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November 19, 2025

Message to Thyatira

 

Matthew 7:21-23 (NASB) “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. ²² Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ ²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

• Prophecy
• Deliverance
• Miracles

 

2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 (NASB) Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, ² that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. ³ No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, ⁴ who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

 

(NKJV) Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,

 

Every person is born with an instinctive knowing that there is more to life than what we can see, taste, touch, hear, or feel; that there is definitely a realm beyond this realm that cannot be engaged with our five senses. This innate knowledge has driven mankind to connect with this realm from the beginning of time.

Remember that Adam and Eve walked with God physically in the garden every day. This innate longing, which leads us to seek connection with the unseen realm, defines all religion. Over the generations, our attempts to connect with this other realm have birthed every false pagan religion.

So we have True Christianity, and all other religions fall into two categories: true and false. False religions attempt to connect with the spiritual realm by way of Satan and his minions, giving birth to all the pagan religions.

 

1 Corinthians 10:19-21 (NKJV) What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? ²⁰ Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.

• All attempts to connect with this other realm outside of the Son of God by way of the prompting of the Holy Spirit are simply demon worship.
• Christianity or Satan and demon worship, those are everyone’s choices.
• We can learn a lot about the end of time by carefully examining false religions.
• Not just the main religions, Islam, Buddhism & Hinduism we have today, but the religions going back to the beginning of time, Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and Norse mythology. Why? Because they all have an eschatology. By examining these other beliefs, we are peaking into the enemy’s playbook.

 

2 Corinthians 11:4 (NLT) You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different kind of Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed.

 

Galatians 1:8 (NASB) But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!

 

1 John 4:1-3 (NLT) Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world. ² This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God: If a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ came in a real body, that person has the Spirit of God. ³ But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming into the world and indeed is already here.

 

Revelation 17:5 (NKJV) And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

 

This scripture describes the false religion, the counterfeit church in these last days. As we examine the importance of this letter, we will clearly see that this counterfeit church has been at work in the world since the time of the Tower of Babel.

 

Revelation 2:18-23 (NKJV) The Corrupt and Compromised Church

¹⁸ “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, ‘These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass:

• The angel mentioned here isn’t a spiritual being but the apostolic leader of the Church at Thyatira.
• Jesus refers to Himself as the Son of God instead of the Son of Man in the opening of this letter. Jesus came originally as an innocent Lamb sent to be slain for the sins of the world. He came as the Son of Man. When Jesus comes back, He is coming as the Lion of Judah, the Son of the Most High God, to judge the world of its sin.
• Eyes like a flame of fire and feet like fine brass further describe that Jesus is coming back to Judge. Eyes that see straight through, see straight to the very intention of your heart. Brass at the time was one of the world’s most unyielding metals.

 

¹⁹ “I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first. 

• Ephesus was the unyielding, prideful, self-righteous church that departed from showing the least in society His love.
• Pergamum was the church that tolerated worldliness and allowed false teachers to deceive the local congregations, and this seemingly slight departure from the truth yielded great destruction.
• Thyatira was a loving, caring, working church. But, since they didn’t deal with sin and worldliness decisively, people were easily misled into false doctrine. They were not prideful, unrelenting, or self-righteous.
• Ephesus was strong in doctrine but lacked love. Thyatira was strong in love but weak in doctrine. They weren’t willing to disagree with anyone about doctrinal heresies.
• “It’s common for churches to be polarized in one of these two extremes. Either they will have full heads and empty hearts, or full hearts and empty minds. Either polarization is deadly. God demands both love and sound doctrine.”

 

Revelation 2:20-23 (NKJV) Nevertheless, I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. 

²¹ And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. ²² Indeed, I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. ²³ I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.

 

• Jezebel, who is she? To answer this correctly, we need to do a lot of unpacking.

