The Prophecy
Priesthood
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.
PRIESTHOOD
MANY, BUT ONE ONLY!
1. The worship of God is the obedience of the word of God through Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. And that is true worship of God. This is irrespective of religious devotion and human distinction.
2. The scripture says in Acts10:34,
“Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.”
3. This was in an event of a Roman centurion, unknown to the disciples of the Lord then, whose worship of God was acceptable to the Lord, wherein Romans were perceived as enemies of the Jews by virtue of belief, how much more a Roman soldier – a centurion! To this, the scripture noted,
‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.’ Acts 10:31
4. As a result, salvation came to his household by the hand of the Lord through Apostle Peter. This is applicable to an Ethiopian eunuch, in which the merciful Lord brought salvation to him by the hand of Apostle Philip. Acts 8:26-40
5. A lot of individuals are worshipping God in spirit and truth outside the shores of the so-called Christian religion, and also unknown to them but the Lord. And their worship is acceptable by the Lord.
6. From the structure of worship it is obvious that man can only reach out to God through a source, way, medium, or channel, without which it is impossible to relate with God.
7. The fall of man made this source, way, medium, or channel vague. Man, in a bid to make the muted channel audible and relaunch himself clearer back to God, came up with many and diverse sources, ways, media, or channels to worship God.
8. This eventually gave rise to the making of religion; various religions were formed as a result – some in harmony, and some in antagonism.
9. But God has no religion!
10. The supposed religion of God is love.
11. The love of God and your neighbor through Christ Jesus is the only way to truly worship God. For faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest is love. 1Cor. 13:13.
12. The worship of God has a structure!
13. From the structure of worship, it is obvious that man can only reach out to God through a particular source, way, medium, or channel, without which it is impossible to relate with God.
14. Of the many sources, ways, media, or channels, only one is acceptable to God. Yes, only one way is chosen by God as a channel of worshipping him.
15. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Gen. 1:1
16. But in the beginning of the beginning, God created his Son, Jesus Christ, through his Spirit, the Holy Spirit, as testified by the scripture in Prov 8:22-30.
“The LORD created me at the beginning of his works, the first of his acts of old.
Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depts I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shape, before the hills, I was brought forth; before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.
When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep.
When he assigned the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master workman; and I was daily hid delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men.”
17. Then through the Son, Jesus Christ, God created the heavens and the earth as in the prophecy of the Holy Spirit in Col 1.15-20:
“He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities – all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of the cross.”
18. The Son of God, Jesus Christ is also God. He is one among the divinity – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is Mighty God! According to the prophecy of the Holy Spirit in Is. 9.6:
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called,
“Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
19. Jesus Christ is also the Word of God – Mighty God, as in the testimony of the Holy Spirit in John1:1,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
20. This is reconfirmed by the Holy Spirit in Rev.19:13,
“He is clad in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.”
21. Our relationship with God is obedience to his word which is the worship of God. The first worshipper of God is the Son, Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.
22. Christ Jesus is the beginning of God’s creation and the first worshipper of the Father, Almighty God.
23. Christ Jesus, the Son of God, instituted the first worship of God, and hence set up the only and everlasting structure of worship of God.
24. Truly speaking Christ Jesus is the worship of God, being the wisdom, righteousness, image, judgment……etc., of God.
25. He is the only way, the truth and the life to God, according to the scripture in John14:6,
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.”
26. This testimony of the Holy Spirit confers on Christ Jesus the head of subsequent true worshippers of God in heaven and on earth, called the Church – the Body of the Lord, according to the Holy Spirit in Col.2:18-20,
He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of the cross.”
27. The head of most worshippers is called the priest, who officiates ministration on behalf of the worshippers to a perceived deity.
28. Priesthood is an exclusive ministration delegated to an appointed class of people who conduct worship on behalf of the people to a perceived deity.
29. These appointed class of people are called ministers, with a selected head among them referred to as the priest. Where the ministers constitute a priestly class, the head therefore becomes a high priest to the priestly class.
