THE CORRUPTED ESCHATOLOGY OF THE CHURCH +1 SHORT WRITING
By MIKE BALLOUN (
[* The following is from PART
5 of the author’s writings. Other writings by
Mile Balloun to follow in the near future (D.V.)]
Post-Millennialism, A-Millennialism, and Pre-Millennialism are 3 critical distinctions of Biblical Theology and its
Eschatology (the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final
destiny of the soul and of humankind). The primary Bible Passage around which
this great controversy revolves is Revelation 20: 1 - 10...
“And I saw an angel
come down from heaven, having the key of
the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old
serpent,
which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast
him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he
should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and
after that he must be loosed a little season. And I
saw thrones,
and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I
saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for
the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither
had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they
lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But
the rest of the dead
lived not again until the thousand - years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first
resurrection: on such the second death
hath no power, but they shall be
priests of God and of Christ, and
shall reign with him a
thousand years. And
when the thousaud years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the
four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to
gather them together to battle: the
number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire
came down from God out of heaven, and
devoured them. And the devil that
deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”
We have been setting forth the Truth of Scripture that sheds forth light on
the satanically designed disqualifying lies of Post- Millennialist and
Amillennialist Theology and Eschatology; light on its origin, its
reasons for its doctrinal corruption,
and the severe
consequences for the deceived redeemed of Christ who blindly follow their
pernicious ways.
Namely these today are those who have followed 4th Century Augustine Theology and Eschatology,
Augustine having laid the doctrinal foundation for the Paganized Post-Apostolic
Church which then developed into Roman Catholicism.
Some much needed light came upon the evil of the
Church hierarchy and their corrupted theological doctrines of Salvation / redemption by works. This was
brought about by Luther and others,
in protesting the ‘Church’s’ un-Scriptural
wicked redemption theology. However, in their fervour, they passed by the Truth
and flew over into the other religious ditch of an all-encompassing doctrine of
‘salvation by Grace Only’, which is an equally corrupted and
corrupting message, with similar consequences for the redeemed. Augustine’s
leavened Eschatology of Predestinationalism was also hardly disturbed in the
Reformation, in that it continued in the 16th Century and beyond,
with some revisions, in Protestant camps of Calvinism, Arminianism, Lutheranism, and Roman Catholicism. That corrupting doctrine
continued down unto today’s
Their corrupted theology and eschatology concludes that the
all-encompassing ‘gift’ of God’s Grace
(defined now in the acceptance of the leavened singular application of ‘eternal life’) means; the undeserved unmerited favour of God (the second application or meaning of
the word ‘grace’ being... ‘the divine
influence / power of God through the Holy Spirit upon the heart’, which is needed to walk in sanctification). Corrupted Theology teaches only the
first application of the word ‘grace’.
They say this redefined ‘grace’ that abounds is
based solely upon the acceptance of the work of the Cross (without understanding and
consideration of the continuing intercessory work of Christ in Heaven as High
Priest at the right Hand of the Father, Who solely intercedes with the
sanctification of the redeemed in view). They don’t realize that Christ’s role as High Priest in Heaven is
no less than the work He did on the Cross, as it has to do with sanctification
beyond the free gift, unto the salvation of our
soul. In teaching only the single application
/ first definition of ‘grace’, they espouse that
the redeemed’s sins are forgiven; past, present and future (that false ear-tickling eschatology centered around a
false theology in the meaning of the gift of “eternal life” that
sets forth the false hope of an all-encompassing acceptance by God in
worthiness at the time of death, and an immediate welcoming into ‘Heaven’). Thus, in teaching that
there is no accountability for a person after they’ve
been redeemed, they are saying / implying that the redeemed have impunity /
exemption from punishment or the injurious consequences of their present or
future wilful actions in the flesh. Tares who teach this leaven, in one way or
another, teach that Redemption’s Blood’s efficacy
extends to the coverage of their licentious behaviour when judged at the
Judgement Seat of Christ. In that, they say that when you
stand before the Judgement Seat, you will be seen as white as snow and as
righteous, which is partially true in regards to justification by the first
application of His Atonement (the gift), but at the Bema, we are judged
personally as to whether we then walked in sanctification, and our recompense
