Christ who else? Who emptied the cup of wrath for you and me and all else? Revelation 14: 7-13 “ 7  saying in a loud voice, "Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. And worship the One having made heaven, and the earth, and sea, and springs of waters." 8  And another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Fallen, Fallen is Babylon the great, who has given all the Gentiles to drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality." 9  And another, a third angel, followed them, saying in loud a voice, "If anyone worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark on his forehead or upon his hand, 10  he also will drink of the wine of the anger of God, having been mixed undiluted in the cup of His wrath; and he will be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before the Lamb. 11   And the smoke of their torment goes up to ages   of ages ; and those worshiping the beast and its image have no rest day and night, and if anyone receives the mark of its name.“ 12  Here is the endurance of the saints, those keeping the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. 13  And I heard a voice out of heaven, saying "Write, 'Blessed are the dead dying in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "so that they will rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."” - Berean Literal Bible Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful    Counselor,    Mighty    God,    Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace .” - Berean Standard Bible 1 Christ the sovereign GOD Christ is the Sovereign Ruler of the whole universe, who determines everything and who rules over everyone, including Lucifer (Satan), the cherub He created and therefore including you and me ! Sovereign Christ rules over our will and every choice, -every thought, -every feeling, -every word we speak and our every action, whether you like it or not. You rebellious ‘Christians’, who have a ‘huge problem’ with a ‘despot’ God and of being a ‘puppet on a string’, get out of your denial and ponder over the ‘freedom’ your ‘free will’ brought you and how much inner peace, at all? Discard your lame self-serving excuse of “ God is Sovereign, but also just ”. Having a ‘ Loving ‘Despot’ ruling over us in all our being, is the best thing that has ever happened to ALL mankind, especially when that LOVE OF HIS has the intensity of being INFINITE ! Philippians 2:13 “For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.” - Berean Standard Bible 2 Christ, the Wonderful Counselor Matthew 11:28 “ Come to Me , all you who are weary and burdened , and I will give you rest .” - Berean Standard Bible He does not say to go to anyone else, let alone any ‘saint’, but He DEMANDS all with His “ Come to Me ” to come to HIM alone! Besides, what does He say about relying upon human beings? Jeremiah 17:5 “This is what the LORD says: “ Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind , who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.” - Berean Standard Bible To go to tangible pastoral counsellors today has become the automatic thing to do and why? Because pastoral counsellors are mollifiers in the first place, having personal issues themselves. But, counselling others is a means of getting away from- and getting external admiration for themselves. Their soothing talk is so successful, especially when they belong the 2.3 billion-membered ‘Christian’ church. So, ‘taking the chance’ to go to the Christ, one cannot see, cannot feel, cannot hear, or cannot touch, is not an option. Because Christ doesn’t work like that. He goes straight to the conscience, using burning coals to foster introspection, introspection being the stepping stone into becoming pure at heart. Running away from oneself never leads to spiritual maturity. Hebrews 10:31 “It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God .” - NASB 1995 3 Christ, the Mighty God Revelation 1:8 ““ I am the Alpha and the Omega ,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come— the Almighty .” - Berean Standard Bible Matthew 28:18 “Then Jesus came to them and said, “ All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me .” - Berean Standard Bible Hebrews 12:29 ““For our God is a consuming fire.”” - Berean Standard Bible It’s much better to be disciplined here on earth already, than later. If Paul could go through God’s disciplinary Fire, so can you, provided you believe in the Christ of Paul! 1 Timothy 4:10 “To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone , and especially of those who believe.” - Berean Standard Bible Just take note of the extra “ especially for those who believe ”. Those who do not believe this yet, do not labour and strive like Paul and his fellow believers, even amidst their suffering and maltreatment. Do preachers in reformed churches (especially in the three ‘sister’ Dutch reformed churches in South Africa) get scorned? No, they are approached with pious reverence, simply because the moment anyone challenges a “Dominee” here, he, or she is faced with aggressive retaliation, even sarcasm. 