Articles - Volume 1

KARMA originated from ancient pagan religious teaching which refers to all acts, words and thoughts of one life, supposed to determine a person’s fate in his next stage of existence. Karma is always refers to bad fate which results from evil deeds, thoughts and words.

Karma today is defined as divine requital or retribution for evil done to another person. It portrays God as a “Terminator” of wicked people who abused, withhold justice, or plotted mischief against another.

God is perfectly righteous and just in everything and if He is going to kill or exterminate all the wicked, then this planet will be empty of human being. For all have sinned.

Divine discipline is executed against the carnal believer who ignores the Word of God not because of their sins. Divine judgment is executed against unbeliever who rejected the Gospel of Christ not because of their evil deeds.

A wayward person will accumulate self-made miseries for him to suffer in as much, he made other suffers. Majority of our miseries are self-made not from God or from the Devil.

Jesus Christ died for the sins of the entire human race. He died for the sins of every human being in every generation in every place. He paid it in full –no sin is excluded.

God is not in business of punishing for their sins because there is nothing (sin of men) which Christ did not include in His death.

A person who violates the Laws of Divine Establishment and the Laws of the land will suffer the consequence of his action [Romans 13:4].

Karma is outside the essence and personality of God. God is not happy about the death of evil people. God will destroy his enemies not our enemies [Nahum 1:2].

God will judge the believers in time by divine discipline [1 Corinthians 3:11-15, Hebrews 10:30, 12:6-8]. God will also judge all the unbelievers at the same time in the Great White Throne judgment at the end of the 1000 years reigns of Christ [Revelation 20:11-15].

God is not punishing anyone on earth because of his evil deeds. The misery of a person is always the result of previous bad decisions or evil deeds he made.

Deuteronomy 32:35-43 is a promise given to the Jews under the curse and blessing clause [Genesis 12:3] and not to us. God will destroy all the anti-Jews or anti-Semitics, not our personal enemies.

Karma is outside the nature, character and personality of God. God solved the problem of man, namely sins because there is no way we can solve it. Would God punish men because of something He already dealt with?

Karma cultivates fear in the hearts of the ignorant and deceived. It distorts the truth of God’s Word and enslaved many into human good.

Although karma encourage good deeds yet in the eyes of God it does more harm than good it deceives people. It distorts the goodness of God.

Divine retribution because of human rejection of God’s grace is not karma. Divine discipline because of ignoring or rejecting Bible doctrine is not karma. Karma is not of God but of the Devil.

FENG SHUI is more than 3000 year- old Chinese Philosophy and art of placement. It is means “wind and water” which claims to create spiritually, healthful and appealing home.

FENG SHUI is a balance of yin and yang- that is finding harmony between energy flows. Practitioners believe that certain places are luckier, certain shapes are more conducive to a balanced life, some symmetry are preferred over angles.

FENG SHUI popularity is alarmingly high. Developers, builders, home- owners are all consulting FENG SHUI masters. Even Christians are affected and it deceives the elite, intelligent, the rich and poor alike.

It originated from the cultic practices of astrology, fortune telling, charms of the ancient Eastern religions, and a mixture of science and superstition.

God alone has the Master Plan for the life of every person base on their personal decisions as foreknown by God in the eternity past and included in the divine decree.

To trust FENG SHUI for your future health and wealth is to accept satanic lies and human viewpoint.

FENG SHUI objects and charms looks harmless ad decorative but without knowing that some pagan religions are actually using them as religious object of worship.

FENG SHUI like any other icons has power supplied by Satan, whose demons attends and ministers to their devotees.

FENG SHUI is a false hope and a false object of confidence for your wealth and health. Nothing in this world can guarantee your good health and future except God.

It claims to provide somewhat perfect environment that provide good future. But not even the perfect garden of Eden was able to guarantee good and healthy future.

Your good future begins at the very moment you believe and accept the free gift of salvation and it continues in your spiritual growth and maturity.

No objects (like FENG SHUI fishes and plants) can create a happy and lasting marital relationship. Good health and wealth comes from the justice of God through His grace pipeline.

FENG SHUI designed porcelain jars and items (like frogs, horses) are all related to ancient Chinese folk religion that dominates the Chinese culture.

FENG SHUI is a demonic cult dressed as science and philosophy. To many, it is innocent and harmless looking.

Some FENG SHUI rituals and traditions are widely welcome without suspicion that they are demonic (like the blood of animals or man offered during the digging of building foundation 1 Cor. 10:20).

FENG SHUI is a booming business and a growing cult religion that is creeping the doors of many homes undetected by ignorant believers.

The term “ghost” did not appear in the Greek New Testament, because there is no word for ghost in the Greek language.

The Greek word “PNEUMA” is translated “ghost” twice by King James Version [Matthew 27:50 & John 19:30] And as “spirit” 268 times.

The Hebrew word ‘NEPHESH” (spirit) is translated “ghost” twice by KJV [Job 11:20, Jeremiah 15:9], and as “spirit” 230 times, and as “wind” 90 times.

The title “Holy ghost’ occurs 86 times by KJV and “ghost” twice in Matthew 14:26 and Mark 6:49.

Ghost [PHANTASMA is “a thing seen only in one’s imagination”, a supposed appearance of an absent person – in a shadowy form.

Ghost as define by the dictionary is the spirit of one who is dead, who is supposed to live in another world and appear to living people as pale, dim, shadowy form.

Unbelievers are dichotomous [soul and body] without human spirit. Only the believers have human spirit [body, soul and spirit]. Therefore, unbelievers cannot have ghost.

The Holy Spirit is not a ghost, because He is not a dead person, He is not a PHANTASMA. The Holy Spirit is not a ghost because he is not human spirit.

Ghost stories were created by pagan religious fanatics who capitalize on such superstition to support their false and heretical doctrines as a tool or machinery for manipulating the ignorant.

The human body [soma, is the material organism animated by soul and by human spirit [if believers]. The spirit  may be separated from the body while the soul can only be distinguished.

When a person died, his soul directly go to heaven or hell –it has no capacity to stay on earth. The Greek verb  to breathe out, and out the soul, to expire [Mark 15:37,39, Acts 5:5, 12:23] denotes the fact that the soul of a dead person has no part in the world of the living.

The traditional religion teaches that the soul person stays for 40 days on earth before departing to purgatory or heaven. Such teaching is fictional and heretical.

At the point of physical death, the soul and human spirit [if believer] separate from the body and go directly to heaven [Luke 16:22] and go directly to hell if unbeliever.

The demons are playing on people who believed in ghost, and they are using the features, voices and characteristics of the dead people to deceive the living.

Ghost stories are designed to create terror and fear in the hearts and minds of the ignorant. The demons are good impersonators –they take the physical form of the dead. They pretend as the ghosts of the dead.

Ghosts are no fiction but genuine demons disguising as spirits of the dead roaming the world of the living.

Salvation is the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Salvation is final-it is a privilege of a living person to believe and receive the free gift of redemption of his soul while he is alive.

The final destination of a dead person, either heaven or hell is no exchange no return. Every person has the chance to be saved while alive.

The dead has no chance to change their situation. They are permanently assigned their everlasting destination.

Praying for the dead, lighting candles, honoring them with praises, offering flowers (but insulting and mocking them while living) is fictional, heretical and unbiblical teaching.

Many pagan religions honor their dead on certain occasions. The practice did not originate from the Bible.

The traditional religion introduced the prayer for the dead only in A.D 300 but many Eastern religion and Chinese folk religion pray for their dead several thousand years ahead.

God determine the final destination of the dead based on the individual decision to accept or reject Christ’s finished work. No person can change his decision after his physical death.

Our final destiny depends on our own decision now: believe or reject Jesus Christ.

Prayer for the dead was designed to increase church revenues through the sales of candles, indulgences, payment for mass, flowers and other gimmick.

Praying for the dead builds false hope and confidence for life after death. It creates false expectation that dead men can change their final state.

Praying for the dead to change their final state is like asking the president to pardon a criminal already executed by lethal injection – an entirely useless effort.

Talking to a dead person through prayer is like talking to someone in the telephone when the line is dead.

Dead people cannot hear the prayer of the living. They have no capacity to know what is going on earth.

A birthday or anniversary celebration for a dead person is ridiculous since the dead person ceased to exist. Age is the duration of life in the world and it stops at the moment the person dies. It is stupid to continue counting years, which the dead person did not utilize for living.

God will not hear the prayer for the dead people since there are no longer on earth. God cannot change their final state because His decision is not based on the petition, request or prayer of men. He acts according to His essence.

Revision or change is for something not perfect. Prayer cannot change His perfect decision or action.

THE DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY IS AN INSULT TO GOD AND HIS FINISHED WORK OF REDEMPTION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.

In effect, it implies that the death of Christ is not sufficient for the sins of man. It implies that human good work is the final authority for one’s final destiny of the soul.

It implies that religious traditions and rituals [like mass, prayer for the dead, indulgences, etc.] are more powerful and authoritative than the Creatorship and Messiah-ship of Jesus Christ

THE DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY IS AN INSULT TO THE GRACE PLAN OF GOD. It insults salvation by grace alone by faith alone in Christ alone.

It implies that salvation is by human good works –by the will of man and not by the work of God [John 1:11-13].

Purgatory is a devious invention of the traditional church released only in A.D. 1414 together with the dogma of sin.

The Lord Jesus Christ did not mention purgatory in any of His preaching. No writers of the Canon of the Scripture mentioned anything about purgatory.

Even the very text use by the Catholic as proof-text for their dogma of the purgatory IS NOT ACTUALLY ABOUT PURGATORY [see 2 Maccabees 7:9, 14:46, 12:43-45].

PURGATORY INSULTS THE HUMAN RATIONAL REASONING. There are too many questions that has no answ

The Bible is the Word of God. God is Truth. God is true to Himself and there is no lie in Him.

Who is lying? The Bible? God? They are liars- the sons of their father [John 8:44b] and there is no truth in them.

BEATIFICATION is the declaration by a decree of the pope that a deceased person is among the blessed in heaven and deserved religious honor. A beatified person is entitled “blessed”. Beatification is prelude to canonization into sainthood.

CANONIZATION is a ritualistic mass where the pope formally declared and officiate dead people into the official list of saints of the Catholic Church.

SAINTHOOD is not an attainment but a state, a condition into which God in grace calls men. It is a spiritual positional status in Christ.

Positional sanctification is the state that predetermined by God for all regenerated believers into which He calls them and into which they begin their Christian course and pursue it.

The Lord Jesus Christ did not beatify or canonize anybody into sainthood. No apostle or disciple of the Lord Jesus beatify or canonize anybody into saint hood.

It is ridiculous that legendary people l who allegedly existed and died hundred of years ago was declared blessed and declared saints by a decree of the Pope.

The beatification and canonization of dead people is an old political gimmick and financial strategy of the church to force the nation into total submission.[1]

The Pope is a political strategist who knows how to manipulate the affairs of a nation.[2]

A person with old sinful nature all throughout his life on earth has no power or authority to ordain another sinner into sainthood.

The Bible called the living regenerated Christians as the genuine saints [HAGIOS meaning separated from sin and consecrated to God [1 Corinthians 1:2, 2 Corinthians 1:2, Ephesians 1:1, Galatians 1:1, Philippians 1:1].

Saints by the authority of man, saints in the eyes of men, saints respected and honor [even worship] by men BUT SUFFERING IN HELL!

THE HOLLOWEEN FEAST started out long before the birth of Christ in Eastern Europe and ancient China when people would go out dressed in gory and horrifying costumes made of animal skins to cast away the spirits of the dead who returned as wandering witches.

Halloween officially began in early 7^th century A.D. It was inspired by the ancient Celtic rituals of the Druids help in honor of SAMBAIN, the god of the dead, whose feast falls on the first day of November.

The Druids believed that on October 31, SAMBAIN summoned all the evil spirits that had inhabited the bodies of animals. Candles were lit to guide the evil spirits to the home of their kinsmen.

The Druids believed that the souls of the good where taken into paradise while those of the wicked were left wandering between the space of moon and earth.

To appease those evil spirits who were believed to haunt the living and cast misfortunes on them, they offered food and shelter. Luxurious tombs in the cemetery are adaptation of this belief.

The term Halloween comes from Medieval England meaning “All hallow eve” or the eve of the saints. The practice of “tricks or treat” originated in Ireland, the pumpkins from America and the flying witches on sticks from England.

The Catholic adapted the feast of All Hallow and All Souls day in 7^th Century A.D.

The soul of a dead person whether in heaven or hell cannot leave their final state to visit the living [Luke 16:26, 31].

At the moment of physical death, the soul separate from the deceased body and immediately go to heaven or to hell [Luke 16:22-23].

There is no purgatory-otherwise, Jesus Christ need not come and die for the sin of the human race. [Romans 3:21-28, 8:1].

If a person rejects the plan of grace and His salvation, then nothing and nobody can change the divine decision [Matthew 12:32b].

There is nothing spiritual about the feast of Halloween. It is not spiritual to celebrate the Halloween.

There is nothing logical about the feast of Halloween. All Souls day and All Saints day are purely superstition.

Halloween is a satanic scheming that diverts people from the truth of God’s Word.

Halloween is religious commercialism and business that makes life in this world more difficult and bitter.

Halloween is hallucination, a substitute for the Truth of Scripture. It is slavery in the form of religious tradition.

All Saints day which actually do not in anyway relate to genuine saints use by the cults to scare and trick people. All Souls day supposedly remember the departed ones.

