Why The Organized Church Is A Harlot, And Not The Bride

Old Dog V

Why The Organized Church Is A Harlot, And Not The Bride

Bob Neumann, 5/2006

One half of the world looks at AMERICA and states “they are a ‘Christian’ country”. And then calls us THE GREAT SATAN. In both statements they are correct. What most AMERICANS and the rest of the WORLD sees is a land of contradictions. A people who say they “go to church” but their lifestyles are far from moral and edifying. To the average citizen of China, India, Morocco, most third world countries, AMERICA is an enigma. They see affluence and abundance in the physical world, and decadence and corruption in the spiritual. They see “churches” on almost every street corner, yet said same “churches” having no visible positive affect on their communities.

Honest people in America see the same problems and have no answer. There are no functional solutions on the table. This has puzzled many “church goers” for years.

The answer for all of this has been openly clear in the OLD TESTAMENT all along. If anyone seriously desired to understand why AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY was in such a mess, THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT would probably have told them. But maybe no one wanted to “pay the cost” of such a lesson. Considering the time and cost I have paid, I can not blame anyone for not trying.

2800 years ago, give or take, GOD established a UNIFIED ISRAEL under David son of Jesse. It stayed unified under his son SHLOMO….or as we say SOLOMON. In all Israel was ONE for less than 80 years and was divided after Solomon died. The NORTHERN KINGDOM had a long line of UNGODLY KINGS. One such was AHAB. During his reign THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL sent a servant to confront Ahab and his wicked people. He is called today ELIJAH. IN HEBREW he is called ELI’YAHOO which translates to “GOD IS I AM”.

All good bible studying Christians “know” the story of ELI’YAHOO and talk about his “powers”. He shut out the rain and called down fire. Few understand that he was utterly clueless about what YHVH was doing around him. At MT HOREB he is confronted by YHVH and he tells YHVH that he is the last one left, all the rest are dead. But YHVH tells him that there are in fact 7000 FAITHFUL to HIM. SO ELI’YAHOO is sent back to do three specific things.

First, to ANOINT HAZAEL to be King over Syria. Second, to ANOINT JEHU to be King over Israel. Third to anoint ELISHA to be his replacement.

Now in the OT all it takes is five chapters and ELI’YAHOO meets YHVH’S FIERY CHARIOT and we are “blessed” with the image of ELI’YAHOO’S MANTLE.

But those five chapters give us no real specifics of just how long ELI’SHUA….”GOD IS SALVATION” hung out with his mentor. Historian Flavius Josephus in his writings THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS state that tradition stated they were a team wandering the land for as long as sixteen years. Yet in all that time, ELI’YAHOO never did any of the three things YHVH told him to do at MT HOREB.

All that time they wandered. Once ELI’YAHOO was gone ELI’SHUA did the same thing, wandered the land. Yet in his story things began to change. First and really important is the Shunamite woman who desired to build a room for GOD’S SERVANT. She is a major part of this story. For at that time ELI’SHUA wandered the land. Later he would take a servant named Gehazi and build his own house to dwell in. From this point we have no details of the time Gehazi served ELI’SHUA except from the events he was involved in. First ELI’SHUA asked Gehazi how the SHUNAMITE WOMAN could be “blessed”. And Gehazi had the right answer. She was barren and wanted a child. Now enough time went by for the child to be born and old enough to be in the fields with his father when the child suddenly dies. The woman immediately sought YHVH’S servant. She found him on MT CARMEL. And he sent GEHAZI ahead to raise the child with ELI’SHUA’S ROD. It did not work. When GOD’S SERVANT GOT THERE the son was restored to the SHUNAMITE WOMAN.

In the very next chapter we meet GENERAL NAAMAN.

Naaman is SYRIA’S #1 GENERAL and he has a problem. He is a LEPER. One of his captives is a HEBREW GIRL who works as his wife’s handmaidens. Obviously the GENERAL’S WIFE was special because the handmaiden told her that there was A PROPHET IN THE LAND who could help the GENERAL.

And we know the story of NAAMAN. He goes to the KING OF ISRAEL who freaks out. Who sends him to ELI’SHUA’S house. We know he is told to go to the JORDAN and after dipping the SEVEN required times, he is healed. Naaman wanted to “bless” THE PROPHET and THE PROPHET said “NO”.

Enter Gehazi…who runs after Naaman and gets some of THE STUFF ELI’SHUA did not want. The last 7 verses of 2 Kings 5 tell the story where Gehazi runs after Naaman, gives him the “OLD SHUCK AND JIVE” and cons Naaman in ELI’SHUA’S name. What Gehazi does not expect is to be confronted by YHVH’S PROPHET on his return. When he is confronted he lies…and is STRUCK with LEPROSY. And he departs….sort of…

What followed was a major famine and THE PROPHET tells the Shunamite woman and her son to flee. They do but return seven years later and go to the King of Israel. She calls for the King to return her land. Now when the King asks her to prove it is her land she states it was her son THE PROPHET RAISED FROM THE DEAD. Obviously this was a major story in ISRAEL for many years…and the King calls for Gehazi who happened to now be one of “the prophets” that sat at the KING’S TABLE. And Gehazi tells the “story”. The Shunamite woman is not only restored her land but given the produce it would have provided her for her seven year absence.

So YHVH “USED” the “WICKED SERVANT” long after Gehazi was cursed. It is a PATTERN we see in AMERICA today.

Over the years THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT would move and men and women would respond. Later man would label what GOD PERFORMED. THE PENTECOSTAL MOVEMENT…THE CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT…THE “JESUS” MOVEMENT….

All three have followed the PATTERN in the OT. The first generation travel through the land. Confronting sin, moving in THE GIFTS and THE FIRE. They had no “homes” of their own. Now their “children” established both churches and denominations. They had seen THE POWER and KNEW HIS AUTHORITY, but what followed once they had position and property? Generations of GEHAZI servants who want worldly stuff, expect worldly stuff, and are content to eat at the table of THE DECEIVER.

Modern Pentecostal and Charismatic churches are seeing the third and fourth generations building mega churches and selling their own gospels far and wide. They are the NICOLAITINS that KING JESUS says HE HATES. They never saw THE HOLY FIRE and THE POWER OF THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT, so they replaced it with whatever “fire” they could steal or manufacture.

Most of so called “Christian” TV and radio is funded by so called “spirit filled” ministries. Now there are many main line and evangelical people out there too, who teach everything from a Humanist Gospel to LIBERAL DOCTRINES of DEMONS. All are like Gehazi, wanting the STUFF and expecting the SHEEP to provide for their LIFESTYLES.

Some may say I am trying to say that there is a GEHAZI SPIRIT loose. Just as they like to throw around JEZEBEL and KORAH and ABSALOM. Now if it helps you discern what has been occurring for the last 50 years in AMERIKA, fine. I can accept that.

But there is no “loose” spirits out there. What they are is deeply imbedded PATTERN where they can do the most harm. In congregations ruled over, controlled by THE NICOLAITIN OVERLORDS.

Read my words and ponder them. Understand what the ENEMY is doing and for how long they have controlled do much.

IN THE KING’S NAME

Bob Neumann North Carolina

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