False Prophet and Religious Harlot

Experience and the Word have taught me concerning prophecy that if the majority of God’s people believe something, it must be wrong. God hides his truths in dreams or visions that are parables so that the false prophets and carnal Christians cannot see them (Mt.13:10-13) but privately He explains them to His disciples. He hides things from the wise and understanding of this apostate religious system and reveals them to babes (Lk.10:21). Overcomers get to partake of the hidden manna (Rev.2:17; Pr.25:2). John’s Revelation was given to him as a parable of Jesus. If it were literal the false prophets would know what is going to happen and that is contrary to Jesus’ own words. When the disciples were young and under the Law they did not recognize the false prophets. As a matter of fact, they respected them! So it is today! I want to show you who have eyes and ears who the false prophet is and what is his work.

If you have chapter four, Second Key to Hidden Manna, fresh on your mind you will better understand this chapter. The false prophet is a corporate body of religious leaders that to the trained eye resemble those of Jesus’ day. Since Jesus’ day is a type of the coming man-child’s day, we know there are going to be false prophets, plural. In all of the New Testament writings outside of the book of Revelation we are warned that false prophets, plural, would come. In Revelation, false prophet, singular, is used, but in an allegory or parable. Since Jesus, Peter and John said that in the end time many false prophets shall arise, then the false prophet in Revelation is a symbol of a corporate body like the rest of the characters there are corporate bodies. It’s the only way that all verses concerning false prophets can be right. (Mt.7:15) Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. (24:11) And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray. (24) For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets…so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. False prophets fit the type and shadow of history according to Jesus. (Lk.6:26) Woe [unto you,] when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets. Peter also said there would be false prophets among us. (2Pet.2:1) But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers. John also said that many false prophets would speak for antichrist. (1Jn.4:1) Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. (3) [A]nd every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this is the [spirit] of the antichrist. Part of the “strong delusion” taught by the false prophets is that we are to be looking for the coming of a man called the false prophet while the Biblical corporate false prophet is here and in the pulpits already. (2Cor.11:14) And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light. (15) It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. You might say “David, aren’t you sharing God’s secrets with the false prophets?” Have no fear, they are too proud to admit they have passed on the traditions of men.

 

TRUE CHURCH GOVERNMENT

The traditional church government today breeds false prophets by disobeying God’s written order of Church government. Jesus raised up the apostolic fathers to found the Church on a five-fold ministry of men who are spiritual specialists in their field. (Pr.11:14) Where no wise guidance is, the people falleth; But in the multitude of counselors there is safety. Jesus Christ is the Spirit (1Cor.15:45) and head of His body, the Church (Eph.5:23). His headship is manifested physically through the five-fold ministry of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers (Eph.4:11). The members of the head represent these different five-fold ministers. Apostle is Greek for “one sent forth”, and they are sent to raise up churches and set them in order. The apostles are a jack-of-all-trades with a little of the gift of the rest of the five-fold ministry so they can discern the elders that they are called to ordain (Acts 14:23). Elders are ordained five-fold ministers, not assistants to the pastor (Acts 20:17, 11:30). Even apostles are elders (1Pet.5:1; 2Jn.1; 3Jn.1). When the legalists were trying to bring the Gentiles under the Law, the apostles and the other elders were gathered to consider this problem (Acts 15:6). Together the elders made a decision (22) and sent their findings to the rest of the Church (23; 16:4).

Let’s consider the other elders who are members of the head. The prophets are the spiritual eyes of the head and see what others do not. (Isa.29:10) For Lord…hath closed your eyes, the prophets…. (11) And all vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed. The pastors or shepherds are the nose of the head because they lead the local body of sheep to pastures with a discernment that is neither from eyes or ears. There is no such thing as an assistant pastor in Scripture. You either are a pastor or you are not. Teachers are the ears of the head. Solomon asked for “an understanding heart” in 1 Kings 3:9 and in verse 12 God granted him “an understanding heart”. The Hebrew word for “understanding” in both verses is “hearing”. I was first ordained through an apostle to be a teacher. Later a prophet who knew nothing of this saw a vision of me with ears as big as an elephant’s. Later the Lord appeared to me twice and re-ordained me to another office, which was confirmed by other ministers. I am certainly not comparing myself to Paul but he was re-ordained as an example that the Lord does do this (Acts 13:1-4). The evangelist is the mouth of the head because he ministers to those outside the body. This is why they are not listed among the ministers to the body in 1 Corinthians 12. It takes all of these ministers to perfect the saints and to raise up others into the head. (Eph.4:11) And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; (12) for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ… (15) but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ. The purpose of this method is so that individuals in the body have a portion of these gifts so they may be guided and used personally by their head Who is then Lord. Now you know why Satan wanted to replace the five-fold ministry with a man made one-fold ministry. This false government is easier to corrupt and the saints are not perfected by it. Through men with a lust for power Satan has been able to destroy the Scriptural government of the Church.

God never wanted a king over Israel; men did. They said, “make us a king to judge us like all the nations” (1Sam.8:5). Does pastor, assistant pastor, and elders sound a lot like President, Vice-President, and cabinet? The Church has copied “all the nations” as Israel did. God gave Israel the king they wanted, saying, “they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them (7). God has given the Church her kings, too. God also warned Israel that their king would take their children to serve him and would charge them a tithe of everything for his service (10-18). Sound familiar? Pastors, without any Scriptural foundation, tell us that the Lord did away with the five-fold ministry after the apostles died. Actually it was false prophets who did away with the five-fold ministry. In our worldly system the pastor usurps the authority of the rest of the five-fold ministry. I have heard pastors who are not even filled with the Spirit claim that today they are the prophets when they expound the word under the anointing. If this does not make them false prophets, then I do not know what does.

As far as the five-fold ministry is concerned, where in Scripture does the pastor take authority over a prophet or teacher, or vice versa? In the world do doctors take authority in a lawyer’s field or vice versa? Does it make sense to be given authority over another’s gift that you have no expertise in? If a prophet, speaking in the Spirit, is told to shut up by a pastor, then God is told to shut up. (Many can exercise the gift to prophesy but the office of prophet is that of an overseer that has authority in the body.) Remember that the five-fold ministers are overseers (bishops) who are specialists in their field with authority only in their gift. Each is a portion of the head of the body of Christ and necessary for the guidance of the body. However, when one of the five-fold ministers falls into sin or gets deceived, the rest have authority to correct, discipline, or throw them out (1Cor.5:9-13). This insures the safety of the sheep.

The false system of shepherd-ship is the Nicolaitan error, which Jesus said He hates (Rev.2:6,15). Nicolaitan comes from two words, Nikao, meaning “to conquer,” and laity, meaning “the people”. This was and is a privileged order who consider themselves above the common people as mediators between them and God. Ministers are to make disciples of Jesus and His Word, not themselves and their traditions. The Protestants falsely copied the Nicolaitan error from the Catholic Church, which partially took it from the Old Testament priesthood. Jesus constantly denounced this worldly relationship between the ministry and the people. (Mt.20:25) But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. (26) Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister (Greek: “servant”); (27) and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant (Greek: “bondservant”): (28) even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto (Greek: “served”), but to minister (Greek: “serve”), and to give his life a ransom for many. (23:10) Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, [even] the Christ. (11) But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. (12) And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted. Just as the spirit of Christ is manifest through men (true prophet) to lead his female body, the Church, the spirit of antichrist (1Jn.4:1-3) is manifest through men (false prophet) to lead his female body, the harlot. Both bodies are female because they receive a seed, one from Christ, which is the Word and the other from antichrist, which is the apostate word.

 

FALSE PROPHET BEAST–MEMBER OF THE HARLOT

Most agree that the second beast in Revelation 13 is the false prophet. He is identified as a beast because he is a corporate body as every other prophetic beast is in scripture. (Rev.13:11) And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (12) And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight. And he maketh the earth and them dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose death-stroke was healed. This second beast in chapter 13 is also identified after the world beast in 16:13 as the false prophet. Here we see that the false prophet masquerades as the lamb: “two horns like unto a lamb” but he speaks as the world and Satan: “and he spake as a dragon” (beast). This impostor leadership for the harlot has “a form of godliness” but is carnal and can only teach a worldly corruption of the Word. They are actually a mouthpiece for the world beast in the apostate church. It was said of the world beast, (13:5) and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies. These apostates speak against (Greek: blasphemeo) God with their hypnotizing, ear-tickling doctrines of all-fly-away, unconditional eternal security, worldly prosperity, greasy grace, and anything but the self-crucifying truth.

The false prophet is a corporate body within the corporate body of the harlot, which is female because they receive the seed of antichrist. In verse 15 we see the female body of the false prophet. “And it was given to her (Greek) to give spirit (Greek) to the image of the beast.” Bible numerics show a perfect pattern for “her” in the original Greek and in the most accurate New Testament, the Numeric English New Testament by Ivan Panin. There is no pattern in “he” or “it”. Numerics show beyond a shadow of a doubt which word is correct here. In the rest of the text this false prophet is identified as male by the same numeric pattern. A translator would have had to respect the Word enough to ignore his own reasoning to simply translate what was there. Most are not willing to go out on a limb and look foolish when they do not see the reason. A male who is also seen as female, is clear proof that God is not speaking of an individual here but a corporate body of people. In parallel we are the male body of Christ, made in His image (2Cor.3:18), but we are female in another type (Eph.5:22-25), being married and submitted to Him to receive His seed, His Word.

