CHURCHWARNINGS 09

Churchwarnings 09

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To those of us who went astray,HOW DID WE GET HERE?

Exodus 34:10,11 KJV

And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. Observe thou that which I command thee this day;

N.I.V.
Then the Lord said: I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you. Obey what I command you today.

In the hearts of God’s people is a great puzzlement.

Why have we not seen the marvels, the awesome work, why in spite of all the ‘manifestations’, we see strewn on the floors of our fellowships, is this gnawing grief in our hearts, that we’re not really seeing what is promised in these verses.Word Faith ministries and Prosperity Gospel preachers are saying “ This is it”But our hearts cry in horror, “Is this it?The rampant deceptions, the many fake signs and wonders.How did we get here?
Where did we go wrong?It seems it all began in the Garden of Eden.Gen 3:1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord had made.The N.I.V. uses the word ‘crafty’.

The ‘thought’, the ‘concept’ that the command of God could have a ‘twisted’ interpretation was ‘imported’ by Eve from the serpent.By one act of disobedience, Adam and Eve went from being Edenistic to Hedonistic.The subtle tricks of the serpent can be discerned by studying the condition, the church is in today.Remember, the serpent was subtle. It is he who subtly exports to us the world philosophies, formulas and works. And he uses people. He makes ‘importers’ out of some. He doesn’t need many. Adam was the first man, but Eve was the first importer. And look how quickly she passed on her imports.

The Bible warns us of things ‘imported’ from the nations around us.

God told Moses in Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou has polluted it.

Exodus 23:20-30

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.023:021Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.023:022But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.023:023For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.023:024Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.023:025And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.023:026There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.023:027I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.023:028And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

Our God is a Jealous God. Strange, how we all ‘know’ that!He does not want us to go awhoring with other gods. All promises are on the condition that we obey.But church, have we obeyed?Aren’t we doing what Ahaz did?
Look what happened to the earthen altar.Read this:2kg16: 17-20

And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD,and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.

And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went upagainst Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, andsaw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashionof the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent fromDamascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the kingapproached to the altar, and offered thereon.And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering,and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefrontof the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on thenorth side of the altar.And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burnthe morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burntsacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land,and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the bloodof the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be forme to enquire by.Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them;and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, andput itupon the pavement of stones.And the covert for the sabbath that theyhad built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the houseof the LORD for the king of Assyria.


When the Altar of God is altered , everything is altered.Ahaz (2 kg 16:10-18 ) saw something in Damascus, that appealed to him, and he ‘imported’ itto the Temple of God, and thereby polluted the Temple.If we’re polluted inside we pollute outside. Not just the surroundings, but the people, too.Spiritual decay sets in.The heart condition of Urijah was so different to that of Phineas, the priest with a zeal for God(Num 25:6-18) who brought true judgment , and turned back the wrath of God. The plague was stayed.We as children of God, see this decay as a plague in our midst. We must understand that,only true and just judgments as according to the Word of God will stay the plague.

Back to Ahaz

Ahaz, went to Damascus without a revelation or encounter with God, and cast off all restraint. Onechange led to another. The Temple was no more as God planned it, but was now it was as manplanned it.
Ahaz was blinded by the works of the flesh. He ‘imported’ a worthless altar.

He had the skills of men wasted, in worthless pursuits, in the Temple of God.He led the priests to sin. And the priests seemed to like having it so. They never protested, but rather‘went along’ with Ahaz and became thereby partners in sin.You change just one thing, and the lust to keep on changing things in the House of God, increases.

Church! Put an embargo on all ‘imports’.

Our own ‘church’ history is replete with examples, , of how we’ve corrupted and pollutedthe earthen altar, of how we’ve hewn the stone, and lifted up our tools to it.

Church leaders like Ahaz, have traveled around the world and brought back shopping bags full of‘good’ ideas.

