But the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action. And the wise among the people shall instruct many; yet for many days they shall fall by the sword and by fire, in captivity and plunder. Dan 11:32b-33
Dear Brothers and Friends
As you know, we are living in those days prophesied in the Bible close to the "Second Coming of Jesus" to establish the Kingdom of God here on Earth.
Luk 21:27-33 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. As soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near. So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all has taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
As we also know, our Lord Jesus warned us and commanded us to be vigilant because of the many false prophets that would characterize these days in order to deceive us and lead us away from the Truth.
Mar 13:22-23 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect. But be on guard; I have told you all things beforehand. 13:37 And what I say to you, I say to all. Watch.
This is a war between the Forces of God vs the forces of Satan; it is a spiritual war.
Part 1 - The emergence of Jesus Christ and his Church
From the beginning of Creation, Satan wanted to take God's place and make of the Creation his kingdom. When he deceived Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden, that he took the lordship of the Earth; We deduced this because when Satan tempted Jesus, at the beginning of his ministry in Judea, Satan affirmed to him: All this dominion and its glory I will give you; for it has been given to me, and to whom I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. Luc 4:6-7
However, Jesus defeated the forces of evil on the Cross of Calvary, and every spirit, and all spiritual entities of the enemy came under the sovereignty of Christ; who is at the right hand of God, having ascended into heaven where angels and authorities and powers were subjected to him. 1Pe 3:22
Now, Christ did not ascend into Heaven and left His ministry at an end, but He left us, the Sons of God, in charge of continuing His work...
Mat 28:18-20 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
2Co 5:18-21 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
So since Jesus left the Church in charge of continuing his work until today, the war between the forces of good and evil has been constant, and the disciples of Christ got down to work, and already from the book of Acts, we saw the growth of the Church, which spread throughout the Roman Empire and in the years following that Empire, continued to bring the light and freedom that comes from knowing the Word of God to millions of people all over the world, from Judea to all the nations of Europe, from Russia to Portugal, through North Africa, the Middle East, to England, and from there to all of America, reaching also to Australia and New Zealand. It is easy to notice that the Light of the Gospel made a great difference between the nations of the world that embraced the Gospel and those that did not; for the Christian nations made great progress and advances in all fields, from which came great developments for the whole world. The nations that did not embrace Christianity, always lagged behind walking in the light of the advances of the great Christian nations. That, for the kingdom of Darkness, was a heavy blow. However, Satan has been planning to take total control of all nations.
Part 2 - ¿Who are the Jews?
For those who do not know the Old Testament, and without going into details, since for this exposition it is not necessary, and making a brief summary:
God chose a man named Abraham, a post-flood patriarch, who lived around the years 1813 to 1638 BC, to whom He promised a great posterity, and promised them that they would inherit the land of Canaan of Antiquity. Abraham's main descendant was Isaac. Jacob, son of Isaac, was given the name Israel by an angel of God. He and his sons migrated to Egypt, under the leadership of Joseph, one of Jacob's twelve sons, who became the leader of Egypt during his lifetime. There the Israelites grew in number until they became a nation. In time, a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph; he subjected the Israelites to slavery. Moses was the man chosen by God to liberate the twelve tribes descended from the children of Israel from the land of Egypt. Moses led them towards the Promised Land around 1446 BC, and his successor as leader of Israel was Joshua, who eventually led them all the way to Canaan, where they settled around 1240 BC. The twelve tribes of Israel were led by the so-called Judges, who were God's representatives to guide the nation, the first of these Judges being Joshua himself. The Hebrews, as the Israelites were called, asked the prophet Samuel, who was the last successor of those Judges, to assign them a king, as the neighboring nations all had kings, and thus began the reign of King Saul over the children of Israel. Each of the Tribes of Israel received a plot of land that was assigned to them in the Land of Canaan.
