Essence of the lie. By Pastor Stephen Benton

The Essence of the Lie   by Pastor Stephen Benton with updates by Shelley Benton

Last year, September 20, marked the feast day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year's Day.  On God's calendar that day is called the Feast of Trumpets.  It is the first day of the Seventh month.  we were looking forward to the blowing of the last trump on the tenth day of the seventh month (SEPTEMBER 30, 2017, as the day that God would call his church to meet him in the air.  After that day passed, the Holy Ghost uncovered some major truths to us in God's word.

We know today, in 2018, that God delayed the blowing of the last trump to announce that 69th jubilee year, as the Holy Ghost showed us from his word, in 2 Pet. 3:9, because he is "…not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." That 69th Jubile was to be announced in 1997 pointing toward the 50th year in 1998.   The Jews did not celebrate 1998 as the official jubile year, but the considered 1967 as a jubile year.  They are incorrect.  A jubile, or 50th year, is a year of return.  Check Leviticus 25 for that truth.  It is spelled out in the entire chapter. What other year would the Lord use to re-establish Israel and return his people to their land?  Knowing God's ways, the very fact that they returned, albeit in part, in that year, should designate it as a jubile year. To consult the Jews for information about a jubile year is to totally ignore what God said about Israel in the book of Hosea 1:9, "Then said God, call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God."  Or also in Ezekiel, chapters 23 and 24 God tells the story of what his plans are for Israel until he restores them after the 70th week. He compares them to two women who go whoring. We do know, however, that the feast day, the Day of Atonement, the 10th day of the 7th month on the Sabbath day, shall no longer be the day that He will appear for his Church. Now that the church has rejected the Day given by revelation to his last days' prophet to His Church, God is no longer held to the day of  his promise.  He can now do with the church as he did with the children of Israel in the wilderness.  Because they broke their covenant with Him, (to believe Moses forever) He is now free to break his promise to this church, a promise that they would not receive or believe and declared that  "no man knows the day or hour" that He will come.  That scripture was never given or applied to the rapture of the church.  As the Lord says in Habakkuk 2:3 "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."] The appointed time that was given, has now been taken off the table.  

What is interesting is that the Church is now quoting Revelation 3:3, "...if therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee."  If Jesus is planning to "come on thee,"  that doesn't sound like someone who is coming to take them to  heaven, does it?  That means He will be coming to destroy them as if they are thieves, not Him! They are trying to enter heaven by a different way other than repenting and hearing his voice! What will the end result of that be?  Being vomited out of His mouth. 

I am continuing with the prophecy in II Thessalonians chapter 2 regarding God sending a strong delusion to those who did not receive the love of the truth.  The delusion will be sent by God but it  will cause them to believe the lie that accompanies it.  God will allow it to be perpetrated on the Church for the express purpose of damning this present Church age, an age plagued with deafness to God's word.

Last Sunday we looked at the true meaning of a liar in the scriptures.  It should be clear from that message that God's definition of a liar exceeds man's limited use of the word.  We realized that all of Satan's children are liars because their father Satan himself is a liar.  He did not abide in the truth and when he speaks he speaks nothing but lies. That statement should give you a clear idea of what this worldly system is all about.  It is a system of complex deception and lies because Satan is the god of this world. 

Additionally, we learned that anyone who denies God the Father is a liar.  Why?  Because God has provided an abundance of evidence of his eternal power and Godhead through the revelation of the creation itself. To see the intricacies and vastness of this creation and then question the existence of God automatically identifies an individual as a liar.

Naturally, anyone who denies that Jesus Christ is the Son of God is listed as a liar.

Now don't lose sight of the primary message which is: in the last days, prior to the Rapture, this earth will be officially introduced to another life form, commonly called aliens.  These aliens are twofold.  One, they are the offspring of demon angels.  Two, they are the demon angels themselves.  They will come to the earth with a deceptive message, a message that God has called a strong delusion and they will deceive many.

Question:  Will they deceive any of those who are in the faith?  Answer::  Most definitely.

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devil:" I Tim. 4:1

Now the fact that God himself declared that their delusion will be strong, this soon coming event has placed me at DefCon One.  That's a military term, an abbreviation for Defensive Condition.  Number one is the highest level of alertness.  War becomes absolute at level one.

