Memory Text: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations…Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you…”

Matt.28:19,20

1. If the simple commands of Jesus Christ are disregarded

    will that lead to greater disobedience to the Gospel of

    salvation?

Luke 16:10-15  He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and _____  _______  ____  _________  ____  ______  __________  ____  __________  ________  ____  _______. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?  No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve GOD and mammon. And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided Him. And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but GOD knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed before men is abomination in the sight of GOD."

         One wrong step usually leads to another.  And the steps men take that lead them into sin are rarely retraced.  “And sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” Ja.1:15.

2. Are Catholic and Protestant churches united in defiance

     against the Ten Commandments of Jesus Christ?

Luke 4:16  And He [Jesus] came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up: and, ____  ______  ___________  ______, He went into the synagogue ____  ______  ___________  ______ and stood up for to read.

I John 2:6  He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, _______  ____  _____  ___________.  

         Christ kept holy the seventh-day Sabbath “according to the commandment.”  And the church is called to “walk even as He walked.”  And yet, there exists a selfish pick-and-choose obedience that denies Christ's admonition, “but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments” (Matt.19:17).  Nevertheless, the church evangelizes Sunday sacredness as obedient to GOD’S commandments when the Bible gives no sanction to transfer the Holy Sabbath to the pagan Sunday.  Not one verse allows the tampering with the Holy Law Christ obeyed unto death.  Of Christ it was prophesied, “he will magnify the law, and make it honourable” (Isa.42:21).

3. Why is the issue over Sabbath keeping so important?

Luke 16:17  And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than _____  __________  ____  ______  ______  ____  ________.

John 8:58  Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, ___  _____.

         Jesus gave to the world the Ten Commandments.  The Bible teaches that “All things were made by him” (Jn.1:3) in accordance with His Father’s will (Jn.17:4).  The leading attribute of “the LORD,” Who became “the Christ,” is that of “Creator.”  Over 800 verses in the Bible verify this.  And there is only one Commandment that honors Jesus as the Creator: the 4^th Commandment.

            The Roman church has sinned against the 4^th Commandment for nearly eighteen centuries.  But the “seventh day…sabbath” is the one Commandment where GOD’S promise of salvation is validated.  As GOD enters the Sabbath hours He enters a time of solemn rest.  He knows that He has provided everything that will meet the needs of His children forever.  This is the essence of Christ’s words when He said, “the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath” (Mk.2:27).  And when Satan brought his rebellion to Earth, stole the dominion of this world and assaulted the tranquility of life, GOD inaugurated the plan of salvation to save His children; and this in turn preserved the sanctity of GOD’S Rest.  Through the “sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ” “for the remission of sins” the joyful rest of the seventh day was preserved (I Pet.1:2; Matt.26:28).  And we enter this rest knowing that the joy and tranquility that was lost through sin will one day be restored. 

Keeping holy the Sabbath day is a declaration of faith in Jesus to fulfill all that He has said He will do, as it is written, “Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.” Ex.31:13.  Jesus confirmed Himself as the Source of our sanctification: “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you… for without me ye can do nothing.” Jn.15:3-5.  The Sabbath is therefore “the seal of God” (Rev.7:1-3), which is both His guaranty to us to meet our every need and our seal of faith in GOD for salvation “by Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom.5:21).

4. Will the Seventh-day Sabbath be honored in “the new

earth?”

Isaiah 66:22,23  For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. [v.23] And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from _____  ____________  ____  ____________, shall _____ flesh come _____  ____________ before me, saith the LORD.

         Through all eternity, intelligent beings will enter the Holy Rest of GOD: to rest in His joy of providing, securing, and fulfilling every essential need and lofty goal of His children. And GOD’S desire for His children is very simple as Jesus said: “That your joy might be full.” Jn.15:11.  From Eternity Past, Christ’s words have always stood as the Father’s purpose for His children.

5. In spite of the evidence overturning our religious leaders’

     views that stand rebuked before the Love and Law of

     Jesus Christ, what is the leading reason that Christians

     continue in the snares of sin?

1. Samuel 8:4,5  Then _____  _____  _________  ____  _________ gathered themselves together and came to Samuel unto Ramah, [v.5] And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: _____  ________  _____  ____  __________  ____  ___________  ____ like all the nations.

