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The Accuser/Taking God Seriously By Pastor Bill Taylor A publication of My Father's House, inc. Volume 9/Issue 14 Prophecy: I’ve heard the slanders of those who claim to be My people but aren’t. When I send My servant to preach a convicting sermon and they say, “What he says may be true but he doesn’t have love.” I say to them, you don’t know whether he has love or not. You haven’t been around him long enough to know anything. I’ve been around him and I’ve seen his love, and you don’t measure up to one tenth of his love. And when My servant reproves and rebukes you say, “He doesn’t have joy.” But I say, you lie! You haven’t known My servant long enough to see the joy. I’ve seen the joy and rejoicing of his heart when I’ve shared My Word with him. I’ve seen My strength in him that comes forth from that joy. I tell you, you’re like foolish children in the marketplace – nothing makes you happy. You claim to have joy; you claim to have love, but you have only slanders in your mouth. The venom of asps is on your lips, your feet run to shed innocent blood, and all you do is of the flesh. When you meet a real man of God and when you find a real church and when you see and hear the things that really come from Me, you only criticize. Well, let Me tell you this: there’s a time to laugh, there’s a time to weep, there’s a time to love and there’s a time to hate. There’s a time to reprove and rebuke, and there’s a time to have mercy. And I tell My servants what time it is. You don’t tell them what time it is. And when I tell them it’s time to reprove and rebuke, that’s what they do; and woe to you who backtalk and say they don’t have love, because it’s not time for the kind of love you’re looking for. But what it is time for is, it’s time for you to repent; it’s time for you to examine yourself and get the log out of your eye, lest I deal with you according to your folly and there be none to save you, thus saith the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at "My Father's House") And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the devil and satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.” (Rev12:7-12) Here satan has been cast down because the saints overcame him. By the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. (v11) So the Spirit says, “Rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them.” (v12) The true saints are seated in the heavens in Christ Jesus. (Eph2:6) They rejoice when satan is cast down. Whereas, “woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea.” (v12) Those who aren’t seated in the heavens, which includes the carnal christians and the false churches, woe to them! We know the accuser was accusing in Job’s day. And even today, the accuser has yet to be cast down. But insofar as a saint is able to walk in the Spirit, for that one the accuser is, in a sense, cast down. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. (Rom8:1) Since there’s no condemnation, that’s equivalent to saying there can be no valid accusation against a Spirit led believer. Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. (Rom8:33-34) However, the saints still have enemies. Being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. (2Cor10:6) So our obedience isn’t yet fulfilled – which means as a whole, we’re not yet perfectly walking in the Spirit, not yet complete in Christ. Thus there are still valid accusations against us. But when our obedience is fulfilled there’ll be no valid accusations. Then satan will be “cast down” since God won’t listen to false accusations from anyone. “Now salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come.” (Rev12:10) which is similar to, Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” (Rev11:15) What happens at the last trumpet? Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed--in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1Cor15:51-52) The last trumpet is when the dead in Christ arise, and that’s when the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord. As it says, You have taken Your great power and reigned. The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, (Rev11:17-18) So, salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come at the time when the accuser is cast down. But as of now the accuser is still accusing. Whenever we have an encounter with curstians who slander us, saying “we don’t love,” or “we’re in works theology,” or “we’re judging;” they’re accusing us. Are their accusations made only before man, or also before God? And who’s the real instigator of the accusations? It’s satan? Then the devil is still accusing. When will satan be cast down? We can answer this way, God sees through every accusation against one of His people. And as long as the devil is making accusations that have some basis in truth, then the devil won’t be cast down. But when the saints are blameless, where no one can truthfully accuse them because they’re walking always in the Spirit and they’re irreproachable, then satan has nothing to stand on anymore. That’s when Michael wins the battle! Because satan can’t bring false accusations before the Lord after our obedience is fulfilled. Satan could slander Job by accusations which could only be proven by testing. And in his test Job proved satan’s accusations to be false. When the true church proves satan’s accusations against her to be false, then satan will be cast down. He won’t be able to accuse the brethren any more before God who knows all things. Satan might be able to deceive men about us, but he can’t bring false accusations before the Lord. Who is he that condemns? It’s God that justifies. (Rom8:33) Will God listen to false accusations? NO! On the other hand, if there’s any truth to the accusations then the saints aren’t yet perfected. Then they must receive correction, plead the blood of the Lamb, and straighten the errors out. Until we’re complete, Christ will be working in us to correct us and bring us to perfection. Of course God can deal with our enemies right now, but when we’re perfected He’ll deal with them in His fullness. Being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. (2Cor10:6) That’s when satan is cast down and heaven can rejoice. “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.” (Rev12:12) Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.” (Rev12:10) That all comes when our obedience is fulfilled, when the devil has