Also, remember that God's word told us not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together and moreso as we see the day approaching.  Those are not idle words from God.  Once he announced the day of the gathering together of the Church, he would then commence giving messages solely for the purpose of keeping his chosen from believing the delusion to come.  Those who do not heed God’s admonition will depart from the faith before the Lord comes or God’s word is not true.  To those of you who don't believe that such a thing could ever happen to you, remember that Peter told Jesus that he would never deny him.  He said those words to him after Jesus told Peter that he would. Peter was outraged and thought Jesus had given him an idle message.

I instructed you to read 1 John in order to gain an understanding of the lie that would be presented by the aliens.  Some of you remarked that you could not see anything in that book that had a connection with the aliens.  I didn't expect that you would but I wanted you to be familiar with the text just the same.  If nothing else, you should gain an appreciation for the preacher God has given you because he will reveal to me what he won't reveal to you which is why God said don't miss hearing his word.  If you think about it, none of you saw the correlation of Leviticus 25 to the Rapture until God allowed me to show it to you.  Now, let me show you what John, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, is saying. 

Note his opening words:  

"That which was from the beginning…the Word of life."

John is identifying Jesus' existence as eternal and the source of all life.  The lie to come will open by refuting that truth.

"(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us.)" vs.2

There John includes a parenthetical statement for further emphasis.  Now let's note John's next parenthetical statement, again, parenthesized for emphasis:  It is found in the gospel of St. John.

"And the word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)…" 1:14

Now note the opening of St. John's gospel.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God," What is John's point?  That there is no source of Word apart from and outside of God!  God indeed is the Word and any other source of Word is a lie.

The alien message will undermine God's eternal existence, the eternal existence of Jesus his Son, and it will refute God's Word as the source of creation and life.

Understanding the magnitude of the lie to come, we can now have a deeper appreciation for God's own opening remarks to the entire bible.

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Gen1:1

The emphasis should be placed on the word: God.

Now, again, there are those who think that they have no problem with that truth and that some of these current messages are irrelevant. Let me serve notice to you again that God called their message a "strong delusion."  Their message,  I can tell you that will be carefully and extensively documented and it will carry undisputable scientific evidence of its validity marking the fact that God did not create us, but they created us and placed us on this planet to work for them.  They will have the DNA evidence that they have been collecting by vaccines, immunizations and these days, voluntary contributions from those who are looking for their ancestors, and convince the church of their truth.

Now let's move ahead in I John to Chapter 2 verse 18.

"Little children, it is the last time; and as he have heard that anti-christ shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time."

Why do I preach about the anti-christ if the Church will be gone before he is revealed?  Because of the connection between the anti-christ, the demons, and the lie.  The latter two will be revealed before the Church is gone.

"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? . He is Anti-christ, that denieth the Father and the Son.

Whosoever denieth the Son , the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledges the Son hath the Father also.

Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning…

These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you."

Now go back to Paul's in I Timothy 4:1.  the lie issued forth by the seducing spirits which shall cause some to depart from the faith, will be a lie of denial of Jesus being the Christ, and a denunciation of the Father (source of creation) and the Son (redeemer of mankind.)

The lie will actually be Truth given by God Himself, and it will fulfill the definition of a false prophet as God laid out in Deuteronomy 13:1-3 “If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;

3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”

(this scripture has been virtually ignored by the Church today as it relates to false prophets.  And from my research, I have not found that it was fulfilled in either the Old or New Testaments.  It will be fulfilled in the last days when the false christs arrive as described in Luke 21 below.)

The dead will indeed, get up on the last day, which was to be the last day on the Jewish calendar of the last month of the year, Elul.  It was to be on a Wednesday, the day before the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah; just as Jesus promised Martha in John 11: 23-26.  But rather than acknowledge the resurrection of the dead as the fulfillment of promise by the Living God, Jesus, they will claim that it was done by them and they will lead millions of Christians to their destruction as they follow these false (alien) gods.  

Luke 21:8 “And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.”
They will come at once: an invasion. Fake or real, their agenda is to destroy humankind on this planet.

