Knowledge Shall Increase



What is the most widely published book in the world?

According to the Guinness Book of World Records (2001)

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter 35 million

Guinness Book of World Records 90 million

R.L. Steine - "Goosebumps" series 220 million

Agatha Christie "Hercule Perot" & "Miss Marple" 2.0 Billion

The Bible 2.5 Billion

The Bible is still the most widely distributed book and is available
around the world in 2,233 languages and dialects.

Why is the Bible so widely available?

4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book,
until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall increase."

(Daniel 12:4) (English Standard Version)

The Bible prophecied that "knowledge shall increase" at
"the time of the end". While the amount of "knowledge"
that is being accumulated is staggering, there are about six
billion people living in the world now. Most people do not
have a Bible (because most people are not Christians) but
there are many Christians who have several Bibles on the
shelf at home yet seldom read them because the Bible is a
difficult book to read and comprehend!

How can knowledge increase when there are not enough
Bibles, many people don’t read them and the people who
do read them do not understand what they are reading?

7 Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing
his plan to his servants the prophets.

(Amos 3:7) (New International Version)

17" 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on my servants, both men and
women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

(Acts 2:17-18) (NIV)

Jehovah uses His servants to bring the abundance of information to
the people of the world. Unfortunately, Satan also uses his servants
to bring misinformation to people as well.

1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the
faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose
consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
(1Timothy 4:1-2) (NIV)

How can we distinguish between the true knowledge from our true
God, Jehovah, and Satan’s lies? Who are today’s servants of Jehovah?

10 Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have
chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he:
before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 11 I,
even I, am Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour. 12 I have declared,
and I have saved, and I have showed; and there was no strange god among
you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and I am God.

(Isaiah 43:10-12) (ASV)

Who are these "witnesses" Jehovah spoke of?

14 Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles,
to take from them a people for his name.

(Acts 15:14) (ESV) 

Is there any group of people who carry Jehovah’s name
besides Jehovah’s Witnesses?

Is there any group of people widely known to promote
Jehovah as the one true God?

What do Jehovah's Witnesses hope to accomplish
with the knowledge they possess?

7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and
the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives;
he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

(Matthew 7:7-8) (NIV) 

What is the most important task to begin with?

13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the
road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is
the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

(Matthew 7:13-14) (NIV)

This information is freely available to those who want it.

7 As you go, preach this message: 'The kingdom of heaven
is near.' 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who
have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received,
freely give.
(Matthew 10:7-8) (NIV)

What is the point of knowing true Bible Knowledge?

31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with
him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32 All the nations will
be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from
another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are
blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for
you since the creation of the world. 41 "Then he will say to those on
his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire
prepared for the devil and his angels. 46 "Then they will go away to
eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

(Matthew 25:31-34, 41, 46) (NIV)

27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can
snatch them out of my hand.

(John 10:27-28) (NIV)

Why are people being sorted now?

14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the
whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

(Matthew 24:14) (ESV)

Most people do not believe this world is ever going to change or
disappear. The widespread belief of the masses is that this world
has existed a long time and will continue on indefinitely. But then,
that is exactly what Noah's people also thought.

20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more
than twenty feet. 21 Every living thing that moved on the earth perished
—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the
earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath
of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth
was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along
the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only
Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
(Genesis 7:20-23) (NIV)

Most Christians know this story but still believe the "God loves us
no matter what" baloney that their church ministers feed them.

But what does the Bible really say?

"Not everyone who calls me their Lord will get into the kingdom of heaven.
Only the ones who obey my Father in heaven will get in."
(Matthew 7:21) (Contemporary English Version) 

Jehovah has requirements for us just as surely as the people
of Noah's day were required to board the ark if they wanted
to live. Just as certainly, the ones who refuse to learn Jehovah's
requirements and abide by them will perish just as sure as the
people outside the ark drowned. 

This may very well be the last warning that people recieve. Time is
rapidly running out! The "End" will be here soon just as sure as the
rain began after the ark was finished. When the door to the ark closed,
it was closed! It did not reopen until the rain stopped and the flooding
receded. Jesus offers the wise a warning that we all should take seriously:

³⁷As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
³⁸For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹and they knew
nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.
That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
(Matthew 24:36-39)

Now is the time to take advantage of the great wealth of Bible
Knowledge that is freely available to the world. Jehovah's
servants have amassed the knowledge needed to live forever
on a paradise world. People have a choice to make now: true
Bible knowledge or Satan's lies. There will not be one person
in the world left, when "The End" comes who will honestly be
able to say "nobody tried to tell me!" Jehovah's servants are
around the world knocking on everybody's door and inviting
everyone to gain true knowledge. Most of the world scorns
Jehovah's servants, but that is exactly what the Bible's prophets
expected:

First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers
will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
(2Peter 3:3) (NIV)

But that does not bother Jehovah's servants!

