Are You Judas Iscariot?

 Who does Judas Iscariot represent?

I will share several details about Judas Iscariot and how he relates to many today. It is my hope that you have an open mind when reading this and leave any pride you begin to feel behind. This post is meant to help many see where they can be going wrong. I would highly suggest you pray to the Father for humbleness so he can help you to clearly see what you need to understand. As always, print it out or have your church do it for you, if you're unable to.

Wealth can come in many forms; like having your ears tickled to your preferences, someone giving you what you want to hear or believe. 

(1-3) Judas was one called that became the devil; a betrayer; false accuser. 

(4) He’s a follower (“believer”), who’s true intentions are revealed when Jesus’ feet are anointed by Mary. He’s a learned pupil, a thief taking donations for himself from what belongs to those in need. 

(5-7) He’s given a morsel of food (God’s word) ...his heart was not right; he turns against Christ (antichrist) and Satan enters in. Son of perdition (destruction). He relies on religious leaders (head/high rank “believers”) who seek to have Jesus killed, taking payment to betray him (buying/selling). 

(8-10) False friend. Realizing too late that he betrayed innocent blood, he disposes of the money, realizing there’s no worth in it and hangs himself. He was one who lost his mind to temptation (unrighteousness), in turn he became filled with regret and was later replaced with another.

• Could his story today be reflective of heads of religions?
  
  Could Judas represent the smaller sects stemming down from them, those taking money from the poor?

• Could Judas represent a "believer" who is a false friend? 

Let’s dig in…

1.        Betrayer...

• Luke 6:16 Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor (g4273 betrayer).

2.        Called…

• Matthew10:1 And summoning (g4341; call) His twelve disciples, [Jesus] gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.

3.        Selected, betrayer; devil enters in…

• John 6:70-71 Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose (g1586 select) you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil (g1228 false accuser)?” Now He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray (g3860 delivered up) Him.

4.        True intentions revealed... learner, embezzler, taking from donations.

• John 12:3-6 Mary then took a litra of perfume of very costly pure nard, and anointed the feet (g4228 foot stool) of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair (g2359 of the head); and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples (g3101 learner, pupil), who was going to betray Him, said, "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor (g4434 distressed)?" Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief (g2712 embezzler), and as he had the money box (g1101 chest/donations), he used to take from what was put into it.

Embezzle: to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use.

See post: Rich Man, Poor Man...Blind Guide The Blind

5.     He had a mouthful (bread/good fruit); heart was not right… Satan enters. Possibly not understanding what he had done to oppose Jesus, he became an antichrist. 

a.        Received of God’s word, (morsel).

b.       Heart condition failed.

c.       Embezzler; going against Jesus (an antichrist), by taking from donations; money meant ONLY for the poor.

d.      Antichrist: Satan takes him.

• John 13:27 After the morsel (g5596 mouthful), Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

6.        Son of perdition…

• Isn’t that who Jesus is speaking of here?
• Was he a false friend, a son of perdition; Satan entered in, and for what cause...money?

• John 17:12 While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition (g684 waste, ruin, destruction), so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it has not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction (g684 waste, ruin, destruction), who 👉opposes and 👉exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the sanctuary of God, exhibiting himself as being God.

•    What do religions do..."come to me, donate and we'll draw you to God"?
•    Have you drawn closer to God?
•    How can you, when you don't know who he is?
•    What is the Most-High God’ name?

• Gen 14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

• It's in a name like no other…Jesus who carries the seal of God (g2424 Jehovah is salvation). It is through Jesus that JEHOVAH saves.

• Is it two or three "persons"...what is HIS image: male and female?

• Genesis 1:27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

• Gen 19:24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;

• Ephesians 2:18 for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father.

• 1Ti 2:15 but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

• 1Co 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering (g4018 veil).

• What does a veil do?

• 1Co 2:7 but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, [even] the [wisdom] that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:

• Why so many translations of the Bible?

• When one "who translates" has a bias understanding, they translate it with that bias. If they're wrong, the Bible is wrong. Only the TRUE SPIRIT of God can reveal it to you.

