Bible Doctrine

When I say Satan is good at what he does, I mean he is without equal. There is none, human or spirit, who can compare with him. He is an expert at deception and the power to spiritually blind. Jesus said, “I will build my church” and Satan began immediately to divide, subdivide and subdivide again that entity until there was not just two or three factions, or bodies of believers, claiming to be God’s “true” church, but dozens and dozens of distinct denominations varying as widely as Mormonism and Catholicism, the Amish and the Anglicans, the Methodists and the Mennonites. And unless you are utterly and completely submitted to the LORDship of Jesus Christ in your daily life and poring over the scriptures daily really and truly proving all things of a spiritual nature, I guarantee you that you are grossly deceived in some of what you think to be true and even in your relationship with Jesus Christ and God the Father.

Satan knows that every human being is a potential replacement for him and his fallen spirit followers, not as enemies of God but as members of the great eternal kingdom of God. And it is his primary objective to rule us out, to block us, to nullify our prospects, to keep us out of the kingdom of God. And, I warn you again, he is an expert at what he does. He took down Adam and Eve, Solomon and Judas, and a host of others. Don’t even think for a moment that he is not capable of taking you out, too.  And, of course, yours truly.

Satan knows full well that it is God’s stated will to “change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body” (See Philippians 3:21). It’s not that we are to be merely resurrected, brought back to life, given immortality, but that we shall be full-fledged sons of God just as we have been full-fledged sons of Adam, sharing God’s power and glory!!! He also knows that this must be earned by the followers of Christ, that we are rewarded with such power and glory according to our degree of overcoming sin, self and Satan’s deceptions while in the flesh. So he blinds believers from seeing these great truths in the scriptures, primarily by steering us away from the scriptures through various and sundry other pursuits and interests. He also knows he needs do this but for a very limited time – our life span. We dwell in time. He does not. The rotation of the earth and phases of the moon mean nothing to him. Such delineates our lives, measures our lifespan. Not so with Satan. He dwells in eternity – the same as God. Our time is running out far more quickly than Satan’s. Satan survived Adam’s death, Moses’ death, the apostle Paul’s death, Napoleon’s death – and he will survive you and continue on for a long, long time thereafter. He will shorten your life if possible. (He has done that for many a suicide). If unable to do that, he will make your life inconsequential, counting for little or nothing in God’s service and kingdom. He will stunt your spiritual growth and, where possible, stop it altogether. I warn you again: he is good at his job – an expert without peer. He can cost you more than you ever dreamed possible and the price he can make us pay can be staggering. Some will come forth in the resurrection saved yet so as by fire, counted least in the kingdom of God. Others will come forth blazing like a thousand suns in glory, imbued with God given powers that human mind could never conceive. Know your enemy!

Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley

Millions of believers have been deceived by a likewise deceived ministry into accepting false doctrine as spiritual truth! Such persons are not evil. They are not wicked children of the evil one. They are simply deceived. Being deceived is not a sin! Having your eyes opened to the truth and then rejecting it, that is a sin. In the 11th chapter of Romans, Paul addresses himself to the Gentile converts at Rome and cautions them: “Boast not against the (cut off) branches (the Christ-rejecting Jews), but if you (you Gentile believers) boast, (know this) you do not bear the root (Abraham), but the root bears you. You will say then, ‘the branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not highminded (arrogant, conceited), but fear (fear what?), for if God spared not the natural branches (the Jews) TAKE HEED LEST HE ALSO SPARE NOT YOU. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God. On them which fell, severity (was displayed by God), but toward you goodness (to-wit, mercy is given) IF YOU CONTINUE IN HIS GOODNESS, OTHERWISE YOU ALSO SHALL BE CUT OFF” (verses 18 through 22, Romans 11). It is almost impossible to mistake what Paul is saying in this passage. Would Paul give the Gentile believers in Rome an idle, or false, warning? Would he caution them they could be in jeopardy of being cut off from God and the great and ancient family of God if such an event cannot possibly occur?

