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.
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!
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.
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)
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.
For the past week, we have looked at “Pastor Report Card” doctrinal areas for review. So far, we have covered 1) Hearing God’s voice vs. the Bible speaks; 2) One God (not three); 3) Jesus is God vs. Jesus is God’s Son; and 4) The Covenant relationship requires hearing God and obeying. Today, we will talk about prayer intimacy.
Attached are the first two pages of four, of another of the Mark of Excellence newsletters that were sent to select local pastors and prayer ministries to teach true doctrine. The remaining two pages will be included with tomorrow’s post. Each of the newsletters that were mailed to the pastors included a cover letter. I thought you might like to see a glimpse into my one-sided conversations with the pastors.
*** Excerpt from Letters to Pastors *** Dear Pastor,
Subject: Mark of Excellence Newsletter, September 2021 Edition, “Prayer”
How’s that prayer list working for you? I only ask because if God were really granting your every wish, you would certainly be promoting that as a reason for people to seek you out (with financial favor). But that’s not how it works. Is it? Since God wants His children to come to Him personally, to seek Him, to ask for forgiveness, and to hear Him and obey, you probably won’t successfully compete with Him. But that won’t stop some from trying. As for me, I wouldn’t want a God that needs our advice.
I visit several churches via online access nearly every week. So, I can say with confidence that most of you are promoting prayer intercession (interference) rather than prayer intimacy. Some of you even have prayer lines, with 50 intercessors, waiting to pray for your congregation. Really? That’s sickening. I grew up in the church and learned that prayer foolishness from others like you. Oh, I had the best prayer lists of anyone. I could summon up God, demand His favor and hold Him accountable better than most. I hope you hear the sarcasm in that statement. There’s anger there too, because I was 40 years old before I understood that I was supposed to hear God in prayer. That’s what growing up in the church provided?
Prayer is NEVER meant to be one-sided. If you’re NOT listening to God in prayer with the intent of obeying Him, then you’re not doing it right. I realize that’s hard to hear because it takes ALL the power from you and puts it rightly with God. If you’re doing all the talking in prayer, then it must be because you expect God to submit to you. Let’s face it. The only way you can submit to God in prayer is by hearing His voice and obeying. But what’s modeled instead is that God is supposed to hear your prayers and obey.
Most of you would agree that Christians are not to pray to Mary or to dead saints as the Catholic church promotes, but aren’t you doing the same type of thing by asking to intercede for other Christians? Do you really know the heart of God? I didn’t. All my one-sided prayers to the Creator, were useless for the Kingdom and so are yours. Let’s face it. The sovereign LORD knows our every need. Why are “we” doing all the talking? And how many people does it take to overrule the will of God? Do you need 1,000 people or more? That’s sarcasm again. Obviously, you can’t out vote the sovereign God.
This newsletter about prayer has been the most difficult for me to write. I’ve had times of great grief as I’ve studied with God on how to present this. The grief may have been my own, but it felt as if it were coming from the heart of God. Of all the perverted theologies, distorted prayer doctrine must be the devil’s favorites tied with “mute God” or the “God locked in a book” doctrines.
***End of Excerpt***
At the beginning of the year, and this process of doing church assessments, a woman commented on one of my posts insisting that I needed to privately discuss these matters with the pastors before airing their dirty laundry publicly. My response was that I have tried to discuss these doctrines with the pastors via email, private messenger contact, and mail correspondence. That didn’t seem to be enough for the lady who was publicly (not privately) telling me that I needed to do things differently. That’s ironic.
The church leaders do not want to hear a message from God, either by directly hearing from Him or by Him sending a messenger. They seem to believe that they are doing things exactly right despite knowing that all the churches who doctrinally teach contrary to them believe the same thing. So, I’m taking this message right to the congregations. Please seek God to know Him. Hear His voice in prayer so that you can obey Him. Ask Him questions about the doctrines at the church that you’re attending. Want His will above your own.
Source: Mark of Excellence Newsletter, dated September 2021, “Prayer” Edition
There should be spiritual alarms going off at The Grove Church. They evidently have multiple gods in a one-God religion and their garbage theology includes that all men are the mini-gods of their family. I wonder what kind of pitiful male ego would need to promote that kind of false religion and why any woman would sit in that congregation and support such nonsense.