• How is one truly taught... is it by man?

• Isaiah 54:13 And 👉all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

• Who is Wisdom?

• Luke 7:35 And wisdom is justified of all 👉 her children.

7.     Leaders (religion) who use money (Ceasar/Satan) to pay off Judas (disciple, one called) who also uses money (Ceasar/Satan) … both betraying Jesus. Sound familiar: buying and selling…asleep virgins.

• Matthew 26:14-16 Then one of the twelve, named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me to betray Him to you?” And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver to him. From then on he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Jesus.

(Rich man, poor man…blind guide the blind)

• Matthew 26:24 The Son of Man is to go, just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”

• You ‘re to obey God as ruler, not men. (Acts 5:29)
• You’re to guide the poor to God, not yourself. (Acts 20:30)
• You're not to be taking money from donations, earning a living from it and misguiding the flock. (Deu 16:10; Amos 5:12)

• Mat 6:23-24 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness! No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (g3126 what is trusted in, treasure, wealth).

Exalted: Your truth above someone else's; turning away any who try to share a different understanding. (Luke 18: 11-14)

The awake church will not rely on religion (any building built with hands); they will solely rely on God. They will not take from the needy, they will only help. Those who buy (pay for knowledge) and sell (take donations for themselves) have the mark of the beast and they are asleep… relying on a church/religion/money (idolatry) instead of God.

• Mat 25:9 "But the prudent answered, saying, 'No, there will not be enough for us and you [too]; go instead to the dealers and buy [some] for yourselves.'

Blind guides; self-righteous...

• “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the sanctuary, that is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is obligated.’ — Matthew 23:16

• “Beware of doing your righteousness before men to be 👉noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — Matthew 6:1

8.        False friend... 

• Matthew 26:48-49 Now he who was betraying Him gave them a sign, saying, "Whomever I kiss, He is the one; seize Him." Immediately Judas went to Jesus and said, "Hail, Rabbi!" and kissed Him.

• If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. — 1 John 4:20

• Many will tell you they love you but forget what that means the second you don't tickle their ears with what they want to hear, love going right out the door, revealing their true colors...God's word MUST ALWAYS come first, 👉not your preferences.

"A true friend loves at all times."

- Proverbs 17:17 

9.        Conscience, Conviction, Mortification with no help from the leaders. 

• Matthew 27:3-5 Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? See to that yourself!" And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed; and he went away and hanged (g519 strangle) himself.

•    Nah 2:12 The lion tore enough for its cubs And strangled (h2614 hang self) [enough] for its lionesses And filled its lairs with torn up prey And its dens with torn up flesh.
•    Pro 28:15 [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So is] a 👉 wicked ruler over a poor people.

10.   He bought into a plot with wickedness/unrighteousness, allowing his mind to fall into temptation by a crack, becoming full of regret. Being replaced by another.

• Acts 1:18 (Now this man acquired a field (g5564 plot) with the price of his wickedness (g93 iniquity), and falling headlong, he burst open (g2997 crack) in the middle and all his intestines (g4698 pity) gushed out.

•  Acts 1:24-25 And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two You have chosen to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

• Deu 32:8 RSV When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

I said, “You are gods,

And all of you are sons of the Most High.

Nevertheless you will die like men

And you will fall like any one of the princes.”

— Psalm 82:6-7

• Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. — Ephesians 6:11-12 

For those not ready, who's oil runs out because they need to buy from those selling (religion)…

• Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the 👉 last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.” — Matthew 12:45 

• Amo 8:6 So as to buy the poor for money And the needy for a pair of sandals, And [that] we may sell the refuse of the wheat?"

• Zec 11:5 "Those who buy them slaughter them and are not held guilty, and [each of] those who sell them says, 'Blessed be Jehovah. Indeed, I have become rich!' And their own shepherds do not spare them.

• Rev 13:17 and that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, [either] the name of the beast or the number of his name.

