THE INVISIBLE CHURCH

August 15, 2023

People do not seem to understand that when they follow the teachings of any human being excluding the Prophets, Jesus or the Apostles, claiming to be a teacher and preacher they are deceived.  Romans 6:16-18 , Jeremiah 17:5 , Psalm 118:8 ,  Isaiah 2:22 When you surrender to their teachings you become their slave.  All of what pretends to be Christianity in the world is of the world and false.  Ezekiel 34 is a prophecy , verses 10-24  began after the death of the Apostle John.  The many antichrists that John wrote about, 1 John 2:18-23 , and Jude wrote about, Jude 1:3-4 are the people Ezekiel refers to. These many antichrists that crept in are those shepherds in Ezekiel 34. This Satanic attack on the church resulted in pagans taking over and preaching a false God, Christ and gospel.  God then took complete control of the true church away from men thus abolishing the ministry and maintaining only the office of prophet because through prophetic revelation is how God would by His Spirit teach His people hence as John wrote, 1 John 2:20-21 , 1 John 2:27 true Christians do not look to men for spiritual truth. John thought at the time he wrote these words that the return of Christ was near as verse 18 says, “this is the last hour”.   The true church would go into the wilderness while the pagan controlled counterfeit produced many harlot sisters for the whore of Babylon.  The true church is symbolically invisible to the world as they do nothing that would gain attention but rather live quietly and peacefully keeping themselves unspotted from the world.  Those who are alive at this time are extremely small in number and hope Jesus returns in their lifetime.  They are scattered to the four winds and will be gathered from the same. They are not trying to fulfill the great commission as the Apostles already did that. They know that Matthew 24:14 is for a time yet future when an angel will proclaim the gospel and then the end will come.  These people are the elect saints of God, called and chosen by God, having Gods Spirit and are taught by God.  Peter tells us that the prophets of old were not serving themselves but the church, 1 Peter 1:12. A few other examples of this are the book of Lamentations , Joel and Jeremiah 25. Look at this world, it is in confusion and chaos of religion because Satan blinds the eyes from understanding.  The time shortly before Christ does return is to be one of total deception. Revelation 12:9 , so how can the churches today be correct?  Jesus, the prophets and Apostles have all spoken of the end times and everyone is deceived except the elect saints.  After all this great cloud of witnesses people still refuse to see the truth being played out before their eyes.

There are some of these people that have seen the confusion and know there must be a church that is separate from the worlds churches and they call this church the invisible church.  They look honestly at the worlds churches and see the divisions and disagreements in doctrine and somehow instinctively know that none of them are the true church.  They describe this invisible church as the only one that has the truth and were elected by God to be His special people and that they have come from both old and new covenant times being composed of former Hebrews, Israelites and Gentiles but are now called the sons of God.  In this they are correct but their knowledge about them is limited and they would never believe who they are even if they met one.  The invisible church is taught directly by Gods Spirit, divine revelation, just as were the prophets, Jesus and the Apostles .  This was necessary because of all the deception of Satan who blinds the eyes of the visible churches causing all the confusion and division as God revealed to Ezekiel in chapter 34.  This is what the end of the age is to be like, a great deception of the world.  Revelation 12:9  Numerous Prophetic warnings in scripture testify to this fact.  Therefore if you are in the visible worlds churches you are deceived.  No one joins the true invisible church, it is God who puts you in it.  People of the world select a church they like and join it but in the true invisible church God selects you.  Gods call is to come out of them not join them but human minds have been seared with a hot iron.  1 Timothy 4:2 , Ephesians 4:19  

Most people who attend church do not even know what the teachings of that church are. Many people just inherit their religion from their parents. Would you want to belong to a church that was not the true church, so then these churches either think they are the true church or that all churches somehow are.  Either way they would take great offense if told they are unconverted, devoid of the Holy Spirit, under the law and condemned to death.  The reality of their situation is to much for them to handle for the  deceived do not know they are deceived therefore they continue in the broad way that leads to destruction.  The reason God does not call and choose them is that God knows they would fail, commit the unpardonable sin and perish forever, so in His love He has assigned them to another time because He is not willing that any should perish but rather come to repentance. This is not a respecting of persons on Gods part but a loving protection for them.  God preordained those who will be in His kingdom in eternity it is just that not all will inherit the kingdom at once but in stages, each in their own order.  The elect saints of the invisible church just happen to be the first.