Cutting the Apron Strings

From the Mother Church

Part 1

       My friends, I’m going to ask you to dare to think independently, and learn a truth that maybe has never been presented to you before because of tradition. I’m asking you to erase everything you’ve been conditioned to think about what is called "going to church." Going to church as we know it, in the modern times, is NOTHING like Jesus had began with his Apostles, near 2,000 years ago. Christ’s church has evolved into us going to a central location, once a week for approximately 90 minutes, sitting quietly, spectating a carefully crafted and choreographed "worship" service by incorporated men/women, who have made a career to do just that. Not only that, but it has also become being part of a separated body of Christ, and once a week being "spoon-fed" and for some "bottle-fed" the wonderful and powerful Word of GOD, according the CEO in charge, thus creating sheeple, conditioned to obey what the pastor says, because after all, he went to seminary.  

      The incorporated corrupt church has become a performance based entity. We have taken "Going to church" and completely warped it into something GOD never intended. If we truly understood the Chronological timetable of the Old Testament Scriptures in proper historical context, those of us who actually study the Whole Counsel of GOD, not diminishing one letter or word, we would see a pattern developing, and changing, and repeating itself. Man is too wrapped up in the pursuits of the world to notice GOD’s hand and man's tendency to repeat history, making the same mistake one generation after another.  Let me give you a brief history and explanation, and tell me if you don’t notice GOD constantly pulling out a remnant of His people when they become too corrupt.

      About 6,000 years ago, GOD singled one man and his seven relatives from the entire population of the earth, and deleted everyone and everything else from the hardrive/planet we call earth.  Then about 2,000 years later, GOD singled out one man, Abram, and told him to leave what he had known all his 75 years on this planet, to follow Him to a specific physical locale, a place he’s never known and without a script to follow. 

    Abram did not get any kind of direction as to where he was going, but he packed up his clan, and left. Abram, later renamed,  Abraham, became the father of several sons, between three wives, but of them, GOD pulled out one son of promise named Isaac. He became the father a twin boys, in which only one son, named Jacob, was chosen to be pulled out, and eventually renamed Israel, meaning prince. He had twelve sons by four wives, and again, GOD pulled out one son, name Joseph, and trained him separately from what he had always known, because GOD had selected him to become the second most powerful man in the known world, and to save his entire family, the Israelites, from starvation.

      For reasons only GOD knows, He moved Israel and the remainder of his family, totaling 70 in number, by the way of a famine, to under the leadership of the son who was previously called out, and they ended up in Egypt in a land called Goshen. In the manner of 400 years, in this womb-like land, He grew them to over two million who were encased, enslaved, persecuted and grew strong and mighty enough to be feared by Pharaoh. After 400 years, GOD called one man, named Moses who would lead them and move them away from Egypt, which represents the world, in what is called a type and shadow of what was to come.  

     Moses singled out twelve men to spy out the promised land of milk and honey to which GOD would plant them, but out of them only two had the faith to believe GOD and Moses.  Fora that reason, the rest had to wander  40 years in the wilderness, until that generation all died, hence He called out, again, the second generation with one of the two, Joshua to lead them across the Jordan into the land to which they were promised.

         While traveling 40 years in the Wilderness, He had them build a (portable) Tabernacle, a place for worship, and a place for the sacrifice for their sins as a means of His grace and mercy in order to pardon them from their sinful nature. Once they crossed over the Jordan, according to Joshua's directions, given to him by GOD,  they were firmly established as the twelve tribes of Israel. Over about 1,000 years while living in the Promise Land, they continued to fall in and out of grace with YHVH GOD, and he called out one small boy, named Samuel, would would lead them into a new life as subject to their requested monarchy.  There was no way that GOD was going to give them a great king first, so He anointed the counterfeit first.  After King Saul failed, as all men do, GOD called out a young boy from a family of eight sons.  This was the king who would seek after GOD's own heart all of his life, but still fall and rise as we all do, after all, there is no human born of both man and woman who won't fall. 

     As a united nation, under the man after GOD’s own heart, GOD called out and chose the one of David's sons, of two adulterers, by the way, to build a permanent structure for worship and sacrifices for their sins. It only took one generation after David for the people to become fully  corrupt, again.  A civil war ensued, and GOD called out two tribes of the ten to whom the True Deliverer would come, after about a thousands years of good and bad kings who led them to GOD and away from GOD.  ,

    Under  King Jeroboam, the ten remaining tribes would become known as the nation of Israel.  King Jeroboam rebelled and established his own religious central location in Samaria.  King Jeroboam was a great type and shadow of what the Roman church would do near 1200 hundred year later.  He created his an entirely new religion, one the resembled Judaism that YHVH GOD gave Moses about 1500 years prior, however, he created his own priest-hood and sacrificial system of worship.  Eventually, they even stopped worshiping YHVH, the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  Fed up with their corruption, GOD allowed them to be conquered in 722 B.C, and dispersed among the then known world.  A remnant of those ten tribes moved down to Judah which also included the tribe of Benjamin, which  became known as the Southern Kingdom.

