Many churches allowed the spirit of the world to enter. Ka lebaka la seo, many Christians don’t live holy lives after the Spirit in obedience to the Word, but have become like the world and live after the flesh. Many churches have become a ruin instead of a solid house of the Lord, just like the temple of God became a ruin in the Old Covenant. Instead of building on a solid Foundation, many have neglected the Foundation. They didn’t believe the words of God and didn’t build upon His Word. Sebakeng seo, they believed in the words of man, who belong to the world and built upon their words. Tse ngata (bohata) baporofeta, who seem spiritual, empa bonneteng, don’t have the Spirit of God, have entered the church. They are carnal and don’t have the mind of Christ but they have the carnal mind of the world. Therefore they don’t prophecy from the heart of God, but from their own hearts’ desires and their own wisdom, tsebo, le kutloisiso.
How the temple became a ruin?
Selekaneng sa Kgale, there were many prophets that didn’t speak from God but from their own hearts. They thought they were sent and led by God and that God had spoken to them. Leha ho le joalo, God had not sent them and had not spoken to them.
These prophets hadn’t seen anything and spoke lying divinations. They spoke positive words and announced peace, while God had spoken through His true prophets and denied the peace, which was spoken of by these false prophets.
These false prophets had deviated from God and His Word. They didn’t live according to God’s will, but their own will. Ka lebaka la seo, they didn’t speak the words of God, but they spoke their own words.
Although they were seated in the temple and maintained the customs, religious holidays, le (sehlabelo) rituals according to the molao oa Moshe, their heart was far from God.
Many people lived in pride and rebellion against God. Batho ba ile ba etsa lintho tseo kaofela, e neng e le mpe mahlong a Molimo.
They committed adultery, enter into covenants with pagan nations and into marriages with their sons and daughters, and adopted the customs of the pagan nations. They spoke from their own hearts, tsebo, bohlale, le kutloisiso. And so they defiled with their works and words the temple of God.
Due to their vain words and works, the glory of God departed from the temple and the temple became a ruin.
Bible Scriptures about the prophets of Israel
Kahoo, lebitso la Morena Molimo; Ho madimabe baporofeta ba mawatla, ba latelang meea ea bona, mme ha ba eso bone letho! Iseraele, baporofeta ba hao ba jwaloka diphokojwe mahwatateng. Ha lea nyolohela likheong, + ha baa ka ba etsetsa ntlo ea Iseraele lekhoakhoa hore ba eme ntoeng letsatsing la Jehova.
Ba bone lefeela le bonohe ba leshano, ho bua, Ho rialo Morena: mme Jehova ha a ka a ba roma: mme ba entse hore ba bang ba tshepe hore ba tla tiisa lentswe.
Na ha le eso bone pono ya lefeela na?, mme ha le a ka la bua bonohe ba leshano na?, athe le re, Morena o itsalo; leha ke eso bue?
Ka baka leo, ho itswe ke Morena Jehova; Hobane le buile lefeela, le ho bona mashano, ka hona, bona, ke kgahlano le wena, Ho bolela Morena Jehova.
And Mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, le mashano ao a bomodimo: they shall not be in the assembly of My people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, le gone ba ka se tsene mo lefatsheng la Iseraele; mme le tla tseba hore ke nna Morena Jehova.
Hobane, even because they have seduced My people, ho bua, Kgotso; mme ho ne ho se kgotso; mme e mong a haha lerako, le, lo, ba bang ba ne ba e tlotsa ka seretse se sa tsitsang: E-re ho ba e tšelang ka seretse se sa tsoakoang, hore e tla oa: ho tla ba le pula e kgolo; le uena, Oho sefako se seholo, tla oa; le sefefo sa sefefo se tla e fokisa. Lo, ha lerako le wele, na le ke ke la bolelloa, Se kae setadi seo le se tlositseng ka sona?
Ka baka leo, ho itswe ke Morena Jehova; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in My fury; mme ho tla ba le pula e tsholohang kgalefong ya ka, and great hailstones in My fury to consume it. Kahoo ke tla heletsa lerako leo le le kolokileng ka seretse se sa hlatsuoang, mme o e theolele fatshe, e le hore motheo oa eona o tla senoloa, mme e tla wa, mme le tla timela hara wona: mme le tla tseba hoba ke nna Jehova.
