CLAUDIA PROCULA

   Have you ever studied the women of the Bible?
   Personally speaking, it is my belief that women hold a special place in the heart of God, and that their stories should be told and not forgotten.
   One woman is Claudia Procula, a woman of wealth.
   Claudia is the granddaughter of Augustus Caesar, the daughter of Tiberius Caesar, and the wife of Pontius Pilate---the man who gave the order to crucify Jesus of Nazareth.
   The first evidence of Claudia's faith is told to us in a note she sent to her husband when Pilate was waffling with his decision of what to do about Jesus. 
   She wrote,
       "Have thou nothing to do with that just man:  for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."  (Matthew 27: 19)

   Throughout the Bible, at many times and in many places, God has spoken to people in dreams; so it would not be unusual for God to speak to Pilate through his wife's dream.
   But after the Lord's resurrection in Jerusalem, Claudia went to Galilee to seek the face of Jesus before the Lord's ascension to heaven, and thereafter she became a disciple of Jesus all the days of her life.
   It should be noted, too, that Jesus had many women disciples, for even His own mother, Mary, became a disciple of Christ, as did Mary Magdalene and her sister, Martha, as well as Joanna and Susanna.
   Furthermore, the Apostle Paul salutes women disciples by name:  he writes of Priscilla six times, but then there is Junia, Julia, Tryphena, and Tryphosa. 
   As a Roman citizen, it is likely that Claudia moved to Rome and served with the Apostle Paul and other believers in the early church in Rome, for Paul, while in Rome, writes in 2 Timothy 4: 21--- "Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren."
   As a Roman citizen, but also as a woman of Roman nobility, Claudia was able to move freely in the Roman Empire without bothersome questions from Roman legions. 
   Furthermore, Claudia's father, Tiberius Caesar, knew Joseph of Arimathea personally, and Joseph was the great uncle of Jesus.  Tiberius appointed Joseph to the Roman post, Nobilis Decurio, or noble provider of metal, and some historians assert that Joseph was also a provincial Roman Senator.  These positions enabled Joseph to move his fleet of ships throughout the Roman Empire, which could also imply that he used his ships to secretly transport the apostles and disciples of Christ to destinations in the Empire, for Joseph was also a secret disciple.  For example, how else did Thomas travel to India, or Andrew as far as the Black Sea?
   While there is much that we do not know about Claudia Procula, we can be sure that her name and her note to Pontius Pilate are of special importance to God.

      "Have nothing to do with that just man:  for I have suffered many things this day in a dream of him."
  

WHEN GOD DRAWS NEAR

   God loves us now and He wants to love us more. 
   The desire of God's heart is that we will love Him, as He loves us, and that we also will love others, just as He also loves others.
   But if people do not desire God, then God will leave those people alone.  He will grant unto them the desires of their own hearts, and He will write them out of His will and out of their portion in heaven.
   If people do not desire God in this world, neither would they desire God in heaven.  For if God is a stranger to them now, He would also be a stranger to them in heaven. 
   Heaven is not a place from the imaginations of people; heaven is the abode of God.
   God is living.  He is not an idol, nor an image, in the imaginations of people. 
   Neither is God whatever people imagine Him to be, nor does He do as people imagine Him to do.
   As living, God has a personality:  He sees, He hears, He feels. 
   God has a heart, and His heart is for people and nothing else. 
   God also has power.  He has the power to create, and He also has the power to destroy. 
   Above all else that God is, His heart's desire is that people will know His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. 
   Therefore the name of Jesus is known by more people, in more nations, and in more languages than the name of any person in world history.  This is not an accident, nor a coincidence, for this is the name that God wants people to know more than any other name, and God has been working for thousands of years through people to make this name known in every household upon the earth.
   Even Pontius Pilate said,
      What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ.  (Matthew 27: 22)
   When God draws near, this is the question that every person must answer. 
      For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.   (1 Timothy 2: 5-6)

