A couple of things from the Apostle today. He has a new command for the FOT - you are to study Deuteronomy every seven years.
We have a command to study through the Book of Deuteronomy every seventh year at the Feast of Tabernacles. Very few COG organizations have ever done that so they do not understand that Deuteronomy is a final warning of the consequences of disobedience and the blessing of obeying God.
The Apostle also seems to have been getting a lot of flak lately about people thinking he is starting a new "church." He claims he is not, but lays out what he is specifically anointed to to do:
1) I see myself as providing a wake up call, a kind of early warning, a kind of watchman’s warning that things are finally coming to a head. It is my purpose and I have always declared that my purpose is to wake people up, to shock if necessary, but to get people to begin to think, to question, to study diligently, to seek God with all their hearts and to turn to him; in preparation for the trials to come.
I am not trying to start any group; I am trying to wake up ALL the groups!
2) I honestly believe that we are at the very edge of the hour of trial and that the tribulation of Jacob’s trouble could begin within a very short time. It is my personal opinion that the final false prophet the abomination, could be set up in Rome as early as mid Sep of 2012, and the tribulation could begin within the following 75 days.
But in order to cover his ass when his prediction fails, which it will, he takes the easy wayy out:
Regardless of whether this does come in 2012 or a year or two later, we can all be properly prepared by turning to our God with whole hearted, zealous, passionate, enthusiasm.
Indeed if this does not come for a very long time, the situation in the COGs still requires a revival of zeal and godliness before our light flickers out and God turns away from us. We tend to think so very much of ourselves when we are NOTHING unless we are zealous for our Father and our Maker. God will NOT forsake us, yet we are forsaking HIM by our lack of zeal for him and his ways; and our sins have come between us.
3) The ongoing situation in the COGs is one of deepening lukewarmness and laxity rather than a revival of zeal for God and his commandments. This falls directly into the prophecies of Laodicea.
4) I am very ill with the end game complications of diabetes which runs in my family; and I do not have more that a year or two left, without a miracle from God. I have no interest in pleasing any man or organization, my only interest is in pleasing God. That places me in a position to reach out to ALL the groups and to ALL of God’s people with the wake up call.
5) I believe that the brethren and elders consist of: A. the deeply converted, B. the lax and lukewarm and C. many tares. In short ALL the groups are a mix of these three.
6) I expect that God will send his two prophets to take his faithful and that they shall reveal themselves through meeting the biblical description and shall have the power to remove God’s faithful who will choose to respond to them. Then my job will be completed.
7) A small number who have learned to stand on God’s word and not to idolize men, will respond and leave the groups; the groups will remain and they shall be destroyed, for God will destroy the idols of the people. God will force the decades old spiritual babes to stand on their own spiritual feet.
It is my mission to give the warning; to boldly declare that the Eternal is God and beside him there is NO other!!!
I am trying to wake people up and get them questioning, thinking, proving, studying and turning to our Father with all our hearts in a passionate dedicated zeal for him and his ways.
That is may agenda; I will not lie to anyone. My agenda is to give an early warning, to encourage questioning and truth seeking; and that will divide the zealous and faithful from the lax, lukewarm and faithless.
