My Stand On Spiritual Connections At Community Chapel & Bible Training Center

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by Michael King on July 22, 2016 at 10:00 am
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I am Michael King, and this is my stand on spiritual connections at Community Chapel & Bible Training Center

Christ says,

“ But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.”

Matthew 10:33

I have been thinking a lot about this scripture lately. People commonly believe this passage refers to being forced to deny Christ or die. I believe, though, that the meaning of this scripture goes far beyond martyrdom.

I believe that you can deny Christ in many different ways and to many different degrees.  It can be as little as remaining silent when someone next to  you uses the name of Jesus in vain. It can be going along to get along with people who say that all religions are equal. In fact, our whole manner of life can be a denial of Christ if we do not do the will of our Father.

Long lost friends

I contacted an old friend the other day after many years. Suddenly, I felt Spirit led to reach out to Douglas by email. I found him very gracious after all those years apart. However, one thing he wrote to me stuck in my mind like a splinter. He called what God did at the church we used to attend “sin.”

I thought about his accusation against that revival for a month, trying to decide whether or not to let it “pass.” After much agonizing I felt lead of the Spirit to confront him about calling what the Holy Spirit did of Beelzebub. In the end, under strong conviction, I could not ignore his statement because I felt that “going along to get along” would be, in fact, denying Christ. I simply could not imagine having to give an answer as to why I did not stand up for my Lord.  I had to defend what Jesus did at Community Chapel & Bible Training Center.

No further Devil, this is where I stand

I wrote a very strong and pointed letter to my friend Douglas.  I told him I stood against his characterization of what God did at CC&BTC as being “sin.” Moreover, Douglas caused me to think about my hesitance to “own” what God did there too. Whether out of intimidation, fear or because of my reluctance to visit old memories, I kept my spiritual genesis a secret all these years.

After much consideration, however, I will not stand idly by while others talk badly about my Father and what He did at Chapel. I have had it with those who lived through that marvelous move of God’s Spirit, blithely denigrating it.  I am against those who speak evil of spiritual connections as if it were something sinful.  You, who call what God did of Beelzebub, are spiritual cowards.  Moreover, I will not allow the Devil to cause me to avoid who I am and where I come from any longer.  I no longer fear of what others may think or say.

For the record

Therefore, I wish to state, for the heavenly record, that I attended Community Chapel & Bible Training Center during the 80’s and partook of the move of spiritual connections. I fully accepted and immersed myself in it. It was a marvelous move of God’s Spirit, given by His grace to a people who earnestly sought Him.  Though some took the love and liberty that God showered upon us and used it for selfish purposes this was, by and large, not what most people did with it.

It has taken me over 30 years to come to a point where I feel I can speak about these experiences. Some in authority at Community Chapel & Bible Training Center did their best to destroy me and others like me. Fortunately, by God’s immeasurable grace, the misguided leadership of that church did not succeed. I sincerely hope there are others that made it through too.

I am proud to have experienced spiritual connections at CC&BTC

As a Spirit filled Christian, I am proud to have attended Community Chapel & Bible Training center.  I am privileged to have experienced God’s move of Divine Love.  I reject all those who, out of convenience or deception, do not recognize the amazing things that our Father did. The move of connection love was a true, righteous, and holy move of God’s Spirit.

As I feel led I will write and testify about my time at CC&BTC in order to give a positive, yet honest, account of the moving of God’s Spirit there.  Too many have freely disparaged what God did as sin.  I am here to say, “shame on all of you who do that!”

Don’t blame God for what you did or what happened to you

Yes, some used what God was doing as an occasion for the flesh. Of course, some people stumbled and could not handle the manifestation of God’s Divine Love.  Various leaders did unconscionable things. False shepherds sacrificed their own sheep to maintain their control over others. However, none of that negates what God did.  Furthermore, no one should blaspheme the Holy Spirit by calling what He does sin. Man, and only man, made a mess of God’s wonderful outpouring of life, liberty, and Divine Love.

My experience at CC&BTC is a very glorious and very painful chapter in my life. This pain has nothing to do with God for my Father stuck with me when no one else did. It has everything to do, however, with the heinous abuse carried out by the misguided and egotistical leadership.

Setting brother against brother

Moreover,  I believe the persecution which occurred at “Community Chapel” is a foretaste of a greater persecution to come. When God moves again in the Tabernacle experience, Christians will turn upon Christians worldwide. As it is written,

“ Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.  For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.  And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”

Matthew 10: 34-36

Healing and help

I hope that as I share the lessons from that harrowing experience they will be instructive to others. When people face similar types of persecution in the future I hope this helps. Perhaps writing about my experiences may even help me personally gain some closure.

I will not deny what Jesus did…ever.

In conclusion, I resolutely stand before my heavenly Father and man and declare that spiritual connections are from God. I testify that the move of God’s Spirit was genuine. I reject all those who ridicule that revival as sin. The destruction that took place in some lives stemmed from man’s pride, greed, and arrogance. Whatever negative that happened was merely a result of God’s liberty crashing headlong into institutionalized legalism. Something, as they say, had to give.

To be continued…

God Help The Outcasts

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For There Shall Arise False Christs

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by Michael King on July 19, 2016 at 9:13 am
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Jesus says,

“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”

Matthew 24:24

Throughout history there have been false Christs.

