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  • Hello everyone, I'm Angelo.

  • 2,000 years ago, our Savior the Lord Jesus came to do the work of redemption

  • and was madly condemned by the chief priests,

  • scribes, and Pharisees of the Jewish faith.

  • Because most of the Jews adored their religious leaders,

  • they went along with those antichrists in condemning and rejecting the Lord Jesus,

  • ultimately having a hand in crucifying Him.

  • This was a tremendous sin and earned them God's damnation and punishment,

  • dooming the nation of Israel for 2,000 years.

  • The Lord Jesus has returned in the last days as Almighty God incarnate,

  • expressing truths and doing judgment work to fully cleanse and save mankind.

  • He also faces the crazed condemnation and resistance of religious leaders.

  • They seal off their churches,

  • standing in the way of believers looking into the true way,

  • leaving many people afraid to investigate and accept it

  • even though they've clearly seen that Almighty God's words are the truth,

  • that they're powerful, authoritative, and come from God.

  • As a result, many are losing their chance to welcome the Lord

  • and are falling into disasters.

  • Where have they gone wrong as far as welcoming the Lord goes?

  • It's because they adulate their religious leaders!

  • They believe religious leaders were put in place by God and are used by God,

  • that obeying them is obeying God,

  • so they follow along completely with them,

  • submitting to their words as if they had come from God.

  • Many also think that

  • the Lord Jesus is certain to tell the clergy first when He returns,

  • so not hearing it from them proves that He hasn't come back.

  • Then they don't even attempt to investigate Almighty God's work,

  • but follow the religious leaders in condemning Him.

  • And so they're falling into disasters, losing their chance at being raptured.

  • Whose fault is this?

  • There's no simple answer.

  • The Pharisees who long ago resisted and condemned the Lord Jesus were damned by God,

  • and many in the religious world today haven't learned that painful lesson from them.

  • Because they blindly worship their clergy,

  • they're going along with them in condemning the Lord Jesus returned,

  • nailing God to the cross once again.

  • This really is a shame!

  • So then, have the religious leaders actually been put in place by God?

  • Is submitting to them the same as following God?

  • Gaining clarity on this is a pressing matter.

  • Many believers think

  • the religious leaders, clergy such as the Pope, bishops, pastors, and elders,

  • are appointed and used by the Lord Jesus

  • and have the authority to lead believers,

  • so obeying them is obeying God.

  • What is the basis of this belief?

  • Did the Lord Jesus ever say

  • that all religious leaders were put in place by God?

  • He never did.

  • Do they have the Holy Spirit's testimony, or proof of the Spirit's work?

  • No.

  • This means this idea is purely a human notion.

  • Let's think about it.

  • According to this human idea that religious leaders are all put in place by God,

  • then could that be also true about the Jewish chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees

  • who resisted and condemned the Lord Jesus?

  • Was following them in crucifying the Lord Jesus also submitting to God?

  • This is clearly an absurd way to treat clergy!

  • We can also see from the Bible that in God's work in every age,

  • He does appoint people to help with His work.

  • All those people are personally called on and testified to by God

  • and God's words show this.

  • They are never appointed by humans, and they aren't trained by humans.

  • Think of the Age of Law,

  • when God used Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.

  • Jehovah God's own words bore witness to this.

  • Jehovah God said to Moses,

  • In the Age of Grace,

  • the Lord Jesus used Peter to shepherd the churches,

  • and He bore witness to Peter, too.

  • The Lord Jesus said to Peter,

  • God personally puts in place and bears witness to the people He uses in each age,

  • and this is verified by the Holy Spirit's work.

  • In the Ages of Law and Grace,

  • sometimes those God used were personally established and borne witness to by Him.

  • Sometimes He used other methods.

  • Without His direct appointment, He would reveal this through prophets,

  • or there was proof of the Holy Spirit's work.

  • This is undeniable.

  • In today's religious world,

  • who gave the Pope, bishops, priests, pastors, and elders the positions they hold?

  • Is there proof of God's words or the Holy Spirit's work?

  • Has the Holy Spirit borne witness to them?