It is ridiculous to celebrate the feasts of souls when in reality they are in severe pains in hell.

VALENTINE’S DAY originated from a Roman fertility festival known as the FEAST OF LUPERCALIA observed in Ancient Rome as a day of offering gifts to the goddess of free-sex and fertility.

The most famous was that of a Roman priest martyred around A.D. 269. Here we see that a man who renounced and vowed not to marry inspired Valentine’s Day. He was known as VALENTINUS a replacement for Roman god LUPERCALIA.

According to another religious legend, VALENTINUS condemned to death by Emperor CLAUDIUS II, for converting the family of ASTERIUS.

On the eve of his execution that fell on February 13, 270 A.D., he wrote a farewell love letter to young girl and signed it “From your Valentine”.

The second legend was that of the bishop of TERNI who was martyred in the same time frame [VALETINUS was martyred] for crime of loving a young girl.

Valentine’s Day and everything about it came from pagan ritual of sex and fertility.

Our modern Valentine’s Day originates from priests who renounced marriage but both were in love with young girls

The color red is not the color of love of God. Love has no color. Love is not just romance or sex.

Valentine’s Day enslaves people to do things that are burden some. It creates false hope and expectation from human solution.

The feast of St. Valentine and its romantic celebration has no biblical and spiritual relevance.

Valentine’s Day is commercialism and bondage of high degree. Its concern is romance, sex and lust.

The believers are not commanded to celebrate Valentine’s Day and there is no room for it in the Christian churches [Galatians 4:9-10].

Valentine dinner date will not solve or improve your marital conflict or secure your marriage affair.

The Lord Jesus and His disciples did not celebrate Valentine’s Day. The Bible is silent about it because it is not biblical but pagan.

Some apostate churches are joining the world in the celebration of this evil ritual of sex and fertility. Such affairs cannot glorify the church.

To use pagan activities such as Valentine’s Day to raise money for the church is devious and blasphemous.

We cannot join people who claims that they are fundamentalists yet observe and celebrate pagan rituals like New Year, Christmas, and Valentine’s Day.

December is winter in Palestine region and the whole land would be wet. But the shepherds were out in the fields watching their flocks by night [Luke 2:8].

The shepherds will never bring out their flocks into the field during rainy season because the sheep will get sick and die.

The baby was wrapped only in swaddling clothes and yet he did not freeze to death [Luke 2:7].

The registration of all citizen of the SPQR took place during summer [Luke 2:1]. Luke mentioned QUIRINIUS the governor of Syria whom the Roman Emperor CEASAR AUGUSTUS visited in Syria sometime in March where he signed the decree for worldwide census.

It was bishop LIBERIUM of Rome [the fox] who officially proclaimed in A.D. 354 that all Catholics celebrate Christmas day on December 25.

December 25 was adopted by the Catholic from the Roman feast of the UNCONQUERED SUN, which falls on the midnight of December 24.

The Roman unconquered sun god is SATURNALIA [SATURNALA] but the Roman Catholic took the symbolism and applied it to Jesus Christ as the UNCONQUERED SUN OF JUSTICE.

DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS, the man who invented the modern calendar widely use by the Catholic around the world assigned December 25, A.D. 1 as the birthday of Christ.

Tradition claimed that Jesus Christ was born on midnight but there is no way to prove that. The Bible did not say He was born at midnight.

Tradition claimed that Jesus Christ was visited by three kings whose names were GASPAR, MELCHOR & BALTAZAR about ten days He was born.

They were not three but presented only three pieces of gifts. They were not kings but sorcerers or magicians. The Bible did not mention their names. They came two years after when Jesus was no longer wrapped in swaddling clothes.

DIONYSIUS invented the year of the birth of Jesus Christ as commanded by the Pope without scientific basis and without mathematical formulation. He created his calendar in six century based on spurious records and which are not historically accurate.

DIONYSIUS counted the first year as 1 A.D. with the year preceding Christ’s birth. Scientists and astronomers were

So, December 25 is happy birthday unconquered sun god SATURNALA not happy birthday Jesus!

The sun god and goddess come with many names and faces but continue to infiltrate the local churches unopposed and happily welcome by the ignorant.

YULE, which means 12 days of gluttony and cavorting Scandinavian nudists, the word came from Norse.

CHRISTMAS TREE, which came from tree worshiping Scandinavians, who passed their PINETHEISM to the pagan Roman Catholic who modified it into CHRISTMAS TREE-FETISHISM.

The ancient Egyptians, Chinese and Germans had their tree gods, which they decorated in some occasion.

SANTA CLAUS, which came from the Netherlands introduced by the Dutch throughout the world. From Nicholas to Santa Claus, the name varies from one language to another. Washington Irving gave Santa Claus the superman power to fly in 1809.

Cartoonist Thomas Nast made him puffed cheeks and marsupial paunch look in 1813, becoming more popular than the Lord Jesus Christ. Satan Claus is a cute substitute for the Savior of mankind.

EXPENDING MONEY. The Spanish word for spending money is PAGAR, from the same root word we get the term PAGAN and PASCUA [Christmas].

FIRE AND LIGHTS, which came from ancient Germans and Normans who burn their evergreen trees to ward off evil spirits. The ancient Chinese use firecrackers to scare big evil spirits.

CHRISTMAS LANTERNS especially the five-pointed star that symbolized Satan, the god of this world, who brings the Christmas evil spirits around and invites the money hungry fund-raisers.

GIFT-SEEKERS everywhere. Endless envelops, and crisp paper money. Some public servants had their envelopes ready as early as October.

COLOR LIGHTS, which signifies that you are believer of Christmas [not necessarily Christian] and that you moneybag is ready.

MERRY CHRISTMAS means give me money. MANO PO NINONG- MANO PO NINANG means three to five hundred bucks.

CHRISTMAS PARTIES EVERYWHERE, it is better to go on vacation [hide away] than to stay home.

KRISS KRINGLE, which means Santa Claus with his stupid exchange gift. The witches of Scotland practiced this exchange gift using evil curses for their enemies.

MR. LONELY, which means that suicide is on the rise because depression is very high on the air.

MORE ROBBERY because materialism is high and majority is in financial crisis or out of job.

RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITES giving gifts of sardines and few kilos of rice to the poor but keeping the imported items for themselves.

GOOD POLITICIANS giving gifts from public funds with their own name printed on plastic bags – good time for campaigning and political gimmick.

Christmas is all about hypocrisy, heresy, gimmick, lies, commercialism and Satanism. Christmas is not for Christians!

NEW YEAR celebration connotes heathenism and paganism. Its origin is difficult to determine since most ancient pagan religions have their own version of New Year revelry –based on their own calendar. Ancient religions based their New Year celebration on the movement of the sun, moon, stars and earth –that is astrological not astronomical.

ASTROLOGY is the supposed science of the effect of celestial bodies on human affairs, and related to ASTROLATRY, which is worship of the heavenly bodies [ASTROLATREA).

ASTROLOGER is a person who claims to know and interpret the supposed influence of the stars and planets on persons or events. Could a person foretell the events in people’s lives based on the happenings in heavens? This is what the fortune-tellers and horoscope are all about.

The New Year Celebration is based on Taoism, FENG SHUI and combination of pagan practices like preparing fruits on the table to invite abundance of food for the coming year.

The noise making and fireworks is to drive away evil spirits [like the spirit of famine, poverty, bad lucks, etc.], which are the primary teaching of cults.

Believers are not supposed to share in the table of demons or cup of demons or sacrifice to demons [1 Corinthians 10:19-22].

SHARERS IN DEMONS refers to the activities, practices of believers that are not of the Lord. [Like, when you consult a FENG SHUI master regarding your house construction].

The believer is said to be SHARERS IN DEMONS whenever he consult his zodiac prediction for guidance.

The CUP OF DEMONS and TABLE OF DEMONS refers to practices, traditions and rituals of the world adapted by the believers [like celebrating Christmas, New Year, Valentine]. Paying homage to the dead on November first, hanging Christmas lanterns or putting up a Christmas tree are partaking in the cup of demons.

Celebrating new moon, New Year, new millennium is actually celebrating the feast of some astrological deities [gods]. It is not Scriptural and it is demonic in nature.

FIRECRACKERS are to scare evil spirits of poverty, sickness, misery, and poor health. It originated from ancient pagan practices of driving out the evil spirits from animals.

THE MIDNIGHT MEAL is an adaptation of midnight offerings of foods and drinks to pagan gods.

The New Year celebration is a mixture of ancient superstitions and traditions disguised as Christian celebration.

“What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything? No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons”.

“You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons”. [ 1 Corinthians 10:19-21]

New Year celebration is burdensome and costly for some. For some it is their source of pride and self-glory.

MIRACLES, including healing the sick were the credentials of the Lord Jesus Christ and His disciples, to whom He gave the spiritual gift of healing but the cessation of the gifts came at the end of the apostolic age.

GOD WANTS YOU WELL is a statement of the most presumptuous and most arrogance statement of ignorance.

Some disoriented believers assumed that the will of God excludes sufferings and troubles in this world.

PHYSICAL HEALTH is not a sign of true spirituality or poor health is a sign of carnality. Our physical condition has nothing to do with our spiritual life. We are to continue our momentum toward spiritual maturity regardless of our physical condition.

Apostle Paul suffered severely from his so-called thorns in the flesh. Majority of God’s servants are afflicted with some kind of illness.

In God’s plan, affliction and sufferings are normal parts of the Christian way of life.

MIRACLES are divine prerogative. He does it by His own decision apart from human intervention or request. God does not operate from human request or demands.

God will not interrupt or change the law of nature for the sake of believers pleading ignorantly and aggressively. Yes, God heals today! God heals according to normal natural laws.

God acts based on His essence [nature] not on the presumptuous faith of fake healers.

If it were the sovereign Will of God to heal all illness, sickness and affliction, then, all human would be immortal.

There is no promise in the Bible that God will heal all the sickness and illness of men.

There is no promise in the Bible of miraculous healing for those who will claim it.

The employment of such method is contrary to the way and manner God operates in relationship to man. What we have is not Jesus Miracles Crusade’ but “Satan Unscrupulous Crusade”.

MIRACLE DOES HAPPEN TODAY on personal affair, according to the grace of God on the individual, not according to the command of the fake healers.

Jesus Christ did not heal all the sick people in the crowd but individually. The apostles and disciples did not heal in that manner.

GOD WILL NOT OBEY THE DEMAND OR REQUEST OF A MAN TO HEAL ALL THE SICK PEOPLE IN THE CROWD AT THE SAME TIME.

God will not obey the capriciousness and arrogance of the fake healers. It is not their faith in God that works since they are ignorant of Divine Will, plan, and purpose.

Satan is feasting with healing crusades nowadays. He is trapping thousands into the snare of deception.

Satan is using them as his instrument of deception. Satan empowered and energizes them to do his will.

Their faith is not faith in God because they are ignorant of Bible doctrine. Their healing is questionable. Their so -called authority is not from God.

HYPNOTISM is the act or process of putting into a sleeplike state a person with little will of his own and little feeling, or consciousness. The victim acts according to the suggestions of the hypnotist [the person who hypnotized him].

HYPNOSIS is from the Greek word “HYPNOS”, the god of sleep and the English word “OSIS”. A condition somewhat resembling deep sleep but more active in the state of unconsciousness, in which a person has little will of his own and little feeling, acts according to the suggestion of the person who brought about this condition.

HYPNOTHERAPY is the treatment of mental or physical disorders by means of hypnotism. Hypnotherapy is being use by paramedics, faith healers and modern witch doctors as substitute for anesthetics. Some called it “spiritual injection”. A more popular version of hypnotherapy is now being use by the cults.

The so-called HYPNOSOPHY, the science of hypnotism, has infiltrated the religious main stream, a practice once exclusive only to the pagan cults, voodoos, sorcerers, magicians and the occults.

1. THE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL RELAXATION STAGE designed to recondition the emotional and psychological state of the person/s being hypnotized. Relaxing and sugar coated words of encouragement and lies from human viewpoint prepares the souls of the deceived.

2. THE RE-INFORMATION STAGE where suggestive information [a mixture of truth and lies] is injected to the soul, replacing the previous stored information in the soul of people under hypnotism.

3. THE ACCEPTANCE STAGE under which the hypnotize person will receive, accept and believe the suggested informations or data planted upon him during the hypnotic session. Such data or informations are very difficult to erase. The lies planted in his soul are accepted as truth.

4. THE ILLUSION STAGE in which the hypnotized person will live according to the information planted in his soul during the hypnosis session.

Modern False preachers and false prophets are using hypnosis to deceive the ignorant with their extra Biblical teachings, practices, and sensational ministries.

Therefore, the deceived followers accept the imaginary cures for the genuine illnesses or the real cures for the imaginary illnesses.

The so-called “slaying of the spirit”, a practice popularized by the PSEUDO BELIEVERS invites demonic spirit to take control over the unbeliever in the crowd.

FOR THE DECEIVED BELIEVERS such healing, miracles, wonders are reality and truth. They cannot see the lies and deception behind it. Because they accept the lies-they have to reject the truth of Bible doctrine.

THE ILLUSIONS HAS BECOME TRUTH IN THEIR SOULS. They have no room for the truth. Beware of hypnotists in sheep clothing! Beware of those sweet and comforting words!

Believers are not vulnerable to demon possession since they have the permanent indwelling of the Holy Spirit [1 Corinthians 6:19]. Only unbelievers are vulnerable to demon possession.

