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DOES BLOOD SACRIFICE ATONE FOR OUR SINS?

/ Sandra L. Butler

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lambFor the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.” Leviticus 17:11

The children of Israel disobeyed God’s commandment when they formed the gold calf, and worshipped it—“Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). It was this act of spiritual disobedience that brought them under the carnal law, instituted by the tribe of Levi, the Book of Leviticus a book of religious law, which served as a figure for the Spiritual Law they disobeyed. They were to keep the carnal works of the Written Law until they fulfilled them through spiritual works; through spiritual obedience— a higher level of Torah observance. The adding of the Written Law, which included the Ten Commandments, was the birth of Judaism, one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions. To atone for their sins would require them to sacrifice the blood or life of the very thing that caused them to sin in the first place, which was the beast. The flesh is the beast, the life of which is taken through the spilling of its blood— a blood sacrifice.

Let’s rewind history five hundred years to the time of Abraham, who was instructed by God to go to the land of Moriah, and offer up his son for a burnt offering. Moriah is derived from the primary root יָרָה (yarah), meaning to teach or to show. The story provides us with divine revelation and instruction, and it’s prophetic, revealing what would take place two thousand years down the road. Abraham was willing to sacrifice what was most important to him. Are we willing to do the same? Abraham represents God the Father, and Isaac represents the Son. What is most important to God the Father is His Son. The son is the seed or word of God (Luke 8:11) truth, which was made flesh (John 1:14).

The “life of the flesh is in the blood…”

The people sacrificed the wrong flesh at Passover two thousand years ago, sacrificing the word of God, truth, which is life— “In him was life” (John 1:4). What they should have offered up was the blood or life of their internal flesh— the beast within— a spiritual blood sacrifice.  As God’s word was made flesh, so too has man’s word been made flesh. God’s word is truth. Man’s word is the opposite of truth, iniquities that destroy the truth that wants to live in that spiritual earth called the heart.

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“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5

The word “bruised” means “beat to pieces, crush, destroy.” The word “for” does not mean” in place of” (as the Christian religion teaches). It means, “because of.” Truth dies because of our iniquities— a mistranslation that unfortunately gave credence to Paul’s ‘atonement for sins through the blood of Jesus,’ a perversion of religious law, which required the blood of a beast— a law that was to end at the coming of Messiah, which we will find encoded in the story of the first passover.

… the chastisement of our peace was upon him…” The Jews wanted peace, which they believed Messiah would bring when he returned to restore the kingdom of Israel to its former glory. What they got was a Messiah that spoke of an internal kingdom (Luke 17:21), where through an internal judgment (Matthew 19:28), one would obtain internal peace (Psalms 122), a spiritual concept the rejected Messiah paid for with his life. The Jews may have rejected the spiritual teachings of Jesus, but it was Paul who perverted them, teaching Christians to wait for Jesus to come in the clouds and restore heaven and earth to their former glory, through which Paul instilled a false peace. When you think of Paul, think of the carnal mind— the spiritual “veil of religious iniquity” that prevents us from seeing and hearing spiritual truth. Paul, chosen apostle to the Gentiles, sold Christians on the carnal concept of atonement for sin through the blood of Jesus, making them equally guilty for taking the life of God’s word made flesh.

… and with his stripes we are healed.” The word stripes goes back to the primary root חָבַר (chabar) meaning to join self, to join together, compact. We are not healed by the physical stripes Jesus endured. We are not healed, freed from our sins, by joining Jesus in his death, as Paul teaches. We are healed when we follow what Jesus teaches: “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 word “compact” in the definition of “stripes” appears only once in the Bible: “... Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.  For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good.” Psalms 122. We are healed through an internal judgment, through which we obtain internal peace.

If the blood of the son were an acceptable sacrifice for sin, God would have accepted Abraham’s sacrifice. The angel of the Lord  instructs Abraham not to sacrifice his son. An angel is a messenger. The message? The acceptable sacrifice for sin is not the blood or life of the son. The acceptable sacrifice for sin is the blood or life of the beast— the ram, which means idolatry; the worshipping of false images. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” the “other gods” symbolizing our “false images or beliefs,” which equate to “man’s word,” the flesh or beast we are to sacrifice. Abraham demonstrated his belief in the One God (which he was introduced to while dwelling in a land that served many gods) by willingly offering up what was most important to him. We demonstrate our belief in the One God by willingly offering up what is most important to us— our other gods; the false (religious and personal) beliefs we give reverence to, daily. The sacrificing of this beast of false beliefs is the only acceptable sacrifice for sin! Anything else is nothing but a mockery!

