will stand far off Woe Woe, O great city, Babylon, city of power! In one hour your doom has come stand far off

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1 The 7th Bowl The movie Luther with Joseph Fiennes states on its DVD cover, sparking a bloody revolution that shakes the entire continent to its core. We believe that the great earthquake, which the letter of Revelation speaks of, will be of the same spiritual fashion as it was in the Reformation. But, this time the new Reformation will shake the whole earth, and not just a continent (Rev. 16: 18). Moreover, we believe that a very large portion of all religious literature and Bibles, specifically the Judeo- Christian Bible, influence all of our earthly government s hierarchical establishments, specifically the Political, Legal and Religious establishments. By the same token, many believe the Bible gives us our attitudes towards civility and laws. But the Bible also controls and blinds; it s like a voodoo doll towards the people. For example, if one would talk bad about the Bible or poke fun at it, many get offended, as if there re the one being poked, but if one would preach about how people are hungry and in need, many are not affected. And if you praise the Bible, people are moved and exclaim, Amen! Many people are very connected to the Bible, and are basing their salvation on it, rather than just on Jesus alone. In fact, Jesus states this in St. John 5: 39: You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by 1

2 them you possess eternal life. Some misunderstand Jesus statement, for if one were to take it to its logical end, Jesus wasn t referring just to the symbolical material inside the Old Testament (which is valid, for it witnesses to Jesus, and the first Christians and today s Christians used it in this way) but also, many believe, then and now, that merely possessing the very scrolls or book, one will be safe or saved. People idolize the bible, which is a form of idolatry. Also, people give the Bible anthropomorphic attributes such the Bible says this or the Bible says that. The Bible never speaks, but Jesus does. Therefore, it is better to say Jesus says this or Jesus says that. And what we should be concerned with, is what Jesus was concerned with, and that is, with people and the well being of people, not health of the Bible. It is because of its present form that all Modern give power to the religious institutions, and also has an underlying contribution to the secular authorities power to control. (Rev. 13: 2) So then, what if one would separate the Bible so it could be better understood? It has been fused together for too long and makes it hard to understand its Historical Setting. Separating it would make one really see the difference between what is old and new; and the person of Christ as its Reality. (Col. 2: 14-17) Also, un-fusing it will help un-fuse the divisions, double mindedness and double standards found in our churches, and in society in general. Thus, we believe Revelation 16 verse 19 s symbolism refers to the Bible literally being in 3 parts. So we have taken it upon ourselves to separate the Bible literally into 3 Parts see photo below. By separating the Bible, it might break the power of these false authorities, which will lead to the collapse of all the unhealthy hierarchical establishments, specifically the Political, Legal and Religious establishments, which the majority of these institutions have humanity in bondage. The New International Version states, The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And the The Living Bible version says, The Great city of Babylon split into three sections, and cities around the world fell in heaps of rubble. Traditionally, Babylon represents false religions, so then, we would like to show the root and cause for false religions, which sadly has the world in slavery. (Heb. 2: 15/Gal. 5: 1/gal. 4: 3) One major mind gripping cause, for the world s bondage, comes from not reading the Bible in its Historical context, for example, one favorite text created by tradition and which has become dogma, comes from Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11, which states, It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists and some to be Pastors and teachers This previous Bible verse is frozen from real time, and thus freezes Christians from growing and maturing to their full potential. It s a verse that limits the full spectrum of responsibilities expected in each Christian s walk. We can t over emphasize what we have attested over this matter in the following paragraph from our document # 21 entitled He sets himself up in the house of God : However, we can t over emphasis the importance of having a pastor, especially at the beginning of a new fellowship of believers. But it will not end this way, if there is real spiritual growth