The early church was not organized after the manner of the present church systems. If they had been, the scriptural records would have been quite different from what they are. We would have some reference to the installation of popes and bishops in beautiful robes and the commissioning of priests with proper ceremony. We would have some record of how pastors are set in the local church over all other ministers, how visitors to the churches should meet with the pastor, and how the sick should call for the pastor of the church, and let the pastor pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.
We would have some reference for church seminaries, and how to be recognized and chartered by the state, so ministers can legally marry the young and bury the dead. We would have some specific examples of how Jesus and the apostles conducted funerals, performed weddings, and how the pastors did dedications. There would be some instructions about how to organize the church choir, form a church board, hire the preachers, and remove those individuals who do not build and promote their programs properly.
There is no end to the needless things churches accept as necessary and normal, things that have absolutely no foundation in scripture or place in spiritual life. Church ministries have not fulfilled the spiritual goal of causing growth into oneness in the body of Christ, Christ is not divided. A maturity has been promised throughout the generations, and most mature Christians have been removed from the candlestick church orders because they realized how blind the leaders are in their performance and obligations of that church system.
Praise God, the consuming fires of God have burnt up much of the false church dross from the hearts of His sons. Son’s need be circumcised of heart concerning all the ways of the improper candlestick order, sons are cleansed of heart, having been washed of the many false interpretations and religious traditions that have blinded God’s people. We see Christians in Babylonish levels today casting forth improper judgment about proper bible interpretation, not knowing what they think they know. They are very familiar with knowing the pass works of generations of their leaders who established the rituals and traditional ceremonies all over Mystery Babylon.
God has led sons to forsake ALL of the traditional rituals and trappings of Mystery Babylon because the King must have His rightful place as Lord of our being. God’s salvation is found in a people, a people raising past church heavens into His Kingdom truth, the truth that establishes His being within our life, until we are enthroned with His life. This order of endless life that makes us rise beyond the present-day limits in church worship conducted in Nicolaitan rituals done for gain, yes, it is practiced in churches today, many thoroughly mixed with patterned ways of the world, such as big buildings, big influence over other men’s lives, they get a reputation to gain control, establishing a base of financial gain, and go for public notoriety among the politicians and worldly leaders. These are the mysterious ways of Babylon.
I speak to sons that all through the last two-thousand-year history of the seven candlestick churches, our Father has been drawing out true overcomers in a hidden manner to operate truthfully in the body of Christ. Faithful leaders are teaching disciples of Christ to take the way of the cross, to be stripped of fame and fortune gained using worldly methods common to fading glories. Sons are still going “outside the candlestick church camps,” outside the accepted religious orders, bearing the reproach. Many of God’s sons have been ostracized and shamed for following the truth within their own heart.
All Christians are called to grow to spiritual maturity while not seeking anything for themselves. Worship is not boasting about our religious works, as what honor is there in keeping our own record of the past? In Christ no boasting of titles, fancy hats, flowing robes, or claims of scholarly privilege is needed. The Father has organized generations of sons to be directors of what is needed among brethren in Christ. The New Jerusalem order is our homeland, and it is not cluttered with the traditions established in church hierarchies. Sons know the teachings of the Nicolaitans was the main corruption of the entire candlestick church realm. The Nicolaitan spirit of church leaders has worked throughout church history to form mixtures of false standards, (many heavens) that misrepresent true New Jerusalem worship. Overcoming sons and daughters raised and dealt with is God’s plan, He seals His own sons. They become living epistles of the king, Jesus Christ. We too are being made alive within our inner being, entering a lasting relationship with the King of the kingdom.
Jesus is the pattern Son, the firstborn among many brethren. We prayerfully and reverently consider the deeds of Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our profession. He wanted nothing of the religion of the Pharisees. He expressed a certain contempt for the organized religious leaders of Israel. He held up the scripture to show the learned how the prestigious places Rabbis had taken where a major hinderance. He did not join among their standings, nor did He walk like the Pharisees imposing their pretentious titles. He was not clothed in elaborate and gorgeous vestments, and He did not love those chief seats in the synagogue.
