State of the Church

 Now there are many antichrists and deceivers. Thieves and murderers with damnable heresies speaking lies in hypocrisy. Teaching whom they may devour for filthy lucre’s sake. And shall we make mirth when the godly man perishes and the faithful faint for lack of meat?

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MANY ARE SICKLY AND MANY ARE DEAD

Not a few atheists were pastors - Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Southern Baptist’s — What does that say about.denominations and church government?

What communion has Christ with Belial?

A mixed assembly goes lusting and suffers plagues.

“For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.”

1 Corinthians 11:30 KJV

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SPARING NOT THE FLOCK

The call to come out from the mixed assembly full of dead man’s bones and rotting traditions, making the word of God of none effect - and gone a-whoring after covetousness - supposing gain is godliness.- refusing correction, going after strange flesh and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy - from such, turn away. It is iniquity. The whole head is sick and the body mortally wounded and full of putrefying sores. These are the polluted sanctuaries - the abominations of denominations and synagogue of Satan - whose ministers are transformed as loving pastors who care for the sheep, but inwardly, they are ravenous wolves sparing not the flock.

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Hypocrites are miserable comforters.

Desiring to be teachers of the law, knowing not of what they speak, nor whereof they affirrm, having swerved from the faith and given heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils.

Mockers. Counterfeit Christians: two-fold more the children of hell. Converted into hypocrisy with strong delusion. 

Sons and daughters of Belial manifest themselves when the Light of the glory of Jesus Christ shines upon them, they are immediately offended.

This is the contradiction of sinners.

"Uncircumcised in the heart, always resisting the Holy Ghost".

Justifying and working out their own transgressions with both hands earnestly. 

"There is no fear of God in their eyes." 

Although they say, "the Lord liveth!", surely they swear falsely.

"These be they that are sensual, having not the Spirit". 

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The eye of the adulterer is not offended nor is the sodomite ashamed.

“And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in stoutness of heart, The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place...Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭9:9-10, 17‬ ‭ASV‬‬

God's hand is stretched out still, pleading with all flesh to turn away from their fornications, murders, thefts and abominations. Jonah warned the people of Ninevah that those who refused to turn away from lying vanities forsook their own mercy. But we know from the scriptures that the whole city of Ninevah repented in sackcloth and ashes at the preaching of Jonah. Now a greater than Jonah has.preached "repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!" Yet they turn not their eyes from BEHOLDING abominations, nor do they repent of their murders, thefts and fornications.

Jesus said, "if your eye offends you, pluck it out. For it is better to enter into the kingdom of God maimed rather than cast into hell whole." The eye of the adulterer is not offended nor is the sodomite ashamed. They say in their hearts there is no God. "Professing themselves to be wise, they have become fools".
God has given them over to a reprobate mind.

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"As the sting of a scorpion, conviction of sin pains the flesh."

“Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep,
and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.”
‭‭(Ezekiel‬ ‭34:10-12‬ ‭KJV‬‬)

We are witnesses of the falling away. The departing from the faith.

“All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.”
‭‭(Zechariah‬ ‭12:14‬ ‭KJV‬‬)

Scattered and battered. Left bleeding and tattered.

“For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother,
 the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.”
(‭‭Micah‬ ‭7:6‬ ‭KJV‬‬)

“For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind,
to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh:
and the slain of the Lord shall be many." (Isaiah 66:15,16)

As the sting of a scorpion, the conviction of sin pains the flesh.

“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.”
‭‭(Revelation‬ ‭9:1-6‬ ‭KJV‬‬)


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