They didn’t recognize Him! He spoke creation. He spoke to the prophets and patriarchs. He became flesh … and they didn’t recognize Him. They crucified His (Son of Man) body! Do you know the Everlasting Father? Do you recognize His voice?
“Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.” (John 8:47 NIV)
That title is my tagline on many of my publications. I’m sincere in that request that you seek God and ask Him yourself. I don’t want you to believe me. You are individually responsible to ask God about all doctrines. I often give you the words that I have heard from God but I fully expect you to verify everything with God. If you don’t hear His voice in prayer then that becomes difficult for you to do.
In addition to delivering words from the Lord, I also try to bring you Scriptures that support the words from God. Still if you are a child of God, you should have discernment if the words are from God or not. You are responsible to God, not to me, or your pastor, spouse, friend, boss etc. to know true doctrine.
Why would God continue to put up with pastors who teach a three-gods theology in a one-God (monotheistic) religion? God calls them false teachers because they teach falsely about who God is. Some of them, rather than seek God to clear up their false doctrine, try to discredit God’s prophet (me). The big problem with that is that God sees everything including their continued false teaching.
When God calls me to step away from the false teachers that refuse to listen, the Lord is about to bring His wrath and punishment for their rebellion. In that process, the false teaching pastor may take the whole church down with him for refusing to seek God for true doctrine. God has told me to step away from two pastors in this town. Those two pastors are not the only two who teach falsely but they are two that God has seen their ugly hearts and pride as they continue to teach falsely after God sent His prophet to urge them towards repentance and seeking God. They refused and God is not pleased. If you are a congregant at one of the two churches (seek God for which ones) you should ask God if you should move to a different church or warn the pastor because staying and remaining quiet will make you complicit … and the Lord will deal with you accordingly.
In the Old Testament times, God dwelled among His people in the Tabernacle (Exodus 25:8-9). The Ark of the Covenant was a place of God’s presence (Exodus 25:22). The New Testament fulfillment was God in flesh, aka Jesus, dwelling among His people (John 1:14).
While we don’t go around calling Jesus “The Tabernacle” or “The Ark of the Covenant” to identify Him as “God with us” or “God’s presence”, those identifiers represent prophecies fulfilled as God made Himself known in human form (Isaiah 9:6, Exodus 25).
God gave exact specifications for how the Tabernacle would be designed. The Tabernacle was a tent of meeting and a precursor to Solomon’s Temple. Both were created to be a place where a sinful people could approach a Holy God. The high priest would enter the Most Holy Place once a year on the Day of Atonement. The high priest’s role was to sprinkle blood on the mercy seat atop of the ark of the covenant to atone for the sins of the people. The hope was that the judgment of God would be transformed into mercy from God. I should note that the sprinkling of blood did not obligate God to forgive the rebellion or evil deeds of the people. It was simply an act to signal a hope for covenant restoration from God. Without restoration God could abandon His people as they abandoned Him in their disobedience and sin. (Think of a marriage contract where one betrays the other with infidelity.)
Everything about Christ on the cross was to replace the earlier Tabernacle and Temple. For example: The veil or curtain that divided the Holy Place and the residing place of the Ark of the Covenant (aka the Most Holy Place) was torn from top to bottom when Jesus died. The torn veil at the entrance to the Most Holy Place symbolized our ability to approach God for a private and individual covenant restoration conversation. We don’t need a high priest to approach God on our behalf. Jesus (who is God) was the final priest. He forever fulfilled the need for intercession. We are each responsible to have conversation directly with God. (Read Hebrews 10:10-12.)
They all say that they want revival to happen. But do you believe them?
Why would God deliver revival to a nation that ignores Him? Why would God use pastors who teach Trinitarian bogus theology to lead a Christian revival movement? Why would He anoint pastors who reject the anointing that God puts on women to unite His people?
All these pastors need to do is learn to hear God’s voice in prayer and hear His true doctrines directly from Him … and of course obey Him to teach those truths correctly. Listen, I have tried countless times to connect with a few of the pastors that God has named to help them learn to hear God’s voice in prayer. They don’t want to learn. They want their own seats of honor AND they do not want God to send a woman to teach them. So, that’s where I’m at!
