THE TRUE GREAT DIVIDE

There is a  divide in this nation that can NEVER be filled or healed as long as one side, the "Christian Right", unashamedly prioritizes leaving riches to their grands. I, unapologetically, know my children being able to feel safe: in their own skin, while walking down the street, not be disrespected because of their ethnicity,  while barbequing, sitting on the side of AND/OR  going in the pool, being able to rent an air bnb,  being able to rent or own their own home and live in it, to simply to wear a hoody while in public, EARN a reasonable living wage, speak their minds and  question anyone and anything, and other such things that are afforded any human being as a part of everyday life,  the priority.
It's a divide that only a true relationship with God in Christ can heal, beginning with the one between Him and us, in our own hearts and lives, and then between one another.

REFUSE TO BE DECEIVED, REFUSE TO BE BLIND

2Thess 2:3-4
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitting in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

I don't know how close we are to the actual reveal of the son of perdition, the anti-Christ, but I DO know this:
I have been a born again, believing, Holy Spirit filled Christian for more years than I have not, and I have never seen nor experienced the corruptness, hatred, and all around foulness that I see from those who call themselves "Christian" as we do today.
The racism; the desire/love/lust for possessions, power, money and status; The adoration and veneration of angels and "saints"; We are bombarded with more and more pastors, ministers and clergy involved in a myriad of sexual sins including pedophilia, rape, adultery (with multiple partners as well) within the congregation, and homosexuality; the accepting of homosexuality as godly while any scripture that's understood to proclaim even an inclination toward homosexuality and the gay lifestyle as a sin, is now being pushed as homophobia, a possible hate crime and anti love. In other words, to view homosexuality as sinful is in itself a misinterpretation of scripture and is thereby the real sin and anti Christ and a pastor may find their tax exemption revoked and charged with a hate crime.

There is a strong false spirit of Nationalism that's favored above and beyond the Spirit of God, Christ and the bible, further fueled and empowered by the rhetoric of the current president of the USA. The spirit of this nation is therefore really their God!
New ageism, Witchcraft and spiritualism is being taught as compatible with Christianity. There are actual "christian" churches that promote cannabis, nudity as well as swinging that identify as Christian (they say Christ died for their sin, preach from the bible)! There are "christian" pastors who more loudly proclaim there is no such thing as hell and those who believe there is are scripturally ignorant and unsound. There are large congregations that will follow these leaders and false prophets right to the place they claim is a misinterpretation of scripture!
This is happening worldwide, involving those who identify as Evangelical, Christian, Atheists and everything in between. I am not necessarily referring to those religions and cults that initially claim to be Christians to draw people in, such as Mormonism, Unification, Unitarians, Scientology, the Filipino Church Of Christ, Jehovah Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Black Israelites, etc., although they also are guilty of these same sinful and crimes within their own organizations and churches, while also masquerading as angels and ministers of light.

False Prophets

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Christians Who Choose Not To Believe The Truth

2Th 2:8-11 
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
- We see this very thing in those who purposefully choose to honor the words and person of Trump more than the words and person of Christ!  Gods word is clear. God will allow you to continue in your deception because of your pride and willfulness, and they will not receive the eternal salvation, that is eternity with God and Christ.

These Times Are Evil Like Never Before

Mat 24:21
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Dan 12:1b .......And at that time shall... there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time:

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What's Down Is Up, What's Wrong Is Right

I just painstakingly sat through a Jim Bakker show on the Daystar network. He had Lance Wallnau on, promoting their satanic lives on a Trump/Cyrus prophetic fulfillment. They actually promote Trump being called of God, and those who speak out against him as anti-God.
These people are mega trump supporters, and are basically saying to speak out against trump is against God and Christ. They cleverly weave biblical phrases to make what they spew SEEM Christian. They wrap their whole point on anti-abortion sentiments. They thump their chests like the proverbial caveman "Republican good, Democrat bad!"
I'm as saddened as I am angered. How in the world can EVERYONE who is not white, Republican and evangelical who speaks against Trump be anti Christian? In these last days, people calling themselves "Christians" are  saying Christian's speaking out against them, their ministry and Trump are under the influence of the "spirit of Leviathan", a demonic spirit, and are twisting the gospel, the message of Trump and all the good he's done and is doing? Like Trump and the true anti-Christ spirit, they promote the ungodly aw Godly, and the true gospel message as undoctrinal.

Dedicated To A False God System

If the United States of America were truly a Christian nation founded on Christian principles, in 1793, would a huge procession of Freemasons lead a parade to the breaking ground of the Capitol building? Why not church groups? Why was the ground dedicated by Freemasons? Why does the Capital dome have George Washington in an ascended God position?
"The Apotheosis of Washington depicts George Washington sitting amongst the heavens in an exalted manner, or in literal terms, ascending and becoming a god (apotheosis). " - Wikipedia

INACCURATE DISCERNMENT

If your whole outlook on end times starts with a wrong assumption, the rest of your end times "discernment" will undoubtedly be off as well. ESPECIALLY when your feet are cemented into your choice for who the Beast, Babylon and Whore of Babylon are, more than what Biblical based physical evidence points to. With people like these, they let their own personal politics and slants interpret scripture. For example: People who are so pro Israel that nothing Israel does or says is wrong, refuse to ever even consider Israel to be the Whore of Babylon or Babylon the great, even when scripture seems to point to them. More times than not, they are staunch Republicans. 
Here is an e-mail I sent to the author of one such end times site:

Good Day, 

You wrote on your site page entitled Whore of Babylon: 

"Note: Babylon cannot be America or any other country, because Bible prophecy clearly portrays a country as a BEAST, not a woman."