Let’s see this corporate false prophet and his relationship to the harlot in another parable. As we have seen, Ahab represents the ten-horned beast who was being ridden by Jezebel (1Ki.18), exactly as the harlot rode the beast in Revelation 17:1-3. They ruled over the apostate ten tribes who were also those who worshiped the image of the beast, the golden calf. As the corporate mother of the harlot sects of Christianity, she leads them into the great tribulation and death unless they repent. (Rev.2:20)…Jezebel…teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication (with the world beast)…. (21) And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication. (22) Behold, I cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works. (23) And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works. Like the harlot, Jezebel was guilty of the blood of the prophets and of the saints (1Ki.18:4; 2Ki.9:7; Rev.18:24). In Revelation 17:16 when the beast is through using the harlot he devours her, and so it was with Jezebel who was devoured by the dogs (1Ki.21:23), symbolizing the unbelievers (Mk.7:27) or the beast. The true ministers of God are fed at the Church’s table (1Cor.9:13,14) and the false prophets are fed from the harlot’s table. (1Ki.18:19)…[T]he prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, that eat at Jezebel’s table. The two categories of false prophets represent the two horns of the false prophet in Revelation 13:11.

Find out who Baal and Asherah represent in modern times and you will know who the corporate false prophet is. These two have their roots at the tower of Babel and were originally Nimrod and his wife Semiramis (Gen.10:8-10). They created the original harlot religion that spawned all the rest. They are a type of the great corporate mother of harlots of all of history. (Rev.17:5) [A]nd upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. When Nimrod died and Semiramis (later called Asherah) became pregnant, she claimed that Nimrod had become the Sun God (later called Baal) who then by virgin birth was reborn as her son, Tammuz (Son of God). These original Babylonians worshiped the false Father, Son, and virgin about 2,300 years before the true Virgin birth. Semiramis probably knew of the prophecy in Genesis 3:15 concerning the Virgin birth and if she didn’t, the devil did.

With the confusion of languages and dispersion at Babel this legend went throughout the world and these three were given different names in different cultures, many of which are in the Bible. The golden calf in Egypt was a symbol of the Father (Baal) in the Son. Remember Pharaoh’s title meant “Great Temple of the Sun God”. Sun images all over the world and in Catholic and Eastern churches symbolize the false Son. As we saw in the previous chapter the Israelites with their golden calf thought they were worshiping “YHWH” or “Elohim”, the true God, but it was Baal, “another Jesus”. One horn, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, represent those who teach “another Jesus”. This is the apostate Protestant ministers. The other horn, the four hundred prophets of the Asherah, represent those who worship the virgin. These are the Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, and many others that are into “Maryolotry”. Mary is my sister and I love her but she is not the mother of God. (Rom.1:3) [C]oncerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, (Jesus’ “flesh” was the “seed of David” through Mary, which was the promised seed of the woman in Genesis 3:15. Mary is the mother of Jesus’ flesh which is “Son of Man”). (4) who was declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead; [even] Jesus Christ our Lord. Jesus’ “spirit” man was the “Son of God”. Jesus agreed with this saying, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (Jn.3:6). Some would say that the two horns are the apostate leaders of the Christian religion and the leaders of false religions. To this I agree. The same verses usually address both greater and lesser types. The greater type is the most complete fulfillment and all the Babylonish religions will be gathered together in the end time harlot.

 

A NEW UNIVERSAL CHURCH

Let me prove this to you by looking for a moment at the religious Harlot. We are told by many Protestant churches that “the Mother of the Harlots” is the Catholic church because the Protestant churches were born from her. This is very uncomplimentary of the Protestant churches because in this title the daughters are being called the “Harlots”. The mother is called “the great harlot” in Revelation 17 verse 1. Come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters. The Catholic church is only a lesser type of the mother harlot. There is a much greater and more complete type. This mother of harlots is much larger and older than the Catholic church. (Rev.17:9) Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth: (10) and they are seven kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come. The harlot sits on seven world kingdoms/empires. At the time of John’s revelation five of these had fallen: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece. None of these beasts were ruled by the Catholic church. It was not until the Roman Empire in John’s day (“one is”) that the harlot began to sit on an empire that claimed Christianity. So you see the greatest fulfillment of this mother cannot be Catholicism. This mother harlot has been around since the beginning.

Let me prove in another way that this mother is much larger and older than the Catholic church. (Rev.18:24) And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints. To be guilty of blood you must either physically kill or spiritually kill because you do not warn them of sin, as in Ezekiel 3:18,19. We cannot blame the Catholic church for the death of the ancient prophets and saints; that was Israel’s apostasy, and it was before Catholicism existed. Also, look closer at the same verse. (Rev.18:24) And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth. All slain on earth is beyond the scope of the Catholic church too, for they did not come into being until the fifth beast kingdom, Rome. Jesus said that Israel was guilty of “all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah” (Mt.23:35). According to this, the mother harlot existed all the way back to the Garden of Eden and Cain was a member of it. This was before Israel or Catholicism existed. In the greatest fulfillment, Israel and Catholicism were daughters of a corporate mother harlot that covers the whole historic expanse of false religion. The mother is the corporate body of apostate religion, and the daughters are the individual members of that body, just as the Church is a corporate body, and the individual churches are members of it. The mother harlot has exercised religious authority over the beast kingdoms throughout history.

The Catholic church is also a lesser type of a greater Babylonish religious system to come. As we saw in Beast Covenant and Image, Emperor Constantine as head of the early Roman Empire that ruled the world, gathered together leaders of every religion as a corporate false prophet to form and then to rule over a corporate harlot church made up of all religions. This became the Catholic or Universal church. In the same way a revived Roman Empire is being raised up under George Bush to rule the world through the U.N. This is the Roman beast that was said “shall devour the whole earth” (Dan.7:23). As the corporate false prophet gathered under Rome, whose symbol was the eagle, so they are now gathering under the U.S., whose symbol is the eagle. As we saw, The Millennium World Peace Summit at the U.N. from August 28 through 31, 2000, was to form a permanent council of the religious leaders from all religions.

I quote their website, www.millenniumpeacesummit.org:

The World Council of Religious Leaders aims to serve as a model and guide for the creation of a community of world religions…. The objective of this Council is to serve as a resource to the United Nations and its agencies around the world, nation states and other international organizations, offering the collective wisdom and resources of the faith traditions toward the resolution of critical global problems.

There it is–exactly what the former Roman Empire did. These men will be the head of the corporate false prophet in Revelation 13:11 and the body will be their apostate ministers in the pulpits. Together they rule the new “Universal” church, the “community of world religions” that we know as the religious harlot. This U.S./U.N./U.R. mixture of church and state is becoming a revived Holy Roman Empire. On May 14, 2005, I saw a vision.

I was observing children sitting in front of a TV or computer monitor. The Pope came on and the children, as though they had been trained in school, with one accord saluted him by swinging their right hand horizontally from their left shoulder slightly upward and towards him as they bowed their heads. I said to one of them whom I thought was one of my sons, “Son, don’t do that. Worship only God.”

I believe that soon there won’t be schools as we know them but children will be trained with state-approved, standardized materials sitting in front of the coming supernet. This dream is not letter but spirit so that God may hide the truth from the apostate leaders. I am sure the Pope here represents the new corporate Roman head of the new Universal church. The children’s mixture of a “Roman salute”, which was adopted by the Italian Fascists and Nazis, and a bowed head symbolizes this revival of a Roman Empire Universal Church state. Although I have no young sons in the natural, my command to my son represented God’s command to His sons, “don’t do that”. When I became a Christian, even though I was patriotic, I very quickly became convicted against pledging allegiance to the flag. Many Christians have sacrificed their lives rather than worship or pledge allegiance to man or his kingdoms.

I repeat part of Mark W.’s dream here to show this one-world harlot and their corporate false prophet, that Revelation 13 tells us will help to impose the mark of the beast.

*I saw on T.V. that everyone was rejoicing because a great agreement had been made to have one church. I saw the agreement was two stacks of paper (two horns of the false prophet) but nothing was written on them (this is a sign that everyone will drop their doctrinal demands in order to have unity). Then I went to this one world church. I couldn’t even see the other end of it. I happened to look in the wrong door and noticed a giant minister’s conference. They were being shown a film on how to scan a beam of light (representing the Word) across the foreheads of their congregation giving them the mark of the beast without them knowing it.

