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THE CULTING OF CHRISTIANITY

The Occult Roots Of

The Rapture Cult - Part XV

 

 

 

 

 

A final series of points in this presentation of Spiritual history demands a review. Gnostic writings have been conclusively shown to be the oldest instances of the concept of a Pre-Tribulational Rapture doctrine. However, yet another thread of identification exists between the Sethians and the "Christian" Rapture Cult, and that is related to the bottom line of the Cult That Kidnapped Christianity.  

 

At its core, the Rapture doctrine (formally known as Dispensationalism), puts forth the idea the Old Testament was the period when God "dispensed" salvation to the Jewish race, as the chosen people. When Christ came to introduce the Spiritual kingdom of God ("the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21) -- and the New Covenant came into effect, the Cult suggests that salvation came to a new entity called the "Church" – a body entirely separate from the family of Israel. The Cult teaches that since the flesh and blood race of the Jews largely refused to come to Christ, the promises of God to the Jews supposedly remain unfulfilled.

 

In reality, all who are translated into the kingdom of God through Christ (Colossians 1:13), have become Spiritual Israelites – thus fulfilling the LORD's promise to redeem Israel. The Rapture Cult teaches that Christ failed to redeem the race known as Israel, but that He will "Rapture" the "Plan B Church," and then later perform a supernatural conversion of the entire race of Israelites (also called Jews) in the world.

 

This miraculous redemption will supposedly occur during a time of great confusion and turmoil in the world – a time referenced in Scripture as great tribulation. Thus we arrive at the hidden agenda of the Cult That Kidnapped Christianity: the division of the redeemed into two distinct bodies – Physical Jewry, and the "Church." In their typical distortion of the facts, the Rapture Cult invariably labels the truth as "Replacement Theology," erroneously asserting that we're affirming the Roman Catholic error that the "Church" replaced Israel. In reality, the Scriptures tell us there is no "Church" in existence, in the sense of an entity separate from born again Israel; but that doesn't stop the Rapture Cult from continuing to misrepresent the facts. 

 

Ironically, the Rapture Cult itself escapes the "replacement" label by falsely positing the "Church" rotates for salvation with Israel in separate "dispensations" – hence the theological label Dispensationalism.

 

What is missed by the False Prophets is how the word "church," as it appears in Scripture, is not a proper name – even as Cult writers routinely insert a capital letter "C," in order to produce the "Church," as they labor to elevate it to a status unintended by the Holy Spirit.

 

The underlying Greek word ekklesia is far more generic, as it means an assembly – of any kind. For example, ekklesia is used in ancient Greek texts to describe an assembly of fans at a sporting event. Since Christ drew His "assembly" out of the lost sheep of the house of Israel (and supernaturally translated those who received Him into the Kingdom of God which is not of this world), His "church" is the equivalent of redeemed Israel.

 

"Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son" (Colossians 1:13).

 

Jesus, upon His earthly arrival, flatly stated His mission was to Israel:

 

"I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matthew 15:24).

 

Knowing that He was to call the Gentiles into the ranks of the chosen people when He translated Israel into a "Spiritual house" (I Peter 2:5), the LORD established the sequence of salvation was to "the Jew first, and also to the Gentile" (Romans 2:9).

 

"And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd" (John 10:16).

 

The one true fold is the opposite of the two supposedly saved bodies of the Rapture Cult, as espoused through the False Doctrine of the "Church" and "Israel."

 

A careful examination of the post ascension sequence of events shows the Apostle Paul taught that the physical primacy of the race of the Jews came to an end under the New Covenant – even going so far as to say there is no longer such a thing as a physical Jew or Gentile. In a subtle distinction, instead of calling the race formerly known as Israel "Jews," the learned Apostle tried to identify them as those who are "called Jews."

 

"Behold, thou are called a Jew…." (Romans 2:17).

 

"Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh…." (Ephesians 2:11).

 

"Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus…and Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision" (Colossians 4:10, 11).

 

"Is any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. Circumcision [being physically Jewish] is nothing, and uncircumcision [being physically Gentile] is nothing" (I Corinthians 7:18, 19).

 

"For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly…but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly" (Romans 2:28, 29).

 

Because of the false doctrine of the Rapture Cult, which claims God has not redeemed Israel, the Cult continues to distinguish the Jewish people as chosen, based on a supposed racial primacy;  and here is where we find the hidden Spiritual agenda of Sethian Gnosticism. The fact is, in virtually all Sethian writings, the Spirit behind it focuses on a salvation which is dispensed on the basis of race, to those who are descended from Seth, who have acquired the supposed knowledge of God.

