Dear Mephibosheth:

BiblicalScholarship.net is unlike anything else I have ever even heard of from
anyone else. It is truly remarkable.

For me, Jesus-is-Lord.com can be likened to a knife cutting off weights and
hindering cords of deception. It showed and refuted all the ways not to walk in.
Jesus-is-Lord.com put the brakes on the car and then turned the car around.

BiblicalScholarship.net then is an accelerating push in the right direction. It
shows the country the car should have been driving down in the first place.

So many young Christians repent and believe the Bible, but fail to get in the stream
and start moving forward. They stop the brakes on everything they are doing, but
don't really realize there is a whole different, superior way for them to go down.
God can prevent this through His word, but I see this happening again and again due
to faulty teaching and bad examples in the believers. The new converts, at first so
ready to hear, mix in with the Christian people they respected. They soon accept
that they are now whole and right and stop moving.

Vigilant Watchman

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Dear Vigilant Watchman:

Greetings.

> So many young Christians repent and believe the Bible, but fail to get in
> the stream and start moving forward. They stop the brakes on everything
> they are doing, but don't really realize there is a whole different,
> superior way for them to go down. God can prevent this through His word,
> but I see this happening again and again due to faulty teaching and bad
> examples in the believers. The new converts, at first so ready to hear,
> mix in with the Christian people they respected. They soon accept that
> they are now whole and right and stop moving.

The deception in America is so great, my brother, that getting in the
stream must now come by divine revelation.  There is no other way, not in
America, no, no other way.  In a tribal society maybe, but even they need
to be warned and will need special eyes to see the dangers.  The deception
of the times is too deep.   The snares, the tangles, the knots, the sorceries,
the years of false teachings, and the years of being Americans ensure 
that we will not be whole Christians.

The witchcraft wrought on America and the world has been the greatest and
most sustained possible.  It has been thoroughly enmeshed in the souls of
Americans--but it was not supposed to happen to us, the saints.  The
church of the living God is the pillar and ground of the truth.

Exactly how did this happen?

The leaders were not right.  The leaders of this people do cause them to
err.  Whenever there this a systemic problem, the first place I look is
leadership.  I don't know if I've ever looked past the leader, even when
that leader was me.

In 1636, I believe, Harvard was founded for "training" ministers because
there was a shortage.  That is a faulty premise to start with.  God said
pray for laborers, they set up a school.  Harvard and other colleges
opened the door for any unanointed person to walk into the gospel
ministry.  That practice has continued unto this day.

In the 1800s, when important and timely warnings were issued, these
unanointed, college-trained preachers who had studied "the original
languages" and were skilled orators  ignored them.  The witchcrafts of the
times were not repudiated by these men, but welcomed into their lives. 
Amusements (church socials), newspapers, etc.  I have a remarkable book
which is a collection of writing by three black women who lived in the
eighteen hundreds.  They preached but had piercing insight as to the times
in which they lived.  One said something like this concerning newspapers,
"Do not defile your eyes by the sight of its columns."  She talked about
the light, vain, and scurrilous articles.  There were people who could
read the signs of the times--and it was not the respected college
preachers as a group.  It was the raggedy periphery, the group to which I
belong.

The dumb dog preachers heard the warnings, wanted peace with our enemies,
rolled over and went to sleep.  When the watchmen went to sleep the devil
entered the sanctuary.  At the critical time when the alarm should have
been sounded, they went to sleep.  Darwin came to town, Ellen White,
Joseph Smith, Charles Taze Russell, Eady, mass immigration, Catholic
societies, the industrial revolution, the scientific revolution, et al all
sprung up in a short window of time.  Instead of contending, refuting,
exposing, and repudiating, they looked at the times and went to sleep.  
There was a day when I lost my breath over this understanding.

When the warnings were sounded about the Roman threat, the authors of
these writings feared that the preachers would not listen.  They were
right.  The preachers were too busy dressing up and preparing "sermons"
for pay that they did not deserve.  They fleeced the sheep and let the
wolf come in and take over their minds and affections.

As far as I am concerned, hundreds of years have passed in the church
without a teaching priest.  To me, it is as if it is every man for
himself.  You have to take the Bible for yourself and do the best you can.
That is just how I see it.  The road is long and hard without a teacher.
I am not saying that there has not been a righteous teacher in  the
earth, but his name is hidden from me.  I do not know him and what he
taught.  Along the way there has been a glimmer of light here and a
glimmer of there, as one searches out the truth, but as far as I am
concerned, we have been in the Dark Ages.  I feel like somebody who has
been buried alive upside down but has been  compelled by an unseen force
to dig upward in order to get out of the pit.  After years and years and
years of digging, trying, failing, and trying again the head appears above
the surface and gulps for air and finally realizes what all the digging
meant.  Only Almighty God could perform a feat like this.  Nobody else
could have done what God did to me.  Only God could do it by his almighty
power by means that I cannot comprehend.  No one else could do this but
God.  All the crying, dragging, hopelessness, tiredness, ineptitude,
wrongness, and whatever else was involved was somehow kept under check and
the Word took over.  I don't know how God could do this, but he did and my
head popped up out of the dirt.  I look a mess, but at least I can
breathe.  The Lord's name is to be praised.  It is now my prayer that the
Lord make his people very quick to get ahold of what he showed me.  No
one, in my opinion, should have to go through what I did to get this.  We
do not have enough time for that.  Will you pray with me on this wise?

Mephibosheth


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Yes, I will pray fervently with you for all of God's people so that they have ears
to hear and eyes to see these things. And a heart to perform them with all
diligence.

Vigilant Watchman