REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Six - The Great Apostasy

 Jesus had warned the Sardis congregation  against being spiritually dead. (Revelation 3:1)Like those in Sardis, professed Christians quickly forgot about Christian works and soon delegated the highly important work of preaching to a small, paid clergy class. Jesus warned the congregation  in Thyatira against idolatry and fornication.  (Revelation 2:20) Yet, Christendom openly sanctioned the use of images subtle idolatry  of nationalism and materialism. And immorality, while sometimes, preached against the always widely tolerated. Hence, Jesus' words to the seven congregations expose the total failure of all of Christendom's religions to be Jehovah's  special people.  Indeed, the clergy of Christendom have been the prominent  members of Satan's seed. Speaking of these as 'the lawless one,' the apostle Paul foretold that their "presence is according to the operation of Satan with every powerful work and lying signs and portents and with every unrighteous deception." - 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9, 10 

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