The false prophets, for the sake of advantage, will convince the fruitless Christians to enter into covenant with the beast. They are the corporate two-horned false prophet who makes merchandise of the people of God (2Pet.2:1-3) and the Word of God (2Cor.2:17). Remember in Jesus’ day, the “respectable” religious folks who walked after the mind of the flesh cast their vote against Him. They were followers of a “respectable” group of ministers who gave them that mind misusing the light of the Word. The false prophets in the pulpits today are the ones who misuse the Word to cause Christians to walk after the mind of the flesh and die as apostates. It’s an honor to have these as enemies just as they were our Lord’s enemies. They protect their prestige, authority, position and bank account. Draw close to God and His Word so you may be able to recognize them and their word.

In Constantine’s court sat his senate, which were secular rulers over the countries under his control. These foreshadowed the ten horns in Daniel’s vision of the end time Roman Empire (Dan.7:7). (Rev.17:12) [T]he ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings (end time secular rulers), who have received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour. The horn represents power for it is the weapon of the beast. A king without his kingdom has no power. These ten kings give their kingdom to the one-world beast kingdom (Rev.17:17).

From among the secular kingdoms in Constantine’s day arose the religious rulers. They were different from the former for they were a corporate body of religious leaders of all kingdoms among corporate bodies of secular leaders of all kingdoms. Daniel saw this repeated in the end times as the little horn among the ten horns. (Dan.7:7) After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth beast…and it had ten horns. (8) I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things…. (24)…and he shall be diverse from the former. The little horn “came up among” the ten and was “diverse from the former” because he is a corporate leader with a world religious body among ten corporate leaders with ten secular bodies. That the little horn is the false prophet is easy to see because it had “eyes”, which makes it a prophet. (Isa.29:10) For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets. Notice also that the little horn of the beast had “a mouth speaking great things”. This same phrase is used in Revelation. Of the beast it was said, “and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things” (Rev.13:5). The false prophet was given to the beast as his mouth to religious people for “he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight” (11,12).

In Jesus’ time the corporate false prophet kept the people in line and put to death the body of Christ for the Roman beast because of the threat of loss of position. (Jn.11:47) The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs. (48) If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. (49) But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, (50) nor do ye take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. As that corporate false prophet put to death the body of Christ for the sake of peace with the beast so it will be in the end. Pilot, representing the Roman beast, did not want to kill Jesus but gave in to the false prophets and the harlot for the sake of peace with them. This is the way it will be in our day. (Dan.7:21) I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them.

 

THE NATURE OF THE FALSE PROPHETS DECEPTION

Many of the above verses spoke literally of the end time false prophet. However we will study several other texts in Daniel (8:9-14, 23-26; 11:21-35) which spoke literally of Antiochus Epiphanes and were completely and literally fulfilled by him. First a prophecy is fulfilled literally and then spiritually as a parable is fulfilled. Many wrongly see these verses as literally speaking of an end time man called the antichrist, but he was only a member of a corporate antichrist. He came up as a little horn among the horns of Alexander the Great’s Grecian kingdom and ruled over the people of God from 175-164 B.C. This king of Syria, which means “lifted up”, was a type and shadow of the end time corporate body of the false prophet. Since he was a type and shadow, any modern fulfillment will be spiritual. Some object that this man was a military leader. So is the false prophet. As Antiochus lead the Syrian beast in a war against the saints, so the end time false prophet leads a spiritual war for the world beast to conquer the saints. The false prophet is an undercover member of the body of the antichrist beast just as are many other tares in the Church. This corporate religious false prophet brings about the fall of those who will be known as religious Babylon. As we saw, he is the mouth of the beast to the apostate church to lead them to worship it. The false prophet is a portion of the beast that is in the temple. Antiochus was, of course, not an Israelite, just as the corporate end time false prophet is not a true Christian. Antiochus had a compelling desire to subject God’s people to himself and to his false God as a type of the false prophets of today.

Antiochus erected an abomination, a statue or image of the Greek god Zeus, which was the Roman god Jupiter, in Israel’s temple. Need I remind you that the symbol of Jupiter is the eagle, which is on a standard in front of many churches in the U.S. False prophets misuse the Word to paint an image in the apostate’s mind and heart of a false Jesus (2Cor.3:18) which is none other that the image of the beast in the temple. Like the little horn of Ahab’s day, Jesus’ day, and Constantine’s day, the United Religions of our day gives to the people a false image of God. Because of false prophets, Christians have false ideas about Who Jesus is, what is His nature, what is His teaching, what is His attitude toward us, and what He has provided for us. This is to worship “another Jesus”, which is an abomination in their temple. Our best defense is to become familiar with the Jesus of the Bible, the true image of God (Heb.1:3; Jn.1:1).

False prophets pass on their nature to those who listen to them. (Lev.17:11) For the life (Hebrew: soul) of the flesh is in the blood…for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life. Men pass on their life (soul) of the sin nature to their children through their blood. Christ passes on His life (soul) and sinless nature through His blood. So how do we get the nature of His blood in us? In John 6:53 Jesus said that we have to drink His blood or we will not have life in us. How do we drink it? Let me explain by using one of Jesus’ signs. (Jn.2:11) This beginning of his signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee. The word “sign” indicates a deeper meaning here. In John 2:1-11 Jesus commanded the servants to fill the six (the number of man) water pots of stone (hardened clay vessels symbolizing man) with water (symbolizing the Word in Ephesians 5:26); then He turned it into wine (symbolizing the blood in Matthew 26:27-29). The moral of the story is that if we are consuming and being filled by the Word of God, the Lord will turn it into the blood or nature of Christ. A clear confirmation of this is stated by John. (1Jn.1:7) [I]f we walk in the light (Word), as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (Jn.6:63)…[T]he words that I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life. So the Word creates the blood, which is the life or nature. Then our words are spirit and they have the power, if received, to manifest our life in others. (Jn.7:38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water (spirit words). The key then is receiving words “as the scripture hath said” so that we may pass on God’s words which recreate his blood or nature. Another word creates another blood or nature. Have you not seen cult leaders pass on their nature by their words? Have you not seen apostate Christian leaders pass on a “different spirit”, preaching “another Jesus”, with a “different gospel” (2Cor.11:4)? (Pr.18:21) Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Many years ago I had a dream that taught this:

I was casting out demons in a church when I noticed that the church building was all of woodwork. The columns, the walls, everything was all wood grain; and it was all stained with blood. I said to the people, “I’m going to prove to you that this is not the blood of Jesus.” Then, addressing the blood, I said, “Go in the name of Jesus,” and it disappeared. After this, I noticed on the pulpit a note, it was fluttering as if to catch my attention. I knew that the pastor of this church had left me the note about himself. It said, “I’m being groomed to be the Terre Delphi.”

The interpretation is this. All the demons identified this as a Babylonish church (Rev.18:2). The woodwork symbolized the human nature (2Tim.2:20; Jer.5:14) for men are symbolized as trees. The blood on the wood is the nature of “another Jesus” given to the people through a “different gospel” by a false prophet with a “different spirit” (2Cor.11:4). He is coming to maturity as the Terre Delphi. “Terre” means earthly, “Delphi” was a town in ancient Greece famous for the Temple of Apollo and the Delphic Oracle, his false prophet. Apollo was the Greek and Roman god of light, healing, prophecy, music, and manly beauty. Sounds very much like Jesus. Obviously the false prophet passes on his nature to worship a false Christ in the temple. The earthly false prophet is in many pulpits reproducing after his own kind. Seek out your own salvation with fear and trembling, and pray for the truth even if you think that you have it.

The earthly false prophets have a carnal idea of what the Church is, how to build it, and who God wants in it. My oldest son had a dream:

*He and I were fishing, standing not on the bank but on the grass that was growing up through a pond. As fast as we threw in our hooks we would flip fish out on the bank. We had no bait on our hooks.

Interpretation: Speaking of the transitory nature of the flesh Peter said, “All flesh is as grass” (1Pet.1:24). While the flesh was under our feet, symbolizing our dominion over it, we were catching those who were under the dominion of the flesh and putting them on solid ground. We were also standing on the water, which is the Word (Eph.5:26). Those under the grass were under a fleshly understanding of the Word. We were not using bait as the worldly church does because that which attracts the flesh brings people for the wrong reasons and then you have a church full of tares. Jesus said that while men slept (having their eyes closed to the light) an enemy sowed tares among the wheat.

Antiochus, as a type of the false prophets, took away the “continual burnt offering” that represents a life of sacrificing the flesh in the fiery trials. He then replaced this with his own sacrifice of a sow. A sow is not a sacrifice “acceptable to God” because it identifies those who give into an unclean life of fleshly indulgence. (Pr.15:8) The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Lord. Peter describes the “sow” sacrifice offered in the New Testament temple by false prophets and their followers. (2Pet.2:1) But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. “Denying the Master” here means that the false prophets do not submit to His Lordship and neither will those who are taught by them. (2) And many shall follow their lascivious (absence of restraining the flesh) doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. (3) And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not…. (18) For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error; (19) promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage. (20) For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. (21) For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them. (22) It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire. The sow sacrifice represents those who give up a life of self-sacrifice to follow the false prophet’s life of fleshly indulgence. These false teachers justify this life with false doctrines of a false Christ of their own making. They are deceived by doctrines of lascivious grace, unconditional eternal security, ultimate reconciliation of all, prosperity, unconditional all-fly-away pre-tribulation raptures, etc., etc. This is nothing less than the strong self-delusion they deserve. The corporate false prophet is setting up an abomination that maketh the harlot desolate.