I don’t know how to convince them that God is a “He” not a “They”. I hear them say it wrong all the time.
One God, God is Spirit, One Name, One Savior, One First & Last. It seems clear to me, but for whatever reason, those pastors cannot be convinced. If only they would hear God tell them … maybe then they would understand.
Two years ago, I completed an edition of The Rogue Prophet Magazine entitled “Jesus, The Everlasting Father”. I’m currently revising it to include four new pages that refute the Trinity doctrine of three gods.
This is one of the draft pages that I worked on today.
As Iron Sharpens Iron
Contrast teaches. None of us want to be the arrogant, unanointed buffoon that God sees as an idiot. We instead want to be favored by God and entrusted with His anointing as good citizens and mentors to the next generation. But can we adequately judge ourselves if our lens of inspection is filtered with unfocused heart motives and deceptive theologies?
When God tasked me to assess the churches locally, I wanted to be used by God for productive investment to advance His Kingdom. I still want that. But what I met in my efforts to obey God was a less than receptive audience who didn’t seem to want the same thing.
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” (Proverbs 27:17NIV)
Constructive conflict is important to grow in Christ-like maturity. We must be willing to examine ourselves without bias, allow those who love us to point out weaknesses in our character and technique, and invite God to perform surgery on our wayward hearts. It’s not comfortable, especially if we thought that we had already arrived at a healthy level of success.
Maybe it will be helpful to hear some of the descriptive words that God has used when He talks with me about the pastors. About one of the pastors, God said “He hasn’t trusted me to empower him, so I have not anointed him. He’s more comfortable with a book-learning approach than being Spirit-led.” Another pastor was described by God as being more charismatic, but “he fakes it when he hasn’t spent quality time with me.” Another pastor was described as humble, willing to be teachable, approachable, and communicative. God values sincerity.
Some of those pastors have been a little too sassy with me by intentionally ignoring my private messages or blocking me on social media platforms. It’s ok though because I too have been a little sassy with God when He forced me to listen to their sermons. Not much about this process has been comfortable, but maybe iron sharpened iron. Maybe some cried out to God and He heard their pleas for consolation. Maybe some drew near to God and gave access for that needed inspection. Maybe others finally clued in to hearing God’s voice in prayer. And perhaps others will entrust God to anoint them to deliver Spirit-led and powerful messages.
I know that I’ve seen new insight from God’s perspective. He’s allowed me to sit with Him and feel His heart for each church, the congregations, and ministers. I know that God is invested. 1) I know with certainty that He hates those cameras rolling when He wants to move stealthily among His people. Why would you want to publicly humiliate His children when they come to the altar for His healing touch by filming them in a vulnerable state? Why would you intentionally record for public consumption the communion time or offering time that is supposed to be devoted to God? 2) God hates the false doctrines and the twisted manipulations that allow pastors to lord themselves over innocent and faithful followers. 3) God hates insincerity and greed. 4) God values the women that have been overlooked and discarded by foolish men that should have been entrusted to lift them up and spotlight their Kingdom beauty, anointing, giftedness, and nurturing hearts.
So, you may be wondering, after about 50 days of posts and insight from God to the local churches, if it has affected change. God says that it has, and I see little bright spots of growth in doctrinal areas from some of the pastors. I think we all have been challenged to be better versions of ourselves. We find the best answers by hearing God and allowing Him to teach, instruct, chastise, and discipline us as He shapes us into His design.
God is leading me to take time away from this endeavor to work on another area of ministry. I hope for God-honoring success for each of us as we step forward. Seek Him to know Him! I can be reached at TammieEdwards@therogueprophet.com.
The Goodness of God
Many days as I am waking up in the early morning hours, there is already a song in my heart. One of my favorite songs to hear in my spirit is “The Goodness of God”. The lyrics, “All my life you have been faithful …” remind me that I’m grateful for the goodness of God. (Btw: In my opinion, nobody can sing that song like Ce Ce Winans.)
