Deconstructing Church part 7 The Business of Church and 501c3 Incorporation

Should a church become a non-profit 501c3 organization?

If you do not know what this means, please google "501c3 church" to find out.  by Rory Moore    The fact is we absolutely do not need to incorporate and register as a 501c3 non-profit corporation, yet most have, including every denomination.   There was Constitutional protection for churches for nearly 200 years and churches were just fine.  But in 1954 an ungodly, wicked man named Lyndon Johnson pushed through the 501c3 law and churches enroll for tax benefits and deductions.   Should we exchange our "giving in secret" for the benefit of a tax write off? 501c3 Incorporation is OPTIONAL  and the supposed "benefit" of tax deducting and "legal protection from lawsuits" is but another way for government to track and monitor you. Some Biblical History might help us choose. At the time of Christ, circa 30 A.D., there was agreement between the leaders of religious Israel and government. In fact, the Jewish religious system and leadership over God's people were threatened by the Word and ministry of Jesus. Because they too were in agreement with the government of Rome  (whose symbol was (coincidently?) the eagle), they feared the loss of their status, position, and authority.   Notice they said: John 11:48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. Because the religious leaders of Israel were corrupted by the love of money, position, and status, they sought to preserve the system from which they benefited. Does this sound familiar? It should. The present system of "giving" in the church as  we know it benefits the modern clergy just as it did in Jesus' time.  Jesus referred to the clergy "hierlings", and rightly so.  But the 501c3 church is an un-necessary agreement, a marriage, a union, a contract, an "unequal yoke" with the state for financial benefit and state recognition. As it was in Jesus' time, the clergy and most "ministries" today benefit most from the financial system imposed on God's people.  The devil in the details. This agreement by law, conforms the church to IRS corporate law and requires the creation of:  unscriptural church boards  an unscriptural CEO President, (usually the pastor)  unscriptural membership enrollment unscriptural recording of one's giving for tax reporting  and unscriptural submission to governmental regulation of what may or may not be taught  in the church assembly. 501c3 legal notes: 1."A corporation is a creature of the state... " Its rights to act as a corporation are only preserved to it so long as it obeys the laws of its creation..." (Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43) 2."[A corporation is] an artificial person or legal entity created by or under the authority of the laws of a state." Black's Law Dictionary West Publishing Company, 1991; 6th Edition, page 340 3. "A corporation derives its existence and all of its powers from the State and,therefore, has only such powers as the State has conferred upon it. 4. ... the source of this power is the charter and the statute under which the corporation was organized." Len Young Smith and G. Gale Roberson, Smith and Roberson's Business Law, West Publishing Company, 1966, page 796 Romans 12:2(NET Bible) Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God—what is good and well-pleasing and perfect. As we conformed by agreement to 501c3 law, we volunteered to permit the secular state to have lawful authority over the churches. Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.   Who are the wolves? The scriptures tell us they are hierlings, leaders of God's people that take authority, position, and their living from those under them. The wolves have willingly become yoked to a worldly kingdom of rulers who are run by their spiritual head, i.e. satan. We are non-political and do not believe in political salvation by any political party. God will use good and evil people in politics to bring His people to their cross as He has done with His people over and over starting in Genesis. The 501c3 is a physical-and lawful agreement that brings the "leaven of Herod" into the pulpit. It also turns a church into a non-profit business. Under the guise of having the benefit of donations, tithes, and offerings being tax-deductible, churches have been snared by the government into a union with a satanically ruled system. Many churches are a denominational franchise, a family-run business, or a "non-profit corporation". Forgive my blunt assessment, but we will gladly and cheerfully give in secret and our Heavenly Father is far greater a rewarder than a tax write off.   Actions to take: 1. Ask the Lord about the ideas and scriptures in this writing. IF you are persuaded, 2.  Find out if your church-denomination or organization is a 501c3 corporation. 3. Renounce and disavow all unscriptural  legal "membership" (yokes) from churches and man-made organizations. 4. Ask the Lord where He would have you give and to whom apart from the manipulation and scripture perversions from people that personally benefit from the offering plate. 5. As God leads, you may need to repent and withdraw from an anti-christ beast system that has taken the church into captivity. 6. Be prepared for leaders who are part of the system to "explain" and justify these ungodly practices in an attempt to persuade you to stay. 7.  You can withdraw "membership" without leaving your assembly as it is the "system" we are departing from, not the church which is the spiritual body of Christ. For more truth about this, we invite you to read: "Should the church HIRE a Pastor?" "Two Ways to Answer God's Call"

Failed Dates and Leavened in God's Bread

Have you ever read a verse and thought HOW DID WE MISS THIS???"

