Yes, God could prevent all of it, but mankind wouldn’t learn
anything! Actually, man would resist God’s new government.
You may not believe any of this now, but you will come
to believe all of it. You may believe at some point during
the great tribulation, when you see the truth of this book
come to life. However, most people will refuse to
acknowledge the truth (giving in to strong, selfish pride)
and die during this great tribulation. They will be resurrected
in the last one hundred years when they will be given opportunity
to once again embrace the truth. At that time, it will be difficult
to refuse the truth, since people will be able to see a beautiful
new world under God’s rule. Sadly, human pride is much deeper
than you can imagine.
It actually will take the horror of this coming end-time
tribulation to bring people to the point where, finally, they will
begin to acknowledge their own ways and become willing to
honestly consider God’s.
The process whereby mankind is offered eternal life in God’s
Family is not an easy one. A very merciful and loving God has
exercised great patience with mankind to bring us to the time just
ahead of us—the time for His righteous reign on earth.
THE MYSTERY OF GOD
REVEALED
In regard to the title of this chapter, many may ask the question,
“What mystery?” Depending upon your religious background,
you may not believe there is any mystery about God. You may
believe that you know who God is.
The religions of the world have different ideas about God.
Even the groups in traditional Christianity (denominational or
nondenominational) have different ideas about God. This is
obvious, since each believes that its God teaches mankind
something different from all others. And, as we have already
covered, each believes it is correct.
They are not! God is not divided. There is only one true God
of all mankind, and He teaches mankind only one way, one truth
and one faith.
In this chapter, I am going to tell you about the one true
God—the God of Abraham. Many of you believe you already
know Him. You do not—not as you will be shown! It is my
hope that each person reading this has the courage to read the
entire chapter before passing judgment. Whether you do or do not
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believe what you read here has much to do with whether you will
have opportunity to live into the new millennial period that is
about to be established on this earth.
Once again, it is my duty to tell you that what is written in this
book is not my own opinions, ideas or prejudices, but that this is
from Almighty God. Furthermore, I am to repeat that I am an
end-time prophet of the God of Abraham and one of His
prophesied end-time witnesses. You are not accustomed to
hearing such things because God has not sent a prophet to
mankind for nearly two thousand years, and God has never sent a
prophet to speak to the whole world as He has given me to do
now.
Every religion on earth has gone astray! Over the past several
hundred years, mankind has continued to drift farther and farther
away from truth about God.
All of Judaism is in error! They do not now know the God of
Abraham.
All of Islam is in error! They do not now know the God of
Abraham.
All of Christianity is in error! They do not now know the God
of Abraham.
The only exception is God’s true Church. As God foretold
for the end-time, a great apostasy did occur in His true Church,
and, as a result, God separated the Church from His presence
because of their disobedience. However, God has awakened a
remnant of all who were scattered, just as He said He would
do, and He has brought them back into a true relationship with
Him. All others who were scattered have now reorganized into
over five hundred different groups. All have fallen asleep
spiritually or have completely abandoned the truth
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God. They do not know most of what will be covered in this
chapter concerning who God is because God reserved this
knowledge to be revealed through His end-time prophet—me.
God did this, in part, as a sign of who He is working through as
one of the two end-time witnesses. This knowledge is for those
who will yet be drawn by God, repent of their error and join the
remnant to live on into the millennial period, either as one of the
144,000 or among those who will continue on in God’s
Church—in the Body of Christ.
The Great Deception
Over the past 6,000 years, it has not been God’s purpose to
reveal Himself to the world, however, throughout the next
1,000 years, God’s purpose is to reveal Himself mightily to all
mankind. This process is beginning, even now, through the
pages of this book.
In the beginning, God revealed Himself to Adam and Eve.
They rejected the knowledge of God, and thereby rejected God
by deciding for themselves what was good and evil. They
rejected the authority of God and established themselves as the
authority to judge what was the best way of life to live. As we
have already covered, everyone has chosen this same course by
deciding for themselves what is best. This is the way of pride.
Everyone is filled with the same spirit as Adam and Eve, judging
for themselves what they will believe, yet always rejecting the
truth from God.
God knew what Adam and Eve would do, just as He knew that
all mankind would do the same. From the beginning until now,
God began calling people out of the world (out from the ways of
man) in order to reveal Himself and His only true way to them.
God did this on an individual by individual basis. If you have not
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read the previous chapters, you will not be able to grasp all that is
being revealed in this chapter.
