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God has a great Controversy against the church. God had a great controversy against Israel. God ended up hating them both. Now that is a strong and powerful statement. Such a strong statement needs be proven and I SHALL.

Today is Monday, October 18, 2004. It is now 6PM. This morning God began speaking to me about bringing His controversy against the present-day church. He has already given me several messages against this church, all coming in a row, which I neither planned nor sought out. I never intended to write any of those messages but God gave them to me one right after the other. I have wanted to get to another message for a good while now, but can’t get it done. God keeps dealing with me about His controversy against the church. I must obey Him and bring what He wants me to teach.

The reason I say God hated both Israel and the church is because they have proven to be one and the same. I have already solidly proven this in many messages. Old law Israel became the seven-headed church. They brought all of the old ways of law and the priest system right into the church. Neither of these systems were truly ever of God. Now I know this is going to be hard for anyone to see but if you wish to come out of darkness into light you are going to have to accept and see this truth.

Both old Israel and the church were in total disobedience to God and went contrary to His ways. They both set up systems of their own ways and not God’s ways. Neither one was obedient to God’s Word.

Amos 5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. 5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

Now see the above verse says that God has a word AGAINST Israel. The virgin of Israel is FALLEN. She shall rise no more. She is forsaken. That is the first time Babylon fell. She is fallen, is fallen. {Rev. 18}. Twice ‘she�?fell. I taught on this in ‘Twice dead, plucked up by the roots�? This is a powerful message against the church, which you need to study. If His word is against her and she fell to rise no more, then she is hated and done away with.

This is a good place to start the controversy against the church. Almost all churches teach that God will establish Israel again. But see that here He said she will rise NO MORE. Do you believe God or the church? As I have said before why would the church teach this? The reason is because the church is old Israel in disguise.

Amos 5:10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

The churches hate those who rebuke in their gates and they hate those who speak uprightly, just exactly as Israel did, for they are old Israel. They have the same characteristics.

Amos 5:11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

The church fulfills this same evil doings. They tread upon the poor, take all they can from him to build their houses of hewn STONE. They are full of sins. Their pastors are almost all adulterers, liars, cheats, and money-hungry robbers. In this message I shall prove that accepting pay for preaching or any other work for God is the mark of the beast. Paying the preacher is having the mark in the hand. Accepting pay for your work for God is having the mark in your head. This alone marks almost all and possibly every church today, as a beast church.

Amos 5:16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. 5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. 5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 5:20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

The above Scripture shows that the time is when the wrath of the Lamb is starting to be poured out upon the church. The Day of the LORD is the time of his wrath. I had several visions from God about the very thing spoken of is this scripture. I saw people running and screaming in stark fear. They were in all the streets. Now the streets and highways represent the different churches. The churches are the path or the roads, thus the highways. This is showing the Wrath of God coming against this naked church. To them the Day of the LORD will be darkness and not light.

Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Now the above statement is a strong and powerful word. This is GOD saying he hates and despises something. When God hates something, we had better take notice of it!

Isa 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Open your spiritual eyes and read the above verses. God said I delight not in the blood of animals. This proves that God never at any time told them to do this thing. God never at any time approved of slaying those animals. Yet the church has taught us all that God required this. It is just not true. The blood of animals never at any time cleansed those people. So where did this practice come from? It came from the sin of Adam and Cain. THEY started this animal sacrifices. Now I know that is a strong and controversial statement. I teach things most people never heard, so I cannot do as most minister, just say things and expect others to just believe it because some teacher said a thing. I prove everything I say with written Scripture. Yet people still refuse to believe it. The same people will believe the most outrageous lies just because some fancy preacher says it. He never gives them one word of proof, yet they just accept it.

Isa 66:2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

[God looks to or accepts a men with a poor and contrite spirit and trembles at his word.

66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

[Now I see here no time period mentioned. So this applies to ALL time. God said killing an ox is to him the same as slaying a man. Sacrificing a lamb was to God as cutting off a dog’s neck. Offering oblation is the same as offering swine’s blood. Burning incense is blessing an idol. Now is not all of this the OT law way of worship? Sure it was. Yet this proves God never approved of this practice! But he said they chose their own ways. This proves it was THEIR way and not God’s way. God never chose that form of worship! He said these things were abominations. People, listen to this. It is God’s Word, not mine!]

Isa 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

[Now here God said they chose that in which He delighted not. This was their abominable animal sacrifices and the burning of incense and offering oblations. See? God said he never delighted in these things! It was their own ways. Who started these abominable practices? Satan, which is Adam and Cain!]

