“Behold, I come as a thief.
Blessed is she that watches, and keeps her garments, lest she walk
naked, and they see her shame” (Revelation 16:15 KJV).
We began our correspondence with Deborah
of Discerning the World after she received our correspondence with Mike
Ratliff and several on his blog. She asked for more background, and I gave
her the writing that started things off at Carla
Rolfe’s blog.
Deborah’s reply:
...Anyhow I have read the articles you wrote (I am guessing you wrote
them) on John Calvin and I must say I had no idea that he did that -
murdering that guy for disagreeing with his doctrine - shocking. To be
honest I don't even know much about him...but since your article I am
going to research more on his doctrine. truth + lies does not = truth....
You know what, I need to apologise. I re-read a lot of the stuff written
between lisa 1 and lisa 2 and Ingrid on Carla’s blog (I did not
read it all the last time only got half way through). And only now do
I understand why you guys got so angry. So just to make sure I understand
what’s going on here is a summary:
A lady by the name of Lisa Numley emails Ingrid a not so nice email.
Ingrid googles Lisa’s name and comes across her blog. But it’s
the wrong Lisa. So now there are 2 Lisa’s a ‘good’ one
and a ‘bad’ one (if we can call it that). As it turns out
the bad Lisa has also been imposering the good Lisa’s name on Carla’s
blog in which this bad Lisa had a lot of not so nice things to say about
Victor. When the good Lisa realised she was being impostered she kinda
of just shrugged it of even though an immense amount of damage was done
to Victor’s and yourself’s name on Carla’s blog. But
the good Lisa and the bad Lisa are actually the same person. (Btw, the
first time I read the emails from the bad Lisa and then the good Lisa
I realised they were the same person - it was very obvious to me and
I didn’t even know the story line and how it would turn out.)
Now the thing I don’t understand: Why did you guys send Carla
that The Fruit of Cain Multiplied: The Murderer John Calvin email with
the following words:
“We picked you special, because you follow John Calvin and he was
a demon, wake up you moron! We’re really smart and we’ve
been told by God Himself that Calvin was evil, and He put us in charge
of putting an end to his evil teachings. You’re ignorant, and
you can’t see that following a murderer is going to turn you
into one, and since you already follow him, it’s really important
that you wake up now! Hurry, read our webpage and you’ll be enlightened
like we are, and will no longer follow evil murderers. Love always,
communal carrot people.”
I find it really hard to believe you would send an email to someone
with that wording above. So one of 2 things happend here: Either you
did send that email, or it was sent by someone else to mock you. If
you did say that then I will be a bit shocked.
So Lisa emails Mike and tells them that you guys are giving her grief,
then you email Mike and give him a piece of your mind - hence the comments
on his blog.
And now it’s evolved into a war of words - and I am wondering
if Mike even knows the whole story or cares to know the whole story.
Paul clarifies who said what:
Here is what Carla received from us:
“The following paper will be of interest
and pertinence to you for possibly several reasons among many. It has
been our great honor
to discern and identify the error and spirit of John Calvin, whose rule
is yet propagated in the hearts of men with evil consequences for all.
The Lord Jesus Christ has visited us with the Light of His countenance
to put an end to this evil, justifying His servants whom Calvin murdered,
and His Name in the sight of all. Show me whom you follow, and I will
know what manner of person you are or will become. If you do not know
whom you are following, don’t you think it is time to find out
how and where you are being led? Do you think you will altogether escape
the consequences because ignorant? Think again. You already suffer them.
John Calvin was one of the most vicious of wolves ever to pose as a lamb
of God. His supremely self-righteous spirit lives on in those who lionize
and follow him, even unbeknownst to themselves. Truly, ‘that which
is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.’”
...
She said this on her blog:
“So loosely translated, here’s what
that email actually said:
‘We picked you special, because you follow John Calvin and he
was a demon, wake up you moron! We’re really smart and we’ve
been told by God Himself that Calvin was evil, and He put us in charge
of putting an end to his evil teachings. You’re ignorant, and you
can’t see that following a murderer is going to turn you into one,
and since you already follow him, it’s really important that you
wake up now! Hurry, read our webpage and you’ll be enlightened
like we are, and will no longer follow evil murderers. Love always, communal
carrot people.’”
The words you quoted to me are Carla’s evil interpretation of
what we wrote.
Also, we are not angry as you might think, taking things personally.
We are dealing with the attitudes and spirits of these people, which
are vile. In describing and speaking to these things it necessarily
does not sound pretty. Consider how Jesus had to deal with such in
the days of His flesh. It is no different for those in Him today, and
things are even worse, as Paul the apostle prophesied they would be
(2 Timothy 3:13).
Deborah’s reply, as the picture gets clearer:
Ahhhh ok, got it. I apologise, please forgive me for jumping to conclusions
without having read the entire posting. I now completely understand.
Yes indeed these people have an anti-Christ spirit working through
them and they lie and stand up for people who are liers. It’s
terrible.
So Carla had no reason to write those words and made it out to
be that you had written them in your email to her. Unbelievable.
And
she calls
herself a...what? Christian. Anyhow I see what’s going here and
it’s a bit shocking to say the least.
I’ve been reading quite a bit of your blog and I am impressed
with what I have read so far.
Deborah
Confirmations and clarifications from Paul:
You are right in spirit about the scenario you depicted with Lisa Nunley,
though some details in the situation you describe are incorrect. For
example, Ingrid knew about Lisa because we shared our correspondence
on Carla’s blog with Ingrid and others, which was happening at
the same time of Lisa’s letter to Ingrid. Obviously an email coming
from a Lisa Nunley, speaking in terms recognizable from the blog conversation
Ingrid had already seen with Lisa, would be assumed to be the same person.
When Ingrid wrote back with what she saw on Lisa’s blog, that is
when Lisa backed out and said she was a different Lisa Nunley altogether.
Clear as mud? The tangled webs liars leave others to explain!
Lisa was purposely vague and evasive in answering (or not answering)
our questions. In this manner she was able to adapt her story to whatever
contingencies came up. Later on, the story she told Dan had evolved from
someone using her identity to that person actually using her computer.
Tracing an IP address would, therefore, tell us nothing we didn’t
already know, because it would only show the same computer was used for
all Nunley generated email.
I cannot say that Carla deliberately set out to make it appear we wrote
those sarcastic words that she put in our mouths, because she did present
them as her paraphrase, but her behavior and attitude are no different
than if she had. It is certainly very contemptuous for one professing
Christ, Who is above reproach.
As for Mike, he asked why we were sending him “this garbage,” when
it was his open, declared position that we were false prophets. We were
taking him to task for forming opinions that were contradicted by the
evidence, while puffing himself up as a minister of Christ with knowledge
and wisdom. His reaction, like Lisa’s, was to deny, obfuscate,
and avoid any responsibility whatsoever for what he said or for supporting
those in wickedness. He amply demonstrated he couldn’t care less
about the facts. How wicked!
That Mike called us “false” does not bother us in the least.
But when he takes the Lord’s Name in vain in the manner described,
as have these other liars, bringing open shame to Christ by association,
we are bothered and must speak. We are so thankful that we can and do.
Heaven rejoices.
Deborah contacts Mike and sees where he is at:
Just by the by, I emailed Mike and asked him if he really knew what
Lisa did? And I subsequently told him my thoughts. He came back to me
saying that he agreed and at the time only took Lisa’s word for
what had happened - not having read everything in it’s entirity
- he too jumped to conclusions. He is very upset with Lisa. He was deceived
by Lisa just as everyone else STILL is. He ended up being a ‘pawn’ in
Lisa’s nasty game and the consequences of his words and actions
will surely haunt him. I have left the FINAL decision as to what he needs
to do to rectify this problem in his hands - he can continue to ignore
it or fix it. Only time will tell if he truly stands for truth or not.
Mike can end this just as easily as it started by rebuking Lisa for her
wicked ways, but will he do that? I can only pray he does.
I will continue to watch how this situation unfolds and only mediate
when necessary. I have a feeling that it’s not going to end any
time soon, because Mike is not going to do anything to fix the problem.
I don’t consider myself part of this ‘arguement’ but
I do feel that ‘someone’ has to stand up for the truth
and look at things from an outsider’s perspective - maybe there
was a reason you sent me that email, you never know, God does work
in strange ways sometimes :) or maybe it was just so that we can have
a good chat!!
Paul shares Sherry’s open letter to Mike, which Mike did not
post:
Dear Mike and all,
I have read through, How to Detect a False Prophet, Count it All Joy,
and Sola Scriptura - and I have read from the other sites that are associated
with this spiritual warfare between this site, and Victor and Paul from
The Path of Truth.
As I am reading through Mike’s words and all the comments from
the ‘postees’ here - I cannot help but detect such arrogance
from all.
Everyone thinks they are right - even have the scripture to back it
up. Some use put downs, sarcasm (of course followed by, “We should
be praying for them”)...self-righteous hypocrites!
In one sentence someone is criticizing Victor for being too harsh and
self righteous - and then turn and call him names and proclaim their
thoughts. Amazing.
Quite honestly, if Victor accepted Calvin, taught that there is indeed
a hell - - his comments would not be considered harsh.
If you think that you are not blind to that - - well you are deceived.
All the comments to Victor stating he is puffed up and deceived - -
how can you truly not apply that to yourself?
Mike, you stated, “Well what do you think? This ‘person’ said
all of that, insulted me and my friends with no knowledge of us at all.”
Mike, you made this about you. That statement is the giveaway. It is
not about you, right? I know with that comment you are trying to expose
Victor’s evil deeds, but in reality what happened was the exposure
of yours. Pride.
