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Religions > Bible |
| User: |
"Allan Svensson" |
| Date: |
22 Oct 2003 02:08:04 AM |
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Establishment of Churches, a Fatal Mistake |
Establishment of Churches, a Fatal Mistake
and a Sabotage Against the Revival
A revival from God involves confrontation against the churches and
the false priesthood. As a natural consequence of the revival, many
members leave the churches, or be expelled from there. God wants
to release his people from the religious harlot-being, and lead us out
to freedom, outside the religious camp. Hebr. 13:13.
When God has sent a revival the revival has been most powerful
just at the beginning. Then it has been stagnation and retrogression.
And not a single one of those revival-movements or Free-Churches
which have come into existence, has ever recovered the original
power.
When God has sent a new revival, then a very remarkable
phenomenon appears. The old preachers and Christian leaders,
which God has used at the previous revival, they are opponents
of a new revival from God. Old revival-preachers who have
conveyed God's revival-message, how can they some decades
later, were opponents of a new revival? They ought to be the
first to welcome the new revival!
The explanation is that they in the previous revival did not combat
the harlot-church as they ought to do. Indulgence towards the
religious harlot-being led to that the revival-preachers could not
release themselves from its false doctrine.
The majority of the Christians have not yet understood what the
devil was doing in the revival of ancient times when the Free-
Churches were founded. In spite of the revival that the Christians
experienced, they were so blind that they did not observe that the
devil laid a foundation to a new church system right in the middle
of the revival.
The establishment of churches and denominations was a fateful
mistake. The Christians did not break entirely against the religious
harlot-being. They did not remove all Catholicism from their own
activity. They kept some parts of the Catholicism and that ruined
the revival from the inside. It is through the false doctrine of the
Catholic Church that the devil has been able to ruin the one revival
after the other. Where it is a false doctrine, there are also evil spirits
active to put the Christians to sleep, and to hinder them from study
of the Bible.
This is the reason to stagnation and retrogression of the revival, and
that new churches and denominations have been established. Instead
of combat and unmask the religious harlot-being, the Christian began
to establish new church system. And now the Free-Churches seek
fellowship with both the Lutheran Church and the Catholic Church
and its false priesthood against which the old revival-pioneers
fought! The Free-Churches is also parts of the religious
harlot-being.
So it was when Martin Luther began to preach justification by
faith, and condemned the letters of indulgence. He broke only
partially against the Catholic Church's doctrine, and he kept a
great deal of the Catholicism. He despised Christians who
received the Christian baptism, and the Lutheran Church is very
Catholic.
So it was when the Baptist Church was established in the 19th
century. Though they understood the truth of baptism and
condemned the so-called infant baptism, they yet kept a part of
the Catholicism. And when they established the Baptist Church,
they did not follow the teaching of the Bible. Their idea of
establishing Baptist churches the Baptists got from the false
assembly-doctrine of the Catholicism.
When God's word was preached and people were saved and
baptized, then the great ***** was furious and persecuted God's
people, but she did not hate the new church. It only seemed so.
She hated the revival and by the new Baptist churches she had
got a foothold within the revival, and could combat the revival
from the inside.
The Catholic harlot-spirit was within the Baptist churches and
there that spirit executed ruinous work. Soon the revival was
subdued and the preaching lost its saltiness. According as the
revival became weaker, the churches took over the leadership
of the Christian activity.
While the fire of revival burnt within the Free-Churches it
seemed as the great ***** hated these churches, but in the reality
they were her tools and executed sabotage against the revival.
And now, when the fire of revival has ceased, then the Catholic
Church can cooperate with these Free-Churches, and in the reality
the Catholic harlot-spirit has been within the Free-Churches all
the time and has cooperated with the great *****.
When God, in the beginning of the 20th century, sent a new
revival preaching about the baptism by the Holy Spirit and
spiritual gifts of grace, then the Baptist union was against this
revival. Here we can see how the devil through his false
assembly-doctrine could throw dust in the eyes of the Baptists.
They thought that their own churches were assemblies of God,
and that the revival was a false doctrine that they ought to
combat.
After that, the devil used the same trick to ruin the new revival.
After some modification, the Pentecostalists accepted the same
false assembly-doctrine that they had in the churches. They meant
that they had a free assembly-view and independent assemblies,
but in the practice they yet became centrally controlled.
Do you want to read the continuation of this article
or if you have any questions
Please, visit my Web Site
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/CONTENTS.HTM
(Article 33)
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