Trusting in a Religious System
By Steve Meehan / Rapture Ready
Growing up as a Roman Catholic, I was led to believe that I was on the right course to be able to gain entrance into Heaven one day. I mean, who else besides Catholics have the insurance policy that has cradle to grave coverage – and even beyond, with the afterlife doctrine of Purgatory to cover any leftover sins?
Roman Catholicism has the priests to absolve one’s sins; they have the same priests to administer the consecrated bread that has become Jesus to them; they have the Mother of God to intercede on our behalf, if we are unable to reach God the Father or Jesus with our petitions and who also lessens one’s time in Purgatory; and of course, they have the Pope, the Holy Father, Christ’s representative on Earth, to watch over the flock. It was all very reassuring to know, as we were taught, that we belonged to the only One True Church. What other religion offers so much as does Roman Catholicism, and how could one go wrong by trusting in their teachings?
From the very beginning of a Catholic’s life, one is baptized into the Catholic Church by the sprinkling of water over the forehead as an infant – maybe only a week old – and thus the requirement of being born again as a Christian had been fulfilled. There used to be a teaching that unbaptized babies would go to a place called Limbo, since even an un-regenerated baby could not attain entrance into Heaven.
As an infant, I had no concept of sin; I did not know that someone had to pay the penalty for my sin, nor that Jesus Christ was the only one qualified to be the propitiation for my sins.
Stand-ins or proxies, or Godparents, as they are known, were the ones who would acknowledge for the infant, that they would shun sin and they would make the profession of faith into Roman Catholicism on the child’s behalf. They would also affirm that they would offer instruction to the child as he or she grew in the Catholic faith, if the child’s parents neglected to do so. After the first of many sacraments to come had been accomplished, I was now baptized and well on my way in my Christian journey.
Years later, as I grew into adulthood and started to read the Holy Scriptures for myself; and under the tutelage of the Holy Spirit, I began to see that the rite of Baptism was normally performed after a person had already acknowledged that they were a sinner and in need of a qualified savior to cover the cost of their sins. It was after they had invited Jesus Christ into their life to be their personal Savior, and thus being born again, that a person would be baptized as an outward sign to others of what had already transpired inwardly.
In all the cases that I have read in the Holy Word of God, the person being baptized was fully immersed into water rather than just having water sprinkled over the forehead.
The full immersion typifies what has happened to the recipient in the ritual of baptism. Upon being lowered into the water, it symbolizes that they have died to their old self, their fleshly, physical birth, and have now arisen out of the water in a spiritual rebirth, all of which takes place spiritually when a person fully places their trust in Jesus Christ as the only means of salvation. They have then become born again; and so the Baptism ritual is an outward sign to others of what had already occurred the moment we had said yes to Jesus.
Christ tells us in John 3:3, that unless we are born again, we cannot see the Kingdom of God.
How is it possible then, for an infant to meet the requirements of being born again, when they have no knowledge of sin, that one’s sin problem must be atoned for, and that only belief and trust in Jesus is the correct requirement for salvation? How can godparents speak for the infant or the priest perform the ritual to one who is incapable of acknowledging their need for a savior?
Even Jesus Christ, although He did not need to do it but allowed Himself to be baptized for righteousness sake and to set an example to others who would follow Him, was only baptized as an adult and just before the start of His earthly ministry.
If we are followers of Jesus Christ, shouldn’t we follow His example of baptism only after we have acknowledged our need for Him and to show others outwardly that we have accepted Him and want to obey His commands? How then does infant baptism have any merit since the child has no knowledge of its need to be saved first?
On every Sunday and “Holy Day of Obligation,” as a Roman Catholic, we would dutifully go to Mass. Upon entering the church, normally a Catholic would first dip his hand into a font or a little cup-sized holder of water, then proceed to make the sign of the cross. This “Holy Water” had a threefold effect to acquire blessings: it was a sign of repentance for one’s sins; it was done for the protection from evil; and thirdly, it was a reminder of one’s baptism into the Catholic faith.
The sign of the cross was instituted early in the progression of the Roman Catholic religion. It normally precedes a prayer and then also concludes the prayer. It was also, at one time, done three times by the priest just before the consecration of the bread: first on the forehead, then on the lips, then over the heart. Three fingers were used to signify the Holy Trinity, and the movement was up from the forehead down to the chest signifying Jesus coming down from Heaven to the Earth; then right to left, signifying Jesus starting with the Jews; then passing to the Gentiles. Over time, the sign of the cross switched from going right to left, to left going right.
Upon entering the church, the Catholic faithful would genuflect before the image of Jesus nailed to a cross or the presence of Jesus in the golden monstrance before one would enter and sit in the pews. I can remember as an altar boy during my Catholic parochial grade-school years, during the Mass, it was one of my duties to go down to the communion rail area and pull back the cart that contained the votive candles from before the statues of Mary, so that the priest could administer the communion wafer to the faithful unimpeded.
The church would be full of Roman Catholic regalia, unseen usually in Protestant churches. Stained glass windows were very prominent, especially in the churches that were constructed in areas where the offerings taken in were substantial. Stations of the Cross would line either side of the church and would be prayed before by the faithful, usually during the Lent season. Statues of Mary are always prevalent in all Catholic churches, as well as figurines of other “saints.”
There are usually kneelers in front of the statues and the votive candles, where the faithful can light a candle and pray facing the statue. I can remember doing this practice many times, as well as seeing my parents, relatives and others doing the same thing. Candles were always burning before these images. I can remember gazing intently into these forlorn-looking figurine eyes, just hoping that they could hear my prayers and maybe offer an answer or relief at the time. Many, if not all Catholics engage in this solemn devotion and prayer time.
It was as if these figurines were the actual beings listening to our prayers.
It wasn’t until later in life, again, that I discovered through Bible study that God abhors this kind of activity. Those statues are not God and they don’t hear or answer prayer requests. They are inanimate objects and should never replace a true relationship with Jesus Christ or God the Father. The Second Commandment absolutely forbids this kind of activity and should never be conducted by a true child of God.