If Victor had said these things about Warren, Bell, Osteen, etc...the
comments would be more of praise to Victor. Somehow the fact that Victor
disagrees on the outcome after death, to burn or not to burn, would have
been overlooked - just like Mike overlooks his doctrine disagreements
with Rick.
You say Victor’s tone is not good....but how can anyone here condone
their tone? Again, self-righteous hypocrites.
A lot of what Victor said he did use scripture to back him up - but
yet the comments indicate he didn’t. He did - you just didn’t
like the way he used them.
The comments indicate an aggravation to the idea that Victor is god-like
in his thoughts of himself. Have you read all of your replies? Honestly,
how can you not see that you do the same? Fools!
I do not see Victor’s claim in announcing he is God as the comments
suggests, but rather, being one with Christ - in thoughts and action.
Is this not what Christianity is? If you are truly a Believer and cannot
claim to be one with Christ - well then you really are not a Believer.
Such a twist and play on words.
The claims are that Victor is too harsh, lacks compassion. The words
he used, carnal, stupid, and full of all contradiction, teaching lies,
hypocrite, and more, - - these same words have been used here against
others who do not line up with Calvin’s thoughts - of course you
justify them in the name of Christ.
The claim is also that Victor said to this Lisa woman that her illness
is there because she is not a true believer (something like that) - I
didn’t
see that Victor was stating that Lisa was an unbeliever because of her
illness, but rather, for the charade of lies that they caught her in.
And we all can agree that sin can make you ill - can it not? No, being
ill does not necessarily reflect ones salvation, but at the same time,
at times, it can be the fruit of your evil deeds.
Now I do not know this Lisa person (do you?), but based on what I see,
everyone here presumes the innocence of Lisa strictly for the fact that
she goes to Mike for help and reads this blog. Now that is foolish. Again
I say, if these accusations were against someone that was not liked or
accepted here, the support would have been given to Victor. Thinking
that somehow we can pick and choose what ‘fruit’ to bite
based on our ‘thoughts and feelings’...well, that seems to
be setting oneself up as godlike.
I am not here to side with Victor or Mike - but Christ. And I leave
with this warning - and this is out of love, though may come across as
arrogance and without compassion - - we should heed to Scripture when
it teaches that we need to examine ourselves - look in the mirror - all
here have set themselves up as godlike in the name of “right”,
though packaged in the name of Jesus.
We need to stop defending man and start living for Christ!
Sherry
Deborah admires Sherry:
Wow, Sherry is a clever lady!! If only there were more like here.
What Mike told Sherry and what followed:
Mike’s reply:
Good morning Sherry,
I got this comment on my blog. In this battle with Victor and Paul we
have
found that they often send fake comments and emails pretending to be
friends
trying to get us to attack one another. This post looks suspicious to
me.
Victor and Paul are heretics not Christians.
Sherry wrote back:
Mike,
I just wanted to acknowledge that I did post that comment.
Mike you stated; “...In this battle with Victor and Paul we have
found that they often send fake comments and emails pretending to be
friends trying to get us to attack one another.”
Who’s email/comments have they faked?
Sherry
Mike wrote back:
There have been several that I am investigating. I was contacted by
a person who asked about Lisa and our relationship. I told her the truth,
that I did not know what had started all of this, but I did see where
these people were attacking her because she has MS. That was why I got
involved. I also stated that I thought it was unwise for her to get involved
in talking with them. Then I find out that it was actually these people
pretending to be that person because they have the very words I used
in that email. These people are wicked and vile and use tactics that
reveal this.
They are heretics. Did you read the ‘prophecy’ that Victor
spoke against all of us? Is that from God? I think not. I refuse to respond
to these people in any way nor will I do any more than warn others about
them.
Paul: As you see, Mike is claiming that we wrote that portion of the
letter I quoted from you, Deborah, about your email correspondence with
him and his confession of knowing Lisa bamboozled him. The man, being
caught in his lies, simply cannot stop making up more!
Notice that he has no other “proof” of his lies about us
posing as other people. Did he not admit to you, Deborah, that he is
accusing us of is exactly what Lisa was doing, posing as another person?
He is not even denying that is true about Lisa, only that he claims we
gained this confession from him by subterfuge! He thinks that if he pegs
us as liars you will not notice he is one!
We have nothing to prove, being innocent before God, but this is an
opportunity to remind you that this is a deadly serious business, no
different than what the children of Israel, who were given to believers
as examples to learn from, experienced:
“And he spoke to the congregation, saying, I pray you, get away
from the tents of these wicked men. And touch nothing of theirs lest
you be destroyed in all their sins” (Numbers 16:26 MKJV).
This is not an exercise in religious gamesmanship, as some will find
out to their hurt.
Victor’s words regarding Mike’s last reply:
Evidence asked for; not received. He claims he wishes to warn others
of us, yet, strangely enough, will not produce evidence. Are people to
simply take Mike’s word for it because Mike said so?
We were not attacking. Let Sherry check the full record and decide
for herself if Lisa was attacked, and let her directly, boldly ask
for evidence to demonstrate: 1) that we were attacking her; 2) that
we did so because of her illness; 3) that we are heretics; 4) that
there was a prophecy (maybe in fact there was, without even our knowing
it - devils know too); 5) if a prophecy, what makes a prophecy false;
and 6) that there was anything specific that one can point to that
was wrong in “the prophecy.”
As for using others’ words and pretense, again, let him produce
the evidence. We did no such thing.
Paul: Also, we know that prophecy, being the testimony of Jesus, is
the true nature of those things we speak to others when addressing them.
We have what we have from Him, in Him. You have not seen or understood
these things, Deborah, not operating in the realm of the Spirit. If evil
spirits are at work in this world (and what are we dealing with here
if not such spirits?), how much more is the Spirit of God actively manifesting
Himself in His children, those He sends to minister and to do battle
with the beasts?
“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1
John 4:4 KJV).
Deborah is exasperated:
Oh goodness gracious. Why wont he just admit that Lisa lied. By covering
up for her he is condoning that what she did is ok. This is just
so wrong.
Paul explains:
Mike won’t admit that Lisa lied because he is a liar, a member
of the synagogue of Satan. We have told you these things, but you do
not believe us.
What is more important than Mike admitting to the lies is how you deal
and have dealt with this matter. As it stands, Mike is telling Sherry
that we made you up or engaged you to trap him. The question is why you
have an aversion to confronting these matters head on. You are looking
to be accepted by men, not God. It is more important that you keep your
standing in the blog world of “Christians” than to publicly,
unashamedly identify with Christ, the Truth.
I saw this on Mike’s blog [here is the evidence of Deborah’s
betrayal of the Truth, Jesus Christ]:
Deborah, on April 29th, 2008 at 9:34 am said:
Hi there
I know this might sound REALLY WEIRD but I received an email today
from Paul Cohen with regards to this thread. I think he has mistaken
me for
the lady ‘Deborah’ who posted on this site. I don’t
even know how he got my email address.
Anyhow, I emailed him asking him what’s going on and that he has
confused me with someone else. Which is funny though, cos I have a blog
called Discerning the World so everything in this thread is right up
my alley - but still it’s not my ‘argument’ and now
I am on someone’s mailing list…*sighs*
Anyhow, if you are on the same mailing list and see the email address
dtwblog at gmail dot com please just remove me when you forward
or reply.
Thanks a million!
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Mike Ratliff, on April 29th, 2008 at 9:44 am said:
Will do Deborah. Sorry you got caught up in this.
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Deborah, on April 29th, 2008 at 7:19 pm said [the
Deborah who posted on this site]:
Deborah,
That was probably meant for me. I’m sure it was a real
blessing. :-) Sorry
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Deborah, on May 6th, 2008 at 2:33 pm said:
Hi Deborah
ehehe, no worries ;-)
Paul: If you cannot see what is going on
here, Deborah, let me explain it for your sake. You are entertaining
and winking at devils
rather than soberly speaking the truth to these people. It is not
your job to
rebuke them, but neither
is it for you, if you are a believer, to
support them by
omission
of truth and inane remarks which appear to give tacit
approval of their wicked attitudes, while they stand in front of
you wiping
the blood from their mouths, saying they have done nothing
wrong. Are you not agreeing with Deborah’s sarcasm that says
there is nothing good in our letters? Sure you are. Can’t you
tell?
By engaging them as though you are one of them, you strengthen them
in their wickedness.
Are you indeed one of them? Better to be entirely cold, like they are,
than lukewarm. You possibly have something to lose, whereas they have
nothing. You seem to be seeing some things here, which indicates you
have received Light. For that you are held responsible. You will lose
even what you seem to have, the Lord says, if you seek to keep your life.
Do you really believe the Lord approves of your behavior? We assure
you, Deborah, that He does not. Do you not believe one can know and see
these things? Surely the Lord would have us to be wise as serpents while
harmless as doves. Right now you are turning a blind eye to serpents,
causing damage to yourself and others by letting them do their thing
in total darkness. You are denying the Light. That’s what is happening
here.
Paul
Deborah is miffed:
Please look at the DATE of that post. I said this BEFORE I received
your reply to my email about having ‘sent your email to the wrong
Deborah’. I had not even read the diaglogue (I only skimmed through
it) so I had no idea what was going on. You jump to conclusions faster
than a bolt of lightening which is quite frightening. No where did I
say I agree with them? Did I? No where did I say that what they did was
all right? Did I? All I said was, I received the email in error, please
remove me from the mailing list. I find it astounding how because of
this you throw me in their camp? Interesting.