After the death of King Solomon, the nation was divided in two. Ten tribes to the north remained united and retained the name "Israel" under the command of the Tribe of Ephraim with Samaria as its capital, and the southern kingdom with two tribes which received the name Judah, since it was the largest tribe, and where the tribe of Simeon was absorbed, the capital of the Kingdom was Jerusalem. Jerusalem was special for the whole nation of Israel, because it was chosen by Yahweh, the only true God, to build his Temple there, where all the Israelites, no matter to which tribe they belonged, had to worship him there in Jerusalem, even if it was only once a year. The kingdom of Israel was destroyed by the Assyrian empire around 740 BC, which exiled the Israelites to different regions of the empire. The inhabitants of the kingdom of Judah were called Jews because they were descendants of Judah, the name "Jews" only appears in the Old Testament just before the invasion of Israel by Assyria. However, after the fall of Israel, the worship of Yahweh God was maintained in the kingdom of Judah, for more than 140 years, until the year 604 when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonian empire. Since the worship of Yahweh was celebrated in Judea, in its Temple, then the name "Jew" came to be given to all those Israelites who worshiped God in the Temple of Jerusalem, according to the laws that Moses received from God, no matter what tribe they were from. So the Israelites began to be called "Jews", mainly because they practiced the "Judean religion", especially after the exile of the Jews to Babylon, and their return to Judea to rebuild Jerusalem, after about 70 years of captivity in Babylon.
Already in the New Testament, we see the word "Jews" about 235 times, in which clear reference is made to the fact that the so-called Jews were followers of the Laws of Moses, and although Jesus was rejected as Messiah by the vast majority of the Jews, nevertheless Jesus made it clear that the first part of his task was to save those Israelites who had been lost... Mat 15:24 And He answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
And we see that a great number of Israelites were saved. Jn 8:31-32 Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are my disciples indeed; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Jesus is the Messiah promised by Yahweh God to Israel, and in Him are fulfilled the promises that Yahweh God gave to the Israelites in the Old Testament.
We see then the difference between the Jews who manifested themselves as Sons of God and those who did not... Jn 1:11-12 He came to his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
Jn 3:36 He who believes on the Son has everlasting life, and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.
However, Jesus also declared that there was another flock, besides that of Israel, which he would rescue, referring to the Gentiles, that is, the Children of God in other nations...
Jn 10:16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
We see in the Gospels that Jesus gave serious warnings to the Jews who rejected him...
Mat 8:10-12 When Jesus heard it, he marveled and said to those who followed him, "Truly I tell you, I have not found so great a faith in Israel. And I tell you that many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 23:33-38 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how shall ye escape the damnation of hell? Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and of them some you shall kill and crucify, and some you shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; that upon you may come all the righteous blood that has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, even unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom you slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets, and stones them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
So after the Resurrection of Jesus, the New Covenant of God entered the world, not only with the Israelites, but also with all the inhabitants of any part of the world who receive the Lordship of Christ in their lives. In other words, both Jews and Gentiles who are converted to Christ become members of the flock whose Shepherd is Jesus Christ.
Rom 10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches to all who call upon him.
Gal 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of the faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
Jesus declared that the leaders of the true Israel, the Israel of God, are the leaders of the Church...
Mat 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, In the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, you which have followed me shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
We see that in the book of Acts, the Church begins to be formed by Israelites, but an interesting detail, once converted, those who were "Jews" are no longer called Jews but disciples. In other words, the Jews who convert to the Gospel are no longer "Jews", they are now Christians, members of the Israel of God.
Act 11:25-26 And Barnabas went to Tarsus to seek Saul; and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that for a whole year they assembled there with the church, and taught many people; and the disciples were called Christians for the first time in Antioch.
Just to clarify that where it says "Church", it does not refer to a physical temple, the believers were the Church, since they did not build temples, but the brethren congregated wherever they could, in private homes, in public places, etc., they were the Church, a living Temple. Ephesians 2:19-22, 1Peter 2:5
Jews who followed Jesus.
Part 3 - Modus Operandi of the Enemy forces.
We know that the kingdom of Antichrist is already here, indeed, the spirit of Antichrist has been here since the days of the apostles... 1Jn 4:3 And every spirit that confesses not Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of Antichrist, whereof you have heard that it comes, and is now already in the world.
As is becoming clearer, the so-called New World Order continues to gain power over all the nations of the world.