The Pharisee’s bound the people under heavy burdens of the law. It laid impossible requirements upon many generations of Israelites, grievous to be borne. All sorts of rules and regulations were extrapolated from the Old Testament law. Yet Jesus is the pattern Son, who operated outside the traditional viewpoints of the legalistic religious leaders of His day fulfilled the law. Instead, Jesus was spiritually connected to God as His Son. He never concerned Himself with the external structures or organization, the establishment of worship in proper creeds, the attractive ceremonies, promotions, and all the other things found working in religion (Jewish) in His day.
Jesus was very unusual. He would not strictly follow the methods and techniques of Jewish tradition. He was an original son who did not go in the way of the religious leaders or multitudes. Jesus, He hated leadership that did things to be seen, countenance marked to appear to men to fast. Jesus walking there with the Pharisees rebuked them, and that same religious spirit is now in present-day gatherings for Christian worship. Jesus hated it when it appeared in the church at Ephesus. He hates it today wherever it appears. He makes war with it with the words of His mouth. This thing — He hates is in the midst of His candlestick people.
The deeds and doctrines of Nicolaitans were spawned amongst Christian believers. Nicolaitan teachers held authority over “laity” a “priesthood OVER the people” attitude, forming hierarchies OVER God’s people. That’s what Nicolaitans preach, and that you must join their fellowship, accepting their leader to be a member of their people. Those held in lower heavens live below their God-given privileges. The Lord’s people are but a bit confused to have fallen into many ditches of hierarchical confusion.
The history of the candlestick church is full of false apostles, false leaders taking followings after themselves, taking the leadership of the church. Now Jesus stands outside the Laodicean doors knocking to those who can hear, saying to buy golden ideas, refined by fire, forsaking what you have previously learned so that you may be truly rich, covered in white, anointed with eye salve, and freed to finding Christ ruling within. God desires Christian people to know the truth about these deeds and doctrines of the Nicoatianes:
"So have you also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches;" Revelation 2:15-
The main idea of the NICOLAITANS is to be victorious over the laity, creating ministries that regulate the laity, “nico” over the “laity”. Nicolaitans gained footholds trying to take over the Ephesus early candlestick churches, thru the time of Smyrna persecution many were then taking holding to the Roman teaching and way. Now many heavenly places need cleansing from centuries of sincere Christians gathering to worship God in dead orders. Religious minded men have taken control of many a Christian heaven, they mark them with their “doctrine and deeds”. The established Christian forms of present-day gatherings to worship God yet maintain “a status quo” to keep order and control of those meetings. Throughout church history when God moved, men would ALWAYS put controlling hands on that move. Then the spiritual anointing would lift and the glory depart, as the people dry up then scatter rather than doing the same old thing. Good people get stuck in heavens too, going over old things time again where there is no quickening life anymore. Everything becomes organized, structured, controlled by their systematized leadership.
Now a move of SPIRITUAL quickening can touch many of us at once, deep within our being Christ is formed by power that makes us sure He now reigns over us and everyone else in the kingdoms of this world. He has opened a new day. Newness is happening like no other time in the past two thousand years of church history. We do not want to repeat that history of deceivers, false apostles who deceive multitudes in veiled merchandising among the Lord’s people. Church worship services are done to maintain control of the church laity because it is big business in America. The phraseology changes from time to time, but the basic concept of the Nicolaitans remains the same and is still being practiced IN THIS PRESENT DAY (Laodicean candlestick) CHURCH. Church folk that thinks they are so rich, they need nothing! Yet, from this “drive” to organize candlestick church heavens no matter what the short-sighted beastly charge in men’s hearts that seeks for esteemed reputations. Being established by God often means being great examples of humility by thinking others are more highly esteemed than themselves.
God prefers fellowship with these others who are labeled “laity” so He is making known to them full counsel of His will, with graceful understandings of His great revelations, He is calling us all upward over the cunning and crafty work of skilled men who manipulate and maneuver in the candlestick church realm. The Lord’s people should not agree with their measure of faith, neither should they measure themselves among themselves, not realizing Christian heavens are full of people teaching scripture incorrectly, producing thereby adverse effect on people’s lives and limiting access to truth.
Candlestick church fellowship keeps us short of our spiritual homeland, the New Jerusalem order, that true city above. God translates us spiritually now until we are “at home” with the Father within our dwelling. Then we are connected to the third day homeland! The orders in the candlestick church heavens become facades of pious words that pretend and suppose righteousness. Yet what spirit some are becomes evident when those “laity” who are supposed to follow, don’t. “Anathema!” cries the ruler. “Rebellion!” cries the tyrant. “Zap!” goes the whip when powerful religious leaders maintain their charge of the laity, sometimes it’s with little tolerance for any who persist in a different mind then their views. The religious ranks are swollen with many good people, vast numbers of people confined both in denominational and non-denominational ranks — all heavens that are destined to be passing away.
