National Council of Churches General Secretary to Speak at The Andrews University Seventh-day Adventist Annual Symposium
by Akefe Mviza on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 10:18am
I saw this in the Lake Region Conference daily newsletter. They seem to be very proud of the fact that this guy from the National Council of Churches is going to speak to the seminary students. The National Council of Churches is one of the groups behind the push for a one world religion. Of course he is going to talk about "unity" in the church. It's not in the church but "unity of all churches". The SDA church should have nothing to do with the ecumenical movement. It includes all religions, whether they claim to believe in the God of the Bible or pagan entities. Please see how the Fundamental Beliefs of the SDA Church endorse, promote, this ecumenical activity. General Secretary of National Council of Churches to Speak at Seminary Scholarship Symposium
Berrien Springs, Mich.—The Andrews University Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary welcomes Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, as the keynote speaker for the annual Seminary Scholarship Symposium. The symposium is held at the Seminary on the campus of Andrews University and runs from Jan. 31–Feb. 3, 2012. The symposium is free and open to the public.
Kinnamon is a prominent religious leader in the United States. He is a clergyman in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and a well-known ecumenical leader and educator, as well as the Allen and Dottie Miller Professor of Mission, Peace, and Ecumenical Studies at Eden Theological Seminary in Lexington, Ky. Previously, he served as the general secretary of the Consultation on Church Union and executive secretary of the World Council of Church’s Commission on Faith and Order. Kinnamon earned his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School.
A prominent member of the Ecumenical Movement, Kinnamon firmly believes in the need for unity in the church and works hard to build that unity. “The church is where the Spirit is,” he says. “Look for that when we sit around these tables. Trust that the Spirit has claimed these others. Getting to know one another builds that trust. This is how we deal with ongoing conflicts—not as a political caucus, but as sisters and brothers.”
The Seminary Scholarship Symposium begins Tuesday, Jan. 31, with a 10:30 a.m. Recognition Assembly in the Seminary Chapel. This assembly will celebrate selected publications of Seminary faculty in 2011, as well as present the names of those receiving the Augsburger Excellence in Teaching Award and the Horn Excellence in Research Award.
On Thursday, Feb. 2, Kinnamon will present “The Gospel of Reconciled Community” at 10:30 a.m. and a plenary address, “The Ecumenical Movement and Why You Should Be Involved,” at 7 p.m. Both events will take place in the Seminary Chapel. Prior to the plenary speech on Thursday there will be a reception and poster session in the Seminary Commons from 6–7 p.m. The symposium will conclude on Friday, Feb. 3, with two scholarly paper presentations and another poster session. Friday’s presentations begin at 9 a.m. and continue until 1 p.m.
Founded in 1874, Andrews University is the flagship institution of higher education for the Seventh-day Adventist church, located one-half mile east of the U.S. 31Bypass in Berrien Springs, Mich.
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The Gen.Conf. is going the exact opposite direction of the 3 Angels' Messages. It is time to get off the train with all on board going with lightning speed to perdition, and join the little companies standing on the 3 Angels' Messages--doing the work that the SDA church was raised up to do.
Another amazing thing is how the Gen. Conf. sponsored SDA church has defined "The Church" in point #12 of the 28 Fundamental Beliefs. You would think it was about the SDA church, but it is not. They have defined the church as:
12. The Church
The church is the community of believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. In continuity with the people of God in Old Testament times, we are called out from the world; and we join together for worship, for fellowship, for instruction in the Word, for the celebration of the Lord's Supper, for service to all mankind, and for the worldwide proclamation of the gospel. The church derives its authority from Christ, who is the incarnate Word, and from the Scriptures, which are the written Word. The church is God's family; adopted by Him as children, its members live on the basis of the new covenant. The church is the body of Christ, a community of faith of which Christ Himself is the Head. The church is the bride for whom Christ died that He might sanctify and cleanse her. At His return in triumph, He will present her to Himself a glorious church, the faithful of all the ages, the purchase of His blood, not having spot or wrinkle, but holy and without blemish.
