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Omega Message – July 1986

Cecil J. duCille

The voice of God is calling to the church at this time to be on our double watch.  One morning months ago, as I was coming out of my sleep, I heard the voice of the Lord say to me, “AMERICA, GIRD YOUR LOINS, – AMERICA, GIRD YOUR LOINS.”  I have never ever felt the magnitude of urgency about the time in which we live, as I feel now.  It is like I want to drop everything and just concentrate on nothing but the things of God.

The basic thing which we lack in the church is that we are not GROWING IN GOD.  Jesus Christ died for one reason:  that we might be like Him.  We are not becoming like Jesus.  We are growing up into everything else, but not into Christ.

The Body of Christ, who have for many years known Jesus Christ as “Saviour”, as “Lord”, known Him as “Baptizer”, “Healer”, “Preserver”, “Keeper” – should by this time begin to come nearer to His image and begin to see Him as He is (I John 3:2).  We are not seeing Jesus because we are still quarreling and fighting with one another, holding grudges, for one reason or another.  We are still suffering from all different kinds of spiritual diseases which the devil has put upon us.  We will have to get rid of them now or later.  It would be better to get rid of them now, because ‘later it will be greater’.  In other words, God is going to have to take them away, and He uses fire.

Mal.3:2b. “He is like a refiner’s fire, and like fuller’s soap.”

Heb. 5:11 – Paul was disappointed with the Hebrew Christians:

Heb. 5:11  “…of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.”

When I first came to the U.S. I thought that I would be able to share all the things and the message that God had given me for you, with you.  I have found that I cannot.  The church is not matured enough at this point to take some parts of the message.  In some places I have been asked not to preach about spirits or demonology or topics like the coming destruction:  But if God send you or me with a message and the people ask you not to deliver that message, but to deliver nice Sunday School Lessons, they are rejecting God.  I have found places where they accept the messenger, but reject the message.  “Yes, he is a nice brother, but his message is off the wall.”

We see Paul speaking to the Hebrew Christians who were brainwashed with Judaism and had to be unwashed before they could be washed in the pure water of the word of God.

For a similar reason I find it difficult to carry the brethren beyond a certain point.  Some don’t really understand.  I am saying that when you accepted Jesus Christ as your Saviour you got something for nothing – Salvation for a lousy bag of sins.  Next, you took another step and got baptized with the Holy Ghost.  After this God asked you to take another step to be united with Christ as a partner and be one with all His spiritual as well as spirit workers.  If you got that far then He would ask you to take another step to feed on Christ as your only source of spiritual energy.  I find that the church is not feeding on Christ.  The bulk of the food the church eats is trash.  The church loves milk and is being fed mostly contaminated milk which retards growth but makes her carnal and not spiritual.  This milk creates in the believer a hate for meat and much less for strong meat:

Hebrews 5:12 “For when for a time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.  For everyone that useth milk is unskillful in the WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, for he is a babe.” 

In the natural it would be a horrible thing to have a big babe that you cannot even lift up and carry, yet it seems to be acceptable in the spirit.  Some of our great world evangelists who have been preaching for over forty years and have brought thousands to salvation, have now turned around and are now preaching and making altar calls to Roman Catholic congregations that they should come and “reconfirm your confirmation.”  In effect the new trend of Ecumenical evangelism is saying that the Roman Catholic confirmation is good.  Even basic spiritual knowledge would reject this position since it goes against-

John 3:5 “Except a man be born of the water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.”

