IDENTIFYING,
MARKING, AND CONFRONTING
By Steve Van Nattan Romans
16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions |
There are Independent Fundamental preachers, numbering in the thousands, who have a great Doctrinal Statement, they have been to Fundamental colleges, and they come highly praised by other preachers, but they have the wrong fruit. They may well be DAMNED TO HELL. They are not born again, and your preacher may be one of them. Is this your preacher?
You
are now going to read a list of thorns. There are no figs in the list below. If
you go to find good fruit at the church house, and all you get is thorns, then
you KNOW that your preacher is a godless hireling and probably unsaved. You either
need to run him off, or you need to get out of there and find a real Christian
fig tree.
Here are a few marks of an unsaved preacher:
Many many Independent Fundamental preachers are overweight, many are literal buffoons, herb and veggie doctrines, playing with the Militia, Bo Gritz, Tax Rebellion, yannis and greys, and in general, any screwy thing they can lay their hands on-- anything but serving the saints, feeding sheep, and STUDY the Word of God. The average Fundamental church preacher is a lazy slow belly who will NOT teach because he will not study. We were in attendance when one preacher was in the pulpit ready to start the service, and someone walked in the back door. The preacher immediately walked to his office and grabbed another set of sermon notes from the file cabinet and abandoned the book study he was doing. The vast majority of preachers dive into their sermong barrel, file of sermons, for something they did ten years ago, or worse, something they stole from Jack Hyles or Peter Ruckman.
THE ABOVE MEN ARE NOT BORN AGAIN If you have one, run him off at once. He does not need to repent, he needs to be turned over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh. This sort of cheap scum will indeed repent, but only to save his acre and his seat of power. False repentance is far more deadly than open rage and hate. These slow bellies are NEVER sincere in repentance. They have devils ruling them and their home, and ALL of their acts of religious affect are just that-- fake. These men are beyond hope, there is no way to reclaim them. They were fakes from day one, and it is in their blood and soul to deceive for the pay check. Show NO mercy on them.
If you rebuke a truly born again man, he will receive it, and he will consider your words. If you rebuke an unsaved fake preacher, he will thrash you at once. You know him by this response. If you have the authority, run him off at once. Perhaps you have watched a Fundamental preacher, usually over 350 lbs fat, posture and pose as people around him listen to how wonderful he is. He is so cool, and he knows it. His words flow out in a sort of casual compelling manner that enthralls the weak minded. A sort of Henry Kissinger of the preacher's club. If you even LOOK bored with him, he will catch it and shunt you to the rear of the party. You need to slam him loud and before the sheep publicly. Rebuke him for not shutting his big flap trap and sitting still once in a while. Ask him if he ever learns anything by LISTENING. Ask him to describe how his personality is like that of The Lord Jesus Christ. Chapter and verse please. You will be cast out of the synagogue of course, but you should not go quietly when you leave a hireling pastor. The sheep around him need to see him for what he really is.
And, this is the strange thing folks-- These slow bellies are taken in over and over by churches who think they are great pastors. Somehow, there are local churches which LOVE these wicked sinners. Let me make something very clear. Most of the great men you read about in the Sword of the Lord and other church rags crave or accept the adulation of one another. They write up a man, long before his death, as a walking wonder. Why? Answer: The famous Amos built huge Sunday Schools, or he allegedly won thousands of souls to Christ. When your pastor exalts men at a distance, whether Lee Roberson, Peter Ruckman, Jack Hyles, or any other man, he is exalting man instead of Jesus Christ. A truly great man does NOT care for this, and the men who clearly love the adulation, like Lee Roberson, are hirelings. The local church is as high a place as the Holy Ghost wishes to do his work. You and your pastor are all the help he needs if you are surrendered to serve him. Rebuke you pastor sharply when he exalts other men, even men visiting to speak in your church. If you pastor introduces such visiting evangelists or missionaries with boastings of their works, you are in order to stand and ask the pastor to stop it and let the man speak. An introduction should INTRODUCE, not exalt. Jesus Christ is the ONLY one who should be exalted in your gatherings. Frankly, the modern idea of an evangelist is far from the New Testament evangelist. As a pastor, I never brought in evangelists. They teach false doctrine, they play tricks at the altar call, they are free loaders and often have big bellies, and they don't stay long enough to accomplish anything. They are almost always men who tried to pastor and could not cut the mustard, so they hit the road and live off the offering plate of many churches. I have heard many stories of evangelists who were into porn and were unfaithful to their wives. One evangelist in California would visit bars at a distance when the meetings were over. Get your eyes on Jesus and the ordinary hicks he has given you in your local church. Jesus was very comfortable plodding along the paths of Galilee with fishermen and common men. All of the above applies to your local church's missionaries also. They must NOT have diplomatic immunity from examination. Do you KNOW they are doing anything on the field? Have you ever done a check with other missionaries on their field to see if they are even there, let alone witnessing for Christ? I have to conclude, from observation, and from my own days in missions, that about 95% of all local churches and pastors do not have any idea what their missionaries are like and what they are doing. They just believe the furlough reports. These are almost ALWAYS exaggerated, and are often bold faced fabrications of success and victory.
