And we have confidence in the L-RD touching you, that you both do and will to do the things which we Command you. And the L-RD direct your hearts into the Love of G-d, and into the patient waiting for Christ. Now we Command you, Brethren, in the Name of our L-RD Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every Brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. II Thessalonians 3:4-6
THE CHURCH HISTORICALLY
What is The True Church? What did the early Church Believe that was to be passed down to future Believers for our Edification?
After all, hasn't Yeshua (Jesus) Led His True Church in every generation? Didn't He say that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it? His Own True Church?
HAS "THE CHURCH" TODAY DESPISED, REJECTED OR IGNORED WHAT EARLIER BELIEVERS RULED ON, SAID AND DID?
Earlier generations of Believers were persecuted by fire and sword. Yet, they kept G-ds' Word faithfully for us throughout the generations. They were cruelly martyred for their Faith by crucifixion, even being set on fire as they were crucified, burned alive at the stake or buried alive, cut in pieces, thrown to the beasts to be devoured, executed by the sword and every other unimaginable torture and death. Do they cry out from G-ds' Throne against todays' false teachers? Are todays' "teachers" (perhaps even your "teachers") telling the people to turn a deaf ear to the True Church historically and what they Ruled on, taught and believed?
After much research, we have found that the tradition and teaching received by the early Church, and therefore to be passed on to us, are, in many cases, simply not found in many of todays' so-called "churches" or their "doctrines".
Instead, we find "replacement doctrines" which were simply invented and are the exact opposite of what the early Church Truly Believed!!![1]
We have found that some teaching found in todays' "church" has previously been Ruled Heresy and those that taught it were Excommunicated. Yet todays' "teachers" are bring it back, and are held "in high esteem" as we are told "touch not Gods' annointed"? We are told "not to judge" anyone, but let whoever wants to say whatever they want, making these "teachers" free of any accountability to earlier Rulings of His True Church as if nothing existed!
Are we saying that what is being passed-off as, and you are being assured is "christianity" today, is not really Christianity at all? That is, Christianity as it is found in the Rulings and writings of the early Church, the first 5 Centuries (before there was a "pope")? Yes. That is what we have found to be the case.
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HISTORY
HISTORICAL AND PROPHETIC ISRAEL
CREEDS AND COUNCILS OF THE TRUE CHURCH
In the first five centuries of the Church (A.D.) since Yeshua, the Church had to defend itself against various Heresies. In the first five centuries A.D., the Church was still "One Holy Church"; that is, all the Congregations were in agreemenr concerning Doctrine. There were no separate sects or "denominations" whatsoever. Such a thing would have been unthinkable. Each major cuty in the ancient world had a Bishop over it. If there were any disagreements about some "new teaching", other Assemblies were contacted and Rulings made.
Remember that in the first five centuries A.D. the people in general had a good working knowledge of Greek, the original language of the New Testament and the LXX. They wrote and spoke the language of the New Testament. This was especially true of Pastors. Also, many more ancient sources were available to them than we now have, so that correct decisions concerning Doctrine could be arrived at fairly rapidly.
EARLY CHURCH RULINGS
THE APOSTLES' CREED. The Second Century A.D.
THE NICENE CREED. The Fourth Century A.D.
THE ATHANASIAN CREED. The Fourth Century A.D.
THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON. The Fifth Century A.D.
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FOOTNOTES
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Because of the widespread false teaching of Premillennial Dispensationalism, many are simply unaware of The True Church and what it has stood for down through the ages.
The True Church (ekklesia) is directly mentioned in the Old Testament Greek Scriptures. This is known as the Septuagint or LXX. The Greek Septuagint (LXX) were the Old Testament Scriptures of the early Church and numerous quotes from it can be found withing the Greek New Testament.
Premillennial Dispensationalism has separated the Old Testament Saints from the New Testament Saints by what they call their "Dispensations": i.e. "The Age of the Law" and "The Church Age". They have divided these two "ages" as they call them, into "Israel" and "The Church". All the while, the New Testament clearly says that Gentile Believers in Yeshua are grafted into Israel!
By dividing them, they have separated modern-day Gentile Believers from the Old Testament Jewish brothers and sisters of the Faith as if "The Church" were not Israel!?!?