THE NUMBER 144 – THE YEAR 2025 – THE LIFTING OF THE VEIL

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People have been seeing the number 144 lately, and there’s a reason for that. It’s a biblical number, so the Bible is where we will find the true meaning of the number. It has nothing to do with the mind; with consciousness. It has to do with the heart; with the subconscious. The number 144 is not associated with the “kingdom of heaven,” symbolizing the “realm of the mind.” Two thousand years ago, the cry was, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” the number 120 associated with the day Pentecost. Moses died at 120. The Law was to end with the passing of Moses. It was time to make the transition from the wilderness, symbolizing the mind, to the promised land, symbolizing the heart. The days of flesh are “an hundred and twenty” (Genesis 6:3), referring to the veil of spiritual flesh that has been formed inside of our physical flesh, which can only be removed through spiritual circumcision of the heart, which the prophet Jeremiah spoke of (4:4), through which one reaches the spiritual measure of 144.

For those of you who are not familiar with my story… in 1975 I met a man of no religion, who had a unique interpretation of the Bible. So intrigued by this knowledge I spent the next 19 years taking in the teachings of the revelation he received between 1960 and 1974. One evening, during Bible Study, in or around 1976, the Teacher told each of us what we represented or what our gift was. When he pointed to me, he said, “gift of knowledge.”That turned out to be true, as it was spiritual knowledge I was gifted with between 1998 and 2005 through revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible. In 1981, the man who the Teacher (in 1978) said would be coming to the group, arrived. One night, he pointed to him and said, “The Heart, there it sets, right there.” I like that he used the word “sets” instead of “sits,” indicating that this is not about the man, but about what the man represented. His sun sign is Leo, representing the Heart. We married in 1988, a representation of the union between THE HEART and  SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE.  

Fast forward ten years, to 1998, when I had a dream, which I only recently came to understand the meaning of. I was getting a gynecological exam. I looked over at a table and saw the number 64. The head nurse came in the room and said (referring to me) “Because of her age, she’ll be pregnant by January.” Again, this is not about the person, but about what the person represented, which is knowledge, 64 being the number of years from the start of the first revelation: 1960 + 64 = 2024… “pregnant by January” takes us into the year 2025, when we are to conceive of spiritual knowledge in that spiritual womb called the heart, knowledge that those that identify as God’s people lack, as spoken by the prophet Hosea, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (4:6). I mentioned to my husband that this year, 2025, our ages add up to 144. Then he pointed out that our ages added up to 70 when we got married, and that the Teacher who married us, was 74, which adds up to 144. Marriage is the act of intercourse; when a man and a woman come together and become one flesh. Spiritual marriage or intercourse is communication. The Heart is the spiritual womb, which is female. Spiritual knowledge is the seed or word of God (Luke 8:11), which is male. Intercourse or communication between the two results in the conception of spiritual truth, which should have taken place in the heart of the people two thousand years ago, but it was rejected by the carnal mind of those of religion, first by the Jews, and then by the Gentiles.

In December of 2024 I went back on social media after a 7-year hiatus, and found myself in the midst of Jehovah Witnesses, which I now know was not a coincidence because that’s when I learned of Charles Taze Russell, and began an in-depth study of the man and his teachings. His quote, “the truth is progressive, shining more into the perfect day,” suggests that understanding and enlightenment grow gradually, emphasizing the importance of continual learning and revelation. He spoke of the “perfection of knowledge,” referring to the spiritual knowledge we gain through revelation or understanding of the symbolic code of the Bible, which I began sharing on social media in 2000; in the dawn of the new millennium, which marked the beginning of the 7th day; the beginning of the 7th thousandth year since the fall in the garden, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind. The word “seven” means “perfect.” The 7th day is the perfect day, when the truth of God’s Word is made perfect through spiritual knowledge, which those of religion lack, being behind what I call “the veil of religious iniquity.”