"Behold, YOU scoffers, and marvel, and perish; for I am
accomplishing a work in YOUR days, a work which YOU
will never believe, though someone should describe it to
YOU.'"
(Acts 13:41) (New American Standard Bible)



Why Isn't There One TRUE Faith?
 

The Christians of the world believe that there is only
one God and He sent us His one son to be our savior.

So, why are there a bewildering variety of religions
in the world?

It is easy to believe that all of them have merit so many
people say: “All roads lead to the same place”. It is also
easy to believe that all of these contradictory beliefs are 
all phony.

What does the Bible say about the one true religion?

"…one Lord, one faith, one baptism"
(Ephesians 4:5) (New International Version)

According to the above scripture there is only ONE true faith. 

And what is true about this one faith?

"I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that all of you agree with one another so that there may be
no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united
in mind and thought."
(1Corinthians 1:10) (NIV)

"...be united in what you think, as if you were only one person."
(Philippians 2:2) (Contemporary English Version)

"The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind..."
(John 17:21) (Message Bible)

Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—
the name you gave me—so that they may be one as
we are one.
(John 17:11) (NIV) 

Is there a true religion where all of its members
believe only true beliefs?

"Jesus declared... 'salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming...
when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and
truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and
in truth.'"
(John 4:23,24) (NIV)

The true followers of Christ will surely want to worship his Father,
Jehovah without incorporating ANY non-Christian teachings.

"When the early Church gradually moved from Jerusalem to the
West, many of the Roman converts who became church leaders
retained certain of their pagan cultural practices. As a result,
the Roman leaders interpreted the Hebrew Scripture in the light of
their Greek background, imposing on the biblical text a non-hebraic
interpretive scheme. This had the effect of foisting incorrect
information into the Church's theology concerning God's Law,
information that was actually irreconcilable with the Word of God
as taught by Jesus and Paul."
-Dr. Ron Moseley, Yeshua:
A Guide to the Real Jesus and the Original Church,
1996, pg. 39

Such as:

"Some authorities, who have spent their entire
lives studying the origins of names believe
that "Jesus" actually means - "Hail Zeus!"
For Iesous in Greek IS "Hail Zeus."
"Ie" translates as "Hail" and "sous"
or "sus" translates as Zeus. The English
name "Jesus", therefore, stems etymologically
from "Jupiter-Zeus" the chief god of the
ancient Greek Olympus."
-"Yeshua" or "Jesus" -- Which?
Biblical Research
Institute; 1996
  by Les Aron Gosling

"Yahshua never heard the name Jesus. That was a
name given to him by the early church many years
after His crucifixion, they wanted to remove any
Jewishness from the new church. They eliminated
His Jewish name (Joshua / Jehoshua) and blended
the name of 'Zeus' into the Christian church to make
it comfortable for all those who previously worshipped
the Greek and Roman gods - to become Christians.
Since Zeus was the top god of their experience,
attaching the name Ioesus to Yahshua (Yehoshua)
gave Him top priority in the worship hierarchy."
-Believer or Follower?
The Sound of the Shofar
By Jon Thompson 

"(Joshua) Yahshua/Yahushua/Yahoshua, is the
correct Name for the Savior. In all spellings and
pronunciation, the Name is rendered to mean
"salvation of YAH" or "YAH'S salvation/ (His)
Savior." The Name (Joshua) in its fullest
translation means, "He (YAH) shall save His
people. (Yah or Jah - is an abbreviation for
Jehovah) (Just as Yeshua (Joshua) is an
abbreviation for Yehoshuah or Jehoshuah) -
(meaning - The Salvation of Jehovah -
or Jehovah's Savior)."
-COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE,   
by C. J. Koster

 And also:

Amen

According to the online Encyclopedia Wikipedia:

Amun (also spelled Amon, Amoun, Amen, and
rarely Imen) Greek Ἄμμων Ammon, and Ἅμμων
Hammon, reconstructed EgyptianYamānu) was
the name of a deity, in Egyptian mythology, who
gradually rose to become one of the most
important deities in Ancient Egypt, before fading
into obscurity.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun  

Jehovah's Witnesses are devoted to The One True God -
Jehovah and they are the only ones who relentlessly pursue
true worship that meets His approval. They are the over
7.5 million Christians who are present in every country around
the world who have been rejecting - one by one - the pagan
beliefs that the nominal "Christians" love.

