THE
PASTOR'S PEN
DECEIVING AND BEING DECEIVED by Stephen Benton
Good
morning and welcome to The House Of Good News. Don't let the
name of our church deceive you into thinking that everything uttered here is
good news. We are currently in the thick of a study that's full of bad news,
depending on whose side you are on: God's or Satan's. If you're on God's side,
the bad news will not affect you. If you are not on God's side, you're on the
verge of being "set up" big time. Satan is about to
unleash a masterful lie and you and a vast percentage of the professing Church
will fall victims to the lie. God identified the deception as a "Strong delusion." I believe God's word without question and if
God says it will be a strong delusion, this smug-attitude Church world
better take heed. Remember, God is going to ultimately spit this Church out of his mouth. As the
Head of the body of the Church, this Church Age has nauseated Christ, made him
sick to his stomach, and he's going to puke it up.
There's a passage
in Hosea
4:5 which reads:
"My people are destroyed for lack
of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou
shalt be no priest to me:"
God's people are
not destroyed for lack of emotion. They are not destroyed for
a lack of zeal, but they are guilty of having zeal but not according to
knowledge. We have been called to be a kingdom of priests unto
God. Many are going to be surprised when
they are rejected at the time of the rapture but they shouldn't be.
Personally, I have had my fill of
hearing saints spout off about spiritual matters based on their own concepts.
They constantly reveal their ignorance about God's word and I'm learning not to
even bother to dispute with them anymore. My feeling now is, if they want
to be stupid, let 'em go to hell and burn.
The
trademark of being on God's side is that
you will have a love for the truth of God 's word. That
love for the truth of God's word is impossible unless you also have the Spirit
of God dwelling in you; a Spirit that
God has promised to give to all who believe on the name of his Son, Jesus
Christ. And just for the record, there's not one scripture in the bible
that says God has to give a particular sign as evidence of being filled with the Spirit. (My "lack
of knowledge, know- it-all" Pentecostal friends will stop reading at this point and say "he's off" and they won't
bother to even check me out.) It does
mention "signs that will follow those who believe." (Mark 16) But it does not list any of those signs as a mandatory experience for salvation. The Pentecostals simply took one of those
signs, arbitrarily, and made it essential for salvation. The Church has been preaching that faith is
unseen but when it comes to the salvation of an individual, the Church, like Israel in the wilderness, puts God on trial and proves him by requiring
him to show them a sign. Again, God's
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
God
destroyed Israel in the wilderness for that same action after they did it for
forty years. This last Church Age is now 90 years old and since the Holy Ghost
fell on Azusa St. in Los, Angeles in 1906, P entecostals have continually
demanded a sign from God every time someone believes. Sorry,
there's no scripture to substantiate that doctrine and those who read this and
disagree with what I wrote about speaking in tongues as proof of the Holy
Ghost, my sincere Pentecostal brothers should come forward in spiritual
confrontation and enquire where I'm getting this false doctrine
from. Then in love, they should attempt to reconcile me to
the truth. During my 19 years of teaching God's word in
California, not a single critic of mine has obeyed the scriptures in that area.
Still they call me a false prophet and a heretic. They also violate the
greatest sin on God's hate list by freely sowing discord among the brethren in
telling them that my doctrine is off. That's a convenient
word to use when an individual doesn't know where or how someone is off, only
that what he or she teaches is in conflict with what they personally, without scriptural support, believe. Saying someone is off
is a cheap way of casting a questionable shadow on everything he or she
teaches.
I am finding out that many who profess to be on the
Lord's side are severely lacking in their love for the
truth. I found that to be true while publishing the news of
the day of the Rapture. There is a multitude of
so-called saints who are firm believers that the day of the Rapture cannot
be known. They have been deceived by Satan and the worst part of being deceived is that one is unaware of his or her condition. Not
having a love for the truth makes one a prime victim for deception.
Where the
message of the Rapture is concerned, there are those who say that the
date is not important because we should be in a constant state of
readiness. Little do such individuals know that by making
that statement they have entered into the sin of blasphemy. If the message of
the day of the Rapture is from Satan, it should be viciously attacked.
What are the rules
of engagement against a false doctrine? Find the flaw
in the scriptures. If it is from God, it should be tenaciously
embraced. In either case, whether it be from God or Satan, it should be examined in the light of the
scriptures being offered. Now, if the message
came from God, and He has seen fit to reveal the day of his
appearing, then those who say the date doesn't matter because we
should always be ready, are saying, in reality, that God gave a vain message
and that, my friend, is pure and simple blasphemy.
See "Blasphemy Aainst the Holy Spiritt" on YouTube, The
House of Good Newz channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjI3PUaEKhU&t=5s
The scriptures show five items capable of being blasphemed.
They are: (1.) The name of God
(lsa.52:5; Ro.2:24; Rev .16:9), (2.) God
Himself (lsa.65:7; Eze.20:27; Rev.16: 11, 21). (3.)
The doctrine of God (I Tim.6: 1). (4.) The
Word of God (Tit.2:5). (5.) The Holy
Ghost (Mt.12:31-32).
Those who rejected the truth of the
revelation of the time of the Rapture did so in violation of a
commandment given by Paul as he wrote under the direction of the Holy
Ghost. He wrote in Thessalonians:
1. "Quench not the Spirit."
2. "Despise not prophesyings."
3. "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."
One quenches the Spirit by
despising prophesyings. Paul dealt with the subject of
prophecy more than all of the rest of the
Apostles. As a result, he was also despised more than all of
the other Unbelief is not a new state of
being. After I taught the rapture message at my Dad's
church one gentlemen came up to me and told me he did not believe the
message. I said, "Brother, that puts you
in the majority and that ain't never been nothin' special."
Paul was
telling the church, rather than despise
the prophecy, prove it. How? Against the scriptures. If
it is true, either in part or in whole, hold fast that which is
good.
Like
any true prophesy, the one God gave to me is easy to prove.
I wrote a book and gave scriptural
references. All one has to do is examine
the scriptures to see if they have been
rightly divided. Will today's loving of the word of God church
do that? No! I say that emphatically because not one individual
has confronted me with objections to the scriptures God
purportedly gave to me. Some have nit-picked
over some of the Greek words, none of whom are genuine Greek
students. (A true Greek student can read, write, and
analyze the syntax of Greek language without the
aid of a dictionary. I'm not a Greek
student either. Still, they will question some of the Greek references as
a license to reject the entire message.
After these individuals have accomplished making someone a two-fold candidate for hell by rejecting the truth of the
message, they smugly go on their sanctified way unaware that they
are those whom Paul wrote about in his epistle to Timothy:
"He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth... "
I
Timothy 6:3-5
Understand
that this day we are living in is a day of
unprecedented deception. Paul wrote that evil men
and seducers (demonic angels, gods, spirits) will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. Here is revelation. The
strong delusion will be sent by God. The deceivers and seducers will deceive and will
be deceived. What is the meaning of will be deceived? It means that
God will allow the gods to actually believe their lie that they are
fostering upon the earth. What is a much more convincing
lie is they actually believe that what they are saying is the absolute truth! Now that
I have had a firsthand look at the scriptural ignorance of this
present Church Age, I know beyond all doubt that many
in the Church will believe the lie and will become the falling away spoken of in II
Thessalonians, Chapter two. The falling away must precede things spoken by the Spirit of God. It is
time that we give the more earnest heed to the things spoken by the
Spirit of God.
Written in the THE WEEKLY
WORD OF THE HOUSE OF GOOD NEWS
12/29/1996
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