As I continued to research Charles Taze Russell I came across something that I believe was by design, something that would connect Russell to my teacher Gilbert Loman Stiles. On October 2nd 1914 Russell announced that the “Gentile Times” had ended. Stiles was born on October 2nd 1914. In 1975 he announced to our little Bible Study group that the Gentile Israel and Judah were cut off. The years 1914 and 1975 marked important events, which Russell and his successors, misinterpreted. He left the Christian religion, but unwittingly brought some soul-destroying Christian beliefs with him, placing him behind “the veil of religious iniquity,” which prevented him from seeing things clearly. The number 144 shows up in the ages of these two men, which my husband also pointed out. Russell died at age 64 and Stiles at age 80, their ages adding up to 144. Russell was born in 1852, dying in 1916, and Stiles was born in 1914, dying in 1994, resulting in a 2-year overlap. Total years between them (1852-1994)=142. Add in the 2-year overlap=144. These two men were instrumental in the progression of spiritual knowledge, encouraging their students to continue to learn, and to be open to the possibility of more revelation, moving beyond what they had been taught in search of a deeper spiritual understanding of God’s Word. While Russell had one foot in religion by bringing the doctrine of the Christian religion, Paul’s doctrine, with him, Stiles was of no religion, and what was revealed to him about Paul was that he was a liar. I see these two men (born within two hundred miles of each other) as two witnesses advocating for and contributing to the progression and perfection of spiritual knowledge. Russell prophesied of the end of the Gentiles. Stiles announced its fulfillment. The word “Paul” (made apostle to the Gentiles) means “come to an end.”

144 is a spiritual measure, “the measure of a man” (Revelation 21:17). “And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Matthew 19:28. The number 12 represents judgment. Judging the 12 tribes of Israel formulates to 12 x 12 = 144. The “regeneration” is the process through which a new creation is formed inside of us. There were six days in the creation of heaven and earth (not to be taken literally). A day is 24 hours. Six days formulates to 6 x 24 = 144. Our new creation comes into existence through the judgment, our six (metaphorical) days of (spiritual or internal) works outlined in the first six churches in the book of Revelation. The work of the first church in Ephesus (where Paul spread his lie pertaining to the holy Spirit) is to find those that say they are apostles, but are not, liars. Paul was made apostle to the Gentiles, the three main Christian religions (Catholic, Trinity, and Pentecost) making up the Gentile Israel and Judah that was cut off in one day in 1975. But Paul’s doctrine of lies lives on in the mind of the Christian, “the veil of religious iniquity” that prevents him from seeing the spiritual truth of God’s Word. To see it they will have to experience a spiritual “apocalypse,” which means, “lifting of the veil.” 

“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.” God’s kingdom is being set up on earth, just not in the way the carnal religious mind would interpret it. The return of Jesus to the earth is the return of truth to the heart, taking place in those who are engaged in God’s judgment, overcoming their false religious and personal beliefs, through which they reach a spiritual measure of 144, ascending beyond the kingdom of heaven. Jesus tells us who is the least and who is great in the kingdom of heaven: “Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.Matthew 5:19. Paul taught the people to reject the law that contains the commandments, replacing God’s law with his own law, which he calls “the law of Christ,” found only in the Pauline Epistles. Evidence of Paul’s rejection of the law is found in a commentary on the book of Habakkuk, who wrote in 626 BCE, a contemporary of Jeremiah the prophet, who wrote from 627 to 585 BCE, the commentary written in the late 1st century BCE, found in the Dead Sea Scrolls: “Those who were unfaithful together with the Liar, [who] did not listen to the word received by the Righteous Teacher from the mouth of God” and “who were silent at the time of the chastisement of the Righteous Teacher and did not aid him against the Liar who rejected the Law in the midst of all their Assembly” No historical personages are mentioned by name because it’s a prophesy yet to be fulfilled.