Ø Satan personal intervention or decision to leave the body of a person he possessed [Matthew 12:24].

Ø Direct Divine intervention or command to the demons to leave the body of a person the demons possessed [Mark 5:8].

Ø Personal decision of the person possessed to believe and accept the Gospel. The baptism of the Holy Spirit automatically kicks out the demons from the body of man they possessed [1 Corinthians 3:16, 9:32-33].

The Lord Jesus Christ and His disciples CAST OUT demons to authenticate theirs divine calling- as proof of being servants of God. The Jews were looking for a sign of their calling.

The Greek verb for CAST OUT is EKBALLO  which is used in all account when Christ or His disciples CAST OUT demons.

The verb EXORKIZO, the derivative of English noun EXORCIST, and the Greek noun EXORKISTES, and its cognate verb HORKIZO, is used in reference to religious fakers who attempted to expel demons by uttering mysterious incantations [Acts 19:13-17, Matthew 7:22-23].

The Bible used EXORCIST for pagan Jews who attempted to evict demons by religious oaths and rituals.

Exorcism is never an indication of salvation or a sign of God’s approval or sign of spirituality. Exorcism and deliverance ministries are out of line with God’s plan.

THE APPARENT SUCCESS of those who engage in exorcism can be attributed either to the cooperation of Satan to leave or direct involvement of demons to evacuate the body of a person, or JUST A BIG HOAX.

PSEUDO CHRISTIANS and religious unbelievers are using exorcism as a heretical sign of divine favor and PSEUDO SPIRITUALITY to deceive the ignorant of Bible doctrine.

The Lord Jesus Christ warned that religious fakers who exorcise have no part with Him [Matthew 7:22-23].

The vast popularity of the modern exorcists is just preparation where they will mushroomed.

Satan has just begun empowering his fake healers like the nuns and priests, the miracle workers, the cultic healers.

The priority of the Lord Jesus Christ and the apostles was the Gospel and the Bible doctrine NOT EXORCISM.

FASTING IS THE INVENTION OF MAN and not commanded by God. Fasting was borrow by the exiled Jews in the early part of theirs Babylonian exiled to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem.

The Jewish exile had inserted the ceremony of fasting in the fifth month of the Jewish calendar. Later, they added fasting in the fourth, seventh and tenth month.

The ritualistic ceremonial rites of fasting took place without real meaning in the Old Testament time.

Zechariah raised a very timely and vital question; “Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain [ritualistic fasting] as I have done these many years? [170 years in captivity] (Zechariah 7:3b).

· The Jewish exiled fasted for 170 years of captivity but not for God [Zechariah 7:4-7].

· The Jews fasted but refused to pay attention to God and to His Bible doctrine [7:8-14].

· The Jews prayed and fasted but violated the Mosaic Laws and Word of God [8:1-17].

· Genuine prayer and fasting will have real meaning during the millennial kingdom [8:18-23].

TO FAST (nesteo) is to abstain from eating and used for voluntary fasting. Fasting is based on the free will decision of the positive volition believers.

CHRIST AND HIS DISCIPLES OBSERVED voluntary fast [like on the day of Atonement] but imposed no frequent fasts in addition [Matthew 9:15].

Christ taught the need of purity and simplicity of motive. What He taught was suitable to change the mental attitude. The very purpose He designed for all believers.

THE FAST OF ACTS 27:9 refers to the Day of Atonement of the Jews not a fasting instituted by the Church Age believers [Leviticus 16:29].

THE JEWISH BELIEVERS IN ACTS 13:2-3 had carried over to Church Age time the Jewish practice, which the LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE APOSTLES DID NOT COMMANDS the Christians to practice.

THE JEWISH EXILES IN BABYLON INVENTED & INSTITUTED FASTING but never commanded by God.

FASTING WAS NEVER A SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT and it has no spiritual relevance in the Old Testament and today.

We are not more spiritual if we fast and we are not less spiritual if we do not fast. When it comes to our spiritual life, BIBLE DOCTRINE IS TOP PRIORITY not fasting.

The Hebrew noun “MASIAH” that means ANOINTED ONE was used only for Jesus Christ [Psalm 2:2, 18:50, 89:38].

MASIAH was used figuratively for king Saul as the LORD’S ANOINTED [1 Samuel 24:6] and Cyrus as HIS ANOINTED [Isaiah 45:1].

GREEK VERBS FOR ANOINTING: MURIZO, meaning to anoint the body for burial [Luke 7:46, Mark 14:8]

“You did not anoint [ELAION] MY head with oil, but she anointed [MURON] MY feet with perfume (embalming ointment)”.

EPICHRIO, to rub on used for the blind man when Jesus healed him from blindness [John 9:6, 11]. ENCHRIO  to rub in, or to smear with the eyes of the LAODICEANS meaning to beautify it [Revelation 3:18]. ALEIPHO used for an anointing of any kind:

b. Anointing of the sick that is to heal [Mark 6:13, James 5:14] by applying some medicinal ointment or oil,

CHRIO confided to sacred and symbolic anointing of Christ as the ANOINTED ONE OF GOD [Luke 4:18, Acts 4:27, 10:38, Hebrews 1:9]

CHRISMA  a Greek noun stands for ANOINTED ONE meaning Christ, standing by metonymy for the Person Himself (as for the Holy Spirit), [1 John 2:20, 27, Daniel 9:26].

CHRIO refers to the work of the Holy Spirit at the point of salvation imputing righteousness of God to the believer.

ANOINTING is the exclusive work of God for man. MAN CANNOT ANOINT AN OBJECT OR A PERSON FOR GOD.

THERE IS NO COMMAND FOR THE BELIEVERS TO ANOINT ANOTHER PERSON TO DO SERVICE FOR GOD.

THE BELIEVERS HAS NO POWER, AUTHORITY, OR COMMISSION TO ANOINT AN OBJECT OR A PERSON FOR GOD.

A PERSON ANOINTED BY A SO CALLED “ANOINTED PERSON” IS NOT HOLY IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.

TO CLAIM THAT YOU HAVE THE POWER OR AUTHORITY TO ANOINT ANOTHER PERSON FOR GOD IS HIGH LEVEL ARROGANCE!

SUICIDE is the act of killing oneself on purpose. There are two (2) kinds of suicide: the honorable suicide and dishonorable suicide.

HONORABLE SUICIDE refers to suicide missions designated as a military action or operation that is certain to result in the death of the persons involved, like a suicide missions inside the enemy territory.

DISHONORABLE SUICIDE refers to a suicide in a moment of extreme fear, extreme despair or deep anxiety, the result of which is often ruinous to one’s own interests.

TWO BELIEVERS committed suicide but different in category. Samson’s was of honorable purpose [Judges 16:30], but king Saul’s was of dishonorable purpose [1 Samuel 31:4].

ABIMELECH (the son of Gideon) committed suicide because of failures in his political career [Judges 9:54].

The armor bearer of king Saul committed suicide as sympathy to failure of his master [1 Samuel 31:5].

AHITHOPHEL, (private counselor of king David) resolved to commit suicide because unfulfilled dreams and ambitions [2 Samuel 17:23].

ZIMRI, (servant of king ELAH) also resolved to die by suicide because of political failures [1 Kings 16:18].

ONLY SAMSON died in the state of spirituality, from weakness was made strong [Hebrews 11:32,34].

THE REST OF THEM refused to accept defeat and failure –and was overcome by emotion.

ONLY GOD has the authority and right to terminate our biological life on earth. The time and manner of our physical death is divine prerogative.

SUICIDE IS COWARDICE to face the trials and pains of life. It is not an escape from reality.

SUICIDE MAY RESOLVE TO MORE SUFFERINGS and problems rather than solve the present problem. It will hurt your love ones more than your self.

SUICIDE IS FAILURE to know and utilize the divine solutions God has provided to every believer. We are not left in this world without divine resources.

SUICIDE IS HUMAN SOLUTION that actually is not a solution but a trap from Satan.

SUICIDE IS EMOTION that kicks out reason and truth. It is emotion out of control and reality.

SUICIDE IS THE REJECTION OF GOD’S PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE and acceptance of satanic schemes to resolve human problems.

The Scripture speaks specifically only have two birthdays, both were from royal family and pagan family. The first was pharaoh, who declared an amnesty on his birthday [Genesis 40:20]. The second was Herod ANTIPAS, in whose birthday revelry, John the Baptist was beheaded as a gift for HERODIAS [lady Herod].

The celebration of the anniversary of one’s birth is universal practice, originating from early Egyptian era, passed to Church Age believers.

Under the Mosaic Laws, age was the chief qualification for authority and office. This implies that the Jews of the Old Testament and New Testament times kept record of theirs birth [John 9:21 Luke 2:42].

The Jews had recorded theirs date of birth as time reference and as per requirement of the Roman Laws that requires counting of birthdays.

However, there is no recorded birth -day celebration of any kind among the Old Testament believers.

There is no recorded birthday or anniversary celebration of any kind among the New Testament saints.

THE CELEBRATION OF BIRTHDAY AND ANNIVERSARY ORIGINATED FROM PAGAN RELIGIONS NOT FROM SCRIPTURE OR BELIEVERS.

Birthday or anniversary celebration is a big financial burden for most believers.

Church anniversary celebration is not only a financial burden for church members but entirely not Scriptural.

Giving a lavish birthday celebration promotes the uplifts the arrogance and ego of many.

Lavish birthday celebration is only waste of money, time, effort and energy after all you cannot every body.

The believer does not live for this world or for the things of this world but for God. We are here to please God and not men [Colossians 3:2-3]. The world is not our home, but we are the citizens of heaven. We are to set in our souls the heavenly things as our top priority in life. [Philippians 3:20, Colossians 3:2].

The believers are the stewards of God’s logistical blessing. Therefore we must properly dispose our own resources for eternal and profitable things things that are eternal in values.

OBSERVING DAYS, months, days or season is a direct disobedience to God and His Word [Galatians 4:9-10].

The believers are no longer slaves of the cosmic systems. We are no longer the blind followers of satanic traditions, trends, religious rituals, trends and practices.

The issue here is not financial but spiritual. WE DO NOT CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY AND ANNIVERSARY BECAUSE IT IS NOT BIBLICAL. It is not spiritual to celebrate.

There is nothing spiritual about church anniversary celebration. It is not biblical.

THE SO CALLED MUSIC MINISTERS have infiltrated the churches with their heretical music and practices such as “SPIRITUAL DANCING”.

THEY CLAIMED THAT DANCING IS AN EXPRESSION OF WORSHIP and legitimate in the church because it glorifies God.

A careful study of Psalm 149 and 150 reveals that the context refers to Israel after the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ NOT for Church Age Christians. The setting of the text is the millennial kingdom not the Church Age era.

GENUINE PRAISE AND WORSHIP IS POSSIBLE ONLY in the absence of unrighteousness in the world. Ecstatic worship is not possible in our time because of our old sinful nature.

Genuine praises, verbal expression, [such as singing doctrinal oriented music, new tongues], and physical expression [such as dancing] is the general characterize the people of God.

DAVID DANCED because the Ark of the Lord was going back to Jerusalem [2 Samuel 5:12-23].

DAVID DANCED BEFORE THE LORD –before the Ark of the Lord. It was a personal matter between him and God. Nobody told him, nobody commanded him, or asked him to dance. He danced from his free will volition [1 Chronicles 15:29].

DAVID DANCE IN THE STREET not inside the Temple or worship hall. Not during worship but in the street. Note the phrase “looked out of the window” of 2 Samuel 6:16. MICHAL saw the king, her husband from her window.

“The young girl will rejoice in their dance” [Jeremiah 31:13a] refers to revive Israel during the millennial kingdom not during the Church Age time.

The Lord Jesus Christ did not dance to worship. No disciples or apostles ever dance during worship. Old Testament believers did not dance during worship.

THERE IS NO COMMAND FOR THE CHURCH TO DANCE. Dancing can- not proclaimed or explained the Word of God.

Dancing is expressions of the body [body language] that invites sexual acts. In ancient times, dancing was associated with idol worship and temple sex [Exodus 32:19].

DO NOT SPIRITUALIZED THE THINGS OF THE WORLD SYSTEM -no matter how professional and “good” in the human eyes”, your dancing in the church it is still evil and unbiblical.

Emotional church musical rendition plus emotional dance expression is not by any means can become a spiritual experience.

Religion and dancing is twin, the two cannot separate. Where there is religion there is dancing. Since our nation is very religious, we have dancing anywhere.

Those who missed the dancing floors of disco pubs and bars will surely enjoy dancing in the church, especially the gays.

“THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE” [Hebrews 13:15] is one of the most distorted teachings in many churches today.

The phrase “the sacrifice of praise” was first used by Jeremiah [33:11] referring to animal sacrifice and to thank offering of the revive Israel during the millennial kingdom.

THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE refers to their [Israel] act of bringing animal sacrifices and offerings as expression of worship.

The phrase “JOYFUL LIPS” [Psalm 63:5b] is a figure of speech that denotes the soul [KARDIA] in the state of sharing the happiness of God.

The phrase “WITH THY PRAISE” also refers to a soul that is knows the happiness of God through the Word of God stored in his KARDIA and not by emotion [Psalm 71:8]. Take note, His praise, not the praise of men.

Both the JOYFUL LIPS and MOUTH FILLED WITH HIS PRAISE refers to soul with Bible doctrine.