Exodus 20:4-6 reads: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above, or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”
This is a commandment not to do this! It is the second one, just after the first which reads: “I am the Lord thy God…thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
God even equates the worshipping of statues as hating Him; we are placing something else before Him. This commandment was originally given to the Chosen People of God, the Israelites, but also extends to those who have become children of God through the sacrifice of Jesus and those who have accepted Him. This commandment was never rescinded.
The Bible is replete with examples of false worship directed towards statues, groves of trees, and other images. There is no shortage of verses in Scripture where God detests the placing of images up to worship instead of rightly praying to the Lord in spirit. The apostle John wrote:
“But the hour comes, and now is, when true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeks such to worship Him. God is a spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24).
If we are to worship Him in spirit and truth, then we must not be placing graven images before our eyes and praying to them. It is wrong, it is false, and it is detestable to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Why the Catholic Church has deleted the Second Commandment and allows this kind of activity to flourish throughout their ranks and cathedrals is beyond comprehension. They call themselves the One True Church, yet they continually defy God and encourage this kind of worship. In certain countries, mostly Roman Catholic, they dress up statues of Mary, then parade around behind it, adoring it and throwing flowers in the street before it.
What a pagan ritual! And abhorred by the Creator of all.
A few years ago, I went to a Good Friday Mass at the behest of my mother, who is still a dyed-in-the wool Roman Catholic. I agreed to go only if I could take her to a worship service of my choosing at a later date. During the Mass, one of the parishioners had wheeled out a figurine of a cross that he had constructed, and it had been blessed by the local priest. The faithful then were instructed to come up out of their seats, and in single file form, come before the cross and give their adoration. But they were admonished, in order to save time, either to just kiss it, touch it or kneel before it – only one of those three.
I shook my head in disbelief as I stood in my pew and observed this idolatrous procession. The old priest kind of glared at me for not being involved in this graven image spectacle.
It was unbelievable. Christians, true Christians, should not be bowing down, kissing, touching, praying to, dressing up, and parading behind graven images! It is false worship, and it is condemned by God.
Jesus tells us in John 14:15: “If you love me, keep my commandments.”
Later in the Mass, the priest gets to the consecration of the bread, the culmination of the Roman Catholic worship service. He has the power, as endued from on high by Rome itself, to change the elements of bread and wine into the physical and spiritual manifestation of Jesus Christ – all of His humanity and all of His divinity. It is through this Transubstantiation that the bread and wine have now become Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the Creator of the Universe, in their belief.
The bread and wine still retain the physical characteristics of bread and wine; but somehow, through spiritism, or mysticism, or just plain old hocus-pocus, these wafers are now Jesus Christ, who apparently is not seated by the right hand of the Father in Heaven anymore, but continually shows up on the altars of Roman Catholic churches in the form of a wafer!
It is amazing to me how the faithful of Roman Catholicism can fall for this. This is now their God? In the form of a wafer? It doesn’t speak, it doesn’t heal, it doesn’t forgive sins; it is just to be consumed physically, and then what? I think if Jesus Christ did show up at all those Masses, wouldn’t one want to introduce Him to family members or friends so that they too could experience Him?
The whole idea of God being reduced to an inanimate object like a wafer is ludicrous, yet well-meaning Catholics buy into it and don’t question it. It is like the story of the Emperor and his new clothes. He tells everybody that he is wearing the most expensive and finest apparel known to man; and even though he is naked, all of his following believe what the Emperor is telling them. Oh, yes, those clothes are wonderful. Not until a young lad blurts out that the Emperor is naked, then they can see the ruse for what it is.
We don’t receive Jesus via a wafer; we receive Him internally and spiritually when we accept what He has accomplished for us on the cross. It is only then that we are saved and that He takes up residence in our lives through His Holy Spirit.
We become born again through His spirit. We recognize our inability to make it to Heaven because of sin in our lives; recognize that we are incapable of saving ourselves through works or good living; and recognize that only Christ can save us from ourselves and lack of purity. That is how we intake Jesus, not through a wafer. Eating Him physically would have no benefit to us spiritually.
He told the woman at the well that He was Living Water. Does that mean that we should worship a glass of water? He told the woman that if she drank what He had to offer, that she would never thirst again. Physically, while on Earth, of course she would thirst again. Spiritually, if she invited Jesus into her life and accepted His free plan of salvation, she would be filled spiritually with Living Water, and her spirit would never thirst again.
In John 6 is where Roman Catholicism contends that Jesus was speaking to the crowds in a literal sense, in a physical sense, that unless one eats the physical body of Jesus they would die in their sins. It is a discourse that goes back and forth between the physical and the spiritual.
The Jews heard Him in physical terms, after just having eaten of the loaves and fishes that Jesus fed them, so of course they were repelled by Him speaking of eating His flesh. They turned away, but apparently Rome has not turned away from that and has incorporated a cannibalistic rite in which they proclaim that they are physically eating Christ’s flesh and spirit. Jesus, though, qualifies, in John 6:63 that He is speaking in spiritual terms:
“It is the Spirit that quickens (or comes alive); the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
In John 6:47, Jesus says: “Verily, Verily (or Truly, Truly), I say unto you, he that believes on me has everlasting life.”
We are saved by believing on Him, not by eating His flesh or a poor substitute as in a wafer. One could eat those wafers for the rest of their life, but unless they believe in Jesus for their salvation, it will be a futile exercise and warrant them nothing.
Why substitute what Christ has told us in His Word regarding salvation and instead put forth a worthless, idolatrous, even a blasphemous practice of worshipping and ingesting a gluten wafer? How is this worshipping in spirit and truth if we are engaged in a false means of receiving Jesus?
This has all the earmarks of a false doctrine instituted by our spiritual enemy. Jesus Christ does save, but not via a wafer.
The communion service is a remembrance of what Christ did for us physically on the cross. He offered up His body and blood physically so that we could take Him in spiritually. We remember, at those communion services, what He did one time for the remission of our sins.
We don’t eat Him physically; He has already entered us spiritually when we accepted Him and His atonement for our sins. The physical aspect of Him in us would be a temporary condition, but with Him spiritually dwelling in us it is eternal. Don’t worship a wafer!
The angels, in the Book of Acts, at Jesus ascension into Heaven, even asked the men of Galilee why they continued to gaze into the heavens at the disappearing of our Lord. They were told that Jesus would again come in like manner, when He does return to Earth. He will come with the clouds in the end times, and not daily in the form of a wafer at every mass that is performed on an hourly basis.
