SATAN'S SALVATION ON GOD'S PULPITS

Uchemadu Chée Kamanu

• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781644689677
• eBook ISBN: 9781644689684
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

Some preachers are tares; some preachers are wheat. Tares and wheat will grow together until harvest time (Matthew 13: 24-30). We shall know them by the fruits of their lips. This book shows, with Bible-based analytical details, how to know and disregard their false messages. Every teaching in Christian scripture, written by men, is inspired by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1: 21). There is a passage of scripture written by God himself. This passage is under attack by an agency of the devil, who "thinks to change times and laws" (Daniel 7: 25). Satan gave this agent "his power, his seat, and great authority" (Revelation 13: 2). This book shows with Bible-based analytical details and church history, who this Satan's agent is, and how his ministers disguise themselves (2 Corinthians 11: 14, 15). They all preach Satan's salvation on God's pulpits. They can be found planted by Satan, in every good or bad church, since tares and wheat will grow together until harvest time. What about the heaven bound 144, 000 followers of Jesus Christ? The clear scriptures show who they are-no private interpretation! We show the calculation from Bible data, the historicity of the pre-flood world, Noah's ark, and how they could have been communicated directly by Noah and Shem, twenty years into the life of Jacob, who later lived in Egypt, in Africa. We can see where Cain could have gotten his wife.The truth shall prevail and keep us unspotted by false preachers and their smooth talking. We should find out how these deceitful agents try to envelop us and avoid their deceptions. By God's grace, we can avoid their deceptions or confusion! We wish to see you in heaven; please wish us the same.

Chapter 1

Satan’s Salvation on God’s Pulpits

God loves us unconditionally, but he saves us conditionally (John 3:16). Jesus “is the propitiation” “for the sins of the whole world” (1 John 2:2), yet only some will be saved: he gave “his life a ransom for many” (Matt. 20:28; Mark 10:45). Is Jesus partial? No! Does it mean that both the Savior and the sinner have parts to play for the sinner to be saved? If Jesus, and Jesus alone, has a part to play, then Jesus has to be blamed if any sinner is not saved! If the blame will go to the sinner, then the sinner has a part to play. The sinner can be forgiven and cleaned from his past sins (Rom. 3:25), if he plays his part, yet he can backslide into new sins requiring new repentance and forgiveness. We are not saved until we are glorified (Phil. 3:20, 21; Rom. 8:30, 17), and “enter through the gates into” heaven, for “blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie” (Rev. 22:14, 15; 21:6–8).

In the above quotation from the newest book of the New Testament, in the last two chapters, Jesus, who saves us by his grace, says that doing God’s commandments is a prerequisite for being saved into heaven. Saying something in opposition to this will be in advancement of the purpose of “seducing spirits and doctrines of devils” (1 Tim. 4:1). The devil taught Eve this doctrine: “Ye shall not surely die” (Gen. 3:4), when God said, “Thou shalt surely die” (Gen. 2:17). Today, the devil and his henchmen still “make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Rev. 12:17).

Remember, the devil has his own churches too (Rev. 2:9; 3:9), preaching Jesus, but doing the will of the deceiver, Satan. Satan, even in good churches, has his own “ministers” (2 Cor. 11:13–15). Beware! We should not be “carried about with every wind of doctrine” (Eph. 4:14).

Since we are not saved until we are glorified into the kingdom of God, those who teach that we have to be saved before we can obey the commandments of God mean that we can only begin to keep the commandments of God after entering God’s kingdom. This is Satan’s salvation story capable of keeping his believers out of God’s kingdom, for outside the gates are law breakers (Rev. 22:15; 21:8). The devil also wants to make people so lawless on earth that the earth will be completely under his devilish control and uninhabitable.

