A Great Deception
The emphasis on miracles, signs and wonders - or the “anointing”, over the Word of God, is becoming almost frightening. Visitations from angels…portholes into the third heaven, things that Paul the Apostle cautioned against…or wouldn’t even talk about…are being trophied in the Body of Christ!
But Jesus and the early Church fathers, did not “peddle the anointing” - God forbid! The Apostles did not try to “popularize” Jesus through sensationalism and the promise of miracles, signs and wonders.
They did not compromise the Gospel - They preached the Gospel…and were hated by many because of it; imprisoned and killed for the privilege.
The New Age and Occult, The Hindus, the Buddhists, The Mormons, the Roman Catholic Church, factions of Islam - and even Judaism, all have branches within their religions that claim the working of miracles, signs and wonders, including angelic visitations, portholes into heaven, healing the sick, prophesy and speaking in unknown tongues. And is it any wonder, when the False Prophet himself is able to perform “astounding miracles on behalf of the beast, even calling down fire from Heaven”, to deceive the people of this world? (Revelation 13:13-14) This is why signs and wonders merely enforce and confirm the convicting power of the Gospel - not the other way around. It is not signs and wonders that will set us apart at the end (as the devil can clearly produce his own) It is Christ, him crucified and resurrected (1Corinthians 1:22-24; 2:2)
This is the Gospel, the Only Truth and the only thing that saves. We must preach Christ and Him crucified. This is what sets us apart (The Lord calls it “Holiness”)…And the world will hate us for it - but there is no other Name under Heaven by which they may be saved (Acts 4:12)
“An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Jesus speaking to the teachers of the Law - Matthew 12:38-40) So this also should be the Sign - the Message - that is the heart of the Body of Chris wherever we are and wherever we go; all other signs and wonders are supplementary to this.
Again, I love the gift of prophecy…I love witnessing the working of signs, wonders and miracles: What I hate is what is being built in the House of God through them: A pyramid…
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. (Genesis 11:4-6…compare to Revelation 13)
This is being verified more and more through the push for “unity” (Ecumenicism) which is being spearheaded by the leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation - along with the open claims of certain “prophets” that the Church (including Mormons and practicing Roman Catholics) will be united - and the thing that “unites us” will be - not the Cross of Christ - but the working of signs, wonders and miracles.
(Because there is a true unity - Revelation 7:9-17; But there also is a counterfeit unity - Revelation ch. 13)
But when we listen to what these people are saying…when we follow them into this kind of global unity, surely we are provoking the wrath of God - and walking into something that will only end one way: Revelation ch.18
Galatians 1:6-9
For more on this subject visit:
https://sarahshalom777.blogspot.com/2021/01/of-elijah.html?m=1&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
https://sarahshalom777.blogspot.com/2021/07/context-nehemiah-ch-8-nehemiah-81-and.html
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