Mystery of Iniquity

Mystery Babylon

Chapter 9

Come Out of Her My People

It was God’s will for His people to endure the judgment of Babylonian captivity and dominion for 70 years. In time God released His people from this bondage, yet only a minority (40,000+) were willing to suffer the hardships and return to their homeland and restore the true worship of Jehovah. A majority of Israelites were content to remain in Babylon with their families, homes, and comforts.

At the beginning of the 20^th century, a spiritual cry of freedom touched the souls of multitudes of men and women from every corner of the globe. These heard the voice of God releasing them from spiritual Babylonian confusion which had enslaved them and their fathers for generations in Protestantism and Catholicism. Again only a minority were willing to endure the spiritual hardships to return and restore the true worship of their New Testament Apostolic Fathers. (Please don’t think we are alluding to those men of the 1^st four who the christian religion calls “Church Fathers”) Again the majority of the church world chose to remain in their comfortable religious surroundings of Protestant and Catholic religious confusion. They failed to hear the cry to:

COME OUT of HER MY PEOPLE”

God gave this same cry through the Prophet Jeremiah to His Old Covenant church people, Israel, who were captives of the then existing kingdom of Babylon. (Jer.51:6) At the end of the New Covenant age, this same cry was echoed again to His spiritual kingdom people of the church (Rev.18:4), who are a spiritual habitation (Eph.2:22) and have been held spiritually captive by Mystery Babylon's religious spirit of confusion. Just as God made a way at the appointed time for His Old Covenant sheep to leave natural Babylon and return to Israel; Jehovah God has opened a door for His New Covenant sheep to leave Mystery Babylon and return home.

Some look for Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom to be rebuilt in Iraq. However, men should remember that no longer does the physical hold the key to the kingdom of God; ...now the spiritual is the key. "The hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem (physical), worship the Father, ....But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit (spiritual) and in truth.." (John 4:21 22) “…that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual.” (1Co 15:46)

This city Mystery Babylon is not a physical place; but a spiritual one; ...thus it is a spiritual exodus. It is similar to the one each child of God made when they fled the slavery and the bondages of Sin when they accepted the blood of Jesus Christ. Remember how it was when you first heard the preached Word of God. It was truly a spiritual exodus and deliverance.

Moses physically led the children of Israel out of a natural Egyptian bondage. They walked out. A Physical Exodus!

A SPIRITUAL EXODUS BACK TO OUR ROOTS

Jesus Christ and the Apostles led the children of God spiritually out of the bondage of sin as they preached repentance, water baptism in Jesus' name, receiving the Holy Ghost, and living "soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world." (Tit.2:12) Men and women became believers when they accepted the "present truth" of the WORD OF GOD as it was preached to them in those early days of the new covenant. A Spiritual Exodus!

He takes us out of one to bring us into another. It was true of natural Israel and so it is today of spiritual Israel, the church. "He brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in." (Deut 6:23) To spiritually leave Mystery Babylon means to come away from Her doctrines, Her teachings, Her practices, and Her religious spirit which have all found their way into the fabric of the church. And just as Joseph ran physically from Potiphar's wife to keep himself pure, God's sheep, within the Mystery Harlot church world, may need to physically and definitely spiritually put distance between them and Her. How? Begin to pray and ask God to lead you to a church which preaches and contends for the same gospel as the Apostles preached in the New Testament.

The destination is the same for us, …as it was for those natural Israelites who followed Ezra and Nehemiah out of Babylonian captivity. They went back to the land of Israel. They went back to Jerusalem. They returned and rebuilt the walls of the city of God, Jerusalem, and rebuilt Jehovah's house of worship, the Temple. They restored themselves to the land, to the city, to the temple, and to the worship which was given by their prophet Moses at the time of their deliverance from the land of Sin, …Egypt.

The Israelite Babylonian Captives were to "Stand in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls" (Jer.6:16) They were to "Set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities." (Jer.31:21)

Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and all those who followed them, set their hearts toward the highway which returned them to the land of their origins and to the ways or paths of the law of Moses. Only in doing so could they find rest and security for their souls. They went all the way home!

In like manner, God calls for his Spiritual seed of Christ’s blood bought born again church body to get out of religious harlotry and Babylonian confusion. He desires for them to go home, return to the land of their spiritual origins, to their spiritual roots.

What are the roots of the church? Where did the New Testament Church of God begin? Jesus, himself gave us that answer in Luke 24:47 when he said, "beginning at Jerusalem". "That repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."

