Ua avea le malumalu o le Atua ma lua o tagata gaoi (lua o faomea), o le mea na faia ai mea inosia. Ma toeitiiti lava 2000 tausaga mulimuli ane, na mafai e tagata ona faia le ekalesia o se lua o tagata gaoi. Nai lo le toe faafouina, the church has degenerated and has become defiled through false doctrines. Unclean spirits of darkness have gotten free reign in the lives of Christians. In all three dispensations, the devil has succeeded in misleading people, turning them away from God, and making God’s house a den of thieves, where the devil has become the head. What does the Bible say about a den of thieves? What are the signs of a den of thieves? How has the church become a den of thieves?
God’s house had become a den of robbers
Faauta, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.. Will ye steal, fasioti tagata, ma mulilua, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal and walk after other gods whom ye know not; And come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My Name, ma fai mai, we are delivered to do all these abominations? Is this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Faauta, even I have seen it, ua fetalai mai ai le Alii (Ieremia 7:9-11)
I Ieremia 7:8-11 God reflected the state of His house. God spoke about the abominations, which were done in His house by His covenant people Israel. They trusted in lying words and stole, they murdered, mulilua, na tauto pepelo, and committed idolatry. Sa faia e tagata na mea uma, which are evil in the eyes of the Lord, and went after false gods, while saying in the temple they were delivered.
Were they delivered to do all these abominations? Was the house, which was called by God’s Name, became a den of robbers in their eyes?
Was this how they say God and His holiness?
Was God a thief, o se fasioti tagata, an adulterer, and a liar and His servants thieves, tagata fasioti tagata, mulilua, pepelo, ma ē ifo i tupua? Did God approve of their wicked works? Leai, E leai!
God’s people ought to be a reflection of their God and His holiness by obeying His word and by keeping the Law of Moses.
God’s people represented God on earth and by stealing, fasioti tagata, pepelo, committing adultery, ma le ifo i tupua, they showed the Gentile nations that their God (ma Lona natura) was like that, and that God approved of their wicked works, while that was not the case.
Through their pride and rebellious behavior they defiled the Name of the Lord and made a mockery of their God for the eyes of the Gentiles and had no holy respect and honor for the Lord God of Israel
The fear of the Lord had gone, and therefore the Gentiles didn’t fear the God of Israel but mocked the God of Israel.
God’s people said they were delivered, ae i le Atua, they were dead through their abominations (agasala).
They didn’t listen to God, and didn’t obey God, and did not walk in the ways that the Lord had commanded them. But they walked in the counsels and the imagination of their evil heart and went backward instead of forward. Through their lives they defiled the house and the Name of the Almighty God (Faitau foi: O le a le leaga o le loto?).
In the dispensation of Jesus, the temple had become a den of thieves
Ona latou o mai ai lea i Ierusalema: ona ulu atu lea o Iesu i le malumalu, ma amata ona tutuli i fafo o e na faatau ma faatau i le malumalu, ma fuli laulau a le au faatau tupe, ma nofoa o ē fa'atau lupe; ‘Ua lē fa‘atagaina fo‘i e se tasi ‘ona ‘ave e se tasi se ipu i le malumalu. Ma sa Ia aoao atu, fai atu ia te i latou, E le o tusia ea, E ta'ua lo'u fale o nuu uma o le fale tatalo? but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the scribes and chief priests heard it, ma saili pe faapefea ona latou faaumatia o Ia: for they feared Him, because all the people was astonished at His doctrine. Ma ina ua oo i le afiafi, Na alu atu o ia i fafo o le aai (Mareko 11:15-19, also Matthew 21:12-13, Luke19:45-46, Ioane 2:13-17)
God didn’t approve of the wicked behavior and works of the people, and neither did Jesus approve of the wicked behavior and works of the people. But They revealed that the wicked behavior and works of the people and what happened in the temple were not according to the law (le finagalo) a le Atua.
God spoke through the prophets, but Jesus, le atalii, and the living Word of God spoke face-to-face to the people of the house of Israel and made the will of the Father known to them.
When Jesus came to Jerusalem and entered the house of His Father, He assumed to enter a house of prayer. But instead of a house of prayer, Jesus entered a den of thieves, a selling house.
Jesus was a witness to the apostate state of the temple, which was caused by the spiritual leaders (o ositaulaga, Faresaio, and Scribes (Satukaio) (Faitau foi: Iesu i le lotolotoi o taitai tauaso).