• How does a church commit sexual immorality?
  • Compromise – failing to call out bad doctrine
    • Word of Faith – prosperity gospel
    • New Apostolic Reformation
    • Christian Nationalism
    • Seven Mountain Mandate
    • Compromise for the sake of unity
    • Consider the number of prominent preachers who have fallen to sexual immorality.
  • Who was Jezebel?
  • Why did Jesus use this person to describe an issue with the Church at Thyatira
  • They commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

 

In discovering who Jezebel is, we need to note the difference between polytheism and monotheism. Polytheism characterizes virtually all religions other than Judaism, Christianity, and “supposedly” Islam, which share a common tradition of monotheism, the belief in one God. Polytheism is the belief in multiple deities.

It is important to note that Islam’s claim to serve the God of Abraham is entirely false.

As Muhammad developed Islam, he borrowed from other regional religions in the Middle East.  These religions include Judaism, Christianity, and several different forms of paganism.  Judaism’s teachings are the most significant contributor to the Islamic faith, followed by Christianity, then by the various pagan religions, and ideas directly from Muhammad’s mind.  These pagan borrowings constitute significant components of Islam.

Muhammed, strongly influenced by Christian missionaries, supposedly rejected 359 of the 360 gods he worshipped and moved from a polytheistic to a monotheistic perspective. He claimed that Abraham and Isaac constructed the Kaaba as a place of worship.

The Kaaba is a large black stone structure resembling a temple, built a few hundred years before the birth of Christ, and located in Mecca, the direction toward which all Muslims pray.

It is thought that the Kaaba was initially set up for astral worship, which is the worship of the second heaven, the stars, the moon, the sun, and the planets.  Golden suns and moons are repeatedly mentioned as ritual gifts.  All pagans, before the birth of Islam, regarded the Kaaba as a temple devoted to the sun, moon, and five planets.

Islam is a polytheistic false religion cleverly wrapped in the lie that it is a monotheistic religion that worships the God of Abraham. If the Bible is to be true, there is only one way to worship the One and True God, that is through Jesus Christ.

The more devoted the Muslim, the more extreme they are. Why, because they are yielding themselves to demons and are eventually totally controlled by the realm of darkness. Islam, as every other false religion, is demon worship.

It will be essential to note that false religions worshipped celestial bodies such as the sun, moon, planets, and stars as we examine how the letter to Thyatira applies to the Body of Christ today.

 

The Abrahamic Accords are an attempt by President Donald Trump to unite the nations of the Middle East under the idea that Judaism, Islam, and Christianity all share a common heritage in Abraham.

 

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3 (NKJV) For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. ³ For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

 

The Abrahamic Accords are an essential foundation for the anti-Christ to come on the scene. The compromise of the Church at Thyatira is their refusal to address false ideas, such as the idea that Islam is an Abrahamic religion.

 

The church of Thyatira represents the papal age, the age of the Roman Catholic Government. Papal is a Latin word meaning ‘papa,’ used in Catholicism to describe matters concerning the pope. In modern English vernacular, we would refer to the pope as the papa of Rome.

To see how this letter applies to us today, we need to examine the Roman Catholic EMPIRE, which is not a church. It is not a sect of the Christian Faith; it is one of, if not the most powerful and wealthiest, nations to have ever existed, and it doesn’t even have a physical military.

 

I assure you, Jezebel has everything to do with Catholicism!

 

Religion has always been, and remains, the most effective way to control the masses. Catholicism is the basis for the counterfeit church mentioned in Revelation 17.

 

Revelation 17:5 (NKJV) And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

 

All through the Old Testament, we see references to Israel and Judah’s idolatry, referred to as spiritual adultery. The false gods they worshipped are referred to as harlots and prostitutes.

Darkness attempts to steal what belongs to God, Jehovah, our true and undefiled worship.

Remember the subtle, wise, and clever approach of the enemy; the path to depravity is paved with small compromises.

Satan isn’t a red-faced mythological creature with a pitchfork and a tail, as most would like us to believe. He is Jehovah’s most splendid, beautiful, and powerful creature, and has been appearing with his prophets as angels of light for generations. Without the gift of discernment, brought to us by walking in the Spirit, we would all be deceived by his cleverly disguised church, and many are following him today, truly believing that they are following the Lord God Jehovah. He and his false doctrines and religions are slowly being exposed by preachers not afraid of offending the masses with the Truth of His Word.

