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NEWSLETTER MARCH-APRIL 2001
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BIBLE PROPHECY
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O PROFOUND PROPHETIC REVELATIONS O
(1) - PROFANENESS IS RUINING AMERICA
(2) - WOMEN PREACHERS
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-- INSIDE -- BIBLE PROPHECY --No Nonsense of Platitudes or Vagaries --
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PROFANENESS IS RUINING AMERICA | ||
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"For from the prophets of Jerusalem [headquarters] is profaneness gone forth into all the Land." Jeremiah 23:15. These are the words of Almighty God in a prophetic revelation to His prophet, which reveals the underlying causes of His destructive judgments on the church of old.
AN ENDTIME PROPHECY
Profaneness also has gone forth into all parts of our land, because preachers speak a vision and vanity "out of their own heart and not out of the mouth of the Lord." Jeremiah 23:16. This great prophetic chapter is a true prophet's vision from the Lord of the sordid spiritual conditions of our very own generation, to wit: "The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of His heart: [now the key] in the latter days [that's now] ye shall consider it perfectly." Jeremiah 23:20. Can we consider this profaneness that's covered America perfectly? Yes, by this true endtime prophecy that points to the cause _ Perfidious Preachers!
IRREVERENCE FOR
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Christ's true disciples, "Avoiding profane and vain babblings." I Timothy 6:20. But even in a more sobering warning he exclaims, "But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness." II Timothy 2:16. And they surely have.
A SOBERING EXAMPLE
"Lest there be any fornicator, or PROFANE person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, HE WAS REJECTED; for he found no place of REPENTANCE, though he sought it carefully with tears." Hebrews 12:16-17. God rejected Esau because of his profaneness _ disrespect for that which was Holy _ his birthright, to be in the lineage of Christ.
Altering the Bible, the Word of God, is profaneness, which God Almighty will not forgive. "They changed the Truth of God into a lie … For this cause God gave them up," or gave up on them. Romans 1:25. "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of THE TRUTH." II Timothy 3:7. You can't come to the knowledge of the Truth from perverted Bibles; the truth is in the King James Version.
GOD REJECTS PROFANE MEN
"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the BOOK OF LIFE, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." Revelation 22:18-19.
Do you know why preachers are profane? They do not believe the true Bible is the infallible Word of God. Another TRUTH modern-day preachers reject that causes their spiritual blindness is, the New Testament magnifies the Old Testament like a strong magnifying glass. The New Testament is like a great light that shines on the Old Testament prophecies and unveils that which has been hidden in past ages. For instance, the angel God sent to give the Prophet Daniel his endtime prophecies said, "Go thy way, Daniel: for the words [prophecies] are closed up and sealed till the time of the end [our generation]." Daniel 12:9. They are just now beginning to be unveiled "to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit." Ephesians 3:5.
OUR SICK SOCIETY
Every serious thinking man or woman, Christians and unbelievers alike, can see and discern that there's something badly wrong with our immoral and violent society. But these don't discern the all-prevailing cause _ so therefore, they cannot prescribe the cure. Why? The leaders of our Sick Society, both political and religious, are blind. They do not look in the right place for the answers to both distressing problems _ i.e., who has caused them, and to whom and where do we look for solutions? Where else but the Bible?
A true prophet of God has the answers to give, which are found in God's word, the True Bible _ the KJV. But where do our national leaders turn for true counsel and guidance? Like ex-President Clinton, they turn to a profane religious leader, Jesse Jackson, or some other hypocritical religious figure. What happens? As Jesus warned, "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." Matthew 15:14. And of the Lord's church the prophet exclaims, "For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed." Isaiah 9:16. | ||
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WE'RE GETTING SICKER
"There is a conspiracy of her prophets [preachers] in the midst thereof … they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things … they have PROFANED mine HOLY things: they have put no difference between the HOLY and PROFANE, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean." Ezekiel 22:25-26. Our churches are apostatizing at an alarming rate, and preachers are getting more profane daily _ and our whole society has the death rattles. Is there a cure? If there are true men of God left, they must prescribe it and apply it in a hurry for time is of essence. The Gathering Storm of God's four devastating and destructive judgments are thundering down upon us with swiftness that's breathtaking and shocking.