      The southern kingdom maintained the temple system on and off, but kept Jerusalem as the capitol city.  Eventually, as humans always do, even the chosen nation of Judah became too corrupt, and was handed over to the pagan nation of Babylon, for what became a 70 year time-out for bad behavior, or as the Bible calls it, the Exile. The great and massive central location of worship, called Solomon's Temple, was burned to the ground.

  

     After the seventy years of time-out, GOD again took a remnant from the exiles, and moved on the pagan King Cyrus’s heart to send them back to Jerusalem, as he promised in the prophecies of Jeremiah, which was found by the prophet Daniel. Note, Daniel was deep in the heart of the politics of the pagan nation as a chief advisor to three pagan kings. 

      The remnant of the exiles were moved in spirit by the Elohim to rebuild the Temple, re-establishing the sacrificial system began a thousand years prior in the wilderness under Moses’s leadership, only again, in a permanent structure. For the next 400 years, reforms were incorporated, scribes were  charged with keeping safe the words of the Torah.  Ezra, the  first scribe and writer of the books of Chronicles,  preserved the history.

     After about 400 years, these imperfect humans, again became corrupt, and GOD allowed the mighty and fiercely oppressive Roman empire to conquer them, again.  Again, GOD's people incorporated man's rules and regulations into the Law which was given to Moses, so much so, that Judaism became unrecognizable.  These scribes were now called Pharisees, teachers of the Law.  Only they had access to the religious writings, so whatever they said, went, and the people who gathered to hear them teach had no other way of knowing that they had corrupted all of GOD's words to His people. 

     When the time that GOD had allotted for sin to reach its fulfillment, GOD again, called out a remnant, started by the last Old Testament prophet, John-the-Baptist. He went completely against the accepted religious ruling teachers of the law and the political Saducees who were the governing group of  GOD's people, deeply in bed with the Roman empire to further oppress their own people into complete oblivious ignorance to the Torah and GOD's original intent.   Another remnant was pulled out of that corrupted religious center, led by the  Son of GOD himself.  His purpose was to teach the original Torah and the principles behind the Laws and Commandments give to GOD's people in the wilderness, via Moses their great prophet. 

    Eventually, to rid His people of a central location where YHVH GOD would dwell,  because the Holy Spirit now reigned in the human body of those chosen to follow His Son, GOD had the Temple completely destroyed by the Roman army in AD 70. It was GOD’s intent that the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be constantly on the move, and why we call it a “movement of GOD.” It was never meant to be the end of Judaism, but an extension of the original intent and design for GOD to have a people for Himself. The unbelieving Judahites were sent off again to another exile, this time to Rome to become slaves the the Romans, and the land of Jerusalem lay desolate for centuries, occupied by who we would call the Philistines, until 1948.  At first, The Way as it was called by the apostle Paul, was only for the original people of GOD, the Jews, but because His people chose to reject the Son sent to save them from their sins, GOD chose another Paul to bring the gospel to the gentiles in order to graft a remnant of them into the Vine, planted and rooted firmly in Yeshua HaMashiach.  (Jesus the Messiah)

     The new movement soon became over-run by more gentiles than Jews, and  sadly, this irrational hatred of the Jews, initiated by Satan, who has always hated GOD's chosen elect, completely corrupted The Way, and began a whole new religion called Christianity.   Four hundred years later, a pagan Roman ruler who claimed to have converted to Christianity, completely outlawed all of GOD's Laws and Commandments, supported by the very much anti-semite religious system called the Papacy. This pagan ruler, witth the cooperation of the Papacy, incorporated his polytheist rituals into Christianity in order to force all pagans and Jews to convert under the threat of death. This religion eventually developed their own capital city in Rome. Do you see a correlation between Constantine,  the Papacy, and King Jeroboam a thousand years prior, right after the civil war the permanently divided the nation into two houses.  

     These new “church fathers,” somehow did not understand the purpose of the burning of the one central location for worship, and returned to the system of building a permanent structure and central place of worship that would rule over this completely redesigned religion of man, looking nothing like what Christ has began on the day of Pentecost, several hundred years earlier. This cathedral system did not remain as just one central permanent structure, but hundreds of permanent physical buildings, planted all over the known world. The buildings of mortar throughout time became more and more elaborate, much like Herod's temple, and became the focal point of worship, instead of the actual work of Grace and mercy. This became the period known as the Dark Ages, where the Gospel was unknown, and the ruling class became corrupt religious monarchs, forcing their brand of “religion” to the uneducated enslaved.

Cutting the Apron Strings part 2