Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 31.10.2004
Sifted Church
These days Jesus' owns are getting ready for the judgement that the Christian Church will be met with. It will be a refining judgement. Through it the grains are separated from chaff and straw for the gathering into the heavenly barn.
God refines His people
For three crimes of the Church, and for four, God will not turn away its punishment. Because they have for their false gods' sake despised the teachings of Jesus and have not obeyed the gospel, God will send fire upon the Church and that will consume its proud temples.
They have sold Truth for money and Love for a bad lust. They have trampled on the sufferings of the Son of God as upon the dust of the ground and have perverted the way of the believers.
They have defiled the name of God when they as believers continue in sin thus considering the Son of God a sinner. They have had mercy on their bad deeds and they have sought for support and peace for themselves from many false gods.
However they once had mercy from God after believing the gospel. God blessed them with peace and wisdom and He set them free from the slavery of sin. He led their life and gave them a good lot in Jesus.
When they turned away from the way of God, He sent rebukers for them. But others they tempted to worship their idols and to others they said: "Do not preach!"
Therefore God crushes them as sheaves are weighed down on the threshing-floor. Then no-one of the members of the church is able to hold one's position. Then the bravest hero of faith will flee away from the church and take nothing with him.
"The most courageous men of might shall flee naked in that day, says the LORD." Amos 2:16 "A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled naked, leaving his garment behind." Mark 14:51-52
For three crimes of the Church, and for four, God will not turn away its punishment. Because they have for their false gods' sake despised the teachings of Jesus and have not obeyed the gospel, God will send fire upon the Church and that will consume its proud temples.
They have sold Truth for money and Love for a bad lust. They have trampled on the sufferings of the Son of God as upon the dust of the ground and have perverted the way of the believers.
They have defiled the name of God when they as believers continue in sin thus considering the Son of God a sinner. They have had mercy on their bad deeds and they have sought for support and peace for themselves from many false gods.
However they once had mercy from God after believing the gospel. God blessed them with peace and wisdom and He set them free from the slavery of sin. He led their life and gave them a good lot in Jesus.
When they turned away from the way of God, He sent rebukers for them. But others they tempted to worship their idols and to others they said: "Do not preach!"
Therefore God crushes them as sheaves are weighed down on the threshing-floor. Then no-one of the members of the church is able to hold one's position. Then the bravest hero of faith will flee away from the church and take nothing with him.
"The most courageous men of might shall flee naked in that day, says the LORD." Amos 2:16 "A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled naked, leaving his garment behind." Mark 14:51-52
Christian Church will be destroyed
Hear this word the LORD has spoken against His Church. Only through the gospel has God chosen you of all families of the earth. Therefore He will punish you for your crimes done against the gospel.
If there happens a disaster in the world that God has caused, He has beforehand warned of it. Surely God does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
The Lord Jesus has spoken: who can put prophesy? Christians do not know how to do right. They have filled their temples with plunder that violates the gospel. Therefore the enemy of the church will destroy Christianity everywhere in the world. Hear this and testify against the Christian Church and declare: God will destroy the altars of the churches. He will tear down the chapels and temples and the many mansions of the Church will be demolished.
Do not seek a temple, but seek God and live. Do not go to the church, but go to the LORD of the church and live. Do not journey to festivals of your church, but walk on the ways of Jesus and find life.
Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God will be with you, just as you say He is.
Hate evil, love good and maintain justice in your quarrels and God will have mercy on the remnant of the church!
Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It will not be a day of the rapture of the church, but the day of its judgement. You say that the church has been raptured, because it has not been mentioned anymore in the revelation of the apostle. Why did it not come into your mind that it is not mentioned anymore, because it is dead?
Thus you are waiting for the day of the LORD as the rapture to be able to flee from the Beast. As though someone fled from a lion only to meet a bear.
God hates the festivals of the denominations and He doesn't like the solemn atmosphere of the temples. Even though you sing praise songs to God, He doesn't accept them, and He doesn't participate in your Holy Communion. Away with the noise of your songs! God doesn't want to listen to your music. But do justice to the word of God and put it into practice in your daily life.
