Come Out of Her My People
The early church believed in what is called millennialism, which is what Peter referred to when he taught, “Do not forget one thing, that a day is equal to a thousand years and a thousand years is equal to a day (2 Peter 3:8).” These apostolic men all believed that after six thousand biblical years we would enter the true Sabbath, also called the Millennial Kingdom. The early church knew that there would be two advents of the Elijah ministry. They taught that at the end the church would be in such a bad state that they would need the Elijah ministry in order to prepare the people for the coming of the Messiah.
Have you heard this in the church before? How does Elijah fit into your end time eschatology? The church cannot be prepared for the coming of Christ unless they are prepared by the teachings of Elijah. Jesus himself said that Elijah will come and restore all things (Matthew 17:11). While some churches teach that Jesus was referring to John the Baptist this cannot be the case since John had already been martyred by this point. Jesus said that Elijah “will come” which is future tense - this means there is another coming.
This is why we have to go back to the Ante Nicene Fathers, who were before the Roman Catholic church. These men were the purest of all when it comes to understanding what Jesus and the apostles were teaching. They believed that apostles and prophets would be in the church until the return of Christ Jesus. There are churches that don’t believe in apostles and prophets anymore, but the early church taught that apostles and prophets must and will be here until the end. They also believed that the gifts of the Spirit, or the Charismata would be here at the time of the end. Those gifts are here to help us and prepare others to help us get ready. Today’s churches are preaching a different gospel than the gospel of the early church.
They also taught that the oil was divine teaching and believed in the revelation of the mysteries of Scripture. They taught that healing comes by revelation. Most Christians don’t walk in healing nor have seen anyone get healed. Some churches even teach that healing is of the devil. In Mark 16:17, Jesus said these signs will follow those who believe (casting out demons, healing the sick and raising the dead). The people who come against that are not believers.
The apostles and prophets are here to get the church in order. The prophets have always been attacked by God’s people. The prophets come to bring divine teaching to get the people back on track because they have fallen away from a true understanding of God’s Word. The foolish virgins did not have enough oil or divine teaching to go out and meet the bridegroom. When you don’t take God’s servants seriously, like the Hebrews did with John the Baptist, you won’t be ready for what God is about to do.
Babylon means a mixture in the anointing, or a mixture in the teaching. Fausset’s Bible Dictionary says that the harlot Babylon is the religious system, the church that has been committing adultery with different doctrines. Babylon is the harlot church that rides the beastly nature because they have beastly understanding. There are two sealings happening all at the same time: those who receive the mark of the beast and those who are being sealed by God’s apostolic teaching.
According to the prophet Isaiah, Satan is the head over Babylon, the religious system. The Lord rebukes the Hebrews for playing the harlot with other gods, other teachings. The church today had different Gospels being preached, different denominations that are displaying the harlotry in the church. The church was never like this in the beginning. Jesus said that the seed is the Word, so if you are receiving another teaching, or a different Jesus is being preached to you, then that seed teaching will be at war with the Seed of God. This war of seeds was prophesied in Genesis 3:15 when it says “and his seed will be at war with her seed."
We need to ask ourselves if we’re really married to Jesus or if we are married to the counterfeit. Amen.
Sincerely,
Apostle Michael Petro
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