Praises such as “PRAISE THE LORD, HALLELUJAH”, “GLORY TO GOD”, “PRAISE JESUS” and etc. are useless if it comes from the lips of the unbelievers.

CARNAL BELIEVERS who habitually praise God with religious phrases are just wasting theirs saliva –they are like noisy gongs and cymbals.

Such emotionally motivated and habitual mannerism of verbal praises does not glorify God rather it is using the name of the Lord in vain. The glory of God is intact within Himself, whether man praises Him or not. His glory does not depend on man.

GENUINE PRAISES TO GOD focuses on the Person and works of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. Real praise center on divine essence not on man who is worshiping [Psalm 7:17].

TRUE PRAISES is based on the Word of God [Psalm 56:4, 10] not on human faith or righteousness.

THE FRUITS OF THE LIPS comes from spiritual maturity of the souls that has been nurture with the Word of God [not from emotional experiences in our religion].

OVER PRAISING is when the lips of a person verbally expresses some religious phrase [like “praise the Lord] without knowledge of Bible doctrine. It is taking the name of the Lord in vain [Deuteronomy 5:11].

THE LIFE OF BELIEVERS INSIDE THE WILL, PLAN AND PURPOSE OF GOD IS THE LIFE THAT GLORIFIES GOD. Not just the lips that expresses some religious phrases [Matthew 15:8, Mark 7:6].

“THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME” [Mark 7:6].

OVER PRAISING is pure arrogance wrapped in hypocrisy of verbal and emotional expression apart from the Truth of God’s Word in his mind and heart. IT IS NOT A SIGN OF SPIRITUALITY BUT OF DEEP IGNORANCE OF BIBLE DOCTRINE AND CARNALITY.

LET YOUR WORDS BE SEASON WITH SALT [SALT is Bible doctrine not non-sense praises].

018 - RAISING HANDS

WHY DID DAVID raise his hands while praying? He lifted his hands toward the holy sanctuary [Jerusalem] in order to identify with the offering up of sacrifices by the priests since he was far away in exiled [Psalm 28:2, 63:2-4]. He prayed at the time the sacrifice was being made in Jerusalem.

David expressed his oneness with the evening sacrifice when he was away from the holy sanctuary. That is the reason why he raised his hands toward Jerusalem (not toward heaven) [Psalm 14:2].

NO! – Because the sacrifices of animals had ceased. The Lord Jesus Christ died to fulfill the sacrificial law- once and for all. He paid in full.

NO! – Because there is no command for us to raise our hands during worship or prayer.

NO! – Because physical posture has nothing to do with true worship. It is not sign of spirituality to raise your hands in worship or prayer.

THE LIFTING OF HANDS has nothing to do with genuine worship. The lifting of hands is not an expression of worship, it is not an element of worship and it is not a spiritual experience.

We do not become more spiritual if we raise our hands and we do not become less spiritual if we do not. It has nothing to contribute to our spiritual life or experience.

Lifting of hand in reference to everyday obedience to Bible doctrine [Psalm 119:48] as an expression of submission.

Lifting of hands in reference to priestly function of offering sacrifices in the altar or [Psalm 134:2] as an expression of identifying himself to the sacrifice.

Lifting of hands referring to David personal volition to lean toward God and toward His Word [Psalm 143:6].

Lifting of hands in prayer refers to the Church Age believer’s act of praying for others the ministry of intercession for the lost [1 Timothy 2:8].

The above-mentioned categories of lifting hands are figurative never literal and physical.

Believers do not have to raise theirs hands to show off positive volition toward God and His Word.

We do not have to raise our hands while praying because “LIFTING UP HOLY HANDS” means to pray for the lost [1 Timothy 2:8].

Christianity is not a religion that blindly follows practices, rituals, traditions invented and taught by man.

We have to examine every ritual, every practice, every tradition, and everything the preachers are proclaiming as the Word of God. We are not blind followers following blind leaders.

MUSIC in the Old Testament had accompanied all of Jewish life and it was parallel practices in other religious systems.

TRAINED MUSICIANS appeared around the time of Solomon in the Temple worship with elaborated adaptation of pagan rituals and practices.

No untrained musicians were commissioned and given responsibility. Professionalism was the rule in the Temple services.

The Temple Choir was consisted only of 12 male adults above 30 years old. No young people or female were involved.

A handful of New Testament passages provide us information how music was performed during the early church:

No disciple or apostle mentioned the existence of choir or any person giving a special number during worship.

Their music was short and doctrinal in nature. It was actually Bible doctrine preaching added with melody [Acts 16:25, 1 Corinthians 14:15, 26].

The priority of the Lord Jesus Christ was to teach Bible doctrine not to teach church music [Ephesians 5:19].

Both in the Old and New Testament, music did not take the center-stage of theirs spiritual life. The center of our spiritual life is the Word of God.

Modern day religious music is devious and deceitful. MUSIC MINISTERS are skillful in manipulating and captivating ignorant followers into emotional and ecstatic experience. They can easily sway the life of the church into a new dimension of religious experience with out spirituality.

The priority of every local church is to teach Bible doctrine using the 4 basic systematic approaches to biblical studies: exegetical, exegetical, historical and grammatical methods

The local church is robbing the believers not only with their precious time, energy and resources but also with spiritual blessing in eternity.

THE “HOLY ENTERTAINMENT” [musical presentations, concerts, choirs, etc], provided by some churches are not only diverting the focus of believers to the Lord but also substituting God with church celebrities [church singers].

CHURCH MUSICIANS are always the source of problems and conflicts in the congregation. They are often the most carnal and arrogant.

Music does not prepare the heart and soul for worship. Filing of the Holy Spirit is the only preparation we need for worship. We are filled with the Holy Spirit by rebound not by asking God to fill us with Holy Spirit. Music only excites the emotion of man.

021 - THE PHRASE “GOD BLESS YOU”

IT IS DIVINE PREROGATIVE TO BLESS or not to bless. He bless according to divine essence –His perfect standard, unaffected by what a man does or not [Genesis 49:25].

GOD BLESSES HIS PEOPLE [the saved or regenerated] not all the people, according to what a man demands or asks in prayer [Psalm 29:11b]. Man has no power or authority to compel God to grand or answer their request to bless a person or group of people.

GOD WILL NOT HEAR THE REQUEST OF THE UNBELIEVERS for blessings except the blessing of salvation.

ALL BELIEVERS ARE UNDER THE DIVINE BLESSING of logistical grace. Logistical grace is the divine provision for material and spiritual needs of all believers necessary for their existent while in the world.

God Made Covenant with Abraham to bless Israel [Genesis 12:2-3, 22:17 26:3]- not Abraham but God. Man is not in position to make Covenant with God.

Isaac pronounced blessings to his sons based on that Covenant, but the blessing was conditional: “If they live by the Covenant”.

Moses pronounced blessing for Israel but the blessing was possible only if they live by the Covenant, that is, if they live according to the Word of God [Numbers 6:24-25, Deuteronomy 1:11, 15:4].

God is blessing the believers based on the righteousness He imputed at the point of salvation- not because of our effort to please God.

All believers by position in Christ are already blessed. The life we have received from God is accompanied by more than 40 blessings. God is waiting to bless His children.

To receive the blessings from God –man must be adjusted to the justice of God. There are three adjustments to the justice of God.

For all unbelievers: the adjustment of salvation, that is, salvation in Christ alone, by faith alone.

For growing believers: the adjustment of spiritual advancement toward maturity by continuous intake of Bible doctrine.

TO BLESS GOD is not just verbal or written expression of magical religious words such as PRAISE THE LORD, but to live inside the will, purpose, plan and system of God while moving toward the goal of spiritual maturity.

God blesses the positive volition believers so that they can glorify God in time and eternity [Psalm 16:7, 34:8, 145:1, 21].

Therefore, the phrase GOD BLESS YOU is exclusive for growing and advancing believers living in the will, purpose and plan of God.

GOD BLESS YOU is not for unbelievers and not for carnal believers under divine discipline. Man has no power, authority to grant blessing to another person.

Man has no power or authority to ask God to bless anybody –no matter how spiritual he is. To bless a person or not is a divine prerogative.

The scripture forbids us to have fellowship with God to have fellowship with unbelievers who have rejected the Gospel of salvation. They attached the title CHRISTIAN to themselves but denied the power of Christ to save. They are the unbelievers among the believers [2 John 7-11]. They are the goats among the sheep. The Scripture commands us to expose apostasy [Ephesians 5:11] in the light of God’s Word.

The Scripture mandated believers not to YOKE TOGETHER IN ANY SPIRITUAL ENDEAVOR [2 Corinthians 6:14-18]. The term yoke in this context refers to any spiritual endeavor.

Believers are commanded to separate from DISOBEDIENT BRETHREN who made decision not follow the Word of God. THOSE WHO DISOBEY THE WILL, PLAN, OR PURPOSE OF GOD in their lives [Matthew 18:15-17, 1 Cor. 5:11, 1 Timothy 6:3-5 and 2 Thessalonians 3:6].

God’s work done in God’s way and God’s time produces good result. God’s work done in man’s way in man’s time produces bad results.

Believers and unbelievers doing the work of God in God’s way produce only bad results. Believers and carnal believers doing the work of God in God’s way produce only bad results.

Believers who apply human ability and resources in doing the work of God will produce only bad results. We obey God by not affiliating our local church with apostate churches, mission or evangelistic effort, which is ecumenical in nature and purpose.

We obey the Word of God by not affiliating our church with those who do not practice Biblical separation. We cannot join the heretics, the schematics and backsliders on reason because the Holy Spirit will never work in the life of believers contrary to the will of God.

The will of god for the local church is not ecumenicalism, or political unity of all believers, not inter-nationalism, not inter-denominationalism. Christians must concentrate on Bible doctrine-the top priority of all believers in the world. We must refuse to waste the logistical blessing for spiritual growth by useless inter-fellowship with the apostate.

THERE IS ONLY ONE FAITH and that faith is the Bible doctrine given by God written in the pages of the Bible.

THERE IS ONLY ONE BIBLE DOCTRINE but many church doctrines and if their doctrine is not Bible doctrine, then we cannot accept them. We cannot have fellowship with them.

ONLY BIBLE DOCTRINE IS PERFECT and all church doctrines are corrupt and misleading -deceiving people.

Biblical separation is justified because God cannot tolerate any compromise when it comes to our spiritual life.

God separated Israel by calling them out Egypt into the wilderness [literal] and made His own people.

God separate the Church as His own people. Believers are in the world but not of the world. We are on earth but we must live for the things above. We cannot obey God without separation.

PROSPERITY THEOLOGY is the belief that God wanted every believer to be financially prosperous in this world. Some claimed that the Bible promises tremendous material blessing for every believer.

MATERIAL PROSPERITY IS NOT A SIGN OF SPIRITUALITY OR VIBRANT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. The top 200 most riches people of the world are unbelievers.

The Bible does not teach such doctrine [prosperity theology] but rather rebuke the selfish ambitious of the believers to become rich. Believers are warned not to double time to become materially prosperous.

BUT THOSE WHO WANT TO GET RICH FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A SNARE AND MANY FOOLISH AND HARMFUL DESIRES WHICH PLUNGE MEN INTO RUIN AND DESTRUCTION [1 Timothy 6:9]

Material prosperity is very dangerous for immature and carnal Christians. It is a snare that drags believers into a deep pit of spiritual stagnation.

Genuine promotion comes from the Lord. Self-made success is never long lasting and often filled with miseries and pains.

Everything in this world is a matter of God’s grace not of human effort to improve or promote him.

FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY IS A ROOT OF ALL SORTS OF EVIL, AND SOME BY LONGING FOR IT HAVE WANDERED AWAY FROM THE FAITH AND PIERCED THEMSELVES MANY A PANG [1 Timothy 6:10]

The lovers of money will find it hard to love God with their entire mind, with all their soul and all of the heart.

THE LOVER OF MONEY are pretending as LOVERS OF GOD and teaching wealth and health doctrines to deceive the unsuspecting. They are using the Bible in their fraudulent scheme to earn big amount of money from their ignorant followers [1 Timothy 6:3-9].

They invented the so-called SPIRITUAL SEED MONEY, FAITH OFFERING, LOVE GIFT and numerous terms to deceive their followers.

God does not prosper a believer because he tithes. The Old Testament believers paid their tithes but God did not prosper them all.

God is perfect and His standard is perfect. We cannot adjust to God’s standard by imperfect tithing or giving offering.

Tithing was for Old Testament Jews not for Church Age believers. We are not Jews and we are not under Mosaic Laws. Tithing was never a spiritual act but an obligatory national religious taxation for all Jews- believers and unbelievers alike.

Most religion teaches physical and material prosperity in the world. Pagan religion emphasizes on prosperity disguises as spirituality.

Material prosperity in the world is not a sign of spirituality or good relationship with God. Poverty is not a sign of carnality or poor relationship with God.

GOD LEFT US IN THE WORLD not to accumulate wealth for ourselves. And as long we are in flesh [corrupted with old sinful nature] we shall remain sickly and weak.

HOW DOES A SONG BECOME A SPIRITUAL SONG? There are four things that determine the spirituality of a song:

FIRST, The composer and singer/s must be both regenerated and spirit-filled believers.

SECOND, The lyrics of the song must be an expression of Bible doctrine resident in the soul of both the singer and composer.

THIRD, The lyric of the song must be doctrinally correct and consistent with the Word of God as a whole.

FOURTH, The central point of the message of the song must be the essence or character of God and the works of God.