This Sunday, I visited Calvary Chapel, Titusville. Yes, there is a Calvary Chapel that has been meeting locally for nearly one year. The pastor preached a great message leading the congregation in a continuing verse-by-verse study of the Bible, currently in the book of Acts. After the sermon, we sang together the song “The Goodness of God”. I can’t adequately explain how endearing that was to me. It, tied to the confirming message from the pastor, fueled me. Currently, the church is meeting in a confined space but is only about one month away from moving into their expanded and newly remodeled worship center.
God is moving in Titusville. He is definitely shaking up the pulpits too. Because I regularly visit different churches, I can see where God is tearing down and where He is building up. The pastors that are willing to seek God and hear from Him are being positioned to lead a growing spiritual revival. However, the others who are stubbornly holding on to false doctrines and cultural traditions will lose their followers when God shifts congregants to new locations. God is wanting church leaders to humble themselves under His authority rather than arrogantly holding on to their man-made seats of honor.
God told me right away when Steve Yuke was ousted at Park Avenue Baptist Church, that Steve would create a new church. It is currently happening, with pre-launch services on Sunday evenings at the American Police Hall of Fame. The church is named Church Four Eighteen (C418), after a key Bible verse from Luke 4:18. There is a Facebook page and a website with the same name. I’m glad to hear that Steve moved quickly to get a Women’s Ministry Director. That’s vital for healthy church growth. God is watching for good doctrinal teaching now that the pastor is not confined to Baptist denominational stance. I’m hoping for God-honoring success.
God led me to write this on the introduction page of my latest magazine. “If revival is going to happen, we must be risk-taking truth-tellers. We cannot accept the herd mentality that is so prominent in churches today. We cannot sit back and accept false teaching for the sake of maintaining a fake unity. God expects us to stand against the devil’s schemes, not to accept them in a feigned peace-keeping bravado. Have courage to speak God’s truth even if it hurts. That’s revival!”
The introduction continued: “Hear God, speak truth, fight for justice, war against evil, expose lies, walk in the Spirit, don’t blend in. The devil wants to weaponize your compassion into accepting less. Isn’t that why revival doesn’t happen? Status quo isn’t cutting it! Stand in the destiny calling that God ordained for you. RISE UP to create revival.”
Every day since the end of last year, I have been writing daily posts as God has led me to assess the churches locally. You might not understand how important this is to God if you’re not being similarly led by Him. But because I’m walking in my own shoes, I can say with certainty that God is all over this. He forces me to listen to online sermons from several churches each week. He wakes me up earlier and earlier to engage me in writing these posts. He reviews each paragraph with me. He modifies and edits the structure until it suits Him. He introduces words that are not part of my normal vocabulary. I think that He does that to remind me that these are not just my own thoughts being typed onto the page. He allows me to feel His determination and passion against the false doctrines and at times against the false teachers. It’s important to God that I be completely in sync with Him. Doesn’t He want you to walk as intentionally with Him? Will you go where He leads? Will you speak boldly against the devil’s attempts at perverting what the church is supposed to be? Will you war against evil or will you instead sit proudly in its midst?
It’s not easy being the rogue prophet, but God wouldn’t have it any other way!
“Take Heed, That No One Deceives You”
Anyone teaching a three-gods theology, also known as trinity doctrine, is deceived. That false doctrine was conceived in 325 AD, by deceived men at the first council of Nicaea*. Their false doctrine was born during a time when different ideas about Christ’s divinity arose. Their doctrine clearly states that the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is not the Father, but that all three are God which when looked at analytically can only equate to three separate gods, each with 33% or 1/3 authority. The problems with that bogus theology are that Jesus is 100% the Father, the Holy Spirit is 100% the Father, the Father is 100% the Holy Spirit, and there is only one God, not a corporation of three Gods. There are not three separate god-beings but instead one God in three positions or roles. Interestingly enough, that bogus trinity doctrine gave way to Mary being worshipped as the mother of God. God is Spirit. Mary was not the Creator’s mother. She simply was the vessel that God delivered His Son-of-Man (aka Son-of-God) biological earth suit through. So, take heed that no one deceives you. If you have a relationship with God, then you can certainly ask Him what is truth and what is fiction.