Isa 66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

[Now this verse proves that someone tried to sanctify themselves and purify themselves in some garden behind some tree in the MIDST. Now the only place in Scripture which answers or explains this is what Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden. That tree of the knowledge of good and evil was in the MIDST of that garden. The Word clearly says that they ATE of this tree. Paul said by the LAW is the knowledge of sin. Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

...the motions of sins were by the LAW and brought forth DEATH. The day you eat of it you die! How much clearer need it be said? You who claim sex is this tree, where is your Scripture saying by sex is the knowledge of sin? Or one which says by sex came death? Wake up! Open your blinded eyes!

Ro 7:7 What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Ro 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. Ro 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

...I had not known sin but by the LAW.(did not say I knew sin by sex). I had not known lust EXCEPT THE LAW said Thou shalt not covet. This proves he is speaking of that ten commandment law. Thou shalt not covet. So how is this something God despised? He hates people trying to serve him by LAW. He wants us loving righteousness and obeying Him and doing good because we have His love and grace in our hearts. He does not want LAW in our hearts. Notice he said we were alive without the law. That was Adam and Eve before they sinned or took up the law and tried to sanctify themselves with the blood of a swine. Remember God said in Isa. 66 that to slay a lamb is the same as offering swine’s blood. So there is no difference. See the law demands animal sacrifices which makes the death of Jesus and His shed blood of no effect.

This is solid proof that the LAW is that tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I have proven this with God’s Word. Now let all those false teachers which say it is something else bring forth one verse of Scripture proving their lie.

Rom 7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

{The commandment was unto death}.

Ro 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

{The law was the thing which caused their sin to slay them.}Ro 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Ro 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

{The law itself is holy and good. It is not the law which is bad. This fact throws some churches into believing they must still go by law and keep those commandments as a way of serving God. But see that God said he hates this system? But when you try to go under this law, sin results and sin brings forth death. Why? Ro 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Without the LAW sin was DEAD. The law revived sin. When Adam went to law he brought death by his sin. Ro 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

See Jesus delivered us from the LAW. Why? Because so long as one is under law they are dead in sins. So it was the law which He had to deliver us from in order to save us. Now if sex had been the original sin, then Jesus would have to deliver us from sex in order to save us. See how foolish this becomes? How then should more people be born?

Gal 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

....justified by law? That goes back to Isa. 66 where they sanctified themselves behind that tree in the midst of the garden. So this shows why it brought forth death -- they fell from grace. By grace are you saved, not by the works of the law. If this is not plain enough for you, please go back to the first grade and learn to read!

Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Ga 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Acts 15:1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

Now see that those Jews were trying to bring the Christians back under the bondage of LAW. They were claiming you cannot be saved without keeping the law. Paul said by GRACE are you saved.

What did Peter say? Ac 15:6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. 15:7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 15:8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 15:11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

Peter said God put no difference between Jews and Gentiles. He called that law a yoke of bondage. This proves that law is the bondage Jesus delivered us from. He agreed with Paul that we are both saved by GRACE. So who are you going to believe? Your lying church or these Apostles who wrote the NT? Also notice that when a question like this arose all of the men of God came together to discuss this and seek the right answer. Where is a church today that handles question in this manner? Know of any? No! They go by the whore churches method = one man tells the others what to believe and they are not allowed to question his decision. I say this system is of the devil.

Ac 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:

This is their final answer = we gave no commandment to keep the law. Yet the pastors today harp that you must tithe, keep a Sabbath day, go to their set time and place for ‘worship�? All of this is law. You must also pay this man to rule over you. This too is law and the mark of the beast.]

Now did Jesus agree with this? Let’s see. Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

[Here Jesus said God has had no pleasure in the OT burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. Is not this is full agreement with all the other Scriptures on this subject? Sure it is. If you or your ‘church�?disagrees, then find one verse which said that God required these sacrifices or had pleasure in them.]

Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

[Jesus was the one who did the will of God, not those OT priests killing sheep and goats. Notice it said ‘thou wouldest not�? What does this mean? It means God did not want these things! Again it said he had no pleasure in them. It is repeated twice here to ESTABLISH this as truth!]

Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

He took away that first or law covenant. He established the second which is by the blood of Jesus and His grace. If you go back to law, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you do despite to the spirit of grace and his blood will not cover your sins. See that it said we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. This is why God never required or enjoyed or accepted the animal sacrifices. This is Adam’s rebellion and sin. He brought up the animal sacrifices for sanctification. He ate of the law tree. He fell from grace. His sin remains for he knowingly and willfully did this sin.

Now I know you are wondering why I have gone into all of this. It is to show you that all of the churches today have gone right back to that tree of law. They all teach you must tithe and attend their little local assembly. This fits the old way of having to have a ‘certain�?place to go to for worship. It totally belies the NT way of what Jesus taught that neither in Jerusalem or in that mountain do we worship. We worship in Spirit and in truth, not some certain place. See then that all the churches are into lies and deception telling you that you MUST attend some local church at a certain time. They tell their people that they MUST go somewhere. This is setting up a law which God had taken down.

