The Great Falling Away
Part 7
By DON ESPOSITO
Up to this point, I have been explaining the great deception that Satan has used on the planet Earth for approximately the past 1,900 years. We have seen remarkable changes during that time. Starting from the early believers, the church was built on the foundation of the law and the prophets. Yahshua himself is the chief cornerstone (Eph 2:20). The current church today looks vastly different than the early church. The church is filled with pagan customs, man-made hierarchies and a dangerously deceitful gospel message of lawlessness and replacement theology. Why is it that in such a technologically advanced world, where we have millions of web sites and every means of fast communication, are the majority of people are still deceived about these simple truths? The answer is two-fold! First, as we have already explained in depth, the fleshly human mind is enmity (hatred) to the law and ways of Yahweh. Most people are so overwhelmed in their quest to own homes, cars, VCRs, TVs and other pleasure-seeking devices. They don’t have a real desire to know Yahweh. They want to know about Him so they can feel secure in their afterlife, but they don’t want to know Him. Most Americans are so busy in this endless quest for material wealth and social status, that they are just too concerned with self to see the need for that one-on-one relationship. They just don’t truly see the need to be one hundred percent dependent on Yahweh. And I can see why. Their own existence is based on themselves and there is no room left for faith. They earn a nice paycheck every week to pay for food, shelter, clothing and every form of pleasure seeking. They have every form of insurance so they don’t need Yahweh for their health. Instead of living by faith, they are totally independent of the need of an Elohim and totally dependent on self.
My wife and I have been doing missionary work for ten years now. We have met many destitute believers from places such as Honduras, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, India and China, just to name a few. From these poor, almost broken people we see the contrast with the laid-back, totally-supplied American. They have a need for Yahweh, NOW!
Revelation 3:17 “Yahweh says, because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have needs of nothing, don’t you now that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”
That passage describes the average American and European believer. The concept of war, having no food, or living in a refugee camp for years is inconceivable, as it was to me before I got to see it and experience it with my own eyes. And yet, I hear American believers say the world is not that bad. How can a true follower of Messiah say that? Over 20-30 million babies are aborted worldwide each year. Two thirds of the world is living in dire poverty and don’t even have clean drinking water. Over a billion are starving to death. Aids and all other types of horrible diseases are rampant. Violence is everywhere, and truly as Matthew 24:14 states, “The love of many has waxed cold.” Hollywood and TV have become surrogate parents for many of our children today.
Words cannot even describe the immorality found in our entertainment industry. How can one claim to be a believer and yet watch endless hours of wasteful sitcoms, meaningless sports, and soap operas or sex-related violent movies? How can one do these things daily and say they have the mind of Messiah? How can women dress half- naked and be consumed with worldly fashion and say they have the mind of Messiah? How can women be more worried about a career than their family and say they have the mind of Messiah? And these same so-called Christians will condemn the words in this book as legalism. The proof is in the pudding. The result of this pleasure seeking, selfish lifestyle has only led to more lawlessness and moral decay. The world is in trouble due to rebellion. Mankind’s doom is due to the fact that he thinks he knows a better way than his Creator. His time is almost up. So, that is the first reason so many believers are deceived today. They just don’t care. They don’t see a need for Yahweh or repentance. They have lost their first love and the love of the truth.
1st Thess 10:12 “And in all deceit of unrighteousness (lawbreaking) in those being lost, because they did not have the love of the truth, in order for them to be saved. And because of this, Yahweh will send them strong delusion, for them to believe the lie (law’s done away), that all may be judged, those not believing the truth, but having delighted in lawlessness.”
This is a serious scripture. The love of the truth is not only a plus but a must to be saved! I made the comment earlier that this may be the most important book, after the Bible, that you have ever read, and I mean it. I honestly wrote this book out of love. There is a lot at stake here: YOUR ETERNAL LIFE! I don’t mean to scare you, but this is serious. Most books you read are full of nice little stories, to warm the belly, but what I write is the truth of scripture.
There has been a great deception by the devil.