Fast forward five hundred years, to the first passover of the children of Israel.  Every man was to offer up a lamb. “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year… ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.”  Exodus 12:5,6. Abraham’s sacrificing of his son, and the children of Israel’s sacrificing of the lamb without blemish, are prophetic, pointing us to the same point in time. The coming of Messiah, when Jesus, called “the Lamb of God,” was offered as sacrifice for the sins of the people. He was “a male of the first year,” put to death in the first century. The children of Israel, now referred to as Jews, were to observe the carnal Passover (which required animal blood sacrifice) “until the fourteenth day.” God’s cycle of time is 28 days, the same as the woman’s reproductive cycle. Conception takes place in the midst of the cycle, which is when Jesus, the spiritual seed or word of God made flesh, came to earth. It was time to conceive of spiritual truth.  Jesus came in the fifth day; in the beginning of the fifth thousandth year: 1+2+3+4+5=15. Carnal sacrifices were to end, fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy. But the Jews, unable to conceive of spiritual truth, which instructs us to offer up spiritual sacrifices, offered up a lamb “in the evening” of “the fourteenth day” (the day counted from evening to morning).

“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats… Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.  Isaiah 1:11,13-15. Isaiah is describing the carnal practices of religion, which were to end two thousand years ago. Israel’s obedience to religious law, once counted as (a degree of) righteousness, is now counted as iniquity. Paul, in teaching Christians a perversion of religious law with regard to blood sacrifice, is solely responsible for the iniquity of the Gentiles, which are the Christians who believe that the blood or life of Jesus has atoned for their sins. Now, two thousand years later (in the last or end of the seven days) we are being given one last opportunity to offer up a one-time spiritual sacrifice during the spiritual Passover of the World, which has already begun.

The seventh day:  1+2+3+4+5+6+7=28. The beginning of the seventh thousandth year since the fall, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind. The number seven pertains to the spiritual. Through the mouth of David we learn that only after the spiritual sacrifices of God are performed, will God be pleased with the carnal sacrifices made under the law (Psalms 51:17,18). Until such time, all religious sacrifices, practices, and traditions, are counted as iniquity. The seventh day, which we entered with the new millennium, marked the beginning of the third and final era. The “era of Abraham,” which began four thousand years ago. The “era of Isaac,” which began two thousand years ago. And the current “era of Jacob,” which translates to the “era of Spirit.” One last opportunity for man to move beyond the carnal and into the spiritual; beyond the ritualistic practices of religion and into revitalization and regeneration of the soul.  “God is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” John 4:24, spoken by Jesus two thousand years ago.

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” Matthew 16:24. Jesus teaches us to carry our own cross, symbolizing the burden our word of false beliefs has placed upon the truth that wants to live in our heart.  Paul placed the burden of sin on the Lord, teaching Christians that the blood or life of Jesus atoned for their sins. “And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the Lord. 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. Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the Lord answered? and, What hath the Lord spoken? And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.” Jeremiah 23:33-36. Jesus was made the scapegoat, made to bear the blame of others. The concept of a goat taking away all the sins and impurities of the people first appears in the Book of Leviticus, the book that contains the religious laws the people placed upon themselves through spiritual disobedience. Paul, being a  Pharisee, and the son of a Pharisee, known for their strict adherence to both the Written and Oral law, would have been very familiar with this religious concept.

“Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:…” Exodus 12:5. Paul teaches that Jesus, who was holy, without sin, offered himself as a living sacrifice for our sins, which is carnal thinking. Paul also teaches that we are to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, holy, being transformed through the renewing of our mind, which is spiritual thinking. What Paul did was mix religious law with spiritual truth, mixing milk with meat (בשר בחלב), which is unlawful. The beast they offered up under the law, was carnal. The beast we are to offer up, fulfilling the carnal law, is spiritual. It’s beast for beast, not human for beast!  It’s the blood or life of our spiritual beast that we are to sacrifice. But how can we, in our present state, being with sin, offer up a lamb (sheep or goat) without spot or blemish? A young sheep is called a lamb. A baby goat is called a kid. The term kid is used to refer to a child. Jesus said we must become as a little child, which is to be pure in thought and emotion— holy. This is how we will offer up a lamb without spot or blemish. This is how we will keep God’s one-time Sabbath Day, holy (Exodus 20:8).

“Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.” Matthew 23:26. To clean the inside of the cup and the platter is to purify the thoughts of the mind and the emotions of the heart, so that the outside of them, the actions of the body, will be pure, acceptable in the sight of God, needing no external law to govern them. In this new purified state, righteousness (doing the right thing) becomes a law unto itself. Paul teaches that we are to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, “being transformed through the renewing of the mind,” which he does not understand, looking “through a glass darkly” as he puts it, which is to see something in an unclear or imperfect way, having limited understanding of divine matters. Understanding requires revelation. Any revelation Paul claims to have received came through Jesus and the Prophets. Paul will use the words of the Prophets to systematically tear down the law he once enforced, using violence if necessary— the same law Jesus said he came not to destroy. Paul will invent his own law— a spiritual law he calls “the law of Christ,” which he claims sets them free of the carnal law. To do away with the religious law of circumcision, Paul uses the revelation of the Prophet Jeremiah (4:4), which teaches circumcision of the heart, but Paul has no revelation of his own when it comes to this very important spiritual matter. He does not understand spiritual circumcision, providing no instruction for removing “the foreskins of the heart.” If Paul had received revelation on this spiritual matter, he would not have taught that the blood or life of the flesh of Jesus atoned for the sins of the people. He would have understood that every false belief we accepted in our heart, believing it was the truth, formed a layer of flesh— “the foreskins of the heart,” and that the removal, or death of the spiritual flesh formed by our false beliefs is what atones for our sins. Paul has perverted the words of the living God!  How can the blood or life of Jesus (the death of truth) atone for our sins, when our sins are the result of the death of truth that has taken place in us because of our false beliefs?  It is the blood or life of the flesh formed by our false beliefs that atones for our sins— the death of our beast of false beliefs.

Paul was the “blind Pharisee” of whom Jesus spoke, seeing things in an imperfect way. Paul said they would receive the holy Spirit following their baptism, causing Christians who claim to have the holy Spirit to “blaspheme against the holy Spirt.” The word “blaspheme” means “to speak impiously,” the word “impious” meaning “ungodly; profane.” Revelation corrected the ungodly and profane teaching that has prevented Christians from experiencing the transformation through which they could offer themselves as a living sacrifice, without spot or blemish— holy.  It is not the holy Spirit one receives following baptism. It is the gift of the holy Spirit (a teaching of the first revelation; 1960-1974). The teacher illustrated it this way: There’s 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. The gift is the seed or word of God, which is truth. It was through God’s word that heaven and earth came into existence. It is through God’s word of truth that our spiritual heaven and earth comes into existence, “a new heaven and a new earth” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart” (Revelation 21:1), our “first heaven and first earth” (formed by false perceptions and beliefs) passing away (a teaching of the second revelation; 1998-2005). Transformation refers to the act or process of changing in form, which takes place as our first creation gives way to our new creation— a process!  We are not “transformed through the renewing of the mind,“ as Paul teaches. But rather, “our mind is renewed through the transformation of our heart,” which is why the ladder in Jacob’s dream was set up on earth, symbolizing the heart, and reached into heaven, symbolizing the mind. The ladder symbolizes the process of transformation, which begins in the heart, where the beast is. It is our beast of false beliefs that we are to sacrifice, the blood or life of which is offered up as we overcome our false (religious and personal) beliefs, through which we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, without spot or blemish— holy, keeping God’s one-time Sabbath Day, holy.

“For the life of the flesh— it is in the blood; I (myself) have given it to you upon the slaughter-site, to effect ransom for your lives.” Leviticus 17:11 (The Five Book of Moses). The first five Books is called the Torah, the third book, Leviticus, the book of religious law. The blood of the beast was “to effect ransom.” To effect is the power to produce an outcome or achieve a result. The blood sacrifice, which God gave to the children of Israel because of their spiritual disobedience, served the same purpose as the manna God gave them in the wilderness, which they ate of for forty years, until they entered the promised land, where they ate of the old corn. The manna symbolizes the law, added because of transgression. The old corn symbolizes the ancient spiritual truth. The Jews entered the promised land metaphorically at the coming of Messiah, who was the promise— the spiritual truth, which if obeyed, would have made them free of their fifteen hundred year-old bondage to the law, ending blood sacrifice, which like the quail God gave them in the wilderness, they should have been sick of by now.  But they would rather continue with their perpetual blood sacrifices to atone for their sins, than to effect “ransom” through spiritual obedience to God’s spiritual Law— a deeper level of Torah observance, through which they would cover or make atonement for their sins, restoring their spiritual lives. They rejected their Messiah; the One providing the “ransom” by providing the spiritual instruction that would atone for their sins when acted upon. Christians are also guilty of rejecting their Messiah by following Paul, who teaches that Jesus provided their “ransom” by dying on the cross.

