"I Have No Man"

Jesus came to the pool of Bethesda and approached a man afflicted with palsy and asked him if he wanted to be healed.  The man's reply was: " I have no man!"  John 5

Can you imagine? The God of the Universe that stills the storms, raises the dead, walks on water, causes mountains to quake,  killed Pharaoh's army in the Red Sea asking this poor man if we wanted something as small as a healing and the response was "I have no man!"  ??

Jer 17:5  “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.

Have we not done the exact same thing?  The Lord is willing to come directly to each of us in our need to meet and and to exceed it, yet we rather trust in a man!  

The Lord says He will lead us and speak to us directly and teach us the way we are to go but our answer is "NO!  Thanks, but I have a man!"

Our reliance is in the arm of flesh and not in the leading ability of the Spirit of All Mighty God.  

The plan of God was for the Church in the Wilderness under Moses' leadership to go in and inherit the Promise Land, the land flowing with milk and honey.  Nope! they said!   We are no match for the inhabitants of this land and the walled cities.  They had unbelief in the ability of God to lead and they would rather trust a man!  10 faithless spies!

There are many who believe the Promise Land is heaven and the Jordan River is death.  Not so.  The Jordan River is the Baptism of the Spirit and the Promise Land is the land of inheritance where we fight giants, destroy the walled cities and set up the kingdom for the rule of David, our King.   Are we going to fight giants in heaven?  No! Besides all that, the earthly Kingdom of God will be established on this earth for 1,000 years with King David (Jesus) sitting on the throne in Jerusalem ruling the nations with a rod of iron!  The Kingdom of Heaven will come to earth.

Well, the Church of the Lukewarms can't say "they have no man".  We all have our "man" (pastor).  We have idolized them putting them on elevated pedestals of our worship and adoration.  We pay them homage and money!   We are men worshipers.  We don't need the Spirit of the Living God to lead us from within, for we get our instructions by sitting on padded pews!  We are not going to inherit the Promise Land because we are too busy building men's kingdom (pastor's kingdom)  and towers (denominations) that reach to heaven and a name for ourselves (Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal).  We are Spiritual Babylon!  Moses-worshippers, men pleasers, lukewarm followers of "our man".

Wake up and hear His knock on our door and open to Him and He will be the voice behind you saying this is the way walk in it!  He will be the "voice" and not someone else.

He would lead but who will follow?

Be blessed, Billy and Jan 

White Smoke, Black Smoke or all Smoke and Mirrors

Q:  Would love for you to address the issues of the Pope.  There is so much attention towards that now.  Is this biblical? 

Interesting you should ask, as this has been on my mind constantly and I have wanted to do something timely on the matter.  

Lets start here:  Rev 2:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.

Rev 2:15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate

I have been in this "way" for over 40 years and I have yet to hear even one preacher preach about the "doctrine of the Nicolaitanes".  Not even one!  Wonder why?   Is it because if you are a part of it then how can you speak against it?

Nico  (to rule over)

Laitanes (laity) 

The doctrine of clergy ruling over laity.  A "caste system" in the Church.  

Let's hear what Jesus said about this:

24When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers. 25Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 26Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

"It is not to be so with you" (lording and exercising authority over).  In other words, in the Church there shall not be anyone lording over to exercising authority over you like the gentiles do to each other.  You want to be master then be a slave, and follow His example.  

We have an entire religious system built upon Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, Priest, Pastors, Elders, etc all exercising authority in their pretended positions.  This doctrine God hates.  Why does He/God put up with it?  Easy to explain.  He said that heresy (false teaching) must be among you so that those that are approved can be manifested.  I cor 11:19.  In other words, God allows false teaching (wheat and tares growing together) so that we always have a choice:  God's way or our way.

What does all this mean to us.  There is no big I and little you in the Kingdom of God.  If I wear a robe, my collar backwards, and put DDD behind my name or Rev. before it it makes no difference to God.  God is not impressed with men's positions nor titles nor our "caste systems" of clergy and laity, but with true worshipers.  

You dont have to obey me because " I am the man of God called to pastor this church".  Baloney.  There is no such verse in the Bible "called of God to pastor this church".  This is a tradition (pastor over congregation)  we picked up from the Mother Whore with her priest system and brought it with us when we went into bondage to Spiritual Babylon.  