The little horn is a corporate body that starts in the leadership of the U.R., but like Mark W.’s dream shows, it goes all the way down to the apostate preacher in the pulpit. All of them together are the false prophet, the head of the harlot. Daniel 3:4,5, speaking of the false prophet, says, “Then the herald cried…peoples, nations, and languages…fall down and worship the golden image” (of the beast). This word “herald” is the only Greek word in the text at a time before Greek became a world language. It is the same word used in the New Testament for “preacher”. The beast used the false preachers, who are none other than the beast ruling in the holy place, to bring this deception to the people. The command to worship the image (Rev.13:14,15) will come from the pulpits in the form of a deception so strong that, if possible, even the elect (Mt.24:24) will be deceived. (Jas.3:1) Be not many [of you] teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the heavier judgment.

Antiochus cast down many of God’s people causing them to lose their position in the heavenlies, just as the end time false prophet will do to the apostate Christians (Eph.2:6; Rev.6:13). (Dan.8:9) And out of one of them came forth a little horn…. (10) And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and some of the host and of the stars it cast down to the ground, and trampled upon them. (11) Yea, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the host; and it took away from him the continual [burnt-offering], and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. Notice that some of the host, stars, and the sanctuary will be cast down and trodden under foot. These three terms are synonymous in the New Testament. God told Abraham that his seed would be “as the stars of the heavens” (Gen.22:17). He also said to the Church, “[T]hey that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham” (Gal.3:7). The stars that fall are a portion of God’s host who lose their position of being seated with Christ, the Sun, in the heavens (Eph.2:6) and are cast down because of the invasion of the beast into their spiritual land and sanctuary. (Rev.6:13) [A]nd the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree casteth her unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind. The fig tree has always depicted God’s people, and here the unripe figs are compared to the stars in the falling away. (Rev.12:3) And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon…. (4) And his tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth. These are deceived by the corporate false prophet who is the tail of the dragon. (Isa.9:15)…the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. (16) For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. We saw that Daniel’s way of describing this falling away is that “the place of his sanctuary was cast down”. In Revelation 13:5-7 for 42 months (3-1/2 years) the beast blasphemes God’s “name, and his tabernacles (His people), them that tabernacle in the heaven”. Notice that God’s tabernacles are the saints that tabernacle in the heaven as the stars do. The beast shall “make war with the saints and…overcome them” for this 42 months (Rev.13:5,7). “Overcome” here may mean only overcoming their body through death as martyrs but for some it will mean overcoming their soul through deception and corruption, which is the stars being cast down to earth.

Antiochus usurped the authority of the Jewish high priest, Onias III. If we permit a leader to exalt themselves or their teaching above our High Priest, Jesus, or His Word, they become to us a false prophet ruling in our holy place. (Dan.8:11) Yea, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the host (high priest); and it took away from him the continual [burnt-offering], and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. (12) And the host was given over [to it] together with the continual [burnt-offering] through transgression; and it cast down truth to the ground, and it did [its pleasure] and prospered. When the false prophets “cast down truth” it is inevitable that there be “transgression” which takes “the continual burnt offering” away from “the prince of the host”. This is the designation given to the high priest, which today is Jesus. Our sacrifice of the beastly flesh to Christ ceases when the beast rules in our individual or corporate temple through false doctrine and transgression. Transgression is submitting to the beast as lord instead of Jesus and it is giving up the crucified life, our “continual burnt offering”.

(13) Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said unto that certain one who spake, How long shall be the vision [concerning] the continual [burnt-offering], and the transgression that maketh desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? The “sanctuary and the host” are synonymously “trodden under foot” because they are the same. Jesus said that those of God’s people who were not salty, meaning preservative, would be “trodden under foot of men”. Just as our Lord, we are to be preserved from corruption and are called to preserve others. This persecution will have the effect of causing the apostates to take the mark and give up their continual burnt offering, an “abomination that maketh desolate”. At the same time it will cleanse the sanctuary, which is the saints.

After the mark of the beast is instituted and the persecution is begun we are given a time for this cleansing of the saints. (13)…How long shall be the vision [concerning] the continual [burnt-offering], and the transgression that maketh desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? (14) And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred evenings [and] mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. Twenty-three hundred evening and morning sacrifices make 1150 days or just under 3-1/2 years until the sanctuary was cleansed by Judas Maccabees and his brethren around 165 B.C. This type shows that, just before the end of the last 3-1/2 years of the tribulation, the sanctuary of the saints will be purged of the beast by the faithful brethren. Judas did it with the sword but the end time saints will do it with the sword of the Word. God will have separated the tares from the wheat for the coming of Christ. That leaves us with two temples. One holy and one apostate.

Daniel 11 gives us a brief synopsis of Antiochus Epiphanes and his works foreshadowing end time events. (Dan.11:30)…he shall be grieved, and shall return, and have indignation against the holy covenant (the New Covenant), and shall do [his pleasure]: he shall even return, and have regard unto them that forsake the holy covenant (apostates). (31) And forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary (joining the Church with harlot religions), even the fortress, and shall take away the continual [burnt-offering] (life of self-sacrifice), and they shall set up the abomination that maketh desolate (those marked as members of the image of the beast in the Church). (32) And such as do wickedly against the covenant (apostates) shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people that know their God shall be strong, and do [exploits]. This will be the latter rain, the greatest time of miracles the world has ever seen. (33) And they that are wise among the people shall instruct many (the Witnesses will bring forth the hidden manna); yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, [many] days (the martyrs die for 3-1/2 years). (34) Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help (their souls will be strengthened by God but their bodies will be sacrificed); but many shall join themselves unto them with flatteries (Judases in the midst). (35) And some of them that are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white (like Peter, who failed the Lord but was purified through the loss of his pride and self-confidence), even to the time of the end (of the tribulation); because it is yet for the time appointed.

 

SEPARATING FROM THE CARNAL AUTHORITY AND SYSTEM

When the Israelites were in the wilderness, symbolizing the Church in tribulation, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram as a corporate false prophet usurped the authority of the true ministers of God. (Num.16:1) Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]: (2) and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown; (3) and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. At that time as in our time the extent of the apostasy was so great that almost the entire congregation followed these false prophets. (16:19) And Korah assembled all the congregation against them (the true ministry) unto the door of the tent of meeting. In the Gospels the God-ordained authority was Jesus, the man-child, and His disciples, the two witnesses. Those whom Jesus said were sons of the devil usurped the authority of the true ministers of God. So it is in our day.

The Levites were the God-ordained ministers of the sanctuary, and Aaron as high priest was a type of Christ. Korah was a Levite and an ordained minister of God, but he sought to usurp the high priest’s office. (16:8) And Moses said unto Korah, Hear now, ye sons of Levi: (9) [seemeth it but] a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them; (10) and that he hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? And seek ye the (high) priesthood also? (The Levites were already priests so God was speaking here of usurping the high priesthood.) (11) Therefore thou and all thy company are gathered together against Lord.

Each believer is like the tabernacle in the wilderness. We have a holy of holies, which is our spirit, a holy place, which is our soul, and an outer court, which is our body. Anyone other than the high priest entering the holy of holies had the sentence of death upon them. The only one permitted to rule in our spirit is our High Priest, Jesus Christ (1Cor.11:3). This teaches us that a minister is not to take the place of Christ in our life. He is to make disciples of Christ and not of himself. He has authority only when he is in obedience to the Word (Christ). A minister who is leading God’s people astray from the Word is making disciples of himself and is usurping the place of the High Priest, Christ. Korah represents one out of three end time apostate ministers that, though ordained, will turn against our High Priest, Jesus.

Since Dathan and Abiram were not Levites, they were not ministers ordained of God, but ordained of themselves and men. According to the percentage represented here, two out of every three ministers who go their own way in the tribulation are not ordained by God but man. History has always supported this claim, but it has never proved more true than today. (Jer.23:20) The anger of Lord shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly. (21) I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied. (22) But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. Even a brief examination of the conditions for office in the New Testament would exclude the majority of ministers (1Tim.3:1-10; Titus 1:5-9,16; Acts 1:4,5,8; Mk.16:17-20).

God separated His true people from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. (Num.16:23) And Lord spake unto Moses, saying, (24) Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. (26) And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. In Jesus’ day all the disciples came out of apostate Judaism to follow Him. True disciples still come out of apostate Christianity to follow Christ. The man-child will bring the same message to those who are fellowshipping among the apostate church in the coming days. (Rev.18:4) Come forth my people out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. Notice that to spiritually come out of Babylon is to depart from her sins.

