Religion is Evil
THE PROPHECY
The Word and the Spirit of God
A message from Uju a servant of Christ Jesus by the grace of God through Christ Jesus, according to the word in the scripture,
2. To the WORLD; glory and honor be unto LORD God Almighty and Christ Jesus our Lord savior forever and ever. Amen.
3. According to Amos 7.14-15:
“Then Amos answered Amaziah, I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, “Go prophesy to my people Israel.”
4. So am I, Uju, a worker of art by trade; the word of God, the Spirit of God, in the name of Christ Jesus appeared to me in a flame of fire from the scripture; and I immediately prophesied saying, “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand” to people of the world.
5. I am no pastor, evangelist, prophet nor an apostle, but by the grace and mercy of God the father of Christ Jesus, I am writing this message to the WORLD according to the scripture.
RELIGION IS EVIL
MAN-MADE
The mystery of life and death!
The concept of religion is man-made. Religion itself is formed by man, and not by God.
1. From ancient to modern times, man has been yearning to align himself with his inner self or inner man to evade perceived internal and external plagues, aiming to live a joyful life as a desirable “end.”
2. But the more man chases this desirable “end,” the more elusive it becomes! Therefore, it becomes impossible for man to achieve it. And ultimately becomes clear to man that it is impossible to realize it by his own power.
3. To the ignorance of man, the desirable “end” stemmed from the desire not to die. Inasmuch as all days of man on earth are full of misery, man still enjoys living on earth forever. But to man’s surprise, it is impossible to live on earth without dying. Man has seen his ancestors, that is, dead ones before him, and definitely, he will soon join them in death.
4. By this obvious phenomenon: life and death, man wonders where these dead ones go or live or exist? In the midst of the puzzle or mystery of life and death, man ponders where did man come from, since death is inevitable.
5. Man began to ask: why is man on earth in the first place? What is the essence of life on earth? Since the vicious circle of life and death is endless, it would be better not to be born, then to be born and die; and when you die, you don’t know where you are going, since you don’t know where you came from.
6. Then, man came to the stark conclusion that life on earth is a mystery no one can decipher!
7. To understand the mystery of life and death, man embarks on an endless journey to gain the knowledge and understanding of the mystery of life and death in a bid to extend his life on earth with joy and peace of mind since death is inevitable.
8. In his journey to the knowledge and understanding of the mystery of life and death, man realizes that there are powers and forces beyond his control acting for and against him in his quest. As a result, man calls the forces in his favor good; and the forces against him bad. To him, he is in the middle of these two opposing forces: good and bad forces or powers; and eventually with their benefits and consequences depending on which one he aligns himself with.
9. To man’s bewilderment, he realizes that these two opposing forces are inside of him and not outside of him! Then, he paused; and became still; and started to look inside of him to see or comprehend these opposing forces acting ceaselessly inside of him.
10. Surprisingly again, man grasps that these two opposing forces inside of him have no end, that is, they are eternal! Wow!
11. To man’s utmost confusion, these two opposing forces are from one but opposite sources. To understand the debilitating puzzle, man began to seek out first, how these two opposing forces came to live in him; secondly what is this one but opposite sources of these opposing forces inside of him?
12. In his first thought, man realizes that he is also a force to reckon with since he has creative ability to fathom inside of him the living opposing forces, but there is a greater force much more powerful than his own force, and at the same time beyond his control. So, he needs to oblige to either of these opposing forces to get along; but first, he has to identify them, and they are from one but opposite sources. Means one primary source holds the controlling power over the other.
13. Then, man asks: who is this All-powerful controlling force? What is this Almighty power that controls the forces of good and bad living inside of him?
The origin of good and bad forces
14. Man, from time immemorial, has passed tales of himself to his offspring or future generations to retain the knowledge and understanding of self and his activities within life, since death is unavoidable.
15. These tales eventually became a history of man and his activities while living on earth. Some were by way of mouth, symbols and signs, elements of heaven and earth, and others by writing. This is done by whatever means to preserve his heritage for future generations yet unborn.
16. There are numerous and diverse peoples on earth with different tongues, tribes, cultures, races, and colors, etc. And of modern times with different political, economic, social and religious status.
17. Consequently, each of these peoples has a history. Some of these histories could be traced to ancient times or ancestors, while some could not.
18. But there is one common denominator to mankind irrespective of the diversity, which is the history of good and bad forces, because these two opposing forces live inside all mankind and must have one genuine historical account.
19. Every good ancestor would want a long life for his offspring and would lead the same to see the two opposing forces of good and bad in a bid to live a peaceful and joyful life on earth since death is inevitable. By this, he will pass tales of the circumstances surrounding the good and bad forces as evidence of powers beyond the control of mankind, and even all that breath. And this goes on and on, world without end! And this became the primary legacy of any man, living or dead.
20. The ancestral tales of good and bad forces are without origin. But the origin of the two opposing forces – good and bad forces is not known to every ancestor, and therefore not known to every generation. This is because not every ancestor and generation have an accurate historical account of the origin of good and bad forces, how much more knowing that they are from one but opposite sources but being controlled by one and only Almighty power.