BACK TO “THAT” JERUSALEM GOSPEL

The preaching of salvation and the blood of Jesus Christ began at Jerusalem as the apostles began to carry out Jesus' instructions. John the Baptist began his ministry in the wilderness of Judea about Jordan. (Matt.3:1, Lk.3:3) Jesus Christ of Nazareth began his ministry in Gallilee. (Lk.4:14) The beginning of the ministry of the Church of God …began in Jerusalem; …not in Judea, nor in Gallilee.

This beginning was highlighted by the out pouring of the Holy Ghost as Peter witnessed in Acts 11:15, "And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning." What beginning? The beginning of the Church. The beginning of this New Temple of spiritual habitation. That "sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind" came to bring the breath of spiritual life and birth to that engrafted word which had been sown in their hearts by Jesus' ministry.

As the noise of the Holy Ghost outpouring in Acts 2 spread across Jerusalem, men and women came to witness this amazing spectacle. Upon hearing Peter preach, they asked "Men and brethern, what shall we do?" The answer was given by Peter, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. ....Then they that gladly received his word were baptized, ...And they continued stedfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship,..". (Acts 2:38 42)

That is the origin and roots of the church. Those saints in the book of Acts, both Greek and Jew, were the original church. That 1st church was a Holy Ghost-Pentecost church. That 1st church was a Jesus church. That 1st church was a devil casting out church. That 1st church was a Holy Ghost speaking in tongues church. That 1st church was a praying for the sick church. That 1st church was a Jesus Name church.

If we are the Harvest Generation, then we must return to be like the original church in Spirit and Truth. We are now in the time of the "FULL CORN IN THE EAR"; (Mrk 4) the last growth phase of the kingdom of God before the harvest sickle comes. As any good farmer, God, has patiently waited for the harvest, a restoration of the seed to the same stature as when it was originally planted. A wheat harvest is simply the receiving of a multiplication of the originally planted seed. There is no increase in QUALITY, but there is in quantity. One aspect of end-time Harvest is a return to the original WORD-seed which was sown by the 1st church in the Book of Acts.

If any of this finds shortcomings in your life, correct the situation, start preaching and living the Original Seed Truth or seek out a minister and church which does. Remember, we can't STAY IN Mystery Babylon and COME OUT at the same time. He brings us out, … to take us in!

The Holy Spirit of God, the bridegroom is calling His People, ..."MY PEOPLE," ALL OF HIS SHEEP WHEREVER THEY MAY BE, out of Catholicism, Protestantism, (Harlot Daughter Churches), Pentecostalism, Charismaticism, Judaism, and etc. He's calling ALL OF HIS PEOPLE back to the spiritual land of our spiritual birth, ...back to the gospel which began at Jerusalem. He is calling us out of all dogma, denominationalism, lukewarm-ness, and unfaithfulness which has it's roots in the Beast Harlot spirit.

Wait a minute, you might say. God does not have any of His children, any of His church, any of His body, ....mixed up in the Harlot Church World. That is what you may say. But God says differently. He says, "Come out of Her my People". Whose people? God's people. Many sheep have gone astray because of false apostles, false shepherds and hirelings. God will reach for them right up to the Mid night hour!

COME OUT OF ROMANISM

HOW TO "Come Out of Her My People" may still be vague to you in some respects. Let me explain further of one meaning of… "Come Out of Mystery Babylon".

The seed of All false religion which first manifested itself through Cain, found it's first chance of kingdom level expression at the Tower of Babel kingdom of Nimrod. From that time the Mystery of Iniquity Religion was scattered and developed, matured, and refined itself as people worshipped under a variety of idolatrous religions in all countries, ...yet in reality it was not many religions, ...but simply One System of Idolatry throughout the earth. That is crucial to the Mystery.

All that Nimrod's Babel religion became, found its first World level unified expression in the Egyptian Dynasties when they dominated the earth. When Egypt's political reign ceased, the level which false religion had attained did not cease or die. All that Egypt had become religiously was simply transferred under different religious names, titles, etc. into the religions of Assyria. Mystery Babylon, The Great Harlot Spirit has never died. She simply adapted. Satan never gave up any of his acquired proficiency in religious rebellion and confusion.