Those who did not come out were judged along with their Babylonish teachers “and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah…went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them” (Num.16:32,33). Notice in verse 26 they had to come out or be “consumed in all their sins”; and here those who didn’t “the earth swallowed them…alive”. According to Genesis 2:7 the earth and our flesh are one. To be swallowed alive by the earth, our flesh, is to be consumed in sins. All that follow the false prophets will be consumed in their own fleshly lusts. We all know “Christian” leaders whose hidden sins came to light. The New Testament Korahs and Balaams are hidden among us but they are dead while they live. (Jude 11) Woe unto them! for they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. (12) These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. Notice that they are “twice dead” meaning born again and died again, and “plucked up by the roots” meaning removed from being a member of the body, though they are still “hidden rocks in your love feasts”. In God’s eyes they are dead while they are living. In 1 Timothy 5:6 “She that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth”. Korah, Dathan, and Abiram went down alive into Sheol (Num.16:30,33) because they cared more about feeding their lust for leadership than keeping their own rightful position in God.

When Jeroboam was king of the northern ten apostate tribes he was afraid that his people would go to worship in the ordained temple at Jerusalem, and in so doing, stay and serve the king of Judah, representing Jesus. He decided to make the two golden calves and their altars in Bethel and Dan for the people to worship at. Jeroboam and his people were serving another Jesus. The golden calf was the Egyptian god Apis who was called the creator. In other words, they were worshiping the god they knew in the world before they ate the Lamb and came out of Egypt. Many “Christians” are worshiping a Jesus that is acceptable to the world and the flesh. He is not the true God but an impostor. Jeroboam and his apostates were also making priests (ministers) who were not Levites (1Ki.12:31). This tells me that in ten of the twelve tribes the ministers were not ordained of God but men. That is exactly what has happened in the Church today. Ten of the twelve spies brought an evil report and died in the wilderness because they made the congregation to speak against the Lord (Num.14:36-38).

God sent a young prophet to prophesy against the altar in Bethel. “Bethel” in Hebrew means “house of God”. Of course, at this time it was a false house of God because the true house was in Jerusalem. At that time the king was standing at the altar offering incense before the people. When the prophet prophesied against the altar, the king stretched out his arm and pointed his hand at the prophet and told his men to seize him. At that point the king’s hand dried up and he could not draw it back. The altar rent and ashes poured out, which the prophet prophesied would happen. This obviously symbolized that God did not accept their sacrifices in this place of apostasy. The king asked the prophet to restore his hand, so the prophet prayed and the Lord healed him. As a result the king wanted to take the prophet home and reward him. (1Ki.13:8) And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place; (9) for so was it charged me by the word of Lord. What was “this place”? It was the place where God’s people were in apostasy and where their leaders were not ordained of God. It was an apostate religious system. We are forbidden to “eat bread” in such a place. Any bread that we would partake of in such a place would be a false Jesus or Word. Jesus is the bread of life (Jn.6:48), which is the Word (Jn.1:1). (Jn.6:51) I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever. Jesus said to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Leaven changes the bread (the Word) to make it more acceptable to the flesh.

Neither should we drink water in the places of apostasy. Their water represents a false spirit formed by a false word. Jesus commanded us to come unto Him and drink of the living water of the Spirit through the Scriptures. (Jn.7:37)…Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. (38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water. (39) But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were to receive. Without this, any spirit we might exhibit is a “different spirit” as Paul said.

The prophet was obediently leaving those backslidden people so as not to be defiled by them. In this city of Bethel there was an older prophet who had evidently been defiled with their lying spirit. He heard what the young prophet did and sought him out. (1Ki.13:15) Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. (16) And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place: (17) for it is said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. (18) And he said unto him, I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied unto him. (19) So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. The young prophet falsely believed that God had changed His Word that was originally given, and so ate and drank of the apostate word. Many old false prophets today are imparting the same lying spirit. (Jude 3)…I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints. Today, many without scriptural foundation tell us that after the apostles, God changed what He had called an “eternal covenant”. This lie has robbed the Church of its power by replacing the true bread and water with their own. Daniel and his three friends would not defile themselves with Babylon’s food (Dan.1:5-16). After refusing Babylon’s food they were said to have ten times the wisdom and understanding of those who did eat of it (Dan.1:17-21). They also were the only ones that did not bow down to the image of the beast (Dan.3:12,18), Babylon’s version of the golden calf.

The young prophet was deceived into a modern gospel. (1Ki.13:20) And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back; (21) and he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast been disobedient unto the mouth of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee, (22) but camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy body shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. The Lord tried the young prophet; but he was said to have “not kept the commandment” of the Lord, which was synonymous with partaking of apostate spiritual food. He lost his life in that place as many do today. The old prophet of God spoke a lie for personal gain. That place had leavened him and he was now a false “profit”.

We have to respect the Word of God so much that nothing or no one will be able turn us away from it with “another Jesus”. We have to always be on guard, for even vessels of honor can sometimes be used as vessels of dishonor to try us. When the young prophet left, a lion met him in the way and slew him. (1Ki.13:26)…It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the mouth of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord. The lion was given permission from God to kill the one who ate the apostate spiritual food. (1Pet.4:8)…[T]he devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour. “May” is used here because the devil must have permission to devour. He is ordained to devour apostates. The penalty for the young prophet’s apostasy was that he would “not come unto the sepulcher of thy fathers”, spiritually meaning he was not joined with his fathers in death; therefore, he would not be among the righteous resurrection. The one who partakes of a false word from the false prophets will lose his life by the devil and will not be among the righteous in resurrection. (Rev.22:18) I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book: (19) and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life. (Gal.1:8) But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema (Greek: “cursed; devoted to destruction”).

 

THE FALSE PROPHET’S CORRUPTION AND GREED

Paul gave Timothy a revelation of the false prophets and those who follow them in the “last days”. (2Tim.3:1) But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. (2) For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (3) without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, (4) traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (5) holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away. These men, who are identified by their egotistical appetite for money, prestige, pleasure, and position, love their religious “form of godliness”. Among these are the false prophets who lead captive the like-minded apostate religious sects. (6) For of these are they that creep into houses (of worship), and take captive silly women (sects of God’s people – Isa.4:1, 32:9) laden with sins, led away by divers lusts, (7) ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Those who love to justify their own sinful ways respect these “impostors” and their “form of godliness”. (13) But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

These false prophets are identified as “lovers of money”. These are the merchants of religious Babylon (Rev.18). They make “Father’s house a house of merchandise” (Jn.2:16). Since God will not support their personal kingdom-building, they peddle books, tapes, trinkets, chicken dinners, tours, etc. This is the way of the world and for those who have an impoverished God. Why would anyone who was sent by God and believed the promises of our provision through Christ do this? Our examples in the early leadership of the Church certainly did not. (Jn.2:13)…Jesus went up to Jerusalem. (14) And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: (15) and he made a scourge of cords, and cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their tables; (16) and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise. They peddle the promises of God’s provision to those who give to their ministry. They make “merchandise of the word of God” (2Cor.2:17 [in Greek]). They peddle the Word for salaries like hirelings. When a person is not sent by God he does not have faith that “God shall supply every need” (Php.4:19). Where God sends, He supplies. Without God’s supernatural supply, people have to resort to other tactics to support “their” ministry. The Lord has not changed His mind, “the righteous shall live by faith”, not salaries. He commanded His ministers, “[F]reely ye received, [F]reely give. Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses”. A man who lives by faith has to walk with God because “if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God; and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight” (1Jn.3:21,22). God’s command that His leaders walk by faith ensures righteous leadership.

The early Church leadership was not in the habit of taking up collections, but when they did it was not for themselves but the saints in persecution and need as it was with Jerusalem. (1Cor.16:1) Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye. (2) Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come. (3) And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto Jerusalem. Notice that Paul didn’t handle the money but approved brethren did. He prefered to not even be present when the collection for the saints was received so that there would be no extortion involved as it was with the Macedonian collection. He also didn’t use the Macedonian’s presence to shame and extort the Corinthians. (2Cor.9:3) But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared: (4) lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence. (5) I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

Ministers received free will offerings and did not demand their rights through condemnation or legalism. (1Cor.9:11) If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things? (12) If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. (13) Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar? (14) Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel. (15) But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void. Paul said, “we did not use this right…that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel”. Even the world sees through the “gimmee gospel” and its con men and they disrespect the true Gospel because of it. In obeying the command “freely ye received, freely give” we leave no room for suspicion.

(2Pet.2:1) But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies…. (3) And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. One way they “make merchandise of you” is to put God’s people under the Law to support them when the Scripture clearly states that our giving is “not of necessity” (2Cor.9:7). “[Let] each man [do] according as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly, or of necessity (this is not according to the law of tithing): for God loveth a cheerful giver.” In the New Covenant, God wants an offering from the heart from those born of His Spirit. God made the Old Covenant with natural Israel and refused the Gentiles. (Ps.147:19) He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel. (20) He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Now the New Covenant is made only with the Church and refused to those under the Law. If a doctrine like tithing is not in the New Covenant then it was never made with you! It will only separate you from Christ and grace. (Gal.5:4) Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace. Jesus rebuked the false prophets of His day saying, “Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin (even their seasoning), and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these you ought to have done (this is past tense in all ancient manuscripts, Numerics, and the Received Text), and not to have left the other undone” (Mt 23:23). Jesus clearly said here that tithing was both in the past and under the Law. Some say tithing was before the Law. Yes, circumcision and animal sacrifice were before the Law, too, but they were included in the law and we are not under Law to do them anymore either. Paul also said tithing was of the Law in Hebrews 7:5-11. There is no New Covenant command or request to tithe because we are no longer stewards of ten percent. Jesus taught that we have to renounce ownership of the other ninety percent or we cannot be His disciple. (Lk.14:33) So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. “All” here means all possessions, rights, and will. Those who claim possession of the other ninety percent are thieves. The Holy Spirit and the New Covenant commands were given to establish where, how much, and to whom we give. We are merely stewards of what He has put in our hands.