Consider Luke 21.

How could we have overlooked this signs-of-the-end-time warning?

    

-as many others did likewise including the men on radio, internet, and a host of book writers?

Luke 21:8 J.B. Phillips New Testament
“Be careful that you are not deceived,” he replied.
“There will be many coming in my name, saying ‘I am he’ (confessing Jesus is Lord) and ‘The time is very near now.’ Never follow men like that...... "

.....Luke 21:8  (NIV)
He replied: “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and  ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them.

And in the Numeric ASV: and He said see you be not led astray, for many shall come in my name saying "I am He"; and "the season is near", GO NOT AFTER THEM.

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Christ-confessing ministers saying the time is at hand, the season is near, ARE right now,  leading many astray with false words that feed "hopium". (hop-ee-um, i.e. unrealistic hopes)

The FIRST warning Jesus gave regarding the end times was the SIGN that many would lead astray, ---> and that it would be those saying "the TIME is at hand".
“There will be many coming in my name, saying ‘I am he’ and ‘The time is very near now.’ ---> Never follow men like that......

So in that category the past few years we have:

- NO predicted earthquakes hit, and the ones that came were missed.

- NO special "anointing of the manchild" came in September or October 2011 to ddate.

- NO Comet Elenin disasters or even becoming visible

- NO appearing of Planet X

- NO, the New Madrid did not split open and isolate an ark-shaped refuge in which the "anointed" people
 could take the abandoned property of fleeing residents..

-no second term for Trump.
-no pre-trib rapture in any of the 2023 and newer dates.

- NO, the 11-11-11 Hoover Dam terrorist destruction missed (via a YouTube prophet)
- multiple eclipses accompanied by fear and preparations.
- ALAS! even the Great Pumpkin did not arrive for Halloween as Linus, the cartoon series character in "Peanuts' hoped for every year ....

Every new war by Israel, every yearly fall feast of the Jews, and the imminent sacrifice of a red heifer shake the world of church folks.

But a pattern of failed dates, dreams, and disasters are exactly what we are told would be an end-time sign!

Did He really mean it and does it apply to the date-setting prophecy teacher?

“There will be many coming in my name, saying ‘I am he’ and ‘The time is very near now.’ ---> Never follow men like that......

If they predict dates, confirmed by dreams or whatever they are leading us astray, no disciple in the New Testament dangled dates and disasters as a lure for followers.

Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, ---> It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority.

We need to repent of the lust to know and/or have special end-time knowledge...
We too can fall into a "working of error", a strong delusion....  because no man is exempt from deception.

The truth here is Jesus does not want us following date-setting people no matter how much Christ they confess and teach.

The second truth is He does not want our minds and spirits POLLUTED by fear. Beware of constant mind-control and manipulation by pointing us toward their particular vision or philosophy, by those seeking a following.

Fear using carrot-and-stick dates that constantly move forward is a tactic that keeps people following the "date" setters who must then move the goal posts for their followers..

Call him apostle, pastor, watchman, or rabbi and we lean on and follow his revelation, there is idolatry and our mind will be veiled from truth.

-especially when God told us ahead of time,  "they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;"

The Lord, by His grace, has granted us repentance and deliverance from the error that had us bound.

The hidden "leaven" in our manna of the Word.

We can now rest in His promises concerning end time events. There is never going to be a pre-trib rapture and every date for it will fail as have countless others.

"Abide in Him", not the hopium.

God bless you, peace and grace that He is able to keep you in.

A Mystery Revealed: The Hidden Manna, a White Stone, a New Name?

Hidden manna? A white stone? a new name?
-by rory moore

In Revelation chapters 2 and 3,  I would share as the Lord grants understanding of the hidden manna found in this scripture passage.  The Lord has hidden many wonderful secrets within His Word and He said they are revealed to us.

"He reveals the deep and secret things"

When a truth is revealed it becomes simple and obvious. 
I puzzled for many years by some of the sayings to the churches but the mysterious language of the Revelation is not a mystery to God who gave it. 
The passage in Revelation 2 that follows baffled me for many years.  Then one day the Lord opened my understanding of...