This definition means that "The Church" includes every "community of faith"--every "Christian" church denomination. Notice that the church is also defined as "the body of Christ." This means that the Gen. Conf. SDA and all its members churches have defined itself as part of Babylon.
13. The Remnant and Its Mission
The universal church is composed of all who truly believe in Christ, but in the last days, a time of widespread apostasy, a remnant has been called out to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. This remnant announces the arrival of the judgment hour, proclaims salvation through Christ, and heralds the approach of His second advent. This proclamation is symbolised by the three angels of Revelation 14; it coincides with the work of judgment in heaven and results in a work of repentance and reform on earth. Every believer is called to have a personal part in this worldwide witness.
Another word for "universal" is Catholic. The General Conference of SDA have put the "remnant" as part of the universal church. The "apostasy" is not defined. (The Catholic church sees the Protestant Reformation as the apostasy.) What is "a remnant" called out of? God has called His church out of the fallen church systems of Babylon, but it appears in this statement that "a remnant" is called out of an apostasy, not out of the universal (Catholic) church.
Now notice the amazing statement of belief #14:
14. Unity in the Body of Christ
The church is one body with many members, called from every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. In Christ we are a new creation; distinctions of race, culture, learning, and nationality, and differences between high and low, rich and poor, male and female, must not be divisive among us. We are all equal in Christ, who by one Spirit has bonded us into one fellowship with Him and with one another; we are to serve and be served without partiality or reservation. Through the revelation of Jesus Christ in the Scriptures we share the same faith and hope, and reach out in one witness to all. This unity has its source in the oneness of the triune God, who has adopted us as His children.
The "body of Christ" is the church, but what is the church? You think "unity in the Church" would be about unity in the SDA church, but it is not. It is the "church" that was defined in point #12-- "the community of believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour." The Gen. Conf. of SDA has defined the SDA church as part of the family of Chrisitan church systems. This statement is proclaiming to the world that the SDA church is united to the ecumenical movement!
And what is this unity based on? "This unity has its source in the oneness of the triune God." This is exactly what the Pope said in his encyclical "Ut Unim Sint"--"That They May Be One." UNity is based on belief in the Trinity.
What is the only requirement to be a member of the World Council of Churches? Belief in the Trinity.
Notice this statement from the WCC. It is a repeat of the Fundamental Beliefs of the SDA church--STATEMENTS #12 AND #14: “The WCC is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfill together their common calling to the glory of the one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit."
The direction the world is headed as the beast rises again:
In 538 AD, Justinian the Great, Easter Roman Emperor, uprooted the last of the two horns that believed in religious liberty and did not believe in the Trinity. He was trying to create a one-world government, a one-world church system (Roman Catholic), with every one in his realm to believe in the Trinity. This is the famous decree of Justinian in 533 AD:
“Included in the 534 code of Justinian was his famous letter he wrote to Pope John II on March 15, 533. In the same year, on March 25, he wrote to Epiphanius, Patriarch of Constantinople, confirming that the pope was now the head of the church and the corrector of heretics, and giving the pope all ecclesiastical power and authority….
THE CODE OF OUR LORD THE MOST SACRED EMPEROR JUSTINIAN. SECOND EDITION. BOOK I. TITLE I.
CONCERNING THE MOST EXALTED TRINITY AND THE CATHOLIC FAITH, AND PROVIDING THAT NO ONE SHALL DARE TO PUBLICLY OPPOSE THEM
“ ‘1. The Emperors Gratian, Valentinian, and Theodosius to the people of the City of Constantinople.
“ ‘We desire that all peoples subject to Our benign Empire shall live under the same religion that the Divine Peter, the Apostle, gave to the Romans, and which the said religion declares was introduced by himself, and which it is well known that the Pontiff Damasus, and Peter, Bishop of Alexandria, a man of apostolic sanctity, embraced; that is to say, in accordance with the rules of apostolic discipline and the evangelical doctrine, we should believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit constitute a single Deity, endowed with equal majesty, and united in the Holy Trinity.
