DISCLOSURE: So many people in the world will surf the net and pick-up on a term or a slogan, and then use it in a manner that is inconsistent with what another person meant when they used it. Long after I wrote this page, I thought I'd Google "Second Reformation", and was surprised at the numbers of hit-results. I had no idea, and I have not reviewed them all to know the extent other's apply to the term, other than there are marked differences. So I'll say this much: To me, the Second Reformation is similar to the first: to take the mammon out of the faith, altogether. For me, the First Reformation was about the gluttonously wealthy Catholic church milking other humans through guilt, fear, duty or whatever. In other words, they Capitalized on the masses hunger to know God, and tried to sell it to them, in what ever form they could devise. The Protestants soon followed this pattern, and so, the Second Reformation is to expose all the labor-free frauds of religion everywhere, under any label or banner, and to be the witnesses of Christ, that refuse to take any handouts, whatsoever; Period! This is not about sharing and gifts, this is about avoiding labor: You either labor with your hands the thing which is good, and you do not harm Gods creation, nor Gods word; and, you finance your own calling, no matter what that may be! Conversely, you're a vehicle for Satan, and I say unto you: Get thee behind me! How bout the slogan "Anti-Iscariotism" Or maybe, "The Tithe-Free Church"!

The faith-alone theology was born out of the first reformation. The Reformers were witnessing the religious works of the Papacy and their minion priests, and discovered in Scripture, that these ritual works do not Save. This included infant or child baptism, for which the Catholics taught that if you baptize your children (into the church), they are Saved. Those who were not the chosen of God (the Iscariots) wanted to be considered Christian, but did not have the power of God-in-them, to actually follow Christ. These are the anti-Christ's; those who claim to be Christian, but do not have the Indwelling Holy Spirit within. And so, the need for the enemies of the cross to set up a fake church, began with Catholicism itself, but soon bled into the Protestant movement, and so today, we have them both, twisting Scripture in different directions, but with one end: To get resources without having to labor! The inherently lazy humans have been trying to thwart Gods labor-curse since humans were ejected from Eden! And so, the search through Scripture was an attempt at finding excuses to Not labor, most of all. This fact is witnessed; it is fruit-evidence, as Jesus taught His Apostles and Disciples; that you use your eyes, not your ears, to determine where another person is Spiritually. Anyone can talk; anyone can fake speaking in an unknown tongue or just speak the Christianeze of their time/culture. Talk isn't cheap, it's free! The Apostle Paul said that, without the unconditional, sacrificial Love of God within you, every other thing that exits your mouth, is the sound that's made when air passes across your vocal cords: I.E: Noise! Therefore, your so-called faith really does not exist at all. Without the Love of God-in-us proving itself in human relationships, and our relationship to the creation itself, humans are Godless and thus Loveless. Religious works mean nothing, in and of themselves (1Corn.13)! We are what we DO, and no more!

Therefore, the Body of Christ differentiates itself from all other religions to ever exist, in that, we do not sell religion, and we do not ask for, or take, monies from other's, and especially strangers! What separates the Indwelled of God, from the Godless-religious, is the evidence of service that we pay for, we do not charge for! But the Catholic church had been taxing/tithing the masses for a hundred generations; it became genetic, and everyone just could not fathom a faith that was free. It was unthinkable to receive such an awesome gift from God, for absolutely zero dollars (mammon). This is why Catholicism never died off, even when Protestantism offered so much more! Therefore, even when masses of humans began to leave the Catholic church, they stood at the doors of this new Protestant church, with their (genetically programmed) tithe/tax in-hand, wondering what to do with it! For those men who witnessed this trait, they saw wealth; they were true Capitalists, and wanted to capitalize on the prime opportunity, and they did! This is why the Protestants had to use the letters to the churches (esp. the Romans) that Paul started, as if they are Gospel. They try to suggest that they're the same; as if they were words that came from God Himself, but even Paul said (1Corn.1) that he would not be placed in that position; that he was a saved and redeemed sinner, just like you and me, and condemned those who tried to hold him up to the level of Jesus Christ; Yahshua, our Lord God! The Protestants eventually mastered Scriptural isolationism to validate their Godless Taker ways (i.e: 1Tim.5/2Tim.3)!

The Godless-religious do not like to be around those who live Christ; this is why many of the Anabaptists were persecuted by the Catholics and the latter Protestants, who were both using religion/God to stay out of the labor fields; they were charging monies for their "services"; they were both prostituting God for personal gain/incomes. Those who live Christ in their lifestyles, are thus a light unto all the religious darkness of those who see God and the planet as their own personal ATM machine! History itself, teaches us of the devastation brought to the indigenous of the entire world, by the sailing ships filled with the Catholics and the Protestants! Our world today is a testimony against this onslaught of prostitution, all done in the name of Jesus, and blessed/sanctioned by the church-businesses! Indeed, the planet itself, for the first time in all human history, is showing the signs of the end-times, and this prophetic end would not even be possible without the Godless-religious justifying materialism, Capitalism and consumerism, from the pulpits. This Godlessness led to the Industrial Revolution, which in turn fed science, which taught the religion of evolution, which codified the course to the end! But organized religion-businesses killed God long before the planet-haters came along! This physical evidence did not exist then, and thus, was not even realized until the birth of the 21st century (well, actually around 1970, but you get the idea).

