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 just 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 once a week being "spoon-fed" and for some "bottle-fed" the wonderful and powerful Word of GOD, according to  the CEO in charge, thus creating sheeple conditioned to obey what the pastor says, because after all, he went to seminary.

 

  Imagine going to school and earning a PhD attending classes only 90 minutes a week.  That's what we are expecting from church goers today. Who can become and expert in Biblical history, instruction, and an expert at evangelism by sitting quietly listening 30 minutes a week, being spoon fed whatever the man in the pulpit wants you to know.  You cannot, hence, you cannot be effective at the task GOD has assigned us. The ONLY way to learn from GOD is to break away from man and learn from GOD Himself.  This is going to be my briefest possible history lesson of Bible/Church history. Grab a cup of coffee or two, cuz, this is going to take a bit. Now, if you are not interested in the history of the movement you participate in 90 minutes a week, you can stop right here.  

    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, and Biblical historicity, 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 out one man and his seven relatives from the entire population of the earth, and deleted everyone and everything else from the planet. 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.  The thing about the Abraham story is GOD first called his father Terah to leave his known area and take his family to a new place.  Sadly, Terah didn't want to  go the distance, so it was up to his son to do all that GOD required.  Terah stopped short of the goal. Aren't we just a little bit guilty of that?  Back to Abram, who was later renamed Abraham, became the father of many nations.  Abram did not get any kind of direction as to where he was going, but he packed up his clan, and left. Out of the several sons Abraham eventually had, 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 Hebrews, as they were known then, from starvation.

 For reasons only GOD knows, He moved Jacob, (Israel) and the remainder of his family, totaling 70 in number, by the way of a famine, to under the leadership of that 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, again, 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.  After only a few months wandering in the desert, 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. For 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.

 Whilst they traversed the 40 years in the Wilderness, He had them build a (portable) Tabernacle, a central 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, who would not be like the other leaders, but would advise and guide them.  The people weren't satisfied with Samuel, especially when he got old and his sons were obviously corrupt, so they requested what every nation around them had, a king, a ruler.  GOD knew the heart of man, and He knew that they needed a central figurehead, but there was no way GOD was going to give them a great king at first.  He wanted them to see just how absolute power corrupts absolutely. 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 one of David's sons, the son 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 thousand years of good and bad kings who led them to and away from GOD.  Under King Jeroboam, the northern king, 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  years later. He created his an entirely new religion, one that resembled Judaism that YHVH GOD gave Moses about 1500 years prior, however, he created his own priest-hood and sacrificial system of worship. They would eventually blend this new religion with the religions of surrounding nations.  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 original temple system to some degree, but depending on which king ruled, they also blended with the religions of surrounding nations. Back then, there was not a belief in just one GOD, but many gods of each nation.  Even the Hebrews believed that, they just believed their GOD was more powerful than the others.  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, the prophet was deep in the heart of the politics of the pagan nation as a chief advisor to three pagan kings. If you think you can separate religion and politics, then you think you are greater than GOD, because His Book is replete with religion and politics mixed together like some kind of soup and salad. 

    The remnant of the exiles were moved by the  Spirit of GOD to rebuild the Temple, re-establishing the sacrificial system that they 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. Again, after 400 years the mixing with the writings of man and the TORAH, which means instructions, became the ruling religion of this people, now called Judeans or Judahites.  Their mixed religious instructions of man and YHVH GOD became known as Halacha. This was the religion which the boy Yeshua (Jesus) would have grown up under, hence why he was only twelve years old teaching with authority, because he could weed out the added text of man. These religious teachers were now called Pharisees.  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, hence the need for a Messiah to come and bring His people back to the purity of the GOD-given TORAH.  

   

    Yeshua (Jesus) went completely against the accepted religious ruling teachers Halacha and the political Sadducees 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. 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  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 Palestinians, or the English translation of the Philistines, until 1948. In the beginning of this movement of Yeshua, he called out just twelve to lead The Way, as it was called by the apostle Paul.  Because His people chose to reject the Son sent to save them from their sins, GOD chose Saul or known by his Greek name 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, who built their own central location in Rome, which we now call the Vatican.  Sadly, their irrational hatred of the Jews, initiated by Satan, completely corrupted The Way, and began a whole new religion called Christianity. Three 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 ruled by a Papacy. This pagan ruler, with 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. Do you see the correlation between King Jeroboam a thousand years earlier and the Papacy?  You are meant to, because history repeats itself because man refuses to learn history, hence he repeats his mistakes over and over again.  Believe it or not, but this one new religion split into dozens of orthodox religions all under the one title of the Catholic Church.  That lesson I won't even try to explain.  Part 2 is about Protestant Reformation and the thousands of denominations of Protestants that came out of that along with the further apostasy of the Christian religion we have today.