“ ‘(1) We order all those who follow this law to assume the name of Catholic Christians, and considering others as demented and insane...."
May God help us now, as this is the direction that the General Conference of SDA, and the world, is headed.
May God help you now to repent of corporate sin and get on the platform of the Three Angels Message.
Akefe Publication 00127012012
Keep the Faith
Akefe Mviza
The National Council of Churches is an organization formally known, before 1950, as the Federal Council of Churches--organized in December, 1908. The NCC is made up of various churches within the United States of America who have agreed to become members, and to further the goals of the NCC/WCC.
The goal of the NCC is the same as the goal of the WCC, since it was the leadership of the Federal/National Council of Churches which formed the WCC in 1948 (see World Council of Churches: Religion or Revolution, by Hugh Moreton & N.W. Hutchings, p 3). Their goal goes beyond just uniting all churches into one, and includes the same goals of Catholicism, the New Age, Free masonry, the Illuminati, the United Nations, and other satanic organizations--or the goal of a New World Order, with Lucifer as god and leader.
To some this may be hard to believe, but the NCC itself states this in their recommendation of points to be followed in order to bring about world peace: "...a world government...Strong immediate limitation on national sovereignty. International control of all armies and navies. A universal system of money. Worldwide freedom of immigration. Progressive elimination of all tariff and quota restrictions on world trade. A democratically controlled international bank...
"A new order of economic life is both imminent and imperative through voluntary cooperation within the framework of democracy or through explosive political revolution." Time Magazine, March 16, 1942, p 44-48.
The WCC and it's branch organizations are indeed involved in bringing about this "explosive political revolution" in Countries which are not following their plan for a One World Church and New World Order. The following are a few examples.
The WCC gave $85,000 to an African Nationalist terrorist group--PATRIOTIC FRONT--who were waging guerilla warfare in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe in 1978 (see Seattle Times, August 25, 1981). These terrorists killed over 1900 people, including eight British missionaries and their four children in Rhodesia that year (see Reader's Digest, August, 1982). In 1974 the WCC gave 6,355 British pounds to members of the terrorist organization--ZANU--in Africa, which were responsible for killing 87 Rhodesian civilians (see WCC: Religion or Revolution, p 13). Also in 1974, the WCC gave 50,000 British pounds to another Marxist guerilla force--FRELIMO (see Ibid., p 13).
After the Rhodesian government fell to these terrorist groups, this statement was then given by their representatives at the WCC Conference in Melbourne, Australia in May, 1980: "Our hard-won victory did not come only through our own determination. We were sustained and reinforced by the support--material, moral, and spiritual--accorded to us by the World Council of Churches, and its member churches." American Opinion, January, 1982, p 4.
The WCC also gave funds to the Communist North Vietnamese government (see WCC: Religion or Revolution, p 16), the PLO, Cuba, and other pro-Soviet totalitarian movements (see Reader's Digest, January, 1983, p 120). They also gave $823,000 to the Communist backed organization--SWAPO--in Namibia (see WCC: Religion or Revolution, p 28; American Opinion, January, 1982, p 2).
As can be clearly seen, the WCC--including the NCC and other lesser branch organizations--is not working for God, but is definitely working against Him! They are in complete union with the enemy of God, and are furthering Lucifer's goal of being the god and leader of a New World Order. Hence no church of God should be connected to the WCC/NCC, let alone working with or supporting them. But where does the money come from with which the WCC finances and supports Lucifer's goal of a One World Church and New World Order--including terrorist activities to bring this about?
"The obvious question arises: From where does the money come [for WCC financing]? The answer is: It comes from you. It comes from you if you put money on the collection plate of a church that is part of a denomination which belongs to the National Council of Churches. The money goes from your church to your denomination, to the National Council, to the World Council." American Opinion, January, 1982, p 12.