MESSAGE TO DEACONS: If you have identified such a hireling unsaved pastor in your own local church, and if you have two other witnesses, leading men living orderly, who have SEEN and HEARD the same things you have, YOU MUST CONFRONT THIS WICKED PASTOR. If he defends ANY or his wickedness, or if he lashes out at you, or if he tries to cast you out of the synagogue, RUN HIM OFF. Do this suddenly, and do it physically if necessary. Do NOT let him back into the church house once you have evicted him. Serve him notice to vacate the parsonage in the shortest time allowed using lawful force in writing. I have seen the tricks these men play, and they have studied ways to rip off the local church as they leave. If he tries any tricks, use extreme forces, set his house contents on the curb, and change all the locks on the church house and the parsonage. You owe him nothing. He is a devil. He may be backed by Satanists, sodomites, or the Roman Catholic Church, such as Opus Dei. Never do anything without witnesses. Give him as little as possible in writing. Change all bank and checking accounts BEFORE you confront him so that he cannot empty the accounts. If your pastor calls in some pastor from far away, the following applies:
Lastly, this is war, and you dare not back off until you have run the hireling off. The ONLY exception to the above is when your pastor comes to you FIRST, and he confesses sin in his manner of conduct as a pastor or in his personal life. If you believe he is in true repentance, then you must put him under church discipline, remove him from his duties as pastor for a time, and call in pulpit supply. If your pastor shows fruit unto repentance and righteousness, one day you must restore him to his ministry. But, he must follow YOUR schedule for restoration and submit to the leading men of your local church. Again, accept NO help from men outside of your assembly, for they will always pervert the thing out of sympathy for the fallen pastor. If there is a memorial of sin, like a divorce, bastard child, or a jail record, you may still have to send the pastor away at the end of the restoration time. You cannot commend him to any other local church either, for the memorial is there and will not go away. There is one more serious hazzard in dealing with hirelings. Let the Word define them:
The hireling pastor, once your put his feet to the fire, will start courting the women in your local church to come to his aid. He will target devout, honorable women. He will take up the role of Satan in the garden with Eve. He will offer these women power over the men, and over you. He will even work the wives of the deacons if he can find a way, often through his kids and the deacons' kids. If you see this happening, you will have to rebuke the women, using godly women who are not deceived, and "church" the first one who gets cheeky with you. There will be tears and pleadings, and you will have to stand firm and NOT give way to the emotional attacks of Satan. After the eviction and excommunication of the pastor, you will have a troubled church. There is no way to avoid this. War is messy. You will need a time when the deacons will have to heal. Those who offended you, and who you feel should stay in the church, must be helped to get over it. This will take personal pastoring, and the deacons will have to do it. You ran off the enemy, but the aftermath is troubling. You are as wicked as that hireling pastor if you have no spirit of mercy and love for the wounded sheep. Many ugly things may come tumbling out after that pastor is run off. Anything, from sodomy and child molestation on down the scale of offenses may come out. You need to be much in prayer that God will strengthen you to help restore the fellowship of the saints to good health. Don't run looking for another new pastor to come in and clean up the mess. THAT IS YOUR JOB. If you need counsel from outside, go to a man who did not know your pastor, or a man who was hated by your pastor, IF your pastor hated him for the right reasons. Finally, this is no time to leave the local church. If you went into this battle, and the church is now delivered of the hireling, you are obligated to stay for a good period of time to see restoration and to help the church find another pastor by and by.
If God will cast Satan out of heaven, why should YOU not cast Satan's servant out of your local church?