On Sunday, Barry Russell preached another ridiculous sermon about marriage. He seems to be proud of his false theology on the subject. So please go listen to him say very plainly (2/2/25 sermon, at 36:26) that he BOUGHT his prized possession (his wife) Nikki on 8/3/2002 with a goat and a cow from his in-laws. He was seriously bragging about being in human trafficking trade for his wife. Please listen to him go on about that being a Biblical truth. He is either a moron or a con-man. Whichever it is, he’s deceived as he has misinterpreted the text of Ephesians 5 to mean that the pagan norms of that day were God’s will for marriage. If that were true, then he must also interpret the next chapter “slaves obey your masters” as God’s will for today as well. So, would Barry twist those texts to condone slavery and sex trafficking?
“Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.”; “And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.” (Ephesians 6:5 & 9)
Let’s look at the passage a few verses earlier in Ephesians 5 that led Barry to believe that he owns his wife rather than being in partnership with her under God’s lordship. This whole text is about Christ and the church. Paul used a pagan cultural norm to describe a spiritual truth. He was not condoning men’s barbaric treatment of women which was rampant and widely accepted in those days. He was instead encouraging change in their dysfunctional marriages and trying to help them understand God’s lordship in the church. In those passages: “slaves obey your earthly masters” and “wives submit yourselves to your own husbands”, Paul is not condoning slavery or spouse abuse. He is suggesting that women of that day, who were intentionally kept illiterate, respectfully go along to get along, while primarily encouraging the men to treat their wives gently and lovingly. Remember that this letter to the church of Ephesus was likely read aloud to men in a culture where women were forced to be subservient. Paul’s hope was that Christian men would set themselves apart from the pagan culture and treat their wives better than non-Christian men. It was acceptable cultural norms to treat women as slaves. Please read it in context and see if you come to the same conclusion that I have. And I always say “Don’t believe me. Ask God yourself.” (Please read the summary sentence at the end of the passage first so that you can see the context. “This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.”)
“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” (Ephesians 5:22-33 NIV)
In the Bible, book of Hosea, God commands Hosea to marry a prostitute to symbolize Israel’s unfaithfulness to Him. “When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, ‘Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.’” (Hosea 1:2 NIV)
Why did God divorce Israel and send her into captivity? The reasons were consistently the same. Israel was unfaithful and guilty of adultery, prostitution, and promiscuity against God by having false gods. When a wife refuses priority allegiance to God to instead obey her husband, she is prostituting herself to a false god. Does the wife belong to God or does she instead belong to her husband? If the husband were wholly submitted to God, and hearing His voice in prayer, he would know that God doesn’t want him to stand in God’s place or sit on His throne in the marriage relationship. The covenant with God is that He is the one and only God. The Christian marriage covenant is intended to be mutual loyalty and exclusivity to each other with both being wholeheartedly submitted to God. There is no mini-god in the marriage covenant. There is only one God and both parties in the marriage should individually be submitted to Him.
Please read the attached pages and seek God for direction. Btw: that comment about the foolish pastor on the attachment is about Barry’s brother, Brad, in his Father’s Day sermon from a few years ago. Both brothers are idiots that have no place in the pulpit of God’s church.
Source: The Rogue Prophet Magazine, “The Prophets” dated April, 2022, page 6; and “Spiritual Crimes Against Women in Ministry”, dated August 2023, page 15.
Today, we’re going to refute a phrase that is often misused in the church to promote a false doctrine that Jesus is not the one and only God, but instead is seated next to Him in Heaven, seemingly as a subordinate God to the real God. I know that sounds stupid but I didn’t create the trinity doctrine.