Thus any church who gives financial or other support to the WCC, or to any of it's branch organizations, is guilty of supporting the move towards a One World Church and New World Order, the spread of Communism, the funding of terrorist groups, and the killing of innocent people and Christians! And not only would the church itself be held responsible, but each and every corporate member of that church would be held guilty as well! (for Biblical proof of this corporate responsibility, see Jeremiah 26:15; Revelation 18:4).
All the different churches which are members or member-units in these various branch organizations making up, and under the control of, the WCC, are technically members of the WCC itself. But WCC policy states that no individual church is a member of it, only the various branches made up of the churches. Thus, when any question arises as to whether a particular church is part of the WCC, the leaders of these various churches can technically tell their membership that their church is not a member of the WCC, when it really is through connection to the various branches!
The following is a partial list of churches which are documented as being a part of, and cooperating or working with, the WCC/NCC; and some for many years: Anglican, Assemblies of God, Baptist (including Seventh-day), Brethren, Catholic (including Old), Christian, Church of God, Congregational, Community, Disciples, Episcopal, Evangelical, Friends (Quakers), Full Gospel, Holiness, Latter Day Saints (Mormon), Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Missionary, Moravian, Orthodox (Bulgarian, Christian, Eastern, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Syrian, Ukrainian), Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Protestant, Reformed, Seventh-day Adventist, United, and Wesleyan (see Letter from the National Council of Churches of Christ, January 13, 1965, from Wilbur C. Parry, Associate General Secretary; American Opinion, January, 1982, p 11; Directory of Christian Councils, published by the World Council of Churches, 1985).
Yet, even though church union and cooperation is clearly listed in various publications, many church leaders deny that their church has any connection or union with, or has given any support to, the WCC! But the above list does not lie! This means that all these churches, including every member of these churches, are guilty of supporting the goal towards a One World Church and New World Order, the spreading of Communism, terrorism, and aiding the killing of innocent people. In fact, all those churches which are united in the above endeavor to establish a One World Church and New World Order are depicted in the Bible as being part of Babylon the Great--that great religious system of evil which works counter to God and seeks to destory His kingdom.
God would have His church and people completely separate and distinct from all the churches of Babylon which are guilty of doing any of the evils listed above, that they might be a peculiar people unto Him as well as His special treasure in this world of wickedness.
"And ye shall be holy unto Me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be Mine." Leviticus 20:26.
"Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people..." Exodus 19:5 (see also Deuteronomy 7:6 & 26:18-19; 1 Peter 2:9).
What have these churches done with God's will that they should be a separate, peculiar, special treasure unto Himself and to no one else? They have rejected God's will, and have united themselves together with the churches in the WCC. They have refused to be a special and holy people unto God, and have chosen instead to cooperate and work with Lucifer and his evil agencies to further his satanic goals! They have spurned God's immense love and mercy showered upon them, and have instead become a treasure of the kingdom of Babylon. How can any church and people really believe that they can do God's work, spread His gospel messages, fear, obey, and honor only Him, and give Him the praise and glory due His holy name, when they give up their peculiarity by uniting with the evil agencies and wicked organizations doing the bidding of Lucifer? What blindness! How can they be separate and peculiar when they are in union and allied with God's avowed Babylonian enemies? Hence all of these churches and people are no longer God's peculiar church and people!
The WCC also gave funds to the Communist North Vietnamese government (see WCC: Religion or Revolution, p 16), the PLO, Cuba, and other pro-Soviet totalitarian movements (see Reader's Digest, January, 1983, p 120). They also gave $823,000 to the Communist backed organization--SWAPO--in Namibia (see WCC: Religion or Revolution, p 28; American Opinion, January, 1982, p 2).
As can be clearly seen, the WCC--including the NCC and other lesser branch organizations--is not working for God, but is definitely working against Him! They are in complete union with the enemy of God, and are furthering Lucifer's goal of being the god and leader of a New World Order. Hence no church of God should be connected to the WCC/NCC, let alone working with or supporting them. But where does the money come from with which the WCC finances and supports Lucifer's goal of a One World Church and New World Order--including terrorist activities to bring this about?