Again, it must be understood as the most basic knowledge of
God that God has a very specific plan for mankind, whereby He
will offer eternal salvation to everyone—but in His own perfect
time. Part of this basic knowledge is that God’s plan includes
letting man follow his own ways for the first 6,000 years on
earth. Man was to rule himself by being allowed to choose his
own ways, and because of man’s selfish nature, he would always
reject God’s true ways. The only exception to this over the past
six millennia is those whom God would call out of the world.
God called these in order to train them to become part of His
ruling government in the one thousand year reign of His
Kingdom on earth.
This knowledge is basic and focal to God’s overall plan and
purpose for mankind’s existence. This is why the seventh-day
Sabbath of God is so very important to man. The seven-day week
is a constant sign of God’s complete plan for man. The first six
days (first 6,000 years) were allotted to man to work and pursue
his own ways, but the seventh day is God’s. It is His time to
teach man His ways and to reveal Himself to man. The seventhday Sabbath pictures the next 1,000 years of God’s reign that will
come to this earth when Jesus Christ returns as King of kings.
The loss of this basic knowledge and man’s disobedience to
observing the Sabbaths as God commands are the reasons man
does not know the times in which we now live. This is the very
reason why man is ignorant of the fact that God’s Kingdom is
about to be established on earth.
God knew that Adam and Eve, as well as all of mankind,
would reject His true ways. During the first four thousand years,
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God did reveal Himself to those whom He called out of the world,
but even to those whom God called, He only revealed Himself in a
progressive manner. Abel, Noah and other early prophets of God
did not know God as well as Abraham knew God. God revealed
Himself more fully to Abraham than he did to those righteous men
who lived before him. Then, when God called Moses, He revealed
Himself even more fully than He had to Abraham. As time passed,
God continued to reveal more and more about Himself and His
plan and purpose through the prophets. The farther into the 6,000
years allotted to man, the more God continued to reveal. However,
the world did not understand or receive this truth. Only those
whom God called could understand. The world has remained cut
off from God since the time of Adam and Eve. The 144,000 have
been called out of this world and have been able to come into a
true relationship with God, as well as come to know Him and His
ways.
Then, after four thousand years passed, Jesus Christ came to
this earth to reveal His Father to all mankind. The world did not
receive this revelation, just as God knew it would not. God did
not send Jesus Christ into all the world, but only to those of the
tribe of Judah—the Jewish people. There were ten other tribes of
Israel that had been scattered into parts of Europe several
hundred years earlier. They were not of Judah. This will be
important to understand later in this story.
Judah rejected the words of Jesus Christ. They would not
believe the truth about who God is. They believed they already
knew God through their own interpretations of the Old Testament
scriptures. Year by year, these Jewish people kept the Passover
because they remembered how God led them out of Egypt and
into a promised land of their own. They did not understand that
the Passover pictured something far greater than deliverance out
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of a physical nation where they had been held captive. The
Passover pictured the Lamb of God who would have to be
sacrificed as man’s Passover in order for man to be delivered out
of a spiritual bondage—out of sin. Judah could only grasp the
meaning of Passover on a physical plane as part of their history,
but they could not see the Passover on a spiritual plane as part of
God’s greater plan for all mankind.
Judah rejected the true knowledge of God that they had lost
long before Jesus Christ was born of the tribe of Judah. It is a
most incredible paradox that the Jews rejected the very one God
sent to them—His own Son, who was their Passover.
After the death of Jesus Christ, one of the greatest deceptions
that Satan ever foisted upon mankind began to be revealed. Satan
has always worked to fight against God. He has worked to keep
mankind deceived. One of his greatest deceptions began to take
shape in the middle of the first century, A.D.
Throughout Judea, the apostles began to teach people about
God the Father and Jesus Christ. Everyone rejected this message
except for a few that God began to call out of the world in order
to train them for His future government. The apostle Paul was
called by God to go to non-Jewish peoples. He traveled north and
northwest into Europe, and these people also refused his
message, except for those few whom God began to call out of the
world.
It was at this same time that a man known as Simon Magus
came into the picture:
There was a certain man named Simon who previously
had been in the same city practicing magical crafts and
astounding the people of Samaria, giving the impression
that he was some great person. (Acts 8:9)
Simon Magus was an intellectually-talented individual who182 The Mystery of God Revealed
fancied himself as a kind of priest and prophet who practiced the
arts of astrology and mysticism. He was received by many as a
wise man, a prophet and a priest. Many people held Simon
Magus in high regard and followed what he said because they
believed he was from God.