The focus of any so called Christian music must be the essence or nature of God and His perfect work, not human passion, desire or ambition to work for God or to serve God through ministry with men.

SPIRITUAL SONG is a song based on the Scripture written and sang by mature believers [Colossians 3:16, Ephesians 5:19]. Singers in the Old Testament Temple were adult male not below 30 years old, no youth or female choir members.

The purpose of the local church is not to refresh or unload the cares of believer but to know God and His will for our life. The local church is not an entertainment theater to applause and gives recognition to talented but carnal believers. The church is not for the lonely in hearts to relax but a school to learn Bible doctrine.

Christian music or song is basically preaching and proclaiming Bible doctrine and not to entertain people.

The purpose of singing spiritual song is to teach the plan, the will and purpose of God. Spiritual song is for SINGING PREACHERS TO PROCLAIM THE WORD OF GOD with melody. Singers are also preachers of the Gospel and Bible doctrine.

PRAISE IS NOT JUST VERBAL EXPRESSION OF THE TONGUE BUT THE EXPRESSION OF GRATEFUL SOUL BASED ON PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. GENUINE PRAISE COMES FROM THE SOUL MOTIVATED BY THE WORD OF GOD [COLOSSIANS 3:16].

Praising God is always connected to what the Lord has done- we do not praise God for nothing. The cult of Christian music glorifies the celebrated singers or song leaders. The church can exist with the three essentials (salvation, spirituality and Scripture), even without gifted singers and dynamic song leaders.

The Church is being deceived by music that is doctrinally incorrect. We must examine every line of the song to see if they fit into the truth of the Bible.

Beware of music that uplifts the feet and upbeat the hands but stagnate the soul. Emotionally touching songs are capable of bringing the mood of the congregation into different emotional experience. ONLY BIBLE DOCTRINE IS CAPABLE OF GIVING US A GENUINE WORSHIP EXPERIENCE.

Whenever we sing spiritual song, let God alone be the center of our souls, not the song or worship leaders, not the singers.

The teaching of traditional religion about the day the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified is fictitious and purely unbiblical. JESUS CHRIST DID NOT DIE ON THAT PARTICULAR FRIDAY. Let us consider the following truth:

The Jews measure their days from sun –down to sundown [from 6:00 PM to 6:00 PM], not from midnight to midnight [12:00 MN to 12:00 MN].

On that week, from 6:00 PM Tuesday to 6:00 PM Wednesday was the Feast of the Passover. The Passover lamb was slain [1 Corinthians 5:7] and the memorial meal was eaten on Tuesday night, [not on traditional Thursday], the eve and the preparation for the actual Passover which fell on Wednesday [not on traditional Friday].

The Jews celebrated the Passover once a year every Wednesday of the Jewish month of NISIN [April], which is the last week of the 50 days celebration of Jewish religion. Gregorian calendar was not yet in used them.

That particular Wednesday was also the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread described in John 19:31, designed also as the preparation day for the rest of the week [Exodus 12:11, Leviticus 23:6-7]

That particular Thursday and Friday was designated as Jewish holy days as no worship or killing days, which they cannot violate by having somebody, hang and died on a cross. THERE WAS NO CRUCIFIXION THAT FRIDAY.

Jesus was in the tomb for three days and three nights (72 hours) based on the veracity of the Scripture [Matthew 12:40, 1 Corinthians 15:4].

If Jesus Christ was crucified and buried before 6:00 PM of Friday and was resurrected on early Sunday morning- then He was dead and buried in the tomb for only one and half (1½) day and not three days and three nights as declared by the Word of God.

The Word of God cannot lie. The Bible is the Truth not the teaching of self-righteous men who invented foolish church doctrines.

We also reject the teaching about Resurrection on Sunday because He rose from the death not on Sunday early morning. Jesus Christ did not die on Friday and He did not rise from the grave on Sunday.

We have to reject the traditional views and teaching of holy week because of its erroneous and fictitious nature.

We reject the teaching of traditional Good Friday because Jesus Christ was crucified during the Passover as the Lamb of God.

Jesus Christ rose from the grave before 6:00 PM of Saturday because 6:01 PM was already Sunday. He was in the tomb for 3 days and 3 nights. If Christ was buried on Friday, then, He was in the tomb for 1½ day only.

When it comes to spiritual truth, the Bible is always the authority not the church dogmatic teachings

Jesus Christ and His disciples went to Bethany six (6) days before the Passover [John 12:1-11].

On the next day, five (5) days before the Passover, Jesus Christ and His disciples entered Jerusalem [John 12:12].

If the Passover was celebrated on the first Wednesday of April, therefore, Jesus Christ and His disciples entered Jerusalem on Saturday (not Sunday).

THERE WAS NO PALM SUNDAY SINCE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ENTERED JERUSALEM ON SATURDAY AND NOT ON SUNDAY.

The Lord Jesus led the apostles in celebrating the Passover mean on the eve of Passover. They ate the Passover meal before 6:00 PM of Tuesday since 6:01 PM is already Wednesday.

For reference, take note that in Luke 23:44, 12:00 NN is sixth hour and 3:00 PM is ninth hour. Also, 5:00 PM is the eleventh hour.

There was no Good Friday because Jesus Christ was hanging and died on the cross on Wednesday.

There was no Ash Wednesday in the Bible. No writer of the Scriptures ever mentioned it.

There was not Black Saturday in the Bible. No writer of the Scripture ever mentioned anything about it. God did not die. It was the humanity of Christ that was slain. His perfect humanity died spiritually. His Deity cannot die.

The early Church did not celebrate Ash Wednesday, Holy and Good Friday, Black Saturday and Easter Sunday.

The Bible mandated the believers to celebrate only two symbolic rituals: namely the Lord’s Supper and water Baptism by immersion.

Satan is the master of deception and two of his favorite schemes are seclusion of believers and substitution in the area of truth, teachings, and practices.

He secludes the genuine believer from the truth or he secludes the truth from the believers. He hides them behind the bushes of lies and deception.

He brings something that looks like the genuine or truth and replaces it. Satan wanted to displace all the truth in the hearts of believers something that is exactly the look alike. Denominational doctrines are nothing but look alike of the Biblical truth.

The apostle Peter was well aware of his role and function in the infant Church. He never claimed himself as the highest leader or the first Pope of the Church [1 Peter 5:1].

Peter challenged the local church leaders to serve freely and without motivation for sordid gain [1 Peter 5:2]. He did not assume the role of an overall leader.

Peter rebuked the local church leaders for their greed for power. He warned the potential abuser of authority and dictators [1 Peter 5:3].

He encouraged the demonstration of genuine humility [1 Peter 5:5, Philippians 2:3-9] among fellow saints.

PETER REFUSED TO RECEIVE HONOR AND GLORY from men. He rejected all forms of human approbation [Acts 10:25-26].

Peter was sharply rebuked by the Lord Jesus Christ for his pride and ignorance of divine will and divine purpose [Matthew 16:23].

Apostle Paul rebuked Peter for his double-mindedness and hypocrisy that almost mislead others [Galatians 2:11-14].

Peter never went to Rome not even for a short visit –since he was an apostle for the Jews not for the Gentiles. If he was in Rome, then could never left him out in his greetings in Romans 16.

Peter was never the head of the Church [Revelation 16:18-19, Psalm 61:2-3, Revelation 3:7]. The Pope is the successor of Peter.

There is no Biblical record that peter visited Rome and that he shared the same prison cell in Rome. Paul was beheaded alone in Rome not together with Peter.

Peter was not a Pope because he was never a Roman Catholic. The Roman Catholic priestly system was installed only in A.D. 294 or 270 years after the dead of Peter.

Peter cannot be a Roman Catholic or Pope because his view of priesthood is contrary to the Roman Catholic system and traditions [1 Peter 2:5,9].

The apostle Peter is not the gate -keeper of heaven. The KEYS of Matthew 16:19 is the Gospel of salvation. By believing a person receive access to heaven, by rejection a person is condemn to hell by his own choice, not by decision of Peter.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church [Colossians 1:18] not Peter or the Pope. Christ alone has the power to reconcile men to Himself, not the apostle Peter [Colossians 1:20].

Apostle Peter was crucified upside down and beheaded when he was already dead because he lived based on Bible doctrine, which is contrary to traditional viewpoint of the Romans.

“You are Peter (PETROS, a tiny stone), and upon this rock (PETRA, a great mass of solid rock) I will build MY Church” [Matthew 16:18]. JESUS CHRIST IS THE ROCK of offense [1 Peter 2:6-8, Romans 9:33].

THERE ARE SIX Mary in the Gospels. The famous of which is MARY THE MOTHER OF CHRIST’S HUMANITY, who did not claim herself as the mother of God.

The Lord Jesus Christ did not call her as the mother of God. No writer of the Scripture ever called her the mother of God. She is the mother of Jesus not the mother of God.

Mary did not claim herself as mediator between sinners and God. The Lord Jesus did not address her as the mediator between man and God.[3] No writer of the Scripture addressed her as the mediator [1 Timothy 2:5, John 14:6].

Nowhere in the Bible Mary is called the mother of God. Christ did not mention that she is the mother of God.

The Roman Catholics officially adapted HAIL MARY in A.D. 1508[4] [see Romans 8:34 and Hebrews 7:25, 9:24].

Mary is not the GATE OF HEAVEN and that no one can see heaven without passing through her [see Acts 4:12 and John 14:6].

Mary the mother of Jesus has genuine humility. The writers of Scripture did not ascribe to her titles that belong to God alone. She is not above all the woman but a sinner just like anybody else [Luke 1:47].

Mary was a sinner but forgiven because she trusted Jesus as her Savior. Only Jesus Christ was born without sin (without old sinful nature). Mary was born sinner just like the rest of humanity [Luke 1:46, 1 John 1:8-10].

The dogma of Immaculate Conception of Mary was officially adapted in A.D. 1854 by Pope Pious IX[5].

Jesus Christ is the only Person who ascended to heaven in His resurrected body being the FIRST BORN AMONG THE RESURRECTED. Christ ascended to heaven with witnesses looking up to Him [Acts 1:9-11].

There are seven resurrections in the Bible. The first was history since Jesus ascended to heaven. The second is yet to come- the rapture of the Church.

If Mary ascended without the Bible predicting is very questionable. How come the Vatican formulated the dogma of Mary’s ascension only in 1950? Why Pope Pious XII was forced to sign it[6].

Mary the mother of Jesus is not a virgin forever because she gave birth to several sons and daughters after the birth of Jesus [Matthew 13:54-56, Mark 6:3, John 7:5].

HOMOSEXUALS ARE NOT BORN but made. God created a 100% male and a 100% female –nobody in between. After creating man, God said, “It is very good”.

HOMOSEXUALS ARE MADE, and it begins at home. Homosexuality is not biological. There is no such thing as abnormal DNA or cell that triggers such malady. Homosexuality is a mental attitude sin, resulting from build-up of satanic doctrine in the soul.

Homosexuality is spiritual sin, under the same category as idolatry, lying, hatred, envy, etc. The homosexual are not more sinful or less sinful. ALL MEN ARE EQUAL when it comes to standing before God. WE ARE ALL SINNERS.

God gave them over in the lusts of theirs hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them [Romans 1:24].

Just like anyone who is filled with lust, they corrupt the Word of God [Romans 1:25].

God gave them over to degrading passions; that they exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural. They burned in their desire toward one another of same sex [Romans 1:26-27]. They receive in their own persons the due penalty of their error they have loss their human integrity.

God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things, which are not proper [Romans 1:28]. They are motivated to do improper things.

Homosexuals are filled with all types of unrighteousness, deceit, murder, envy fornication, wickedness, maliciousness and malignity, malice, strife [Romans 1:29].

Homosexuals are gossipers, slanderers and backbiters, haters of God, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, covenant breakers, unloving, unmerciful, implacable, without understanding and compromisers with evil [Romans 1:29c-32].

Homosexuality leads to more serious problems like alcoholism and drugs, seduction of kids, masochism, sadism, incest, AIDS, serious psychological damages, satanic possession, crimes, and many more.

Christians must disagree with the new morality. Reject homosexuality but accept the person.

032 - CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

GOD HIMSELF authorized retaliation laws of punishment for crimes, administered by duly appointed authority (government) as part of divine establishment that insure freedom, security and peace within a national entity which provides precedence for remembering the victim.

GOD HIMSELF instituted government for man [Genesis 9:5-]. He authorizes capital punishment as a consequence to the crime of murder [Genesis 9:6a]. The divine reason-viewpoint for the implementation of the death penalty is stated in Genesis 9:6 b and James 3:8b.

The IMAGE OF GOD and the LIKENESS OF GOD refers to soul life of every person, therefore, he who unjustly kills a man dishonor God-the Creator of all life.

All form of government and types of leadership comes from God [Romans 13:1], which authority has been given and delegated by God to carry out the purpose for which He established it [Daniel 2:20-21].

Satan is the author of rebellion, and all forms or resistance against established authority. Those who opposed any established authority has opposed the word of God and they will receive the condemnation upon themselves [Romans 13:2].

The national government is justified to sentence a criminal guilty of heinous crime to die by execution for several reasons:

The government of the people was instituted by God to insure freedom, security and peace [Genesis 9:5-6, James 3:9b, Daniel 2:20-21].

The government is responsible for the enactment and enforcement of laws and including the capital punishment.