Give a Wide Berth to the USS Brother Bull Horn Two things have happened recently which call for an observation on another strange phenomenon happening in Fundamental church and Pentecostal circles.
I will now tell you what is happening. Fundamental Jackboot preachers do NOT have a leg to stand on with regard to this Baptist Heritage thing. Real researched history, BY MEN FAVORABLE TO THE ANABAPTISTS, proves that the name Baptist, as applied to a movement, was not used until AFTER the Anabaptists were starting to be washed out by compromise and legalism. Thus, about 1650 at the earliest. Before the Anabaptist era there were NO Baptists. It takes a gullible fool to make a Waldensean, Abergensian, or a Donatist into a Baptist. If you can do that, can you also make lead into gold. It would take just as much alchemy, or devilment. We need to also mention that Charismatic claim Rhema and Branham heritages, and the Brethren churches claim their heritage is superior. The heritage game is played by all associations and denominations. At this end of the Dispensation of Grace, it seems no one wants the heritage of Jesus Christ alone. So, when you have a Mother Goose fairy tale history, and, may I add, when you won't study for your sermons and research your claims, you have to raise your voice. The Jackboot preacher is really trying to yell and scream loud enough so that you will be overwhelmed by the hubris and adrenal frenzy of the moment, and he hopes that your brain does not go into gear. It worked for Adolph Hitler and Fidel Castro, and it works with the average dumbed down saint in the pew. He submits to Mother Goose. Have you also kissed your brain bye bye, friend? There is another factor compounding this problem. Many Fundamental preachers have learned, from attending preacher's conferences and rallies, that you can be the center of attention if you are loud and project a powerful force of presence. It works, in the foyer, at the noon meal dinner table, in the parking lot, and even downtown when you meet some other leader or Christian. Our family has gotten pretty good at identifying Fundamental Baptist and Pentecostal preachers in the market place. They spew, swagger, and roar around in their dumpy overstuffed suit, and they are the center of attention. If they only knew what the ungodly think of them! Now, I want you to think of the USS Gospel Blimp or Pentecostal preacher you know like this. Next time you see him in action, ask yourself, "Can I superimpose Jesus Christ over this man right now?" Would Jesus, or Paul, be behaving like this in Caperneum or Nazareth. Was this the manner of Paul up on Mars Hill in Athens? In this matter, you cannot tell a particle of difference between a Fundamental Baptist and a Pentecostal Type AAA. So, my dear friend, as you start your House Church, PLEASE shuck off this rowdy noisy approach to Christian zeal. Ask yourself often, "If Jesus came through the door of our House Church right now, would He put His hands over His ears, or even turn and walk right back out the door?"
It is OK to sing with exaltation unto God. But noise and hollering is NOT part of biblical praise.
So, in context, we see that increasing more and more does NOT mean getting louder and louder, and we also see that being a blessing to "them that are without" will NOT include screaming and spewing in their face.
One thing is worse than a USS Brother Bull Horn-- That is, a hollering and bawdy Bull Horn woman. This is the ultimate devilish side show and will drive off any thinking saint or sinner alike.
LETTER FROM A VICTIM: Comment: Steve Van Nattan-- I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has sent strong delusion on these Fundamental Jackboot preachers, and thousands more in Pentecostal and other churches. We read that God sent a lying spirit to inspire the priests of Ahab to lie to him and exalt Ahab and his war strategies. I Kings 22 The lies of the priests became the motivating message that sent Ahab into battle and to his death. I believe that God has sent a lying spirit to each of these jackboot preachers to motivate them to fill the cup of God's wrath against them. The biggest lie is "pastoral rule" which supplants the place of Jesus Christ as head of his Church. I believe that just before the rapture of the Lord's Church, Christ is causing these hireling preachers to drive the true saints OUT of organized local churches. When you see God fearing KJV only Bible believers outside the local church, whipped, and alone, and when you realize they have not been disruptive, consider what is before you my friend. These saints are not dumb clucks, but they have sat quietly and only spoken to the pastor if they wanted to establish some area of zeal or conviction which might differ with the status quo. When you see such saints languishing, you better stay clear away from the local church and pastor that excommunicated or drove off those saints. If you stand by and lend approval, even silent consent, to such a jackboot program, you are a devil just like the jackboot preacher. If you have watched several good people be pushed steadily toward the door, or sensed that they were attacked by the preacher during altar calls and as sermon illustrations, you are a fool, possibly a damned fool, if you do not get out of that local church and find another way to walk with God and the saints. Damned fool? Too strong? Not if you are under complete submission to such a hireling preacher. That means your head is not Jesus Christ, and, regardless of what Bible you carry and what blather you speak, you are risking damnation for coming under the headship of man. Is it worth it? So, here is how it works in Canada. You cannot find peace with God and His Word and, at the same time, find peace with the wicked jackboot egomaniacs. They serve Satan worldwide.