It seems that you have based your entire reasoning of the end times beast on this assumption which is not spiritually or scripturally sound.   

Is not the Nation Of Israel scripturally  both a nation AND a people? Prophetically,  both a natural people and a spiritual one as well? 

​As a matter of fact, Rev 11:8 refers to Israel as ​"the great city"

​(physical) and in the very same breath "spiritual Sodom and Egypt"​.
Aren't Christians portrayed as "brides" as well? That's spiritual. What would a cheating bride be referred to as? 

So, couldn't a  physical nation(s) of supposed believers be portrayed as a beast and a whore? 

THIS IS WHAT WE'VE COME TO

This is not only ignorant, it's sheer hatred and 0% Christ likeness!
People, please, KEEP YOUR EYES FIXED ON JESUS, YOUR HEART STAYED UPON GOD, AND YOUR FEET FIRMLY PLANTED IN THE WAY!

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Let The Church Say "Amen"!

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OUR TRUE BATTLE

Ephesians 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

There is so much that has been said regarding this verse of scripture, and so much that can still be said. That's because God's word is alive and not stagnant. His Spirit breathes life into it time and again. 

In this day, in this nation, there are so many attacks happening simultaneously on different fronts, with the Commander In Chief, Trump, being the main instigator and protagonist. Instigator, not originator. The originator is the artist formerly known as Lucifer, Satan. 

A few days ago, many honored a young lady who was beheaded in 1943 by the  German government at the age of 21, Sophie Scholl and her older brother Hans. Their crime was writing and distributing pamphlets against Hitler and his atrocities. 

Jews were not the only victims in the Holocaust, but also those who he perceived as a threat to his ideologies. If one were to side with the Jews you were arrested, probably tortured and killed. Even if someone didn't necessarily side with the Jews but stood against Hitlers tactics, politics, hatred, etc., voicing discontent was a death sentence no matter who you were.
So while on one hand, it may appear to be about antisemitism, racism, politics, etc., It's really about the obtaining and/or maintaining of power and wealth. It's about sin. The desire and obtaining of status, power and wealth does not develop in a vacuum nor in isolation. There's a whole lot of other people and sin involved, that gets exposed! Sin that has been nurtured and developed in communities and in people's hearts.  Christ says in His word, the love of money is the root of all types of evil. The Spirit expounds and lets us know that it is the desire to obtain wealth and power causes us to fall into habitual sinful lifestyles. It points to a heart that's not right with God, no matter how much they say "Jesus" or attend church.

Right now, there appears to be a civil war brewing in this nation. Whites outwardly against any person of Black or Brown hue . A war, where Whites, no matter how great or small (economically, politically, physically) have seemingly been (or at the very least, feel) empowered to say what they will about blacks and browns to our faces. Always filled with anger and lies, ready to parrot, mimic and regurgitate the talking points of the Racist in Chief and his mouth pieces. They feel empowered to involve local authorities, who, many times, seem to cruelly hand out street justice when it suites them with very little, if any, consequences or abatement. 
But why do they always look dumb founded when called out on it as if somehow they are being victimized? As if they are being harassed for doing their duty?
However, if you are other than Black and Brown and feel the need to stand up in the face of this adverse and perverse culture, you will also feel the wrath of the powers that be, because you have become a threat to the establishment.  

In Ephesians 6:12, the verse is contrasting the physical with the spiritual. It is contrasting our walk in Christ Jesus with the work of Satan. 

The word "principalities" in the context of this verse means the Chief evil from the beginning. "Powers" is the spiritual delegated influences.

"The rulers of the darkness of this world" are those who have been physically placed in charge by Satan;  Those who are knowingly working with Satan and demonic entities to achieve his end game as we read in the latter chapters in Daniel, Matthew 24-25 and the book of Revelation. They are supernaturally charged, and have satanic, supernatural influence. 

"Against spiritual wickedness in high places". This is not a "the top doesn't know what is going on at the lower levels". No. This is from the top down. The highest echelons of this nation and world powers! The higher up a person wants to go, the more they will know and be required to give. Spiritually, morally and ethically corrupt from Christ and His remnants standards, but morally acceptable and right by Satan, the anti-Christ, the false prophets and those who are lost. They are dedicated to the anti-Christ, and it is out of this dedication and lack of faith in Christ that allows them to justify taking the mark of the beast. 

BELIEF STATEMENT OF CHRISTIAN FAITH

 STATEMENT OF FAITH

WHAT WE HOLD TO BE BIBLICALLY TRUE AND SCRIPTURALLY SOUND

Without God initiating His revelation of Himself to us, there is no true knowledge or true understanding of His person or being.