Many amongst us have lusted to ‘import’ philosophies, concepts, logics, from nations.We have lusted to ‘import’, and by the works of the flesh, to fill our lack. Some of us have importedthe music of demons. We are so overawed by the money, success, the size and numbers of ministriesaround the world, or around the corner, that we have lusted, and imported theirformulas. We want to look like them, make ‘bold faith confessions’ like them, we want to shout, screamand thump like them, fall on the floor like them, as if shocked by the ‘electrocution’.We want to be rich like them, we want to have testimonies like them, we want to have ‘deep’revelations like them.We want to join their ‘fellowships’, spiritually, meaning their ‘ME-GENERATION’, Clubs.And sing, ‘It’s all about me, Jesus.’ Choruses.

We know from the Word of God, that God does work miracles, He does heal, He does bless Hispeople.But we, we have gone after the seducers, to worship their god, ‘mammon’, and lusted after and believedIn the lie. The false signs and wonders.Have we obeyed God, then?No. Rather we have provoked Him, with our tolerance of false doctrines. We have silently stood byand - watched the ministers mutilate the word of God.We have not been built up in our faith but we’ve certainly been built up in our greed.We’ve been seduced because we liked to have it so.

Many leaders have preached a strange mixture. Their sermons begin well enough, with a couple ofverses from the Bible. They tell us of some new ‘movement’ of God, and we believe, becausewe like to have it so.They promise us a journey into a ‘new dimension’. They enumerate a list of 10 worthless things to jotdown.And after those couple of verses, thereafter, We never hear Scripture again.

Just personal ramblings, boastings, rib-tickling jokes, inflated numbers that attended their crusades,claims of unverifiable healings, claims of ‘heavenly ‘ encounters, ( most of which reeks of angel-worship)for which we have to exercise the sum total of our faith to believe, and when we just refuse tobelieve, we are told we lack faith.

Nothing they say, has any substance to draw us to God, or cause us to repent, but rather, in theirshallow preaching, suddenly , by their subtle skills and crafty verbal maneuverings, they’ve abductedus, and left us high and dry on the deserted highways , with no spiritual food or shelter, naked andconfused. They tell us we’re in this pitiable condition, because we “just didn’t believe.”

‘Just believe’ is the instruction they give is.You see the corruption of the word JUST BELIEVE?

You who boast of your ‘glory’ being known in all the nations.

We ask you.

Just believe what?That Jesus can be bought by money?Just believe what?That by constantly ‘confessing’ I am not a sinner, the ‘faith’ behind the words will do away with the needfor good old fashioned repentance of my sins?Just believe what?That our gifts of money to your ‘ministries’ will cover the multitude of our sins?Just believe what?Your New Age, ecumenical philosophies?

These ‘greek gods’ speak philosophies, and write ‘How to” books. These are basically manualsand sets of instructions, on How to make them rich.In essence, what they’re preaching is that Jesus is no more our Lord. He’s been made our race horse,on whom we place our money and bets, to double our money. The prosperity gospels seem teach usto treat the Name of Jesus Christ as just another safe listing on the international Stock Exchange.It’s a company run purportedly in His Name, by self-appointed directors, who fleece the ‘investors’,and have all the ‘perks’, and like Eli’s sons, keep the choicest for themselves.

Spiritual pimps have lured us to harlots. Because we liked to have it so.

Whether one suffers or many suffer, the pain is ours, dear Body of Christ.
Is it right that we warn not our own, from dangers that are ensnaring us? Is that love?
In the Book of Judges, Gideon is asking God, (obviously without understanding the gravity of thesins of his people), (Judges 6:13)……and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying , Did not The Lord bring us up from Egypt?

We too are asking where be all His miracles? For when we came miraculously out of our Egypts,to be born-again, we all believed in this Awesome God. A few years on, the question‘where be all His miracles’, seems like just a ‘hopeless’ sigh in some of our hearts.We are disillusioned.

We don’t see it in this counterfeit . But now the counterfeit has driven many to seek protection in dens and caves.We read of the oppressions of the ”Midianites, Amalekites and the eastern people“ upon the wealth of Israel.How can we war against these raids?It seems, that just as the time of the Book of Judges, we seem to be going through a cycle of ‘robbed and released’, but never totally free.As in the Book of Judges times, (Judges 21:25), we all seem to be doing what is right in our own eyes.

YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.

God instructs us plainly in: Judges 6. But will we learn?

Vs 25……. Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.Vs 26 Then build a proper kind of altar to the Lord your God on the top of this height.
It was such a fearful thing to do in those times, that Gideon took ten men, and did this in the nighttime.

There is fear of man encircling us. We know the ministries that twist our faith and doctrines.We know some of them by their names and others by their works. But now knowing the distortions, yet some are afraid to speak out, or name names, whilst others who are willing to do it, are waiting for nightfall to tear down the altars.

Church!Know that we serve a Jealous God.Tear down the high places.Break down the images. Tear down the places where we all went awhoring.Pray for courage and godly counsel and strategyExpose these ministries and their doctrines, in broad daylight.Declare war on all who would rob us of our inheritance and our loved ones.Speak the Word of God with Boldness, Truth and Love.

The Amalekites, against whom Gideon was to war, look what Ex 17:15, 16 says about them.(Moses held up his arms and Israel won the war against the Amelikites.)

Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner. He said, “For hands were lifted up to the Throne of the Lord. The Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation.”

From generation to generation, the Amalekites, come as locusts, to devour us, to loot us and rob us of our peace. Their horses run over our harvest fields and flatten them.The Lord’s sheep have been taken captive by seducing philosophies, by spiritual whoredoms, by deceptions and poverty.Want to save our harvests? Let’s fight the Devourer.Identify him and fight him.

Zechariah 1:18-21 The Four Craftmen.
Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. I asked, ‘What are they coming to do?”He answered “ These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it’s people.”

Church, you need not hang your head in shame.God is commissioning the craftsmen, those skilled and honed in the Word of God, to tear down the altars these deceivers have built in high places. Tear them down in broad daylight.

David was robbed by the Amalekites, at Ziklag. Read 1 Sam 30

David inquired of the Lord, and God assured him that he would surely overtake the Amalekites, and rescue those who had been taken captive, the young and the old, that belonged to the camp of David.David believed in God’s promise, he went after the Amalekites in hot pursuit and brought back the captives.Vs 19 : Nothing was missing.Not one was missing. All were accounted for.

All these Scriptures are our keys for the present day war against deception.John 17:12Jesus praying to our Father, said: “ While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by the Name that you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture Would be fulfilled.”Both David and Jesus cared for their sheep. Because of that love, that care, none were lost, nothing was missing, not one was unaccounted for.God is raising up Davids who have the shepherd heart to understand, that not one ought to be missing.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, let us abide in, and by His Word. Let us be hidden by it, let us be strengthened by it, and let us make war, by the strategies His Word offers us.Speak the Word with boldness.

Don’t hide in caves and dens, out of fear.Set your face as flint, to do the work of God.
God is raising up those with the zeal of Phineas, who will annihilate with their sword of the Word, those that bring ‘strange’ mixture into the House of God.

God is placing His watchmen in His church. To watch and warn.

And this is the strategy, for all the soldiers going to war.Tear down the altars.Let not the covetous alter the Altar.Destroy the imports.Touch not the devoted things. Take care that whilst you war, you yourself are not ensnared by the dazzling and seductive hues and textures of the ‘imports’.

Church, here is our call.Expose, by the Word of God, these polluters of our faith. Let us warn our own.

Where are David’s Mighty Men?

You mighty men, trained by God to war, where are you? Rise up. The trumpet has blown.By the counsel of God, recognize your Davids, and accompany them. Dare to pursue the Amalekites, to Ziklag and rescue all that was taken captive.

Prepare church, to hear the sound of the WHIPS, lashing out at the tradesmen in the Temple.
God is handing out Whips, to some of His children.Merchandisers, watch out, can you hear the whip lash?Your carts of merchandise will be overturned. Your pigeons and doves which you sell for the ‘atonement of sins’, will vanish.