All the Mystery Harlot was in Assyria later moved on into Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, later into Medo Persia, and Greece. By the age of Greece, Mystery Babylon had manipulated men's religious thinking until a "Pantheon" of numerous Gods had emerged. In time, the Roman Empire of the Caesars came along and dominated the world. Into the Pagan Roman empire, Satan's Mystery Babylon Harlot Spirit injected all of her accumulated religious idolatry, which had been developed over cultures and centuries to a much grander scale of deception than Nimrod and Semiramis could have ever imagined. And all of this was woven into the religious and political life of the Pax Romana, ...Pagan Rome's version of Peace. This is the primary explanation as to why the multitude of idolatrous deities and practices which were found in the Roman way of life, were all traceable to pagan religions and cultures which had long since disappeared from the earth.

Rome's system of military domination, enslavement of conquered souls, and poly theistic society was a regime similar to previous civilizations. Yet it was so much more awesome and controlling than any which the world had ever seen up to that time. Into this climate came the "Word made flesh," Jesus Christ, to call out a people, a church, an elect, a remnant. It was within this atmosphere that the Church of God would have to learn to stand, walk and mature. This new church and kingdom would have to combat Mystery of Iniquity from within the Jewish religion of Judaism and from the paganism of the surrounding Gentile religions. Everywhere they turned they faced the Mother Harlot's attacks of religious confusion.

In time the Apostles passed from the scene and the restraints to the Mystery of Iniquity gradually weakened until elements of Mystery Babylon's refined system of Paganism began to establish themselves as part of the church, subsequently call itself Christian. The False religious vine was weaving itself among the true church; gaining more and more control. The Mystery Harlot Spirit transferred her nature into the fellowship of believers; just as she had done throughout all previous civilizations. She injected the church community of Jesus Christ with the best she had at that time.

The Paganism of Rome and all that went with it came into the church when Constantine declared that Christianity would no longer be persecuted and would become the state religion of the Empire.

Because of Constantine’s decision, all that had been the spiritual religious life of Rome, became the life force that was brought to bear upon the church of Jesus Christ.

The true church of God before long was labeled as heretics and enemies of the state religion - Popery - Roman Catholicism. Thus, what became known as “the christian church” in history was nothing more than Satan's seat, Satan's synagogue. It was filled with those who said they were Jews, …God's true seed, …but they truly WERE NOT the genuine ! How many of this church state element knew true repentance and conversion? God only knows. But, because of this take over, the true seed of God worshipped as rebels and multitudes of doctrines became labeled as Christian, ..but really had no relationship to New Testament Christianity. They were DNA strands of Paganism. The Reformation and 20th century Pentecost revealed the numerous errors and numerous DNS strands of Paganism. But, many would not come away from all of the Roman elements in spirit, doctrine and word. Therefore, many strands of Roman Paganism were carried over into the Protestants and later into the Pentecostals. Regardless to the level of sincerity, God still wants his people to come all the way home, ....to come completely out of Her.

Brethern are not necessarily living hypocritical or insincere lives because they continue to carry within their hearts and minds the seeds of Mystery Babylon's system of religious confusion, spiritual adultery, and slavery. Operating under this system which the Mother Harlot has fostered onto the church, ...ministers and brethern unknowingly worship God from a religious framework which is unfaithful in some manner to Jehovah God and to their spiritual husband Jesus Christ and His Word.

Friend, brother or sister, as you read this today, ask the Lord Jesus if he finds any elements of the Romanish Spirit in you. Ask him to reveal to you any of these Romanish strands which are keeping you from preaching or living it just like the BIBLE SAYS? Mystery Babylon is still taking captives of the unsuspecting. But the captivity and slavery is on a spiritual level within the spirits and minds of men. Save yourself! Pull yourself away from any religious system of thought, attitude, creed or doctrine which Jesus Christ and the Original 12 Apostles did not preach INTO the foundation of the original Bible Church in Acts.

Deliver yourself and others by obeying the cry of the Holy Spirit of God to .....COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE!!

My Coming Out of ...

Romanism ~ Catholicism ~ The Mother Harlot ~ Mystery Babylon

The Spirit of God years ago said of me; Thus saith the Lord ...”You are a Roman slave! You wear the Roman Slave Collar. You wear the metal slave collar which reveals that the Roman Empire has enslaved you!”

As Mary, I pondered this in my heart. How could this be? I lived in the United States of America, over 1500 years separated me from the Roman Empire of the Caesars. A political empire long since dead. How could I, an American citizen, be in bondage to a political and religious culture which had long since passed from the earth? I did not understand.