⁴ Who can bring what is pure from the impure? 
No one!
(Job 14:4) (NIV)

⁵ But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,
⁶ if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on
your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state.
(Job 8:5-6) (NIV)

² Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,
so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
(1Peter 2:2) (NIV)

Is eliminating "Jesus" and "Amen" from true worship
too much to ask?

"Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult
for you or beyond your reach. No, the word is very near you;
it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it."
(Deuteronomy 30:11,14) (NIV)



Blind to the Truth: The Trinitarians

The Christians do not own the monopoly on a
theological trinity. The Pagans had their trinities
long before Christ was even born.

"It has also been noted by scholars that many prototypes,
antecedents, and precedents for the Trinity existed in the
ancient world (including examples in so-called "pagan"
religions), and therefore Christianity was not likely the
first religion to cultivate this theological idea."

From: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Trinity

Many other scholars agree.

"The cult that arose in Babylon and spread its cult
tentacles throughout the world was trinitarian
(Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop). At first,
this doctrine was merely humanism, man making
himself god. The first humanism trinity of record to
be setup and worshiped as gods, was that of Nimrod,
Simeramus, and Tammuz. These are in the Old
Testament in the Canaanite language identified as
Baal, Ashtoreth, and Tammuz. At the dispersion of
the people at the Tower of Babel, this trinity doctrine
of humanism was spread all over the world. Each
religion of all the pagan religions held two common
traits: 1.) A trinity of gods and; 2.) These were in a
form of human gods."
-Jesus Messieh Fellowship
The Trinity Doctrine Is Pagan
By Cohen G. Reckart, Pastor

"History reveals that the trinity concept is a pagan invention and
belief found in many ancient countries. The worship of the trinity
traces back to the worship of Nimrod, Semiramis, and Tammuz
(of ancient Babylon) soon after the Flood!"
-Forerunner Commentary
"Trinity" by John W. Ritenbaugh
under - The Nature of God - Elohim

Many secular sources such as Encyclopedia Encarta
explain the basic belief:

"Trinity (theology), in Christian theology, doctrine that
God exists as three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
—who are united in one substance or being."
Encyclopedia Encarta "Trinity" 1998

But where did the "Christian" trinity MYTH come from?

"It was Constantine - who by official edict
brought Christianity to believe in the formal
division of the Godhead into two – God the
Father - and - God the Son... It remained the
task of a later generation to bring Christianity
to believe in the Triune God."

- The Doctrine of the Trinity -
Christianity’s Self-Inflicted Wound 1994
Anthony F. Buzzard Charles F. Hunting

Roman Emperor Constantine the Great is credited for taking the
pure teachings of Christ and distorting them to his satisfaction.

"It was this man who is credited with making 'Christianity' the lawful
religion of the Empire, but Constantine, himself not knowing what
Christianity is, turned to the Catholic bishops, who gave him various
answers. That was intolerable. And for that reason, Constantine
summoned councils in an attempt to unify the Empire theologically,
just as he had unified it militarily in 324, when he defeated Licinius,
his last rival for power. Councils assembled in response to his orders
and those of subsequent emperors; and creedal formulations from
the fourth century onward become the creedal formulations approved
by the Roman Emperor. All who disagreed were banished from
the Empire, or punished in more painful ways."
From: http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Cults/Catholicism/ch-state.htm

"Painful ways" included torture and death.

"And if throughout Christianity’s sordid history its leaders have
felt constrained by their faith to execute people, for the simple "crime"
of refusing to receive some of its teachings, why should it be surprising
to learn that Christianity’s scholars feel free to alter, without comment,
some of the words of the Greek text in order to promote their trinitarian
doctrine?"
-The Influence of Trinitarian Doctrine on Translations of the Bible
by John David Clark, Sr

Who rewrote the Bible to support the Trinity Doctrine?

"In order to make the previously despised cult
of the Early Christians acceptable to Constantine,
emperor of Rome - the new (pagan) Church Fathers
had to remove from its teachings certain doctrines
which they knew were objectionable to Constantine.
To accomplish this, certain 'correctors' were
appointed, whose task it was to rewrite the Gospels."

-Apollonius the Nazarene Part 1:
The Historical Apollonius Versus
the Mythical Jesus
By: Dr. R. W. Bernard, Ph.D.

"Learned men, so called Correctores were, following the
church meeting at Nicea 325 AD, selected by the church
authorities to scrutinize the sacred texts and rewrite them
in order to correct their meaning in accordance with the
views which the church had just sanctioned."
-Einfhrung in die Textkritik des griechischen
Testaments: Eberhard Nestle

Due to the diligence of these religious imposters, Trinitarians today can
find some scriptures in the Bible that somewhat support their belief.

