wear saintly apparel in their form of godliness. They seem as if they are saved and seem to have the joy of God upon them; yet, they are merely whited sepulchers filled not with God but with dead men's bones. [Mat. 23:27] They lie in the churches as time bombs and tricks of Satan geared to deceive the very elect of God. [Mat. 24:24; Eph. 4:14]

When a backslidden minister, pastor, bishop, et al., has been accepted by those inside the church as saved, they deceive themselves into thinking that their wicked deeds are not that important with God. They then stabilize, even as a stabilized mutation. When one goes away from God's word he becomes a mutation and aberrant person. Stabilized mutations tend to become so stable they reproduce in their deviant form.

Most of the backslidden ministers backslide right before the very eyes of the congregation because the congregation's discernment is too weak to see their backsliding, having been fed milk, they have never developed ample spiritual discernment. [Heb. 4] That is a major method Satan uses in high places to blind the saints of God, and that is why the ministers who are backsliding today are staying in the church and in their positions of leadership. As one cannot see grass grow while upon it, their backsliding was almost imperceptible to the congregation but it was still visible to God and the true man of God. And as they remain in their backslidden condition, it becomes normal to them and their congregations. But regardless of how normal it is to them, it is abnormal to God. [Prov. 1:34]

We define normality today in two ways: a thing is either statistically normal or clinically normal. To be statistically normal merely requires that one go along with the majority in one's views, beliefs, behavior, etc. But to be clinically normal means that one is engaging in thought, behavior, belief, etc., that is healthy, moral, good. It has nothing to do with numbers of people doing what you are doing. So one can be statistically normal but clinically abnormal. We have such a quandary in the church among much of the church leadership: ministers have wholly gone after material possessions and wealth and they use God's people as their goldmine; they may be statistically normal among seekers of wealth, but they are clinically abnormal and mutant in the sight of God. [2Pet.2:3]

Although many saints are getting nothing of God from most of the wicked and unsaved leadership, other than empty wallets and dry and moldy bread sermons, it is very difficult to get saints, who, unfortunately, are preacher-oriented and not God's word-oriented, to recognize that their leaders, their elders, their pastors, their bishops, although they were once saved, have long since left the doctrine of Christ, having become ignorant to God's righteousness, they have gone about to establish their own brand of righteousness. [Rom. 10:3] Jesus said, beware of these false prophets; know them by their fruit; not everyone who says Lord, Lord will make it in, but that person who does the will of God. [Mat.7:15-27] When church members have gotten into the habit of excusing the sins, misbehaviors, and poorly crafted, milky sermons of their leadership, they will not be able see or willing to believe that leadership has been compromised and tainted by Satan.

Whether they are willing or able to see the truth or not, God has said, "Whoever transgresses and abides NOT in the doctrine of Christ HAS NOT GOD." [2 John 9] Regardless of how long a person has been in the church; regardless of what position a person holds in the church; regardless of how powerful a person's ministry once was, if that person transgresses God's word or does not stay within the doctrine of Christ, that person does not have God; that person is not saved! Of course, Satan will attempt to tell that person and his blind followers that he and they are saved, but God's word is correct and stands sure. Such a one is not saved! He has backslidden from God. [Ezek.3:20 ]

Satan's deception will not allow them or their followers to see that they are not saved. This is how spiritual wickedness works in high places: The mind is influenced away from God's word and the person is unaware of that influence. They may hold sentimentality and other human frailties and attempt to place such human-centered feelings on God. Satan shows church members their ministers in past glories and anointing, when God mightily used them. He does not show them now, in today's reality and their backslidden condition. Their minds are blinded to this condition, as they make excuses for their untoward behavior. Once their ministers were beacons of light; now they have become beacons of darkness. But the prophet wrote that their past works will be remembered no more. [Ezek.3:20]

Backslidden ministers are encouraged by the devil to stay in the positions they once held when walking with God. And he encourages blinded saints to see ungodly behavior in corrupt leadership and wink at it, instead of identifying it and separating themselves from it. God said, come out from among them. Show a difference between light and darkness, clean and unclean. [2Cor. 6:17; Rev.18:4]

Vile affections tolerated:
If I frequented a fellowship with homosexual men, it is logical that one can deduce that I, too, am a part of their sexual orientation. Since that is an understandable and reasonable deduction, I must shun the very appearance of evil. I must not associate myself with them.[1 Thes. 5:22]