nothing he can bring against us anymore. Another understanding of this is God will shake everything that can be shaken until only the things which are of God remain. (Heb12:26,27) But concerning this shaking, God won’t shake everything until His saints are so firmly established that they won’t come down in the shaking. Even now God can do a lot of things regarding our enemies. But there’s a fullness of what He’ll do that will occur when the saints are established on unshakeable foundations, when we’re so perfectly established in Christ we’re irreproachable. For example, suppose we were to pray God would cut off the funding of the false churches. Many of the corrupt churches are very heavily weighted with debt. When their finances are diminished, they’ll collapse. But how could God accomplish this? A national depression! However, the true saints would suffer in such a depression too. So if causing a depression to bring down the false churches would also bring down the true saints, God won’t do it. He’ll wait until His true saints are so established in Christ that they’re unshakeable in faith and can handle the depression without wavering. God will move when the saints can actually say for themselves: Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food; though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls--yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. (Hab3:17-18) With such faith God can shake everything around him and Habakkuk will still stand. What kind of faith do you have? The Spirit is showing us if God is to deal with our enemies finally and completely, we must be established rock solid in faith, and be irreproachable. That’s the goal for the true church, and one reason we must attain to perfection. It’s not God’s mercy on our enemies that’s causing Him to delay dealing with them, it’s His mercy on us! And when He knows we can be safe as He deals with them, He’ll deal with them awesomely. That should give you a strong incentive to become irreproachable and to be completely established in Christ. Another common error in the contemporary church is they think it’s “speaking evil” to “name” someone and expose their sins. But speaking evil is to speak falsely – not to speak openly. For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles-- when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. (1Pe4:3-4) Paul “named” many sinners, Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. May the Lord repay him according to his works. (2Tim4:14) Having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. (1Tim1:19-20) And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, (2Tim2:17) Paul even “named” Peter, Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed; (Gal 2:11) John “named” Diotrephes, I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. (3Jn9) It’s obviously a satanic error to say “naming” a sinner and telling his sin is “evil speaking.” This heresy is taught by satan’s servants in the false churches, for it gives the lovers of darkness a protective covering to be able to sin and not be named. Something is dreadfully wrong in the so-called “churches” where scriptural ignorance is so common that lies like this can be preached. Even more importantly, John says real Christians have an anointing of the Spirit of truth. (1Jn2:20,27) Obviously heretics don’t have this anointing. They don’t know truth from fiction. In real Christianity, we rely on the witness of the Spirit of truth in everything we do. And what this shows is much of what calls itself “christian” today doesn’t have the Spirit of truth. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. (1Jn2:21) Here is an excerpt from the Glory of His Grace book “A Rock Of Offense;” Most of these people, when they were new Christians, opened their Bibles and said, “I don’t understand this, somebody tell me what it means.” But instead of going to God they went to men; and teachers taught by men tell them it means this and that. So these new believers study what man taught and heretical teachers say, and they go away thinking, “Now I know what the Bible means.” But they never sat down before the Lord or let the Spirit of Christ teach them what it means. Then somebody like me comes in who’s taught by God. God Himself commanded me saying, “Do not read these commentaries. I’m going to teach you.” And He Himself taught me what His Word means. So I start telling them what God says in His Word and it’s so different from what these man taught “believers” have spent years in learning, that they begin judging and saying things like, “He is disagreeing with us. He doesn’t love us: He’s not friendly: He’s not meek!” They make up anything they can to slander me. And they’ll come against you the same way if you’re zealous for the Lord and His truth. I’m using myself as an example, but all true Christians will experience these things. For the disciple is not above his master. Because they’re proud of what they think they know from their man-taught churches, they consider anyone who disagrees with them to be an enemy. But God disagrees with them. We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him. (1Cor8:1-3) Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? (Gal 4:16) So being captives of satan, they become accusers of the true brethren. And this is the common method the wicked use to try to defeat the saints, which also we see in the book of Acts. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he (Stephen) spoke. Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” (Acts6:10-11) So they falsely accuse Stephen’s character because they can’t overcome the soundness of his arguments. They can’t defeat his truths, so they try to overcome him by calling him a sinner or a criminal. By this means, the wicked today also hope to defeat our sound doctrine without actually defeating our truth. For they can’t overcome our argument except to prove its not true. But since what we speak is true, it’s impossible for them to defeat it. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. (2Cor13:8) So, they fight against us by defaming our character, since they can’t overcome the truth in our words. That’s the strategy satan uses. He used it on Jesus; he used it on Stephen; he uses it on us. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds. (2Jn10-11) The saints are commanded to “judge” doctrine. Bad doctrine always leads to evil deeds. Because bad fruit comes from a bad tree. We can discern bad doctrine because it disagrees with sound scriptural teachings – the words of Jesus and His apostles. The devil doesn’t want people to examine our doctrine. He calls us evil and lies about what we “believe.” And by this subterfuge he tries to prevent people from even examining our doctrine, lest they see the truth and be saved. People who are deceived by the devil’s lies about us are listening to “hearsay.” Such “hearsay” isn’t even permitted in a court of law. The wicked “convict” us on the testimony of false witnesses, never even checking the truth out for themselves. Their condemnation is just. (Rom3:8) The righteous will ascertain what your doctrine really is – then compare it to the truth of God’s Word to see if you are of the truth. These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. (Acts17:11) If your doctrine is truth we’ll accept you as a brother or sister if you’re living up to the doctrine. But if your doctrine isn’t agreeable to the Scriptures we must reject you as a heretic. If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, (1Tim6:3) from such withdraw yourself. (v5) To obey this command we have to determine what people are preaching. If they’re teaching something different from Christ, and their doctrine doesn’t agree with Godly behavior then: He is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself. (1Tim6:4-5) True Christians are required to listen to and judge what others are preaching. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, (Rev2:2) How do you test them? You listen to what they preach and you compare it to what Jesus teaches, what the true apostles and God’s Word reveal to us; and if it’s not agreeable then we know they’re heretics, and we can rightly call them false apostles because of what they’re teaching. Of course they say we’re “judging them;” that’s their usual defense. And we are judging them – in obedience to God’s command we’re judging them. But they stupidly believe “judging” is a sin at all times, under all occasions, which of course would prevent the devil’s people from ever being exposed if he could enforce that wicked doctrine upon the true church. But we won’t let him. I’ve fought against this devilish lie for over twenty years, facing the slanders of numerous false brethren who wickedly try to uphold satan’s stupid lie by accusing me of “judging.” From this you can see how many fools who think they’re “christians” have bought into satan’s deceits! God will reward them according to their works. The truth is, we’re commanded by God to judge doctrine and if it’s not scriptural that makes the one preaching it a heretic. But we don’t start by judging the preacher; we start by judging the doctrine. You know the tree by its fruit means, we examine the doctrine, and we examine the deeds before we “judge” the person. That’s righteous judgment! That’s the way Jesus teaches us to judge. Judge fruit first, then you’ll know the tree. “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. “You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? “Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. “Therefore by their fruits you will know them. (Matt7:15-20) But the wicked reject our doctrine and our good fruit because they know it’s of the truth and they can’t overcome it. Instead they call the good tree bad in an attempt to win their argument without examining the fruit lest everyone would see our doctrine is true and scriptural and our fruit good. They answered and said to him, “If He were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him up to you.” (Jn18:30) In American justice we consider someone to be innocent until proven guilty. But these wicked Jews try to convince Pilate Jesus is guilty just because they’ve arrested Him. If it’s true that someone is guilty just because they’ve been arrested, why do we need courts? Pilate knows the Jews delivered Jesus for envy. (Mk15:10) After examining Christ he says, “I find no fault in Him.” (Jn19:4) Just because someone has been accused doesn’t mean they’re guilty. Often it’s the accusers who are guilty. And that’s how it is with the false brethren today. They accuse us when they are the liars and heretics. They hope to deceive people into thinking we’re guilty just because we’ve been accused. So, the argument of whether or not our doctrine is sound doesn’t even come up with them. They know they can’t defeat it. They couldn’t defeat Stephen, they couldn’t defeat Jesus, and they can’t defeat the Spirit by which we speak either. So what do they do? They slander and malign the witness. This is the judging Jesus says is sin, “Judge not, that you be not judged. “For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.” (Matt7:1-2) It shows these wicked people to be of antichrist. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. (Rev13:6) They are slanderers, blasphemers, and false witnesses! They make accusations that aren’t true, grasping at any lie they can come up with to malign God’s witnesses and distract people from hearing God’s truth. They twist the scriptures. For example, when they say we aren’t “meek.” So many scriptures indicate what these fools call “meekness” isn’t characteristic of the behavior in the apostles, prophets and righteous men of God. Moses was the meekest of men, (Num12:3) but how bold he was to stand up against Dathan and Abiram, or the idolaters. Moses dealt with sin after sin in a very aggressive fashion. Jesus says, “I am meek and lowly,” (Matt11:29) and yet He takes a whip into the temple. (Jn2:14,15) He calls the Pharisees a “brood of vipers.” Did Jesus look meek when He was calling the Pharisees “hypocrites” and “blind?” (Matt23:17,23) Did He look meek when He was overturning the moneychangers’ tables? How then can we be convicted of not being “meek” when we’re doing only such things as Jesus and the apostles have done? Or are the wicked trying to put an evil restraint (bondage) on us by saying we must behave at all times in the way they define meekness, and we’re not permitted to do what Jesus and the apostles do to expose and oppose wickedness? Paul says to Titus concerning the cretans, “rebuke them sharply!” (Titus1:13) Does Titus look like he’s meek when he’s doing that? We’re commanded to reprove, rebuke, exhort. (2Tim4:2) Jude says, contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. (v3) All of these things are required behavior in true men of God. Do they violate the rule of meekness? It’s not