EXAMPLES OF ALTERING THE BIBLE:

"People who are using the King James Version might be
inclined to point to I John 5:7 'For there are three that bear
record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost'
But it is now generally recognized that this verse does NOT
belong to the original text of the letter; it is a later insertion."
-Exploring The Christian Faith 1992

"In Matthew 28:19 the Trinitarian formula was later inserted."
-Wilhelm Bousset, Kyrios Christianity, page 295

Now that the newly-fashioned belief sprang into existence,
how were people persuaded to believe it?

"The doctrine that Jesus Christ - the Son of God
was "God-the-son" - was decreed by worldly
and ecclesiastical powers. Men were forced to
accept it - at the point of the sword or else,
Thus, the error of the trinity was propounded to
the end - that ultimately people believed it to be
the truth. Thus Christianity became in essence
like Babylonian heathenism, with only a veneer
of Christian names."
--- Forgers of the Word -1983
Victor Paul Wierwille

"The day was to come when the Nicene party won out
completely and then the emperors decreed that one
who denied the Trinity should be put to death."
-The Church of our Fathers -
1950, pg. 46

Is that a good way to teach the love of God?

Servetus, Michael

1511–53, Spanish theologian
and physician. His name in Spanish was Miguel Serveto.

How is his life and death significant?

"From 1541 to 1553 he lived in the palace of the
archbishop of Vienne as his confidential physician.
When (1553) he had a work setting forth his ideas
of Christianity secretly printed, investigation was
begun by the Inquisition. Servetus, arrested, tried,
and condemned, escaped from prison. Several months
later, while making his way to Italy, he was seized in
Geneva by [John] Calvin's order. There, after a long
trial, in which Calvin's condemnation was a stern factor,
he was burned on Oct. 27, 1553."

From:http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0844522.html

What are the details about Servetus’ death at the hands
of the "Christian" clergy?

† Sir William Osler (1849-1919), Michael Servetus, London,
Oxford University Press, 1909, Page 35.

Osler was himself a physician and a freethinker.
His full description follows:

...Shortly after twelve o'clock, a procession started from
the town-hall of Geneva — the chief magistrates of the
city, the clergy in their robes, the Lieutenant Criminel and
other officers on horseback, a guard of mounted archers,
the citizens, with a motley crowd of followers, and in their
midst, with arms bound, in shabby, dirty clothes, walked a
man of middle age, whose intellectual face bore the marks
of long suffering. Passing along the rue St. Antoine through
the gate of the same name, the cortege took its way towards
the Golgotha of the city.
Once outside the walls a superb sight broke on their view:
in the distance the blue waters and enchanting shores of Lake
Geneva, to the west and north the immense amphitheater of
the Jura, with its snow-capped mountains, and to the south
and west the lovely valley of the Rhone; but we may well think
that few eyes were turned away from the central figure of that
sad procession.
By his side, in earnest entreaty, walked the aged pastor,
Farel, who had devoted a long and useful life to the service
of his fellow citizens. Mounting the hill, the field of Champel
was reached, and here on sight eminence was the fateful
stake, with dangling chains and heaping bundles of faggots.
At this sight the poor victim prostrated himself on the ground
in prayer.
In reply to the exhortation of the clergyman for a specific
confession of faith, there was the cry, "Misericordia, misericordia!
Jesu, thou Son of the eternal God, have compassion upon me!"
Bound to the stake by the iron chains, with a chaplet of straw
and green twigs covered with sulphur on his head, with long
dark face, it is said that he looked like the Christ in whose name
he was bound. Around his waist were tied a large bundle of
manuscript and a thick octavo printed book.
The torch was applied, and as the flames spread to the straw
and sulphur and flashed in his eyes, there was a piercing cry that
struck terror into the hearts of the bystanders. The faggots were
green, the burning was slow, and it was long before in a last agony
he cried again, "Jesu, thou Son of the eternal God, have mercy on
me!" Thus died in his forty-second year, Michael Servetus Villanovanus,
physician, physiologist, and heretic.
Strange, is it not, that could he have cried, "Jesu, thou Eternal Son
of God!" even at this last moment, the chains would have been
unwound, the chaplet removed, and the faggots scattered; but
he remained faithful unto death to what he believed was the
Truth as revealed in the Bible.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Dr. Servetus is not the only person to be victimized for
refusing to believe lies like the "Christian" Trinity. He is
only one of many millions of people who were tortured
and killed over the centuries by religious imposters.
Today, we all have a clear choice to make – align ourselves
with people like Dr. Servetus who stood firm for the truth
or the murderous clergy of nominal Christianity.

There is no middle ground!

There is no Biblical basis for a senseless
triune God.

"Theologians today are in agreement that the
Hebrew Bible does not contain a doctrine of
the Trinity."
(The Encyclopedia of Religion)

So why do people believe that baloney?

