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This article will serve as a final warning to mainstream Christians, who among the masses of people, will be resurrected from the dead in the Second Resurrection, which will occur after the First Resurrection and the thousand-year reign of Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ).
The world’s largest religions and their number of believers are:
Christianity (31.2%, 2.4 billion), Islam (24.1%, 1.8 billion), Nonreligious (Secular/Agnostic/Atheist) (16%, 1.2 billion), Hinduism (15.1%, 1.1 billion), Buddhism (6.9%, 500 million), Folk traditional religion (5.7%, 400 million), Other religions (0.8%, 100 million), and Judaism (0.2%, 13 million).[i]
This article will focus on the religions that contain all, or part of, the Holy Scriptures: Christianity (including Catholicism) and Judaism. Non-denominational Hebrew Roots Christianity and Messianic Judaism together comprise about (0.01%, 650,000) believers worldwide, and those numbers being the smallest faith, are statistically included among Christianity’s numbers in general.
MATTHEW 7:13-14 (NKJV):
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
According to the statistics, Christianity is the world’s largest religion and is the broadest gate of faith followed in the world. According to the words of Yeshua (Jesus), “Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and there are many who go in by it.” Could it actually be that the wide gate of mainstream Christianity, a faith supposedly founded upon the teachings of Jesus Christ, is a broad way that leads many people to destruction.
The two main entities of Christianity are Catholicism (1.3 billion) and Protestantism (900 million) as of 2024, which leaves about 200 million other people who follow other denominations of Christianity, of which 650,000 include Hebrew Roots believers and Messianic Judaism.
Catholicism and Protestantism (Protesting Catholics) combined make up the vast majority of mainstream Christianity worldwide. There is no easy or nice way to say this, but mainstream Christianity is a corrupted false religion, not the faith that Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ) preached. Almost all of Christianity’s doctrines are in opposition to the Scriptures. All the false doctrines cannot be listed here, because such a listing with explanations would fill books.
Mainstream Christianity has failed in a primary task, an important aspect of the Great Commission: the law.
MATTHEW 28:18-20 (NKJV):
And Yeshua (Jesus) came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Has the mainstream Christian faith taught its adherents around the world to observe ALL THINGS that Yeshua (Jesus) had commanded His apostles? No. The mainstream Christian faith teaches that the Old Testament law, or Mosaic Law, or Torah has been abolished. Catholicism teaches that their faith has authority over the Scriptures and can change God’s laws and times as they see fit (Daniel 7:25).[ii] Mainstream Christianity freely eats all manner of unclean creatures in violation of God’s dietary commands (Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14), has changed the perpetual seventh day Sabbath to the first day (Genesis 2:2; Exodus 31:12-17), and has replaced God’s feasts and holy convocations (Leviticus 23) and laws with pagan holiday festivals and man-made regulations (doctrines of devils – 1 Timothy 4:1).
1 JOHN 2:3-6 (NKJV):
Now by this we know that we know Him, IF we keep His commandments. He who says “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in Him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in Him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him OUGHT TO WALK JUST AS HE WALKED.
Does the mainstream Christian message commonly teach adherents to emulate Jesus, to try your best to live as He lived and walk as He walked? No. The mainstream Christian message is that Jesus fulfilled the law and nailed it to the cross, so that His followers do not need to obey His laws.
MATTHEW 5:17-19 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy [THE LAW] but to fulfill [THE PROPHETS’ WRITINGS ABOUT THE MESSIAH]. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE WILL BY NO MEANS PASS FROM THE LAW till all is fulfilled. Whoever [JEW OR GENTILE] therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever [JEW OR GENTILE] does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
MATTHEW 24:35; MARK 13:31; LUKE 21:33 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words [WHICH INCLUDE MY COMMANDMENTS] will by no means pass away.”
LUKE 16:17 (NKJV):
“It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail.”
COLOSSIANS 2:14 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us [THE ORDINANCES FOR BREAKING THE LAW], which was contrary to us. And He [YESHUA (JESUS)] has taken it [THE DEATH PENALTY] out of the way, having nailed it [THE DEATH PENALTY ORDINANCE] to the cross.
Mainstream Christianity does not follow the Sabbath, laws, feasts, or diet that Yeshua (Jesus) and the apostles followed. Through deceptive human reasoning, a twisting of the words of Yeshua (Jesus) and the writings of Paul, based on a desire to be free from God’s laws, mainstream Christianity resembles nothing of how Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ) lived or taught.