 Hidden Manna, a White Stone,  New NAME

Rev. 2: 17   He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
 To him that overcomes, to him will I give of the hidden manna,
and I will give him a white stone,
 and on the stone a new name written,
which no one knows except he that receives it.     


What the Spirit says: 
is revealed by Holy Spirit-taught revelation. So Jesus said in
John 14:26  "But the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things" 
and 
1Jn2:27  And as for you, the anointing which you received of him abides in you,
               and you do not need that any one teach you; but as his anointing teaches you 
               concerning all, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you....
Well that's a promise for you!

But Spiritual truths are hidden from eyes and understanding veiled by the church teachings.
The religious leadership of Jesus' day were declared as spiritually blind by the Lord, and so were those who put their trust in them. It is no different today.

So He spoke to them in parables but to His disciples He said this in Matthew 16:17
And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon (Peter):
for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

-Accurate revelation will always agree and be witnessed by the scriptures in multiple places.

The KEY.
"To him that overcomes..."
 What must they "overcome" to eat of the "hidden manna", i.e. the hidden Word of Truth? 

Within the passage itself is the answer and according to other passages such as Rev. 18:4, God's people must separate from the harlot system that calls itself Christian and is headed by "false apostles"  (i.e. "messengers"), which in the previous verses are referred to as "the  Nicolaitane error". -the clergy system that rules over God's people)

That is the false church hierarchy structure. It is the clergy headship over God's people.  
-and the the Balaam ministry which sells its' ministry services as Balaam did.
This was shown in previous verses in Revelation 2: 2,6,14 , and other places such as 2 Peter 3:2-3 and in Jude.
In our day it is especially the 501c3 churches that "married" Caesar. It is antichrist.

We overcome the ministry of the Nicolaitanes (clergy over laity),  and Jezebel, i.e., the manipulating-controlling-dominating leadership that asserts carnal authority over God's people as did the pharisees and clergy of Jesus' day through Titles, and mans devices as Jesus said.

As we overcome the typical church doctrines, creeds, statements of faith, and clergy-built belief systems of our fathers traditions, God will open our eyes to behold "what the Spirit says to the congregations".

As long as we look at scripture through "lenses" of tradition learned in church, our spiritual vision will be obscured.
We exhort you to take those religious glasses off and pray a Luke 14:33 prayer..

As you overcome the Nicolaitane error and doctrine Jesus "hates", you are on your way to understanding God's Word as the Holy Spirit teaches. 
As Paul wrote in Galatians 1:12 For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. 

Paul did not go to church. He went to God in prayer and study.

A personal example was my own question about "the deeds of the Nicolaitanes which I hate" in Rev. 2:6. 
For 25 years I always wondered what that was. 
After all, if Jesus "hated" it, I certainly did not want to be doing that!

But what was it?

One day the Lord directed me to read Revelation 2, and as I read Christ's words about the "Nicolaitane error", I wondered yet again what it meant. 
Suddenly the Lord imparted understanding and I saw it revealed and the Nicolaitanes were all through the scriptures! One word best says it. "Clergy". Another word is a man "king".

They were the ones who persecuted Jesus.
King Saul was an early prototype. (leaders being elevated).
Diotrephes in 3John was one
Paul warned of them in Acts 20:33-35.
It all became clear the most common form of church government is the Nicolaitane error.   

Jesus is not the denominational, sectarian church version presented by titled church officials like "Reverend", "Pastor", "Apostle", "Rabbi", and a dozen other titles worn by men and women in the church system, collectively known as "the Clergy" which rules the laity (people).

A white stone:
What does that "hidden manna" reveal?
Jesus said they would receive a "white stone".
This is the simplicity of Christ Jesus of the scripture.  

"The Stone that the builders rejected who is become the Head of the corner". Acts 4:11 
This is the stone which was set at nought of you (the apostate) builders, which is become the head of the corner."  
-set aside by the builders then, and now, who substitute their version of Jesus as they built their churches, organizations, and personal ministries within Nicolaitane-run churches. 

The "white stone" is the revelation of Jesus, and not what most of Christianity superimposes over God's Word. The revelation given to Peter in Matthew 16:18. 

How can we say that?  As you look at the "Not In Scripture List" on our web page, you will see many examples.

a NEW name written:

The "new name written"  was there all the time; it was veiled by religion.
It is the "new (especially in freshness"  Jesus  (the white stone) of the "hidden manna" of the Word of God "that which is written".  -in the scriptures. 