(edited by Shelley Benton)

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AN ADMONITION FROM JUDE......PASTOR STEPHEN BENTON

AN ADMONITION FROM JUDE

The book of Jude consists of one chapter and addresses the issue of “earnestly contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.”  Below is the entire passage:
“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for faith that was once delivered unto the saints.”  Jude verse 3

The following verse gives the reason for his exhortation:

“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God unto lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ,”  Jude verse 4

In this article, I wish to focus on the expression “the faith that was once delivered”.  I believe Jude had a specific aspect of the message of faith when he penned those words.  I believe the writing of the apostle Paul targets the heart of the issue in his letter to the Corinthians in the fifteenth chapter of his first epistle.

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received, and wherein ye stand;
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  I Cor. 15:1 & 2.

The next two verses, three and four, pinpoint the faith that was once delivered to the saints. 
“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures:
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”  I Cor. 15: 3 & 4.

The faith once delivered to the saints focuses on the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Evidently, this doctrine was under attack when Jude wrote about it.  That same truth is in greater jeopardy today than it was at the time of Jude’s writing.  Let us examine this basic, foundation aspect of the “once delivered faith.” 

The apostle is careful to point out that the death of Jesus was not a happenstance event but an event determined according to the scriptures.  Paul calls Jesus our Passover, meaning that He himself fulfilled the type of the Passover lamb set forth in the writings of Moses.  The prophet John called Jesus “the lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world.”  When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, according to the scriptures, he was not born in just any manger.  When the shepherds received the news of his birth from the angel, they did not wander about the city of David aimlessly looking for the baby Jesus, they knew exactly where to go.  Their destination was the breeding farm where Passover lambs are bred.  Where else would the Lamb of God make his entry into the world?


The sign of the newborn Messiah was a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.  It would not be a difficult stretch to assume that the Christ’s birth occurred sometime near the first day of the New Year or the Feast of Trumpets.  More so, the year of His birth, 2 B.C, was a Jubile Year.  The Feast of Trumpets was the beginning of a ten-day celebration culminating with the Day of Atonement.  That fact would explain why there were no rooms available in Bethlehem.  The Feast of Trumpets was heralded with the blowing of a ram’s horn.  That horn produced a sad, mournful sound meant to remind the nation of its sins, which would motivate them to repent.  The prophets identified Jesus as “a man of sorrows acquainted with grief.”  One thing is certain, Jesus was not born on December 25th or anytime near that date.  At best, he was born no later than October 15, the latest date that shepherds would be in the field during the night because the climate would be too cold.  Jesus’ birth date is not the focal point of the scriptures.  The “swaddling” clothes marked the true purpose of his birth: he was born to die.  His clothing was a burial wrapping. 

Regarding Jesus’ death and resurrection, Jesus said he would be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.  Using the sign of Jonah, Jesus verified both the book of Jonah and the fact that Jonah died and was in a tomb, the belly of the fish, for three days and three nights.  With those facts, how is it that Christianity continues to celebrate the death of Christ on Friday and celebrate his resurrection on Easter Sunday?  That period falls woefully short of Jesus’ stated three days and three nights, the truth Jude was warning the Church to defend. 

The Word of God says, “let God be true and every man a liar.”  Jesus said we make void the word of God by adhering to our traditions.  Is it a big deal if we do not stand on the statement of Jesus and accept the lie?  Of course it is.  There are those who believe that just knowing Jesus died for our sins and rose again is sufficient.  But undocumented faith is no faith at all!  If the disciples of Christ can be hoodwinked on the most basic truth, how many more lies will the deceiver, Satan, cause the Church to believe? 

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PROPHETS DO NOT PREDICT... by Pastor Stephen Benton

PROPHETS DO NOT PREDICT, THEY PROCLAIM THE LORD'S PROMISES

Prophets prophesy.  Making predictions are not in the prophet’s repertoire.  The fact that they do not predict has nothing to do with the prophet’s ability to refrain from doing so.  God has programmed them to speak only the words given to him from God and the idea of making any kind of prediction regarding any of God’s affairs among men cannot even be entertained by the prophet of God.

 Making predictions is, at best, a risky affair.