Now saying all that we have come to the real question:  You want to know what I really think? 

Questions the Trinity Doctrine Can't Answer

1.  How many Almighty's are there?  By definition there is just One Almighty.  Isa 9:6

2.  Who was Jesus mother before Bethlehem?

3.  How can the Son be the Father?  Isa 9:6

4.  How can the Second Person in the Godhead die?  Can God die?

5.  How can God not know what God knows?  Matt 24:36

6.  Who is the Father?  The Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary and she conceived.

7.  Can God pray to God?  How can 2nd God ask 1st God to do something and still be God Himself?

8.  Why can't the Trinity Doctrine be understood when the Godhead is clearly seen and understood? Rm 1:20

9.  Is Jesus in the Godhead or is the Godhead in Jesus?  Col. 2: 9

10. If the Son is the 2nd Person in the Godhead how can 2nd God have a beginning and ending?  Ps 2:7 and  I Cor 15:24 .

Wilderness Christians

The longer I am on this road of Light the more clearly I can see.  It has truly become the shining light on the path that grows brighter and brighter until that perfect day.  

Satan does not care if we go 3 days in the wilderness to worship God, just don't leave bondage, be sure to come back!  

If there is one thing for sure: we cant see ourselves in the lives of the Church in the Wilderness (natural Israel).

Egypt was bondage (a type of sin).   God's plan was to bring His people out of bondage into the Promised Land.  In between Egypt and Promise Land was the Wilderness.  In the Wilderness God spoke to His people about His Law and wrote them on hard tables of stone to match their hearts.   Moses was their leader to take them out to bring them in.   They were to go from Egypt  to the Promised Land without delay, but because of their unbelief and unwillingness to hear God they all marched around in the Wilderness behind their Moses leader till they all dropped dead in the Wilderness!   (Oh, but if we could only see ourselves!)

God calls us out of bondage to sin into the liberty of the Spirit.  Out of Darkness into His Light.  Out of Egypt into His Promised Land.  Between Egypt (life of sin) and the Promised Land (the Spirit-led life) we encounter the Wilderness of Worship.  We were never suppose to live in the Wilderness but to go in and possess the Promise Land.  (not heaven!) 

Now let me paint the picture in the Spirit of what I see:  We are brought out of Egypt into our Wilderness where we have our Moses/pastor teaching us all the things of God.  He hears from God for us and tells us what God said.  We receive the order of Worship and the Laws of God written in our hearts in the Wilderness but the plan of God is for us to leave the Wilderness and to go into the Promise Land of the Spirit-led life.  

Not us!  We get behind our Moses/pastor and follow him around and around the Wilderness of Worship until we all fall dead.  We never enter in to the Promise Land.  We die in the Wilderness of Worship.  We have reduced our service to God to 1 hour on 1 day a week, where we go to sit and watch and listen and pay.  We are never taught to walk in the Spirit, to hear from God and to enter into the Work of Our Ministry.  We waste away in the Wilderness (Wilderness Christians) refusing to hear God directly, to obey in faith and to move into the Spirit-led life.  

The saddest part of all is our Moses/pastor wants it that way. " Don't ever leave the Wilderness of Worship.  Sit here and stay saved till Jesus comes. " 

Spiritual Babylon is alive and well in our Wilderness Churches with our Moses/pastors.  

Let's hear the Spirit speaking,  "Come out of her, my people, and be not a partaker of her sins!"  Wow! 

Be blessed, Billy and Jan

The Spirit of Babylon

The Spirit of Babylon started with Nimrod and the tower of Babel and will end with Mystery Babylon and the Anti Christ.

The Spirit of Babylon is man's united efforts led by Satan to thwart God in Judgement and Power.  

Let's us make for ourselves a name:  World Rulers and Denominations. 

Let us build a tower to heaven:  Escape God's judgement by our own method of salvation.  

It will conclude with the Anti Christ and His false teacher ruling the world.  Satan, man and religion all  teamed up together for world rule and worship.  (think about that) 

Spirit of Babylon is rampant with idol worship.  The worship of ANYTHING before God is idol worship.  Aside from the fact that the Catholic Church is steeped in the worship of men and women in the form of statues/idols ( and we are daughters of the Mother Church) we too are involved in the spirit of idolatry not so much statues but attitudes:  with the worship of men (preachers)  denominations, and buildings all in the name of God..  The Spirit of Babylon and idol worship is firmly entrenched in the modern Church.   (we just cant see it)  

Just as Israel was allowed by God to go into captivity of Babylon because she would not follow God with a whole heart, we too have been in captivity of the Spirit of Babylon since the 3rd century BC.  When Satan married the Church and darkness settled over our eyes.