Now it is important for us, as God's people, to know well how the forces of the enemy have operated, and how they operate, for no army goes into battle without knowing how the enemy operates. Pro 20:18 Plans are prepared with counsel, and with wise direction war is waged. 2Co 2:11 Lest Satan should overcome us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Luk 14:31 Or what king, when he goes out to meet another king to battle, does not first sit down and deliberate whether with ten thousand men he is strong enough to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Let us look at the following passage...
Acts 4:24-27 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, for truly in this city there were gathered together against your Holy Servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel
This is a direct reference made by the disciples to the prophetic Psalm 2, which the previous passage attributes to King David where, not only is it prophesied that the nations will rise up against Yahweh, the only true God, but also where God proclaims that his Son would be the Anointed One, who will melt the nations with his wrath. Psa 2:7-12 I will publish the decree: Yahweh has said to me, "You are my Son; today I have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. And now, O you kings, understand: O judges of the earth, receive correction. Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who trust in Him.
Clearly we will see how God exhorts the nations of the world to serve Him, honoring Jesus to whom is given the Dominion, the Glory and the Kingdom, so that all peoples, nations and languages may serve Him.
We know that the nations of the world have been unifying to rise up against Christ, under the leadership of Satan, if you want to read some of the passages that assert this: 2Cor 4:4, Rev 12:9, Rev 19:19. Now, when Jesus came into the world and rejected Satan's offer in which he offered him the kingdoms of the world, we see that Satan's children immediately rise up and begin to plan how to kill Jesus; And who were they? The priest, the scribes & the pharisees, of the Jewish religion. Just a few of the many passages where this comes to light in the four Gospels, and we see who Christ's enemies were...
Jn 5:18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Mat 12:14 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.
Mar 3:6 The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
Luk 22:2 And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people.
Jesus addressing the Jewish leaders openly tells them in public.... Jn 8:37-47 I know that you are Abraham's seed, but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. I speak what I have seen near my Father; and you do what you have seen near your father. They answered and said unto him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said unto them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill me, a man that have spoken to you the truth, which I have heard of God: Abraham did not this. You do the works of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God. Jesus then said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I came forth from God, and am come: for I am not come of myself, but he has sent me. Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of lies. And because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me: which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell you the truth, why do you not believe me? He who is of God hears the words of God; therefore you do not hear them, because you are not of God.
Then in the book of Acts, the apostle Peter tells them openly... Acts 4:9 Since today we are asked about the benefit done to a sick man, by what means he was healed, let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man is healed in your presence.
So we can deduce that the children of Satan of Christ's day were the Jewish leaders, and it is important to realize that as Jesus clearly tells us, they want to carry out the desires of their father, who is a murderer and a liar, of whom Jesus also stated: Jn 10:10 The thief (Satan) comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
In the same way the children of Satan also steal, kill and destroy, inspired by their father.
Part 4 -Who leads the forces of the Enemy?
Ecc 1:9 What was, that will be, and what was done, that will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.
Is it possible that we can know who is the head of the enemy, since Yahweh assured, in Genesis 3, that Christ would bruise the head of the serpent? Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Jn 18:33 Then Pilate entered into the praetorium again and called Jesus and said to him, Are you the king of the Jews? Jesus answered him, Do you say this thing of yourself, or did others say it to you about Me? Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you to me. What have you done? Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would fight so that I might not be delivered to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here.
As we have already seen, the enemies of Jesus were the Jews, but as the Church arose in the book of Acts, we see that the bitter enemies of the Church continued to be the Jews themselves. Stephen, who was also an Israelite, the first martyr of the Church was killed at the hands of the Jews, and this was one of the statements of Stephen being filled with the Holy Spirit before the Jewish court... Acts 7:51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you also. Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who before had announced the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now you have become traitors and murderers; you who received the law by the ordinance of angels and yet did not keep it.
Throughout the book of Acts we see that the apostles were persecuted by the Jews, in the words of the apostle Paul... 1Th 2: 14-16 For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judea, for you also suffered the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, just as they suffered at the hands of the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and us they expelled, and they do not please God but are contrary to all men, hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they might be saved, with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
Today we see that the enemies of the First Church are also the enemies of today's Church. Today we can find multiple links on the Internet, where we can read about the Illuminati, the Jesuits, Freemasonry, the Club of Rome, the Rosicrucians, the Luciferians, the Bilderbergers, the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, and so on. All these organizations or families have one thing in common, they were all founded or financed by Jews.