God’s prophet cannot coexist with any religious denomination or organization.  All organized religion essentially structures its program based on their present knowledge of the scriptures.  The Pentecostals certainly did so.  At their birth in California around the turn of the 20th century, they discovered a line of truth in the book of Acts showing water baptism in Jesus’ name and speaking in other tongues as the sign of having received the gift of the Holy Ghost.  The base text for their doctrine is Acts 2:38.  By following that formula, souls officially become members of the Church.  Their knowledge no doubt came about as a revelation from the Holy Ghost.  Such is a worthy beginning.  The only problem is that they closed their ears from hearing any additional revelation from the same Spirit.  They did not realize that the word of God is a progressive message.  The very structure of God’s word does not stop at level one.  You can be sure that at some point in time, God will either exceed the current perception of man or contradict it altogether and He will do so through the mouth of one of His prophets.  The prophet associated with any religious organization will eventually contradict their organized structure because of a later revelation and he will be silenced or evicted.  The test of a true prophet lies in his commitment to speak the message given to him from God and suffer isolation or hold back the message and continue with the denomination.  The true prophet will speak God’s words as given and let the chips fall where they may.  There are no adherent risks associated with predictions.

 Satan’s communication system has always included prognosticators, fortunetellers, soothsayers, wizards and diviners.  At best, the dark side presents a broad way in issues concerning the future; their only limitation is their inability to prophesy.  The reason for such limitation is their leader, Satan.  He abode not in the truth and there is no truth in him.  His messengers reflect the shortcomings of their leader. 

A prediction is a glorified guess.  Any guess by man regarding God’s future agenda has a 100% chance of failure.  There are countless preachers declaring the Lord is coming soon, there are very few prophets declaring how soon or when.  That is a message given only by God and He is giving it to a Church who will not hear His voice.  The prophets prophesying His message are making no predictions.  Their only handicap is telling the Church ‘when’ things will happen while the Church responds with “no man knoweth.”

 The prophet of God does not estimate the time for the coming of the Lord Jesus, he knows because his information is from a very reliable source.  His source, God, claims the ability to declare the end of an event or series of events even before they begin.  By the way, his prophetic record of accomplishment is flawless.  Adding greater to great, He cannot lie.  His word is accurate and precise and the prophet declaring His message has no use of expressions such as 'I believe,' 'feel' or 'think.'  Prophets of God do not predict, they prophesy.  Their message comes from the highest source of truth; therefore, believing their message is not an option.

 The greatest of prophets, Jesus, that prophet spoken of by another prophet, Moses, in Deuteronomy 18:5, referred to Jesus as “that Prophet.”  The only time the title “prophet” is capitalized is when the title refers to Jesus.  When he spoke, the greatest injustice his audience could do to itself was not to believe him.  Jesus came with a double impact: a message and miracles.  His confidence allowed him to offer salvation to people who did not believe his message of admittance into the kingdom of heaven by merely believing his works. 

 He never made a single prediction:

Jesus made promises. His final promise to his body, his church is that he will return to receive them to himself in the air before the wrath of God is poured out on this world. He promised to raise those who have died in Christ first and change their corruptible bodies to incorruptible; and ten days later, he will change those who are alive and remain faithful to his word from mortal to immortality." (1 Corinthians 15: 51 -54)
As the fulfillment of the Old Testament Law, Jesus, himself, will appear in the air as he did on the day of his ascension into heaven. He will raise the dead on the "last day" of the month of Elul on the Jewish calendar which will be on the same day that he died, a Wednesday, and ten days later, on the Sabbath (Saturday) on Yom Kippur, to finally fulfill the Day of Atonement, he will rapture or "catch away" those who remain of his Church to meet him and his resurrected saints in the air.  The next year that those two significant Jewish events fall on those two significant days is 2017.

 Written by,

A prophet named Benton

(ADDENDUM:  The prophesied event did not happen on that day did it?  Why not? For the same reason the Children of Israel did not go into Canaan: Unbelief! The exact same reason the Kingdom did not come when the King went riding into Jerusalem on "palm Sunday" Unbelief!! This Church is now in the position to be vomited out of God's mouth as promised by Jesus in Revelation 3: 16)

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