Paul and Victor’s reply:
Deborah, yes, I did see the date of the post I was referring to (ehehe,
no worries ;-) ) - May 6, which is well after our initial correspondence.
I can see perfectly fine, technicalities and all, both acts and spirits,
thanks be to God through Jesus Christ. It is you who cannot see and who
sins with your feet, hasting to shed blood in your rush to judgment.
Read my letter again, and all the correspondence if necessary, and then
tell me that this is not so. Even if we err on the technicalities, as
you surmise (which we do not), would it not be much wiser to overlook
those and embrace the substantial, spiritual issue here?
Perhaps you did not understand what you were agreeing with when you
told Deborah there were “no worries.” I was willing to give
you the benefit of a doubt. But all the same you are consorting with
darkness. Would you rather not be told? Have it your way; but know that
it will not go well for you on your chosen path.
I see Sherry has written you, a potential victim of your casual lightness
in a life and death matter. What will you do now? Were you lying to us
about your letter to Mike and his reply? I can see no reason you would,
but will you now produce the evidence of your claims for everyone to
see? Are you willing to let servants of the Lord be publicly labeled
as liars on account of your actions?
We do not need you to defend us or to answer on our behalf. But you,
Deborah, certainly need to get real and honest with everyone, or you
take the Name of Christ in vain. We assure you, as He warns, that you
will not be held guiltless for this.
I am also giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are not a straight
out liar, like Lisa and Mike. I don’t think that is the case; all
the more reason you need to wake up to righteousness rather than remain
sleeping with the dead.
Given your defensiveness and sarcastic, “smart alecky” approach
in this, your last note, exposing a wicked heart, what we do here will
likely appear as nitpicking to you. While the externals may seem tedious
and inconsequential to the carnal man, the Lord is directing and enabling
us to deal with the heart, which is all He cares about. He makes known
the secrets of the heart. Whether the works are great or small in man’s
eyes is of no concern to Him. He knows what is important and what is
not. He has given us to know as He judges and so we speak.
Your sarcasm and lightness expose you. We will drop this soon enough.
You don’t know how much we would like to do so, but our duty to
Him is our duty, and, when done, you, Sherry, and everyone else involved
will be completely without excuse. You are so even now.
You have had troubles and have not understood why. You have not seen
your culpability in it all. He has sent us to help you, but, obviously,
you think to know better (which is a great part and the crux of your
problem), notwithstanding our witness in Christ and evident facts.
Being informed and warned, yet still remaining in your testy, frivolous,
irreverent attitude will then bring swift and righteous judgment. This
is not a wish or a threat (we ever hope to see sobriety, sincerity and
decisive repentance to piety). It is, rather, a warning and solemn assertion,
for your sake and those to whom we write or speak, that He is in charge
here, not we.
Paul and Victor
Deborah cares only to save her skin:
Paul, the other Deborah lady said, ‘Deborah, That was probably
meant for me. I’m sure it was a real blessing. Sorry” and
I said, ’hehehe no worries’ in otherwords - What? should
I have blasted her because I got sent an email that should have been
sent to her? So I said, “no worries” You really do take things
completely out of context.
Paul, I have already replied to Sherry - I have quoted straight from
Mike’s email. Having said that; if you post publically what HE
SAID, I NOT BE HAPPY with you or Victor for that matter. For it is
NOT for us to post publically what he said, but for MIKE to say IT
publically. DO NOT post publically or email anyone what he said!!!!!
Victor’s reply:
Deborah, you do not understand and, what is worse, do not care to understand.
We are done with you.
As to publishing or posting what others have said, who are you to decide
and dictate what God determines to be revealed or exposed for all to
see and know? He said there is nothing hid that will not be made manifest.
Do you think men will willingly expose themselves? Does He not come
as a thief? He has come to you as a thief in this whole circumstance,
and you do not like it one bit.
You are a phony, and we have been here to tell you so. Why? So that
we can vaunt ourselves? Or so that you can have opportunity to repent
of your self-righteousness and wickedness? You decide. Apparently you
have decided what we have said or intended for you (and you are wrong)
in all defensiveness, stubbornness and evil desire, so we do not hold
our breaths that you will respond any differently to this rebuke.
“
Discerning the World”? You have failed to discern its substance
and spirit in your own heart. Go your way, Deborah; do your thing.
Lord willing, we are done with you.
Deborah concludes:
It’s ok Victor, go ahead...do what you have to do. God is judging
you RIGHT now.
Deborah proceeded to judge us by posting a response to our website
in order to justify herself and salve her conscience regarding her wanton
disregard for truth. I answer her critique of our teachings following
Victor’s explanation about how Deborah went wrong, according to
her testimony, and has never experienced anything of Christ.
Herein is a classic example of a certain massive category of professing
believers whose members think they are saved and have God’s favor.
We will take what Deborah of “Discerning The World” blog
considers to be her Christian testimony and clearly point out the telltale
comments and details that prove she does not have a true Christian experience.
She is deceived by Satan’s bride, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the
mother of harlots. This indictment is also for those who can identify
with Deborah in the points we make here.
First, let me make this clear, while this woman has been vile toward
us, we do not write here with intention of revenge or “tit for
tat.” We are here to speak the truth, to declare and to be the
Testimony of Jesus Christ to the world. He is totally fed up with antics
and deception that are killing all, and so are we, in Him. Is this woman
to be stopped? As she goes, yes, but it is not her we fight:
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age,
against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12 MKJV).
This is part and parcel of the war in the heavens. As the reader will
see, Deborah has rebuked us and devils she has presumed to be with or
in us. She blasphemes and does not know it. Satan blasphemes by her,
but, Satan, we come against you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
You have no part in His Name, and neither does your vessel, Deborah.
We sharply rebuke you, not with railings and earthly argument and fleshly
strength, but with Truth, and you are finished. Let us start with her
opening statement:
“My name is Deborah, I accepted the Lord
Jesus Christ into my life at the age of 9 but by the age of 14 something
started to go horribly
wrong in my personal life.”
There was no real conversion to the Lord Jesus Christ. If there were,
she would not have expressed herself in the driver’s seat, saying, “I
accepted.” She simply “got religion” in Jesus’ Name,
as millions have. The fruits of her “first” conversion bear
that out. When that which was more important to her was presented, she
went for it. Jesus was not Lord, she did not make, or accept Him as Lord
(nobody has done so, for flesh is neither willing nor capable). The truth
of her state was soon made manifest. Read Diabolical Doctrine 1) “Accept
Jesus as your personal Saviour and you will be saved.” Also
read The
False and Misleading Gospel of “Accepting” Jesus
Christ.
She writes: “My mother would ask me over
and over again (like a broken record). ‘Who is Lord of your life, Deborah?’”
What her mother apparently did not know or Deborah did not understand
is that Jesus Christ is Lord of everybody’s life, whether they
believe or not. However, as most, Deborah has never known Jesus Christ
as Lord. She may have confessed Him, she may have been a churchgoer,
she may have been deeply involved in man-made “Christianity” as
many are, but she did not know Jesus Christ as Lord. And if her mother
had known Jesus as Lord, she would have told her this then and would
tell her today. However, we have been made to know in no uncertain terms
that Deborah rejects all authority in her life altogether. She is full
of devils, and we will prove it. Let’s go on:
She confesses: “To make her feel better
I would lie.”
Now into her twenties, she has no conscience about lying to her own
mother, who professes faith in Christ, genuine or not. Yes, Deborah knew
she was wrong. Unbelievers often know they are wrong, but do not necessarily
do anything about it. As James puts it:
“You believe that there is one God, you do well; even the demons
believe and tremble. But will you know, O vain man, that faith without
works is dead?” (James 2:19-20 MKJV).
(It should be mentioned that there are many who live rather moral lives,
with a remarkable degree of dutifulness to their moral consciences, though
they have never professed faith in Jesus Christ. This woman had professed
faith but was living a lie greater than that of many who plainly declare
their unbelief.)
She writes: “But deep down something was
not right. Deep down I knew that all these years I was wrong in rejecting
Jesus.”
Is that supposed to be a piece of Christian testimony or a profound
statement? Shall we say the sun has set if it is after midnight and it
is perfectly dark? Of course, “deep down something was not right.” It
never was, and it was not right anywhere else, deep down or on the surface.
I am not making these statements now to be cynical or sarcastic. My
point is that if things were right presently for her, she would not be
able to make that statement. It is relative. The only way she could say
what she said is if things were not right with her now. If, in her present
state, all she can say is “something” was not right, it indicates
that what she has now is not much more, if any more, than what she had
then, which was nothing.
Only those with a genuine salvation experience and knowledge of the
Lord Jesus Christ will understand what I am saying. I do not and will
not attribute Deborah’s expression to a lack of ability to communicate
or to a poor choice of words. By her words, she manifests her heart.
She says, “I rebuked this demonic spirit
in the name of Jesus and it ‘went away’.”
Why the quotations as though a figure of speech? When demons were cast
out of the man of the Gadarenes, they left him and entered the swine.
The demons went away from him. She may have her explanation or excuse
but her use of the quotations marks tells me nothing went away.
Though she would declare there is power in Jesus’ Name against
devils, Deborah had no power or authority to command them, any more than
did the sons of Sceva, who also used His Name:
“And certain from the strolling Jews, exorcists, undertook to
name the Name of the Lord Jesus over those having evil spirits, saying,
We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches. And there were seven sons
of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. But answering the evil spirit
said, Jesus I know, and I comprehend Paul, but who are you? And the man
in whom the evil spirit resided leaped on them, and overcoming them he
was strong against them, so that they fled out of the house naked and
wounded” (Acts 19:13-16).