There are also Pentecostal babes; men who preached Pentecost for over fifty years who are now trying to convince us that the “Pope” is the head of the church on earth.  BASIC MILK DOCTRINE without the contaminant would serve Christians to reject this position.  For many years Brother Duplessis dedicated his life to working with Roman Catholic brethren.  He had previously earned the name of “Mr. Pentecost” because of his world-wide preaching of the Pentecostal message.  The Assembly of God church to which he belonged was not happy with his involvement with the Catholics, so they dropped him as a minister of the organization.  For fifteen years he continued in his ecumenical effort and finally succeeded in getting the Assembly of God church not only to apologize to him for expelling him but to pledge its allegiance to the ecumenical movement which is of Satan.  Brother Duplessis died in January of this year.  If the head of the Church is in Rome, then Jesus Christ has abdicated his position to the “pope”.  This is exactly what the “pope” means when he takes the title: “VICARIUS FILII DEI” which means – Vicar of the Son of god.  “Vicar” means Vice – this means that his title says he is “Vice Christ”, or in other words the head of the Church in the absence of Jesus Christ.  THOSE WHO ACCEPT THIS POSITION AUTOMATICALLY DENY CHRIST JESUS AS HEAD OF THE CHURCH.  This is the position of the antichrist, and many of us in the church take this position whether we have the title “Vice Christ” or not, for some of us do not have the title, but we have the position.

WHAT IS THE BODY OF CHRIST?

Does the Body of Christ have sin in it?  We are still spinning our wheels.  We are still struggling with bad feelings and “wars and strife among us”, and fornication and adultery.  Those struggles belong to babes.  God redeemed us out of that and we should be walking on with God.  If you commit SPIRITUAL ADULTERY you will fall into natural adultery.  The whole church system is not clean, and cannot walk clean because it made a COVENANT OF MARRIAGE with Christ at Baptism and then turned around and went a-whoring with the world.  The church does not obey her own husband, but goes around and obeys every ordinance of man:  She invests her tithes and offerings on Wall Street for usury, she lobbies in Washington and other capitols for favors, she cheats and lies to raise funds to consume upon her programs of lust, she is the woman of Rev. 17 who rides the beast:

“…I will show thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters…..I was a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of NAMES of BLASPHEME….” Rev. 17:1-3 (excerpts)

The retarded growth of the church is due to its fellowship with the harlot church.  It is the same story as Samson going in to Delilah and losing his covering which broke his contract with God and made him weak.

All the protestant churches as well as the Roman church have been prostituted.  Someone will say “not my church” but it is very simple to find out who the harlot church is – SHE HAS THE NAMES OF BLASPHEME.

NAMES OF BLASPHEME:

REVEREND:

If a brother or sister had heard this message and still insists in using the title Reverend before his/her name, it only means that he/she is so much bound by the harlot that he/she cannot see truth, having lost his/her eyes to Delilah.

FATHER, MASTER, RABBI:

Matthew 23:8-10

To this list we should add all official designations given to church men which are out of biblical context.  Mat. 20:25-27 tells us there should be no hierarchy in the church.  This supported by Revelation 2:6 and 15 which read as follows:

Rev.  2:6 “But this thou hast, that thou hatest the DEEDS of the Nicolaitanes which I also hate.”

Rev. 2:15 “So hast thou also them that hold the DOCTRINE of the Nicolaitanes which thing I hate.”

In both cases God was saying that He hated, not people, but deeds and doctrine.  We must therefore look at Nicolaitanism as a doctrine and not any people who were followers of Nicholas (if there was a Nicholas).  What is the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes?  The answer to this question can be derived from the meaning of the word itself:

Nikao, Nike – means to conquer or subdue.

Laos  – means people.

Nicolaitanes combines both Greek words to mean one who conquers or subdues the people.

This Nicolaitan position, if set up in the church, would be against the injunction of Jesus Christ in Mat. 20:26 “…It shall not be so among you…”.  The WHOLE CHURCH IS GUILTY, WHETHER CATHOLIC, PROTESTANT, PENTECOSTSAL OR NON-CONFORMIST GROUPS AND CHURCHES, ALL follow the pattern which the Roman church set from the infancy of the church.  Constantine the first “pope” was called the Bishop of Rome long before the Bible was translated into English.  It might have been 1400 years, so there were no translators which were not Roman Catholic trained.  The hierarchy and terminologies of Rome were therefore translated into the Bible, making it appear as if the Bible was contradicting itself.  THE FIRST LESSON I LEARNED FROM JESUS CHRIST AS HE WALKED INTO MY ROOM FOR THE FIRST TIME WAS THAT THERE IS NO ERROR IN THE BIBLE.  If then, something seems to be wrong in the word, I immediately seek for what man has done in his translation.  Let us look at one passage which seems to contradict Mat. 20:26 and Rev. 2:6 & 16:

“This is a true saying, if a man desires the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.” I Tim. 3:1

If the Bible teaches “no hierarchy”, how could this passage fit into scripture which clearly shows that there is an office called “Bishop”?  THE TRUTH IS that this translation is totally misleading.  Below is the Greek with the English translation underneath:

I Tim. 3:1

Gr.     “pistos  o  logos  ei  tis  episcopes”

Eng.  “Faithful the word if any overseership”

Gr.     “opegetai  kalou  ergou  epithumei.”

Eng.  “stretches forward to, of good a work he is desirous.”

The error of the translators can clearly be seen.  In the first place, the Spirit of God through Paul used the word “overseership” as a transitive noun: it was not an office as shown in the KJV translation.  They deliberately added the word “office” which is not in the scripture at all, and by so doing perpetuated the Roman hierarchy which was already long in existence.  THE APOSTLE PAUL, HOWEVER, REFUTED THIS BY HIS WRITING TO THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH, BY DESCRIBING WHO THE OVERSEER IS:

Acts 20:17 “And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church.”

Acts 20:28 “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you OVERSEERS, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood.

Acts 20:29 “For I know that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.” 

The elders whom God has appointed in the local churches are the overseers.  God never intended that some person living in some far away place should be lord over a number of churches.

POPE – is used as a name for the “great father” – which means that he is the father of all the church on earth.  This is a name of Blaspheme and both those who call him this and those who are called by this name are considered blasphemous in the sight of God.

PRIEST – means mediator between God and man.  Jesus Christ is our only priest; priests could only be appointed by God.

I Tim. 2:5 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”

Heb. 7:12 “For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.”

ARCHBISHOPS, CARDINALS, HOLY FATHER, etc. – all these are names of blaspheme of the harlot church.

PASTOR:  I think it is necessary to deal with this specifically although I have dealt with this on many occasions before.  It is possible that unbelief and the power of the harlot church has made my readers blind to this truth.  I will therefore spell it out for you again and everyone with the Holy Spirit in him or with him will see the truth this time around:  The word “pastor” is used one time in the New Testament KJV Bible and that is in Ephesians 4:11 as one of the five-fold ministries.  The Greek word translated “pastor” is “Pomienas”.  The word “Pomienas” means “shepherds”.  There is nothing new in the New Testament.  Everything in the New Testament is a quotation from the Old Testament; therefore, the words “shepherds” or “pastor” must have their root in the Old Testament.  The root word “shepherd” in the Old Testament is “Raw-aw”   which only refers to sheep.  Scripture references are: Jer. 2:8, 3:15, 10:21, Ps. 23:1 and many others.

There is another word in Hebrew which only refers to oxen: “Baqar”, the word “pastor” is a Latin word which means “herdsman”, and the Latin combines both those who herd cows and those who herd sheep.  For this reason I can see why God did not write the original Bible in Latin.  We should also notice that Jesus describes the shepherd as one who “goes before his sheep”, not one who herds them and drives them before him; not a dogmatic ruler, but an exemplar.

In view of the above, the translators of the New Testament have no authority to translate the word “pomien” as “pastor” in one place and as “shepherd” in more than twenty other places.  In scripture the work of the shepherd is well-defined, (Jn.10), but there is no scripture describing the work of a pastor.  THERE IS ONE MORE IMPORTANT FACTOR THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED:  Before the Bible was translated into English, there were certain words which had already lost their original meaning and had taken on an ecclesiastical meaning which differed so much from the original that they were opposites.  The word “minister” is one word which original meaning was servant, but by the time it became translated into English, it meant the boss or head of a congregation.  “Pastor” is one of these words.  If one should even say that “pastor” in Latin means “shepherd”, we must also admit that “pastor” in the church means the “boss” or the man in charge, which is an unscriptural position and does not coincide with Jesus’ description of a shepherd, neither in Paul’s description of an elder.  MAY GOD HELP US TO BREAK THE BONDS OF THE HARLOT.

