“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” — Romans 1:16
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The Bible reveals two ways which people are following to get into heaven. One way, the true way, is God’s way. God’s way into heaven is the way of peace and truth and righteousness. It is the only way approved of God. This way centers in the Lord Jesus Christ who said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). The Bible declares that there is another way. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Prov. 14:12).
There are so many popular ways today filled with lost multitudes all over the land, such as the way of morality, the way of respectability, the way of religion, the way of churchianity, the way of baptism, the way of christening, the way of confirmation, the way of penance, the way of confession, the way of “doing the best I can”, the way of self, the way of education, the way of philosophy, the way of false isms and cults that crowd the street. Little wonder then when we speak to people about the way of salvation, that so many have asked, “How can I know which is the true way? There are so many different ideas and so many religions.”
But there is ONE difference between God’s way of salvation and man’s way, and that difference is found in a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. You will notice that man leaves Christ out of the center of his way. You will discover that the modern false cults and isms demote Christ to a mere man and add something to what He has already done for your salvation and mine. We become children of God through a supernatural birth. Jesus said to Nicodemus: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Jesus also said, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:7)
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A-Millennialism And The Curse of Covenant Theology – II
(The Present Day Prophetic Confusion)
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the Word of Truth.” 2nd Timothy 2:15
Covenant theology began in the 15th Century. What happened in the 1500’s?- The Reformation! We thank God for the reformation; For men like Luther, and Calvin; but they were men and made lots of mistakes! You know both of them persecuted the Anabaptists (the forerunners of the Baptists.) Thank God for their rediscovery of the Doctrine of “ Justification by faith”! And yet they (the Covenant Theologians) kept the theology of Roman Catholicism.
Beloved, the Roman catholic eschatology or the Doctrine of prophecy is basically this! “The city of God” idea, that is exactly what they teach. They teach that the church is the city of God; and that you get people saved and get them into the city of God, and when Christ returns again it is going to be all over! So in the study of the Bible , some passages they take them as they are and whenever they come to prophecy they spiritualize it. They make it to mean something else. Now Catholicism in essence is Millennialism. It teaches that there is going to be no kingdom, because to them the church is the kingdom. But beloved, the Church is not the Kingdom! God has promised a real, literal, earthly kingdom centered in Jerusalem, Jesus Christ sitting on the throne of His father David!
When the Angel announced the birth of Christ to Mary did he not say, “ He will sit on the throne of his father David”? When did Jesus Christ ever sit on the throne of David? He did not do it yet! Did He? No! Now if He did not do it, and that “The Scriptures can not to be broken,…” as Jesus said in John 10:35 , are we going to believe the word of God, or the word of men? Yes we stand on the word of God and could careless for the word of man, or the opinion of the world. If they speak the truth, praise God, we rejoice! But if they don’t, we don’t care how big they are, or how many schools they have been to. In fact they more school they have been to, the more mixed up they are! The writer of this article said from his personal experience and observation that “ there are more church members on the way to Hell then there are drunkards!” Do you know that there are well over 800 million Catholics that are wrong.”?
See, they start with the wrong preemies; saying “ God has rejected the Jews because of the rejection of their Messiah”; but then they see all the promises that God has given to Abraham- Abrahamic Covenant; and to David -Davidic Covenant. And they turn around and spiritualize it and say, ” God will fulfill these promises with The Church.” So wherever they see the promise given to Israel they apply it to “the Church.” You see, starting with that premises, everything else has to fit into that, they will end up in the wrong conclusion, which makes the Bible a mess!!
How do they do that? They allegorize the Scripture! An allegory is a setting in a story representing abstract (hidden) ideas, It uses symbolic figures to convey hidden meanings to teach a lesson. The Covenant theologians take Scripture verses and they say this is an allegory. The one problem with this kind of approach is, that you go down the street, and you listen to another man, he will take the same passage, and say this is an allegory and tells you what it is; entirely different from what you have heard before. Now there are allegories in he Bible, but we do not allegorize the Bible. Do you know the difference? We hope you do! We take the Bible literally, so whether it is prophecy or history or salvation passages we take them literally. We don’t have to put a fancy explanation on it. The plain fact is that because they (Covenant Theologians) don’t understand it they have got to tell us something! That is they take the Scripture literally until they come to prophecy, they turn around and make an allegory out of them to fit they outlook.
The book of Romans is a great book on the doctrine of Justification by faith. In Romans 4:12 God showed both Abraham and David were saved by faith; and it does not say in either case were saved by believing in Jesus Christ. While that is the message for this age for 2000 years and until the rapture of the church. Beloved, we need to remember we are handling the word of God, and we better be careful how we do it! Considering verse 13, we read, “ for the promise that he should be heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.”
Now, what do you think that “ the world” mean there? Does it mean America? Does it mean Europe? Does it even mean Israel? For the Covenant Theologian, in order to fit in their thinking, they read it as, “ the promise that he should be heir of Canaan…..” That is, they allegorize and say that “ Canaan” stands for the world. Well do you ever find any where in the word of God or in secular history that Canaan stands for “the world”? Beloved, Any one that starts reading the Bible like that is going to end up in sheer confusion. They say “Israel” means “ the Church.” So wherever they find “Israel” in the New Testament, they replace it by “ The Church.”
We read in Romans 11:23, “…so all Israel shall be saved.” now, replace “Israel” by “ the church.” and it reads like this, “ … so all the Church shall be saved.”; this of course does not make any sense. Who is he talking about here? He is talking about the branches that had been cut off, that obviously being Israel; and he talks about the branches that had been grafted in, which refers to the gentiles when we consider it within the context. And then he gets to verse 26 and says, “ … all Israel will be saved.” that means the branches that had been cut off once, God is going to bring them back to life!! We have this truth clearly delineated in Ezekiel 37. But because they don’t understand – rightly divide the word of God, they go out and say “Israel” means “ the Church” and vise versa. You read your Bible and you put “the Church” everywhere you read “ Israel” and put “Israel” everywhere you read “ the Church”, I tell you there won’t be much point in reading the Bible.
Another one of their fallacy is that they talk about “ the resurrection of the soul.” Whereas there is no such thing in the Bible as to “ the resurrection of the soul.” Resurrection in the Bible refers entirely to the body. And still a more bizarre and twisted out look they have on Scripture is on the Millennial Regin of Christ. When you read the Book of Revelation seven times in about Eight verses it says we “will rule and reign with Christ.” Satan will be bound “ a thousand years in the bottomless pit, that he should not deceive the nations..” The Covenant people tell us “ well it is not actual 1000 years, we have to spiritualize that.” Beloved, to the ordinary person who understands English, to anybody who believes the word of God, “ millennium” means 1000 years! But, that’s Covenant Theology, and that’s what they do to Bible prophecy.
It is important that Believers should learn where to locate truth, so they should always pause to consider how and to whom the testimonies, promises, and warnings of the Bible are applied. There are many who are in utter confusion of mind about the meaning of many Bible verses, because even in preaching, passages that relate only to the unregenerate are addressed to believers, and the Jew and the Christians are mixed up without the slightest discrimination.
To be Continued…………………………………….
From The Peoples Gospel Hour Staff