This leads me to talk about the fictional doctrine being promoted at the Grove Church in Titusville. Barry Russell, with his limited understanding of truth, is telling the congregation at that church a false theology about women being ruled by men. So, I’m going to take the time here to debate his stance.
In Barry’s nauseating sermon on Sunday (2/9/25), he tried to paint a picture of all women needing to submit under the rule of men. He started with using Adam’s and Eve’s punishment as proof of God’s design. When in fact, God’s design was to create Adam and Eve to live in harmony with each other, not to punish all of creation for their sin.
The truth is that Adam’s and Eve’s punishment was only their punishment, not ours. God does not punish all women for Eve’s sin, and He does not punish all men for Adam’s sin. The punishment was specifically their punishment. In fact, the passage is primarily warning us of our individual sin consequences, since each, including the serpent, received different punishments. I’m adding a long passage of Scripture below so that you can read it for yourself. Where in the passage does it say that anyone other than Adam and Eve were punished for their sin? Eve’s punishment was in part that her husband would rule over her – not that all men would rule over all women. Note that Eve said that the serpent deceived her. (Hint: just like the devil deceives people into teaching false doctrines). We’re just looking at this one passage for now, because other Scriptures that were refuting Gnosticism (another false theology) refer back to this and can be taken out of historical and cultural context to make it sound like all men and women were punished for Adam/Eve’s sin in the garden. This is why we cannot have a one-verse theology when studying the Bible. Language translations between different cultures can cause confusion too. Please read the passage carefully and ask God to give you wisdom.
“But the LORD God called to the man, ‘Where are you?’. He answered, ‘I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.’ And he said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?’ The man said, ‘The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ Then the LORD God said to the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’ The woman said, ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate.’ So the LORD God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, ‘Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.’ (16) “To the woman he said, ‘I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.’” (17) “To Adam he said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ ‘Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.’” “Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the LORD God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.’ So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.” (Genesis 3:9-23 NIV)
So let’s look at the second passage of Scripture that Barry has misused to confine all women to men’s lordship over them. The word “head” in the Ephesians 5:23 text (and in 1 Corinthians 11:3) should be correctly translated “source/origin” (like in the word “headwaters”) not “boss/authority”. It’s a chronological term rather than a hierarchy term in the original language. Paul is referring back to when God formed woman from man in the garden. Adam was the source/origin of Eve since God took a rib from Adam to create the first woman. We can discern this translation difference from modern English because just two verses earlier in the passage, husbands and wives were told to submit to one another in reverence for Christ. It would be odd for Paul to quickly contradict himself by saying that man is the authority over woman. But it would not be out of context for the passage to remind that man is the source/origin of woman referring back to God’s original design of creating woman from man. The Ephesians 5 verse is not saying that all women were punished for Eve’s sin and thereby are to be ruled over by their husbands. In the same passage, it is further noted that Christ is the source/origin for the church. The chapter ends stating that it was about Christ and the church, not about husbands and wives. (See my post from 2/6/25 “Many Gods and Mini-Gods @ The Grove Church” for earlier debate on this topic.)
At its core, male chauvinism is rooted in a hatred for women and has been used to keep women in spiritual bondage. If a man really wanted to know God’s intent on the subject, all he would need to do is study the Scriptures with God present so that he could ask God questions when he needed discernment. Unfortunately, Barry at the Grove Church does not hear God’s voice in prayer so he is free to create his own doctrinal stance against God’s heart. Paul correctly stated as recorded in Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (NIV) It’s interesting that the slavery thread runs through many of the passages from Paul.
Why would a man who claims to love his wife want her to be in slavery rather than in freedom? Maybe it’s because he really loves himself and hates his wife. Maybe it’s because his little man parts/ego can’t handle that a woman can truly be anointed by God for God’s purposes outside of housework, childbirth, and sexually pleasing her husband. Kingdom women are equally commissioned to go and make disciples of all nations. Kingdom women can be anointed by God with every manifestation of the Spirit gifts and service gifts just as Kingdom men can. Kingdom women should be fully submitted to God as should Kingdom men. Deviating from God’s design of obedience to Him, like Adam and Eve did through their sin, will result in individual punishment. Teaching false doctrine will result in eternal damnation. Is that what you want, Barry?
