A SPIRITUALLY DEAF
CHURCH
from The Prophet
This congregation was told
by the Holy Ghost that He would have more to tell us in this final church age
than he has spoken since the beginning of the church age in AD 31. Now that's saying a lot! And true to his word, the Holy Ghost has done
just that. This is the end of the Church Age.
It is the time of the culmination and realization of the great promises
that have been made to the Church.
The book of Revelation
depicts seven churches which, although real congregations at the time John wrote
to them, actually represent seven distinct periods of the history of the Church
from its birth on Pentecost Day until it is taken up to heaven in the very near
future. We are now in the Laodicean
Period, the final stage of the Church and the picture of the Church at this
point in its history is bleak. Jesus
described this last church as wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. That
list may not be in the exact order but it is the exact description.
Its most serious defect is
that it is deaf. It has lost its ear to hear
what the Spirit has to say and yet it is oblivious to its deaf condition. Jesus
is shown standing at the door of this church. Many times that passage in Revelation
is misinterpreted as Jesus standing at the door of the heart of the sinner
pleading for admission. Wrong! The
letter is addressed to his Church. He is
standing at the door of His Church. He
is not knocking for admission but knocking for the attention of the two or
three in each congregation who have an ear to hear, to leave that congregation.
Jesus is not asking to be
let in because he doesn't want to be admitted back into what was once His
Church. This present Laodicean Church
Think about that for a
minute. Jesus' ministry was thronged with crowds. He fed 5,000 people on one occasion and 4,000
on another. Paul said he was seen by
over 500 brethren at once after his resurrection. I believe they were present at the time of
his ascension into heaven. The point I
am making is that with all of the people whose lives were touched by Jesus,
only about 120 stuck around to wait for the promise of the Spirit. That's a very small number. It's no accident that the word of God
promises that where two or three are gathered together in his name, he would be
in the midst of them because in many cases, he has only about two or three in
the typical church who are in tune with his voice.
I constantly monitor those
who claim to be his messengers as they minister on television and radio and I
can tell you with confidence that they are preaching another gospel and another
Jesus, neither of which was preached by the Apostles.
The proclamation of another
Jesus is an essential piece of the puzzle in order for The Lie and The Strong
Delusion to be effective when they come forth.
Christianity has been turning out a membership that is unable to defend
its faith. If asked how they know that Jesus
lives, the typical answer would echo Christianity's Easter theme songs, "you ask me how I know he lives…he
lives within my heart." Bull!
The Apostles never preached that doctrine. When the Lie is released it will knock the
faith of the typical Christian right out the box and hence, the Great Falling
Away.
The Holy Ghost has been
preparing us for that period of time.
The Church is about to undergo the greatest fight of affliction it has seen
since the days when Saul "wreaked havoc" on the
Church. It will be comparably short in
its duration but it will be very intense.
For those who have been spiritually deaf, happily going along the road
to heaven, it will be a time of selling out because their faith platform is
built on rotten timber.
To
read more current revelations from Pastor Steve, check out his book published
September of 2017 on Amazon.com. It
gives crucial revelations about the rapture, strong delusion and the Lie.
https://smile.amazon.com/Gods-Final-Secret-Stephen-Benton/dp/1976338476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509271792&sr=1-1&keywords=god%27s+final+secret+by+stephen+benton
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