PREACHED ON SATURDAY, 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1995 At THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN “THE VOICE OF THE SIGN” Truth has no substitute” © BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE
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COME OUT OF THE SYSTEM
A true believer cannot deny or reject salvation through Christ either by word or deed. He must stand true to the end, availing himself of the precious blood of Christ in daily repentance.
2. Revelation 3: 15 – 16. 15I know your [record of] works and what you are doing; you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! 16So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth!
3. Revelation 12:11. Amplified version. And they have overcome (conquered) him [Satan] by means of the blood of the Lamb
and by the utterance of their testimony, for they did not love and cling to life even when faced with death [holding their lives cheap till they had to die for their witnessing].
4. Praise God, all ye Saints of the Living God, all ye believers of this Voice that is crying from the Wilderness, the true believers, the true Church, The Bride of Christ will overcome and live eternally with God, the Father and Christ, the King of kings and the LORD of Lords.
5. Does the counterfeit Church resemble the Church you attend? This must be a question you must answer. You know where you are attending your Church this day. You know where you are fellowshipping. You know where you are sitting down and saying you are hearing the Word of God.
6. Is it a counterfeit Church from the Biblical point of view or not? If it is, I say, Repent! Go away and seek Christ and His True Church, The Bride of Christ and God will bless you.
7. If you are still in the denomination which you know is contrary to God’s Word; If you are still in organized religion, which you know is contrary to God’s Word, you are in a cursed place. God is demanding that you make a move. COME OUT FROM THERE AND BE YE SEPARATED.
8. The counterfeit Church is everywhere. It is very close to your house. Any house that is around your house they call the house of God, a Church, I tell you, that must be a Jeroboam’s altar in our day.
9. The Church of God must be in the Wilderness. You must go out and meet Him outside. You must go out and meet Him. Do not stay one place and say, “Let Me go to the one in My back yard.”
10. What did the Bible say concerning Jeroboam? In the attempt to hinder people from going to Jerusalem to worship God, he built one temple in Bethel and built one in Dan, telling the people that Jerusalem was too far. And the people were worshipping there with Jeroboam foolishly.
11. When God destroyed Jeroboam, he did not spare those people, except those that repented when they heard the man of God crying, “Woe! Woe unto Jeroboam’s altar in Dan and in Bethel.”
12. Concerning the false Churches, hear what Saint Paul said. The Apostle Saint Paul said to the Church Assembly at Galatia, I am amazed that you are turning away so soon from God who, in his love and mercy, invited you to share the eternal life he gives through Christ; you are already following a different “way to heaven,” which really doesn’t go to heaven at all. That is Galatians 1:6. Living Bible.
13. THERE IS ONLY BUT ONE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THAT IS THE CHURCH CHRIST ESTABLISHED WITH HIS OWN HAND IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW 16, “UPON THIS ROCK I BUILD MY CHURCH. THE GATE OF HELL SHOULD NOT OVERSHADOW IT.”
14. Matthew 6:18. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. KJV
15. And we saw that Church in action on the Pentecost day. All that ever believed continued steadfastly in the same doctrine, in the Apostles’ doctrines daily. They never contradicted one another.
16. Even Saint Paul, when he was converted, he joined the band of leaders, he never contradicted the Apostles that were before him. That is why we must pay heed and strict attention. The Church of Christ is one.
17. I read Galatians 1:7. Living Bible. For there is no other way than the one we showed you; you are being fooled by those who twist and change the truth concerning Christ.
18. There is no other way. Anybody that twists and changes the truth concerning Christ is fooling you. The Holy Spirit of God is given to believers to recognize, know and receive the true and accurate knowledge of Christ and His Word for the hour.
19. Saint John 14:26. I read Amplified version. Christ said, “But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you.”
20. This is the Word of the Holy Ghost in the believer, in the True Church. Not any man will do it, but Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit of Christ, which is God in the spirit form in the midst of His Bride, revealing Himself through the written word of God, which is written by His spirit.
21. The written word of God, the Bible, was inspired and given by the Holy Spirit. That is why nobody can come up to argue with the Word of God because, if God wanted your opinion before writing the Bible, he should have called you.
22. But since He never invited you, He put down His mind and His will. That becomes final. If you want, believe it. If you do not want, do not believe it. That will never make God to change. Any other way is man-made way.
23. In 2 Peter 1:20 – 21, I read. New International Version [NIV] of the Bible. 20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture [The Holy Bible] came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things.
24. 21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
25. 2 Timothy 3:16. Amplified version. Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action), That is the essence of writing the Holy Scriptures.
26. I read further in Hebrews 4:12 – 13. New International Version [NIV]. 12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
27. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
28. THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD CONFIRMS THE WORKINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE HOLY SPIRIT CONFIRMS GOD’S WRITTEN WORD. AND GOD TESTIFIES TO THE LIVING WORD, WHICH IS CHRIST, BUT THE WORLD DOES NOT ACCEPT THIS.
29. Christ said in Saint John 5:39. I read from King James Version. Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
30. Search the Scriptures. If people will sit down to search the Scriptures, nobody will fool them anymore. They will find out the extent they have been deceived by self-appointed men of God. They will find out the extent they have gone astray from the Truth.
31. Saint John 14:16 – 17. NIV. I read. 16 And I [Jesus said] will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth.
32. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him……
33. Christ said in Saint John 16:26. NIV. “When the [Counsellor] Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.
34. The Holy Spirit will bear witness about Paul, about Christ alone and His word. It has become very clear that God can never deny Himself. Christ, being the Anointed One of God and from John 6:63, we know that the Word of God is also the Spirit of God.
35. It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
36. That when the promise of the Father, the Holy Spirit shall come he shall testify about the word of God also. And can never deny the word of God. A person must be filled with the Holy Spirit for him to be in a position to correctly interpret and understand the written word of God.
37. It is not something somebody can do carnally with human wisdom or philosophy. No! Even though there are various accepted translations of the Bible, like I am reading from different versions here, we know very well that it is God’s Spirit that will always lead a believer to the true spiritual meaning of what God is really saying through His children.
38. God’s absolute truth is not how man wants to see and interpret something. It is not the way man sees it, but the way God sees it. God does not respect any man. He is The Almighty God. Rather, every man is commanded to follow Him, if we must live.
I take you to 1 Corinthians 2:10 – 14. Living Bible. 10 But we know about these things because God has sent his Spirit to tell us, and his Spirit searches out and shows us all of God’s deepest secrets.
11 No one can really know what anyone else is thinking or what he is really like except that person himself. And no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.
12 And God has actually given us his Spirit (not the world’s spirit which is from Satan) to tell us about the wonderful free gifts of grace and blessing that God has given us.
13 In telling you about these gifts we have even used the very words given to us by the Holy Spirit, not words that we as men might choose. So we use the Holy Spirit’s words to explain the Holy Spirit’s facts.
39. 14 But the man who isn’t a true Christian can’t understand and can’t accept these thoughts from God, which the Holy Spirit teaches us. They sound foolish to him because only those who have the Holy Spirit within them can understand what the Holy Spirit means.
40. A carnal-minded man cannot understand the things of God, for everything of God is spiritually discerned. If you are a carnal-minded man and you are walking by sight, when you look at what is happening in the fake Churches today, you may attribute it to God. You think God’s hand is there. You think Holy Ghost is there.
41. But it requires spiritual discernment for you to know that this is not the works of God. It is anti-Christ. It is against God. It is Satan. Different gospels are being propagated by fake, religious groups that distort and actually change God’s word to confirm counterfeit doctrines among them.
42. Satan’s main purpose in perverting God’s Holy Word is to create different counterfeit gospels to lead believers away from the Gospel of Christ, the message of forgiveness of sin and eternal life through Christ. That is the whole aim of Satan.