And so the difference between live works and dead works, are the very religions that speak against the Anabaptists and others who believed that Salvation came through faith but manifest in works; the entire book of James centers on this principle. The lazy human remains Godless, and thus, those who want to prosper from the businesses of religion, have no options but to oppose anyone who will not accept their position that they have a right to take monies; to be professional religionists. The Catholics and the Protestants have elaborate Scripture-twisting pathways to justify this do-nothing, faith-alone theology that keeps them in the same position as the Pharisees, condemned by Jesus Christ! They do not see themselves as pharisaic, and this, too, is Biblical (it is prophecy). The Godless-religious must exist in staggering numbers, in order for prophesy to manifest; we of the Indwelling see it happening right now, as the Laodicean Age! There are false teachers who bring in damnable heresies, but they are subtle. But this I know; without the Indwelling Spirit, the word of God is a sterile document, and gets worked over and subdivided, until one becomes numb from the monotony of it. Now, early in my walk w/Christ, one of my favorite teachers of scripture was CH Spurgeon. I do not agree with everything he taught (i.e.: his personal interpretations), but for the most part I think he got it! I used to recommend him as a resource, until one day when I read from (Spurgeon.org) a website dedicated to him. It said: "Menno Simons and Anabaptists generally, did not accept Luther's forensic doctrine of justification by faith alone because they saw it as an impediment to the true doctrine of a 'lively' faith which issues in holy living." [Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers (Nashville: Broadman, 1988), 269]. Perhaps it is fair to note that the Anabaptists thought they detected a tendency toward antinomianism in the Reformed doctrine of justification by faith alone. That was what they argued against. But in doing so they undermined the very foundation of the biblical doctrine of justification. They left people to try to devise a righteousness of their own derived from the law, rather than trusting the perfect righteousness of Christ which God imputes to those who believe (cf. Phil. 3:9; Rom. 4:5-6)." If you use an electronic Bible program, and enter in "faith alone", only one verse comes up: James 2:17 Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.

I'm Anabaptist (theologically), but the thought of religious-works salvation, never passed before my brain until I read this. I do not know anyone who believes that we are saved by religious works (other than some Catholics, perhaps). Now remember, there is no such thing as faith-alone in Scripture; there is no doctrine of justification (per say; its a modern, made-up doctrine). These are products manufactured and sold by the Protestants, who got the idea, in part, from Martin Luther! Luther became convinced that James was opposed to Paul's doctrine of justification by faith alone and thus, dismissed the epistle as non-canonical (that should speak volumes about the man, if you are tuned-in at all!). We know that there were/are 73 books that make up the Catholic Bible, which existed long before Martin Luther was born, and then, that got reduced down to the Protestant Bible, which now has only 66 books, and if it were up to Mr. Luther, it would be 65! You can play any tune you want on the Bible, but if you keep hitting a sour note, just remove that key: And so we have it! The masses today, are so confused by all that they hear, they just stay in the fog. You have religionists who are the confusion-makers, telling everyone that they must believe in this doctrine, or that doctrine, in order to go to Heaven. And then, you have still others claiming that it's what you feel, that's most important; that doctrine is not faith. But I'm going to simplify it for everyone, Just Like Jesus did it. He spoke in elementary parables, and those with open minds and hearts, got it, and the dogmatic did not. That's the way it should be.

Evangelicals all teach a variation of this basic premise: we tell others about Jesus Christ, and they are drawn to our religion by the narrative of Jesus Himself, or by a personal testimony of another. The end-result is this; they want to recruit others into their businesses, and if not their store, one of their sister-stores! Its like buying coffee at Starbucks; the baristas would prefer you come to their store, as they get tips; the corporation does not care which store you go to, so long as you don't go to Caribou, Peet's or Tully's Coffee! The business branding of churches operate much this way! The Evangelicals teach/believe that it's what you and I say, or not say, to another human being, that will determine their eternal fate. They actually believe that the will of God will be fulfilled or destroyed, by their personal actions or inactions within the guise of evangelization. The Jehovah's Witness are especially strong on this issue! But all evangelicals do not fully understand predestination or foreknowledge, for these are pieces of the mystery that only the Indwelling Holy Spirit can (and does) illuminate within us: (this is also true with divorcement). The evangelicals are really just Capitalist recruiters trying to fill their churches with tithe-givers. They, like the Godless Capitalists they admire and emulate, also work off of numbers; the bottom-line! The more people involved in their church-business, the more God is doing, and the more monies coming in, the more blessings God bestows! But they're oblivious to the time/culture they are in; they're oblivious to the fact that they are all participants in the end-times scenario of the Laodicean Churches; that they are the (lukewarm) Godless-religious; that they're Matthew Seven Christians! God will not allow them to see this, unless and until, they surrender their worldliness, their cars, their careers, their sedentary lifestyles, and their materialism; to take their riches and give them over to the poor, and follow Christ in total faith! Until they begin the Walk, they will just talk Jesus and live carnal; they will mimic their culture, whatever that may be.

The evangelical directive is to sell God, and then collect mammon for themselves at the local church-businesses. But what separates true Christianity from all other religions, is the fact that we have no earthly agenda; we are not religious salemen! Most Westernized humans have already heard about Jesus Christ, the religions of Christianity, the Gospel, the Bible and so forth. They all know about the Catholics and the Protestants. Indeed, and most have already been solicited by the various church-business promoters. Most of the Westernized world has no interest in belonging to, or financing, some local church-business. And so, they associate Jesus Christ with this recruitment/solicitation process. They see these people as nothing more than hands-out takers who will not support themselves. This is why the prosperity gospel has become so popular; it appeals to the carnal nature of the modern Capitalists.

