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“And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. [*Revelation 13: 13 (KJV)]”
The Pure Gospel of The Lamb & His Finished Work removes the veil; the facade fabricated by our wounded ego to draw attention unto ourselves, for the praise of vain men and women and the false sense of self-worth they begrudgingly bestow upon the feeble-minded. We’ve become a global community, a “city” or congregation (a city is a congregation of people) of condescending, pretentious narcissists, in love with ourselves; yet choosing, rather presumptuously, to attempt to “define God” by our own “circumstances” and “situations”… by “our own truth”. But haven’t we created the majority of our circumstances and situations by preferring to follow after our own lusts and pride, as well as the praise of vain men and women; rather than following after the leading of the Spirit of God?
Then, we have the audacity to keep blaming God, and one another, for the consequences of our own choices made and actions taken independently, by us… of course, from the leading of the Spirit of Christ? This is completely anti-Christ! The sheer irony is that modern-day christianity, really “church-ianity,” is an anti-Christ, self-serving, self-glorifying, self-deifying, dead religion. In The Book of His Appearing from Within Us, it is signified, “…and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” (*Well, The Lamb… “and they that are with Him”! That’s Who!!…) This conveys the enormity of the size, the scale, of the global deception and delusion, suffered by the present-day Congregation of Older Prodigal Sons & Daughters.
Again, how big is this “city” or “congregation”? “…and all the world wondered after the beast.” Our “circumstances” and “situations” can’t, and don’t “define God”! The Lamb, Himself, has already unveiled our heavenly Father, and us in Him; in, and by, and through and because of The Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. In nothing else can “God” be “defined”. Anything and everything else is deception, and delusion; leading to self-worship! “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. [*1 John 4: 9-11 (KJV)]” “In this…,” signifies that, “in nothing else”…
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