is based on our works done after our receiving of the gift. Or they say that at death the evil works of the redeemed
will be judged, but not the man himself. But can a man
be judicially judged separate and apart from his deeds? Can a
murderer’s deed be judged justly apart from the murderer? Can the murder
be judged and condemned and the murderer be justly set free? Pure
Antinomianism. Antinomianism means “against the law”
and theologically, it is the belief that there are no moral laws God expects a
Christian to obey. It is basically a ‘license to sin’. Antinomianism is wholly resisted in
Scripture. It will be seen that according to
Scriptural eschatology, that the redeemed shall be
judged for what he does with the gift. (See Revelation 22: 12 where
Christ is speaking to those in the churches... “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward (recompense)
is with me, to give
every man according as his work shall be.”) Additionally, these leavened
doctrines of false teachers completely
ignore everywhere within New Testament Scripture that points to Israel’s
stubborn failure and grave historical judgments as an analogy of unacceptable
behaviour in the New Testament redeemed. Which came with
even graver consequences justly due those (redeemed) who spurn the Blood of
Christ that purchased them. (1st Corinthians 10, Hebrews 3 & 4 &10, Revelation 2 &3, Matthew 25,
etc)
The Jews’ ‘salvation’ being typical of Christ’s New
Testament salvation ... which consisted of redemption (coming out of
The leavened Church confounds Truth of
Scripture in order to maintain its hold on its blindly following adherents, in
that its misleading doctrines assign all Old Testament Scripture’s blessings of
IT MUST FIRST BE UNDERSTOOD THAT A CHIEF TRUTH OF SCRIPTURE in both Testaments is the duality of
the Gracious gift of God to the redeemed of eternal
life (zoe) 1) in the first degree of
God’s Salvation Plan for Man (the first application of the free gift) ... which
has to do with the quantity or length of time of life (zoe), purchased by Christ, imparted by imputation to the spirt of each living
soul at rebirth. (Man was created as a triad being; in that he is a living
soul, and he has a spirit and a body. At rebirth, you receive zoe
life into your spirit and your spirit animates you (your soul), and through
that, we are either sanctified or not.)
2) Within that freely imparted zoe
life (zoe
imparted at rebirth, which is what God animated your spirit with), is the
latent seed of the second degree of God’s Salvation Plan for
Glorious Life to the soul (at the return of the spirit Ecclesiastes 12: 7, Luke 23: 46, with 1 Corinthians 15) is promised to
be manifest in the FIRST RESURRECTION (out
from among all the other dead in Hades) at CHRIST’S RETURN, when He comes to judge His enemies
and reward His faithful in establishing
the Millennial / Age Messianic Kingdom. God’s realized Theocratic
Government in this Realm being determined before the foundation of this World.
From Adam’s ‘seed of a woman’s’ promise extended to Abraham being prophetically
declared all the way to Malachi; and then
from the Book of Matthew to John’s Book
of Revelation. The common thread of Truth is still the
Sovereign Rule of the Messiah, the Son of David, after this Mysterious Age,
when He Who defeated Satan as the Son of Man on Earth and in the bowels of
Hades, was Caught up to Heaven in Resurrection power, the First-Born from among
the dead, Who deferred His Reign and Kingdom to enter Heaven’s Holy of Holies,
not to be King, but the Great Intercessor, to finish His work among the
redeemed until “the
fullness of the Gentiles come in”. Then
He proclaims He will Return to this
Realm’s heaven, take His investiture
as King of Kings, and raise up His
worthy saints in glory from among the living and the dead, and remove the ‘incumbent’
ruler (Satan) from office and Throne,
and will establish His Millennial
Kingdom with His faithful, and
assign them as co-rulers to their thrones and rule in this Realm’s heaven and earth.
UNTIL THEN, THERE WILL BE NO REALIZED PEACE FOR MAN OR GOLDEN ERA ON EARTH. THERE WILL BE NOTHING BUT INCREASING
DARKNESS IN THE WORLD AND IN THE LONG-STANDING PAGANIZED CHURCH. SATAN REMAINS THE RULER OF THIS REALM
THROUGHOUT THIS PRESENT WORSENING EVIL AGE AS THE EVER-PRESENT ADVERSARY OF THE
REDEEMED WHO CAN ONLY BE SANCTIFIED IN WORTHINESS TO
RULE WITH CHRIST IN THIS REALM BY OVERCOMING SATAN AND HIS WORLD. UNTIL THEN, THE GATES OF HADES WILL PREVAIL
And so it is rightly portrayed that in this present 2000-year
Age of the Father, God is calling out by redemption life / zoe a people from the Gentiles TO DEVELOP AND BE FOUND WORTHY to rule from this Realm’s heaven over the Earth in that
Messianic Kingdom. The Old Testament prophets and saints, by no fault of
theirs, did not foresee this present AGE / dispensation. It and its purpose was
a mystery hid in the mind and plan of God. The Jews’ vision was set beyond a
time they did not envision; to the prophesied
pre-eminence of the Nation of Israel in the Earth, promised by God to Abraham
and David. And becoming religiously minded, and
thereby short-sighted, they were completely absorbed in the thoughts of their
glory-filled Earthly Messianic Kingdom, the timeframes and events having been
set forth in [divine] prophecy which they did not fully
comprehend, even when told personally by their Messiah.