         When the responsibility for our salvation is placed in the hands of another, we become a party to all decisions made under their rule.  This includes our elected government as well as our religious leaders.  The danger lies in the sins they commit.  Throughout the centuries when the various popes gave their consent to the murder of an estimated fifty million people, everyone who was directly associated with these crimes was guilty of sin.  Just in the last one hundred years look what Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin did.  In a few short years they led their nations to become complicit in murdering nearly one hundred million people.

6. What is GOD'S response to anyone who chooses to have

     men rather than GOD to lead them?

1. Samuel 8:7  And the LORD said unto Samuel, ___________ unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but _______  _______  ____________  _____ that I should not reign over them.

         Freewill lies at the heart of GOD'S gift to life.  One's freedom to choose, GOD will never remove.  Our greatest gift next to life is the joy we have in the freedom of choice.  It is the means through which GOD strives to win the hearts of His children as the Apostle Paul declared our freedom “in Christ” to choose salvation: “Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.” “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give, not grudgingly, or of necessity: for GOD loveth a cheerful giver.” Rom.14:5; II Cor.9:7.

7. In this issue of people’s blind trust what repeated

    warning does GOD call our attention to?

Psalm 146:3  Put not your trust in ____________, ______  ____  ______  ______  ____  ______, in whom there is ____  _________.

         In spite of this counsel, America’s religious leaders declare their allegiance is to the pope.  Jerry Falwell said that Pope John Paul II “is the best hope we Baptists ever had.”  Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, and other leading churchmen have concurred with this alliance.  Why is the pope so highly revered by Christians when the Bible warns everyone to never entrust their salvation to any sinful man, let alone one whose religion intends to perpetuate sin forever?  Three reasons explain the dangers from man’s love of power, pride and tradition:

1. Said the LORD, “They have rejected Me that I should not   reign over them.” I Sam.8:7.

2. “They received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.” II Thess.2:10. 

        3. When they fail in their responsibility they have someone else to

        blame. Gen.3:12,13.

8. Whose word will ultimately be vindicated, GOD'S or

     man's?

Jeremiah 44:28  Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, ________  ________  _________  _________  ________  __________, ________,  ____  __________.

Romans 3:3,4  For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? [v.4] God forbid: yea, _____  ______  ____  _______, ______  _________  ______  ___  _______; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

         Once Satan secured the Roman church's defiance to the Bible’s conditions of Christ’s salvation, he was free to bring in all manner of “seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils” (I Tim.4:1).  This in turn has created a coalition among the world’s religions to join his rebellion against Christ and the holiness of His Law.  This is the same spirit of rebellion that existed in the days of our father Noah.  That ancient civilization claimed to be righteous, as did the Jews in Christ’s day and our religious leaders do today.  They also claimed obedience to GOD, just as the Jews of Christ’s day and our leaders do today.  But they reached a point, as will our leaders today where GOD will say, “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Gen.6:5.  In the days leading up to the flood, Satan had full control over those who had chosen to never repent. 

         To trust your salvation into the hands of another when historically that trust has been continually betrayed places your salvation in jeopardy along with those you care for and love.  In the days of our father Noah, before the Earth was flooded with water, the government leaders, priests, and the common man were all sincere in what they believed.  The message of our father Noah was as clear then as it is today: Repent from every known sin.  For one hundred and twenty years they heard this message from Noah (Gen.6:3).  The sound of every falling tree, every strike of his axe, every pounding of his hammer in building the ark was a sermon!  Even Enoch, “the seventh from Adam,” a man who “walked with GOD” [as did Noah (Gen.6:9)] was publicly witnessed to be taken up to heaven [as was the prophet Elijah in later centuries (Gen.5:24; II Ki.2:1-15)].  Enoch’s translation to Glory was a testimony heralded throughout the Antediluvian civilization appealing to all men to turn from sin; for the reward of eternal life given to Enoch was promised to be given to all men if they would truly serve one another’s wellbeing through obedience to GOD’S Holy Law.  

         There is a very simple lesson in this: Friends who disobey GOD’S Law are not your friends.  Governments that disobey GOD’S Law are unfit to govern anyone.  And religious men who likewise disobey do not serve GOD regardless of the mingling of their good works while baptizing souls into living a life of sin (Matt.12:50).

9. Are miracles of satanic origin seen in evangelical and

     charismatic churches to embolden men in sin?