30. This is applicable to Jesus Christ.
31. Jesus Christ is the head of all true worshippers of God in heaven and on earth. These true worshippers of God form the Church or the Body – Col. 2:18.
32. Jesus Christ is the head of the body, the church, and is therefore the Priest.
33. Jesus Christ as the Priest has appointed ministers who officiate or minister to him; these ministers also constitute a priestly class called the royal priesthood, where the Lord is the great High Priest over them.
34. The royal priesthood is sometimes termed to be all the disciples of the Lord – the true worshippers of God, who worship Him in spirit and in truth, as written in 1Peter 2:9.
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”
35. By referring to them as a royal priesthood is a reconfirmation of their identity as contained in the new covenant in which Christ Jesus is the mediator.
Now we have three types of priesthood, namely:
- Christ’s Priesthood
- Levitical Priesthood
- Babylonian Priesthood or Christian Religion Priesthood
Christ’s Priesthood
A GREAT HIGH PRIEST
2. The priesthood of Christ Jesus is from the beginning, before the creation of heaven and earth. He is among the divinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit; he is the worship of God and a great High Priest of God as well.
3. Christ’s priesthood is from heaven. His sanctuary is in heaven, the original structure God commanded Moses to copy and erect as a tent for the people of Israelite, according to the scripture in Heb. 8:5.
“They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary; for when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.”
4. All the earthly priests appointed by God came through Jesus Christ, the great High Priest of God.
5. By virtue of Christ’s priesthood, he obtained a supreme ministry to reconcile all things to God, both in heaven and on earth.
6. It is obvious the rebellion in heaven by Satan and his cohort was primarily against the priesthood of Christ. The rebellion came to be when Satan tried to form another Christ – Antichrist, in order to take the glory of God who is Christ to himself.
7. Satan in the rebellion wanted to become Christ himself, but failed, and started parading himself in disguise as Christ, who is also the angel of light as the Holy Spirit prophesied in 2Cor. 11:14.
“And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel light.”
8. Satan in the rebellion denied the Son, Christ; he denied that Jesus is Christ and subsequently denied God. For who denies the Son, the great High Priest of God, also denies the Father, and him is the antichrist as witnessed by the Holy Spirit in 1John2:22-23,
“Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father.
9. As a result of the rebellion in heaven, Satan came and brought the fall of man to spite God. And Adam fell by the hand of Eve through the deceit of the ancient serpent, Satan the Devil in the garden of Eden.
10. The rebellion in heaven and the fall of man on earth dented the priesthood of Christ for those who are perishing – those destined to eternal destruction; but for those destined to everlasting life, the priesthood of Christ is pure and without blemish – an everlasting sanctuary of Christ ordained and sanctified by God for salvation unto eternal life.
11. Before the established Levitical priesthood, we had true worshippers of God overshadowed by the heavenly sanctuary of the Lord. These true worshippers of God used to erect altars upon which they make sacrifices in the worship of God.
12. The first sacrificial altars were erected by Cain and Abel to worship God. You would have me say that they were the first priests of God on earth. Unfortunately, the sacrifice of Cain was rejected by God because sin was found in him, as written by the scripture in Gen. 4:3-7.
“In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard.
So, Cain was angry, and his countenance fell. The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? And if you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
13. In the course of time after this incident, people started calling upon the name of LORD as noted in Gen.4:26,
“To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.”
14. Men began to call or worship God after the death of Abel and the birth of Seth. There were certainly holy men who were conducting the worship as heads or priests to God.
15. This practice continued until a remarkable event took place in the life a holy man, in the seventh generation of Adam, called Enoch, as testified by the Holy Spirit in Gen.5:24,
“Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.”
16. Enoch was undoubtedly a noteworthy prophet of God, and received the revelation by God of the second coming of Christ Jesus about six thousand years after, for he prophesied of it as written in Jude:14-15,
“It was of these also that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied, saying, “Behold the Lord came with his holy myriads, to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of their deeds of ungodliness which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
17. By this prophesy of Enoch, he must have preached Christ to his generation, having spiritually seen the second coming of Christ Jesus, ahead of his first coming testifying to the priesthood of Christ.