When He physically returns, there won’t be any mistaking it. He even said, in the Olivet discourse in Matthew 24, not to believe those who are saying Christ is here or there – as the priest does on the altar during the so-called Transubstantiation ruse – or that Christ is in the secret chambers – as the priests contend about the wafer in a golden monstrance. Jesus said believe it not.
Again, when Jesus does return, there will be no doubt about His arrival.
In Roman Catholicism’s churches, there are also confessional booths. When I was in about 2nd grade, I had my first confession. It was very intimidating to walk into that booth and confess my sins. It was almost akin to telling God about my shortcomings. I remember the opening rote words told to the priest: “Bless me father, for I have sinned. It has been (well, up to that point, all my life – all 8 years or whatever!) since my last confession.” Then, one would list all their sins and conclude the litany with, “For these and for all my unconfessed sins, I am truly sorry.”
That was usually followed by a little spiel about how wrong it was to be involved with these kinds of activities, and then came the sentence.
I would usually cringe and hope it would be a light sentence: a few Our Fathers, a handful of Hail Mary’s, but nothing too drastic like a whole rosary or a novena. Then, of course, after receiving my penalty, I was absolved by the priest and told not to do it again. To which, I would dart out, and be glad that the whole exercise was over.
Again, years later, while immersing myself in what the “Good Book” had to say, I discovered that Jesus commanded us not to call any man on Earth “Father.” In Matthew 23:9, Jesus tells us:
“And call no man your father upon the Earth; for one is your Father, which is in Heaven.”
It would seem to me, and I’m sure it is right, that Jesus here is referring to our Spiritual Father. Obviously, we have a male parent whom we refer to as a father. But, we are told by Jesus not to call anyone father in the spiritual sense. So, it begs the question: why does Roman Catholicism insist on calling their priests “father?”
Aren’t we supposed to do what Jesus says? Are we followers of Jesus, and as Christians shouldn’t we abide by what he commands us? If Roman Catholicism is true Christianity, why are they defying God again on this?
If the Catholic priests are indeed Christians, wouldn’t they be our brothers instead? It would seem that the title, in the way they use it, would infer that their priests are lord over us. Even the pope – which means papa – has the title of Holy Father. That to me is seriously wrong. Only one is our father, as Jesus tells us, and our Holy Father resides in Heaven.
No man on Earth is holy enough to be our father, let alone Holy Father. Only one time in Scripture is the term Holy Father used. In John 17:11, Jesus is praying to God the Father, and refers to Him as Holy Father. No man comes even close to the holiness of God the Father, so giving the pope this title robs God of His glory.
When a certain ruler approached Jesus to confer with Him, he called Jesus “Good Master.” Jesus responded, “Why call me good. No one is good, except for one, that is, God” (Luke 18:19).
It seems to imply, if the ruler only knew of Jesus as being a man, that certainly he was not good or holy. If the ruler, of course, knew that Jesus was in fact God, then the ruler was right. The pope, being a man and in need of a savior, is not good or holy. All of us fall short of the glory of God. To call another man holy, or even Holy Father, completely steals away the glory due to God alone.
Our Father is in Heaven, and he alone is Holy.
The pope also claims the title of “Vicar of Christ” or Christ’s representative on Earth. How is that possible? Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to be His representative on Earth. He indwells all believers. No man can be God’s representative on Earth. Why would we need another? Why teach and practice these things if they are contrary to God’s Word?
They have claimed to have given us the Bible and yet they do things and teach things that defy what Christ and the Apostles taught us. Why would they do this?
The priests, in the form of penance and in other aspects of Catholic tradition, have us praying to Mary. Why? Didn’t Jesus in Matthew 6:6 tell us to pray to the Father directly? He never told us to pray to dead saints, or to Mary, but to the Father in Heaven only.
There is no scripture verse that tells us that Jesus passed out rosary beads to His Apostles and then to have them pray to His earthly and human mother, Mary. She is not the Mother of God, as God had no beginning nor had parents. Mary, or the Catholic version of her, is not omnipresent, omniscient, nor omnipotent. She is not God. She cannot be everywhere at all times, she is not all knowing as to when people are praying to her, nor all powerful to be able to answer and change circumstances in one’s life.
Roman Catholicism has grossly distorted the Mary of the Bible. Jesus is our Lord, not Rome. Jesus tells us to pray to the Father; Rome says Mary. Jesus is our only mediator; Rome tells us that Mary is His Co-Redeemer. The Bible tells us to pray to God for intercession; Rome teaches that Mary intercedes on our behalf.
So, do we follow Christ and His teachings or do we follow man and their false beliefs? The fingerprints of the adversary are all over the false doctrines that emanate from Rome.
The question comes down to: Whom do we follow? Whose path is correct? What or who will lead us in the correct path to salvation?
Roman Catholicism puts forth their plan of salvation that, in the end, cannot even assure salvation. One is baptized as an infant into their system; attends weekly mass to receive Jesus physically in the form of a wafer; confesses one’s sins to a “father” and he absolves us of those sins by paying a penance.
Scripture tells us in Mark 2:7: “Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
And why pay a penance? Didn’t Christ pay the penalty for all my sins on the cross? Did He come up short and I have to pay for the rest?
Rome points us to the pope, to the priests, to the sacraments, to a wafer, to Mary, to Purgatory, to statues, and to everything else other than Jesus Christ for our salvation.
There is no doubt that the devil has been very involved with the formation and grooming of Roman Catholicism over the centuries. They defy God at every instance in their litany of false doctrine and point repeatedly to a false system of worship rather than in Jesus Christ to save us.
I was aghast at what I used to believe in as a child and young adult growing up in the Roman Catholic system. It wasn’t until the Lord opened my eyes, I discovered His Word, and Jesus came into my life, that I could see how wrong Romanism is. It is pseudo-Christianity. They have all the appealing things on the outside to draw in the ignorant to their system – ignorant of the truth of God’s Word, that is.
It isn’t until we receive Christ into our lives that He gives us eyes to see and His Holy Spirit for discernment. They have a false gospel of works, a false Jesus in the form of a wafer, a false version of Mary, and they offer no assurance of salvation.