WHAT HAPPENED? How could it be that the mainstream Christian faith that Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ) inspired, has morphed into the wide road that that leads to destruction that He warned His believers not to follow? The Christian faith, almost from its onset, has been corrupted.
GALATIANS 1:6-9 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Messiah (Christ), to a different gospel, which is not another [SAME SCRIPTURES, DIFFERENT TEACHINGS]; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Messiah (Christ). But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-5 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
Now the Spirit [OF GOD] expressly says that in latter times some [BELIEVERS] will depart from the [TRUE] faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, [CATHOLIC PRIESTS] speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry [CATHOLIC PRIESTS AND NUNS] and commanding to abstain from foods [ON MEATLESS FRIDAYS] which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every [CLEAN] creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused IF it is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God [LEVITICUS 11 AND DEUTERONOMY 14] and prayer.
Only clean creatures sanctified by the word of God may be eaten. Catholics impose a doctrine of demons upon their flock, commanding them to abstain from God-ordained clean meats on Fridays, yet permit their congregants to consume all manner of unclean creatures.
ISAIAH 66:17 (NKJV) [WITH MODERN INTERPRETATION]:
“Those who sanctify and purify themselves [PRAYING OVER UNCLEAN CREATURES BEFORE EATING THEM] to go to the gardens [BACKYARD BARBEQUES] after [NEAR] an idol [MARY STATUE] in the midst [OF THEM], eating swine’s flesh and the abomination [SHELLFISH AND FISH WITHOUT FINS AND SCALES] and the mouse, shall be consumed [WITH DISEASES] together,” says YHWH (the Lord).
Christians who regularly eat unclean creatures often are often consumed with various cancers and other diseases at some stage of their life.
ACTS 20:29-30 (NKJV):
For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
Paul’s prophetic words came true when the Catholic Church attempted to usurp all of Christianity unto itself and its perverse false teachings. They did not spare killing Messianic believers or anyone during the Dark Middle Ages who did not comply to the teachings of the Catholic Church or its pope.
MATTHEW 7:15 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing [WOOL SUITS], but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”
DISREGARD FOR GOD’S LESSER LAWS LEADS TO THE DISREGARD FOR HIS GREATER LAWS
LEVITICUS 20:13 (NKJV):
If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.
The homosexual argues, “My abomination is no worse than your abomination, you hypocrite Christian. I’ll give up gay sex when you give up eating shellfish, which is also an abomination!”
LEVITICUS 11:10-12 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
All in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales, all that move in the water or any living thing which is in the water, they are an abomination to you. They shall be [REMAIN] an abomination to you; you shall not eat their flesh, but you shall regard their carcasses as an abomination. Whatever in the water does not have fins or scales—that shall be [REMAIN] an abomination to you.
The homosexual makes a valid argument. Most Christians consider homosexuality a disgusting sin, an abomination, but yet they would freely eat unclean sea creatures, which are also condemned as an abomination to consume in the very same book of Leviticus that condemns homosexuality as an abomination.
1 CORINTHIANS 5:6; GALATIANS 5:9 (NKJV):
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
The end times are upon us and it has come to pass that many Christian churches no longer condemn homosexuality, but are beginning to embrace it. Before the Christian churches accepted homosexuality, they first permitted the sexually immoral engaged in fornication and adultery (including remarriage-adultery) into their flock, which corrupted their congregations. Most mainstream Christian churches are run like a business, so they never purge out the old leaven (drive out sinners – their customers, 1 Corinthians 5:9-13), as they are more concerned with filling the pews, tickling their congregants’ ears (Isaiah 30:10; 2 Timothy 4:3-4), and profits (2 Peter 2:1-3), rather than rightly proclaiming the word of God.
The Christian churches produce fruit: Christians. Many Christians cannot bear to hear the true gospel, which is that Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ) is Savior AND Master. They just want salvation, but are not too keen on obeying Yeshua (Jesus) or the Scriptures. Many Christians are either so casual about their salvation that they do not consider sin in their lives a big deal, or they believe that there is no ongoing, perpetual, unrepented of sin that can separate them from the love of God, or they believe the law is abolished and they can therefore sin freely being once saved, always saved.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-11 (NKJV):
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? DO NOT BE DECEIVED. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Yeshua (Jesus) and by the Spirit of our God.