18. In the same generation of the Adam’s descendants was another holy man called Noah, as written in Gen.5:28-29,
“When Lamech had lived a hundred and eighty-two years, he became the father of a son, and called his name Noah saying, “Out of the ground which the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands.”
19. In the generation of Adam’s descendants, there was a record of sinful activities among the daughters and sons of men, culminating to an unimaginable height in the days of Noah. The LORD God was angry with the sinful situation on earth and decided to make an end of all flesh through the great flood.
20. Noah, as an outstanding prophet of God, must also have preached Christ to his generation, which unfortunately fell on deaf ears.
21. This evil generation of Noah’s time profaned the sanctity of the priesthood of Christ, leading to their eternal destruction by the great flood of which only eight were saved – Noah and his family.
22. Thus, Noah built a stunning structure, called the Ark by divine providence of God – a physical salvation, a physical Lord, that saved the survived creation of God from the great flood, heralding the next lineage of man and other creations to date.
23. Consequently, the priesthood of Christ was carried on by the sons of Noah through the descendants of Shem to Abraham.
24. Abraham was called out from following his ancestors by God to start entirely a new way of worship absolutely based on faith to the full manifestation of the priesthood of Christ.
25. Abraham’s relationship with God was a new creation in the worship of God and therefore laid a concrete foundation of Christ’s priesthood.
26. Abraham, by God’s grace, started the journey of the Hebrews that led to the nation of Israel, culminating to the Jews, wherein salvation came from, the Lord being from the tribe of Judah.
27. Recall that Abraham was the primary ancestor of Christ by the sonship of King David according to the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, as written in Matt. 1:1.
“The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.”
28. It is sure that the generation of the Lord in the flesh followed from Abraham – 42 generations in total as written in Matt.1:17,
“So, all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.”
29. If you calculate the 42 generations, which translate to 42 months or 3.5 years, Christ spent preaching the gospel of salvation on earth, leading to his death, resurrection, and return to heaven where he came from. What a mystery!
30. The priesthood of Christ was a secret, only revealed to a few chosen by God who had exercised strong faith in God before the Lord’s first coming to the world. These individuals who had the revelation of Christ’s priesthood prophesied about it, even though they were not able to fully comprehend what they were prophesying.
31. Even during the Lord’s time on earth, no one, including the apostles and the disciples, knew of his priesthood until his death, resurrection, and ascension to heaven. Then the mystery of his priesthood was revealed to his apostles, along with other disciples and the world in general, who also exercised faith in him.
The mystery of Christ’s priesthood!
MELCHIZEDEK
1. The sanctuary of the Lord – the true tent is heaven, the copy which God instructed Moses to erect on earth for the tribes of Israel. In this true heavenly sanctuary, the Lord officiates as the great High Priest of God and man forever and ever.
2. The prophesy of the everlasting priesthood of Christ was given by the prophets of old, as written in Ps.110:4,
“The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”
3. As I mentioned earlier, there was a turning of events in the call by God of Abraham from his ancestors to lead an exceptionally faithful journey that gave rise to the people of Israel, cementing the foundation of the priesthood of Christ.
4. It was in this event that the LORD God revealed to Abraham the mystery of Christ’s priesthood in the likeness of Melchizedek.
5. Melchizedek was a mysterious spiritual identity—a personification of the priesthood of Christ, for the priesthood of Christ is in the likeness of Melchizedek by the power of the Holy Spirit of God according to Heb.7:15.
“This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek, who has become a priest, not according to a legal requirement concerning bodily descent but by the power of an indestructible life.”
6. The meeting of Abraham with Melchizedek was not a coincidence but a revelation by God to Abraham to embrace the priesthood of Christ.