They claim, after one spends their whole earthly life in the Roman Catholic system and then untold decades, centuries, eons – they don’t even know – in a fictitious place called Purgatory to purge any leftover sins that Christ couldn’t cover, the priests couldn’t absolve, and the penitent couldn’t atone for – even after all that, for one to claim that they are saved is committing the sin of presumption. What?! After a lifetime of that, in their system, they still don’t know if they are saved, and one sins by claiming otherwise? What a corrupt, bankrupt system! Why put one’s faith in that?
Jesus says in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
Forsake the false religious systems; and yes, Roman Catholicism is a false religious system.
Put your trust in Christ, not in a religious system. God’s Word tells us we have assurance of our salvation by the atonement of Jesus Christ. In 1 John 5:12-13 we read:
“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.”
It doesn’t get any simpler than that.
Is it that important for you Roman Catholic friends to belong to their church with their false doctrines, their false system of worship, with their lifetime plan of salvation, to only end up in a Christ-less eternity? Is it that important to defy God by their practices only to wind up forfeiting everything for a bankrupt system? What is the attraction in belonging to an organization that misleads their adherents in a plan that offers zero assurance of ever making it to Heaven?
Is it the eye candy of the cathedrals with their ornate furnishings, the stained-glass windows, the gold statue of Jesus hanging on a cross, the nicely painted figurines of Mary showing her “sacred” heart, or the gold monstrance keeping their Jesus confined behind a glass window? Is it the pope dressed in his dazzling white cassock, riding around in his pope mobile, or the cardinals dressed up in their purple and scarlet attire? Is it the relics, the bones, the incense, the statues, the wafers, the candles burning to Mary, and all of the rest of the fleshly appealing things that they have to offer?
Is it more important for you to embrace all of those substitutes that they have beguiled people with over the centuries than to have a right relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ the Son?
Nowhere in the entire Bible does it say that the Roman Catholic church is the means of salvation, nor are they God’s One True Church. It is all a façade, all a sideshow, replete with false teachings and a false system of salvation. It is the Devil’s masterpiece of deception—a “Christian” church that has so much to offer, except for the true means of salvation through Christ alone.
They continually deny the sufficiency of Christ’s atonement for all of our sins by the issuing of penances to pay for one’s sins, and then by their dogma of a place called Purgatory. They deny that Christ alone is our mediator and instead point to Mary as well, even though she didn’t go to the cross for us. Their mass utterly rejects Christ’s one time sacrifice on the cross, and instead offers a bloodless sacrifice over and over on their altars.
They present a false gospel of works through Mass and the sacraments instead of Christ’s gospel of grace that cannot ever be worked for. They present a false Mary that they claim never sinned, but the true biblical Mary acknowledged her need for a savior. They present a false Christ that is ingested in the form of a wafer versus the true Christ who takes up residence in our spirits when we invite Him into our lives.
What is so appealing with believing in a false gospel, a false Mary, a false Christ, and ultimately a false plan of salvation? Is it really that important to you to embrace all of that and then miss out on an eternity with Christ in Heaven?
Do not put your trust in a false religious system. Please follow what a lot of former Roman Catholics have done, like myself.
Their religion cannot save you. You must flee their clutches, their bondage system, and embrace God’s plan of salvation. Only Christ can save, and He is waiting with open arms.
“Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18).
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him and he with me” (Revelation 3:20).
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No end days, just elite screwing around. Says the you will wish for death and it will not come. People are dying every day and it is something the elite cannot stop. This is in answer to the other religious post in here that has no comment area.
You missed the entire point.
Where in the canonized NT does it state that Mary:
1. Is the Queen of Heaven (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Heaven),
2. Is the Co-Redemptrix (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-Redemptrix),
3. Is worthy of prayer to her (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary),
4. Is our intercessor (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercession_of_the_Theotokos),
5. Was conceived immaculately (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception),
6. Was born without original sin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin),
7. Was a perpetual virgin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_virginity_of_Mary), or
8. Is currently in Heaven [i.e., her Assumption] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary)?
In fact, it doesn’t. The only superlative given to Miryam, who the RCC calls Mary, was that she was “blessed among women.” The NT states that Joshua, who the RCC calls Jesus, had four brothers and at least two sisters. Ya’akov (Jacob), who the RCC calls James, was so prominent that he made the decision regarding Gentile believers at the First Council of Jerusalem; he was one of the four brothers.
If Catholics ever read the Bible with comprehension, they could not — in good faith — remain a mother goddess worshipping Catholic. In fact, they couldn’t even get through the Book of Matthew without seriously questioning their Catholic doctrines. SMH
Regarding #8, be sure to read: /religion/2018/02/believers-souls-do-not-go-to-heaven-2539109.html
alan schuetz I would like to understand how you determined that Christ died before 30. where is that scripture
Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli,
Yes, and 28 is “about thirty years old.” His tevilah in the mikveh of the Jordan River — at Bethabara where the Israelites crossed into the Promised Land — occurred on Chag Tirosh (Feast of New Wine) in 34 CE.
http://www.haderech.info/DSS/Calendar/QumranCalendar.pdf
Born on the Feast of Weeks in 6 CE; crucified on Passover (14 Abib) in 36 CE. CHRIST WAS OF THE ORDER OF MALKI-TSEDEQ AND THE TRIBE OF JUDAH!
Hebrews 7:11 Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated according to the order of Aaron? 12 For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also. 13 For the one concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests. (NASB)
Read it in context, (anything but) truthseeker: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+7&version=NASB
alan I could not disagree with you more then I do.
and I have a paper on this subject on BIN right now.
Jesus Christ was born on the very day He will become KING over the whole earth, The Feast of Tabernacles.
The rabbit whole goes deep my friend. Most every Christian organization places importance on an outward show of devotion. Just as delusional are the rules and regulations that we are required to uphold in order to be received, rewarded and honored among men. Not surprisingly, Jesus doesn’t have to be present for any of it to be deemed a success.