43. Satan has been unleashing numerous satanic, unseen, anti-Christ spirits into the world seducing and deceiving men and women, leading them to eternal damnation.
44. Be very careful. My dear listeners, I want you to pay strict attention. Be very very careful. All that glitters is not gold. Satan is all out to destroy and to kill and to lead astray. And he is now in full force in this end time because we can see the Scriptures coming to pass about what will happen in this last day we are living in.
45. Many will run amiss. Many will run in vain. But let it be known to you that God is ever mindful of His Word. It is not His will that any should perish. Why should you perish in the denominations, in the cults? Why should you perish in those counterfeit Churches? It is because you want to perish. Why must people perish?
46. 2 Thessalonians 2:10 – 12. I read New International Version [NIV]. 10 ……They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
47. As many as are being trapped in the denominations, they are there because they are receiving comforting message that is comforting them in sin, in wickedness and in rebellion. In naked unbelief. And they refuse the Truth. Fight the Truth.
48. Be very careful that you are not among the people that will rebel against this truth. Be very careful that you are not counted in the number that will fight against this Wilderness-revealed Truth from the Holy Spirit, for the hour we are living in. We are living in a very dangerous hour. Amen.
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CRY OUT AGAINST THE SYSTEM
Follow Me as we continue. Revelation 12:9. I now read Amplified version of the Bible. And the huge dragon was cast down and out–that age-old serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, he who is the seducer (deceiver) of all humanity the world over; he was forced out and down to the earth, and his angels were flung out along with him.
2. What an awful picture that Satan was flung out from Heaven because he challenged God’s authority and he is now on earth. He was not alone. He was flung out with all his angels that minister unto him, that rebelled against God in Heaven.
3. And he is here on earth today with his host of angels in the form of human beings, seducing the hearts of God’s people, luring their hearts away from God’s Truth, giving them social messages.
4. God said, “If you commit sin, you will die.” But they say, “If you commit sin, you will live.” God hates such people. COME OUT FROM THAT CULT, ORGANIZED RELIGION.
5. What is a cult? Another word for cult is organized, fake religion. ORGANIZED, FAKE RELIGION. No matter the name you just call it.
Galatians 1:6 – 7. I read from the Amplified version. 6I am surprised and astonished that you are so quickly turning renegade and deserting Him Who invited and called you by the grace (unmerited favor) of Christ (the Messiah) [and that you are transferring your allegiance] to a different [even an opposition] gospel.
6. 7Not that there is [or could be] any other [genuine Gospel], but there are [obviously] some who are troubling and disturbing and bewildering you [with a different kind of teaching which they offer as a gospel] and want to pervert and distort the Gospel of Christ (the Messiah) [into something which it absolutely is not].
7. Something it is absolutely not. All different gospels have false, counterfeit doctrines, prophets and plans of salvation which they claim to offer mankind.
8. Just as the Holy Spirit of God leads me to all truth and eternal life through Christ and His precious Word, so Satan’s unholy, evil and anti-Christ spirit leads men through lies and deceptions into different counterfeit Churches and ultimately into eternal damnation. FLEE FROM SUCH COUNTERFEIT CHURCHES.
9. 1 Timothy 4:1. Amplified version. 1BUT THE [Holy] Spirit distinctly and expressly declares that in latter times some will turn away from the faith, giving attention to deluding and seducing spirits and doctrines that demons teach,
10. Not human beings, but demons. A demon can come in the form of a human being teaching you fake and false doctrines that will lead you to death, comforting social doctrines, entertainment doctrines and then you go ahead believing it that way. You perish! Repent and come back to the Word of God, unadulterated.
11. It is important to understand that with each different gospel and false faith, Satan uses a particular anti-Christ Spirit of deception. The purpose of these satanic spirits is to influence people to receive, believe and act upon that fake, false gospel.
12. Satan has created various religions, both Christians and non-Christians to appeal to a multitude of man’s weaknesses and to enslave and trap him into a bondage of false worship. That is the essence of all the evil anointing Satan is releasing in this end time: to enslave man and trap him into false worship.
13. 1 John 4:1. Amplified version. BELOVED, DO not put faith in every spirit, but prove (test) the spirits to discover whether they proceed from God; for many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
14. These prophets have carried forth and presented Satan’s different counterfeit doctrines or messages through their agents, their appointed pastors and teachers, evangelists and apostles, prophets, so to be called.
15. 2 Corinthians 11:4. Living Bible. You seem so gullible: you believe whatever anyone tells you even if he is preaching about another Jesus than the one we preach, or a different spirit than the Holy Spirit you received, or shows you a different way to be saved. You swallow it all.
16. What a wonderful picture. When a man comes to a point where he will swallow everything without balancing it with the Word of God, he is doomed forever.
17. Behave like the early believers by searching the Scriptures to prove whether what you are receiving is true or false because by so doing, you preserve your life, My dear listener.
18. Today, in this final hour, in this prosperous Nigeria, satanic anti-Christ strategies are reaching you at more subtle heights than ever through religion, fake faith in Christ.
19. 2 Timothy 4:3 – 4. We read New International Version [NIV]. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths [mere stories].
20. In these latter days, the Holy Spirit has emphasized and has laid an urgent desire in the heart of every true believer of the vital necessity to stand in the complete sound doctrine, in the truth and accurate knowledge of the Gospel of Christ.
21. 1 John 2:4 – 5. Amplified version. 4Whoever says, I know Him [I perceive, recognize, understand, and am acquainted with Him] but fails to keep and obey His commandments (teachings) is a liar, and the Truth [ of the Gospel] is not in him.
22. 5But he who keeps (treasures) His Word [who bears in mind His precepts, who observes His message in its entirety], truly in him has the love of and for God been perfected (completed, reached maturity). By this we may perceive (know, recognize, and be sure) that we are in Him:
23. In truth, a cult, as it stands, is so widely used today, meaning a false counterfeit religion, means a different gospel created by Satan to deceive man.
24. This is done either by ignoring and omitting true scriptural meaning, sometimes, even an entire chapter of the Bible or by changing and distorting God’s true meaning or by adding meaning to God’s Word, all of which creates false, counterfeit doctrines and Churches today.
25. 2 John 9 – 11. KJV 9Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
26. 10If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God-speed: 11for he that biddeth him God-speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
27. NIV 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
28. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. 11 Anyone who welcomes them [or blesses him] shares in their [his] wicked work.
29. You see why you must be very careful the way you answer somebody, “God bless you.” Before you ever offer any man “God bless you”, first of all, sit him down, identify who his God is or who her God is.
30. You can say, “Good morning! Good afternoon or Good evening”, but hold God bless you, lest you become a partaker of the person’s evil.
31. Such are not necessarily people who live in community nor are they necessarily people who are not affiliated with denominations and organized religions and who do not worship in regular Church buildings, nor are they necessarily people who pull their resources.
32. As a matter of fact, all these can be scriptural and applicable to true believers of Christ. Satan has used fear and ignorance to hide his different gospels and the true meaning of a cult.
33. The ironic and pathetic aspect of this great deception is that, if God’s own Elects are being deceived, they are being deceived, if they are not prayerful; if they do not have discernment.
34. The false unity message that is going on among the Churches, being preached in Christian Churches today is encouraging unification with these different gospels that are in reality, no gospel at all.
35. This activity has replaced the true zeal and earnest desire to stand in the truth and proclaim the true Gospel of Christ.
36. So My dear listener, whether you read it from writings through the Book, HARD TRUTH or you hear it in the Book, CRY OUT AGAINST THE SYSTEM, or you hear from this Message that is crying out from this Wilderness this hour, it is THUS SAITH THE LORD for the hour. Be very careful and watchful. Satan is all out to destroy and to kill.