 

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

 

The Birth of the Roman Catholic Government

In the early 300s AD, there was an internal struggle within the Roman Empire. Several different military leaders and governors sought to become the Emperor. One such man, Constantine, would eventually consolidate the various factions and territories into a world power once again.

On the morning of October 28, 312, the forces of Constantine and Maxentius would face each other on the Milvian Bridge. Constantine would emerge the victor and, by 324, establish himself as the sole ruler of the Western Empire. Constantine recalled his vision on the night before the battle and remembered that he and his troops had seen a cross of light in the sky bearing the command ‘In this sign, you will conquer’.

Most scholars hold Constantine in high regard concerning his actions after this period. However, let’s examine the history of the Roman Catholic Government. We will clearly see that Constantine’s actions were motivated by his desire for power, which is always rooted in darkness, not in light.

I in no way believe that the vision witnessed by Constantine and his army was that of the Holy Spirit; the spirit of the antichrist emphatically empowered it. Constantine’s actions corrupted the true Church, plunging the Body of Christ into the Dark Ages,  absent the Light and Fire of God the Holy Spirit.

His devotion remained to the sun god, Sol Invictus. He through the subtle and clever tactics of Satan through the power of the antichrist wrapped an idea of Christianity around pagan gods, and the Roman Catholic Government was a new manifestation of the false religion that was started in the garden with the deception of Adam and Eve.

 

The Birth of Pagan Religions

To understand Jezebel and her gods, we need to go back in history and look at the birth of all pagan religions, demon worship.

Genesis, the 11th chapter, tells of Noah’s son Ham, descendant of Nimrod. Nimrod, according to some scholars, married his actual mother, Semiramis, after his father passed away. Nimrod then passed away and became the first deified pagan god. Nimrod was referred to as the sun god and has been called by various names across generations, civilizations, and cultures.

• Ra, the Egyptian sun god
• Surya, the Hindu Sun God.
• Zeus & Apollo, Greek sun gods
• Sol Invictus, Constantine & his father’s sun god
• All these different names represent the same demon, principality, throughout the ages.

And so, Constantine, this former devotee of the sun god, Sol Invictus, attributed his victory to the God of the Christians, who had suffered appalling persecution at the hands of many of Constantine’s predecessors. In adopting Christianity, he gave it the legitimacy that would see it acquire the status of Rome’s state religion and change the course of Roman and European history and, consequently, that of the world.

 

Exodus 20:3-5 (NKJV) “You shall have no other gods before Me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; ⁵ you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

 

Semiramis was also deified and had a common title and several different names through the ages: goddess or queen of heaven. Semiramis had Nimrod’s son, Tammuz, after his death. Legend says that Tammuz was torn into pieces by wild boars. Semiramis then took the pieces of his body and laid them by the river and mourned his death for 40 days. According to legend, Tammuz was resurrected at the end of 40 days. Does this sound familiar at all?

Jezebel worshipped Baal, the god of the harvest (materialism and wealth), and Asherah, the goddess of fertility, who also had a son resurrected after 40 days. Asherah is also called the queen or goddess of heaven.

A man-made idol given to the government of the United States by the Freemasons in 1886. This idol of this goddess has had many names over the generations, but represents one single demonic entity, Semiramis. The goddess that represented the idol given to our country at the time was Libertas.

If you haven’t already figured it out, we are talking about the Statue of Liberty.

Semiramis also appears on the Air Force’s Medal of Honor.

What does this have to do with Jezebel and the Catholic government?

 

Facts about the Catholic Mary.