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Shadow-Other-Gods-II/dp/0975447548/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362530135&sr=1-6
True Christian version 3572…
this guy has it right, trust me, he has the holy spirit in him… lulz
Praise God your not a Roman Catholic any more
Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
A christian is celestial we preach against the law with love Acts 21:28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
A christianis celestial we preach against the law with love Acts 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
Christians are strong meat celestial born from above, not the terrestrial milk law born again there wasn’t a christian bone in Peters body,he tried to control the narrative(Peter lost the battle)
You could of been terrestrial milk law born again but God chose to quicken you and plucked you away Moses Temple and Peters milk sin law bondage works faith/to be put in the christian sect to be a hidden wise virgin bride of 1st raptured Christ brought into the church of the 1st born
Rom8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Gal3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Gal5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Gal5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Corinthians 2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
the rapture door 1 Cor 16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me,and there are many adversaries.
Tons of words,phrases, memes,parables,flesh and spirit types and shadows for the rapture
The rapture the quickening spirit first then the body taken lastly in grave or alive, (medieval bible used rapt) (saint Jerome in 1st catholic bible used rapture) the caught up, God called it the great springing up,violently snatched away, hidden for a while while the scourge overpasses, my sins behind me,no law = no sin= rewards only judgement as Christ got ,hidden,no yoke people, other sheep
Beginning of the rapture end of the rapture is Romans 11:25 …fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
John 5:21 King James Version (KJV)
21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Everman in there priesthood i will pluck out who i want and Father will place them in my 1st raptured body as it pleases him.
(*my personal highest priesthood) (*risen 1st raptured Christ, never saw corruption, his body is not a resurrection body.
(Resurrection is used to many times *Yes there are resurrections sprinkled in the bible,but 1st raptured Jesus Christ isn’t one of them. )
Peter 120 fire fell on was saved for the 2nd wrath only judgement coming Matt 24 Psalm 2 O.T. timeline (then his priesthood was withered fig tree cursed and the (the door he used into heaven was shut up) (till after the rapture) then you get the 4 gospels back after the rapture.
But Peter didn’t go in rapture, and paul both say Christ takes saves raptures spirit 1st then what more can satan do to your body
Your told whom is raptured 1st, Christ is plucked up into the air His rapture never stopped(like rolling thunder) until His priesthood is filled from all 5 priesthoods (orders,way,path,profession) grave 1st, then alive, then His priesthood is closed.
Rapture bema seat only 1 book opened at our rewards only judgement of gold silver and jewels (only WE get Christ judgement-same same)satan is Christ accuser and he is our accuser.
1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
John 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
Romans 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
The rapture bride was made before the earth and heavens and hosts were! We are salted throughout the bible and answer the heavenly calling as we are one born out of due time (born from above) but sitting in 1 of 5 priesthoods & brought into and plucked up as the 5th and last priesthood-hidden Gentile christian sect, hidden priesthood, the bride vessels of mercy,predetermined, premade, raptured.
1 Corinthians 15:8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
John 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you (bride be quiet *justified testified by the H.G. Christ sings the song of the bride His hidden people the Gentiles)
1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
+++ This is a awesome description of the hidden wise virgin Gentile rapture bride,Lamb’s 2nd wife Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 2 Corinthians 6:9 unknown and famous. And we commend ourselves as God’s workers headed for death, yet look! we’re alive! as punished, yet not killed;+++
1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
Romans 9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
(*every one that doesn’t make it is lost, during this dispensation of mercy then grace by faith alone, in the middle of the Psalm 2 O.T. timeline of 2nd coming wrath only judgement. )
1 Corinthians 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
1 Corinthians 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
AFTERWARD the J.C. overcomers the watchmen on the wall those given the white stones of eternal shame of heaven the 2nd comers
those that missed the rapture ,the world and angels all must face the great white throne of wrath only judgement’s many books opened, and those that only get: depart from me to the firey pit i never knew you.
I teach the rapture mysteries as God opens them up ( satan isn’t the accuser at the 2nd coming, and Christ isn’t the only judge ) that will make all the churches wail and cry and denounce
Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Hidden cross rewards only people His hidden bride the Lamb’s 2nd wife.
The hidden christian royal family highest priesthood, the hidden order, hidden profession, hidden sect, a hersay to Moses Temple and Peters Messianic 4 gospels of milk sin law bondage works
Psalm 83:3 King James Version (KJV) 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
Zechariah 3:2 And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
1 Corinthians 15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
Yes Peters 4 gospels were a short term viable priesthood to enter heaven all Jews were to become Messianic then they could go to the world to make Gentiles proselytes, the 2nd temple was to be razed.
Exodus 40:15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.
Numbers 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
Deuteronomy 29 King James Version (KJV) gospel
Malachi 3 King James Version (KJV)gospel
“”Moses & Aaron Temple law works Jews animal alter law works faith,with 2 gospels,baptisms, repenting renew,rededicating etc… “”
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Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision (the church of God -Messianic 4 sin law flesh bondage works gospels w/Gentile proselytes)
1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
&&&&& Saul to Paul Acts 9 to Hebrews the hidden wise virgin strong meat christian, Christ personal royal family highest priesthood hidden in the house of by mercy, by faith to faith plus no sin law flesh bondage works of the law the first 4 priesthoods were forced to pratice
Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
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Galatians 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
Acts 9 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
9 Meanwhile, Sha’ul, still breathing murderous threats against the Lord’s talmidim, went to the cohen hagadol 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Dammesek, authorizing him to arrest any people he might find, whether men or women, who belonged to “the Way,” and bring them back to Yerushalayim.
3 He was on the road and nearing Dammesek, when suddenly a light from heaven flashed all around him. 4 Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Sha’ul! Sha’ul! Why do you keep persecuting me?” 5 “Sir, who are you?” he asked. “I am Yeshua, and you are persecuting me. 6 But get up, and go into the city, and you will be told what you have to do.”
Acts 9 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name to the Goyim, even to their kings, and to the sons of Isra’el as well. 16 For I myself will show him how much he will have to suffer on account of my name.”
Acts 11:26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
—Hay Vatican, and every church on every corner around the world——
So you want to do Peters Jewish 4 sin law gospels of flesh works of bondage do you Acts 1-4 do you ?