Rev 12:9 “Satan has deceived the WHOLE WORLD”
2nd Thess 2:3 “Let no man deceive you in any way, because that day (Day of Yahweh) will not come, unless first comes the falling away, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.”
False corporate churches want to deceive you into thinking that there is a great revival coming before the return of the Messiah. That is absolutely not true. It is just the opposite. There is a great falling away into apostasy and lawlessness. And if you look around it is here. Most professing Christian ministries are preaching a prosperity gospel and telling you how wonderful everything is. They are like the blind leading the blind. The Scriptures say that they will both fall into the pit. Satan has most people in this world right where he wants them—believing quick and easy answers. “Just say this quick little prayer” and hocus-pocus, all their problems are solved. “Don’t worry about obedience” they will tell you, because the law has been nailed to the cross. Get divorced, cheat on your taxes, and don’t worry about white lies because “Jesus loves you.” Satan has his army of clergy doing his work.
2nd Cor 11:13-15 “For such ones are false Apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into Apostles of Messiah. Did not Satan marvelously transform himself into an angel of light? It is not a great thing then, if also his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness. Whose end will be according to their works.”
Which brings me to my second point regarding the great falling away. As stated in the above scripture, Satan has many in the corporate-church business of religion. They preach this lawlessness around the world. It is ironic that they will tell you not to obey Yahweh’s law because that would be earning your salvation, and yet the above scripture plainly says, “Their end will be according to their works”.
They tell you half the truth. You cannot earn your salvation, which is true. But the other half of the story is that after you have received the promise of eternal life and forgiveness of sin by the blood of Yahshua, you will need to strive every day of your life to pick up your cross and follow him. You need to obey the law of Yahweh as a guide to your path (Psa 119:105), then you need to come out of the world and seek Yahweh in holiness and humility. Don’t store up earthly riches that will become moth-eaten and corrupt and that can be stolen, but store up heavenly riches that last for eternity (Mat 6:19-21).
Now, I’m going to be very blunt and tell you what I think of Christianity today. It is nothing more than a billion- dollar business. You are not a child of Yahweh in their eyes; sad to say, you are a market to make money—and lots of it!
Mat 10:8 “You have freely received, freely give.”
This scripture is very plain. Yet in Christianity today there is a price tag on everything. “You need this tape for eternal life,” they will tell you, “and it is only $40.00.” You hear them on radio and TV advertisements selling books, magazines, and DVD’s, and they are always pleading for money. Some of them have pleaded for money every week for years. They tell you that unless you send in a certain amount; they will have to go off the air. One man actually had the audacity to say that if he did not get one million dollars by a certain date, that God would kill him. He did not get the money by the specified date, but said God needed him too much to take his life. They say obeying Yahweh’s law cheapens their grace. I cannot think of anything that could cheapen my grace more, than by putting a price tag on it! Every sermon, every video, every tour; they are always making a profit.
Some of these men wear all kinds of gold and drive expensive cars, and some even have airplanes. This is NOT the example that our Savior set for us when He walked the earth.
Mat 8:20 “And Yahshua said unto them, Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.”
These false ministers not only preach an easy, worldly grace with no real repentance or holy living required, but have made a business out of the begotten children of Elohim. Listen to the rebuke of our Savior Yahshua to the charlatans of His day that were doing the same thing.
Mat 21:12-13 “And Yahshua went into the temple of Yahweh, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and over threw the table of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. And he said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.”
2nd Corinthians 6:16 “And what agreement has the temple of Yahweh with idols? For you are the temple of the living Elohim; as Yahweh has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.”
We are part of that temple and like our master Yahshua did almost 2000 years ago, we need to cleanse the temple of Yahweh. We need to reject these false teachers who are taking the most sacred thing in our life—our grace—and are making a mockery of it for financial gain.
1st Pet 5:2 “Shepherd the flock of Elohim among you, exercising oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly. Not for filthy lucre (money, greed) but readily.”
Brethren should know their responsibility to freely share their tithes and offerings for the preaching of the good news. However, to put a price tag on spiritual material is WRONG. Here is a copy of a letter that I have sent to hundreds of ministers over the last couple of years. Please feel free to copy and give it our as you are moved by the Holy Spirit.