The churches’ system of tithing is extortion and graft. It is not even righteous when compared to the Old Covenant tithe. Under the type and shadow of the tithe, ten percent was taken from eleven tribes and given to one tribe, the Levites ([ministers] Num.18:24). Then the Levites gave one ten percent (tithe) to the high priest (25-28). This left the Levites with ten percent from ten tribes. That is an average of what the other eleven tribes had to live on. Even when Israel’s economy grew, they still lived on an average income. Today with a larger percent of the people doing the supporting, coupled with the fact that the pastors have usurped the authority of the rest of the five-fold ministry (Eph.4:11), ministers have become fat and filthy rich. This is a great stumbling block to both the world who sees through this and to the ministers. This also makes the people of God bad stewards. We have made God’s house a “den of robbers” (Mt.21:13). (Ezk.34:2) Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, even to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord: Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the sheep? (3) Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep.

These men make it plain that we are not under the Law except when there is a profit involved and then we are told to “bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse”, which is a command of the Old Covenant. Of course, they falsely claim to be the storehouse. In Old Covenant type and shadow, tithes were cast into the treasury, which was in the midst of the temple (1Ki.7:51; Mk.12:41). In the New Covenant the temple is God’s people, and Jesus said that we would be judged by whether we meet the needs of His people (Mt.25:31-46; 1Jn.3:16,17). This is how we store up treasure in heaven (Lk.12:33,34). We are taught to not store up our treasures on earth (Mt.6:19-21) but to meet the needs of the brethren so “that there may be equality” (2Cor.8:14). Those who will not renounce ownership and become stewards of one hundred percent are not being disciples for “we were bought with a price”. We are now bondservants of Christ. The Holy Spirit now tells the disciples of Christ how much, to whom, where, and when to give.

The false prophets in most cases have a powerless gospel from which we are commanded to turn away. (2Tim.3:5) [H]olding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away. Many do not obey this and become deceived by the traditions of men. How do these false prophets deny the power of God? Jesus commanded His disciples to: “Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations… (20) teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world” (Mt.28:19). Notice that the first disciples were to make disciples and give them the same authority and commands that they had received; and in turn, those disciples were to do the same right on down to us. We all should have received from our teachers the same authority, commands, and gifts given to the first disciples. What happened? The apostate religious traditions of men through false prophets happened! Obedience to Jesus’ command would have made a geometric progression from His day to our day that would have shaken the world. Jesus said that He would be with the disciples in this endeavor “unto the end of the world”. Since the first disciples were not around that long, He obviously was talking to us, also.

As disciples we are to keep the same commands given to the first disciples. Jesus commanded us to walk in His steps and authority. (Jn.20:21)…[A]s the Father hath sent me, even so send I you. (Mt.10:8) Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons: freely ye received, freely give. We have received the same authority as Jesus and the early disciples to do the same work. (Jn.14:12)…He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father. Those who believe will be vessels of God’s sovereign dominion in the earth. The great commission has been passed on to us from the Lord. When we make disciples, we must also pass on the command to do these things. (Mk.16:15) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation. Again, this could not have been spoken to only the first disciples because they neither went into the entire world nor preached to the whole creation. Disciples will finish this work in our day.

Please notice that in the following verse Jesus is telling His apostles how to identify those who believed their gospel. (16) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned. (17) And these signs shall accompany them that believe (believers have signs): in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; (18) they shall take up serpents (deceiving demons: Lk.10:19,20), and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Did you notice that these signs were not spoken of the first disciples but of those who came after them and believed their Gospel? So the doctrine that all these signs passed away with the apostles is clearly a lie by those apostate ministers who deny the power of God to themselves and to those that believe them. (Ezk.34:2) Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel.… (4) The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken.

 

REPLACING THE SAULS OVER THE ELECT

Jesus said that He was only sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. His ministry was to cause the elect to outgrow the false prophets of Judaism. As we have seen, Jesus and the end time man-child company fulfill the prophecies of the coming of David. I shared earlier how the Lord spoke to me in prayer early one morning. He said, “I’m moving the Sauls out of the way to make room for the Davids; and you are one of my Davids.” That evening the news of a famous minister’s scandal broke, which began a rash of nationally-known minister scandals. Saul was a leader who would not obey God and became overwhelmed (swallowed) by his flesh. Shortly after this, I ministered in a church where the pastor was in this condition and was being a very bad witness to his congregation. He told me one day that God had spoken to him and told him three times that he was Saul and I was David. He asked me what I thought this meant but I felt reluctant to tell him what the Lord had told me. Later I asked the Lord what he wanted me to do about this man. He said, “Let the Philistines take him out.” Of course this is what happened to Saul. Even as David tried to bring Saul to repentance, I prayed and tried to bring this pastor to repentance. Saul wrestled with flesh and blood Philistines which took him out. The Philistines today represent principalities, powers and spiritual hosts of wickedness, which we wrestle with through our own fallen flesh (Eph.6:12). That pastor lost the battle and became “twice dead, plucked up by the roots”. I prayed that God would give dreams and visions to his assembly to warn them about him. Two women had the same dream that he had run off the road and was killed. He did leave the narrow road and spiritually died. Another dreamed that he was a dragon in the assembly. Another dreamed that he was a serpent with a microphone putting the people to sleep. In the end it was the all too familiar story. This pastor was caught in corruption with women and money, which caused him to lose his wife and leave the ministry.

The fleshly Philistines of our day will swallow up those of the old order, Saul-ministry who do not repent. As the anointing was taken from Saul and given to David (1Sam.16:13) so it will be in our day. Like Saul, the false prophets will become demon possessed to the extent that they will be led by witchcraft (14-16; 28:7) rather than repent and obey God. Then lowly Davids will come out of the wilderness with God’s anointing. This is also foreshadowed by Jesus (Lk.4:1,2,13-18) when He received the true High Priest anointing and was persecuted by the carnal high priest (Mt.26:3,4,57-65). When the anointing came upon David, Saul became possessed and reprobated. When the anointing came upon Jesus, the truth that He spoke made the Sauls of His day responsible to submit or be reprobated, and so it will be with the man-child ministry of our day. (Jn.15:22) If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. As Saul in his jealousy sought to kill David, so the apostate Jewish leadership sought to kill Jesus, and the end time false prophets will seek to kill these end time Davids.

The New World Order beast is coming to tear down or burn down all the wood, hay, and stubble built on the foundation of Christ. You can be sure that everything built on sand will go too, for everything that can be shaken will be. This destruction of the old religious harlot system will not be physical at first, but spiritual. As the Roman beast totally corrupted the Jewish Sanhedrin using their fear of losing their position, status, and government perks, so the end time beast will totally corrupt this apostate church leadership with their 501c3 government ordination. (Jn.11:47) The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs. (48) If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. It was this jealousy and fear that drove them to persecute and kill the righteous and so it will be in our day. Only after the apostates crucified the righteous did God put it in the mind of the beast to devour the harlot with her false prophets in 70 A.D. So it will be after the coming time of tribulation. (Rev.17:16) And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire. I had a vision that showed this gradual destruction of the harlot and the latter rain power that will come to those who come out of her.

I was standing on top of a mountain and looking down the mountainside. I saw a construction crew coming up the mountainside putting up the big metal power poles for high voltage power lines. Then I looked down beside me on the ground and noticed a very old, emaciated cow lying there. It looked as though it was about to die. Next to it was a very large baby boy that I knew had been born from that cow. Next, I saw a front-end loader come and scoop up the cow and carry it away. I picked up the baby and walked over and got on an escalator. As we were going up, I noticed a woman next to me with a normal-sized baby. Looking at my baby, she said, “That looks like a real baby boy.” Watching the front-end loader carry away the cow, I said, “Yeah, I wonder how that’s possible.” Then the scene changed, and I was walking into a ministers’ conference. All the famous religious leaders were there. A famous minister whom we all know walked over and handed me some papers. (The Lord showed me that he represented a generation of Saul ministers.) Then the Lord said to me, “This is his propaganda about what he has accomplished.” (God is the only One who accomplishes anything and we are nothing and can do nothing of value without Him (Jn.3:27; 1Cor.4:7).