I Corinthians 14:27,28  If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that by course; and _____  _____  ____________.  But ____  __________  ____  ____  ________________ let him ________  ____________ in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

The book of Revelation describes in detail the unholy union of Christianity to spiritualism and witchcraft (Rev.16:13), and how this union is sweeping multitudes of Christians away from GOD, leading them to invite “seducing spirits and doctrines of devils” into their souls (I Tim.4:1).  There are many miracles employed by Satan to lure GOD'S dear children away from the plain “Thus saith the LORD.”  Many of these displays of miraculous power stand very close to the guidelines of Scripture.  Jesus warned His disciples of how these “subtil” alterations of true doctrine threaten to “deceive the very elect” (Gen.3:1; Matt.24:24).

The miracles Satan uses to deceive the churches are today's charismatic displays of “tongues,” “slain in the spirit,” and “the word of knowledge.”  While there are Bible obedient displays of GOD’S “spiritual gifts” as we will see, Satan has led churchmen to ignore the Bible’s critical guidelines for these gifts.  And thus, through his power Satan has seduced the religious leaders, and through them the congregations to remain unrepentant in sin.  GOD would never encourage this.  And we must understand how the spirit that is invited into their souls is not the Holy Ghost but that of demons!  And thus, demon possession is being pawned off as the Holy Spirit.

When it comes to today’s popular manifestation of “tongues” every major religion on earth claims the same gift: in Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sorcery, Witchcraft, Voodoo, Obeah, Santeria, Juju, etc.  There is no traceable difference between today’s charismatic Christians and the tongue-speaking followers of the occult.  GOD will not be complicit to the sin or the eternal death of anyone (Ja.1:13).  Remember, Satan determines to unite the church to himself by hardening men in their sin. But how do we verify this?

1. The distinction between the true and the false as outlined by the Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 14 should be obeyed: “Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue… But if there be no interpreter [one who understands the foreign language being spoken (Isa.28:10-13)], let him keep silence in the church” (vss. 19,28).  “Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.” Josh.1:7. 

2. There are many testimonies from people who were delivered from the occult that verify Satan’s control over today’s Christianity.  When they turned to Christ and began attending a church whose members spoke in tongues they immediately recognized the identical spirit of the cult they had just left.  Other testimonies include people who witnessed tongue speaking Christians curse the name of Jesus Christ in Chinese and other languages.  An American Indian gave testimony of how a tongue-speaking Christian was cursing that Indian’s own mother in his native tongue!  While other testimonies include feelings identical to being drunk and other forms of intoxication.  Even “the spirit of laughter” and other sensual experiences such as “sexual orgasms” have been experienced and reported.  But these unholy, sensual displays have no part with the Holy Spirit!  Paul emphatically and repeatedly warned of this: “But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.” Rom.13:14.

3. The purpose of GOD’S gift of tongues is very plain: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature…And these signs shall follow them that believe…they shall speak with new tongues.” Mk.16:15-17.  The Gospel goes to every “tongue!”

10. Is it true, as some ministers assert, that you must speak

       in tongues to prove that you have the Holy Spirit?

I Corinthians 12:4-11  Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; [v.10] To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another _________  _______  ____  __________; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

This magnificent passage from the Apostle Paul shows the arrogant illiteracy of preachers by placing demands that overrule the authority of the Bible.  This popular doctrine of “tongues” is in partnership with two other spiritually cancerous doctrines: “slain in the spirit” and “the word of knowledge.”  It must be understood that every miracle of Satan is designed to keep Christians illiterate to the Bible’s guidelines, and thus, keep the sinner bound to their sins, thereby leaving them to stand condemned before Jesus Christ in “the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men” (II Pet.3:7). 

“Slain in the spirit,” America’s most popular display of miraculous power must come under one of only three reasons given in Scripture for the loss of strength in the Presence of Divinity:

1. Decisive rebellion against Jesus Christ.  Examples: the mob of thugs arresting Jesus at the garden of Gethsemane; and the Roman soldiers at the tomb of Christ (Jn.18:4-6; Matt.28:2-4). 

2. Direct vision from GOD.  Examples: Prophetic instruction to prepare for future events; or commanding an appeal be made to His children who have gone astray, warning of the consequences, but also a promise of blessing for obedience. Hab.2:2; Dan.10:8,17-19; Acts 9:4,5.