among them. For example, when Jesus had his fellowship, he would always work towards building up the rest of his friends. (St. John 15: 14, 15) Even though he was first, because he had the information first (and they were all second which is similar to being last) he would make himself last, so, they could be first and be treated as first. (Matt 19: 30 & 20: 16) He held no information from them, which made them equal in status to him. His treatment of them, and especially his sharing of information with them, caused the Apostles to grow and mature in the knowledge of himself/christ. Ironically, Jesus passing of information to the Apostles mimics a mother cell passing its DNA information. It will create other mature and informed individuals such as the two new daughter cells, created by the process of mitosis. They in turn will pass their DNA information equally to two new cells, which in turn will also divide, and so on. Christianity began this way. If there was no sharing of information equally there would have been no early Christianity, just as there would be no body, if there were no sharing of information, in totality, by each cell of the body. But, with the esoteric development of the priesthood, Christianity fell from grace to a vertical and impersonal System of Law. This quenched the Holy Spirit of love, causing hell on earth for 2,000 years. Also, the office of the Clergy gives the Laity the idea that they are inferior to the clergy, and therefore, not as responsible as the clergy is to the body of Christ, nor to the community. It is another human excuse for not being truly human. (Rom. 2: 15/ The Living Bible version ) 2

3 We know of people, who have been in the church for years, and yet still turn to someone who has been designated by the system as their Pastor. This is a sign of a stifled spiritual growth. These people have to stop being comfortable and grow up by making their own informed decisions; for the Laity is suppose to end up as a Priests too. (1 st. Peter 2: 9 & Rev. 1: 6) They need to start relating to each other with fruits of the spirit. This shows that they have matured in all the horizontal aspects of the fruits of the spirit. (Gal. 5: 22) Also, the misunderstanding of Justification by Faith is another obstacle which has cased many to become Isolated Individuals as if they were an island. This is what we believe is alluded to by the 4 th symbolical event, that occurs from the 7 th Bowl of Revelation chapter 16 verse 20. But by splitting the Bible we want people to no longer be separated from their communities, but be united together embracing each other. This will create A New Horizontal Community or Heaven on Earth. (Rev. 16: 19, 20) (Rev. 21: 3, 22 & 22: 4) Here s an analogy: This will test your faith, for it may hit a sensitive nerve. Therefore, you better hold on to Jesus alone, and not some religious system. Generally speaking, for many the Bible is like a tool with various parts. In this case we ll parallel it to a computer. If you master the computer/bible, or make people think that you have, you can punch in the right keys/chapters-verses to create the right program/sermon which will make people believe and behave in the way you want them to. On the other hand, if you make people see the computer s/bible s faultiness like glitches, and that it is old and won t run certain programs, because some software and some hardware are obsolete, those who are controlled by it and those who would like to control others with it, would loose their power of authority and their ability to program/control others. For the hardware aspect, we ve gone a little further by dismantling the Bible/computer as the first steps in removing the veil that St. Paul speaks of in 2 nd Corinthians 3: 14. Also, it will remove the unapproachable spell and over idolized sacredness of the Bible, as if, it were equal to God. Consequently, we hope people will realize that the Bible can be approach as one would approach any other book/tool especially the New Testament, which contains basic letters and not books. Also, this would be like dissecting an object to see how it was made. Therefore, we hope this will free people from all religious systems/matrixes by not just unplugging them, but by disarming the very tool that enslaves them. (This should not come as a surprise, for God was doing the same thing when he ripped apart the temple curtain, showing that the Jewish system of laws, which specifically includes the 10 Commandments, had become obsolete/out of date Matt. 27: 51). 3