37. 2 Timothy 1:14. Amplified version. Guard and keep [with the greatest care] the precious and excellently adapted [Truth] which has been entrusted [to you], by the [help of the] Holy Spirit Who makes His home in us.
38. The Apostle Paul said, “To them, [those who preach a different gospel] we did not yield submission even for a moment, that the truth of the Gospel might continue to be [preserved] for you [in its purity].” Galatians 6:5. Amplified version.
39. Satan is the author, not only of the non-Christian different gospels, but obviously, different Christian gospels, as subtly different Christian gospels as well as anything other than what Christ and the Apostles preached is no Gospel at all.
40. In other words, anything that the Apostles never handed down to the Churches, anyone propagating it today is propagating manmade, fake gospel and it will lead to death.
41. Galatians 1:8. Message to the Church. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. KJV
42. No matter who you may be. No matter your name, your calling, as long as what you are saying is contrary to the Word of God as handed down by the Apostles and Prophets from God to the Churches, you are an accursed person. Therefore, examine your doctrine. Examine your Church.
43. Isaiah 5:20. King Kames version. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness,……
44. If I will define from Webster’s New World Dictionary, COUNTERFEIT means an imitation, made cunningly to deceive. Something that so closely resembles the original, but is aimed at misleading somebody.
45. You see, a lie closely resembles the Truth. A lie from Satan closely resembles the Truth, but it is cunningly devised to mislead, to deceive the hearer or the receiver. That was what Satan used in the Garden of Eden to deceive Eve and that was what brought death upon mankind till today.
46. Some of the counterfeit doctrines resembles very closely the true doctrines or doctrine. The mostly true but partial truth is a lie. Every half-truth is a lie.
47. If the Apostles’ scriptural measuring rod or measuring stick is applied to all the organized worldly Churches today, a great many will qualify as fake, counterfeit Churches, holding different doctrines other than that which was handed down by Saint Paul.
48. Some started off on the right path, but through years of compromise with the world, they have fallen into error and deception. Through satanic strategies and anti-Christ spirits, many denominational Churches have been subtly influenced to believe or ignore certain scriptures and even whole chapters of the Bible as well as to add man-made doctrines, rituals and traditions to the gospel they present.
49. These fake Churches and their Churchgoers act as if they are truly free. To take or receive from the New Testament, [the Gospel of Christ], whatever pleases them, but simply disregard the rest.
50. The whole Nigeria and all over the world today is filled with different doctrines, presenting different array of different Christ. I repeat. Presenting different array of different Christ, not the type that was handed down to the Churches by the Apostles and the Prophets. Not the type that could be seen from the pages of the Holy Bible. From such, run away.
51. Christ said in Saint Matthew 15:8 – 9. 8This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. KJV
52. Acts 20:28 – 30. Amplified version. 28Take care and be on guard for yourselves and the whole flock over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you bishops and guardians, to shepherd (tend and feed and guide) the Church of the Lord or of God which He obtained for Himself [buying it and saving it for Himself] with His own blood.
53. 29I know that after I am gone, ferocious wolves will get in among you, not sparing the flock;
54. 30Even from among your own selves, men will come to the front who, by saying perverse (distorted and corrupt) things, will endeavor to draw away the disciples after them [to their own party].
55. You can say, which is greater abomination to God? And which gospel is more evil and corrupt? Which does a greater damage? To ignore certain Scriptures subtly, de-emphasizing the Holy Spirit and His deeds leading to those counterfeit Churches, which eventually ends up persecuting true believers or more obviously, to pervert the truth about the virgin birth or some other doctrines of Christ like water baptism in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, women preachers here and there.
56. In the sight of God, all forms of religious legalism like payment of tithe, wearing of head-tie, observing Old Testament rules and regulations, instead of being led by the Holy Spirit, subtle unacceptance of the Holy Spirit and His deeds, persecution of the true believers and all acts of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit are abominable in the sight of God.
57. Nobody but Christ, God the Father can judge which perversion, corruption and distortion have been the greatest stumbling block to man’s salvation. But it is certain that the more the counterfeit Church resembles the true Church, the more of a snare it is to deceive God’s precious Elect children.
58. THE MORE LIFE TRUTH OF GOD TO WHICH ONE HAS BEEN EXPOSED, THE MORE ACCOUNTABLE HE IS TO GOD. THAT IS TRUTH WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
59. LIE RESEMBLES TRUTH IN THESE LAST DAYS AND IF YOU ARE NOT FULLY ROOTED, SETTLED AND GROUNDED IN THE TRUTH, YOU CAN BE EASILY CARRIED AWAY BY SENTIMENT. SATAN WILL EASILY DECEIVE YOU.
60. That is why this warning is going to you My dear listener this hour. That you pay attention to the Voice of The Holy Ghost in this hour more than ever, lest you will be carried away.
61. I read Saint Luke 12:47 – 48. New International Version. 47 “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows.
62. 48 But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows.
63. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked [also].
64. Galatians 1:8 also places a curse that …even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to and different from that which we preached to you, let him be accursed (anathema, devoted to destruction, doomed to eternal punishment)!
65. I also read 2 Peter 2: 1 – 2. Amplified version. 1BUT ALSO [in those days] there arose false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among yourselves, who will subtly and stealthily introduce heretical doctrines (destructive heresies), even denying and disowning the Master Who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
66. 2And many will follow their immoral ways and lascivious doings; because of them the true Way will be maligned and defamed.
67. It is sad and regretful but true, that many so-called Christian denominational Churches preach a different gospel. Only by the Spirit of Truth can a believer discern the spirit and recognize these counterfeit Churches that look so good and acceptable to the world.
68. Subtle deception is the most difficult to detect, but it is satanic. Its purpose is to destroy the true Church of Christ. Be very careful. AMEN.
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A NEW AND A LIVING WAY
I am still reading from the Holy Bible.2 John 7 – 11. 7For many imposters (seducers, deceivers, and false leaders) have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge (confess, admit) the coming of Jesus Christ (the Messiah) in bodily form.
2. Such a one is the imposter (the seducer, the deceiver, the false leader, the antagonist of Christ) and the antichrist.
3. 8[Therefore] Look to yourselves (take care) that you may not lose (throw away or destroy) all that we and you have labored for, but that you may [persevere until you] win and receive back a perfect reward [in full].
4. 9Anyone who runs on ahead [of God] and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ [who is not content with what He taught] does not have God; but he who continues to live in the doctrine (teaching) of Christ [does have God], he has both the Father and the Son.
5. 10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine [is disloyal to what Jesus Christ taught], do not receive him [do not accept him, do not welcome or admit him] into [your] house or bid him Godspeed or give him any encouragement.
6. 11For he who wishes him success [who encourages him, wishing him Godspeed] is a partaker in his evil doings.
7. What a dangerous thing to welcome such a fake believer into My family? I say, “God help me to be faithful to your Word that I do not fail you in any way.” I wonder how many people that have failed God by welcoming such people in their houses and even wishing them success in their endeavours. I say God, forgive me here.
8. The obviously different Christian gospels are more easily recognized. The most notorious one are; Mormons doctrines, the Latter-Day Saints doctrines, Jehovah’s witnesses, Christian Scientists, spiritualists, Armstrong [The world Church of God], the Church of Christ Missions, Deeper life, Grace of God, CPM [Christian Pentecostal Mission] and a host of them.
9. There are also many more, less well known of. The doctrines of these counterfeit, just like that of Roman Catholic and Anglican, they disagree with the Holy Scriptures and they are all in error.