21. Among peoples who their ancestral pasts outlived time by preservation and restoration are glimpses of their lineages and attendant activities suggesting their heritage. But most times these ancient pasts are built on unverifiable accounts, shrouding everything in mystery. In their present state, the historical account of the ancient past goes against visible nature; one wonders how come about this ancestral history.
22. Of truth, any ancestral historical account that aligns with present natural setting is agreeable to the extent it could give a clue to the origin of the forces of good and bad if it tails towards that end.
23. But not every genuine ancestral historical account points to the origin of the forces of good and bad, suggesting the drive was not to fathom the mystery.
24. Therefore, any ancient historical record deciphering the mystery of forces of good and bad must have come from practical experiences; that is, there must have been a practical encounter with the supernatural forces to theirs. As such the record of it was chronicled to this day.
25. Today we have so many ancient and modern records of the present and past events – both scientific and religious accounts leading to different belief systems about the origin of mankind with particular reference to the forces of good and bad.
26. Of all these accounts, one stood undisputable though many people still don’t believe in it and therefore contest its authenticity to the origin of mankind, good and bad forces.
27. Really, a large number of the world’s population believe in the existence of God by religion, more especially the Abrahamic religions. At the same time, these Abrahamic religions have overwhelming influence in global affairs within and outside religious jurisdiction.
28. Therefore, the belief in God drew the line to the origin of mankind and the forces of good and bad from their respective accounts: Judaism, Christian religion, and Islam.
29. Judaism and Christian religion share a similar account to the origin of man and the forces of good and bad, while Islam has a slightly different but aligning account to them.
30. The account in the book of Genesis of Abrahamic religions, mainly in Judaism and Christian religion, expressly detailed the origin of mankind and the forces of good and bad. And this account lines up with natural manifestations and settings accurately to the present day. To its incredible accuracy with the present nature of mankind, all other people outside the religious jurisdiction of Abrahamic religions come to agree with it.
31. Then, from this account, the puzzle of man about the origin of good and bad forces living in him is eventually solved.
Religion!
ANCIENT AND MODERN
MODERN RELIGION
Religion is the concept of man. Man formed religion, and not God!
1. Many have tried to define what religion is but couldn’t reach an agreeable understanding. Why? Maybe their understanding is not rooted in the word of God to seek the knowledge and understanding of what religion is. For the scripture says, that if you lack wisdom ask God who gives it freely to those who ask. James 1:5
2. The concept of religion is recently framed from the perception of the activities of the diversity of peoples on earth regarding tongues, tribes, cultures, races, lifestyles, beliefs… etc. The lack of deep understanding of the factors that led to the activities of the diversity of peoples on earth regarding tongues, tribes, cultures, races, lifestyles, beliefs… etc., made the definition and knowledge of religion shallow.
3. The shallow knowledge and understanding of what religion is led to the categorization of religion into primarily world religions, new religious movements, traditional religions, and the like. This is because the people or supposedly scholars, maybe of science, religion, philosophy… etc., are far from the proper knowledge of God through Christ Jesus.
4. By the above category and classification, we have the so-called big 5: Judaism, Christian religion, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism going by global spread – population, outreach, and acceptance. Then, we also have Taoism, Shinto, Baha’i, Sikhism, Jainism, Universalism, Unitarian, Wicca… etc.; and traditional religions. All these are by modern understanding.
5. How about ancient religions that are no longer in existence or eclipsed by these modern ones? Though some of these modern ones are rooted in ancient traditions and cultures like Judaism, Hinduism, and Far-East Asian philosophical religions, which claim their existence dating back thousands of years.
ANCIENT RELIGION
6. The above classification seems to represent modern religions, but they are rooted in ancient religions. In ancient times, religion was not identified as religion in the sense of modern classification, but the drive was the same as modern religion: worship.
7. The most accurate account of ancient religion that lives today comes from the scripture. The drive to seek out and worship a deity was the preoccupation of people in ancient times, which extended to modern religion. Consequently, the religious lifestyle worked for or against them with God according to the scripture.
8. But there is God, the only living deity in ancient and modern times, in and out of religion, whose presence and manifestation in the lives of ancient and modern people, propagated by his prophets, notably his Son, Christ Jesus, brought excellent knowledge and understanding of worship through religion.
9. Therefore, God in the lives of his prophets and Son, Christ Jesus, gave rise to religious conflicts associated with worship in obedience and disobedience to God. Thus, nations in disobedience to God had a fierce battle with God through his people, prophets, and Son, Jesus Christ, in ancient and modern times, which came mainly through the word or spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, as prophecy, oracle, or testimonies as recorded in the scripture.
10. In ancient as well as modern times, lifestyles revolved around beliefs and worships. Therefore, ancient nations recorded in the scripture had beliefs and worships that brought the wrath of God against them, such as:
- Babylon
- Assyria
- Moab
- Damascus
- Ethiopia
- Egypt
- Philistia
- Dumah
- Arabia
- Tyre
- Judah
- Israel
- And the whole world.