 

In the Gnostic book The Apocalypse of Adam, we again find Seth as the holy seed:

 

"…hear about the aeon and the seed of that man to whom life has come…" (The Apocalypse of Adam, Nag Hammadi Library, page 279).

 

"For rain-showers of [god] the almighty will be poured forth…on account of the things that it seeks after, along with [those from] the seed of the men to whom passed the life of the knowledge…." (The Apocalypse of Adam, Nag Hammadi Library, page 280).

 

In the Macrae translation of the Apocalypse of Adam, the text has "Adam" telling "Seth" that at the fall in the Garden, the glory of God left the first couple, but "entered" into the "great race" that Seth was to father:

 

"Then God, the ruler of the aeons and the powers, separated us wrathfully….And the glory fled from us, entering into other great [aeons] and another great race. That is why I myself have called you by the name of that man who is the seed of the great race …." (Apocalpse of Adam, Charlesworth Edition, page 712). 

 

As the Apocalypse of Adam progresses, Adam tells Seth that his "imperishable seed" will continue through Noah, whose offspring will continue the work of God.

 

"Now then, my son Seth, I will reveal to you….no seed will come from you of the men who will not stand in my presence in another glory" (Apocalypse of Adam, Nag Hammadi Library, James Robinson, Editor, page 280).

 

We then learn of a Christ-like figure called "the illuminator of knowledge," who will "pass by in great glory," but the "imperishable seed" will not recognize him:

 

"And the powers will not see it with their eyes, nor will they see the illuminator either. Then they will punish the flesh of the man upon whom the holy spirit came" (The Apocalypse of Adam, The Nag Hammadi Library, James Robinson, Editor, page 282) .

 

Just as in the other Sethian Occult writings, a great conflagration will come:

 

"Then fire and sulphur and asphalt will be cast upon those men, and fire and blinding mist will come over those aeons, and the eyes of the powers of the illuminators will be darkened" (Apocalypse of Adam, Nag Hammadi Library, page 282) .

 

It is here that we find the "guardians" of the "imperishable seed" intervene to take the Sethian race out of the fire:

 

"Abrasax and Sablo and Gamaliel will descend and bring those men out of the fire and the wrath, and take them above the aeons and the rulers of the [powers] …and take them away…" (ibid, emphasis mine).

 

In the related Sethian document, the Gospel of the Egyptians, we find the supposedly godly race permeates the entire document:

 

"…the glory and the power of the invisible Father of the holy men of the great light which will come to the world…." (Gospel Of The Egyptians, Nag Hammadi Library, Robinson, page 212) .

 

"…in order that they may name the Father the fourth with the incorruptible race, that they may call the seed of the Father the seed of the great Seth" (Gospel Of The Egyptians, page 213) .

 

"…the Father and his approval with which he approved of the great, incorruptible, immovable race of the great, mighty men of the great Seth" (Gospel Of The Egyptians, page 215).

 

"This is the race which came forth…this is the great, incorruptible race which has come forth through three worlds to the world" (ibid).

 

"And the flood came as an example for the consummation of the aeon. But it will be sent into the world because of this race. A conflagration will come upon the earth. And grace will be with those who belong to the race through the prophets and the guardians who guard the life of the race" (Gospel Of The Egyptians, 215, 216).

 

"Because of this race famines will occur and plagues. But these things will happen because of the great, incorruptible race. Because of this race temptations will come..." (Gospel Of The Egyptians, page 216).

 

The Gospel of the Egyptians speaks of how "Jesus" was "the living one whom the great Seth has put on," in order that he might "save her, the race, who went astray…" (ibid). This "incorruptible" race is associated with "the prophets," so there is no doubt that it is the race of physical Israel the evil Spirits are seeking to point us to. Further, it is the very same Sethian Gnostic writings which have put forth the blasphemous idea that it is Seth, manifesting himself as Jesus, who sends angels to Rapture his followers from the impending cataclysm, while the rest of the world is left behind:

 

"Afterward great angels will come on high clouds to bring those men to the place where the spirit of life dwells…But the whole [multitude] of flesh will be left behind…." (Apocalypse Of Adam, Charlesworth edition, page 713).

 

-- James Lloyd

 

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