At the time John was writing Revelations, he was referring to the Roman Empires domination of the early Christians. Rome wanted them to consider themselves as Romans, not Christians, as the Roman Kings sought to be worshipped (and why they hated Jesus and Christians). John was warning them (and us) to avoid the Romanesque; to avoid the pitfalls of materialism and personal pleasure, indicative of the Romans. The Romans were world traders, wealth seekers, heavily materialistic and avid consumers. They fought wars to gain lands or resources: And of course, Capitalist America is the carbon-copy of the Roman Empire in every way!

Romans 8:1-21 If you belong to Christ Jesus, you won't be punished. The Holy Spirit will give you life that comes from Christ Jesus and will set you free from sin and death. The Law of Moses cannot do this, because our selfish desires make the Law weak. But God set you free when He sent His own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin. God used Christ's body to condemn sin. He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires. People who are ruled by their desires think only of themselves. Everyone who is ruled by the Holy Spirit thinks about Spiritual things. If our minds are ruled by our desires, we will die. But if our minds are ruled by the Spirit, we will have life and peace. Our desires fight against God, because they do not and cannot obey God's laws. If we follow our desires, we cannot please God. You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God's Spirit, who lives in you. People who don't have the Spirit of Christ in them don't belong to Him. But Christ lives in you. So you are alive because God has accepted you, even though your bodies must die because of your sins. Yet God raised Jesus to life! God's Spirit now lives in you, and He will raise you to life by His Spirit. My dear friends, we must not live to satisfy our desires. If you do, you will die. But you will live, if by the help of God's Spirit you say "No" to your desires. Only those people who are led by God's Spirit are His children. God's Spirit doesn't make us slaves who are afraid of Him. Instead, we become His children and call Him our Father. God's Spirit makes us sure that we are His children. His Spirit lets us know that together with Christ we will be given what God has promised. We will also share in the glory of Christ, because we have suffered with Him. I am sure that what we are suffering now cannot compare with the glory that will be shown to us. In fact, all creation is eagerly waiting for God to show who His children are. Meanwhile, creation is confused, but not because it wants to be confused. God made it this way in the hope that creation would be set free from decay and would share in the glorious freedom of His children. (cev)

Jesus called all those who would follow Him, to unconditional surrender. We are to first, give up our own lives; we are to walk away from our worldly wealth; we are to give up our corporeal condition. And so, for those who surrender their lives over to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, these will be Saved. There is nothing you or I can do, to merit such a gift. Even the Amish teach this; that, after Rumspringa, the young man or woman must decide if they want to go to Heaven or not, by being baptized into the Amish church. If not, they are outsiders and presumed dead, Spiritually. Well, this is good and bad. First, baptism of any kind, is religious works, if it be alone. There will be multitudes of humans on the Broadway to eternal darkness who were baptized in this life. However, making people accountable to the Community is very Biblical, as is church discipline via accountability, which is the reason that the Amish expect such a profound commitment. They expect men and women to follow rules that are Biblical, like hard work, modesty and faithfulness; not being worldly or likened to the worldly. These are all Godly traits, and those who are worldly, are Godless! And yet, the Amish have the same issues as the rest of humanity, in that, simply being/becoming Amish, does not secure Salvation and Heaven. If an individual person commits to becoming Amish, and follows their rules and lifestyles, but, believing that this process is the ticket to Heaven, they do not yet understand; they have not yet been converted by the Indwelling. But, if their commitment is born from a genuine commitment to living Christ, then their lifestyle is genuine, and indeed, becomes the outward proof of the inward conversion/transformation. Indeed, saying the "sinners prayer" is an act of religious works within Protestantism, if it is not followed by a radical transformation; a lifestyle that looks Christ-like! Now, with that part understood, what many confuse as "faith-alone", refers to a lifestyle of faith. This is what the Protestants, at least in my time/culture, teach it to be. This is merely mathematical. If I have a church-business, wherein, my income comes from others within my culture, I must do and say, whatever is "acceptable" to my "customers", in order to keep the mammon coming into my church: This is just good business! Since I operate within the money-system of a Capitalist economy (much like the Roman Emperialism of Jesus' time), then you need to make lots of money as a successful Capitakist, so that you can then share some of it with me, so that I do not have to build my own home, or grow my own food, or finance my own calling; I will use the money handed to me for reading Scripture, to just buy these things. And so, this is the core of Compromise-Theology! It is nothing new, this is what the Papacy was doing, when Luther came along (in time), and opposed them for it. He swung the pendulum to the other extreme, to say that Salvation was free, which it is, but then that became what is (to this today) thought of (packaged and sold) as "faith-alone", a heresy that has been a victory for the evil one. It is clear from Jesus Himself, that the Discipleship He is calling us into, is a sacrifice; one that also calls us away from:

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life shall lose it. And he who loses his life for My sake shall find it. If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. | For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever desires to lose his life for My sake shall find it. For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He shall reward each one according to his works. | If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me. | No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. | Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again. The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice, but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit. | My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never ever perish, and not anyone shall pluck them out of My hand. My Father who gave them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck them out of My Father's hand. I and the Father are One! | Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. He who loves his life shall lose it. And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there also My servant shall be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him. Matthew 10:37-39 | 16:25-27 | 19:21 | Luke 9:62 | John 3:5-8 | 10:27-30 | 12:24-26