These elites are members of the most heinous of the Satanist Illuminati. They literally hate humanity with a passion.
For those who believe that the Jews are guided by the Tanach, or the Torah, which are the Hebrew versions of the Old Testament, this is not so. Jews since the days of Jesus have been guided by the Talmud. The Talmud is a collection of books that although they were beginning to be written already in years before the coming of Christ continued to develop in later years and centuries, and ended up being an immense civil and religious code, which began to take shape between the third and fifth century and from there it grew in volume until today, and collects mainly the discussions of Jewish rabbis on the Torah, Jewish laws, traditions, customs, narratives and sayings, parables, stories and legends.
A picture of the Talmud, as you can see it is quite large.
The Talmudic writers scoff at Christian dogmas, including Mary's virginity, since they claim that Mary conceived Jesus by being raped by a Roman soldier. That Jesus was a sorcerer, magician, deceiver and manipulator, they claim that his resurrection never happened. Just as the trial and execution of Christ, was not by the initiative of the Romans, but by the Jewish High Court, the Sanhedrin and after his death Jesus is punished in Hell for all eternity, sitting in a cauldron of boiling excrement.
Mat 15:3 But He answered and said to them, "Why do you also break the commandment of God by your tradition? 8-9 These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But in vain do they honor me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
In the early 19th century, Mayer Amschel, a German Jew who succeeded in establishing a private bank in Germany, sent his five sons to establish branches of his bank in Frankfurt, Naples, Vienna, France and London. This marked the beginning of the worldwide Rothschild banking dynasty. The Rothschilds pioneered the ingenious strategy of granting loans to the governments of Europe in times of war, including the armed internal revolutions of various nations, secretly promoting the enmities between nations and inciting them to war; thus obtaining huge profits, financing the arms industries of both sides. They soon took over the international banking business, using all kinds of tricks to become owners of the central banks of the most powerful nations in the world.
From the beginning of the 20th century, "Communism" emerged, developed from the 19th century, created mainly by Moses Hess, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, in the theoretical part while Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganóvich, Genrikh Yagoda mainly, were the ones who imposed it in Eastern Europe. All of them were Jews with the exception of Lenin, and were financed by the Rothschilds' banks.
In itself, communism as the dictionary definition says is a political movement and system, based on the class struggle and with the goal of suppressing private ownership of the means of production; In that way to be able to take away from the citizens the possibility of being able to become free and forge their own development, and thus, to enslave the population forcing them to depend on a regime that owns everything, and whose tyranny imposes total control of all the inhabitants, with the primary purpose of throwing God in the trash and impose atheism, attacking all religions, but being aware that Christianity is the real enemy, since a population that does not know the one true God is easier to manipulate and buy. Already by 1924 the "communist revolution that began by annihilating the monarchy in Russia in 1917, by 1924 had spread to Transcaucasia (so called the union of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), Ukraine, and Belarus taking the name of the Soviet Union, which invaded all the countries of Eastern Europe after the Second World War, with the support of the "allies" United States, England and France", until it finally collapsed in 1991.
And as expected, communism has proven to be a total economic failure, in all the countries of the world where it has been implemented, and where the only ones who enjoy the goods that are left once they destroy the private productive system, are the despots who have seized power. They have also become the biggest criminals in history, focusing on the persecution against the Church and the murder of all those who somehow resist them. I share with you a link where you can read about the most horrendous crimes in the world at the hands of the leaders of communism, guilty of torturing and murdering more than one hundred and fifty million people in the world.
Now, why would international banks finance these communist tyrants, such as Vladimir Lenin or Mao Tse-tung and others? The Rothschilds and the Rockefellers and the NWO elites forged a plan, in which communism was the first step for their New World Order to give a Coup de Tat to the monarchies in Europe, which once destroyed, would be a sure blow to end Christianity. Just watch as Christianity was eliminated from all the nations of the Eastern European bloc that fell under the Bolshevik Soviet communist regime. But since Christianity was quite strong in Europe, England, the United States and other countries, these elites realized that other methods had to be used to get Christ out of the heart of the Western community.