10. Some of them may have more truths than the others woven into their own deception but I tell you and I repeat once again that PARTIAL TRUTH IS A COMPLETE LIE. Run away from it. It is important to remember that the centre of Satan’s activities here on earth is in such worldly Churches, counterfeit Churches.
11. Strong deluding anti-Christ spirits are darting the minds of the members of these cults. You cannot reason or use logic or dialogue with those who are deceived and in bondage to those cults.
12. You are dealing with evil spirits and it necessitates miracles of deliverance to free these captive souls. The Apostle John knew this when he gave instruction not to even invite the representative of these false cults, fake Churches into your houses.
13. You are not dealing with flesh and blood, but with demons in human form. Be careful. I say, demons in human form.
14. Ephesians 6:10 – 12. I read Living Bible. 10 Last of all I want to remind you that your strength must come from the Lord’s mighty power within you. 11 Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand safe against all strategies and tricks of Satan.
15. 12 For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against persons without bodies—the evil rulers of the unseen world, those mighty satanic beings and great evil princes of darkness who rule this world; and against huge numbers of wicked spirits in the spirit world. What we are fighting is demon in human form.
16. 2 Corinthians 4:3 – 4. Living Bible and King James as well. 3 If the Good News we preach is hidden to anyone, it is hidden from the one who is on the road to eternal death.
17. 4 Satan, who is the god of this evil world, has made him blind, unable to see the glorious light of the Gospel that is shining upon him or to understand the amazing message [which] we preach about the glory of God in the stead of Christ, who is God. LB
18. 3But even if our Gospel (the glad tidings) also be hidden (obscured and covered up with a veil that hinders the knowledge of God), it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing and obscured [only] to those who are spiritually dying and veiled [only] to those who are lost.
19. 4For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers’ minds [that they should not discern the truth], preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ (the Messiah), Who is the Image and Likeness of God. KJV
20. The first step to deceit or to being deceived by Satan’s false gospel or doctrine is to compromise. Compromise! God hates it. The moment you compromise with the world, Satan has gotten rid of you.
21. Now I warn you in Ephesians 4:27. Amplified version. Leave no [such] room or foothold for the devil [give no opportunity to him]. Do not give any room to deception at all, no matter the way [and where] it is coming from. Give no room to deception. I do not care who it is coming from.
22. Satan’s glorious masterpieces have enslaved the faith of men throughout the ages, all over the world. In most of these counterfeit Churches, Christ is considered to be just another great teacher among many.
23. Some however consider Christianity and Judaism to be evil as do the other communists, a worldly religion and the Moslems’ Islam. Other satanically-inspired religious movements are Buddhism, Hinduism and its off-shoots, Transcendental meditations, Hare Krishna consciousness, Bahaism, Divine Light mission, Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon, Vedanta society, Yoga to name just a few.
24. Anyone who is deceived to compromise and lay down with any of these satanic movements is a partaker of their evils. Be very careful. I know I am going to pay the price with My blood. That is why I am not sparing anything.
25. Anything the Holy Ghost will put in My mouth on this matter, I do not care the way you look at it, I will voice it out from this Wilderness so that as many as will hear and repent, will run away from the wrath of God.
26. I keep on reading from the Holy Scriptures. 1 Peter 5:8 – 9. New International Version. 8Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil [Satan] prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
27. 9Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers [your Brothers] throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. Not Prosperity!
28. DO NOT BE DECEIVED. THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOSPEL AND ONE WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE WITH GOD THE FATHER AND THAT IS THROUGH CHRIST, THE MESSIAH, THE ANOINTED WORD OF GOD. IF IT IS NOT THE WORD OF GOD, IT IS NOT THE WAY, IT IS NOT THE TRUTH AND IT WILL NEVER LEAD TO EVERLASTING LIFE.
29. Christ said in Saint John 14:6. I read Amplified version of the Bible. ….I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.
30. Acts 4:12. Neither is there salvation in any other name: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. KJV
31. Galatians 1:7 Living Bible. For there is no other way than the one we showed you; you are being fooled by those who twist and change the truth concerning Christ.
32. I hope you are not being fooled after hearing this Message. If you do not obey, I do not know what will be holding you back. Because the Holy Ghost through Me has unveiled the truth about the counterfeit Church which has filled the whole world and has opened a way:
33. A New and a Living Way into the Body, the true Body, The True Church of Christ, The Bride of Christ, The only Voice that is crying in the Wilderness, crying judgment, taking the shame and reproach that is associated with the Gospel.
34. Will you come and share with Me this Glorious Kingdom? Will you come and share with the Saints of God, this Glorious Kingdom in these last days?
35. Satan is using his most clever devices to deceive and mislead and at work as to bring persecution on the true Saints. Yes! Satan is raising up his own men filled with fury against the true Gospel to persecute the true Saints, to label them fanatics, ingrates and deceivers. And yet, we are true and faithful.
36. 2 Timothy 3:12 – 13. I read Living Bible. 12 Yes, and those who decide to please Christ Jesus by living godly lives will suffer at the hands of those who hate him.
37. 13 In fact, evil men and false teachers will become worse and worse, deceiving many, they themselves having been deceived by Satan [already].
38. Satan’s main tools in accomplishing this are ignorance and fear. He uses these especially in organized fake Churches to disguise his handwork in hiding the true Gospel and the true meaning of a cult.
39. He is using this strategy so effectively today that pastors and members of denominational Churches are coming against true believers, who are seeking to live the New testament life of Christ in its fullness.
40. Satan deceiving them into calling themselves Churches, instead of calling themselves cults, deceived groups, cults, man-made.
41. Saint John 16:1 – 2. Living Bible. Christ predicted this saying, 1“I have told you these things so that you won’t be staggered [or waver] by all that lies ahead. 2For you will be excommunicated from the [Churches] synagogues, and indeed the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing God a [reasonable] service.
42. I think that is what is facing us today. Believers in this Glorious Gospel of the hour. The time has come already when they will hand us over to the kings and Princes of this world to judge us and persecute and kill us. And they will think that they are doing God a service.
43. Brethren! My fellow pilgrims and soldiers! Cheer up! Do not be discouraged. Very soon, we will Go home. I am telling you the truth from this Wilderness.
44. If you ask the various people what they think that God is, you will get a variety of answers which will come up. Probably, none of which will be correct.
45. Satan is already deceiving even the Elects if they are not careful in this hour. Because of Satan-assisted anti-Christ activities, most Churchgoers today do not know or even recognize the fullness, the entirety of the true Gospel of Christ.
46. Therefore, they do not recognize true believers who make up the True Church of Christ, The Bride of Christ, fulfilling Isaiah chapter 5:20 truly since this particular day. Organized religion! Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.
47. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, ….. AMP
48. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; ….. KJV
49. Satan perpetrated an act of horrendous error, destruction and death through his false anti-Christ prophets all over the world, especially in Nigeria, through the man so called Umah Ukpai, going about everywhere in ecumenical movement, uniting the Churches together.
50. The same way he is using Reinhard Bonnke in far away Germany, uniting Europe. The same way he is using the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The same way he is using men that have cropped up saying they are Oral Roberts, Richard Roberts.
51. They are all going everywhere, uniting Churches together. Men that are not ashamed of themselves. Men that are not ashamed. Billy Graham
52. Listen to what I am saying seriously My Brethren, My hearers and My friends that men are no longer afraid. Men that are destitute of truth. Satan inspiring men that are destitute of truth to go about preaching ecumenical movement all over the world.
53. Men like T. L. Osborn, Billy Graham, Andrew Murray, Oral Roberts, Reinhard Bonnke, all forsaking the Truth, going about in ecumenical movement. Run away from such people.
54. The same way I warn, My precious friends in the Endtime Message who have believed the precious words of William Marrion Branham to be very ,very careful. All that glitters is not gold.