• Who turned on Jesus? "believers"
• Who plotted to have him killed? "believers"
• Who persecuted the Apostles? "believers"

Many will stay away from religion because they see the hypocrisy in it. (Mark 9:42) Persecution comes more from those who "believe" (religious) than those who don't, even the "all welcome" churches can't see how they persecute and hurt people...too blind to see it in themselves, due to arrogance. Counting on those close to them to keep them exalted. People don't leave your churches/religion because your fruit is good, they leave because you leave them with a bad taste in their mouth...bad fruit. 

The biggest problem with many "believers": EXULTATION and PRIDE.

Sadly, they go on teaching others to be the same way, siding with the ones they agree with...because their truth can't be wrong. Start looking in the mirror and start seeing your behavior (mind/heart) toward others when you disagree with them. It's not pretty.

Reminder...

• For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another. For each one will bear his own load. — Galatians 6:3-5

Pride and exaltation, every single religion is riddled with it...

For many are called, but FEW are chosen.”

— Matthew 22:14

• Be honest... do you really know who Jehovah is?
• How's your heart condition?

• Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of Jehovah shall be delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as Jehovah hath said, and among the remnant those whom Jehovah doth call.

May you be blessed with understanding...

~ Peace, Love and Joy ~

Rich Man, Poor Man... Blind Guide the Blind

What does it mean to be rich?

“Behold, how blessed is the man whom God reproves,

So do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

— Job 5:17

What I share today is meant to help and not hurt anyone, but many times we know that the truth can hurt, and people take what I share very personal. With that said, I'd rather you hate me for sharing GOD'S TRUTH than to love me for spreading false teachings that tickle your ears. (2 Timothy 4:2-3) It is my hope that you don't remain complacent, stagnant, by holding on to what you want to believe verses waking up to what you should believe. (Isaiah 4:1; 32:9-11; Ezekiel 37:13-14)

This will be a reflection to all; teachers from every religious sect or denomination in the world, to those that attend and to any who claim to "believe". If you feel convicted, please don't get upset and dismiss it, that will be God's way of letting you know you are doing something wrong and you need to fix it.

• [Gal 6:3, 5 LSB] For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. ... For each one will bear his own load.

My posts can be long, but they are long because I don't just use a few verses to explain my teachings, I use God's word every chance I get to back what I teach. It's not about me and my words, it's about God, the Father and His words and what it truly means to be in Christ.

These posts are to help you do your homework. Stop being lazy and start studying God's word for yourself. Print this out, search the scriptures to see if these things are so. Stop relying on others to do it for you. Pray to the Most-High God Jehovah in the name of Jesus. You need to know what that means.

Let's get started...

• Have you ever wondered how people can look at a verse and see it completely different? 

It's explained in scripture. Yet, many don't comprehend how it could refer to them. One of the hardest things I've come to realize is that people have a very hard time admitting they can be wrong...that's pride. If one seeks truth, then they should be open to the possibility that a belief or understanding can change and that maybe it's been a false spirit, an UNHOLY SPIRIT that has been guiding them all along. One must test the spirits, if not, you become complacent and remain blind to God's Word. (Acts 17:11; 1 John 4:1)

One would have to agree it's not okay to make money off poor people, expecting them to sustain "your way of living" throughout life. 

Just imagine...

You have a healthy person (man or woman) capable of earning a living for themselves but deciding instead to seek money from poor people to make that living, using those who have very little to sustain themselves for their own (man/woman) way of life. After receiving that abundance, they (man/woman) first help themselves to it and others like them who earn that same kind of living (taking from the needy), then turn around and boast about how they're helping those in need with the very little they give back. 

Imagine that, first they take from the needy, fill their pockets and from the surplus, they then give little back to the needy...worse, they boast about it. If that's not bad enough, they (man/woman) then go on to seek free labor to help their business grow, so as to attract more poor people into doing the same thing of freely donating their time and/or money.

• Sound familiar?

Quite the racket...only one who is blind can't see how wrong that would be, yet all religions are guilty of this. (Matthew 6:1-2; James 3:1)

• What does it mean to be rich, to have an abundance?
• Is it about the "amount" of money you have and/or "how" you attain it?
• Could being "rich" mean you make money (earn a living) off the poor?
• Could those who sell (seeking donations) to teach God's word be the blind guiding the blind?