When we are born again, Jesus is saying that we have no past; our former life has died, and we are as a child with a clean slate. Once we decide to follow Christ, we do not look back to our old life; it has died and is buried; it no longer exists. Our life begins with Christ and it goes along as Christ. Anything else is just a self-belief; a religion! The religionists exist to use God and Scripture to milk mammon from the guilt-ridden. They are masters of this deception; It has become a trick of words; the original Protestants were trying to teach that the Catholic church was trying to sell religion (its rituals and sacraments) in order for people to go to Heaven. They were trying to say that it is our genuine faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, that determines our salvation, not the services sold by the Catholic churches (who obscured Gods word from its parishioners). A far as I know, everyone today understands this. And so, how did it attenuate down to this wordology? Simple! the Protestant movement was soon taken over by Satan, just as the Catholic church was, in its infancy. As soon a money shows up, in anything, along comes the money-hungry! Jesus did not angrily cast out the Mammonites (the materialistic Capitalistic takers) from the holy temples for no reason! You either serve God or mammon; the money-hungry Christians must counter this statement with a claim not to love it (what else can be said?!). But in fact, the truly Godly cannot, and do not, make money from God or religion; period! Anyone who believes it or does it or teaches it, is not just Godless, they are dark; my reply to this is: "Anathema...get thee behind me Satan"! Therefore, Satan had to make leaven-pinches of twisted-scripture, because now, the average person could buy and read Gods word for themselves. The average Joe was being steered away from the religious oligarchies of Catholicism, and given Scripture in their languages, and so, Satan had to devise a way to stumble the non-professional; the religionist. It was much easier to just deceive the Papacy and their minions; now, the evil one had to do it, one person at a time. Consequently, this took awhile, but the leaven was in! And so, as the power-trip goes, the average Joe could now replace the Pope and Priest, and rebuild the Christian church under another banner: Protestantism! What Satan showed the Protestors is what Satan always shows men; money; power; glory; reverence! And so, logic dictates that if a man is not motivated by the material world, and lives apart from it, this witness will make the takers of Satan's temptations appear, well, evil, and that will not fill pew seats or tithe buckets, will it?! The Bible teaches us that, when someone comes along and hampers or threatens the incomes (profits, and the other benefits) of the professional religionists, they will reject you; you will be defamed and they'll try to destroy you, just as the Pharisees did with Jesus Himself; just as the Apostles also experienced (esp. Paul).

Those who want to play the Capitalist markets as hands-in-the-pie Takers, rather than labor for their needs (as Scripture instructs), will run to the planters and harvesters of food, for food, once those markets collapse and the easy money is gone. But this is the way of Capitalism! In like manner, the marketing techniques of the modern Protestant salesmen and women, is a matter of public record; it gets a thumbs-up from the materialistic, industrialist Capitalists, who marvel at this marketing prowess. This marketing of the businesses of religion, has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry in the USA alone: Worldwide, who knows! Now, the Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles, never made money off of religion, they did the polar opposite, and Jesus set the parameters of those who desire to follow Him. And so, how did the word "Jesus Christ" become such a marketing tool? How did so many see it as an opportunity to become profiteers? Well, Jesus Himself, said it would happen, and He is never wrong! But religion itself, is the fence dividing the converted/transformed, from the frauds. The frauds will always outnumber the faithful, and by massive numbers. During the Apostolic Age, there were a hundred frauds for every Indwelled person. Today, that differentiation is one per a multi-million! The Laodicean Age would not even be possible without this math taking place, and today it has. There has to be nearly a billion frauds of the faith, to usher in the end-times prophesies! And so, the need to market God in the Capitalist mindset is a necessary element to its fruition. Its the Lazarus paradox; its the rich young ruler paradigm! God knew that the world would slowly fall away from Him; it has always happened; human History IS only this!

We humans think in human timeframes (and, we have very short attention-spans), but God operates in (what we today call) geological time; today, a thousand years is a blip on the screen of time! The great falling away began during the dark ages of human History, and accelerated during the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, and will continue unabated in a downhill slide, until the Second Advent, which could be as soon as 2012ad, or as late as 2067ad (assuming the 1947ad date for the formation of the State of Israel, adding the genetic limit of a generation of 120 years: Gen. 6 / If it is calculated as 70-80 years from Psalms 90:10, then it would be 40-50 years sooner). Again, God-time is different than ours, and so I'm speculating based on watching the seasonal changes of Prophesy! But the catastrophic events foretold; the weather-related and the earth-related (earthquakes, volcanoes) and other such planet-wide events, used to be thought of as the products of war, and indeed, that will be a component, but it appears that the true seeds of catastrophe will be from our degradation and dishonoring of Gods creation; Earth, the human home! As the Godless (including the Godless-religious) continue raping, plundering, and marketing Earth as their own personal fueling, and dumping stations, this flagrant display of disrespect will be a chief element (the human element) in the global catastrophes that will mark the last of days! The Capitalism of Earth is a major component in this degradation process, and the religionists are fully invested in the downslide! They invest heavily in the paving-over and resource plundering of Gods creation, unabated and unabashed! The Godless-religious will not know that they are sentenced to hell, until Judgment Day, as foretold by Jesus in the latter half of Matthews Gospel! Therefore, it is a Biblical impossibility for them to see it in themselves, in the here & now. There has to be masses and multitudes of the Spiritually deceived, in order for Jesus to be right about this.

