Millions of Evangelicals in Hell
Millions of Evangelicals in Hell
Moral conditions in our days are worse than the days of Martin Luther. After
Luther once found salvation and was justified by faith, his heart was caused to
burn within him by the Holy Spirit. Men were buying indulgences for adultery,
stealing, and all types of sins after or even before they had committed them.
Their sin was considered unimportant and they had a certificate to prove it from
"the church". Luther was aware that in the last 500 years anyone who had
opposed "the church" was tortured and publicly burned to death. Yet the Holy
Spirit insisted that he had to announce to all that "The soul that sinneth, it shall
die." and he nailed the 95 thesis to the door of his church challenging all comers
to prove that he was wrong.
We are in a worse situation today and the same thing must be done. This
document is the equivalent of the 95 thesis for our day. The people in that day
had to admit their sin and buy the certificate of absolution. Now for the greater
part of evangelicals who have been taught the grace plus nothing doctrine, even
this is unnecessary. Our seminaries have taught us for centuries that God
foresaw from all eternity all who would be saved and every small detail of their
lives including all the sins that would be committed from the foundation of the
world. This doctrine is believed and taught by our most sincere and dedicated
bible teachers such as Chuck Swindoll and John MacArther among multitudes of
others. For centuries our Seminaries have taught us that God foresaw the sins
that would be committed before we were saved and also the sins that would be
committed after we were saved. It is taught that we are saved by Grace plus
nothing. The message in our churches is that there is no problem, all sins have
been forgiven past present and future, we have been freed from buying
indulgences, by the reformation. Our evangelical congregations are filled with sin.
But the Bible, the Word of God is being ignored. "The soul that sinneth, it shall
die." Multitudes have found this to be true as they have gone into eternity and
fallen into hell. They are filled with consternation, and remorse in Hell.
Vengeance has free unlimited application in Hell. They are saying just let us get
our hands on our pastor who failed to warn us. Pastors are being, and will
continue to be hunted down for eternity by the multitudes who have been misled.
Sin is considered lightly and little distinction is made between temptation and sin.
It is declared that we all sin every day. When it should only say, we are all
tempted every day. To King Saul, Samuel said, "Hath the LORD as great delight
in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to
obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is
as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because
thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being
king. And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned... " Sin is rebellion against God. I
Sam. 15:23. Now God created man a little lower than the angels because the
angels were able to look on the face of God. Because of this when they rebelled
in sin against God there was no way to restore them and they were forever lost
without any redemption possible. We cannot see the literal throne of God. When
we sin we have a time of probation to decide and come to God as our Creator,
confess our rebellion and admit our inability to even approach Him on our own
merits only by the mediation of Jesus the Saviour. If we come to Him, relying on
the finished work of Jesus and we ask that he give us his forgiveness and his
strength to use the time we have left for the purposes that he has planned for us,
we will with His help quit all our rebellion. We come into the covenant relationship
in which we return the reaching out of God to us by reaching out to Him,
constantly seeking to find and do the works and will of the Father with out
reservation and God abides with us in our hearts. This abiding is the definition of
the grace that saves. Nothing can keep us from being saved for his Spirit is given
without measure to all who are fully yielded to Him. "For he whom God hath sent
speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him."
Jn. 3:34 We will find it necessary to suffer the same reproach from the rebels in
this world as our Lord Jesus did, being made faithful by his power until death,
even martyrdom.
God created man to populate his eternal Kingdom in the New Jerusalem. The
glory of the kingdom had to be much more than the ornamentation, than in the
streets of iridescent gold. It had to be in the quality of the subjects who populated
it. They had to have freedom and the power to exercise private initiative,
innovation and free will. For God to create this glorious kingdom, to have the
subjects with this dynamic autonomy, God the Son had to decide to come and
die at the hands of rebellious men before the creation of man. He placed man
over all the world to subdue it, to sow and to reap. He then declared that man
was His crop or his flock. "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel
before the LORD our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his
pasture, and the sheep of his hand." Ps. 95:6-7 With the motive of love he
created us and awaits our choice to come in "poorness of Spirit" that is to say in
repentance and faith to serve him.
If when we die we are in rebellion against our Creator we are chaff to be burned
eternally. If we have broken our rebellion and have come to Him in repentance,
His spirit dwells with us without measure and by this walk in the Spirit we
overcome all rebellion and sin.
Do you Sin?
When I have spoken with a pastor who has been taught this "grace plus nothing
doctrine" about no sinner can be saved, he becomes a bit perturbed and asks
me. "Do you sin?" I answer, "No! as a child of God I must quit sinning." He
immediately opens his Bible to I John 1:8 and reads, "If we say that we have no
sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." He says, "the Bible says
that you are deceived and are deceiving me. You are proud and insensitive to
your sin."
Notwithstanding the aggressive response, I must comment that you have taken
this verse completely out of context. This text is for the people we all know who
tell us that they are not afraid to die, that they have never done harm to anyone.
We must admit our sin to be born again. The whole book of I John as well as the
whole Bible teaches and I quote from I John "He that saith, I know him, and
keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso
keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that
we are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even
as he walked. ... And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even
as he is pure.... And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and
in him is no sin.... Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath
not seen him, neither known him.... He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the
devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.... Whosoever is born of
God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin,
because he is born of God.... In this the children of God are manifest, and the
children of the devil. ...We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but
he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him
not." Can you see why the pastor has misused the text when we read the
passage in which it is found? "I must comment that in the years since I have
been saved I have not always walked in the spirit, but finding myself walking in
the flesh, I have reconsecrated and repented anew when the gravity of my
situation is made clear to me by the Holy Spirit, and I have renewed my covenant
with my Savior and my Creator, asking His forgiveness and explaining again my
need of his strength and he again warms my heart with his Spirit and I continue
on walking in the spirit. I know that if I die walking in the Spirit I will go to be with
my Saviour as part of the eternal kingdom. If I die in rebellion against my Creator
even on the smallest point I will be cast into outer darkness as unfit for the
kingdom of heaven just as was King Saul. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."
But you are you not superior to the Apostle Paul? for he said in Romans 7:15,
"for that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that
do I." What a sad commentary on our bible teachers to take these verses out of
the context of the Book of Romans. The book of Romans is about the wrath of
God being poured out on sinners of which all are guilty and on the other side that
righteousness and holiness are the fruits of being justified. Romans 5:9-10 tells
us that we are justified (no more in rebellion) and saved from wrath through
Jesus and we are saved by his life in us. Romans 6:2 says that we are dead to
sin and we do not sin anymore Rom. 6:6,12 and that we are freed from sin.
Chapter 6 tells us that it is required of us to live free from sin. Romans Chapter
7:8 uses sin in the singular that is to say, our selfish decision to do what is best
for us, that gives sin rule over us. Paul is speaking of his experience as a child in
verse 9 when he was taught the ten commandments on his fingers. He was not
obligated by them until he understood them and then he found that they taught
him that he was in rebellion to God. Afterward when he received more light
culminating on the road to Damascus, he than sat trembling and blind he
understood that he could not fulfill the law. His experience was, "For I delight in
the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of
sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me
from the body of this death?" As he said not my will but thine be done and as
Ananias prayed and he received the Holy Spirit and he began then to walk in the
spirit and no longer walked in the flesh. Paul declares that if you live in according
to the seventh chapter of Romans you will die and go to hell for in Chapter 8:13
he says, "... if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die... as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. ... the Spirit itself beareth witness with
our spirit, that we are the children of God."
Pastors from multitudes of pulpits declare almost in each sermon to people who
freely admit to sinning every day, "you are once saved always saved." The Holy
Spirit came to convince men of sin and we as pastors are working against Him,
declaring that our congregation will be saved as they lie, steal, hate, fornicate
etc. while the word of God is clear: "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."
Defaming God
We are defaming God by our testimony. We are defaming God by our teaching
and doctrine making the death of Jesus of none effect. We have been taught by
our Seminaries and Bible Schools the doctrines of the Reformation. From the
Canons of Dort we brazenly defame God by their five principals:
Total depravity: (Man has an irresistible taste for sin like a tiger for warm blood:
because God put this curse on him... This is a subterfuge of Satan because it
accuses God.)
Unconditional election: (God chooses men to be saved and men must only bow
down to his sovereign will, man would therefore have no responsibility for
according to this doctrine he can do nothing about his salvation: God chose the
vast majority to be lost and it is all God's fault that men are lost. This is a
subterfuge of Satan because it accuses God.)
Limited atonement: (Jesus only paid for the salvation of those whom he chose
before men were created: God is partial and discriminates. This is a subterfuge
of Satan because it accuses God.)
Irresistible grace: God saves by applying his power: God is lazy for he applies it
only on a few. This is a subterfuge of Satan because it accuses God.)
Predestination of all who are saved. God's salvation is like winning the lottery
where the drawing was before the foundation of the world and has given a
license to sin: God does not deliver from sin only saving by a legal act made
before the creation of the world. This is a subterfuge of Satan because it accuses
God.)
Giving scripture verses that contradict these principals has been to no avail
through the centuries. II Peter 3:9 contradicts everyone of these Canons as it
says: "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." Let God be true and these defamers of God
be liars. Defaming our Creator will surely land us in the lake of fire where our
church members will be running us down forever for rightly they will claim that we
did not teach that sin would send us to hell. In great bitterness they will pour out
their vengeance and the people are doing this right now of the congregations
who are now in their graves. Meditate on this as you look over the cemeteries
beside the churches. The subterfuge of Satan in accusing God, flows from
ironclad reasonings about the attributes of God. These attributes are defined by
using the logic of Plato and Aristotle. They were pagan philosophers who
worshiped and believed that the Oracles given under the influence of a drug,
consisting in eating toadstools baked in bread, which opened up the spiritual
realm. These Greek philosophers understood that this was the highest wisdom.
They taught metaphysics from the knowledge gained by hallucinations with which
Satan set forth the lie that he or we would never come to judgement. That men
were only judged to be reincarnated. Jesus talks only about the Kingdom of
Heaven which is pivoted on the final judgement only after which comes the
glorious beginning of the New Jerusalem descending down to earth. We are
trained in Seminaries that combine these poisonous definitions from Satan's work
with the gospel.
This whole idea is based on a myth called the "Covenant of Redemption." The
myth is about a supposed scene in which there is a conversation between God
the Father and the Word (Jesus) in which the Father says I see all of the elect
who will be saved. I see every sin they will commit before and after they are
saved until their death. This quantity of sin must be paid to the last milligram. The
Word (Jesus) replies: I will go and pay this price. It is taught that everyone who
will ever be saved was saved by the legal act that took place at the moment of
the promise which was later fulfilled in the cross and in the creation. This myth is
based on the definition of God according the definitions of the Pagan
Philosophers Plato and Aristotle. We have it taught to us by our most esteemed
and studious men. For instance L. S. Chafer in Vol. V pg. 27 using the text, "In
hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world
began..." Titus 1:2 He says, "By some it is believed that reference is here made
to an agreement between the Persons of the Godhead which embraced and
provided for the whole plan of redemption, that it assigned to each His part in the
undertaking." ...Dean Alford writes "The solution of the difficulty, that no promise
was actually made till the race of man existed, must be found by regarding, as in
the place in 2 Tim 1:9, Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not
according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was
given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, but is now made manifest by the
appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath
brought life and immortality to light through the gospel...' the construction as a
mixed one, compounded of the actual promise made in time, and the divine
purpose from which that promise sprung, fixed in eternity." L. S. Chafer continues
"...It is certain that the triune Godhead existed from all eternity, that all things
were predetermined, and that an agreement existed between the Persons of the
Godhead concerning the part to be executed by each..." I have italicized the two
phrases that illustrate the distinction made because of the definitions of Greek
Philosophy. The Scriptures are clear that God's purpose was before the creation.
The concept of God existing without a sequence of events (time) is what changes
Him into a monster pagan god of destiny. As we shall see, time is an attribute of
God according to the Bible while the Greeks understood god was a force that
moved all things residing in a planet which was above the earths and time. That
instead of God being immutable in his love, holiness and purpose. The pagan
concept is applied that makes a god that is the unmoved-mover, a monster
contrary to the Scriptures. Just be patient and notice how this is true as we apply
the scriptures.
Men today are not the origin of this error. It has been foisted on young seminary
students for the past fifteen hundred years. About 400 A.D. it was incorporated
by Augustine, redefined and reinforced by Aquinus in about 1200 A.D. Augustine
wrote in his "Confessions". "All said and done I believe that it has been the will of
God that I have read first these books of the Platonists before I began a study of
the Holy Scriptures... if I had been first exposed to the Scriptures, and they had
become sweet to me in their skillful use, and later had been exposed to the
books of Plato, possibly they would have led me into their earthly current of piety,
or I would have thought that these books would have given me the same effect
as the scriptures, had I studied them first." Book 7 Chap 20 To illustrate the
pollution of Greek concepts that Augustine injected in Christianity in The City of
God he writes. "According to his will, who with his highest eternal foreknowledge,
without doubt he worked in heaven as well as on earth everything he wanted, not
just in the past and present but also in the future. Notwithstanding, before the
time comes for him to do what he wants to do that which his foreknowledge
decided, we say that God will do what he wants to do; but when we ignore the
time in which it is to be, as well as if it is to be or not, we say that God will do
what he wants; not because God will have a change in his will that he did not
have before, but because that it is beforehand decreed ab eterno in his
immutable will, and it will therefore happen." Book 22 Chapter 2. His belief was
not in the personal interacting God of the Bible but in the "god of destiny" of the
poison root of pagan philosophy.