Do the repenting ,baptizing, renewing, rededicating, born again, great commission, take heaven with violence
You do all of Torah & trust & follow Moses and Aron follow Peter into the law(sans alter & animal blood) use Christ blood
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Galatians 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
Galatians 2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
Peters Messianic Jews with Gentile proselytes (2x child of hell) 4 sin flesh works of bondage law gospels
Peter put all under the law,demanded ritual foreskin cut, must obey all the Temple Jews law rituals, sabbaths,feast ,customs, follow the lunar moon cycles do all (613 Jewish laws) follow the food laws (*every jot and tittle of the Torah must be done (*except the altar and animal blood nor judas goat.- why not these? because God gave them grace they used His blood instead)
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Romans 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Romans 7:8-10 King James Version (KJV)
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Psalm 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Psalm 49:9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
Isaiah is going in the rapture- where there is no law there is no sin
Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Acts 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Christ awesome rapture verse
Romans 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
1 Corinthians 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
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Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) Galatians 3:1 You stupid Galatians! Who has put you under a spell? Before your very eyes Yeshua the Messiah was clearly portrayed as having been put to death as a criminal!
Galatians 3 King James Version (KJV)
3 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
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Revelation 1 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 4 From: Yochanan
To: The seven Messianic communities in the province of Asia:
Grace and shalom to you from the One who is, who was and who is coming; from the sevenfold Spirit before his throne; 5 and from Yeshua the Messiah, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the earth’s kings.
To him, the one who loves us, who has freed us from our sins at the cost of his blood, 6 who has caused us to be a kingdom, that is, cohanim for God, his Father — to him be the glory and the rulership forever and ever. Amen.
7 Look! He is coming with the clouds![a]
Every eye will see him,
including those who pierced him;
and all the tribes of the Land will mourn him.[b]
Yes! Amen!
8 “I am the ‘A’ and the ‘Z,’” says Adonai,
God of heaven’s armies,
the One who is, who was and who is coming.
9 I, Yochanan, am a brother of yours and a fellow-sharer in the suffering, kingship and perseverance that come from being united with Yeshua. I had been exiled to the island called Patmos for having proclaimed the message of God and borne witness to Yeshua. 10 I came to be, in the Spirit, on the Day of the Lord; and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet, 11 saying, “Write down what you see on a scroll, and send it to the seven Messianic communities — Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea!” 12 I turned around to see who was speaking to me; and when I had turned, I saw seven gold menorahs; 13 and among the menorahs was someone like a Son of Man, wearing a robe down to his feet and a gold band around his chest.[c]
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Acts 3 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
12 Seeing this, Kefa addressed the people: “Men of Isra’el! Why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk through some power or godliness of our own? 13 The God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov, the God of our fathers,[f] has glorified his servant Yeshua — the same Yeshua you handed over and disowned before Pilate, even after he had decided to release him. 14 You denied the holy and innocent one, and instead asked for the reprieve of a murderer! 15 You killed the author of life!
“But God has raised him from the dead! Of this we are witnesses. 16 And it is through putting trust in his name that his name has given strength to this man whom you see and know. Yes, it is the trust that comes through Yeshua which has given him this perfect healing in the presence of you all.
17 “Now, brothers, I know that you did not understand the significance of what you were doing; neither did your leaders. 18 But this is how God fulfilled what he had announced in advance, when he spoke through all the prophets, namely, that his Messiah was to die.
19 “Therefore, repent and turn to God, so that your sins may be erased; 20 so that times of refreshing may come from the Lord’s presence; and he may send the Messiah appointed in advance for you, that is, Yeshua. 21 He has to remain in heaven until the time comes for restoring everything, as God said long ago, when he spoke through the holy prophets. 22 For Moshe himself said, ‘Adonai will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You are to listen to everything he tells you. 23 Everyone who fails to listen to that prophet will be removed from the people and destroyed.’[g] 24 Indeed, all the prophets announced these days, starting with Sh’mu’el and continuing through all who followed.
25 “You are the sons of the prophets; and you are included in the covenant which God made with our fathers when he said to Avraham, ‘By your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.’[h] 26 So it is to you first that God has sent his servant whom he has raised up, so that he might bless you by turning each one of you from your evil ways.”
4 Kefa and Yochanan were still speaking to the people when the cohanim, the captain in charge of the Temple police, and the Tz’dukim came upon them, 2 very annoyed that they were teaching the people the doctrine of resurrection from the dead and offering Yeshua as proof. 3 The Temple police arrested them; and since it was already evening, they put them in custody overnight. 4 However, many of those who heard the message trusted; the number of men alone was about five thousand.
5 The next day, the people’s rulers, elders and Torah-teachers assembled in Yerushalayim, 6 along with ‘Anan the cohen hagadol, Kayafa, Yochanan, Alexander and the other men from the family of the cohen hagadol. 7 They had the emissaries stand before them and asked, “By what power or in what name did you do this?”
8 Then Kefa, filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being examined today about a good deed done for a disabled person, if you want to know how he was restored to health, 10 then let it be known to you and to all the people of Isra’el that it is in the name of the Messiah, Yeshua from Natzeret, whom you had executed on a stake as a criminal but whom God has raised from the dead, that this man stands before you perfectly healed.
11 “This Yeshua is the stone rejected by you builders which has become the cornerstone.[i] 12 There is salvation in no one else! For there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by whom we must be saved!”
13 When they saw how bold Kefa and Yochanan were, even though they were untrained ‘am-ha’aretz, they were amazed; also they recognized them as having been with Yeshua. 14 Moreover, since they could see the man who had been healed standing right there beside them, there was nothing they could say to discredit the healing. 15 So they told them to step away from the Sanhedrin while they discussed the matter privately. 16 “What can we do with these men?” they asked each other. “Why, anyone in Yerushalayim can see that a remarkable miracle has come about through them — we can’t possibly deny that. 17 But to prevent it from spreading any further among the people, let’s warn them not to speak any more to anyone in this name.”
18 So they called them in again and ordered them under no circumstances to speak or teach in the name of Yeshua. 19 But Kefa and Yochanan answered, “You must judge whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God. 20 As for us, we can’t help talking about what we have actually seen and heard.” 21 They threatened them some more but finally let them go — they couldn’t punish them because of the people, for everyone was praising God over what had happened, 22 since the man who had been miraculously healed was more than forty years old.