Because all religionists (the Godless-religious) live like the Godless world lives, they too, take a tax from the labors of the working men, rather than laboring for their own simple needs, and sharing the excesses of that labor with others. They are all takers; hands-in-the-pie takers, and the taxation of the masses began with the kings, the imperialists and other elitists, as a way to build militaries and other deices of control. Once the Catholic church lost its political powers from its own taxation (tithing), they improvised, and through this compromise; this prostitution, they managed to bilk the masses out of huge sums of mammon. The Protestants saw this potential, and followed suit; starting a new religion-business but using a different Bible, but with the same motives; staying out of the labor fields. The laziness of man is indeed, embarrassing to observe. And so, we move forward in time, until the prostitution of God and Gods creation, had to move to the Americas, where the Godless-religious slaughtered or dislodged or dishonored the Native Americans, then the Mexicans, then the Hawaiians, then the Alaskans. One they we all out of the way, they turned on each other; the Irish against the Italians; the whites against the blacks; the Protestants against the Catholics! Conversely, the Indwelling Holy Spirit brings with it, the Love of God, wherein we sacrifice our own life to serve others. The Godless-religious do the opposite; they sacrifice others (via planet-raping and economic exploitation at its very minimum) in order to gain for themselves!

The perspectives of the employee will obviously differ from those of the consumer. How many current employees of the nuclear power industry speak out in opposition to the inherent dangers of it? None! Now, an Apostate (someone who quits their job) may become an outspoken critic of nuclear power, but no current employees are; why? Yep! they would get fired; they'd lose their income that supports their family! This same fact is true in religion, and why God expects us to leave the mammon outside! Now, I believe that all Saved/transformed people do not allow mammon inside of their simple Fellowships. Which leaves us with the prophesied Godless-religious, which make up the outward "church"; the religionists! These people have to market religion in such a way, as to keep masses of customers coming into their particular business, just like any other Capitalist business must compete for a customer-base. Consequently, the word of God is either a minor aspect of the church, as with Catholicism, or, it is presented as the core of the business, as with many protestant-sects. But this word-study varies from one group to another, because , no matter how much effort is placed in "rightly dividing" the Bible, comparing Scripture with Scripture brings with it, the greatest number of interpretations possible. Which Scripture gets compared with another, varies, depending on which tune your particular division is playing for the audience. Each brand of Christianity hones-in on one particular aspect of Scripture, depending on their customer-base! The customer-base is dependent on ones time/culture (where and when) the religion-business is marketed. The grandsons of slavery in the deep south have a different market than those in the heart of San Francisco! Go to both places and see for yourself: The one sells Jesus as a bling-laden Capitalist, the other, as a homosexual! Both are confirmations of conformation. They both consider themselves victims of bigotry (or injustice), when in fact, they are the true bigots!

Like with any business, one must adapt or die; that's the motto of the Capitalist! This is why so any want to come to the USA; its known globally as Sodom City in the heart of the Roman Empire! Capitalism is the consequence of freedom, which is pursued as a natural state of the humans who intend to live unrestrained, either by moral absolutes, or ethical ones; Laws! Freedoms can be bought and sold via the "Justice Industry"! The laws of this country were founded by the Godless-religious, and so they're a hodge-podge of Bible-based ideals of the times, coupled with the loopholes of the utterly Godless Atheists! People are not attracted to Capitalist Sodom because they want to live a life, free of mass-materialism and the curse of wealth and sexual promiscuity; but for the exact polar opposite. Humans, by their Godless nature, want to be free to serve the flesh, not the Messiah! Laws and rules will not tame the animal, only the transformation of that Hominid animal, into a Spirit-centric human being, via the Indwelling Holy Spirit. No one will be coerced into the Kingdom of Heaven! But many a groups try to control others, thinking that this containment will drive them to surrender to Christ, but it don't work that way. If someone wants to be free to service the flesh, chaining them to Gods laws will not produce submission.

And so the need to create authority in the absence of lifestyle (fruit-evidence), became a necessary step in order to control the masses, and get their cut of the mammon; the tithe. Once the governments became secular, taxed the masses and stopped giving monies to the religionists, they had to devise a way to keep milking their drones, to (again) avoid laboring themselves. At first, this was done via education; the Universities became Christian in origin, but like all early Christian-born business entities, they all went secular (IE there are almost no young Christian men associated with or working at the YMCA. All Christian-born hospitals now perform abortions; etc.). Satan and the demons have only one mission; to take anything and everything with the name of Christ on it or attached to it, and prostitute it; deface it so that the world will see its hypocrisy, and reject Christ in the doing. Its called seed-smashing! But understand this; the Atheist or the Buddhist or the Muslim, has no power over what happens with Christ-entitled religion-businesses, they are exclusively controlled by the Christian religionists; the religious-professionals. Satan works only through these people, to defame Christ! Jesus did not teach us to follow the traditions of men; Jesus did not instruct us to copy the Pharisees and be religionists. He in fact, warned us of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod (Mark 8), the religious and secular governments of Jesus' time; those who had power over the masses.