To anyone of the body of Messiah who is selling the word of Yahweh (tapes, videos, books, sermons…)
“This is a message of rebuke but not of anger rather of concern and love. Yahweh Elohim has directed me to write this letter to you because He loves you enough to warn you of the grievous act you are committing. Just ponder on it for a moment. Do you believe in the Ten Commandments? I am sure you will say that you do. Are the words you speak on your tapes or books your own, or are they inspired by the only true Elohim of the universe? If the answer is “they are inspired by Yahweh,” then you are stealing Yahweh’s words by selling them. You are also coveting what is not your own, and you are lying by claiming your name or ministry to it for a price, and if it is inspired by Yahweh and important for the brethren you are not showing love for your neighbor as yourself.”
Mat 10:8 “Freely you have received, freely you give.”
Isa 55:1 “Lo, everyone that thirsts, come ye to the waters, and he that has no money, come ye and buy and eat; come ye and buy wine and milk, without money and without price.”
Mat 7:16 I am not judging your heart, but your fruit.
Repent immediately, and stop making a market out of Yahweh’s word, or you will reap what you are sowing. And if the answer to the above question is, your words have not been inspired by the almighty Yahweh; then no one should want to hear them.
It is time to cleanse the temple of Yahweh! It is time to put an end to the market that has been made of the Holy Scriptures!
In 1st Pet 4:17, Yahweh Elohim tells us “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of Yahweh. And if it first began at us, what will be the end of those who obey not the gospel of Yahweh?” The time has come for the Yahweh to cleanse the hirelings.
Ezek 34:1-3 “And the word of Yahweh came unto me saying, son of man, prophecy against the shepherds of Israel, prophecy and say unto them. Thus says Yahweh Elohim unto the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! Should not the shepherd feed the flock? You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill them that are fed; but you feed not the flock!”
Ezek 34:10 Thus says Yahweh Elohim; “behold I am against the shepherds; and I will require My flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock, neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore. For I will deliver the flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.”
Zec 11:8 “Three shepherds I will also cut off in one month; My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred Me.”
Do you want to risk being one of these men? The true word of Elohim is the gospel of salvation. It is a free gift to all that repent of their sins and believe in the blood of Yahshua Messiah for the penalty for committing those sins. It does not have a monetary price. That cheapens our grace. That does not mean that a man whose life is the gospel, cannot live by it. (1st Cor 9:14) “Even so has Yahweh ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.” That is where faith comes in. Our heavenly Father knows all our needs. He will provide “Freewill tithes and offerings” to support all your needs. But it is sin and abomination in His sight to sell His “Holy Words.” That also includes, above all, charging at the door to hear a preacher give a message. His true church is not a business. All the brethren who partake in supporting and buying these things are partaking in their sin. We need to put the evil out from among us. Remember the ten virgins; the five foolish (Mat 25:9-10) went to buy their oil and were shut out. Do not give one more penny to a ministry or prophecy club which puts a price tag or makes a market out of Yahweh’s people.”
Mat 6:33 “Seek you first the Kingdom and his righteousness, and everything else will be given.”
The choice is yours. I have sounded the message of the watchman (Ezek 33:1-11), repent or let the blood be on your own head.
Let me show the strong judgment that Yahweh is going to give these greedy, money-making corporate ministers.