GREEN LEAVES

   Whenever people believe in a deceiver, they will continue to follow him because they are unable to discern the difference between truth and lies.  But when people have the truth of God in them, they can discern the deceivers because it takes one to know one.
    Before I was saved by Christ the Lord, I was a deceiver (which is what I mean by "it takes one to know one") even though I was not consciously trying to deceive others.  And the people who knew me the best believed that I was a Christian because of my behavior:  I went to church, I knew the walk, I knew the talk, I prayed and read the Bible.  But when Christ came to me in April, 1995, I knew that I had never confessed to God that I am a sinner, and I knew I had never invited Christ into my life to save me from my sin.  For on that day, I came to believe that I was a sinner for the first time in my life. 
   Thereafter, I began to experience the truth of God's Word: 
      Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:  old things pass away; behold, all things are become new.  (2 Corinthians 5: 17)
   Ever since that day in 1995, things have continued to be new in my life.  Old things have passed away, things have become new, and new lessons I am continuing to learn, even now.
   In the world of religious Christianity, however, old things never pass away; and, behold, nothing never becomes new.  For religion is the same cup of tea from the time a person believes until the day he dies.  Religion has never lived, therefore there can be no life in religion.  It is like a hybrid tree:  manufactured to look real even though its leaves remain green without water.  And the people of religion are the same as green leaves on a hybrid tree.  Thus they are able to deceive others to believe that they are Christians by the way they walk, the way they talk, and by the way they bow their heads.
   There are false apostles, false disciples, and false ministers and priests.  These people are hybrids:  they appear to be ministers of God and messengers of Christ, but they are fakes.  As hybrids, they have created false Christian churches.  Because these men look real, and because the churches they have created look real, the people who follow them become hybrid Christians. 
   We can know them by their leaves, for their leaves never change.  Their leaves remain green, they never wither, and they never thirst for water.  Their leaves are the same today, as they were yesterday, and as they will be tomorrow.  What they say today is the same as what they said yesterday, which will also be the same as what they will say tomorrow.  For their behavior never changes.  They never have anything new to say because there is never anything new to talk about because the menu never changes.
   Thus when we study the riches of God's Word, which is the Bible, we can clearly see and understand that religion is the garden of evil.  And the evidence of this truth is revealed in the fact that people of religion need buildings in which to worship.  They need temples, they need shrines, and they need cathedrals---built by the hands of men.  They need buildings because their god, and their gods and goddesses abide in buildings.  Because these gods are hybrids, they cannot come to the people; so the people must come to them.  Like a rock, their gods never move.  And their ministers teach them to worship idols. 
   To know Christ, people must come out of religion and leave it behind.  For Christ is not there; He is risen.  Why seek ye the living among the dead?  (Luke 24: 5)

A HAPPY MEAL

    Religion is the invention of men who believe that they are gods and that, as gods, they should be worshipped; and that people should follow them:  and do, as they say do, and go, where they say go.
    Religion is a government:  a dictatorship in which certain men control and dominate the lives of their subjects.  People bow to them, worship them, give them their money, and also surrender their children unto their care.
    Karl Marx said:  "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
    Karl Marx is correct, for religion is a spiritual drug that is injected in the minds of people by men who pretend to be "holy men", and thus producing masses of people without the knowledge of God.
    Religion is the first institution, invented by men, that features "mass production".  As adults convert to religion, they reproduce their religion in the minds of their own children, which results in the belief of generational religion:  to the extreme extent that people will actually believe their religion is in their DNA. 
    Knowing this, then it should be easy to understand that religion is mind control:  for as these "holy men" control the minds of people, they also control their behavior.
    McDonald's Restaurants changed the way Americans eat with advertising directed at the minds of toddlers, featuring the appeal of a colorful character and free toys. 
    Strange, but isn't this also the way Christmas and Easter became so popular?  By appealing to the minds of toddlers with colorful characters and free toys?
    Stranger still, the best host for religion is in the minds of toddlers:  with imaginary characters (gods) and a free way to heaven.
    Therefore, people of religion believe they are on the free way to heaven because of their participation in rites and rituals, after which they are rewarded for their obedient behavior with a "happy meal" from their "holy men"---which they have been believing since they were toddlers.
    As written in the Word of the Lord: 
          Will a man rob God?  Yet you have robbed me.  But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee?  In thithes and offerings. (Malachi 3: 8)
    Knowing that religion is an invention of men, we should be able to see that religion is the place for criminal minds:  the place where people bring their tithes and offerings instead of giving their tithes and offerings unto God.  The evidence of this truth is in the knowledge of knowing that religion is the wealthiest institution on the face of the earth!
    More than this, men of religion have robbed God of His glory by glorifying themselves as gods.  And for the people of religion, they are also robbing God of His glory by giving glory and praises unto men whom they worship as gods. 
    Beyond this, men of religion have robbed God of His power by granting forgiveness to people for their sins, which they are not authorized to give:  for they are bandits in disguise.  And for the people who believe in this dispensation of unauthorized forgiveness, they have accepted false salvation, which they also teach to their own children when they visit the man in the box.
    Therefore being deceived by men of religion, people will believe they have found a free way to heaven.  And as long as people trust in their religion, they will not trust in Christ; for trusting in Christ is against their religion:  which is the evidence that people, without Christ, have placed their religion above the throne of God, by the deception of a simple "happy meal".
  