So callous are many ministers and members concerning sin in the leadership and themselves that they are not outraged unless they see gross sin in the house of God itself--Eli's sons. [1 Sam.2] But God is outraged, and had they not lost the mind of Christ they once had, they, too, would be outraged, even as God is. [1 Cor. 2:16]

A few days ago, a minister brother told me of a pastor who could no longer confine his known and strangely tolerated homosexuality kept to himself; he openly announced to the church that he was a practicing homosexual, assuming that the church was so weaken that they would do nothing. But when the weak church finally mustered enough courage to ask him to leave, he refused and attempted to argue that he could be a minister of God, and help bring souls to Christ in his vile state. He did not perceive himself vile as God does. His mind has been so thoroughly taken away from the mind of Christ, he contends that he could do the work of Christ without the mind of Christ. [Rom. 1:26; 1 Cor. 2:16; Isa. 55:8-9] This is the vile boldness that Satan has inspired once-godly leadership to proffer to spiritually weakened churches. Because they are so blinded to spiritual things (even sound logic) and have led God's people far astray, it seems okay to them to go even further. So they go deeper and deeper into sin and take followers with them.[Isa. 9:16; Lk. 6:39]

But this is not new. Apostolic Faith Churches, Holiness Churches, Baptist Churches, Evangelical Churches, of course, Catholic Churches, et al., are also deceived with a satanic deception into thinking they can go away from God's word or wrongly divide the word of God and still carry on in God's name. These seven women are an abomination before God and so are their ministers, pastors, bishops, and those who follow them!

Satan has entire churches deceived into thinking that members can engage in homosexual activity and less vile sins and still lead and feed the flock of God. There are bishops, pastors, ministers, members who are engaging in homosexual acts and all other sins and assume they are saved. No man can be homosexual and engage in sin generally and get word enough from God to feed His people. No woman can be a lesbian and get word enough from God to feed His people. No pastor, elder, bishop, or any other title he may possess, can live ungodly, be backslidden and get a word from God to feed God's people. The word of God is clear to those with a clear understanding from God: regardless of the affectation or form one may have--whether speaking in tongues, shaking, quaking, whatever office or position he/she may hold-- a deacon, a preacher, a pastor, a bishop, etc.--the word of God in 2 John 9 is definitive and true: "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God." Jesus said, "If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed...." [John 8:31] One is NOT a disciple of Christ UNLESS he/she continues in His word.

Sin Separates a minister from God:
Sin separates God from men. [Isa. 59:1] Sin separated God from Christ on Calvary when Jesus took on our sins. That magic, that mystery, that marvelous Calvary is where Jesus died for me. Calvary, O' sweet Calvary! This was the place that Satan talked through Peter to discourage Jesus from going. And if he had not gone and died, we would not be able to bless sweet Calvary! But on Calvary God was separated from Christ when on him God placed man's sin-debt. Christ had never known what it was to be without the fullness of the Godhead dwelling in him. [John 3:34; Col. 1:19; 2:9] The moment our sins were placed on Jesus, God turned/separated himself from him, and Jesus cried out: "Eli, Eli, la ma sabach thani?" But when God turned from Jesus who bore our sins, He turned to us who bore the righteousness of Jesus.[2 Cor. 5:7, 18-21] This transfer of our sin and the taking on of Christ's righteousness at Calvary removed our sin-debt and gave us a new standing with God. We became the righteousness of God, as Jesus was made sin for us. That is God's superb and blessed wisdom; that is the beauty and majesty of Calvary! [Mat. 27:46]

If sin separated God from Jesus, it also separates wicked ministers from God. [Isa. 59:1-2] And to know God's word sufficiently to feed God's people, a minister must be connected to Christ. When one sins, that sin dislodges him from the vine. Jesus is that vine and the ministers are the branches that get their nourishment from the vine to give nourishment to the leaves, the saints. Without the vine, ministers are dead. No one should be deceived by continual shouting or the exhibition of behaviors and affectations of the saints; that is a form but without power. A branch cut from a vine may remain green for a while, but it is still dead and can bear no fruit, regardless of its greenness. [John 15:1-5]

Some ministers will return to God; some won't:
Some months ago, God sent me to three ministers and a church. These ministers were once-saved and worked exploits for God. As I moved by God's guidance, going to them, one initially toyed with the word of God that God had expressly sent me to deliver. Finally, after I told him that God had released me from the call to deliver the word to him, he accepted God's word and got a great anointing from God.