The Encyclop¾dia of Religion and Ethics says of Aquinus: ...in that he wanted to
unify the whole of knowledge. He surpassed the host of thinkers of his time as
metaphysician, that he produced a unique work. It is necessary to understand the
functioning of his general synthesis, and especially of his metaphysics, which
rules the whole economy of his work. He stated that the human will is the faculty
of choice, must ultimately be moved to the very act of choosing by something
which is in act; and the reason is that, before the act of choosing the will is in a
state of potentiality and must therefore be moved by something outside it to the
state of perfection which is choosing. Only God can move the will, so says
Aquinus, making God responsible when anyone decided to sin.
However the ancient fathers only make use of the word predestination as it refers
to angels or men, whether good or evil, and it is used by the apostle Paul in a
more limited sense still, so as, by it, to mean only that branch of it which respects
God's election and designation of His people to eternal life (Rom. 8:30, Eph.
1:11).
But, that we may more justly apprehend the import of this word, and the ideas
intended to be conveyed by it, it may be proper to observe the term
predestination, theologically taken, admits of a fourfold definition, and may be
considered as:
1. That eternal, most wise and immutable decree of God, whereby he did from
before all time determine and ordain to create, dispose of and direct to some
particular and every person and thing to which he has given, or is yet to give,
being, and to make the whole creation subservient to and declarative of His own
glory: Of this decree, actual providence is the execution.
*When we say that the decree of predestination to life and death respects man
as fallen, we do not mean that the fall was actually antecedent to that decree, for
the decree is truly and properly eternal, as all God's immanent acts undoubtedly
are, whereas the fall took place in time. What we intend, then, is only this, viz.,
that God (for reasons without doubt, worthy of Himself, and of which we are by
no means in this life competent judges), having, from everlasting, peremptorily
ordained to suffer the fall of Adam, did likewise, from everlasting, consider the
human race as fallen; and out of the whole mass of mankind thus viewed and
foreknown as impure and obnoxious to condemnation, vouchsaved to select
some particular persons (who collectively make up a very great, though precisely
determinate number) in and on whom He would make known the ineffable riches
of His mercy.
Here Zanchias admitted that the Bible is not the basis for this doctrine.
Undoubtedly he began his book by numerating the decree's of God. Later upon
consultation he changed the word to position. By this he states that all persons
and things are dedicated to their end. He then uses the term predestination
saying that it is applied to only the saved. He is certainly in contradiction when he
then writes the above. He is locked into the subtle pagan definition of the god of
destiny. For the Bible says in contradiction to this: The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise... not willing that any should perish but that all should
come to repentance. II Peter 3:9
Satan uses this doctrine to blame God for all his devilish works
He declares that actual providence is the execution and by this concludes that all
things are controlled by God, thereby at the root of this theory Satan is
manipulating the world to ruination while using this subtle argument to blame
God for the destruction he is causing. He arbitrarily insists that God thought up
the creation and fall of man and chose that in the great majority men fall into the
abyss of sin, misery and death.
God chose to send the great majority to the lake of fire and chose to deliver a
certain number of Adam's degenerate offspring making only a tiny percentage
vessels of grace and salvation.
He declares that this all manifest His own infinitely glorious and amiably
tremendous perfections. He says, God has determined to leave some men perish
in their sins. He says that it is Gods fault that men perish. He then puts a
postscript (*) explaining that without doubt God has everything decided from all
eternity and nothing we could do is able to change it. That we should let his
doctrine go at that because our fate and the destiny of all things has been forever
decided and we must without doubt just believe that all things that happen and all
men that are lost or saved do so because of their destiny. We are truly spiritual in
his estimation just to trust that beyond death we will have this seemingly great
unjust system explained to us. (for the decree is truly and properly eternal, as all
God's immanent acts undoubtedly are).
This position places all the blame for the wicked destruction done by Satan
through the centuries as the fault of God. Is it possible to have a worse theology?
Is it not blasphemy even though it was done with good intentions under the guile
of Satan's deception injected a thousand years before? Why write thousands of
books to try to put a better face on this wedding to the poison root from the
pagan philosophers?
What has gone wrong? Multitudes have said that this logic was carried too far for
them and we have what is called modified Calvinism. Arminius was an arbitrator
and those who modify the logic too much are called Arminian in doctrine and
almost everyone today should have this title. However we must look carefully into
this and we will find that the doctrine is a subtlety of Satan. For hundreds of years
all men have began their theologies by speculating about the attributes of God.
This is a great error by which millions have fallen into hell.
3. A position that maintains that the actions of man are free makes them
indefinite and sacrifices the sovereignty of God to preserve the free will of man.
Besides, if the works of free men were uncertain, God would have to await the
events to happen to make his planes. (He shortened lifespans?)
4. To deny that God can know beforehand the works of rational free men...
reduces the prophecies to merely astute conjectures. (Archangel's workout the
prophecies with free will intact?)
6. ..."past" ..."present" ..."future" are in the mind of God "present" or better to say
an eternal "now"... "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity...
Isa. 57:15 (Text to prove it?)
7. Time as well as Space, is a property of the finite Creation and God transcends
it and contemplates it in an objective manner. (Bible Text to prove it?)
8. In Eternity before the Creation there could have not existed any future events
for certain except God had decreed them to be. (Subjects created with free will to
make the Kingdom great?)
9. God knows the destiny of every person not just before the person makes his
choice in this life, but from eternity, as his foreknowledge is perfect. Since he
knows the destiny of every person before they were created it is therefore
evident that the saved as well as the lost fulfills the will of God, for if it were not in
the will of God that they be lost God would have opted to not create them.
(Contradicts the whole Bible?) End of quotation. (Questions in Italics are mine.)
These are the reasonings of the pagan mind about God. No Christian should
think of God in this way. To illustrate this just compare this concept of God with
the following passages and decide which ones are in accord with these texts. We
should know God by his revelation to us. Who has the authority to define God
outside of His revelation to us in the Bible?
Genesis 1:26 And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth." (From this text we learn how God speaks as two
reasoning together and makes point 6 contradict this text as freedom was given
to man to use the earth as he chooses.)
Genesis 2 " And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die. And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man
should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the
LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought
them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called
every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all
cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam
there was not found an help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep
sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up
the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man,
made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now
bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because
she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both
naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
(From this passage we learn about God as He appears in this realm of his
Creation. He appears not as a ball of energy but in a form that makes it possible
to converse with man and gives man the concrete task of governing and using
the earth and offers him freedom that he can obey or work according to his own
initiative. This passage says that man has the freedom to do with the earth as he
desires. Note how this Bible text contradicts point 3 as it says men's actions are
free.)
Genesis 3 "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of
the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD
God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and
said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and
I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee
that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee
that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to
be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto
the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because
thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of
the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy
life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed
and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the
woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow
thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he
shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto
the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt
thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to
thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve;
because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the
LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. And the LORD God said,
Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he
put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from whence he was taken. 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."
(The idea of God sending Adam out of the garden so that he would not eat of the
tree of life and live forever, tells us things about time and about God adjusting his
plan to the free will decision of man that completely make these nine points
incompatible with the Word of God. The Bible never mentions God secretly
controlling man's use of his free will.)
Genesis 6 "And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing,
and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. And the
LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I
seen righteous before me in this generation."
(Here God repented that he had made man. How could he repent if he had
known all things beforehand? God also modified his gift to man reducing his life
span to 120 years because he was so surprisingly dedicated to evil. This
passage contradicts the whole premise of all nine points. Do you believe the
Bible or do you believe the pagan philosophers? Do you choose to follow
tradition or the Bible?)
Genesis 11 "And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they
have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down,
and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's
speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the
earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel;
because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from
thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." (God
had given man freedom to do as he pleased but now modifies that freedom again
by adding to the curse of the shortened life span, the confusion of languages. By
this He put off the "one world government" for many millenniums, allowing the
opportunity for many more to repent and become part of his eternal kingdom.
This passage contradicts all of the nine points making their definition of
predestination not Biblical.)
Genesis 18 "And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and
Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. and the LORD said, Shall I
hide from Abraham that thing which I do; Seeing that Abraham shall surely
become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him? For I know him, that he will command his children and his
household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and
judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of
him. And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and
because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they
have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not,
I will know. And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom:
but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt
thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty
righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty
righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay
the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked,
that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And the LORD
said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place
for their sakes. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon
me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: Peradventure there
shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five?
And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. And he spake unto
him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he
said, I will not do it for forty's sake. And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be
angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he
said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. And he said, Behold now, I have taken
upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.
And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the
Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found
there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. And the LORD went his
way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned
unto his place." (God appears to Abraham. God reasons with him and offers to
change according to their agreement. He makes clear that the destruction has
not been set for an exact time from all eternity but is rather determined by the
number of saved that could be contributed by the society to the Heavenly
Kingdom. Is not this also the determining factor for the date of the second coming
of Christ? If you believe this is an analogy and God did not literally appear to
Abraham you are worshiping a pagan God and breaking the first commandment
and on your way to hell. Those who deny that God has this faculty; questioning if
He has hands etc. are worshiping a pagan God in their hearts. All nine points do
not agree with this scripture.)
Genesis 22 "And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any
thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not
withheld thy son, thine only son from me." (In the words of God himself he
declares that "now" he knew the reaction of Abraham the moment that he raised
his hand with the knife and he looked at his heart. He had foreknown the chosen
people but the reaction of Abraham's use of his free will was confirmed by the
actual circumstances in his life. This is true of everyone on earth. This text
completely denies the whole nine points definition of predestination. The "now" of
this verse declares the past present and future being an eternal "now" of point 6
to be false. Will you take the definition of predestination of the Bible or of the
pagan philosopher?)
Exodus 3 "And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto
him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am
I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the
place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of
thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And
Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. And the LORD said, I
have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard
their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come
down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out
of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and
honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and
the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry
of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will send thee
unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of
Egypt." (Here we have God speaking personally to Moses and we can see his
manner of fulfilling the prophecy and the promise that was made to Abraham. He
uses his unlimited power by persuading Moses to become willing for Him to work
through him. He then applies his power according to the circumstances adding at
his request the help of his brother Aaron. This violates all of the presumptions
about predestination in the nine points and shows that they are made about
pagan god other than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.)
Exodus 3:14-15 "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus
shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. And God
said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the
LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my
memorial unto all generations." (The idea that God is above time instead of a part
of time or shall we say the consciousness of the passing of events is part of the
attributes of the living God is set forth here. Lewis S. Chafer says Vol. 1 pg. 263
Gustav Friedrich Oehler writes: "The new revelation is of Jehovah as the self-
existent One "I AM THAT I AM", and the word yayah, cf. Yahwe from which the
word Jehovah is evidently formed, conveys also the idea of a continuous
existence which lies in the verb havah or hayah, but that of existence in motion,
of becoming and occurring. . . , so also the form of the name as derived from the
imperfect leads us to understand in it the existence of God, not as an existence
at rest, but as one always becoming, always making itself known in a process of
becoming... He has entered into an historical relation to mankind, and in
particular to the chosen people Israel, and shows Himself continually in this
historical relations He who is, who is what He is. While heathenism rests almost
exclusively on the past revelations of its divinities, this name testifies on the other
hand, that the relation of God to the world is in a state of continual living activity;
it testifies, especially in reference to the people who address their God by this
name, that they have in their God a future."
Every born again Christian testifies to this fact. The great God "I AM" with energy
is unfolding his activity in our lives, according to our react to Him. He is the true
and living God as expressed above leads us to understand in it the existence of
God, not as an existence at rest, but as one always becoming, always making
Himself known in a process of becoming... He has entered into an historical
relation to mankind, and in particular to the chosen people... and shows Himself
continually in this historical relation as He who is, who is what He is. The pagan
"god of destiny" of the nine points is a static heathen concept. Because of this
multitudes of Evangelicals have fallen into hell as they have confided in this false
god and his theology and not been freed from sin. "The soul that sinneth, it shall
die.")
Exodus 32 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing
of God, graven upon the tables. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people
as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. And
he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of
them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear. And it
came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and
the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his
hands, and brake them beneath the mount. And he took the calf which they had
made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the
water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. And Moses said unto Aaron,
What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people,
that they are set on mischief. For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall
go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of
Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. And I said unto them, Whosoever hath
any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and
there came out this calf. And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for
Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) Then
Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let
him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto
him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man
his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp,
and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man
his neighbour. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and
there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. For Moses had said,
Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and
upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day. And it came
to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great
sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an
atonement for your sin. And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this
people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if
thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which
thou hast written. And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned
against me, him will I blot out of my book." (We see God writing the tablets that
were soon to be broken and something happening to his chosen people similar to
the sin of Eve eating the forbidden fruit. We have Moses speaking in confidence
to God offering himself in sacrifice to save his people by offering his eternal
condemnation if God would not condemn them all. God replies that it is not for
Moses to decide; that God blots men's names out of the Book of Life. This
passage proves conclusively that the nine predestination points are not defining
the God of Abraham. The idea that all men are predestined from all eternity to be
saved and that God foresaw all who would be saved is not according to the Bible.
Why did He write their names down if he later blotted them out? You have
difficulty answering this because you want to define God according to the pagan
philosophers instead of according to the Bible. You are worshiping another God.
Other examples of being blotted out are: Judas Acts 1:20, from Psalms. 69:25-
28, 109:6-13, also Rev. 3:5, 22:19. Can you doubt from this text that "The soul
that sinneth, it shall die."? Are you in danger of Hell fire because you believe in a
pagan God? Will you not be cut off, just as the people were separated and killed.
Will you not be in Hell with them if you do not repent?)
Judges 2:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was
with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days
of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of
them that oppressed them and vexed them. (We see that God allowed affliction
to come on the people because they forgot Him in their hearts, yet because of
their groanings He was touched and he changed their situation by raising up a
judge. Here we see how the prophesy of God cannot fail. Not because he saw all
things from all eternity but that he is immutable in his purpose and has all power.
He will never let down his part of a covenant and he has all power to fulfill it. He
did not have to predestine Judas as a man to cause the prophecies to be fulfilled.