So, if you read the phrase “exalted to the right hand of God” in context (provided below) you will probably come to the same conclusion that I have which is that this was talking about the fulfillment of the Davidic line. God is Spirit. God’s Son-of-Man-suit of flesh-and-blood was delivered through the biological family line of King David via Mary/Joseph. God had promised David on oath that he would place one of his descendants on His throne (verse 30 below). Jesus is the Spirit of God who is also known as the Holy Spirit. He is not seated next to Himself on a throne. This was symbolic language to express that God kept His promise to King David. There is not a flesh-and-blood person sitting next to God’s Spirit on a throne in Heaven. Every time these pastors show their own stupidity by using that phrase, we can know that they have no idea who God is just like the wicked men who crucified His Son-of-Man suit of flesh-and-blood on a cross.
From Acts 2:22-36 (THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES AT PENTECOST)“Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. David said about him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.’ Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. But he was a prophet and knew that 30GOD HAD PROMISED HIM ON OATH THAT HE WOULD PLACE ONE OF HIS DESCENDANTS ON HIS THRONE. Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay. God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. 33EXALTED TO THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, HE HAS RECEIVED FROM THE FATHER THE PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT AND HAS POURED OUT WHAT YOU NOW SEE AND HEAR. For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said, ‘The Lord said to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.’ Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”
In May of 2021, I sent the attached (final two of four pages) Mark of Excellence newsletter to local pastors with a cover letter that included these statements:
“My prayer is that I have scripturally proven on the attached four pages of the newsletter that Jesus is the creation voice, exactly God, the Forgiver of Sins, the Savior and Shepherd, the Alpha and Omega, and the First and the Last. Jesus Christ is the one and only Spirit of God who robed Himself in Son of Man flesh and walked among His creation.”
“Only a doctrine of demons (false theology) would suggest that God needs help being God, while Lucifer/Satan/Devil is only one entity.”
So, I’m going to ask a few questions about Jesus. Do you know who He is?
If Jesus is not God, why does He have the power to forgive sins that only God can have?
If Jesus is the First and the Last, the Alpha and the Omega, could there be a God before Him?
If there is only one God, as the Bible repeatedly records, then how can there be more than one?
If Jesus is not the one true God, then who is He? Why did Jesus say that He is the “I Am” if He is the “I Am Not”?
If you’re in covenant with the sovereign Lord of the universe, the Father, why would you need to worship a separate, subordinate or lesser god?
If Jesus is not the Father, then why did He say, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.”? (Reference John 14:9)
Why does God need a Son? Does He need an heir to His throne in case He dies?
The Church is supposed to function with anointing from God. However, most churches locally don’t seem to even know who God is.
On Saturday night, the Lord said to me that He was sending me to a church the next morning. I tried to get Him to tell me which church, but He was keeping that information to Himself. The next morning, after typing the daily ministry post, I got ready to go to an unknown place. The Lord allowed me to go have breakfast at McDonalds. While I was sitting there, the Lord told me exactly where He wanted me to go for church. It was a new church that I didn’t even know existed, so I was hopeful. I’m not going to mention the name of the church because they are currently going through a construction transition, but I wanted to expand on a topic that the young youth pastor presented in his message on Sunday.
The senior pastor opened the service praying to God with His Son seated next to Him. Can you hear me rolling my eyes? As I have said many times, but can’t be said enough, Jesus is God. Jesus is not God’s Son. There are not multiple Gods on a throne in heaven. Just one. His title is God, and His name known to us is Jesus. God is Spirit.
The youth pastor was the one to present the message on Sunday. He impressed me with his insight for his young age despite that he too didn’t seem to know that Jesus is God. But he asked the question “Who is Jesus to you?”. His sermon was from the book of Acts. The young man asked some inspiring questions about our willingness to wholeheartedly make Jesus the center of our lives. He questioned why we don’t see the miraculous gifts of the Spirit like were evident in the book of Acts. Why no speaking in tongues? Why no obvious anointing? Do we spend time in prayer and Bible reading? Do we study apologetics? (That question got my attention.) Are we making Jesus the center of our lives? The young pastor also asked this question “How selfish do you have to be to know the truth but not to share the truth?”
The young man talked about his personal encounters with the voice of God through his years. I think he said that there were three separate occasions when he clearly heard God speak to him. I love that! That says to me that God is making Himself known to him. But, the one false doctrine that the young man seems to have accepted in his training is that Jesus is not God, but instead that He is a separate Son of God. And that’s why he isn’t seeing the anointing as was displayed in the first church as recorded in the book of Acts. Personally, I have experienced all of the miraculous gifts of the Spirit, and regularly the Spirit speaks through me in tongues of angels. I hear God speak to me clearly every day from morning to night.