Conversely, the New Testament Church
since the 4th century, has become doctrinally fully leavened and is
far-sighted in that they are so deeply absorbed in the gift of ‘Eternal (quantity) Life’ that they have failed to
see and comprehend the Words of Christ about the necessity of the redeemed to inherit in His Millennial / Age Kingdom
in this Realm (it coming first, chronologically-speaking). In that they must qualify
in faithful service and be judged at death as being
worthy or unworthy of its inheritance. (They are far-sighted in that
all focus is placed on the distant future of life in
eternity as opposed to focusing on being counted
worthy of co-reigning with Christ in His Millennial Kingdom in the nearer
future, which is what determines our place in eternity. Most of Scripture
focuses on and points to the
To somewhat repeat: The Apostles of
Christ taught Pre-Millennialism; a literal future Kingdom of a thousand years
to be established on this Earth at the Return of Christ at the End of this now
2000-year old Age of Grace and Mercy in God’s calling out of a qualified Bride from
His New Testament [redeemed] ‘people’ to be rewarded
for faithfulness in the process of sanctification, as His true witnesses in the Earth. And at His Return, they’ll be
resurrected in Millennial glory out from among the dead in ‘Sheol’ / ‘Hades’, out of the realm of the dead in the underworld of this Earth. Satan, who now rules this World, will then be chained and cast into that place called the ‘Pit’ in the underworld and imprisoned for
that same / concurrent 1000 years. After which he will be
released for a “little season” and he will deceive and lead the Nations of the Earth in one
final revolt against the Lord, His Great City, and His then living Jewish
contingent pre-eminent on the Earth, and resurrected ruling Saints. Bringing
forth this Earth’s last Fiery Judgements from God out of heaven, when Satan,
and his, will be cast eternally into the
[* See Rev. 20: 11-15, R.V.]
The critical crux of the matter is for today’s
redeemed who are being deceived and hold the “Truth in
unrighteousness” (Romans 1: 18... “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who
hold the truth in unrighteousness...”), to awaken unto a living in practical righteousness that equates to
overcoming, in the comprehending of the great unseen battle for our soul in our
gain or loss of Millennial Kingdom inheritance, and sure deserving punishment
for loving the World more than Truth. This inheritance is the further
appropriation of Grace / the Holy Spirit’s influence on the maturing of the
redeemed soul, and that only by being actively engaged
in the process of overcoming the flesh, Satan, and the world. To be done in the
fear and hope of favourable
judgement at the Judgement Seat of Christ (2nd Corinthians
5: 10), unto the realization of the hope of
First Resurrection glory. (Colossians 1:
27). To be one of
those found worthy of that
Millennial Age (Luke 20: 35,
Luke 19: 16-19), like Paul who was
fully engaged with every fibre of his being for the prize of the out-resurrection from among the dead in Hades and
to rule with Christ in His Coming literal Millennial Kingdom. (Philippians 3: 11, 2nd Timothy 4:
7) Has the [today’s apostate] Church any such hope of glory? NO! Is not this hope a Scriptural necessity? (1st John3: 3) YES! Why
then does the Church not have such hope? Because that hope has been stolen since the 4th Century by tares and
leavened Scripture, in philosophical theology developed in brilliant religious
minds whose reasonings were inspired by satanic forces, being without “the spirit of wisdom
and understanding in the knowledge of God,” unable “to rightly divide
the Word of Truth.”
The stakes could not be higher as Man’s great adversaries are “not flesh and blood”,
but the determined unseen ruling evil spirits in this Realm’s heaven,
fearfully intent upon thwarting God’s ‘salvation plan’.