In this passage Paul is merely elaborating on and agreeing with Jesus’ own teaching given in John, Chapter 15: “I am the vine and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch IN ME that bears not fruit (failing to produce a godly character in their lives) He takes away, and every branch that bears fruit, He purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.” (verses 1 and 2). But there are many who do violence to this passage insisting it proves God takes the life of an unproductive and/or sinful Christian, taking them away to heaven early so they won’t be an embarrassment to Him and his Son any longer. What a doctrine of demons that is. The very worst of heaven has to be light years better than the best earth has to offer. So, in essence, in taking away a sinful believer from earth, God is thereby rewarding sinfulness in a most remarkable way! Such diabolic teaching has opened the floodgates of sin among God’s people. Why strive to root any and all in out of one’s life? The most it can cost you, they say, is a loss of a few rewards, and, if such sins are continued in and not abandoned, they can even get you into heaven a lot sooner!! If Satan didn’t come up with that teaching then it had to be one of his cleverest and most capable demons.

Satan enters into various assemblies and wrecks and ruins them with his warped, sin-spawning doctrines. God help you to understand is my prayer.

Christ’s Servant (Galatians 1:0-12),

Donald Wiley

GOD’S REGARD FOR A HELPLESS CREATURE, SUCH AS A BIRD, IS SO GREAT HE PROMISES LONG LIFE TO THOSE WHO SHOW SUCH CREATURES COMPASSION. (SEE DEUTERONOMY 22:6-7). HIS COMPASSION FOR ANY HUMAN LIFE IS ALSO QUITE PROFOUND.

I have been through the fire. That is why I speak as I do – with such confidence and assurance. I have endured the unendurable. I have known what it is to sink beneath the waves, thrust out my hand and touch the hand of the one who created me. It is only when we have nowhere to look but up that we are ready to hear and listen to the voice of God. And it took our Creator many decades to bring me to the point of full and continuous repentance. Having finally accomplished that, He is not about to let my life end now. That much I know for a fact. Fellow human beings with their sophisticated instruments and invasive examinations can state unequivocally that my life course is at its end, but they are unaware that this human being has an ongoing, hard and fast relationship with his Creator.

How I wish I could convey to other human minds the utter reality of the living, active, ever-present Jesus Christ. He is more real than any physical object the human eye might see. He is more real than any sound human ear might hear. He is more real than any material or physical thing the human hand might touch or feel. But He reveals Himself only to those who repent of their waywardness and sins and seek Him with all their mind, strength and heart. Over and over again through His inspired spokesmen, His prophets and apostles, He forthrightly, plainly declares that contact with Him will be accomplished in this manner only. Tens of thousands of preachers and priests woefully ignorant of this most basic FACT inform their hearers and followers that belief, mere mental assent alone, puts one in contact with their Creator and establishes an ongoing fellowship with Him.

We are in one of the last generations at the close of an age. This planet and its inhabitants are in for a very rough ride in what lies ahead. The deadly wound dealt Islam long ago has been healed. Three hundred plus pedophile priests in Pennsylvania are only the tip of the iceberg. Thousands more are spread throughout America. One state might have only a few dozen, while a neighboring state will have many more than Pennsylvania. Roman Catholicism is in fast decline in both numbers of adherents and prestige. To save herself she will do what she has done so many times in the past, she will blend Islamic beliefs with Roman Catholicism. And she will abandon long held practices and dogmas. You might not live to see it, my friend, but it is as sure as tomorrow’s rising sun.

Christ’s Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley

The early disciples of Christ, upon having more and more spiritual truth opened to their minds and understanding, said, “We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20). It was just too grand, too wonderful, too mind-boggling to keep to themselves. They probably thought, “If our fellow human beings could only come to see and believe what we have come to see and understand, it would change their lives overnight!”

