We see here again the disregard for Gods words for the doctrines and commandments of men that could easily apply to the leaders today as being just as against God and anti-Christ as the leaders in that day.

Again here from Matthew 15.

Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, ² “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

³ He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? ⁴ For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’⁵ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me (has been given to the temple as) a gift to God”—⁶ then he need not honor his father ^[a]or mother.’ In this way you have made the ^[b]commandment of God of no effect by your (church) tradition. ⁷ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:

¹⁰ When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand: ¹¹  It is NOT what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, that makes him sick”. 

¹² Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees (who thought they were in control) were offended when they heard this saying?”

¹³ But Christ answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. ¹⁴ Let them alone.They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, everyone will fall into a ditch.”

¹⁵ Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”

¹⁶ So Christ said, “Are you also still without understanding? ¹⁷ Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? ¹⁸ But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they make a person sick.¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornication’s, thefts, false witness and blasphemies. ²⁰ These are the things that make a person sick, but to eat with unwashed hands? This does not defile a man.” How does this match with common beliefs today? We are back to those days and again need a savior.

Here we demonstrate that Paul was trying to put off saying “And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

And again from 1 Peter 1 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by traditions from your fathers.

We bring this up because we have reached a point in time eerily reminiscent of that time when Christ had to speak with clarity and consistency to point out all the compromises that had taken place among all the half hearten leaders who took no ownership of their pathetic outcomes and did not want to offend, lest maybe they get bad press, or offend and even loose their financial base of contributions and tax deductible tithes that keep their doors open.

This teaching then is a lesson for The Elect of God to step away from such half hearten self conscious survivalist cults who operate as legitimately honoring God. Evan as Paul instructed Titus to “¹⁵ Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you”.

It is imperative for the Elect today to walk in the authority of scripture as a co-author, owner too. To push into the Father for self correction, rebuke and chastisement. Even as we are instructed in Hebrews 12;

12 Therefore for us too, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ² looking unto Christ, the ^[a]author and ^[b]finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him (on the other side) endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The Discipline of God

³ For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. ⁴ You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. ⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to (co-owner) heirs:

⁷ If^[d] you endure chastening, God deals with you as with heirs (and co-owners) for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? ⁸ But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. ⁹ Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us (as they deemed necessary) and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits for this new life? ¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but God our Father for our development so that we may be participants of His holiness. ¹¹ Now no ^[e]chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness (of doing things like the Father) to those who have been trained by it.

THE LESSON WE CARRY FORWARD FROM HERE

As the candles have been snuffed and the lights have gone out in the modern churches, it is important to know who we are and what is expected of us as becoming saints and the Elect of the Father, that we defend the faith against all visible odds for with this is certain judgment for them and heightened awakenings for the final numbers. Even as the wheat ant the tares grow together, the middle ground disappears.

That is why we are called to come out of her My people lest you partake of her sins and receive of her judgments for God has remembered her. “
To have no fellowship (or commonality) with the fruitless works of darkness. Come out from among them and be you separate and you shall be My Sons and Daughters says God Almighty and our Father.

THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS STILL AT HAND!! However you wouldn’t know that from a typical church setting or teaching. They are ALL Looking to the next Jesus for help. “Oh Lord come”? Blasphemy!! God has ALREADY sent His Son into the world not to condemn but to save. (John 3.17)

But the next time He comes is with a flaming heat to devour our enemies as seen here in 2 Peter 3. ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements (everything that was created) will melt with a fervent heat; both the earth and the works (and all that you did) that are in it will be ^[d]burned up. ¹¹ Therefore, since everything will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and (acquiring) godliness, ¹² looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements (of all of the first creation) will melt with fervent heat? ¹³ Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.” We call it “The Kingdom of God at hand” as something tangible and attainable to the re-spirited mind of faith.

If you are taught otherwise you need to examine yourself with the Father and come clean because “The Kingdom of God is at hand”‘ for a short while longer.