While Israel was still captive by the Beast (the Golden Head and Silver chest) the call went out to rebuild the Temple.  Most of Israel stayed in bondage while the rebuilding of the Temple began.  So is it with the Church.  God is restoring His people but only a few have come out of Her and ceased participating in Her sins.   (We refuse to go to Him outside of the Camp and suffer His reproach.  we love padded pews)  

In the Last Days men will have a form of godliness but without power.  Could anything be more obvious than the form of worship we have inherited from the fathers?   We have reduced God worship to one hour on Sunday morning.  Powerless to effect real change in a man's life.

Among the list of nations were the Ethiopians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, ... In many ancient cultures parents would sacrifice their own children. ... In times of of trouble they offered their best and dearest to the gods, 'the fruit of their body.  We too offer our children upon the altars of abortion.  The killing of children is the norm now in America.  Babylon is both Spiritual and Natural, that is the deception.

The True Worship of God is not a place we go or a thing we do on a weekly schedule but rather complete and total being of the active presentation of self to God as only a reasonable sacrifice.  

It is high time those that have ears to hear and eyes to see to come out of Her and stop participating in her sins.  When we give our money and our allegiance to a system of idolatry we are active participants in Her sins.  

Be blessed, Billy and Jan 

Spiritual Babylon Captivity

Natural Israel refused to keep God's law and drifted into idolatry so God sent them into Babylonian captivity.  I find that what happened to natural Israel's unfaithfulness to God exactly patterns the Church's unfaithfulness to God has led us into captivity to Spiritual Babylon.   In less then 200 years the Church leadership was actively involved in the worship of Mary:  

A Marian devotion in Christianity is a gift (total or partial) of oneself, or one's activities to the Virgin Mary, i.e. a willingness and desire to dedicate oneself to, or venerate her, either in terms of prayers or in terms of a set of pious acts. Such prayers or acts may be accompanied by specific requests for Mary's intercession toGod.^[1][2][3][4]

-- Nimrod the grandson of Noah was worshiped as the Sun god.  His wife Semiramis worshiped as the Queen of Heaven, and her son Tammuz worshiped as Nimrod reincarnated and a miraculous birth.   This was represented as the Mother with the Babe in her arms, the Mother and Child.  

Paganism, pagan customs and idol worship drifted into the Church and we were held in bondage "darkness" from 200 AD until about the 15th Century when light began to break forth in 1517 with Martin Luther.   Just as Israel was still in bondage to Babylon when some work began to rebuild the Temple of God the bulk remained in Babylon.  Just as work began to restore righteousness to the Church of God, most remained behind in Spiritual Babylon.  Still true today.  Let me contrast: 

Babylon	Zion
Self	Jesus
Flesh	Spirit
Earth	Heaven
Law	Grace
Death	Life
Doing	Being
Bondage to flesh	Liberty in spirit
Kingdom of Men	Kingdom of God
Elected appointment	Jesus as Head
Rules and regulations of men’s own making	Spirit led
Man pleasing	Spirit sensitive
Busy and church work	Obedient to Holy Spirit
Accomplish in self strength	Accomplish things in Holy spirit power
Authority in manmade doctrines	Authority in Word of God
Sectarian and divisive with many divisions of people	One body in spirit
Programs, mind controls and preys	Worships in spirit and truth
Denominations, doctrines, heresies, creeds, traditions, personal views and opinions	Preaches Christ and Him crucified
Clergy system – want to make a difference between themselves and others	Priesthood of all believers
Answers to man and their institutions as the authorities	Answers to God as highest authority
Imagination	Revelation
Conforms people to its own image	Transforms people into the image of Jesus
Increases itself in power, position, riches & domination	Decreases that Christ may increase
Counts the money	Counts the cost
Preserves and protects itself	Lays down its life
Schemes, organizes and promotes to execute its own plan in its own way and time	Waits upon God to raise up what He wants in His timing
Goes after things and people to possess them	Seeks the Lord with his whole heart to be possessed by Him
Seeks to build a city, a power and a name for itself	Seeks the city of God
Seeks to gather people to itself	Longs to be gathered to Jesus, to be a disciple, willing to deny self, take up cross and follow Jesus, self denial is the cross we bear.
The old man will rise up and attempt to control and dominate	The old man of flesh and sin has to be rendered dead, to lay down life defines the NT concept of agape love