Much time went by before I came to understand that civilizations go through a life and death cycle; ...but, that is not true of religion. Civilizations and Kingdoms die Politically, ....but Religiously they simply adapt. The Demonic Spirits which drive them never die! Political Rome had been defeated; .... but, the religious Spirit of Rome HAD NOT been defeated!!

Somehow I was Religiously A SLAVE to Pagan Rome! The Spirit of Pagan Rome had somehow infused itself into my walk with the Lord Jesus Christ,...thus he revealed, ....Rome has her slave collar on you. Later, as I searched out what Rome stood for in a religious sense, I found that much of Pagan Rome's philosophy, idolatry, and spirit, had been infused into the " professing Christian church" and in time this became known as … Roman Catholicism. That explained why so much of Roman Catholicism's practices are traceable to Paganistic origins and cultures.

That much understanding helped, .... but did not give me full understanding of what the Lord had meant! How was I a slave of Rome?? I was not a practicing Roman Catholic. I had never been in a Catholic church. I attended a Protestant Pentecostal church in Cleveland, Tennessee. How could I be under the domination and bondage of Rome's paganism, ....while I was Protestant Pentecostal?? The churches I attended were far from what I considered to be Pagan or Catholic, ....in practice, doctrine, or experience.

In time I came to realize that I was in bondage to a religious system and religious spirit which had much in common with ancient Rome and Roman Catholicism. After much research, prayer, and worship, it was made clear to me that many of my Protestant Pentecostal church creeds and teachings were rooted in Romanism, …rather than in Christ or Christianity.

Somehow these Protestant Pentecostal brethren I worshipped with, .. were carriers of the genes of that same religious spirit of slavery and bondage which had passed from Pagan Rome into Roman Catholicism. Those same pagan religious genes had been passed down into my Protestant Pentecostal fellowship. Moreover, I wasn't even a card carrying member of their or any religious organization. I was merely an attender.

Of course, I was not aware of any of this during the time I was converted, worshiped, played, educated, and received the "gift of the Holy Ghost" experience while among these brethren. These brethren ministered to me, taught me the way of righteousness, and introduced me to Jesus Christ and the power of God to save, heal, and deliver.

This is not to indict; but to reveal a Religious System and a Religious Spirit which was and still is interwoven through out all that was being done for God. This is not speculation nor guessing, ...but Thus Saith the Lord! I know this is difficult to comprehend, but the Lord will illuminate your understanding if you begin to ask him.

It was a battle to get free of that spirit of Romanism. I began to seek the Lord Jesus, study the simplicity of the scriptures, and separated myself from this fellowship. I began to accept His Word, the Bible, as the Last Word on every issue which differed with the scriptures. In time I committed myself to the same simple gospel which the twelve apostles preached in the New Testament. As I journeyed, ....the truth made me free; ...free from the Pagan Roman spirit which had enslaved me.

How did I do it? The same way that every child of God does it! I searched and found Catholicism's doctrines, creeds, and attitudes which I failed to find in the New Testament Bible Church of Jesus Christ. I then began to divorce myself from these doctrines, creeds, and religious attitudes which were not part of New Testament apostolic preaching. It meant practicing the scripture as best I could.

I saw much paganism and Romanism in our holidays. I stopped believing the Roman doctrine of “baptismal regeneration”, ie.. That water baptism makes you a member of the church. Merely confessing faith in Jesus Christ was not scriptural. I found that the keys to the kingdom were that every man must experience being born again of water (water baptism) and of the Spirit (Holy Spirit baptism), or he can not see nor enter the kingdom of God. (John3:3 5) That was exactly like the first and original salvation message preached by Peter who had been given the Keys to the Kingdom. The keys were revealed when he said, "Repent and be baptized (born again of water) everyone of you ......and ye shall receive gift of the Holy Ghost (born again of the Spirit). (Acts2:38)

Later the Nicolaitan Doctrine and Nicolaitan spirit which Jesus hates (Rev. 2:15) was unveiled. This man-made doctrine suppressed the common church members by denominational fences and simply put the saints back into captivity again.

As I studied further I saw that when that Pentecostal pastor under whom I was converted baptized me in water, ...he had baptized me in Roman Catholic baptism, "in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost". After checking the scripture, and finding not one such scriptural example of practice, ...I wondered where it came from.