• [Pro 22:16 LSB] He who oppresses the poor 👉to make more for himself 👉Or who gives to the rich [will] only [come to] lack.👈

• Could the "rich" who are buying their knowledge (schooling) and selling it to the poor (church goers) be unaware that they are working for Satan?

In the following passage we learn that Apostle Paul strips food (God's Word) from other churches to bring it to the Corinthians. The reason...because the wolves always get in.

• [2Co 11:8, 12-14 LSB] I robbed other churches by taking wages [from them] to minister to you. ... But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be found just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

• [Act 20:29-30 LSB] "I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

G4813 Robbed: from a derivative of σύλλω sýllō (to strip; probably akin to G138; compare G4661); to despoil:—rob.

Despoil: steal or violently remove valuable or attractive possessions from; plunder:

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

G3800 Wages: properly, whatever is bought to be eaten with bread, as fish, flesh, and the like (see ὀψάριον). And as grain, meat, fruits, salt, were given to soldiers instead of pay. 

NOTE: It's important to understand Jesus preached against the religious leaders and the apostles visited churches to do the same thing. The preaching wasn't with the churches it was AGAINST the churches.

• [Mat 13:13 LSB] "Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

• [Isa 6:9-10 LSB] He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not know.' "Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."

• How does one's heart become fat (insensitive)?
• Is one's voice limited by these churches?
• Is it really about God's Word? or... 
• Is it about partiality: their own words, core beliefs and creed?

• [Deu 16:19 LSB] "You shall not distort justice;👉 you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a 👉bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and 👉perverts the words of the righteous.

• What does it mean to take a bribe?

H7810 Bribe: a donation (venal or redemptive):—bribe(-ry), gift, present, reward

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

H5557 Perverts: twist, prevert, overturn 

• What do the churches do?

They take bribes (donations) from the poor, doing it for themselves not God, their business; man-made church buildings; for an income.... all the while deceiving the poor into believing it's for God. They acquire money from the poor to keep their business afloat, the poor sustaining their living. As it is written; deceiving to gain disciples for themselves.

(Acts 29:30)

G1291 Perverse: from G1223 and G4762; to distort, i.e. (figuratively) misinterpret, or (morally) corrupt:—perverse(-rt), turn away.

G3101 Disciples: from G3129; a learner, i.e. pupil:—disciple.

• [Jer 5:28 LSB] 'They are fat, they are sleek; They also excel in deeds of evil; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, that they may succeed; And they do not render justice for the poor.

• [Jas 1:27 LSB] Pure and undefiled religion before [our] God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon

H8080 Fat: (prosperous and arrogant)

Precious knowledge (crown) lost at a cost...for a false god: idolatry; the antichrist.

Who and what is the Most-High God referring to here?

Psalm 127:1-5 — 

Verse 1: A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.

Unless Jehovah builds the house, They labor in vain who build it;

Unless Jehovah watches the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.

H8104 Watchman: guard; generally, to protect, 👉attend to

H7723 Vain: from the same as H7722 in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain):—false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.

Verse 2: It is in vain that you rise up early, That you sit out late,

O you who eat the bread of painful labors; For in this manner, He gives sleep to His beloved.

H3899 Bread: from H3898; See also H1036 food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it):—(shew-) bread, × eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.

• [Mat 15:8-9 RSV] 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'" 

• [1Th 5:3 LSB] While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman who is pregnant, and they will never escape.

Verse 3: Behold, children are an inheritance of Jehovah,

The fruit of the womb is a reward.

H6529 Fruit: from H6509; fruit (literally or figuratively):—bough, (first-)fruit(-ful), reward.

• [1Co 15:23 LSB] But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming.

H990 Womb: from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow; the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything:—belly, body, as they be born, within, womb.

Who, not what, is Wisdom?

• [Isa 66:7 LSB] "Before she was in labor pains, she gave birth; Before her pangs came, she delivered a male [child].