In Samaria, some of these same people heard Phillip teaching
about Jesus Christ and they believed what he preached
concerning the Kingdom of God, so they were baptized. Simon
believed much of what Phillip was preaching and he followed
him, witnessing many of the signs and miracles that were done
through him. All this fascinated Simon Magus. When Simon saw
Peter and John laying hands upon those who had been baptized,
he witnessed these people receiving the power of the Holy Spirit
from God. Simon wanted this same power, and he offered the
disciples money if they would lay hands upon him; but Peter
chastised him, knowing that Simon Magus did not grasp what he
had witnessed concerning what God was doing in His Church.
Simon simply wanted the same power in order to be like Peter
and John, but he did not want the truth the disciples were
teaching.
After this, Simon Magus gave up his quest to become great
among the disciples. Instead, he set out to reestablish his own
influence over people by using mysticism and cunning deception,
just as he had been doing before. He did this in order to be
accepted as some great teacher who had received special powers
from God, just like the disciples.
Two Branches of Christianity
Simon Magus became the father of one of the greatest deceptions
ever foisted upon mankind. He set out to establish a counterfeit
of what he saw the disciples doing. In order to accomplish his
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new pursuit of self-aggrandizement, he went so far as to take
upon himself the name of the chief apostle to the Jewish people,
Simon Peter. Since the disciples were establishing a church, he
continued his great lie by establishing his own version of
Christianity and a different church.
He began to mix his own ideas and past beliefs with what he
had witnessed and learned from Peter, John and Phillip. It was
from this very moment in time that a counterfeit of the true
Church emerged on the scene. Two branches, both calling
themselves Christian, began to grow. One would always be
small, and it would always be rejected by the world. This small
Church was the one, true branch because it was from God and it
was sustained by His great power. It is the true Church of God.
The other branch was counterfeit and became filled with
pagan rituals and teachings. It was established by Simon
(Magus) Peter and it grew and flourished, becoming larger and
more popular in the world. God’s Church has never greatly
flourished; it has not been popular in the world. Many are going
to hate this knowledge about a counterfeit tree of Christianity
because man resists the truth of God and seeks to hold onto his
own ways which are false. It doesn’t really matter who gets mad
or who hates what is being said. Those with such attitudes are
going to have a very difficult road to walk in the next few years
before Jesus Christ returns. God is not concerned with the
whimpering, irritated and puffed up egos of those who refuse
Him and insist on following their own stubborn beliefs in
counterfeit Christianity. All counterfeit Christianity is about to
be destroyed!
This new church of Simon (Peter) Magus called itself
Christian. The traditional Christianity of today has its roots in
that great false church.184 The Mystery of God Revealed
The true Church of God has continued from the day it
began in 31 A.D. It had as its chief apostles, Peter and Paul.
Peter was over the portion of the Church that was sent to the
Jewish people and Paul was over the other portion that was
sent to the gentiles. The Church of God has never been large.
God never intended it to be large, since this was not the time
for salvation to be given to the world. Only those called out of
the world, who were to be trained to become part of God’s
future government (among the 144,000), were part of the
Church of God.
However, the church that began to grow and become large
was the one that Simon (Peter) Magus established. By mixing
various beliefs of the truth he had heard from the disciples
with the false teachings of other religions in the world around
him, he made his counterfeit of Christianity attractive to many.
Simon was quite clever, as were those who succeeded him, in
devising a charismatic religion that would exercise great
influence over the fears and superstitions of man.
Human nature does not want the authority of God to rule
over it. Human nature does like to worship a god that
appeals more to its own nature, one of its own devising,
with its own structure of government and authority, along
with the power to establish or reject doctrine, and the power
to choose whom it wants to convey its ideas and represent
its vision to others.
It is by this means that Simon Magus attracted people to
his new-found religion. It would be beneficial at this point to
consider some of the methods that Simon Magus and his
successors used to counterfeit the true Church of God.
God commands man to worship Him on the seventh-day
Sabbath. However, during Simon Magus’ time, people had their
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false gods, and the most popular belief at this time concerned the
various forms of worship that revolved around ideas of a sun god.
The day for such worship was on the first day of the
week—Sunday. This is the very means by which the first day of
the week derived its name.