Can "another Jesus slip in through the church door? 
2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached.  
Not every "Jesus" preached is The "White Stone" Jesus that Paul preached and the writer John knew!

Every sect an denomination presents Jesus as they see Him. 

Believe it or not, none of these are in scripture.

-"God incarnate"

-"The deity of Christ"

 -“the Holy Trinity”

- God the Son, “God in three persons”, ”fully God fully man”, “triune”, “dual nature” “God robed in flesh”, “God incarnate”. "God became a man", “Divine Son”, “God-man”, “man God”.

Shocked?
Then please see "This Jesus" that was preached by His disciples in Acts.
"which no one *knows but he that receives it"

How do you receive that? 
As we "renounce all that you have" in order to become HIS disciple, as Jesus taught in Luke 14:33, it even includes our church doctrine.
This is how we empty of ourselves in surrendering "all that we have" and believe in order for the Lord to renew our minds in His Word. 

Every formula, every man made list, creed, and statement no matter how seemingly important.  And yes, it takes time to allow God to purge out of us the "seed" (words) of men.. And yes, I still find this action of the Holy Spirit working in me.

Leaders will always make excuses for their religious traditions as Jesus said in Mark 7:8
You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

Revelation is to recognize the Pure Jesus of the Hidden Manna after overcoming the Nicolaitane error and the preach-for-reward ministry! 
"Knowing" the "new name", is as Peter received by revelation by the Spirit of God, as it is not found in repeating the syllables "Jesus" or a variant. 

 *knoweth: (G1097
 A prolonged primary verb; to "know" (absolutely), in a great variety of applications and with many implications, with others not thus clearly expressed):  perceive, be resolved, be sure, understand.)  

Now that you know, here is the passage in Revelation:
11   He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
       He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death.
12   and to the angel of the church in Pergamum write
        These things says he that hath the sharp two-edged sword:
13   I know where you dwell, even where Satan`s throne is (satan rules in the heart of the natural, carnal-minded man)  and thou hold fast my name,
       and did not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one,
       who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
14   But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold
        the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block
        before the children of Israel,
       to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
15   So have you also some that hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans in like manner.
16   Repent therefore; or else I come to thee quickly, and I will make war against them
        with the sword of my mouth.
17    He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

To him that overcomes, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he that receives it.

WHO is MYSTERY BABYLON? A short word.

 Babylon that mighty city..........
-rory moore

In the Bible, in the Book of Revelation, is an entity called "BABYLON" is focused on, especially in chapters 17 and 18.

Although many mistakenly refer to Babylon as the Vatican and the Roman church, it is far greater than that narrow definition. It was once a City-State, and an ancient empire that conquered Israel around 600 BC.
Let's expand our concept of who is "Mystery Babylon the great..."
Without making this too deep or complex, and apply to Babylon the nature and manner to exercise authority and power.

Understanding Who Babylon Is :

(hint 1: Money. 

 it is an economic system based on buying-selling-borrowing. Banking, business, commerce, advertising.

(hint 2:  Politics.

it is a political and governmental system rooted in patriotism, violent force, military conquest, and taking from others through forceful taxation, force of arms, and the non-just legal system.

(hint 3: Religion.

 it is the MYSTERY RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS of the world, satanically engineered for confusion, competition, clergy-ism, division, conflict, pomp and ceremony, showmanship, rituals, that operates through worldly hierarchy's and structures never given in God's Word.

(hint 4: Culture.
Driven by movies, entertainment, music, and celebrity,  it is the social culture that distracts, entertains, appeals to our carnal senses, and uses all means to divert our attention away from the Lord.

(hint 5: Medicine.

The medical system: “pharmakeia". Drug-based treating of most afflictions predicted by scripture. Controlled by organizations like the FDA, AMA, CDC and many others to impose vaxxes, control physicians, in order to shut out alternative and natural healing methods.

(hint 6. Law.

The legal system which pervert true justice and is run by corrupt people, unjust laws, lawlessness.

(hint 7. Military Force.
The world's military to use force to conquer, subjugate, use terror, mass murder, and financial plunder.

Revelation 14:8 And a second angel, followed, saying,
Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication (spiritual, economic, social, medical, political, legal, military).

One thing that is astonishing about the above is the number of that certain group of people who claim to be Judaens are found at the top levels of each of those.

Jesus Reveals a Last Days Rapture Revelation

Do you want to explore God's Word and the prophetic?
 Let's consider how Jesus experienced the tribulation as an example and pattern for what would follow during the latter day great tribulation?