GALATIANS 5:19-21 (NKJV):
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
It should be noted that improper festival keeping, Sabbath observations, and disregarding the dietary laws are not mentioned as sins that would keep a believer from inheriting the kingdom of God. However, Yeshua (Jesus) proclaimed that “Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:19). There are consequences in this life and in the age to come for disregarding God’s lesser, non-salvation commands. An argument can also be made that if a believer comes to the knowledge of the truth of the lesser commands, and willfully disregards them, he or she could be judged as someone who is covetous, coveting something that God has forbidden, and as a coveter such persons could lose out on inheriting the Millennial Kingdom, the kingdom of God.
Many Christians are deceived, believing that they are washed of their sins, sanctified and justified by the blood of Yeshua (Jesus), but they are not, because they continue in sins that will cause them to lose out on inheriting the Millennial Kingdom of Yeshua (Jesus), the kingdom of God.
HEBREWS 10:26 (NKJV):
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.
Yeshua (Jesus) preached, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17). When we one day stand before God again, the kingdom of heaven will once again be at hand before us. For those who do not repent in this life, and have continually engaged in sins that will keep them out of the kingdom, Yeshua’s (Jesus’) blood will not cover them. Yeshua (Jesus) said, “Unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3,5).
ACTS 17:23-31 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
Therefore, the One WHOM YOU WORSHIP WITHOUT KNOWING, Him I proclaim to you: God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, DOES NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES [OR CATHEDRALS] made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands [OR ROSARY BEADS], as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some as your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, WE OUGHT NOT TO THINK THAT THE DIVINE NATURE [OF GOD] IS LIKE GOLD OR SILVER OR STONE, SOMETHING SHAPED BY ART AND MAN’S DEVISING. Truly, these times of [IDOLATRY] ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained.
Catholics and many Christians are idolaters and they refuse to acknowledge it or don’t even know it. Scripture declares that most of them will disobediently and / or ignorantly remain in idolatry through the great tribulation, not repenting of it.
REVELATION 9:20-21 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
But the rest of mankind, [CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS] who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. And they did not repent of their murders [ABORTIONS] or their sorceries [NARCOTIC DRUG USE] or their sexual immorality [ADULTERY (INCLUDING REMARRIAGE ADULTERY), FORNICATION, HOMOSEXUALITY, MASTURBATION, PORNOGRAPHY], or their thefts.
Protestants might believe that they do not engage in idolatry, but every year they worship God through the Christmas pagan holiday, erecting Christmas tree and manger scene idols, which they serve, worship, and symbolically sacrifice gifts to in defiance of God’s command to not do this practice (Jeremiah 10:2-5). During Easter, Protestants celebrate the resurrection of Yeshua (Jesus) by honoring the pagan goddess Ishtar and decorating eggs to symbolically represent fertility and human sacrifice, instead of celebrating Yeshua’s (Jesus’) resurrection as the New Passover (1 Corinthians 5:7).
As Acts 17:30 declares, “Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent…” In times past, Christians in Christian churches were led by priests and ministers in times of ignorance. For centuries, most people didn’t even have a Bible, something we take for granted today, and until the advent of the printing press and the widespread distribution of the Scriptures, most people had to rely on their priests and ministers for corrupted teachings of the gospel of Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ).
Most Christians today still rely on their priests and ministers for corrupted teachings of the gospel of Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ). But that is not what God, through the Scriptures, has instructed believers to do. Yeshua (Jesus) said, “The hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him MUST worship Him in spirit AND truth” (John 4:23-24).
2 TIMOTHY 3:13-17 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
Evil men and impostors [WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES] will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, KNOWING FROM WHOM YOU HAVE LEARNED THEM, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Messiah Yeshua (Christ Jesus). ALL SCRIPTURE is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable FOR DOCTRINE, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT THE MAN OF GOD MAY BE COMPLETE, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
The Apostle Paul was addressing his congregants to continue in the things that they have learned, knowing who they learned it from. Today’s Christians should likewise know from whom they have learned their doctrines and rather than accept what they have learned as the gospel truth, which such doctrines are most often not, they should use the Scriptures and study earnestly for true doctrines and to unlearn and correct the false doctrines that they have been taught.
Traditional Catholicism teaches that outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation. The Catholic Church is not mentioned by name in all of Scripture and many Catholics would be initially shocked to hear the words of Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ), then dismiss what He said in place of what they have been brainwashed to believe through their Cathode default programming.
JOHN 4:22 (NKJV):
“You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.”
