Chapter Seven/Rekindle That First Love - "Do the Former Deeds" - Continue

 When judgment started with the house of God in 1918, the sectarian clergy of Christendom were giving open support to World War I, urging Catholics and Protestants on both sides to slaughter one another. (1 Peter4:17) Unlike the Ephesian congregation that hated what the sect of Nicolaus was doing, Christendom's religions had long been riddled with conflicting, anti-God doctrines, and their clergy had thrown their lot in with the world, of which Jesus said to his disciples must be no part. (John 15:17-19) Their congregations, ignorant of the Bible's theme, God's Kingdom, were not lampstands beaming forth Scriptural truth, nor were their members part of the spiritual temple of Jehovah. Their leading men (and women) were not stars but were revealed to be members of "the man of lawlessness." - 2 THESSALONIANS 2:3; MALACHI 3:1-3. 

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