Capture of the Church - Part 1

CAPTURE OF THE CHURCH

Part 1 - by P.K. Odendaal - March 2019.

Capturing is one of the oldest of human pastimes, and the Church, being the oldest institution, suffers most from this. We humans seem to relish capturing or usurping anything and everything from animals to humans to power to countries with coercion, exertion, pain, violence, death and deception.

I will try to formulate a few tell tale signs and litmus tests whereby we can judge whether our Church has been captured or not.

As a start I wish to save you time by saying for whom this series of articles are written. If you add up the number of times you visited church, read your bible, prayed or talked to the Triune God in the last thirty days and it is less than ten, then this is not written for you. It would not bother you whether the Church is captured or not. The fact of the matter is that you are captured by one or more of the following: worldliness, sin, bondage, carelessness, ignorance and delusion and you would not notice whether any Church is captured or not. Sorry.

There are ways out for you. Start doing the biblical and religious thing I enumerated above and with time your heart will soften so that the Holy Spirit can enter into and change your life for your good and for good.

These religious things I stated above is only an indication whether you are captured or whether you are a dedicated Christian, and it does not give Christians in any way bragging rights of impending Heaven or a ticket to Heaven. It serves to enable you and me to judge ourselves whether we are captured or not.

Every Church goes through seven stages, if they ever get that far, from inception to deception to child sacrifice, and they are quite easy to recognise. I only talk of Christian Churches here, as my experience over seventy years has mainly been with Reformist Christian Churches, and they have, since the year 1517, been subject to reformation, disinformation, misinformation and adulteration. That is why there are now 38000 denominations in that Church.

Contrary to the Reformists, the Catholic Church has only been through one big schism, which was the Reformation. In all these supressed schisms of the Catholic Church, the offending parties have been either slaughtered, martyred, burned, exterminated or sent directly to Hell by excommunication. The Reformation progeny got off lightly as they acted in masses and the Catholic Church, operating as corporate thugs, was in turmoil sorting out the fall of their Church in the Council of Trent which took them decades and landed them in opulent shame in the Barogue era even further away from God. This was prophesied in Revelations as the wounding of the Beast and its healing:  And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

In all of this you must realise that any Church at any stage of decadence can be regenerated and reformed by the Grace of God, as long as there are a few divine and holy people who can call unto God to deliver them from evil and decadence.

Phase One - The Spiritual Church - God is everywhere and in everyone.

Revelation 2:2-3: I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

A church starts off with some divine revelation or reformer and the name for that movement I call the Spiritual and Basic Christian Values Revival. All that are preached in those Churches are God, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and the Bible. Those four are the necessary and sufficient conditions for a spiritual church. If your Church is like that, praise God, rejoice and join in the effort to sustain and develop that. That is Heaven indeed. One of the greatest of these were the Revival in Indonesia, but it mostly starts small, even in house prayer meetings. People grow spiritually, shun worldly things, share most things and pray for each other.

I have been there and I have done that and I have learned from that and I have enjoyed that.

In this phase the evil and unholy cannot infiltrate the church because the divine and holy can discern those individuals and can guard the presence of the Holy Spirit jealously. However, after a time the things of the flesh seeps in and the congregation does not guard jealously anymore.

This is not new, as it happened in Paradise. God put Adam and Eve into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it, and then suddenly one day they find the serpent has sneaked in while they were not looking. And so we also need to dress and to keep that congregation, lest the serpent should sail in unnoticed.

We get to become complacent and lose our vigilance and one day suddenly notice a church member, or even one from outside, who sailed into the benches or pulpit without anybody noticing, almost too late.

As a side note it can be said that Satan worshippers sneak into the church gatherings on purpose to spy, distract and sow discord. It is a standard thing for spies to infiltrate gangs or mobs and vice versa. Do not let it surprise you, but be vigilant.

In history this phase never lasted for more than seventy years, unless some major transformation to basic values happened before then.

One thing which we should note from this phase is that there is no money or abuse of such. Mammon, Jesse du Plantis, Kenneth Copeland or such others have not entered the fray yet. All is at peace and the Church grows.