"The obvious question arises: From where does the money come [for WCC financing]? The answer is: It comes from you. It comes from you if you put money on the collection plate of a church that is part of a denomination which belongs to the National Council of Churches. The money goes from your church to your denomination, to the National Council, to the World Council." American Opinion, January, 1982, p 12.
Thus any church who gives financial or other support to the WCC, or to any of it's branch organizations, is guilty of supporting the move towards a One World Church and New World Order, the spread of Communism, the funding of terrorist groups, and the killing of innocent people and Christians! And not only would the church itself be held responsible, but each and every corporate member of that church would be held guilty as well! (for Biblical proof of this corporate responsibility, see Jeremiah 26:15; Revelation 18:4).
All the different churches which are members or member-units in these various branch organizations making up, and under the control of, the WCC, are technically members of the WCC itself. But WCC policy states that no individual church is a member of it, only the various branches made up of the churches. Thus, when any question arises as to whether a particular church is part of the WCC, the leaders of these various churches can technically tell their membership that their church is not a member of the WCC, when it really is through connection to the various branches!
The following is a partial list of churches which are documented as being a part of, and cooperating or working with, the WCC/NCC; and some for many years: Anglican, Assemblies of God, Baptist (including Seventh-day), Brethren, Catholic (including Old), Christian, Church of God, Congregational, Community, Disciples, Episcopal, Evangelical, Friends (Quakers), Full Gospel, Holiness, Latter Day Saints (Mormon), Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Missionary, Moravian, Orthodox (Bulgarian, Christian, Eastern, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Syrian, Ukrainian), Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Protestant, Reformed, Seventh-day Adventist, United, and Wesleyan (see Letter from the National Council of Churches of Christ, January 13, 1965, from Wilbur C. Parry, Associate General Secretary; American Opinion, January, 1982, p 11; Directory of Christian Councils, published by the World Council of Churches, 1985).
Yet, even though church union and cooperation is clearly listed in various publications, many church leaders deny that their church has any connection or union with, or has given any support to, the WCC! But the above list does not lie! This means that all these churches, including every member of these churches, are guilty of supporting the goal towards a One World Church and New World Order, the spreading of Communism, terrorism, and aiding the killing of innocent people. In fact, all those churches which are united in the above endeavor to establish a One World Church and New World Order are depicted in the Bible as being part of Babylon the Great--that great religious system of evil which works counter to God and seeks to destory His kingdom.
God would have His church and people completely separate and distinct from all the churches of Babylon which are guilty of doing any of the evils listed above, that they might be a peculiar people unto Him as well as His special treasure in this world of wickedness.
"And ye shall be holy unto Me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be Mine." Leviticus 20:26.
"Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people..." Exodus 19:5 (see also Deuteronomy 7:6 & 26:18-19; 1 Peter 2:9).
What have these churches done with God's will that they should be a separate, peculiar, special treasure unto Himself and to no one else? They have rejected God's will, and have united themselves together with the churches in the WCC. They have refused to be a special and holy people unto God, and have chosen instead to cooperate and work with Lucifer and his evil agencies to further his satanic goals! They have spurned God's immense love and mercy showered upon them, and have instead become a treasure of the kingdom of Babylon. How can any church and people really believe that they can do God's work, spread His gospel messages, fear, obey, and honor only Him, and give Him the praise and glory due His holy name, when they give up their peculiarity by uniting with the evil agencies and wicked organizations doing the bidding of Lucifer? What blindness! How can they be separate and peculiar when they are in union and allied with God's avowed Babylonian enemies? Hence all of these churches and people are no longer God's peculiar church and people!
By these churches allying themselves with the WCC, they have not only put aside and rejected the command of God to be peculiar from all the rest of the churches who work evil, but she has also rejected Someone else. She has rejected the precious Saviour Jesus Christ!
Christ spent centuries bringing His Christian church and people into existence. Unceasingly He worked for His church, opening the eyes of His people to the precious truths which would polarize the world and prepare the way for His second coming and the end of sin. Constantly He called His separated, peculiar, special, and treasured people to reflect His image and thus to vindicate God's character to the whole universe, proving Satan's accusations false. And then to have His chosen people and church spurn His immense love, turn their backs and faces from Him, give up their peculiarity, and unite themselves with Satan as his harlotrous Babylonian bride and church: HOW MUST THIS MAKE CHRIST FEEL?