possible. Such things aren’t sin, they’re obedience to God. So if your definition of meekness is accurate, it must permit such activities as the Scriptures require of godly men. Once again what we see here is these wicked, false christians have an erroneous definition of meekness which they try to enforce upon the righteous to make us seem evil in the sight of foolish men who are untaught and unstable. As Our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, speaking of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. (2Pe3:15-16) But their slanders and blasphemies won’t stand before God. The wicked can only attempt to deceive ignorant men who don’t know God, while they condemn themselves by arrogantly judging the righteous. They say, “We the true saints aren’t acting meek,” when they are the ones who don’t know the scriptures. They twist the Scriptures to their own destruction, never considering how many places there are in the Bible where righteous men have acted contrary to what these fools erroneously understand as meekness. We’re commanded by Christ to stand boldly for God’s truth. How can this be a violation of the law of meekness? But these “blind guides” and their followers fall into every “ditch” of error. Meekness doesn’t mean being obsequious or weak; it means being without self-interest – selfless in obedience to God. And we can be selfless and yet be very strong to do what is right, even risking our lives in obeying God while these wicked fools erroneously slander our obedience by accusing us of pride. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (Jas1:5-8) To be double-minded is a sin which accompanies instability; you’re not established in faith so you’re not worthy to receive anything from God. Yet very often false christians will accuse us of pride when we single-mindedly stand for what we know is true in such a way that we’ll not back down from it. Jesus’ people know the truth, Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (Jn8:31-32) “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.” (Jn16:13) But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. (1Jn2:20) The church is the pillar and ground of the truth. (1Tim3:15) Jesus requires His people to stand up for His truth. “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” (Mk8:38) “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.” (Matt10:27) For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, (2Tim1:7-8) When I know something is true in Christ and someone is contradicting that truth, God expects me to correct and expose their error. Yet the false church and false christians want us to say, “You’ve a right to your opinion. Maybe you’re right and maybe I’m wrong.” They think double-mindedness is meekness and standing for truth is pride. But to be vacillating or double-minded about God’s Word is sin. Whatever isn’t of faith is sin. (Rom14:23) If I don’t know the truth, I shouldn’t be talking; because I don’t have anything worth saying if I don’t know what I’m saying is of God. To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Is8:20) But if God has revealed His truth to me, then I have to stand on that; and I must be true to God because I know where it came from – I know it came from God and it’s His truth. (1Jn4:6) False humility says, “Be kind to people by letting them think their opinions have value even when they’re saying things that are wrong.” If you fear man, you’ll give in to false humility and try to please men instead of God. Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, (Col 2:18) Would you give the evil reason to think they’re right even when they’re blatantly antichrist and wickedly wrong? There’s no excusing that! When we’re standing against the doctrines of false christians, we’re standing on scriptures we know God has opened to us; scriptures whose meaning have been confirmed to us supernaturally by the Spirit and the Word. There’s no doubt we’re right, because God is right. And there’s no doubt the heretics are wrong! It isn’t pride to do this. It’s FAITH, the “hearing of faith!” (Gal 3:2) When I’m standing for truth I’m in faith – not pride! But the false christians want to take away my right to stand up for truth by calling it pride to do that. They’re wicked deceivers, and the truth is they’re the ones who are in pride; they’re the ones standing on man-made traditions which make the Word of God of no effect. (Matt15:6) They’re the ones who reject what the Scriptures say to hold on to false teachings. “Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” (Matt15:7-9) The things they’re proud of is what they’re standing on. As Jethro said to Moses concerning the Egyptians, “In the very things of which they were most proud, God brought them down.” (Ex18:11) And God is bringing these false christians today down also. He’s not bringing them down on some side issue. The doctrine they’re most proud of, their “Once Saved\Always Saved” is what God is using to expose and embarrass the wicked Baptists. He’s completely stripping them naked and publicly humiliating them. Their pride and joy, their biggest idol is what God is using to show everyone they don’t know God and don’t know the Scriptures. The very thing they’re most proud of is what God is using to show the world and all Christendom their utter foolishness. The Baptists are as false as Mormons – as wicked as Jehovah’s Witnesses; as far from God’s truth as the Catholics. They’ve no part in real Christianity. And no real Christian should have anything to do with them except to rebuke them. The false christians call meekness what the Bible calls double-mindedness. They accuse us of sin because we aren’t double-minded and we know the truth and stand for that truth. It would be sin if we didn’t. They call “faith” pride because they’re so stupid they can’t see the difference between being right and being proud. They’re so blind they can’t rightly divide God’s Word. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth. (2Tim2:15) They call things sin that aren’t sin. They accuse the true saints of “judging” when we’re obeying Jesus’ command to “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. “You will know them by their fruits.” (Matt7:15,16) And “Take heed that no one deceives you.” (Matt24:4) Judging “doctrine” means we also have to make decisions about people who speak false doctrine. Reject a divisive man (heretic) after the first and second admonition, knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned. (Titus3:10-11) The Bible says a heretic is self-condemned. Why? Because the truth is so readily available in the scripture that for the heretic to reject the truth he must be doing it purposely. But the wicked say we can’t call them heretics, because that’s “judging.” We’re not permitted to inspect their doctrine to see if it’s sound? Who came up with these “rules?” It could only be the devil and his heretics themselves who are “forbidding” us to “judge” fruit and doctrine, etc. But we must obey God not men, and judge righteous judgment to expose heretics, wolves, and the lies of false brethren. How can these people even begin to accuse us of sinning in these things? It’s because so many “christians” are utterly ignorant of God; utterly ignorant of the scriptures. “And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.” (Jn16:3) They are servants of antichrist and completely lost. They have nothing of the true Spirit of Jesus Christ; so they aren’t His. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. (Rom8:9b) They fight against Jesus while they claim to love Him. These wicked false christians continually do violence to God’s Word. When one verse of scripture, for example, “Don’t judge!” is used to forbid obedience to another verse like, “Reject a heretic!” that’s using God’s Word against God and that’s doing violence to God’s Word. People who do that don’t understand God’s Word at all. Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm. (1Tim1:7) For if they rightly understood God’s word “Don’t judge” they’d know this command can’t prohibit us from obeying the scriptures that tell us not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner-- not even to eat with such a person. For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? (1Cor5:11-12) God commands us to “judge” and separate from sinners in the church. But these false christians have made a religion out of undermining and opposing everything Jesus says while they claim to “serve” Him. God will bring them down swiftly. Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from Me,” says the LORD. (Is54:15,17) These false christians blaspheme and slander God’s truth continually. They also slander me and all believers who follow the truth. But God has given us the heritage, the privilege of exposing them, showing their folly and utter foolishness, shaming and condemning them. Their condemnation is just. (Rom3:8) So I’m fulfilling Isaiah 54:17 when I expose and condemn false christians, and that’s to the glory of God. Jesus does the same when Pharisees try to attack Him as, for example, in healing on the Sabbath. But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.” The Lord then answered him and said, “Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it? So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound-- think of it-- for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?” And when He said these things, all His adversaries were put to shame… (Lk13:14-17) As concerning Stephen, And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke. (Acts6:10) which is a fulfillment of, for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist. (Lk21:15) Are these scriptures being fulfilled in you? If Christ is in you, you’ll be condemning those who rise up against God’s truth too. This is a confirmation that Christ is in me when I’m enabled by God to righteously condemn those who rise up against me. If you’re a true Christian this should be in you also. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. (Rev12:11) We overcome false accusations by the word of our testimony, which also means by our testimony we condemn those who rise up against us. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me,” says the LORD. (Is54:17) “If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why do you strike Me?” (Jn18:23) Instead of pointing out what’s wrong with what we’re saying, curstians falsely attack our person and our character. “If I have spoken well, why don’t you accept it? If I’ve not spoken well, show me what is wrong with my speech.” (Jn18:23) But curstians can’t tell us what’s wrong with our speech because there isn’t anything wrong. They accuse us falsely because we expose their wickedness. (Jn7:7) They’re not of the truth, they’re of the devil. What we expose about them is true and that true testimony condemns them. And when we’re standing in the truth and perfected in the truth satan won’t be able to bring any charges against us, and that’s what casts him down. The LORD has taken away your judgments, He has cast out your enemy. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall see disaster no more. (Zep3:15) For the accuser of our brethren who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! (Rev12:10,12) And rejoice you saints who are walking in the Spirit and seated in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, you shall see disaster no more. Prophecy: I’ve taught you My children, to examine yourselves carefully to be certain Christ is in you. I’ve taught you to dig deep and make your foundations sure. I’ve taught you to test and do all things which will show where you stand in Christ. All around you false churches are saying, “Just believe Christ is in you. It doesn’t matter how you behave.” But their trial is coming. And for you who’ve dug deep, who’ve examined yourselves that Christ be in you and who’ve corrected what was lacking, you’ll stand firm and sure in the shakings to come. For your foundations are deep and strong, and your houses are set in order. But I tell you, those who’ve thought it was wisdom to just believe and confess they have that which they’ve no evidence of really possessing, when the storms come they’ll find all they’ve had is pipe dreams and vain imaginations. They’ll have nothing on which to stand, and how greatly they’ll fall. For great is the shaking coming forth even now to justify My Name and destroy those who’ve slandered My people. Yet you who’ve glorified My Name, I’ll preserve you and show you that I’m the righteous God who keeps and upholds all those who are His in truth, thus saith the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at "My Father's House")
Taking God Seriously