That part which they are acutely aware of, that of Man attaining unto the ‘second degree’ of God’s Salvation Plan (of
glory-infilling) in resurrection worthiness at Christ’s Return. They, by
ancient design and modern application, are obstructing by evil chicanery - [i.e., by ‘tricky’
or ‘used to get
something they want.’ (Dict. Def.)] -
to appeal to man’s cursed nature and draw him away from ‘life’ unto ‘death’, by disqualifying himself from the
intent of God for Man to rule in this Realm. They promote a philosophical
religious theology originally designed at
So it is critical for the Redeemed to
personally see that ‘eternal life’ has a dual application and also that standing and state ‘in Christ’ are two different things in exegesis
of Scripture Truth. Draw a horizontal line... above the line, write redemption standing; we are 100 percent in Christ in that eternal gift of justification life / zoe standing. Below the line write; state of sanctification, with the numbers 10,
20, 30, all the way to 100. This represents our soul’s spiritual condition; a
dynamic (ever-changing) state that may vary from 1 to
100.
Eliminating or
obscuring this vital Truth; the revelation of the gift versus the prize from the understanding of the
redeemed, was historically and is today the greater intent of the wicked
spirits in maintaining the leavening corruption that was placed in 3 portions
in the Word of God given to the First Century Church over a period of time,
starting and finishing in the 4th Century in the paganizing of the
Post-Apostolic Church. Thereby amalgamating the
In the Greek, which was the language
appointed by the Holy Spirit used to write the New Testament, one
critical word that had to be corrupted was the noun aion meaning age with its adjective aionios / age lasting. The essential significance of aionios is to convey the
thought of quality ... although ‘time’ is not absent, but it is secondary. Historically then, what happened was the Latin translators
(commissioned by the Latin Roman Catholic Church) translated the word ‘aionios’ to the Latin word ‘aetemus’/ ‘aeternitas’
from which the English words ‘eternal’ and ‘eternity’ and ‘everlasting’ are then translated. That Latin translation from the Greek was named the “Vulgate”
Bible.
Who wrote the Vulgate? The Vulgate is largely the work of Jerome
who, in 382 (as a member of the then
burgeoning and all encompassing Catholic Church),
had been commissioned by Pope
Damasus I to revise the Vetus Latina (old Latin)
Gospels (a large number of
hand-written Latin translations from the original Greek text of the New
Testament) which was being then used by the now fully-leavened and paganized
Christian ‘Church’ that had just came into
existence and took full control of Christendom earlier in that same Century. It should be understood by today’s
Christian that nominal Christian leaders’ accepting of the Roman Emperor Constantine’s hand of fellowship then
led the Post-Apostolic ‘Church’ into an
amalgamation into Rome’s ancient Babylonian
Harlot System that became known as the ‘Catholic
Church’.
So it was that the word ‘aionios’ was intentionally translated in the New Testament by
translators 1700 years ago to wrongly convey the leavened thought of eternity
(which is short of Truth in that its secondary meaning refers to time, but its
first meaning refers to quality), and to mean ‘eternal’
with its Latinized single application of ‘Life and
time’. This was first done in Latin, then
perpetuated in English translations down to today’s Versions.
So historically it can be easily
verified that Jerome, raised in
Catholicism, took Latin translations of the New Testament Greek texts, not
necessarily the Greek texts themselves, and incorporated them into the ‘Vulgate’, thereby formally Latinizing and reshaping
the Apostolic Theology and its eschatology necessary in the perpetuating of its
corrupted hierarchy by its fully leavened theology and its eschatology. And
with revisions, it is still used today by the Catholic Church.
So then in the
closing of the 4th Century, there was the consolidated Latin version
of the New Testament and the Greek Version of the Old Testament written before
Christ’s First Coming, called the ‘Septuagint’.
After the passing of 12 Centuries of corrupted darkness in Roman Catholic
religious hierarchy known as the ‘Middle Ages’,
which began to close in the Renaissance, came the partial ‘Reformation’ of the 16th.Century with the
Protestant (protesting ones) movement, with its notables; Luther and Calvin leading
the way. That which led to the early 17th.Century’s
King James Authorized Version of his own translation, which
is still widely used today.
Now the translators of the New Testament King James Version
(being Protestant / protestors of Catholic theology of ‘salvation by works’) ... and the supposed holders of the fullness
of ‘truth’; that of ‘salvation
by grace only’ were commissioned by the English Monarch to make an
English Version of the Bible. Who, like Jerome
before them, did not go back to the New Testament Greek texts, but used the Latin translations of the Greek,
so the King James Version, in grave error, like the Vulgate, then translates
from the Latin word ‘aeternitas’ to the English
words ‘eternal’ and ‘eternity’.