  • Hardly at all!

  • In fact, all those religious leaders within the churches

  • have mostly graduated from seminaries and theological schools

  • and have degrees in theology.

  • Diploma in hand, they are assigned to churches to lead believers.

  • Some are gifted and eloquent, and learn their work well,

  • so they are appointed or recommended by upper leadership and rise in the ranks.

  • Nearly all the religious world's clergy gain their posts this way,

  • but most lack the Holy Spirit's work.

  • A small percentage of them may have some of the work of the Holy Spirit,

  • but they don't have His testimony.

  • So we can be sure that

  • they are not people God bears witness to or uses.

  • They are very clearly fostered and chosen by other people,

  • so why would they insist that they're put in place by God?

  • Isn't that going against the facts?

  • Isn't that brazenly lying and testifying to themselves?

  • What are the consequences of this?

  • Isn't that deceiving and harming believers?

  • Some religious leaders even quote the Lord Jesus' words calling on Peter

  • to shamelessly claim

  • that the authority the Lord Jesus bestowed upon Peter is handed down to the Pope,

  • so the Pope is authorized by God and can represent the Lord Jesus,

  • and since the priests follow the Pope, they're also authorized by God,

  • so they can forgive sins.

  • Isn't that ludicrous?

  • Did the Lord Jesus ever tell Peter

  • to pass down the authority bestowed upon him to generations of clergy?

  • The Lord Jesus never said that!

  • Did Peter ever convey such things?

  • Absolutely not!

  • No such thing is written in the Bible.

  • It's also a fact that there was no Pope, there were no priests at that time.

  • So those religious leaders

  • who proclaim they're authorized by God and can represent the Lord Jesus

  • are pretending to be God and misleading people, right?

  • Aren't those who obey and bow down to them worshiping idols?

  • Isn't that working against God?

  • Many people don't understand this,

  • and they keep blindly worshiping their leaders,

  • thinking they were put in place by God.

  • Can you see how foolish and ignorant this is?

  • How is this different from unbelievers worshiping idols?

  • If you're a believer but you don't follow the word of God,

  • if you worship and kneel before other humans to confess your sins as if they are God,

  • aren't you disrespecting and blaspheming God?

  • Can those who foolishly do this be saved by God?

  • Probably not.

  • Those who foolishly do this cannot gain God's approval.

  • We need to be clear that

  • God appointing someone isn't casual or arbitrary.

  • There has to be proof.

  • There was proof of God appointing Moses, and at least the Israelites knew that.

  • The Lord Jesus' appointment of Peter was also real,

  • which was known by the apostles.

  • So, a claim that God has put someone in place needs a factual basis.

  • No human can arbitrarily claim this.

  • We can also see that anyone God puts in place

  • will have the Holy Spirit's guidance and verification from the Holy Spirit.

  • Their work can carry out God's will and it will achieve very clear results.

  • They can carry out God's commission.

  • Let's see what Almighty God has to say.

  • Almighty God's words show us

  • that God prepares far in advance those He appoints and uses for His work,

  • that they are the ones God raises up to lead His chosen people.

  • Their work and sermons are entirely through the Holy Spirit's provision and guidance,

  • and anyone who hasn't been personally appointed by God

  • could never replace them.

  • Moses in the Age of Law and Peter in the Age of Grace

  • strictly adhered to God's words and demands to lead His chosen people,

  • and God was always with them, guiding them at every single turn.

  • God never uses a wrong person or someone who works against Him.

  • He is always responsible for His own work.

  • Those God uses are constantly enlightened by the Holy Spirit in their work and words

  • and can share a pure understanding of God's words

  • to help God's chosen people understand His utterances, His will, and His demands.

  • They can always use the truth

  • to help God's chosen people with their practical struggles

  • with entering into the reality of God's words and the right track in their faith.

  • When God's chosen people accept and submit to the shepherding of those used by God

  • they can gain true sustenance for their lives,

  • gradually gain more understanding of the truth,

  • know God's work and disposition better,

  • and expand their faith and love for God.