The church offers their ‘sacrifices�?of money, but to what avail is it? Their ‘fed beasts�?are their paid preachers. God is full or fed up with their being made ‘fat�?this way. Jesus said freely you have received [the messages] freely give. GIVE. This is the Mark of God. This is the Mark of the true Church. Notice how these ‘fed beasts�?have perverted this saying: they hound it into the members that it means for them to give their money to them. But that is not what Jesus was speaking of. He was telling his disciples that they were to give the spiritual food to the people. How different these preachers are today!

Isa 1: 13--the ‘calling�?of assemblies is INIQUITY to God! The solemn meetings are iniquity to God. He said they are a trouble to Him and He is weary to bear them. This is very strong words. It is saying that God despises the set time for assemblies and the churches solemn meetings. To Him it is sin. In verse 14 He makes this very clear that God HATES their appointed feasts. Appointed feasts means a set time and place to get together and supposedly ‘eat�?the Word or ‘have church�?

‘Have church�? ‘go to church�? local church, local assembly are all terms these ‘fed beasts�?use to chain their prisoners to them and keep them paying them to preach. But I did a search and found that none of these terms are even ONCE written in the Word of God from Genesis through Revelation. So then I ask you, where did this doctrine come from? It could not have come from God, for he said not to add to His Word. So it had to come from Satan. Satan is the father of lies.

God then tells them he will not hear their prayers. Then He tells them to wash and make themselves clean. The only way to do this is by repenting, being baptized in water in the Name of Jesus Christ and coming under His shed blood. Then they must learn to do well, seek judgment and help the widows and fatherless.

Now this Scripture in Isaiah and Amos both bear witness that God hates the church’s called or appointed assemblies and their paid preachers. God said he hates these feast days. So if He hates this how is it His true way or true Church? Cannot be!

Check your churches method of doing things and what they teach you and compare it with the Written Word of God. If you do not, then you are willfully letting these hirelings lead you into destruction. If you do not care enough to study the Word to find truth, then you will lose your soul. If your church and beliefs do not agree with the Word, if it is not written in the Scriptures then it is lies and destruction.

The early church, which is the only true Church in the Word, went everywhere, out into the world preaching to everyone. They were in a complete unity. But notice these churches today. They are all divided, even among those of like beliefs. Their ‘fed beast�?of a pastor tells them it is their DUTY to be at their own local assembly each time they have a get-together. In other words if they should go visit some other brother or sister church God will be against them. They will be cut off. They will thus sin. Yet the preacher lives in adultery and lies and robbery etc. This is saying that God cannot and will not bless them or be pleased with them if they leave church A and go worship with church B. Is not this division? Sure it is. Does this fit the Written Word? If you think so, I ask one of you to show me where that verse is.

Another thing I hear pastors saying to their people is that they can never rise above the pastor! In other words they are saying they are the priest or go-between for the people and God. They are saying that those children of God cannot go and receive anything directly from God for themselves, they must come through that pastor! This is a blatant doing away with of the work Jesus died to accomplish, which was to take away that middle wall and open the way into the Holy place so we can ALL GO TO GOD FOR OURSELVES. We do not need a human intercessor now for Jesus is our only intercessor. Yet these self-glorying men lift themselves up as the only one who can receive something from God. In other words, they are making themselves god to the people.

We are told we can all come boldly into the presence of God ourselves. People, if your pastor tells you such things, you need to get up and run as fast and as far away from him as you possibly can. He is leading you straight to hell fire. He is denying you your God-given right to come to God and to study and grow and learn from God for yourself. These same pastors never study and receive true revelation. They are not giving you anything but lies, for they cannot prove a thing they teach with written Word. Yet you pay him a big fat salary to lead you astray, for you are too lazy or just too uninterested to study and worship yourself. You pay him to tell you what the Word says. It will take you to hell. I am warning any who might ever read this. You are paying a man to lead you to hell. He has disconnected you from God.

There is not a church in this land which you could not easily prove it is not of God if you would just compare it with the Word. It is just as the law system was at the time of Jesus. That law system was esteemed as the only way to serve God, and yet I have proven here that it was never of God. The church system today is the same. It has never been of God. It has never done things according to the Book of Acts and the only true Church. Yet almost 100% of people today, both those who ‘go to church�?and those who do not go, will agree that going is the only way to serve God. Yet not one single verse of Scripture says we must GO ANYWHERE. Show it to me! The only place Jesus told us to go was out into the world to preach to those out in the highways and hedges. Yet the church system today does not do this. They sit like a spider and wait for some unsuspecting soul to come into their web for destruction. They claim you must come to them for salvation.