The interpretation is this. The mountain is the kingdom of God coming on earth that must be cleansed of man’s pollutions. Daniel interpreted Nebuchadnezzar’s dream as a “latter days” revelation. (Dan.2:28)…he (God) hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days…. (35)…the stone that smote the image (of the beast) became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. Daniel interpreted the mountain as the eternal Kingdom of God. (44) And in the days of those (10) kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. As far as the sovereignty of God’s kingdom not ultimately being left to another people, neither the beast nor the false prophet will ultimately rule God’s true children. The saints will rule the whole earth from within God’s kingdom. As we saw with Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, the false prophets and the harlot that followed them were among God’s people but were removed from the kingdom. Jesus said the same thing to the same people in His day. (Mt.21:43) Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken away from you, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. The nation that would receive the kingdom was, of course, the Church, which is literally translated “the called-out ones”. The called-out ones were primarily Israelites and secondarily Gentiles. They were called out of Judaism, all the other false religions, and the world. Peter addressing the New Testament elect said, (1Pet.2:9) But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God’s] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. In the great falling away that followed, the Church lost the perspective that they were “called out” and in effect merged with worldly apostate religion of all sorts. Because of the Church repeating the apostasy of Israel, the Lord is going to purge the kingdom once more in our day. (Mt.13:41) The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things (“things” is not in the Greek) that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity, (42) and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (43) Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Notice that God’s angels who normally have charge of administering to the saints all forms of His salvation (Heb.1:14), are now charged with removing the apostates from the kingdom. So, when they withhold the covenant protection, provision, and grace from the apostates, the beast from the pit quickly brings them into the bondage of reprobation. The beast, which is a principality ruling through a corporate army of evil spirits from the pit, inhabits the fleshly bodies of those who do not know God in order to make war on the Church. The apostates will be brought under submission to the beast’s one world religion, while the saints, meaning “sanctified ones”, will, like the large baby boy, ascend the escalator of God’s kingdom to take true spiritual dominion from the Saul ministries as Jesus did. In their wilderness the beast will continue to make war on them to crucify their flesh. In effect, the angels are God’s construction workers but the beast is His front-end loader. Notice “all that cause stumbling and them that do iniquity” will leave the kingdom of Christ. They are not leaving the earth, as some falsely interpret this. They are bound for the fire of the great and terrible day of the Lord and ultimately Hell itself. However, the righteous remain in the kingdom.

When Jesus first came the kingdom was ruled over by a carnal religious harlot cow, headed by their own false prophets. I was told that the old cow was the golden calf, now come to full age and passing away. The old cow represents the same harlot religious system of men in our day as the calf did to Israel when they first went into their wilderness. In speaking of the first golden calf, they said “These are thy gods” (Ex.32:4). Even though the calf was singular the translators said he was “gods”, plural. The Hebrew word for “gods” here is “Elohim” just as it is in verse 11 when speaking of the true God. “And Moses besought the Lord his God.” Nine times out of ten when the Scriptures speak of our true God, the Hebrew word is “Elohim”, which is plural. Our God is Father and Son through the Holy Spirit. Aaron, also speaking of worshipping the calf, proclaimed a “feast to the Lord” (5). Lord here in the literal is “YHWH”, the name of our God. In other words, they were calling the golden calf “Elohim” and “YHWH”. They were giving God’s name to a false god. All who have been sold on a Jesus that looks different from the Jesus of the Bible are worshipping what remains of the golden calf or the old cow of our day. We will take on the image of the Jesus we follow (2Cor.3:18); hence, the old cow represents those who have taken on the image of “another Jesus”.

This apostate “Christian” system will be removed from God’s kingdom, which the front-end loader did. The apostate Jewish system was removed as a type of this. (Mt.8:11) And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: (12) but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. New wine cannot be put in old wineskins. In other words, the harlot system, with its false prophets, will no longer have authority in the lives of the true elect, like the disciples who gave up apostate Judaism to follow Jesus. The old emaciated cow is the powerless, dying, harlot system, from which the righteous will be birthed out of as the large baby boy.

(Jer.50:6) My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains (world kingdoms); they have gone from mountain to hill (denominations); they have forgotten their resting-place (the mountain of God’s kingdom, Zion). The false prophets are guilty of spreading their own confusion among the people of God so that neither knows the way to God’s mountain. (Mt.23:13) But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. Through the carnal mind they live in the mountain kingdoms of this world. The harlot sits on the seven mountains of the beast kingdoms rather than the mountain of God’s kingdom (Rev.17:9). As wolves dividing the flock, the false prophets have created for the harlot many smaller sectarian kingdoms, denominational hills, beneath and subservient to the mountains of the world kingdoms. Through teaching national patriotism the false prophets have caused the harlot to worship the beast (Rev.13:12). God’s people in most instances do not know the difference between worldly kingdoms and His spiritual kingdom.

Jeremiah goes on to tell us that the people of God are plundered by their enemies because they do not abide in the safety and provision of their own kingdom. (Jer.50:7) All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Lord, the habitation of righteousness, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers. Serving man’s worldly replacements for God’s kingdom makes His people victim to their adversaries, which are primarily demonic. The demons in turn administer the penalties of the curse through wicked men, sin, disease, mishaps, losses, and destructions. Those who still do not come out of the Babylonish cow will live under its curses until it is destroyed with them. (Rev.18:4)…Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

As Jesus discipled a remnant that came out of the harlot of His day, so the man-child will disciple a large remnant baby that will come out of this last day harlot cow; they will come to Mount Zion, where the true law goes forth and the people learn God’s true ways and paths. (Mic.4:1) But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of Lord’s house (spiritual Mt. Zion) shall be established on the top of the mountains (world kingdoms), and it shall be exalted above the hills (denominations); and peoples shall flow unto it. (2) And many nations (Christians who have been members of world kingdoms) shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Lord (spiritual Mt. Zion), and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Lord from Jerusalem.

Jesus brought the power of God to a remnant baby, who came out of Judaism and remained in the kingdom when the old cow was removed, and so it will be in the coming days. Those who remained in the kingdom then received the power of God. The “big metal power poles” with “high voltage power lines” in my vision represent the kind of power that comes directly from the source generator, which in our case is God, not the reduced power that has been relegated in the past to common home consumption. These “high voltage power lines” represent the great power of God coming to a faithful remnant baby, in our day, who will come out of apostate Christianity to live close to the source. Even now we are seeing many get their eyes open to the difference between the true kingdom and the old cow, but in the tribulation to come the remnant of God’s elect will come out. Then great power will be manifest through the true disciples of Christ in the greater works just as it was with the early disciples who came out of Judaism.

The apostate shepherds cannot lead the sheep to the power-filled life that comes through resting in faith because they themselves have never been there. (Jer.50:6) My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray;…they have forgotten their resting-place (spiritual Mt. Zion). The escalator on the mountain in my vision represents this “resting-place” from self-works. As one rests on an escalator, they are carried heavenward, making self-works unnecessary. As we saw earlier, ceasing from our own works through faith in God’s promises is the true New Covenant rest. When we believe, God’s power comes on the scene to work for us and through us. God’s spiritual Promised Land of rest is to stand on the promises as God told Joshua, “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it” (Josh.1:3). Sadly, Israel only stood on about thirty percent of the land promised to them and so that is all God gave them. Our life has been given to us as a Promised Land to be cleansed by the sword of the Word and ruled by the spiritual man. If we are a thirty-fold Christian we are no better than them. (2Cor.7:1) Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

By this escalator rest the baby will be carried heavenward, nearer and nearer to God, and will be above the curses on this world. The cow does not believe in the protection and provision of our Promised Land. The cow eats only grass, which represents a fleshly understanding of the Word that cannot conquer the land. (1Pet.1:24) For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: (25) But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. Notice the grass “withereth” just like the old cow. Since the cow only eats grass, it is only able to feed milk, which is not enough to cause the people to mature in Christ. (Heb.5:13) For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. The “large baby” in my vision had to come out of the cow and be weaned to partake of the meat, which Jesus said was to do the will of the Father. (14) But solid food is for full grown men, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil. The “large baby boy” will do the will of the Father for it will develop spiritual senses through experiencing the Word of righteousness. It will see as Christ sees and will have ears only for the Word. As a “boy” it will also be able to sow the seed of the true Word.

In my vision of the “ministers’ conference” a famous minister whom we all know walked over and handed me some papers”. This indicates that the Lord had given authority to me to bring a remnant baby beyond the dying cow’s experience in the Word. I was shown that those ministers were the “bulls of Bashan” who had been sowing their own seed, or word, in the corporate apostate cow. (Ps.22:12) Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. (13) They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion. This is a prophecy of the false prophet bulls in Jesus’ day that constantly spoke against Him and persecuted Him unto death. More of the text gives proof of this. (1) My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? … (16) For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. (17) I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me; (18) They part my garments among them, And upon my vesture do they cast lots. Today these bulls are trained in their seminaries to do this to anyone who, like Jesus, brings forth a remnant baby beyond the confines of their apostate cow.