The part our Savior, Jesus Christ, played is not the means for separating people into heaven or hellfire because he did it for everybody: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John. 3:16; Rev. 22:17). “Whosoever believeth in him” is he who does God’s will. We shall be separated into eternal life or eternal death on account of what we have done. “Not everyone that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven…depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Matt. 21:7). Jesus, who saves some, by his grace, says that he will reward us according to our works: “And behold I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be” (Rev. 22:12). “The dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works” (Rev. 20:12); not according to the grace they received. Some will be saved by grace, but all will be judged by works. Some will not be saved because grace is selectively given: “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble” (Jas. 4:6; Pro. 28:13; 1 Pet. 5:5). The proud are unrepentant transgressors of God’s law; the humble are those who “confesseth and forsaketh” their sins (Pro. 28:13), for “sin is the transgression of the law” (1 John 3:4).

The standard for our separation into heaven or hellfire is the Ten Commandments: “we shall be judged by the law of liberty” (Jas. 2:12; 1:25). “Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” The basis for determining who loves Jesus is in keeping the Commandments: Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15, 21). The basis for determining who loves God is in keeping his commandments: God, within the Ten Commandments, wrote: “Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments” (Exo. 20:6). The basis for Jesus’s selective salvation is this obedience: “He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him” (Heb. 5:9; Acts 5:32; Ps. 50:23).

Prerequisites for Salvation

Some of the prerequisites for salvation are faith, confession, repentance (the first step in keeping God’s commandments), humility, thirst for righteousness, and prayer for forgiveness and grace. Just as grace is free, all the other prerequisites for salvation are free also. They cost no penny. Scholarships may be free, but there may be qualifying factors to meet and forms to fill. A difference is that qualifying factors and the filling of application take time, but the prerequisites for salvation can be met by anybody instantly, as in the case of the saved thief on the cross beside Jesus’s cross. A case study of the two thieves on the cross might help us here.

The “Good” Thief on the Cross

Two thieves were hanging on two crosses by the sides of Jesus. One thief was saved, but the other was not (Luke 23:32, 39–43). It is either that Jesus was partial or that one thief satisfied the prerequisites for salvation, but the other did not.

The saved thief showed faith in Jesus. It takes a great faith to believe that the seemingly powerless Jesus, who was hanging to die on the cross as he, could save him into his kingdom. “He said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom” (Luke 23:42). His faith pleased God (Heb. 11:6) hence, “Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee today, thou shalt be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). Jesus said, “In my Father’s house are many mansions…I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:2–3). When Jesus comes again, he will receive this redeemed thief, along with other faithful ones together (Heb. 11:39, 40; 1 Thess. 4:16, 17), into paradise.

The saved thief showed repentance when he rebuked the other thief who “railed on” Jesus. He rebuked him saying, “Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this man hath done nothing amiss” (Luke 23:40, 41). “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). He confessed, and he was forgiven and cleansed instantly.

Repentance is turning away from sin; that is, turning away from the transgression of God’s law, for “sin is the transgression of the law” (1 John 3:4). Any time we turn away from transgressing the law, instantly we have become obedient to God’s commandments, in our hearts. As transgression begins in the heart (Matt. 5:28; 15:19), obedience begins in the heart also (Matt. 12:35). He was a thief, but on the cross the saved thief stopped being a thief “in his heart.” In the same instant therefore, he became a commandment keeper “in his heart,” as Paul said: “With the mind I, myself, serve the law of God” (Rom. 7:25). “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness” (Rom. 10:10). Jesus cleansed him. He became “pure in heart,” and “blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Matt. 5:8). The other thief was not blessed like this. Through repentance, the good thief started to keep God’s commandments, in his heart, before Jesus saved him, for “blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city” (Rev. 22:14).

The saved thief showed humility when he confessed: “For we received the due reward of our deeds” whereas the other thief proudly “railed on” Jesus (Luke 23:41, 39). The saved thief called Jesus “Lord” (verse 42). “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble” (Jas. 4:6). He received the grace of eternal life (Luke 23:43) instantly.

The saved thief thirsted for righteousness, when he took some time, not minding his painful cross, to confess his sins and to ask for the reward of the righteous (Luke 23:41, 42). “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled” (Matt. 5:6). He was filled instantly (Luke 23:43).

The saved thief prayed for grace when he said, “Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom” (Luke 23:42). “If we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us” (1 John 5:14). Jesus granted his prayer instantly (Luke 23:43) because he met the sinner’s prerequisites for salvation.

This good thief even witnessed of the goodness of Jesus (Luke 23:40–42), to the crowd which gathered: some to kill; some to mourn Jesus. He became an instant evangelist, witnessing “in and out of season” by all the words he spoke on the cross, before he died!

Unlearning the Doctrines of Devils and Seducing Spirits (1 Tim. 4:1)

The whole world is disobedient to God’s commandments, for “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). If we are to be saved by Jesus before we obey, but not when we have started obeying, through repentance, and we lift out of context and quote Philippians 2:13 to support this, it means that the whole sinful world will be saved, since by this feeling, man has no contribution to make. Some speakers lift and quote: “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Phil. 2:13) and conclude that sinners have no part to play. Then Jesus will be held responsible if anyone is not saved! When we read this same Phil. 2:13 anchored in the context within verses 12–15, the truth emerges: Paul was talking to those who were already obedient. He was addressing the part they play in salvation and the part Jesus plays: “As ye have always obeyed…work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless” (Phil. 2:12–15).

Note, from this scripture, we have to do our part, to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” before God steps in to do his part, who “worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” We must make a break from sin, by repentant confession and forsaking of sin (Pro. 28:13; 1 John 1:9) at least, before God steps in to work personally to cleanse us from “sins that are passed” (Rom. 3:25). God’s requirements before he saves us are couched in his word: “If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin” (2 Chr. 7:14).

From this scripture, God expects his people to humble themselves, to pray, to seek his face, and to turn from their wicked ways, before he would listen and forgive their sin. God states the prerequisites on our part before he forgives us as: humility, prayer, to seek him, and repentance (“to turn from their wicked ways”). God will not do these for us. A “doctrine of devils” states that the sinner has no part to play that Jesus has done it all, but Jesus and his Father, who save us by their grace, say the sinner has parts to play. Who should we believe? The do-nothing salvation speakers also use the scripture, “He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil. 1:6).

Yes! Jesus will “perform” his part. We still have our part to perform as verse 10 tells us: “That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ” (Phil. 1:10). That is, we must perform these parts until “the day of Christ” when the redeemed, who “overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end” (Rev. 2:26), will be glorified. This do-nothing salvation is one of the devil’s weapons of mass destruction for sweeping away nominal and do-nothing Christians, into perdition. Such Christians listen without searching for the truth in the scriptures. Those who have the love of the truth would study the Bible and be armed with the sword of the Spirit against the wiles of the devil (Eph. 6:11–18). Another scripture they lift out of context is: “For by grace are we saved through faith…not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works” (Eph. 2:8–10). In this scripture, faith comes before grace is given. Everybody is given a measure of faith: “God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith” (Rom. 12:3). “Every man” already has “the measure of faith” to exercise, before grace is selectively given to those who exercise the faith. Jesus would not exercise this faith for man. This is also a part man plays. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom. 10:17). When we hear the word of God and do his will, this is faith. “Faith without works is dead” (Jas. 2:26). The theoretical definition of faith in Hebrews 11 is “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb. 11:1). Looking at Hebrews 11 still, we find out that the faithful people presented there, are not idle people who knew this intellectual definition only, but those who did the will of God, in spite of all odds! Therefore, we can define faith in practical terms as, the doing of God’s will in spite of all circumstances. The “good thief,” through repentance, did God’s will in spite of his cross, showing in his heart, that he was “created in Christ Jesus unto good works” (Eph. 2:10) “meet for repentance” (Acts 26:20). God saw the repentance of the people of Nineveh as good works: “And God saw their works that they turned from their evil way” (Jonah 2:10). Here, God lets us know that turning “from their evil way” was “work”—good work. “Work” here refers to the moral issues for which we were created: “Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man” (Eccl. 12:13). “Not of works lest any man should boast” in Ephesians (Eph. 2:9), points to works of the law of temple sacrifices “written in the book of the law” (Gal. 3:10, 19–27; 2:16–18, 21). God’s grace does not require these sacrificial works any more, after Jesus’s sacrifice o...

Table of contents

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• About the Author