We are
entering in very
difficult and dangerous, but exciting times. In fact, the church is going to be
divided in two factions between: 1)
those who compromise and ignore the Word of God, being solely interested in
following the lukewarm and worldly ecumenical, established Christian
church; and 2)
those who are outside of all human hierarchy, and wholeheartedly follow and
obey the Lord Jesus and the truth of God's Word, who really love each other and
work together and sacrifice themselves to advance the Kingdom.
The Bible exhort us: "Do not be unequally yoked together with
unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what
communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or
what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God
We are separated, thank God, from all pyramidal,
ecclesiastical structure of man for several years now. We are only part of the
body of Christ, the true spiritual church made up of faithful living
stones--the family of God! (See 1Corinthians 3:1-17; Ephesians 2:11-22; 1Peter
1:1-10.)
We are committed to obey and follow our Lord Jesus and
his Word, proclaiming to
every person the Gospel of redemption of the soul from sin, through his
sacrifice and resurrection; and also equipping new disciples for God's service.
(See Acts chapter 2; 2Corinthians 5:14-21.)
Naturally, the devil doesn't like the fact that we are
Bible fundamentalist and active disciples of Jesus Christ, who bear witness of
the faith continuously and openly. And of course the opposition and persecution
are guaranteed at any time. (See John 15:18-27; 2Timothy 3:10-17; Jude
3-4,16-25.)
Jesus warned us: "Then they will deliver you up to
tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s
sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate
one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And
because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who
endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be
preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end
will come.” (Matthew 24:9-14)
The apostles John and Paul made it clear in the
letters that there are many deceiving antichrists who have come from the
congregation of faith; and that the greatest deceiver, the Antichrist, was
about to come one day to declare himself as "Christ" and
"God" of this world. (See 2Thessalonians 2:1-4.)
“Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have
heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by
which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were
not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but
they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
(1John 2:18-19)
After studying the Word of God on Bible prophecy for
several years, we believe that the Antichrist currently knows very well that
his world ecumenical alliance will not be well received and respected for a
long time by all, for instance, by the radical fundamentalist Muslims.
Because of this, the 'man of sin' is engineering
behind the scenes a sinister plan to break the ecumenical pact between
religions at any given time. He will convince everyone that he is the true
"Christ" and "Saviour", who solves all the problems of the
world, proclaiming himself as the world leader and even "God". (See
Daniel 8:23-25; 9:27; 11:28-45; 2Thessalonians 2:3-4; Revelation 13:3-10;
chapter 17.)
He will force all humans to worship him (the Beast)
and the devil (the Dragon), with the help of the False Prophet. This one will
deceive the whole world by performing false miracles, and will introduce the Abomination
of Desolation (or Mark of the Beast). This appears to be a high-tech microchip
inserted into the human body of everyone who worships the Antichrist, to be
able to buy or sell. In
this way, every human being will be controlled by this sinister totalitarian
regime. (See Revelation chapter 13.)
Of course, our King Jesus will come just after the
great tribulation that will last three and a half years, to rescue his own and
destroy the wicked men and rule over the whole Earth with righteousness. Praise
God! Hallelujah! (See Daniel 7:7-14; Matthew 24:15-31; Mark 13:14-27;
Revelation 6:12-17; 14:14-20; 19:11-21; 20:1-6.)
Here is a question we should all ask: "Am I a lukewarm Christian simply
following the structure of the passive and compromising Christian church, based
on worship services and on teachings and traditions of men? Or am I a vibrant disciple of Jesus Christ,
ready to even give my life for proclaiming his name and the Gospel to the lost
at every opportunity?"
We pray that many will be found true disciples
of Jesus, who love and serve God actively and sincerely and without compromise;
and who are ready to suffer shame, persecution, deprivation, anguish, pain and
even death, to openly proclaim the Gospel of Jesus, the true Christ and Lord
and Son of God! (See Mark 8:34-38; 16:15-20; Philippians 3:7-21; 2Timothy
2:1-13; chapter 3; 4:1-8; James 1:2-4,12; 1Peter 1:3-9; 4:12-19.)
"And calling the crowd and his disciples, Jesus
said to them: 'If anyone wants to come after me, deny himself, take up his
cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but
whoever loses his life
because of me and the gospel will save her. Well, what good is it for a man to
win the whole world and lose his soul? Well, what will a man give in exchange for his
soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him, when he comes in the
glory of his Father with the holy angels.'" (Mark 8:34-38)
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword? As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are
accounted as sheep for the slaughter.' Yet in all these things we are more than
conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor
life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things
to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:35-39)
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