Unfortunately we are all blind to ourselves unless God opens our eyes to give us understanding.  We are still captive to Spiritual Babylon even today!  We have refused to come out of Her and to go to Him outside of Jerusalem (the camp of organized religion).  We still worship men, buildings, denominations, religions.  We still elevate men as clergy, we still build men's kingdoms and call them God's.   We still refuse to help the orphan, widows and poor, while all the time planting money into systems (broken cisterns that hold no water).  We are rich and increased with goods, we are the 7th Church of the Lukewarms and know not that we are still blind, miserable and naked to God!    We are still in bondage to this day to the Spirit of Babylon, yet we boast as did the Jew (we have never been in bondage to any man!)  

Even when it is told us in our ears we still refuse to hear.  Our ears have become dull of hearing, our minds dumbed down to a form of worship with our hearts far from God.  We ever learn but never learn.  We have turned from truths to fables.  We have itching ears but hire our own men to tickle them.  

Judgment is coming to Babylon.  We are admonished to leave Her.  In one  hour she will be destroyed and her children with her.  Come out of her and be not partakers of her sins.

Be blessed, Billy and Jan 

What the Bible teaches about Giving

I have become more convinced as time progresses that we have put all our efforts and money into the building of men's kingdoms and the elevation of men and denominations and have completely missed our real calling, "love your neighbor as yourself".   The heart of God has always been toward the poor, orphans and widows.  We are commissioned by God to remember the poor Gal 2:10 and Pv 19:17 but as I have searched the Word of God I have failed to find even one reference to buying and building men's kingdoms of lands, buildings, padded pews, and paid professional salaries.   His ways are not our ways.  

It is standard policy to drop tithes and offerings in the bucket and "presto" we have done our religious duty of service to God.  We have been faithful stewards of our increase.  But have we really?  Have we ever stopped to consider what portion of what we give in the bucket goes to the poor, orphans, widows and strangers?  Have we ever asked to see the budget break down of where all the money in the bucket goes?  I will dare say the huge and vast majority of the money goes to keep the "system"" going, and a very tiny portion, if any at all, goes to help others besides ourselves.  

I have become more aware that because the Church was not faithful, just as Israel was not faithful to God, strayed into idolatry, that God allowed His people to be  captured and placed into bondage to a religious system Babylon (both natural and spiritual).  We are in bondage to Spiritual Babylon and don't even know it.  Everything we do spiritually is to increase the power of Spiritual Babylon over us.  We have made idols of men, preachers, religious denominations, buildings with steeples and have left off the following  God in Spirit and Truth.  We have loved to worship in the high places!  The vanity of man and the pride of life dictates where we "go to worship" rather than being led by the Spirit of God.   The proof is where we "plant" our money.  Have we remembered the poor, orphans, widows or have we only remembered "Big Church"?  

Because we as a ""denomination" have done a few benevolent things does that make us "godly"?  If so then the US government is godly    They give welfare, food stamps, WIC, section 8 housing, etc.  Of course not!  Just because Spiritual Babylon has done a few good things does not make it right or righteous.  We have been place into bondage to a religious system that uses high places (pulpit) to teach the traditions of men instead of the truths of God.  Shame on us for not discerning! 

Here is God's indictment against us:  We are blind miserable and naked!  We need to buy of Him.  Rev 3 we find God shut out of His own Church knocking to get in.  The parable of the 10 virgins said we are slumbering and sleeping!  Over and over again we proof we have eyes and can't see, ears that can't hear!  

This is probably not the kind of Christmas story you'd love to hear, but none the less, I feel we need to examine ourselves (no one else can examine you).  Are we really in the faith?  Or have we believed in vain?  

Next time you decided to "give to God" why not consider helping someone besides ourselves and our group or our denomination or our system?    View this Video  where 92% of the money goes to help the poor and compare that to the budget of Big Church.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Haq2tekD19Q

Be blessed and have a very blessed Christmas the time of giving!  BW and Jan