If you are familiar with the Bible, this may take on more meaning as God's  historical cycles repeat..
Jesus' own personal week of tribulation shows us when He will gather His Saints, and the week of Jesus' Tribulation week began as He returned to Jerusalem to keep the third Passover in His ministry.  

That momentous week of tribulation as Jesus lived it,  
will show us the coming tribulation and the "rapture". (I use the word "rapture" as is commonly spoken of in churches, but the word "rapture" is not given in scripture, but is more accurately "our gathering unto Him", and a "catching away". )

After 3 years of ministry,  Jesus went up to Jerusalem to keep the mandatory Passover Week, aka the "Feast of Unleavened Bread". (Lev. 23:5)

Like the lamb of Passover (Ex. 12:5), Jesus would also be examined offer Himself as the sacrificial Lamb, and he was tested by the leaders and later, the Roman governor as they questioned him in Matthew 23 by the chief priests, Pharisees, and Sadducees.

 He was not only walking out a fulfillment of what had been prophesied a millennia prior, He was also walking out a prophecy that would repeat in our day.
A reading of Exodus 12 gives the command and ordinances of the Passover given to Israel as they departed from Egypt. It was also the prototype or the pre-figuring of Christ.

So on the first day of the week, our Sunday, Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey, to the acclaim of crowds. He went to the temple and again drove out the money changers.

Jesus, The true Passover Lamb would be  in the house of Israel, (physically in the temple) in the city of Jerusalem, to minister for 3 days. 

In doing so, He was examined for spot and blemish by the priests who tried to find fault with him. -Which was according to a "type and shadow" fulfillment of Exodus 12 regarding the offering of the Passover lamb as required by the Old Testament law.
He, being found without any leaven as the Living Bread, was also the lamb without any blemish of sin. "Which of you convicts me of sin?" -and none could.

 Even Governor Pilate witnessed in Lk 23:4 And Pilate said unto the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no fault in this man. 

Let's see what else happened in the time frame of seven days..

1. Two witnesses were sent ahead of Him.

 On the 10th day of the month, Jesus came into Jerusalem, and the "house" of Israel. All the disciples accompanied Jesus into Jerusalem including Judas. 

As He was coming to Jerusalem, two witnesses were sent ahead. Mark 11:1 And when they draw near to Jerusalem, ...to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, 

 (Bethphage means "house of unripe figs", "Bethany means "house of misery", spiritually symbolic names for where Jesus was going.) 

Looking forward.
In tribulation the two witness are sent forth and prophesy for 3.5 years. 

     Rev. 11:3 And I will give to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy
                      a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
                  :4 These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing before the
                       Lord of the earth . 

(-those are not two men.  The two olive trees were the people of the "natural branches", Old Testament Israel which were given Moses and the law as the former,  the latter being the NEW Testament Israel consisting of those in Christ in which there is neither Jew nor gentile". See Romans 11:24 for an amazing confirmation) 

2. Jesus entered physically INTO the physical temple:
    a.
 As a parable and foreshadowing two times of Him coming INTO His temple as a life-
        giving Spirit, to those who are "watching and praying":

        Mat. 21:12 And Jesus entered into the temple <building> of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-                       changers, and the seats of them that sold the doves;

He will again cast out the modern "money-changers" those who are in the NT temple (.i.e the body of Christ>  plundering and merchandising God's people by exchanging the freely given gospel for the reward of a hireling. 

Jesus will come INTO His NT temple in NEW JERUSALEM at the beginning of the tribulation 

Mal. 3:1 Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me:
and the Lord,  whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple.
                                                                (again, a dual prophecy)

The NT temple is His Body of people (aka the church).
He will come forth IN His people before He comes FOR His church.  -As He did in Acts 2. "and SUDDENLY there came a sound..." as Jesus came INTO His Temple (His people) as the Life-giving Spirit. 

  

In the tribulation season:
The week Jesus was tribulated began with his acceptance into Jerusalem on a donkey.  He came humbly, without flags, without an army, without pompous robes, without a gold chariot.

In the beginning of the 7 year time of "great tribulation", Jesus Spiritually comes again without fanfare, without stage lights, without notice to many of the saints in "New Jerusalem", nevertheless  He is a growing presence.
To those that thirst, He will come in the form of the "latter rain" and anoints His witnesses and disciples..