7. The blessing of Melchizedek on Abraham was of the Lord, which validates the calling of Abraham by God for the purpose of faith. By that, Abraham became a herald of faith to his descendants.
8. It is evident that the lower is blessed by the higher authority, and in response to this, Abraham honored the blessing by paying tithe to Melchizedek, signaling a holy worship to the Lord. Recall what the Lord said to this in John 8:58.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was I am.”
9. Melchizedek represents the order of spiritual worship leading to salvation, in contrast to the physical worship carried out by the Levites in the order of Aaron.
10. The order of Melchizedek symbolizes spiritual worship directed towards eternal life through the priesthood of Christ. This means that the priesthood of Christ follows the order of Melchizedek and is predestined for the salvation of mankind. This emphasis is reiterated below:
“Thou are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
11. Now, the persona of Melchizedek is as follows:
- Everlasting Priest of the Most High God
- King of righteousness
- King of Salem, that is King of peace
- Without father or mother or genealogy
- No beginning of days nor end of life
- Resembles the Son of God
12. See how great he is! A mysterious spiritual personality.
13. This mysterious spiritual personality is a type of Christ, revealed by God to Abraham for the purpose of holy worship, in which Abraham received a blessing to his prospective father of faith.
14. The blessing of Melchizedek on Abraham is of the Lord, empowering his unalloyed faith in God.
15. That is to say that the Lord is the making of Abraham!
16. Like earlier mentioned, the meeting of Abraham with Melchizedek, a type of Christ, instituted a holy worship a type of sabbath, wherein the Lord is the lord, according to the scripture in Matt.12:8,
“For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.”
17. Sabbath is fundamentally centered around the worship of God, and the essence of worship is Christ. Consequently, the Lord embodies the concept of the Sabbath, as exemplified in Abraham’s divine encounter with Melchizedek. This event could be considered the initial observance of the Sabbath in human history, signifying the significance of the priesthood of Christ.
18. Another enigmatic manifestation of the priesthood of Christ is seen in the Levitical priesthood, established when the tribes of Israel struggled to maintain the faith of their forefathers—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Due to the Israelites’ inability to uphold the spiritual worship rooted in Christ’s priesthood, God revealed a form of physical worship suitable for them—the Levitical priesthood.
19. The failure of the Israelites to adhere to the spiritual worship of God, grounded in Christ’s priesthood, led God to introduce a manageable form of physical worship. This new mode of worship included a related priesthood known as the Levitical priesthood.
20. To ensure accountability to this priesthood, God established a covenant (a sacred agreement) with the Israelites, comprising laws, statutes, and ordinances—the old covenant or the 1st covenant.
21. In response to their deviation from the spiritual worship of God, God instituted the Levitical priesthood as a physical means of worship. This priesthood was governed by a structured covenant, with Moses acting as the mediator, and the Levites appointed as ministers and priests.
22. God solidified this covenant by establishing an order known as the order of Aaron, designating him as the high priest to lead the priesthood.
23. Unlike the order of Aaron, the priesthood of Christ was not accompanied by an oath. God, who had already sworn an oath by Himself regarding the priesthood of Christ, stated in Heb. 7:20-22:
“And it was not without an oath. Those who formerly became priests took office without an oath, but this one was addressed with an oath,
“The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind.
‘Thou are a priest forever’”
“This makes Jesus the surety of a better covenant.”
25. God foreknew the weakness of the priesthood, and used it instead as a custodian, until the rightful priesthood comes into effect.
26. It will be suicidal for the people of Israel to walk in a vacuum, having failed to sustain the faith of their forefathers, and therefore needed a custodian, a kind of guide, until the revelation of the right priesthood – Christ’s priesthood, and then the obsolete priesthood would be discarded for its uselessness as written in Heb.8:13,
“In speaking of a new covenant, he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.”
27. Remember that every priesthood of God is anchored on a covenant establishing the law.
28. Therefore, when there is a change in a covenant, there will be a change in the priesthood necessitating a change in the law also, as prophesied by the Holy Spirit in Heb.7:12,
“For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.”