1 Thessalonians 2:2 “As you are aware, we had already endured suffering and shameful treatment in Philippi. But in the face of strong opposition, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God.” - Berean Standard Bible 4 Christ, Eternal Father JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF DEMANDED! Matthew 23:9 “And don't call anyone on earth 'Father,' because you have only one Father , the one in heaven.” - International Standard Version You, Catholics, This is the kind of picture engrained in your brain! One calls this brain washing. You are brainwashed with Christ being the baby and His ‘mother’ being the queen in iconography around the world! And for those icons with the baby crowned as well, whose crown are always bigger? Needless to say. What Father image do you EVER get from this baby image? Do you make the connection here? Can you see how your Pope is only always represented as the father in plain sight. Go to every village, every town and every Catholic church and see how this image of a belittled Christ is flaunted all over the Catholic show! This is disgusting and an abomination to Christ in its highest form. Just know for sure that the price to pay for this on Judgment Day is unimaginable! Be warned and shudder! Moreover, see the ancient Egyptian Mano Pantea finger sign in the baby’s right hand. Besides, what’s it doing there in the first place? What does a baby know about hand gestures? See this very sign in virtually all iconography! Moreover, what did JESUS say about signs? See Matthew 12:39 below. Matthew 12:39 “Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” - Berean Standard Bible Roman Catholicism is saturated with signs and symbols, to avoid transparency. Ever wondered why freemasons were the architects of cathedrals and basilicas, the St. Peter’s Basilica being no exception of course, and why masonic symbolism has flooded the Catholic church? Jesus Christ is the Head- and Father of TRUE Christianity and Jesus pertinently said there is only one symbol, and that is of the prophet Jonah, depicting Jesus three day and three nights in the heart of the earth. You obey the Vatican by calling your Pope “Holy Father”. You do NOT obey the CHRIST your church is SUPPOSED to represent! Why, do you think this is the case? Have you ever thought of the fact that you have been so controlled by the Holy See since the first century? Have you ever thought of the fact that the Bible was kept away from you up until 1943, when Pope Pius XII ‘eased’ up a little with his “Divino Afflante Spiritu“? Moreover, what the Vatican with its present day “Revised Common Lectionary” is doing, is just carrying on with its ritualised tradition, still keeping you parrots with reading specific verses on specific days, keeping you away from studying the Bible as a whole. Constant reciting, chanting if you will, has a drug-like affect of desensitizing the brain. The Bible warns against this ( 1 Peter 5:8 ). Your church still keeps everything ritualised and keeps critical Scripture away from you, Scripture that reveals its apostasy, Scripture that reveals the farce of your Pope, the hierarchical pontiff, been ‘given spiritual authority’, an authority Jesus supposedly gave to the Apostle Peter. You’ve been kept from building a personal relationship with Christ by putting rosaries and prayer cards in your hands, stripping your from authenticity and putting you in the shackles of its slavery! The Roman Catholic church is anti-Christ through and through. The Roman Catholic church has a history of having inflicted immeasurable torture to innumerable individuals, thus never clothed with Christ at all! Galatians 3:27-28 “ 27  For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ . 28  There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” - Berean Standard Bible Catholic, the flat-structured and unified Kingdom of Christ is NOT the hierarchical papal kingdom at all! They are two opposites! What do you see in the verse 27 above? To be Baptised into Christ is to have spiritually clothed oneself with Him, as He can only be worshiped in spirit. The papal kingdom resembles a pompous hierarchy, flaunted with vestments of flamboyance and costing a fortune! And verse 28, what does that tell? To be Baptised into Christ is to become unified in spirit in His Kingdom where there is neither gender, nor cultures, because all are one in Christ! There are no favourites. The 28 Biblical passages below, proclaiming salvation for all people, are not part of your pre-organised Lectionary daily readings for year C. How many times did you stumble across these passages above, if at all? And you, reformed ‘Christians’, your Abba Father is the one who will condemn gazillions into everlasting torture, the devil and the father