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Eastern Orthodoxy is a branch of sacramental paganized Christianity that broke off from the Roman Catholic Church in 1054 A.D. The source of the contention between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism was the Catholic papacy. While the Eastern Orthodox rejected the Catholic Pope, they still to this day hold on to much of the unscriptural heathen customs, doctrines, and idolatry of Roman Catholicism.

The contention between the Eastern and Western branches of Catholicism date as far back as 330 A.D. The Catholic Roman emperor Constantine moved his capital from Rome to Constantinople. Church leaders claimed authority over large regions and began vying for supremacy over those regions. The contention was centered around political power and control and not so much about doctrine (as seen by the fact that the Eastern Orthodox still share much in common with Roman Catholicism in terms of doctrine and customs, with only minor differences between the two).

Both Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism amalgamated pagan doctrines and heathen practices with New Testament truth to form an impure form of Christianity that is alien to the apostolic faith preached by the apostles. Pagan customs such as infant baptism, baptismal regeneration, idolatry toward Mary (i.e. mother goddess worship), prayers to dead Saints, prayers for dead people, and rosaries (i.e. vain repetitions condemned in Matthew 6:7).

Like Roman Catholicism, the Eastern Orthodox hold to the pagan custom of baptismal regeneration.

“First place among the Sacraments of the Orthodox Church is occupied by Holy Baptism, by which a man, who has come to believe in Christ, by being immersed three times in water in the Name of the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), is cleansed through Divine Grace of all sins (Original Sin and personal sins) and is reborn into a new holy, and spiritual life. This Baptism serves as the door through which man enters into the House of Eternal Wisdom the Church for, without it, a man cannot be united completely with the Savior, become a member of His Church, receive the other Sacraments, and be the heir to Eternal Life.” (These Truths We Hold – The Holy Orthodox Church: Her Life and Teachings, St. Tikhon’s Monastery, copyright 1986 by the St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press, South Canaan, Pennsylvania).

“Baptism is a new birth. It is being born to the life made new by our Lord Jesus Christ. It means to be alive in Christ. … Through Holy Baptism all become Christ’s. We become Christians and have the opportunity to inherit God’s Kingdom. Why in the world would any parents who claim to be Christians want to put off making their offspring Christians as soon as possible? Don’t they want their infants to share in the Kingdom of God? The baptized one becomes a member of Christ’s body–His Church.” (One Church, Russian Orthodox Church, 1981).

Baptismal regeneration is wrong, heresy, and unscriptural!

One becomes a disciple BEFORE he qualifies for water baptism (Matt. 28:19-20, cf. Acts 19:4-5). Disciples are saved people (Matt. 12:48-50) and then water baptized (Matt. 28:19).

Water Baptism happens AFTER salvation, it’s NOT for salvation!

The Gentiles received the Holy Ghost before they were baptized (Acts 10:44-48). The thief on the cross was never baptized but still went to paradise (Luke 23:42-43). The Philippian jailer was never told to get baptized when he asked Paul what he had to do to be saved (Acts 16:30-31).

Christ was sinless while on earth (1 Jn. 3:5; 2 Cor. 5:21). He didn’t need remission of sins or salvation, but yet he was still water baptized (Matt. 3:13-17).

The Ephesian twelve were ALREADY disciples when Paul found them (Acts 19:1), meaning they were ALREADY saved (Matt. 12:48-50; Luke 14:33). Paul’s first words were a question, further showing they were ALREADY saved believers (Acts 19:2). They were saved disciples BEFORE being baptized in Acts 19:4-5!

Immersion in water is associated with PHYSICAL purification of the FLESH (see Lev. 16:24-26; Lev. 14:4-9; Lev. 15:1-13; Nun. 8:5-7; Num. 19:16-22, 2 Kin. 5:10-14) but never spiritual purification.

Atonement from sin is through the shedding of blood (Heb. 9:22, cf. Lev. 17:11) even under the Old Testament (see Lev. 16:11-22; Lev. 16:27; Lev. 4:20-26; Lev. 4:31-35; Lev. 5:5-13; Lev. 8:14-19; Heb. 13:11-12).