Salvation is of the Jews because Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ) is of the Jews, as is His Torah (law) which was given to the Jews for all mankind to follow for salvation, AS WELL AS faith in Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ) as our Lord and Savior who was sacrificed for our sins.
The Jews believe that they can attain salvation through law keeping, without the need of a Savior to pay for their sins. They cannot, which is why the Judaic Messiah-denying Jews cannot attain salvation until they accept Yeshua (Jesus).
JOHN 14:6 (NKJV):
Yeshua (Jesus) said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.“
Mainstream Christianity often teaches a faith only doctrine of basic belief in Him, but no need to repent. To repent, they argue, equates to works. Yeshua (Jesus) said that “Unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3,5).
LAWLESS CHRISTIANS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
MATTHEW 7:21-23 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will [OBEYS THE COMMANDMENTS] of My Father in heaven. Many [CHRISTIANS] will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied IN YOUR NAME, cast out demons IN YOUR NAME, and done many wonders IN YOUR NAME?’ And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS!’“
Mainstream Christians often extoll the need for faith alone and negate the idea of the need to obey God’s laws, all of them, which they claim cannot be followed. Many bemoan the so-called 613 laws, whereas in society we follow thousands of laws on a daily basis.
The laws most Christians need to obey to be right with God are the Ten Commandments, the dietary commandments, the Saturday Sabbath, the commands against the flesh (sexual immorality, tattooing), and observance of His Holy feasts and convocations instead of partaking in pagan-based holidays such as Christmas and Easter. It’s really that simple.
Yet, most mainstream Christians reading this will outright dismiss and reject what is stated in this article and stick with their denominational church teachings and traditions, making the commandments of God of no effect through denominationalism and tradition. What Yeshua (Jesus) once said about the Jewish Pharisees, scribes, and elders can now be said about mainstream Christians…
MARK 7:6-8 (NKJV):
“This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men.”
PEOPLE WHO OBEY GOD’S COMMANDMENTS WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO ENTER THE HOLY CITY
JOHN 14:15 (NKJV):
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.“
REVELATION 22:14 (NKJV):
Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
Those who do not repent, and who do not obey His commandments, will not have the right to the tree of life and will not be able to enter through the narrow gates into the holy city.
THE FIRST AND SECOND RESURRECTIONS
Most Christians have been taught through their church that when a person dies they will be judged and go directly to heaven or hell. This is an unscriptural false belief. When people die, they go to the grave and remain in the grave, unconscious and unaware of the passage of time, until either the first or second resurrection. There will be a few select righteous believers who will never know death as they will escape death through one of a series of raptures.
HOSEA 4:6 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
“My people [JEWS / CHRISTIANS] are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you [JEWS / CHRISTIANS] have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me [IN MY MILLENNIUM KINGDOM]; Because you have forgotten the law [COMMANDMENTS] of your God, I will also forget your children.“
Many Catholics and Protestants reading this may know that they are in a congregation that teaches falsehoods, but will ask, “If I leave my church, where shall I go?” Find a good non-denominational, Bible-believing group or congregation and study the Scriptures for yourself with the help of the teachings of others and learn to discern good doctrine from bad utilizing critical thinking. This might sound like a self-promoting statement, but one can go to www.ScriptureTruthMinistries.com as a resource for many biblically based doctrinal teachings and also find Scripture Truth Ministries on social media sites including Facebook and YouTube.
LUKE 12:32 (NKJV):
“Do not fear, LITTLE FLOCK, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”
CHOOSE LIFE
The way to God is not a broad, easy way. As stated earlier in this article, non-denominational Hebrew Roots Christianity and Messianic Judaism combined is a small flock, comprising a small minority within Christianity and combined, numbered separately from Christianity, would be the world’s smallest religion. Yet even so, neither of these organized religious faiths is perfect, as incorrect teachings are bound to occur in any congregation. What distinguishes these faiths and sets them apart is their philosophy, that salvation comes through Yeshua (Jesus), who all must accept as their Savior, AND acceptance into God’s kingdom comes by obedience to His laws.
REVELATION 20:4-6 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
“And they [THE SAINTS OF THE FIRST RESURRECTION] lived and reigned with Messiah (Christ) for a thousand years [IN HIS MILLENNIAL KINGDOM]. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Messiah (Christ), and shall reign with Him [IN HIS MILLENNIAL KINGDOM] for a thousand years.“
All persons who have ever lived will either be part of the First Resurrection, which includes the raptured saints, or the Second Resurrection of the unrighteous and those living outside the Millennial Kingdom at the time of the Second Resurrection.