Thus will I accomplish My wrath upon the wall, le hodima ba e tshasitseng ka seretse se sa hlwekang, mme ke tla re ho lona, Lerako ha le sa le eo, leha e le ba e manehileng; Ho tseba, baporofeta ba Iseraele ba porofetelang Jerusalema, le ba mmonang dipono tsa kgotso, mme ha ho kgotso, Ho bolela Morena Jehova (Ezekiele 13:1-16)
Bible Scriptures about the prophetesses of Israel
Kahoo, lebitso la Morena Molimo; Ho malimabe basali ba rokang mesamo liphakeng tsohle, mme o etse dituku dihloohong tsa batho bohle, ho tsoma meya! Will ye hunt the souls of My people, mme le tla pholosa meya e tlang ho lona? And will ye pollute Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, ho bolaya meya e sa lokelang ho shwa, le go boloka mewa e e sa tshwanelang go tshela, ka go aketsa batho ba me ba ba utlwang maaka a lona?
Ka baka leo, ho itswe ke Morena Jehova; Bonang, Ke khahlanong le mesamo ea hau, tseo le tsomang meya ka tsona ho etsa di fofa, mme ke tla di hahola matsohong a lona, mme o tla lokolla meya, esita le meya eo le e tsomang hore le e fofa.
Le masela a hao ke tla a hahola, and deliver My people out of your hand, ’me ha li sa tla hlola li e-ba matsohong a lōna ho tsongoa; mme le tla tseba hoba ke nna Jehova.
Hobane le soabisa pelo ea ea lokileng ka mashano, eo ke sa kang ka mo swabisa; mme a tiisa matsoho a ba babe, e le hore a se ke a khutla tseleng ea hae e khopo, ka ho mo tshepisa bophelo: Ka baka leo, ha le sa tla bona lefeela, leha e le bonohe ba bomolimo: for I will deliver My people out of your hand: mme le tla tseba hoba ke nna Jehova. (Ezekiele 13:17-23)
The believers keep walking as the old creation
Since many believers don’t walk after the Spirit as the popo e ncha but keep walking as the old creation after the flesh, the same things that happened in the Old Covenant happen in the New Covenant. We see the same things in the lives of believers as the people of Israel experienced.
This is mainly because the nature of most people has not changed. They are led by their flesh (Mains, thato, maikutlo, maikutlo, Mehopolo ea Carnal, etc.).
We see the same defilement of the temple of God in many churches; maphelong a batho.
Just like the leaders of the temple of God in the Old Covenant committed adultery, and enter into covenants with pagan nations, many church leaders also commit idolatry and adultery with the world by compromising with sin and by entering into covenants with the world
Believers are not able to stand in the spiritual battle
There are people that call themselves prophets but are not appointed by God. They are carnal and live like the world. They often misuse their position as prophet for personal gain. There are even prophets that only prophesy for money, just like the fortunetellers of the world, who predict the future for money.
These prophets are selfish and have not gone up into the gaps. They have not built up a spiritual hedge for the church, so that the believers, Kereke ke kereke, would grow up in the Word after the image of God and would spiritually mature. E le hore, they would be able to stand in the spiritual battle (Bakolose 3:10, Baefese 6:11-16, James 1:2-4).
These false prophets don’t stand in God’s service and have not spoken the words of God and have not led the believers on the way of God.
They are not led by the Holy Spirit and have not spoken His words, but they are led by their flesh and have prophesied from their flesh (moea); from their own heart, and their own spirit. Ka lebaka la seo, they have made the crooked ways straight.
Believers walk on the same path as unbelievers
Many believers deviated from the Truth and walk in lies because of these false prophets. They walk in darkness on the same path as unbelievers and are on their way to the same destination. Although many expect another destination, but that’s because they’re misled and blinded by the lies of these so-called messengers of the word.
These false prophets don’t preach the truth and don’t correct believers.
They don’t call them to repentance and don’t tell them to remove the sins from their lives, so that they turn from their evil ways, which lead to eternal destruction.
Sebakeng seo, they preach lies and encourage the sins in people’s lives. They allow the people to live in sin, whereby they stir up wickedness and encourage apostasy.
The false prophets don’t preach the spiritual dangers in the churches and don’t preach bosoasoi.