• She is also referred to as the queen of heaven.
  • She is the queen of the realm of darkness. – Jeremiah 7:18
• Catholics pray to her as well as other saints.
  • We have one advocate, Jesus Christ
• She is considered to be born sinless.
  • Only Jesus was born sinless; Mary had to be saved just like the rest of mankind if she was going to make it to Heaven.  
• She is referred to as the Mother of God
  • God has always been! God is the creator of all! if this is true, He doesn’t have a mother.
  • Jesus, the Son of Man, had a mother, but not the Son of God.
• She is referred to as a perpetual virgin
  • Mary had other children

 

Throughout history, we see that some people have never understood that the Kingdom of God is not of this world; it is a Heavenly (Spiritual) Kingdom. The Roman Catholic Government, as well as the Church of the Middle Ages, attempted to convert other religions at the end of a spear. I think everyone understands that the Crusades weren’t directed by the God that we worship but by the god of this world, cleverly disguised as Christianity.

In 1964 and 1965, the Catholic church, by way of two separate Vatican Councils, affirmed that Islam was a legitimate religion to reconcile with God the Father.

The Vatican recently built a prayer room for Muslims.

The coming false prophet that will perform great signs and miracles in the last days, who will declare the beast as Jesus returning to earth. I confidently feel this false prophet will rise out of the evangelical church and have a strong relationship with the Catholic Empire.

Think back to the famous evangelical evangelist, Billy Graham. He stated that he felt that other religions, founded in demon worship according to 1 Corinthians 10:1-21, may make it to heaven. He committed and endorsed apostasy.

There is a sect, a large sect, that feels that God’s Kingdom by way of the Body of Christ will fix this world. It is known as the Seven Mountain Mandate, a doctrine promoted by the New Apostolic Reformation Movement.

We must accept that the United States was definitely founded on pagan principles and is ruled by darkness, so we will not be deceived at the arrival of the false prophet and the beast.

We also have to stop thinking of this world, especially our nation, in terms of red or blue, conservative or liberal, but in terms of good and evil, light and darkness, truth and lies. If the Bible is to be true, and I really think it is, all governments are ruled by the prince and the power of the air, the god of this world.

What we are witnessing is the separation of the wheat and the tares, the exposure of the Great Whore Babylon mentioned in Revelation 17.

 

Revelation 17:1-5 (NASB) Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.” ³ And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls, holding in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her sexual immorality, ⁵ and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery: “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

 

 

Christian Nationalism

Christian nationalism is a cultural framework that idealizes and advocates a fusion of Christianity with American civic life. Christian nationalism contends that America has been and should always be distinctively “Christian” from top to bottom – in its self-identity, interpretations of its own history, sacred symbols, cherished values, and public policies – and it aims to keep it that way.

• If you study the history of our country, you will see that we were never a Christian nation – we “WERE” a nation founded on Judeo-Christian values. We are a country based on a Roman Greco structure.

 

2 Corinthians 4:4 (NLT) Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

 

Ephesians 2:2 (NASB) in which you previously walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

 

Matthew 4:8-9 (NASB) Again, the devil *took Him along to a very high mountain and *showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; ⁹ and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.”

 

Thinking the Kingdom of God is Natural is and has always been the issue. 

• The Kingdom of God is not of this world. A continual mistake of the American Christians is trying to make the Kingdom of God apply to the natural Government. Jesus addressed this over and over again.
• Judas had no intention of getting Jesus killed. He was trying to get Jesus arrested so Jesus would hurry the process alone and re-establish the nation of Israel. Remember, Judas was the treasurer. His mind was set on the temporal things of the world; he wanted wealth & power, status & riches, and his heart for the natural caused him to be opened up so satan could consume and control him, causing him to betray Jesus.
• It is the Love of this World and what the World has to offer that ALWAYS Leads to Darkness!

 

Colossians 3:1-2 (NLT) Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. ² Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.

 

Jeremiah 14:14 (NIV) Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds.

 

2^nd Peter 2:1 (NIV) But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 

 

Matthew 24:11-13, 24 (ESV) And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. ¹² And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. ¹³ But the one who endures to the end will be saved. ²⁴ For false christ’s and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. 

 

1 Timothy 4:1 (NLT) Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times, some will turn away from the true faith; they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons.

• Catholics affirming the LBGTQ+ Community.
• Methodist Church
• Andy Stanley
• Joel Osteen
• TD Jakes
• Billy Graham
• All of these and many more have fallen into the deception of the enemy, and now are preaching doctrines of demons.