THEY WILL FIND NO PLACE OF REPENTANCE
Will these profane ones repent? No; they will be destroyed. "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." II Timothy 3:13. The apostle Peter prophesied of these profane ones of our own endtime generation: "These as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption … Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling [fooling] unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray." II Peter 2:12-15. These profane preachers and teachers don't understand the Bible; they have eyes full of adultery, they cannot cease from sinning. They once knew the right way but rejected it. Now, how can these kind of rebels be saved? They are irreverent and disrespectful of God's Word, His Holiness, and their bodies, which God created to be the Temples of the Holy Ghost. These have changed God's Word into a lie, and their names have been taken out of the Book of Life. Cf. Romans 1:25; Revelation 22:18-19.
BLASPHEMY OF THE HOLY GHOST
Jesus warned small and great soberly: "Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come." Matthew 12:31-32. Plain enough?
BLASPHEMY MEANS: "The act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God; irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable; revile; abuse." This applies to irreverence toward the Holy Ghost. But why? Because the Holy Ghost is the spirit of grace, our only way to God, Jesus Christ, and Eternal Life. Cf. Hebrews 10:28-29. When He, the Holy Ghost, is reviled, insulted, and disrespected by a profane person, he departs never to return! Hebrews 10:26-27; Jeremiah 6:30.
Did you not know that the Holy Bible was written by holy men of God who were anointed and moved by the Holy Ghost? Cf. II Peter 1:18-20. Men who change and corrupt God's word are Holy Ghost blasphemers!
GOD GAVE THEM UP!
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temples of the Holy Ghost. Let's check the record of God's destruction upon these profane rebels for the three reasons God rejected them. 1) "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God … but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened … and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image like to corruptible man … Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 2) "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature [human body] more than the Creator … For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature [Lesbians]: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men [Homosexuals] working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet [which they were worthy of]. 3) "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate [depraved] mind, to do those things which are not convenient [proper]." Romans 1:21-28.
PROFANERS IN THE PULPITS
Many pulpits in our nation are filled with homosexual men and lesbian women. Profaneness _ disrespect for God's Word, blasphemy and irreverence for all that is sacred and Holy _ proceeds from thousands of pulpits in America _ Catholic, Protestant, and Charismatic. "The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom [Sodomites], they hide it not." Isaiah 3:9. Even the Presbyterians openly ordain homosexuals and lesbians _ and perform marriages of these in their churches. They are depraved and profane.
Perverted bibles such as the Living Bible, the International, Revised Version, Amplified, New King James, etc. are PROFANE and are blasphemous to the true work of the Holy Ghost in the KJV. These perverted bibles, some 65 perversions, are the work of profane men. These perverted scriptures keep God's people "from turning from their evil ways, and from the evil of their doings." Jeremiah 23:32.
Perverted teaching from Profane bibles and their profane teachers, are preventing sinners from being convicted by the Holy Ghost, and from being led to true repentance and salvation through Christ Jesus. These Old Testament warnings from God's prophets of old are for our learning and our examples: "Now these things were our examples." I Corinthians 10:6, 11. Also: "For whatsoever things were written aforetime [in the Old Testament] were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." Romans 15:4.
GOD IS AGAINST THEM
"Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them ... Will ye pollute me [or profane me] among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? ... Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life ... I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am the Lord." Ezekiel 13:17-23. | ||
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Review this scripture soberly. This tragedy is repeating itself on a magnitude in churches and among professing Christians today that exceeds Ezekiel's day a thousand times or more.
Beloved, don't fall for the profane alibi that this is Old Testament stuff and was under the law. The New Testament command is, "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak [preach or address the congregation]; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law [Old Testament]." I Corinthians 14:34. This is the whole TRUTH!