23 Upon being released, they went back to their friends and reported what the head cohanim and elders had said to them. 24 When they heard it, they raised their voices to God with singleness of heart. “Master,” they prayed, “You made heaven, earth, the sea and everything in them.[j] 25 By the Ruach HaKodesh, through the mouth of our father David, your servant, you said,
‘Why did the nations rage
and the peoples devise useless plans?
26 The kings of the earth took their stand;
and the rulers assembled together
against Adonai
and against his Messiah.’[k]
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Acts 2 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
22 “Men of Isra’el! Listen to this! Yeshua from Natzeret was a man demonstrated to you to have been from God by the powerful works, miracles and signs that God performed through him in your presence. You yourselves know this. 23 This man was arrested in accordance with God’s predetermined plan and foreknowledge; and, through the agency of persons not bound by the Torah, you nailed him up on a stake and killed him!
24 “But God has raised him up and freed him from the suffering of death; it was impossible that death could keep its hold on him. 25 For David says this about him:
‘I saw Adonai always before me,
for he is at my right hand,
so that I will not be shaken.
26 For this reason, my heart was glad;
and my tongue rejoiced;
and now my body too will live on in the certain hope
27 that you will not abandon me to Sh’ol
or let your Holy One see decay.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
you will fill me with joy by your presence.’[d]
29 “Brothers, I know I can say to you frankly that the patriarch David died and was buried — his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that one of his descendants would sit on his throne, 31 he was speaking in advance about the resurrection of the Messiah, that it was he who was not abandoned in Sh’ol and whose flesh did not see decay. 32 God raised up this Yeshua! And we are all witnesses of it!
The king James Bible (KJB) and the Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) used, picture within a picture
this is just a small piece of the rapture picture-
1 Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
If your not being told this ask ! (BUT WARNING: if you do come in and leave there is a curse put upon you worse than what satan gets)
Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
It’s free to look around and YOUR free to leave.
ONLY IF you do not partake of the heavenly calling our profession to become a rapture virgin bride picked for the 5th last and Christ personal royal family highest priesthood !
1 Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
webpqk @ gmail .com Randy Lewis
I teach doctrine of godliness of rapture any second, predestined, pre-earth, to Genesis to Revelation.
Jesus cross rewards only judgement PEOPLE,the Gentile.
No 7 years of trib/no wrath No great wrath No great white throne of wrath only judgment upon the hidden wise Gentile rapture bride ,Lamb’s 2nd wife.
The last 7 years of trib Daniel 9:24 and Luke 11 blood curse all wrath’s only judgement at second coming is put upon the watchmen on the wall white stones of eternal shame of heaven many books opened-then Lamb’s book of life -but they only get a wrath adoption only by Christ.
But you can be saved from all that by God using his wise strong meat (*no milk law allowed) hidden rapture bride priesthood ,sect ,profession, way ,path,hidden great open door,
Ministers of Christ,stewards of the mysteries of God using the free gift of eternal life ministry of reconciliation with charity & full, 1/2,1/4 chapters here some there some.
I teach all 5 priesthoods ,but God wants these three priesthoods to be 1 in the rapture bride Gentile his cross rewards only people judgement
1 Corinthians 10:32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
Jesus the lad, with 5 priesthoods the 5th is His personal royal family and highest priesthood of the heavenly called rapture bride the Lamb’s 2nd wife using 2 fishers of men the 2 covenants
John 6:9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
Mark 6:41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.
Romans 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
BE careful you can fall from grace!
Revelation 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
I teach the flocks, the doors, priesthoods,leavened unleavened, the virgins and the wives of Christ, the rapture vessel, and more
Genesis 29:2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.
Great rapture verse explaining the doors, and whom goes in the great rapture door
Psalm 1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
The wise hidden ,christian sect, Gentile rapture bride hidden virgin highest priesthood only mission work on this earth Acts 9 to Hebrews
Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
I am trying to get you to answer the heavenly calling, made a hidden wise Gentile rapture bride the Lamb’s 2nd wife plucked up into the 5th and last royal family and Christ personal and highest priesthood placed into the royal house of King David’s house of by faith alone plus nothing.So Christ can save you you can make peace between you and Father and get Hebrews 4 rest to get Hebrews 6:9-20 be rapture placed in His body by Father.So you are raptured from the book of Revelations and Luke 11 trib and wrath plagues.
(((Repenters are not raptured sans` redeemed the way the churches preach, they have the blood curse upon their heads forever Luke 11, 1 Kings 2:33 & Revelation, Daniel 9:24 ))) (they get all the plagues thrown in their graves then go to the 2nd judgement of wrath only many books opened(last book the Lamb’s book because they are the eternal shame of heaven only 1 adoption,Father turned away from the white stones/J.C. overcomers refuses to adopt them only Jesus can adopt them
(*only the strong meat non repenting bride is snatched up from the grave 1st then those that are alive (ONLY) we get to spring up meeting the Lord in the clouds we have 1 book opened the Lamb’s book of life same as our Lord & Savior had we get 2 adoptions & oath & covenant made 5th and highest personal royal family priesthood made the bride the Lamb’s 2nd wife, & judges and counseller’s + more
Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
some get out at the 2nd coming and some never get out.
1 Kings 2:33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the Lord.
“with the afterlife doctrine of Purgatory to cover any leftover sins?”
If you die with any unrepentant mortal sin, you will go to hell. That is and always has been Church teaching. Purgatory does not “cover leftover sins.”
“if we are unable to reach God the Father or Jesus with our petitions”
God knows and see’s all. We petition the Blessed Mother, because God wants us to love Her as He does.
“There used to be a teaching that unbaptized babies would go to a place called Limbo, since even an un-regenerated baby could not attain entrance into Heaven..”
Still is Church teaching. John 3:5 “Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
“As an infant, I had no concept of sin…”
You did have original sin. The “no concept of it” is what spares an infant from the hell of the damned. By the mercy and justice of God, they go to limbo.
“rather than just having water sprinkled over the forehead.”
Water is poured, not sprinkled. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that the person is immersed.
“was only baptized as an adult and just before the start of His earthly ministry.”
Correct. He couldn’t very well institute Baptism when he was an infant.
