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Jesus said: Concerning the end times
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II Thessalonians 2
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of the Lord) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
In 1982, I was reading the above scripture and God spoke to me by the Holy Spirit and said: "The falling away are not people leaving churches ... the falling away are the churches leaving the scripture."
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Also the falling away are individuals who are Christians falling away from specific scriptures.
Pam Padgett gave scripture to a divorced woman who was planning to remarry. This scripture showed the divorced woman that if she remarried she would commit adultery.
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Matthew 5:32 Jesus said:
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
If the faithful wife remarries after her husband divorced her, she will commit adultery if she remarries, but her husband who divorced her will be the cause of her adultery, and the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
Mark 10:12 Jesus says:
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
In Pam's report, this divorced woman attended the church Pam attended at that time.
This woman replied, "I don't care what the Bible says. I know what I think."
(They put what they think above what the scriptures say, thus "shewing himself that he is God", as it says antichrist will do in the end times as reported by the apostle Paul in II Thessalonians 2:3-4.)
They think it doesn't matter what the Bible says.
We told the divorce/adultery scriptures also to a Jewish woman who said she believed in Jesus. She said, "I'm a Messianic Jew and we have our own doctrine."
(It is impossible to believe in Jesus while discarding the Word of God which is Jesus speaking.)
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
II Timothy 3
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, throughly furnished unto all good works.
We individuals have Jesus living in us by The Holy Spirit which we are given by God when we believe.
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
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II Timothy 3
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, throughly furnished unto all good works.
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I Corinthians 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
I Corinthians 6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
II Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
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We overcome our own flesh, and devils, and this world and its ways, by going in the way of the scriptures and by clinging to the scriptures, The Word of God.
Revelation 3:5 Jesus says:
We overcome each time we choose to obey scripture, doing that which is instructed by scripture.
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There is much evil done today in the churches by people who fall away from the scriptures. This is antichrist in the churches today.
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