WHOEVER SHEDS MAN’S BLOOD, BY MAN (GOVERNMENT) HIS BLOOD SHALL BE SHED (CAPITAL PUNISHMENT) [EXODUS 21:23, 12].

God is perfectly just and righteous. All men are equally sinful before God. All men are under the SENTENCE OF JUDGMENT [2 Corinthians 1:9], so, all men are criminals in the eyes of God.

JUDGMENT (KRIMA which meanssentence) is a decision passed on the sin of others. KRIMA is especially designated the sentence from God toward men [2 Peter 2:3]. KATADIKE is the divine judicial judgment for a person sentence to eternal damnation by the ONLY TRUE AND PERFECT JUDGE [Acts 25:15].

Since criminal instinct is present in every human being, therefore, all men are under condemnation, unless acquitted by the grace of God [Romans 8:1].

Men will go to hell because they have rejected the grace of God, not because they are criminals found guilty by the human court.

Believers are mandated to exercise virtue impersonal love towards all men criminal or not.

Study also: Exodus 21:12, 23-24, 22:20, Deuteronomy 13:4-5, 17:8-12, 22:20, 22:25-27.

033 - STO. NINO

STO. NINO according to traditional religion is the representation of Jesus Christ true humanity.

STO, NINO is not the representation of the Lord Jesus Christ BUT ONLY THE ASSUMED REPRESENTATION because of the following reasons:

ITS IDENTITY IS UNCLEAR. There are too many forms from here and around the world. Almost every community has their own version- representing a different a people.

JESUS CHRIST DID NOT REMAIN A CHILD. It is ridiculous to say that the Lord Jesus remained a little boy.

JESUS CHRIST DID NOT MINISTER to man not until after His baptism or when He was 30 years old.

CHRIST DID NOT HAVE MANY FACES like the STO. NINO scattered around us. Even the unsold plastic dolls in the market are being converted into STO. NINO.

JESUS CHRIST IS NOT A SAINT. Saint is a living regenerated believer [Colossians 1:1, Philippians 1:1-2], once a sinner before God but by faith received the free gift of salvation.

IT IS TREATED irreverently. They just put it anywhere- inside the motel rooms, karaoke bars, sauna cubicles, drinking saloons, etc. GRO, swindlers,

IT HAS BEEN COMMERCIALIZED. Some barter it for wrappers of soaps, toothpaste, etc. They are peddling it and even available for installment.

STO. NINO is nothing but superstition because of so many baseless claimed attributed to it. Its various form is often similar to pagan deities.

Its miracles are often doubtful and ridiculous contrary to the will and plan of God.

Its miracles are often inconsistent with God’s perfect character and way of doing things.

Its miracles are not the act of God for it did not point to the way of salvation [Job 1:16, 19, 2:7, Rev. 13:1-4, 11-15].

Its messages leads the blind devotees astray and depriving them with the precious truth of God’s Word [Deuteronomy 13:1-3].

Like all the other icons, it is nothing but the worship of pagan gods [Exodus 20:4-5, Acts 17:29-30, Psalm 135:15-18, Revelation 21:8].

ALL THE VENERATION, ADORATION, PRAISE, WORSHIP, AND OFFERING ON STO. NINO IS SACRIFICES TO DEMONS AND NOT TO GOD [1 Corinthians 10:20].

It is ridiculous that even the street kids have their very own STO. NINO DE PALABOY.

The STO. NINO is not cute and harmless because it is an object of demonic worship and household god representing the Devil.

THE PHRASE “laying of hands” on somebody could mean: “to kill, to murder or to destroy” [Genesis 22:12, 37:22, Nehemiah 13:21, Job 9:33].

ANOTHER meaning of the Hebrew SHALACH or “laying of hands” is to attack the enemies [Joshua 8:19, 26].

The phrase lying of hands was used in reference to Jacob’s ritual ceremony of blessing the heirs (when the grantor was dying). The laying of hands originated from the Egyptians not from the believers of Old Testament.

In the Tabernacle, the laying of hands [CAMAK in Hebrew] was used as a symbolic substitution of priestly act designed to transfer sin from man to animals sacrificed at the altar [Leviticus 3:2,8,13, 4:4, 15,24, 6:12, 16:21, 24:14].

The laying of hands were used in the Old Testament for ordination of kings and prophets, adapted by the New Testament early believers for ordination of missionaries- men who were spiritually mature and capable of leading a local church [Acts 13:1-3, 1 Timothy 4:14, 5:22].

The laying of hands was used during the early Church Age by apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ in relation to their ministry of healing the sick [Mark 16:18, Luke 20:19] as authentication of their apostolic calling. Since the lying of hands was common practices of the Old Testament prophets, there fore it was widely accepted by the unbelieving Jews of the early Church Age [Matthew 9:18, Acts 8:18-19]

After the book of Acts, there are no mentioned of laying of hands for the sick, demon-possessed or for the problematic. The prophecy of Mark 16:18 were fulfilled in the apostolic era. The Bible is closed- the Canon is completed. The lesser gifts of the Spirit (tongues, healing and miracles) have already ceased [Hebrew 6:2 1 Corinthians 13:8b].

The sign gifts are for the unbelieving Jews [1 Corinthians 14:1-19] and not for the believers of the Church Age. We are not Jews. There are several principles that we have to remember related to laying of hands.

The historical inferior sign gifts are no longer applicable to Church Age. It is doing what God has already stopped.

There is no command for us to lay hands to heal the sick, to cast out demons, to rebuke human problems, to anoint or to bless anybody.

The laying of hands has no spiritual relevance; it is not a symbol of spiritual truth.

The laying of hands is not Biblical doctrine since its authority had already lapsed. The laying of hands is not a symbol of spiritual authority.

The laying of hands is an ecumenical practice – now widely circulated among the cults and pagan. Everybody seems using it for his personal benefits.

Our priority is not to lay hands but to grow and mature spirituality through consistent study of the Bible doctrine.

We are to examine every teaching, every ritual and every practice. We have to investigate every teaching and everything we do in the church- to see if it is Biblical doctrine.

035 - THE APOCRYPHA

THE APOCRYPHA includes 14 books added to the Septuagint and also found in the Vulgate but not in the Hebrew Canon. It came from nowhere 280 after the Hebrew Canon was close.

APOCRYPHA means a secret or spurious teaching. It was originally written in Greek [except for some portion of BARUCH, JUDITH, TOBIT and First MACCABEES and ECCLESIASTICUS which were written in poor Aramaic].

The Apocrypha was not included in the Canon because of its imperfect and poor historical background and setting.

No writer of the Scriptures ever quoted or mentioned anything from the books of the Apocrypha.

The Hebrew historian Josephus expressly excluded the Apocrypha books from the list of the sacred writings because they were spurious.

The Hebrew historian Eusebius also excluded the Apocryphal books in the list of sacred writings.

No mention of the Apocrypha was made in any catalogue of the Canonical books before the 5^th century because the Catholics slipped it in during the middle of 5^th century.

These books were never asserted to be divinely inspired or to possess divine authority in their contents.

No prophets were connected with these writings unlike the Old Testament Canon were written by a prophet, either by office or by gift or both.

It teaches doctrines and upholds practices, which are contrary to the Canon of the Scripture.

It teaches prayer and offering for the dead [2 MACCABEES 12:41-46] and the justification of suicide.

It teaches the atonement sin and salvation of the soul by almsgiving [ECCLESIASTICUS 3:33, 25-29] and justified the cruelty to slaves.

It advocates hatred of the Samaritans, sanctioned lying, encourage magical incantations, it encourage and justified assassination. It teaches the doctrine of purgatory and angelic power for intercession.

MODERN APOCRYPHA is a collection of 14 religious books- mostly written within the last hundred years and purporting to add to the revelation of the Canon of the Bible. They claimed to be genuine documents of the Christian antiquity but proven by the scholars as hoax. Some of them are:

There were many attempts to infiltrate the Bible with spurious writings but failed the test of Biblical Canon.

The genius of God had protected the Canon of the Scripture by His power and wisdom.

036 - CHRISTIANITY IS NOT RELIGION

THE TERM “RELIGION” is never use for Christian but only for false object and subject of worship. There are two words for religion.

THRESKEIA  used to denotes unreal and deceptive, false reverence [Acts 26:5, Colossians 2:18]

DEISSIDAIMONIA  used to denotes fear of gods and also refers to superstitious practices [Acts 25:19, James 1:26].

JAMES made a clear boundary line between unreal, deceptive reverence and THEOSEBI that is the reverential worship of God [James 1:27].

All religion is demonstration of false reverence, superstitious practices and pseudo love toward God or gods.

Religion is a masterpiece of the devil. He taught man the principles of human religion (superstitious, deceptive, and unreal) and made them accept it with open arms [Genesis 3:5, 4:3-5]. Satan gained great advantage in misleading and deceiving people.

Religion is the futile effort of men to reach God. It is trying to find God. It is trying to please God through human means and systems, human standards and self-righteousness.

Religion is trying to be good to win God’s favor- trying to gain God’s love and approbation by giving more, doing more, praying more, serving more.

Religion is blinded by its arrogance to see the work of Christ from the cross down inside the soul of every maturing believer.

Religion lacks the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit in leading, teaching, and renewing the heart and mind through Bible doctrine.

Religion is blind to see the traps laid by Satan to destroy both the ignorant believers and unbelievers. Satan is loading them into the ecumenical ship ready to sail in the ocean of religious heresies.

Religion is a satanic trap to hook all sects and denomination into ecumenical bandwagon preparing them to form the one world UNITED RELIGION of the Great Tribulation.

Religion is blind to realized that theirs is another gospel, another Lord, another faith, another Christ.

Religion is humanistic in its viewpoint and practices. Man is exalted above God and above the Word of God. It rejects the Bible as the final authority of truth and reality.

When religion is oppose by any system or by Christianity, it becomes hostile and antagonistic. When threatened, it exercises intimidation, when uncertain, it emphasizes tradition. When suspicious, it employs interrogation. When corrected, it retaliates by destroying their persecutors.

Satan is the author of religion. God is not the author of any religion, sect or denomination.

Religion is imperfect work of imperfect man. God is perfect and He demands perfection from imperfect man. That perfection is possible only through the perfect Work of Christ for man. God accepted us based on that perfect Work, not because of what we are or not. God accepted us on the merits of Christ. Our merits are not acceptable because of our imperfection.

037 - ECUMENISM

SATAN is building the ONE WORLD CHURCH [ecumenical church] that will be revealed in its ugliness during the Great Tribulation.

Satan aim to enlist all local churches and attach them to ecumenical bandwagon. He has the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES and all the religious sects around the world. The Roman Catholic is now using the ploy of praying for world peace as the bait to trap religious group into this evil and monstrous scheme.

THE PRESSURE IS ON. Satan wants to make connection with every local church around the globe (maybe with the help of the internet).

THE PRESSURE WILL INCREASE every day until the lord Jesus Christ takes the Church Age believers by rapture.

ECUMENICAL is not from God-it is not Scriptural but invented by the Roman Catholic. Ecumenical is a theological term dealing with universality, unity and dominion of the “Christian faith” [Catholic doctrine] and the “Christian church” [the holy Catholic church].

The unity of the ecumenical church is political in nature not spiritual. The universality refers to every kind of doctrine and belief [pagans, cultic, occults, liberal and anything].

The dominion is the revival of the old Roman religion in a world power and absolute dictatorship.

The ecumenical church is not concern about beliefs and doctrines of the churches because the anti Christ will disband the One World Church after using it and force it to worship Satan [Revelation 13].

Ecumenism in the seminaries and universities has dethroned God and replaced Him with man. They openly rejects the Word of God, accepts any humanistic viewpoint. They apply evolutionary philosophies to the Bible and Christianity. They are working now toward widespread rejection of the Bible as the Word of God.

They reject the divine inspiration and direct revelation from God of the Bible. They reject the accuracy of historical accounts of the Bible, and the miracles as actual events. They claimed that many characters of the Bible did not really exist and nothing but fictitious.

ECUMENISM capitalizes on human love toward others. “LOVE YOUR BROTHER” regardless of his views, beliefs, and race, colors, creed, doctrine, and principles in life.

They are accusing the fundamentalists as unloving and unchristian because of Biblical separation.

Their love is full of hypocrisy because it does operate on the basis of truth and reality. Their acceptance of another person is simply minding your own business. DO NOT MIND OTHERS are translated as love your neighbors.

Ecumenicalism is good for many since it appeals to the ego and sinful nature of man. It is well accepted among the nominal Christians because it provides adequate room for surface level peace and goodwill.

ECUMENICALISM is a hungry wolf in sheep clothing pretending as lovers of God. It is the tail of the dragon dragging men to hell.

What is good in the eyes of men and Satan is not good in the eyes of God. Beware its power of enticement!

038 - SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE

THERE IS NO precise data and tools for determining the geological age of the planet earth. Carbon and radiometric dating system are based on widely divergent and speculative interpretations of data that which cannot be verified.

The Bible was not designed to be a scientific textbook, however, actual scientific data recorded in the Bible is limited but accurate.

No conflict exists between what the Bible says in the original text and the correct interpretation of natural science or of the natural phenomena by science.

God sustains all scientific laws and all phenomena which science seeks to categorize and classify.

The purpose of the Bible is to communicate God’s spiritual law and spiritual phenomena. However, the infallibility of Scripture extends to every subject touched on by the Bible not only spiritual truth.

Whenever a conflict exists between scientific theory or principle and what the Bible says the Bible is always true and right.