4 The 1 st part of our dissected Bible description above contains the obsolete Old Testament (Hew. 8: 13), the 2 nd contains Matthew through Acts, and the 3 rd part has the rest of the Epistles, which also has non applicable (hardware, software/information) for today. However, the True 3rd part, or final stage of human development, has yet to occur, for the only software applicable for all times, within the Bible, is Jesus Holy Spirit and his Kingdom of Heaven on Earth established by his (Sacred Command/Greatest1command) to Love Each Other as Jesus had loved us! (Matt. 6: 10) (2 Peter 2: 21/ 3: 2) (St. John 13: 34 & 15: 12) In addition, Revelation 16 verse 19 also states that God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. In Photo 7 of our document entitled The 7 Photos of the Antichrist/Beast/Matrix we stated: [It s good to imitate Jesus, but when such imitations are centered on the God of money, it becomes blasphemy. (Matt. 6: 24) Realize, since money rules the world, Revelation chapters could only be alluding to New York City and the New Stock Exchange, represented by the Statue of False Liberty.] Also we stated at the bottom of Photo 7: [ Terrified at her torment they will stand far off and cry: Woe Woe, O great city, Babylon, city of power! In one hour your doom has come. (Rev. 18: 10)] Also, we stated: [Revelation 18: 21 states, Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a millstone and threw it into the sea, and said, With such violence the great city will be thrown down, never to be found again. The angel was showing St. John how New York City will be destroyed. Throwing a large millstone in water will create a splash that will resemble a mushroom cloud. The reason people stand far off is because of Radiation!] Evermore, the 7 th Bowl is connected to Rev. 18: 2, which states, Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! This means that before the bomb, or asteroid, Money the world s God, will turn its back in the way humanity turned its back on the Kingdom of Heaven 1,900 years ago. Money will now go into its recession, just as humanity went into a recession from Faith and Love. Here s a segment from Document #7: Therefore, like the original John the Baptist, we too are not so much for giving money to organizations to help people. It is important and we will still do it, but money being the main medium for action, tends to become a way for people to buy their way into the Kingdom of Heaven. Also, Jesus said you cannot serve both God and money. (Matt. 6: 24) Money won t allow the kingdom to fully materialize on earth in the way God the Father and Jesus want. The poor widow, who gave from her heart, gave more than the rich, who gave from their pockets. (Mark 12: 41-44) So, we would rather have people give of themselves by actually getting their hands and feet dirty through participating one on one with others, which is what Heaven will end up being anyway. What Jesus wants till this day, is for people to interact with each other, without the transaction of money as a gobetween. Faith and Love alone should be the main motivator for interacting. There is a trade off with Jesus. And that trade off is that Jesus promised that if you do things, as he proscribes, he promises people won t age and won t die, in the here and now! It will take a lot of faith for one to believe in this immortality promised by Jesus. In the first place, Jesus said, If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever the Spirit of truth. (St. John 14: 15, 16, 17) That Holy Spirit that Jesus promises is what will keep your heart, lungs and the rest of your organs functioning throughout all eternity. This Holy Spirit will come when one decides to Obey Jesus, for it will produce the fruits of the Spirit that we all need. (Gal. 5: 22) What we mean is that people should still wake up each morning and go to their present occupation, not because they will receive money at the end of the day, but because it is the right and loving thing to do. The milk man should still deliver the milk, the truck driver should still drive the truck, the doctor should still see after the patients, and the lawn maintenance man should still mow the grass, etc, etc, etc...; and if you do these things we promise you according to Jesus you will not die, in this generation! This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ which he preached in his immediate generation. But unfortunately, that generation and all 4