Though it has recently surged under various titles and guises, the Nicolaitan hierarchy scheme is the error THAT ALWAYS SAPS THE LIFE OF GOD FROM THE ORIGINAL OUTPOURINGS among those saints, IN EACH LEVEL OF THE CANDLESTICK CHURCHES. From one generation to the next generation, it resurfaces under different names, but its basic tenets remain the same in that only they ordain ministers who speak with authority; and any resistance to their authority is to resist God’s authority. Elementary heavens follow teachings of a systems that marks people as their graduates, their members, or their priests with their viewpoint. Then unless their Nicolaitan viewpoint is embraced by others they must be withstood and denounced, certainly to have no ministerial place among them. The greatest out pourings of Spirit in the history of the church have been abused by Nicolaitan tyrants throughout the churches’ history.
Where, then, is safety to be found? Safety lies only in recognition God is true and every man a liar. Safety lies in recognizing all God’s sons and daughters must mature and be liberated to be led by God’s Spirit. All of us need to learn how to worship God with spiritual truth, singing and preaching a newness of divine oneness illuminated in our inner man and flowing out of us brings unity with God’s new heaven for our gatherings and private life. We have desired to excel most especially in worshiping the Father in the spirit of the Lord’s Day. In the “third day” heavens, the Feast of Tabernacles heaven that has new food to feed His people, long hidden manna, reserved in the Ark realm for a wedding supper of the highest order. All who are called to it are blessed, we that follow after Jesus will apprehend an attendance at this wedding. We that have been apprehended of Christ Jesus hope for complete transcending from old church heavens way of thinking, to now grasp the spirit of the Lord’s Day.
THE THRUST NOW IS TO POINT EVERYONE TO A LIVING RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BY BECOMING GOD’S TABERNACLE. WE ARE MADE A PLACE FOR GOD TO DWELL AS OUR FATHER. His Spirit must teach us the truth about all these scriptural things working in the mind of Jesus Christ. His mind is given to each one of us who are receiving the truthful sayings of scripture. Christ is working quickly within us to cleanse our inner person, making us complete, a spiritual tabernacle fit for God’s habitation.
Christians have both parroted and coined a great many terms that are misleading, terms that are not coming from scripture or the mind of Christ. Sons now are purged to purify our thinking processes from all that has marked multitudes of God’s people with unscriptural expressions within its mysteries. Babylon refers to their minister as the “pastor” of the church, and we hear constant talking about “our pastor,” “their pastor,” “your pastor,” “my pastor,” and “the pastor.” One would certainly think this position of “the pastor” must indeed be one of most highly acclaimed offices in the New Testament. The fact is the term “the pastor” is entirely foreign teaching. God’s people must develop an individual relationship with their SPIRITUAL PASTOR, that makes us all brethren, of one spirit with God’s Spirit. Overcomers see when any man takes to himself authority in titles “the pastor,” "reverend" or “the Father” or any similar title beyond brother, or sister, that person really thereby USURPS the true head of the church. The Lord's instruction when feeding His people was to do it not as a "lord" but as an example of a servant to the flock a grace given to the humble;
"…shepherd the flocklet of God among you, supervising, not of compulsion, but voluntarily, according to God nor yet avariciously, but eagerly; nor yet as lording it over the allotments, but becoming models for the flocklet, and, when the Chief Shepherd is manifested, you shall be requited with an unfading wreath of glory.