11. These were among the ancient nations that the prophets of God of old prophesied against because of their disobedience to God, according to the scripture. But one thing was common among them, which was worship, and most times, it was in disobedience to God.
12. In relation to religion, according to modern classification, these ancient nations had a more structured and organized religion than modern ones because they had religious, political, and military powers consolidated into one, with a supreme being seen as a god! This brought the fierce wrath of God, the Supreme Being and life-giving Spirit, against them.
13. In modern religion, many people of religious importance are afraid of being seen as gods, but in reality, they often act worse than those perceived or regarded as gods in ancient religions. Why? Because of their hypocrisy! Modern religions are more hypocritical than the ancient ones, and hence more sinful. People of modern religions exhibit the worst traits of this generation due to their hypocritical nature.
14. What made an ancient religion?
15. If you check the prophecies of the prophets of God of old in the scripture, mainly Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, concerning these ancient nations and their religious beliefs and worship, one fundamental evil trait stands out—idol worship in Judah (Jerusalem), Israel (Samaria), and other nations. This idol worship brought the wrath of God against them.
16. The prophecies of these prophets of God revealed extensively what made ancient religions, especially the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God!
What is Religion?
17. We have seen that so many scholars of different academic and religious backgrounds have failed to give a comprehensive definition and understanding of religion, perhaps for lack of revelation of it from God or lack of proper knowledge of what beliefs and worships are in relation to God through Christ Jesus.
18. So, what really is religion?
19. Religion is a channel formed by man to relate and reach out to a perceived deity or deities and institutionalized it and it became a practice called religion.
20. Religion is rooted in beliefs and worships of a deity or deities. But the only and living deity is God!
21. God is a life-giving Spirit; he is the being; the creator of the heavens and the earth and all the things therefore. He is the Almighty: omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent; he is the Alpha and the Omega – the beginning and the end.
22. The relationship between God and his creation more especially man is worship. Man, in particular is the only creation of God on earth made in his own image: the book of Gen 1.26, 27 stated:
“Then God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping things that creeps upon the earth”.
“So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them”
23. The relationship between man and God is worship. And the worship of God is obedience to his word. The word of God is his Spirit, called the Holy Spirit. And the only true worship of God is through his Son, Christ Jesus.
24. God did not create his beings – angels and man that they must worship him; he thus gave them the freedom of choice in worship a testament of reciprocal love to him.
25. For God is love, and love is God. In true love is the freedom of choice of obedience or worship.
26. This is the model of relationship set by God between him and his beings – angels and man. This model of relationship is not religion, but true love.
27. In religion there is no freedom of worship; you must worship the deity or deities in religion. You don’t have any option order than to worship the deity or deities with severe consequences if you fail to worship it or them. There are no seeable benefits associated in this model of worship wherein you don’t have freedom of choice of worship.
28. This is why religion is evil.
29. In God is the freedom of worship with benefits and consequences in relation to obedience and disobedience of his word through Christ Jesus.
How came religion?
30. Like I said, religion is a channel formed by man to relate and reach out to a perceived deity or deities and institutionalized it and it became a practice called religion.
31. The desire for man to look up to a deity or deities came from the inner man, that is the spirit or heart of man as an indispensable dependency for a healthier physical and spiritual existence on earth to requisite death.
32. Most people in the world believe that Adam and Eve were the first mankind created by God by which all came to be and populated by the children of Enoch after the great flood.
33. From the truth in the book of Genesis in the scripture about man – Adam and Eve, the spirit of man, the living being that made man to become a living soul is the breath of God. This is according the scripture in Gen.2:7,
“then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man become a living being.”
34. Therefore, the life of man is the breath of God; and once this breath is taken man dies and goes back to dust, while his spirit the breath of God goes back to God.
35. Thus, man is indispensable to God!
36. Consequently, the indispensability of man to God is a relationship between man and God, his creator. And that relationship is obedience to God by man.
37. Man, Adam and Eve, as a result realized his indispensability to God as a living deity; a life and death giving deity, that’s the power of both life and death is in his hand. And, there is no other deity or deities that have this essential power order than Almighty God, the maker of the heavens and the earth and all the things thereof!
38. God is love, and love is God, and by this implication God gave man the freedom of choice of obedience and disobedience – a free will to choose between life and death according to the scripture in Deut.30:15,
“See I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil.”
39. By this God out of love advised man to choose life and live forever, or to choose death and die forever. This freedom of choice stemmed from the garden of Eden as written in Gen.2:9,
“And out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
40. In Gen.2:16-17, the LORD God commanded the man saying,
“You man freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
41. In this circumstance, God put man’s freedom of choice to test! But man disobeyed this divine commandment, and failed; therefore, sin and death that came upon the disobedience of man to the word of God spread to all mankind to this day. From this God out of annoyance chased man out from his presence according to the scripture in Gen.3:23-24,
“therefore, the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the Cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.”