GOD'S JUDGMENT ON THESE DEPRAVED ONES
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the TRUTH in unrighteousness [with profaneness and irreverence]." Romans 1:18. Profane, depraved or blasphemers, these all are rejected of God. "Because they received not the love of the TRUTH, that they might be saved _ For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should BELIEVE A LIE: That they all might be damned who believed not THE TRUTH, but had pleasure in unrighteousness [in their depravity and profaneness]." II Thessalonians 2:10-12. But where do God's ravaging judgments begin upon these last-days perverters of God's Word and Holiness? In the pulpits! "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God." I Peter 4:17. Also: "For both prophet and priest are PROFANE; Yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord." Jeremiah 23:11.
WE HAVE ARRIVED
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times [same as Jeremiah 23:20] some shall depart from the faith [in God's Word], giving heed to seducing [deceiving] spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron." I Timothy 4:1-2. No conscience _ depraved! Then the Apostle Paul continues his Holy Ghost warning thusly: These have "corrupt minds, and destitute of the TRUTH, supposing that gain [money and material possessions] is godliness: from such withdraw thyself [and your family]." I Timothy 6:5.
Did you hear what the Holy Ghost is warning you about? Get out of a church where the preachers and teachers profane God's Word and Holiness. And finally: "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine [holiness]; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee." I Timothy 4:16.
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers [and today's churches are crowded with unbelievers] … wherefore come out from among them … saith the Lord Almighty." II Corinthians 6:14-18. The hour has arrived! "Arise, shine; for thy light [of God's Word] is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people … but His glory shall be seen upon thee." Isaiah 60:1-2. AMEN & AMEN. The End. | ||
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Do you know of any biblical record where Jesus Christ or any of His apostles called or ordained a woman to teach or preach the Word of God? No, you don't!
Christ gave gifted men to His church. "He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ." Ephesians 4:11-12. From among these gifted men are the ones the Lord always calls to be the leaders of His Church, the body of Christ.
HELPERS TO MEN OF GOD
"And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, HELPS." I Corinthians 12:28. Jesus' closest and most faithful "HELPERS" were women, to wit: "And certain women ... Mary called Magdalene ... Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance." Luke 8:2-3. The helpers of the Apostle Paul are listed in Romans 16, and most were women, but they were not preachers. "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She ... worketh willingly with her hands ... A woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised." Proverbs 31:10-31.
RESPECT FOR GOD'S WORD
You may be misguided on this controversial and divisive subject, but you won't be any longer if you believe what the Holy Bible, God's Word has to say to you, to me, and to every Real Christian.
A DECLARATION: God has never in the history of men on this earth called a woman to preach the Word of God. "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." I Timothy 2:11-12. If you have an honest heart, you will surely accept this Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth from God's Word, our only authority.
WHY? WHY? WHY?
The devil could not deceive Adam into disobeying God's commandment not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But Eve, being the weaker vessel, believed the devil's lie, ate the forbidden fruit, and tempted Adam to disobey God. This is where all of man's heartache, disease, misery, and death originated -- the original sin! Note the awful truth of this scripture: "Husbands ... giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker | ||
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vessel." I Peter 3:7. We may not agree with the Lord and the Bible, but this is true, the average woman is more easily deceived and misled by Satan and false doctrines than the average man. In the creation of man, God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet [helper] for him [or a companion]." Genesis 2:18-23. A woman is made to be a helper to her husband, and if she's a Christian, a helper to a true man of God." Luke 8:1-3; Romans 16:1-10.
AGED WOMEN TEACH YOUNG WOMEN & CHILDREN
God's Word commands, "The aged [old and mature] women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed." Titus 2:3-5. The women preachers in today's sick church blaspheme the word of God -- and Christ did not call them to preach. Ladies and gentlemen, these will never go anywhere with God, blaspheming His Holy Word.