Several versions of sun god worship were being followed by
different foreign people. In the early stages of this new religion,
Simon and his successors adopted some concepts from several of
these different nationalities, thus helping to merge them together
into one that he called Christianity. Rather than observing the
seventh-day command given by God, this new false church
incorporated Sunday worship.
The priests of pagan religions loved to receive preeminence
and adoration from others, and they loved to exercise religious
and political control over the lives of the general population.
Large numbers of people were attracted to such ceremony and
pomp. People were drawn to the glitter of the wealth that was
displayed in buildings, ceremonies and the attire of the priests.
This new church followed these same practices, while the true
Church of God did not!
God’s prophets and ministers were to be shown respect for the
position God had given them, but there was never the show of
preeminence, grandiose, glittering ceremonies, or even the
carrying of religious titles. The prophets and ministers of God’s
true Church were to serve in humility of spirit never accepting
adoration of any form. However, this new false church disobeyed
the word of Jesus Christ and took upon itself religious titles as it
willingly received the adoration of the populace.
These are some of the very things that Jesus Christ
condemned in the teachers of Judaism. God’s representatives
were not to be like them:186 The Mystery of God Revealed
But all their works [Jewish religious teachers] that they
do is to be seen of men. They make their phylacteries
broad [this referenced apparel worn to signify their
eagerness, above other people, to be reminded of the
law of God, and their desire for people to see them as
being more righteous than others], and enlarge the
borders of their garments [an effort to make their
garments appear different from others—to look
religious]. They love the uppermost rooms at feasts
[their motivation was to be seen by others as
important], and the chief seats in the synagogues [they
thirsted for power and authority over others]. They seek
special greetings in the markets, and to be called of
men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But don’t you be called Rabbi [as a
religious title] for one is your Master [religious title],
even Christ and all of you are brothers. Do not call any
man your Father on the earth [as a religious title], for
one is your Father who is in heaven. Neither are you to
be called Masters, for one is your Master, even Christ.
He that is greatest among you shall be your servant
[God’s prophets and ministers are not to be served, but
to serve others]. Whoever shall exalt himself shall be
abased, and he that shall humble himself shall be
exalted. (Matthew 23:5-12)
The counterfeit Christianity adopted the practice of the false
priests of the pagan religions and that of the teachers of Judaism.
They did not adopt the religious title of Rabbi since that was fully
Jewish in origin. Instead, they eventually incorporated titles of
Father, Reverend and Pastor. The chief title of this new religion
belonged to the one who was considered to have preeminence
over all others, and that title was Pope [the Father of all Fathers].
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God’s servants do not use religious titles that belong to God.
They do, however, have job descriptions that identify their
specific service to God. Some are apostles, prophets, evangelists,
pastors, elders, etc., but these descriptions are never to be used as
a religious title or personal greeting (address or acknowledgment
to be received from others).
Other Deceptions
There are only two branches, known as Christianity, that have
their roots in the first century A.D. One is the true Church of God
that has always existed since it began in 31 A.D. This Church has
always carried the identity to whom it belongs—God. The other
church is the Catholic Church. No other churches can be traced
back to this beginning in the first century. All other churches
have either split off from the true Church of God after
abandoning the truth, or they have splintered off from the
Catholic Church to form their own organization (or from some
other such splinter). Some of these churches that exist to this day
include: the Lutheran Church, Church of England, Baptist
Church, Methodists, etc. Furthermore, the earliest of these didn’t
form until the sixteenth century, A.D. Therefore, it took nearly
1,500 years before any other group emerged that called itself
Christian.
The list of counterfeit teachings is far too long to address here.
Another book would need to be written. There are numerous
pagan teachings that have merged into a framework, mimicking
parts of Christianity. Some of the teachings of paganism that
involved sun god worship included the birth of a son to a virgin
mother. Satan knew God’s plan of a future Son and counterfeited
it long before the time of Jesus Christ. Statues of a mother and
child being worshiped by followers of paganism existed for188 The Mystery of God Revealed
centuries before Jesus was born. Indeed, statues and other
religious relics have always been a part of pagan worship.
In pagan worship, as part of a great religious observance that
celebrated the birth of a son to the sun god, was the celebration of
the winter solstice somewhere in the time period of late
December to early January. Hence, it was not a difficult thing to
counterfeit this pagan teaching by saying that this was the time of
Jesus’ birth, and thereby merge a semblance of the two religions.
