@Greg Merrill I believe from every individual who refuses to give heed to His voice and embrace His correction has His hand departed already. His hand shall remain with the faithful, and His strength shall be revealed in His anointed.
God bless.
I belong to no church named of men. I belong to The Lord, YahuShua HaMashiach, whom you call Jesus and Christ. And together with all those who remain in His love[1] and obey His voice[2] is The Church in which I dwell.
@Trumpeter2 I agree, but why then is Rev 18:4 is about the Catholic Church and not about other churches named by men? Forgive me, I don't really understand.
@riesie The Catholic Church is the mother of all churches.
Rev 18:7
“In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’
For behold, the mother went forth and Played the harlot; yes, she played the harlot And reveled in her fornications with the heathen; She married among the pagans and laid Down with them in her wickedness...
And behold, she gave birth by her father, And brought forth many daughters...
In sin she brought forth! In great wickedness She proliferated all her adulteries Against both God and man!
She has altogether forsaken Me! Says The Lord. For she does always reject The Spirit of Truth, and will not listen to the counsel of The Holy One of Israel. For she has solidified her way before her, and will not be turned aside!
Behold, she is altogether like one who has committed treason, a self-appointed queen who has endeavored to seat herself upon My throne, deceiving the people, taking much delight in her authority! Behold, like the jackals of the wilderness, which tear the flesh and drag away the carcass, so has she torn the heart of this people; they are far removed! For they are made to dwell in darkness with her, as they lie down with the dead.
Behold, even as the sow devours without reservation, wallowing in its own filth, taking much pleasure in all its uncleanness, so in like manner does she! Yet the sow knows its place, and acts according to the manner in which it was created. Yet it is not so among those who walk in her ways. Behold, even those who rebelled against her, who proclaim they are set apart from her, remain like her, practicing those same things which I said they shall not do! And though they say, “We are not daughters,” daughters they remain.
Thus the harlot shall be torn in pieces! Her flesh shall be eaten, and she shall be burned with fire, as it is written![1] And all her daughters, yes, all you churches of men, shall be severely abased! Even a great purging shall come forth from within the midst of you; behold, you shall be stripped naked and left desolate in the Great and Terrible Day of The Lord!
Excerpt from: Churches of Men, Hear The Word of The Lord