THE HARLOT DELILAH IS HINDERING GROWTH:

The doctrine of division is part of the harlot system.  There are several church kingdoms; they are more numerous than the kingdoms of this world.  These kingdoms thrive on division, so that when a man misbehaves in one he can go and form his own, and even audaciously call it “Independent”, which sometimes means that he can sin as he likes without anyone to answer to.  The denominations are a curse to the Body of Christ, and the non-denominational and inter-denominational denominations are just a lie added to the curse.  There is a Divine Order in the earth and whenever we institute our own order or disorder we are automatically rejecting God’s order.  The ministry that God appoints, anoints, and sends is the only ministry to the church in the earth.  All others are imposters, and they go about recruiting young people to make them greater imposters than themselves.  No church or organization has the right to ordain any minister.  Ministers are ordained of God; we can only confirm such ordination.

The judgment of God is soon to fall on the church at large, and I would say it has already begun.  The scandals which rock the church show us that depths to which both spiritual and natural adultery have taken hold of the people of the church.  There are few ministers that I know who are clean.  The majority are mixed up in one form of adultery or another.  I sometimes wonder if God ever intended us to become professional preachers.  Most of us have become preaching machines which gush out sermons profusely, while our own lives are in a mess.  Those who support adultery with their money are just as bed as the adulterers themselves and will be judged of God for adultery.  Money given to any cause is “blood” given.  We are sacrificing our blood to the devil through the harlot church.

MILK DRINKERS:

Heb. 5:12b “…For everyone that useth milk is unskillful in the WORD of RIGHTEOUSNESS, for he is a BABE.”

This simply means that a man who drinks ‘spiritual milk’ cannot be righteous, that there is something lacking in his righteousness.  Babes will dirty their clothes and dirty you also, so that those who feed them will get messed up too.  They have unclean habits and if they continue to drink milk when they should be eating meat, you are in trouble.  We are close to the time when the outer court of “Molikans” (milk drinkers) will be destroyed, for the word has gone out for men to flee to the inner courts.

This word, although it might sound hard, is coming from my love for the Body of Christ.  God is speaking directly to you and if I pat you on the shoulder I would be doing you a disfavor.  The people of God are backward (retarded), more backward than the world.  The world is advancing in its worldliness and every form of wickedness, and time is closing down and we are not ready.  Something terrible is going to happen, suddenly, and then the people of God will flee in distress, thinking that God has forsaken them, BUT GOD IS DESPERATELY CALLING TO HIS CHILDREN and preparing a people for this situation, and this people must be His Praise and Glory in the earth.  If you are going to be a part of this people, then you will have to GET SERIOUS WITH GOD RIGHT NOW.

BAALISM – THE WEAPON OF THE HARLOT:

I Kings 18:17 “And Elijah answered, I have not troubled Israel, but ye and thy father’s house in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and hast followed the commandments of Baalim.”

I Kings 18:21 “……How long halt ye between two opinions?  If the Lord be God, follow Him:  but if Baal, then follow him.”

Baal worship is any worship which is not of God Almighty.  If we worship according to our creed or form, it is Baal worship and so many of us are innocently wrong:

John 4:22 “Ye worship ye know not what:  we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.”