Deborah was deceived into thinking she was freed of devils. She continues:
“The next morning I awoke and I felt ill.
I was dizzy and my pulse was racing at 110 beats per minutes, I felt
nauseous and I was sweating – I
through I was going to die. I prayed, my mother prayer; it was so bad
she called my grandmother over who prayed for me.”
Had the devil left her, she would have been clean. Manifestly, she was
not. Her mother and grandmother could not do anything because they also
had neither faith nor power. And Deborah indicates no change whatsoever
by their prayers. Had there been change, she would love the Lord for
her deliverance and declare what happened, giving Him the glory. After
this prayer session she says:
“After this ordeal I promised God I would
never buy another metal cd again.”
There was no victory, only an ordeal. In other words, she came out the
loser. Now she dares make a flippant vow to God, Who plainly commanded
her otherwise:
“But I say to you, Do not swear at all! Not by Heaven, because
it is God’s throne; not by the earth, for it is the footstool of
His feet; not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King;
nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white
or black. But let your word be, Yes, yes; No, no. For whatever is more
than these comes from evil” (Matthew 5:34-37 MKJV).
This Biblical injunction of Jesus includes oaths, vows, and promises
to God or in His Name. Will God then believe her? Why should He? How
could He?
This was not a prayer of repentance of sin; it was a prayer of, “Get
me out of here,” a prayer of repentance of consequence.
Though many are deceived by such prayers, the difference is night and
day. There was no repentance, as we shall see. She was not, and could
not, be faithful to her word.
At age 29, she says, “Something is missing
from my life. I don’t
know what it is but I feel sad.”
Had there been anything remotely genuine or substantial at her ninth
year conversion, she would not refer to her life of sin and lack of the
Life of God as “something missing” that she could not so
much as identify. And she could only say these words now because she
has nothing now. She had nothing then and she has nothing now.
She writes: “I was worried because these
dreams were not natural. They were completely demonic.”
I believe it; they were. She had cause to worry. Her prayer rebuking
the devil did not avail, and neither did her mother’s and grandmother’s
prayers avail. Where was an elder? Where was a true shepherd of God?
These people - grandmother, mother and daughter - were presumptuous,
doing their own thing. While they may excuse themselves, saying, “There
was no man of God,” I solemnly tell you that if something real
and good were happening, if there were truth and sincerity at work, God
would have been at work, and He would have provided His man, a minister
to them. He is both able and faithful. But these do not believe in Him,
regardless of their vain prayers. They are rebellious; they are proud,
and God therefore resists them.
She continued praying, to no avail, and then she says: “My
battle had just began; the sad part was my battle was not the demonic
spirits,
my battle was to find a Christian out there who could help me.”
No, Deborah, your battle was, and still is, with the powers of darkness
and with yourself, because you are Satan’s willing, stubborn, ignorant,
self-righteous, proud, rebellious, antiChrist host (these adjectives
are not used loosely or vindictively, but substantially and truthfully).
We are not ignorant of his devices. The demons are quite comfortable
in your home and body and soul, and will “behave themselves” just
enough to accommodate themselves and to keep you sufficiently placated
and deceived for their purposes.
They have even given you the notion that you have the gift of discernment.
However, you mention nothing whatsoever of the Second of Three Feasts
ordained of God for the spiritual pilgrim, the Feast of Pentecost, the
receiving of His Spirit. Only by His Spirit can one have gifts of the
Spirit. Also, by your testimony, it is plain to all those who do have
God’s Spirit and gifts that you have nothing at all. You remain
in delusion and self-deception, Satan’s willing and deserving victim,
a prisoner of darkness who must pay every penny of debt before he will
release you, by God’s direction.
Again, you deem to be your own savior. God draws to the Son, and the
Son is composed of God’s ministers in Christ. Jesus Christ sends
them forth. He comes to seek and to save that which is lost. Plainly,
you have always maintained control over your destiny, refusing to release
your grip. God leaves the self-sufficient to their machinations and preferred
independence of Him. That is exactly where you are. You have not had
a true Christian or a man of God come to you until now, and them you
have reviled with scorn, derision, sarcasm and mockery. But we know who
you are, Satan, and, as I have said, you are undone.
Deborah with devils goes on: “That Sunday,
I went to the same church, I walked up to the Pastor and told him I
wanted to be baptized
that day.”
The Scriptures declare:
“Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves:
for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they
may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for
you” (Hebrews 13:17 KJV).
But Satan is going to move his vessel to tell the pastor what to do.
She will have her way, call the shots, and get indignant when one fails
to obey or cooperate with her. She demands that she get baptized, today.
There is not a word of repentance, not a word of confession of sins,
not an inkling of contrition or humility – it is all putrid self-righteousness.
This is Satan at his perfect essence, and his vessel is a first rate
daughter to do him proud.
Previous to her approaching the pastor for baptism, she said: “I
found a church to go to and I re-dedicated my life to Jesus, I repented
for everything I did and changed my ways.”
No, Deborah, you may have changed your activities, appearances and even
apparent direction, but you did not change your ways, and your nature
remains the very same. The self-righteousness is manifest in your declaration: “I
found a church…” “…and I re-dedicated
my life to Jesus…” “I repented for
everything…” and “(I)
changed my ways.”
What vile insults to the Lord Jesus Christ! “I, I, I” is
all you can say because “I” is all there is. Who needs a
savior? Jesus Christ was nowhere around. But He is here in us to rebuke
you now. Your time is up, Deborah.
Was the pastor right? Did he know what he was doing? No, not at all.
First, had he been a true shepherd under the Shepherd, he would not have
been where he was (read The
True Marks of a Cult). Secondly, he would
have seen through this wretched, demon-possessed creature, and recognized
that she needed much more than water baptism, and, as John the Baptist,
who is the prince of baptizers, he would have demanded fruits, of which
there were none. The only fruits present were screaming, “This
vessel has no right whatsoever to water baptism in Jesus’ Name,
none whatsoever.” The man is a hireling, building man’s kingdom
and not serving in God’s Kingdom. He is a scatterer, not a gatherer.
So then, what of the next words Deborah declares? She says: “I
was baptized along with my father that Sunday afternoon in an 8°C
swimming pool in the middle of winter. When I came up out of the water
it felt as though my entire past had been erased. Since that day I have
never been the same. Thank the Lord Jesus Christ!”
Delusion, plain and simple. Yes, your past was erased, but not in the
way you suggest or in a way we should desire. You had a new start all
right. Now Satan had a darling servant to pose as a believer, one he
promoted to begin deceiving others, not content to leave her with only
self-deception. It is true that you have never been the same since, and
feelings are not ever to be trusted:
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked;
who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9 MKJV)
Not Deborah.
Would you like more proof of delusion? Why did the lady in that church
to whom you refer trust the pastor’s judgment of baptizing you?
Why did she remain there with this church and pastor if he was so spiritually
incompetent and unholy, as you describe? What, therefore, did she know?
Where were elders, who are appointed to do what she was suggesting?
The whole scene is a miserable farce, a veritable mockery of God. It
is all there, Deborah; it is all there. And if the pastor was not interested
in your deliverance, what was he doing baptizing, except that he was
doing his own thing?
And why would you have gone to a false spiritual minister to be baptized,
you and your father? Would God lead to a false servant? Here is the company
this pastor keeps. You tell me if God would lead you to him or bring
him to you to do His work:
“For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ. Did not even Satan marvelously
transform himself into an angel of light? Therefore it is no great thing
if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness,
whose end shall be according to their works” (2 Corinthians 11:13-15
MKJV).
No, if anything you received even more devils by his instrumentality,
and perhaps, if not likely, your father with you. And your mother and
grandmother said nothing? That is because they have nothing. These conversions
are all spurious – common, accepted of men, convincing to them,
perhaps even apparently dramatic, having a form of godliness, but false
altogether.
With your own mouth you speak some true words: “At
this stage in my life my biblical knowledge was minimal and my fear
and doubt that
I was not strong enough to handle the demonic manifestation in my home
was very apparent.”
And: “I still to this day experience demonic
attack through my dreams (not regularly, but enough to be irritating)”
We have seen true deliverance, which is not common. Many may go through
the motions, but when it happens in reality, there is a manifestly clean
slate. You had no deliverance. We have been dealing with Satan in his
religious, blasphemous stance here by you.
In her continuous, know-it-all spirit, Deborah writes: “Hmmm
decisions, decisions, oh what do I do! I know, I’ll choose Jesus. End of Story!”
There you have expressions of humility, piety, unworthiness, brokenness,
goodness, meekness, and all good things of the spirit, do you not, reader?
No, you do not. The fruit manifest is a smart-alecky pride and contempt
for those in darkness, not for the darkness itself but for them. You
are still in your sins, Deborah; you are still in your sins. You have “another
Jesus.”
She writes: “Therefore you need to be vigilant
and stand guard at all times and DISCERN everything that comes your
way. If it differs
even slightly from the Word of God – BEWARE!”
Devils manifest gifts as well. They can copy everything but death
by the cross of Christ. But you do not discern at
all; you only presume to do so. You have nothing, Deborah. Do I tell
you so to mock or belittle you as you do us? No, I tell you so, publicly,
that you or someone else will read, repent, and seek the Lord to worship
Him in spirit and in truth, not remaining in lies and delusion. You are
Satan’s girl for now, as are many professing faith in Christ, and
we do not like it, but you will have to suffer the consequences of your
sins, from which you say you have repented.