Prophecy: I’ve opened your eyes to a sin of such importance that in Old Testament days men were killed for committing it. From the days of Moses through to Christ they were stoned and even in the New Testament church they were turned over to the devil for committing it. This is a grievous sin against Me, against My people. And it’s unforgivable when it’s against My Spirit. Yet, many who claim to be My people today can’t even define this sin. I tell you, the sin of blasphemy has overtaken the “churches.” It’s the most prevalent of sins; My Name is blasphemed everyday by a people who claim to be Mine. Every church that claims to be Mine and isn’t, blasphemes Me. Everyone who speaks against My true people blasphemes My church, My name, My work. Blasphemies flood the earth; they flood the “churches” today. But I’m raising up a standard. As I said when the enemy comes in like a flood, I’ll raise up a standard against him; and I’m raising that standard now. I’m putting My Sword in the hands of My people who’ll turn to the blasphemers and say, “You blaspheme” so their blasphemous mouths will be stopped. I tell you, many will ask, “What is blasphemy?” And even in their question they prove they don’t know Me. And they’ll be convicted and ashamed when they find out the sin whose name they haven’t understood is the very sin they’ve been most guilty of. Thus I will shame and convict them, saith the Lord. Prophecy: In wrath I do remember mercy, but in My wrath I destroy the unrighteous, and in My mercy I save the remnant. And it’s utter foolishness of a people who falsely claim they’re Mine to think that in wrath My mercy will save them when they don’t come to receive of My righteousness, My truth, My Spirit. For I’ll accomplish what I’ve purposed in the earth, and I’ll be merciful to those who are worthy of My mercy. But I’ll have wrath on those who deserve wrath and have disregarded My ways, while those who’ve stood with Me and for Me, I will remember them and preserve them in My mercy, saith the Lord. (Prophecies delivered at "My Father's House") What the book of Revelation shows us about antichrist isn’t just for the future, it’s for now. That’s why it says, “Blessed is he who reads and keeps these words.” (Rev1:3) For everything the antichrist will do in the future, he’s already doing to an extent now. And the most fearsome thing the antichrist will be doing then is to damn men’s souls by causing them to take his mark. According to God if you take that mark it’s over for you. There’s no hope of repentance. You may be a “walking man” still alive in one sense, but you’re a “dead man walking” in God’s eyes. Your future is hell and there’s no possible redemption; no atonement. (Rev14:9,10) When you’ve taken the mark you’re damned; satan has captured your soul and you’re forever lost. This causes many so-called christians to greatly fear the tribulation. They fear antichrist will force them to take the mark or as martyrs they’ll have to stand against him even unto death. But what we’ve shown through the Spirit is, antichrist is already working now in the false churches to cause people to commit unpardonable sin. In which case, they’re lost just as permanently now as if they’d taken the antichrist’s mark on their hand or forehead then. For example, if you blaspheme the Holy Spirit there’s no forgiveness in this age or the age to come. (Matt12:32) And it’s not difficult to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. All you have to do is call the Spirit the devil, as in watching the Holy Spirit do something and saying the devil did it. It’s a baffling thing how such awesomely important verses as Jesus warning us against blaspheming the Holy Spirit are virtually ignored by so many “churches” today. People in these contemporary “churches” may say things like, “It isn’t possible to blaspheme the Spirit, God wouldn’t let you do that!” If that’s so then why did Jesus warn us against it? May the Lord open your eyes to see the day we’re in right now is just as dangerous as the future Tribulation because the same antichrist is causing people to be eternally lost even now. And many have already fallen and this is why we can’t talk to them and can’t get them to listen. It’s over for them if they’ve blasphemed the Holy Spirit, or committed the sin unto death. (1Jn5:16) If they’ve sinned willfully there’s no atonement. (Heb10:26) There are various things satan can entice people to do right now that will end any opportunity of salvation for them. And yet so many “churchy” people walk around in this wishful thinking, presumptuous, Never-Never Land, Disney World mentality thinking there’s no danger they can ever be lost. So why does the prophet Paul call the age we’re in now a perilous time? (2Tim3:1) Because there’s a grave danger in this perilous time you can lose your soul forever. And such warnings are also found in the wisdom of the Proverbs. For example, concerning the harlot – which symbolizes the false church – none who go down to her return. (Pr2:19) And the author of Hebrews speaks of an apostasy that’s forever fatal – there’s no repentance to those who’ve crucified the Son of God again. (Heb6:4-6) So we’re living in an age of terrible dangers where people may do such things as would cause them to lose their soul forever. And the most dangerous false church of all right now is the Baptists. They wickedly teach you can’t lose your salvation. And they encourage the very things that lead people to blaspheme the Holy Spirit, the very things that lead to unforgivable willful sin. Because it’s easy for people to sin willfully when they think they can’t lose their salvation. When I was young in the Lord, Jesus taught me how to use money wisely. He told me to live as though I was already in financial depression. By my obedience to Jesus God saved me and “My Father’s House” church financially in recent years. But now God is telling His saints, “Live as though you’re already in the tribulation.” Live as though the antichrist and the false prophet are already trying to deceive you into taking their mark that they may damn you forever, because they are. That’s God’s truth, they are! If you’re wise you’ll stop reading your Bible with rose-colored glasses and open your eyes to see the awesome warnings of the terrible present dangers to your soul. Satan is going about like a roaring lion. (1Pe5:8) He’s doing anything he can to swallow you up! The so-called “churches” today haven’t rightly reported the dangers. Many so-called “believers” are very near to committing the unforgivable sin. Others are recklessly despising God’s Word. Where God says to add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, etc., to