Ezekiel 34:4-10 “You have not made the weak strong, and you have not healed the sick; and you have not bound up the broken. And the banished have not been brought back, and you have not sought the lost; but you rule them with force and with harshness. And they were scattered for lack of a shepherd. And they became food to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. My sheep strayed through all the mountains and on every high hill. And My sheep were scattered on all the face of the earth; and none searched, and none sought for them. For this reason, shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh. As I live, declares Yahweh, surely because My sheep became a prey, and My sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, from not having a shepherd; and because My shepherds did not search for My sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and did not feed the flock; therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh. So says Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My sheep from their hand, and cause them to cease from pasturing the sheep. And the shepherds shall no longer feed themselves, for I will deliver My sheep from their mouth, and they will not be food to devour. “
2nd Corinthians 6:17 “Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, says Yahweh, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
The problem with the money-making corporations today calling themselves churches is that they are not promoting a one-on-one relationship with Yahweh in spirit and truth. They do not teach, really teach, the Holy Scriptures. They tell a lot of stories and they entertain, and turn you into a passive spectator/believer. They will talk about faith, or love, or hope and other topics but never really delve into the truth of scripture. They want to keep you dependent on them so that you will come back every week and support them with your money. They will make up causes to get your money. Church buildings, preaching the gospel (which they don’t), anything to get you to open up your wallet. They will flood you with social activities associated with church to make you feel even more of an obligation to go every week. If you visit other congregations of believers, they will frown on it. If you question doctrine, they will get rid of you. Their main purpose is not to rock the boat. Stability, not truth, is the main objective. They rate their success by how many people and how much money they bring in. Very few congregations in the world have both the true good news message covered in this book, and the power of the Holy Spirit. They may be emotional. They may sing and cry. They may even rattle off gibberish that they say is a tongue prayer. Yet, if it is based on pagan customs, lies and a false gospel message, how much can it really glorify our heavenly Father? Emotion does not glorify him.
Knowledge does not glorify him. What glorifies him is to have a pure heart and to worship in spirit and truth.
In this end time, our heavenly Father is calling his true saints out of these corporate “fiascoes” to a spiritual wilderness in order to teach them personally.
Ezek 34:11 “For so says Yahweh Elohim, behold I myself will search out for my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep, and will deliver them from all the places that they are scattered, in a day of cloud and thick cloud.”
That cloud that Yahweh speaks of is the cloud of confusion, which these moneymaking churches have created. Yahshua said that He would build his congregation- his called out ones. We are supposed to be one body, yet there are thousands of different corporate churches today, all claiming to be the right one. Can they all be the right one? There is nothing but confusion in the churches, and Yahweh is not the author of confusion (1st Cor 14:33). When I was under the control of a corporate church, my liberty was taken away. I was only allowed to serve people within the organization. Now, as a minister of Yahshua, I can serve all the body. We judge whether someone is a true believer by their fruit, as the scripture says, not by their corporate affiliation. Did you ever wonder why, if we are one body, that when you enter any city in the world, there are hundreds of different Christian churches? What is more puzzling is that rarely do any of these different churches recognize, co-operate or fellowship with each other. Yahshua’s body is a spiritual organism, not a physical organization. All these churches go down to the government and register with them. In America, they will fill out government form 5013c, for tax exempt status. What that does is merge them with the government. The government has become their partner, and in turn the government will monitor and control what can be preached and said. They have become a servant of the state, and all for tax exempt status (money).
Mat 6:24 “No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold on to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve Yahweh and materialism (money).“
You are the slave to what you obey. Once you start to depend on a corporate check, from a church organization, you will compromise your values and beliefs for that paycheck. I believe in elderhood. I am an ordained elder myself. A true elder, though, needs to protect and care for the flock. He needs to be selfless and set the example to be the greatest servant.
Mat 20:26 “He who shall be greatest among you, let him be your servant.”
A true elder is not there to rule over the flock, but to shepherd. He is one who should have a good knowledge of scripture, but also true love, for Yahweh’s children. His job is to enhance, not tear down, the spiritual gifts of the flock. Why are the corporate churches so dead today? Why don’t you see the power of the Holy Spirit? Because most leaders are not scripturally qualified to be true elders, Yahweh, through inspiration of the Holy Spirit, makes someone an elder. You do not become a true elder by going to some college, or kissing up to some higher-ranking minister, or even by nepotism. This is widespread in corporate churches today. We do not see this example in scripture. 1st Tim 3:1-7 gives a clear definition of the qualifications of an elder.
1st Tim 3:1-7 “Faithful is the word. If anyone reaches out for over-seership, he desires a good work. Then the overseer must be blameless, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, apt at teaching; not a drinker, not a contentious one, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money; ruling his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence. But if anyone does not know to rule his own house, how will he care for a Congregation of Yahweh? Not a novice, lest being puffed up he may fall into judgment of the devil. But he must also have a good witness from those outside, that he not fall into reproach, and into a snare of the devil.”