• [1Co 2:7 LSB] But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the [wisdom] which has been hidden, which God predestined before the ages to our glory,

• [Col 3:3 LSB] For you died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

• [Rev 3:10 LSB] 'Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also keep you from the hour of testing, which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

• [2Co 12:3-4 LSB] And I know how such a man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows-- was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak.

• [1Ti 2:15 ASV] but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

G444 Man: from G435 and ὤψ ṓps (the countenance; from G3700); man-faced, i.e. a human being:—certain, man.

• [Luk 7:35 LSB] "Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

• [Psa 51:6 LSB] Behold, You delight in truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.

Verse 4: Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,

So are the children of one’s youth.

H3027 Hand: a primitive word; a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.]

• (Psalms 119:73-80)
• [Psa 119:73 LSB] YODH Your hands made me and established me; Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.

See post: Two Witnesses

Verse 5: How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them;

They will not be ashamed When they speak with enemies in the gate.

— Psalm 127:1-5 

• [Pro 8:3, 13, 22 ASV] Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:  ... The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.  ... Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.  

• [Rev 22:14, 17 LSB] Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the authority to the tree of life and may enter by the gates into the city. ... And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come. Let the one who wishes receive the water of life without cost.

Do not covet what does not belong to you...

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

— 2 Corinthians 4:3-4

G2572 Veiled: akin to G2813 and G2928; to cover up (literally or figuratively):—cover, hide.

Here's just one of many reasons why God doesn't dwell in man-made buildings...

• [Mat 6:24 LSB] "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

How much a person makes will vary from church to church, from denomination to denomination. It doesn't really matter because even if you make $1 off someone in need, earning your living off of them, it's wrong...worse even, is using God to do it.

If you receive any kind of payment to teach God's word, you've already become fat, rich... because you did it off the back of another who was in need, who was poor, putting yourself, your knowledge, ABOVE them. (Luke 18:14) Never realizing just how poor you are; exalted, thinking somehow that you are worthy of it, never realizing you make yourself fat/rich for the god of this world.

You chose your master...mammon, wealth, money, Ceasar. (Matthew 22:21) You're just too blind to see it, always finding excuses for it.

• [1Ti 6:10 LSB] For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evils, and some by aspiring to it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

END POINT: 

Churches take from the needy, the poor, those who don't know better or who don't have much money and fill their pockets, putting endless burdens (free labor) on people that attend, while claiming it's for GOD. 

They LITERALLY live off many who could barely support themselves. I know elderly who hop from church to church just to get a "free" meal, I've been told by another they eat one or two meals in a day...just to later see them donate; time and/or money of what little they have to the church.

• Why?

So, the one's running the churches can have three meals a day, pay their bills, mortgages, cars, go on vacations, and so on. How blind one has to be to not see how incredibly wrong that is.

• Is that what God would want?

They (man/woman) are very capable of holding a regular job, but instead they have others who work tirelessly, or who are retired and/or disabled pay THEIR WAY through life...on top of that, deceiving them by claiming it's for God, USING GOD to fill their pockets...getting fat, rich off the poor. (Acts 8:4-24)

Now I ask... 

• Is it really any wonder why they can't see scripture properly?
• If God is not partial, why do we have religious sects, denominations?
• If he doesn't dwell with religious sects, then how could it be for God?

It's not for God, it's for THEM and THEIR CHURCH, their paycheck: Cathedral, Chapel, Kingdom Hall, Synagogue, Mosque, etc., all guilty of the same thing. 

Out of ABUNDANCE; meaning... taking from the poor, paying themselves first, then giving from what's leftover, never having the power of God, the power of truth. Then they go on to deceive, teaching commandments of men.

• [Luk 21:4 LSB] "For they all put in their gifts out of their abundance; but she, out of what she lacked, put in all that she had for living."

You give to Caesar, not God. Putting money (Caesar) a false god, before the Most-High God, then you teach the WORD as if somehow you have the holy spirit...many of you claiming it but knowing you don't have it, while others are deceived into believing they have it, but never test the spirits...both following the un-holy spirit. 

• If God's temple is to dwell within, where does the false god dwell?
• Would it not be within too?