They only speak positive words and words of peace that everything is well, athe bonneteng, it is not well.
They preach things in the Lebitso la Jesu, while Jesus hasn’t spoken through them by the Holy Spirit.
Through their vain words and their vain works, they try to catch as many souls as possible. They win them for themselves and bind them to themselves, all because of fame and personal gain.
The prophetesses in the church
Just like the false prophets, there are also many false prophetesses operating in the church. These prophetesses look pious and spiritual but in reality they’re soulish and prophesy from their flesh; out of their own hearts, temohisiso, maikutlo, le maikutlo.
They use natural means, Mekhoa, le mekhoa to enter a supernatural state of trance to receive supernatural insights, lipono, and words.
They are carnal and prophecy according to what they perceive and feel in the natural realm, whereby they prophesy according to their own insights and what they want to see, instead of being led by the Holy Spirit and obey the words of God and prophecy from the Word through the Holy Spirit.
Since they exalt themselves above God and His Word, they walk in pride and exalt themselves above others.
They mislead and manipulate many believers. They sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils upon their heads, so that they are captured and come under their power.
These believers believe in them. They trust in the words, which these prophetesses prophesy after their own hearts and many times are influenced by a spirit of divination.
They allow them to lead them, so that they become dependable on them.
This is the way these false prophetesses operate and gain many souls through deceptive manipulation and make them wander in ways in which the believers have no business.
Badumedi, who get involved with these false prophets and false prophetesses, who seem spiritual but in reality are soulish and prophecy from their own heart and soul, open themselves for the same spirits that operate in these false prophets. These spirits shall manifest themselves in their lives.
They will be led by a lying spirit and a spirit of divination. They shall speak the same lies and prophecy the same way as these false prophets and prophetesses, whereby they shall spiritually manipulate and bind other people to themselves and take (tsa moya) authority over them.
Why did so many churches become a ruin?
Because the Holy Spirit has been removed from many churches by the rejecting of the Word, many churches are no longer the light that shines in the darkness. The candlestick has been removed from many churches. Therefore the light has been extinguished and many churches are seated in darkness and have become a ruin.
The devil has not attacked the Church from the outside but from the inside. Many times through people, who have lived in the (boloi) realm and repented. Instead of removing their occult knowledge and practices from their lives, they have brought them into the church. Or through believers, who have slowly deviated from the Word and left God’s Way and have become world-like and influenced the church with their own carnal wisdom, knowledge and insights and their lives, which are full of sin.
These people ensured, that many churches have left the Word; nete, and wander on self-chosen ways.
The same lying spirit and spirit of divination that operated during the Old Covenant and during the days of the early Church, still operate today and have entered many churches.
Moya o Halalelang, who abode in Jesus and in the apostles, who had become sons of God, warned the believers of these false prophets. Le Moya o Halalelang, who dwells in the sons of God, still warns the believers of these false prophets. (Mattheu 7:15; 24:11-24, Tšoaea 13:22, 2 Peterose 2:1-3, 1 Johanne 4:1-3).
But as long as believers don’t tlosa monnamoholo, ea tsamaeang ka mor'a nama, 'me u se ke ua aparang motho e motjha, who walks after the Word and the Spirit, they shall not be able to discern the spirits and shall trap into the lies of the devil.
As long as they remain unspiritual they focus on supernatural manifestations, liphihlelo, and feelings instead of the Word.
Jesus tears the magic charms and removes the veils
But luckily there is still a way of restoration through repentance. Because just like God in the Old Covenant broke the magic charms and removed the veils, and redeemed the souls and restored His people and the temple when they repented, Jesus Christ still redeems and restores mankind in the New Covenant.
Jesus Christ tears the magic charms and removes the veils from those, who repent and turn to Jesus Christ and through nchafatso in Christ become a son of God, who is obedient to Him.
Tseo, who love Jesus with all their heart, kelello, moea, and strength and listen to Him, yield to Him, le do His words in their lives shall walk in the light instead of darkness.
They shall discern the spirits and shall have knowledge of good and evil. They’ll represent and bring the Kingdom of God on earth. They shall be the light in the world and the salt of the earth, who through obedience to the Word and the Holy Spirit shall not always be loved by people but always be loved by God.
‘E be letsoai la lefatše’