THE NINE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT
Holy women of God can be used of God by the operation of a REAL spiritual gift of the Holy Ghost. Prophecy is a spiritual gift -- and it is not preaching! The Bible records holy women used of God to prophesy. Deborah was a prophetess. Judges 4:4. Barak was a co-judge with her. In Hebrews 11:32, the scripture declares, "Barak ... who through faith subdued kingdoms," not mentioning Deborah. Philip's four daughters prophesied. Acts 21:9. Also: "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy .. And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy." Acts 2:17-18. These are not called to preach or pastor a church, but to exercise the great spiritual gift of prophecy. I Corinthians 12:10; 14:1-5. Prophecy is the equivalent of speaking in tongues with the interpretation.
DECENT AND IN ORDER
Your Holy Bible commands: "Let all things be done decently and in [divine] order." I Corinthians 14:40. Notice the Divine Order: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak [to preach or address the assembly]; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak [preach or teach] in the church." I Corinthians 14:34-35.
A WOMAN'S DECOR
About a Christian woman's dress code the scriptures command: "Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be ... the ORNAMENT of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well." I Peter 3:3-6. What a far cry was Sarah, Abraham's wife, from professing "Christians" in today's churches. She dressed modestly with | ||
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shamefacedness and sobriety -- not like modern Jezebels with painted faces, and with jewels all over their heads, hands, and neck. Nearly all women preachers, like Tammy Bakker, teach young women to be rebellious against God's Word and their husbands. These are a disgrace -- they are not in God's grace.
CONTENTIONS
"Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom." Proverbs 13:10. At seventy-nine years as I write by Holy Ghost anointing, I have been taught by sanctified and spirit-filled parents and holy men of God during the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's; and by Holy Ghost revelations including an angel of God in February 1957, at the beginning of this prophetic ministry. I've served Jesus Christ most of my life -- and I've written the true Bible doctrines as the Lord has taught me -- and they are proven to be right. Do people think I'm foolish enough to be misled and changed when the Lord has assured me that I'm teaching the Truth of His Word?
I'M AN ELDER
"Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine," (I Timothy 5:17); and that elder [a true man of God] is commanded to speak the things which become sound doctrine. Titus 2:1. I do labor in the teaching of God's Word and Sound Doctrine. And, my beloved, this is a true testimony of my spiritual qualifications: "O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength [and truth] unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come." Psalm 71:17-18. Amen!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is exactly what I do. So if you don't believe the TRUTH, go argue with someone else, because, only by PRIDE cometh contention. You either believe this or you don't. Many will receive it and believe it! And in doing so, they will save themselves and them that hear them. I Timothy 4:16. Amen and Amen. The End. | ||
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A LIGHTHOUSE | ||
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This ministry has been ordained by God to be a lighthouse in the most critical period of the Church's history -- in the midst of a swiftly approaching gathering storm! Our day has not quite arrived to be popular nor respected by the Church (God's people) -- a lighthouse is built to send out its lifesaving beams during the night -- in the storm! This ministry and message as a lighthouse, is being established upon a solid rock, so that the gathering storm can neither undermine it nor wash over it -- Built upon the whole truth and nothing but the truth, the Word of God. The only safe paths in the rising darkness are paths which are marked by the guideposts and beacons of God's Word. "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." Proverbs 4:18. All paths but the narrow path lead to disaster. Matthew 7:13-14. God says, "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." Isaiah 60:1-2. Jesus said prophetically of the rising storm, "The night cometh, when no man can work." John 9:4. What then? We'll just turn up our lights in the lighthouse and shine brightly as the terrible spiritual darkness engulfs us. Our day is near! Our finest hour is at hand. The End. | ||
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Word of Prophecy Newsletter Published by: Word of Prophecy Fellowship P O Box 10200, Jacksonville, FL 32247 Editor Bro. Ray Pringle, a prophet of God and an ordained minister of the Calvary Chapel Church of God, Inc. Associate Editor ... June Carpenter Copyrighted - All rights reserved | ||