They were fulfilled in the person who freely chose to work his own way by
apparently trying to force Jesus to take the kingship of the whole world and
control the life of Jesus. Could it not be that Peter was also tempted to be the
one who fulfilled the prophecy?)
I Samuel 15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death:
nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had
made Saul king over Israel. (We see that again "The soul that sinneth, it shall
die." and this warning is for your soul dear reader. Saul took it on himself to do
things his way instead of God's way. He had walked in the light of God but it
teaches here that using his free will he chose to exceed the command of God in
his life. He said I am chosen and I have authority over all of the men around me
and I choose to do this my way. Is not this what has happen to Evangelicals.
They are made over confident because of a pagan god concept, and are living in
continual rebellion against God. Just as did Saul, millions have already fallen into
Hell. Can you see that as God repented of writing Saul in the Book of Life and
blotted him out how he went to the Witch of Endore in his desperation. So too,
the same principals or spiritual metaphysical laws governing the universe that
were used by the Witch of Endore are being used today. These laws are defined
by these same 9 principals of a false predestination, and the ministers who
assure you that you are once saved always saved, no matter how you treat the
covenant of repentance and faith are doing the same work of the witches like this
one of Endore. They are causing you to worship another god of destiny not the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
These theologians are not worthy of the name if they have defined God in
contradiction to the plain texts of the Bible we have examined. To use these nine
points to define God you must explain the texts where God changed his mind or
repented, and explain where He blotted out names he had written in the book of
life. If they have never even taken up these many texts are they not unworthy as
apologists of the Word of God? Of course they have had great followings, for
Satan is really the false god of destiny and the evil world does not oppose them.)
I Kings 11:29-38 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of
Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; ...And he
said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of
Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give
ten tribes to thee: ... And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that
thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.... And it shall be, if thou wilt
hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is
right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my
servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for
David, and will give Israel unto thee. I Kings 15:29 And it came to pass, when he
reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any
that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the
LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: ... Because of the sins
of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation
wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger. (God foresaw many
who would or could be part of his kingdom in the future generations and gave
them promises. Here we have a case where Jeroboam was foreseen to have a
family that would rule over the ten tribes as was promised David, generation in
generation. Because of the wickedness of making them worship the golden
calves, he as well as all of the foreseen generations that were supposed to serve
him as David did, were cut off and blotted out of the book of life and the foreseen
generations were never born. This modification of future possibilities certainly
contradicts all nine points of this pagan predestination.)
I Kings 22:5-38 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray
thee, at the word of the LORD to day. Then the king of Israel gathered the
prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go
against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the
Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king. And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not
here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him? And the king
of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah,
by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy
good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son
of Imlah. And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on
his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of
Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them. And Zedekiah the son of
Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With
these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them. And all the
prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the
LORD shall deliver it into the king's hand. And the messenger that was gone to
call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets
declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the
word of one of them, and speak that which is good. And Micaiah said, As the
LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak. So he came to the
king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to
battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD
shall deliver it into the hand of the king. And the king said unto him, How many
times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the
name of the LORD? And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as
sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let
them return every man to his house in peace. And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me,
but evil? And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the
LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his
right hand and on his left. And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he
may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another
said on that manner. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD,
and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he
said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And
he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. Now
therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy
prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee. But Zedekiah the son
of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek... And say, Thus saith
the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and
with water of affliction, until I come in peace. And Micaiah said, If thou return at
all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. ...And the king of Israel said unto
Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy
robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.... And a
certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the
joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine
hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.... and the king was stayed
up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of
the wound into the midst of the chariot.... So the king died, and was brought to
Samaria... And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs
licked up his blood." (As we have read this text we find that the basic framework
of almost all of our theologies are in contradiction to the definition of God
according to the Scriptures. In this case the ideas that all free will is secretly
controlled by God by a secret and mysterious power is false. The idea that all the
actions of all men are known from all eternity and have to be fulfilled is not
according to the Scriptures. The openness with which God dealt with Abraham
about the destruction of Sodom is again displayed as God gives a vision of His
manner of dealing with men to His prophet. The manner in which the wicked king
was destroyed shows how that God will always bring to pass all prophecy that he
has committed Himself to fulfill. Never will a prophecy fail. Not because all events
are known to Him from all eternity but because he is actively intervening in the
hearts of men and angels without touching their free will. Notice how that the
fallen angel agreed to become a lying spirit. Notice how that these false prophets
were operating in the name of the Lord of Israel, that they were in contact with a
supernatural spirit which they were sure was from God, that guided them. That
they were numerous and felt they were right for they were on the king's payroll,
while the true prophet was imprisoned and placed on bread and water. This
message about the false "god of destiny" is rejected by multitudes who are
prosperous and have many publishing houses and I am giving it free to you as
the Lord provides. But I declare all who presume to declare people "once saved
always saved" because they hold high pagan philosophic concepts and do not
preach that "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." are going to lose their souls
unless they repent. These four hundred official prophets were defaming God. All
of us who continue to defame God by declaring that He chose men to be to be
saved and that salvation is only related to God's actions and He left the rest to be
lost from all eternity are already under the wrath of God. This text proves all of
the nine points of this false predestination to be pagan half truths. All of the
seminaries that have the School of Philosophy Department alongside the School
of Theology Department and are combining them to educate their students are in
this same terrible error that the four hundred prophets were in, worshiping a false
god of destiny. It has lead to the doom of millions of evangelicals in Hell.)
II Kings 14:26-27 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter:
for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. And the
LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but
he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. (This was some years
later and another Jeroboam than the first king of the ten tribes. We see God at
work to keep from blotting out almost everyone in Israel. This text is contradicting
all nine points of the false predestination.)
I Chron. 21:15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he
was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to
the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the
LORD stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. This tells of God's
compassion and how that he changed his mind because of it. He did not have all
set from all eternity but changed his mind at the exact moment when the angel
and the wave of the dead had arrived at threshing floor of the Jebusite at a
certain corner in Jerusalem. The Bible teaches that God changes his mind. God
had given the command to the death angel but retracted the command at a
certain point. The immutability of God as taught in the predestination of the nine
points leaves him without personality and makes all of the universe and all
events be set into a mold as hard as concrete and the god of destiny is a god of
stone who is the god of the idolaters. Millions have fallen into hell believing in this
false god and if you are not fully surrendered to the will of God you will follow
them there as well. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." To make it clear. Do you
have anything reserved or held back in your heart about which you are unwilling
to obey God? If you do, you are in rebellion against your Creator and all of your
life on earth has been in vain. You have refused to be made fit for the Kingdom of
heaven and will be burned with the lost as chaff, with unquenchable fire forever.)
II Chron. 12:7 "And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word
of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves;
therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my
wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak." (Here we
see that God changed his mind and the false predestination of all the nine points
deny that God can change his mind. What do you believe?)
JOB 1:6-12 "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present
themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD
said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and
said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And
the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is
none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God,
and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear
God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house,
and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his
hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 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. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD. ...Then
Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the
ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and
naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away;
blessed be the name of the LORD. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God
foolishly.
Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present
themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present
himself before the LORD. And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest
thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the
earth, and from walking up and down in it.
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there
is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God,
and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst
me against him, to destroy him without cause. And Satan answered the LORD,
and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. But put
forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to
thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save
his life. So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with
sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown." (The nine points are proved to
be a defamation of God by one of the oldest and first revelations of God in this
account in Job. God is not the distant unmoved-mover of Aristotle. He has no
resemblance to him whatsoever. He is the Creator in reaction with his creation as
they in their free will respond to Himself. There was no doubt in the mind of God
or Satan about all things being known from all eternity. There is no hint that in the
understanding of God nor of Satan the outcome of these things were predestined
from all eternity. It is a terrible thing to worship the false god of destiny behind the
"once saved always saved doctrine" It is true that walking in his intellectual,
philosophical and unmoved-mover doctrine can never give you the joy of walking
in the spirit. Truly you must live by only looking into the rest of God from a
distance as the unsaved person in Romans 7. Can you see the extreme
importance of this message to separate yourself from all sin and rebellion against
your Creator? "The soul that sinneth, it shall die.")
Psalm 106:43-46 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with
their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. Nevertheless he regarded
their affliction, when he heard their cry: and he remembered for them his
covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. He made them
also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives. (This teaches clearly that
God adjusted his dealing with men according to the covenant and in long
suffering continued doing so to bring out a remnant as his harvest, from the
generations of men for his Eternal Kingdom. These glorious concepts are ignored
in the worship of the pagan god of the false predestination of the nine points)
Psalm 139. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my
downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou
compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither
shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up
into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I
take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; ... Yea,
the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness
and the light are both alike to thee. For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast
covered me in my mother's womb .... My substance was not hid from thee, when
I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my
members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there
was none of them....Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know
my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way
everlasting. (Here we learn that God knows all things about us at conception and
all of the thoughts of all his creatures anywhere they might be, are known by
God. Notice it does not state here nor anywhere in the Bible that all our thoughts
were known from all eternity, which is the text that would have to exist if the false
predestination of the nine points were to be true. We must not disregard even
one text in the Bible if we are fully surrendered to our Heavenly Father, nor dare
we add anything to the texts. We must ask wisdom of God to make them all fit
together perfectly.)
Isa. 41:4,8 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the
beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. ...But thou, Israel, art
my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. (We
learn more about how that God has formed the Book of Life discerning the ones
from the beginning who would make a covenant with him to have a part with Him
in His kingdom forever. We notice how that he speaks of the generation as a
person and how at the calling of Isaiah in chapter 6 he says of this generation
and their unbelief: "...Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand
not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. ...Make the heart of this people fat, and
make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
...Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted
without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
and the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the
midst of the land. But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be
eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast
their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof." The generation
was not saved by their being chosen from the beginning but because of their
complete reliance on the Spirit of the Lord. Why was Isaiah to preach to them.
That they all might be saved? No! only a small remnant would respond out of the
generation. They were called the Holy Seed. The same is true today. Many will
read this but only those who repent and put their [whole way of life]
unconditionally in the hands of God will be saved. All of the other so called
evangelicals who do not walk in the Spirit will go to hell. God is calling everyone
but will you respond in total consecration that God might by His power conserve
you to be the holy seed in the New Jerusalem?)
Isa. 59:15-16 "Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a
prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor:
therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained
him." (Men who served God received no justice from those around them and as
He saw this condition He intervened in the circumstance and took special care of
his servant. God changed his mind and his reaction because of and in accord
with the covenant that each man has made with Him. This is the theme of the
whole Bible and the false predestination of the nine points denies all of this,
robbing God of his goodness and blaming Him for all of the evil works of Satan.
Is not this pagan "god of destiny" a clever and subtle work of Satan? Worshiping
him makes it impossible to have the power of God so we can walk in the Spirit.)
Jer. 26:18-19 "Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of
Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and
the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. Did Hezekiah king of
Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and
besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had
pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls."
(We learn here the doctrine of God that was understood in the days of Jeremiah.
He is a God that changes his mind, contrary to the pagan god of the false
predestination of the nine points we have under examination. This teaches that
the time of death is not set from all eternity. "What is to be, will be" is spoken by
one who is deceived by the pagan god of destiny.)
Amos 7:2-8 "And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the
grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom
shall Jacob arise? for he is small. The LORD repented for this: It shall not be,
saith the LORD. Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord
GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a
part. Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob
arise? for he is small. The LORD repented for this: this also shall not be, saith the
Lord GOD. Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made
by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. And the LORD said unto me, Amos,
what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set
a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any
more..." (The judgement of God of sending the plague of the Grasshoppers and
fire are diverted by the prayers of Amos. The scripture plainly says that God
changed his mind in that time in the days of Amos and in that generation, not
before the foundation of the world. The false predestination of the nine points are
proven to be pagan and not Christian.)
Jonah 3:10 "And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and
God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did
it not." (Jonah fully illustrates that he did not believe in the false predestination of
the nine points but believed that God adjusted and unfolded his plan according to
the reaction of the free will's of the people involved. He who believes and
declares that God does not do this is worshiping another god.)
Math 6:14-15 "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses." (According to Jesus, God the Father responded
to each person. If they became willing to forgive He will forgive them, if they are
unwilling to forgive they will not be forgiven and will lose their souls forever. Very
different from the understanding of the false predestination of the nine points we
are considering. This makes them unchristian.)
John 3:15-17 "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
eternal life. 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. For God
sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through
him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that
believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God." (Jesus uses the word "whosoever". It is used 182
times in the Bible. This word in its use, speaks of the choice of man and makes
the definition of the false predestination of the nine points a blasphemy against
the whole thrust of the truths of the Bible. This heresy has been the greatest
enemy of these words of our Lord Jesus. Holding this error has destroyed the
dynamic of the gospel.)
John 6:29-40 "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that
ye believe on him whom he hath sent. They said therefore unto him, What sign
shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from
heaven to eat. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses
gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread
from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and
giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this
bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me
shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto
you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I
came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given
me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is
the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on
him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." (Gods
created the world that all might come to Him. False predestination's nine point
heresy is an instrument used by Satan to defame God by declaring boldly from
so called Christian pulpits that the Creator made man to condemn him to eternal
torment. That it is impossible for the sinner to come to God if he was not been
chosen from the foundation of the world and forced to be made a part of the
church by an irresistible act of God. Has there been a greater obstacle for
thinking men to be brought to the saving grace of God? This one thing has been
more powerful than all the work of the atheists to cause men to be damned. This
theory represented in the predestination of the nine points is in direct
contradiction to the words of Jesus that everyone who believes on Him has
everlasting life.
It is opportune to say that all true preachers preach that everyone must through
Jesus come directly to the Father for himself or herself. That just as we go alone
to God when we die we must individually by ourselves approach directly to the
Father for forgiveness and ask His power to live for Him. I write not about anyone
coming to some new organization or movement but about you going directly to
the Father to be guided by Him. The soothing declaration from the pulpit that we
are "once saved always saved" is a violation of this intimate knowing of all men.