Hos. 6:3... and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.
This is the sudden fulfillment as He comes forth IN His people at the appointed time.

Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how you have received and did hear; and keep it, and repent.
If therefore you will not watch, I will come as a thief,  and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you. 
-1Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 

Now notice this amazing prophecy:
Jeremiah 5:24...Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain,
both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Jesus came as the "former rain" on the Day of Pentecost as "a life-giving Spirit", according to Peter in Acts 2:17, and He comes again at the time of the "latter rain" at the time of "harvest", the last days of the church-elect-saints.

      

b.
When the "70th week" begins, Christ's disciples also begin to spiritually "keep" the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  

ALL leaven (tradition, sin, false teaching) must be put out as the church begins to feast on the scriptures only. 

NO manmade definitions, explanations, commentaries, doctrinal lists or statements are acceptable to God.
The saints MUST feast on the Word alone as Jesus is the WORD of God, and He is the bread come down from heaven".
John 6: 35 Jesus said unto them. I am the bread of life:
he that comes to me shall not hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst.)

Please also see http://www.preparehisway.com/it_s_not_scripture_.html 

for a list of things leavened into the church as we know it. 

     Ex. 13: 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days;
and there shall no leavened bread seen, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee....   
:8 And you shall tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that which The LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. 
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord."
see Ex. 13:6-7, Lev.23:6, Deut 16:3-4. 

Now God put the timing of the this FEAST for a reason, and for our learning.  

The tribulation finally causes God's people to separate from the world and its' systems.

In order to separate His people from the body of the harlot church and the world, those that abide in the ark of Christ, i.e. His Word, the real disciples of Jesus  will partake of His Word without the leaven of tradition, sin, church law, and fear of human church government. 

Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. 

Here is a double prophecy is seen regarding the "7th day", the 7th 1,000 year "day", which is also the "third day" since Christ's first coming. 

  

Hos.6:2
After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up,
and we shall live before  him.  ... to know the LORD: his going forth is sure as the morning;
and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth. 

3.  For 3.5 days Jesus testified and gave witness in the temple, doing signs and healing: 

Mat. 21:14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. 

Tribulaion:
For three and a half years, Jesus powerfully manifests Himself in a corporate body (His "temple") as the two witnesses, while His disciples do signs and miracles. 

 Rev. 11:6 These have the power to shut the heaven, that it rain not during the days of their prophecy:  and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they shall desire.

Their Word (free from the leavened doctrines and deeds of the apostate church) is confirmed by power, signs, and wonders. 
-Just as it was in Acts, for those that made themselves ready.

  Mark 16:20 And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed.. 

These were not pew-sitting, pastor-idolizing, church building pseudo-saints. They manifested the character, nature, and name of Jesus Christ, and their words were confirmed by truthful signs and wonders by the Lord, as written.  Therefore we have a great expectation and reason for rejoicing in anticipation of a repetition of Acts. Let each of us "prepare His way" and everyone having this hope "purify himself".

4.  He declared the harlot, the body of apostate Israel desolate. 
Mat 23:38 Behold, your house (the temple building and unregenerated Israel) is left to you desolate. 

He was taking the kingdom away from the apostasy of Israel and giving it to a worldwide body of people made up of both Jew and gentile, the "holy nation" called (spiritually) "ALL Israel".

 In the tribulation, the harlot church, a worldwide body and her offspring are reprobated. The churches who are of "the seed of men" are the daughters of the harlot of Christianity.

 And in Rev.13, this is what the mark signifies as the apostate body of the harlot, those who do not have the "seal of God in their foreheads", take the mark and are reprobated.
-the abomination that makes desolate.
     Rev. 14: 9 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice,
                           If any man worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on
                           his forehead,  or upon his hand
                  :10 he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God 

5. The "Midst" of the "week".
This is where it becomes extremely interesting!
      Luke 22:7 And the day came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed. 

In the "midst (middle) of the week" that ended with Resurrection:
The second 3.5 days of Jesus "week" begins His great tribulation:
It began in the garden:
  Mat 26:37..he took the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled. 

Judas the antichrist, was revealed to be the Son of Perdition who had been "hidden" in the corporate body of Christ.

At the middle of that week, Satan entered into Judas:
  Luke 22:3 And Satan entered into Judas (the spirit of antichrist entered Judas ), and was revealed:

     Mat 26:47 And while he yet spoke,.. Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priest and elders of the people. 