There has been no repentance at all. You have but “rearranged
the deck chairs on the Titanic,” as have the people of your country.
The blacks have thrown out their despotic rulers and are now still left
with chaos, murder, bloodshed, crime, fear, poverty, injustice, and turmoil
in South Africa – it is one Hell in exchange for another. In the
spiritual realm you follow and do likewise.
Finally, you close as a representative and child of Jesus Christ, calling
for repentance. You write: “Accept Jesus
Christ into your life as your Lord and Saviour, ask for forgiveness for
everything you have
done and most importantly change your ways - turn your life completely
over to Jesus. If you don’t there is no hope otherwise. Without
Jesus, your life means nothing and you are on a road to destruction.”
Concerning your mocking and derisive attitude toward us, and your utterly
ignorant, brutish distortions of doctrines we teach, read The
Good News and Who Then Can Be Saved?!
Undoubtedly, this will be too much for you, but we are confident that
there are those who will read and benefit. You have come out warring
against us after we have tried to encourage and help you. At one time,
we might have been compelled to ignore you, but today we do battle with
the enemy; it is the Lord’s Day, and He is finished winking. We
are with Him and with those of whom Enoch prophesied:
“Enoch, the seventh after Adam, prophesied of them: ‘Look!
The Master comes with thousands of holy angels (messengers, saints) to
bring judgment against them all, convicting each person of every defiling
act of shameless sacrilege, of every dirty word they have spewed of
their pious filth.’ These are the ‘grumpers,’ the
bellyachers, grabbing for the biggest piece of the pie, talking
big,
saying anything they think will get them ahead” (Jude 1:14-16
MSG).
You were a loser in your youth; you are a loser now, Deborah, and unless
you genuinely repent, which is not likely in this life, you will remain
a loser to your grave. You said to us:
“No wonder everyone who disagrees with you
calls this a diabolical doctrine. For you Victor think you are God
himself hence you can speak
extra biblical nonsense and think you can get away with it. In fact on
more than one occasion you said “Why should you be sad that I should
stoop down from God’s throne to tell you your sins to deliver you
from them?” So you are going to come down from God’s Throne
and tell us our sins AND deliver us from them? I would rather stand infront
of a firing squad, thank you!”
With your own mouth have you spoken it. A firing squad have you preferred;
a firing squad shall you receive, but for the grace of God. To four of
us, independently, did it come that this would be so. Two or three witnesses,
or four?
Fighting with beasts in victory, and taking the land, in Jesus’ Name,
Victor
This entry began with our correspondence that shows how Deborah, seeing
the lies and evil-doing of others, chose not to give witness to the Truth,
Jesus Christ, but to keep silent while pretending to serve Him, a true
friend of the devil and child of hell. Victor then showed how Deborah,
according to her testimony, became a child of hell and full of devils.
Now, in her animosity towards us for calling her into account for her
vain profession of Christ, she has written an article mocking us and
the Diabolical Doctrines listed on our site.
Contending with Satan
Here is the announcement of that article:
This is for Paul, Victor and Co. and for anyone who thinks they are
men of ‘God’.
I know Paul/Victor will be reading this site, so to them: - don’t
bother emailing me, your emails are set for instant deletion. As for
the demonic spirits attached to either of you - I REBUKE YOU IN THE NAME
OF JESUS CHRIST!!!!
Paul's reply:
How cowardly are the wicked, shouting out in public with mock bravery
while slamming the door behind them so they cannot be held accountable
for their accusations! So insecure and fearful are the children of darkness!
Everything Deborah contests in her posting is amply answered on our
site. Nevertheless, I have some things to say in reply to her title and
question, “The Path of Truth – to where?” for Truth’s
sake and for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Let those
with ears hear.
Deborah is consumed, above all, with ridicule and hatred of the glorious
truth of God’s reconciliation of all things through Jesus Christ,
as though we have greatly blasphemed His Holy Name by proclaiming it
was never His thought or intention to endlessly torture people. She has
not even responsibly red and answered the materials she cites, much less
bothered to read our answer to her objections to this glorious truth
(The Restitution of All
Things).
It is a peculiar thing that people who profess they have been saved
by the grace and mercy of God take such umbrage at the mention of God
granting mercy to others. If they had experienced His grace, you might
ask, how is it they are so incensed when told that other undeserving
people will too? Why, you would think they were devils reacting that
way. That is precisely the case here!
Deborah is deceived into thinking she is deserving of Heaven, and others
are not, so to hell with them. Who else but devils and the self-righteous
are incensed with the thought of God exercising His forgiveness and goodness
towards His creation? Devils are there to indulge the flesh of man rather
than lose their quarry to God. That is why they hate and react so vehemently
to the mention of the future restoration of lost sinners to God. They
wish to keep them right where they are, in their present darkness, wherein
the devils can feed themselves on their flesh. Such are the ways of Satan,
who Deborah calls “Lord” and argues his case as his willing
subject.
Her complaint begins:
“The email communication started out ok,
but then turned into a bit of a nightmare for I am now branded an unbeliever
who needs to
be saved. Which is funny because they don’t believe in eternal
damnation.”
Exposing Deborah is not branding her. The Light exposes all things,
whether they be good or evil, without condemnation. It is Deborah who
brands and condemns herself by her loud protests and rejection of Christ:
“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world,
but so that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes on
Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the Name of the only-begotten Son of God” (John
3:17-18 MKJV).
Deborah quotes from “Are We a Cult?”:
“They say, ‘Could it be because we believe in the reconciliation
of all things as surely testified of in Scripture, a wonderful hope and
promise for all? This doctrine is certainly contrary to the diabolical
doctrine of eternal torment for the majority of mankind, as taught by
mainstream nominal Christendom. It also, in one fell swoop, condemns
any and all forms of self-righteousness. It is a hard thing for one to
truly believe that he is no more righteous than any other.’
Righty, firstly it’s written all over the bible that there
is a hell and people are going to go there if they don’t accept
Jesus Christ. Secondly, by saying this they DENY what Jesus Christ did
on the cross, i.e., if we are all going to live happily ever after then
why do we need Jesus Christ? Confusing, yes I know…especially when
they tell you, you are an unbeliever.”
We never said Hell does not exist; how stupidly evil of Deborah to claim
that we did. We simply affirm what the Scriptures say, which is that
Jesus Christ, and not Hell, is the Omega, the End All. We also affirm
that the Scriptures do not say or teach that “you must accept Jesus
Christ.” Victor has covered this in his explanation of Deborah’s
testimony. Read The
False and Misleading Gospel of “Accepting” Jesus
Christ.
And just how does the fact that Jesus Christ will save all of humanity
deny what He did on the cross? Is He somehow more affirmed and glorified
by saving the 5% of the world population that “accepted” Him?
Are not these self-righteous choosers affirming themselves, rather than
God, and is not the devil glorified above all by taking the lion’s
share of souls to burn with him forever?
We preach the call of God to His people to come out of the formal, religious, “Christian” organizations
of this world, which Jesus called the “gates of Hell” (Matthew
16:18). Deborah mocks what is holy, devil-style:
“Um, come out of what? You don’t believe in eternal damnation
remember?”
Apparently it does not bother Deborah to be part of the wicked works
of men, and why should it when she gladly companies with devils? She
has manifestly demonstrated no love of God or His Kingdom, of which she
has no part, according to the revelation given to John:
“But outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators,
and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes
a lie” (Revelation 22:15 MKJV).
And how is it we are found to be in the City of God?
“Blessed are they who do His commandments, that their authority
will be over the Tree of Life, and they may enter in by the gates into
the City” (Revelation 22:14 MKJV).
But Deborah rejects the Law of God and blasphemes Him by attributing
dismissal of the Law to Jesus Christ:
“Jesus Christ fulfilled the law and we are
no longer under law - for the law means nothing to Jesus Christ.”
Jesus said not one jot or tittle of the Law would fail. That is not “nothing”;
it is quite the opposite.
Deborah is a false teacher, with a false grace, which in reality is
iniquity - lawlessness. Mark these words, which demonstrate how diabolical
and false she and her doctrine are:
“There will be false teachers...whose punishment has been ready
for a long time and their destruction is watching for them. For if God
did not have pity on the angels who did evil, but sent them down into
hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night TILL they were judged....
[He] is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to
keep
evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging” (2 Peter 2:3-9
BBE).
Hell is the place where the wicked are held while reserved for judgment.
Eternal night does not go on forever, time without end, but has an end
in Light and judgment. Someday Deborah will sorely regret mocking God
and His righteous judgment that she has yet to face while she remains
in her chains of darkness. She will learn to fear God:
“But I will show you Whom you should fear: fear Him Who after
He kills, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!” (Luke
12:5 EMTV)
Deborah is wrong about what we preach, having no faculties to hear or
comprehend the Word of God. She says:
“They believe that God is Love, that He
would never send anyone to hell. Hence you get another chance to accept
Jesus after you die.”
“Getting another chance to accept Jesus” implies it is something
you can do, but you can’t and never could “accept” Jesus.
How can those sold out to sin and the devil, as Deborah is, choose God?
Christ chooses whom He wills, and not the other way around. It is a matter
of grace, not works. Deborah is a “Christian” by her own
choosing and doing, which means she is not Christ’s Christian.
She has nothing at all to do with Him.
Deborah argues that because men can only die once, they must go to an
eternal fire pit afterwards, if they did not “accept” Christ
in this life. But the Scriptures do not say that, as Victor points out.