Well, just as communism does away with private property, and takes total control of people’s lives, so does "technocratic capitalism" as it has been called; It does the same thing, but in another way. Because they own the international banking system, they use the banks to impoverish people and nations by giving and offering loans, with high interest rates, which always end up enriching the lenders and impoverishing the borrowers. Just look at the state of the modern "capitalist" nations to realize the size of their foreign debt to the international banking system. For example, to give you an idea, the public debt of Portugal was 263.085 million euros in 2023, a country of about 10 million people, so that each Portuguese citizen has a debt of about 26 million euros, and as the Proverb 22:7 The rich rules over the poor; and the borrower is a servant of the lender.
Once nations can be manipulated because of their debt to the international banking system. The technocrats in power do the same as the communist regimes do, but under the guise of "democracy", since they have taken total control of the rulers, who are selected by them and manipulated at will by these NWO elites. They manage to concentrate all the productive industries in the hands of a strong minority of "entrepreneurs", as the smaller business men can’t compete with the big enterprises, they are pushed into bankruptcy, so they end up selling to the big money boys.
And as in communist countries, the rulers take total control of all the media, the educational systems, the health systems, the food production systems.
Only to see how the nations of the world submitted voluntarily, apparently, to the will of the World Health Organization, in the hands of the NWO; locking in their homes all their citizens, shutting down businesses and sources of work, for more than a year with the excuse that it was to prevent a "pandemic", and then forcibly subdue the nations of the world to vaccinate their citizens with “vaccines”, which were not vaccines but injections with dangerous and harmful substances and chemicals to the lives of users, and with dire results for millions of those vaccinated who have died, or are suffering serious consequences due to vaccines.
As in communist countries, the education is programmed to turn children into pro-state institutions, and to sow in young people principles contrary to the biblical principles of morality, discipline and order, essential for the formation of healthy families, since a healthy family is the only foundation that can sustain a healthy and prosperous nation. All the concepts they promote in mainstream media with pornography, homosexuality, transgenderism, pedophilia, etc., are designed to destroy the families, and in that way more easily manipulate a confused and unprincipled new generation.
The method is to use the mainstream media to weaken the image of the man, and make him look weak, undisciplined and effeminate, and at the same time make the woman look like the strong one, the leader, and no longer the mother who cares for and protects her children, and loves her husband. The war is ideological, spiritual, and psychological, censoring all those who dare to contradict their ideas, putting fear in the public. Modern medicine is not designed to heal and strengthen the population, but to condition the population to the use of medicinal drugs, which apart from enriching the pharmaceutical industry, only weaken the users, who for the most part have been weakened by an unhealthy diet also programmed to weaken the population, and thus not only reduce the years of life of citizens but weaken their physical and spiritual condition, by making them increasingly dependent on an increasingly corrupt system.
The wars of today are programmed to weaken the nations even more, in order to bring the world to such a chaos, in the midst of which the NWO will arise, with the apparent solution to all the world’s problems, which were caused by themselves, and present us with a charismatic leader who will be possessed by Satan himself, and will want to be worshiped as if he were God himself.
It is clear that this world leader is the one prophesied in the book of Revelation as the "Antichrist”, who will present himself as the Jewish Messiah, which the Jews are waiting for today in Israel, since they rejected the true Messiah, 2Th 2:11-12 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned.
This false "Messiah" will place Jerusalem as the capital of his kingdom, will succeed in unifying the nations of the world under his rule, will restore the third Jewish temple, and will recommence the worship of God with the sacrifices and offerings presented in the Temple according to the Mosaic Laws, which will seem to fulfill prophetic passages of the Messiah such as Psalm 110, Isaiah 60: 3-22, and others, until the day when he will appear before the world as if he is God, demanding worship and submission from all the inhabitants of the world, which will be the sign that will begin the "Great Tribulation", three and a half years before the Return of Christ to Earth, to rescue his Church, when the true Messiah will pour out the Wrath of God on all the wicked in the world, after which He will establish the Kingdom of God as quoted in Daniel 7:13 at the beginning of this writing.