It’s the BLOOD OF CHRIST that washes away sins (1 Jn. 1:7; Rev. 1:5, cf. Heb. 9:22) and redeems the sinner (1 Pet. 1:18-19; Col. 1:14; Rev. 5:9; Eph. 1:7), NOT immersion in water.

Eastern Orthodoxy offers prayers for the dead.

“At every Divine Service, the Holy Orthodox Church offers up prayers for her departed children.” (St. Nektarios Church, Charlotte, North Carolina).

“But the soul of the deceased is aided by the prayers of the Church, of all those who knew and loved him, and also by acts of charity carried out for his sake. By doing good works for the sake of those who are dead, we are, as it were, completing what they left undone, paying their debts and offering our own sacrifice to the Merciful Lord on their behalf.” (The Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, No. 10, 1976).

In Eastern Orthodoxy, traditions are exalted as equal in authority with the holy scriptures.

“To an Orthodox Christian, Tradition means the Holy Bible; it means the Creed; it means the decrees of the Ecumenical Councils and the writings of the Fathers; it means the Canons, the Service Books, the Holy Icons, etc. In essence, it means the whole system of doctrine, ecclesiastical government, worship and art which Orthodoxy has articulated over the ages.” (Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church, p. 204).

“We take special note that for the Orthodox, the Holy Bible forms apart of Holy Tradition, but does not lie outside of it. One would be in error to suppose that Scripture and Tradition are two separate and distinct sources of Christian Faith, as some do, since there is, in reality, only one source; and the Holy Bible exists and found its formulation within Tradition.” (These Truths We Hold – The Holy Orthodox Church: Her Life and Teachings, St. Tikhon’s Monastery).

The Eastern Orthodox also engage in the same paganized mother goddess worship of Mary as Roman Catholicism does.

“In the theology and piety of the Orthodox Church, a special place of honor is given to the Mother of God the Most-Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, who is reverenced by the Orthodox as being more honorable than the Cherubim and more glorious, beyond compare, than the Seraphim. … If Mary is honored as Theotokos, so too, she is honored because she is Panagia All-Holy. …Thus Mary is seen by the Church as the New Eve (as Christ is the New Adam) whose perfect obedience contrasted the disobedience of the First Mother, Eve, in Paradise. As St. Irenaeus says, the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed through the obedience of Mary; for what Eve, a virgin, bound by her unbelief, that Mary, a virgin, unloosed by her faith [Against the Heresies, III, xxii, 4]. … As All-Holy and Most-Pure, Mary was free from actual sin, but, in the opinion of most Orthodox theologians, although not dogmatized by the Church, she did fall under the curse of Original Sin as does all mankind. For this reason by virtue of her solidarity with all humanity the Theotokos died a bodily death. Yet, in her case, the resurrection of the body had been anticipated; and she was assumed body and soul into Heaven; and her tomb was found empty an event celebrated in the Feast of the Falling-Asleep (or Dormition) of the Most-Holy Theotokos (Aug. 15). Thus, as the hymns of that Feast proclaim, she has passed from earth to heaven, beyond death and judgment, living already in the age to come. She enjoys now the same bodily glory all of us hope to share one day.” (These Truths We Hold – The Holy Orthodox Church: Her Life and Teachings, St. Tikhon’s Monastery).

It is clear that Eastern Orthodoxy is just another daughter of the harlot of Revelation 17-18!

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Chasing the American dream all the way to hell? Are you bowing before your Maker who came and died to save you from sin and this world? Or, are you bowing before “old glory—the red, white, and blue”?

“Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:” Revelation 3:17

Every person reading these very words is making his eternal bed in Heaven or in hell.

“Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.” Joel 3:14

“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” Romans 6:16

Those bowed truly before Christ and no idol, are about His “business” which is the Great Commission He gave us! Oh, and He holds you fully accountable to obey, to do it. Read the very end of Matthew and Mark.

If you are not deliberately, integrally involved in the Great Commission mandate Jesus gave His people, you are out of the will of God.