So, again, who is YOUR head? Are you encouraged, not tolerated or belittled, as you examine the teachings and practices of the local church you attend? Acts
17:10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea:
who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. There are preachers who exalt the Bereans of Acts, even naming their church after them. But, when those few sheep sitting in front of those preachers open the Word and ask questions, those preachers rush those folks to the door or thrash them in their sermons. Jackboots hate Bereans. Get used to it, saint-- we are at war with jackboots who thrash Bereans.
Leodicean Christianity and Jackboot preachers During the 1960s and 1970s, many Bible believing churches were taken over by "the rule of the people," which is what "Leodicean" means in Revelation 3. Churches threw pastors away in record numbers, and the stories of brutality were beyond belief. I knew of one pastor who was voted out after he went home Sunday evening, and Monday morning the Marshall and a couple of deacons were at the parsonage door giving him the minimum notice to get out of the parsonage. Well, things have changed. A new meaner and leaner breed of preachers has evolved who are masters at whipping the flock of God lest they rise up against them. Now, we have preachers who are PART OF the Laodicean mess. Now, the people in the pew AND their pastor have a "rule of the people" arrangement. The people are guruized by the preacher, and the preacher makes very sure to teach, by warping the Word of God in his favor, that he is the center of all church life and practice. Thus, every soul in one of these Laodicean churches is clear out from under the final authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. They give Jesus lip service, but they do not really want His Lordship over them. We must note the Laodicean destiny which Jesus promised these people:
We see that these people are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. They are a total mess, and you cannot convince them to change. You will waste you breath trying to convince them that they have erred. They have to figure it out for themselves, and very few ever will. This is the last church age, and these Jackboots and their guruized followers will soon enter the Great Tribulation. "What," you say, "Fundamentalists and Pentecostals.... Going into the Great Tribulation and to hell?" Right! What better way to deceive the world than with old fashioned KJV Only Bible thumping which is designed by Satan to exalt man? Our friend and street preacher, Rich McIntire, said before he died, that he felt the Antichrist would come on the scene carrying a King James Bible. We saw Bill Clinton, in several photo ops, walking out of the Methodist Church where the preacher said Jesus was a queer, carrying a King James Bible. If you think the KJV Only standard in many of these Jackboot churches is some consolation, I have some fantastic ocean front property I want to sell you just 40 miles due east of Miami, Florida. For the record, I am KJB Only with zero tolerance for funny bibles, but friend, you better not leave it at that. That Jackboot preacher who is bashing sheep in your neighborhood is a type of the Antichrist, for, in the Name of Christ, he is making a little god of himself. The church which would follow him has had its candle stick removed by Jesus, they have been "spued," and they are post-Christian-- sub-Christian. You owe them nothing but mighty rebuke. You better get this right friend. The Jackboot church and its pastor have put Jesus Christ on the OUTSIDE of the local church, and they are without a savior. No other church, messed up as it was in Revelation 2-3, had Jesus standing on the OUTSIDE of the church. This includes the Roman Whore age in Chapter Two (Thyatira-- Rev. 3:18-29). Some of you won't like that, but I can tell you that I have a Catholic priest friend who is far less self-exalting than the average Jackboot pastor I have had to deal with. The Catholic Church has Jezebel inside their church, but they don't have the measure of Satan that Laodicea does. Check it out. This does not mean that my Catholic priest friend is born again, but the point is, Laodiceans are mad with self-love. Many of them make Robert Schuler look paranoid. Their pastor may very likely be demon possessed and was never born again.
