From: allan-sv@algonet.se   
      
             Establishment of Churches, a Fatal Mistake   
                    and a Sabotage Against the Revival   
      
      
   A revival from God involves confrontation against the churches and   
   the false priesthood. As a natural consequence of the revival, many   
   members leave the churches, or be expelled from there. God wants   
   to release his people from the religious harlot-being, and lead us out   
   to freedom, outside the religious camp. Hebr. 13:13.   
      
   When God has sent a revival the revival has been most powerful   
   just at the beginning. Then it has been stagnation and retrogression.   
   And not a single one of those revival-movements or Free-Churches   
   which have come into existence, has ever recovered the original   
   power.   
      
   When God has sent a new revival, then a very remarkable   
   phenomenon appears. The old preachers and Christian leaders,   
   which God has used at the previous revival, they are opponents   
   of a new revival from God. Old revival-preachers who have   
   conveyed God's revival-message, how can they some decades   
   later, were opponents of a new revival? They ought to be the   
   first to welcome the new revival!   
      
   The explanation is that they in the previous revival did not combat   
   the harlot-church as they ought to do. Indulgence towards the   
   religious harlot-being led to that the revival-preachers could not   
   release themselves from its false doctrine.   
      
   The majority of the Christians have not yet understood what the   
   devil was doing in the revival of ancient times when the Free-   
   Churches were founded. In spite of the revival that the Christians   
   experienced, they were so blind that they did not observe that the   
   devil laid a foundation to a new church system right in the middle   
   of the revival.   
      
   The establishment of churches and denominations was a fateful   
   mistake. The Christians did not break entirely against the religious   
   harlot-being. They did not remove all Catholicism from their own   
   activity. They kept some parts of the Catholicism and that ruined   
   the revival from the inside. It is through the false doctrine of the   
   Catholic Church that the devil has been able to ruin the one revival   
   after the other. Where it is a false doctrine, there are also evil spirits   
   active to put the Christians to sleep, and to hinder them from study   
   of the Bible.   
      
   This is the reason to stagnation and retrogression of the revival, and   
   that new churches and denominations have been established. Instead   
   of combat and unmask the religious harlot-being, the Christian began   
   to establish new church system. And now the Free-Churches seek   
   fellowship with both the Lutheran Church and the Catholic Church   
   and its false priesthood against which the old revival-pioneers   
   fought! The Free-Churches is also parts of the religious   
   harlot-being.   
      
   So it was when Martin Luther began to preach justification by   
   faith, and condemned the letters of indulgence. He broke only   
   partially against the Catholic Church's doctrine, and he kept a   
   great deal of the Catholicism. He despised Christians who   
   received the Christian baptism, and the Lutheran Church is very   
   Catholic.   
      
   So it was when the Baptist Church was established in the 19th   
   century. Though they understood the truth of baptism and   
   condemned the so-called infant baptism, they yet kept a part of   
   the Catholicism. And when they established the Baptist Church,   
   they did not follow the teaching of the Bible. Their idea of   
   establishing Baptist churches the Baptists got from the false   
   assembly-doctrine of the Catholicism.   
      
   When God's word was preached and people were saved and   
   baptized, then the great whore was furious and persecuted God's   
   people, but she did not hate the new church. It only seemed so.   
   She hated the revival and by the new Baptist churches she had   
   got a foothold within the revival, and could combat the revival   
   from the inside.   
      
   The Catholic harlot-spirit was within the Baptist churches and   
   there that spirit executed ruinous work. Soon the revival was   
   subdued and the preaching lost its saltiness. According as the   
   revival became weaker, the churches took over the leadership   
   of the Christian activity.   
      
   While the fire of revival burnt within the Free-Churches it   
   seemed as the great whore hated these churches, but in the reality   
   they were her tools and executed sabotage against the revival.   
   And now, when the fire of revival has ceased, then the Catholic   
   Church can cooperate with these Free-Churches, and in the reality   
   the Catholic harlot-spirit has been within the Free-Churches all   
   the time and has cooperated with the great whore.   
   When God, in the beginning of the 20th century, sent a new   
   revival preaching about the baptism by the Holy Spirit and   
   spiritual gifts of grace, then the Baptist union was against this   
   revival. Here we can see how the devil through his false   
   assembly-doctrine could throw dust in the eyes of the Baptists.   
   They thought that their own churches were assemblies of God,   
   and that the revival was a false doctrine that they ought to   
   combat.   
      
   After that, the devil used the same trick to ruin the new revival.   
   After some modification, the Pentecostalists accepted the same   
   false assembly-doctrine that they had in the churches. They meant   
   that they had a free assembly-view and independent assemblies,   
   but in the practice they yet became centrally controlled.   
      
   Allan Svensson   
      
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