Likewise, younger men may be subject to the elder, yet all wear the servile apron of humility with one another, for God is resisting the proud, yet is giving grace to the humble." I Peter 5:2-6
The Lord’s people are still being called out of the old, changing understandings that have marked them even saturated their lives. People need to be cleansed from the thorough brain-washing the apostate church systems have promoted. They speak by rote the same mixture of absurdities assimilated on every Sunday, after Sunday after Sunday, in the pews of Mystery Babylon. How astounding we howl when once enlightened to learn the truth and discover Christ’ teaching us the hallowed church practices have been assumed right and found not to fit in the Kingdom of God. What does Jesus Christ hate? That which He hates must truly be an abomination. He HATES the deeds and doctrines of the Nicolaitans! He is calling to us, instead, to be set free, reaped, set free by God to know Him by Spirit from within our inner spiritual person. All God’s people must be freed:
"But this you have, that you are hating the acts of the Nicolaitans, which I, also, am hating. Who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit is saying to the ecclesia." Revelation 2:6 concordant
We praise God for true ministers who warn and instruct us through exhortation with admonitions that give us strength in our times of need. In times of weakness God grants each of us courage to persevere. We found following the Lamb was to have the Father's name written engraved upon their heart and within our being would be the sound of many waters (messages), saying and singing that something NEW is now upon mount Zion.
God has separated us, drawn us out of every Christian camp to show us His mysterious light which radiates from within our spirit. We have soared with Him into heavenly heights. We do esteem every servant and instrument of God “exceeding high in love for their work’s sake,” but we will never permit them to usurp the place given to the Chief Shepherd within our lives! Therefore, in some hours I do submit my questions about God through memories of a past pastor or minister I was placed under for instruction. Now I pray to our Father in all these matters as you should do too. The truth is that the GOD Himself is becoming ALL to each of us.
He is coming swiftly to do this now! He will accomplish this in us as He removes the former loves of our heart, the past orders(heavens) that were blessed in to behold new heavens that belong to Him. He bought us, a redemption from every kinship with worthless Babylonian ways. We found the love of God more perfectly outside every camp dominated by man's mind. Now our spirit is being quickened by His Spirit when we cry out “ABBA- God is Fathering us.” In the high places of the Kingdom of God are living creatures soaring, resting on the wind like eagles, soaring high, do gather!
Living life under a dominate Nicolaitan order is to limit one’s spiritual growth in Christ. Nicolaitans fight to maintain control of the pulpit in structured programs, design orchestrated music, and formulate creeds that have created thousands of immature followers’, more infants — babes in understanding Christ by the Spirit, for there are few real spiritual fathers. The Nicolaitans beget followers that lacking spiritual vision. They are blind to spiritual reality, yet they are the Lord’s people in the ongoing purposes of God.
Yielding to Nicolaitan church authority now would be to numb the teachings of Christ within our inner being. Submitting to Babylonish ways would be our acceptance of serfdom to a religious bondage and our abdication of true sonship rights. Babylonish leaders will keep their followers on the little patch of truth that they possess. If we followed, we too would be like Esau having sold our birthright for a bowl of lentils. Under the dominion of “other lords” we soon disavow personal responsibility for submission to our true Head, relinquishing sight of our real life. Will we sell short our soul's birthright and settle in ways of servitude for yesterday's pottage? Yes, it does seem most Christians today are very comfortable in the great slave camps of Mystery Babylon. Christianity has been full of babes in every generation. Nicolaitan domination from the earliest church systems, caused the ecclesia in Ephesus to lose its original place, it fell to produced multitudes of stunted believers who did not grow up to full spiritual stature. As babes they suck from the breast of that harlot mother who provides breasts to suckle. Thirty years later they will be sitting in the same pew, focused on the same things, going through the same motions, standing up when they are told to stand, sitting when they are told to sit, singing when they are told to sing, clapping when they are told to clap, getting their leading from performers on a most beautiful platform.
Sons follow the Lord outside every religious camp looking for real spiritual development within their being. Live lasting change qualifies us as joint heirs with Him, made one as real kingdom priests. Past candlestick “Christian” heavens need be burnt up, Christians need to grow up in their consciousness. Christians need to feed on third day spiritual meat, the word that tastes like the bread of Life. LORD comes making us strong so we may enter now the Kings domain. The Lord still hates the deeds of the Nicolaitans, it is true. Now every son of God hates, detests, abhors, and loathes the deeds of the Nicolaitans also. Nicolaitan leaders in Christian churches do not allow for full spiritual growth of their membership. They keep everyone bound to fundamental hexarchies, to doctrines and ceremonies, many just creeds passed down from a former time.
To the saints in Pergamos the Lord said, in regard to those who held the doctrine of the Nicolaitans:
“Repent, or I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.” Revelation 2:16
The “sword of the Lord’s mouth” is His anointed WORD that is The Lord Himself who is set to fight, to battle against the antichrist deeds and doctrines that have captured His people. The sword of His word is against the Nicolaitan spirit, against those that are the blindly holding God’s people to something less, leading the blind into a deeper ditch as far as to understanding the Father’s “present third day” purposes.
Through the power and might of HIS WORD, the Lord will destroy the influence of these “blind leaders” that hinder the long-awaited deliverance of His people. And in this time true sons of God will be OVERCOMING THE DEEDS AND DOCTRINES OF THE NICOLAITANS!
“Thus you, also, have those holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans, likewise. Repent then! Yet if not, I am coming to you swiftly and shall be battling with them with the blade of My mouth. Who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit is saying to the ecclesias.
To the one who is conquering [the Nicolaitan teaching], to him will I be giving of the hidden manna, and I shall be giving him a white stone and on the stone a new name written, of which no one is aware except the one who is obtaining it.” Revelation 2:15-17 concordant
Indeed, God has “hidden manna" in the holy of holies and “white stones” and a “new name" for the overcomers who are able to identify and turn away from failures in the candlestick church realm, we need to know about the deeds and doctrine of the Nicolaitans. “Hidden manna” is a new supply source of spiritual food, understanding of a new feast that is reserved only for those taught by His Spirit. The promise to each of us is how His Spirit leads us to let the Most High dwell within. Our Father’s glory will be found in everyone who are led by the words and thoughts coming directly from the mouth of the Father. Food from the throne room is a heavenly feast of fat things well refined, food that fills us with understanding the wisdom of God.
May God be revealing new guidance in you these very hours. We learn as we gather to Him in spirit and truth about true worship, in words God is ministering so that we hear what the Spirit is saying to the called out. It is awesome when the Spirit says something clearly to us! May there be gatherings where pure words spoken penetrate our spirit to change our inner person! A redemption is then happening within each of us as the things keep coming in the "revelation" of Jesus Christ happen to us:
"Behold! He is coming with clouds, and every eye shall be seeing Him, those, also, who stab Him and all the tribes of the land shall be grieving over Him. Yea! Amen!” Revelation 1:7 concordant
Moses served as a wonderful example and pattern of hearing the voice of God. When he came into the tabernacle (Numbers 7:89), he heard the voice speaking from the mercy seat. It is not said that the voice began to speak; rather the contrary is implied. The voice would seem to have been speaking all along, but it was ONLY AS MOSES CAME INTO THE TABERNACLE that he heard it. Why did he hear it now? It was because now he had been drawn into the presence of the speaker when he entered into the tabernacle. It was when he consciously and deliberately and purposefully entered into the abiding glory and presence of God that there woke within him the conviction that God had all the time been speaking. It is the same with us today.
It is no marvel that so many have missed the understanding needed to speak the spirit's message to the churches. Many times, the voice of God cannot be heard for all the noise made by the religious activities. So much is thereby effectively drowned out by the thunder and clamor in the streets of Mystery Babylon. The tones of its vibrating sounds make impression that stir the thought waves of the earthly minded. Yet, our Father is speaking incessantly, but to hear His message we must have been separated from our mother’s breast. We must have entered a secret place of life found deep within our own tabernacle. Sons of God learn to hear with spiritual ears that which God speaks and has spoken.
It is most important to have a spirit with an ear to hear from our Father. Not only that, but the divine faculties necessary to grow up and attain to the full stature of Christ Jesus. Our Father’s divine power has given unto us all things that pertain to life and god-like-ness. True sons have ears that are open to hear what His Spirit says. We hear when it means a great deal to us. When God says things to us, it opens up great treasure. There is nothing lacking divine resources in our lives once we have developed in mind, an inner spiritual connection with God the Father, become agreed as a Son, a brother to the Lord.
NOW LISTEN AND HEAR THAT THE SPIRIT IS TEACHING. Listen to the voice calling us to come up hither out of every place where the deeds and doctrines of the Nicolaitans dominate. Into the throne realm we will tune all of our spiritual ears to hear His voice every time the truth of His mouth instructs His people, quickening them with overflowing truth. It will flow like a river of crystal-clear water, flowing out to whoever is thirsty, satisfying whoever is weary. “Come and Dine,” eat and drink at a marriage feast, where we can eat anew of hidden manna from the throne realm, food and drink that nourishes us with the hidden secret things, the spiritual things.