Church here is a warning.Ahaz is still sending drawings and blueprints for yet another change in the form of worship.Priests of God, do not aid and abet such wickedness.To the priests who helped Ahaz meddle with the altar, repent, and import no more.
Tear down the altars in high places, lest the Lord tear you.

Let us humbly repent of our whoredoms and return to the Word of God.

THE TABLE OF THE LORD

To many the Table of the Lord has become ‘routine’. Many have taken it too lightly.Many amongst us found the word of God ‘boring’ and unexciting” , so we spiced it up with ‘imports’,Let us examine our hearts.Repent before you partake of His Table.For remember the Bread and the Wine.Partake in it thoughtfully.Which bread are we eating, the leavened or the unleavened?

We must return to the Word of God, but do not be legalistic. Know the Scriptures and the Power of God. There is no remembrance of the Body without the remembrance of the Blood Sacrifice.Remember the death on the Cross, and rejoice in the Resurrection.Remember the Word cannot Live in us without there being death in our flesh.

For the days to come:Exodus 23:29,30I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.

We, in the meanwhile, must return to the Scripture, encourage and warn each other by the correct and pure interpretation. Forsake all works, Church , and let us enter His rest, which we so foolishly and hurriedly abandoned.Many amongst us have sabotaged the prophecies over our lives, because we committed spiritual whoredoms.Let us return to God, and determine now that we will never ever go back to our vomit. Lest He spew us out. This is the time for godly sorrow.Church we’ve got some corporate vomiting to do.

Having done that, let us not return to the vomit but remain in His Presence, or else something worse will happen to us. And we don’t want that do we?Let us spend our time wisely, not in worthless ‘assemblings’, as if in factories, but in diligently searching the Scriptures. Fervently praying in the spirit.

In the coming days, know that God is going to reveal His plans to us a little at a time, step by obedient step, will we hear from Him, the nature and extent of His Purposes for us in these days.

So if any come to you, saying that God has sent them with the ‘ entire blueprint,’ for these times to come, they are lying.And if you believe them, then you have not been healed of your ‘itching ears’.Ask God if the time you spent with Him, was just ‘ a passing confession’.

Step by obedient step. Obey and hear from God. Obey and hear from God.
At times, though you are obedient, it will ‘appear’ as if all are hearing little odd bits and all sound so conflicting and contradictory. Do not be alarmed. Let all the words you have collected, rest at the Feet of the Lord.In the days ahead, your spirit will smile within, as it is led to divinely ponder on them.God will surely explain the bits that are relevant for you, for these times.Trust Him to do that.Above all, seek always to keep your heart pure before God.

As you do this, you will be as a weaned child, not overly concerned about ‘things too marvelous for you to understand.”The Spirit of God in you will constantly gather words, prophecies, even those you’d long forgotten.He will help you recall visions and dreams of old that confirm and when they are threaded together, these words will be as a beautiful necklace. Divine connections will come. People will suddenly appear just to deliver a timely word and disappear. You will walk by faith and not by sight. God is locking His children into His ‘blessed assurance.’ You will not be deterred, come what may.

JUST REMAIN IN HIS REST

Our obedience to His Word, our tender relationship and communications with Him, will help us see for ourselves and hear for ourselves, what God has planned for us. Prophets will only come to confirm what you have already been prepared for, from what you heard and sensed from Him.As we obey, we will no more say as Gideon did….‘Where be the miracles?’

For our hearts will eagerly await, howsoever painful that waiting be ( for it will be painful but the Grace of God will bring us through the fiery furnace of our trials, and help us overcome)So now, let us read His Word again and meditate on it.EX 34:10,11And He said: Behold I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord. For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. Observe what I command you this day.
The awesome and marvelous will be wrought in our hearts first, we will experience a godly liberty.
A freedom in our worship, the fetters that bound us will melt in the Baptism of Fire.

CHURCH! YOU HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED

Jesus Said, My sheep know My Voice. From time to time, do check that it is the Lord you’re hearing from and not from hirelings/charlatans / importers.

CHURCH! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

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Advocate Swarna Jha