Another brother was high in his rank, but God had expressly given me a word and a vision for him. But he was unwilling to hear God's word because it would have meant a change in his ways and his income, which was part of the message God had given me for him. He was making merchandise of God's people and would not recognize Satan's prompting to continue in his way. I confronted the brother whom I have known for many years, telling the truth God had given me for him and the vision. That brother became my enemy because I told him the truth. God's word separates that way. [Gal. 4:16; Heb. 4:11-12]

God also sent me to another minister brother, whom I brought to the knowledge of Christ, but he had long since gone away from the faith in pursuit of money, as he, too, made merchandise of God's people. That brother, of course, became angry and almost denied that I spoke the words of truth to him when he was in utter darkness. I pleaded with that brother to separate himself from his untoward behavior and from the crowd of those who took the name of Christ but ate their own bread and wore their own clothing. He would not, but became hardened in his way and would not talk with me thereafter.

Neither of these high-ranking, word of God rejecting brothers could show me any error in my gospel or that I have not rightly divided the word of God. They simply would not have God's word affect their behavior! That is the road Satan leads church leaders down, but it is the blind man's road to perdition. Of these three minister-brothers, two bishops and one a minister of longstanding, only one turned to hear the word of God. The other two continued in their own old ways, but I delivered the word from God directly to them, God has warned them to turn back to him, and I delivered my soul. [Ezek.3:19] Jesus said how difficult it is for the rich or those after money to be saved. The tragedy is that two of these brothers have followers who will follow them and not Christ. Their followers are wedded to the man and not to his maker of the man.

A vision that applies to many:
God showed me that Satan has almost taken over a church and is in control of it. In the vision I was given about that church, "I walked into the church and recognized that all the pews were gone. I stood there, in the empty church, amazed at the absence of the pews and people. Then I turned to an angel who stood beside me and asked: 'Where are the pews?' The angel said, 'A thief has stolen them.' And as I stood in the church amazed and contemplating this sight, I heard someone asleep in the side room; opening the door, and going into that room, I saw one pew remaining and on that pew, one of the thieves was asleep. He was so comfortable in that church, it was home to him; so he was asleep and snoring as he slept."

I gave that vison to the pastor brother, but he continued in his way. This is the condition of the church leadership today--unwilling to turn because sin and the love of money have made them unable to get a word from God. And Satan has moved into the churches, and they do not even recognize him. They have not heard God's voice so long, they actually think the voice of Satan is God. But if they would examine themselves by the word, as God's word instructs, they could see that Peter, too, was unaware that he was under the influence of Satan, until Jesus called it out of him.

The one brother who did receive God's word was not into money and financially raping God's people. As I delivered the word of God to him, God moved on that brother, and he remembered when God moved him and God sent him to others as God was sending me to him. He exclaimed: "I remember that feeling when God used me that way." And being of a contrite spirit and having a tender heart toward God, he was used again to mightily speak his word.

God has said that He will dwell with a person who is contrite and humble in spirit and that person will dwell with God in his high and holy place. [Isa. 57:15]

True Ministers of God:
The Prophet Jeremiah was aware of this backslidden state of the church when he rhetorically asked, "How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed!" [Lam. 4:1] How have these once-saved preachers, teachers, pastors, and bishops who once shined in the light of God, now have turned from God? They once shined in God's word and the anointing of His spirit, now they read sermons out of books they did not write; they have a hum but no anointing of God; and they despise all who do have a word from God, all who have the anointing of God, and are growing in grace and of the knowledge of the Lord daily instead of diminishing. [Eph. 4:15; 1Pet. 2:2; 2Pet. 3:18]

The true ministers of God are still getting a word from God and being blessed by God. Although I was abused and demeaned in the presence of congregants who follow men and not God, I am unmoved because ungodly men have no standing with God and no enchantment against the man of God. They cannot dislodge or pluck any godly minister from God's hand. [Num. 23:23; Psa. 1:4-6; John 10:28]

True ministers are still getting prayers answered by God; they are still crying out to God to save his people and open their eyes. But these ministers are lone souls, persecuted, hated, and banded from locked assemblies because they cry against the wickedness of God's people.

Jesus has said His true ministers would be hated of all men for His name sake. But oh how sweet is the company we keep! Rare and holy company we keep, although invisible to ungodly eyes--we are among and in the company of those who passed through the Red Sea, subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of swords, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of aliens. We are among and in the company of those who endured cruel mockings; we are among those who were stoned, sawed asunder, those who wandered about in sheep's clothing being destitute and afflicted. But not accepting the world's deliverance from this godly fire because like them, we too seek to obtain a better resurrection, knowing that the world is not worthy of us! [Heb. 11] O' but we are in the company of angels who are encamped around us to deliver and protect us.