5 the proceeding generations, which have also died, evidently didn t believe strongly enough to be alive till this day. Moreover, the intermediating Institution of Pastors and Priests is the root of, or shall we say, the cause for the system of currency and the Present Global Crisis facing our world today. We haven t mentioned this much in our other documents, but, the Moslem s Priest/Pastor is called an Imam. Keep in mind they are included as part of the Institution of Pastors and Priest, for they in principle, have the same function. In fact, the Koran, their bible, has many passages from the Jewish Old Testament, which makes them as we once wrote an off shoot of Judaism and Christianity. If you remove the intermediation of Pastors, Priests and Imams (or in other words the go-between the people and God) you leave people on one to one bases with God. This creates a stronger connection to God, which for many will lead to a stronger faith and love not just for God, but for humanity too. Then in time, faith will lead the faithful to pose the question, Why then should we use a currency? However, we are not against the priesthood, for we know the immature need one as we stated previously in this essay, but as the following verses show, Christ is our only priest until one matures attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ; and then one will become a priest also. (Eph. 4: 13) The letter of Hebrews is about the priesthood and it states that Jesus is our, once and for all, our High Priest. (Heb. 4: 14) Also, Jesus said in Matt. 23: 10, Nor are you to be called teacher, for you have one Teacher, the Christ. And, Jeremiah 31: 34 was speaking of his future at Jesus first appearance, which is to be applied to our present; he stated, No longer will a man teach his neighbor In addition, St. Peter wrote in 1 st Peter 2: 5, 9 that all believers are a chosen people and are a royal priesthood. Therefore, as it states in Hebrews 4: 16, Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence; and we shall add: Approach without the intermediation of another person on your behalf, for the Protestant s system of the Pastors is just as Anti-Christ, as is the Catholic s along with Islamism s system of Priests. (2 Thess. 2: 1-12) A church we attend favors the New International Version translation of the Bible (also our favorite). It is a completely new translation of the Holy Bible made by over a hundred scholars directly from the best available Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek Texts. It had its beginning in 1965 and it was trans-denominational. Its conclusion was endorsed by a large number of leaders from many denominations, who met in Chicago in Therefore, one can safely say, this translation is a good plain English translation which can be trusted. There s no need for the laity to know Greek or Hebrew with this translation. However, when we attended one of their Bible study with their prominent church leader, they almost always change the obvious meaning of the text, to what their head Pastors allegedly states is the correct translation as he sees it in the Greek. Five centuries ago no one could understand the Bible unless they knew Latin as did the church leaders. Are we now going backwards to be enslaved again by the church, because we don t know Greek? It was the Latin Vulgate Bible back then, but will it now be called the Greek Vulgate? We believe very much that God guided the scholars who created the New International Version in 1965 & 1966, so there is no need to bring up the Greek so much. It is only because, for lack of faith in Christ Alone that this church s leadership (like many other churches) wants to procure theirs and their members, salvation. Unfortunately, then end up procuring more then their salvation, but also the minds, full of church traditions. Two thousand years ago, people knew Greek fluently, and yet they won t be saved nor did they receive the Holy Spirit. Today is no different. In addition, Jesus stated in Matthew 11: 12, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. And, in Luke 11 verse 52 Jesus finishes his six woes against the Pharisee, which are the equivalent to modern day Pastors and Priests, with this statement: Woe to you experts in the law/bible because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering. We ve seen people, who through the Holy Spirit (and with a plain and simple English translation of the bible) grasp the simple Gospel of Jesus, but loose it within in moments when they turned to these so-called Bible specialists, who gave their interpretation, contrary, to what was initially sown by the Holy Spirit in people. Does the Holy Spirit come just to those who know the perfect language of the Judeo-Christian Bible? No, the Holy Spirit is given to people by God, when one hears and does as Jesus said to do, regardless of any written information from any language. The Institutions of Pastors and Priest produce forceful individuals and are as we alluded in one of our documents: the last hindrance towards having heaven on earth. It s been like this for 1,900 years, even till this day, they are still a hindrance. We agree with Robert D. 5

