Paul the Liar

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

CHARLES RUSSELL & GILBERT STILES: Reason & Revelation

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I first heard of Charles Taze Russell and his book, Millennial Dawn in December of 2024, and have been studying his writings ever since. What I am discovering is a connection to the knowledge I received; the teachings of two revelations, which will expose the error that Russell carried over from the Church, and stand witness to the truth, bringing divine revelation to what Russell deduced through reason.  As he said, “the truth is progressive, shining more into the perfect day.” He understood that “a direct revelation of the plans and purposes of God,” was necessary, because without it, “men could only approximate the truth, and arrive at indefinite conclusions.” Through these two end-time revelations, the “perfection of knowledge” that Russell speaks of, is attained, which would start with identifying the error or sin of the Church— the purpose of the first revelation (1960-1974). 

Russell understood that the Christian religions of his time were in error, the first revelation serving to expose the error in the doctrines of these religions, which were founded upon the teachings of Paul, not upon the teachings of Jesus. Pastor Russell may have left the building by leaving the Church, but he would take one “soul-destroying” belief with him.  Russell was attempting to build spiritual truth on a carnal foundation, which Paul laid through his carnal-minded teachings. “Paul was a liar”— a teaching of the first revelation. And what he lied about was our salvation. The physical death or blood of Jesus does not atone for our sins, as Paul teaches. That is carnal thinking, which is “enmity against God.”  What atones for our sins or iniquities is the spiritual death or blood of our spiritual beast of false beliefs— the error or sin responsible for the death of truth that has taken place in our heart. Our beast of false beliefs is consumed through the fire of a spiritual judgment (Matthew 19:28), which the followers of Jesus’ teachings will execute upon themselves— teachings of the second revelation.  

Paul perverted religious law when it came to blood sacrifice, replacing the beast with a human. When the children of Israel broke God’s spiritual law by worshipping the beast, they placed themselves under the carnal law, under which they were to sacrifice a carnal beast until they fulfilled the carnal law by sacrificing their spiritual beast. It’s beast for beast, not human for beast! Paul not only perverted religious law when it came to blood sacrifice. He supported it through his mistranslation of one word.  The word “for” in “Jesus died for our sins” does not mean “in place of,” as Paul’s doctrine would have us believe. It means, “because of.”  

“He was bruised for our iniquities.” (Isaiah 53:3). Jesus, the seed or word of God made flesh, died because of man’s sins, not in place of them, not to absolve them.  Russell concluded that the “coats of skins” given to Adam and Eve represent the covering of our sins through the blood of Jesus. But if the premise is in error, which it is, so too will be the conclusion. What covers or pays for our sins is not the physical blood or death of the physical Jesus, but the spiritual blood or death of the false religious and personal beliefs that crucified the spiritual Jesus— crucifying the truth that wants to live in our heart, through which we acquired a spiritual debt. Jesus did not pay our debt by dying on the cross, which is what Paul would have us believe. We pay our own debt by doing the works, following Jesus, who instructs us to “believe the works” (John 10:38), the word “believe” meaning “to obey, put action to.”  The works are synonymous with the judgment, through which we overcome our word of false beliefs, our spiritual debt paid in full through the blood or death of our beast of false beliefs. 

The “coats of skins” given to Adam and Eve were not animal skins, as the Church teaches, but flesh bodies— a teaching of the first revelation. Notice it says that God gave them coats of skins and clothed them (Genesis 3:21)— two separate things.  When Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s word by believing the word of the serpent, which they demonstrated by acting on it, flesh was added. They were ashamed, and so they hid themselves.  “Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?” (Genesis 3:11).  As God’s word of truth was made flesh, so too is man’s word of error made flesh— a spiritual or invisible flesh formed inside of our physical flesh, which can only be removed through a spiritual circumcision— circumcision of the heart, which the prophet Jeremiah spoke of (4:4), and which Paul plagiarized, failing to credit the source of such a profound spiritual concept— a concept Paul did not understand. Spiritual circumcision (the removal of our internal flesh) is the result of the spiritual judgment— a spiritual fire that consumes the flesh, which if not removed, will cause us to see ourselves as naked in the spiritual realm. “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; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see” (Revelation 3:18). The gold symbolizes purity, the result of the judgment.   

