Why Some ARE Hated.

Why some ARE hated...

Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

Ezekiel 23:29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

4 It is true that the Lord was crucified nearer to Jerusalem than Rome. The exact location is still disputed, some say within the city (Jerusalem) some say outside. Hebrews 13.11The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. 13Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. 14For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. And the Lord did refer to Jerusalem as Sodom in Ezekiel Ch. 16. But believing these facts does not save you, nor does it validate 1600 years of Roman Catholic history! I think it is worth noting that Rome occupied Jerusalem/Israel when our Lord was crucified, and that the comfortable political relationship was for the Pharisees apostasy, for what else could it be? 1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons. And if it was faithlessness for the Pharisees and their synagogues, what shall it have been for Rome? The sins of Cain, Balaam, Jezebel, Jannes and Jambres, and eventually the nicolatian heresy?

If we want the Lord's approbation we must seek it from HIM, not from Rome, not from our association with Israel, not even from each other. We are to live our lives with love for one another by the power of the Lord. No amount of political correctness in "christian" doctrine will substitute for being "found in Him". 1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. Galatians 2:17 "But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not!Philippians 3.8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death

So it is wise for us to pray for each other, knowing that whatever the nearness of the Day of the Lord, the day of our mortal demise is certainly nearer that at the bginning of this very hour! Can we let our doctrine be our doctrine, and not shove it in each others faces? Can we commit to praying the Lord change our "brother"? Or have we forgotten the slimy rock the Lord found us under? It was not the Roman Church, slimy though she and many other non Roman churches be. The Lord found us under the slimy rock of our own transgressions, in our own filthy rags. They were not doctrinal misunderstandings, they were moral sins and failures, and many of us have the appearance of being trapped by them still! Other wise why is christendom , mocked, despised, ridiculed by the world? God cannot be mocked, but unfaithful "believers" can and will be. We should be the city on the hill and the salt of the earth, but it reeks of hypocrisy still, and of heresy (better named doctrinal/denominational disputing, (see 1 Corinthians), which seems to this man to be the substance of what the world perceives (rightly?) as our(?) hypocrisy. The whore is really not just unfaithful Rome, but apostasy where ever God is named but denied, where ever His Name, even just the Name God is used purposely in vanity and deceit. Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

We need to remember that the appelation APOSTATE does truly mean twice dead. Jude 1.11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. 12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about[a] by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. It is not a term to throw around cavalierly. To charge even Benedict XVI with apostacy is a very serious thing to do, for doing so says he is unalterably hell bound. I don't think we need to be determining the destination of Benedict XVI or any Roman Cathoilc soul. Let us turn our attention to the matters of our own deep hearts, and to our spouses and children. It is perilous, I think, and perhaps presumptuous to go furether than our own front doors with anything but the GOOD NEWS. Leave your personal grudges against religious institutions in God's capable hands. Please. Or write YET ANOTHER book on why Roman membership will doom you.