Today's churches have different doctrines that differ from each other. In the Bible, there are the true gospel and a different gospel, God's word and man-made stories, and the true church and the false churches. How can we distinguish the true church from the false ones? God shows us a clear difference between the two through the parable of weeds and wheat.
Mt 13:24-30, 37-43 First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn … They will throw them into the fiery furnace … Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
Here the wheat symbolizes the righteous. The weeds signify the unrighteous to be thrown into the fiery furnace on the last day.
Those who practice lawlessness will not enter the kingdom of heaven, but enter the fiery furnace on the last day.
Mt 7:21-23 I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness (NKJV).
Weeds are the unrighteous, the false churches. They do not obey God's law such as the Sabbath day and the Passover. They practice lawlessness such as Sunday, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Halloween instead.
The truth of the Early Church is pure and perfect. God wants us to have pure faith in the teachings of Jesus and the Early Church before the weeds of lawlessness were sown.
Eph 2:20 Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets.
What is the truth of the Early Church? First, the Early Church kept the Sabbath day.
Lk 4:16 On the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.
Ac 17:2 As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures.
The Early Church celebrated the Passover of the new covenant.
Mt 26:18, 26-28 I am going to celebrate the Passover … This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
In the Early Church, women covered their heads.
1 Co 11:1-6, 16 Every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head.
The Early Church kept the day of Pentecost.
Ac 2:1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
The Early Church celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles.
Jn 7:2 When the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
The weeds outlive the wheat and they prevail over the wheat at the harvest when not uprooted. Jesus told the harvesters not to uproot the weeds until the harvest, the end of the age (Mt 13:29). So the weeds, false churches, prosper throughout the whole world in these last days. Even though they look very enormous and gorgeous, they have no truth at all. They are the very weeds to be thrown into the fire at the harvest. The wheat, the true church, will be brought into God's barn, the heavenly kingdom. What the farmer really wants is the wheat, not the weeds, even though the wheat appears to be weak and small. Come to the Church of God which leads us to salvation. God bless you.
Mt 13:24-30, 37-43 First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn … They will throw them into the fiery furnace … Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
Here the wheat symbolizes the righteous. The weeds signify the unrighteous to be thrown into the fiery furnace on the last day.
Those who practice lawlessness will not enter the kingdom of heaven, but enter the fiery furnace on the last day.
Mt 7:21-23 I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness (NKJV).
Weeds are the unrighteous, the false churches. They do not obey God's law such as the Sabbath day and the Passover. They practice lawlessness such as Sunday, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Halloween instead.
The truth of the Early Church is pure and perfect. God wants us to have pure faith in the teachings of Jesus and the Early Church before the weeds of lawlessness were sown.
Eph 2:20 Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets.
What is the truth of the Early Church? First, the Early Church kept the Sabbath day.
Lk 4:16 On the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.
Ac 17:2 As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures.
The Early Church celebrated the Passover of the new covenant.
Mt 26:18, 26-28 I am going to celebrate the Passover … This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
In the Early Church, women covered their heads.
1 Co 11:1-6, 16 Every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head.
The Early Church kept the day of Pentecost.
Ac 2:1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
The Early Church celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles.
Jn 7:2 When the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
The weeds outlive the wheat and they prevail over the wheat at the harvest when not uprooted. Jesus told the harvesters not to uproot the weeds until the harvest, the end of the age (Mt 13:29). So the weeds, false churches, prosper throughout the whole world in these last days. Even though they look very enormous and gorgeous, they have no truth at all. They are the very weeds to be thrown into the fire at the harvest. The wheat, the true church, will be brought into God's barn, the heavenly kingdom. What the farmer really wants is the wheat, not the weeds, even though the wheat appears to be weak and small. Come to the Church of God which leads us to salvation. God bless you.
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