Myths, Perversions of the Truth, and False Doctrines
Hebrews 13:8-9 Jesus Christ is always the same, yesterday, today, and forever. Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines (Moffatt translation).
Acts 20:29-30 When I am gone, I know that fierce wolves will get in among you, and they will not spare the flock; yes and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them.
2 Corinthians 11:14…even Satan distinguishes himself as an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:15 Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness….
2 Corinthians 11:13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
Matthew 24:5 “For many will come in My name, saying ‘I (Jesus) am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.”
1.
False Doctrine
The Old Testament Does Not Apply to Christians
Acts 11:26 and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
So, very early on, in the history of the church , the composition went from all Jewish, to Jews and Gentiles, to all Gentiles. This entire process took about 330 years, when the church of Rome, along with most of the other churches, officially made Sunday the Christian Sabbath. That forced the last Jews in the church to go their separate way. There is no telling how many Gentiles went with them, but from that time on, there have been 2 Christian churches, the Sunday Sabbath churches and the Saturday Sabbath church. The Sunday church has grown to billions of members, and the Saturday Sabbath church has remained only a remnant of true believers.
Ephesians 2:12,14,19 remember that you (Gentiles) were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world….For Christ Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one ….So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household.
John 10:16 “I have other sheep, (Gentiles) which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice; and they will become one flock with one Shepard.”
Romans 11:17…if some of the branches (unbelieving Jews) were broken off, and you (Gentiles), being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root (Christ) of the olive tree (Israel), …
These scriptures all tell us, the true Gentile Christian is an Israelite by God’s given spirit and truth. The Old Testament and New Testament apply to all in Christ. The Old testament is incomplete without the New Testament which is enhanced and enlightened by the Old Testament. To deny one is to deny both. If a Gentile Christian is not an Israelite by spirit and truth, he is lost, for Jesus said;
Matthew 15:24 “it is only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that I was sent.”
Spreading the Gospel message and the word of God to the Gentiles and all the nations of the earth was so the word would reach the lost ten tribes of Israel, known as the dispersion (more on this in a later post). All Gentiles should be grateful that they were benefited by this, God is still the God of Israel. There are no words of God in the Holy Bible which authorize separate churches, one of Jews and one of Gentiles. God has only one church, for repenting, baptized, believing, and obeying members, all called by God the Father.
2.
Myth
The Sabbath for Christians is Sunday
Matthew 12:8 “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
Mark 2:28 “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
Luke 6:5 “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
Matthew 5: 17-18 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until it is accomplished.”
Deuteronomy 4:2 “You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.”
The Gentiles in the true church of our Lord are Israelites in spirit and truth. All the commandments apply including number four, to keep the Sabbath. The seventh day has always been Saturday, and Sunday has always been the first day. The seventh day Sabbath has its’ own covenant, given in Exodus 31.
Exodus 31:16-17 “So the sons of Israel shall observe the Sabbath to celebrate the Sabbath through out their generations as a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever.”
Exodus 31:13 “You shall surely observe My Sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you through out your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.”
There are no words of our Lord that gives any man or men the authority to change God’s covenant. The late Cardinal Gibbons wrote the following in his book “Faith of our Fathers”:
THE CHURCH AND THE BIBLE
3d. A rule of Faith, or a competent guide to
heaven, must be able to instruct in all truths
necessary for salvation. Now Scriptures alone
do not contain all the truths which a Christian
is bound to believe, nor do they explicitly enjoin
all duties which he is obliged to practice. Not
to mention other examples, is not every
Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday, and to
abstain on that day from unnecessary servile
work? Is not the observance of this law among
the most prominent of our sacred duties? But
you may read the Bible from Genesis to
Revelation, and you will not find a single line
authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The
Scriptures enforce the religious observance of
Saturday, a day which we never sanctify.
The Catholic Church correctly teaches that
our Lord and His Apostles inculcated certain
important duties of religion which are not
recorded by the inspired writers. For instance,
most Christians pray to the Holy Spirit, a
practice which nowhere is found in the Bible.
We must therefore, conclude that the Scriptures
alone cannot be a sufficient guide and rule of
Faith, because they cannot, at any time, be
within the reach of every inquirer; because they
are not of themselves clear and intelligible even
in matters of the highest importance, and because
they do not contain all the truths necessary for
salvation.
Satan could not have said it better
3.
Perversion of the Truth
Jesus died on a Friday and was resurrected on a Sunday
This is a perversion because, besides being a myth, it is a sin of the highest order: calling JESUS A LIAR.
When did He die and when did he rise? To know this we have to know about God’s high holy day annual Sabbaths. Passover (not a Sabbath) is on the 14th day of the first (religious calendar) month, and the 15th day is a high holy annual Sabbath (the first day of the feast of unleavened bread).
Matthew 12:40 “for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
Matthew 17:22-23 “The Son of Man is going to be delivered in the hands of men; and they will kill Him, and He will be raised on the third day.”
Mark 8:31 And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Luke 24:46 Thus it is written, that Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day.
Mark 14:58 “I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another without hands.”
John 2:19 “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
There is no doubt, He would be dead for seventy two hours and then be resurrected.