of lies, like Jesus said: John 8:44 “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.” - Berean Standard Bible The Eternal Father of the Bible is the Eternal Father of ALL humanity. He loves everybody ever born, including the little ones who didn’t make it, because what He created was very good, perfectly fitting within His Plan! The Father of the Bible loves all true Christians, false ‘Christians’, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Shintos, Jews, Sikhs, atheists, Satanists, and all the rest! Who, do you think, gave them their religions and their atheism? The Sovereign God Himself, whether you like it, or not. The Sovereignty of God gives Him the power to do it all. You have NO say in anything! Better come to terms with this, because you will have to share heaven with all of them, because all of them will also wash their robes white in the Blood of Christ! So, none of them will resemble the image they portrayed in their lives on earth at all. ‘Christian’, you who believe in the lie round Christ’s universal atoning redemption, do you want a glimpse of His judgement day, for those of you who mocked Him? Let’s see. 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 “ 8  in a fire of flame, inflicting vengeance on those not knowing God and on those not obeying the gospel of our Lord Jesus, 9  who will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,” - Berean Literal Bible Eternal? NO! The Greek (#166) says “ aiōnion ” here. It means “ age-long ”, which is a very long period, but of limited duration! So, the bad news here? It will be a very long and terrible suffering ( Hebrews 10:31 ). And the good news? The suffering will reach and end, towards joy in Christ, when you have washed your robe white in Jesus’ Blood! Matthew 13:36-42 “ 36  Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” 37  He replied, “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38  The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, 39  and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. 40  As the weeds are collected and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of the age. 41  The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness. 42  And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ” - Berean Standard Bible 5 Christ, the Prince of Peace John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you . I do not give to you as the world gives . Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid .” - Berean Standard Bible Catholic and reformed ‘Christian’ If your so-called ‘Christian church’ proclaims to worship Christ, then why does it have so much division, hatred and conflict in your institution all along? Where’s it’s peace? The answer is simple. You do NOT follow the Christ of both the Apostle Peter and the apostle Paul, but the peaceless antichrist ! 6 Christ, the Head of the church Colossians 1:18 “ He is also the head of the body, the church ; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.” - New American Standard Bible Nowhere in the Bible does it state that the apostle Peter was, or even would be, the head of the church and referring to Matthew 16:18 as ‘proof’ of Peter being the head of the church is in vain. Peter’s name meant rock . Peter himself was not a rock, but his rock fast belief in Christ was. Jesus addressed Peter the apostle here, referring to his name and immediately afterwards referring to the symbol rock. Jesus never said “ and on you I will build my church ”, no. Rock symbolises strength, stability, and permanence. So, what was this belief   of   Peter ? And what does “Christ” mean? It means “ Saviour of the world ”! What else did Peter say? 2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord does not delay the promise, as some esteem slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but all to come to repentance.” - Berean Literal Bible We see here that God’s WILL is for no one to perish at all and we know that God’s will always prevails in Philippians 2:13 . This totally refutes your reasonless ‘free will’ myth. On the one hand you proclaim God to be Sovereign, but at the same time you reject it by taking a chunk off His Sovereignty, arrogantly giving it to humankind, the mortals Satan HATES! Don’t you even make the connection here, that he deceived you into becoming an ally of him , the biggest rebel of all times? Satan wants company, lots of it and on top of it, he’s so successful in creating global rebellion. Just by your mere ‘ although God wants all to be saved, He doesn’t force all to be saved ’, you make God a god, him taking God’s place leaving your destiny in his hands. What else from Peter? 2 Peter 14:15-16 “ 15  Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation , just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with   the   wisdom   God   gave   him . 