Clement, who traveled with Peter, reveals that the ‘Righteous Teacher” was James, the brother of our Lord. And in a letter to Clement, Peter wrote this of Paul: “bad instruction, vain boasting, and other such evils have filled the whole house of this world like some enormous smoke preventing those who dwell in it from seeing the Founder aright.” Jesus was the Founder of Jewish Christianity. Paul was the founder of Gentile Christianity. Jesus chose the twelve to spread his gospel among the Jews. Paul was chosen apostle to the Gentiles, where he spread his own gospel, which is why Jesus said, “salvation is of the Jews.” Those who have left Pauline Christianity in favor of keeping the commandments, encouraging others to do so, “shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven,” while those who have accepted Paul’s “law of Christ,” selling others on a made-up law that requires no works, “shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.” Both camps have an opportunity to ascend beyond the kingdom of heaven. Jesus said he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. What fulfills the law is not Jesus, but the spiritual works that are synonymous with Jesus, which if believed (obeyed) perfects the law, completing it. “If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works.”John 10:38. What are the works of the Father? Creation, made through God’s word; through God’s seed, which Jesus is. It is through the creation of a new heaven and earth that the first heaven and earth we formed through false perceptions and beliefs passes away, which is what Jesus was referring to when he said, “till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” They were to keep the carnal works of the law until they were fulfilled through the spiritual works of God’s spiritual judgment.

Those who follow Jesus’ instruction by judging the twelve tribes of Israel, through which they reach the spiritual measure of 144, ascend beyond the kingdom of heaven. They enter the “kingdom of God,” symbolizing the “realm of the Heart” while in the physical realm, entering the reality of the kingdom of God in the spiritual realm, having completed the internal works that are synonymous with the judging of the twelve tribes of Israel. There are many interpretations when it comes to the number 144, and to the number 144,000. If they claim that the number is a literal number, whether of people or angels, if they associate the number with consciousness, with the energy of the body, or with a frequency at which the body is to resonate, it falls under a mind-body discipline, which is associated with the kingdom of heaven, not with the kingdom of God. The beheading of John the Baptist two thousand years ago illustrated the end of purification through mind-body disciplines; through perpetual prayers, ritualistic baths, and dietary restrictions, which is why John said he must decrease so Jesus could increase. According to Jesus, it is not what enters in from the outside that makes us impure, but what proceeds out of our heart, which is made pure through God’s judgment, by judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

A vision of God’s Kingdom was seen by Stiles on 7-7-77. There were “twelve columns,” symbolizing the judgment, all twelve tribes accounted for. Three below the mount. Seven on the mount. Two above the mount, in the city. The twelve columns are between the mount (the kingdom of heaven) and the city. One night, which would have been after 1981, the Teacher spoke on the Kingdom, which he had never done before, not even after receiving the vision. He spoke of the wall around the city, which like the wall that measures “an hundred and forty and four cubits” is a glorified body, which those in the city, being of pure spirit, must pass through to interact with those in the kingdom of heaven, which are in varying degrees of a type of flesh that can be seen in the spiritual realm. Adam and Eve existed in a spiritual realm, but when they disobeyed God’s word they received “coats of skins,” which were not animal skins, but physical flesh bodies that grounded them to the physical realm. Seeing themselves as naked, they hid themselves. “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear…” Revelation 3:18. The fire symbolizes God’s judgment, which consumes the sinful flesh that has been formed inside of our physical flesh.

The two tribes associated with the city are Joseph and Benjamin, representing the two divine attributes of God, which is the Christ, the healing power through which we do the spiritual works that are synonymous with the judgment, through which we form a new creation; “a new heaven and a new earth” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart,” which is salvation, the healing of the soul: the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought and emotion. Those that come out of the tribulation are right outside of Joseph and Benjamin, which tells me that its tribulation (within or without) that brings on the birth of this new creation from within, the “time of trouble” that Daniel (meaning, God is my judge) spoke of in the twelfth and final chapter. Having been purified through the judgment they enter a glorified state. They make up the wall of the city. They have judged themselves while on earth, reaching a spiritual measure of 144 in the 1,000-year reign of Christ, which began with the new millennium. They make up the 144,000, which Russell referred to as “the body of The seed.”