55. Immediately the Prophet died in 1965, grievous wolves also came into the message and just messed it up. Then you can see blind men, blind preachers like Reverend Jackson, blind preachers like Joseph Coleman, blind preachers like John Baldwin, Richard Gans, and very many of them.
56. Run away from such people. Have nothing to do with them. They are instruments in the hand of Satan to propagate falsehood. That is why you see them quarreling over Seven Thunders. Seven Thunders is revealed. The other one says it is not revealed.
57. But in everything, they are full of confusion. Is God the author of confusion? The answer is nay! And because of the evil they have propagated, innocent souls that would have believed the message of William Branham and live, they have forsaken the message.
58. God will require the blood of such people from the hands of all these evil and false self-appointed men who have invaded Endtime message and have made converts to themselves to their own peril and destruction and shame. AMEN.
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LAY HOLD ON ETERNAL LIFE
We continue as we search the Scriptures for that is the only place I know we can have eternal life. Anything that is not in agreement with the Word of God, surely, it does not come from God. The hand of God is not in it.
2. Everything must agree with the Holy Scriptures and must agree with the Prophets and the Apostles that were before us.
3. I read Ephesians 4:17 – 18. 17So I tell you this and insist on it in the Lord that you must no longer live the Gentiles [unbelievers] whose lives are set in the uselessness of their ways of thinking, 18their understanding have become darkened because of their ignorance and obstinacy of their hearts, they have grown enstranged from the divine life of Christ.
4. It is way past time that Christians recognized and sued against Satan’s works of deception which are gaining momentum in this final hour.
5. 17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
6. I will keep on commending you to the word of the living God as we read from this New Modern Bible Christian edition.
7. Ephesians 4:17 – 18 17In the Lord’s name, then, I warn you: do not continue to live like the heathen, whose thoughts are worthless 18and whose minds are in the dark. They have no part in the life that God gives, for they are completely ignorant and stubborn. 19They have lost all feeling of shame; they give themselves over to vice and do all sorts of indecent things without restraint. GNB
8. 17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. KJV
9. 17Let me say this, then, speaking for the Lord: Live no longer as the unsaved do, for they are blinded and confused. 18Their closed hearts are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds against him, and they cannot understand his ways.
10. 19They don’t care anymore about right and wrong and have given themselves over to impure ways. They stop at nothing, being driven by their evil minds and reckless lusts. LB
11. 17So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility] of their minds. 18Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded.
12. 19[They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature]. AMP
13. I read 2 Corinthians 11:3 – 4 and 13 – 14.
14. 3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 4 For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. ….. 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
15. All that glitters, I tell you, is not gold. Now, after this initial work of horror which Satan has done in different ways, yet there are still people everywhere who are still running into these dead groups. You do not know what I mean until you look round.
16. I know you will not agree with Me that the hand of God has left the Anglican Church, has left Methodist, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Sabbath, Cherubim and Seraphim, Celestial Church and any other lodge or cult.
17. Does it mean that they are no longer in existence today? They are very much around us, harbouring individuals. Then, what are these individuals doing there and what will be their fate at the end? You are the judge. The answer is already in your mouth.
18. The same way also, God has forsaken every Pentecostal group. They are dead. They will not rise again. Yet, people are there doing what? Wasting and idling away their time.
19. And I am telling you to come out of them before it is too late, before the close of the hour, before the wrath of God cometh upon you. COME OUT FROM AMONGST THEM AND BE YE SEPARATE AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU. YOU WILL ESCAPE THE WRATH OF GOD.
20. The moment God leaves a Church, that Church becomes the people’s choice. The moment the Spirit of God leaves a man of God, he becomes a man of the people, the people’s choice, man pleaser, saying and doing that which is pleasing human beings. Everybody will be holding him to a high esteem.
21. WHAT MEN ESTEEM SO MUCH IN THEIR LIVES, THE BIBLE SAID, IS AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD. Be very careful that you are not esteeming something God is calling abomination.
22. I read from Matthew 23:13 and then verse 15 through 16 from the Living Bible. Christ said, 13“Woe to you, Pharisees, and you other religious leaders. Hypocrites! For you won’t let others enter the Kingdom of Heaven and won’t go in yourselves…….
23. ……15Yes, woe upon you hypocrites. For you go to all lengths to make one convert, and then turn him into twice the son of hell you are yourselves. 16 Blind guides! Woe upon you! ………..
24. Satan is able to accomplish this end time strategy, deceiving everybody through religious spirit, primarily through denominational pastors and Churchgoers who do not recognize true believers at all. Instead, they call them bad names and call them devils.
25. They are frightened as the Holy Spirit raised up the True Church, a militant Church in the Wilderness that is preaching the unadulterated Word of God, preaching down persecution and suffering which is the sign that will follow the Truth Church of Christ, The Body of Christ, The Bride of Christ for the hour.
26. We are worshipping in Spirit and in Truth, not a sensational or emotional worship. They wait for the True coming of the Messiah, the catching away of the Saints.
27. WATCH! SUBTLY, MISUNDERSTANDING AND PERSECUTION ARE MOUNTING AGAINST THE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS. I WANT YOU TO NOTE THAT ONE IN YOUR MIND.
28. I SAY, SUBTLY, CRAFTILY, MISUNDERSTANDING AND PERSECUTION ARE MOUNTING AGAINST RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS EXACTLY AS IT WAS WHEN CHRIST WALKED ON EARTH WITH HIS TWO FEET.
29. IT IS MOUNTING ON SUBTLY, SECRETLY SOMEWHERE. SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE IS FOMENTING IT, BUT WOE UNTO THAT MAN, WOE UNTO THAT WOMAN THAT WILL BETRAY THE SON OF MAN IN THIS AGE.
30. WOE UNTO THAT PERSON THAT WILL BETRAY THE CHURCH OF GOD IN THIS AGE. THAT WILL CAUSE THE CHURCH OF GOD TO BE PERSECUTED IN THIS AGE. IT WILL BE BETTER THAT YOU WERE NOT BORN ON EARTH. I THINK IT IS BETTER THAT YOU WERE NOT BORN ON EARTH.
31. He that betrayed Christ, he has the greater sin on him. Will you be that man? Will you be that woman that will rise up against true believers? True believers are being called cultists and fanatics and the segment of this Body of Christ are being called false religious cultists.
32. Men with true Apostolic calling are no longer noticed, but rather they are given names as deceivers like the Apostles that were before them were called deceivers and yet they are all true, who did not come through the channels of organized religious teachings or Bible colleges and man-made ordinations.
33. They are not being called by charlatans, but instead, everyday, the Holy Ghost is nourishing them, unveiling the mystery about the truth of the Kingdom of Heaven to them for humanity to be saved.
34. Instead of these same Christians, counterfeit Churches to acknowledge what God is doing for the hour, they will call them charlatans, anti-Christs, false prophets and Apostles, only to ridicule them and cause many not to hear them and to follow them.
35. Woe is you if you are in this category that will hinder people from hearing the Truth in this last days and blind people with prosperity message, social message, entertainment message. Woe is that man or woman.
36. The world still does not recognize the true Christ, His Body, His appointed Leaders, the Holy Spirit, nor God, not the Father even till today. In all the ages, that has been the same.
37. You can hardly see a people that recognized their Messiah in their day. All that ever waited for their Messiah in their day, when He reveals Himself, they will call Him Beelzebub. They will call Him seed of the devil.
38. You may be saying it, “If I were present in the days of Jesus Christ, I would not have called him Beelzebub.” But what are you calling His own people today, His Church, His appointed leaders, His Apostles and prophets, Pastors and teachers and Evangelists? What are you calling them today?