16  He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand , which ignorant and unstable people distort , as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction .” - Berean Standard Bible So, Catholics, who is your St. Peter? The apostle Peter of the Bible proclaims everlasting salvation , but yours proclaims everlasting damnation ! You even say that [your] St. Peter was the first pope, based upon Matthew 16:18 . Your damning dogma does NOT stem from the apostle Peter at all, but from Constantine I, the founder of the Council of Nicaea, the first Council in the history of the Roman Catholic church, NOT the Christian church at all! See, the Roman Catholic church is not Christian! The Roman Catholic church is saturated with paganism, coming from Constantine I, who paid tribute to Sol Invictus in his arch of triumph, not to Christ at all! Besides, who do you think gave him the supposed sign of the ‘cross as bait’ to conquer wars and satisfy his hunger for power? And you, Professor, Pastor and all reformed so-called ‘Christians’, who also believe in everlasting damnation, Peter clearly states above that the Lord’s patience brings salvation . It’s a statement ! And what does Peter say next? That you are both ignorant and unstable too. Simply because you do NOT believe what Paul clearly states in Romans 4:5 ; 1 Corinthians 15:22 ; 1 Timothy 2:6 ; 1 Timothy 4:10 ; 1 John 4:14 ; Ephesians 1:10 ; Titus 2:11 ; Hebrews 8:11 and Hebrews 10:28-29 . 7 Christ the genderless Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female , for you are all one in Christ Jesus .” - Berean Standard Bible In Christ? Yes, in Christ. Because only within Him one has no gender! Why? Because Christ is Spirit and has no gender, even though He is referred to as “ He ”! Besides, we can only worship Him in spirit and in truth , not   in   the   flesh . Which spirit? Our spirit, because only through our spirit do we know we are children of Christ, as is illustrated in the verse below . There is spiritual   warfare between those whose spirit is in Christ and those whose spirit   is   of   the   antichrist . And this is exactly why the Apostle John says we have to test the spirits of people . Romans 8:16 “The S pirit Himself testifies with our s pirit that we are God’s children.” - Berean Standard Bible Paul clearly states below that we dwell in Christ through our spirit within His Spirit . And His Spirit dwells in us . Moreover, our spirit within Him has no gender at all and we see all other people as being genderless, with neither misogyny , nor misandry playing any role at all, only agape love within Christ ! Those busy with gender ‘warfare’ are not of Christ at all, but antichrists ! Romans 8:9 “Now you are not in flesh but in Spirit , if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you; but if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ , he is not of Him .” - Berean Literal Bible What’s more, it’s impossible for flesh and blood to enter the Kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 15:5 “I declare to you, brothers and sisters , that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God , nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.” - New International Version And Who is the Kingdom of God? JESUS CHRIST! John 18:36 “Jesus answered, “ My kingdom is not of this world ; if it were, My servants would fight to prevent My arrest by the Jews. But now My kingdom is not of this realm.”” - Berean Standard Bible Jesus Christ is neither about the law of Moses, nor any ‘sacrament’ and you, who proclaim to be ‘Christians’, but believe in the lie of ‘everlasting damnation’, read the verse below with heedfulness! Do you have peace and joy? Highly unlikely! Romans 14:17 “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness , peace , and joy in the Holy Spirit .” - Berean Standard Bible The Roman Catholic church represents misogyny , with its pompous androcentric subjugation of women being directly opposing Christ , who is the Epitome of egalitarianism . Not only is misogyny screamingly evident in plain sight all over the world, but also in its fiddling with Christ’s Holy Scripture. But remember, Satan hates women , for the simple reason that the woman is the instrument God uses to bare the human race of which he [Satan] is filled with jealousy! Moreover, Christ , his arch enemy , will come into this world through a woman. Having lost his exalted position in heaven, Satan hates Christ and more so His Word. Don’t for one moment think that Satan doesn’t know the Bible better than anybody on earth. From there his cunning schemes to twist the Word of God at every corner. But, Christ opens the eyes of those seeking the Truth in earnestness. The Bible never contradicts itself, but Satan delights in making it looks like it does. So then, where does the following two verses stem from, because what Paul says here below in his letter to the Corinthians, contradicts that what he says to the Galatians 3:28 ? Clearly the passage below doesn’t fit at all and is fiddled with by none other than scribes ( Jeremiah 8:8 )! 