“The seed, The seed, The seed,” which Stiles heard in 1960. “What about the seed,” he asked. And with that, his understanding was opened. The seed is the gift of the holy Spirit, the Spirit being the Energy that sows the seed or word of truth in our heart if we don’t resist it. Stiles received the seed in the form of the revelatory knowledge he received over a period of fifty days prior to his baptism in a Pentecostal church he saw in a vision. What happened to him following his baptism on October 30th, 1960 matched the image of what Pentecostal refer to as “getting the Holy Ghost,” but it is not the holy Ghost or holy Spirit one receives following baptism, as Paul teaches. Stiles referred to what happened to him that night as “getting the seed.” Those who have “The seed” are in the city, as long as the window to enter the city remains open. I was shown that God’s kingdom closes from the top down. The 1,000 years given to man to reach a spiritual measure of 144 through God’s judgment is not to be taken literally, as it is written, “… except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” Matthew 24:22. The trumpet has sounded. The time to ascend the mount is upon us. There is only ONE WAY to ascend the mount and enter the door that leads to the kingdom of God, which is through God’s judgment. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” John 10:1. We will be stealing from ourselves, robbing ourselves of our highest potential, which is eternal life in the kingdom of God.

“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.” Luke 13:28

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2025

PAUL the LIAR

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I first heard Paul was a liar back in 1975, through the Teacher of the revelation of 1960.  The first documentary on The Dead Sea Scrolls” served as a witness to this very important truth.  Peter wrote about Paul and his teachings in his letter to Clement:bad instruction, vain boasting, and other such evils have filled the whole house of this world like some enormous smoke preventing those who dwell in it from seeing the Founder aright.”  Jesus was the Founder of true Christianity, whose teachings Paul perverted. Peter goes on to say that Paul is the source of these errors, and that his visions deluded him. The following are from the Homilies and Recognitions of Clement:  “Our lord and prophet, who has sent us, declared to us that the Evil One, having disputed with him for forty days, but failing to prevail against him, promised that he would send Apostles from among his subjects to deceive them. Therefore, above all, remember to shun any apostle, teacher or prophet who does not accurately compare his teachings with James…the brother of our Lord…and this, even if he comes to you with recommendations…

The Assembly of the Lord, which was constituted in Jerusalem, was most plentifully multiplied and grew, being governed with the most Righteous ordinances by James… James is preaching in the Temple when an unnamed enemy accompanied by an entourage of followers, bursts in.  The ‘enemy’ taunts James’ listeners and drowns out his words with noise, then proceeds to inflame the crowd, with reviling and abuse, and, like a madman, to excite everyone to murder, saying, What do ye?  Why do ye hesitate?  Oh, sluggish and inert, why do we not lay hands upon them, and pull all these fellows to pieces?… Much blood is shed; there is a confused flight, in the midst of which that enemy attacked James, and threw him headlong from the top of the steps; and supposing him to be dead, he cared not to inflict further violence upon him.” Who would have had an entourage of followers at this time? Who is this angry unnamed enemy that is trying to silence the one called James the Righteous?  James is in the Temple, preaching to the Jews; those adhering to the law, which Paul, by this time is calling rubbish. James’ obedience to the law would have earned him the Righteous epithet, which was appropriate for the time. Paul would have been considered an enemy to those adhering to the carnal law through external works, and also to those adhering to the spiritual law through internal works. We are to keep away from any teachings that do not agree with the teachings of James, and when it comes to works, the teachings of Paul and the teachings of James do not agree.  Paul  rejects both the carnal and the spiritual law, which he has substituted with his own law, which he calls the law of Christ, found only in the Pauline Epistles.

The following was also found among the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls: 

“Those who were unfaithful together with the Liar, [who] did not listen to the word received by the Righteous Teacher from the mouth of God” and “who were silent at the time of the chastisement of the Righteous Teacher and did not aid him against the Liar who rejected the Law in the midst of all their Assembly… who were unfaithful in the new covenant in that they have not believed in the covenant of God, and have profaned His Holy Name.” (Habakkuk Pesher 2:1-2, 5:12, 2:3). Christians who follow the teachings of Paul are unfaithful in the new covenant because they have not done the works. The new covenant is synonymous with the new creation, which cannot come into existence without works. James teaches that faith without works is dead.  Faith without works is the definition of unfaithful.  Paul teaches that Jesus did the works for us, which is a lie!