 

Hosea 4:6 (NLT) My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

 

Eschatology

Post-Millennialism

• No rapture or that the rapture and second coming are the same event.
• Postmillennialism holds that Jesus Christ establishes His kingdom on earth through His preaching and redemptive work in the first century and that He equips His Church with the gospel, empowers Her by the Spirit, and charges Her with the Great Commission (Matt 28:19) to disciple all nations.
  • Nations – (ethnos) This is where we get the word ethnic, most commonly interpreted as “Gentiles.”    
• Postmillennialism expects that eventually, the vast majority of people living will be saved.
  • They seem to ignore the narrow gate and broad gate Jesus spoke of in the gospels.
• Increasing gospel success will gradually produce a time in history prior to Christ’s return in which faith, righteousness, peace, and prosperity will prevail in the affairs of men and of nations. After an extensive era of such conditions, Jesus Christ will return visibly, bodily, and gloriously to end history with the general resurrection and the final judgment, after which the eternal order follows.
  • This idea seems to disregard Matthew 24.
  • Rev 19:11-16, Luke 12:49, Rev 21:1, and many, many, many more.
• The New Apostolic Reformation Movement believes that the Church, under the leadership of the restored offices of the Apostles and Prophets, will infiltrate the 7 pillars of society and prepare the world for the second-coming of Jesus.
• Most of the so-called prophets that falsely prophesied Trump’s landside win, and second term follow this line of thought.
• Theocracy – Not to be confused with theocratic government but rather the goal to have “kingdom-minded people” in all areas of society.
• There are seven areas identified specifically: religion, family, education, government, media, arts & entertainment, and business. This is what they refer to as the “Seven Mountain Mandate.”

 

I believe that these churches, Bethel, Hillsong, the Catholic Empire, and many Word of Faith Churches, are part of “The Falling Away” spoken of in 2^nd Thessalonians 2:3.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 (NASB) Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, ² that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. ³ No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, ⁴ who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

 

The Last Days False Prophet, part of the unholy trinity, will arise out of this charismatic movement that partners with the Roman Catholic Empire! 

 

When we open the door to the heresy of scripture, all kinds of heresies come in.

This is just one example of what can come from small compromises. The writer of the Passion Translation, Brian Simmons, has stated that the Bible is incomplete, and he has received some additional information concerning the Gospel according to John.

He states that he was taken to heaven, and one of the many things that he witnessed was St. John chapter 22. The Gospel of John ends in chapter 21.

All through scripture, we see warnings against adding to or taking away anything from scripture.

Mr. Simmons also states that we have the return of Jesus wrong, that Jesus is coming back through us. Through Us? This corresponds with the Word of Faith’s doctrine that we are all gods and with the NAR’s idea that Jesus was just a common man, not divine, while He was alive here on earth.

The Passion Translation is praised by the likes of Bill Johnson and other leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation.

The Foundation that our Faith is built on is critical if we intend to stand against the powerful deception of the antichrist in the last days.

 

Two Movements we speak of frequently as we discuss the topic of “Many False Preachers” in the last days are the NAR and the Word of Faith Crowd. It’s important to note that all of the false prophets exposed after the election were part of these groups.

How to spot a False Church

• • Discount the deity of Christ.
    • You have to pay attention more to what they do not say.
  • Sin, hell, and repentance aren’t common subjects preached.
  • Emphasis on this world, materialism – “the spirit of mammon.”
  • Emphasis on social issues without the gospel.
  • Tolerant, passive on issues that will be offensive, homosexuality.
  • They avoid the sins of the last days, fornication and sorcery.
    • Music promotes fornication, homosexuality, and the LBGTQ+ crowd.
    • TV, Movies, etc. promote Sorcery.
  • They preach on the counterfeit Jesus, the Superman Jesus, the Thor Jesus, the Marvel Comic Jesus, one that is a part of the solution, one of many ways to reconcile with God, but not the Way, the Truth & the Life.

 

Here are a few heretical quotes from a few of the main congregations that make up the Laodicean church today.

his first quote is from the most prominent figure in the New Apostolic Reformation, and the second is from the most prominent figure in the Word of Faith, Prosperity Gospel Movement.