         3. Demon possession. Examples: Lu.8:28; Mk.3:11.  

This popular doctrine exhibiting supernatural power in the churches must come under one of the above reasons.  Which one?  Demon possession is the only possible explanation, for the other two have no association with the churches display of this power.  As with the gift of tongues, every major religion of earth advocates the gift of being “slain in the spirit,” including Voodoo; again with no traceable difference between today’s Christianity and the occult.

The leading advocate for “slain in the spirit” is the nationally renowned Pastor Benny Hinn.  He has given public testimony on Trinity Broadcasting Network saying that during his crusades, “I don’t remember what I say or who I heal.”  But there is no example of amnesia in Christ’s ministry!  The man goes into a demonic trance!

(A young man who lived next door to me was infected with the AIDS virus.  He went to see Benny Hinn to be healed of his terminal disease.  And when he went forward at the altar call he was “slain in the spirit,” and then was promised that he was healed of AIDS.  He went home rejoicing, believing he was healed.  He died shortly after.) 

Another example of Bible disobedient spiritualism witnessed on Trinity Broadcasting Network is found in the ministry of Rod Parsley.  He led his congregation into a frenzied chaos that sounded more akin to an insane asylum than obeying the Bible’s admonition to “lead a quiet peaceable life in all godliness and honesty” (I Tim.2:2).  At the height of this display of shameless cacophony Rod Parsley then said, “Now the spirit is here!”

 The Bible warns: “If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isa.8:20.  There is not one testimony from Christ, His Apostles, or the Prophets-of-Old that provides a single example of these demonstrations “of the flesh” as having any association with “the poor in spirit,” or “they that mourn,” or “the meek,” or “they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness,” or “the merciful,” or “the pure in heart,” or “the peacemakers,” or “they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake” (Matt.5:3-10).  Evangelical Christianity has abandoned “the Word” to follow a miraculous display of power outside of GOD’S Word and will; and thus, are “beguiled” by Satan to remain in sin (Gen.3:13).  By playing into the devil’s hand it is a natural consequence that the charismatic churches will stand opposed to those who truly “walk in the spirit” in obedience to GOD (Gal.5:25).  The churches open arms to cultic practices will continue until the battle of “Armageddon” and “the LORD” comes to rescue those “which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Rev.14:12). 

In summation, multitudes of professing Christians are being deceived to desire only the power of Jesus Christ but not His character.  GOD’S true character can only be revealed by an unwavering duty to honor “the Word” (Jn.1:1).  And anyone who stands outside of a heart-drawn reverence to obey its every counsel is standing on Satan’s enchanted ground.  Paul’s warning goes unheard: “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie” [allowing Satan to work his deceptive magic before their eyes] that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” II Thess.2:11,12.  And the reason for this spiritual captivity is found in the previous verse: “because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved” (II Thess.2:10). 

These displays of Satan’s power are the key to his leverage to prod today’s churches to impose through federal law the ancient sin of the sun-god, not the Law of “the Son of God.”  And the Bible gives prophecies that this soon-to-come global-call-to-sin will be armored with devils impersonating Christ, His Apostles, holy angels, the Virgin Mary, the dead Catholic Saints, and even deceased family members and friends (Isa.8:19).  Make no mistake: it is Satan's authority as “the prince of this world” that is paving the way for renegade Christianity to take the throne of human government (Rev.ch.13) and discard Christ’s command forbidding religious tyranny (Lu.22:25,26) and enshrine via international law “the venerable day of the sun.”  This last tyranny, spearheaded by the church will lead the whole world to ruin (Rev.16), which in turn will usher Christ’s 2^nd Advent to rescue His Spirit-led Bible-obedient saints (Isa.25:9; Matt.7:24,25).

         Lastly, there’s the “word of knowledge” doctrine used by Pat Robertson and others.  This is simply the ancient witchcraft of being a middle-voice for demons (a medium) as many psychics such as Sylvia Brown and John Edward are, to illicitly gain the trust of men—even famous and powerful men.  This doctrine has no Scriptural reference at all outside of GOD’S warning of the condemnation that is pending for all spiritualists (I Sam.15:23).  It is used as a healing ministry, where the minister describes an ailment of some afflicted soul watching TV or sitting in the congregation.  He then promises their healing, without knowing them, without seeing them, and without verification of what their saying is actually true.  It should be noted that the healing ministry of Jesus never employed this method.  And while there are those who have claimed to be healed through this method, the manner of these healings stands outside of GOD’S examples of healing in the Bible.  But the proof that Satan is behind these healing ministries is seen when the ministers openly evangelize sin against GOD’S Law.  GOD cannot empower anyone living in sin, for that would make Him an accomplice to not only their destruction but also everyone who follows and trusts their minister’s example.