2 PETER 3:9 (NKJV):
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE.
THE FINAL WARNING
The purpose of this article is to serve as a FINAL WARNING to persons, including Christians, of the Second Resurrection. If you are a Christian, having rejected the truth of the Scriptures and God’s laws in favor of your particular church denominational teachings, then you have chosen the broad way that has kept you from being a first fruit in God’s kingdom. You will find yourself resurrected in the post-millennium era, in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by the destructive wars of the great tribulation.
REVELATION 19:15 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
And He Himself will rule them [THE NATIONS] with a rod of iron.
REVELATION 20:7-9 (NKJV) (condensed):
Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, … , to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up and surrounded the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from heaven and devoured them.
During the Millennial Kingdom reign of Yeshua (Jesus), He will rule the nations outside the Millennium Kingdom with a rod of iron, while Satan is imprisoned. Resurrected persons of the Second Resurrection will have a second and final chance at salvation. They can once again choose to not repent of their sins, join the multitude who will join Satan’s final rebellion, and perish in the second death, or they can repent, refuse to join the final rebellion against the holy city, and seek God in righteousness afterward in His kingdom.
LUKE 6:39 (NKJV):
“Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a ditch?“
2 CORINTHIANS 6:14-18 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Messiah (Christ) with Belial [OR ISTAR]? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
“I will dwell in them [THROUGH MY SPIRIT] and walk among them [IN THE MILLENNIUM KINGDOM]. I will be their God and they shall be My people.” Therefore “Come out from among them [THE DEFILED MAINSTREAM CHRISTIAN CHURCHES] and be separate [FROM THEM], says the Lord. Do not touch [NOR EAT] what is unclean, and I will receive you, and you shall be My sons and daughters,” says the Lord Almighty.
Catholics and Protestants reading this article, there is another option besides repentance or joining Satan’s final rebellion after the Millennial Kingdom in the Second Resurrection. You can take a stand now, be bold as a lion, and stop following the false doctrinal teachings and practices of the herd to your destruction and denial of entrance into the Millennial Kingdom. Repent and begin to worship God in spirit and truth now, so that you will be approved of by God and have the right to enter through the narrow gate into His holy city in New Jerusalem.
JEREMIAH 16:19 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
The Gentiles [PENITENT CHRISTIANS OF THE SECOND RESURRECTION] shall come to You [IN NEW JERUSALEM] from the ends of the earth and say, “Surely our [CHRISTIAN CHURCH] fathers have inherited lies [FALSE DOCTRINES], worthless and unprofitable things.”
JOHN 4:24 (NKJV):
“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him MUST worship in spirit AND truth.”
Many Christians worship God in spirit, but they do not worship Him in truth. Assuming most Catholics and Protestants will not heed the advice of this article to come out of their false churches now and worship God in spirit and truth, this is written in hopes that some may retain the knowledge contained within this article upon being resurrected in the Second Resurrection and find their way to God in repentance after the Millennial Kingdom. It will be then that many Christians will realize that they have inherited lies from their denominational churches. It is then that they will humble themselves and seek God in repentance.
[i] Hackett, Conrad and McClendon, David, “Christians remain world’s largest religious group, but they are declining in Europe,” April 15, 2017 < http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/05/christians-remain-worlds-largest-religious-group-but-they-are-declining-in-europe/ >.
[ii] Peter R. Kraemer- Catholic Church Extension Society (1975), Chicago, Illinois: “Regarding the change from the observance of the Jewish Sabbath to the Christian Sunday, I wish to draw your attention to the facts:
1) That Protestants, who accept the Bible as the only rule of faith and religion, should by all means go back to the observance of the Sabbath. The fact that they do not, but on the contrary observe the Sunday Sabbath, stultifies them in the eyes of every thinking man.
2) We Catholics do not accept the Bible as the only rule of faith. Besides the Bible we have the living Church, the authority of the Church, as a rule to guide us. We say, this Church, instituted by Christ to teach and guide man through life, has the right to change the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament and hence, we accept her change of the Sabbath to Sunday. We frankly say, yes, the Church made this change, made this law, as she made many other laws, for instance, the Friday abstinence, the unmarried priesthood, the laws concerning mixed marriages, the regulation of Catholic marriages and a thousand other laws.
It is always somewhat laughable, to see the Protestant churches, in pulpit and legislation, demand the observance of Sunday, of which there is nothing in their Bible.”
