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Jesus commissioned all HIS ministers to go into all the world and
preach THIS Gospel. (See Mark 16:15-16; Mat. 10:1,7-8; Luke 9:1-2;
and 10:1,9). THIS is the Gospel Peter and the apostles first
preached to the Jews. (Acts 2:30-36; 3:18-21; 4:19-20; Acts 8:12).
THIS is the same Gospel that was later preached to all the GENTILES
(Acts 10:34-38; 19:8; 20:25; 28:23, 30-31; Gal 1:8-9).
But do you know what was prophesied for the future? Not that the
True Gospel would flourish and become generally accepted by all the
popular churches--NO, NOT AT ALL!--but just the opposite--APOSTASY,
turning AWAY from the Truth, and to FABLES--the people demanding
their salaried preachers and pastors to preach smooth things and
deceits. (II Tim. 4:3-4; Isa. 30:8-10; Rev. 17:2 and 18:3 and
12:9). It was not the few, but the MANY that were to be deceived
(Mat. 24:5,11). Satan was to appear, not as a devil, but as an
angel of LIGHT, deceiving the world with a FALSE GOSPEL, organizing
religion into organized confusion, becoming thru deception the GOD
OF THIS WORLD, until the churches of the world would CALL him
"GOD," though he is an imposter and only the devil! His ministers
were to claim to be the ministers of Jesus Christ, appearing as
ministers of righteousness, preaching ANOTHER Jesus,--yet using the
NAME of Jesus Christ before a deceived world! (Study II Cor.
11:3-4, and 13:15). The true people of God are referred to as the
LITTLE FLOCK!
And today the ministers, and the popular organized churches and
denominations REJECT, and DENY the true Gospel of Jesus Christ--
which is the Message He brought from God--the Gospel He preached--
the GOOD NEWS of the coming KINGDOM OF GOD! They have, thru
deception and without knowing it in most instances, rejected the
true way of salvation and entrance into that Kingdom! The truth
about being "BORN AGAIN" has been perverted until it means today a
reformation of an already-immortal spirit, instead of a second and
spiritual BIRTH of a mortal flesh-and-blood soul. They have tried
to do away with God's LAW, the transgression of which is SIN. And
thus professing Christians are deceived into remaining SINNERS
while they are deluded into thinking they are saved!
EITHER THIS WORLD IS SO DECEIVED TODAY, OR PROPHECY HAS NOT BEEN
FULFILLED, and THE WORD OF GOD IS NOT TRUE! Today the world is
groping in spiritual DARKNESS as surely as when Jesus came bringing
the true LIGHT! Today millions are deceived by an imitation that
is called "the Old Fashioned Gospel,"--but it is not the same
Gospel Christ preached at all, and it was a NEW gospel some three
of four hundred years ago, tho it may be labeled "old-fashioned"
now!
IT'S TIME WE GOT BACK TO THE FAITH ONCE DELIVERED! That true
Message is faithfully preserved IN THE BIBLE! And, looking down
into our day--the 20th Century A.D.--this day when the whole world
is deceived, religious and professing "Christianity," yet groping
in the darkness of paganism under the false cloak and label of
Christianity -- and of our day, Jesus said prophetically:
"This GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM shall be preached in all the world
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the END come." (Mat.
24:14).