However, nearly all “religious scholars” will acknowledge that
Jesus Christ was not born in this season of the year, but at a time
nearer September. Some people get upset and ask, “What does it
matter as long as Christmas is about honoring and worshipping
Jesus Christ?” It is wrong because it is not from God. A l l
religious worship and observance is to be done exactly the
way God commands. God further commands that we are not to
add to, or take away from, what He commands us. Doing things
our way instead of God’s way is the very problem that has
existed since Adam and Eve, and this is the very thing which
God is about to correct on this earth.
Another great deception concerns the teaching of a doctrine
that has its origin in the false teaching of Easter. This topic will
serve as part of an introduction into the content for the remainder
of this chapter, regarding the mystery of God that is being
revealed. It is helpful to understand the great deception that
surrounds this false doctrine so that you might be able to begin to
see what is actually true and what has held traditional
Christianity captive for centuries.
By 325 A.D. the Catholic Church had become very strong,
and it had great religious appeal among the populace as well as
leaders in government. The Council of Nicea was called by the
Catholic Church to address some foundational doctrines of their
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church that would carry powerful influence over all who would
follow this same false course, even among the later splinter
organizations.
The true Church of God, at this time, had remained small and
was hated by others in the Catholic Church. Up to this time, and
ever since, this great false church has been the primary
persecutor of God’s Church and has been responsible for the
slaughter of many of God’s people.
This information may be hard for you to hear, but you must
come to grips with this knowledge now or you will have to do so
in your resurrection after the thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ.
God is not playing games with the world. Mankind will no longer
be able to simply ignore God and continue on his merry way.
God is bringing this great false system to a close! It will be
destroyed, and all organizations that have copied it will be
destroyed as well.
Notice what God actually has to say about this great false
church and all who have been born of her teachings:
Then one of the seven angels which had the seven vials
[this is one of the angels that had one of the vials of the
seven last plagues, which will be poured out on the very
day of Christ’s return] came to me and talked to me, and
said to me, “Come here and I will show you the judgment
of the great whore [God uses this term to describe her
great spiritual whoredom used to deceive and attract
people to a false religious system that calls itself of God]
who sits upon many waters [a description of power,
political influence and control], with whom the kings of
the earth have committed fornication [spiritually], and
the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with
the wine of her fornication [people have been seduced and190 The Mystery of God Revealed
made spiritually drunk on her false whorish ways].” S o
he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness, and I
saw a woman [C a tho l i c Chu r ch ] sit upon a scarlet
colored beast that was full of names of blasphemy, and
having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was
arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold
and precious stones and pearls [this church has always
had great wealth], having a golden cup in her hand full of
abominations and filthiness of her fornication. On her
forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH [the harlots are all
other churches that have their roots in the Catholic
Church] And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the
saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus
[responsible for the death of many of God’s people], and
when I saw her, I was amazed with great astonishment.
(Revelation 17:1-6)
If you are beginning to see a bit of the picture, you will see
that God is getting ready to finally bring an end to this great
whore and all her harlot daughters. Does anything calling itself of
God or Christian carry any weight with God if it is formed in
disobedience? No!
Many of the harlot daughters of the Catholic Church think
they are fully separate from her, but they are not. They do not
grasp that their roots are deeply embedded in her. Before we
continue with the importance of the Council of Nicea, it is first
needful to describe a few of the false beliefs originating from the
Catholic Church.
Some of the most hideous teachings of the Catholic Church,
which hold traditional Christianity in captivity to deception, are
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focal to most of these religious organizations. I will mention a
few of these false teachings and explain what is actually true.
The seventh-day Sabbath has been perverted into a doctrine of
Sunday worship. Easter is observed instead of the Passover,
which was replaced by the Council of Nicea. Christmas,
Halloween, Lent, and Communion all have their roots in
paganism and have been instituted to replace God’s annual Holy
Days. The truth about a future resurrection to physical life once
again in God’s world has been replaced by ideas of an immortal
soul that goes to either heaven or hell at death (or some place
between).
Jesus Christ said that the only sign He would leave that would
prove He was who He said (the Messiah and man’s Passover) is
that He would be dead and in the heart of the earth for three days
and three nights. He died late Wednesday afternoon and was
placed in the heart of the earth just before sundown on that day.
He was resurrected exactly three days later on late Saturday
afternoon, just before sunset. So when the two Marys came to
His burial site before sunrise the followin
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