Many churches have allowed the spirit of the world to enter and because of that many Christians don’t live holy lives after the Spirit in obedience to the Word, but have become like the world and live after the flesh. Many churches have become a ruin instead of a solid house of the Lord, just like the temple of God became a ruin in the Old Covenant. Instead of building on a solid Foundation, many have neglected the Foundation. They didn’t believe the words of God and didn’t build upon His Word. In plaas daarvan, they believed in the words of man, who belong to the world and built upon their words. Many (Valse) profete, who seem spiritual, maar in werklikheid, don’t have the Spirit of God, have entered the church. They are carnal and don’t have the mind of Christ but they have the carnal mind of the world. Therefore they don’t prophecy from the heart of God, but from their own hearts’ desires and their own wisdom, kennis, and insights.
The temple became a ruin
In die Ou Verbond, there were many prophets, who didn’t speak from God but spoke from their own hearts. They thought they were sent and led by God and that God had spoken to them, but God had not sent them and had not spoken to them.
These prophets hadn’t seen anything and spoke lying divinations. They spoke positive words and announced peace, while God had spoken through His true prophets and denied the peace, which was spoken of by these false prophets.
These false prophets were deviated from God and His Word and didn’t live after His will, but after their own will. As gevolg daarvan, they didn’t speak the words of God, but they spoke their own words.
Although they were seated in the temple and maintained the customs, religious holidays, en (opofferend) rituals according to the law of Moses, their heart was far from God. Therefore many lived in pride and rebellion against God.
They did all those things, which were evil in the eyes of God.
Hulle het owerspel gepleeg, enter into covenants with pagan nations, enter into marriages with their sons and daughters and adopted the customs of the pagan nations, and spoke from their own hearts, kennis, Wysheid, and insights. And so they defiled with their works and words the temple of God.
Because of their vain words and works, the glory of God departed from the temple and the temple became a ruin.
The prophets of Israel
So sê die Here God; Wee die dwase profete, wat hul eie gees volg, en niks gesien het nie! O Israel, jou profete is soos die jakkalse in die woestyne. Julle het nie in die gapings opgegaan nie, ook nie die heining opgemaak vir die huis van Israel om in die dag van die Here in die stryd te staan nie.
Hulle het ydelheid en leuenagtige waarsêery gesien, sê, Die Here spreek: en die HERE het hulle nie gestuur nie: en hulle het ander laat hoop dat hulle die woord sou bevestig.
Het julle nie 'n ydele visioen gesien nie, en het julle nie 'n leuenagtige waarsêery gespreek nie, terwyl julle sê, Die Here sê dit; al het ek nie gepraat nie?
Daarom, so spreek die Here HERE HERE; Omdat julle nietigheid gespreek het, en leuens gesien, Dus, kyk, Ek is teen jou, spreek die Here God.
And Mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, en dat goddelike leuens: they shall not be in the assembly of My people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, hulle mag ook nie in die land Israel ingaan nie; en julle sal weet dat Ek die Here God is.
Omdat, even because they have seduced My people, sê, Vrede; en daar was geen vrede nie; en een het 'n muur opgebou, en, kyk, ander het dit met onversorgde morter bedwelm: Sê vir hulle wat dit met onversorgde morter dompel, dat dit sal val: daar sal 'n oorvol stort wees; en julle, O groot haelkorrels, sal val; en 'n stormwind sal dit ruk. Kyk, Wanneer die muur geval het, sal dit nie vir julle gesê word nie, Waar is die dompeling waarmee julle dit gedump het?
Daarom, so spreek die Here HERE HERE; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in My fury; en daar sal 'n oorvol stort in my woede wees, and great hailstones in My fury to consume it. So sal Ek ook die muur afbreek wat julle met 'n onversorgde morter geslaan het, en bring dit af grond toe, sodat die fondament daarvan ontdek sal word, en dit sal val, en julle sal verteer word te midde daarvan: en julle sal weet dat Ek die Here is.