make your calling and election sure, (2Pe1:5-10) these “foolish virgins” see no need to do that. (Matt25:1-3) Jesus says, “If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the everlasting fire.” (Matt18:8) But many “believers” today don’t care. Jesus’ words have no significance to them. They don’t fear losing their souls. They’ll keep their offending hand and go to hell while erroneously thinking they can’t lose their salvation. Jesus says, “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.” (Matt10:37) But today’s “believers” ignore Jesus’ words and continually put family interests ahead of Christ while thinking everything is fine and they’re all certain to go to heaven. They read the parable of the foolish virgins but have no sense whatsoever that they are the foolish virgins, unprepared for Christ’s coming! (Matt25:1-12) They read the parable about the unprofitable servant but see no danger at all in their own unprofitability. (Matt25:14-30) To them the “warning scriptures” have no meaning. The scriptures they think say they are “saved” negate the words of Christ’s warnings. So they’re lost. And they do violence to Christ’s words using one verse to oppose another. Even when Jesus says so succinctly, “You’ll be cut off if you don’t bear fruit,” (Jn15:2,6) they don’t believe He’s telling the truth. They listen to their false prophets telling them that’s “works,” so all you have to believe is, “I’m saved through faith not works.” And Jesus will let you into His Kingdom on a free ticket after He’s said all these other things that you’ve ignored? The so-called “churches” today are the worst places in the world to find salvation. You’ll find the mark of the beast in virtually all of them because they’ve rejected and perverted the Word of God. You’re better off reading the Bible yourself and asking the Lord to teach you what it means than letting these antichrist “churches” misinterpret and mislead you by their twisting the meaning of everything God says. Concerning church leadership, “For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?” (1Tim3:5) So a Christian leader must be “one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence.” (1Tim3:4) But there’s a side to this that applies to the children of a man of God, in which they also have to justify their father’s calling by behaving well. Of course, the father has to chasten, reprove, rebuke and instruct, as in, “Do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.” (Eph6:4) Provoking to wrath would be disciplining with excessive harshness. So we’re not to be harsh, but we must maintain a godly authority. Now, if I’m doing my part well and God has a very important call upon me, He won’t allow His call to be subverted. That means if my son stubbornly decides he won’t submit to his father’s authority with all reverence, then God must deal with that rebellious child in such a way as will uphold the calling of the obedient father. “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, “then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. “And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.” (Deu21:18-21) The abominable behavior of most “preacher’s kids” today absolutely disqualifies their fathers from being leaders in God’s true church. However, when the leadership is God appointed, the children of such pastors and elders must understand the seriousness of God’s call upon their fathers makes the children responsible to uphold that call by their reverent behavior. If God would permit stoning disobedient children under the Old Covenant, what will He do in the New? Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? (Heb10:28,29) We must be sober about this. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” (Eph6:1-3) The things God says concerning our salvation are more important than anything in this world and must be regarded with great reverence and obeyed. If you miss these requirements, it will be an eternal terror to you. “For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” (Rom8:6) If you think falling into the flesh is a trivial thing, you don’t understand how terrible it is to be dead. Because when you’re in the flesh, you’re dead. If you die in the flesh you don’t go to heaven. When you’re in the flesh you don’t have the presence of God to lead you and guide you, meaning you’re blindly headed for the first calamity the devil can work up for you. If you regard being in the flesh as a little thing, as though it’s of little consequence to be found in the flesh, you’re a fool! Being in the flesh is like being on Death Row! To be carnally minded is death! Whenever you slip into the flesh, you’ve slipped into a place where you’re waiting to be killed permanently and eternally! You’ve already lost the indwelling guidance, grace, wisdom, and mercy of God. When Jesus on the cross said, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matt27:46) He experienced personally for the first time what it meant to be without God. That separation from His Father was more painful to Him than the cross. It broke His heart, and caused His heart to stop beating. That’s also how it ought to be with you. Nothing should allow you to think it’s a little thing to be without God. It isn’t a little thing, it’s death to be in the flesh! So make abiding in Christ as important as it really is. Nothing’s more important; it’s life and death! And of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her; And the Most High Himself shall establish her.” The LORD will record, When He registers the peoples: “This one was born there.” (Ps87:5-6) In “My Father’s House” some have had severe struggles with the flesh in attaining a true obedience to God. As a corporate body, we’ve not yet proven ourselves to be a perfected people. But God, in spite of numerous chastenings and the occasional failings of some of the people, has brought forth an awesome work in the earth today through this church. There’s not an angel in heaven who doesn’t know the name of this church. To communicate what God is showing, we may resort to natural things. In the military, there’s a unit citation where a group of soldiers have fought so valiantly, the nation gives the whole battalion, every member of it a medal. And that unit is then considered a glorious “army” forever! The Lord has shown me “spiritually,” “My Father’s House” is being awarded a kind of unit citation from God! Those who’ve been