4 Satan, the god of this evil world, has blinded the minds
of those who don't believe, so they are unable to see the
glorious light of the Good News that is shining upon them.
They don't understand the message we preach about the
glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
(2Corinthians 4:4) (NLT)



Christian Mythology

What is the number one religion in the world?

According to http://www.adherents.com there are 2.1 billion Christians
in the world, making Christianity the number one religion globally.

From: http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

But there are numerous sects and the only thing that the
sects have in common is the originator – God's son!

Why do so many kinds of Christianity exist
if Christ only brought one belief to us?

The corruption of the Christian religion was foretold soon after Christ died.

"I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and
will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and
distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them."

(Acts 20:29-30) (New International Version)

Who is responsible for corrupting Christianity?

"The Apostasy - that fatal period when the Emperor Constantine
called himself a Christian; From this time onward - the Christians
had no more of the Spirit of Christ than the heathens."

-John Wesley
(Wesley's Works, vol 7, Sermon 89, pp. 26-27)

Roman Emperor Constantine the Great is credited for taking the
pure teachings of Christ and distorting them to his satisfaction.

"It was this man who is credited with making 'Christianity' the lawful
religion of the Empire, but Constantine, himself not knowing what
Christianity is, turned to the Catholic bishops, who gave him various
answers. That was intolerable. And for that reason, Constantine
summoned councils in an attempt to unify the Empire theologically,
just as he had unified it militarily in 324, when he defeated Licinius,
his last rival for power. Councils assembled in response to his orders
and those of subsequent emperors; and creedal formulations from
the fourth century onward become the creedal formulations approved
by the Roman Emperor. All who disagreed were banished from
the Empire, or punished in more painful ways. "

From: http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Cults/Catholicism/ch-state.htm

"As this massive apostasy from His teachings was taking place,
what happened to the group labeled Jewish Christians? As
startling as it may sound, the religion the world knows as
Christianity was not founded by Jesus Christ! Within the span
of three hundred years, this religion had become a vast
organization with a clergy presiding over rites taken from
pagan mysteries and it had borrowed the best elements of
Greek philosophy and had formed a dogma appealing to human
reason and emotion. This religious organization had become a
powerful political force in the Roman Empire. But it was not
the Church established by Christ!"

-In Search of Early Christianity (part 1 & 2)
by Wesley White

Yes, the apostles foretold in advance two very important things
that most Christians tend to ignore: a great apostasy would set
in, where the truth would be traded for the lies, and that mankind
would largely prefer the lies.

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine.
Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great
number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They
will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
(2Timothy 4:3-4) (New International Version)

When Did That Happen?

1 Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will
turn away from the true faith; they will follow deceptive spirits and
teachings that come from demons. 2 These people are hypocrites
and liars, and their consciences are dead.
(1Timothy 4:1) (NLT)

Yes, now - in the last days of this world - people would accumulate
teachers for themselves in order to "have their ears tickled". That is
exactly why we not only have thousands of religions in existence in
the world today, but about a hundred kinds of Christianity!

What do we need a hundred different
kinds of Christianity for?

John foretold, in the book of Revelation, that this great apostasy
would be called by a name, "Babylon the Great". He likened her
to a woman who prostitutes herself to the kings of the earth.

3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There
I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with
blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The
woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with
gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand,
filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5 This
title was written on her forehead: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF
THE EARTH. 6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the
saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.

(Revelation 17:3-6) (NIV)

Yes the Apostasy, or falling away of the true faith, would be marked
by Christendom's trading the truth of Christ and the apostles, for
"Babylon the Great", the lies of ancient Babylon.

The stake of Christ would be traded for the "Cross" of the pagans.

The resurrection to eternal earthly life, would be traded for the
immortality of the human soul, purgatory, and the hellfire of
Ancient Babylon.

The worship of the Almighty God Jehovah, through His mediator,
his only begotten Son, would be traded for the false doctrine of
the Trinity featuring "Lord Nameless" and his adopted son, Jesus,
a tradition handed down from Ancient Babylon.

The Sabbath on Saturday would be traded for Pagan Sunday.

Forced celibacy, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Lent, saint
worship, sunrise services and many other Babylonian doctrines  
replaced pure Christian worship.

Paul warned his people that it was coming:

1 Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will
turn away from the true faith; they will follow deceptive spirits and
teachings that come from demons. 2 These people are hypocrites
and liars, and their consciences are dead. 3 They will say it is wrong
to be married and wrong to eat certain foods. But God created
those foods to be eaten with thanks by faithful people who know the
truth.
(1Timothy 4:1-3) (NLT)

The Roman Church adopted all of these pagan philosophies,
idolatries, and holidays to keep their pagan conquests satisfied.
The Protestant Churches broke away from the Catholic Church
but retained most of these pagan traditions. This spiritual blindness
would exist for a period of time - until the time of "The End".