42. From the fall, man falls short the glory of God upon him; what a terrible lose!
43. Ever since the great fall, man has been fighting tooth and nail to reach out and relate to God in a bid to regain the lost glory.
44. And by so doing developed a channel to achieve this elusive desire which give rise to what is called religion. Therefore, the channel which man formed to regain the elusive desire of the lost glory of God upon became a religion.
45. In the state of fallen glory of God upon man, man is unable to clearly decipher and live between good and evil. The power of evil is so much on man that drives him to do most times evil order than doing good. The predominant evil practices lead man to live an evil religious act, and so, became a lifestyle to him, hence an unholy life.
46. For this God repented from creating man, saying that all the heart of man is full of evil, according to the scripture in Gen.6:5-6,
“The LORD God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that he made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.”
47. Unfortunately, this is the state of man to this day!
48. Now, the first practice of religious act was displayed by Cain and Abel, suggesting a good and evil religious practice because both were seeking the face of God. As a result of this, faith was the only backbone upon which truly to relate with God.
49. The both made sacrifices, from the produce of their hands; one was borne out of faith, and the other was not, according to the scripture in Heb.11:4,
“By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he received approval as righteous, God bearing witness by accepting his gifts; he died, but through his faith he is still speaking.”
50. From this event, you could see the two religions at play: religion based on faith in God that leads to God’s approval and acceptance; and religion that lacks faith in God but in other gods and receives the wrath of God.
51. This is how religion came about; man formed religion and not God.
52. God has no religion! For God is love, and love is God.
Religion is evil!
From Genesis to Revelation, and from creation to this day, the institution of religion is evil. Yes!
1. God said that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart is only evil continually, Gen.6:5. And at the center of man’s heart is religion, which is evil. Even in the height of the righteousness of man is wickedness.
2. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.
3. The practice of a religion may also include sermons, commemoration of the activities of a god or gods, sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, rituals, rites, ceremonies, worship, initiations, funerals, marriages, meditation, invocation, mediumship, music, art, dance, public service or other aspects of human culture.
4. Religious activities as mentioned above in ancient and modern times have never led man to the perceived and pursued desire, which most often is to acquire perfection unto salvation; or liberation from the forces of darkness. Instead of setting man free from these shackles of darkness, it ropes him deeply into it.
5. Nowhere in recorded history of mankind was it written and verified that religion has set man free from the forces of darkness that holds him down in sin and eternal death, except the divine powers of Jesus Christ through his gospel to set man free from the shackles of sin and the dominion of death unto eternal life.
6. But the divine powers of Jesus Christ through his works on earth were not propagated through religion, rather he condemned the practices of religion, more especially as existed during his own time of the Pharisees, Sadducees, ascribes and the like. He also alluded to past religion in condemnation that gave rise to the religious beliefs and practices of the then Pharisees, Sadducees, scribes and the like. In these circumstances, Christ Jesus denunciated the religious beliefs and devotions of the then Jews emanating from the days of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
7. To bury the deadly religious beliefs and practices, Jesus Christ revealed that true worship that will emancipate you from sin and death unto eternal life is through worship in spirit and truth, you being the temple of God where the Spirit of God dwells.
8. By all witnesses and manifestations of the divine nature of Jesus Christ to freeing man from sin and death unto salvation the world never believed in him; but all who believed and exercised faith in him, he gave them the power to become children of God, unto eternal life, being the resurrection and eternal life himself.
9. My knowledge, understanding and expression of this is not borne out of Christian religion beliefs and devotions, or by any other religious association, but by the revelation of Christ Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit of God; by grace and not by the works of the law, or the works of righteousness of man or by own power. No, it is by grace by the merciful Spirit of God through Christ Jesus.
Evil practice in religion
10. There is a lot of evil practice in religion from creation to this day, notable among them are:
- Temples
- Worships
- Sermons
- Sacrifices
- Feasts
- Festivals
- Ceremonies
- Rituals
- Rites
- Marriages
- Funerals
- Initiations
- Mediumships
- Meditations
- Trances
- Invocations
- Arts
- Music
- Dance
- Public Services
- Etc.
Temples
11. Going by religious activities, man has set up religious temples as places of worships dedicated to one deity or another, with mind-blowing ornamentations to cow the worshippers that blow away their spirits to eternal damnation.
12. Unfortunately, they hold these ostentatious temples in holiness out of ignorance, putting various diabolic sacrifices to honor their gods. But, behold God does not dwell in a temple built by hands, that is manmade. Rather the dwelling place of God, that is his Spirit is in man, as the temple of God.
13. Even the temple built by King Solomon was destroyed by the Babylonians, and the rebuilt of the second temple was erased down by the Romans by the prophecy of Christ Jesus indicating that God does not dwell in a temple made by man.
14. In spite of these warnings, various religious groups, more especially Christian religion have gone ahead to build monumental religious structures mimicking the destroyed towel of Babel in the name of churches in defiance to the word of God who they claim they worship. What an abomination.