Part 5 -The Ecclesia
Well I think it is important to define what the Church is. For most people in the West, including most "Christians", when the word "Church" is mentioned, immediately people think of a temple, since for them the "Church" is the temple where Christians from different congregations congregate weekly.
The word "Church" comes from the Greek ἐκκλησία "Ecclesia" which means the set apart, or the chosen ones, the assembly of those who have been set apart for God. Furthermore in the light of the Word of God, we see that....
Act 7:47-50 But it was Solomon who built a house for him. Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says, “‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? Did not my hand make all these things?’
Act 17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
Jn 4:20-24 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you shall neither worship the Father in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know, we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to worship Him. God is a spirit, and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.
Can you see it? God does not dwell in those temples, no matter how highly decorated they might be, and He can only be worshiped in Spirit and Truth. In the book of Acts, we see that the disciples visited the temple of the Jews in Jerusalem at the beginning of their ministry to preach the Gospel, but even Jesus himself did not use that temple to officiate any worship of God there. We read that the houses where believers gathered to have their meetings were called churches, but not the house but the people who gathered in them.
Rom 16:5 Greet also the church in their house.
1Co 16:19 The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Priscila, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.
Col 4:15 Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.
Phm 1:2 and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house.
As for the true Temple of God, we see that now with God's New Covenant with men, believers constitute the Temple of God's Spirit.
Heb 12:22-24 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Eph 2:19-22 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a Holy Temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
1Co 3:16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1Pe 2:4-5 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
The primary difference between the Sons of God in the Old Covenant and the Sons of God in the New Covenant, is that now, God dwells in the physical body of his Sons, while in the Old Covenant He did not, and this is the great mystery that was revealed to the apostle Paul.
Col 1:24-27 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1Jn 4:4 You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
2Co 6:15 And what agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever? And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
There are many more passages like these above, but in them it is clearly stated that God Himself dwells in us. Now it is amazing to see that most Christians, despite having the New Testament at hand, still have an Old Covenant mind set, that is, they believe that being accepted by God depends on their good works, on their good behavior, on whether or not they keep the 10 Commandments or the commandments of the particular denomination to which they belong, some of which still have “priests”.
Act 13:37 But He whom God raised again saw no corruption. Therefore be it known to you, men, brothers, that through this One the forgiveness of sins is announced to you. And by Him all who believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses.
Gal 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but through faith in Jesus Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be justified by works of law.
I hope that with these passages alone you can see the main message of the Gospel of Christ, which is justification through faith in Christ. Once we are born again, having been saved by the grace of God and through faith in Christ, we receive the Spirit of God who gives us the strength to walk in holiness, as we renew our minds with the Word of God, which transforms us to be more like Jesus.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Col 1:21-22 And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish, and without charge in His sight,
Rom 5:10 For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
As for what I am pointing out about “priests”, now in the New Covenant, the Church no longer needs priests, because all of us believers are priests.
A priest is a person who, by divine call, becomes an intermediary between God and the people. This was the function of the priests in the Old Covenant, who brought to the Temple of Yahweh the animals and the offerings brought by the people and which were sacrificed for the forgiveness of their sins, according to the laws of Moses. The Israelites could not come directly into the presence of God, because of their sinful nature, and whoever dared to even approach the holy place died, 2 Samuel 6:5-7.
Now there is not a single passage in the whole New Testament where any disciple is called “priest”, the only one who is called a priest is Jesus.
Rev 1:5 even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and made us kings and priests to God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1Pe 2:5 you also as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Moreover, the Apostle Paul points out that the role of leaders in the Church is to equip the saints, the members of the Church so that they may grow up in every way as Christ.
Eph 4:11-15 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Heb 10:9-22 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying. “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,” then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
In other words, once Jesus as the High Priest came before the Father and offered his blood to redeem us from all our sins, now all of us can enter the Most Holy place with full assurance, as beloved Children before God, since we have been sanctified by his blood. Hallelujah!