NO TIE IN HAMMOND-- Damnation on the rebel Steve, Just read about the truck driver who was afraid to come into church after those guys at another church wouldn't let him in without a tie. Same thing happened to me in 1974, the Sunday after I graduated from Indian Creek Jr. High in Trafalgar, Indiana. I had on the new white dress shirt, black dress pants, new shoes that I wore on my graduation that Friday afternoon, and when I got off the church bus Sunday morning at ____________ Bible Church near my home in ___________, Indiana, I was stopped by the pastor, name of P________, who told me I was "indecent" because I didn't have a tie. Now, this is the wrong thing to do to a then-14 year old teenager. He embarrassed me right in front of the whole church. I WALKED the entire five miles back home and told my dad what he'd done. Dad worked him over pretty good when the sorry rat came back on "visitation" later that week, and he threatened to have him arrested if he ever came back. This nearly turned me forever against Christianity. I didn't accept Christ until 1980, when I was an Airman stationed in Oklahoma. I moved to Tennessee in 1985, and it was here I met my wife. We were married in another Independent Fundamentalist church here, _______, in 1988. The preacher remarked, "Why, we've done plenty of 'poor' weddings!", which was an obvious slam against me as I was employed as a Security Guard at the time and didn't make a whole lot of money. Eventually, they goaded me into going to Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, and I got so sick of Independent churches I eventually just gave up and quit. In 1992, I wound up with pneumonia and my wife would go pick up my class work and I'd do this at home to keep my grades up. I finished that year with a B- or C. I had made the proper arrangements with the school because of my illness so I wouldn't get demerits for not being in church and chapel. Well, lo and behold! I get back to my home town after school was out and go back to _________ Baptist, and that weasel, Bob __________, the assistant pastor, SLANDERED me from the pulpit in front of the entire congregation for 'not obeying the rules of Tennessee Temple.." That was the last straw. I caught him outside and busted him in the mouth and told him what a liar he was. I never went back to TTU, and have never set foot inside another Independent church again! We eventually joined the Southern Baptist church I previously attended, and have been there ever since. I stopped going there for a time because some of the miscreants from _________ Baptist followed me, and started spreading malicious gossip about me at our new church. I told the pastor if he didn't want a slander suit on his hands he'd better "counsel" certain loose-tongued members or all hell would shortly break loose. He promptly kicked these people out and I have had no further problems. These whacko fascist fundamentalists make me sick. They nearly caused me to reject Christ with their legalism. I'm currently researching for a short book about these UN-Christian fundamentalists, and would love to hear from ANYONE who's had these sorts of experiences in Independent Fundamentalist churches! I love your site. You hit it right dead center! Regards,
SAN DIEGO Letter from Bob
_____________________ I forwarded the letter from Bob to my friend in a Bible believing church and Bible Institute. He obviously was disappointed that the people who had come to visit a conference in his church were not very helpful in telling him about the church in San Diego. The following letter is his response to Bob's dilemma. _____________________ Letter
Responding to Bob's letter above:
King James Bible only students need to get used to being the pastor of a very small church in an obscure place. This is because a King James Bible believer will never be received into the larger and big city churches. If they are, they will have compromised in other areas. So, the man training to pastor in the USA must be prepared to never be famous, and he will undoubtedly have to work on the side to support himself.
LAST THOUGHT: Are there God fearing pastors out there who love the Lord's sheep and humbly serve them and feed them? Are there men who consider other men before they consider themselves? Are there men who are content to be in small places and live their life in sacrifice of personal comfort so that God's people are taught, comforted, and brought into sweet fellowship? Yes, of course there are. Thank God for them. When you find such a brother in Christ, love and sustain him, and most of all, pray for him. Be his friend, and stop this bragging on, and exalting, your pastor. When you exalt your pastor, you are serving Satan in tempting your pastor to think more highly of himself then he ought to think. The fools in Hammond did this with Jack Hyles. Make sure you pastor is first among equals, but not some popelet who has to be pampered and fawned over like a prima donna.
TO YOU QUIET PREACHERS: Let me end this item with an observation. We have made a good number of friends in the past who were NOT the rowdy hireling type. They sure did have zeal, and they preached with force of the Spirit of God in their manner in the pulpit. But, they were not this loud offensive type. There still are men like this, and to you who are such, I can only say, don't let this trend of noise and rage change you. We are NOT under obligation to prove our zeal to anyone. Our zeal is to be the work of the Holy Ghost, so it should not be turned on and off to accomplish the needs of our punisimous egos. Let us walk circumspectly. Let us not offend the quiet people. They may be some of our most faithful and thoughtful people. If we drive them off by yelling in their faces, we could one day have nothing left but a convention of buffoon's. Lastly, those are NOT your sheep. They are the sheep of the Master, the Good Shepherd, and YOU ARE ONE OF THEM. You were just as damned to hell, and just as spiritually stupid, as anyone else before you were born again and washed in the Blood of Jesus. You have NO business exalting yourself, or allowing others to exalt you, for you are nothing without Christ. All of your mail order doctorates and your resume are dung, that is, if you are walking in the model of the Apostle Paul. Now, take a deep breath, exhale, and then tell The Lord Jesus Christ you are ready to be nobody for him. Then pick up the phone, and call some dumb lamb who keeps making trouble for you, and take him out to lunch of coffee at HIS favorite cafe.