15. The worst aspect of these sinful activities is the source of funds, which are raised by induced and seductive donations, tithes in the name of the Lord, deceitful offerings, unholy business establishments and various vices as never mentioned before in the history of mankind. An abomination!
16. Outside Christian religion are magnificent temples built by many religious associations, wherein the desecration of some of them sometimes leads to death. They revere these temples more than the precious human lives; they sometimes make human sacrifices in the temples.
17. God in all frowns at these manmade temples and letting them to come to the knowledge and understanding that all these practices are idol worships; that the true temple of God is man, and the true worship is in spirit and truth wherein the spirit is the heart of man, the inner man; and the truth is Christ Jesus. This is such that you use your heart or spirit to worship through Christ Jesus: the approved and accepted true worship of God by God.
18. Therefore, if places of gathering in the name of God should be built must be stripped of any trappings and settings deviating the attention of the worshippers from the devotion of God. And the sources of funds or any monetary involvement should be guided by the word of God as written in the scripture.
19. God never said you not should gather in his name, as a practice of worship, but should be in line with the direction of his Holy Spirit through Christ Jesus. Remember, God says that where two or three are gathered in my name, am there. Therefore, the gathering in the name of God should not be in a synagogue of Satan, because God will never be there with them.
20. Recall that the people of ancient Athens were very religious and built so many adorable and magnificent religious temples to their gods, and seemingly dedicated one inscribing on it to unknown god! Behold Apostle Paul put it to them in recognition of their religious devotion that that which they inscribed on it to unknown god was really the true God whom we worship; for in him we live and move and have our being. Acts17:16-34
21. By that knowledge and understanding, Apostle Paul made it clear that God does not dwell in a temple made by hand or manmade temples, rather that the true temple of God is you, man, wherein the Spirit of God dwells through Christ Jesus.
22. These superfluous temples have become instead of places of true worship synagogues of Satan more especially the so-called churches of Christian religion – Babylon the great. The scripture noted in Rev.18:2, that: “It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul and hateful bird;”
23. Still these fake and wicked ministers of Christian religion compel people to gather and worship in them, quoting the scripture in Heb.10:25 – “not neglecting to meet together” to validate their evil call to church-going thereby holding them captives as a fowler. Beasts!
Worships
24. Truly worship is obedience to a perceived deity or deities.
25. And the only true and living deity is God. Therefore, the worship of God is obedience to his word or Spirit through the Son, Jesus Christ. For Jesus Christ says, if you love me keep my word or commandment. So, the act of disobedience to God is sin, and an idolatry; because if you are not worshipping God or obeying him, then you are worshipping Satan or obeying him, which is idolatry.
26. But, from time past to the present this holy relationship – true worship between God and man has been marred by unholy religious activities involving sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, rituals, rites, ceremonies, worship, initiations, funerals, marriages, meditation, invocation, mediumship, music, art, dance, public service or other aspects of human culture.
27. And God warned man against these evil religious activities leading multitudes to eternal damnation. In these sinful religious so-called worships, man venerates the creature rather than the creator – Almighty God; man, worships mammon particularly in Christian religion, the worst religion on earth in creation because of their hypocrisy.
28. Consequently, true worship of God is in spirit and truth, as written in the scripture in John4:23-24,
“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
29. God is not man, or the creation of man, or any representation of art; God is spirit! Therefore, anyone who worships him must worship in spirit and truth, and not in religious activities involving sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, rituals, rites, ceremonies, worship, initiations, funerals, marriages, meditation, invocation, mediumship, music, art, dance, public service or other aspects of human culture.
30. By implication of worship of God in spirit and truth, you use your spirit or heart to worship him through Christ Jesus, the truth by the power of the Holy Spirit.
31. To perpetuate the unholy religious worships mostly in Christian religion, Satan has disguised himself as the angel of light – Christ, an Antichrist taking his evil stand in Christian religion so-called churches leading so many through fake ministers of Christian religion to eternal damnation.
32. Through the pretentious acts of the beast and the false prophet so many fake miracles, signs and wonders are performed as pieces of worship to lead those destined to perish to hell.
Sermons
33. Sermon supposedly is what is preached in religious temples as an activity of worship. It is mostly administered by ministers to adherents or members of the religious group. In religion, sermons are used to differentiate and discriminate between the priestly class and the laity. Even the structural designs of religious temples are in that formation. By this discriminating standard, the priestly class, thus, lord it over the perceived laities.
34. So also, in the dressing of the priestly class such is obvious cladding themselves in a hypocritical ‘holy’ apparel suggestive of righteousness, while inside they are ravenous wolves. This is what the Lord pointed out in Matt.23:5,
“They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,”
35. This double standard is to promote rigor of devotion and self-abasement and worship of angels as written in Col.2:1-23.
36. Sermon in Christian religion should be Christ preached – the sermon of true repentance unto salvation, but it is not. What is preached instead are mammon, breakthrough, miracles, signs and wonders, lies from pit of hell, false hope and the like committing worshippers to eternal damnation.