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 “ 34  Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. 35  If they wish to inquire about something, they are to ask their own husbands at home; for it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in the church.” - Berean Standard Bible It stems from what we call “ interpolation ” and in this instance “ interruptive interpolation ”. Please read verse 33 , leaving verses 34 and 35 out, directly carrying on with verse 36 . See for yourself the fluent continuity of Paul’s argument around order in the church, with regard to prophesizing in tongues, its whole structure is kept intact. Verses 34 and 35 have nothing to do with the subject matter at all. And this deception could only happen from the lying pen from scribes in vaults away from the public eye, called the Vatican, fuelled by androcentrism in that organization since its beginning around 400 AD, screaming their male inferiority complex onto the female gender to this day. Needless to say, nuns could never count as part of the Catholic clergy. Nuns are stripped of all their unique- and God-given identities, forced into [cloned] formless habits and tricked into believing that outward ‘piety’ is the prerequisite for pleasing God. The hegemonic Roman synods conveniently forced nuns into submission under the guise of ‘humbleness’ as the primary mechanism that eventually pays off when these oppressed human beings have no other option than to succumb to this farce, only to survive. And all the time the only reason behind androcentrism is an inferiority complex of those partaking in it. The apostle Paul for one, did not partake in this “ism”. Where do you think androcentrism stems from? Satan of course, to fuel gender polarization, with his ultimate goal being the demeaning of women, the gender through whom his arch Enemy, Jesus Christ would be born. And to accomplish this, he gave many men a deep-seated inferiority complex, which would simultaneously have them conveniently succumbed to hegemonic masculinity in order to subjugate the ‘threatening’ woman. Since, Mr. Adversary is the ruler, humans are his target and the Bible is his playground. God gave every woman an identity of unique beauty. So who then, other than the evil one, gave the church the ‘right’ to force the ‘clone-like’ appearance upon women? The answer is obvious. Please read Job 42:15 and see how GOD honours women. But, it goes further. By just pausing at the myriad of references to “ brother ” and “ brothers ” in the Bible, one is confronted with the Greek words “ adelphos - ἀδελφός ” and “ adelphoi - ἀδελφοί ” (Strong’s # 80 ) respectively. These, apart from male gender, can also denote the figurative form of “ fellow Christian(s) ”, and thus spiritual kinship , gender being irrelevant. The prefix " ἀ- “ (“opposite”) and the “ δελφός ” (“womb”) refers to “not-[from]womb”, i.e. spiritual kinship, easy as that. But, and quite expectedly of course, the rhetoric “ masculine ” gender conveniently pops up in the parsing tags ever so frequently! To illustrate this: James 2:1 “My brothers , as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism .” - Berean Standard Bible Please notice that James addressed his letter to the scattered twelve tribal families of Israel and thus not merely their men. Interestingly, quite a few versions around the verse above reflect “my brothers and sisters”, but the vast majority doesn’t. Androcentrism exploits hermeneutics to its favour, but once the eyes of the reader have noticed this ‘ism’, they cannot be oblivious of it anymore, especially when it comes to ‘brothers’ addressed without the ‘sisters’ being mentioned. Besides, Luke and his company of fellow believers went to stay with the evangelist Philip (one of the seven disciples) in Caesarea and his four prophesying daughters ! They wouldn’t have chosen Philip if they had anything against women prophesying! Acts 21:8-9 “ 8  Leaving the next day, we went on to Caesarea and stayed at the home of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven. 9   He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied .” - Berean Standard Bible And what about Deborah, whom the Lord appointed as JUDGE? Judges 4:4-6 “ 4  Now Deborah, a prophetess , the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. 5  And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment . 6   She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.” - Berean Standard Bible The Lord deems a women to be fit for being both a prophetess and a judge ! So, who gives you, androcentric Roman Catholic church, the right to overrule that which the God of the Bible had ordained? Your humanly-written Catechism? Shame on you, despising women, whom GOD loves and deems fit as being both prophetesses and judges alike?! Please read Isaiah 14:27 ! Never mess with God. It’s dangerous!