Editors note: these articles are written from a watchman’s perspective being to warn the people of impending danger. As to who will listen and take heed; well, that’s another matter. Essentially, we are all aware of the ongoing events surrounding us. This message is addressed to three separate people:
- (1) The unsaved who may or may not listen,
- (2) The multitude of professing Christians in their State sanctioned Churches who may or may not listen, and
- (3) The remnant who have listened.
Because in the end – some will listen and take heed and some will not (no matter who the watchman is). Scott
From a watchman:
There was a time in this world when Christianity first started and spread out where the spiritual lines of demarcation were clearly drawn. Demarcation means boundaries or separation. The ruling empire (Imperial Rome) demanded that a person worship a pantheon of pagan gods and if you didn’t worship or give the normal homage afforded to that pagan god or idol; you were hunted down, persecuted, and usually killed to the amusement and glee of the sitting emperor or one of his magistrates. Thousands and thousands of Christians were killed for professing their faith. Their deaths were sometimes quick; heads cut off, run through with a sword, spear, or arrows, hung, or they were painfully tortured, dragged through the streets, put on the rack until their joints and bones popped, pierced with nails, burned at the stake, beat with whips, chains, clubs, boiled over a hot flame, starved, mauled by starving beasts, branded by hot irons, boiled alive in hot liquid… And they gladly went to their deaths for a better resurrection and professed Jesus Christ as Lord and God.
This was all done because they refused to worship pagan gods and submit to evil.
After the Lord’s crucifixion starting with Stephen, all the 11 disciples (John having died of old age), Paul of Tarsus, and myriads of other Christians, during the 10 major Roman persecutions that ensued suffered horrible deaths all the way up to circa 324 AD when Constantine made Christianity the official state religion. Unfortunately, under that lifting of cruelty, the original uniqueness of the true faith was compromised initially with a syncretic blending and merging with pagan mores, modalities, and traditions. Actually, this had been going on for quite some time. The part that Constantine played in all this was brilliant from a secular and political standpoint much like the old saying that – “if you can’t beat them – then join them”. He did exactly that by joining politics and religion.
Jesus did say when he established his true church (small “c” which is a called out assembly) that “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”.
The State-sponsored Church went through more organizational incarnations eventually to form a more solidified co-existence with the State when Pope Leo III as the Pontifex Maximus crowned Charlemagne as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on December 25th (winter solstice) of 800 AD.
Jesus said “my Kingdom is not of this world” and “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head”.
By now the Church had been so thoroughly leavened that to a true Christian, she was unrecognizable.
But God will always preserve a remnant…
Eventually, the leaven that “leaveneth the whole loaf” morphed into a much more brutal, pernicious footing and now the Papal Roman Church aligned with the State began its own inhuman brutality on those that dared to question its unholy ways. True Christians were now sequestered and subjected to the most hideous and grotesque tortures known to man. Through a series of “Inquisitions” that lasted hundreds of years from about 1231 AD when Pope Gregory IX established the Papal Inquisition, thousands more Christians suffered death. By this time, the Crusades (military campaigns) were ongoing.
The truth is that all these Christians have been getting martyred since Stephen all down through the ages till now.
None of them got raptured.
Now, we are at the end of the line prophetically speaking where the visions of John who was exiled (banished) to the remote isle of Patmos saw by revelation the caricature of the woman who sat upon the “scarlet coloured beast”. She was “drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus”. She is “MYSTERY BABYLON” that down through the ages has joined herself to the beast that she rides. She represents false world religion.
However, God has always preserved a remnant church down through the centuries that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Evil for its part is very intuitive and adapts with the times continually trying to achieve its goal to destroy true Christianity. It will not and has not succeeded. It is an eternal spiritual battle that plays out on the physical canvas of life.
It has been said many times that Christianity is a race to the bottom in opposition to the world’s attractions however, now we have false Christian prosperity doctrines, massive friendship with the world system, denominations galore, false world religions (still paganism), and a false rapture doctrine. The symbiotic synthesis of the woman who rides the beast of Revelation 17 has come full circle. Her cup is truly full of all the abominations that maketh desolate the true worship of Jesus Christ. She truly is an enigma, a mystery to those who do not have the eyes to see her as she truly is or to hear the words of a watchman who is sounding the alarm.
But, there are more of us watchmen (men and women) scattered over the entire world. We are not affliated with any organization and in a very real sense “die daily”. When we do physically die it is an aftereffect of having already made our eternal decision of who we obey which is the true Word of God Jesus Christ.
As for the aforementioned “multitude of professing Christians in their State sanctioned Churches” - Where is the cry of the righteous, the lament of a Jeremiah, or the repenting of Nineveh? Where are those Peter’s who will say “we ought to obey God rather than men???” Where are the people who are willing to die for their faith? Surely not in America where she has been compromised. America has been compromised. She is comatose in a semi-catatonic state while forgetting that thousands of Christians die for their faith every year.
Christians here have abrogated their birthright as the true spiritual seed that God promised Abraham and has gone after strange gods and idols.
The day of reckoning is at hand. Judgment begins at the house of God.
And the persecutions continued…
Satan has learned his craft well. He has harmonized and homogenized Christianity with the empire “system”. Christianity grew by leaps and bounds when the State murdered them by the scores. Satan knew that by neutralizing them and their absorption into and with the State; that he would try to water down their testimony by false doctrine, syncretic world beliefs, and self submission to inclusiveness of pagan worship. Just turn on the television nowadays for details. Television is now the “reality center” for most Americans. Hollywood is an abomination.
The “come out of her” admonishment that the Word of God attests to is NOT being heeded. The trap and snare has already been set for a long time now and is ready to be sprung.
But the Lord will preserve a remnant...
Satan with his covert (hidden) operations has most people in the world crying out for change and they not knowing that they must repent and turn to the only God and Savior the world has ever known Jesus Christ. The nebulous change that they clamor for is antichrist. They have entered into the dialectic and don’t even realize they are in the world but not of the world. The change-hope-believe speak is demonic. They are like sheep to the slaughter who try to continue the dialog and preserve the relationship.
2 Tim 3:12-17:
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
1 Peter 4:12-14:
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
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The true Christians who joyfully go to their deaths are truly blessed. They have nothing to loose and everything to gain. The Devil (Satan) was beat at the cross at Calvary. The place of the skull (Golgotha) is still there to this very day.
If you are reading this for the first time and do not know Jesus Christ – know that Jesus Christ is real and he died for your sins. We are all sinners and apart from a Holy God. The Lord of Glory came to earth to rescue a dying world. And yes, Jesus Christ does love YOU. But, He will not force His salvation on anyone. You have to want it. He stands at the door to your heart and knocks to be let in.
The world system only offers false promises, lies, and false hope. Only Jesus Christ who is God can and will save you and set you free. This is the good news. He will never leave you nor forsake you. I am a witness to that. No matter what you have to go through in life, no matter how much pain, disappointment, failure, even death – just remember – Jesus loves you so much that He died for your sins. Will you accept Him right now into your heart as Lord and Savior?
The Lord said it best:
“for where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them”.
This is what the true church of Jesus Christ is all about…
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Special update 9-21-09:
Whatever any of you do – do not take any of the flu vaccination. Do not let your children be vaccinated either. You have no idea what is coming. And you so-called pastors of State sanctioned Churches – do not let your establishments be used as human collection points. You have been warned. Ezekiel 33:6
Scott Sepanek
TheRaptureCult.com
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