GREAT PRETENDERS

   The Antichrist will be a man, a man whose face will be easily recognized throughout the world.  He will not be a stranger. 
   Because of his stature, he will be trusted as a true and natural leader, whose genealogical bloodline is from King David, and therefore worthy to be called the son of David, for he will be a Jew.  He will be perceived and believed to be the Messiah, who has arisen to his throne to save the world, which will be in a state of chaos.
   The Antichrist, however, will be possessed by Lucifer, who is the real false messiah---the beast behind the mask of the Antichrist.
   The False Prophet is the High Priest of Satan.  He will be a man, dressed in priestly garments. He will be the leader of the World Church, and he will have the power to embrace all religions of the world as one religion, and thereby create a World Religion. 
   Even now, Satan's ministers are men, dressed in priestly garments, and they operate in various stations all over the world, where they have been working for several centuries to corrupt the minds of people with false teachings.
   Jesus warned us there would be days like this when He said, Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  (Matthew 7: 15)
   False prophets are false teachers, false ministers, false preachers, and false priests.  They have been working for two thousand years to distort truth:  to produce a false image of Christ in the minds of people, to hide the knowledge of God from the minds of people, and to hide the Bible from the minds of people.  They have been working to enslave people to the institution of religion, where they reign as gods in the minds of people, and their people are deceived to believe that they are Christians because they belong to a Christian religion.
   The people of false Christianity gladly give their money, for this is their way of paying their dues; for surely their gods must be rewarded for all that they (their priests) do for them!  Having their sins absolved, as well as the sins of their children, this debt relief is worthy of every penny they can give!  To them, they believe that God is in their house of religion.  So then, who is Christ to the people of religious Christianity?  Christ is only an image in their imaginations; and because their priestly gods can forgive them of their sin, what do they possibly need Christ for?  Nothing.  Their faith, therefore, is in their priests, whom they can see with their eyes, and not in Christ, whom they would have to believe by faith alone. 
   Just like their father, Lucifer, false ministers and priests are also great pretenders.  They do not present Christ, for they present themselves.  They do not speak for Christ, for they speak for themselves.  They do not make Christ known to their people, for they make themselves known.  They do not present the Bible to their people, for they present their own dogmas and doctrines, written by their own scribes in their priestly brotherhood. 
   Sadly, the people of false Christianity and all religions will believe that Antichrist, a man of the earth, will be the Messiah.  Because their false priests have told them what to believe all of their lives, they will naturally believe that the High Priest of religion is telling them the truth when he will tell them to bow to King David's son in Jerusalem---while not knowing they will be bowing to Lucifer, the beast behind the face of Antichrist. 
   As Christians, we can only encourage people to know the truth that is in Christ Jesus.  We can only encourage people to know the truth that is in the Holy Bible, which is the Word of the Lord.  For without Christ and the Bible, there is no truth on the face of the earth.  Everything else is only fantasy and make-believe from the minds of great pretenders.

