If you are not a catholic or a follower of a protestant organization, why do you care about the number of the beast?
Why would it have any interest for you?
The only reason I can come up with, and correct me if I a wrong, but it is because it hits too close to home and not because it hits Rome.. (like it did me)
And if it hits Rome, it actually hits too close to any Christians home if they are honest..
Because I too wasn’t a member of any church... I was associated with the presbyterians though by ‘tradition’
I thought there was real differences..
Then He showed me there wasn’t..
And He used a nice Catholic to help prove it to me.. that is one way to have your eyes opened..
The catholics didn’t have the problem with their faith.. I did... the only difference between me and them was mary..
And it was that mary that I tested when a nice catholic gave me some rosary beads..
And that mary is a lying prophetess-
If that Mary lies, she is lying about her son.. that isn’t a Catholic thing.. that is a Christian thing..
And asking, seeking, knocking one can find real Truth.
And it isn’t in Christendom, sad to say. Christian truth is Jesus, December 25, easter and sunday ( or Saturday depending on the sect) the words are truth.. but the worship is false..
Those aren’t truths in scripture..
If scripture could prove all those as just ‘traditions’ it would not just affect the ‘evil’ pope or papacy. and they can be proven.
And that maybe is why people who would rather be beating up Catholics and their worship are a little sensitive if it can be shown that the worship that is false for catholics is false for others who also call themselves Christians..
The mirror turned back isn’t a comfortable thing.. praise Yah He will forgive us when we confess our sins and we can go and sin no more..
Rome is just as dominating as they were over the years.. they don’t do it by the edge of the sword.. well, unless you are an enemy of their system..
Like places like Afghanistan, Iran.. those places don’t use the pope’s system to tell time..
Funny, those are two places that seem to be areas of concern or conflict by places like america (which does adhere to the pope’s system)
Today is some god named Tiw’s day on the English calendar.. it is,however,the First Day of the week on our Heavenly Father’s Kingdom calendar found in scripture and in His sky.
Yesterday was His weekly Sabbath.. sounds nuts to people who follow Rome’s system.
So does the thought that the name Jesus, December 25, easter and both Saturday and Sunday are not truth and can be explained with scripture.
But I don’t pretend to hate the papacy or pope and then let them set my work and worship schedule..
I know what scripture means when it say, to those who overcome... it isn’t a world set up to properly worship Him in spirit and truth.. that occurs in each believer until His Kingdom comes.
But His Kingdom will come. We pray for it all the time.. it may be a rather rude awakening when it does come for most.
They may find themselves defending the world and its systems ignorantly.
Without His mercy and grace none would be saved.
Pray for wisdom, knowledge and understanding,and then don’t be afraid to follow where He leads..
You may not be a member of a particular denomination for a reason.. I didn’t understand why He didn’t let me join a church..
Now I know why..
Possibly, you’re overthinking it. If and when we need to know about these matters you’ve mentioned, He’ll let us know what to do. Fear not.
Hope you can find peace about it and rest in the assurances God has given his Children who He has set upon The Rock in a cleft.
It really isn’t all up to us; He has done it all for us and we lovingly follow by faith in Lord Jesus Christ and not by fear of what man might do to any believer/follower.
You may well get caught up in Old Testament laws and rules. If you think God didn’t know in what society we would be living today your just kidding yourself. The calender we MUST exist with today to function has nothing to do with our salvation. Jesus said to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. It’s faith and trust in the shed blood of Jesus that saves. The incessant insistence on law or rule keeping is counter to scripture and the freedom that is in Christ. Most of not all of that borders on if it’s not outright “another gospel”.
>> “ I didn’t understand why He didn’t let me join a church..
Now I know why..” <<
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We are called out of the Harlot and her daughters.
But that doesn’t mean that we do not assemble together in his name.
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