This scripture probably disqualifies between 70% to 80% of the current clergy in the world. He must have only one wife; that is very clear. Yet how many so called ministers today are on their second, third, or even fourth marriages?
They cannot be a lover of money; however, this will disqualify most. He must be apt to teach. If a minister is teaching that the law is nailed to the cross, and that you can worship Yahweh through paganism, he is disqualified.
Qualifications of elderhood are for men only, not women. This is also very clear from 1st Corinthians 14:34-40. Yet there are many women today who claim to be pastors.
It does not matter how much other book knowledge a man may have; remember, that is worldly knowledge and comes from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He also must be hospitable. How many clergy out there are actually the opposite—they are not even approachable. They must have their children and family in order, and should not be a new convert. Do you know of any church organization on earth that truly uses these scriptures as their guide to ordination? If any, it is very rare. Do you realize that scripturally unqualified men give the majority of teaching coming out of these million-dollar corporate churches? No wonder the true message of the Good News of Yahshua’s Kingdom has been suppressed. We are told to come out of the world, and yet most of these churches are right in the center of worldliness. Apostasy and heresy are serious sins in the eyes of Yahweh.
2nd John 1:9-11 “Everyone transgressing and not abiding in the teaching of Messiah, does not have Elohim. The one abiding in the teaching of Messiah, this one has the Father and the Son. (His teaching was, if you love Me, keep My commandments). If anyone comes to you, and does not bear this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not speak a greeting to him. For the ONE SPEAKING to him shares in his evil works.”
I know that Christians who are only going to a church for social reasons will never understand this scripture. But if we are going to support a church or ministry that preaches against Yahweh’s law and word, then we are partaking in their evil. We are getting close to the end of the age and the return to earth of Yahshua. There is no time for playing church any longer. We must separate from lawlessness and be holy vessels to Yahweh.
I want to go over some scriptures about these false teachers which explain why the flock has been so misled.
Ezekiel 22:26-28 “Her priests have violated the law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and the profane, neither have they showed any difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from My Sabbaths and I am profaned among them. Her rulers in the midst of her are like wolves, ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. Her prophets have daubed themselves with lime, seeing empty visions and divining to them lies, saying so says Yahweh, when Yahweh has never spoken.”
Does it sound familiar? This is exactly what the corporate ministers of today do. They do not teach the laws of Yahweh, they teach for greed and money. They profane the Sabbath day (interesting) and teach no difference between the clean foods and the unclean. Then they fill the poor, disillusioned brethren with vain visions and words, saying “the Lord told me this,” “the Lord told me that.” Do you want to know what Yahweh says? Just open up the Holy Scriptures and hear it first hand from Him.
Here is another scripture in Malachi 2:7-9 about these end-time charlatans.
Malachi 2:7-9 “For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at His mouth (they certainly should, if they are true servants of Yahweh). For he is the messenger of Yahweh of hosts. But you have departed of the way. You have caused many to stumble at THE LAW; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Yahweh of hosts. Therefore I have also made you despised and base before all people, according as ye have not KEPT MY WAYS, but have been PARTIAL IN THE LAW.”
Do not be surprised that this has been happening in the body. It was prophesied. Yahshua’s disciples asked Him what would be the sign of His coming and the end of the world in Matthew 24:3. His answer in verses four and five is the number one thing to watch out for.
Matthew 24:4-5 “And Yahshua answered them, take heed that no man deceive you. For many will come in My name, saying, I am the Messiah and shall deceive the many.”
Do you know that the word for deceive in verse four means, “to cause to roam,” “to seduce,” “to roam from safety of truth, or virtue.” Yahshua is warning His disciples about false teachers seducing believers to roam away from truth and safety. There is great reward in keeping the truth (Psalm 19:11). They will say Yahshua is the Messiah, the Son of Elohim; they cannot hide that fact, but they will deceive believers in the end time, making them think that by claiming or stating His Name gives them a license to sin; in other words, lawlessness. “Don’t worry” they will tell you, “follow your conscience and just don’t judge each other.” It is the blind leading the blind. The apostle Peter warned about this subject we are dealing with—that false teachers would twist the words of eternal life into lawlessness.