“ The ‘Teacher of Righteousness,’ or ‘Righteous Teacher,’ leads a Messianic Movement befuddled by the Spouter of Lies, who leads many astray in order to build his city of vanity ON BLOOD and erect an Assembly upon Lying, for the sake of his glory, tiring out many with a worthless service and instructing them in works of Lying, so that their works will be of Emptiness. And they will be brought to the same Judgments of Fire with which they insulted and vilified the Elect of God,” (Habakkuk Pesher 10:9-13).  Paul built his own doctrine ON BLOOD, Christians crediting their salvation from sin to the literal blood of Jesus, the Son of God. If blood were an acceptable sacrifice for sin, God would have accepted the blood of Isaac, Abraham’s son, four thousand years ago.  What God did accept as sacrifice for sin was the ram, meaning idolatrythe worshipping of false images.  That is what the people should have sacrificed two thousand years ago. Paul teaches that salvation is a gift rather than the compensation or reward for good works, which is a lie! “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Not of works…” Paul teaches that we can do nothing to save ourselves, which is why Christian’s “works will be of Emptiness.  Because of this, they will be brought to the “Judgements of Fire, which is a good thing because they represent the spiritual works through which our new creation comes into existence, through which we fulfill our end of the new covenant.” 

 I’ve been asked by Christians over the years why God would allow this deception to take place.  It’s not that God allowed it.  It’s that man chose it.  A group of governmental and religious leaders, the Council of Nicaea, decided what teachings would make the New Testament cut, and Paul’s best fit their agenda, which was to present one religion for the people to follow.  This in no way takes away from the Holy Bible being the Word of God, which is a detailed account of man’s spiritual and religious history. It is up to the individual to discover that Paul’s teachings are opposed to the teachings of Jesus, which makes Paul the likely candidate for this person dubbed “the Spouter of Lies.”  “And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way… men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.” Acts 1:9. The same character as the unnamed enemy that attacked James in the Temple, which gives us some insight into Saul’s zealous character. It would take one powerful experience to change this destructive energy. Many disciples of the Lord were saved from death by Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus, which is a change in a person’s beliefs or attitudes, but not necessarily in their character.  

According to the book of Acts, there was a disciple of the Lord at Damascus named Ananias, whom the Lord (in a vision) instructed to go enquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul of Tarsus, who has seen (in a vision) a man named Ananias, who put his hand on him, that he might receive sight.  According to the story, the Lord tells Ananias that Paul (who has been murdering the disciples of the Lord) is a chosen vessel; chosen to bear the name of the Lord before the Gentiles, the kings, and the children of Israel, which is to stand in support of Jesus.  Vision or no vision, the story has two important things to teach us. One, that Paul is blind (if not literally, then spiritually). And two, that he was chosen to do one thing, which was to bear the name of the Lord before those of government and religion. But Paul’s egotistical character would not be satisfied with this menial commission.  He would go on to build his own doctrine, through which he would bring harm to the disciples of the Lord on a soul-level. Paul wastes no time setting out to gather a following, selling his Christ doctrine to the disciples of John and to the disciples of Jesus, possessing the spirit of a politician, who assumes different personas to gain votes. “And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; to them that are without the law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without the law.  To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”

Paul, out saving people.  Take note of how often Paul refers to himself.  The ego at work.  His zealous character, now used to save rather than slaughter, has not changed one bit. Paul’s need to save others following his so-called conversion, is where the idea of saving souls comes from— an ego-driven role being played out by many Christians.  Trying to save others with some bogus salvation, while rejecting their own true salvation.  Paul has appointed himself to teach the gospel of Christ, as does the priest or pastor, but what spirit is leading him?  “For I would that all men were even as myself… It is good for them if they abide even as I.  But if they cannot, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband…”  Paul wants other men to be like him, celibate, controlling their sexual urges. But if they cannot, due to the lust of their physical flesh, they should marry, and remain married.  If the wife does leave, she is to remain unmarried.  Paul claims that this is the Lord’s command, which is a lie!  This is a religious command, initiated by Paul, and instituted by the Catholic Church. And we all know the evil that was perpetuated by priests who could not control a lust that is inherent to the physical body. James, contrary to Paul, teaches on the spiritual lust of our spiritual flesh, which is not to be controlled, but overcome through the removal of the flesh that drives the lust.  This takes place through the spiritual circumcision the prophet Jeremiah spoke of, whose words Paul plagiarized. “Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings” (4:4).

