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Show 51 477: End of the Year Show – Part I

Using the Bible to Prove the End of Material ReligionA fulfilled system of temples, rituals, and laws—replaced by direct spiritual relationship.
December 22nd, 2015
Our prayer tonight will be given by ____________________________.

Just a reiteration – but beginning next month – January of 2016 – one half an hour before we go live with Heart of the Matter, we are going to begin airing a new half hour program titled, “Breaking Bread with Warren Puckett.” That’s every Tuesday Night, 7:30 Mountain time, right here before Heart of the Matter. Additionally, I had the honor of being interviewed by Bishop Earl and those interviews will be available in January beginning the week of the ________. Just go to www.exmormonfiles.com and you can see our time together spread out over a three-week period plus there are hundreds of other great interviews there where Bishop Earl talks with people about coming out of Mormonism and into a living relationship with the Lord. That’s what all of this is about, isn’t it? People having a living abiding relationship with God through the Lord Jesus Christ.

The End of the Material Church

Okay… last two weeks of the year – a wrap up that in my opinion is not only worth its weight in gold but… well… I’m gonna just say it – again – much to the chagrin of people in the business of religion today – The Material Church is, and has been, a lie. The Material Church in its attempts to “play religion” is a farce. I’m not saying God hasn’t used it. Nor am I saying that it hasn’t done some good in the work of the Holy Spirit. But I am convinced that the whole of it has done far more evil than good – and continues to – even up to this day.

A War of Worship

The war has never really been between the various institutions of power. It’s not the peoples support of one church and their anger at another – like our nation's two major political parties all religious institutions operate off the same faulty pretext – that they have been able to gather up Jesus and the Spirit, bottle it up, and sell it to those who walk through their doors. The war is (and always has been) between freely worshipping God in spirit and in truth or placing our hopes and allegiances in Man and Mortar. This is NOT something that I have been taught from other radicals – it is a clear concept laid bare from a direct study of the Word of God. And I’m going to prove it in the next two weeks.

And here’s the deal – if I am able – using the Bible – to prove my point then all who watch these shows then have the onus to take the message and share it with others to set them free. We are producing a thirty-page pamphlet that we will send to you that supports everything you will see tonight and next week. We hope it will light a fire under people as a means to get them to “refuse to play church anymore” and to liberate all who find themselves chained in the shackles of institutional religion. So here goes.

The Order of Creation

Paul the apostle wrote in 1st Corinthians 15:46:
“However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.”

Do we have evidence of this order in the Bible? I would say that we do. For example, what did God create first – a spirit for the man Adam or his body? The LDS folks say that God created Adam’s spirit first, but this contradicts Paul, doesn’t it? Going back to Genesis 2:7 we are actually given the order of how God created Adam as Moses wrote,

“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Did you catch the order? First, “the LORD formed man of the dust of the ground,” second, “(He) breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,” and third, “man BECAME a living soul.” Here’s the order which clearly supports Paul who said, “the spiritual is not first, but the natural and afterward the spiritual.”

Are there other examples of this order in scripture?

The Relationship Between Material and Spiritual Fulfillment

There are.

God first created a Nation unto Himself physically through Abraham, then Isaac, then Jacob – twelve tribes, right? Then He had Moses make them a people, His people, where He would be their God and they would be His people. First the material then the spiritual.

In the creation of God’s only Son, God first had Mary conceive. She then gave birth to an actual babe in a material manger, and who, “though He was a Son,” according to Hebrews 5:8, “yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.” Even in the redemption of the world, God first made a material man before He embarked (at 30 years of age) to redeem the world spiritually. What did this Messiah do? He called twelve material apostles to preach Him to all of the Roman empire and warn the Material nation of coming material judgement. In that time He, through the apostles by the Spirit, gathered unto Himself a material church, created by the Spirit in the hearts of those who believed. Can you see the pattern? Well, before we show you what this all means to us today, allow me to fortify what I just said through the white board and the Word of God.