The preachers are sinning by pretending to be a mediator. Jesus is the only
mediator.
As we shall see this false predestination has been used to ruin the definition of
grace calling it an "unmerited favor". The word "unmerited" is not found in
scripture. Why should we define grace with these words? It is a half truth. We do
not merit God's attention, but Grace is much more than a favor, it is God's
abiding presence as we abide in covenant with our Creator. Here Jesus is
pronouncing one of the greatest texts on living by grace. He says that only as we
live by his presence in our lives, in the personal constant miracle of his presence,
he becomes for us the bread of life. Jesus declares that what the manna
miraculously did for the body in the wilderness, the presence of Jesus does for
us eternally in the Spirit as we yield to live and die for Him. This is brought about
as a result of our covenant initiated and sustained by our repentance and
believing. This basic requirement is spoken of as the "poorness of spirit" in the
Sermon on the Mount. This can only be had as we by Jesus go directly to the
Father and recognize that we cannot do anything to save ourselves or change
our own unforgiving hearts. We ask Him for His power to take away our rebellion
and sin. The heresy theory of the predestination of the nine points has defined
grace as an "unmerited favor" in which salvation is forcibly and irresistibly
accomplished by a magic power that just as lightning strikes, changes our point
of view, our frame of mind. The concept of "walking in the Spirit" is replaced by
confiding in "the destiny" decided before the foundation of the world. It is
understandable why this pagan god leaves these followers in sin and falling into
hell.)
*John 10:24-29 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How
long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus
answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's
name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my
sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they
follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither
shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is
greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and
my Father are one. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;
even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. (Do not
these verses say that those who live without sin, keeping the Fathers
commandments, do so because they have heard the call of Jesus to surrender
all to Him, and have repented and are following Him unconditionally? That all
who do so are supernaturally protected because we have gone directly to the
Father and received, and keep on receiving, our salvation and there is nothing in
this world that God will allow to take us out of His hand. Do you see how the
pagan definition of the god in the predestination of the nine points we have in
consideration has distorted this truth? They have proclaimed that you are saved
by a legal act of God before the foundation of the world. No matter how many
sins you commit you are not held accountable but will be saved by a magic
power? They have missed this point and are always giving false comfort to the
hearts of the people by railing against legalism. The whole doctrine is based on
legalism instead of true grace. As we see this distinction in the true and the false
doctrine we can see even more. We are worshiping a pagan god. We are among
the multitudes of the deceived if we believe we can be saved and be in rebellion
to God on any point or in any way whatsoever. Believing in this false legalism will
condemn your soul and you will be full of remorse for all eternity in hell because
you did not want to believe the Bible principal. ("The soul that sinneth, it shall
die.")
John 15:11-16 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in
you, and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, That ye love one
another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command
you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord
doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I
have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and
ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should
remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it
you. (We must rejoice in the fact that before the foundation of the world the Lord
foresaw the chosen. These many texts are wonderful promises for those who live
with nothing between their soul and the Saviour. God has chosen the Chosen.
We must define the true predestination. To make all of the scriptures that we
have seen fit together we must accept that he foresaw a great number that
cannot be numbered, out of the billions who have lived on earth that were to
serve with Himself in building the Eternal Kingdom. We have seen that they as a
group were in a specific sense foreseen to follow Him. However, to be faithful to
all of the Bible we have another set of texts that tell us that some who were
foreseen to follow and be part of the kingdom, rebelled against God in the trials,
and their names were blotted out of the Book of Life, using Saul and all Israel for
examples. Likewise many have responded to the work of the Holy Spirit who is
convincing the world, everyone in the world, of sin, and judgement and
righteousness whom were not foreseen that they would be saved but have
responded and rejoice in being numbered among the Chosen. The Chosen are
the foreseen group of people who would respond to the gospel call. We must use
the term in this sense to harmonize with all the Bible. God chose the group. He
foresaw tentatively some and put them in the Book of Life. Let him who would not
agree with this please harmonize the texts about the names being blotted out of
the book of life. So far no one has done this but insist that we must only read all
of the great theologies that they have read. True predestination speaks of the
foreseen group but not the indiviuals. If we could look on a list made by God in
heaven that had our name and birthdate we could have a true hope. Since this
does not exist the hope of men who are not totally consecrated to God to be
saved is a foolish hope. The so called great theologies have never even taken up
these texts, this makes them unworthy to be so called and we must discard all
that contradicts the Scriptures in them and review all else they say when we
encounter so great of a foundational error and heresy upon which they wrote
their dissertations.)
ACT 13:40-48 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in
the prophets; Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in
your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto
you. And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought
that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. Now when the
congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed
Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the
grace of God. And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to
hear the word of God. But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled
with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul,
contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It
was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but
seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo,
we turn to the Gentiles. For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set
thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the
ends of the earth. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified
the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
(Those ordained to eternal life were those who did not turn away, who were not
swayed by the evil group who worked against the truth. You cannot be saved as
long as you try to please men instead of God. That God did not speak to or call
those who turned away is the false doctrine of the predestination of the nine
points. Clearly they all were called but they that contradicted and blasphemed
and refused to believe refused the call. It was not God failing to call them. Those
who say this are also contradicting and blaspheming God just as they did.
Strange that these who contend that they can be saved without being in full
obedience to the Father look for proof in a passage so descriptive of themselves.
They trust that their hearers will not read the passage for themselves but take
only their interpretation of this final verse. Those ordained to eternal life were
those who believed. The simple meaning is that God has appointed and provided
eternal life for all who will believe as seen in Jn. 3:15-20, Rom. 1:16, 10:9-10, I
Tim. 2:4, II Peter 3:9, Rev. 22;17. It could not mean that by God's predetermined
decree certain ones are to be saved and others are to be lost simply upon the
basis of God's own choice. True predestination is never that of the individual
forced by a mystery power into conformity of his will to salvation without his own
choosing as implied in the phrase "irresistible grace", but rather that God has
predestined a plan that all who will repent, believe and conform will be saved and
all who do not will be damned. It is the plan, not the act of the will that has been
predestined. The Jews who rebelled there failed to meet the terms of being
appointed to eternal life, while the believing Jews and Gentiles who gladly
accepted the terms of the gospel were appointed to the blessings promised all
who will believe.)
Acts 15:13-19 "And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying,
Men and brethren, hearken unto me: Simeon hath declared how God at the first
did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree
the words of the prophets; as it is written, after this I will return, and will build
again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the
ruins thereof, and I will set it up: that the residue of men might seek after the
Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who
doeth all these things. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of
the world. Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from
among the Gentiles are turned to God..." (God did not make this world without a
plan. God has a plan that was known to Him from the beginning of the world. The
Bible is the revelation of that plan. "Known unto God are all his works from the
beginning of the world." To isolate this verse and declare that we must believe
the theories of the predestination of the nine points because of it, is to reject what
is plainly stated here. That it was in the plan of God to restore the spontaneous
worship of God that was represented by the tabernacle of David, that the residue
of men whether Gentile or Jew might worship God as did David.)
Rom. 8:28-29 And we know that all things work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did
foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that
he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did
predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified:
and whom he justified, them he also glorified. (To teach that "the called" are the
only ones who are predestinated will not adjust to the passage "Many are called
but few are chosen" in Math. 22:14 This verse was given when our Saviour was
speaking of the marriage of the Kings son. "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a
certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to
call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he
sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have
prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready:
come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his
farm, another to his merchandise: And the remnant took his servants, and
entreated them spitefully, and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, he
was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and
burned up their city. Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but
they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and
as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the
highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good:
and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in to see
the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: and he
saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?
And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and
foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen." The
chosen are those who put on the wedding garment. That is to say they have
broken all their rebellion against the Lord and do not allow sin in their lives
knowing that ("The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Those who continue in sin
confiding in the false predestination of the nine points of paganism will be exactly
these who will be cast into outer darkness for whom for the love of their souls we
are writing this. It is God's plan that He has foreknown and predestinated, not the
individual conformity of free wills to the plan. He has called all men and all are
free to accept or reject the call. All who do accept, he has foreknown and
predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son that His Son might be the
first-born among many brethren. To those who reject the plan, He has foreknown
and predestinated to be consigned to eternal hell as an everlasting monument of
His wrath on rebels. This is the sum of foreknowledge and predestination.)
Rom. 9:3-33 "For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my
brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites; to whom
pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the
law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of
whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.
Amen. Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all
Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are
they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are
the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the
promise are counted for the seed. For this is the word of promise, At this time will
I come, and Sarah shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also
had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet
born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to
election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her,
The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau
have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God
forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I
will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him
that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. For the
scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up,
that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared
throughout all the earth. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy,
and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet
find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that
repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast
thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to
make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing
to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much
longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make
known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore
prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also
of the Gentiles? As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were
not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to
pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there
shall they be called the children of the living God. Esaias also crieth concerning
Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a
remnant shall be saved: for he will finish the work, and cut it short in
righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. And as
Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been
as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. What shall we say then? That
the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to
righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. But Israel, which
followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of
righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by
the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; as it is written,
Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed." (The phrase "So then it is not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy." has been used
by those convinced of the predestination of the nine points to teach that all men
and all things that have happened or ever will happen are known by God from all
eternity and that we are saved only by irresistible grace. It is a key text that is
supposed to say that all who are saved or lost is God's responsibility. We
understand that the message of Romans was sent to them as he could not
personally go to Rome. This is the message that made the Jews furious which
Paul preached in each city. It was this part that particularly angered them. He
expresses his extreme concern by explaining that he would as Moses be willing
to be lost that they might be saved. His discourse was similar to this message
that I am writing here that makes some of you angry. The Jews reacted
vehemently to his preaching of their rejection. This passage is an answer to
them. He defines the true Jew as one who was not only a descendant of Isaac by
the flesh but who walked in faith as the children of promise. He illustrates this
with the second born Jacob being preferred by God on the basis of the foreseen
faith instead of the first born Esau. God shared what he saw of their dispositions
with their mother saying there are two nations in your womb; the elder shall serve
the younger. There is no unrighteousness with God if he perceives the
dispositions of the boys before they are born. So it is that he can see the
disposition of the Jews to rebel and the Gentiles to respond to the call of the Holy
Spirit. He had to make the choice because of the dispositions of the boys and the
same is true now to use the Gentiles because the Jews refuse. God is sovereign
over his mercy. He will not change the conditions upon which he gives it. He will
not save one soul without repentance and continued belief nor refuse to save
anyone who meets these conditions. The phrase "Jacob have I loved and Esau
have I hated" has been interpreted as being about the attitude of God from all
eternity before they were conceived while it is based on a statement to their
mother before they were born. As we have seen on each of the key texts used to
back up this doctrine about us being ruled by destiny, Roman 7 was taken out of
the context of chapters 5, 6 and 8. Rom 10 certainly doesn't teach that God is
totally responsible for the destiny of everyone. In this context Malachi, who is
being quoted was speaking of the generations of the descendents of Jacob and
Esau, explaining how that the descendents of Esau had their mountains and his
heritage desolate because of their unbelief. It has been a dishonest use of the
scripture when this text has been used to say that all who have ever been born
were foreseen by God to be saved or lost from the foundation of the world. In the
same way the Bible does not say that God purposed from the foundation of the
world that He would raise up Pharaoh to be hardened. The hardening consisted
in giving the many plagues and the opportunity that Pharaoh might have let the
children go. God could have given the last plague at the beginning and the
Israelites could have gone immediately, but God chose him for destruction
because of his long resistance to God. It can happen to many who read this and
never come to any conclusion but live on with rebellion in their life against God.
Pharaoh could have been saved by the provision given to them for the salvation
of those who were strangers when the law was given of which Rahab is an
example. Each time he promised that the Israelites could go and then reneged,
hardened his heart and his resistance to God.
The question that is being resolved by Paul is the insistence by the Jews that
they were chosen and Paul had no right to preach their lost condition. He is
arguing quite the contrary of the doctrine that all are chosen in every act of their
whole life and destiny by God from the foundation of the world, saying that all
must come to obedience to Christ and if they do not they will be eternally lost as
was Pharaoh. He quotes Isaiah to say that the great number of foreseen
Israelites to be saved because of their unbelief are really only a remnant. The
teaching of the predestination of the nine points that everything is known and
predestined from eternity is contrary to the statement that he will cut short the
work that he had thought to do for Israel and by righteousness he will make a
"short work". The longsuffering with Israel would make him unrighteous if he
continued too long. He finishes the chapter by emphasizing that whosoever
believeth on Jesus shall be saved. This doctrine of the false predestination of the
nine points insists as did the Jews that one is saved by a legal act of God before
the foundation of the world and they can be saved by this law without total
surrender to the will of God in their lives. Can you see how that although no text
in the Bible declares that God knows all things from all eternity how this is one of
several texts that are distorted to try to prove this pagan philosophical concept.)
Rom. 10:9-15 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth
on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the
Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall
they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in
him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of
good things!" (We notice here how that all of the flow of Romans is setting forth
the concept that men are saved in relation to hearing the truth of the gospel and
it is mentioned that "whosoever believeth." The idea that all the saved were
predestined from all eternity is not compatible with the concepts of this chapter
10 of Romans.)
Rom. 11:1-32 "I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also
am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not
cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of
Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying, Lord, they have
killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they
seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to
myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the
election of grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is
no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is
no more work. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but
the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded (According as it is written,
God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and
ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. And David saith, Let their table be
made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:
let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back
alway. I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but
rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them
to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing
of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? For I speak to
you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
if by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might
save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the
world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? For if the
firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the
branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive
tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness
of the olive tree; boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest
not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off,
that I might be graffed in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and
thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: for if God spared not the
natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the
goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee,
goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able
to graff them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by
nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more
shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye
should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel,
until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it
is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away
ungodliness from Jacob: for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take
away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but
as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. For the gifts and
calling of God are without repentance. For as ye in times past have not believed
God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: Even so have these
also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. For
God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all."