2nd Peter 3:16-17 “As also in all his epistles, (Paul) speaking to them concerning these things, in which some things are hard to understand, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the scriptures, to their own destruction. Then beloved, you knowing beforehand watch, lest being led away by the error of the LAWLESS, you fall from your own steadfastness.”
Don’t be surprised at how large this great apostasy is. Remember that the end cannot come unless there is a great falling away (apostasy) and the man of sin be revealed.
1st Tim 1:6-7 “From which some have sinned, and turned aside to empty talking. Wishing to be teachers of the law, neither understanding what they say, nor about that which they strongly affirm.”
2nd Tim 3:14-17 “But you keep on in what you learned, and were assured of, knowing from whom you learned and that from a child you have known the Holy scripture, those being able to make you wise to salvation through belief in Yahshua. Every scripture is Elohim- breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; So that the man of Yahweh may be perfect, fully furnished for every good work.”
Now remember, when Paul wrote this letter to Timothy, there was no New Testament. The New Testament did not officially become part of the Holy Scriptures until around the 4th century. Paul never taught like the corporate churches do today, that Yahweh’s law was done away with. The corporate churches of today will probably agree with part of the above scripture. I’m sure they would agree that it is profitable ($). Paul also preached out of the Old Testament.
Acts 28:23 “And when they had appointed him a day, there came many unto him into his lodging, to whom he is expounding earnestly testifying the Kingdom of Yahweh (Paul, like Yahshua, preached about the Kingdom) and persuaded them the things concerning Yahshua, both from the LAW of MOSES and the PROPHETS, from morning till evening.”
Going back to Matthew 24 and the prophecy of the end time, in verse 10 it states that many will be offended and will betray one another. The word “offend” literally means to entice to sin, apostatize. How true that is today. How many brethren or ministers love you enough to turn you back to the word of Yahweh in love? Not many. Most get angry and offended when you try to lovingly correct them from the written Word. They are trying to entice the majority into sin and lawlessness.
Jeremiah 23:1-3 “Woe to shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture, declares Yahweh. So Yahweh the Elohim of Israel says this against the shepherds who shepherd My people: You have scattered My flock, and have driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh. And I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the lands where I have driven them there, and will bring them again to their fold. And they shall be fruitful and multiply.”
Our Heavenly Father is against these corporate ministers, and he is calling His people out into the spiritual wilderness, to take away all our impurities and get us ready for Yahshua’s return. In Ezekiel 20:33-38 it explains the end time plan of our heavenly Father to us.
Ezekiel 20:33-38 “As I live, says Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will reign over you. And I will bring you out from the peoples, and gather you from the lands in which you are scattered among them; with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples; and I will be judging with you there face to face. Just as I was judging your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will be judging you, declares Yahweh. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. And I will purge from among you the rebels and the transgressors against Me, I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn. And they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am Yahweh.”
Yes, Yahweh is calling a remnant out of the worldly, moneymaking churches and calling them to a spiritual wilderness, where He can teach them correctly from His word. He states in Jer 23:4 that He will give them good shepherds. There are good, true Yahweh-fearing pastors in this world. The problem is that there are not nearly enough compared to how many people there are in the world claiming to be believers. The good news is that you don’t need to be enslaved by these corporate churches any longer. There has been a move in America, and also worldwide, of a growing number of home fellowships just like in the first century congregation. Did you know that most congregations met in homes in the early church? It was not until three or four hundred years later that big, million dollar church buildings were erected with pagan art inside and phallic- symbol steeples outside. Your grace is too precious to allow men to make a market of you. You do not need to stay in the bondage of these false pastors any longer. Heed what the Apostle Paul stated in Romans the second chapter:
Rom 2:13 “For not the hearers of the law shall be justified before Yahweh, but the doers of the law shall be justified.”