Here she explains one Scripture in particular that deals with this matter:
“Lets analyse this scripture for them for
apparently this is a difficult one to fathom. It says, Hebrews 9 v
27 “And as it is
appointed unto men once to die”. That means once, not twice or
three times. “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many…” That
also only means once, not twice or three times.”
Yes, the emphasis is on His sacrifice as a singular event. He only died
once, not several times. Why is that so difficult to fathom? Because
devils block your eyes and ears from seeing or hearing anything, Deborah.
The statement of this fact is right in front of you in the context of
the Scripture you think to understand:
“...not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest
enters into the Holies every year with another’s blood-- since
it would have been necessary for Him to suffer often from the foundation
of the world; but now, once at the consummation of the ages, He has been
revealed for the removal of sin through the sacrifice of Himself” (Hebrews
9:25-26 EMTV).
Christ only had to die once to say, “It is finished,” completing
the sacrifice for mankind for all times, until all are made alive in
Him, and death, the last enemy, is put away.
How can the above Scriptures be interpreted to mean that people who
die are out of the reach of Christ, since He is all powerful and now
has the keys of death and hell? Is He not going to use them? Is that
not what the Scripture says?
“For this Christ both died and rose and lived again, that
He might be Lord both of the dead and living” (Romans 14:9 MKJV).
The same Lord Jesus Christ Who is at the right hand of God went and
preached to the spirits in prison from the time of the flood, of which
Peter writes:
“For to this end the gospel was preached also to the dead, that
they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according
to God in the Spirit” (1 Peter 4:6 MKJV).
How then can it be taken to mean that upon physical death God is finished
with His work of reconciling all things to Himself, giving up on those
that were not good enough to “accept” Him in this life? What
wicked, presumptuous poppycock!
Deborah, you say we supply no Scriptures. You are a liar. Anyone that
reads from The Restitution
of All Things will know it, especially
The Good News, though truly all our writings, even as I answer you here
with the Scriptures you ignore, mock and despise.
Victor writes:
“The fact that men die once from this world
does not mean they no longer have opportunity to be saved.”
Deborah says: “Biblical scriptures please?”
There are five Scriptural references with an explanation that support
the above quote in the same portion of the writing, Diabolical Doctrine 14) “Salvation is possible in this life only.” Anyone can
find those references there, if they are willing to look and able to
see. But you, Deborah, are unwilling and unable, therefore you mock and
condemn us for your shortfall. You are vile.
And how about answering for yourself according to the main message and
question at the end of the writing? What are you doing to ensure that
as many souls as possible will not end up being tormented in eternal
hellfire?
“Now if you call me diabolical because I
teach against this doctrine [salvation possibly in this life only],
not believing it, yet you do not act according to your profession of
believing this doctrine, then
in God’s sight I am more justified than are you who condemn me.
Interesting?
CONSIDER THE ALTERNATIVE TO BELIEVING THIS DOCTRINE:
YOU WILL NO LONGER BE GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE OF THE HIGHEST
ORDER NOR WILL YOU BE
IMPOSSIBLY BURDENED.”
Deborah says: “Paul explains that God will
judge every man on the basis of what he knows.”
Indeed, so did the Lord speak. He who knew his Lord’s will but
did not obey will be beaten with more stripes. The judgment of God has
a holy purpose, to deliver a soul from hell:
“You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from
hell” (Proverbs 23:14 MKJV).
Judgment is an answer, not an end in itself. What is the point otherwise?
There is no point in more or less stripes, if it simply goes on forever
without change. Eternal torment makes the very idea of gradations for
correction obsolete and silly. But the Lord did not speak without knowing
exactly what He was saying and doing, as you do.
You tell us God has given you a brain, but you do not think clearly.
That is because you are drugged up on false religion, which has rendered
you senseless. Even men of this world mete out punishments with the idea
of rehabilitation. There are programs in jail for murderers and rapists,
but, according to you, God gives up on wicked men for whom He died and
over whom He has all power. Unregenerate mankind will recycle his waste
products, but, according to you, God trashes humanity created in His
image and into whom He has breathed His life. You make Him out to be
the most ungracious being possible, which is precisely what you are.
Your god is really you.
Deborah asks: “Besides that, what’s the opposite of eternal
life?”
Death, which God destroys in the Lake of Fire. You emphasize the word “perish” here, “And
I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish...,” as
though that must mean never-ending torture. But “perish” means
to be “fully destroyed.” So how can you have an immortal
body that never perishes, yet perish? You are confounded, Deborah.
Here is the true meaning of God’s Word, explained by His Word:
“They shall perish, but You will remain. And they shall all become
old as a garment, and as a covering You shall fold them up, and
they shall be changed” (Hebrews 1:11-12 MKJV).
I have perished, but, thank God, I am born anew in the resurrection
life of Jesus Christ, something Deborah knows nothing about. Otherwise,
she could not say this:
“If there is no eternal damnation what did
Jesus go through all this for? Apparently it meant nothing.”
One who knows His salvation could never, ever say such a blasphemous
thing! What Christ went through means everything! By His sheer mercy
and grace, He turned me, baptized me, sustained me, crucified me, and
raised me to eternal life. There was no way I could do it. He did it
all, and saved me. That is why He went through what He did. Why should
His blood mean any less because He will do this for everyone else? That
makes it more meaningful, and not only so, but genuinely legitimate.
Only self-righteous, insecure, hateful sore losers despise His goodness
reserved for all mankind. Read the section The
Restitution of All Things,
which will answer all your questions and objections.
Here is more twisted and darkened logic:
“You speak about evil pricipalities but
yet you do not believe in eternal damnation for those who follow these
evil principalities.
Where do they follow them too? Hawaii?”
Where do those who follow the powers of darkness go? Where you, Deborah,
are presently - an inner state of Hell, which explains your bitter sarcasm.
Just as the Kingdom of God comes from within, so does Satan’s kingdom.
That is why Jesus said that those who believe in Him shall never die.
Physical death does not separate us from Heaven, and neither will death
separate you from Hell. But we know that the devil has only a short time
left, and that no murderer, which the devil was from the beginning, has
eternal life in him or her.
Deborah, it is not we but you, as a child of darkness, that do not see
and therefore misinterpret God’s Word:
“Because Jesus Christ died for the sins
of all men they misinterpret this to be that ‘He died for everyone and everyone will get saved.’”
In our Bible it says, “Where sin abounded, grace abounded much
more.” Apparently in your Bible it says, “Where grace abounded,
sin abounded much more.” Either that or you are reading the same
words we do, and you misinterpret them.
You and your gospel are so miserably wretched, Deborah. Who in his or
her right mind would want to be where you are with your devils, anyway?
You cut off reply comments on your blog because you cannot cope - devils
without and devils within. And you call what you have the “victory
of the Lord and the power of His Presence”? How deluded and great
your need truly is! So we are sent to speak to you by the grace of God,
which will not fail in what He seeks to accomplish:
“For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory
of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea” (Habakkuk 2:14 KJV).
Regarding your confusion on the figurative use of the word “fire”:
“John says that Jesus Christ will gather
the wheat (believers) into the barn, but burn up the chaff (unbelievers)
with unquenchable
fire. He didn’t say, he will burn up the chaff in an imaginary
fire, or a figurative fire, or a literal fire, or a fire that only lasts
a short time, or a fire that tickles you silly, but an unquenchable fire
- impossible to suppress or destroy.”
Because the saints speak of the fire of God in figurative terms does
not mean the fire is imaginary. What you do not see or know is that right
now you experience that very fire we speak from the mouth of God, which
you find impossible to suppress or destroy. On the contrary, it will
destroy you – for good. When the fire has done its work, you will
no longer blaspheme and be writhing with worms, gnashing your teeth,
as you do. You will give glory to God and no longer to the Devil.
The fire of God is unquenchable. The chaff cannot stand up to it or
Him; He is that consuming fire. God consumes all things, which is another
way of saying that He reconciles all things to Himself. Why has He baptized
those He saves with fire? It is written that judgment begins at the house
of God. If the fire of God was literal and palpable in this world, then
those baptized with the Holy Spirit and fire would combust before your
eyes. Instead they are judged and made new.
How pathetic are the carnal, wicked objections coming from Deborah’s
embittered, blackened heart! What does she know of what God thinks, or
what we speak from Him? Yet she opens her proud mouth and pours out foolishness:
“Victor and Paul would like to believe that
God will not send unbelievers to eternal damnation for they ‘imagine’ that ‘God
is Love’ to everyone.”
We imagine nothing. God is love. That will never change. He so loved
the world that He sent His only begotten Son, so that the world might
be saved through Him. Who will stop God from accomplishing what He has
set out to do, and has accomplished? Who is more powerful than All-Powerful
God? Deborah says that you are - you hold the power to choose Him and,
if you do not, He will give you an unquenchable body that He will forever
torture in unquenchable fire. And her god is loving and just?! We say
her god is a vindictive devil, just like her, and we are proven right
by what comes out of her mouth:
“But they fail to realise that God loves
his Children - those who worship and follow Him, those that don’t are handed over to
the Devil. God didn’t make this decision, we do, for we have been
given ‘free will’, a ‘conscience’, a freedom
to ‘choose’.”
Shall we call on our brother Paul’s words to put this lie to rest
once again? Yes, let’s do:
“Before the children had been born or had done anything good or
bad, Rebekah was told that the older child would serve the younger one.
This was said to Rebekah so that God’s plan would remain
a matter of His choice, a choice based on God’s call and not on
anything people do. The Scriptures say, ‘I loved Jacob,
but I hated Esau.’ What
can we say-that God is unfair? That’s unthinkable! For example,
God said to Moses, ‘I will be kind to anyone I want to. I will
be merciful to anyone I want to.’ Therefore, God’s
choice does not depend on a person’s desire or effort, but on God’s
mercy” (Romans 9:11-16 GW).