As we saw in Beast Covenant, the spirit of the beast will bring the false prophets together under a One World Order state system to persecute the saints. Respected ministers of the harlot will receive state authority over those who have outgrown them in freedom, understanding and power. Like their ancestors the Pharisees, they and their harlot system are even now sinking into the depths of depravity. (Isa.1:21) How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. As Jesus brought forth a righteous remnant baby from their old cow system, so it will be done by the man-child in our day. That God could bring something that good out of something that bad can only be attributed to the seed of the Word that will be sown. As I said of this wonder in the old cow vision, “Yeah, I wonder how that’s possible.” As Jesus raised up the disciples, so in our day will the man-child raise up righteous counselors for born again Zion. (26) [A]nd I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town. (27) Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness. Those who refuse this move of the Spirit through the latter rain disciples of Christ will meet with the same fate as those who refused the former rain disciples. (28) But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and they that forsake Lord shall be consumed.

God gave the Law but by the time of Jesus it had been corrupted into the traditions of Judaism. Christianity has followed in the steps of that type. Jesus came to make disciples of the Word and lead them out. True disciples will hear no other voice but His (Jn.10:3-5; 8:31,32). Some think that we should work within the old system to bring reform. The old cow cannot be reformed any more than the flesh can, they must die. (Jer.51:9) We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. Forsake her, brothers and sisters, and dwell in our own country of the Promised Land. Receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken (Heb.12:28). We are commanded over and over to come out from among them and be separate (2Cor.6:14-18; Rev.18:4; Jer.51:6,45; Jer.50:8).

I had a dream about false ministers and the spiritual death they bring to God’s children.

I found myself in front of a large church. I walked through the front door and standing in the foyer was an “old man” in a suit. I avoided this old man as if he were a rattlesnake and went into the sanctuary, so-called. I saw there a large double sink, full of water. In the water were babies; they were face down and most were dead. I quickly went to the sink, picked up a baby, and held him up in the air face up. He spoke to me saying, “Thank God, I knew he was going to send someone.”

Interpretation: I was made to know that the “old man” (Eph.4:22; Col.3:9,10) here represents many ministers who teach in the flesh. These are trying to wash up the people of God like babies in a sink with their carnal understanding of the Word, which Paul said was the water (Eph.5:26). Instead of sanctifying the babies they are killing them. A minister who misuses the Word can make one puffed-up, self-righteous, self-satisfied, lascivious, legalistic, or condemned, causing them to have no faith to obey. These are all rooted in self confidence or introversion. Either extreme gets our attention off the Lord and on the flesh, which comes from the earth as Adam did. This is what it is to be “face down” in the water. When our face is towards the earth it means we are either confident in ourselves, which is pride, or condemning ourselves, which is unbelief in Christ, our sacrifice. In either case, we do not have our face up towards the sun (Son) and the water of the Word condemns to death such a one. (2Cor.3:5) [N]ot that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God. We should avoid any minister who misuses the word in this way “as if he were a rattlesnake”. Their poison can kill the baby Christ who is growing in us. (6) [W]ho also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. The letter that is taught by the carnally-minded is an understanding that is from the earth, “face down”. Feeding on this is to be “ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2Tim.3:7). Only feeding on truth can keep us humble and full of faith. Jesus purposely spoke in parables so that only those who have eyes and ears for heavenly things (face up) would understand (Mt.13:10-14). These seek a knowledge that is born from above. These are the ones who are face up with their eyes and ears to the sun (Son). (Mt.16:17) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah: for flesh and blood (the old man) hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven. I remember a couple of popular prophetic books that I read when I was very young in understanding. Almost nothing of what the authors said ever came to pass or ever will and even though these men have changed their minds very little, they are still considered teachers by those who only have eyes and ears for the earthly. As always, those whose understanding and walk is “face up” towards God will be fought against by those who are “face down”.

Some consider it wrong for ministers such as myself to by-pass the “old man” and go to the “babies”. The “old man” ministers of Jesus’ day were jealous and persecuted Him for taking His sheep out of what they considered to be their folds. (Jn.10:3) To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. (4) When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. Actually it was these false shepherds which Jesus called thieves, for the sheep did not belong to them. (1)…He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. (8) All that came before me are thieves and robbers…. (10) The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy. Jesus shared a parable that showed the covetous, possessive hearts of these false shepherds for His own sheep. (Mt.21:33)…There was a man that was a householder, who planted a vineyard…and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country. (34) And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, to receive his fruits. (The Lord has always sent His true ministers to bring to Him those who bear fruit that they may bear more.) (35) And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. (36) Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them in like manner. (37) But afterward he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. (38) But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance. (39) And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.

The false prophets, then and now, only want the flock for themselves, their glory, their income, etc. Should Jesus show up in one of His disciples at the door of one of His vineyards today, more often than not, He will be met by the same thieves. If these possessive pastors are right about the sheep being stolen from them, then they are guilty of the same sin. I was stolen from the Catholic church, and then from the Baptist, and then from the Pentecostal. I remember the Pentecostal Pastor was angry when I was taken from him, never thinking that he took me from the Baptist! The truth is, I wasn’t stolen from any of them because I did not belong to them but Jesus, and I am still running after Him. After that last religion I realized that they were all just halfway houses and each brought me a little bit closer, while teaching me what apostasy was. Loving the truth will always deliver us from the Babylonian baloney that we pick up along the way. We are too carnal when we first come to God to step straight into pure Christianity, so God is weak to the weak and we are nursed with milk for a while. The Lord spoke to me one day and told me that religions are just play-pens to keep us from trouble until we mature enough to climb over the bars and follow our Father. Abraham had a great party when Isaac was weaned because then he could go with his father. It was two years for me until I crawled over the last bars, and then I really started growing.

Once when I was teaching, two pastors came to our meeting. They were invited by some of their ex-disciples. We have very relaxed meetings and one of them spoke up. He said, “You are just pulling people out of the churches.” The Lord then anointed me with an answer. I said, “I do not pull any of them out. I do not believe in abortion. I just feed them until they outgrow their mother. Then when they are full term they bring pain to their mother, who pushes them out.” As I grew I started to share some of the things God was showing me with my spiritual mother, our local assembly. When they saw that I was disagreeing with their false doctrine they began to speak against me and persecute me. I saw that it didn’t bother them that I had the Scriptures on my side. I found that my living space in Mother was too confined to be comfortable for either of us and I was born. It was then that I realized that God did not create religions, men did. He uses them as a trial to prove who it is that loves truth.

I had another dream of the false prophets and their organizations capturing the people of God and causing them to fall away.

I found a stream of water and got into it. I realized that if I kept my face to the sun I could float on my back upstream. I had a positive feeling that this is the way it is supposed to be. I noticed that there were a few others floating upstream in the same way.

The stream of water represents the Living Word, which supports us only as we keep our face to the Son with our faith in Him. In this way we have a life that is contrary to the natural course of this world, which is downstream.

I noticed up ahead that someone had stretched a large tent over much of the left side of the stream. Some of the people floating with me drifted under this tent. They could no longer see the sun and quickly sank to the bottom.

The tent represents the false prophet’s organizations seeking to stake their claim to the portions of God’s Word that suited them. A portion is not the truth, only “the sum of thy word is truth”. The left side of the stream identifies the goat’s portion in Matthew 25:33. Drifting under the tent means they were captured by the organizations of men which caused them to get their eyes off the sun. The nature of sectarian religion is to magnify itself and its doctrine rather than the Word, getting the eyes of its captives on it, rather than the Son. This idolatry causes them to lose many benefits of the Word and, instead, fall under its curses. Recently I teamed up with an elder of one of these denominations to share with their people the benefits of the Word given to disciples as far as healing, deliverance, and provision. Because of their own traditional doctrines, the other elders and the pastor opposed the Scripture and testimonies that we shared. Immediately they and their families were sick for over a month and could not even attend their own church. I remember one of their flock asked in the middle of a service, “Where are all of our elders?” I realized that once the truth of these benefits had been shared and these elders rejected them for themselves and the flock, God judged them as guilty.

When I saw the others drift into the shade and sink, I got out on the bank and cut the ropes holding up the tent with a knife. It fell into the water, drifted away, and sank. I then started making floats to float some of the people up off the bottom. When this happened they saw the sun again and began to float as before.

The knife represented the Word, which cuts away the traditions of men so that the people can get their eyes on the Word of the Son and His benefits. The Lord wants a personal relationship with us, without men and their religions interfering.

After this we all began to float downstream. As we did I saw tools floating in the water: wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, etc. As I reached out and grabbed them I said, “Thank God, I have been praying for these.

Besides being the tools to build the true Church, they were also the tools to bind (forbid) and loose (permit) for the Lord. I remind you of my dream in Chapter Six Caught Up to the Throne where I was going down the road of humbling myself to the Word in order to find the tools of the power to bind and loose.

Friends, we cannot trust in our own heart. We must be full of the Word so that we may have discernment. Ask God to show you how he sees your leadership. Expect God to answer (Jas.1:5-7) either by word, dream, vision, or examination of the Word (2Thes.3:6,7). If you are led by some of the few good leaders who lead and teach according to the Word, pray for them and humble yourselves to them. If not, depart from their tent so that you are not lulled to sleep with their strong delusion.

Your Servant David Eells   http://www.unleavenedbreadministries.org/