According to Russell, and I quote: “Paul had more abundant revelations than any other apostle. These revelations he was not allowed to make known to the Church, nor fully and plainly even to the other apostles.” The problem is, he is using Paul’s own words to support his conclusions, which will not stand up in a court of law. Russell goes on to say that Paul’s visions and revelations were “a value to the entire church.”  Then we have Peter, the rock upon which Jesus said he would build his church (which is spiritual) who writes in his letter to Clement, that Paul is the source of the error in the early Church, and that his visions deluded him. The Church was founded upon the teachings of Paul, so you can see why the Church needed to hide these records. Fortunately, for the people of religion, the truth about Paul would come to light with the unearthing of “The Dead Sea Scrolls” between 1946 and 1956, it’s contents not widely known until the first documentary came out in the mid to late nineties. In that first documentary they said they found written, “Paul the Liar,” which was left out of subsequent documentaries. I did a deep dive into the scrolls years later. That is when I learned about the letter Peter wrote to Clement, and about this person referred to as “the Spouter of Lies,” who is described as a madman who attacks “James the Righteous” while he is teaching in the temple.  In the “Homilies and Recognitions of Clement” is written, “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…” And when it comes to our salvation, the teachings of Paul do not agree with the teachings of James. Paul’s salvation without works compared to James’ salvation through works. Is it reasonable to think that Jesus would choose Paul to carry on his spiritual teachings? A man who teaches salvation through carnal blood, and who claims that the saved will be lifted up to meet Jesus in the literal air.  And then, not allow those spiritual teachings to be shared with the Church, or with the Apostles that Jesus himself chose?  Paul was chosen Apostle to the Gentiles for a reason. The date that Pastor Russell predicted for “the end of the Gentile times” (Luke 21:24) was October 1914.

What took place in October of 1914 was the birth of Gilbert Loman Stiles, a man of no religion, and very little knowledge of the Bible, having no “veil of religious iniquity” to distort the knowledge of a 14-year-long revelation, which he began receiving in 1960, at the age of 46 (a temple measure). That same year he had a vision of a church, where he was instructed to go and be baptized. It was a Pentecostal Church, the last of the three Gentile nations, to which the true baptism was revealed. What happened to him that night, which Stiles referred to as “getting the seed,” had the elders asking him to come back and speak from the pulpit. But what he taught did not match their religious image, so he and his teachings were quickly rejected. 

The Church, founded upon Paul’s doctrine, teaches that one receives the Holy Spirit after one is baptized, which Pentecostals refer to as “getting the Holy Ghost.” This was the great lie that Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles, spread when he was in Ephesus, perverting the words of Peter in Acts 2:38, which has prevented Christians from obtaining true salvation. It is not the Holy Spirit ones receives following baptism, but the “gift” of the holy Spirit, which is right in the plain text, yet required revelation to see.  Mr. Stiles 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 Gentiles, according to Russell, are “the nations of the earth in general.” The Gentiles, according to the revelation, are those that follow the three main Christian religions: Catholic, Trinity, and Pentecost, all founded upon the teachings of Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles. These three religious nations make up the Gentile Israel and Judah, which the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah pertain to. Russell takes us to the words of Peter, who takes us to what the Prophets were told, which was that the prophecies were not for them, but for those of the “Christian Age,” as Russell refers to it. That is because the prophecies reprove the doctrines of the Christian Church.  Isaiah speaks to the absurd Christian notion of being born again. And according to Jeremiah, Christians will come to know that they are not saved. Born again and saved— two very destructive beliefs that spread like wild-fire well after Russell’s time here on earth.  The Gentile Israel is Catholic and Trinity (Moab and Ammon), the doctrines of which Russell rejected, except when it came to sacrifice for sin. The Gentile Judah is Pentecost (Edom), which Russell may not have been familiar with, seeing as the United Pentecostal Church only became organized in 1905. They were given 70 years to make reconciliation for their iniquity, which the 70 weeks in the book of Daniel represent. Paul was Apostle to the Gentiles. The word “Paul” means “to come to an end.” The Gentile times did not come to an end until the three main Christian religions preaching Paul’s doctrine were cut off, which took place in 1975. 

That is when a very small group of people were gathered together, seemingly overnight, myself included. We spent the next nineteen years taking in the teachings of the fourteen year-long-revelation, which we called “Bible Study,” much like the “Bible Students” that were drawn to Russell’s teachings. Another thing we had in common was the Greek Diaglott, a must-have for the serious truth seeker.  It was in 1975 that Mr. Stiles heard the word “Ichabod,” repeatedly. Not sure how to spell what he was hearing, he searched Strong’s Concordance of the Bible, and found it. After reading the story in which the word appeared, he told us that Israel and Judah of the Gentiles were cut off.  The time of the Gentiles would come to an end, just 61 years later than Russell had predicted. God had a relationship with Israel, Judah, and Zion. The power that departed from Israel and Judah in 1975 moved on to a new people, which explains why Mr. Stiles referred to us (on a couple occasions) as “the daughters of Zion.” The word “daughter” means “to build upon the family name.” The NAME is extremely important, as Russell attests to, bringing our attention to the name “JEHOVAH.”  The NAME is our salvation. We are to be immersed in it.   

Before the teacher passed away in 1994, he told us not to limit ourselves to what he taught us. There was a deeper level that we were to tread out, which brings to mind the words of Russell, who said, “the truth is progressive, shining more into the perfect day.” But after the teacher’s passing, our little group began to look more and more like religion— a stagnation that after two and a half years left me with no choice but to move on from the people with whom I had spent half my life. To quote Russell, “we must walk in the light, continue to make progress, else the light, which does not stop, will pass on and leave us in darkness.” And once I left, they would have nothing to do with me— a religious response generated by fear, which was quite painful, bringing to mind the words of the prophet Zechariah”— “And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.” (13:6). What followed, in the spring of 1997, was what I can only describe as a tearing down process, through which the error added to the foundational teachings was made clear to me.  With the foundation restored, it was time to obey the teacher’s final instruction, which I had completely forgotten about until it was brought to my mind in the fall of 1998. What was this deeper knowledge, and how does one go about treading it out? I had no clue, so I called upon the Lord, and what I received over the next seven years was revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible, which was needed to spiritualize the teachings of the first revelation.

The spiritual truth of God’s Word is revealed to us through an understanding of its symbolism. It is why Jesus, the orator of spiritual truth, spoke in parables— a language that only those whose motivations were pure understood. When Russell speaks of “the perfection of knowledge,” he is speaking of the spiritual knowledge that those of religion, who identify as God’s people, lack, as we learn through the prophet Hosea— “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” (4:6). The destruction is spiritual, on a soul-level, as the healing or salvation of our soul requires us to follow the spiritual instruction of God’s Word, which is why we have been given revelation of the symbolic code. Case in point: Jesus instructs the hypocrites of religion to clean the inside of the cup and the platter so the outside of them becomes clean. The inside of the cup symbolizes the thoughts of the mind. The inside of the platter symbolizes the emotions of the heart. The soul, by definition, is the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought, emotion, and action. When our thoughts and emotions are made pure through the conception of truth, so too will be the actions of our body, requiring no external law to govern them. Righteousness, doing the right thing, becomes a law unto itself. The second revelation arrived in the dawn of the new millennium, marking the beginning of the 7th day; the beginning of the seventh-thousandth year since the fall in the garden, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind. The word “seven” means “to be complete,” the definition of “perfect.” The 7th day is the “perfect day,” the new millennium coinciding with the thousand-year-reign of Christ.  Pastor Russell was correct!

The Watch Tower Society predicted 1975 as a possible year for the beginning of Christ’s millennial reign, but it would take 40 years (1960-2000) for the  knowledge of the first revelation to the reach the perfection associated with the “Millennial Age,” which we find in the story of Elijah and the juniper tree. He arose and went in the strength of that meat for forty days and forty nights— meat that is given to the faithful and wise servant “in due season” (Matthew 24:45). Russell teaches that the return of Christ is invisible.  We have Jesus’ own words standing witness to this truth— “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not” (Matthew 24:23).  Why not believe it? Because christ is not a person, christ is a healing power that is activated in a person— in the faithful and wise servant. Up until such time, we are considered antichrist, working against this power. How do we activate this healing power of the heart? By following the instruction of Moses, which was given to the children of Israel, chosen out of all the nations of the world to represent us the people— “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord…” (Exodus 14:13), the word “still” meaning “be silent, quiet self.”  It is in quieting the mind that we activate the power of the heart, through which we see our salvation— a process that unfolds through our sincere desire to be healed on a soul-level.  “And when he had opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour” (Revelation 8:1). There was silence in heaven when the seventh seal was opened because silence in the mind opens the seventh chakra, connecting us to the divine power, through which we experience true enlightenment through the conception of truth— the return of the spiritual Jesus to that spiritual earth called the heart.  Whether we speak the language of the east or the language of the Sacred Text of the west, the instruction is the same.

Jesus instructs his followers to judge the 12 tribes of Israel (Matthew 19:28). The number 12 represents judgment. Judging the 12 tribes of Israel formulates to 12 x 12, which equals 144. This is not a literal number, but a spiritual measure— “And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel” (Revelation 21:17). One enters the 1,000 year reign of Christ (not to be taken literally) through the judgment that equates to the measure of 144; when that which constitutes the Christ (Love and truth) rules our mind and heart, which adds up to 144,000. Russell is correct in equating the “little flock” with the 144,000 “who are exalted to a spiritual nature,” to quote Russell. Yes, they are exalted to a “spiritual nature” through the spiritual measure they reached by judging the 12 tribes of Israel, which are the 12 sons of Jacob (Genesis 49:28). “We must travel from Reu to Ben; from Reuben to Benjamin”— an instruction that came by revelation to Mr. Stiles. Reuben means see ye a son. Benjamin means a son of the right hand, the right hand symbolizing power. It is through the completion of the salvation or healing process (encoded in the 49th chapter of Genesis) that one becomes a son of God.  This is what Pastor Russell is unknowingly referring to by “THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD.”  

This instruction to travel through the 12 sons of Jacob is the same as Jesus’ instruction to judge the 12 tribes of Israel, which is to overcome the unholy spirits working in our mind and heart— the reason for the second revelation and a second book. Russell refers to the “little flock” as the “body of Christ” or the “body of The Seed,” to whom God is pleased to give the kingdom (Luke 12:32).  In 1977, our small group took a road trip to Independence, West Virginia, Gilbert’s hometown, less than two hours south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Charles’ hometown, which I find very interesting. On 7-7-77 Gilbert had a vision of God’s Kingdom— ” It is made up of 7 levels, the kingdom being the 8th, at the top. The land at the top is very flat—7 rings around the mount. As you go up, each one is smaller and higher than the last. The city is the smallest, which rests on the flat land at the very top (Benjamin’s inheritance was the smallest, but the richest)… The new Jerusalem will come down and set itself on the very top of the mount. All life comes from the kingdom—all healing power, all foods, and all drinks… Jerusalem is Joseph and Benjamin. People that come out of the tribulation are right outside Joseph…The city is sitting on twelve columns. The separation on the mount is the separation between carnal and spiritual. They’ll never see the glory of the city…”  

Within God’s Kingdom is the kingdom of heaven (the seven levels) and the kingdom of God (the eighth level). Christians want to go to heaven, and they will, where they will experience the judgment. The eighth is reserved for those that have gone through the judgment on this side. Spiritually speaking, the kingdom of heaven symbolizes the realm of the mind and the kingdom of God symbolizes the realm of the Heart. It is the latter that Jesus advocated for (Luke 17:21).  To enter the kingdom of God without (in the spiritual realm) one must first enter it within (in the physical realm).  In 1980, Gilbert moved back to West Virginia, his little flock following. Then one night, he spoke about the Kingdom, which he never did, even after receiving the vision. He said that those in the city were pure spirit. To appear to those on the lower levels (which I now understand to be in varying degrees of spiritual flesh) the pure spirit would pass through the wall around the city, taking on a body, which supports Russell’s reasoning that the “little flock,” the 144,00, make up the “body of Christ” or “body of The Seed.”  The wall measures 144 cubits (Revelation 21:17), “the measure of a man,” which one reaches by judging the 12 tribes of Israel, symbolized by the “twelve columns” in the vision. Mr. Stiles also taught on the difference between the “bride” and the “wife.”  The bride has the name. The wife has the seed. Maybe the bride becomes the wife when those of pure spirit (those truly born of the spirit or born again) pass through the wall—“Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife” (Revelation 21:9). These are the things that those that are found worthy will come to understand. And according to the teachings of Mr. Stiles, as our understanding is opened up on this side, the understanding of those who have passed on and are worthy, is opened up. Let us remember the teachings of Pastor Russell— “the truth is progressive, shinning more into the perfect day.”  

The creation of heaven and earth took 6 days (not to be taken literally). A day is 24 hours.  6 x 24 equals 144. It is through the judgment that we form “a new heaven and a new earth,” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart,” our first heaven and earth (formed through false perceptions and beliefs) passing away (Revelation 21:1). All that took place physically in the previous era of Isaac (baptism, anointing, fasting, healing, speaking in tongues, casting out devils, etc.) are now, in what is the final era, to take place spiritually. Any physical demonstrations of these are associated with the negative aspect of the era of Isaac, which is mockery.  If there is no more physical baptism, what happens to the name in which we are to be baptized?  The name of the father is carried on through the son. God the Father has been called by different names throughout the ages, which was appropriate in the “era of Abraham” and in the “era of Issac.” But we are in the spiritual “era of Jacob,” in which we are to be spiritually immersed in the spiritual NAME of the Father, which is TRUTH, carried on through the Son—“And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God” (Revelation 19:13). The WORD of God is TRUTH.  We are to be immersed in truth. It is God’s word of truth that saves us from our word of error.  

Russell reasoned that Abraham’s sacrificing of his son Isaac was proof that the sacrificing of Jesus to cover the sins of the people was God’s will, part of God’s plan.  But there’s a problem. God did not accept Abraham’s son as sacrifice. It was the ram that God accepted as sacrifice. The ram symbolizes idolatry— the worshipping of false images. It is the false perceptions and beliefs that formed our first heaven and earth that we are to sacrifice, not the truth.  It was Paul who taught that the Son of God was an acceptable sacrifice for sin, that Jesus carried the burden of our sins by dying on the cross. Let’s hear what the prophet Jeremiah has to say about it—  “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” (23:33-36). Truth carries no burden. It makes us free. Jesus carried the cross to illustrate how man’s word of error weighs heavily upon the word of truth that wants to live in our heart!

To quote Russell, “For God has evidently designed the permission of evil for six thousand years, as well as that the cleansing and restitution of all shall be accomplished during the seventh thousand.” But there’s a problem with this assumption.  It is not God that is permitting the evil, as we learn through the prophet Isaiah— “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things” (45:7). God created evil, which is the idea of evil, just as God created the idea of the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1). Nothing has been made or formed yet, as we see in the next verse. It is man that has formed the evil within himself, permitting the evil over the past six thousand years through disobedience to God’s word.  In creating evil, man was given the ability to take in two opposing thoughts and the freedom to choose between them, which is why God, knowing the outcome, but desiring to give them freewill, told Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that was in the midst of the garden. They have already eaten of the good, having a positive experience. But to eat of the good and the evil is to have the knowledge of both, to experience the negative consequence of accepting the evil, the word serpent meaning to learn by experience. The “thorns and thistles” that grew in the garden after they listened to the lie symbolize the pain and aggravation we bring into our life because we mistook lies for truth, as we learn through the prophet Isaiah— “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…” (5:20). We have all called evil good, putting darkness for light by mistaking lies for truth, causing us to make wrong decisions throughout our life, which brought woe, meaning misery, grief— the result of our first creation.

What is to take place in this seventh thousandth year, which began with the new millennium, is a new creation— “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”  

This is “THE GROANING CREATION” of which Russell spoke. 

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