The Material Foundations of Israel and the Messiah

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After “material then spiritual”, Adam fell. God, through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, created a MATERIAL Nation unto Himself.

Known in scripture as “the Nation or House of Israel”:

• Laws and Commands written in stone
• Material Temples were “made with hands”
• Priesthood was held by flesh and blood
• Sacrifices were actual animals
• An economy of “Obedience/Blessing or Disobedience/Curse”
• A literal material Nation culled out from all others
• Even their cities were prescribed by God
• Fed them literal manna from heaven
• Gave them literal water from rock
• A literal day of rest
• Literal Prophets prophesying of literal events
• Ten percent of increase of fruits and harvest given to temple priests
• What to eat and drink was prescribed
• What to wear was prescribed
• How to worship was prescribed
• Sanitary laws were demanded
• Even physical deformity was forbidden

All of these things God first created materially, pointing to the coming of a literal material Messiah who was promised to them.

God's Material Fulfillment of the Promised Messiah

SECONDLY, God sent the material fulfillment of the Promised Messiah in “His Word made flesh.”

The Promised Messiah (Material):

• Born of a woman (materially) and under the material law
• Came to House of Israel first – specifically, materially and literally
• He materially fulfilled the Law and the Prophets by obedience
• He was the “bread of life,” “the living water,” “the way, truth and

The Role of Jesus in the New Spiritual Age

• He explained dietary laws (doing away with them)
• Became the day of rest fulfilling the Sabbath
• Our literal and final sacrifice for sinMissing the mark of faith and love—no punishment, just lost growth or peace. and deathSeparation from God—now overcome. Physical death remains, but it no longer separates us from life with God.
• Our new, final, and only High Priest
• Said the temple would be destroyed within a generation
• The Material Messiah was put to death for the sins of the world
• The Temple veil ripped in two top to bottom
• He died physically
• He was buried physically
• He resurrected physically from the grave
• He promised to return to save them physically from coming judgment
• He ascended physically into the heavens
• He was the last to be sent by God
• As our High Priest, He had to come out of the Holy of Holies

Jesus's Disciples and the Ongoing Spiritual Mission

THIRD . . . Jesus chose twelve material witnesses to usher in the Spiritual age while warning all (in that age) that the end of material religion was near.

12 APOSTLES "Am I not an apostle? . . Have I not seen the Lord Jesus Christ?"

• Holy Spirit fell on them on Day of Pentecost – initiating a new administration/economy/dispensation (of the Spiritual).
• The eleven (plus Matthias and Paul) were the last material witnesses of Him.
• They were commanded to go and preach the Gospel to the “vicinity or area” containing His people.
• In time these witnesses also wrote (according to the Holy Spirit).
• What they wrote was to the believers in that day and age.
• They gave instructions on how to survive “the end of all things” which was headed their way – “destruction” (as described by Jesus).
• When the Apostles referred to scripture it was almost always to the Old Testament.
• There was no New Testament to guide people – just some letters sent to different locations. They were copied but not universally delivered.
• All compositions occurred before 70 AD – including Revelation.
• The Holy Spirit did the converting and guiding of believers far and wide in the early church. The Gospel was preached not read.
• The Apostles gave their lives for their witness of His material life, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and promise of His eminent return.

The Destruction of Jerusalem and What It Signifies

FOURTH . . . Utter Material Destruction

“And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.”

Jerusalem – 70 AD

• End of all things (of the former Covenant/Economy/Administration).
• End of “the world” (which refers to “their world,” the Nation of Israel).
• Material Temple utterly leveled.
• Matthew twenty-four describes all the signs of the end of that age.
• This was the beginning of a New Heaven and New Earth (spiritual).
• A New Jerusalem (spiritual).
• The Church was raptured and saved by Christ at His coming.
• Literal physical Judgment fell on the rest for rejecting Him.
• They did not escape “Gehenna.” All was utterly destroyed.

We’ll leave off there and pick up the most important conclusions from all of this – as PROVEN by the Bible – next week! Let’s open up the phone lines –

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