  • That's why they're supported by God's chosen people

  • who know in their hearts that

  • those people are put in place by God and are after God's heart.

  • When we accept and submit to their leadership,

  • this is following and submitting to God

  • and is in line with God's will.

  • Those God uses are put in place

  • in order to lead His chosen people to experience God's work and follow Him,

  • and their work and sermons

  • are entirely from the Holy Spirit's leadership and enlightenment.

  • Accepting and submitting to their leadership is actually submitting to God.

  • Resisting them is resisting God,

  • and will result in being exposed and eliminated by God,

  • or maybe even damned and punished.

  • Just like when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt,

  • the band of Korah and Dathan who fought against him

  • were punished by God.

  • That's a clear fact.

  • Let's take a look at today's religious leaders,

  • the Pope, the bishops and priests in Catholicism,

  • and the pastors, elders, and other clergy in Christianity.

  • Have they been put in place by God? Has God spoken in support of them?

  • Do they have proof from the Holy Spirit's work?

  • Do they have proof from the fruits of their work?

  • They have none of this.

  • This proves that they were chosen by humans, not appointed by God.

  • Since we've seen that they were fostered within seminaries

  • and appointed by official religious institutes,

  • we know to be very cautious.

  • Most of them don't believe in the truth or have genuine faith in God.

  • They believe in theology,

  • in their position and title, in the living they make from it.

  • No matter how elevated their biblical knowledge is or how good their sermons are,

  • they don't have the Holy Spirit's work and guidance,

  • or the Spirit's enlightenment.

  • This shows us that they are false shepherds, nonbelievers

  • and God does not acknowledge them.

  • So isn't worshiping and following them incredibly foolish?

  • On top of them lacking the testimony of God's words and proof from the Holy Spirit,

  • there is one critical piece of evidence that can help us see them for what they are.

  • Almighty God has expressed so many truths,

  • openly revealing people's true colors,

  • if they love the truth or not,

  • if they acknowledge the truth or not,

  • if they accept the truth or not,

  • and if they hate and reject the truth or not.

  • It's all revealed.

  • Those who acknowledge Almighty God's words are the truth,

  • that He is God in the flesh,

  • are those that love the truth and have God's approval.

  • They are the wise virgins

  • who hear God's voice and are raptured up before His throne.

  • If someone sees that Almighty God has expressed so many truths

  • but keeps opposing, condemning, and denying God's appearance and work,

  • this means they despise the truth,

  • and they are antichrists who resist and condemn God.

  • They have already fallen into the disasters and are bound to be punished by God.

  • It's not just Catholic and Christian leaders,

  • but leaders and personages from all denominations who are working against Almighty God,

  • almost without exception.

  • The religious world is in the clutches of this gang of antichrists.

  • This is a well-known fact that no one can deny.

  • So if we know that these bishops, priests, pastors, and elders

  • are part of a gang of antichrists resisting and condemning Almighty God's work,

  • how should we approach that?

  • We should reject and curse them,

  • and free ourselves from their strictures.

  • That is being wise.

  • If we continue looking to them for the true way,

  • keep expecting them to tell us what's right or wrong,

  • that's incredibly foolish, and it's blind and ignorant!

  • The blind leading the blind will end up in ruin.

  • This fulfills the Bible verses:

  • It's perfectly clear that

  • Catholic and Christian leaders, along with leaders from all other denominations,

  • are openly condemning Almighty God.

  • To keep their status and paycheck,

  • they're keeping believers firmly within their grasp, taking their money,

  • feeding off believers like parasites, like demons feasting on their corpses.

  • These antichrists spread all sorts of evil lies

  • in order to maintain their positions and livelihoods,

  • saying any news of the Lord's coming is false,

  • that the Lord Jesus absolutely has to come on a cloud,

  • that accepting the Lord's second incarnation is accepting a false Christ.

  • They tell lies to mislead people,

  • doing all they can to keep believers from investigating the true way.

  • They even align themselves with the CCP

  • to arrest and persecute those sharing the kingdom gospel.

  • How are these religious leaders any different from the Pharisees

  • who opposed the Lord Jesus in His day?