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We are all guilty of the death of truth— the spiritual Jesus. Knowing that the blood of Jesus was poured out because of our sins, and not to make atonement for our sins, should result in a “guilt offering” [אָשָׁם֙]; a spiritual sacrifice made as payment for our sins through a spiritual death, which takes place through a spiritual judgment. What is to be put to death is our word of false beliefs, the “accuser” we will face in judgment, whether it be in this life, or in the afterlife— our choice. We “overcome” the false beliefs for which we will be judged through “the blood of the Lamb;” through “the life of the Truth.” If we complete God’s judgment, overcoming the false (religious and personal) beliefs that have ruled our lives, we will die a spiritual death, being dead to sin— our names written in the “Lamb’s book of life.” “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”  Revelation 12:11

There were several Jewish sects living in Jerusalem during the time of Jesus. The scroll read in Temple consisted of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, along with the latter books of the Prophets — 24 in all. This is called the Written Torah (Torah she-bich’tav). But there’s another Torah, called the Oral Torah (Torah she-ba’al peh), both of which, according to Jewish tradition, were revealed to Moses at Mount Sinai, which he transmitted to Joshua, and Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, passed down as oral tradition until the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the seventieth year of the Common Era, the “seventy weeks” in the book of Daniel (9:24). A period of time given to the Jews to end their transgression, and make an end of their sins. Obedience to the spiritual works Jesus was attempting to transmit to his religious brothers would have done just that. Jesus, the source of divine revelation, could have provided them with a spiritual interpretation of both Torahs. But the spiritual truth was rejected, the detailed explanations of the Oral Torah interpreted through the lens of religion— through the carnal mind, which only added to the rules and regulations of the Written Law— a law that was added because of transgression, which along with their sins, remained.

Jesus had only three years to impart this spiritual knowledge, which would soon be usurped by the carnal thinking of a religious mind. Paul, raised with a religious mind-set, is responsible for the carnal thinking that is synonymous with the Church, assigning literal interpretations to that which is spiritual— the “veil of religious iniquity” that has prevented Christians from seeing and hearing the spiritual truth of God’s Word. It was Paul who taught a physical return of Jesus, interpreting a spiritual event through his religious carnal mind, which is why every date predicted for his return has been wrong. It was Paul who taught atonement for sins through blood— a religious law he perverted, making Jesus the beast, whose blood or life would save them from their sins— the lie that causes Christians to retain their sins.

DOES BLOOD SACRIFICE ATONE FOR OUR SINS?

YES, but only if the sacrifice is performed spiritually. The flesh we are to sacrifice is the spiritual flesh formed by our word of false beliefs— the spiritual beast, the spiritual blood or life of which is consumed through the spiritual fire (Revelation 3:18) of the spiritual judgment Jesus spoke of (Matthew 19:28). The spiritual blood sacrifice takes place on the spiritual altar called the heart, the beast being the false beliefs of the heart, the heart being the seat of the soul— the throne, where the judgment takes place. We overcome the false beliefs for which we will be judged through “the blood of the Lamb;” through “the life of the Truth.” It is not the physical blood or life of the physical Jesus that atones for our sins, as Paul teaches.  It is the spiritual blood, the life of the spiritual Jesus (truth) that atones for our sins. Two thousand years ago, the Jews were given a choice They chose the carnal law. Now, two thousand years later, it’s the Christians who will have to choose. Follow the carnal teachings of Paul, which leads to death. Or follow the spiritual teachings of Jesus, which leads to life.

In closing, I will answer the question I have been asked by Christians over the years, which is why would God allow Paul’s teachings to be in the Bible if they were not of God? The Bible is a history Book, containing man’s governmental, religious, and spiritual histories. Paul, to whom 13 or 14 books of the New Testament have been attributed, played a major part in man’s religious history because it was Paul’s doctrine that established the Christian religion. Paul was sent to the kings and to the children of Israel, to those of government and religion, which Paul, having been a Pharisee in a time when Jerusalem was under Roman rule, was familiar with. When the Council of Nicaea; the first ecumenical council of the Christian church, convened by Emperor Constantine in 325 AD to establish a unified doctrine for Christianity, it was a no brainer. Paul’s doctrine better fit their agenda, which was to establish one Christian religion for the people to follow.  It worked, but that doesn’t mean it’s of God!   

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 idolatry— the 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