He injected Himself into our reality and revealed Himself to us simply because of His grace.  If He were not to initiate a way to know and understand Him, we could not, nor would we want to. 

God has manifested Himself as and in Jesus Christ, the final and ultimate understanding of revelation.   He has revealed and relayed the revelation of Himself through His Apostles, as it is recorded in the Holy Bible.

Having said that, the following statement of faith, not exhaustive, is what we have come to know as true and right:

Statement of Faith

1. GOD

We believe in one Infinite and Eternal self-existing God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect, distinct and eternal in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Indeed, God never attempts to prove His existence, and states He simply Is.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

He is eternally and ever Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent. In Him belongs all cosmic preservation, regulation and governing preserves, regulates, governs and directs all things so that nothing in the world happens without either his causation or permission. God is the author of good but not of evil. Yet, ultimately, even evil is governed by God in so much as God limits it to an end fitting with his overall plan and purpose.

2. THE BIBLE

We believe the Scriptures as originally given by God, both Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired Word of God, spiritually infallible, entirely trustworthy, and the supreme, final authority in all matters of faith, understanding and conduct.

 

3. JESUS CHRIST

We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life and died on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice for all sinners. He paid the price for our sin and resurrected bodily on the third day and ascended to the right hand of the Father. He will return personally and visibly at the end of the age to fully establish God's Kingdom. We believe that the shed blood of Jesus Christ and his resurrection were provided for the salvation of all people but is effective only for those who believe. Christ's death and resurrection provide the only ground for justification and salvation, and only those who believe and continue in Jesus Christ become born of the Holy Spirit and thus become children of God. He alone is the author and finisher of our faith.

4. THE HOLY SPIRIT

The Holy Spirit glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ, convicts saints and sinners, enable sinners to believe, regenerates the repenting sinner, indwells, reveals, guides, instructs, and empowers the believer for ministry and godly living and service.

5. THE GRACE OF GOD AND SALVATION

We believe that humanity was created in the image of God but fell from its original sinless state through willful disobedience and Satan's deception, resulting in eternal condemnation and separation from God. In and of ourselves apart from the grace of God in the world (what some may call “prevenient faith”),we can neither think, will, nor do anything good, including believe. But the grace of God extends to, prepares and enables sinners to receive the free gift of salvation offered in Christ and his gospel. Only through the grace of God can sinners believe and so be regenerated by the Holy Spirit unto salvation and spiritual life. It is also the grace of God that enables believers to continue in faith, so that all good deeds, intents, spiritual growth and blessings that can be had, can only be obtained and sustained by the Spirit of God and must be ascribed to the grace of God. We believe that salvation is God’s grace and is through grace and grace alone. No manner of work can obtain or maintaining salvation.  It is all of grace through faith in the substitutionary death of Christ Jesus, and that upon repentance and confession of Christ as Lord and savior, one is brought into a relationship with the father and obtain eternity in His presence.

6. THE RAPTURE

While we don't subscribe to a pre trib rapture, we know that God is returning for His Church. Therefore, we live lives of holiness, growing in the biblical faith of Christ, rooted in God and His word in preparedness to have to endure through the tribulation.

We believe in the visible second return of Christ and the bodily resurrection of the dead and of believers to eternity in the presence of God, everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord, and the resurrection of unbelievers to judgment and eternal punishment.

We believe in the day when the Lord shall descend from heaven, and the saints of God shall be caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air (The Rapture) and Jesus will take His people to Heaven.

- 1Thessalonians 4: 16-17

We do not believe that day is Imminent (His return with no sign), but will come with signs that will precede His arrival;

- 1Th 5:4

We do not believe that the rapture will be before the tribulation, but after.

- Matthew 24:29-31, Rev. 10:7   1 Corinthians 15:51-52

But, whether pre-trib, mid-trib or post-trib, Jesus Christ is coming back, and He's coming back for a people faithful, prepared and looking for His return. We need to play an active role in building up our faith right where we are by abiding in Him.

We reject:

(1) “Positive confession” of the “Word of Faith” movement, that teaches that God can be commanded to heal or work miracles according to man’s will. This also places our desires and wants above those of God’s.

(2) Human prophecy that supersedes the Scriptures,

(3) The incorporation of humanistic, secular psychology and philosophy into Biblical teaching,

(4) The over-emphasis of the spiritual gifts, experiential signs and wonders to the exclusion of Biblical teaching.

(5) That one can live a lifestyle of self-centeredness, sensuousness, promiscuity, adultery, homosexuality, hatred, etc. and still be saved. This is not to say that you lose your salvation every time you sin, have a weakness or addiction. However, salvation cannot be kept by those who consistently, willingly, habitually and unashamedly maintain a lifestyle contrary to the will and the Word of God. Salvation is of and by God and Him alone. We cannot maintain our salvation. But we are commanded to maintain a relationship with God through Christ. Christ’s warning of not abiding in Him, is to risk being cast in hell. (John 15:4-6)

In Christ’s Service

Rev. E.L.Lewis

Christ’s Remnant Church