The truth about anything in the scriptures isn’t conveniently in one place it is scattered from Genesis to Revelation. When you study any subject you must look up all scriptures about the subject. This takes time and effort on your part to diligently search the scriptures. Doing this without the Holy Spirit will lead to nowhere because you will not have the understanding of what you are reading. The Holy Spirit is required to understand scripture. Jesus told us plainly that it is the spirit that guides us into all truth. Listening to human preachers will only add more confusion because they don’t have the Holy Spirit either. If GOD teaches you by HIS Spirit then you will learn and understand spiritual things. What GOD will teach you will at first seem to go against everything you thought you knew beforehand but what GOD teaches you must believe. Over time you will discover just how much you have been deceived. What GOD teaches you cannot be contradictory but in total agreement with all other scriptures. If while studying you find a contradiction it will be because of poor translation, deliberate alterations of words or uninspired punctuation. These things have caused confusion and misunderstanding that have led to false doctrines. With GODS spirit guiding you all these obstacles are removed and the truth will be revealed. From personal experience I have seen that there are thousands of errors produced by the things I listed above. This is why without the Holy Spirit you have no chance to discover the truth. Even if there were no errors at all you still would not be able to find the truth. The writing of all scripture was inspired by GODS spirit to those men who wrote the scriptures. It is only spiritually logical that the spirit is required to understand scriptures. GODS truth is all interconnected so that when you know the truth a lie will stick out like a sore thumb. The truth of GOD begins in Genesis 1:1;and goes to Revelation 22:21 and is here a little and there a little, precept upon precept, line upon line. We are to live by every word of GOD. The Bible was deliberately written by GOD in such a way as to hide the truth from people that don’t have the Holy Spirit. It’s similar to the way Jesus spoke in parables, to hide the truth from people that GOD didn’t want at this time to know it. The truth of GOD is pure doctrine without error or contradiction and the writings of the Apostles verify this fact and stress the importance of keeping it pure.
Over the years since the Apostles died there was no human leader to continue in the truth. Because of persecution and false ministers creeping into the church the church went into obscurity and became scattered to the four winds. Another church rose up that was a false church without the Holy Spirit and brought in damnable heresies that destroyed the true doctrine. Pagans appropriated the name of Christian and people in the world thought this church was the true church but it was not. To this day the true church of GOD is still scattered and will remain scattered until Christ returns to gather them. The true church, spiritual Israel, before and after Christ is called the election according to grace. Ancient carnal Israel was the election according to the law. The law, the Ten Commandments apply to all unconverted people and condemns them all to everlasting death. The only escape from this condemnation is Jesus Christ.
A true Christian is in Jesus Christ and is taught by GOD through Jesus the true doctrine. The church is the Israel of GOD, the elect, the saints of before and after Christ. The foundation of the true church is the prophets and Apostles therefore the church existed before Christ was born and goes all the way back to righteous Able. Time has no effect on salvation, faith, grace and truth. If Jesus was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world then his blood sacrifice began at the foundation of the world even though he was not yet manifested to the world. If the names of all the saints have been recorded in the lambs book of life from the foundation of the world then there had to be people at the foundation of the world whose names are in the book of life. Moses said, “Yet now if you will forgive their sins but if not I pray blot me out of the book which you have written.” Exodus 32:32 Moses is referring to the book of life that was written from the foundation of the world, Moses was a Christian as were all of the saints listed in Hebrews 11. Ignorant people think only people after Christ can be Christians but the prophets are part of the foundation of the church along with the Apostles. Abraham is the father of the faithful and had the imputed righteousness by his faith just like any Christian. People invent explanations about things in scripture that they don’t understand then make them doctrine. All the visible false churches of this world have done this in a variety of ways. Any church that has human leaders or thinks they must fulfill the great commission is a false church. Any church that thinks Jesus could have sinned or that he is part of a trinity or that he was glorified at his resurrection is false. Any church that thinks keeping the Ten Commandments is a Christian’s duty or the keeping of parts of the law of Moses is obligated is a false church. Churches that believe in the immortal soul, infant baptism, universal salvation, instant conscious life after death, that baptism is no longer required or that salvation is being baptized is a false church. GOD has a zero tolerance for sin or a lie. Any lie a church has included in their doctrine will contaminate the truth of all doctrine because to accommodate the lie the truth must be compromised otherwise the lie wouldn’t fit in.
All these things must be considered carefully when studying the scriptures. You must pray that GOD will never let you believe in a lie but if you do that HE will correct it. Always remember GOD is your teacher and reject all human ministers. Do not keep days for spiritual reasons. Always repent and ask GOD to forgive you and pray for the scattered elect saints. Watch world events for the signs Jesus gave, the prophets and the Apostles gave concerning the latter days.
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