How many tears has Jesus shed over this? How much pain has He felt? How much more agony must He endure? What must He be thinking to see His professed people asleep believing that all is right with their church, when all is terribly wrong? Oh, may our people awaken and see more fully what Christ is going through because a once-chosen people and church have rejected Him, given up their peculiarity, united in harlotry with His avowed enemy, and are working directly against Him with all the power and subtlety of the Devil!
Since these churches have done all these things, how can they be part of God's chosen, peculiar, and true church anymore? It cannot be anything but a counterfeit of God's true church! And since it is not God's chosen and peculiar church anymore, then whose church is it? Satan's! And what is another name listed in the Bible for Satan's church? Babylon! And what does God want His true people to do regarding their connection and membership in any church which is in union with Babylon the Great?
"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." Revelation 18:4-5.
This last message of mercy reveals to every member of every church that is connected with Babylon the Great (being all those united with the WCC, as well as all other spiritualistic religions), that if they remain as members they will be a partaker of her sins, and will receive the plagues. And the only pathway God has prepared for His people to walk to avoid being held guilty of Babylon's sins and being destroyed along with their apostate church, is to separate their connection and membership completely from that church, and instead to become connected with Jesus Christ and become a partaker of His grace and righteousness--thus having the assurance of eternal life.
If you remain members of any church which has given up its peculiarity to God and has become corrupted by being connected with the WCC and Babylon the Great, then you yourself have lost your peculiarity of being one of God's children because of your connection to the WCC and Babylon the Great through your membership in the church! Thus how could you ever receive the seal of God and make it to heaven? It would be impossible, because you are considered a partaker and sharer in all the sins of your corrupt church, and are no longer peculiar to God!
There is no way that any member of any church which is connected with the WCC and Babylon the Great, or with any other satanic religion and organization, can receive the seal of God until after they break all union with their corrupt church, and show themselves to be peculiar to God. And if they refuse to separate, and choose to remain on the side of Babylon, then they show that they are ashamed of Jesus because they will not obey His voice to separate and be distinct and peculiar--standing on the Lord's side! Thus they will be destroyed, along with their apostate church.
Thus the only way to regain your peculiarity and again become part of God's chosen people, is to separate yourself completely from all churches which are part of, and in union with, Babylon the Great. And until you follow this straight and narrow pathway of separation, you are not one of God's followers or one of His children!
When do we regain our peculiarity to God--becoming His sons and daughters, and God becoming our Father? It is only after we separate ourselves and all our connections with all the apostate churches making up Babylon the Great; not before, but after! You can only make a covenant to serve God and Him only after you have broken all your connections and covenants--or membership--made with the church! And until you do break all union with an apostate church, you are not God's child, He is not your God and Father, and heaven is not your home.
God does not ask His people to go through this purifying process of separation alone, but has promised to help us if we will choose to return unto Him with a whole heart and start walking this narrow pathway. Yet, God will not force anyone to return back to Him by separating completely from all connection with Babylonian churches. It is a free-will choice.
So what is you decision going to be? Will you remain connected to any church which is in union and harmony with Babylon the Great and be held guilty of all her wickedness? Or are you going to obey God, and go through the purifying process of breaking all connection with and separating from all the churches which are part of Babylon the Great, and regain your peculiarity with God, becoming His child once again? Will you make this covenant of sacrifice to return unto God, and follow and serve Him only? Will you escape from being guilty of Babylon's sins and receiving of her plagues? Or will you cling to the church, share her sin, and suffer the wrath of God?
"How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him." 1 Kings 18:21.
"Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity..." Jeremiah 51:6.