(This passage has been used by those who believe in the predestination of the
nine points to support their theory that God applies His grace only to the foreseen
elected from the foundation of the world. I understand that the theme of the
chapter would be "Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God" He
speaks of grace and the following portion has been taken to prove their theory of
"Grace plus nothing" which they believe because they understand that one is
saved by a decision or legal act of God before the foundation of the world. ("Even
so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of
grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more
grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more
work. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the
election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded...") Paul has illustrated these
words by the example of Elias who was discouraged thinking that he was the
only one in the kingdom who still stood faithful. God responded that he had
reserved seven thousand that had not bowed the knee to Baal. Paul says that in
the same way there is a remnant according to the "election of grace" This
teaches that even as the whole government went after Baal those who chose to
serve God received grace to be firm in their salvation. The nine point doctrine
concludes that grace is an unmerited favor and God applied his unmerited favor
to the seven thousand and sent the rest to damnation. No, they reply that is too
strong, you should have said they were allowed to receive their just reward. Is
not this doctrine a defamation of God? Their reply can be found in the
"Institutions of John Calvin" in Book 3 chapter 21 he declares his position over
the theme of the fatalism in his doctrine. "Be on guard against the indiscretions of
the curios. However one looks at things concerning predestination, they are
always cloudy in a way and the curiosity of men make it tangled and dangerous;
because human understanding cannot refrain, even with all of the limits and
guides, cannot keep from falling into prohibited paths and elevate himself with
the ambition, if it were possible, to not leave a secret of God without his study
and investigation. Especially when we see that there are many who fall into this
daring error, among whom we notice those who are in other concepts are not
really bad, it is necessary that we advise before hand how to conduct themselves
in this area.
The first is that when they want to know the secrets of predestination, they
penetrate into the temple of Divine Wisdom, in which he who enters boldly will
not find a way to satisfy his curiosity and will fall into a tangle from which he will
be unable to free himself. Because it is what the Lord desired to be hidden in
himself and which only he understands, so that when man enters without any
preparation whatsoever and speaks of these things, they cannot go back and
examine in eternity the majesty and greatness of Divine Wisdom; he cares only
that we worship him and not that we comprehend him, so that we will finally see
him as admirable The secrets that he has willed we should know are to be found
in his word. He has determined there every thing we need to know for our good
and blessing." He then cites Augustine to justify his statement.
These predestination of the nine point believers contend their doctrine is not to
be investigated. How can every man be convinced in his own mind if he cannot
investigate the doctrine? Millions have taken this consul and have fallen into hell
as they have continued in some rebellion against God at their demise. They use,
Rom 11:33-36 "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of
God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For
who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counselor? Or who
hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him,
and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen."
They declare that we must believe that we are saved "according to the election of
grace" and that anyone who dares to investigate as I am doing here is a heretic.
They are victims of the same blindness that afflicted Israel. "(According as it is
written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see,
and ears that they should not hear;)" and are unconcerned that millions are living
in sin and that "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." I will discuss this tactic of
confusion which has been called the "Fuzz ball in the mind" a little bit farther on..
It is sufficient to mention here that the "election of grace" was the pouring out of
God's help with an intensity according to whatever the circumstance that they
would be able to maintain their allegiance to Him as they continued to believe
and trust Him. By this presence of God with them seven thousand had not
doubled their knee to Baal. Not that God chose only to save that number and
condemn the rest. Paul says Israel has not obtained what they have sought by
being the chosen seed of Abraham but must become part of the elect by their
own faith and God will sustain whosoever comes in repentance and dependence
not by their works but by his miraculous power manifested in his personal
presence in their lives. We notice that one of the themes is that we should be
warned not to fall into unbelief and sin, for if we do so, we will be cut off. This
scripture has been fulfilled in the great falling away of the gentiles just as here
prophesied. Congregations have a form of godliness but are not even aware of
the need or the possibility of living lives separated from sin. What a delusion! As
the Jews were cut off; now millions of Evangelicals have fallen into hell. Only a
remnant as in the days of Elias remain. This is a call to be part of that despised
few.
Rom. 12:1-3 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your
reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me,
to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought
to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the
measure of faith. (It seems that the apostle tried to convey all of the foundation
truths he preached to the people in the synagogues before he was run out of in
the first 11 chapters just as he preached in his missionary journeys, before he
came to this invitation. Notice that there was no call to just receive Christ without
this preparation, as is common practice across the congregations today,
generating members who have never come to a full consecration that they might
walk by the Spirit. Once prepared, Paul's call is to wholly surrender to God,
surrendering to not be like this world, but to be in constant communion with God,
or that is to say to "walk in the Spirit". The multitudes of evangelicals in hell were
not confronted with this challenge of full surrender unto death to serve Jesus.
You who are reading this must reflect on the invitation that brought you to Christ.
Was it according to these verses from the word of God. To escape hell we must
live unto God with our whole hearts which means leaving off all sin. This call is
not to be a part of some movement or congregation, it is not to come through me
or anyone else on this earth to God. It is to come directly to Jesus and He will
lead you directly to the Fathers for you to receive pardon and the earnest of the
Holy Spirit bearing witness in your heart and guiding you into all truth. Notice that
the call is to reasonable service. The theory of predestination of these nine points
is that we are saved by a mysterious power. Speaking with a friend, he
exclaimed to me. You are a rationalist, you are not walking by faith! That faith
involves laying aside our God given reason. This professor understands that
according to the doctrine that he has spent his life in, that we are saved by
believing this magic power that by irresistible grace makes you saved because
you were chosen before the foundation of the world. Paul on the other hand says
that if you will come to God in total surrender to His will and he will lead you in a
way that is perfectly reasonable. God is working for the best for Himself and for
all the men and all of the angels for all eternity. It is our reasonable service to ask
God's help to leave off doing what is best for ourselves and live for the same end
as God himself. With our reason we dedicate ourselves to the best end for God
Himself and for all the men and all of the angels. His Spirit begins to dwell in us
as we sup or abide together. We are saved by this abiding. It is rational. It is
based on reason. It is the true definition of Grace..)
Ephesians 1:3-14 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according
as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of
his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted
in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
of sins, according to the riches of his grace; wherein he hath abounded toward us
in all wisdom and prudence; having made known unto us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: that in the
dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in
Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: in whom
also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the
purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: that we
should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also
trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in
whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession, unto the praise of his glory." (This text has been used by the
theologians of the predestination of the nine points to prove point 6, that all men
have their destiny irrevocably known from all eternity. The problem is that Paul
said he has chosen "us" not me. We as a group called the elect are predestined.
There is no text in the Bible that says that Paul rejoiced because he was saved
from the foundation of the world. That idea is all based on the belief that God is
above time. It is based on the concept that God knows the past, the present and
every detail of the future. It is expressed by using the illustration of a road. God
sees all that has transpired on the road, sees all that is happening now and sees
all that will happen in the future and that all the events past present and future
are present with Him in an eternal "now". This dismembers God, taking away his
personality, making him a distant force, without the basic orientation of being
present. Time is an attribute of God. In the beginning God made, God rested,
God awaited the answer of Adam. That God knew how every bird would fall from
all eternity is not taught in the Bible but comes from pagan philosophical
musings.
The text used is Isa. 57:15 "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth
eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also
that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to
revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend forever..." Note that he
dwells with mortals and interacts with them in their spirit. God's memory of the
past is perfect and will judge every man according to his deeds. He understands
the currents of the future having investigated and placed some men's names in
the Book of Life from the foundation of the world. When the moment has arrived
of their existence, some have had to be blotted out of the Book of Life, as we see
from the scriptures. To understand this scripture and harmonize it with the
blotting out scriptures we must understand that Paul rejoiced in us being of the
elect. What does this imply? It implies that it was the group of the redeemed that
was predestinated, not the individual. Of some, the scripture says they were
known or called from their mothers womb. The scripture never says that anyone
in particular was known from all eternity to be saved. But the "group of the
redeemed" was foreseen from all eternity. The exact composition was supposed,
in the foreknowledge of God and written in the Book of Life but some who were
not written in the book responded to the "whosoever" of the gospel and entered
in and were written down. Some who were in the book were blotted out as were
most of the children of Israel.
I know that some will not read all of the study of God as it has been unfolded
here but have leafed forward to read this comment. What a shame that the effort
to define God according to the unfolding of the knowledge of Himself through the
Bible has been ignored through the centuries and replaced by unbiblical
philosophic speculation which defames God. Now when I have finally taken up
this task of defining God by beginning with Genesis and developed the revelation
of God Himself to us, it is ignored and only a few verses read. God will hold us
accountable for our supposed intellectual superiority in which we form our
opinion without painstakingly examining and comparing it with the whole Bible, as
I have done in an abbreviated way here. Let him beware that holds on to his false
beliefs, believing himself to be superior without examining all of the Bible! The
key is in his personal life and if he is fully surrendered to God or not. If not, the
refusal to consider these texts is just another of his rebellions that will eventually
cost him his soul.
We have seen from the revelation of God through the Bible that the definition of
God being above time is the definition of the pagan "god of destiny". That it
describes a god who is immutable unchangeable and unmoved in his response
and incapable of personality manifesting himself with emotions, to dwell with
mortals as is described in this text used by the predestination of the nine points
of Isaiah 57:15.
"...according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that
we should be holy..." This is what God chose before the overthrow of Lucifer's
kingdom -or that all of the new race of Adam who accept Jesus Christ should be
holy and without blame before Him in love. It is this plan that is chosen for all
believers, not the individual salvation and conformity of any one person to that
plan. The final choice is left up to the individual and not to God. All are called and
chosen to become holy before God in love if they want to accept this plan and
choice of God, but only those who meet the conditions will be so blessed, II Pet.
3:9 "The Lord is... not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance." This is the true meaning of election and predestination wherever
found in Scripture, that is, the plan is predestined and foreknown, not the
individual conformity to the plan. Beware if your theology does not agree with
Peter, It will cost you your soul for you cannot quit sinning!
The phrase "...that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather
together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on
earth;..." in it's self indicates that the definition of all things being a "now" with
God is not of Christian origin. This was not Paul's understanding nor definition of
God. On the contrary does not the phrase "...that in the dispensation of the
fulness of times..." indicate that the moment of the fulfilling of the Bible
prophecies was dependent upon the current of the composite of the actions of
the free wills of the population of men? Only the Father can weigh this factor as
He knows the thoughts and intents of every heart. The moment of the "gathering
together into one of all things" is a phrase that also indicates that God is not
mysteriously present in the future as in the present. God is working to bring this
about. There can be no doubt that what He has promised in prophecy he will
bend the events and the "wills" to force them to come to pass. An example of
God assuring all prophecies to come to pass is the language used in Ez. 38:4
"And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth,
and all thine army..." Thus will all prophecy be fulfilled in the Millennium when all
enemies will be put down and all creation will be united in one, as before the
rebellion by Lucifer and later by Adam.
The phrase "after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of
promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance..." vs. 13 indicates that the
believing was the entrance into the predestinated group that is called the "elect".
The group was foreseen and predestined composed of those who believed and
depends on the action of the free will of each one who received the evidence of
being part of this redeemed group by the presence of the Holy Spirit abiding in
them. For the love of your own soul, dear reader, pause and examine your heart.
The Bible never indicates that we are to feel secure in our salvation because of
speculation about God's matter of perceiving time, but because we have the
witness in our hearts of his Holy Spirit. The reassuring pronouncement by
pastors to their people that they are "once saved and always saved" or that they
are "eternally secure" is a terrible violation of the principal of the Gospel that
everyone must go directly to the Father by Jesus for him or herself. Of course we
are secure if we remain obediently walking in the spirit. The text tells us that we
know we are part of the Elect because the Spirit bears witness in our hearts. It is
a violation of the spirit of the gospel to assure them they are saved with out the
proper warnings being given that are throughout all of the Bible. The pastor puts
himself between the person and God as surely as the Roman Catholic priest
does when he proclaims his power to change the wafer into Jesus and gives it to
the people. It is a very grave matter to suppose to usurp this prerogative of the
gospel, that of everyone going directly to God for himself. It is the mark of a false
prophet.
The phrase, "until the redemption of the purchased possession" indicates that
God is unfolding his work progressively and this contradicts much comment
made over this matter suggesting that we are all sitting together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus in the sense that there is no time involved. What the text
says is that we are before the throne of the Father with Jesus when we are fully
surrendered and in full communion with Him. We have free access to the throne,
that in the ages to come he might show this to be literally true. To imply that there
is no time element with God is to misrepresent this verse. In conclusion I
understand the first chapter of Ephesians to say that all who have repented came
into the predestinated "group of the redeemed" which was foreordained from the
foundation of the world. That there is no way that we can harmonize the
scriptures if we interpret this as all men who are saved were saved from all
eternity. It says that "...he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having
predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself..." Does
it not say that the plan and the elect were foreseen and in our times we would
enter into the group of the elect by adoption? Not that we were adopted from all
eternity. That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ."
Eph. 1:7-12.
The phrase first trusted indicates the free will involved in our taking our place
among the elect. The phrase gather together in one indicates the interacting of
the free wills, in true decision and adoration on our part and in cooperation with
the task of our Saviour, until all things are subjected to him.
