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              Evil spirits in the churches   
      
      
   Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the   
   habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit,   
   and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Rev. 18:2.   
      
   Of this we understand that there are many evil spirits in the   
   churches. What do the evil spirits do in the churches? What   
   are they doing? They are keeping people bound by false   
   doctrines and hinder them to understand God's word. The   
   principalities of evil spirits hold the Christians bound to   
   Satan's false doctrine about the Assembly of God. This has   
   been going on since the great Apostasy happened a very   
   long time ago, when the first churches come into existence.   
   2 Thess. 2:3.   
      
   The churches keep the Christians in captivity and slavery.   
   The churches have persecuted and murdered millions of   
   Christians. Yet, people believe that the churches are from   
   God.   
      
   What we can read in the Bible about the Assembly of God,   
   it gives no hint of that the Assembly of God is any church   
   system, or that the church buildings are temples of God,   
   neither that the Assembly of God is any organized movement.   
      
   On the time of the apostles any church did not exist. Therefore,   
   the word "church" does not occur in the Bible. In English   
   translations of the Bible they have written "church" instead   
   of "assembly". This is a very grave translation error. The   
   translators do not see the difference between the murderer   
   and the victims for the murderer. The biblical name of the   
   church is "the great whore" and "Babylon the great".   
      
   Then this question appears: What are the churches? How have   
   they come into existence? New churches and denominations   
   used to appear in connections with a revival. When God sends,   
   a revival and any "new" biblical truth begin to be preached,   
   then it will be divergence and conflict. Some people welcome   
   the revival and want to have more knowledge of God's word.   
   Others are against the revival and do not want to have any   
   "modernity". They believe that their church is the Assembly   
   of God and they do not want to be disturbed of any revival   
   message of the Lord.   
      
   Those who loved God's word and want to preach the truths   
   of the Bible, they must leave church where they had been   
   members. Some members became expelled from churches and   
   denominations because of their belief in Jesus and for they   
   want to have more of God's word. So it was when the truth   
   of the baptism by the Holy Spirit began to be preached in the   
   beginning of 1900s. Tough they understood and preached only   
   a part of this truth, it produced a powerful revival. It began in   
   Los Angeles and was spread out above the whole world.   
      
   The revival message became very abridged. They were   
   speaking so much about the gift to speaking with tongues,   
   as if this were the whole revival message. They thought,   
   now we have got the entire gospel of God as it was on the   
   time of the apostles. Yet, there were more truths in the Bible!   
   If they had really understood the truth of the baptism by the   
   Holy Spirit, then they had not established any Pentecostal   
   churches.   
      
   What did destroy the revival? It was Satan's false assembly   
   doctrine and idolatry! Already at the beginning of the revival,   
   they began to use Satan's false assembly doctrine in the new   
   revival. Instead of having care of the Assembly of God, the   
   Body of Christ, they began to build up a new church system.   
   And still after a hundred years, they believe on this false   
   doctrine about the Assembly of God. The expression   
   "Pentecostal Revival" has been used as an idolatry name.   
      
   Just because of that the Pentecostal churches came into   
   existence about a revival from God, people believe that these   
   churches are Assemblies of God. They do not know that this   
   establishing of churches, and the expression "Pentecostal   
   Revival", was included in Satan's plan to destroy the revival.   
      
   The evil spirits have during a hundred years hold the Pentecostal   
   preachers bound to Satan's false doctrine about the Assembly   
   of God. Therefore, no teaching about the Assembly of God has   
   occurred within the Pentecostal Movement. Such teaching would   
   be devastating for the whole Pentecostal Movement. It would   
   expose all Pentecostal churches as religious black-buildings,   
   for they are not founded on God's word.   
      
   This is valid also for all other churches and denominations. The   
   members have got no teaching about the Assembly of God, and   
   they do not know what the churches are. They not even know   
   in what they are members.   
      
   New churches come into existence through religious fornication.   
   They mix God's word with doctrines of evil spirits. They make   
   a false, and very bad, copy of the Assembly of God through to   
   organizing an association, with a number of offices (elders),   
   a manager (pastor), a list of members and member cards to all   
   members. What the Bible says about the Assembly of God,   
   they try to apply to the organization they have made.   
      
   When folk become saved, then they become baptized in the   
   biblical way immersing in water, for they want to follow what   
   the Bible teaches about the baptism. Yet, after the baptism they   
   also become registered as members in a free church, just as   
   much unbiblical as the infant baptism of the church. In that   
   way they get a double membership. When they have received   
   Jesus as their Saviour and are saved, then they belong to the   
   Assembly of God, but after that they also become members   
   in a false copy of the Assembly of God.   
      
   When folk receive Jesus and become born again, then they are   
   limbs in the Body of Christ, the Assembly of God. This is a   
   work of God, and he does this without assistance of any pastor   
   or of any management of a free church. "But now hath God set   
   the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased   
   him." 1 Cor. 12:18, 27.   
      
   When Jesus baptizes them by the Holy Spirit, then they become   
   born again. The Spirit gives them the new life in Christ, then   
   they are born of the Spirit. John 3:1-8. When God created the   
   first man, Adam, he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.   
   Man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7. When Jesus baptizes   
   us by the Holy Spirit, it is a new act of creation. The Holy Spirit   
   gives us the new life in Christ and we become born again. "So   
   then if anyone is in Christ, that one is a new creation; the old   
   things have passed away; behold, all things have come to be   
   new!" 2 Cor. 5:17.   
      
   Allan Svensson   
      
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