The prophet Isaiah asked the penetrating question, “Should not a people seek unto their God?” (See Isaiah 8:19). Or, in other words, “Should not created intelligent beings such as the human family seek out their Creator? Shouldn’t they want to know more about Him? Doesn’t He desire something from us as His creation? Can we please Him? Can we displease Him?” Even the pagan cultures of centuries past asked these questions and diligently sought answers, even resorting to human sacrifice in an effort to please whatever gods or goddesses might be taking note of their existence and habits! These ancient cultures were totally unaware that their Creator did indeed wish to fellowship with them, but that He had a plan, a plan with a timetable, that they would TEMPORARILY be cut off from Him until God had brought forth a cadre of surrendered human subjects, who would serve with and under His firstborn Son, Jesus Christ, and then, with the proper knowledge and totally submissive wills these brethren of the Lord would assist their Creator and Lord to open the minds and guide and lead all of the rest of humanity into an eternal relationship with the Most High.

Mankind as a whole has no idea that death presents no obstacle to God in the accomplishment of His stated goal. Most are totally ignorant of the fact that God said, “I kill, and I make alive” a long, long time ago. (See Deuteronomy 32:39-41). They did not know that God’s messenger had declared “With God NOTHING shall be impossible!” (See Luke 1:37). Cut off from God, mankind is wide open to satanic error, therefore coming to believe in ghosts, inherent immortal life, going immediately to heaven or hell at the moment of death, and a host of other false concepts.

Those who did come into contact with the holy scriptures and without God’s Spirit to enlighten and guide them misunderstood, twisted and perverted these sacred texts. Many ignored three-fourths of these inspired writings, calling much of God’s Word “the OLD Testament” and ignoring the counsel and guidance contained therein, thereby spawning dozens and dozens of contradictory denominations, each seeing themselves as bastions of truth and the true body of Christ! And all became confusion.

But God is on His throne. His plan is going forward even now. Nothing can or will derail what God set out to do long, long ago before the foundation of the earth was even laid and before He uttered the words, “Let us make man in our image, and after our likeness….” He is doing just that. He is right on schedule time. And this knowledge gives one that peace that surpasses all understanding. Do YOU have that peace?

Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12)

Donald Wiley

How many times have you heard someone make that statement, insisting it means everybody on earth? Yet God says to Noah, “Thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation” (See Genesis 7:1). The Bible also speaks of “righteous Abel” (Matthew 23:35) and says of the parents of John the Baptist, “They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless” (See Luke 1:6). Then why did the apostle Paul write, “There is none righteous, no, not one?” (See Romans 3:10). This is one of those classic verses Peter might have had in mind when he spoke of how Paul wrote “some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned (in the scriptures) and (spiritually) unstable wrest (twist, pervert, distort), as they do also the other scriptures (not just Paul’s epistles), unto their own (spiritual) destruction.” (See 2 Peter 3:15-16).

The context shows that Paul is making reference to the unsaved, the unconverted when he writes, “there is none righteous, no, not one,” for he writes of those who “are all under sin,” hence, unsaved. (See verse 9, Romans 3). He speaks of how “they are all gone out of the way” and are deceitful and swift to shed blood, “and the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes” (See Romans 3:13-18). Yet how many times have I heard some novice in the scriptures, or some deceived false teacher say Paul was speaking of all humanity when he said, “there is none righteous, no, not one!” l would suggest that you prove all things of a spiritual nature instead of swallowing hook, line and sinker everything some supposed Bible teacher says just because they quote a verse or two of scripture – even a handful of scriptures that seemingly support that man or woman’s view.

Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley

This nation needs to steel itself and ready itself for a greater shock than the passing of some celebrity or a defeat of some highly regarded political leader. If one has even a cursory knowledge of the Creator’s character and mindset then they should realize that this nation is becoming an ever greater abomination in the sight of God.

