The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-08-31

time. Spots they and blemishes, sporting them
selves with their own deceivings while they feast
with you;
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot
cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: heart
they have exercised with covetous practices cursed
children:
astray following the way of Balaam the of
Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
These wells without water, clouds that are
carried with tempest; to whom the mist of dark
ness is reserved for ever
For when they speak great swelling words of
vanity they allure through the lusts of the flesh,
through much wantonness, those that clean
escaped from them who live in error.
Thus, the preachers are responsible for THE
GREAT APOSTASY; they lead in it and bring
it to pass.
(3) The preachers Of THE GREAT APOS-
TASY universally REPUDIATE THE BLOOD
AND DENY THE LORD WHO BOUGHT
THEM IL Peter 2:1-"Fa1se teachers who
bring in damnable heresies, even denying the
Lord Who bought them
II Corinthians 1113-15
Transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed
into angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers
also be transformed the ministers of righteous
ness; whose end shall be according to their works
alton = they go in for "civic righteousness "sup
preston of the liquor traffic" universal peace"
woman suffrage" ETC.; so do the infdels, the
Jews, the Mohammedans, the atheists; and so
does the devil - but none of them have any use
for the BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST
(4) They deny not only the Lord Who bought
them, but the doctrine of Christ - repudiate His
teaching - Ii John oil:
u7bosoovor tr.nsarosea+h ana ohiao+h ,o+ ~ +ho
doctrine of Christ hath not God. He that abideth
in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father
and the Son.
If there come any unto you, and bring not this
doctrine, receive him not into your house. neither
bid him God speed
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker
of his evil deeds.
60 They deny that the Christ ever came in
the flesh (the Incarnation) and they deny that
He is coming in the flesh (glorifed) i John
4:1-6:
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the
spirits whether they of God: because many
false prophets gone out into the world.
Hereby know We the Spirit of God Every spirit
that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh is of God:
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and this
is that spirit of antchrist whereof We have heard
that it should come; and already is it
| in the world.
| Ye of God, little children, and have over
come them: because greater is he that is in you,
than he that is in the world
They are of the world therefore speak they of
| the world and the world heareth them.
| We are of God he that knoweth God heareth u.s.
he that is not of God heareth not Hereby know
we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
This denial will produce THE ANTICHRIST
who will deny both the FATHER AND THE
SON II John 2:18, 10, p:
ic he last finoo.
have heard that antchrst shall come, even now are
| there many antichrists; whereby know that it
| is the last time.
They went out from us, but they were not of u.s.
| for if they had been of us, they would doubt
have continued with but they went out, that
they might be made manifest that they not all
of u.s.
| Who is liar but he that denieth that Jesus is
the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the
Father and the Son.
He will do this in the midst of the week, when
he sets up his image Revelation 13:l4-17), the
abomination that maketh desolate - Daniel 9 III !;
! II 81; Pill Matthew 24:15.
co. They refuse to receive the apostolic writ
ings try to explain the New Testament away,
laugh it out of court as back number = III John
| | g:
I wrote unto the church. but Diotrephus, who
loved to have the prominence among them receiv-
eth not.
Consider how they mock at what Paul wrote
about women in the churches.
CD These apostate preachers overthrow the
faith of many - II Timothy 2:17, 10:
And their word will eat as doth canker of
whom is HymenaeuS and PhiletuS;
Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that
the resurrection is past already and overthrow the
faith of some.
(2) THE GREAT APOSTASY will be lust