Jesus was a witness to the trading in the temple. Instead of Jesus being friendly and peaceful to the people, letting the people have their way and tolerating what happened, Jesus made a scourge of small cord and began to cast out the sellers, the buyers, ma mamoe, the oxen, and the doves, ma fuli laulau a le au faatau tupe, ma nofoa o ē fa'atau lupe, and Jesus didn’t suffer that any man would carry any vessel through the temple. That is the true Jesus Christ! (Faitau foi: How a counterfeit Jesus produces counterfeit christians).
After removing the sellers and buyers from the temple, Jesus taught the people. Because it’s not possible to teach and certainly not pray, as long as God’s house is defiled. This still applies and therefore this does not happen in many churches.
Ia, historical sermons and self-help and motivational sermons are held and the opinions and experiences of motivational speakers are shared and songs are sung. But prayers, as it supposed to be and believers pray as warriors instead of beggars, and spiritual teachings in the Word, so that believers are raised in the will of God and walk as the new creation after the Spirit in agreement with the Word (Iesu), are hardly taken place.
In the dispensation of God and the dispensation of Jesus the law of Moses kept the people in security
In the dispensation of God and the dispensation of Jesus, God was dealing with the old man (fallen mankind), who is carnal and walks after the will and nature of the flesh and does the works of the flesh.
The Law of Moses was a school teacher that kept God’s people (the congregation of God) e ala i le usiusitai i le tulafono.
As long as the people of the house of Israel kept the law, they walked according to the will of God, whereby they were separated from the Gentiles, who served other gods and did the works of the flesh.
But when they rejected the Law of Moses and thereby rejected God and walked according to the will, tu'inanauga, Ma faanaunauga o latou aano, they fell into the same sins as the Gentiles and committed the same carnal works, O se mea inosia i le Atua (Faitau foi: O a tisipenisione e tolu i le Tusi Paia?).
But in the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, everything changed. The Holy Spirit is not dealing with the old man, but the new man (e ala i le faatuatua ma le toefaafouina ia Keriso). Ae mea sili, that should be the case.
The dispensation of the Holy Spirit and the state of the church
The new man no longer lives under the Law of Moses and no longer needs the Law of Moses, because through regeneration in Christ, a change of nature has taken place and the laws of God, that represent His will are written upon the heart of the new man. The nature of the new man does automatically the will of God, just like the nature of the old man does the will of the devil (Faitau foi: O le a le mea ua tupu 50 aso ina ua mavae le Paseka?).
As the old man obeys the sinful nature of the flesh and does the will of the devil, the new man obeys the holy nature of the Spirit and shall do the will of God and Faataunuu le Tulafono (O Le Amio Lelei o le Tulafono, O le a fai ma sui o le finagalo o le Atua).
But this change rarely takes place. Mainly because false teachers have entered the churches and have misled the believers and led them astray with their false doctrines (Faitau foi: O a'oa'oga sese e faalumaina ai le Atua)
Since many believers don’t truly become the new man but remain the old man, the same things that happened in the temple and the same works that were done by God’s people in the Old Covenant, still happen in many churches and are still done by God’s people (Faitau foi: Aisea e toe foi ai Kerisiano i le Feagaiga Tuai?)
God’s people were delivered from Egypt by their God. God had revealed Himself to His people by the many signs, mea ofoofogia, and deliverance from the power of Pharaoh, and He made His will known by giving His people the law. But instead of being full of joy and grateful and yielding to God and loving Him by obeying His commandments, O tagata o le Atua sa fouvale ma lē lotofaafetai ma muimui ma faitio ma mananaʻo e toe foʻi i lo latou olaga tuai i Aikupito, e tusa lava pe o lona uiga e tatau ona latou ola i le nofo pologa. Na mananaʻo tagata o le Atua e faia galuega lava e tasi ma ola i olaga e tasi e pei o tagata faapaupau ma e leai se mea na suia moni.
E ui i le galuega togiola sili a Iesu Keriso, o le faaleleiga ma le Tamā, ma le tofi o le Agaga Paia, e toʻatele Kerisiano e lē lotofaafetai ma muimui ma faitio ma mananaʻo ia maua mea e tasi ma ola i olaga e tasi e pei o le lalolagi., ua latou savavali ai i la le tino ma tumau ai i le agasala.
E ala i faatosinaga a le lalolagi ma aoaoga faavae sese ma le leai o se fanaufouina, faapaiaina, ma savali e pei o le tagata fou, e tele ekalesia ua leaga, and also in the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, God’s house, the church has become a den of thieves.
What are the characteristics of a den of thieves according to the Bible
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute My secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it (Esekielu 7:22)
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness (Hosea 6:9)
What are some characteristics of a den of thieves according to the Bible?