29. Now, the new covenant that replaced the old covenant is as stated by the Holy Spirit in Jer. 31.33, 34:
“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD; I will put my law within them, and I will write upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
30. The new covenant brought about a new priesthood, another mediator, and a change in the law as well.
31. The new government – a spiritual one, while closing the old way that couldn’t lead man to eternal life, opened the new way to salvation leading mankind to the expected everlasting life, breaking the wall of hostility, tearing through the temple curtain of holy of holies granting free and direct access to all mankind to God through Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit.
31. From this, is evident that the priesthood of Christ is different in every way from Levitical priesthood for the Christ descended from a tribe Moses did not mention anything concerning priests by bodily descent. For the Lord descended from the tribe of Judah, as the Holy Spirit testified in Heb.7:13-14.
“For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another, from which no one has ever served at the altar. For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.”
33 There is a marked structural difference in Christ’s priesthood from Levitical priesthood as follows:
Christ’s Priesthood
- Christ, the great High Priest – a priestly king: King and priest
- Royal priesthood – co-heir, brethren and one body with the Lord
- Royal law – love! regardless of miracles, signs and wonders
- Universal – for all and sundry; no Jews, no Gentile
- Salvation – leads to eternal life; the only way, the truth and the life to God
- Worship – in spirit and truth; spiritual
- Ministers’ wages – by free gift: offering for the saints; without retribution!
- Righteousness – by grace, through faith in Christ Jesus
- Unity of faith – worship in the Holy Spirit; devoid of religion and human descent and distinction
- Mediator – Christ, a Son: priest and King
- By the order of Melchizedek – everlasting priesthood
- Priesthood by oath sworn by God to himself – very valid
- Sanctuary – the true tent, in heaven
- Redemption – by the blood of Jesus
- Divinity – God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
Levitical Priesthood
- Aaron, the High Priest – only a priest
- Discriminatory priesthood – laity and priestly class
- The law, statutes and ordinances – tit-for-tat, punitive
- Tribal – only for the people of Israel: Jews
- Imperfect – cannot lead to eternal life
- Worship – physical and devoid of the Holy Spirit
- Ministers’ wages – by tithe offering: a legislation of the Jews – a retributive law!
- Righteousness – by works of the law
- No faith – lack of faith: impossible to please God
- Mediator – Moses, a servant and mere mortal
- By the order of Aaron – terminal priesthood
- Priesthood not by oath – not valid
- Sanctuary – earthly tent
- Redemption – faulty: by the blood of animals
- Divinity – no divinity, only God and man without the Holy Spirt
33. In reaffirmation of Christ’s priesthood, the Holy Spirit indicates in Heb.8:6,
“But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.”
34. Therefore, since we have a great high priest, please let us draw to him, since he who promised us everlasting life is ever faithful, and feels our pains shared in his suffering together as stated by the Holy Spirit in Heb.4:14-16,
“Since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time need.”
Babylonia Priesthood or Christian Religion Priesthood
THE WORSHIP OF THE BEAST!
1. An abomination! An abomination!! An abomination!!!
The desolating sacrilege!
2. The desolating sacrilege by literary understanding is the forbidding blasphemy, the forbidding violation, gloomy desecration, dismal irreverence, bleak disrespect, etc.
3. By scriptural revelation, the desolating sacrilege is the abomination that makes desolate as in Dan.9:27,
“And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week; and for half of the week he shall cause sacrifice and offering to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”
“Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress and shall take away the continual burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.” Dan.11:31
“And from the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be thousand two hundred and ninety days. Bless is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.” Dan 12:11-12.
4. From the scriptural revelation, the desolating sacrilege is the abomination that makes desolate, causing the cessation of sacrifice and offering and profaning the temple and fortress of God.
5. By implication, the heinous activity of the desolating sacrilege will stop holy worship to God and bring a great tribulation on the children of God.