39. How do you receive their words? Why do you hinder people from hearing their voice? Because you do not want to go to Heaven and you do not want them to go also. I say, God is the Judge.
40. Saint Matthew chapter 10 verse 25. Living Bible. “…..since I, the master of the household [Christ Himself], have been called ‘Satan’, how much more will you! [or His followers, Genuine believers]”
41. If they called Jesus Christ Satan, why can’t they call you Satan today. So, I advise you, sincere children of God, “Follow Him sincerely, bearing His reproach and He will bless you at last. Do not be discouraged by what people are saying concerning you. Do not allow your attention to be distracted. It is Satan’s device to lure your attention away from the Faith, but God forbid!”
42. MARCH ON MY FRIENDS AND WELL-WISHERS. MARCH ON! LAY HOLD ON ETERNAL LIFE. DO AWAY WITH WORLDLINESS AND WORLDLY RELIGION. CLING TO HOLINESS AND PERFECTION AND RIGHTEOUS LIVING AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU WITH ETERNAL LIFE.
43. I AM SURE OF WHERE I AM STANDING AND DECLARING THIS VOICE FROM THIS WILDERNESS, THIS DAY, BELIEVING THAT SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE WILL HEAR IT AND BE SAVED.
44. Saint John 15:18 – 19 in Amplified version. Christ also said, 18If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19If you belonged to the world, and worldly Christianity the world would treat you with affection and would love you as its own.
45. But because you are not of the world and [no longer one with it], but I have chosen (selected) separated you out of the world, the world hates (detests) you.
46. Because I have taken you out of the world and its systems, out of the worldly organizations and all counterfeit Churches, the world now hates you and detests you. Worldly counterfeit children of God will hate and persecute true believers of Christ today.
47. It is already happening. It is already at work in this End time. The Great Separation of the Body of Christ has begun already. The Great Separation. It has begun already.
48. The time has come when the Seed shall be separated from the chaff. I say, the hour has come when the true Believers, the True children of God will jump out from organized religion, from counterfeit Churches, from man-made cults and be separate.
49. They will take sides with the Word of God. They will take sides with The Church of God. They will take sides with The Bride, with the Spoken Word, with the written word as handed down to us in this Age by the Prophets and by the Apostles. The Great separation has begun. The Seed can no longer be held with the chaff.
50. The Apostle Paul said and I read 2 Corinthians 6:4 – 8 in the Amplified version.
51. 4But we commend ourselves in every way as [true] servants of God: through great endurance, in tribulation and suffering, in hardships and privations, in sore straits and calamities,
52. 5In beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless watching, hunger; 6By innocence and purity, knowledge and spiritual insight, longsuffering and patience, kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in unfeigned love; 7By [speaking] the word of truth, in the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand [to attack] and for the left hand [to defend]; 8Amid honor and dishonor; in defaming and evil report and in praise and good report. [We are branded] as deceivers (impostors), and [yet vindicated as] truthful and honest [by God and His children].
53. Yes Sir! In seeking to present evidence against Paul to the Governor, the accusers said. Hear what the accusers of Saint Paul said. In other to present an evidence against Saint Paul, they raked up a false accusation against him.
54. The same way, counterfeit Churches rake up counterfeit ministers, angels of Satan who will rake up false accusations against us in this end time only to persecute the Truth that they might have favour with the world and with the worldly government. Woe unto you that will do it.
55. Hear what happened. In seeking to present evidence against Saint Paul, to the Governor, the accusers said, “We have found this man, Saint Paul a perfect pest…” P.E.S.T “a perfect plague…” P.L.A.G.U.E. I am reading from the Amplified version of the Bible.
56. That is the word of the Holy Ghost. That a man of God is being accused before the Governor of a state, before Government, watch the accusation. That they have found him a perfect pest. The same way they will call the true believers perfect pests.
57. a perfect pest (a real plague), an agitator and source of disturbance to all the Jews [Religionists, mockers of the Seeds of today] throughout the world, and a ringleader of the [heretical, division-producing] sect of the Nazarenes.
58. You can read it from Acts of the Apostles 24:5. For we have found this man [1]a perfect pest ([2]a real plague), [3]an agitator and [4]source of disturbance to all the Jews throughout the world, and [5]a ringleader of the [heretical, division-producing] sect of the Nazarenes.
59. Watch what they called a man of God. And they are referring not only to him, but to all his followers that heard his word and believed him and were living Holy Ghost-filled life. Look at how they described them to discredit them before the government, to discredit them before the heathens and the world.
60. The same way this will apply to the Bride today. The same way, worldly Churches, counterfeit Churches, fake believers will discredit Ministers of God, discredit the Church, The Bride of Christ, only to compromise with the government and worldly affairs.
61. But I encourage you, fellow Saints of God in tribulation, march on and cheer up! Do not lose Faith! Any moment from now, our Master will take us home and He will wipe away the tears from our eyes. That is the Voice crying in the Wilderness for the hour we are living in.
62. Watch another man, a silversmith, who made expensive idols, told his own workmen a lot of fantasies against Saint Paul because of the glorious Gospel. Hear him and I read Acts of the Apostles 19:26. Amplified version.
63. Now you notice and hear that not only at Ephesus [alone] but almost all over [the province of] Asia this Paul has persuaded and induced people to believe his teaching and has alienated a considerable company of them, saying…. He had indoctrinated a considerable number of them saying, that gods that are made with human hands are not really gods at all.
64. Have you not seen? A silver smith, after hearing what Saint Paul preached against dumb idols that are made of human hands, got offended because that is the only way he makes his living.
65. Just like all the artists that filled everywhere in Nigeria and beyond, that feed themselves in unrighteousness, by carving graven images that resemble human beings and people will go and carry them and place them in their synagogues.
66. Some call them Mary. Some call them Joseph. Some call them saints. Both the artists and the people that worship those things, they are all guilty in the sight of God. That was the type of thing Saint Paul saw in Ephesus and condemned it.
67. A silver smith rose up to gang up men against Saint Paul, aiming to kill him, because, according to him, he [Paul] was spoiling their business. The same way, they say to the True Church of God that will preach against graven images.
68. They must gang people against them to kill and persecute that Church that holds that Truth even till this day. I am continuing in Acts 28:22 King James version.
69. The chief Roman Jew said to Paul, But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, THE TRUE CHURCH, we know that everywhere it is spoken against.
70. Concerning this sect; They are now referring to the True Church of Christ as a sect, as a cult, as a fanatical group saying, “Concerning this your Church, concerning this your movement, concerning this your Bride, this your own so-called Bride of Christ Church, we know everywhere, it is evil spoken against. Nobody hears good record concerning it.”
71. And yet, that remains the True Church of God. That is why today, I am not surprised hearing the Holy Ghost telling us that THIS CHURCH IS SET FOR A SIGN THAT MUST BE SPOKEN AGAINST IN THIS GENERATION.
72. I SAY, I AM NOT SURPRISED, FOR THE SCRIPTURE WILL FULFILL ITSELF ONCE AGAIN, USING A MAN, USING A GROUP OF PEOPLE. I THANK GOD I AM IN THE NUMBER. I SAY, GOD, MAY YOU NEVER CAST ME AWAY. HELP ME TO REMAIN STEADFAST TILL THE END.
73. IN THE FACE OF THESE LAST DAYS’ OPPOSITION, HELP ME TO BE SINCERE TO THE CORE. HELP ME O GOD. FORGIVE MY PAST MISTAKES. I DO NOT WANT TO SIN AGAINST YOU IN ANY WAY.