The two pages attached are 1) Stop Blaming All Redeemed Women for Eve’s Sin; and 2) Solutions from the Prophets. This prophet is telling you that the solution to doctrinal misunderstandings is to learn at the feet of Jesus by hearing His voice in prayer. True wisdom comes from God, not from twisting Scriptures to benefit one gender over another.
Source: The Rogue Prophet Magazines: “Spiritual Crimes Against Women in Ministry” dated August 2023, page 18 ; “In God We Trust”, dated June 2022, page 11.
*Please study for yourself about the council of Nicaea. I do not want to verbatim quote a source for this historical evidence.
The Prophetic Counsel of the Ages
If God suddenly asked you to deliver a message to this generation, would you want to know what type of messages God typically delivered through His prophets for comparison? I did. So I put together two magazines that point to the messages that God chose to reveal through His prophets.
My first magazine to focus on the history of God’s messages was entitled “In God We Trust” and the second was “The Prophets”. For the next few days, we will examine those texts to pull the common thread for wisdom today.
The attached page, “Warnings from the Prophets” can give us insight into God’s anger directed at His own people for their adultery against Him by bowing down to false gods. Why might they have been repeatedly foolish enough to provoke God to wrath in that way? Could it have been that they didn’t understand who God was or the power that He had to punish them in their rebellion or waywardness?
Listen to this warning about false religion from Jeremiah “This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: ‘Stand at the gate of the LORD’s house and there proclaim this message: ‘Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the LORD. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say, ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD!’ If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, ‘We are safe’—safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the LORD.’” (Jeremiah 7:1-12 NIV)
That last part was echoed by Jesus when He formed a whip and chased out the money changers in the temple courts. “So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, ‘Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!’ His disciples remembered that it is written: ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’” (John 2:15-17 NIV)
The attached page “Tear down the altars to false gods” provides a sampling of Bible passages that demonstrate how easily their religion turned bogus when their audience was not the one and only God. It should stand as a reminder that God is watching and will send messengers to deal with false doctrines in the churches. What does God have to do to get their attention? Is His wrath all that they will understand?
In summary, does it sound like God routinely sent prophets with hard words about their false religious practices or are the prophets known for bringing a word of encouragement? Right, they were beaten, imprisoned and killed because they brought words that itching ears wanted to hear (sarcasm). As I have said before, God doesn’t need anyone’s permission to deliver whatever words He wants through whichever messenger He chooses.
Source: The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “In God We Trust” (dated June 2022, pages 10 and 15)
Knock, Knock! Who’s There?
Blessings to my Christian siblings! The title above is not introducing a knock-knock-joke. It’s truly asking a relationship question introduced in the book of Revelation.
* “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” (Revelation 3:20 NIV)
Christians believe that those red-letter words are from Jesus as God. But who do the Jews say that Jesus is/was? In the Jewish religion, Jesus is not accepted as God. Like the Triniterians, the Jews do not understand the divinity of Jesus. The Jews long for the third temple to be built because they do not believe that Jesus was the long-awaited Messiah. Some Jews even expect for there to be a return to animal sacrifice or burnt offerings when the third temple is constructed in Jerusalem.
So who do you pray to? Who do you say that Jesus is? Do you believe that Jesus is the one and only God or do you believe that Jesus is 1/3rd God in a trinity of other 1/3rd Gods? Do you believe like the Jews that Jesus is not God? Who is Jesus to you? Knock, knock! Who’s there?
* “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” (Luke 11:9 NIV) Is this Scripture about prayer? 1) Ask for forgiveness, and it will be given to you. 2) Seek God’s will and you will find it. 3) (Figuratively) knock and the door will be opened to you to be invited in for sweet fellowship with Him which includes hearing His voice in prayer.
* “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.” (John 10:27 NIV)
Attached are the two remaining pages of the four pages that are the Mark of Excellence Newsletter, dated September 2021, “Prayer” Edition. Please seek God for His wisdom and discernment.
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