Well, the answer to this question must begin with the fact that the Lord Jesus prophesied this to be the case in the coming years after His resurrection, with things continuing to get worse as time went on.
All this is foretold in the 7 parables of Matthew 13.
The first parable starts with Jesus Himself - the Sower Who sowed the seed. And at the end of the parable, notice the order of the reaping, 100-fold, then 60-fold, then 30-fold. The reaping gets less.
It's also VERY important to pay attention to the definition of the "birds" in this parable. Jesus explains it to His disciples (a few verses later) and says the birds represent the "evil one", or the devil and his agents.
Got that? It's very important.
Okay.. moving on.
Next, we have the parable of the tares and the wheat. So the devil, again, mixes in his agents among the wheat. Both are allowed to go on until the end of the age (harvest time!) and guess what... the reapers (angels) are told to gather out of the field (the world) the tares, FIRST. Not the wheat first (rapture) as is commonly taught. No, the tares are gathered out FIRST.
When Jesus returns, the first order of business for the angels that are with Him are to come down to the earth and gather out all the tares, FIRST. Yes, the people will look up and mourn. THEN the righteous are gathered (caught up). [I'll show corroboration to this fact at the end of this post. You will be quite surprised!]
Moving on....
3rd (Mustard seed) parable: Starts off with a man (Jesus) sowing a mustard seed (the divine concept of God for His bride) in the field (world), and when it is full grown is a bush, or shrubbery, or garden plant.
[Ask any horticulturalist what mustard is and they will tell you it is a bush. NEVER a tree!]
But Jesus says that this mustard seed bush, becomes a tree. A tree??? How does mustard, which is a shrubbery, become a tree?
ANSWER: a technology that they knew about back then, which Paul used that term in Romans 11, called "Grafting".
So the divine concept for the mustard seed, somehow becomes a tree. HOW? Because MEN tamper with the divine concept and turn the bush into something that is NOT God's mind. They make it into a tree [organized, institutional, world-like church]. Men take God's word, and apply the earth-touch, and turn it into something that was not God's intention. Not the natural, divine bush. Something else.
Then what? The birds (remember what we already were told by Jesus that birds represent?) make their nests in the tree's branches.
Yes folks, you are participating in something the devil and man has created, and the devil and his agents are nesting in the branches of your organized, institutional, "church".
Moving on ....
Parable #4 - Matt 13:33 He spoke another parable to them, "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal (or flour) until it was all leavened."
Here, Jesus is telling the 12 disciples what will happen further out, as time goes on, to His gospel message.
We all know (or should know!) that leaven represent evil in the bible. It always has, and does. In the Old Testament the Jews would sweep their houses of any leaven during any holy event. They were also commanded to bring UNLEAVENED bread to the altar, and that bread was to be covered in oil (representing the Holy Spirit).
So Jesus says that a woman took and hid into the meal, leaven, until it was all leavened.
First off, the Jews must have known that something was wrong, for women were never allowed to be priests! Next, they knew that leaven was not allowed in the bread sacrifice. And also very important is that the oil was left out of the commanded recipe!
But more importantly, Jesus is the Bread of Life. He is the manna come down from heaven. He is the meal of this parable, or more explicitly, the meal is His gospel message and WAY. It becomes all leavened.
Yes, it is now 100% leavened.
And what you really need to understand, is that leaven just does its job. You do not need to do or add anything else to make leaven work. It just leavens all by itself. Add yeast to the dough, and it just happens. It works.
Leaven makes the bread "taste better", and "get bigger!". Puffed up, organized, marketed, Radio and TV, as the world measures success, BIG!
All these "churches" are simply leavened bread.
Read here to see about leaven, for those of you who doubt:
1 Cor 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?
1 Cor 5:7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.
1 Cor 5:8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Moving on....
Parable #5:
Matt 13:44 "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."
The treasure in the field is the true, spiritual, Church, that Jesus desires. A SPIRITUAL church in which HE is Lord and His members obey His Spirit.
And upon finding it (He sees it, just like He saw the glory that lay beyond the Cross), He hides it in the field (world) and from joy over it sells ALL that He has (He emptied Himself and gave Himself a ransom for His bride, the Church) and purchases that field.
The point about this parable, again, to continue the main theme, is that His true church is HIDDEN. You cannot find it in the yellow pages or on the internet. It is hidden.
Parable #6 - Similar, with a bit more interesting details about how the church has to go through a very painful process.
Matt 13:45 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls,
Matt 13:46 and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
You may know that to become a pearl, an oyster gets a grain of sand under the shell of a clam, and it's a very long, and very painful process, whereby the clam experiences an irritating microscopic object as it has become trapped within its mantle folds. A very beautiful, but painful, illustration of the true Christians' life.
Again, the Merchant gives ALL HE HAS for that pearl (church) and buys it with His blood.
Parable #7 - Jesus tells of a great dragnet to gather fish of every kind, and when the net is drawn up, he commands the angels to come forth and take the wicked from among the righteous, and will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
This last parable wraps up the age, with His 2nd Coming and the angels gathering out of the world, FIRST, the tares, wicked, sinners, false, as was the case in the parable of the tares and the wheat.
This is what He told His disciples, and then He says,
Matt 13:51 "Have you understood all these things?" They said to Him, "Yes."
Matt 13:52 And Jesus said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old."
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So the answer to the question as to why the "church" is so bad, is simple. The devil has infiltrated it, with men willing to cooperate with the devil and change God's divine concept into something completely foreign and evil.
Yes, it is all leavened bread.