Evangelism! (Mark 16:15-20) Teaching God’s Word (Matthew 28:18-20).

AMERICA’S ENEMY INVASION

In the Bible, we read of how God allowed foreign empires like the Assyrians and Babylonians to invade, conquer, and exile Israel and Judah as a form of divine discipline and covenant judgment for their persistent idolatry, social injustice, and refusal to repent.

One source notes:

“The Theological Framework of Judgment

- The Covenant: God made a conditional agreement (covenant) with ancient Israel. Obedience brought protection and blessing; disobedience brought explicit warnings of national defeat and dispersion (e.g., Deuteronomy 28).
- Using Foreign Nations: Prophets like Isaiah and Habakkuk explain that God sovereignly used ruthless empires (calling Assyria the “rod of my anger”) as instruments of correction against His own unfaithful people.
- The Limits of Judgment: While God used these empires to punish Israel, the Bible notes He also held those invading nations accountable for their own extreme cruelty, arrogance, and subsequent destruction (e.g., Isaiah 10, Jeremiah 50–51).”

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS TO ANY NATION THAT FORSAKES GOD. – “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (Psalms 9:17). America is under divine judgment. See Jeremiah 18.

“The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” Psalms 9:16-17

“At what instant” (marked space in time)

It seems God has His timing in judging nations and history records…..

It is more than obvious that America is not repenting. If that’s the case, what future does America have?

Jeremiah 18:7-10

“At what instant (marked place in time) I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.”

How does He judge?

Does He not lift His hand of protection and allow invaders? Read Jeremiah 5-7. This morning as I begin again reading these 3 chapters, what’s happening in America seems to fit for sure. And no president can save America from the LORD’s judgment. The only hope would be the true repentance of the people.

What Bible verse or passage comes to your mind when you think of being possessed by an eternal perspective? How about this one?

“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

PRAYER: My Father in Heaven, in the name of Jesus, please imbue this Your vessel with the eternal perspective Your Word communicates. Bless me to be a consummate soul winning person, with my hands gripping the plow of Your Great Commission command. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

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“All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Matthew 24:8-14

The true remnant of Christ are known in that they are enduring to the end in the midst of iniquity, abounding and preaching the Gospel of Jesus the King to the world.

“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Mark 16:15

PRAYER: Father in Heaven, I come to You in the name of Jesus Christ, admitting I have been living for my own evil glory. I am a sinner. I’ve committed the sin of idolatry, having myself first instead of You. I admit here and now before You that I have been committing the damning sin of spiritual adultery. I have claimed to know You and yet refused to uncompromisingly adhere to Your Word. Here and now, right now if never before, I repent and ask You to forgive my sins and to wash me afresh from my sins in the precious blood of Jesus Christ my LORD. Into Your hands I commend, I submit my spirit, my life, right this moment and ask You dear LORD to fill me with Your Holy Ghost and use me to preach Your glorious message of repentance to those around me so that they can receive the forgiveness of all their sins and walk in the times of refreshing from Your holy presence dear LORD. I love You Jesus. I am all Yours and I know You are all mine. In Jesus’ Name amen.

Evangelism

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Apostasy

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The Truth about Judas

“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones (not 11), judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” (Matthew 19:28)

Judas wasn’t kept and Jesus specifically and irrefutably promised him an eternal throne in Heaven – Matthew 19:28. “TWELVE” not eleven~!

At the time of this divinely-given promise, it is more than abundantly clear that Judas was eternally secure, otherwise Christ would have never given this promise to the “twelve” which includes Judas Iscariot (Matthew 19:28). It is only after this that Judas allowed iniquity in his heart and by his own deliberate will fell by his own iniquity (Acts 1:25; Heb. 3:12-15).

“Saying, I (Judas) have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.” Matthew 27:4

“Eternal security”? Don’t kid yourself. Moral cowards who refuse to take person accountability for their every thought, motive, and deed love this lie. Satan’s first lie – which led to the fall of mankind (Gen 2:17; 3:4).

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