The God of nature is about to use nature to get America’s attention. He will not rely solely upon Islam’s brutalities. He knows many Americans will see Islam’s threat as having nothing to do with God judging America just as ancient Israel failed to see Babylon’s brutalities and incursions on Israelite territory as God judging that ancient nation, but when nature is in upheaval, well, that will be a different story. When record drought and heat waves sweep across this nation, drying up lake after lake and enabling forest fires to utterly destroy our most ancient and beloved national forests as well as consume thousands of homes and businesses striking in areas never before having seen such activity in recorded history, when this old earth seems to say to America’s inhabitants, “Get off my back,” well, God is going to get the attention of quite a few whose thoughts are not turned toward Him in the least at the present. And when record-breaking floods inundate entire communities causing much loss of life and billions of dollars in lost revenue and damage, well, materialistic, live-for-the-day Americans are going to be given pause to wonder, “Could this be the judgment of God upon us?

America needs to hear the words thundered to ancient Israel many centuries ago: “Prepare to meet thy God!”

Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley

This year (2018) Easter falls on April 1st – April Fool’s Day! How appropriate! Of course, right there, without me typing one more word some might think, “Blasphemy!” No, friend, the blasphemy is Easter itself. Remember, I told you that Satan is a genius. He is a mastermind, having great and awesome intellect, though devoid of any hint of wisdom. Easter is another one of the masterstrokes of Satan’s genius. By it he, not God, nullified God’s eternal holy Sabbath replacing it with his own long cherished Sunday, the day of the ancient sun god.

Why do folks celebrate Easter? They claim Easter Sunday morning is when Jesus arose from the dead. WRONG! As I have clearly pointed out in previous articles, Jesus arose from the dead at sundown the previous evening. That is why when “Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, WHILE IT WAS STILL DARK, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb, then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved (John), and said to them, ‘They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.'” (See John 20:1-2).

An Easter sunrise service is a farce. It is laudable, of course, that believers celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, but they perpetuate error yearly by their Easter sunrise services. They celebrate the change of God’s holy eternal Sabbath to Sunday thereby. And that never happened and never will happen. Even in the world to come, “it shall come to pass that from one Sabbath to another, ALL FLESH shall come to worship before Me, says the Lord” (See Isaiah 66:23). Yes, even all the Gentiles, all the Sunday-keeping Protestants, ALL FLESH shall then keep holy God’s eternal Sabbath. I have already started. I suggest you do the same.

Jesus said by the utterances we make, by the words we speak, we are either justified or condemned. If what we say is true, then we are justified in what we have said. If what we say proves false, we are condemned. Modern Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ should be condemned for something He said to the scribes and Pharisees! For immediately after stating one is either justified or condemned by what he says, Jesus told these men He was giving that generation only ONE SIGN that He truly was the Messiah, the Son of the Living God. He said, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so (likewise, in the same manner) will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (the tomb)” (See Matthew 12:36-40).

Deceived believers say Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, being placed in the tomb as the sun was setting, and that He came out of the tomb at sunrise Easter Sunday morning. Count with me once more, please. How many days are there between Good Friday sunset and Easter Sunday sunrise. ONE DAY – the daylight part of Saturday, right? And how many nights are there between sunset Good Friday and sunrise Easter Sunday? Two nights, right? Yet Jesus said the ONLY SIGN He was going to give the Jewish nation that He truly was their long awaited Messiah was that His dead body would lie in the tomb for three days and three nights! If not, he would be condemned by His words and could be rejected as a false Messiah. That’s the primary reason why the Jews reject Jesus as being their Messiah. They say, “Even you Christians teach He failed to fulfill the ONLY SIGN He gave us that He was our Messiah.”

The Sabbath that hastened on, preventing the women from anointing the body of Jesus before it was placed in the tomb was NOT the weekly Sabbath, but an annual Sabbath called a High Day Sabbath, the first day of Unleavened Bread that happened to fall on Thursday crucifixion week. See John 19:31 with Leviticus 23. There were TWO Sabbaths crucifixion week, the High Day Sabbath, a Thursday, and then the weekly Sabbath!