Ephesians 2:1-13 "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and
sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the
children of disobedience: among whom also we all had our conversation in times
past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and
were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in
mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in
sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath
raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace
in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved
through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest
any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are
called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made
by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no
hope, and without God in the world: but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes
were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." (All of us in the world have
used every physical muscle that God gave us and when we reached the age of
accountability we used the freedom that God has given and have determined to
use our will as we did our muscles we all have sinned as we have willed to do
what is convenient for me. "I will do what is best for me." has been the decision
of all of us descended from Adam. With this decision behind all of our acts our
minds are given over to the meditation of the lusts of the flesh and we continually
turn them over in our minds in the same way we enjoy the taste of candy by
moving it around our tongue. This makes our minds the workshop of Satan and
because of this decision to please ourselves it is impossible to quit sinning. When
the angels sinned having looked on the face of God on His throne, they had no
remedy. God created our present system where we are a little lower than the
angels and cannot look directly into the spiritual world. That gives us a time of
probation in which we might be in rebellion against God's plan and be able to
consciously meditate on our condition while the Holy Spirit convinces us we can
by believing and repenting elect to aspire to be part of the kingdom of God. God
helps us by convincing us of sin. Jesus said in John 16:7, "...if I go not away, the
Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go
not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him
unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they believe not on me; and
when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of
judgment:..." Contrary to the theories of the predestination of the nine points the
Holy Spirit is convicting everyone in the whole world of sin. Is not this working of
the Holy Spirit the revelation of God to every man? The sinful life flows from this
one overriding selfish decision behind all that we do. The mind is used in such a
way that we are continually in rebellion to our Creator and are by nature the
children of wrath. The teaching of the predestination of the nine points is that
man's nature was changed. That he now loves sin like a tiger thirsts for fresh
blood when he is hungry. That the only remedy is a miraculous change of the
fallen nature. The idea that our natures are changed and we cannot serve God,
once again is the subtle and blasphemous accusation against God. God is
accused of placing man in this fallen condition and only God can undo what He
did to man at the fall. Is it not a great sin to always be accusing the Creator by
these implications? The truth is that as the gospel light by the true preaching of
the Word pours into the mind of the person that is dedicated to gratify himself,
the Holy Spirit will call him to leave his selfishness and say with Jesus "not my
will but thine be done". As he is quickened by the hearing of the Word, as it is
brought to the mind by the Holy Spirit, he is powerfully moved and makes a
decision to surrender all to Jesus or to reject Him. It is the will of God that every
Creature must make this decision. It is the preparation for the action of God
toward him in the final judgement. Noah as well as every true believer must
preach to those about him, calling all men to repentance. The keys used by Peter
was the preaching of the gospel. Every believer who presents the gospel is using
the keys. If the hearer responds heaven is opened for him, if he refuses his
damnation is assured. The decision is on the part of every hearer. This free will
choice and responsibility of the hearers is illustrated in every parable of Jesus.
Jeremiah and Isaiah as well as we, were told to preach but were also advised
that the people on the whole would not hear. Not because it was God's fault, but
because they were lovers of self and loved to appear religious but would not give
their most inner thoughts to God. "By grace are you saved." It is grace that saves
us. Grace has been defined by those who believe in the predestination of the
nine points as an irresistible force that God uses to bring our will into subjection.
It teaches that we supposedly only think we are free, but that God has a secret
power that makes our will freely choose what he has foreseen from all eternity.
This is the nature of the secret power taught in the definition of the "Grace plus
nothing" persuasion. Because of their belief they define grace as an "unmerited
favor". The magic mysterious power theory of conversion was not defined or
investigated because they understood they as priests had the power to
administer grace by changing the wafer into Jesus and by their use of the magic
power the sinner was transformed by their baptism. They were blinded and
committed a great sin by putting themselves between man and God. Even
though the reformers came to be converted they never identified the evil of the
magic power theory. True believers point the sinner to go directly to Jesus who is
sitting on the right hand of the Father. This poor definition is based on the
medieval approach of the dark ages.
After preaching this definition of Grace for forty years I have found that this is a
beggarly partial definition that covers up the true definition. Grace is free, it
cannot be earned and no one can pay for his salvation. But the true definition of
Grace that saves can be found in the presence of the Spirit in our hearts. The
enmity we have with God is broken down as we surrender to the will of God in
complete repentance and come to Jesus who takes us before the Heavenly
Father and we receive forgiveness. We are quickened. vs. 5 Jesus ceases to be
an historical figure and becomes preciously present in our lives. As we continue
to carefully walk in brokenness or "poorness of spirit" and to restate our covenant
with Him, having determined to honor Him above all, and never permit our hearts
to become in rebellion to His will; we have his presence constantly with us. He
always gives us consolation in all hurts and persecutions. He gives us direction in
all of our problems as we wait on Him. He shows us the way as He is the way.
He guides us into all truth. He is our bread of life. He is the Vine and we receive
life flowing from Him in our constant communion. This abiding in Jesus is the true
definition of Grace. All are saved by it and no one can be saved and remain in
rebellion to any guidance of the Holy Spirit in our lives. If we resist we will wither
and be pruned off and dry up in our souls and be burned in Hell forever. This is
what is implied in the text, "...but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far
off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." No one can be saved by works but as
he comes to this place of full surrender he becomes an instrument of God, we
become: "... his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."
Repentance is not only being sorry for our sins but we come to God confessing
also our helplessness to follow Him. The Holy spirit makes us to understanding
that except God gives us the strength to do His will, we cannot fulfill his desires
for our lives. For this reason no one can be saved by works but only by walking in
the Spirit. Millions of Evangelicals are in Hell because "The soul that sinneth, it
shall die." They are there because they trusted in a mysterious power that was
the product of pagan, philosophical, intellectual, speculations proposed to make
them saved because they fulfilled the rituals of their congregation. And by it
supposedly proved they were part of the elect. And the elect must be saved
because it was ordained of God from all eternity. But they are putting their
confidence in several traditions and not going directly to the Father. It is a fatal
sin to have our confidence in any mediator but Jesus. They have not came and
received of the living water in full repentance. Exposing the definition of grace as
a mysterious power is what this book is all about. They are confiding in a
philosophical secret power theory that they are seated positionally with Christ in
heaven. "(by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us
sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus..." vs.6 This whole book is about
this point. The true Christian has come into an abiding with Christ where his Spirit
bears witness with our spirit that we are his child. True Christianity is abiding with
the person of Christ by which we are seated with him. False and eternally
damning doctrine implies setting forth the philosophical position which in essence
is the secret power theory. The impersonal position theory over against the
PERSON of Jesus abiding. Do you know Him personally? He himself is the way,
the truth, the life. When we know him personally are we not seated with Him?
This doctrine has been another false gospel, for it has not administered the true
gospel. The true gospel consists in the intimate relation of the person directly
with the Heavenly Father. I give you the true gospel. You must come directly to
the Father by the good offices of Jesus for yourself. You must remain in full
surrender to Him all of your life to be part of the redeemed. God's grace will
never fail as long as we remain wholly dedicated to Him. When we break our
covenant our lives are filled with a grieving that is given by the Holy Spirit. Our
position should be always before our Creator all life long in this attitude. (God I
am weak and unworthy and full of rebellion. Without your Spirit, I cannot go on,
without your forgiveness and your strength. Please forgive me and I will with your
help be faithful to death. True repentance is to live with this attitude toward our
Heavenly Father all our lives and for all eternity. No events or circumstances can
keep you from being saved if you keep this attitude before God. For the true
definition of grace is that abiding with us that comes with our full surrender which
brings His presence. If we persist in our rebellion to God there will come a time
when the Spirit will leave us alone and it will be impossible to restore us to
salvation as will be noted in the verses to come.)
Heb. 3:10-4:9 "Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do
alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my
wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) take heed, brethren, lest there be in any
of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one
another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the
deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the
beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; while it is said, To day if ye
will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when
they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned,
whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should
not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could
not enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left
us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto
us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not
profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have
believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall
enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the
world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God
did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this place again, If they shall
enter into my rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein,
and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: again,
he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is
said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had
given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There
remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." (The many warning passages in
the Bible are cast aside by the doctrine of those who hold the predestination of
the nine points. Here I would like to notice how that this scripture applies to the
Millions of Evangelicals who have gone to Hell. "... take heed, brethren, lest there
be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God..." The
mystery power of the predestination of the nine points is not a living but a static
entity in which nothing will ever change, and all is predetermined for all eternity.
In its essence it is the ultimate idol as big as the universe and as immutable as a
rock. That this doctrine is not true is again illustrated by the words of the text:
"...we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my
wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the
foundation of the world." It says that even though we were foreseen from the
foundation of the world do accomplish certain works for the kingdom of God as
were the Israelites, we will be cut off if we do not come into the rest of placing all
of our lives in full to surrender in the hands of God. Here the passage literally
says that they had works that were foreseen from the foundation of the world that
they were predestined to do, but because of their unbelief, God sentence them to
die in the wilderness. Multitudes of Evangelicals have been baptized and "saved"
according to mens terminology, but have never surrendered all of their will to
God and have never entered into the rest of placing all in the hands of their
Creator. Until you can explain this text you must change your doctrine about God
being above all time, and that all things have been predestinated, that all the
future acts of free moral agents have been known from all eternity. For it says
that their works were predestined from eternity but they were cut off because of
their unbelief. It is clear that God changed his plan. I write this because
multitudes have fallen into hell believing just this: that they were predestined from
the foundation of the world but because in their hearts they sinned they were
sent to Hell. This verse absolutely proves that this doctrine of predestination of
the nine points teaching that all things have been foreseen by God from all
eternity is false. If you wish to deny the teaching in this message, please start
with this verse and explain it according to your pagan theory. You must throw out
the Pagan definition of God or throw out the Bible. The Bible teaches and
Christians must believe that time is one of the attributes of God. That God is
bringing about the Creation and multiplication of his kingdom in his attribute of
time which could be defined as a succession of events. The pagan concept of
this predestination of the nine points was evolved by Satan to create the illusion
that his existence and his permanence in the air as a remnant of his destroyed
kingdom would be eternal. He taught this doctrine of metaphysics to the
rebellious priesthood by hallucinations produced by use of the toadstools in the
ritual bread. In their drugged ecstasy they were taught this doctrine of an
impersonal god of destiny. The Greek philosophers who originated this theory
about God understood that the highest wisdom was from these oracles that
opened men up to direct communication by visualization with Satan. It is the
universal secret religion of metaphysics that has been the root of all false
religions from the days of the Tower of Babel and is responsible for all of the
false doctrines and their fruits spoken of in Rev. 18:23-24 "for by thy sorceries
were all nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of
saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.) (See my book, The Poison
Root)
Hebrew 6:1-9 "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go
on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead
works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of
hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we
do, if God permit. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and
have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and
have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they
shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to
themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. For the earth
which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet
for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: but that which
beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to
be burned. But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that
accompany salvation, though we thus speak." (This warning text states that it is
impossible to be renewed to salvation after one has fallen away because they
have known the intimate walk with the Saviour. The doctrine of "once saved
always saved" is not compatible with this plain declaration of Scripture. We find
several situations. One is the person who has come to full surrender to his
Creator. He is religious and is an active participant with the congregation around
the philosophic fatalism associated with their interpretation of the scriptures but
notwithstanding walks in the spirit and is truly born again. I salute you as my
Christian brother or sister. Another believes himself to be saved because he has
dominated intellectually the philosophical structure by this strange use of the
scriptures, in which he believes he is seated with Christ even though in his
private life he is walking in the flesh. This person is part of the millions lost in hell
because he has never surrendered all to God and has never tasted of the Holy
Spirit that comes with the new birth and really knows nothing of the walk in the
spirit. Another situation is the one who has tasted and walked in full surrender
and in intimate fellowship with the Lord Jesus but has become too busy, because
of the riches, pleasures and the cares of life has lost the rule of God over his life
in some aspects, and the presence of the Spirit has slipped away and has
backslidden, walking in the flesh. There is still another situation where some of
these latter ones have backslidden to the point they have offended the Holy Spirit
until He has withdrawn from them, because of their denying Jesus and bring Him
to open shame. They are apostate and text tells us it is impossible to restore
them and they are lost forever. They have committed something like the sin of
the angels who having looked on the face of God and his glory and sinned they
have no plan of salvation. The poor preachers of Calvinism have struggled with
this plain text through the ages claiming that it had to be some Hebrew person
who was enlighten but had never really been saved to try to make their
philosophy of the predestination of the nine points match the Bible. They can do
this as our understanding has been darkened about the true definition of grace,
supposing it to be a magic power instead of the abiding or walking in the spirit as
expressed here by the words; "...those who were once enlightened, and have
tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have
tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come..." The writer
brings this warning to the attention of those who have fallen away but have not
yet openly and publicly blasphemed their experience they received from the Lord,
"...beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany
salvation, though we thus speak..." are called by this text to renew their
unreserved consecration to the Father and begin to walk in His grace anew
which is the abiding in the vine. )
I Peter 1:2-23 "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus
Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten
us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to
an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in
heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a
season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the
trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it
be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the
appearing of Jesus Christ: whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now
ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Of which
salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of
the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the
Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the
sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed,
that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now
reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy
Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the
grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient
children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your
ignorance: but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of
conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. And if ye call on the
Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work,
pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were
not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood
of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was
foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last
times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead,
and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have
purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of
the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which
liveth and abideth for ever." (We are the "elect" according to the foreknowledge
of God. God foresaw the reconciliation wrought to raise up a people for his
eternal kingdom as His reason for the Genesis creation. It is unbelievable
blindness that this text is used to teach that we are saved by a mystery power
that makes us saved, without walking in sanctification and obedience, as it so
clearly states. Teaching that we are once saved and always saved and that all of
our continuing sins have been before hand calculated and paid. The text is clear,
the elect will sanctify themselves and will be in unreserved obedience to God by
the power of the abiding made possible by the sacrifice of the blood of Jesus.