6. From the prophecy of Prophet Daniel, the desolating sacrilege invaded the emergence of the Lord for the period of one thousand two hundred and ninety days, which is 42 months or 3.5 years, translating to the life of the gospel before the ascension of the Lord to heaven.
7. Ever since this attack, the Lord and his disciples have been in a constant battle with the abomination that makes desolate.
8. The desolating sacrilege is the activity of Satan, the Antichrist, who is in relentless attack on the Lord and his disciples by setting up an awful religion called Babylon the Great – Christian religion.
9. The desolating sacrilege is Babylon the Great – Christian religion and the beast, the abomination that makes desolate by the activity of the Antichrist.
10. The making of Babylon the Great, Christian religion is by mixing the worship of the old covenant and the worship of the new covenant together to give a hybrid product called the beast, a dreadful beast.
11. This dreadful beast – Christian religion caused sacrifice and offering (holy worship of God) to cease and profane the temple and fortress of God (great tribulation of the children of God).
12. The Lord warned us against the desolating sacrilege in Matt.24:15-28.
“So, when you see the desolating sacrilege spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understanding0, then let those who are Judea flee to the mountains; let him who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in the house; and let him who is in the field not turn back to take his mantle.
And alas for those who are with child and those who give suck in those days! Pray that your flight may not be winter or on a sabbath. For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. Then if anyone says to you, ‘Lo, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders so as to lead astray, if possible even the elect.
Lo, I have told you beforehand. So, if they say to you, ‘Lo. He is in the wilderness.’ Do not go out; if they say. ‘Lo, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as the lightening comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of man. Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.”
13. The same warning is given by the Holy Spirit in Rev. 18:1-6,
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul and hateful bird; for all nations have drunk the wine of her impure passion, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich with wealth of her wantonness.”
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
“Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven. And God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her as she herself has rendered. And repay her double for deeds; mix a double draught for her in this cup she mixed.”
14. It is one and the same prophesy about the desolating sacrilege: Christian religion, Babylon the great!
Christian Religion Priesthood or Babylonian Priesthood
- Priests – antichrists, family members: father, mother, son, daughter and cohorts
- Priesthood – the beast
- The law, statutes and ordinances – none; no love; wickedness
- Church – general public: demons, foul spirits, hateful birds
- Leadership – the broad way to eternal destruction
- Worship – 666!
- Ministers’ wages – mammon!
- Righteousness – mammon!
- Faith – denominations and dissensions; lack of faith: impossible to please God
- Mediator – Satan, the ancient serpent, the Dragon
- By the order of Antichrist– deadly priesthood
- Priesthood by Satanic oath – Lake of fire; eternal damnation
- Sanctuary – synagogue of Satan; pit of hell fire
- Redemption – condemnation; by false prophets and fake ministers
- Divinity – no divinity: mammon, antichrist, the beast!
- Stock-in-trade – slaves, captives: human souls
- Praise worship – Babylonian singers
- Bait – miracles, signs and wonders and financial breakthrough
- Spiritual Personality – deceit
- Etc.
15. It is evident that Christian religion today has made a boundless departure from the early disciples of the Lord who wanted to unite true believers into one body of Christ called Christians – a great apostasy.
16. The name Christian was used to identify genuine disciples of Christ, inasmuch as there was infiltration of fake ones among the fold, but not as it is today.
17. Today, Christian religion has become a horde of deceits. It is no longer defined by genuine faith but by birth and association of the people referred to as Christians, regardless of holiness and as opposed to other religious nomenclatures.
18. Those who these days identify themselves as Christians are among the worst sinners on earth. The identity of a Christian is no longer determined by holiness but is seen as an emblem encircling the horde.
19. It is evident that the priesthood of Christian religion is that of the beast: a hybrid worship of the old and the new. The Lord is strongly calling his children to flee from them – Babylon the Great: Christian religion.
20. May the grace and mercy of Almighty God through Christ Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, save his beloved children from the captivity of Babylon the Great, Christian religion. Amen! Amen!! Amen!!!