Likewise in the midst of the 7 tribulation years, comes the abomination of desolation as the anti-christ body of people is also revealed. 

     Dan 9:27 And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he  shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; 

(exactly what happened with Jesus in the garden as His sacrifice of service and the fruit of His lips ceased from prayer ) 

              ... and upon the wing of abominations shall come one that makes desolate; and even  unto the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate.

At that time, the spirit of antichrist hidden in a body of professing Christians turns against the true disciples. "and brother shall betray brother..." 
      Mark 13:12   And brother shall deliver up brother to death.
      Matthew 24:10  And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another,
                                  and shall hate one another.

6. Jesus was betrayed and delivered up to the harlot (Israel) and the beast (Rome).

      Mark 14:43 And straightway, while he yet spoke, came Judas, one of the twelve,
                            and with him a  multitude with swords and clubs,
                            from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. 

In tribulation, the saints are betrayed and delivered up to the harlot of Christinity and the NWO "beast".

Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints,
and with the blood of the  martyrs of Jesus.
Matt 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another,
and shall hate one another...

7.  At the arrest of Jesus, the disciples fled. 
Mark 14:50 And they all left him, and fled. 

In tribulation the church (the woman) flees into the wilderness.
Here is where "He who restrains will be taken out of the way" 

Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place 
prepared of God,  that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days. (3.5 years)

Mat 24:16 then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains :
20 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath: 
21 for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been from the
beginning of the world   until now, no, nor ever shall be (see Dan. 12:1) 

 8.  The harlot and beast "tread down" Jesus Christ as His own "great tribulation" begins
Mat 27:2 and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up
to Pilate the governor.
Luke 23:7 And when he knew that he was of Herod's jurisdiction,
he sent him unto Herod,-Herod was the Roman "beast kingdom" governor. 

As the two witness finish their 3.5 year ministry, the harlot of Christianity and the NWO beast put many saints to death. 
(the two witnesses are two identifiable groups of people, called the two olive trees. We develop this in another post)
Rev 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that cometh up
out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
Rev 17:6   And I saw the woman (the harlot of Christianity) drunken with the blood of the saints,
and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. 

At the end of their prophesying, they are martyred, as Jesus was in the middle of His "tribulation" week.  In other words, the corporate body of Jesus begins to die worldwide from persecution by the beast <NWO kingdom> and harlot <NWO religion.. 

Their bodies lie in the open for for 3.5 years and then they are "caught up" into heaven.
Revelation 11:   And after the three days and a half (3.5 years) the breath of life from God
entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them that beheld them. 
12  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither.  And they went up into heaven in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them. 

"Middle of the week" continued.
9. When Jesus had finished His ministry, the "beast" put Him to death. 

Luke 24:20 and how the chief priests (the harlot: apostate Judaism) and our rulers (the Romans) delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. 

The beast is given power to make war against the saints. 

Tribulation saints are persecuted (Christ in His people) and scattered (given flight )..
Many go into captivity.
     Rev 13:10 If any man is for captivity, into captivity he goeth:
                           if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed.
                           Here is the patience and the faith of the saints 

The "son of perdition" is revealed as a corporate body within the body (temple) of Christ. 

          2Thess. 2:4 he that opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God
                              or that is worshipped; so that he sits in *the temple of God,
                              setting himself forth as God. 

        2Thess 2:3 let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away
                            come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition 
      Matthew 24:15 When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place  (let him that reads understand). 

What is there to understand? Is it that the temple is not made with hands out of stone?

* Ephesians 2:19 ...but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
                          21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together,
                               grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 

In Acts 15: the church said there is no difference between Jew and gentile:

     Acts 15:9 and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. -i.e., the saints.
This and many other scriptures demonstrate that there is ONE body of Christ, one church, in which there is neither Jew nor Greek. In other words, there will be no division from a gentile church being raptured so God can turn back to the Jew. 
And both of these groups form the "holy temple" in the Lord. These are the "two olive trees".

10. When Jesus was arrested, the disciples fled.

      Matthew 26:56 But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be
                                  fulfilled.  then all the disciples left him, and fled.

The scattered saints go into 3.5 years of Great Tribulation. 

 Many saints die, lose their heads, are taken captive, but they overcome the beast and the harlot in doing so. 

     Dan 8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said unto that certain one
                     who spoke,  How long shall be the vision concerning the continual burnt-offering,
                      and the transgression that makes desolate, to give both
                     the sanctuary   and the host to be trodden under foot? 