Christ spent centuries bringing His Christian church and people into existence. Unceasingly He worked for His church, opening the eyes of His people to the precious truths which would polarize the world and prepare the way for His second coming and the end of sin. Constantly He called His separated, peculiar, special, and treasured people to reflect His image and thus to vindicate God's character to the whole universe, proving Satan's accusations false. And then to have His chosen people and church spurn His immense love, turn their backs and faces from Him, give up their peculiarity, and unite themselves with Satan as his harlotrous Babylonian bride and church: HOW MUST THIS MAKE CHRIST FEEL?
How many tears has Jesus shed over this? How much pain has He felt? How much more agony must He endure? What must He be thinking to see His professed people asleep believing that all is right with their church, when all is terribly wrong? Oh, may our people awaken and see more fully what Christ is going through because a once-chosen people and church have rejected Him, given up their peculiarity, united in harlotry with His avowed enemy, and are working directly against Him with all the power and subtlety of the Devil!
Since these churches have done all these things, how can they be part of God's chosen, peculiar, and true church anymore? It cannot be anything but a counterfeit of God's true church! And since it is not God's chosen and peculiar church anymore, then whose church is it? Satan's! And what is another name listed in the Bible for Satan's church? Babylon! And what does God want His true people to do regarding their connection and membership in any church which is in union with Babylon the Great?
"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." Revelation 18:4-5.
This last message of mercy reveals to every member of every church that is connected with Babylon the Great (being all those united with the WCC, as well as all other spiritualistic religions), that if they remain as members they will be a partaker of her sins, and will receive the plagues. And the only pathway God has prepared for His people to walk to avoid being held guilty of Babylon's sins and being destroyed along with their apostate church, is to separate their connection and membership completely from that church, and instead to become connected with Jesus Christ and become a partaker of His grace and righteousness--thus having the assurance of eternal life.
If you remain members of any church which has given up its peculiarity to God and has become corrupted by being connected with the WCC and Babylon the Great, then you yourself have lost your peculiarity of being one of God's children because of your connection to the WCC and Babylon the Great through your membership in the church! Thus how could you ever receive the seal of God and make it to heaven? It would be impossible, because you are considered a partaker and sharer in all the sins of your corrupt church, and are no longer peculiar to God!
There is no way that any member of any church which is connected with the WCC and Babylon the Great, or with any other satanic religion and organization, can receive the seal of God until after they break all union with their corrupt church, and show themselves to be peculiar to God. And if they refuse to separate, and choose to remain on the side of Babylon, then they show that they are ashamed of Jesus because they will not obey His voice to separate and be distinct and peculiar--standing on the Lord's side! Thus they will be destroyed, along with their apostate church.
Thus the only way to regain your peculiarity and again become part of God's chosen people, is to separate yourself completely from all churches which are part of, and in union with, Babylon the Great. And until you follow this straight and narrow pathway of separation, you are not one of God's followers or one of His children!
When do we regain our peculiarity to God--becoming His sons and daughters, and God becoming our Father? It is only after we separate ourselves and all our connections with all the apostate churches making up Babylon the Great; not before, but after! You can only make a covenant to serve God and Him only after you have broken all your connections and covenants--or membership--made with the church! And until you do break all union with an apostate church, you are not God's child, He is not your God and Father, and heaven is not your home.
God does not ask His people to go through this purifying process of separation alone, but has promised to help us if we will choose to return unto Him with a whole heart and start walking this narrow pathway. Yet, God will not force anyone to return back to Him by separating completely from all connection with Babylonian churches. It is a free-will choice.
So what is you decision going to be? Will you remain connected to any church which is in union and harmony with Babylon the Great and be held guilty of all her wickedness? Or are you going to obey God, and go through the purifying process of breaking all connection with and separating from all the churches which are part of Babylon the Great, and regain your peculiarity with God, becoming His child once again? Will you make this covenant of sacrifice to return unto God, and follow and serve Him only? Will you escape from being guilty of Babylon's sins and receiving of her plagues? Or will you cling to the church, share her sin, and suffer the wrath of God?
"How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him." 1 Kings 18:21.
"Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity..." Jeremiah 51:6.
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