I am not going to mention the number of religious rituals that are practiced in various denominations or the clothes that the religious wear in their temples, of which there is no Biblical foundation for them either. Neither Jesus, nor the apostles, nor any disciples advocated that type of clothing, nor ritual.
Can we really call that "Christianity”? This does not mean that there are no true Children of God within these denominations, yes there are some, they also will one day stand before the Presence of the Throne of God, as Children of our beloved God. God doesn’t blame the sheep for being misled as much as He does the bad leaders. We can’t really blame people for having followed some wrong doctrine; what counts is God’s love in their hearts. But God is calling us all, to be like our Lord Jesus.
Jn 14:12-14 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Mar 16:17-18 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Luk 10:19 Behold, I give to you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the authority of the enemy. And nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Jn 17:20-23 And I do not pray for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on Me through their word, that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one, I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Act 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Jesus assured us that we would represent Him with the same power of the Holy Spirit, so that just as the works of the disciples were confirmed by the power of the Holy Spirit of God, so also our witnessing is confirmed by the same Holy Spirit, and so we will do it to the ends of the earth.
Mar 16:20 And going out, they proclaimed everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the Word by miraculous signs following. Amen.
So the Church is made up of all true believers all over the world, who are filled with the Spirit of God, no matter what denomination they may belong to. What makes us true Christians is having been born again into the Kingdom of God, through faith in Jesus: Rom 10:9-10.
The only way to bear fruit for the Kingdom is to abide in Jesus and His Word. Jn 15:7-8
Of course, we must be doers of the Word and not just hearers only. Jas 1:22-25 But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror. For he studied himself and went his way, and immediately he forgot what he was like. But whoever looks into the perfect Law of liberty and continues in it, he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work. This one shall be blessed in his doing.
So all the Children of God of different denominations who are listening to the call of God, will enlist in this mighty Army of God of the End Time. God Himself is the One who is raising His Army and who is in charge of uniting us, God receives all the Glory!
Dan 11:32b-33a but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Dan 12:3 And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
It is hard for me to think that there would be any Christian who knows these passages and who would not want to be in this group. “The people who know their God”, or to be among those who are wise and therefore instruct and guide many to righteousness. That's a challenge.
And that is precisely the reason why in the 13th chapter of Revelation we are mentioned among the main enemies of the Antichrist, to whom he makes war and apparently will destroy. But just as Satan thought that he had eliminated Jesus on the Cross, so he will also think that he has won by martyring the Saints, only to discover that it will be Christ himself at the head of his Saints, who will overcome him irreversibly, when Christ returns to implant his Kingdom here on Earth for the next millennium.
Rev 13:7 And it was given to it to war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given to it over every tribe and people and language and nation.
Rev 19:11-21 And I saw Heaven opened. And behold, a white horse! And He sitting on him was called Faithful and True. And in righteousness He judges and makes war. And His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head many crowns. And He had a name written, one that no one knew except Himself. And He had been clothed in a garment dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies in Heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, so that with it He should strike the nations. And He will shepherd them with a rod of iron. And He treads the winepress of the wine of the anger and of the wrath of Almighty God. And He has on His garment, and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. And I saw one angel standing in the sun. And he cried with a great voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come and gather together to the supper of the great God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of commanders, and the flesh of strong ones, and the flesh of horses, and those sitting on them, and the flesh of all, both free and slave, both small and great. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth and their armies, being gathered to make war against Him who sat on the horse, and against His army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet doing signs before it, (by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast), and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone. And the rest were slain by the sword of Him who sat on the horse, it proceeding out of His mouth. And all the birds were filled from their flesh.
Rev 20:1-4 And I saw an angel come down from Heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. And he cast him into the abyss and shut him up and set a seal on him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that he must be loosed a little time. And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Dan 7:13-14 I saw in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. And dominion and glory was given Him, and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations and languages, should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
As we read in those passages, the true Church is and will be a triumphant Church since the gates of Hades will not prevail against her. We must therefore, if we are not already doing so, do our best to unite with Christian Churches that are active in preaching the Gospel and that are filled with the power of the Holy Spirit.
Blessings… Alejandro
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