Only the Apostle Paul was given a unique gift, as it is written: “And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out from them.” Acts 19:11,12.  Many world-renowned preachers such as Oral Roberts and others have plagiarized Paul’s unique gift from GOD, but these false shepherds evangelize the above cultic practices and sin against Jesus Christ.  GOD’S power is always used to deliver from sin, not to encourage it!

        So, these supernatural demonstrations seen in today’s churches have no sanction from Scripture that GOD is the source of the miracle.  In summation, Satan uses his wonder working power to possess the souls of men, create all manner of deceiving miracles, and heal the diseases he himself created through intemperate living.  And thus, through the church’s belligerence against safe-Bible-guidelines he holds the reigns of every mainstream church professing the Christian faith. (Job 2:7; Jn.5:1-4).   

11. Can Satan present himself as anyone he chooses

       perfectly impersonating the individual right down to

       their appearance and tone of voice?

I Samuel 28:7,13-15  Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor....And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth. And he said unto her, What form is he of? and she said, And old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself. [v.15] _____  ____________  ________  ______  _________,  ______  ________  _______  ________________  _____,  ____  __________  _____  _____?  And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.

12. How do we know this really wasn't the prophet Samuel,

       sent of GOD to prophesy of Saul's fate of death?

Deuteronomy 18:9-13  When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire [sacrificing human life to placate an 'angry god'], or that useth divination [a psychic or fortune teller], or an observer of times [an astrologer], or an enchanter [a hypnotist], or a witch [a woman with powers given by evil spirits], [v.11] or a charmer [a user of superstitions to motivate ones success or failure], or ____  _______________  _______  ____________  _________ [gaining instruction from evil spirits], or a wizard [a man with powers given by evil spirits], or ___  __________________ [gaining prophetic insight from the dead].  [v.12] For all that do these things ______  ____  ___________________ unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. [v.13] Thou shalt be __________ with the LORD thy God.

         Saul knew those words from Deuteronomy (I Sam.28:3).  In essence, he (in refusing to repent) turned to Satan for his salvation. This is a lesson of warning for every Christian.  Satan is deceiving the Christian Church to turn to him for salvation by his advancing the notion that a life of sin is acceptable service to GOD.  But it was sin that got Satan cast out of heaven!  It was sin that led Adam and Eve to be banished from the Garden of Eden!  It was sin that brought death to this world!  And it was sin that seized “the Son of GOD” and nailed His hands and feet to a tree and left Him there to die!  Therefore, all who refuse to separate from sin will be held as accomplices to the murder of “God in Christ.”  Said Jesus, “Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.” “Except ye repent” “ye shall die in your sins.” Jn.8:34; Lu.13:3; Jn.8:24. 

        It should be remembered that eceiving miracles were even employed against Christ Himself.  Satan pretended to be a holy angel when he approached Jesus during His wilderness fast, and cunningly tempted “the Saviour” to commit sin (Matt.4:1-11).  And Jesus warned us that imposters will come pretending to be Christ, including Satan Himself as it is written: “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before.  Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Matt.24:23-27.  This prophecy of Satan impersonating Jesus is yet to be fulfilled.  But when it occurs the whole Christian world will bow in adoration before him regardless of Scripture’s account of Christ’s return: how He remains in the sky “and every eye shall see him” (Rev.1:7), and how His angels will gather the saints from the Earth “to meet the Lord in the air” in full view of everyone (Matt.24:30,31; I Thess.4:17).  Nevertheless, Satan’s impersonation of Jesus will prod the disobedient churches to despise Christ’s obedient followers who have always been identified by one single verse: “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” Rev.14:12. Nevertheless, Satan’s miracles and powers of destruction will only intensify the momentum to escalate the persecution of “the saints,” leading to the close of probation (Rev.22:11), “the seven plagues” (Rev.ch.16), and conclude with the battle of “Armageddon” and the 2^nd Advent of the LORD Jesus Christ (Job 1:12-19; Lu.13:16; Rev.13:13, 16:14; Matt.24:31). 

13. What is the result of the church's disregard for the

       reproof of GOD?