“Those statues are not God and they don’t hear or answer prayer requests.”
Correct. And it is not Church teaching that they are God. If you were led to believe so then that is on your parents and teachers. Anything obtained comes from God. The Blessed Mother, Angels and Saints are helpers.
“Why the Catholic Church has deleted the Second Commandment and allows this kind of activity to flourish throughout their ranks and cathedrals is beyond comprehension.”
The Church never has. It has always been apart of the First Commandment:
Baltimore Catechism:
198. What is the first commandment of God?
The first commandment of God is: I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.
Thou shalt not have strange Gods before me. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. (Exodus 20:3-4)
We don’t worship statues. We only worship the Blessed Trinity. When statues and pictures are linked with God they are allowed. Tell me (according to your logic) why did God command the Israelites to worship a brazened serpent?:
Numbers 21 8-9 “And the Lord said to him: Make brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live. Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed.”
“they dress up statues of Mary, then parade around behind it, adoring it and throwing flowers in the street before it.”
That is to show the love for the Woman whom is the Queen of Heaven, Mother of God(Jesus is God), and our Mother. it isnt because they worship the ceramic or plastic it is made of. Nor does the ceramic and plastic have power.
“What a pagan ritual! And abhorred by the Creator of all.”
On the contrary God is most pleased, because among other things, we are following the Fourth Commandment of Honor you Father and Mother.
“A few years ago, I went to a Good Friday Mass..”
If you didnt go to a Traditional Mass (and it sounds like you didnt) you didnt go to a Catholic Mass. You went to a new mass of the second vatican council. One of many false masses spawned by invader jews.
“The bread and wine still retain the physical characteristics of bread and wine; but somehow, through spiritism, or mysticism, or just plain old hocus-pocus, these wafers are now Jesus Christ”
How about through the Divine power of Jesus Christ? Hmm?
Mathew 26 : 26-28 “And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke: and gave to his disciples, and said: Take ye, and eat. This is my body. And taking the chalice, he gave thanks, and gave to them, saying: Drink ye all of this. For this is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins.”
“but continually shows up on the altars of Roman Catholic churches in the form of a wafer!”
Yep. Matthew 28:20 “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.”
‘We don’t receive Jesus via a wafer.”
John 6: 51-52 “I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever; and THE BREAD THAT I WILL GIVE IS MY FLESH, for the life of the world.” John 6:54-57 “Then Jesus said to them:Amen, amen I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and i will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.”
1 Cor 11:26-27 “For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord until he come. Therefore whoever shall eat this bread or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.”
Acts 2:42“And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles, and in the communication of the breaking of the bread, and in prayers.”
“Jesus, though, qualifies, in John 6:63 that He is speaking in spiritual terms:
“It is the Spirit that quickens (or comes alive); the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.””
Your saying Jesus’ flesh profits nothing(which is the height of blasphemy) then what good is the Sacrifice He made on the Cross? What He is saying there has nothing to do with Communion.
“So, it begs the question: why does Roman Catholicism insist on calling their priests “father?””
Because Christ’s priests share in His Priesthood:
1 Corinthians 4:14-15 “I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children. For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.”
“so giving the pope this title robs God of His glory.”
“Holy Father” is the title of the Office instituted by Christ. The man holding it can be rotten. Some Popes have been, but he is still called Holy Father out of respect of Christ.
“The pope also claims the title of “Vicar of Christ” or Christ’s representative on Earth. How is that possible?”
By Jesus:
Matthew 16:18-19 “And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.”
John: 15-17 “When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: feed my lambs. He saith to him again: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: feed my lambs. He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: feed my sheep.”
“They have claimed to have given us the Bible and yet they do things and teach things that defy what Christ and the Apostles taught us. Why would they do this?”
The Church doesnt.
“The priests, in the form of penance and in other aspects of Catholic tradition, have us praying to Mary. Why?”
It is more like petitioning. We ask Mary to pray for us to God, because She is an intercessor:
John 2: 3-5 “And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine. And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee? My hour is not yet come. His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.”
“There is no scripture verse that tells us that Jesus passed out rosary beads to His Apostles”
The Rosary was given to St Dominic in the year 1214. And it is comprised of Scripture and Apostolic Tradition.
“She is not the Mother of God”
Jesus is God and Mary is His Mother, so Mary is the Mother of God.
‘Mary, or the Catholic version of her, is not omnipresent, omniscient, nor omnipotent”
That is not the “Catholic version of her.” It is not Church teaching. It is the protestant version forced to us. It must be constantly held to us by heretics, because it does not stick. It is not truth.
“She is not God”
Correct.
“She cannot be everywhere at all times”
She can if God wants Her to be.
“Jesus tells us to pray to the Father; Rome says Mary.”
“Rome” may say that, but the Church say to pray to Jesus and ask Mary for help.
“And why pay a penance? Didn’t Christ pay the penalty for all my sins on the cross?”
We have to pay the penalty WITH Christ for salvation:
Luke 9: 23 “And he said to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”
“Rome points us to the pope, to the priests, to the sacraments, to a wafer, to Mary, to Purgatory, to statues, and to everything else other than Jesus Christ for our salvation.”
Jesus is the center of our religion. For someone who claims to be a former Catholic, you know nothing about the Faith. Should have tried reading a Catechism.
“I was aghast at what I used to believe in as a child and young adult growing up in the Roman Catholic system.”
I don’t know how old you are, but you probably grew up in the jewish conciliar church system.
‘It wasn’t until the Lord opened my eyes, I discovered His Word, and Jesus came into my life, that I could see how wrong Romanism is.”
No. You received no Grace being in the impostor catholic church and therefore turned into a total apostate.
‘They have all the appealing things on the outside to draw in the ignorant to their system – ignorant of the truth of God’s Word, that is.’
Ever since vatican II, churchmen dont look to convert anyone. They subscribe to satanic ecumenism.
‘They have a false gospel of works”
Matthew 7: 21 “ Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
Again, Luke 9: 23
James 2:19-20 “Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?”
2 Peter 1:10 “Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.”
Phillipians 2:12 “Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but much more now in my absence,) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.”
1Corinthians 13: 1-3 “If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”
1 Corinthians 13:13 ” And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.”