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A Biblical Perspective On Religion
At the time of the Exodus the people living in the land that God had promised to Abraham and his descendants were of an evil nature. They were an abomination in the eyes of God. They were murderers, fornicators, adulterers, incestuous, children killers, ravagers, thieves, warriors, oppressors, persecutors, generally evil and continuous entertainers of evil much like the people of Noah^s time I^m sure. The people of Sodom and Gomorrah were examples. There is nothing new under the sun. And how did they justify all these actions and all this evil behaviour? They were idol worshippers, they had false gods, they observed false religions.
False religion, which is evil in the eyes of God, falls primarily into two groups in these last days namely Islam and its branches and the Roman Catholic Church and its offshoots. They both have adherents that number over a billion. They have similarities in their past of wars, oppression, persecution and many other atrocities. They both basically teach and practise lies and deceptions. They are evil. One is blatant the other more subtle today. Check out what they say and do and see for yourselves if it lines up with the Bible.
Today Islam blatantly continues to practise and support those who practise such atrocities with ambition to take over the world. They are aggressively pursuing this goal on many fronts in many ways including wars, terrorism, intimidation, politics, psychology, lies and deceptions. This will undoubtedly facilitate the arrival of a third world war.
The Roman Catholic Church looks very tame at the moment by comparison but it is a beast lurking in the shadows. Its true colours, its true nature, will surface once again in the near future. It will facilitate the establishment of the Biblically prophesied man of perdition, the Beast of Revelation known also as 666, a soon coming head of a European union made up of ten nations, who will rule over much of the earth and will deceive great multitudes.
Together Islam and the Roman Church are deceiving billions of people; every one of their members, supporters and sympathizers, for examples those who support Obama and those who celebrate Christmas. These deceived people will not attain salvation in the first resurrection at the return of Jesus Christ. In order to attain salvation you must deny yourself, repent, confess Jesus as Lord of all, pick up your cross and follow Jesus in obedience and righteousness, in deed and in spirit. The old self and its evil ways must die and the new self of the spirit of God must take up residence within you and govern. So for many salvation may only come at the great white throne judgement a thousand years after Christ^s second coming. Others will be condemned.
So how can we let God govern in our lives? Let us examine God^s will, true religion. Jesus, God^s spokesman, instructed Israel of old when they came into the promised land. And here is what he said a few years later.
Judges 2:2 and 3 (NKJV)
And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.^ But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this? Therefore I also said, ^I will not drive them out before you; but they shall be thorns in your side, and their gods shall be a snare to you.^
Our western leaders, notably the USA, Germany and Sweden, are making covenants with Islam left right and center. By so doing they lose the protection of God, they suffer the evil these relations bring and very possibly lose their salvation.
Deuteronomy 18:9 (NKJV)
When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.
This was what God instructed them to do from the beginning thousands of years ago. And now that we are in the land that God has given us we should not learn to follow the abominations or false religions of those nations of old which are infesting our nations as you read.
Deuteronomy 12:2 to 4 (NKJV)
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things.
The will of God is still active and alive today. He has not changed His mind. We are still to obey His commands and not allow such practices to take place in our land. Our governments are increasingly acting against God and therefore against our better interests.
Deuteronomy 9:4 to 6 (NKJV)
Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, ^Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land^; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out from before you. It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff necked people.
So if you turn to doing wickedness and to allow wickedness to be practiced in your land then expect the wrath of God to be stirred against you. You will be treated as the enemy of God according to your deeds.
Deuteronomy 9:7 and 8 (NKJV)
Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.
Because God has blessed us with much land, and wealth do not think that He will not take it away if we neglect our responsibilities like justice and respect and obedience to God. When we disobey we provoke God to wrath. When we break His covenant made with our forefathers we stir God to wrath.
Many take refuge in Jesus. But they make Him out to be figments of their imaginations. They do not take heed to what He taught, what He said and what He did. Listen very carefully to the following words that Jesus spoke.
Matthew 10:34 (NKJV)
Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
And Paul said in
Philippians 3:13 (NKJV)
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
And he explained the words of Jesus in
Ephesians 6:17 (NKJV)
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
This concept is further explored in
Hebrews 4:12 to 13 (NKJV)
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight (that is God^s sight), but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Jesus also states His intended meaning in
Revelation 2:16 (NKJV)
Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.
In other words his words were formed by His tongue and were like a two edged sword. John also understood the power of the word of God and of Jesus.
John 17:17 (NKJV)
Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
Revelation 1:16 (NKJV) states,
out of His mouth went a sharp two edged sword,
Let take a condensed look at what it means to be Christian, to following the one and only true religion.
2 Corinthians 6:3 to 10 (NKJV)
We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed. But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Ephesians 1:13 (NKJV)
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, (which is) the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
The word of truth, is the gospel of your salvation.
Colossians 1:5 and 6 (NKJV)
because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, which has come to you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit, as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
2 Timothy 2:15 and 16 (NKJV)
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.
Finally John points out that good deeds and truth of the scriptures are more important than stating that you love in your own words of mouth.
1 John 3:18 (NKJV)
My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
If you know Jesus you know that He was the God of the old testament, the Father^s spokesman, the Word of God and co~creator with the Father. To understand Jesus and what He is doing and what He expects from us remember this as revealed in
Hebrews 13:8 (NKJV)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The problem is in getting people to believe and to obey Him.
Do you know the gospel? Do you know the word of God, God^s voice? Do you know truth when you hear it? Do you know true religion when you see it?
2016 Jacques Gauvin