Thus will I accomplish My wrath upon the wall, en op hulle wat dit met onversorgde morter besiel het, en sal vir jou sê, Die muur is nie meer nie, ook nie hulle wat dit gedump het nie; Om te spits, die profete van Israel wat oor Jerusalem profeteer, en wat visioene van vrede vir haar sien, en daar is geen vrede nie, spreek die Here God (Esegiël 13:1-16)
The prophetesses of Israel
So sê die Here God; Wee die vroue wat kussings aan alle armgate, en maak sakdoeke op die kop van elke gestalte om siele te jag! Will ye hunt the souls of My people, en sal julle die siele red wat lewend na julle toe kom? And will ye pollute Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, om die siele dood te maak wat nie moet sterf nie, en om die siele lewend te red wat nie moet lewe nie, deur jou leuens vir my volk wat jou leuens hoor?
Daarom, so spreek die Here God; Sien, Ek is teen jou kussings, waarmee julle daar die siele jag om hulle te laat vlieg, en Ek sal hulle uit jou arms skeur, en sal die siele laat gaan, selfs die siele wat julle jag om hulle te laat vlieg.
Jou sakdoeke sal ek ook skeur, and deliver My people out of your hand, en hulle sal nie meer in jou hand wees om gejag te word nie; en julle sal weet dat Ek die Here is.
Want met leuens het julle die hart van die regverdiges hartseer gemaak, wat ek nie hartseer gemaak het nie; en die hande van die goddelose versterk, dat hy nie van sy goddelose weg moet terugkeer nie, deur hom lewe te belowe: Daarom sal julle geen nietigheid meer sien nie, ook nie goddelike waarsêery nie: for I will deliver My people out of your hand: en julle sal weet dat Ek die Here is. (Esegiël 13:17-23)
The believers keep walking as the old creation
Since many believers don’t walk after the Spirit as the nuwe skepping but keep walking as the old creation after the flesh, the same things that happened in the Old Covenant happen in the New Covenant. We see the same things in the lives of believers as the people of Israel experienced.
This is mainly because the nature of most people has not changed and they are led by their flesh (sintuie, sal, gevoelens, emosies, vleeslike verstand, ens.).
We see the same defilement of the temple of God in many churches and in the lives of people.
Just like the leaders of the temple of God in the Old Covenant committed adultery, and enter into covenants with pagan nations, many leaders, who are appointed in churches also commit idolatry and commit adulatory with the world by compromising with sin and by entering into covenants with the world
Believers are not able to stand in the spiritual battle
Daar is mense, who call themselves prophets but are not appointed by God. They are carnal and live like the world. They often misuse their position as prophet for personal gain. There are even prophets, who only prophesy for money, just like the fortunetellers of the world, who predict the future for money.
These prophets are selfish and have not gone up into the gaps. They have not built up a spiritual hedge for the church, so that the believers, Wie is die kerk, would grow up in the Word after the image of God and would spiritually mature, so that they would be able to stand in the spiritual battle (Kolossense 3:10, Efesiërs 6:11-16, James 1:2-4)
These false prophets don’t stand in God’s service and have not spoken the words of God and have not led the believers on the way of God.
They are not led by the Holy Spirit and have not spoken His words, but they are led by their flesh and have prophesied from their flesh (siel); from their own heart, and their own spirit. As gevolg daarvan, they have made the crooked ways straight.
Believers walk on the same path as unbelievers
Many believers have deviated from the Truth and are walking in lies because of these false prophets. They walk in darkness on the same path as unbelievers and are on their way to the same destination. Although many expect another destination. But that’s because they are misled and blinded by the lies of these so-called messengers of the word.
These false prophets don’t preach the truth and don’t correct believers and don’t call them to repentance and to remove the sins from their lives, so that they turn from their evil ways, which lead to eternal destruction.
In plaas daarvan, they preach lies and encourage the sins in people’s lives and allow the people to live in sin, whereby they stir up wickedness and encourage apostasy.
They don’t preach the spiritual dangers in the churches and don’t preach mischief.
In plaas daarvan, they only speak positive words and peace and say that everything is well, terwyl dit in werklikheid is, it is not well.