Yes, we, those who have been washed from our sins and given a new Name,
love God. We know His mercy, which transcends our righteousness, as stars
do the dust of earth. Did we make this happen, or did God? Our brother
John has the answer:
“We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19 MKJV).
God is Decider in Chief, not man.
Almighty God is not dependent on sinful men, waiting for them to finally “get
it” and “accept” Him. Here is what the Scriptures say
about that false notion:
“And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was
no intercessor. Therefore His own arm brought salvation to Him; and His
righteousness sustained Him” (Isaiah 59:16 MKJV).
Those who think the way Deborah does have never known genuine salvation
of the Lord Jesus Christ. They have a self-made, cheap, wretched counterfeit.
God is fully in charge, doing whatever pleases Him, even now. He is
your Lord whether you believe it or not. Hear that, people. If nothing
else, know that God is God, not you or the devil. Your fate is not in
your hands or the devil’s. It is in God’s. He is your Judge.
That is why you should fear Him. And He will correct you in full measure,
so whatever you do with what you call your free will, know that you will
be held in account for it:
“Rejoice, in your youth, young man; and let your heart cheer you
in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in
the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring
you into judgment” (Ecclesiastes 11:9 MKJV).
Here are some other doctrines, events, and teachings Deborah gets wrong.
She quotes from “Are We a Cult?”:
“They say, ‘Could it be because we have had some community
living and commitment? This aspect seems to scare many people away. Is
it wrong to live in community?’
Ahh so now we see that belonging to their community is the only way.”
My, how devils lie! Show us where our statement can be linked in any
way to your audacious conclusion, Deborah. But that is why you flee when
none pursues, because you do not have legitimate answers or excuses for
your lies.
More lies:
“Then…this is a very interesting comment: ‘Could
it be because I lead and others follow? Is that a crime? We are accused
of ‘controlling.’ Apparently, some people do not like being
told what to do. They prefer their pride and independence intact. That
is the nature of lawless, unregenerate man.’ …. ‘And
the congregants love to have this power. They are not interested in worshiping
God.’
So if one does not want to ‘follow’ them then you have pride
and you are lawless and unregenerate. Hmmm, so by their own words it’s
a good thing that everyone should lead, ‘it’s not a crime’ says
Victor.
So what’s your point Victor? Oh silly me, it’s because we
don’t want to follow YOU hence we are all now unbelievers and are
all going hell…oh sorry live happily ever after. You say people
love to have this power (to lead that is), do you like this power Victor?
Obviously so.”
I must wade in the sewage to answer this satanic thinking and foul expression.
What we have here is Deborah putting words in our mouths to serve her
master, who contests the Word of God, just as he did from the very beginning.
We contend with him and take the land back from the usurper and liar.
Can you see what Satan is doing and his subtle manner of lying? Victor
did not say religious hypocrites have a problem submitting to him; he
said they have a problem with submission, period. When they see someone
submit to Victor as a man of God they scoff, “You are a cult, people
submit to you. No one will tell us what to do.” They include their
own ministers, properly called hirelings.
Satan’s most prized possession is the heart of man, which he has
captured by inducing him to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, making man
independent from God. Otherwise, should man return and submit to God,
Satan loses his power (“I saw Satan fall from Heaven like lightening”).
He will never allow his minions to be told what to do, and as long as
there is one person heeding him in his ways, he retains some power.
Now we know that no man can be free of the prince of this world except
he submits to God, and this is not possible if he does not submit to
others, namely the servants of God:
“Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves:
for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they
may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for
you” (Hebrews 13:17 KJV).
Obviously it is not a crime that some are given by God to lead, such
as Paul the apostle. How can one jump to the conclusion, however, that
all should lead? If all are leaders, then none are, because there are
none to follow. To infer from Victor’s words that it is good that
everyone leads is manifestly Satanic, both deceptively twisting what
he said and yet honest about Satan’s rallying cry, wherein every
man leads him or herself by doing what is right in his or her own sight.
Those who do their own thing and call it “leadership” are
obviously not leading others as shepherds under the Head, Jesus Christ,
and doing His will. They are doing their own, and doing so in the Name
of Christ makes them stiff-necked rebels. Only a wicked heart such as
Deborah’s would suggest otherwise.
As men of God and His shepherds, we are not here to lead pigs. The Lord
has not come to give the children’s meat to dogs. He has come to
rebuke the scorners like you, Deborah, who blasphemes in His Name. You
prefer to keep your pride and independence intact, but we are here to
bring you into judgment with God for both. There is no escaping your
judgment and you are anything but happy about it. You are miserable;
the tone of your writing loudly proclaims that to all.
You write:
“Paul’s testimony is an interesting one. No where does he
say that he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour and repented
for his sins.”
As we have said, no Christian has ever accepted the Lord. What happens
with true Christians is what happened to me: The Lord Personally confronted
me, and turned me around to follow Him, beginning with leading me to
forsake my sins, like fornication (as specifically pointed out in the
testimony).
You protest against this, according to the doctrines of devils:
“Paul speaks of getting a conscience when
he says, ‘My conscience
began to bother me about things that previously were not a problem at
all.’ Yet he did not at that time and still does not have the Holy
Spirit abiding in him for he never actually accepted Jesus Christ into
his life. His ‘concience’ was his fleshy conscience, not
the Holy Spirit speaking to him.”
What do you know about the Holy Spirit, Deborah, while you house demonic
spirits? If I asked God to tell me the truth, and He answered by telling
me, a Jew, that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, and awakened my conscience
about what I was doing wrong, who are you to reject this, Satan? Yes,
you have tried this before, and here is what God said to you:
“And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even
the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a brand plucked
out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood
before the angel. And He answered and spoke unto those that stood before
Him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him He
said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will
clothe you with change of raiment” (Zechariah 3:2-4 KJV).
Deborah writes:
“Now people can argue that he must have
been born again, and possibly forgot to mention it? How can anyone
forget something that important
and not mention it in a ‘testimony’ of all things. Because,
he never did!”
I was not born again at the time of my testimony, which recounts what
began over 30 years ago and only covers about two years. I was a believer,
but I was not yet baptized in the Spirit of Christ, which is the new
birth. What happened there was that I was corrected by the Lord, Who
sent a man of God to lead me in His way. That is what Satan hates and
resists most, submission to God. Men will do anything in place of submitting
to Him, even suffering death instead.
You write:
“But here’s the clincher, Paul divorced his wife because
Victor and Marilyn (Victor’s wife) told him too. Victor’s
wife told Paul, ‘You won’t be
hearing from the Lord again.’ because
he was not sure he wanted to divorce his wife. Hmmm lovely god you follow
Victor…my God would never say that!”
No, Deborah, your god will never say that because he will always be
there to please the flesh and to reject the cross. He would never call
on Abraham to offer up Isaac. He would never call on Gideon to fight
with 300 instead of 30,000, against an innumerable host of enemies. He
would never call on forsaking all for his sake. Instead, he would persuade
you to eat from the Tree of Knowledge to give you power to “Discern
the World,” an ungodly, boastful, empty power that is at enmity
with the True God of the Universe, the Lord Jesus Christ. Satan can always
find or make a legal way for the flesh to have what it wants rather than
to submit and obey God. Satan says, “Fornication? No problem, get
married and you’re covered. Men’s laws trump God’s
laws when I make you as gods unto yourselves in the Name of God. Follow
me and you can have it all, just like when I promised Jesus I would give
Him everything if He followed me.”
You write:
“Basically in a nut shell these guys believe
in good works. When they tell you you need to repent for your wickedness
and unrighteousness
it’s because you have done something bad like ‘disagree with
them’ etc. They will tell you that you blaspheme the name of Jesus
Christ if you don’t agree with them. Funny, I didn’t realise
you were Jesus Christ.”
Get behind us, Satan. Displaying good works by the faith of Christ is
not evil:
“But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?” (James
2:20 MKJV)
Having the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ is not wrong:
“Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus
Christ, unto the glory and praise of God” (Philippians 1:11 KJV).
And obeying the commandments of God is not trusting in the Law:
“He that has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves
Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love
him and will manifest Myself to him” (John 14:21 EMTV).
No, Deborah, you have not realized that we are Christ’s; that
is your problem. You do not confess that Jesus Christ comes in the flesh.
He comes in us, and He has sent us to speak as His mouth. As the antiChrist
you are, you mock and scorn. We are here to let you and the world know
that your day is finished, Satan.
Deborah: “Their view on
this is that accepting Jesus Christ is not enough, you have to live
a ‘Godly’ life without fail
in order to be truly saved.”
Those who repent will bring forth fruits that demonstrate repentance.
Those who have phony conversions like Deborah, accepting a false Christ
of their own making and acting by their own will power and doing whatever
they think is right, bring forth evil fruits, as we have shown.
Deborah: “If they did have
the Holy Spirit abiding in them they would never say something this
stupid.”
Not only is it “stupid” to the wicked that we teach that
God is in control and chooses whom He wills, never the other way around,
but it is absolutely abhorrent because it completely wipes out any possibility
of said person (Deborah) having any righteousness or credibility on her
own. Accepting her false Christ is what has empowered Deborah to speak
as ostensibly authoritative and to say whatever she wants, as though
she is righteous and credible; she is neither. She is only indignant
because she is exposed. By the fire that comes out of our mouths she
has been “indignited.”