The badges and labels manufactured by human cultures, are nothing new. Humans are obsessed with being recognized for their efforts. Without the Indwelling Holy Spirit, the human is an empty vessel; their Soul is dormant, alone and unfulfilled. Therefore (without the Living Water), they must and will, seek out the validation paradigms of the other humans. Their emptiness creates a passionate thirst to be praised and recognized and rewarded by other humans. This is why the ideals of a formal education, holds so much weight for the Godless and the Godless-religious, who simply followed the Godless secularists into the models of intuitionalism (namely, the credential-mills of the 20th-21st century). This is why there are Christian schools and Universities; this is why there are Seminaries and degrees in Theology. This is the result of the culturally-normalized parroting of ones accomplishments. These are the bragging rights of the look-at-me badges worn by those, empty of a true Spiritual life; a Spirit-filled life! Because of this Spiritual emptiness, the Godless-religious seek out the accreditations of the worldly. Even religious-businesses expect to see some form of worldly accreditation, to hire people into their businesses. With rare exception, there is not one religious business on Earth, that would employ the Lord Jesus Christ, if He approached their business (and there be Angels, unaware! Hebrews 13:2). But most of the religionists do not really believe in the Indwelling Holy Spirit (because they are Spiritually dead); this is because the Spirit is all that you would need, and so, they need you to need them, so they can avoid labor! They seek dependency, as all dealers of commerce seek to addict their customers, assuring future sales and future income! Once the Indwelling Holy Spirit yokes in an eternal bond with your Soul, you know all that you need to know, and no other mere mortal will be able to enlighten you, as the Holy Spirit Enlightens you, via that personal relationship with God! The professional religionist wants you to look to him/her for your Spiritual needs; that's how they make their living! But Jesus said this:

If you Love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, so that He may be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for He dwells with you and shall be in you. I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. | And when the Comforter has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of Me. And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning. | I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever He hears, He shall speak. And He will announce to you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine and will announce it to you. John 14:15-18 | 15:26-27 | 16:12-14
1st Corinthians 2:13-16 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Romans 5:1-5 By faith we have been made acceptable to God. And now, because of our Lord Jesus Christ, we live at peace with God. Christ has also introduced us to God's undeserved kindness on which we take our stand. So we are happy, as we look forward to sharing in the glory of God. But that's not all! We gladly suffer, because we know that suffering helps us to endure. And endurance builds character, which gives us a hope that will never disappoint us. All of this happens because God has given us the Holy Spirit, who fills our hearts with His Love.

The religionists are not Pastoring the flock via Community, they are hirelings who close the office after business hours! They think that it is their duty to get a degree or an education in the bible, and then parrot this back to you, for a fee. They are not a part of the Body of Christ in community (like the Amish live), they are secularists who operate a weekly religion-business, some even having schools and other sale-items within their business platform. The secular world gets all wrapped up in formal education, and so, the Godless-religious follow suit. In fact, the Godless-religious are 99.9% like the world; almost identical in every way, to the Godless culture they inhabit (no matter when or where)! The Godless-religious, therefore, are invested, mind, body and Soul, into the Godless world: They are linked in every way, with the exception of weekend church services. The American Amish are the best sign of being a Christian in a Sodomized Romanesque culture (and why they are a tourist destination; to see the peculiar people). The Protestants and the Catholics are the reason that America is the way it is to begin with; they severe the world (Satan/evil) in and with their religionist businesses, and so they are co-ops with the constructors of the tools and weapons necessary for the end-time to manifest. They help the evil one to continue to bulldoze Gods creation, so they can have roads and machines to avoid walking; to have land to build their schools, churches, and parking lots. Higher education has lowered the standard of living for future generations, but for the fat, Godless, Loveless, lazy people living in the here and now, they will not see that; they will not know that, not in this life! They look at the creaio in dollar-increments; they see mammon, and thus craving addiction for the mammon is why they de-velop the creation, converting it from the symboitic natural world, into a broken-down, broken-up, polluted mess. God will have to reveal it all to them at the Judgment, and then they will have eternity to ponder it all, without any further interruptions from God, His Creation or His Children. They are Matthew Seven Christians!

When I used to watch pop-media, my favorite comedy was Frasier! Dr. Frasier Crane was a self-important, egocentric Harvard Graduate with a PhD; he was a popular radio host, respected, and nearly wealthy in economic stature. The comedy was in the fact that, with all his elite credentials and cultural bragging talismans (his BMW, Caviar, sherry-sipping, wine club, opera connoisseur), he was an emotional retard; and as such, an idiot, and a chronic complainer who was always depressed or (sometimes) elated, as he chased after the worldliness that always outpaces mere mortals! He was in one relationship after another, depressed that he could not find Mrs. Right, though he found faults in all of them, that required a microscope to even see! Every time he was faced with any mental challenge, he would pull out his Harvard PhD badge; this was his eternal validation weapon. It was funny! But this is the way of the worldly; that's why the sit-com was so popular and for so long. Everyone could relate to it, because it was a normal part of our time/culture. But the very existence of all those educational institutions, are more about employing those who work there, than it is about improving the state of the planet, or the peace of the human heart, and thus, the world. All these businesses exist to provide a way for humans to be employed and get mammon in exchange for those services, so they do not have to labor for those things themselves. This is why all the organic food grown on US soil are from the Amish (and other Anabaptist groups), and from the Mexicans who brave deportation, just to do that: Why? Because the Godless Americans are lazy, and too good to dirty themselves in this way! The early Americans enslaved Africans to do all that dirty work... Oh, how elevated are the minds/hearts of these Godless people... religionists included! And so, the empty soul creates more and more things to do, both to avoid laboring in the dirt, and, to entertain the mind/emotions of those with a dormant Soul; the Spiritless; the Godless-religious, who, like the rest of the Godless world they mirror, also seek cultural validations. They'll read what I'm saying now, and have no option but to say and think, just what they said of Jesus: Here's what Jesus Himself had to face on this matter:

Matthew 13:54-58 And when He had come into His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so much so, that they were astonished and said; From where does this man have this wisdom and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers, James and Joses and Simon and Judas, and His sisters, are they not all with us? Then, from where does this man have all these things? And they were offended in Him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house. And He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
Mark 6:1-9 And He went out from there and came into His native-place. And His disciples followed Him. And when the Sabbath day had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him, were astonished, saying, Where does this one get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to him, that even such mighty works are done by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honor, except in his native-place, and among his own kin, and in his own house. And He could do no work of power there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick ones, He healed them. And He marveled because of their unbelief. And He went around the villages, in a circuit, teaching. And He called the Twelve and began to send them out by two and two. And He gave them authority over unclean spirits, and commanded them that they take nothing in the way, except only a staff; no bag, no bread, no copper in the belt, but tying on sandals, and not to put on two tunics.
Matthew 11:11-30 (cev) I tell you that no one ever born on this earth is greater than John the Baptist. But whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John. From the time of John the Baptist until now, violent people have been trying to take over the kingdom of Heaven by force. All the Books of the Prophets and the Law of Moses told what was going to happen up to the time of John. And if you believe them, John is Elijah, the prophet you are waiting for. If you have ears, pay attention! You people are like children sitting in the market and shouting to each other, "We played the flute, but you would not dance! We sang a funeral song, but you would not mourn!" John the Baptist did not go around eating and drinking, and you said, "That man has a demon in him!" But the Son of Man goes around eating and drinking, and you say, "That man eats and drinks too much! He is even a friend of tax collectors and sinners." Yet Wisdom is shown to be right by what it does. In the towns where Jesus had worked most of His miracles, the people refused to turn to God. So Jesus was upset with them and said: You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are in for trouble too! If the miracles that took place in your towns had happened in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have turned to God long ago. They would have dressed in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads. I tell you that on the day of Judgment the people of Tyre and Sidon will get off easier than you will. People of Capernaum, do you think you will be honored in Heaven? You will go down to hell! If the miracles that took place in your town had happened in Sodom, that town would still be standing. So I tell you that on the day of Judgment the people of Sodom will get off easier than you. At that moment Jesus said: My Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, I am grateful that you hid all this from wise and educated people, and showed it to ordinary people. Yes, Father, that is what pleased you. My Father has given me everything, and He is the only one who knows the Son. The only one who truly knows the Father is the Son. But the Son wants to tell others about the Father, so that they can know Him too. If you are tired from carrying heavy burdens, come to me and I will give you rest. Take the yoke I give you. Put it on your shoulders and learn from me. I am gentle and humble, and you will find rest. This yoke is easy to bear, and this burden is light.

The (Godless-religious) religionists must reject the notion of a Second Reformation, on the grounds that it is not Biblical. Anything they do not like, gets placed in this theological box. But as we know, the First Reformation is not in Scripture either; nor was the Catholic church! It's not a matter of twisting Gods word, it is a reality that we can see. Jesus said that we cannot know the day or the hour of the end-times, but we will know of its season. That ship has sailed; we are indeed, full-bore into the end-times, and it is the religionists, above all the other signs, that bear witness to this prophesy. The Laodicean Age began long before I was born, and may continue after my body gives up. But in geological time, or God-time, we are near to the end, or to me, the new beginning! The Second Advent would not be possible without Armageddon... which would not be possible without the Apostasy... which could not happen without a great increase in religion-businesses, and the enormous resources they will have (and are now) amassing! Protestantism, Catholicism, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution, are all a major part of the prophetic events that will lead to the Second Advent! Today, and especially within the Capitalist Oligarchies, everyone is a salesman, of one type or another. Since only about one half of a percent of their populations labor with their hands, everyone else must take from the fruits of the laborers. Mammon is the medium that is traded. As the end nears, the sheer quantity of defiant humans will never again, be matched. This is why the Industrial Revolution occurred to begin with! Humans are discontented and lazy when they are Godless, and so, they devise ways to avoid labor and to entertain the deadened-self. This began long ago, and regressed over time, until we finally got to the IR, which was the beginning of the end for all intents and purposes. And so, the Godless, and the Godless-religious, jumped all over these culturally normalized paradigms; they began to alter their religions to fit into this new cultural box. They actually built their religious boxes (churches), based on this lazy mans way to riches. They made them fancy and huge, hired personalities that would woo the masses; they made Christianity out to be a free-for-all with Gods creation. And so today, the planet is being pushed beyond its created limit, and God knew that the Godless masses would do this, and this is why the prophesies were spelled out as they were (see Revelations). It was not about God turning dials and pushing buttons to make it all come about, God knew that the Godless would increase, just like in the days of Sodom and of Noah, wherein, there would be almost no savable humans in the whole of the Earth. Even in the face of staggering numbers of humans, precious few actually belong to Christ; few actually have the Indwelling Holy Spirit; most are members of one division or another, all taking up their doctrine guns and aiming them at each other, as the hirelings feed this side-taking frenzy, to the point that we arrive at today, the 21st century. Welcome to Earth; welcome to the end of the story!