Proverbs 1:24-30  Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; [v.27] When your fear cometh ____  ________________, and your ________________ cometh as a whirlwind; when ____________ and ___________ cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: [v.29] For that they _________ ________________, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

Amos 8:11,12  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD God, that I will send ____  _____________ in the land, ______ a famine of bread, ______ a thirst for water, ______ of hearing the words of the LORD: [v.12] And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall ______  ____  ______  ______  ____  _________  _____  ________  ____  _____  _________, and shall not find it.

14. What actions will the church take in pursuing its present

       course of disobedience, and thus receive “eternal

       damnation” (Mk.3:29)?

John 16:2  They shall put you out of the ________________ [or

churches]: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that _____  ________  ______  _____________.  

Revelation 13:11-18  And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed [remember the "sword" of General Berthier removing the pope’s civil authority?]. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth, by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had a wound by a sword, and did live. [v.15] And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast _________  ____  _________. [v.16] And he causeth _____, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

         The LORD gives a clear distinction between receiving the mark “in their foreheads” and “in their right hand.”  To receive the mark in the forehead is to intellectually agree with its dictates (Ps.94:20,21; Jer.3:3).  But in the hand is to not agree intellectually but accept the mark through one’s actions (Ex.32:1,2; I Sam.15:23,24; Matt.16:25).

         As we reviewed earlier, every great scholar of the Reformation proclaimed the Roman Catholic Church is the “beast” of Revelation 13, and the pope is the great Antichrist of Bible prophecy.  The following verses united with historical accounts verify the identifying marks of the apostasy Christ warned would rule the church until the end.  The very core of Rome’s apostasy is addressed, such as their “forbidding to marry” (as the papal priesthood vows a life of celibacy), “commanding to abstain from meats” (as the Friday abstinence); setting out to mercilessly and relentlessly “make war with the saints,” where “they shall fall by the sword” [through Rome’s puppetry of militant dictators: Constantine, Justinian, Clovis, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, King Henry II, Bloody Mary, etc. under the explicit command of the pope "to eradicate vice from the field of the Lord"—Pope Adrian IV)]; “and by flame” [such as the great Bible scholars, John Huss, John Tyndale and countless others who were burned at the stake], “by captivity” [such as the Spanish Inquisition where “The purest, the most refined, and the most intelligent were chained, in horrible torture, amidst robbers and assassins” (Reference, Wylie, b.22, ch.6)], “and by spoil” [“divide the land for gain” (Dan. 11:39)], “many days” [“forty and two months” equaling 1,260 years (Nu.14:34; Rev. 13:5) from the year 538 to 1798]. 

I Tim.4:3; Rev.13:7; Dan.11:33. 

         Martin Luther publicly declared his denunciation of “the pope,” to “hold him forth as Antichrist.”  This backbone of the Protestant Reformation has been surgically removed from the knowledge of men!  The Great Antichrist of Bible prophecy, whose “number is the number of a man…Six hundred threescore and six” (666) only fits one man according to Bible prophecy: the pope of Rome.  The pope's official title: “Vicarious felii Dei” (Latin for Deputy of the Son of God) adds up to 666 in each of the three Biblical languages of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.  His Latin title was on the pope’s coronation miter until the Reformers pointed to it and said, “Behold the Antichrist and his number, 666!”  By tying in all of the characteristics of papal Rome, as the last of earth's ruling kingdoms specified in Daniel 2 and 7, along with the church's ugly history of tyranny for 1,260 years, as prophesied seven times in Scripture (Dan. 7:25, 11:33, 12:7; Rev. 11:2, 12:6, 12:14, 13:5), and no mistaken identity can be made.  GOD forewarned His children of the great betrayal of the eternally unrepentant church who slanders the Good Name of Jesus Christ.  Scripture verifies that the pope has always usurped the authority of Jesus Christ: His sacrifice, His Law, His salvation, His priestly ministry before our Father in Heaven; and above all, His love; while substituting himself in Christ’s place.  He literally stands as Satan’s leading usurper of Christ’s authority on the Earth.

            The Roman Catholic Church whose traditions are prophesied to never be annulled and whose sins will never be repented of will continue to rule in the affairs of America and the world until Jesus comes for “the resurrection at the last day.”—At which time the Bible prophesies, “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 freeman, 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?” Jn.11:24; Rev.6:15-17.  The LORD Jesus Christ gave the answer to this question, for those who love the truth, “as the truth is in Jesus:” “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” Eph.4:21; Rev.3:10,11.