They preach things in the Naam van Jesus, while Jesus hasn’t spoken through them by the Holy Spirit.
Through their vain words and their vain works, they try to catch as many souls as possible and win them for themselves and bind them to themselves, all because of fame and personal gain.
The prophetesses in the church
Just like the false prophets, there are also many false prophetesses operating in churches, who look pious and spiritual but in reality are soulish and prophesy from their flesh; their own hearts, Insigte, gevoelens, en emosies.
They use natural means, metodes, en technics to enter a supernatural state of trance, so that they receive supernatural insights, visions, and words.
They are carnal and prophecy according to what they perceive and feel in the natural realm, whereby they prophesy according to their own insights and what they want to see, instead of being led by the Holy Spirit and obey the words of God and prophecy from the Word through the Holy Spirit.
Since they exalt themselves above God and His Word, they walk in pride and exalt themselves above others.
They mislead and manipulate many believers. They sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils upon their heads, so that they are captured and come under their power.
These believers believe in them and trust in the words, which these prophetesses prophesy after their own hearts and many times are influenced by a spirit of divination.
They allow them to lead them, so that they become dependable on them. This is the way these false prophetesses operate and gain many souls through deceptive manipulation and make them wander in ways in which the believers have no business.
The believers, who get involved with these false prophets and false prophetesses, who seem spiritual but in reality are soulish and prophecy from their own heart and soul, open themselves for the same spirits, who operate in these false prophets, and these spirits shall manifest themselves in their lives.
They will be led by a lying spirit and a spirit of divination and shall speak the same lies and prophecy the same way as these false prophets and prophetesses, whereby they shall spiritually manipulate and bind other people to themselves and take (geestelike) authority over them.
Why many churches have become a ruin?
Because the Holy Spirit has been removed from many churches by the rejecting of the Word, many churches are no longer the light that shines in the darkness. The candlestick has been removed from many churches. Therefore the light has been extinguished and many churches are seated in darkness and have become a ruin.
The devil has not attacked the Church from the outside but from the inside. Many times through people, who have lived in the (okkulte) world and repented, but have brought their wisdom, kennis, and practices from the (okkulte) world into the church or through believers, who have slowly deviated from the Word and have left God’s Way and have become world-like and have influenced the church with their own carnal wisdom, knowledge and (okkulte) insights and their lives, which are full of sin.
These people have ensured, that many churches have left the Word; die waarheid, and wander on self-chosen ways.
The same lying spirit and spirit of divination that operated during the Old Covenant and during the days of the early Church, still operate today and have entered many churches.
Die Heilige Gees, who abode in Jesus and in the apostles, who had become sons of God, warned the believers of these false prophets. And the Holy Spirit, who dwells in the sons of God, still warns the believers of these false prophets (Matteus 7:15; 24:11-24, Merk 13:22, 2 Petrus 2:1-3, 1 John 4:1-3)
But as long as believers don’t stel die ou man af, wat na die vlees wandel, and don’t trek die nuwe man aan, who walks after the Word and the Spirit, they shall not be able to discern the spirits and shall trap into the lies of the devil, because they are unspiritual and focused upon supernatural manifestations, ervarings, and feelings instead of the Word.
Jesus tears the magic charms and removes the veils
But luckily there is still a way of restoration through repentance. Because just like God in the Old Covenant broke the magic charms and removed the veils, and redeemed the souls and restored His people and the temple when they repented, Jesus Christ still redeems and restores mankind in the New Covenant.
Jesus Christ tears the magic charms and removes the veils from those, who repent and turn to Jesus Christ and through wedergeboorte in Christ become a son of God, who is obedient to Him.
Dié, who love Jesus with all their heart, verstand, siel, and strength and listen to Him, yield to Him, en do His words in their lives shall walk in the light instead of darkness.
They shall discern the spirits and shall have knowledge of good and evil and represent and bring the Kingdom of God on earth. They shall be the light in the world and the salt of the earth, who through obedience to the Word and the Holy Spirit shall not always be loved by people but always be loved by God.
‘Wees die sout van die aarde’