6 Brinsmead s assertion, taken from his essay entitled, The Gospel and the Spirit of Biblicism-1984 and which could be found in CD 1 at the bottom of the Home page at Greatest1command.com: Throughout the New Testament the Word or the Word of God refers to the orally transmitted gospel (e.g., Acts 4:29; 6:4; 10:44; 13:5, 44, 48; 18:11; Rom.10:5-17; 1 Thess. 1:6; 2 Thess. 3:1; 1 Pet. 1:23). Especially in Paul the orally proclaimed gospel is a synonym for the Word or Word of God. Werner H. Kelber summarizes the New Testament data as follows: The master metaphor of the apostle s entire program is gospel. He employs the term approximately fifty times, more than any other author in the New Testament, and places it into predominantly auditory contexts. The gospel is commonly linked with verbs or nouns denoting the act of speaking. It is preached, spoken, announced, proclaimed (euaggelizesthai, lalein, kataggelein, keryssein), and a matter of confirmation, confession, defense, and participation (bebaiosis, homologia, apologia, koinönia). In Paul s view, the gospel was promised in advance by the prophets in Scripture (Rom. 1:1-2) but was not in itself a scriptural authority. It is constitutionally and operationally defined in oral terms, not by association with writing and reading. Although Paul does, of course, commit the gospel, or reflections upon it, to letters, his written exposition leaves no doubt that the gospel, when it came alive, was spoken aloud and, if it is to bring life again, must be sounded afresh. Clearly, the writing of a gospel after the manner of Mark is foreign to Paul. The gospel he writes about bears the indelible imprint, or more accurately, echoes the voiceprints of an oral authority. The oral quality of gospel is corroborated by the fact that logos or logos tou theou can serve as synonyms for gospel in Pauline language. The Thessalonians have received the Word (1 Thess. 1:6), the Corinthians heard the unadulterated Word of God (2 Cor. 2:17; 4:2; 1 Cor. 14:36), the Galatians were taught the Word (Gal. 6:6), and the Philippians spoke the Word of God (Phil. 1:14). Gerhard Kittel has stressed the activist character of logos with a seriousness rarely encountered in Pauline scholarship: In all this the logos is always genuine legein, or spoken word in all concreteness. One of the most serious errors of which one could be guilty would be to make this logos tou theou a concept or abstraction. As a rule, the Pauline reference to logos or logos tou theou is to the living, preached word of the gospel. 15 Just as the Word of God was once spoken by prophets upon whom the Spirit of God rested, so now it is spoken by Christian prophets who have the gift of prophecy (1Cor. 14:1: cf. esp. 1Cor. 14:24, 25 with Heb. 4:12, 13). The bearers of Christ s gospel are not just bearers of mere information and theological ideas. They are bearers of the Spirit the life, power and presence of Jesus, the living Word. The gospel in the mouth of the living Christian prophet is the vehicle to convey the Spirit the life, power and presence of Jesus to those who hear (Acts 10:44; Rom. 10:17: 1 Cor. 2:4: Gal. 3:2; 1 Pet. 1:12). Those who receive this living Word receive not just information but the living Christ, who is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18). They believe in their hearts that Christ is raised from the dead (Rom. 10:9). Their deep conviction and firm assurance (1Thess. 1:5) of the resurrection does not rest on the apostolic testimony alone. 6

7 No amount of historical evidences of the resurrection can place the issue beyond all doubt. But in the gospel the resurrected One is present to manifest himself in a way which confirms the apostolic testimony (John 14:18, 21; 16:16: Rom. 8:16). The hearer of the gospel is like the men of Samaria who said to the woman at the well, It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world (John 4:42). Therefore, the only hope we have is for humanity to repent and begin to relate towards each other; without the intermediation of money, which results in the formation of the intermediation of Pastors, Priests and Imams, for God, like he did for the city of Nineveh, will relent. (Jonah 3: 9) (Luke 11: 32) If not, God will remove these obstacles Money, all religious Clergies on his own, which is what has begun happening with money in 2008 (Rev. 16: 6, 7) and soon will begin to happen to the Institution of Pastors, Priests and Imams. In conclusion, by showing everything that The 2 Olive Trees CDs and our affiliated web pages have to offer the world, we hope it will hit people as if it were 80 to 100 pounds of information, or as Rev. 16: 21 has it: 100 pounds of hail. Jesus stated in St. John 15: 15, for everything that I learned from my father I have made known to you. Therefore, if we have finally shared with the world what we have learned from God, and we think we have, we would like to state simultaneously with the throne of God, It is done (Rev. 16: 17). Note: Please see: Justification by Faith Re-Examined, Jesus and the Law and The Historical Method by Robert D. Brinsmead, these are in CD 1 at the bottom of the Home page at Greatest1command.com. All our videos are also on-line. Please start with: 7