This may help explain Pope John XIII remarks during the 1962 Ecumenical Council of Vatican II when he appealed to the leaders of the major protestant denominations that they may as well unite with Rome, ...."you have our baptism."

Of course, I found that a lot of folk in those early centuries did not go along with the Catholic baptism of "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost", either. So like them, I went back to the scriptures and was baptized "in the name of the Lord Jesus" just like.

the believers in the Bible were

You might say “these are little things”. You are right! A little leaven leaventh the whole lump! He was right wasn’t he? For all practical purposes the whole lump has been leavened!

Later I came to the understanding that the Trinity – Triune Concept of God was from pagan Greek minds who had been converted to Christianity. It to was of Roman Catholic origins. It was easy to follow the logic and rationale of my brethren's explanation of the Trinity. However, ...once I had made that commitment to conform all my understandings to those of the New Testament writers, it was then easy to see that Trintitarian phrases of "three persons in the Godhead", "God the Son", "God the Holy Ghost", "Co eternal", "Co equal", "Trinity", and etc. were all NON Biblical and not to be found in scripture. They were from outside the Bible. These doctrines were from the minds of carnal men.

Where did I find them? Where can you find them today? They are found explained and expounded within the teachings of those early pagan converts to Christianity who were Greek and Roman in their thinking. Greek philosophy and Greek concepts of truth were so highly regarded within Roman Catholicism that a painting of Plato and Aristotle conversing adorns the walls of the Vatican. (Remember these men were pagans who existed 300 years before Christ!)

As I could, I dropped each of those Romanish creeds and attitudes and attempted to bring myself into a greater harmony with the BIBLE.

It was amazing how much of my Christian "thought" and "practice" had been Roman and Roman Catholic. No wonder the Lord Jesus told me that I was wearing the Roman Slave Collar. Even now as he reveals to me, I still want to "Come Out of Romanism", ...to "Come Out of Her, ...Mystery Babylon, ...the Mystery of Iniquity!" and get back to that same pure and powerful gospel which our Apostolic forefathers of the New Testament preached in the Bible.

By no means do I insinuate that any of these Holy Ghost filled brethern were living hypocritical or ungodly lives. It was that they continued to carry within their hearts and minds the seeds of Mystery Babylon's system of religious confusion and slavery, which later became Roman Catholicism. By operating under this system which the Mother Harlot had fostered onto the church, ...these brethren unknowingly worship God from a religious framework which was unfaithful in some manner to their God, ..to their spiritual husband Jesus Christ and His Word.

Are you a Slave to Rome?? Are you wearing a Roman Slave Collar?? When a person teaches and believes Catholic doctrines and creeds they are still in bondage to Rome.

Let me encourage you to Come out of Her Rituals!

*Come out of Her Easy Believeing without Repentance!! Be filled with the Holy Ghost!

*Come out of Her “Father, Son, & Holy Ghost” Water Baptism !!

*Come out of Her Trinitarian God-Head!!

*Come out of Her Ecclesiastical & Organizational Structures!!

*Come out of Her Nicolaitan Spirit!!

*Come Out Brother, ....Sister …so that you in this end-time harvest age will not a of Her Sins & Her Plagues!!

Friend, brother or sister, as you read this today, if you are in fellowship with a church organization or fellowship which follows any of the teachings of the Roman Catholic religious system, you are in some way a spiritual slave to Rome. Most of the preachers think that the fourth kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar’s Image is gone. Some even look carnally at ancient Iraq for a restoration of that kingdom. It has not been destroyed yet. The stone has not yet hit the image! But it will soon! And all will be blown away by the Spirit of God! Come Out of Her MY PEOPLE!!

Save yourself! Pull yourself away from any religious system of thought, attitude, creed or doctrine which Jesus Christ and the apostles did not preach INTO the foundation of the original Bible Church in Acts.

By doing so you'll help yourself to ...COME OUT OF HER!

DO NOT WAIT FOR SOME ....SPECIAL ACT OF GOD TO GET YOUR ATTENTION AND TURN YOU AROUND.

GOD HAS JUST...BLOWN ANOTHER TRUMPET IN ZION, ....IN YOUR HEARING .......WITH THIS MESSAGE!

STUDY THE WORD! PRAY! ACCEPT THE WORD IN SIMPLICITY !!

FATHER, HELP US TO GET OFF THE “ROMAN” ROAD!

CLEANSE OUR EARS OF ROMAN EAR-WAX