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To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them

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Peace in Christ.

The Lord comes to open up the Scriptures to our ears in the Spirit of Truth. We are to receive His testimony over man’s private interpretations of them.

He speaks the “true and faithful words of God”.

Let God be true and every man (preachers of false teachings) considered liars. We must be found ditching the word of men...their false bible teachings… in order to receive the excellency of the knowledge of our Lord.

We must count all of the denominational church teachings and commandments as a loss in order to receive His teachings. His teachings are true and faithful and trump earthly-thinking man’s teachings. We must not be found by Him (at the hearing of His testimony) defending our own righteousness as defined by the keeping of our church handwritings of ordinances (dogmas .....which means "what one thinks is true").

Php 3:8 KJV
(8) Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,


The sign of the Son of man (that signifies that this is His Son speaking to us) is the day star….the bright and….arising within our very own hearts.

To the law (have love for one another) and the testimony (receive the testimony of Jesus who is alive now and forevermore).

Yet, some who will not believe in His testimony have “no light in them”….that is, they do not have the “dawn” of His bright and morning star arising within their hearts.

Those who do not have the dawning light within their hearts will want you to go to false teachers who have “familiar spirits”…that is, they preach what the dead false prophets have written before.

Isa 8:19-20 KJV
(19) And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
(20) To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.


They preach what some guy (who has since died) had written in the 1830’s (for example) as church doctrine for those after him need to teach and keep. The teachings of their dead (false) prophets did not keep them alive here in this world. They perished without the eternal life of Jesus being made manifest in their mortal flesh. The fruit of their things is death....death to the mortal body. They did not bring life to those who listened to them.

They…those who have “familiar spirits”…. simply regurgitate today what was written in the past by their dead church scribes (the “wizards”) whose lifeless teachings continue to exist today in their denominational teachings.

They preach nothing new. The false teachers act as “channelers” of their dead church scribes who had in the past put down in writing what they erroneously thought the Bible taught. The false teachers today simply speak the lifeless words of their dead church leaders who wrote down what they thought was true and correct.

Rather than hear the living testimony of the Lord, they want you to turn and seek after their dead church fathers’ teachings as authority rather than recognize the authority of the Lord and His testimony.

The “wizards” = the “knowing one”. We must not go and seek after their writings. They have no truth in them. They “peep and mutter” as they speak very little that truly makes any sense.

Regard the dead church leaders teachings (and those who preach them) not.

Lev 19:31 KJV
(31) Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God
 

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Peace in Christ.

The Lord comes to open up the Scriptures to our ears in the Spirit of Truth. We are to receive His testimony over man’s private interpretations of them.

He speaks the “true and faithful words of God”.

Let God be true and every man (preachers of false teachings) considered liars. We must be found ditching the word of men...their false bible teachings… in order to receive the excellency of the knowledge of our Lord.

We must count all of the denominational church teachings and commandments as a loss in order to receive His teachings. His teachings are true and faithful and trump earthly-thinking man’s teachings. We must not be found by Him (at the hearing of His testimony) defending our own righteousness as defined by the keeping of our church handwritings of ordinances (dogmas .....which means "what one thinks is true").

Php 3:8 KJV
(8) Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,


The sign of the Son of man (that signifies that this is His Son speaking to us) is the day star….the bright and….arising within our very own hearts.

To the law (have love for one another) and the testimony (receive the testimony of Jesus who is alive now and forevermore).

Yet, some who will not believe in His testimony have “no light in them”….that is, they do not have the “dawn” of His bright and morning star arising within their hearts.

Those who do not have the dawning light within their hearts will want you to go to false teachers who have “familiar spirits”…that is, they preach what the dead false prophets have written before.

Isa 8:19-20 KJV
(19) And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
(20) To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
They preach what some guy (who has since died) had written in the 1830’s (for example) as church doctrine for those after him need to teach and keep.
Would be helpful if actual teachings were addressed and their error Biblically demonstrated.
The teachings of their dead (false) prophets did not keep them alive here in this world.
Will you not also die?
They perished without the eternal life of Jesus being made manifest in their mortal flesh. The fruit of their things is death....death to the mortal body. They did not bring life to those who listened to them.
They…those who have “familiar spirits”…. simply regurgitate today what was written in the past by their dead church scribes (the “wizards”) whose lifeless teachings continue to exist today in their denominational teachings.
They preach nothing new. The false teachers act as “channelers” of their dead church scribes who had in the past put down in writing what they erroneously thought the Bible taught. The false teachers today simply speak the lifeless words of their dead church leaders who wrote down what they thought was true and correct.
Rather than hear the living testimony of the Lord, they want you to turn and seek after their dead church fathers’ teachings as authority rather than recognize the authority of the Lord and His testimony.
The “wizards” = the “knowing one”. We must not go and seek after their writings. They have no truth in them. They “peep and mutter” as they speak very little that truly makes any sense.
Regard the dead church leaders teachings (and those who preach them) not.
Lev 19:31 KJV
(31) Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God
 
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The Jesus counter-culture movement proclaiming the coming governance of God over man instead of by man, was turned into an institution complete with ceremony, hierarchy and taxes like any other institution of man, yet this was necessary so the movement could move forward hidden in plain sight within the contrary world of man, for those with discerning ways to see and understand. While man looks to the afterlife, God is here and now.
 
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