faithful to do their part here will walk the streets of heaven with a mark of glory no one else has but them. Saints and angels will recognize you and say, “You were one of that awesome little church who reversed the tide against Spiritual Christianity?” If you’re one of the true saints God is gathering here, He’s going to mark you – that you were “born here,” that you are one of us. There’s no greater work for God’s Kingdom being done in the earth today than what Christ is doing through “My Father’s House.” The work He’s doing here is making us the equal to every great church that ever was, every great work that’s ever been done in the Bible. In its own way it will be like what God did through Moses, Joshua, David, or Solomon. God is turning the tide against satan here to reestablish Spiritual Christianity before the coming of the Lord, and the names of those righteous saints associated with “My Father’s House” will be forever remembered and hallowed by every citizen and angel in heaven. Blessed are you if you were one of the willing and obedient. “For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.” (1Cor9:17) This is just as true for the children as for the pastors and elders of the church. We all have a calling. “…Woe is me if I do not preach the gospel (or fulfill the calling)!” (1Cor9:16) God won’t let you destroy what He’s doing here, but if you’ll help Him do it, you’ll receive exceptional and eternal rewards. Prophecy: My children, the one who prepares food for My army is just as important as the soldiers who fight. For without its food the army would have no strength. Do you not see The Glory of His Grace is food for My soldiers? It’s an awesome and glorious work you’re doing in the Glory of His Grace, for this Spiritual food is giving much strength, much encouragement, much knowledge and faith to My children that they may victoriously fight in the battle now raging against the hosts of darkness. It’s a wonderful work you’re doing, and you have great recompense of reward. For I’ve called forth this work to bring down all the lies that have held My people captive, and to bring forth a people fit for My coming, thus saith the Lord. Prophecy: In My Word there’s both a progress and a joy of faith. Where faith is, there’s progress! Where faith is, the Kingdom of Heaven is ever increasing. The believer who has true faith is growing in grace and becoming more Christlike. He sees visible progress in himself and can take joy in that. The church that has true faith is increasing in the things of God and is accomplishing a useful work for My Kingdom. Her children are progressing, and that progress is visible. The members who are participating in such a church can take joy in their progress. I tell you also, faith is the hearing of God; and when you hear Me and obey, there’s joy in that obedience. Many of you know, when you first heard Me tell you to prophesy, you wrestled to obey. But then when you overcame and obeyed, what joy you had because you actually did the thing I called you to do. Yet, if you disobey, how grieved you are and how fervently you pray for another chance. I tell you also, those who have faith don’t find the tasks I give them burdensome. For I’m not as Pharaoh who tells you to make bricks yet takes away the straw. I’m the Lord who loves His children, and I give you all you need to fulfill My will so you can be refreshed, even by the doing of it. For My burden is light and My yoke is easy. I don’t put the heaviest weight of My work on you, but I take it on Myself by My Spirit. I also tell you, those who are in true faith express a joyful anticipation; they know they’re about to receive blessings and to see wonderful things come to pass. So there’s a joy in faith that things won’t be the same tomorrow as today. But faith will see greater miracles, greater prophecies, greater works ever increasing until the scriptures are completely fulfilled. Even as My Son has said, greater works will you do than I do, because I go unto the Father. For indeed, by faith you take hold of and have great anticipation of the mighty things, and awesome works yet before you. And such works will certainly come to pass for those who have true faith. So faith rejoices in what is coming, saith the Lord. And I tell you, true faith is never disappointed. But true faith looks toward My promise and will take you to the place where every promise is fulfilled that your joy also may be full. For I’ve ordained it to be so that My just shall live by faith, saith the Lord. Prophecy: Faith makes the difference, My people. If My children have faith when they ask Me to show them My wisdom, I will. When they ask Me in faith how to do something, I’ll show them how. And the way I show them won’t be like the way of the world because I don’t give My wisdom to the world and I don’t show My treasures to people who don’t come to Me in faith. And these many around you who claim to be Mine, yet don’t come to ask of Me in faith, they aren’t led by Me. So everything they do, they do in the way of the world. It’s plain for all to see, they don’t have faith in Me. If they had faith in Me they’d be following My ways not the world’s ways. Since they don’t have faith in Me, how can they teach you to have faith in Me? I tell you, they aren’t My people because My people are distinguished above all things by faith. “The just shall live by faith”, and because My children have faith in Me, they come to Me and I manifest My wisdom, grace and power through them, and all can see what they have isn’t what the world has, for what they have distinguishes them from the world. For faith makes all the difference as to who are My people and who are not, saith the Lord. Prophecy: Paul can say, “I am what I am by the grace of God” because what he is, is a glory to Me. I admonish you, don’t say you are what you are by the grace of God unless what you are is a glory to Me. For only if My grace has made you what you are can what you are be a glory to Me. And until you are a glory to Me, you’re not what you are by the grace of God. But I admonish you to have faith and to cry out for Me to make you what you ought to be in Christ that you may say in truth, “I am what I am by the grace of God.” And all who see you would answer, “Glory to God!” for if you are what you are by My grace then you are a glory to God, thus saith the Lord. (Prophecies delivered at “My Father’s House”)
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