Was everyone fooled?

Most Christians are clueless, but the experts are not fooled!

Nominal Christians worship a Trinity god named Jesus.

Why?

"The doctrine that Jesus Christ the Son of God - was God the son -
was decreed by worldly and ecclesiastical powers. Men were forced
to accept it at the point of the sword or else. Thus, the error of the
trinity was propounded to the end that ultimately people believed it
to be the truth. Thus Christianity became in essence like 'Babylonian'
heathenism, with only a veneer of Christian names."
--- Forgers of the Word -1983
by Victor Paul Wierwille

"A Great apostate pagan trinity doctrine has infiltrated the
Christian Churches. Trinity or polytheism came from Babylon. The
infiltration of this great apostate pagan doctrine has cause a great
deception by Satan in theology. Most churches are teaching this
great apostasy and worship the Trinity, which in actuality is pagan.
Most Churches have departed from the true doctrine that was given
unto the church by Jesus Christ and the Apostles."
-Trinity Is The Great Apostasy
To Infiltrate Christianity
by Thunder Ministries

"By adopting the trappings of paganism, Christianity reverted to an
ancient past. By converting to Catholicism, they fell back into a form
of polytheism evidenced by belief in the trinity."
-Those Incredible Christians; pg. 225
Sconfield

And what else happened?

"By the turn of the second century, there were thousands of professing
Christians - but only a tiny few held fast to what they had been taught
by the original apostles. This new 'Christianity' altered and
rejected the true teachings of the Bible and embraced many
pagan traditions and customs."
- Popular Religious Holidays
Where They Really Came From
BY LOUIS F. MASCHIO

Such as:

"Easter and Christmas - These holidays represent only part of the
great apostasy that has come upon God's people in the latter days.
They cumulatively fulfill what are known as the latter day prophesies
that predict a great apostasy before the coming of Messiah."
-The Pagan History of Christmas
by Dr. Joel Ehrlich

"The forms and ceremonies of paganism gradually crept into the
worship of Christendom. Some of the old heathen feasts became
church festivals - with change of name."
- (Story of the Christian Church, p.79) ;
Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

"Like Christmas, the origins of Easter are deeply rooted in pagan
customs. It was A.D. 325 when Easter displaced Christ's Passover.
Christ actually commanded us to keep the Passover, in memory of
him. (Luke 22:13-20)."
- Popular Religious Holidays
Where They Really Came From
BY LOUIS F. MASCHIO

"It is interesting that the holiest day of the liturgical Christian year,
Easter Sunday, bears the name of the pagan sex goddess Eastre
and the pagan sun god Solis."
-Panati, Charles. Sacred Origins of Profound Things.
New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1996.

"It was in the fifth century that the Roman Catholic Church
commanded that the birth of Christ be observed forever on
December 25th, the day of the old Pagan Roman feast of
the birth of Sol, one of the names of their pagan sun-god!"
- Encyclopedia Americana, Vol.6, p.623

These are the most sacred days the Christian majority observe.

Why don't Christendom's ministers tell people the truth?

"The Christian Church is entrenched deeply in the ancient Babylonian
mystery religion, only today it is referred to as 'traditions'. Many of
God's people, as well as the secular earth, are guilty of giving in to
Babylon's pageantry and paganism. Most Christians either don't
know or care to know the truth of these pagan ties."
-The Pagan History of Christmas
by Dr. Joel Ehrlich

"Notice how today's churches have sprung from the same
root as paganism! Satan has created an entire system of
"counterfeit Christianity." He has cleverly guided vain
religious leaders to introduce completely pagan
ideas, concepts and practices into "Christianity."
-Source --Satan's Counterfeit Christianity
By Roderick C. Meredith

But what was the worst lie of all?

"By the end of the first century, all of the original apostles had died.
This vacuum was quickly filled by false leaders, who taught that God's
laws were no longer necessary and that Christians were now solely
under grace. All one needed to do was simply "believe." Works were
no longer required. Thus, grace was turned into a license to sin."
(I John 3:4).
- Popular Religious Holidays
Where They Really Came From
BY LOUIS F. MASCHIO

And that explains the ruthless violence being perpetuated by many "Christians".

Such as...

"In 2001, two Rwandan Catholic nuns were convicted by a Belgian court
for aiding and abetting the mass murders. A Roman Catholic priest is
on trial before the Tanzania-based U.N. tribunal, accused of ordering
the slaughter of 2,000 people who sought refuge in his church."
From: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2644027&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

These are supposedly Christian clergy doing this!