74. I TELL YOU, TRUE SAINTS OF GOD AND MY LISTENERS, PERSECUTION IS A PART OF THE LIFE OF EVERY TRUE BELIEVER. IT WILL FOLLOW THE TRUE CHURCH UNTIL THE BRIDEGROOM, CHRIST COMES BACK TO TAKE HIS BRIDE, THE BODY OF CHRIST HOME.
75. IF ANYBODY CLAIMS TO BE A CHILD OF GOD, AND PERSECUTION IS ABSENT FROM HIS DAILY LIFE, THEN, SOMETHING IS GONE WRONG. I REPEAT: IF ANYBODY CLAIMS TO BE A CHILD OF GOD, AND PERSECUTION IS ABSENT FROM HIS DAILY LIFE, LET IT BE KNOWN TO THAT PERSON THAT HE IS A COUNTERFEIT CHILD OF GOD. HE IS A FAKE. HE IS A MAKE-UP.
76. THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN SEPARATE PERSECUTION FROM THE TRUE CHILD OF GOD BECAUSE HE IS AN ODD BALL IN THE SOCIETY. HE IS A MAN THAT IS ALWAYS MISUNDERSTOOD IN THE SOCIETY.
77. HIS WAYS ARE DIFFERENT. HIS OPINIONS ARE DIFFERENT. HIS PHILOSOPHIES ARE DIFFERENT. THEY ARE ALL HEAVENLY. THEY ARE NOT EARTHLY. THEY ARE ALL SPIRITUAL. THEY ARE NOT CARNAL
78. IT REQUIRES A SPRITUALLY-MINDED MAN TO KEEP COMPANY WITH A GENUINE BELIEVER, WITH A GENUINE CHURCH. AMEN.
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EXAMINE YOURSELF
2 Timothy 3:12. I read King James Version. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
2. The Bible did not say that they will have prosperity. All that will live godly in Christ shall suffer persecution. If what people are just following on the land today is the true original Church of Christ, where is the evidence of godliness? Where is the evidence if suffering and persecution?
3. Instead, they are enjoying prosperity with the world. They are enjoying prosperity with the world and that is where they are deceived. That is why they will perish.
4. And the Voice is crying from the Wilderness, COME OUT FROM AMONG HER AND BE YE SEPARATE. COME OUT FROM COUNTERFEIT CHURCH. A DEAD MOVEMENT. A DEAD CULT. COME OUT FROM AMONG SUCH. BE YE SEPARATE. CRY OUT AGAINST THE SYSTEM. DO NOT CLOSE YOUR MOUTH AND BE TRAPPED THERE.
5. MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT BEING USED BY SATAN TO ATTACK TRUE BELIEVERS AND TO UNIFY WITH DIFFERENT COUNTERFEIT CHURCHES TODAY IN THE NAME OF ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT.
6. Be very sure. A loud cry comes from every different Christian group as they call themselves. They say, “We are the true Church. The way to heaven.” Nobody will say he is not the true Church again.
7. All of them claim to be the true Church and the way to heaven, but judging by the Bible, judging by the Word of God, judging by the manifestations in their midst, you will see clearly that God does not make mistake in judgment.
8. That the judgment of God is always perfect. That placing them in the plumb line, in God’s own measuring stick, you will see that they are all counterfeit, man-made, earthly, carnal, sensual, unprofitable, very destructive that will lead to hellfire.
9. Be very careful that you do not yoke yourself in those cults. COME OUT FROM AMONGST THEM. BE YE SEPARATE. THAT IS THE HEAVENLY CALL.
10. If you join and yoke yourself with the Seventh Day Adventists, Catholic, the Mormons, the Baptists, the Episcopals and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Methodists, the Church of Christ, the Christian Scientists or whatever party spirit, you will most likely perish.
11. O Glory! According to the teaching of each of these religions, the spirit of religion will arise there which is exclusivity. It is a big mass of confusion to the world, as each group hold unto its particular Jesus Christ.
12. Why you must come out from them. They hold their own particular Jesus Christ, which is not the Christ revealed by the word of God and they claim they are the way.
13. They claim they are the true Church. But from the Bible, which is the measuring rod of God, you see that they are all fake, counterfeit. They cannot produce the righteousness of God. That cannot be the Bride God promised to take home that is without spot or wrinkle or blemish. That is not the true Bride.
14. You must be restored to the truth or else you perish. While you are listening to the Glorious Voice from this Wilderness today, I do not know the way you are looking at it. Do not allow Satan to deceive you into saying “I do not believe this.”
15. The moment it comes out of your mouth, you are doomed and doomed forever. This is because the time has come when you will not hear THUS SAITH THE LORD again. I know that any moment from now, I will depart.
16. I know. It is very clear to Me. My God will take Me home. He has promised Me because My journey on earth is all over. But woe unto that man, woe unto that woman who, because of selfishness and materialism, because you want to make friends with Caesar, and then he will cause The Son of Man to be executed for righteousness sake. It is better you were not born on earth. THUS SAITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
17. I take you to the Bible once again in 1 Corinthians 3:3. Amplified version. For you are still [unspiritual, having the nature] of the flesh [under the control of ordinary impulses].
18. For as long as [there are] envying and jealousy and wrangling and factions among you, are you not unspiritual and of the flesh, behaving yourselves after a human standard and like mere (unchanged) men?
19. I continue. Galatians 5:19 – 21. Amplified version. 19Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency,
20. 20Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies),
21. 21Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22. The Truth is, there is ONLY ONE WAY TO GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE: CHRIST. That is why in 1 John 5:20, God has given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him that is true, even in his son, Lord Jesus Christ who is the only God and eternal life.
23. And we [have seen and] know [positively] that the Son of God has [actually] come to this world and has given us understanding and insight [progressively] to perceive (recognize) and come to know better and more clearly Him Who is true; and we are in Him Who is true–in His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah). This [Man] is the true God and Life eternal. AMP
24. THE ONLY TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE. That is the only way I know. Christ said in Saint John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the father but by me.”
25. It must be pointed out here that there are true believers in denominational Churches. I want to say so often and often. But what are they waiting for? That has been the greatest question. Are you waiting until you perish there?
26. There are true believers there in the denominations. The sins in the Churches are troubling them, but they do not know how to get out of the denomination. May be because you are a deacon or an elder.
27. May be you think you have invested so much money. Is money more important that your life? Is money more important that eternal life to you? That is why I am crying in this Wilderness.
28. ALL YOU FRIENDS! ALL YOU ELECTS OF HEAVEN THAT ARE BEING TRAPPED IN THE DENOMINATIONS, THAT ARE BEING TRAPPED IN THE FAKE CHURCHES, COUNTERFEIT CHURCHES, COME OUT IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT STAY ONE MINUTE LONGER.
29. I DO NOT KNOW WHY I AM SAYING WHAT I AM SAYING. I DO NOT KNOW WHY I AM SOUNDING LIKE THIS. TIME IS NO MORE. TIME IS NO MORE. THEY ARE NOT REPENTING. THEY ARE NOT REPENTING.
30. YOU CANNOT CHANGE THEM AGAIN. GOD HAS GIVEN THEM SUFFICIENT TIME TO REPENT, BUT THEY HAVE SAID NO! COME OUT! AND SAVE YOUR LIFE. THIS IS THE TIME OR NEVER. OTHERWISE, YOU PERISH THERE.
31. A true believer can be led by the Holy Spirit to regularly attend a denominational Church or other groups on a mission to bring truth. If these believers are faithfully obedient to God, either the Church they attend will repent and speak the truth, the fullness of the Gospel of Christ or the true believer will be thrown out there.
32. There is no grey neutral area. No compromise in presenting the true Gospel. The Great Separation is already here. Do not go ahead comforting yourself that you want to make them know the truth and repent. They are no longer repenting and you do not have the boldness to stand out and proclaim it from the pulpit so that people will hear you.