Jesus said He was “Lord of the Sabbath,” hence, the Sabbath is the Lord’s Day – NOT Sunday. NO scripture calls Sunday the Lord’s Day. (See Matthew 12:8; Mark 2:27-28 and Luke 6:5). NO SCRIPTURE sanctifies Sunday, calling it a holy day. And no scripture nullifies or de-sanctifies God’s holy, eternal Sabbath. The seventh day was sanctified and made holy by Jesus creation week. It was still holy and sanctified when Jesus was born in a manger and took on human form. It was still holy time when Jesus hung on the cross. It was still holy time when He was resurrected. It was still holy time the day after that, a year after that, a century later, and the day I was born on November 30, 1942, and it will still be holy time when Jesus returns.

Few find their way through the narrow gateway into the castle of truth. I am one of the most blessed and fortunate humans who has ever been privileged to set foot on God’s good earth. You cannot possibly know how thankful and appreciative I am. I will deny myself sleep day after day until I draw my last breath in order to continue getting out the truth of God to those who walk in error – my brethren, innocently duped by a mastermind genius.

Christ’s Servant (Galatians 1:10-12)

Donald Wiley

In 1966 a nationwide mission was begun to get all Swedish motorists and cyclists to change the habits of a lifetime and begin driving on the right-hand side of the road for the first time.

The potentially catastrophic changeover would take place on 3 September 1967.

The day was simply known as Dagen H (H-Day). Its mission was to put Sweden on the same path as the rest of its continental European neighbors, most of which had long followed the global trend to drive cars on the right.

Despite driving on the left, many Swedes already owned cars with the steering wheel on the left-hand side of the vehicle, since many bought from abroad and major Swedish car manufacturers such as Volvo had chosen to follow the trend. However, there were concerns that this was a factor in rising numbers of fatal road traffic accidents, up from 595 in 1950 to 1,313 in 1966, alongside an increased frequency of collisions around Sweden’s borders with Denmark, Norway and Finland.

In the run-up to H-Day, each local municipality had to deal with issues ranging from repainting road markings to relocating bus stops and traffic lights, and redesigning intersections, bicycle lanes and one-way streets.

Hundreds of new buses were purchased by municipalities around the country, and around 8,000 older buses were reconfigured to provide doors on both sides. The total cost of amending public transportation would be astronomical!

Some 360,000 street signs had to be switched nationwide, which largely took place on a single day before the move to right-hand driving, with council workers joined by the military and working late into the night to ensure the task got done before H-Day formally revved into gear on Sunday morning. All but essential traffic was banned from the roads.

The most challenging thing was the shortage of time in which to accomplish this mind-boggling feat!

But as Dagen H finally dawned, the hard work of all appeared to pay off. Swedes began cautiously driving on the right-hand side of roads around the country at precisely 5am on 3 September 1967, following a radio countdown.

Olof Palme, the Swedish Minister of Communication (who later became Prime Minister), went on air to say that the move represented “a very large change in our daily existence, our everyday life”

The information campaign – costing around 43 million kronor (out of the total 628,349,774 kronor spent) – included television, radio and newspaper advertisements, and talks in schools. Dagen H had its own logo, emblazoned on billboards, buses and milk cartons. They needed a propaganda campaign not to reach 99% of everyone but to reach 100%.”

And Satan expected God’s people to believe that God Himself authorized the change of the Sabbath from the seventh day of the week to the first day of the week OVERNIGHT and WITHOUT ANY PRIOR WARNING WHATSOVER THAT THIS CHANGE WOULD TAKE PLACE IN JERUSALEM, the city where the Sabbath was more honored than any other city on earth??? Yes, Satan did expect that because he was super confident in his powers to blind and deceive. And, do you know something, he was right!

How Satan must have reveled in his power to deceive when professing Christians began to believe God moved His eternal holy Sabbath to the day long honored by the devotees of the Sun god and began treating God’s day of rest as a normal workday!

Friend, the question I now ask is, “Has he deceived you, too??”

Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),

Donald Wiley