Does the Bible condone this vicious behavior?

Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
(1John 3:4) (NIV)

Lies such as "God loves us all no matter what" and "If we know
Jesus we will go to Heaven when we die" are very popular with
the Christian Church crowd. The words, "Once saved, always
saved!" have become highly popular and widespread "Christian"
beliefs. But then, who wouldn't want their salvation served to
them on a silver platter?

"...because they did not receive the love of the truth... For this
reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that
they will believe what is false..."
(2Thessalonians 2:10,11) (NASB)

So what is the truth?

Christ Said :

⁸ The person who keeps on sinning belongs to the devil. The
devil has sinned from the beginning. But the Son of God came
to destroy the works of the devil.
(1John 3:8) (New Life Version)

And he is not the only one giving this warning.

"If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received
the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but
only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire
that will consume the enemies of God."
(Hebrews 10:26,27) (NIV)

"But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness,
commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations
that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds
which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery
which he has committed and his sin which he has committed;
for them he will die. "
(Ezekiel 18:24) (New American Standard Bible)

"When the righteous turns from his righteousness
and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it."
(Ezekiel 33:18) (NASB)

"And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne,
and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the
book of life. The dead were judged according to what they
had done as recorded in the books."
(Revelation 20:12) (NIV)

Also they warned of an end to the apostasy; so thorough an end
that the people who perpetuated and embraced the myths would
be destroyed along with their mythology.

9 I, the LORD, will show no mercy or pity when that time comes.
In my anger I will destroy the earth and every sinner who lives
on it.
(Isaiah 13:9) (CEV)

Christian mythology is popular and widespread. The ministers of
Christendom have been spreading it for centuries. There is a people
who are a Christian minority who pride themselves on the authenticity
of their Christian beliefs. This is not their motto, but it should be:

32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
(John 8:32) (NIV)

Not only will the truth set us free, it will lead to everlasting life
instead of destruction!



Do You Love Jesus?

People who attend the churches of Christendom say they love
Jesus. These same people claim that they would gladly invite Jesus
and his apostles in their home to talk to them.

Would they really?

Jesus and his apostles were proselytizers: that means they
tried to convert others to their faith and to their way of
thinking. That meant publicly announcing Jehovah’s plan to
return rulership of the earth back to Himself, just like Jehovah’s
Witnesses do.

¹ He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them
authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every
disease and sickness. ⁵ These twelve Jesus sent out
with the following instructions: "Do not go among the
Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. ⁶ Go
rather to the lost sheep of Israel. ⁷ As you go, preach
this message: 'The kingdom of heaven is near.'
(Matthew 10:1,5-7) (NIV)

"Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to
house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the
good news."
(Acts 5:42) (NIV)

Christ and his followers preached about Armageddon and
the new kingdom almost two thousand years ago?

That must have been annoying!

When Jesus and his followers tried to instruct the Jews about
how to show proper respect for his father, Jehovah, the Pharisees,
the most orthodox of the Jews, did not want to learn from him;
instead, they got offended. How could the Jews be offended by
Jesus and the Apostles? They had at one time worshipped the
same God, Jehovah!

¹About this time some Pharisees and teachers of the Law
of Moses came from Jerusalem. They asked Jesus, ² "Why
don't your disciples obey what our ancestors taught us to do?
They don't even wash their hands before they eat." ³ Jesus
answered: Why do you disobey God and follow your own
teaching? ⁴ Didn't God command you to respect your father
and mother? Didn't he tell you to put to death all who curse
their parents? ⁵ But you let people get by without helping their
parents when they should. You let them say that what they have
has been offered to God. ⁶ Is this any way to show respect to
your parents? You ignore God's commands in order to follow
your own teaching. ⁷ And you are nothing but show-offs! Isaiah
the prophet was right when he wrote that God had said, ⁸ "All of
you praise me with your words, but you never really think about
me. ⁹ It is useless for you to worship me, when you teach rules
made up by humans." ¹⁰ Jesus called the crowd together and said,
"Pay attention and try to understand what I mean. ¹¹ The food that
you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to
worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are
what make you unclean." ¹² Then his disciples came over to him
and asked, "Do you know that you insulted the Pharisees by
what you said?" ¹³ Jesus answered, "Every plant that my Father in
heaven did not plant will be pulled up by the roots. ¹⁴ Stay away from
those Pharisees! They are like blind people leading other blind people,
and all of them will fall into a ditch."
(Matthew 15:1-14) (New International Version)

In fact, the very people he was trying so hard to reach
did not want to listen to him, they wanted to kill him:

“¹⁵ On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area
and began driving out those who were buying and selling
there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and
the benches of those selling doves, ¹⁶ and would not allow
anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.
¹⁷ And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not written: " 'My
house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But
you have made it 'a den of robbers.' " ¹⁸ The chief priests
and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking
for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole
crowd was amazed at his teaching.
(Mark 11:15-18) (NIV)

Yet Jesus continued to use his father's name publicly.
In prayer to his Father, Jesus said:

"O righteous Father, even though the world does not know
you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I
made known to them your name, and I will continue to make
it known... I have manifested Your name to the men whom
You gave me out of the world."
(John 17:25,26,6) (English Standard Version)

Jesus and his Apostles were far from popular. In fact, they also had
another unpopular habit that Jehovah's Witnesses have too - of going
out publicly from door to door, town to town, and house to house -
trying to convert people to the "Way".

"Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered,
so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat."
(Mark 3:20) (NIV)

"Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the
others in his house."
(Acts 16:32) (NIV)

"You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that
would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and
from house to house."
(Acts 20:20) (NIV)

What ability did Christ have to show his authority? How did he
prove to the people that he was indeed the Messiah?

He and his apostles had the power to perform miracles. This made
them a great attraction to the general public.

"So they began their circuit of the villages, preaching the
Good News and healing the sick."
(Luke 9:6) (New Living Translation)

If Jehovah's Witnesses could heal the sick, raise the dead, and
bring sight and hearing back to the deaf and blind  - maybe people
today would not be so annoyed with them. Unfortunately, the
Bible makes it clear that although the prophets of Old could
perform miracles and so could the apostles and Jesus - that those
miraculous powers would end, and never be seen again from
Jehovah until Christ returns to the earth.

"...But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where
there are tongues, they will be stilled..."
(1Corinthians 13:8) (NIV)

So Jehovah's Witnesses are operating with a disadvantage - They
have all the spunk and zeal of the early Christians, and they preach
the same good news, but have nothing to really please the house-
holders with - except a pamphlet or magazine, which usually only
irritates the householder.

Why do they do it?

This is everybody’s opportunity to learn the truth and show faith
in it. Proof is not being offered anymore - there will be no
widespread show of miracles. People who lack faith will not believe
the truth when they hear it and that will be their undoing:

"Behold, YOU scoffers, and marvel, and perish; for I am
accomplishing a work in YOUR days, a work which YOU
will never believe, though someone should describe it to
YOU.'"
(Acts 13:41) (New American Standard Bible) 

Jehovah's Witnesses do indeed endure the smirks and laughter
when today’s comedians portray them as mindless fools.

Why do they put up with it?

"But you shall speak My words to them whether they listen
or not."
(Ezekiel 2:7) (NASB) 

There's no money in it for them, so they must be driven by some
really powerful force. And they are.

"...but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come
upon you; and you shall be  My witnesses... even to  the
remotest parts of the earth."
(Acts 1:8) (NASB)

Like John the Baptist, someone has to pave the way for the coming
of Christ.  Jehovah is getting ready to send his son back a second time. 
Only this time his son will return as a KING - ready to battle with
God's enemies, and to take over rule of the entire earth. This good
news that “will be preached” was prophesied before Jesus was even
born:

"See, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way
before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will
come... But who can endure the day of his coming? Who
can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's
fire or a launderer's soap. "
(Malachi 3:1,2)  (NIV)

"But before the end comes, the good news must be
preached to all nations."
(Mark 13:10) (CEV)

Jehovah's people - His Witnesses - are doing this very special work
for HIM.  They are nearly seven million strong and present in every
country - almost like a plague upon the earth.

"...ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and I am God. "
(Isaiah 43:12) (ASV) 

"And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly
to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by
God as Judge..."
(Acts 10:42) (NASB)

Jehovah's Witnesses do not care if anyone likes them
or not - for they have someone much more important
to answer to - someone much higher that has sent them.

¹ In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who
will judge the living and the dead, and in view of
his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this
charge: ² Preach the Word; be prepared in season
and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—
with great patience and careful instruction.
(2Timothy 4:1,2) (NIV)

Many people consider Jehovah's Witnesses to be a “plague” in the
world. Plague or not - they are here to stay and will not let up until
Christ returns. Yes, right to the very end:

¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in
the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and
then the end will come.
(Matthew 24:14) (NIV)

"But before the end comes, the good news must be
preached to all nations."
(Mark 13:10) (CEV)

People have a choice now. They can join others in
laughing at Jehovah’s servants or they can listen
to them.

Which choice is a better idea?

"In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he
commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has
set a day when he will judge the world with justice by
the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this
to all men by raising him from the dead."
(Acts 17:30,31) (NIV)