  • Aren't they all people who crucify God?

  • Aren't they all false shepherds and antichrists who lead people astray and ruin them?

  • Think of the Lord Jesus' words condemning the Pharisees:

  • We can see that most religious leaders today are no different from the Pharisees

  • who madly resisted the Lord Jesus and stood in the way of believers.

  • They all hate God and work against Him,

  • and they are the antichrist demons of the last days.

  • Here are some more passages of Almighty God's words.

  • Now I'm sure we're all clear that

  • most religious leaders are antichrists who hate the truth, hate God,

  • evil servants and false shepherds who lead people astray.

  • Listening to them and submitting to them is not submitting to God,

  • and it isn't following God.

  • It's following Satan and opposing God,

  • becoming Satan's accomplice,

  • someone who God detests and damns.

  • So as believers, we have to be aware that

  • we have to magnify God, fear Him, submit to Him and the truth.

  • We can't ever worship or follow humans.

  • Just as the Lord Jesus said,

  • If a religious leader is someone who loves the truth,

  • if their words accord with the Lord's

  • and they lead us to fear God and shun evil,

  • then following and submitting to those words that accord with the truth

  • is submitting to God.

  • If their words don't accord with the truth, if they go against the Lord's words,

  • we have to reject them.

  • If we keep following them, that's following a person, following Satan.

  • If a religious leader rejects and despises the truth,

  • and keeps others from investigating the true way,

  • they are an antichrist

  • and we should stand on God's side, exposing and rejecting them,

  • and dare to say "No,"

  • escape their control, and seek and accept the true way,

  • and keep up with God's footsteps.

  • That is true faith, truly following God, and is in line with His will.

  • Just like Peter said when he was taken by the chief priests and Pharisees:

  • Let's read another passage from Almighty God.

  • Now I'm sure we're all clearer that

  • having faith and following God is about submitting to and accepting the truth,

  • accepting God's current work and words, and keeping up with His footsteps.

  • No matter how far God's work is from people's notions

  • or how many people resist and condemn it,

  • as long as it's the truth and God's work,

  • we have to accept and submit to it.

  • Only that is having faith and following God.

  • As it says in Revelation:

  • In the last days, Almighty God is here working and has expressed many truths.

  • He does the work of judgment beginning with God's house

  • to fully cleanse and save mankind,

  • saving us from evil and Satan's forces.

  • This is an unmissable opportunity

  • and our only path to being saved and entering God's kingdom.

  • Now more and more people across the world who long for God's appearance

  • have been looking into Almighty God's work online.

  • They've seen that His words are all the truth, that they're God's voice.

  • They're freeing themselves from the bonds of religious leaders,

  • coming out from their churches' control

  • and coming before God's throne to attend the Lamb's wedding feast.

  • But there are still many in the religious world

  • who blindly follow and worship the clergy,

  • who are constrained and taken in by antichrist forces.

  • They are tightly controlled within the wasteland,

  • waiting in vain for the Lord to come on a cloud,

  • long ago rejected and eliminated by God,

  • weeping and gnashing their teeth in the disasters.

  • This is the fulfillment of the Lord Jesus' words

  • They claim to believe in God,

  • but in fact, they go against God and follow people.

  • God sees them as nonbelievers.

  • God is a holy God who hates evil

  • and His righteousness is unoffendable.

  • He would never save those who adulate humans,

  • who follow antichrists in opposing and blaspheming God.

  • God would never save anyone who doesn't love or accept the truth,

  • but blindly clings to the Bible.

  • God's will is to set people free from religious Babylon,

  • so we're no longer constrained by the restrictions

  • of religious world's antichrist forces,

  • and we can come out from religion to seek the truth and seek God's work

  • so we have hope of welcoming God's appearance and work.

  • Let's look at more of Almighty God's words.

  • That's all we have for you today.

  • If you would like to learn more

  • about the truth of God's appearance and work in the last days,

  • or if you have any questions,

  • we welcome you to leave us a comment below.

  • See you next time!

Hello everyone, I'm Angelo.

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