• [2Th 2:3-4 LSB] Let no one in any way deceive you, for [it has not come] unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the sanctuary of God, exhibiting himself as being God.

• [1Co 3:16 LSB] Do you not know that you are a sanctuary of God and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Testing the Spirits is very important...

• [1Co 2:2, 5 LSB] For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. ... so that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

ALL RELIGIONS stem from houses built with hands, it is DECEPTION...heed the warning. When she goes down, any attending will go down with her.

• [Rev 18:4, 24 LSB] And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, 👉"Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; ... "And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slain on the earth."

• [Act 7:47-48 LSB] "But Solomon built a house for Him. "However, the Most High does not dwell in [houses] made by [human] hands, as the prophet says:

• [2Ch 6:18 ASV] But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have builded!

• [Isa 66:1 ASV] Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what place shall be my rest?

Claiming that the unnecessary burdens put on those who attend (free labor to exalt your church) is for God is an ABOMINATION.

• [Eze 11:21 ASV] But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

It's a spiritual church and those truly awakened by the spirit will understand this. Jesus is the head (Father/Master) of the new covenant.

• [Pro 28:6 LSB] Better is the poor who walks in his integrity Than he who is crooked--double dealing--though he be rich.

I didn't learn the Bible by going to any church or school, the last thing I wanted was to be around hypocritical people, teaching things they did not understand or teachings they did not practice themselves. I learned to read and write in Portuguese using the Portuguese Bible, a beneficial skill that the Father put in my hands as a 5-year-old girl. Putting it away at the start of my teen years to never to pick it up again until the SPIRIT came upon me in early 2019. 

I am taught directly from God, the Father, Jehovah.

My knowledge comes from HIM, not man or a false spirit. (Acts 5:29; 1 John 2:26-27) He brought me back to my childhood; HE reminded me of certain important teachings. (1 Timothy 4:1) I knew him, the Father as a child, and Jesus Christ, I remembered who HE was then, same as who HE is now. 

I am in Christ and have no need for any to validate it for me. It's my story and I know what the Father has revealed to me. (Luke 8:10) Anointed by the HOLY SPIRIT (first/last, hip/thigh, arm/hand). 

I may be smart, but I'm not so smart that I could understand the scriptures the way that I do on my own, especially only learning them on the last few years of my life. (John 7:15-17) I spent most of my life staying away from the Bible, from God because of religion (many religions, not just JW's). I felt unworthy and had no clue how to go to him. 

Knowing religion was the last place I would find God; I became lost and turned to the world. Little did I know God had a plan, not one like those so-called "learned" teach. It's a beautiful plan as it is to save mankind, but it's hard and it comes with much suffering.

I do believe some try to be genuine, but most that I've encountered, it's sits on the surface. They believe they're genuine, but God reveals the truth and without them realizing it, he has them expose themselves.

The churches are filled with false teachers who get paid by Caesar, a false god, Satan. As I shared in God's words above...they will take you down with them. The money blinds them, most never realizing they are deceived and deceiving you. 

• [2Ti 3:13 LSB] But evil men and impostors will proceed [from bad] to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

God's Word is NOT to be taken lightly. I highly recommend those of you who think you got this in the bag to rethink your future, as what you do and who you go to will reflect on what will happen to you.

• [Jas 2:5 LSB] Listen, my beloved brothers: did not God choose the POOR of this world [to be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

• [Jas 4:3 LSB] You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.

It's selfish to live off the poor, only a self-righteous person will think that's okay. Most believers I know rely on religion, not God. Most of you have no clue who HE is because your church has become your idol, your God.

• How can you say you love God, the Most-High, the Almighty Jehovah, when you don't even know who HE is?

God doesn't need your money and unwarranted burdens to give you what you need. He just needs you to believe in HIM not a church or "belief system". Jesus has a Father, his name is Jehovah. Please pray to HIM.

 Trust in Jehovah with all your heart

And do not lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He will make your paths straight.

— Proverbs 3:5-6

Praying for all mankind...

Splendor and majesty are before Him,

Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.

— Psalm 96:6

 

~ Peace, Love and Joy ~