John 4:23 “But the hour cometh and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.“

John 4:24 “God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

Going to church should be a blessing, but it has become sin, since most of us go for the wrong reasons – dress, social involvement, beauty of the music, milk preaching which does not ruffle any feathers, air conditioned building and a thousand and one other reasons, but not just to worship God in spirit and in truth.  Baal is Nimrod and his worship is so intricately woven into our church services that it would be difficult to be involved in 90% of the church services today without being guilty of their CORPORATE SIN.  The gown, the collar, the sanctimonious walk, the scintillating voice, the chanting, the churches dressed up like the groves of Baal, inside and outside (Jer. 23), beautiful art which was part of Baal worship, all of these and more are not part of the worship of God, but of Baal.  Christians are still involved in Zodiac worship by which Satan divides up the world into twelve different natures of sin and convinces the people that that are ‘Libra’ the balance, “Pisces’ the fishes (Nimrod and Semiramis), ‘Sagitarius’ the archer, ‘Cancer’ the crab, etc., etc.  Once you believe this then you fall under one of the ruling spirits of Satan and the nature actually comes forth in you.  Then you are encouraged to read the daily horoscopes from the periodicals, and of course, Satan gets a handle on you.

THE WORSHIP OF DAYS AND SEASONS:

Galatians 4:9 “But now after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 

4:10 “Ye OBSERVE DAYS, AND MONTHS, AND TIMES, AND YEARS.  I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.”

Those who believe that Sunday is the true day of worship are just as wrong as those who believe it is Saturday.  All this was abolished by Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary.  Christ has now brought us into a relationship with God that does not take holidays; it is permanent, twenty-four hours and seven days a week.  The right time to worship God is every day.  For convenience we meet whenever it is convenient, but we should not feel that God gave us a Holy Day:

Eph. 2:15 “Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of Commandments contained in ordinances: for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace;”

CHRISTMAS:

The feast of Bacchus or Saturnalia or Nimrod’s birthday was celebrated on the twenty-fifth of December in all the ancient world long before Jesus:  Let me quote for you from the Encyclopedia Britannica 7:202:

“One of the most well-known festivals of ancient Rome was the Saturnalia, a winter festival celebrated from December 17-24.  Because it was a time of wild merrymaking and domestic celebrations, businesses, schools and law courts were closed so that the public could feast, dance, gamble, and generally enjoy themselves to the fullest.  December 25, the birthday of Mitra, the Iranian (Babylonish) god of light and the contract and the day devoted to the invincible sun, as well as the day after the Saturnalia, was ADOPTED BY THE CHURCH AS CHRISTMAS, the nativity of Christ, to counteract the effects of these festivals.”

Instead of counteracting the festivals, the adaptation perpetuated them and ensured Satan of his worship as usual.  The old encyclopedia just gave the knowledge or truth about the relationship between Christmas and Saturnalia, but this new copy offers an apology for Christmas, mainly because the new influences which purchased the encyclopedia are all for the Mass of Christ on the 25^th of December.  Feasting, dancing and gambling are hardly fit ways to celebrate the birthday of Christ.  In any event, Brother Paul wrote to the Galatian Christians that he was ashamed of them for keeping daily, or monthly, or annual feasts, since the gospel of Jesus Christ does not go along with any of these.

EASTER:

Easter was set by the Council of Nicaea in 325 as the first Sunday after the full moon that follows the Spring equinox.  From Easter the rest of the church year was calculated which proves how wrong the whole church year is, including Christmas, since JESUS CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED AT PASSOVER AND NOT AT EASTER.  Easter is the time of the Babylonish worship of the goddess ISHTAR and certainly has no place in Christian thinking, yet it has been so successfully pawned off on us.  All the practices of Easter are paganish in origin, from the sunrise service, where the ancient worshipers worshipped the sun, to the egg painting, which in ancient times was the symbol of fertility, from which Ishtar was supposed to have been born or hatched as the Madonna, immaculately conceived.  It is all nonsense but we religiously keep it every Easter.  There is one reference to Easter in the Bible in Acts 12:2-4 which also refers to the Passover as being before Easter.  They never were the same – we, however, chose to take the day of the heathen to celebrate Christ’s resurrection.  It will not be possible in one article to outline all the sins of the harlot church which are stifling the life out of Christian growth, but in conclusion let me just show you that this harlot church from its inception has turned from the living God to other gods:  The days of the week were adopted from heathenism into our Christian calendar, which is as follows: