Just think!! of how much organized churches have changed since Christ established The Way, the first church denomination. Those first churches recognized Jewish synagogues, even, as worshiping the same God they worshiped. They were small groups of people very interested in each other's welfare. They had no doubt that their eternal life was more important that their fleshly life. They would freely die for their faith.
It took 300 years of men's leadership rather than the Lord's leadership to change the church to the additions to scripture that men have given it. With the wars that Rome waged against the Jews during those years the Jews were killed off so blood ran in the streets. Before that, Christian Jews led the Christian Church, some even keeping the Jewish rituals. They knew scripture thoroughly, they considered it true scripture. The gentiles knew little about the one true God that scripture teaches, they created a church without the study of God's ways that the scripture of that tine would have given them.
True Christians make sure that their studies are not of men's doctrine but keep strictly to scripture. They even look carefully to each "Jewish" rituals to be sure it is God's way to eliminate them and not men's idea. The gentiles who took over leadership of the Christian church not only had little knowledge of scripture, but they had been children raised to idol worship so holidays to them were such as the winter solstice and springtime rites. They Christianized them rather than change to God's ways.
It took 300 years of men's leadership rather than the Lord's leadership to change the church to the additions to scripture that men have given it. With the wars that Rome waged against the Jews during those years the Jews were killed off so blood ran in the streets. Before that, Christian Jews led the Christian Church, some even keeping the Jewish rituals. They knew scripture thoroughly, they considered it true scripture. The gentiles knew little about the one true God that scripture teaches, they created a church without the study of God's ways that the scripture of that tine would have given them.
True Christians make sure that their studies are not of men's doctrine but keep strictly to scripture. They even look carefully to each "Jewish" rituals to be sure it is God's way to eliminate them and not men's idea. The gentiles who took over leadership of the Christian church not only had little knowledge of scripture, but they had been children raised to idol worship so holidays to them were such as the winter solstice and springtime rites. They Christianized them rather than change to God's ways.
“And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.”
Ezekiel 13:1-4
some won’t see this but you know the wormwood in revelation that’s poured out and causes many to die because the waters are poison ?
It’s a spirit false prophecy that began in Jerusalem
“I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness:
they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.”
Jeremiah 23:14-15 KJV
“And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Who is the wise man, that may understand this?
and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.”
Jeremiah 9:1, 11-16
that’s the ot but the nt ups follow the same pattern the false doctrine is a bitter waters it’s poison to
Mans faith and soul
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”
2 Peter 2:1-2 KJV
God set the law before Israel and their leaders eventually led them astray. Telling them not the things in the law , but that thier sins were ok they were chosen and God was merciful they had forsaken Gods call of repentance
so he fed the people who desired the false doctrine with the doctrine they craved and it caused them to die spiritually . Based on the fact that they all rejected the law and had heard it every year but they chose the other waters the bitter ones rather than Gods living water
“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
John 7:38 KJV
Jesus doctrine is the truth that comes out of all of those confusing ideas and lies he always had his own prophets calling for repentance but Jerusalem chose the serpents words again over his
the church is foretold to eventually do this and bring the world to an end as Jerusalem was laid low