We don’t see much of God’s anointing in the local churches because they don’t seem to know who God is. Which means that they are not hearing God’s voice in prayer. If you are not hearing God’s voice in prayer it is because you are not doing it right. You must first be sure to be in covenant relationship with God where you have promised on oath for Him to be your one and only God. If you don’t know that Jesus is God, how can you do that? Until you confidently get that understanding in your belt of Truth, you are rarely going to encounter the anointing from God. God can show up as He chooses, but why would He put His signature on bogus doctrine? I’m sure that God wants to make Himself known but to whom? Could it be that He wants to make Himself known to you? Then maybe seek Him about who He is … and study apologetics!
Please see the attached two (of four) study pages from the June 2021, Mark of Excellence Newsletter. The remaining two pages will be presented in part 2 of “Absent Anointing”.
If you have ever read the Old Testament of the Bible, there doesn’t seem to be any question about there being only one God. God was constantly vying for attention from the Israelites. He consistently allowed them to be taken into captivity for bowing down to false gods/idols. God declares repeatedly that there is only one God. In the Ten Commandments, God resolutely proclaims that “You shall have no other gods before me.” He even gives a generational curse warning associated with that decree. (Read Exodus 20:3).
If you would like to study one-God Scriptures, here are a few to get started with: Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Malachi 2:20, Isaiah 43:10-11, Isaiah 44:6-8, Isaiah 45:2-6, Isaiah 46:8-9; New Testament: Mark 12:29-30, 1 Corinthians 8:4-6, 1 Timothy 2:5, James 2:19, Ephesians 4:4-6. These same Scriptures were provided in yesterday’s post.
Every day for 20 years, I have been speaking in prayer with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The same one God that Moses met with face-to-face. He’s the only God that I have prayed to or heard from in prayer. That’s what Christians have that the other (false) religions don’t. As Christians, we are promised in recorded words from Jesus (God’s Spirit wearing mankind flesh) that “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)
I can know with certainty that God’s intentions for me have been to dispute false doctrines in the churches. In the first assignments that He gave me, I was to email the pastor of my church regarding the false doctrines. I took the assignment seriously because God warned me strongly of the consequences of denying Him. So why do I have only one God just like the Old Testament prophets, Moses, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), but those that don’t hear God have three gods in their religion?
Let’s talk about their religion. The trinity doctrine is not recorded in the Bible. The word trinity is nowhere in the pages of Scriptures. The doctrine was first conceived many years AD and not by one of the original disciples or the Apostle Paul. (I’m not going to source that information here, you can search the internet “When was the trinity doctrine established?”)
Triniterians believe that there are three persons of God in a God-head, or in other words a triune God. If I understand their ramblings, they think that each of their three Gods is 33% God or 1/3 of God with equal authority. In Christianity, we have only one God with 100% authority. So, when our one God, who is (an invisible) 100% Spirit (also known as the Holy Spirit), robed Himself in mankind flesh, He did NOT become a separate God. That position of God, known also as Son of Man or Son of God, did not create a separate or less-than God, but instead made the invisible God visible. God in flesh was 100% God (as Spirit) and 100% man (in flesh). Today, the Spirit of God is not in flesh. He is 100% God and 0% flesh. He is not 33% Father, 33% Son of God, and 33% Holy Spirit. He is 100% the Spirit of God! So to repeat, there is no Son of God today because the work of the cross was completed by the 100% flesh suit that the Spirit of God wore 2,000+ years ago. In other words, God is not flesh. God is Spirit. God’s name is Jesus. Jesus was always and is today 100% the one and only Spirit of God.
“You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” (John 5:39-40 NIV)
If you are confused on this subject, please study the pages attached and talk with God. If you are a Triniterian, please pray to the Father, all 33% of Him. (That’s sarcasm being used to mock your false theology.)
Source: Kingdom Champions, Armed for Battle Study Guide, November 2020, pages 2 and 9.
The Rogue Prophet 