"...hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of
Jesus Christ; as obedient children..." The grace consisting in the abiding in our
hearts and bearing witness to our spirit will be brought to it's fruition when we see
our Lord face to face coming in the air, at which time we will be literally and
physically present with Him. This can only be possible if we have no rebellion in
our hearts toward God on anything. Otherwise to look on his face will bring
devastating condemnation for "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." If we are not in
full surrender we will be as those at the sixth seal in Revelation 6: "And the kings
of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the
mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the
dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall
on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the
wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able
to stand?"
This message is written out of love for your soul, "Seeing ye have purified your
souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren,
see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently..." I realize that it is
necessary to announce to all in the congregations that whosoever will might
sanctify themselves. However it has been the experience from the Bible and life
it's self that only a remnant will respond to the voice of God that goes with this
message. You are to be a light and testimony where you are. This is not a call to
start some movement or organization. The election and foreknowledge spoken of
here is about the plan being predestinated and foreordained not the individuals.
They are those who have repented and responded to the gospel in full obedience
and sanctification. We notice again that the confidence in the definitions of the
predestination of the nine points is another false gospel.)
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment;
and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name
before my Father, and before his angels. Rev. 22:19 "And if any man shall take
away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part
out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are
written in this book." (These verses plainly teach that God blots names out of the
book of life. If God knew all things from all eternity, why did He write the names
down in the first place? This is totally opposed to the myth of the predestination
of the nine points and proves that they are pagan speculations and not to be
tolerated even though all of our seminaries and theologians have taught it. To not
deal or give an answer to this one verse, makes all of the other comments that
may be made in defense of the predestination of the nine points definition of
things, foolish and useless. Where is the theology that has taken up these
various scriptures and answered them? All of the writings of Luther, the
Institutions of Calvin, the Suma of Thomas Aquinas, the many volumes of
Augustine who have founded their doctrine on the pagan unscriptural definition of
the pagan god of destiny of this pagan definition of the predestination of the nine
points have never taken up these scriptures. Let those who wish to hold forth
those definitions begin by explaining how this concept of "blotting out" fits into
their view of the scriptures. How could I dare to warn of these evil definitions
while ignoring the scriptures used to support them? Have not I taken up the
scriptures that have been used to set forth the predestination of the nine points. It
is foolishness to try to defend the pagan doctrine of predestination if you do not
begin by explaining these points. If you have no answer you must begin by
defaming my character or my preparation, or my grammar. Be warned: God blots
names out of the book of life "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Anyone who is
found to be holding on to something in rebellion against God when he dies and
goes to meet his Creator, will be cast into hell as an unfruitful servant unfit for the
Kingdom of Heaven.)
Revelation 6:9-11 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar
the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which
they held: and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and
true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them,
that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their
brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. (It is my
understanding that the Martyrs obeyed God until death. Jesus tells us in Math.
10:36-39 "...a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth
father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or
daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and
followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he
that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." These martyrs all died and arrived at
the throne of God by surrendering their lives unreservedly to God just as you and
I must do. If it is God's will that I die a Martyr with God's help I am willing to do
so. The Martyrs were foreknown by God and written in the Book of Life but some
were and will be blotted out as unworthy, while others not foreseen but being of
those who answered the "Whosoever" of the gospel will be arriving among them.
The text says that the judgement of the world will be held off by the Father until
the last precious one is slain then God will turn the world into his winepress of
wrath. Can you see why we must be fully surrendered to God to be saved. Saved
by his Grace that precious coming into our hearts of his presence.)
Revelation 7:13-15 "And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are
these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto
him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of
great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood
of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and
night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. And
the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of
her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of
Jesus Christ." (Men have understood that the Jewish people would be saved
without Jesus but this verse says that they which will be saved have put
themselves in full obedience by faith in Jesus. We too to be saved must do the
same.)
Revelation 13:1-7 "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up
out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw
was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as
the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great
authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his
deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they
worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped
the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies;
and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened
his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his
tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make
war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all
kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 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." (As I examined the scriptures I thought that
perhaps God had written everyone's name in the Book of Life from the foundation
of the world: however here we see that God has written only certain ones and
some of them are blotted out and some enter in who respond unexpectedly to the
whosoever in the invitation of Jesus. This all contradicts the definition of God
according to the predestination of the nine points we have under examination.)
Revelation 14:9-13 "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,
If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his
forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall
be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in
the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever
and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his
image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the patience of
the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of
Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may
rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. (The blessed who die in
the Lord are only those who keep his commandments by faith in Jesus, thus are
saved by the grace of his presence in their hearts. Those who are confiding in
being saved because of a legal act at the foundation of the world but continue in
sin have no place in the Kingdom of God for the Bible says, "The soul that
sinneth, it shall die".)
Revelation 17:3-17 "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I
saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy,
having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and
scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a
golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and
upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I
saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the
martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. And the
angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of
the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and
ten horns. 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. And here
is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which
the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the
other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And
the beast that was, and is not, 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." (This chapter is about the city that reigns over the kings of the earth. The
only city which reigneth over the kingdoms of the world is Rome. The doctrine is
known as sorcery for "...by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. And in her
was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the
earth." Rev. 18:23-24. Out of this system came the Reformation. But how can
you reform sorcery to make it Christian? What is sorcery? It is the belief in laws
that control spiritual forces, which in turn control the physical world through the
power inherent in spoken words, this is the essence of sorcery. The reformation
denied the accepted Catholic doctrine that if the priest follows all of the formulas
and Jesus is forced to become the wafer in the mass. We have however kept this
other part of their same metaphysical doctrine which teaches that the irresistible
magic power saves us and makes men only think that they are free. Teaching
that in their supposedly free acts they are secretly controlled by God to fulfill their
destiny even when they think they are acting freely. This is the root of the
"irresistible grace" taught by the men at Dort with the predestination of the nine
point position that we have under consideration. Those who are taken in by this
doctrine according to the text do so because "...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," This doctrine of the magic power that saves but does
not give power to leave off sinning and come into the rest of complete obedience
to God is not a little wrong. It will condemn all who continue in sin. "The soul that
sinneth, it shall die".)
Revelation 19:7-10 "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the
marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her
was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine
linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are
they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto
me, These are the true sayings of God. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And
he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren
that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the
spirit of prophecy. 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." (As this text speaks of the marriage supper we
remember the parable of Jesus. Luke 14:15-27 "...And when one of them that sat
at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall
eat bread in the kingdom of God. Then said he unto him, a certain man made a
great supper, and bade many: and sent his servant at supper time to say to them
that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. And they all with one
consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of
ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. And
another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee
have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I
cannot come. So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the
master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the
streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and
the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast
commanded, and yet there is room. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out
into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may
be filled. For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall
taste of my supper. And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and
said unto them, if any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and
wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he
cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after
me, cannot be my disciple." We notice that the elect in the marriage supper were
not fixed from eternity. In this parable in Math 22:11 "...And when the king came
in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding
garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him
hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall
be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen." We
see that it is necessary to leave off sin and put on the wedding garment to be
part of the elect. All of these texts are incompatible with the predestination of the
nine points definition of God.)
Revelation 20-22 "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and
hell delivered up the dead which were in them: ...and they were judged every
man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life
was cast into the lake of fire. ...And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle
of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and
God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 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 the former things are passed
away. 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. And he said unto
me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto
him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh
shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the
fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in
the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
And there came unto me one of the seven angels ... shewed me that great city,
the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, ... And I saw no temple
therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city
had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God
did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. ... And there shall in no wise enter
into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh
a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. And he shewed me a
pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river,
was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit
every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And
there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in
it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name
shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no
candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall
reign for ever and ever. And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true:
and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants
the things which must shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that
keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. ... for the time is at hand. He
that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still:
and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be
holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every
man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and
the end, the first and the last. ...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. I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the
churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning
star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come.
And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life
freely." (Have we not done well to began to understand about God from the
creation of Adam and how He has revealed Himself to us through the whole
Bible? Now we have arrived at the end of the revelation of our precious God. We
see that He in no way resembles the God defined by pagan philosophy. His goal
has been revealed to have himself in all of his glory dwelling with those who have
freely chosen to abide with Him. They have had to arrive by trusting in His Spirit
and power, not their own. The are bearing his testimony in their spirit as they
have suffered the reproach of the wave of rebellious men with which they have
lived. We see that God receives them as they have surrendered their lives
unconditionally to Him. He promises them that he will dwell with them. He is not a
strange magic power or presence but a person. He always has and will continue
to dwell in time. For it says that the trees on the side of the river bear fruit each
month. There will be a time when the redeemed will have been before the throne
a million years, as the trees keep giving fruit, governing in the unmentioned
extensions of the ever expanding eternal kingdom. These final pictures at the
closing of the Scriptures mentions time as a part of the concept of God, not as
God being above time as in the nine points of the pagan definition. In Ps. 90:2
"Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth
and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou [art] God." The Hebrew
Word 'ol‹m and the Greek word ai›nios, usually translated "everlasting" or
"eternal" mean "age-lasting" and denote an endless time (cf. the phrase "day and
night for ever and ever." in Rev. 20:10 of being the "beginning and the end, the
first and the last". The new testament phrase for eternity is literally "unto the ages
of the ages" (ani›nas t›n ai›n›n) places time as part of the reality that God uses to
define Himself. No hint is given in the scriptures that God is manipulating the free
will of man by a strange power but that the call is given to whosoever will as for
example, "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say,
Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the
water of life freely. This is the revelation of the God of the Bible.)
The illustration of how wrong we have been, is the reaction that comes from an
examination of this doctrine. The objection immediately comes to mind that the
scriptures cannot really mean what they say in regards to the many times that
God has appeared to man in the revelation of himself to us.
This tendency to reject the plain and clear declarations of the scriptures is a
warning sign that our concepts about God are wrong. Do you really believe that
God spoke to Abraham about Sodom? Do really believe that he was sincere in
offering to cancel the destruction if more righteous could be found? Do you really
believe that God appeared and spoke to Adam and Eve? If you do not, then you
must admit that you have strayed into heresy. This heresy is rooted in a
supposed superior understanding. A 15 letter word has been coined about God's
appearing to man in a visible form called "anthropomorphism" which you can use
to demonstrate your superiority. Why would anyone want to confuse anyone's
mind with such a new word in their vocabulary? Anthropomorphism- the
ascription of human form And other human qualities to God. You say, " he was
using the anthropomorphisms to understand God". Why are not the words of the
Scriptures sufficient to understand and explain them? These pagan-christians
always come away from any discussion with a feeling of pity for the one who is
contending for the Bible meaning exactly what it says. They are sunk in unbelief.
They believe any part of the Bible that doesn't fit their pagan concepts about God
to be speaking metaphorically. They understand that their superior knowledge of
God makes Him a transcendent and unknowable being and all descriptions of
Him were to be understood metaphorically.
They feel if you could have just read all the books and have heard all of the
lectures that they have heard you could come up to their level of understanding.
Taking this position of superiority is the lifting up in pride that will cost the soul of
any of those who do it. With this attitude towards God it is clear why you do not
have the power to be freed from sin. Those who do not take literally these
accounts of God revealing himself through the Scriptures have no true faith and
are in essence heathen or pagan. Each one who comes humbly in repentance
and faith to God by Jesus receives a personal revelation of God in his heart. It is
called the "new birth" and the witness of the Holy Spirit. To deny that these
scriptures are literal, proves that the person has not been born again.
According to this predestination of the nine point secret will theory, Jesus knew
exactly all who were going to follow him from all eternity. But when you hold this
doctrine you are insisting that when God repented that he had made man and
when Jesus as he lamented, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the
prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have
gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her
wings, and ye would not!" foreknew from all eternity that they were not going to
repent.
Is God playing games with us? Was Jesus really tempted? Can just anyone be
saved? Was Jerusalem foreordained to reject Jesus? Did Jesus not know this?
Was his weeping over Jerusalem only an act, a performance in as much as he
knew the results before the foundation of the world?
When we get to the bottom of this doctrine, we see Satan making every one who
believes these doctrinal concepts becoming accusers of God by implying that:
Jesus was being a hypocrite when he spoke of "whosoever will may come." He
was just stage acting when he wept over Jerusalem. This whole concept comes
out of Greek paganism, the poison root.. Possibly everyone who reads this will
say I do not believe in carrying this doctrine to such an extreme. I hold that Jesus
died for all. We have many as Arminius who want to find a more moderate
position by softening the most obnoxious aspects of this doctrine. To please God
we must not only throw out the most repugnant aspects. We must recognize that
we dare not look for a diplomatic middle road as do the Arminians but must go
back to the Bible and reject all the implications of Satan in the doctrine. Strange
that some have written me and said that they do not want to comment on my
time warn Arminian arguments. to my knowledge I have never read anything that
sets forth the bulk of the arguments in this work. Those who write me this object
to the limited atonement and so are Arminian to a degree. He as they could not
agree with the terrible implications of fatalism of the predestination of the nine
points but they say that they are convince his arguments are time worn and not
to be reviewed. We must reject Arminism as fraternizing with this poison false
doctrine of fatalism and eradicate all of it's contradictions with the Bible out of our
hearts.
This "secret will" theory is added to Christianity subtly by replacing Jehovah with
the god of destiny, it breaks the first commandment. We have placed another
god before Almighty God. The doctrine that God is above time is a subterfuge of
Satan. The scriptures all speak of God as the beginning and the end, the Eternal
One. The unfolding of events is shared by man and God as part of His reality. To
deny this is to deny the veracity of the Scriptures. Nothing of this "time problem"
is mentioned nor envisioned by the scriptures nor the early apostles. We are
founded on the apostles, prophets, and Jesus as the chief corner stone. True
Christians are not founded on pagan philosophy. Jesus said that when we have
seen him we have seen the Father. He never spoke of God being above time. To
make God into a monster, as the definition of the nine points has done, is to
charge Jesus as misleading us with his teachings. It has resulted in great and
impressive temples built on the style of the pagan Greeks, filled with multitudes
who do not live obedient to God. When a man walks in disobedience to God; he
is not a part of the true church. Out of love for your soul I repeat, The soul that
sinneth it shall die and you will fall into hell if you do not repent.