Had the translators of the King James 1611 Version went back
to the Greek, they would have translated the Greek word ‘aionios’ as did other Greek scholars who have since
correctly translated its meaning: to “age lasting with
a view towards quality”. Much more insight can be gleaned from the Book,
“The Dualism of Eternal Life, A
Revolution in Eschatology” which was written in 1916 by Stephen Speers Craig...
Although this is a rather lengthy discourse, the stealth of
the enemy does not allow for a brief disclosure. It is hoped
that enough Scriptural and historical evidence is set forth to free the blinded
religious eyes of the person who sincerely seeks the Truth that can set one
free from corrupted Theology and its
eschatology. Particularly by showing the reasons for corrupting the Truth
as to where the [disembodied] soul goes at death and why it goes there, which is to
be addressed further in the next lesson.
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CHRIST AND
By ADOLPH SAPHIR (1831-1891)
Adolph Saphir was a Jewish
believer in Jesus who was born-ahain in Pest (now
Here is what Saphir said in
1864:
The Bible is simple and perspicous. I hald the good old
doctrine of the Reformers, that theBible is given to all men, and that for its
understanding we require not the erudition of the Universities, the tradition
of the Fathers, the glosses of the scholastics (however valuble these may be in
their proper place); to understand God’s Word, all that is needed is a humble,
childlike heart, conscious of its ignorance and blindness, and the teaching and
the illumination of the Holy Spirit. All Scripture is profitable for all men,
who thus read it, and therefore it must be accessible to the understanding of
all.
People are often deterred from the reading of the
propheical portions of Scripture by the assertion that it is difficult for
unlearned men to distinguish between what is figurative and literal in prohecy.
I do not see the difficulty. I think a child almost can distinguish between the
two. When we read that we are to have our loins girded and our lamps burning,
even a child knows there is no reference to a literal girdle and lamp; but when
the author to the Book of Job narrates the appearing of the angels before God, and the presence of
Satan among them, it is evidently meant as a statement of fact. Why doubt for a single moment that when Zechariah
speake of the feet of the Lord standing on the Mount of Olives the [Holy] Spirit meant to predict - [through God’s prophet] - a literal event?
Consider
again the prophecies already fulfilled. You argue with a Jew, who does not
admit that Jesus is the Messiah; you point out to him the word of Micah concerning
Can
anything be more explicit? I ask, When was the covenant of grace made with the
Jews? When were they [as a nation] converted [Jer. 31: 31-37].
When was their iniquity forgiven and their sin remembered no more? During the
last eighteen centuries has [the nation, and all of]
[* NOTE: From
verse 23
the context
to verse 37.]
...When they behold that Jehovah, the
Deliverer, the Hope and Help of Israel is none other than the once rejected and
crucified Jesus, then doubtless
shame, confusion, terror, and grief shall take hold of them, even as the
brothers of Joseph stood amazed and appalled when the great prince on whom
their safety depended reveiled himself as their brother, whom they had sold
into Egypt. But Joseph had pity and
compassion, he spoke to them, nay, embraced them and kissed them, he fell on
the neck of his brother Benjamen and wept. Then,
we are told, his brethren walked with him. And thus, when Jesus
shall reveal to them His love and mercy, His pardoning grace and overflowing
tenderness, fear and awe shall give way to deep, unutterable self-loathing and
contrition; repentance and faith, renewed and gained for ever by their Lord and God.
How
can anyone say that the Jews would - if all this be true - become proud? Does
God’s favour make us proud? When, sitting at the Lord’s Table, you hear the
wonderful declaration. “This is My body,
broken for you”, and you are assured that Christ gives you His body,
which is meat indeed, and His blood, which is drink indeed; do you then think of your worthiness or your sin,
of your greatness and your insignificance, of your merits or of God’s grace? The Jews shall be bowed down to
the very dust by the exceeding great weight
of grace and glory bestowed on them. Like the Apostle Paul, they shall
say most emphatically, ‘By grace we are what we are.
Where is boasting? It is excluded. We are the monuments of His wonderful love.
Salvation is of the Lord!’
God’s
Spirit shall be poured out upon them, and they shall be cleansed from all
filthiness and backsliding. They shall remain faithful to God throughout the
whole period of the [millennial] kingdom,
and ‘look back no more.’
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