37. Even the scripture has warned them not to be all preachers because such would be strictly judged, but due to the false glory and mammon associated with it they decide to die headlong in it. Fools!
38. The Lord says that those who serve at the temple shall live by it, but these false ministers of Christian religion, have willfully decided to rob the temple instead of living in holiness by it. By so doing they preach the sermon of prosperity rather than the gospel of the Lord which is true repentance unto salvation.
Sacrifices
39. Sacrifices have been the core value in religious activities from time past. As the backbone of worship, sacrifices often times are put well above human lives, such that the precious human lives are sacrificed to gods in appeasement.
40. Sacrifices in religious worships are highly regarded portending to blood, wherein without shedding of blood there seems to be no sacrifice is a stark truth even in the case of the death of Christ Jesus, who willingly gave his life as a sacrifice for the salvation of mankind.
41. Sacrifice of animals is more approved and acceptable to God than human sacrifice which he frowns at. To God, on no account human lives should be used in sacrifices, and such attracts the wrath of God on the culprits. By this evil act, they perpetrators pollute heaven and earth, for the life of human is part and parcel of that of God.
42. Beside animal and human sacrifices, sacrifices involve other rites paid to gods in worship covering money, foods, vows, forbearance, thanksgiving, praise-worship, offerings of earthly elements, etc.
43. But the best sacrifice is thanksgiving offering involving showing of sincere gratitude and appreciations mainly expressed in praise-worship, songs, psalms, hymns and joyful dancing. God regards thanksgiving offering as the best sacrifice.
44. But today, mainly in Christian religion sacrifices are monetized. Christian religion in particular encourage offering of money and other material gifts such as houses, cars, wristwatches, clothing, silver and gold and pearls over vows of no monetary value such as thanksgiving. This is what Christ Jesus observed in the lives of the Pharisees and scribes and condemned it as written in Matt.23:16-22,
“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘if any one swears by the temple, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred? And you say, ‘if any one swears by the alter, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’ You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? So, he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it; and he who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who dwells in it; and he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.”
45. The above scenario is the case with religion, mainly Christian religion. All these sacrifices are ignorantly made to demons, for the scripture said in 1Cor.10:20,
“No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not God.”
46. Truly religion is paganistic. The sacrifices religion offer, they offer to demons, and not God; for the best sacrifice to God is thanksgiving offering, which religion mainly Christian religion subtly rejects.
Feasts, Festivals and Ceremonies.
47. These are remarkable activities in religion from time immemorial. They are celebrations highly associated with worship in religion that most times flare the ambers of the flesh. They are practiced stoking evil passions, and in a frenzied pattern to shedding of human blood to crown the activity.
48. Days, months, years and seasons are observed to mark feasts, festivals and ceremonies in religion, more especially in Christian religion. They are inundated with rituals, passage of rites, worship of moon and stars, and other heavenly and earthly bodies.
49. In fact, worship of beings is among the heights of it, where members of various religious groups bow in veneration to spirits and human beings in celebrations upholding feasts, festivals and ceremonies.
50. Observations of feasts, festivals and ceremonies encapsulate the mundane lordship over laities by the priestly class. Religious leadership perpetuates these sinister activities to hold their captives to life-long slavery.
51. This is why the scripture condemned it as written in Gal.4:10-11,
“You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years! I am afraid I have labored over you in vain.”
52. In a similar condemnation, the scripture said in Col.2:16,
“Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink or with regard to a festival or a new moon or sabbath.”
53. These are cowing properties of observation of feasts, festivals and ceremonies in religion. In Christian religion these are likened to Sunday-Sunday worship, Christmas, Easter and birthdays celebrations. Inclusive in Christian religion feasts, festivals and ceremonies, are organization of crusades, conferences, symposiums, music festivals, programs and similar activities wherein they prey on their captives by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.
54. The Lord remarked this in condemnation in Matt.15:3,
“And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?”
55. These are religious traditions transgressing the commandment of God, in particular in Christian religion – Babylon the great!
Initiations, Rituals and Rites
56. Religious membership is multi-faceted; proselytizing comes sometimes by conquests, indoctrinations, seductions, hypnotisms, passage of rites, etc. Some religions use formal and structured initiation procedures to admit members, while others use informal and unstructured initiation processes to get their members.
57. It is true the Lord has commanded his followers to:
“Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always to the close of age.” Matt.28:19-20
58. The rule of engagement in the Lord’s command to make disciples of the world is by ultimate humility and respect for human distinctions, wherein the disciples humbly appeal to the consciences of the world to repent of their sin for the salvation of their souls by accepting Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, without expectation of anything in return order than their souls to God. Therefore, there are no rituals involved; and no rites exchange or expected to be passed. It is never by force or conquest; not by seduction; not by hypnotism; and not by indoctrination or propaganda. It is by humble appeal to see the truth in the gospel preaching Christ for true repentance unto salvation.
59. Remember Christ preached by the true disciples of the Lord is free of charge, and no ulterior motives. The wages for the preachers of the gospel or ministers of the Lord are by free-will gifts; and not by tithe offering which is an exaction.
60. This is a departure from the goings-on in proselytizing and initiations to religious membership ubiquitous in ancient and modern religions.
61. Christian religion who claim Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior departed from this holy proselytizing. There is thus, a great apostasy – a falling away from the works of the Lord and the early apostles and disciples of the Lord by Christian religion. This apostasy was witnessed by the Lord in religion of his time on earth practiced by the Pharisees, Sadducees, scribes and the like from the teachings of the law by Moses.
62. Though the law was a custodian to them, but they never adhered to it as should. For this reason, the Lord said in condemnation in Matt.23:15,
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.”
63. This is the same with Christian religion which is an offshoot of the Pharisees, Sadducees and scribes; their case in proselytizing is even worse.
64. They proselytize with an evil motive of mass populating their members for mammon. By so doing to gain mammon they open branches like the sand of the earth in false claims they are making disciples of the world for Christ Jesus. Evil people!
65. They build monumental religious temples called churches with various superfluous names in pretentious dedication to the Lord but this is to up their ante, flare their celebrity personas and to cow and hold spellbound their captives and send them to hell together with themselves leading the way. Wicked souls!
66. Once they hold you like a vice, would not let go of you until you are sucked dry to hell; you are committed to unseen rituals and passages of rites in promotion with assumed heightened religious titles on your name to condemn you unsuspectedly to eternal death. Fake ministers!
Births, Marriages and Funerals
67. By accident of birth people are born into various religious groups and organizations. This is therefore by birth default! But by proselytizing and conversion you could become a member of a different religion from religion of your birth.
68. To solemnize your membership at birth you are dedicated to the religion sometimes by baptism or different initiation procedures authenticating your membership. By this process ceremonies are perfumed to honor and validate your membership as one family of the religion.
69. If you loyally continue your membership you are ignorantly been initiated to high ranking by unseen rituals and passage of rites to ordinating you sometimes to priestly class if so desired.
70. By such strength of membership, you are compelled to marry in same religion, in discrimination to another religion even when the devotion is to the same god or God. This marital dissension is common among same religion with different denominations. Even when the denominations are very close in worship of the same god or God, but due to slight difference in faith, you are prevented from marrying out, which they view as disobedience to their doctrine and belief and faith, and as a result you could be dispelled or ex-communicated.
71. Every religion has marriage doctrine delineating them from other religions and denominations. There is a morbid discrimination in denominations of same religion of marriage doctrines and vows to procreate members of same denomination of same religious groups or organizations.
72. By implication, religious marriage doctrines have come to have overwhelming influence on the culture and tradition of the host peoples and nations. This is such that their religious marriage doctrines have overtaken or mixed up with the cultural or traditional marriage practices of the land to come with hybrid marriage doctrines most times against the culture and traditions of the land but in favor and promotion of the religious denomination.
73. The resultant hybrid marriage doctrines are now the practice of the land sometimes for and against the religious denomination and the land. This pit them against the tradition of the land held by conservatives but favored by the progressives mainly the youths.
74. I will discuss these marriage doctrines in details in another message.
75. Funeral rites come as culture and tradition of a people, but most times tied to their religious beliefs and practices. As part of religious beliefs and practices, funerals are conducted to preserve the legacy of the dead and heritage of the living as a matter of life and death.
76. But funerals often times are diabolically carried out with human sacrifices from ancient times to this day!
77. Why?
78. In ancient times, the royals and the rich had stupendous funerals – building magnificent tombs as monuments in dedication to lost loved ones. Some of the ancient relics are monumental tombs enthusiastically built to commemorate the dead. Human sacrifices were a common funeral practice in the time past; even today same is practiced to honor the dead. What an abomination!
79. All these evil activities are done to give the dead a befitting burial, and at the expense of the living.
80. Today, the best supposedly funerals are carried out by the Muslims according to Islamic funeral rites. While the worst funerals are held by the so-called Christians; and a practice nowhere found in the scripture.
81. How the so-called Christians came back their funeral rites is mysterious. They blend together the diabolic traditions of the land with their religious beliefs to come up with beast-like kind of funerals. They put the dead in a mortuary for a very longtime waiting when all are supposedly well to give the person so-called befitting burial at the expense of the living who do not have any option but to bear the brute imposition on them helplessly.
82. Funerals today in the so-called Christian communities have become an idol to be worshipped! This is such that if you don’t have money to carry out funeral rites you are in serious trouble; therefore, you have to go out to look for money in a shameful begging perpetuating you in debts in a bid to bury the dead.
83. Ironically, the dead when alive, had no opportunity of being taken care of; most of them die in penury, only to be buried befittingly with borrowed and shameful donated money, and this mainly for the poor. Then for the rich, funerals are moments to display their wealth in a manner to honor and celebrate the dead and living.
84. Today are many funeral homes who are tasked as a business to organize funerals more especially for the rich and famous. Funerals have become huge business ventures to serve the desire of the rich in particular. It is a competition among the rich and famous to engage the most expensive funeral homes to organize funerals for their dead ones, while the poor, scamper for the leftovers to join the train. What a tragedy!
85. Dead ones can no longer just be buried to enable their departed souls to rest in peace, no; rather they are held long in limbo in the name of giving them a befitting bury and suffer their departed souls.
Mediumships
86. A medium is an intermediary between man and a deity or deities or gods, mainly not appointed by God as to the prophets of God. From creation, God condemned consulting a medium for spiritual knowledge, understanding, fortune-telling, prophecy, and requisite powers for that is wizardry or witchcraft.
87. God normally speaks through his anointed prophets, and obliged his people to hear them out, or consult them for spiritual knowledge, understanding, wisdom and prophecy. They are well known in the scripture, of which the highest among them is his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ – the great high priest of God, that mediates between man and God.
88. A medium is not an anointed prophet of God, and thus God shuns them and strongly warns his people against consulting them which attracts his wrath. This is as written in the scripture in Lev.19:31,
“Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.”
“If a person turns to mediums and wizards, playing the harlot after them, I will cut him off among the people.” Lev.20:6.
“A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them,” Lev.20:27
89. Consequently, is a heinous sin before God to consult a medium or a wizard, for what they worship are idols; they pay obeisance to demons, and therefore pollute the land by their evil activities. The powers they possess, are thus from Satan, and not from God, and hence destructive.
90. From ancient times to this day mediumships are prevalent in religions. They come in different names and titles to deceive people; they often times disguise themselves as angels of light like their father, Satan.
91. In Christian religion mediums and wizards are the fake prophets, preachers, teachers, and ministers of Christian religion in the name and titles of men of God as to bishops, pastors, prophets, prophetesses, evangelists, apostles and the like. Fake Christian religion men and women of God. Hypocrites!
92. The Lord Jesus Christ has made it very clear, saying that you should come directly to him, for he is the only way, the truth and life to salvation; that no one comes to the Father, God except by him. By this divine message, any sort of passage to God through man is cancelled and evil, as such likened to seeking out a medium.
93. In as much as there are real and anointed men and women of God through Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, they should not act as mediums and wizards, by taking the glory of God through Christ Jesus for themselves; for God says that he will not share his glory with anybody.
94. Today in Christian religion so many of their ministers are taking the glory of God for themselves, interposing, interceding and mediating unlawfully between man and God, thereby overshadowing the Lord and acting as mediums and wizards. Wolves in sheep clothing!
Meditations, Trances and Invocations
95. These are common practices in religion, and most times against the will of God. The understanding and practices of the acts go against the word of God, because they are observed through mediums and wizards.
96. In religion, meditations, trances and invocations are performed or carried out by conductors who by such hypnotize the recipients. By the process of hypnosis, the recipients are beheld by demons, and intermingle with the powers of darkness; they sometimes under these demonic forces do not come back to their normal senses, leading to various mental illnesses, and often times to complete madness!
97. Though meditations are sometimes encouraged by God, by isolating and having quiet time with God, and must not be in any a posture of any particular form.
98. But in religion meditations, trances and invocations are mostly observed by posture of the body in a precise form of sitting, standing, laying down or bending as to achieve transcendental communication with the supernatural. This is demonic, because such acts are ungodly and are offered to demons and not God. All these are they teachings of the so-called masters of wisdom and understanding in various religions. Fake men!
99. Remember the incident of true spiritual intercession as to meditations, trances and invocations is not by the power of any man but by the power of the Holy Spirit of God through Christ Jesus. You do not know when such comes upon you regardless of your preparations as to thought and postures of the body.
Arts, Music, Dance, Public Services, Etc.
These topics are written in detail in the message in PSALM 137 Vs 4. Please kindly read it.
1. But for the sake of our esteemed readers, arts, music, dance in particular are approved and acceptable to God in as much as they are propagated through holiness. Praise-worship and thanksgivings and holy dance are aromas savoring the Spirit of God. God highly appreciates these gestures, mostly when offered with a pure and upright heart.
2. Arts, music and dance in religion are worldly giving glory to Satan, rather than God. Religion has mixed secular and supposedly godly songs, psalms and hymns in praises giving rise to kind of beastly renditions.
3. To appeal to public audiences, religion convocated arts, music and dance as worldly fashion and trend in their temples, houses, televisions, social media, etc., in offerings to demons knowingly and ignorantly.
4. This unholy act is prevalent in Christian religion, who seek validation from the public and as such do whatever that will be acceptable by the public regardless of God, who they claim to worship. What a shameful act.
5. This is one among the notable public services religion and in particular Christian religion offer to the masses.
6. Other public services given out to the masses are framed up as a religious worship rendered to God, mostly in and unholy manner.
7. Please, note religion is evil; is not from God. No! Religion is from man, from the evil heart of man. Therefore, whatever is practiced in religion is evil.
8. I sincerely appeal to everyone living to refrain from the practices of religion for they are evil and would lead you to eternal destruction if you so partake of it. May Almighty and graceful God have mercy upon us all through Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen! Amen! Amen!