When a conflict arises between a historical interpretation and what the Bible says the Bible is always right.

Wherever the Bible comments on science – science must agree with the Bible for it is the truth. The Bible is not required to agree with science.

Since God existed before science. God’s Word is the point of reference and authority, not science.

God created all so called scientific laws and sustains all the laws in the entire universe.

The term SCIENTIFIC LAWS is a misnomer because science does not develops or enforces these laws. The so-called scientific laws are based on the statistical assumption that the universe, which operates according to fixed norm, will continue to do so.

SCIENCE can observe, classify, describe and apply these normative operations but is powerless to control them. A DISTINCTION must be maintained between illegitimate scientific speculation and legitimate observation. Only God in His grace can guarantee the continuation of these laws [Colossians 1:16].

KNOWN SCIENTIFIC LAWS and phenomena which man has been able to observe, classify, and apply depend entirely upon the faithfulness of God. The Lord Jesus Christ at the present time guarantees the continuous operation of every bona fide scientific law [Colossians 1:17, 2 Peter 3:4-5].

The entire human race with the entire creation, the stability of out environment and the condition of the atmosphere depends on the Lord Jesus Christ and His perfect will for the imperfect man.

JESUS CHRIST holds the universe together by the power of His Word. He postpones eternity to give the members of the human race ample time and opportunity to appropriate the grace of God [2 Peter 3:9].

That opportunity begins at the moment of faith in Christ and continues throughout the believer’s life in the world.

039 - THE BIBLE AND EVOLUTION

SCIENCE CANNOT CONTRADICT THE BIBLE because (the Bible) is the very foundation of all Truth.

Physical matters are not reality but spiritual matters. The Bible is the only prolific source of all truth. Science is the systematized knowledge of truth and from where we can identify every truth. Science is not the source of truth, the Bible is.

The Bible teaches that physical realm is not all of reality, but that is coexistence with a spiritual realm [John 4:24, Revelation 16:24]. The physical realm is permeates by the spiritual realm [Ephesians 6:12].

The physical and spiritual realm interacts on each other [Matthew 17:19-20, John 13:2]. The ultimate source of all knowledge and power is the spiritual realm not the physical realm [Psalm 111:10, Matthew 28:18, Romans 11:33-36].

Most of the men who laid the very foundations of our modern science were also men of Biblical faith like GALILEO, COPERNICUS, FRANCIS BACON, JOHN NEWTON, KEPLER and others.

BUT THERE WERE also stupid men who wanted to be known as scientists and inventors. Their works were merely just hypothesis and theories that can- not be proven. Foremost of this is the Darwin’s theory of evolution.

THE “PROOFS” of evolution will dissolve under scientific process of investigation. The hypothesis of the evolution is still a hypothesis.

EVOLUTION cannot account for the first atom. It cannot explain how the original matters were changed from homogeneous to a moving and living one.

It fails to give clear explanation how the present universe is a cosmos and not chaos.

It fails to explain how life came from non-living original form. It fails to explain the leap from botanical world to that of animals. It fails to explain the leap from animal world to that of man.

It fails to explain the law of continuity-why does a dog produce a dog and not an evolutes specimen.

It fails to explain the present distribution of matters on numberless stars, planets, and moons in numberless galaxies.

Science is something that can be proven, categorized, applied and supported by facts and data.

It evolution cannot produce proofs, facts and data the laboratories cannot analyze, categorize and apply, then it is just a theory. Maybe, it is better to call it as: Darwin’s Fairy Tales of Evolution. Let us try some practical questions:

Have you seen anything evolves from something? Have seen something that changes it form? Why the dogs are still the dogs?

Be careful! The traditional religion have already approved and adapted the theistic evolution theory as church dogma.

040 - DIVINE PROTECTION

THE COSMOS DIABOLICUS (the world system) is a very dangerous place for the regenerated believers. Our short or momentary stay before going home to our final destination is described, as “THE DAYS ARE EVIL”.

THE DAYS ARE EVIL applies only to believers living according to the will, plan and purpose of God. The days are evil for the growing believers because Satan is the god of this world. The days are evil described the condition of the world since the fall of man [Ephesians 6:11], and where the scheming of the devil focus on the advancing believers.

GREATER AFFLICTIONS and sufferings awaits the advancing saints –yet, they are to be completely preserved [1 Thessalonians 5:23, 2 Thessalonians 3:2-3, 2 Timothy 4:18].

God in His perfect justice may deliver the saint physically through or from disaster or pains, or His sovereignty may allow the death. God will deliver us, not necessarily from suffering but out of the midst of suffering [1 Corinthians 10:13].

For a believer with nurturing relation-ship with God and in constant fellowship with Christ, any place is a safe place. The only safe place in the world is in the center of God’s will.

Outside the will and plan of God is the most dangerous situation for any believer wandering restlessly in the world [Ephesians 4:27].

The indwelling Holy Spirit in the life of every believer guarantees the physical protection- meaning to say, physical death will come in the perfect time. It will come in perfect time, neither early nor late.

Divine protection is absolute. However, the believer cannot endanger himself and them ask God to rescue him.

Divine protection is lifted up by the time the believer has to depart from the world as schedule [Hebrews 9:27].

God’s timing, manner and place of the believer’s physical death are perfect.

There is no crisis or disaster in life, which God is unable to deliver the saint, but He will not deliver us from all of it. If deliverance is not in God’s perfect plan –it is because God has a perfect purpose for the dead of the suffering believer.

Accept the crisis as a test from the Lord [Isaiah 28:29]. Counter the pains with the fact that God has a perfect knowledge of everything.

Continue to be occupied with the Lord from the doctrine in your souls [Psalm 37:4-5]. Continue to be undisturbed by worry and fear [Isaiah 26:3-4].

Continue to depend on God-rest in Him. Confidently be secured in His infinite power [Psalm 57:2-3].

A believer with Bible doctrine in his soul can be happy in a lion’s den while the immature believer can be miserable in a comfortable palace.

God’s plan for the believer continues regardless of his situation, failures and mistakes.

041 - FREEDOM OF RELIGION

GOD HONORS the individual privacy and free will decision. God will never stop or prevent you from doing what you want to do. He will never interfere with your free will decision.

FREEDOM OF RELIGION is a matter of individual volition expressing its options. FREEDOM however demands that practicing religion be a matter of individual options rather than be mandated by the state.

A LEADER is wrong to force his subjects to worship a false god. In the same way, it is wrong to demand that they worship the true God.

GOD NEVER needs the sponsorship of any leader or state. Alliance of religion and state constraints invariably cloud the issue of the Gospel.

A STATE sponsored religion is anti-biblical. Believers in mistaken zeal should never promote or uphold legislation whereby the government supports Christianity. This is not a legitimate function of the government.

Christianity becomes anti-biblical when they support a candidate or a party. This is not the legitimate function of a local church. There is nothing spiritual about the believers supporting their most preferred candidate [1 Samuel 8:6-7].

THE BELIEVER’S SERVICE to God and to his nation never depends on his political, economic or academic status or that of his nation but on the great faithfulness and grace of God.

Anybody can work out his success story but real success comes from the Lord. Promotion is from the Lord not from self-effort.

FROM THE SAME faithfulness and grace of God that set up presidents, kings, establishes nations – He also abolishes empires, removes presidents and leaders that no longer fulfill God’s purpose [Daniel 2:21].

Regenerated Christians should never allow the state or any person (political or spiritual leaders) to dictate their spiritual life convictions [Daniel 3:18, 1 peter 4:19].

WHEN HUMAN POWER persecutes true believers- Divine power protects the saints in relaxed mental attitude [Psalm 33:9-11]. Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity- man’s weakness is God’s showcase of strength.

God can turn cursing into blessing when the believer refuses to compromise. God cannot honors any compromise of divine standard [Daniel 3:30, Isaiah 41:10, Psalm 31:15, 37:1-10].

The function of the local church is to proclaim the Gospel not to ride on politics.

The function of the state is to rule the people by legislation not to intrude with the private volition of the saints.

There is nothing spiritual about supporting good beats in the politics. Supporting political party or individual candidate as “spiritual endorsement” is good milking cows for greedy pastors and religious leaders.

GOD RESPECTS the free will decision of every individual while some are playing little god in the lives of others. IT IS YOUR DECISION –IT IS YOUR LIFE!

SPEAKING OF TONGUES is no longer a legitimate spiritual gift in our present age for several reasons:

The only purpose of speaking of tongues as revealed in the Scripture is as sign for the unbelieving Jews. [Study Acts 2:5-8, 36,41 10:9-48, 19:1-7, Mark 16:15-18].

The gift of tongues was not meant to continue throughout the history of the Church [Study 1 Corinthians 13 & 14]. The apostle Paul did not mention or name the gift of tongues in his two last epistles [Romans 12 and Ephesians 4].

Tongues are not the sign of baptism of the Spirit because all believers have been baptized with the Spirit at the point of salvation [Study 1 Corinthians 12 & 13]. Those who ask for it do not receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and there is no command for us to seek for it.

Tongues are not the biblical method of Christian growth. Tongues are never mentioned after 1 Corinthians. We can grow only through continues intake of Bible doctrine.

We cannot use the Corinthians church as model for speaking of tongues when in reality Paul corrected their deceitful mistakes.

Tongues are not exclusive domain of Christianity. Majority of the pagan and cultic religion practice the speaking of tongues.

Speaking of tongues is not the mark of spiritual maturity. Christ commanded Christians to bear fruits that remain [John 15:16]. Tongues are temporal gifts and now a history [1 Corinthians 13:8].

Speaking of tongues is not church edifying spiritual gift but only the one speaking [1 Corinthians 14:14].

Speaking of tongues is not the basis of Christian unity. The basis of our unity is spiritual- that is Christ and His Work on the cross for the entire humanity. We are united in the Blood of Christ and not by political and mystical unity invented by men.

Speaking of tongues in the Scripture is not babbling of unknown words but well understood by those who heard it [1 Corinthians 14].

Speaking of tongues is divisive. It has buried many local churches that broke apart. Instead of building up- it divine and destroy.

Speaking of tongues is diverting the focus of the believers away from God and away from His Bible doctrine. Only Christ is the center of our spiritual life and ministry not tongues.

Speaking of tongues is a minor and unimportant doctrine that does not have basis for our generation. The Lord Jesus Christ did not command us to speak in tongues. There is no verse in the Bible that command to practice speaking of tongues

Speaking of tongues is dangerous since the deceitful spirits are using it for advancement of satanic lies [1 Timothy 4:1, 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12]

Speaking of tongues is not the proper way to glorify Jesus Christ but through consistent study of Bible doctrine and spiritual advancement toward spiritual maturity. We glorify God by receiving blessings that results from spiritual maturity.

043 - ALCOHOLISM

DRINKING alcoholic beverage is an ancient issue in the human race. The Bible issued neither a license to drink nor a command to abstain. The Bible comments on the correct and incorrect use of alcohol along with its many variables.

ALCOHOL is toxic, destructive, a curse and detrimental when used as escape from reality or for licentious purposes.

ALCOHOL is a blessing, helpful, and beneficial when used for various medicinal purposes. It is good for the dying person when used as depressant to produce sedation [Proverbs 31:6-7]

It improves blood circulation and it stimulates the appetite of the older person [Psalm 104:15, 1 Timothy 5:23].

The condemnation of drunkenness not the alcohol itself or the drinking per se is classified as sin [Proverbs 23:30, Isaiah 5:11, Romans 13:13].

HABITUAL drunkenness incapacitates anyone, rich and poor alike, but especially those in temporal authority like government, military leadership and other authority [Proverbs 31:4-5]. Those in spiritual authority like pastors and deacons [1 Timothy 3:8].

The principle of expediency: The saint should never drink where drinking becomes an issue to the unbeliever.

The principle of love: The believer should refrain from drinking so as not to lead weaker believer astray.

The principle of supreme sacrifice: The believer is warned not to drink when his life is completely dedicated to a specific church ministry, mission, and spiritual leadership.

The principle of liberty: The believer must exercise his spiritual freedom to drink or not to drink with respect to Bible doctrine.

Drunkenness is just a waste of money, time and energy. It is classified as sin in the Bible.

Avoid the danger of being filled with alcohol that destroyed your focus and concentration on Christ [Ephesians 5:18].

The habitual drunk believer fails to use the grace provision for learning and applying Bible doctrine. He fails to use the divine resources for spiritual growth and maturity.

Christ did not advocate social drink when He turned water into wine [John 2:1-11] since wine was part of their daily meal. The real issue is WHO AND WHAT CHRIST IS and not the wine.

044 - IDOLATRY

IDOLATRY is the giving of honor, worship, adoration and veneration, any form of devotion, reverence, respect, and praise to any person or anything other than God.

IDOLATRY is anything that occupies the FIRST PLACE in a person’s KARDIA or soul and succeeds to dislodge God’s Lordship to be the seat of a creature or something.

An idolatrous act is committed when a person exhibits respect, admiration, adulation, devotion or love for some body or something, taking the place of Christ in the life of a person.

IDOLATRY is as old as the Devil. The modern form of idolatry is nothing but the revival of some ancient forms. The first to be mentioned in the Bible as temple of idolatry was built by Nimrod 400 years after the flood [Genesis 10:8-12, 114]. The god of Nimrod was also worshiped in some other names as MARDUK, SHAMASH, BAAL, BUL and BEL.

During the reign of NABOPOLASSAR, the emperor of the New Babylon, the city known for its 53 temples of gods and 180 altar to SUN-god ISTAR.

In the Old and New Testament Israel, the gods of EGYPTIAN, BABYLONIAN, ASSYRIAN CHALDEAN, MEDES, MACEDONIAN, PERSIAN, GREEKS and ROMANS took various modification and changes. New names and facelifts were added.

Several religious sects appeared in Israel with ancient gods with new names and in their new forms. It was the Romans who internationalized many of the ancient gods in their new forms and names.

For example, the Babylonian god BAAL was also called MARDUK, BEL, and BUL by the Israelites. The CHALDEANS called it SHAMASH. The Greeks called it ZEUS or JUPITER. The Romans called it ST. PETER.

The Babylonian god ASHTORETH was renamed ASTARTE by the Greeks and Romans. The SIDONIAN (Nineveh) called it ASHTOROTH. The PHONICIAN called it THE LADY OF THE SEA, while the Romans called it THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN.

For God’s commandments concerning idolatry, study Exodus 20:4-5, and Deuteronomy. 5:6-9, and also Isaiah 45:20.

For God’s distress call against the act of idolatry, study Deuteronomy 4:16-20, 29:16-17, Leviticus 19:4, 26:1, Ezekiel 22:3-4, Galatians 5:20-21.

Studying the following text will be a great help for refuting the teaching and practice of idolatry: Isaiah 44:9-20, 45:16, Jeremiah 10:1-15, Hosea 8:4, 13:2, Romans 1:17-22, Ezekiel 14:6, Acts 17:29, Colossians 3:5 and Revelation 21:8.

IDOLS ARE NOTHING and the worship of idols is actually the worship of Satan behind the idols [1 Corinthians 10:20-21].

The Greek verb which was translated into English as TO VISIT, which means to inspect, to look upon or to exercise oversight. It signifies four things:

VISITATION - EPISKOPE, that could means INSPECTION by God for the purpose of rewarding, blessing [1 Peter 2:12], or punishing, or for the judgment His people for their deeds.

There are two primary Divine visitations –FIRST: the visitations of God for the purpose of blessing the believer [Genesis 50:24, Ruth 1:6].

SECOND: The visitation of God for the purpose of punishment [Jeremiah 5:9 and Lamentations 4:22.

Jesus Christ visited (inspected) the homes of his disciples FOR ONLY ONE PURPOSE and that is to preach the Word of God. His visitation was to preach the Gospel and the Word of God- NOT TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO ATTEND SUNDAY SCHOOL OR worship service.

THE HOMES were often the venues of His proclamation of Gospel since there were no church building for preaching and teaching the Word of God.

The only purpose of house visitation is for preaching and teaching the Word of God –not for raising funds.

The apostle Paul visited homes for the purpose of preaching and teaching the Word of God.

Today, in areas where we have church building as the proper venue for preaching and teaching Bible doctrine, our gathering and coming for fellowship is a matter of free will volition [Hebrews 10:24-25]. We are responsible to exercise our volition.

Every believer is under obligation and responsibility for him self to grow and mature spiritually. Because we are mandated by the Word of God not to neglect our gathering for the fellowship in the Word-there is no need to invite the members.

House visitation is for the physically sick and afflicted church members who cannot come to church venue- not for lazy and negative volition church members.

The pastor and the church leaders are not mandated by God’s Word to keep visiting the church members in routine basis.

The New Evangelicals not the Lord Jesus Christ or any of His disciples invented House visitation. They are using it for monkey business [2 Timothy 3:1-6].

Fetching church members to attend the regular worship services is like forcing a bull to drink water when it is not thirsty.

Visiting female church members in unholy hours in unholy situation is very dangerous for any pastor.

Those who are ignorant of Bible doctrine and especially the emotional are very fun of visitation because they feel accepted and recognized.

046 - MODERN DAY PROPHETS

400 YEARS before the birth of Christ (400 B.C.) no true prophets of God appeared for the following reasons:

The entire Old Testament has been written and its books were made available as guide for God’s people.

It was God’s will that a period of about 400 years should lapse between the prophecies of the Messiah and His actual (first) coming.

The cessation of New Testament prophecy came when this portion (NT) of God’s Word was completed in 69 A.D. The completion of the Canon of the New Testament explained the absent of prophecy in the post-Canon Church Age.

In the early Church Age, men were called prophets only in the extended sense of presenting the people of God truths received from careful study of the Bible doctrine. Not truth received by direct revelation from God.

FALSE PROPHETS were men predicted or prophesied in the name of a false god or idol [Jeremiah 2:8, 23:13].

False prophets are men who falsely claimed to receive messages from the Lord [1 Kings 22].

False prophets are men who ceased to be true prophets of God because of material benefits they gained or because of compromise with false and twisted doctrine they upholds [1 Kings 13].

False prophets are teaching another Jesus and another salvation. They have another faith and another gospel.

The modern day false prophets are worse than the Old Testament false prophets in the sense that they are more greedy, devious, wicked in many aspects. They are excellent deceiver and liars that their very words are regarded as the word of God.

YES INDEED! We have prophets today and they are 100% false prophets of Satan, men who reverse the Word of God for their own gains.

047 - ANTICHRISTS & ANTICHRIST

ANTICHRIST refers to a person who denies Jesus Christ as God and Savior of all men. The term is found only in John’s epistles, which can mean: AGAINST CHRIST one who opposes Christ or INSTEAD OF CHRIST –one who assumes the guise of Christ. There is a great difference between ANTICHRIST and ANTICHRIST.

ANTICHRIST refers to the various forerunners of the Antichrist himself. There are four categories of antichrists in the world today:

A PERSON WHO IS AGAINST CHRIST refers to anyone who rejected Christ from personal conviction, deceived by erroneous doctrines, evil scheming or enticed by antichrists movements. They are antagonistic, negative and critical toward God and His plan of grace.

They are enslaved by established and legalistic religion. They are enslaved by some distorted idealism, church rituals and traditions, or by demonic power.

A PERSON WHO PROFESS TO KNOW GOD BUT REJECTS CHRIST refers to the professing believers without true relationship with God. They are the wolves in sheep clothing, replacing Christ with another Jesus. They replaced Bible doctrine with another gospel, and the true salvation with another faith.

They are enslaved to humanistic social gospel. They accept the secularization of the church with all kinds of modern and liberal humanistic views. They are open to ecumenism, liberalism, and to all kinds of new teachings. The local churches are infiltrated with their new ideology without knowing it.

A SAVED PERSON WHO IGNORES THE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST in his life [1 John 2:8-11] refers to carnal believer who ignores the Lordship.

They are ignorant of Bible doctrine and always running ahead of God. They are walking against the will of God in every way and all the way. They reject the plan of God and substitute it with their own plan.

A PERSON WHO CLAIMED TO KNOW CHRIST BUT OPENLY OPPOSES HIM refers to those who made decision to reject and replace Christ with someone else. They are the religious leaders who are deceiving and misleading people. They are satanic emissaries who hinder the preaching of the true Gospel and persecute believers.

THE ANTICHRIST will appeared during the Great Tribulation and refers to the evil power that already operates anticipatively of the Antichrist [1 John 4:3]. He is the first Beast [Revelation 13:1-10], the man of sin [2 Thessalonians 2:3-4].

He is the false Christ of the Great Tribulation who will not deny the existence of Christ, but will trade upon the very expectation of Christ Second coming, affirming that he is the true Christ.

He is Antichrist theologically because he will claim to be God himself [2 Thessalonians 2:4].

The ANTICHRISTS could be anybody who reject and ignore Christ. The Antichrist is one and only person of the Tribulation whose triple imperfection is symbolize by 666 [Revelation 13:18].

048 - APOSTASY

THERE ARE 5 categories of APOSTASY (APOSTASIA: falling away) in the Scripture:

FALLING AWAY AS TO REJECT THE PERSON OF CHRIST (1 John 2:19, 4:6) refers to a person who does not depart from where he is, but standing away – having chosen from the beginning to stay away, not to believe instead of believing.

This refers to those who would reject Christ not to the saved persons who would depart [2 Thessalonians 2:3, Acts 21:21].

FALLING AWAY AS IN LIVING A LIFE OF SIN THAT DENIES THE FAITH. This is in reference to believers who have been enlightened, tasted the goodness of the Lord but turn away from faith. It involves the deliberate shifting of the KARDIA from partial obedience to total disobedience. The issue here is not salvation but the lost opportunity to spiritual maturity [Hebrews 6:4-8]

It is IMPOSSIBLE TO RENEW THEM AGAIN TO REPENTANCE. It indicates several things:

The believer cannot loss his salvation. For it is based on the essence of God not on wavering faith [2 Timothy 2:11-13].

Our salvation is the finished Work of God, there is nothing to add and there is nothing to change.

The believer in this context decided NOT TO REBOUND or changes his mind. God respect that decision and execute the divine discipline of SIN UNTO DEATH [Hebrews 10:26, 1 Corinthians 11:28-32].

APOSTASY will cause the execution of painful SIN UNTO DEATH [2 Peter 2:20-22] against the carnal believer.

SIN UNTO DEATH means the painful preservation of the soul, but the destruction of the body [1 Corinthians 5:5, 1 Timothy 1:20].

FALLING AWAY AS IN TIMES OF SUDDEN MATERIAL PROSPERITY [1 Timothy 6:9-10] refers to immature or carnal believer who have been engulfed with the blessing of the world system, and deliberately choosing to fall away from faith.

The believer finds “happiness” in his prosperity, success, power, wealth and glory. The believer thinks that he has find security in the material things. The believer in this category will rebound after God has removed his most treasured wealth and success.

FALLING AWAY AS WHEN UNDER THE GREAT PERSECUTION [Matthew 24:9-13] refers to persecution under the Great Tribulation.

FALLING AWAY FROM DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT BIBLE TEACHING [John 6:60,66] refers to those who cannot accept the truth of the Scripture, both the unbelievers and believers.

The unbeliever does not fall away from the faith because they are outside the plan and will of God.

The so-called BACKSLIDING is NEVER falling away from the faith BECAUSE OF SOMEONE’S character or evil deeds but BECAUSE OF HIS NEGATIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE toward God and toward His Word.

We do not fall away because of someone but because of our negative mental attitude and rejection of the truth.

GOD IS LIFE and His life is eternal life [Jeremiah 10:10, 1 Thessalonians 1:19]. There never was a time when God did not live. The eternal God is the caused and origin of time. He invented time for man. God is not subject to time.

TIME IS FINITE, consisting of duration and succession. Eternity is infinite, it has duration without succession. Eternity is infinite duration.

GOD IS INFINITE and has duration only. Man is finite-having duration and succession while in the world. The human life is but a temporal duration and succession.

GOD TRANSCENDS TIME as well as all creation. God always accomplishes in time WHAT HAS TO BE DONE in time as part of plan of grace. There is nothing to add or subtract from the plan of God. The plan of God for man in time includes the variations of blessing and adversity.

TIME IS A LINE OF PROCEDURE as far as man’s perspective is concerned. Eternity is beyond human natural perception –since God is not the subject of time [Deuteronomy 32:40, Psalm 90:2, 102:27, 1 Corinthians 2:7]. God uses time for the benefits and advantage of the believers in the world. Our eternal life has two phases:

First: ETERNAL LIFE IN TIME. God gives us one day at a time to live. A portion of which belongs to Him for our learning of his Word.

Second: ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN. By the effects of ultimate sanctification all believers’ will received their glorified resurrected bodies designed for eternal fellowship with God.

The believer must walk as a WISE MAN and make use of their time by consistent study of Bible doctrine [Ephesians 5:15-16].

Basic giving is GIVING OF TIME in true worship, service, prayer, grace giving and in others expression of worship.

Since the generosity and faithfulness of God is giving us time, therefore we must give time back to God.

REDEEMING THE TIME or making the most of your time is a mental attitude of the believer dominantly occupied with the person of Jesus Christ- It is using God’s given time TO KNOW GOD THROUGH HIS BIBLE DOCTRINE.

It is the intrinsic ability of the soul saturated with Bible doctrine to keep focus on Christ. It is not from the natural determination or human will or sincerity to know God but the over-flowing virtue personal love toward God.

Redeeming the time is a choice between enjoying the pleasure of the world [miseries] and the pleasure of knowing Christ [Ephesians 5:16a and Colossians 4:5b].

050 - FALSE PROPHETS / TEACHERS

THEY REJECT the authority of the Scripture [1 Peter 1:12, 2 Peter 1:20-21]. Some agreed with the infallibility of the Scripture but honors their religious leaders above the word of God.

Some partially rejected the authority of the Word and at the time recognizes the authority of their leaders above the Scripture. Some totally reject the authority of the Word and accept nothing but the authority of their leaders or gods.

THEY REJECT HERMENEUTICS or the science that deals with the principles. They interpret the Scripture without going through the process of historical, categorical and exegetical studies [1 Corinthians 2:6-8, 10-14].

They interpret the Scripture from ignorance [1 Timothy 1:7, Hosea 4:6-9, James 3:1-5] and from arrogance [Philippians 1:15-17, 1 Timothy 5:22, 2 Timothy 3:6-7].

History of the Popes by Ludwig Pastor, PhD
The Papal Princes by Glen D. Kitter, DD
Bishop ALPHONSE DE LIGUIRI, The Glories of Mary, p. 80, 197, 198
St. Joseph’s Daily MISAL, p. 1305
The Glories of Mary, p. 253-259
Ibid, p. 67-69, 80