     Dan 7:25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out
                     the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the
                     law; and they shall be given  into his hand until a
                     time and times and half a time.

     Rev 12:14  And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she
     might fly into  the wilderness unto her place, where she is nourished for *a time, and
     times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 

* is a figure for 3.5 years.

     Mat. 24: 20 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath: 

                     21  for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning
                             of the world  until now, no, nor ever shall be 

11.  When Jesus was crucified, His body was broken.  Jesus died- HIS Great Tribulation.....  
        Jonah 3:2     Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice.
        Isa. 53:10    Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou 

                             shalt make his soul an offering for sin 

In tribulation, the "body of Christ" suffers again, corporately.

The persecuted saints, the "lively stones" of the temple (the church) are also "thrown down" as the saints flee, scattered, and persecuted.

       Rev 12:11 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their  testimony; 
     and they loved not their life even unto death. 

However the gospel is preached in power and worldwide:

        Matt 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a
                          testimony unto  all the nations; and then shall the end come. 

      Rev 14:6    And I saw another angel flying in mid heaven, having eternal good tidings to
                          proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth,
                          and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people..

       Rev 11:6  These have the power to shut the heaven, that it rain not during the days of
                          their prophecy:  and they have power over the waters to turn them
                          into blood, and to smite the earth with  every plague, as often as
                          they shall desire. 

12. Jesus died "outside the gates" according to the Law:

      Deut 16:5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates 

      Rev 11:8 And their dead body lie in the street of the great city,
                       which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

Jesus was not crucified INSIDE the city of Jerusalem, but in the world.

The saints also are given to suffer "outside the camp":

      Heb 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood,
                          suffered without the gate.

         Rev. 18:4   another voice saying, Come forth, my people, out of her that ye have no
                               fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues:
         Rev  11:8 And their dead body lie in the street of the great city,
                                which spiritually  called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord
                                was crucified.
The two witnesses, which we believe are the "two olive trees" of the church and a remnant of natural Jews grafted back into the tree called "all Israel".  As a corporate body, their dead body lies in the streets of the world wide city spiritually called Sodom and Egypt.
"Egypt" was a "type" of the world when ancient Israel came out from them 3,600 years ago.

13. Jesus overcame death : 

          Acts 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, Neither wilt thou give thy
                          Holy One to  see corruption. 

          Acts 2:31 he foreseeing this spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that
                            neither was he left unto Hades 

          Rev 1:18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore,
                             and I have the keys of death and of Hades. 

Likewise the saints overcome the devil, the beast, the harlot, and their own flesh. 

        1John 5:4  For that who is begotten of God overcomes the world: and
                                     this is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 

        Rev 12:11      And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb,
                                   and because of the word of their testimony;  and they loved not their life even unto death. 

14. After the Resurrection ... 

He appeared for 40 days to His disciples.

        Acts 1:3 ..he also showed himself alive after his passion by many proofs,
                         appearing to them  by the space of forty days, and speaking the
                         things concerning the kingdom of God: 

So we see in the acts of Jesus, after 7 days of personal tribulation and 40 days He went up . 

       Acts 1:3 ..appearing to them by the span of forty days
                  :9 And when he had said these things,   as they were looking, he was taken up;
                           and a cloud received him out of their sight. 

After 7 days abiding in the ark, and 40 days on the ark during judgment, Noah also was lifted up. 
After the 7 years and 40 days, the church goes up. 

Noah's days: 7 x 365 + 40 = 2595  to a "raising up" above the earth. 

Jesus' week of tribulation in a summary:

Began the 7 days in which He came to the city of Jerusalem.
For 3.5 days He ministered in the temple of God..

The son of perdition was revealed, and He was put on trial before the harlot and the beast, and was killed.

For 3.5 days He was in great tribulation beginning with His arrest, crucifixtion, and death..

At the end of the 7th day, He was alive and appeared for 40 Days comforting His disciples, and then >>>>>>>> the body of Jesus went UP. 

After 7 years and 40 days, the body of Christ goes up a a cloud of witnesses, gathered to be with Jesus and follow him as the army of God. 

     1Thess 4: 17 then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up
                       in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 

Jesus shows the way. 

My testimony.
 I was praying asking the Lord if the tribulation was shown to us by Jesus in another way besides the obvious prophecies.