 

Bill Johnson, pastor and apostle of Bethel Church which is part of the New Apostolic Reformation.

Kenosis Heresy

• “Jesus had no ability to heal the sick. He couldn’t cast out devils, and He had no ability to raise the dead. He said of Himself in John 5:19, “The Son can do nothing of Himself.” He had set aside His divinity.”

Jesus is not God (Denial of the Hypostatic Union)

• “He performed miracles, wonders, and signs as a man in right relationship to God…not as God. If He performed miracles because He was God, then they would be unattainable for us.”

 

Kenneth Copeland is the most prominent figure in the Word of Faith and Prosperity Gospel Movement.

Associated Ministries, Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyers, TD Jakes, Paula White

Satan conquered Jesus.

• “Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell.”

God is the biggest failure in the Bible.

• “I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is. … The biggest one is God. … I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the Fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least—that’s a big loss, man … Now, the reason you don’t think of God as a failure is He never said He’s a failure. And you’re not a failure till you say you’re one.”

Ye shall be as gods.

• “You don’t have a God in you; you are one,”
• “When I read in the Bible where He says I AM, I just smile and say, ‘Yes, I AM too.'”
• “You are not a spiritual schizophrenic — half-God and half-Satan — you are all-God.”

God wasn’t His Father anymore?

• “How did Jesus then on the cross say, ‘My God.’ Because God was not His Father any more. He took upon Himself the nature of Satan. And I’m telling you, Jesus is in the middle of that pit. He’s suffering all that there is to suffer; there is no suffering left . . . apart from Him. His emaciated, little wormy spirit is down in the bottom of that thing, and the devil thinks He’s got Him destroyed. But all of a sudden, God started talking.”

 

This is referred to as the Seven Mountain Mandate.

The Seven Mountain Mandate (7-M) is also called the Seven Mountain Prophecy. It deals with the mandate to Christians to take dominion over the so-called seven spheres of influence in our modern times. Each of these spheres is referred to as a mountain, and many who claim to be modern apostles and prophets have been prophesying that Christianity will conquer these ‘mountains’ before Jesus returns to earth. Different ‘prophets’ have slightly different divisions of the 7 mountains. It was begun by the co-work of Loren Cunnihman and Bill Bright.  I tried to find their respective 7 categories and, along with the book The Seven Mountain Prophecy by Johnny Enlow, I produced the following table.

According to Johnny Enlow, each mountain currently has a demonic force attached to it. He says that there are demonic principalities presently ruling each of these secular spheres. These demonic forces need to be vanquished. In addition, he says the seven spheres of influence correspond to the seven nations of Deuteronomy 7:1.

The Seven Mountain Mandate (7-M), which is supported and taught in the New Apostolic Reformation movement, is based primarily on two verses in the Bible: Gen. 1:28 and Isaiah 2:2-3

• “God blessed them; and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth,’” (Genesis 1:28).
• “Now it will come about that In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; and all the nations will stream to it. 3 And many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:2-3)  For more scriptures related to this see (Micah 4:1-2).

Genesis 1:28 is commonly referred to as the Dominion Mandate where God has instructed Adam to subdue the earth. It is the summation of the creation account in which Adam (mankind) receives the instruction on what to do. This reflects the creative and sovereign nature of God that is shown in human nature (We are made in God’s image, Gen. 1:26). As part of this, Christians are to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20), which encompasses all areas of life.

Isaiah 2:2-3 speaks of the “last days.” This is eschatological since the couplet ‘last days’ is also mentioned in Acts 2:17, a period of time we have been in for approximately 2000 years. The interpretation of the Scripture and its fulfillment in the New Testament’s ‘Last Days” is varied. Interpretations range from literal governmental organizations to all people groups.

Conclusion

The Seven Mountain mandate is a hyperfocus on Christian dominion theology that does not seem to make Christ’s atoning sacrifice a central theme. In all of my research on it so far, making disciples of unbelievers is not the central issue. Instead, it’s taking dominion. This concerns me since it could be a strategy used by the devil to take the focus off of Christ and put it on Christian work in the battle to dominate the world. In this, we need to be very careful.