Taking sides gives people the opportunity to reject others, and that rejection now being Biblical. For example, the modern Protestants who are the King-James-only people, believe that if you do not read and use the King James Bible, that you are not "right", or, not where God wants you to be. I'm honestly not real sure what most of them think, but to believe that the KJV they read from now, is the original, is moronic. Translationism does this; if I write something that someone does not like to hear, they can look at the Bible I use, and say that I'm all mixed up because of the translation of my Bible, and then, summarily dismiss what I wrote. They no longer need to understand it based on its own merits, for they have found a loophole to validate ignoring my words. Now, all those who wish to read Gods word in its original form, already speak and read fluent Hebrew and Greek, and read Scripture from those sources. By the way, they also refer to Jesus as Yahshua, and not one of them believe that the KJV is the only valid English translation of the Bible. The KJV-Only is just another cultist mentality. This version is only important to them, as a source of division; as a badge of superiority; as a way of avoiding actual Saved Christians; the Body of Christ. The Protestors are deeply divided, and this manifestation of utter Godlessness (divisionism), utterly escapes their mind. There are more divisions of Protestantism than every other religion on the face of the planet, collectively. They live in diametric opposition to Jesus' deep-hearted prayer found in John 17. They're so engrossed in their Satan-inspired sectarianism, that they will not see/know Jesus until Judgment Day (Matthew Seven Christians)! Every Christian cult to ever exist, used only the KJV; does this fact teach us that all KJV users are cultists? or have the potential to become a cult? You see, without the Indwelling Holy Spirit (which brings to us, the Love of God), the Godless hominid, churched or not, is lost and ignorant, and thus, are no different than any other; they are arrogant, pride-filled, divisive, violent and aggressive. If they were born in (and indoctrinated within) a Muslim-dominated culture, they would likely be Islamic terrorists today! They are not chosen; they are not the Elect of God, and so, for those who are not Gods children, but still want to be recognized as Christian, the church-businesses sell that service like pancakes; with syrup! This is a market for them to exploit, just like every Capitalist to ever live. They want to sell you something, or just tell you something, and do so while living utterly Godless lives. As long as a Protestant or Catholic accepts the normalization of the hirelings and the authoritarianism of the religionists, these people will continue to rake in the mammon of the simpleton proselytes, who are seeking a side to take; a cause to fight for; something to protest! This is why Protestantism flourishes; why it is so popular, because it appeals to the carnality of the hominid; namely, competitivism and Capitalism.

The Godless human suffers from competitivism; this explains why humans war! It explains why the name of Jesus Christ (Christianity) is associated with such utter Godlessness and staggering acts of evil. This is Satan's only mission; to dirty the name of Jesus, who sentenced Satan to eternal damnation on the Cross of Golgotha! From that moment on, the evil one has the target set upon anyone who proclaims to be a Christ-follower; any representative of Christ! This massive misrepresentation is what leads the Godless to look at the Godless-religious, and proclaim that God is not real; that Jesus Christ and the religion that He started, has only led to suffering and death. This is exactly Satan's goal, to distort and/or destroy the image and the reputation of Jesus Christ, exclusively, and only, thru those who claim Him as Lord! Satan has, since the Cross, attacked only the professing Christian, and no other human at any time since! But Satan has no power over those who are Indwelled by the very Holy Spirit of God, and so, Satan works his evil on those who pretend to be Christian, and not those who live Christ-on-Earth, via the empowerment of the Indwelling! The "Christian" wars was not the only historical fact to demonstrate this! Those who make a living off of the tithe, do not want someone to say that the tithe is not necessary for the modern church. That would be like getting fired from a job; or worse, loosing your own business! The Anabaptists, and later the Amish, do not give money out, nor do they participate in the larger economically (anymore than they have to). Therefore, they are worthless to those who take monies from other people, because these people will never give them any money, and, they are already following Jesus Christ. And they only want food and shelter, and, they build and grow these things for themselves. In other words, they are the enemies of the religionists; they have to be! The Anabaptists are to the Protestants, what the early Protestants were to the Catholics (a threat to their profits and their power over their market-minions)! The Second Reformation, therefore, will not be about reforming the Catholic church (as was the hope of Martin Luther), nor will it be about reforming the Protestant churches. The Second Reformation will be about exposing them both to the world, as the profiteers and marketers they really are, and set a new paradigm for the Christian Faith, that will indeed, be Christ-centric! And it will not matter if you call yourself an Anabaptist, a Baptist, a thing-a-ma-giggly or a doodle-ditty, titles are utterly meaningless, for it is how we live upon Earth that will be the beginning of the fruit, for the fruit of the Spirit is Love; Gods Love, not mere human emotion. Therefore, we live simply, faithfully, and as One, just as Jesus prayed we would. We will Not be Matthew Seven Christians; instead, we will be John Seventeen Christians!

1st John 2:24-27 Keep thinking about the message you first heard, and you will always be one in your heart with the Son and with the Father. The Son has promised us eternal life. I am writing to warn you about those people who are misleading you. But Christ has blessed you with the Holy Spirit. Now the Spirit stays in you, and you don't need any teachers. The Spirit is truthful and teaches you everything. So stay one in your heart with Christ, just as the Spirit has taught you to do.
James 3:13-4:7 Who is wise and knowing among you? Let him show his works by his good conduct with meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth. This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife are, there is confusion and every foul deed. But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members? You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you have not because you ask not. You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us yearns to envy? But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble. Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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