The End Time Church: From the Cathedrals to the Catacombs

By Dan L. White

Copyright 2021 by Dan L. White, all rights reserved.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (WEB) which is in the public domain.

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Chapter 100

The Difference Between Christ’s Flock and Satan’s Mob

The time has come for Satan to attack.

Not that the devil hasn’t been, but now the attacks are getting worse and worse. This is the end time, the last chapter of Satan’s world. Satan’s time is short, like a drowning rat running out of air, a desperate devil.

Rev 12 (WEB)
17) The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God’s commandments and hold Yeshua’s testimony.

How will Satan attack us? What will Satan try to get us to do?

The answer?

Same as always.

Satan will try to get you to break God’s Commandments, by getting you to think it’s good to break them.

Just as Satan told Eve. ‘Go ahead and do what God told you not to do. It’s all right. You won’t die.’

Poor Eve. It was just a juicy fruit, one of many in the garden, but different than the rest. Perhaps she only ate a little bit, maybe just a tiny bite, and it did taste good. So what’s the big deal?

The big deal was that Eve followed another god – Satan. She broke Commandment number 1 – “You shall have no other gods before me,” Exodus 20:3; and that also broke the first of the two great commandments – “you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might,” Deuteronomy 6:5.

That was it. That was all. Eve and Adam’s seemingly simple act derailed the human race: “So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; …through one man’s disobedience many were made sinners… Rom 5:18 ,19.

Who would have done what Yahweh did? Who would have embarrassed the first two people for being stark naked, then kicked them out of the luscious garden into the briers of the world, and sentenced them both to death, along with all their progeny, just for eating that one fruit?

Few would really agree with what Yahweh did. Most people would agree with Satan, thinking that what Eve did wasn’t that big a deal.

Did God overreact? Eve only ate a delicious fruit, to gain wisdom, to better herself, to find “self-fulfillment.”

But the fact that this one act condemned the whole human race to death shows how important it is not to overrule God, even if you mean well. Notice this from the Ten Commandments.

10^th commandment – don’t covet.
9^th – Don’t bear false witness.
8^th – Don’t steal.
7^th – Don’t commit adultery.
6^th – Don’t kill.
5^th – Honor your father and mother.
4^th – Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
3^rd – Don’t make the name Yahweh useless.
2^nd – Don’t create idols.
1^st – Don’t worship any other gods.

Those Commandments have an order, from less serious to most serious. The order of the Ten Commandments shows how important it is not to overrule God, even when you mean well. To follow another god is the most serious mistake you can make.

When Eve listened to Satan and ate the forbidden fruit, she overruled God. She considered what He said, she considered what Satan said, she considered what she thought, and in her very best judgment she overruled God. That broke the first Commandment.

With her wisdom, Eve could have sat on the US Supreme Court.

Eve and Adam directly disobeyed Yahweh, and that first sin condemned the whole human race to death. That’s how important overruling God is, even if you mean well.

In the very last days – and all the days before that – the difference between Christ’s flock and Satan’s mob is the same as the difference between Yeshua and Satan.

What is that difference?

Christ obeys the Ten Commandments.

Satan breaks them. And like their father, Satan’s mob overrules Yahweh God. Because they know better than Him.

Christ’s end time flock, like the first flock, is a bunch of Commandment keepers.

Rev 14:12 (International Standard Version)
12) Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and hold fast to their faithfulness in Yeshua:

Rev 22:12-15 (WEB)
12) “Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
13) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
14) Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
15) Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

In other words, outside are those who break the commandments, the sexually immoral, murderers, idolaters, those who do falsehood.

Christ’s flock, at the end time, is a bunch of commandment keepers, just like the first flock was.

Satan does not present itself as the dark devil. Satan did not go up to Eve and shout, ‘Hi. I’m the devil. Follow me and join the party.’

Satan comes across as an angel of light who brings new truth. ‘Hi. I’m Heylel the Light Bringer. Yahweh lied to you. You won’t surely die.’

Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote,

How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.

Satan’s followers think they’re doing good. How does the fallen angel trick them to get them to do that?

Let me count the ways.

1. First, Satan deceives people with the teaching that Yahweh does not exist. If Yahweh doesn’t exist, then His Commandments don’t exist. You can’t break what doesn’t exist.

So who believes this?

Most of the people who have an “advanced” education.

Their advanced education indoctrinates them to believe that all of creation was created without a Creator, the faith of evolution. This faith is completely without basis in observed fact; it is only a theory, totally lacking in evidence. No one has ever observed life coming from nothing alive. No one has been able to create life from non-living material, despite setting up the most favorable elements in scientific experiments. Louis Pasteur flat out disproved spontaneous generation or life coming from nothing alive. In spite of that, evolutionists still believe in spontaneous generation, that life came from nothing alive.

This evolutionist faith is taught in most government schools around the world. The foundational belief of this faith is that Yahweh does not exist and there are no Ten Commandments. Each person can act as his own god, setting his own commandments of right and wrong.

“…you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil,” Satan said.

Amazingly, even many people who call themselves Christian believe this evolution faith. They believe that God exists while at the same time, they believe He doesn’t exist. This may be the most convoluted, confounding and confused belief of all, the simultaneous belief that God is and isn’t.

Much of the world rejects Yahweh as Creator and throws His Ten Commandments out with the mythological garbage. This is particularly true for the most “advanced” nations of the world.

1Cor 1:26-27 (WEB)
26) For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
27) but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

Again, how does Satan get people to follow it while thinking they’re doing good?

2. Second, Satan deceives followers with the belief that God does exist and the Bible is His word, but in His great mercy He gave His Son to destroy God’s Ten Commandments.

Here is a typical Christian view of the Ten Commandments.

[T]he Ten Commandments are no longer in effect today. The Ten Commandments were written on two tables of stone and given to the Jews at Mount Sinai when they came out of Egypt (Exodus 20:3-17). These commandments were a part of the Law of Moses and the covenant that God made with the Jews- the Jews would keep the commandments, and God would make the Jews His special people (Exodus 19:5). The law of Moses, including the Ten Commandments, was “nailed to the cross” with Christ.
https://www.timberlandchurch.org/articles/are-we-under-the-ten-commandments-today

In reality, the teaching of “Grace destroys law” means that with grace, there is no law – the Ten Commandments are destroyed. Christian theologians often say that nine of the ten are reestablished in the New Testament, but that contradicts James’ statement that breaking one is breaking them all. If you’re 90% obedient, you’re 100% disobedient.

The reality of the ‘grace not law religion’ is that the Ten Commandments are almost wholly ignored by almost all the Christian religion.

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