Deborah: “They argue about
the Trinity based on Roman Catholic doctrine. The fact of the matter
is God is 3 persons: God, Jesus Christ
who is God and the Holy Spirit which is God. They are ONE and the SAME.”
It can never be said that three persons is one person. Put three persons
in a room and you count three, not one. God is not three persons. There
is only one Mind and Person, as He says:
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD” (Deuteronomy
6:4 KJV).
“...before Me there was no God formed, and there will not be after
Me. I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no Savior but Me” (Isaiah
43:10-11 BBE).
The Savior is God, and God is the Savior. He counts One, not two or
three. Read Who Is Jesus
Christ? and let him or her that reads know and
believe that Jesus Christ is God.
Deborah: “If it’s impossible not to sin after being saved,
then why do they strive to live such a Godly life? What happens when
they slip up?”
While there is no point in trying to reason with devils, we do wish
to let those who struggle with sin and seek to do what is right know
that God has a place of deliverance for the one who believes and obeys
Him, even as Paul our beloved brother discovered:
“O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body
of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (Romans
7:24-25 MKJV)
As a believer, you can and are commanded to come to the place in this
life where you are no longer a slave to sin, but are free in Christ to
do what is right. Does not God through Christ empower those who believe
to do what is impossible for man? “With men this is impossible,
but with God all things are possible.”
When Jesus walked on water, what did He say to Peter? This is impossible
for you, a mere man? No, listen:
“But Peter answered Him and said, Lord, if it is You, command
me to come to You on the waters. So He said, Come. And stepping down
from the boat, Peter walked on the waters to go toward Jesus. But seeing
the strong wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, saying,
Lord, save me! And immediately, Jesus reaching out His hand, laid hold
of him, and said to him, O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” (Matthew
14:28-31 EMTV)
When the Lord was finished with him, the time came when Peter could
and would walk on water. Paul also came to the place where he was no
longer a slave to sin, and tells how:
“For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto
God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but
Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live
by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me” (Galatians
2:19-20 KJV).
Does the one living by the faith of the Son of God sin? Jesus said, “Go
and sin no more.” We that are crucified with Christ walk on water.
Peter said the same as Paul:
“Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, you also
arm yourselves with the same mind, because he who suffered in the flesh
has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the remaining time
in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God” (1
Peter 4:1-2 EMTV).
We are not struggling with sin, because as it is written:
“For we who have believed enter that rest...” (Hebrews 4:3
EMTV).
It is a lie from Hell to imply that we say we have never sinned. This
is obvious to the one reading our testimonies or site. What we do claim
is that Jesus Christ has delivered us from our sins and has transformed
us by His resurrection life because He lives in us, which causes us to
live as He does. This is that true and eternal life; praise God! Only
devils and the flesh resist. But if you, those struggling with the flesh,
resist the devil, he will flee from you. There is a place of victory!
Believe. We know and have that victory, which few know.
But what about these verses that Deborah cites, not as a lover of Truth,
but as an excuser of her sins that she will not forsake?
“And then we have these verses, which are quite simple and easy
to understand:
1 John 2 v 1: ‘My little children, I am
writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And
if anyone sins, we have an Advocate
with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous’
1 John 1 v 9: ‘If we claim we have
not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us’”
There is a place of deliverance, which is the point of our refutation
of the blasphemous and diabolical doctrine that it is impossible to not
sin. Paul wrote:
“But to him who does not work but believes on Him that justifies
the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, just as David
also speaks of the blessing of the man to whom God accounts righteousness
apart from works:
“Blessed are they whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and
whose sins were covered over; Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall
by no means impute sin’” (Romans 4:5-8 EMTV).
In another posting, I answer the concern
about contradiction from John’s letter as follows:
“It [John’s letter] appears to contradict
what we are saying and other Scriptures we have quoted. We know the
Scriptures are in perfect
harmony, so I will explain it now, verse by verse:
1 John 1:8-10 EMTV
8: If we claim that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and
the truth is not in us.
If you come to God and deny you have sin (not so much with your lips
as with your conduct and life), you are deceiving yourself, and the truth
is not in you. If the truth is in you, planted there by the Word of God,
Jesus Christ, then the following will happen when you come to Christ:
9: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Coming into the Light, you will see your sins and confess them. Then
God will not only forgive your sins, but will also cleanse you from all
of your unrighteousness.
Will you return to that from which you have escaped? Not if you are
His sheep:
'For if, after they have escaped the defilements
of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
they are again entangled
in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than
the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known
the
way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the Holy
Commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened
to them: ‘The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after
washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire’' (2 Peter
2:20-22 ESV).
10: If we claim that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His
word is not in us.
If we have escaped the corruptions of the world, then we certainly cannot
claim that we have not sinned, having been part of that corruption. We
know where we came from, and we know what the Lord has done for us, and
we declare it unequivocally. That is what you will see on our website,
beginning with Our Testimonies.
Some of you presume we speak of the perfection
or sinlessness of the flesh, because all you have known is the flesh,
and you know, whether
you admit it or not, just how corrupt that is. But we speak of the inner
man in Christ, the one you have not experienced, which cannot be experienced
by those who have not known the Lord.”
Yes, in verse 2:1 John tells the little children in Christ that they
have an Advocate if they sin. Amen. But we are not to remain as little
children; we must grow up to become men. And what does John say about
the young men?
“I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know Him
Who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because
you have overcome the evil one. I am writing to you, little children, because
you have come to know the Father. I wrote to you, fathers, because you
have come to know Him Who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young
men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you,
and you have overcome the evil one” (1 John 2:13-14 EMTV).
Do those who overcome the evil one live in sin? Hardly! Jesus said:
“But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the Kingdom
of God has come upon you. Or how is one able to enter a strong man’s
house to plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And
then he will plunder his household” (Matthew 12:28-29).
Are we not plundering Satan’s household by the Spirit of God in
Christ? The Lord says of His work:
“He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather
with Me scatters” (Matthew 12:30 EMTV).
Devils would rather you not know or care about these things. They would
keep you in darkness, which is Deborah’s choice for herself. Her
conversion is a deceptive counterfeit.
Deborah: “So what they
are saying is, is that Christ didn’t
do it all. We in our own power have to do other things in order to be
completely saved.”
No, we are not saying that, Satan, and you know it. We know you do not
care for Truth, being a liar from the beginning, but we speak to those
who will now see your lies by the Light of all men.
The Lord Jesus Christ said to those who believed that they must strive
to enter in (Luke 13:24), and that only those who endured to the end
would be saved (Matthew 24:13). We are given faith to exercise, or if
we do not, we are found to be like the wicked man in the Lord’s
example who buried what was given him and was punished for doing so.
But those who exercise the faith of Christ will grow up unto Him and
will yield fruit according to His power and life. For those who come
to Him, that is only the beginning and, instead of nothing more, everything is required (read Only
the Death Sentence Will Avail), even as Jesus
said:
Luke 14:26-33 KJV
(26) If any man come to Me, and hate not his father, and mother, and
wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life
also, he cannot be My disciple.
(27) And whosoever does not bear his cross, and come after Me, cannot
be My disciple.
(28) For which of you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first,
and counts the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
(29) Lest haply, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to
finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
(30) Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish...
(33) So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he has,
he cannot be My disciple.
Yes, devils surely have a great problem with the cross, an insurmountable
one in fact. Those who take up the cross and go all the way are made
safe from the kingdom of Hell, and, in turn, storm it to deliver those
held in bondage there, as we do this day.
Deborah: “Jesus Christ
fulfilled the law and we are no longer under law - for the law means
nothing to Jesus Christ; Galatians 5:6 ‘For
in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor un-circumcision means anything,
but faith working through love.’”
Getting circumcised, which is symbolic of keeping the letter of the
Law, doesn’t save anyone – witness the Pharisees who crucified
Christ. Does that negate the value or necessity for the Law? God forbid:
“But we know that the Law is good if one uses it lawfully, knowing
this: that the Law is not laid down for the righteous, but for the lawless
and insubordinate [Deborah], for the ungodly and for sinners [Deborah],
for unholy and profane [Deborah], for killers of fathers and killers
of mothers [Deborah], for murderers, for fornicators, for sodomites,
for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers [Deborah all], and if there
is any other thing that is opposed to sound doctrine [Deborah], according
to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted” (1
Timothy 1:8-11 EMTV).
Amen.
The lawless say they are not under the Law of God, excusing their lawlessness
by calling it “grace.” The lawless hate the Law and discount
It because indicted by It. We, the lawful, the “Legalized
of God,” are
not under the Law because we fulfill it in Christ by the grace of God.
We, in Christ, are the Law fulfilled.
Deborah: “Since Paul, Victor
and Co. keep the Sabbath I can see why they defend this one. Yes they
are correct, Sunday is not the Sabbath
day
- this was created by Roman Catholics because Sunday is named after the
Sun god whom they worship. But they are in error because they keep the
Sabbath (Saturday) only because it is a ’good work’ that
will complete their salvation.”
That is entirely your wicked opinion, Deborah. If you know that Saturday
is the Sabbath, sanctified by God and set aside for man to bless him,
who are you to fault those who receive it as such? Isn’t that like
you, accuser of the brethren, to call dirty what God has made clean?
Deborah: “Victor says, ‘IF YOU ARE NOT KEEPING THE SABBATH
DAY, THEN YOU ARE DAMNED’
The bible says; Colossians 2 v 16 ‘Let no man therefore judge
you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of any holyday, or of the new
moon, or of the sabbath days’”
Are you not judging us, liar? Paul was not speaking of the Sabbath,
but of “sabbath days