• The issue has always been that some cannot comprehend that the Kingdom of God is not of this world! The basis of this and many similar heretical doctrines is a Love for Material things. The principles are mostly correct, the way they apply the scriptures is simply wrong, and their delusions are based on their greed.
• We engage the enemy by winning souls, teaching them their identity “In Christ”, helping them discover their gifts, their calling, and that purpose, and putting them where they belong in the Body of Christ.
• Another huge issue with this teaching, as well as many that are run in these circles, is the idea of an apostolic dominance over specific regions. It teaches that the person engaging in the courts of heaven must align themselves with the apostolic authority of the region, much like the teachings of strategic spiritual warfare.

 

 

Billy Graham’s rejection of the Gospel and his relationship with the Roman Catholic Government.

Billy Graham Denies the True Gospel Interviewed by Robert Schuller on Hour of Power Billy Graham on the ‘Hour of Power’ show saying that people can get to Heaven another way besides through hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and then repenting and believing the Gospel.

He basically says that ‘good’ and ‘sincere’ people who know nothing about Christ are on their way to Heaven.

Here is the content of the transcript: Dr. Schuller: “Tell me, what is the future of Christianity?” Dr. Graham: “Well, Christianity and being a true believer, you know, I think there’s the body of Christ which comes from all the Christian groups around the world, or outside the Christian groups. I think that everybody that loves Christ or knows Christ, whether they’re conscious of it or not, they’re members of the body of Christ. And I don’t think that we’re going to see a great sweeping revival that will turn the whole world to Christ at any time. What God is doing today is calling people out of the world for His name. Whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world, or the non-believing world, they are members of the body of Christ because they’ve been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus, but they know in their hearts they need something that they don’t have, and they turn to the only light they have, and I think they’re saved, and they’re going to be with us in heaven.”

Dr. Schuller: “What I hear you saying is that it’s possible for Jesus Christ to come into a human heart and soul and life even if they’ve been born in darkness and have never had exposure to the Bible. Is that a correct interpretation of what you’re saying?” Dr. Graham: “Yes it is because I believe that. I’ve met people in various parts of the world in tribal situations that they have never seen a Bible or heard about a Bible, have never heard of Jesus but they’ve believed in their hearts that there is a God and they tried to live a life that was quite apart from the surrounding community in which they lived.”

Dr. Schuller: “This is fantastic. I’m so thrilled to hear you say that. There’s a wideness in God’s mercy.”

Dr. Graham: “There is. There definitely is.”

 

2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 (ESV) Therefore, God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, ¹² in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

• The strong delusion will be obvious for those who are truly spiritual, but for those who are lukewarm, they will be easily deceived.
• It will be a woke, progressive all-inclusive false form of Christianity.

 

The fallen away, as mentioned in 2 Thessalonians, is when a person rejects their salvation by accepting the false doctrine that there are other ways than Jesus to reconcile with God.

 

1 John 4:1-3 (NLT) Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world. ² This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God: If a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ came in a real body, that person has the Spirit of God. ³ But if someone claims to be a prophet and DOES NOT ACKNOWLEDGE the TRUTH about JESUS, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming into the world and indeed is already here.

• Jesus is the Son of God.
• He is all Human and all God.
• He is the only way, the only truth, and the only life.
• That though Christ and Christ alone can a person be reconciled to the Lord.
• Less than 10% of sermons preached in Evangelical churches even mentioned Hell, Sin, Salvation, or Heaven.
• As many as 9 out of 10 Christians believe that there are other ways to get to heaven: Buddhism, Islam, Catholicism, Hinduism, etc.

 

Many Christians attending church this morning have already accepted this blasphemy as pastors and evangelists such as Billy Graham as well as pastor Joel Osteen, have proclaimed that good Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims can get to heaven by following the tenets of their religion. This false gospel, this doctrine of demons, is one of the prominent signs of the point to the soon rapture.