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Links: Knowledgeable Of Cults: False Red Heifer Worship Understanding Biblical, Marital Purity No Drunkards: Expectation Of Mother of Samuel Marital Transparency A Necessity No Fornicators Nor Adulterers Nor Those Who Promote Immoral Teachers: Hank Kunneman
No Condonation Of Forbidden Acts Or Ideologies: Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant Remarriage False Witness: Pre-Trib Rapture
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DREAM OF NEW BEGINNING OF ACCEPTABLE CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT I was talking with some neighbors yesterday about several things concerning God, his people and the world. I thought about some of the things before I went to bed and was thinking of them while I was trying to go to sleep. Then it seems I wasn't fully conscious and not totally asleep and I dreamed of a new church establishment. I dreamed of a disk with an incomplete picture on it and as the disk was in the making, the picture was becoming more complete, an image of something that was being added on and taken away mostly, but it was not perfect even until the time when I woke up. However, it seems the things in the disk, the information and things written in it, which I only suspected but was not fully cognizant of, were much more complete. I can't remember now how to describe the vagueness but it seems as if there was an approach going on, something different than the sinfulness of current, modern churches, for a more accurate and clean church leadership. Maybe only few could be able to take the positions at the start, and that left the image like it was only half done, the finished parts in the color of white, which I never saw completed as to the image. As I relate this to my bible studies, I know today many and most of our churches are not following the direction of the Apostle Paul to Timothy and Titus. Many have adulterers and fornicators as officials. There is always a battle within the church. Even after the early church, Christians were persecuted by false-god serving Rome. God's church also always has a battle with the state. Then the first state-recognized church arose, the Roman Catholic church. However, they brought in many heresies. Later, The Christian religions of the East separated from those of the West. Eventually, Martin Luther separated from the western religious leadership. We have histories through the martyrs, how evil the Roman Catholic church was and persecuted those trying to reach the people with prints of the Scriptures instead of their man-made doctrine. The organized church has had many good things, but some terrible bad things also. After the advancement and the reformation, many Protestant churches brought in an era wherein people could learn the Scriptures and think differently than that which was told them by the former erring, church authorities. Christianity bloomed and how many millions were saved and theologically advanced! They learned the difference between organized-church authority and the real authority—God's written word, the Scriptures. Today, throughout the world, there is a battle as to the structure of the church, the state-recognized churches versus the need of the Christians for a church establishment like that of Titus, with worthy officials without reproach, as the Apostle Paul instructed Timothy. There is a battle within the Christian church establishments as well as a battle against Christianity from the non-believers. Christians are a target of both sides, but God can develop his church and body of believers. He can raise men, women and families who have children that can grow up to be without reproach and serve as officials, maybe there are some in the making now. The mother of Samuel became close to God and honored him, expecting a blessing for her child. Many have heard of the non-Hebrew peoples of modern Israel attempting to make a new temple and have a red heifer sacrifice. They can make building models and get heifers but they can never restore the Hebrew genealogical chain (Numbers 36:5-13, Ezra 2:61-63). So, in all their attempts to simulate the acts of the ancient Hebrews, they can never have a qualified priest with required genealogical register who would be able to perform the sacrifice. Therefore, they can never make an authentic ceremony as such, and they know it. They would have to cogently input a Hebrew tribe member as an official to perform the event but they know they cannot restore any Hebrew tribal genealogical chain—making it impossible to have an authentic Levite or any other Hebrew tribe member. Thus, at best their simulation would be a farce. However, Christians have access to the living God and do have the ability to make an acceptable local church, a house of the living God, a pillar and ground of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15) with ministers without reproach. It is something we must strive for more so than the cults who attempt false worship. The outline is already there, the Apostle Paul gave it to us. All we have to do is follow his instructions.
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