Paul teaches salvation without works. Jesus teaches salvation through works. Paul teaches that the righteousness associated with obedience to the works of the Law, was self-righteousness.  Paul was a Pharisee, son of a Pharisee, a zealot when it came to obedience to the carnal Law.  But having seen the light, claims to have shed his robe of self-righteousness, saying, “not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ…the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.”  Jesus said he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it.  The carnal works of the law were to remain in effect until they were fulfilled through spiritual works. What Paul is doing, is tearing down the works of the law in order to lay the ground-work for his faith without works doctrine.  According to Paul, one becomes righteous by having faith in Christ.  Not by doing the works that perfects one’s faith, which is what James taught.  Under Paul’s doctrine, one can simply believe in the man Jesus, and be saved. Jesus, on the other hand, does not care if we believe [in] him, as recorded in the book of John.  He wants us to believe the works, which is to obey or put action to the spiritual works, through which our faith is made perfect, completed, our soul receiving salvation. “Receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls.”  1 Peter 1:9

The revelation of 1960 exposed the error in the doctrines of Christianity, exposing the lies in Paul’s doctrine.  Let’s start with water baptism.  Jesus instructs his Apostles to remain in Jerusalem and wait for the promise. He re-enforces John’s baptism unto repentance, and then speaks of the holy Spirit immersion or baptism that was to follow their baptism in the name. “Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”  Acts 2:38. They were to wait for the promise, which is the gift“And it happened, while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper parts came to Ephesus: and having found Some disciples, he said to them, “Have you received the holy Spirit since you believed?”  Paul teaches that the gift is the Holy Spirit, which is a lie! There is nothing about receiving the holy Spirit from Jesus, or Peter— the rock upon which Jesus said he would build his church, which is spiritual!  Paul, out to build his own churches, with his own doctrine, has found some pure vessels into which to pour his iniquity. They are disciples of John, having been baptized with water unto repentance.  Paul tells them that John told the people that they should believe on him that was to come after, and be baptized in the name. Paul taught the people to believe in the man.  Jesus taught the people to believe the works. Once again, Paul, with his carnal mind, is making it about the man.  If Paul were being led of the holy Spirit, he would understand the workings of the holy Spirit. He would know that it is not the holy Spirit one receives following baptism in the name, but the gift of the holy Spirit.  The Teacher of the first revelation illustrated it this way:  There is a knock at the door.  You open the door.  A man hands you a gift. The man is not the gift.  The man delivers the gift.  The holy spirit is not the gift.  The holy spirit delivers the gift.  One receives the gift during the time one is immersed in holy spirit, the power that delivers the promise or gift, which is truth. 

Paul’s great lie has not only created a lust for spiritual power in Christians, which the promise or gift will have no part in.  It is keeping many of them from doing the spiritual works through which they would receive true salvation. The disciples in Ephesus believed the words of Paul and were baptized in the name, after which Paul laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, and prophesying.  The power of suggestion.  They received exactly what Paul told them they would receive once they believed— a mockery being played out in churches around the world.  What makes it a mockery is that it’s an imitation of the real thing, which took place on the day of Pentecost, which Paul took no part in. Paul teaches that one fulfills his made-up “law of Christ” by bearing one another’s burden, as Jesus did for us by dying on the cross.  More lies. “And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even punish that man and his house… And the burden of the Lord shall he mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God…”  Jeremiah 23:34,36. The burden was never Jesus’ to carry. Truth carries no burden. It makes us free. Jesus carried the cross to demonstrate how our word of lies weighs heavily upon the truth that wants to live in our heart.  Because of Paul, the Church teaches that Jesus died for our sins, which is a lie!  Jesus died because of our sins; because of our iniquities, as spoken by the Prophet Isaiah.  Truth dies because of iniquity.