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A HISTORY LESSON Fundamentalism started in about 1925. Some conference was called somewhere and the "Fundamentals of the Faith" were laid down in a sort of manifesto. This was in response to German rationalism and the earliest trends in ecumenism from Scotland and the deadening of the old line seminaries in the USA. The thing seemed good, and it did make for a new name of derision used by the intellectuals of Christendom. "You are a Fundamentalist!" The religious rags picked up on it over the years, and the media finally made it a vocabulary item for the whole world. During those years, this was a red badge of courage to those who were on the narrow way, for they were considered the weird and kinky folks of Christendom. The thing was actually a healthy thing for Bible believers. They had an identity which helped them step out of the broad way into the narrow Fundamentalist way. As we got into the 60s and 70s it became more acceptable to be a Fundamentalist. The Baptist Bible Fellowship had made its formal and complete flight from the Southern Baptist Convention, and they were starting to call themselves Fundamentalists. The Independent Fundamental Churches of America was by then an old organization, and they were formalizing their forces and recruiting men like John MacArthur. Jerry Falwell, who once held a party for Mr. Moon, was called "Mr. Fundamentalist." The end of the process has come as Billy Graham, who says God receives sincere Buddhists as they are, is being lifted up by the media as the leader of Fundamentalism in the world. I am out of here folks.
Baptist
Bride-- Thousands of gullible Baptists in the pew are being told they belong to the only true church. They are taught to believe that every other professing believer in Jesus Christ, worldwide, is either a secret Brider, or else they are not born again. One mail order doctor told us this when we confronted him. He told us we were Briders and did not know it yet. That is just exactly what John Paul II tells me. He claims I will come back to Papa one day soon. It is the height of effete snobbery for such a beggarly small group of Neo-Nazi bigots to think they are the pure ones, for there are NO Briders in many parts of the world where the Lord has His built His Church. Nor do they have a clue that they are suspect and allegedly on their way to hell, at least according to the Brider blarney. One cheeky doctor in California wants us to accept him as a fine man of God while he tears our face off for not being counted among the Brider number. What a blasted fool. This is precisely what the Popes of Rome did for about 800 years until recent Popes put on the kid gloves. To organize under a name, then add a doctrine, is reverse logic. The only one with this doctrine, from 300 AD until the Briders came along in very recent years, was the Pope! The Body of Christ existed as soon as the saints in Jerusalem began to meet to pray and fellowship, and that church was NOT Baptist. It was Jewish, and no other church has ever existed like it. Why? Simply this-- Nearly all the saints in the church in Jerusalem were God fearing Jews BEFORE the Cross. They were NOT Baptists. The name Baptist was not applied to any churches until about 1400 when the Anabaptists came into existence. Until that time, the saints were called Donatists, Winklers, Stablers, Abergensians (who were mildly heretic in denying the Old Testament like some Baptists defacto), Waldenseans, Cathari, and finally Anabaptists. Ironically, they did not name themselves-- the Pope called them Anabaptists in derision, for they rebaptized all their converts from the Whore. None of the groups before the Anabaptists even spoke the word "Baptist" of themselves. But, some of these jerk Briders claim that all those groups were "secret Baptists." It is sort of the idea, like the rock in the wilderness, that the name "Baptist" followed all the Lord's saints underground as a deep dark secret from John the Baptist onward, and that is precisely what the Briders claim. We have come to the point at this Journal, where we now consider all Briders as unsaved, for they have taken on the Whore doctrine of Papal authority. They claim a church is not valid if it comes into existence without another Brider church officially blessing it. They claim Apostolic succession from John the Baptist, or at least Paul. They will flatly tell you that Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost cannot start a local church without their approval. Thus, if you are a Brider and refuse to repent, you risk damnation. You are a blasphemer of Jesus Christ, who said:
JESUS is the Head and founder of every true church, not some fat faced pot bellied Jackboot Baptist preacher with cherry pie stains on his tie. I have declared war on these scum. Why? Answer: They have wounded many saints and think they are cute. I hope to be faithful to my Lord to hate them with perfect hatred and tear down their stronghold. I hope, in the spirit of Jehu, to do them as much damage as I can in my lifetime. If you are a Brider, you are not a Baptist, you are a devil. You do NOT believe Jesus can build a church without your approval, and you are just another Pope. All Popes go to hell.