Next post will corroborate the tares gathered out FIRST, before the saints at His 2nd Coming. Stay tuned and be surprised!
All this is foretold in the 7 parables of Matthew 13.
The first parable starts with Jesus Himself - the Sower Who sowed the seed. And at the end of the parable, notice the order of the reaping, 100-fold, then 60-fold, then 30-fold. The reaping gets less.
It's also VERY important to pay attention to the definition of the "birds" in this parable. Jesus explains it to His disciples (a few verses later) and says the birds represent the "evil one", or the devil and his agents.
Got that? It's very important.
Okay.. moving on.
Next, we have the parable of the tares and the wheat. So the devil, again, mixes in his agents among the wheat. Both are allowed to go on until the end of the age (harvest time!) and guess what... the reapers (angels) are told to gather out of the field (the world) the tares, FIRST. Not the wheat first (rapture) as is commonly taught. No, the tares are gathered out FIRST.
When Jesus returns, the first order of business for the angels that are with Him are to come down to the earth and gather out all the tares, FIRST. Yes, the people will look up and mourn. THEN the righteous are gathered (caught up). [I'll show corroboration to this fact at the end of this post. You will be quite surprised!]
Moving on....
3rd (Mustard seed) parable: Starts off with a man (Jesus) sowing a mustard seed (the divine concept of God for His bride) in the field (world), and when it is full grown is a bush, or shrubbery, or garden plant.
[Ask any horticulturalist what mustard is and they will tell you it is a bush. NEVER a tree!]
But Jesus says that this mustard seed bush, becomes a tree. A tree??? How does mustard, which is a shrubbery, become a tree?
ANSWER: a technology that they knew about back then, which Paul used that term in Romans 11, called "Grafting".
So the divine concept for the mustard seed, somehow becomes a tree. HOW? Because MEN tamper with the divine concept and turn the bush into something that is NOT God's mind. They make it into a tree [organized, institutional, world-like church]. Men take God's word, and apply the earth-touch, and turn it into something that was not God's intention. Not the natural, divine bush. Something else.
Then what? The birds (remember what we already were told by Jesus that birds represent?) make their nests in the tree's branches.
Yes folks, you are participating in something the devil and man has created, and the devil and his agents are nesting in the branches of your organized, institutional, "church".
Moving on ....
Parable #4 - Matt 13:33 He spoke another parable to them, "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal (or flour) until it was all leavened."
Here, Jesus is telling the 12 disciples what will happen further out, as time goes on, to His gospel message.
We all know (or should know!) that leaven represent evil in the bible. It always has, and does. In the Old Testament the Jews would sweep their houses of any leaven during any holy event. They were also commanded to bring UNLEAVENED bread to the altar, and that bread was to be covered in oil (representing the Holy Spirit).
So Jesus says that a woman took and hid into the meal, leaven, until it was all leavened.
First off, the Jews must have known that something was wrong, for women were never allowed to be priests! Next, they knew that leaven was not allowed in the bread sacrifice. And also very important is that the oil was left out of the commanded recipe!
But more importantly, Jesus is the Bread of Life. He is the manna come down from heaven. He is the meal of this parable, or more explicitly, the meal is His gospel message and WAY. It becomes all leavened.
Yes, it is now 100% leavened.
And what you really need to understand, is that leaven just does its job. You do not need to do or add anything else to make leaven work. It just leavens all by itself. Add yeast to the dough, and it just happens. It works.
Leaven makes the bread "taste better", and "get bigger!". Puffed up, organized, marketed, Radio and TV, as the world measures success, BIG!
All these "churches" are simply leavened bread.
Read here to see about leaven, for those of you who doubt:
1 Cor 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?
1 Cor 5:7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.
1 Cor 5:8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Moving on....
Parable #5:
Matt 13:44 "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."
The treasure in the field is the true, spiritual, Church, that Jesus desires. A SPIRITUAL church in which HE is Lord and His members obey His Spirit.
And upon finding it (He sees it, just like He saw the glory that lay beyond the Cross), He hides it in the field (world) and from joy over it sells ALL that He has (He emptied Himself and gave Himself a ransom for His bride, the Church) and purchases that field.
The point about this parable, again, to continue the main theme, is that His true church is HIDDEN. You cannot find it in the yellow pages or on the internet. It is hidden.
Parable #6 - Similar, with a bit more interesting details about how the church has to go through a very painful process.
Matt 13:45 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls,
Matt 13:46 and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
You may know that to become a pearl, an oyster gets a grain of sand under the shell of a clam, and it's a very long, and very painful process, whereby the clam experiences an irritating microscopic object as it has become trapped within its mantle folds. A very beautiful, but painful, illustration of the true Christians' life.
Again, the Merchant gives ALL HE HAS for that pearl (church) and buys it with His blood.
Parable #7 - Jesus tells of a great dragnet to gather fish of every kind, and when the net is drawn up, he commands the angels to come forth and take the wicked from among the righteous, and will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
This last parable wraps up the age, with His 2nd Coming and the angels gathering out of the world, FIRST, the tares, wicked, sinners, false, as was the case in the parable of the tares and the wheat.
This is what He told His disciples, and then He says,
Matt 13:51 "Have you understood all these things?" They said to Him, "Yes."
Matt 13:52 And Jesus said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old."
- - - - - - - - - - -
So the answer to the question as to why the "church" is so bad, is simple. The devil has infiltrated it, with men willing to cooperate with the devil and change God's divine concept into something completely foreign and evil.
Yes, it is all leavened bread.
Next post will corroborate the tares gathered out FIRST, before the saints at His 2nd Coming. Stay tuned and be surprised!
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