You see, this world is not our home; we are citizens of another country and another place, whose builder and maker is God. [Heb.11:10-13; 1 Pet. 2:11] A place Jesus, himself, is preparing for us. [John 14] Therefore, our behavior does not comport to the backslidden church, ministers, false prophets, and those in the churches who only use his name to take away their reproach; our behavior and voice are alien to those who follow once-saved leaders who are influenced and informed by Satan's leading for worldly gain. But they are all blind and Satan led toward the ditch, and they do not know they are hell-bound as they travel on the road to perdition. [Heb. 10:39; 2 Pet. 3:7; Rev. 17:8] They have not taken time to examine themselves to see if they are in the faith. [1 Cor.11:28; 2 Cor. 13:5; Gal. 6:4] This demonstrates that they have no love of God's truth; hence, God will send them the strong delusion that they might be damned. [2Thes. 2:11]

Some years ago, a young man was heavily influenced by the devil and he would not allow me or anyone else to help him see the origins of his promptings. He mouthed Satan's biddings with no awareness that he was being led. Tragic was this poor soul, as he traveled on the downward road totally rejecting knowledge. He did not receive the love of truth. [2Thes. 2:11]

Ministers made God's people defenseless against Satan:
Sinning and Satan-deceived ministers preach a gospel that is not a gospel of Christ. [Gal. 1:7] It is a gospel that wraps itself around their unrighteous behavior and justifies having made God's people impotent so that they cannot defend themselves against the wolves, the wiles of the devil, and against false brethren.[2 Cor.11:11, 26] They have used God's people as merchandise for their own pleasure and think there will be no consequences. They do not teach the empowering word of God because it would condemn their behavior. Furthermore, being backslidden, they cannot get a word from God, so they preach milk, instead of the solid meat of God's word.

I have seen so many ministers go away from God, yet still run, but God has not sent them. Instead, Satan has sent them. The love for money is their overriding call. Jesus said we are to be aware of these wolves who come in sheep's clothing but are raving wolves.

Today, Satan has transformed himself into an angel of light and his ministers have transformed themselves into ministers of righteousness. But when this Word of Truth Ministry is compared with their words, their ministries pale by comparison. This ministry becomes the light of the sun shinning into their den of darkness. [ 2 cor. 11:14-15]

Come out from Among them:
I challenge you, my dear readers, to examine what is in this ministry, whether it comports with the word of God, and compare us to others. When God is not in a minister and not working in him, that minister is little more than sounding brass and tinkling symbols. [1 Cor. 13]

No backslidden minister, pastor, or bishop can understand the depth of God's word sufficiently to feed both the lamb and the sheep--the lambs, but never the sheep; so they keep the congregation babes in Christ. And as long as they are babes, they are no more than servants under supervision. If this message seems hard to understand and difficult to believe, although I supply abundant biblical support, it is because you have been kept lambs. One who is still a lamb after years of supposedly walking with God is like a child who has not grown to perfect height and weight or to age-appropriate intelligence. That child is retarded, arrested in development, abnormal, abused and needs rescuing and nourishing back to health, if it is not too late!

I bid you, in the name of Jesus Christ, the eternal God of Glory, to come out from among them and be separated. Come out from among them, and I will pray for you and loose the bands of wickedness that have bound you. Come out from among them and live for God. Come out from among them, and know the truth that shall make you free from their financial and man-centered slavery. Come out from among their spiritual bondage and wickedness in these high places and grow in the light of God's word to maturity. Come out from Satan's deceptions and wiles--trust God and move out of Satan's spiritual slavery. God has made you free, allow no man to bind you. Cast off your spirit of fear and move out on faith in God!

The great sin of backslidden ministers in leadership:
Finally, there are many backslidden ministers in high places. They are spiritually corrupt. These ministers have a great debt to pay for having led God's people astray, for having weakened and blinded the people of God, for having retarded many who wanted to grow, who wanted to excel in God, but had their growth stunted, their hopes crushed, their faith destroyed, their finances taken. God will not hold these wicked and abominable leaders guiltless.

They have literally retarded God's people. They have fed God's people milk to kept them children. They have kept God's people in church prisons and made them too weak to see, too weak to walk, and too weak to escape, as they incessantly raped them of their finances, raped of their dignity, and raped them of their standing with God.

Under wicked, weak, and sinful leadership, the people of God have become prey for the devil. If you read this and can hear the voice of the spirit saying make a change, I pray that you rise up and claim the sonship possessions that are rightly yours.

Come out from among them and be ye separated, says the Lord!

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