How about copying this and send it to a Brider?
PIMPING FOR THE WHORE Proverbs 31:3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. The counterfeit of the Bride of Christ, in the Word of God, is called a Great Whore. From the Anabaptists through Luther and on through the Wesley brothers, all Bible believers have seen the Roman Catholic Church as a whore. Now, a whore does not care about the politics, education, integrity, or methods of a pimp. All the whore cares about is that the pimp send her customers for her vile profession. The Roman Catholic Church lives up to this illustration well. I knew a priest in Arizona who confessed to believe in Jesus Christ alone for his salvation. He replaced the crucifix with an empty cross, and he removed most of the images from the sanctuary. He worked hard, and he kept his mother with him in his apartment so that the parishioners would know that he was not secretly fornicating. In the same city was a priest who was known to be a drunk and a sex pervert. He had a Nazi eagle on a shelf in his library. Did the Whore care? Not at all. The bishop of southern Arizona used both priests to keep control of the Catholic population. The decent priest had much more impact of course, because the population trusted him and loved him. He taught 10 Bible studies around the city plus catechism classes, and Catholics I met who went to his church knew their Bibles and their Catholic doctrine. The Whore was happy with both priests. They kept both the wicked and the decent Catholics faithful. Problem: We have Fundamental churches and Charismatics who pimp for the Whore. We have Paul Crouch, who is presently dealing with a sodomy accusation and whose wife does not live with him, and we had Jack Hyles who boldly claimed he prayed to his mother-- I heard him myself. We have Presbyterians and Methodists who join the Whore at the Mass, and we have jackboot Fundamental preachers who attack the assurance of the saints with accusatory preaching and altar calls in which they make saints into devils, EVERY SUNDAY. The Whore is delighted will all her pimps. When the priest beds down the ladies, or the preacher marries a man and lady in the middle of the night, destruction prevails. The Whore is satisfied. The pimps are drawing the saints AND sinners into one fold-- the fold of doubt and rebellion. Satan and his Whore have what they want, as Francis Schaeffer said, "death in the city." This is the "city of God" of Augustine-- Mother Church, Mother Whore's fold. There is a Universal Church, the Seed Bride, and a Universal Tare Whore. And, they are all mixed up together at this end of the Age of Grace. Question: Are you following a pimp to the Whore? Proverbs
6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction
are the way of life: Many men, like our Web journal, in small places around the world, are calling the sheep to follow Jesus. Many more, in ALL church backgrounds, are calling the sheep to follow them to the Whore. The Pope's priest, and the narrowest Fundamental preacher, are telling you, "Follow me, and I will follow Jesus." This is blasphemy. The whole New Testament is about following Jesus. John
21:20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following;
which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth
thee? What shall this Jack Hyles do? What shall this Benny Hinn do? What shall this John Hagee do? What shall this Fundamental KJV only preacher do? What shall Steve Van Nattan do? WHAT IS THAT TO THEE?-- Follow thou Jesus Christ. Let me ask you a question. What if Steve Van Nattan turned out to be a plant for Opus Dei or the Jesuits? If I went to the Vatican and was exalted to become a Cardinal, would you fall away, or would you walk on down the road following Jesus? If you are not sure, you better get your eyes back on the Author and Finisher of your faith and OFF OF men.
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I
love figs. I have eaten them since I was a little kid in California. I have eaten
figs in Eritrea. I have grown figs in Arizona. I now have a fig tree starting
out its career here in Eastern Tennessee. I know where to find figs, friend. On
a fig tree. I have also had a lot of experience with thorn trees. That includes
in the California desert, in Kenya and Tanzania, and in Arizona. To this date,
I have yet to pick a fig off of a thorn tree. Nor do I expect to.