Have you carried the name of God before the nations and represented His Kingdom during these 2000 years? You have carried the name of your religious hero and represented your national state idol, but you have not cared for the name of your Redeemer. Therefore God will let the world government hold you in captivity.
Woe to you who put off the evil day and bring near a reign of religious terror. Woe to you who live a luxurious life at the expense of killing the friends of Jesus. Woe to you who make spiritual songs, beautiful and tender, but not laments of backsliding Christians. Therefore just you will be among the first to be arrested. Then the shouts of joy of pretenders will end.
God Himself has declared this. "I abhor the pride of the Church!"
Hear this word the LORD has spoken against His Church. Only through the gospel has God chosen you of all families of the earth. Therefore He will punish you for your crimes done against the gospel.
If there happens a disaster in the world that God has caused, He has beforehand warned of it. Surely God does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
The Lord Jesus has spoken: who can put prophesy? Christians do not know how to do right. They have filled their temples with plunder that violates the gospel. Therefore the enemy of the church will destroy Christianity everywhere in the world. Hear this and testify against the Christian Church and declare: God will destroy the altars of the churches. He will tear down the chapels and temples and the many mansions of the Church will be demolished.
Do not seek a temple, but seek God and live. Do not go to the church, but go to the LORD of the church and live. Do not journey to festivals of your church, but walk on the ways of Jesus and find life.
Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God will be with you, just as you say He is.
Hate evil, love good and maintain justice in your quarrels and God will have mercy on the remnant of the church!
Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It will not be a day of the rapture of the church, but the day of its judgement. You say that the church has been raptured, because it has not been mentioned anymore in the revelation of the apostle. Why did it not come into your mind that it is not mentioned anymore, because it is dead?
Thus you are waiting for the day of the LORD as the rapture to be able to flee from the Beast. As though someone fled from a lion only to meet a bear.
God hates the festivals of the denominations and He doesn't like the solemn atmosphere of the temples. Even though you sing praise songs to God, He doesn't accept them, and He doesn't participate in your Holy Communion. Away with the noise of your songs! God doesn't want to listen to your music. But do justice to the word of God and put it into practice in your daily life.
Have you carried the name of God before the nations and represented His Kingdom during these 2000 years? You have carried the name of your religious hero and represented your national state idol, but you have not cared for the name of your Redeemer. Therefore God will let the world government hold you in captivity.
Woe to you who put off the evil day and bring near a reign of religious terror. Woe to you who live a luxurious life at the expense of killing the friends of Jesus. Woe to you who make spiritual songs, beautiful and tender, but not laments of backsliding Christians. Therefore just you will be among the first to be arrested. Then the shouts of joy of pretenders will end.
God Himself has declared this. "I abhor the pride of the Church!"
Sifted Church will be taken up
The eyes of God are on the sinful church and He will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet He will not totally destroy the church. He gives the evil the command to shake it as grain is shaken in a sieve and He doesn't let any genuine grain to be lost.
The Church, hear this word! "Because this is what God will do to you, the Church, be prepared now to meet your God."
Near is the day when God will restore His fallen church and catch it up. However before that moment God will make the earth dark in the middle of a bright day as He did at the moment when Jesus died. "It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining." Luke 23:44-45
"In that day, declares the Sovereign LORD, 'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight." Amos 8:9
"Immediately after the distress of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other." Matth.24:29-31
"I watched as He opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth." Rev.6:12-13
The eyes of God are on the sinful church and He will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet He will not totally destroy the church. He gives the evil the command to shake it as grain is shaken in a sieve and He doesn't let any genuine grain to be lost.
The Church, hear this word! "Because this is what God will do to you, the Church, be prepared now to meet your God."
Near is the day when God will restore His fallen church and catch it up. However before that moment God will make the earth dark in the middle of a bright day as He did at the moment when Jesus died. "It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining." Luke 23:44-45
"In that day, declares the Sovereign LORD, 'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight." Amos 8:9
"Immediately after the distress of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other." Matth.24:29-31
"I watched as He opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth." Rev.6:12-13
The Bible version used in references is NIV