Altering
the Gospel
Isaiah
5:18-21 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and
sin as it were with a cart rope: That say, Let him make
speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the
counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we
may know it! Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that
are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Woe into them that drag iniquity as if it were
a pull toy, and sin as if were a child’s wagon with a rope.
They say let God make speed, and hasten his work, so that we
can play with it. We want God’s counsel now so that we can be
entertained. Woe unto them that change My counsel to suit themselves,
calling good evil and evil good. Woe unto them that package
together light and darkness choosing of both what they want,
and like small children discarding whatever they don’t want
or what won’t play by their rules.
Have we not been guilty of selecting the pieces
of the Gospel for ourselves that we like and discarding others
that either don’t interest us, or that we don’t like? In so
doing have we not set ourselves up as God, and using our inherent
knowledge from the tree of good and evil to pick and choose
the way we want our God to serve us?
This was the sin of the Early Church that caused
them to lose to glory of the Lord. And this is yet the sin of
the Church today that prevents us from recovering the glorious
gospel that was once delivered unto those that were sanctified.
We have falsely believed that by our moving
from one gospel to another gospel is bringing us closer and
closer to the truth. But in our dissecting and reassembling the
truth what we are actually doing is dividing up the word of
God.
The Bible give harsh warnings too him who would
add to the words of this book . . . And the Bible warns of everlasting
destruction to him who would remove words from this book , ,
, This is very dangerous stuff, and yet the preachers of our
hour cavalierly do this everyday.
For those who God has removed the veil over
their hearts and minds in this passage we can clearly see a
clear explanation of how the Early Church fell from grace.
Deuteronomy 1: 23 –43 “And the saying pleased me well:
and I took twelve men of you (Think Apostles), and they went
up into the mountain, and came unto the valley, and searched
it (Think Kingdom of heaven). And they took of the fruit of
the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought
us the word again, and said, It is good which the LORD our God
doth give us. (They brought us the gospel of the kingdom with
demonstration and power) Notwithstanding
ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God: (We
see this rebellion in the Epistles) And ye murmured in your
tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, (God only wants
to punish us and make us suffer) he hath brought us forth out
of the land of Egypt, (Pulled us out of our worldly comforts)
to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites (Evil and corrupt
men) to destroy us. Our brethren (False brethren false teachers)
have discouraged our heart, saying, (The task of walking in
the Spirit and preaching the Gospel is too great) The people
of the world are greater and more powerful than we are; their
cities (Their society and philosophies) are great and walled
up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the giants
there. (Their powerful philosophers, teachers of science and
their ungodly rulers) Then I said unto you, dread not, neither
be afraid of them. The LORD your God which goeth before you,
he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you
in Egypt before your eyes; And in the wilderness, where thou
hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth
bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into
this place. (even after having personally seeing the miracles
and power of God in your behalf and my making specific and personal
promises to you, you still refused to believe) Yet in this thing
ye did not believe the LORD your God, And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and
sware, saying, Surely there shall NOT ONE of these men of this
evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto
your fathers. Moreover your little ones, which ye said
should be a prey, and your children, which in that day
had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go
in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess
it. But as for you, turn you, and take
your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red
sea. Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against
the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the
LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man
his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. And
the LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye
be smitten before your enemies. So I spake unto you;
and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment
of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill. And the Amorites, which
dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you,
as bees do, and destroyed you. And
ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not
hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. So ye abode
in the wilderness many days, according unto the days that ye
abode there.
I see so much in these words I am stunned.
I am taken aback and humbled. Why is the power of God not with
the Church today? It is more than a case of unbelief as some
have supposed – horrible and greivieous sins were committed
against the Lord in the first and second centuries. And in his
wrath God swore that none of those people would enter in to
his promises. I confess that what I see and understand are mere
glimmers. My mind is too finite and dull to grasp the whole
– what I see pains my heart and my spirit. And the knowledge
that the enemy has successfully perpetuated the sin and doctrines
within the so called Church for the last 1800 years with most
Christians acting as the devil’s willing accomplices to spread
his filth and corruption is almost too much emotionally to handle.
Will this be the generation that enters into
the promises of God or will God have to look to another again?
I fear that the Church of this day with its
manifold teachings and seminars, its many programs gauged to
most every need, and its great evangelistic endeavors
has become in its own eyes rich increased with all manner
of goods and in need of nothing.
I fear that the Church with its historic revivals
of last few centuries has become an idol unto itself .
I fear that as in the book of Daniel the Lord
is poised with a rod of steel to small the Idol that Christianity
has become and grind it to powder and let it be blown away in
the four winds
I fear that none has the heart to repent for
their sins and the sins of their fathers. I fear that none has
the burden as a king and priest unto God to bear the sins of
the Body of Christ.
I fear that calamity and judgment shall fall
upon the Church such has never been seen since the beginning
of time nor in Israel as the Lord separates the Church from
its lust of the flesh, its love of the things of the world,
its roving eye for lust and all the doctrines and traditions
it has forged in the fires of hell in the last 1800 years.
The Lord shall have a remnant, the Lord shall
have a people who are holy and blameless before him. And for
many it shall not come because they fell before the stone and
were broken but they shall be chosen out of the furnace of much
affliction.
What is the day of the Lord that any should
desire it? It is a time of great darkness. The sun shall be
clothed with sackcloth, the moon shall no longer give its light,
and the stars of the heavens shall cease their shining. The
earth shall wander out of its appointed rotation around the
sun and stagger like a drunken man. The times and seasons shall
be cut off, and the fields and trees shall not give their yield.
For men have corrupted the earth and all of my creation, and
the Church has played the harlot lusting after all the corruption
of the world. Therefore
I will cleanse the earth and purge from the Church of all of
her iniquities with the sound of trumpets and the pouring out
of vials will I cause them to drink from their cup of iniquity
to full measure.