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”  Paul is referring to being free of their bondage to the carnal law, which his “law of Christ” sets them free of.  This is where Christians get the idea that they are set free of their bondage or addiction when they accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior. The truth is, we are made free of our yoke of bondage through the spiritual works we perform through the christ power. “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves…for even their woman did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another…”   Romans 1:24-27. Paul is breaching the subject of homosexuality, using the carnal law to support his case against it, the very law he claims his “law of Christ” has set them free of.  Paul said, “there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”  If there is no such thing as gender when one is “in Christ,” why is Paul, who refers to his followers as “babes in Christ,” even talking about the physical relationship to begin with? Jesus never taught on homosexuality because he taught obedience to something greater than the carnal law.  Jesus would not have brought our attention to the physical act, but to the spiritual act taking place within us. I have come in contact with many Christians over the years who love to boast about not being under the Law, arrogantly placing themselves above the Law. Yet, being followers of Paul’s teachings, they are compelled to judge homosexuality according to what is written in the Law.  So how can they say they are not under the Law? “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely put him to death; their blood shall be upon them”   Leviticus 20:13

Paul, being carnally-minded, taught Christians to look to the man Jesus, and to wait upon his physical return. He thinks he has support for this in an event that took place in Galilee. But Paul, not having seen it for himself, has missed something very important in the story, which will prove Paul’s teachings of a physical return of Jesus to be a lie! “And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”   Acts 1:9-11. The two men that stood by in white apparel represent the two witnesses, who are there to make sure that the truth pertaining to Jesus’ return is not turned into a lie, which they did by asking a simple question.  If the men of Galilee were doing right by gazing up into heaven, waiting on a physical return, what need would there have been for the two men to question it?  Jesus was taken up “out of their sight,” meaning, they did not see him taken.  His return will be in like manner— a return not seen! “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air…”   Another lie, revealing the carnal mind of Paul, who is teaching a physical return, and what Christianity calls “the rapture,” which sadly, so many Christians still believe in. The word rapture does not appear in the Bible, nor does the word have anything to do with some physical event. It has to do with an emotional state, which one experiences upon the spiritual return of Jesus— upon the return of truth to his heart.

“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet must sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”  To say that we shall not all sleep, which is clearly not about sleep, but about death, is a lie!   Every one of us will die a physical death.  And when we do, our spiritual condition does not change. We are not raised incorruptible. The only thing that does change is our physical condition. There will be no more suffering on a physical level.  However, whatever spiritual (mental and emotional) state we cross over in, is the same state we will be raised in.  While a wrong thought can be changed “in the twinkling of an eye” upon hearing the truth, the impurities of the heart do not disappear upon resurrection. Paul’s doctrine of lies has kept Christians from doing the spiritual works through which their heart would be made pure; through which they would receive true salvation.  According to the prophet Jeremiah, they will come to know that they are not saved. “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” Jeremiah 8:20.  As for the “last trump”  Paul says will accompany this miraculous ascension and transformation?  It has already sounded, the type-and-shadow of which took place 3500 years ago when God told Moses to make the people ready for the third day.  “Now it was on the third day, when it was daybreak: There were thunder-sounds, and lightning, a heavy cloud on the mountain, and an exceedingly strong shofar sound.  And all the people in the camp trembled”  Exodus 19:16. We are in the daybreak of the third day— in the beginning of the 3rd thousandth year since Jesus brought us the spiritual knowledge that is not being taught in the churches.  To the very ones that claim to be God’s people, as was spoken by the Prophet Hosea: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”  Hosea 4:6. The destruction is spiritual— on a soul-level.  At the sound of the shofar, a trumpet made of a ram’s horn, they were to ascend the mount, illustrating the spiritual ascension and transformation that takes place in what the mount symbolizes, which is the heart.  But the people declined out of fear, lacking the courage to surmount what was in their heart. Paul, the founder of his own Christianity, offers the people another way to climb up.  Jesus warns us about this, revealing the true way through the spiritual works of the seven churches: “Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write… I know thy works, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them to be liars.”  Revelation 2:1,2. It was in Ephesus that Paul told his great lie, causing those who claim to be God’s people to skip over the spiritual works, the first of which is to find apostles such as Paul, liars.  What better candidate for this “Spouter of lies,” whose instruction (according to Peter) is “bad instruction.”  Let’s stop “robbing Peter to pay Paul” by following the good instruction given to us by Jesus.   

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2016