Can you begin to see the great falling away of the last days that is spoken of II
Thes. 2.3 that is over all of the world. We have radio preaching the gospel to the
whole world but what gospel is it? Is it not this fatal brew that makes a monster
out of God and mixes pagan philosophy with the Bible? If it is selling the
personality of the preacher which makes it necessary to not preach the hard
claims of denying ones self and totally surrendering it cannot bring men into the
joy unspeakable an full of glory of the Holy Ghost dwelling in the heart. It is
making an evangelical but not a Christian.
The problem could be summarized as, Do you believe God can change his
mind? If you insist that this is impossible, that God knows all things from all
eternity according to the nine points, you must not accuse me of false doctrine,
for you are contradicting the Scriptures and making a monster out of God. Your
god is closed into never being able to have a new thought. It is the maximum
expression of an idol of stone. You are worshiping a false god of pagan
philosophy. Let us not blame anyone in our generation. This was accomplish as
Plato declared the foundation of the metaphysical mysteries of the Secret
Priesthood and the philosophical seeds were spread in the conquest of the world
by Alexander the Great three hundred years before Jesus was born. His teacher
was Aristotle the student of Plato. This teaching had penetrated all of the Roman
Empire, Augustine thought to make Christianity the religion of the empire by
combining the concept of the god of the pagan thinkers with the God of the Bible.
If this concept of God did not come from the Bible where did it come from? It
came from Greek Philosophy. It is expressed in the works of Aristotle who lived
three hundred and eighty years before Jesus.
In the Metaphysics XII as well as Physics VIII Aristotle deals with the idea of the
unmoved-mover, that everything is moved by something else. This declaration
denies free will. Things on earth are moved by things in the highest heaven
where somewhere there is the prime mover. A mover that is not moved by
anything else but moves the other things must be eternal. He says that there is a
hierarchy of movements leading up to this immovable-mover. He says that God
is the creator of the order of the world, but not the being of the world which is
eternal and above or out of reach of divine creation. He says that the superiority
of God consists only in the perfection of his life not in his essence since every
being is not more or less a being. (These ideas developed out of the ancient
Greek concept of the spiritual consultation of demons or familiar spirits, are the
irrational proposals and blasphemies that all things that happen are the
responsibility of God.) He teaches that the soul only thinks it is free to choose
that all our actions are caused by god. He says in Edumian Ethics, Book 7
#1248a25 "The object of our search is this - what is the commencement of
movement in the soul? The answer is clear: as in the universe, so in the soul, it is
god. For in a sense the divine element in us moves everything. The starting point
of reasoning is not reasoning but something greater. What, then, could be
greater even than knowledge and intellect but God?" The root of this concept
cannot be found in the Bible but in pagan philosophy. The texts that mention
foreknowledge, foreordained, predestined, before the foundation of the world,
chosen are used to substantiate this pagan philosophical concept that God
moves the will of man when the Bible teaches the opposite, it teaches whosoever
will.
Socrates taught that no one knew anything for sure. The man who knew that he
"knew nothing" for sure was superior to the man who "knew nothing" but did not
know that he knew nothing. These teachings again should be noted in the
resistance to the preaching of the Christian gospel, for this proud person who is
rooted in this system of error, known as the superior classic education, is
completely unwilling or unable to accept the authority of the promises of the
Word of God, in a way, that would allow them to respond in faith. They are
suspicious of all conversation, and even practice the use of words to give a false
idea, and therefore have a great immunity to the preaching of the gospel, feeling
that it is some one of low class if he believes something with sincere conviction,
and it is therefore beneath their serious consideration. This is why Paul
comments that not many aristocrats are saved, "For ye see your calling,
brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many
noble, are called..." I Cor. 1:26.
The Bibles says that "the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God." This presumes
that God is knowable, God is active, God is a person, God is supreme, God is
just, and God is Holy. It is obvious that the consulting of occult spirits or demons,
and knowing and worshiping the supreme Jehovah are two irreconcilable
systems. As in the days of Joshua chapter 24: "Now therefore fear the Lord, and
serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers
served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord... Now
therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline
your heart unto the Lord God of Israel." Did not the gods of Greek Philosophy
come from the other side of the flood, the myths being founded in the giants sired
by angels? Gen. 6:4 Still we who are called evangelicals are permeated by their
pollutions today through the subtlety of Satan. Where did this doctrine originate?
I understand that the concepts were taught by the secret pagan priesthood and
Plato only revealed some of them. That priesthood learned them by the secret
rituals which culminated in the eating of toadstools in bread. God given protection
against their invading of the mind was broke down in their intoxication and they
came face to face with the demons who wished to teach that they were real and
by this doctrine cover up their inevitable judgement and doom. I have written all
of this down in the book. "The Poison Root."
The doctrine of "Grace plus nothing" has another subterfuge from pagan
philosophy. It talks about being "seated positionally with Christ" in heavenly
places. My body sins every day but my soul is saved and seated with Christ
because of the magic work that was done when He paid for all of my sins, past,
present, and future. This was the understanding of the philosophers. Your soul is
uncontaminated and eternal. Your body is corrupt. It is an enemy of your soul
and it must be mistreated to better allow one to see the invisible spiritual realm.
Some of this persuasion love to dwell on long bouts of fasting and pray based not
on trying to mortify the body for these pagan reasons. While fasting and prayer
are necessary and scriptural the Bible teaches that we are to think soberly or
cordially of the body. Rom. 12:3 The pagan philosopher used his slaves for sex
but so long as he showed no emotion toward them he thought his soul was
uncontaminated. Today, since the doctrine is that everyone sins all the time in
the churches, we have this reassurance preached from the pulpit. We are
positionally seen to be with Christ from all eternity, past present, and future. It is
your body which sins but your soul is saved. Jesus never made this distinction.
He said in Luke 6:43-49 "For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither
doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 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. And why call
ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me,
and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like. He
is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a
rock:..." This is an illustration of the importance of this message and the error of
the pagan approach to the gospel in the "Grace plus nothing" doctrine which has
been the damnation of millions. We are positionally seated with Christ when we
have repented and by God's help removed rebellion and all things that might
offend our Lord and his presence is felt in our hearts. In other words when we are
in Grace, we are positionally with Him. It is A false gospel for the Bible teachers
to teach that you cannot quit sinning, but you are saved anyway, because of God
choosing you from the foundation of the world, because of their speculation that
God is above time, and you are seated with Christ in heaven. It is an exercise in
pagan philosophy which they are preaching. Satan does not oppose this doctrine
for it is his very own and there are many times huge crowds, in buildings built on
the fashion of the ancient pagan temples, hearing worldly wise messages based
on the principals of pagan philosophy mixed with the Bible and speaking about
the scriptures. Century after century they have bewitched millions of evangelicals
into Hell.
Mixing with all of the other teaching and studies in the universities and Bible
Schools there is placed as the foundation that God is a transcendent and
unknowable being who is above time and that all descriptions of Him in the Bible
are to be understood metaphorically. This doctrine breaks the first commandment
and has replaced the God of the Bible with the god of the pagan philosophers.
The penalty for this under the law was death. Deut. 17.2-5 6:15 "Take heed unto
yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, ...For the LORD
thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. (For the LORD thy God is a
jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against
thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. ...Ye shall not tempt the
LORD your God..."
The "whosoever call" of God to you has been derailed by this false doctrine if you
have supposedly come to God and continued on with your reservations to full
surrender and are sinning every day. Do you curse when you get angry? Do you
fornicate when you are where no one will know? Do you lie? Do you have as
your prerogative to live on the highest scale possible and not deny yourself
anything? Are you dishonest in little or great things? Do you have your fellowship
limited to only those who believe exactly like you do? One who walks with the
spirit will be unable to participate in these things as the Spirit will trouble him and
eventually depart from him if he continues to walk in rebellion.
This message has been preached by many who have never repented and those
who has not repented cannot preach repentance. To them it seems that if they
preach that a man must deny himself and lose his life to be saved it will offend
their listeners and run off the congregation. They have preached and given
invitations to just receive Jesus. The churches are full of people who have never
really repented and ministers who are in the same condition. It is the great falling
away. The true church is the Holy Nation spoken of by Peter, and the Holy Seed
spoken of by God to Isaiah and those few who are really converted and walking
in the spirit are found giving light in the congregations everywhere. These who
walk in the spirit are all the true church and they have fellowship wherever they
encounter each other even though it is quite proper that they have doctrinal
differences. I salute you as my brother or sister if you know Jesus and walk in the
Spirit. The prayer of Jesus has always been answered of John 17:13 as He has
made us all one holy nation wherever we are or in whatever congregation or
even whatever century. "...and now come I to thee; and these things I speak in
the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them
thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world,
but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As
thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through
the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on
me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I
in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast
sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may
be one, even as we are one..." I ask you to do as the Lord leads with this
message. Our unity does not depend on agreement in all things but on the Spirit
of God that abides in us which leads us to fervently examine, rebuke, exhort and
encourage one another as true bond slaves of Jesus.
Thankfully there are men and women who have come to God with their whole
hearts. Their teaching may have been wrong but they walk by the spirit for they
came in true repentance and have received the Holy Spirit. They are sprinkled
throughout the congregations. They are even persecuted by the members
around them who have confided in the philosophical presentation that they have
received but never came to full surrender and never understood the walk in the
Spirit. This message will be welcome light to them. The others who are
awakened somewhat by this message will react just like one from a deep sleep
and be angry and discounted with it. Until we have our hearts greatly disturbed
by the truth we can never be saved.
What Repentance Is
By means of the gospel that is administrated by the Holy Spirit to our hearts, we
are convinced of the love of God for us, by the same token we recognize our
rebellion against our Creator and his direction. The Holy Spirit allows us to see
that all of our activities and attitudes are wrongly directed and it is impossible for
us to turn them around. When we repent we must come to God without pretense,
convinced that in ourselves there is no solution nor salvation. We make a
covenant with God the Father by means of his son Jesus Christ that if he will
pardon our sins and will gives us the strength and power to leave our sinful ways,
we will serve him with all of our heart even to give up our lives as a martyr for him
if it is necessary. Everyone who comes to God in this way determining to
continue with this attitude of full dependence all the rest of their lives will receive
from God sufficient strength to do the will of God in all things and are given a
testimony in their hearts that their sins have been forgiven by the death of Jesus
on the Cross. The covenant we make unreservedly in full surrender is repeated
and renewed constantly as long as we live. Each time we do so we receive the
reassurance of our salvation as God witnesses to our spirit. In this way we walk
in the ways of God, we walk in the spirit. When we offend God in anything we
immediately remake and renew our covenant. We pray, Jesus I remind you again
that I am full of my own way and ask your forgiveness. Help me to never fall into
this error again. I can only serve you as you take my rebellion away from me.
Jesus saves everyone on the spot who come to him trusting only in the work of
Jesus on the cross, realizing that nothing he can do will save him. He baptizes us
with the Holy Spirit who gives us encouragement in our hearts as Jesus abides at
the right hand of the Father always interceding for us day and night until God
takes us to our heavenly home in glory.
Hebrews 10 "For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of
the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking
for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that
despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: of how
much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath
trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant,
wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the
Spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I
will recompense, saith the Lord." And again, "The Lord shall judge his people. It
is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."
Post Script: Having dispersed more than 60 manuscripts to various dear friends
and leaving copies at the most prestigious seminaries, I have received few
replies in these following months. None have taken up the task of harmonizing
the scriptures that the theologians have left out of their schemes. No one has
attempted to contradict the heavy points that have been made: that chapter
seven in the context of the Book of Romans it can not teach that Christians sin
everyday. That Christians sin everyday from the context of I John 1:8 cannot
mean that those who testify to victory over sin is a liar and the truth is not in him
is in accord with all the rest of the book of 1st John. Not one has dealt with the
fact of God blotting out names out of the Book of Life.
No one has written to defend the position of the 5 points of the Synod of Dorts.
All have wanted to differ somewhat from them, thus identifying themselves with
the position of Arminian doctrine. Yet I have received the somewhat illogical reply
from several declaring that they are in disagreement with my time-warn Arminian
arguments and they do not wish to go into it. While I have declared that the
acceptance in any form of the definition of God according to the pagans which
are represented in the nine points makes us break the first commandment. I have
declared that the halfway positions of Arminian must be abandoned as well, to
not be breaking the First Commandment.
The pagan god of destiny that is represented by this mysterious irresistible power
theory of salvation is not just a mistaken concept. It is the subtle worship of Satan
in the name of God. True Christianity is the indwelling communion with the
person of the resurrected Jesus. When we shudder to think of God as not
knowing all things in the future, it is because we esteem and believe in the pagan
god of destiny instead of in the God taught to us in the many scriptures that I
have noted in this book. All of the power of the lust of the flesh, lust of the eye,
and the pride of life is working in everyone who has not repented and come to
"walk by the Spirit". If one reads about God speaking personally with Abraham
and walking with him towards Sodom and believes it is just an analogy, one must
realize that they are worshiping the wrong God. If they believe God is a power
without hands eyes etc. they are worshiping another God. Jesus preached the
God of Abraham. If we speak only in theological terms instead of Bible texts we
have unwittingly become philosophers defending with rhetorical phrases instead
of servants of the most High God by using the power of the Scriptures. This is a
call to repentance and to unquestioned obedience of the Word of God.
Most men will not hear but will only repent when it is too late as they hear the
words "Depart from me for I never knew you." Such is the great falling away in
the last days. May you dear reader be one of the "few" chosen.
Wayne Searfoss
956 781 2361
Box 638, Alamo,
TX 78516-0638
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