John 19:31 As it was the day of preparation, in order to prevent the bodies remaining on the cross during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day).
Christ died on Passover the 14th and was buried just before sunset (sunset being the beginning of the next day). The 14th had to be on a Wednesday. The next day, Thursday the 15th , was the high holy annual Sabbath (the first day of the feast of unleavened bread). The second day was Friday the 16th, and the third day was Saturday the 17th (the weekly Sabbath). Jesus rose from the dead just before sunset, without being noticed, 72 hours after he was buried. When the women arrived on Sunday morning, the 18th, He was gone. It only says the grave was empty, not when he rose. What I have just told you is the only possible truth or Jesus is a liar.
Acts 10:40 “God raised Him up on the third day and granted that He became visible.”
This was Peter speaking, months after the crucifixion and resurrection. All in the early church knew, as a simple matter of fact, that Jesus rose on the third day, seventy two hours after burial. What a master brush stroke of propaganda was accomplished by Satan, to erase this truth so quickly and have it nearly universally accepted since.
Do not trust the leaders of Sunday keeping churches, use God’s word to prove what is true and what is false.
4.
all myths
Christmas, Good Friday, Eater Sunday
There is no need to discuss the pagan origins of these supposedly Christian holy days. December twenty five could not be his birthday. He rose from the dead on the weekly Sabbath, from which fifty days are counted to determine when the third annual Sabbath (called Pentecost, or First Fruits) is celebrated. Nothing in God’s word tells us when he was born, but being the Son of God the Father, its more likely he would be born on an annual high holy Sabbath. Most likely, The feast of First Fruits or the Feast of Trumpets. Christmas has become a worship of the world of materialism. God’s annual holy days have the same meaning they always have, remembering Israel’s deliverance, from Egypt (sin) to the promised land, and their prophetic meaning, from the remission of sin, to the salvation of the kingdom of God.
Good Friday and Easter have Satan laughing at the true church, saying ‘look how many I have deceived, as he perpetuates the perversion that Jesus was only 24-36 hours in the grave, there by saying, he (Jesus) is a liar, taking the focus of himself (Satan), the father of lies, deception, and murderer from the beginning.
These holy days are the creation of men, not to be found anywhere in the Word of God. God’s holy days are found in Leviticus 23 and elsewhere in other early Bible writings. God’s 7 annual high holy Sabbaths all have prophetic meaning. Three have been fulfilled and four remain to be fulfilled. Satan’s holy days or God’s holy days, who you obey is your choice.
5.
False Doctrines
Replacement Theology and Dispensation Theology
There are many false doctrines (not supported by God’s word) out there in the landscape of the Gentile (Christian) church. I point out two in particular because they are more popular and wide spread than others. They both hold that the Old Testament covenants are not transferable to the Gentile church.
Replacement theology teaches that the Gentile church has replaced the Israelites as God’s chosen people.
Dispensation theology teaches there are two separate and distinct peoples of God; Israel and the Gentile church. The Gentile church receives priority over Israel with God. What makes it most popular is its’ winning sales pitch, of a pre-tribulation rapture of the living church.
God has punished and corrected His special people Israel several times, but he has never rejected them.
There are no words of God that would prove these separation or replacement theologies. All religions including Christianity are full of people (corruptible flesh) making their living from it. They need to keep the seats full and the money flowing. These and other false doctrines do that for them.
Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; either he will hate one and love the other, or else will stand by one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon.” (wealth)
If one sets themselves up as a teacher of the word of God, they should make their living apart from their ministry.
6.
False Doctrine
The Rapture of the Living in Christ is Pre-Tribulation
The lynch pins of pre-tribulation rapture teachers are 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 and 1 Corinthians 15:51-52. Both say the Trumpet or Last Trumpet of God sounds and the dead in Christ will rise first, followed by the living.
John 6:39 “of all He has given me I loose nothing, but raise them up on the last day.”
John 6:40 “everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:44 “No one can come to me unless the Father Who sent Me
Draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:54 “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Jesus says, He will raise the dead in Christ on the last day. If the dead in Christ are resurrected before the living, then the living in Christ are raptured on the last day also. The last day is the end of the age of Israel. The seventh and last annual Sabbath that God gave his people, the Last Great Day, points to this prophesied end of the age. This is the end of the tribulation. Jesus destroys the enemies of Israel, casts the anti-Christ and false prophet in the lake of fire, imprisons Satan for a thousand years, and restores the earth for His thousand year reign over the earthly kingdom of God.
Acts 3:21 Repent…that the Lord may send Jesus your long decreed Christ who must be kept in heaven till the period of the great restoration.
Further proof that the rapture comes after the tribulation. So simple a child can understand, but children do not operate theological schools, and do not need money to support a church or evangelical ministry. They all preach a good amount of truth and then preach a good sounding falsehood that tickles the ears. Take heart, if you are living in Christ at the start of the tribulation God promises to protect you till it ends.
I do not butter any man’s bread, I only tell God’s truth. I have no need of money. God has provided all that I need.
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The Bible, God’s Word, is entirely about Israel (the people God molded for Himself), from Genesis 2 to Revelation 22.