- The leaders of a den of thieves are robbers. They are covetous and with their feigned words make merchandise of the believers and through their lawlessness and with their lying words they kill souls (a.o. Esekielu 7:22, Hosea 6:9, 2 Peteru 2:3)
- The people trust in lying words that can’t profit
- The people are traders and the house of God has become a selling place (Mataio 21:12-13, Mareko 11:15-19, Luka 19:45-46, Ioane 2:13-17)
- The people steal (Faia Frad, refuse to give tithes and offerings, solaese mai lafoga, undeclared work, ma isi.)
- People kill (inoino, Faapau pepe, EUTHANIASIA, pule i le ola, fasioti tagata)
- People commit adultery, both in the spiritual and in the natural realm
- People swear falsely (pepelo, breaking a promise or breaking a covenant (a.o. God’s covenant in Christ, marriage covenant)
- People commit idolatry; filosofia i Sasae and religious and their practices, pei (transcendent) fefaʻaalogaʻiga, mafaufau, tupe, martial arts, Reiki, Acupuncture, tausaga fou doctrines and methods (tagata soifua-tagata, mind control, o le law of thought and attraction)
Pe ua avea le ekalesia ma lua o tagata gaoi?
According to the Bible and the characteristics of a den of thieves, E mafai ona matou faia, that even in the dispensation of the Holy Spirit many churches have become a den of thieves.
Therefore it’s time for a spiritual clean up and sanctification of the churches and that spiritual leaders are appointed, who no longer obey their flesh, a ‘ia ‘ana‘ana i le Upu ma le Agaga Pa‘ia ma ‘ave‘ese mea uma e lē o i le ekalesia.
E le mafai ona faapea ona o taitai vaivai, o tagata faamaualuluga ma fouvale o loo faatonu le mea e fai ma o a latou agasala ua faaleagaina ai le faapotopotoga atoa ma o nisi taimi e oo lava ina faamaligiina le toto i luga o le faapotopotoga..
Aua e oo lava i le Feagaiga Fou e mafai.
O se pepelo a le tiapolo, e faatagaina mea uma ma e mafai e tagata ona faaauau pea ona agasala e aunoa ma se taunuuga (Faitau foi: Mafai ai ona e aulia le agasala i lalo o le alofa tunoa?).
O se tasi ua laveaiina mai le mana o le tiapolo, agasala, ma le oti pe afai e faia pea e se tasi galuega o le tino?
O se tasi ua laveaiina mai le mana o le tiapolo, agasala, ma le oti, e ala i le oti o le tino ia Keriso ma le toetu mai le agaga mai le oti, pe afai e faia pea e se tasi galuega a le tino?
Afai e fai mai se tagata e faaolaina ma laveaʻiina ma e ana le Atua, a o le faia o mea inosia a le Atua, pei o le pepelo, gaoi, ifo i tupua, faataulaitu, faitaaga, mulilua (tatala faaipoipoga), nonofo faatasi e le faaipoipo, faia o se faigaaiga(s) ma se tasi e le o sou to'alua/ma se tasi mai le itupa tutusa/ma tamaiti/ma manu, fasioti tagata, onana, fa'atauva'a, fa'aaogaina fualaau, ma isi. Ona le lavea'iina lea o le tagata mai le mana o le tiapolo, agasala, ma le oti, a o le tiapolo, agasala, ma le oti, o loo nofotupu pea ma o loo i ai pea le pule i le tagata.
E le'i avea le tagata ma se foafoaga fou, ae o le foafoaga tuai lava lea, o ai na te faia le finagalo, tu'inanauga, ma faanaunauga o le tino.
Ua faaolaina ea oe e Iesu Keriso e fai ai mea inosia a le Atua?
I le Feagaiga Tuai, na fai mai le faapotopotoga a le Atua ua faaolaina i latou, taimi nei, sa latou ola i le le usiusitai i le afioga a le Atua ma le Tulafono a Mose ma sa latou faia mea inosia uma a le Atua., ma sa ola e pei o Nuuese.
I le Feagaiga Fou, fai mai le faapotopotoga a Keriso ia faaolaina, taimi nei, latou te ola i le le usiusitai i le Afioga a le Atua ma le Agaga Paia ma faia pea mea inosia ma ola ai e pei o le lalolagi..
O lea ia salamo ma tuu i lalo galuega a le tino, a o mafai lava, ma mulimuli ia Iesu ma lou loto atoa, ma gauai atu ia te Ia, ma usiusitai i le Agaga Paia, ma ia faamaoni ia te Ia.
‘Ia fai ma masima o le lalolagi’