In other words, there have been people who claimed to love mankind, declaring they would bring peace and safety, which were false Christs.  The term Antichrist does not mean the “opposite” of Christ, rather it means “instead of” Christ.  These pretenders seek to substitute themselves for the only true savior of mankind, Jesus Christ.

What many do not understand, when reading and interpreting scripture, is that the Bible speaks about eternal truths that which are much greater than can be contained within its pages. The Rhema of God, which is the expression of the Logos, is unimaginably vast.  Instead of encapsulating all that God is, the Bible only shows different parts of our Lord.  It is just that, like Moses, even seeing the hinder parts of our heavenly Father is so awe-inspiring that we tend to assume we’ve seen all that there is of Him. Here is a truth,

“Man’s mind, without yielding to the Holy Spirit, cannot fully comprehend God…ever.”

It takes the Spirit to know the things of the Spirit

Paul says,

“But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.”

1 Corinthians 2:10

In fact, the best that we can hope for is to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal Himself in a manner that we can understand.  The Spirit of Truth overcomes our limitations so that we can experience God as He truly is.  You may think, “wow, that sounds mystical”, but it isn’t, really; most of us just aren’t used to the supernatural.

the Finger of God

The scriptures describe vast, eternal truths.   For instance, there are literally hundreds of different names and titles of God in the Bible. Why is this so?  It is because God is so magnificent that our language cannot describe all that He is with one name. Therefore, the Bible must us many different names, chief among them YHWH, to even come close to describing Him.

False Christs go by many different names

So too, the phenomenon of the Antichrist is variously described as “the man of sin,”  “The lawless one,” the “son of perdition” and so forth.  All these names and titles refer to a central evil so big, so terrible, one word cannot suffice. All the false Christs that have come so far are just the outer fringes of a satanic possession which grips the world in the person of the Antichrist.

Don’t slice and dice the scriptures too finely

Compartmentalizing scripture leads to all sorts of false doctrines. Slicing and dicing the scriptures too finely causes division within the Body of Christ. Each exclusive camp of believers dwell on one facet of the whole truth.  Thus their viewpoint becomes a “hobby-horse” while ignoring the bigger picture of what God is really saying. Over analyzing the scriptures, mostly due to man’s natural minded interpretations, accounts of the majority of the schisms in the Body of Christ.

We are going to see, in the coming days, more and more false Christs claiming to be Jesus  manifest in the flesh.  A recent example of the is the Eastern Lighting group.   The false Christ, the true Antichrist, according to scriptures,  will take things to a whole nother level.  Through the false prophet, the son of perdition will even show lying signs and wonders to give credence to his ungodly claims.

Do you really need to know about false Christs?

Why is this important to you?  Why do you need to know what I am speaking about today? You need to understand that the scriptures speak about concepts  you cannot understand without the Holy Spirit. Unless you submit your natural mind to personal revelation through the Holy Ghost,  you will not be able to withstand Strong Delusion.

Here is a truth,

“The true manifestation of the Antichrist spirit embodies everything the natural minded man thinks God should be.”

That Man of Sin is the “knowledge of good” personified.  The Antichrist is fallen Lucifer manifested in the flesh.   Hitler, who killed millions, foreshadows the reign of terror which is the world government under the Antichrist.  If you don’t know your history, Germany embraced and worshipped Hitler en masse as their savior.   So too, the son of perdition will prestn himself as a savior to natural man.

The world follows after this false Christ not because they are stupid, but because their natural minds are conditioned to receive him. The Antichrist looks “good” to a “reasonable” person.  It is the refusal to honor God and receive a love of the truth that makes people vulnerable to deception. Without allowing God to lead and guide you by His Spirit, even when it goes against your natural mind, you will gladly take the mark of the Beast. It is that simple.

Live by every word that proceeds from God

Christians must live by revelation. Direct revelation from God through His Holy Spirit designed mankind to function.  Living by revelation is the only way to make heaven our home again.  God uses His scriptures as a springboard to know Him, but they do not contain all there is of Him. God’s truths are “spiritually” discerned and beyond our natural minds.  We cannot know our Father except through His Spirit.  The tree of the knowledge of good and evil still brings death for those who eat of it. The result of the knowledge of good always brings death. Only through listening to and obeying God’s Holy Spirit, despite our natural minds, will we stand strong in the midst of “Strong Delusion.”

To reiterate, to be natural minded is death.  Conversely life is to be spiritually minded. We no longer have the option to be of two minds in this world. In this time of false Christs the only way we truly see in Strong Delusion is by accepting the light of the world; Jesus Christ.

Jesus says,

“ Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”

John 8:12

 The Spirit of revelation

I write by revelation.  I really don’t think or plan out what I put down in these essays. Usually, I wake up in the mornings and simply write as the Holy Spirit leads me. These words I write are more than just my “opinion”. These writings are a manifestation of the Tabernacle message of “listen, hear, and obey on time”. As the Holy Spirit leads I write so that you, the reader, may have access to part of what God is saying to this generation.

We are to live by God’s direct revelation

In the end, you need to be receiving revelation from God yourself. I desire to point you in the right direction. Know that you can start hearing the voice of God for yourself and be led by His Spirit personally.  Whatever revelation you glean from these essays is a minuscule fraction of what God wants to reveal to you personally. As you “listen, hear, and obey on time” amazing things are going to happen in you and through you.  Amen.

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