LIARS & DECEIVERS

   We can believe that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is true when we consider the evidence.
   Men of religion have been impersonating Christ for the past two thousand years.
   Men of religion have been impersonating the apostles and disciples of Christ for the past two thousand years.
   Men of religion have been pretending to be ministers and priests of God, and messengers of Christ, for the past two thousand years.
   Men of religion have been working to prevent the Gospel of Christ from reaching the minds of people, and they have been working to prevent the Bible from reaching the hands of people for two thousand years.
   Men of religion are responsible for the murders of Christians for two thousand years.
   Would men of religion honestly exhibit these behaviors if that man, Jesus, had remained dead?
   At the same time, millions of people have been deceived to follow these impersonators for two thousand years.
   Throughout human history, in fact, men of religion are responsible for more murders of people than men of any other institution created by man.  Therefore it is no great thing to know that the men of religion killed Jesus. 
   Men of religion know that Jesus is alive, and they also know that Christ is coming back to earth.  But because they are ministers and priests of Satan, they impersonate Christ in order to prevent people from knowing the Lord; for these men have sold their souls to the devil in order that they will receive their reward, which is bounty money. 
   Such men have evil minds:  they dwell on evil every day of their lives, for evil is their language.
   Their desire is to dominate the world for their god, Satan. 
   Their thrill is found in killing people for Satan, which is their duty because Satan is their god.
   Furthermore, religion is the wealthiest institution on the face of the earth.  These men of religion have deceived people to follow them, they have deceived people to surrender unto them their money, and these men have never worked real jobs because their followers believe they are gods, and gods should not be workers in the fields of life.
   Moreover, these men of religion keep their secret worship of Satan hidden from their own congregations.  They can't let their secret worship be known for then their "cover" would be blown and their true identity would be known; for impersonators are masterful deceivers.  The less their congregations know about them the easier it is to keep them living under their power.
   Even today, men of religion pretend to be God, pretend to be Christ, pretend to be ministers and priests of the Lord---while, at the same time, they never tell their people that Christ will return to earth because they do not want their people to know this truth.  Their desire is for people to believe that they are Christians just because they are members of a Christian church or a Christian religion.  To them, Christianity is a religion without Christ.  They do not want people to trust in Christ for salvation; instead, they want people to trust in their religion and continue to follow their priests.
   The return of Jesus Christ will be the greatest event in world history, yet men of religion are continuing to hide this truth from people, even today.  These men are liars and deceivers.  To them, Jesus is a face on a Most Wanted poster, and their desire is for people to not look for the face of Jesus, nor to trust in the Lord for their salvation.
   Jesus said, Take heed that no man deceive you.  (Matthew 24: 4)
   Therefore we can know and believe that, when we look at the faces of men in religion, we are looking in the faces of liars and deceivers. 
   But again, consider the evidence:  would men of sanity impersonate a dead man for twenty centuries?  
   Of course not!  For they know that Christ is alive and is coming back to earth.
  
  
  
  

A PERCEIVED VALUE

   Religion is a delusion, poured in the minds of people in order to create a defensive barrier against the knowledge of God, the knowledge of Christ, and the knowledge of the Holy Bible, thereby keeping the minds of people focused on religion itself:  on its ministers and priests, on its dogmas and doctrines, on its rites and rituals, and on its laws which govern their minds.
   All religions are creations of men and from the imaginations of men, which also means that people of religion believe with their imaginations, just as children believe with their imaginations.
   Religion is based on sights and sounds, and not by faith.
   Religion is, therefore, the most powerful method of mind control that man has invented, for religious leaders know the power that abides in religion, and religion, once accepted, is the power that operates in the minds of people, for it controls the behavior of people all the days of their lives.
   In religion, the minds of people are as little children, for their religious leaders do not want their people to grow up, nor to mature, nor to advance beyond their present state of mind.  And like obedient children, the people return to their houses of religion for continuous doses of prescription medication from their doctors of religion.
   Religion is the government of religious people, for they live under the dictatorship of their masters, and they are, obviously, slaves to their religion.  They are slaves because their religious gurus have captured their minds, and as long as people live under the delusion of religion, they will continue to reject God, to reject Christ, and to reject the Bible.
   As a delusion, people of religion believe in a perceived reality, where they are deceived by their own perceptions:  deceptions that are bathed in dogmas and doctrines, rites and rituals, and the perception that their god, or gods and goddesses, are real, and that the images of idols, such as statues, portraits, and photographs, have the power to forgive them of their sins and to answer their prayers.  This perceived reality is therefore the evidence that modern people are just as pagan as ancient men, and women, and children.
   On the contrary, the Bible has the power to change the destiny of people; but without it, people will continue to live their present destiny, in a religious delusion, in a world of perceived value, which is a world without God. 
   In truth, religion is dead because there is nothing in it that is living, for religion is an institution for the spiritually insane.  And because religion is dead, religion is also a tomb. 
   As it is written in the Bible:  Why seek ye the living among the dead?  He is not here, but is risen. (Luke 24: 5-6)