TO THE CHURCH:

WARNING!!!

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

And if the righeous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

1 Peter 4:17-18

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We are now in the last moments before The LORD Jesus' return.  The antichrist is poised and ready to take his place on God's prophetic stage as we head very quickly to the end of the world as prophesied in God's inerrant and infallible Word.  The Rapture of the Church is soon to take place followed by the tribulation of which man has never endured on this earth as God pours out His wrath upon the ungodly.

In the meantime, the Church is over-flowing with lukewarm compromisers that rarely can be distinguished from the ungodly, hell-bound world.  It is time for us as the Church to repent and return unto The LORD Jesus in spirit and truth. 

God so loved the Church, His Bride, that He sent Jesus, His only beloved Son, to earth to live for us, die for us, and raise from death for us....for death could not hold Him.  He was and is and ever shall be God.  So much love, forgiveness, compassion, grace, and mercy has The LORD Jesus shown His Church. 

In these last days, it has become increasingly very difficult for truly devoted Christians to find a Church house to worship in because the demonic is rampant in the lives and teachings of those professing to be Christians in most Churches!!!

Those lost and hell-bound in sin are to be directed to Churches to attend......but to what Church?  True Bible-believing Churches are extremely difficult to find in these last days!!!  True Bible-practicing Christians are also extremely difficult to find in these last days!!!

The fault for the state of the Church is NOT God's fault.  It is the Church's fault.  He has done everything He could ever possibly do in order to make a way for us to have His eternal salvation and live right before Him by sending The LORD Jesus Christ to earth to be slain as our blood sacrifice for sins.  He has sent His Holy Spirit to us to teach and guide us.  Yet so many in the Church have rejected Him.  It is Jesus who stands outside of the Church knocking with desire to be invited inside of the Church.....yet He is supposed to be inside of The Church already!!!  What does that say about us, Church???

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Nevertheless I have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. 

Revelation 2:4-5

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It is time we return to our first love lest we be left behind at The Rapture...left behind to suffer the wrath of The Almighty God Jesus Christ with all ungodly sinners.  Think that would never happen?  We had better think again!!!  When Jesus compared the kingdom of God to ten virgins awaiting the bridegroom, only half were ready when the bridegroom came for them.  The rest were left behind and the door was shut!!!  The LORD Jesus surely had to be telling us what it will be like for The Church when He returns...only half of the Church prepared to go in The Rapture!!!  Read it for yourself in Matthew chapter 25 verses 1-13!!! 

Does this not concern you??? 

Does it not hurt anymore to grieve The Holy Spirit of God???

Does The LORD Jesus not matter anymore???

Does it not matter that apostacy, heresy, and hyprocrisy found in this last-days Church is a stench in the nostrils of The Almighty God and LORD Jesus Christ???

Does the Church not fear Almighty God???

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Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am He which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

Revelation 2:22-23

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We all love to sing "When We All Get To Heaven" while most in the Church are living like devils.....teaching false doctrines like devils.....spewing forth false prophecies like devils.....unashamedly bringing shame upon The Name of Jesus before the ungodly, hell-bound world without the ability to even blush over our sinfulness.  Sexual predators are running rampant in many Churches while disguised as ministers, etc.  Fornication and adultery ceases not. Homosexuals are running rampant in many Churches without a warning that God hates homosexuality and will destroy both their bodies and souls in hell.  People claiming to be Christian are endorsing and voting for candidates that openly condone all that God Almighty hates...abortion, homosexuality, etc.  The list seems endless of all of the apostacy, heresy, and ungodly, hell-bound living that is observed in what calls itself the Church in these last days.  

It is so very heart-breaking indeed.  Multitudes in the Church do not want the God and LORD Jesus Christ of The Bible. They prefer the "good ole boy" image that they have created in their back-slidden and ungodly minds and have named "Jesus".  Multitudes in the Church want the false "Jesus" that they have created in their back-slidden and ungodly minds that they choose to imagine lets ungodliness slide by without threat of judgement or chastisement.  They want the false "Jesus" that forgives at a mere "I'm sorry, LORD!" with true repentance never necessary.  (Such a "Jesus" does not exist except only as a mental image in their ungodly, sin-loving minds!!!) They want their riches.  They want their fame.  They want false devil-teachings that make them feel good as though all is fine between them and The LORD Jesus.....WHEN IT IS NOT!!!  They prefer an abominable image they have named "Jesus" over the REAL LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. 

Ministers stand and offer sermons and altar-calls often without the mention of true repentance necessary in order to be saved by The LORD Jesus.  At such sermons, etc., the devil and his hordes do laugh for he does all he can to keep secret the need for our true repentance.

God's Word is not read and not studied by multitudes professing to be Christians!!!  While The King James Version of The Bible and The Geneva Bible are the most accurate in translation from Hebrew and Greek to English, often what is read from pulpits and read in homes, (if it read at all!!!), are the distorted and defaced modern versions that are indeed perversions of God's Word yet preferred by so many professing to be Christian. 

One example of a perverted version of God's inerrant and infallible Word is the New International Version (NIV). 

Did you not know that the same company that publishes the NIV also publishes the satanic bible?  Click here and here to read it for yourself!!! 

Did you not know that the same company that publishes the NIV also publishes the ungodly book "The Joy of Gay Sex"?  Click here and here to read it for yourself!!! 

Are you not familiar with two on the NIV translation committee who where homosexual?  Read about one of them here.  Read about the other one here. 

Are you not familiar with the atrocities to Holy Scripture in OTHER versions of The Bible?  Take a look for yourself here.

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God's precious and beloved newborn babes in Jesus Christ are being offended and discouraged in their new lives in Jesus as they observe the hypocrisy of so many that profess to be Christian.  God has plainly told the Church that His little ones are NOT to be offended and has warned us against doing such!!!  His little ones not only include children but also include those so new in Him as newborn babies in Jesus Christ.

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Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Luke 17:1-2 

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Would you like to really know how The LORD Jesus sees us, Church??? 

Would you like to really know what HE thinks of us??? 

Read it for yourself below!!!

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I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Revelation 3:15-18

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The back-slidden, compromising, and lukewarm Church is playing with God but He is not playing with us. 

GAME TIME IS UP, CHURCH!!!

HEED THE LORD JESUS' WARNING...OR PERISH.  HE IS WARNING US BECAUSE HE LOVES US, CHURCH!!!

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As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Revelation 3:19

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God's judgement has begun, Church, and His judgement is coming down quickly with The Church's name on it!!!  Do we even recognize His judgement and chastisement upon us as coming from Him or will we continue, in our deceived states, to try to claim "it is the devil attacking us"?  It is time we wake up and get into The Word and get to know the REAL Jesus.  Our back-slidings, compromising, etc., makes Him sick, Church!!!  Is it any wonder that He would desire to spew us out of His mouth!!!

We MUST repent and return unto The LORD Jesus Christ!!! 

We MUST do it TODAY!!!

Sincerely in The LORD and ONLY Savior Jesus Christ,
Stephen and Bonita Ann (Logsdon) Richie

2/17-19/2008

 Living Hope In Jesus

http://www.livinghopeinjesus.com 

Stephen and Bonita Ann (Logsdon) Richie

John 11:40