33. So, what I am saying is that you are a compromiser. You better come out immediately and save your life, forfeit everything you know you have invested in that lodge or cult. Let it not hold you captive anymore. Run for your life and that of your family. Come out!
34. God does not want you to stay there a minute longer after hearing this Voice from the Wilderness. It is not shouting in vain. It is for a purpose. You do not know what you are doing in this end time.
35. It is not enough to say, “I am a believer in Christ Jesus, the Messiah. I am a Reverend Christian.” No! Nothing like that! This is the hour of the manifestation of sons and daughters of God. You are either a child of God or not. You are either Believer in Christ or a Pagan. There is no half way about it.
36. You do not say, “Let me remain here. God will take me there.” No! God will not take you there. God will not go back to Egypt to tell Pharaoh, “Let My people go.” No!
37. ANYBODY THAT DID NOT GO WHEN MOSES WAS GOING WITH THE PEOPLE SHOULD FORGET SALVATION THAT IS IN GOD. DO NOT REPENT WHEN NOAH’S ARK IS CLOSED. WHEN NOAH’S ARK IS CLOSED, REPENTANCE THAT TIME IS USELESS.
38. WHEN LOT HAD LEFT SODOM AND GOMORRAH WITH HIS TWO DAUGHTERS, ANY OTHER MAN REPENTING BECAUSE HE HAD SEEN FIRE IS WASTING HIS TIME. DO NOT REPENT WHEN IT IS TOO LATE.
39. DO NOT CONSOLE YOUR SELF THAT YOU ARE GOING TO BE A FOOLISH VIRGIN. THERE IS NO PLACE THE FOOLISH VIRGIN ENTERED AGAIN. WHEN THEY HEARD THE VOICE, IT RANG FROM INSIDE SAYING, “DEPART FROM ME FOR I DO NOT KNOW YOU.”
40. There is no other portion in the Bible where the lord said, “I have opened the door. You can now come in.” Do not allow Satan to deceive you into believing that there is a room for foolish virgin to come in last.
41. If you have such doctrine, that is another purgatory. You are preaching another purgatory indirectly. It is Satan’s end time deceit to inject false message, false gospel, false doctrine that will weaken you. Instead of growing when others are growing, you will be marching behind.
42. There is nothing like foolish virgin coming in when God has taken away the Saints in rapture. The moment Christ takes away the Bride, Gentiles’ days are over, Gentiles’ dispensation is over. As Gentiles, we do not have second chance at all. You miss it now, you miss it once and for all.
43. We are not the Jews. That Jews have a second chance. Any moment from now, rapture will occur in the Gentiles and then, the Messiah will go back to the Jews to reveal Himself to the people of the Jews for the second tome and then all Israelites will be saved.
44. Remember we are not the original branch. We are a wild branch and if God could cut off the original branch and graft us in, how much more will He not cut off the fake branch if we do err. Be very careful that you do not console yourself in sin.
45. I read Saint Matthew 10:26. Amplified version. Christ said, “So have no fear of them; for nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, or kept secret that will not become known.”
46. On the quality of the true Gospel and the sincerity of commitment to Christ which I know will determine the true from the counterfeit and this will be tested over and over until the enduring faithfulness of each believer is found to be true.
47. There must be a test for anything we say we believe. God will test us over and over until he finds the enduring faithfulness of each believer to be true. You do not say you believe and then that will take you home. No way! If we will go like this, it then means everybody is a believer.
48. There is going to be a situation whereby every believer will be tried by what he says he believes. And then, if you stand the test, then you will meet Christ in the air or else, you just laboured in vain.
49. I read 1 Peter 1:6 – 7. Amplified version. 6[You should] be exceedingly glad on this account, though now for a little while you may be distressed by trials and suffer temptations,
50. 7So that [the genuineness] of your faith may be tested, [your faith] which is infinitely more precious than the perishable gold which is tested and purified by fire.
51. [This proving of your faith is intended] to redound to [your] praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) is revealed.
52. GOD’S JUDGMENT BEGINS IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. GOD WILL PURGE HIS CHURCH OF EVIL BEFORE HE DEALS WITH THE WHOLE WORLD, POURING HIS WRATH AND INDIGNATION UPON THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE.
53. As the coming of God draws near, God is no longer tolerating corruption nor winking at open transgression among his people but He is calling for a total and perfect cleansing of the Body by His Word and Spirit.
54. Those in the Church who are confessing God and their works with Jesus Christ will surely perish, unless they repent. Their reward will be eternal damnation. They have known the truth and then have deliberately chosen a path of self-will and darkness. They have chosen to walk in the flesh rather than in God’s Spirit.
55. Thus they have repudiated their confession of Faith and their trust in Christ and God the Father. This category of people must surely perish. If, because of what is happening in the society, you just become lukewarm overnight, and deny the Faith, you perish.
56. MY BROTHER, MY SISTER HEARING THIS GOSPEL FROM THE WILDERNESS, I SAY, CHEER UP IN CHRIST. THE TIME HAS COME FOR JUDGMENT AND IT MUST BEGIN FIRST AMONG GOD’S OWN CHILDREN AND IF EVEN WE, WHO ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, MUST BE JUDGED, WHAT TERRIBLE FATE AWAITS THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER BELIEVED IN THE WORD OF GOD.
57. 1 Peter chapter 4 verse 17. Living Bible “For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin first among God’s own children. And if even we who are Christians must be judged, what terrible fate awaits those who have never believed in the Lord?”
58. On this note My Brethren, My listeners, I say, GOD BLESS YOU ALL while you listen to this Glorious Voice from this Wilderness. As I have received from Heaven, so I have handed down to the whole world by this tape, believing that it will go round the whole world, judging every family, judging every Church.
59. Examine yourself, whether you are in the counterfeit Church. Examine your life whether you are a counterfeit believer. CHRIST IS COMING TO TAKE THE BRIDE VERY SOON. What will you say at the end? God bless you, while we pray. Bow down your heads.
PRAYER
60. Almighty God, I thank you this very day. I give you the whole honour and all glory for it has pleased you to come down and keep Me company from the early hours of the morning till this hour revealing yourself in plain view, speaking mouth to mouth with Me that I may speak your whole counsel to the whole world this time.
61. LORD, I pray, cause somebody to hear and to believe this Gospel and be saved. Wherever they are, as many as have not been baptized by immersion in the name of our LORD and not by trinity, LORD I pray cause them to believe this Message and identify with the Body and be baptized in your Name that you might take away their reproach, that you might forgive their sins, that they might have faith in Eternal life that comes from you and from you alone
62. My LORD and My God, I make this solemn request unto you this hour. Humbly I bow down before you, I say, Holy Father, when this Life is over, please remember Me for good. Do not blot out My name in the LORD’s book of life.
63. All you My hearers, I lift you up before God. As you dedicate your life unto God, I pray that the Holy Spirit will be your portion in your homes, on the streets, in the highways.
64. Thank you Holy Father for in the Name of Christ our LORD I pray. Amen.
65. My dear listeners, you may wish to know who God is using to reach you by this Message. I am your Brother in tribulation, a pilgrim and a stranger in this world, called to be an Apostle of Christ in this evil Age. I AM YOUR BROTHER, PERTER ODOEMENA.
66. If you will like to contact me, only write BROTHER PETER ODOEMENA, THE CHURCH AT ONITSHA, c/o P.M.B. 1540, ONITSHA ANAMBRA STATE. Nigeria. And the LORD will bless you. And I will send to you, copies of our books titled, “CRY OUT AGAINST THE SYSTEM” and “HARD TRUTH” free of charge. God bless you all in the Name of Christ our LORD..
67. Remain blessed in Him eternally, Amen.