“Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.”

Colossians 2:18-19

Do not be hog swallowed. Otherwise, deceived. It is Christ alone who is our Redeemer, Intercessor, and Mediator. (“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” I Tim. 2:5-6) (I Tim. 2:3-6) It is not angels or the worshipping of them, as some would teach today. You don’t pray to the apostles (Catholic religion), or honor UFO’s, or get into the up and down emotional feelings and sign seeking of the Charismatics (God honors faith, Heb. 11:6), or peddle a false narrative of Santa (satan), or get spooked by ghosts, or lean on the power of Thor’s (Viking myths) hammer, or the occult, or any such liking of the supernatural.

 Also, Gnostics from the first century of Christianity did not love or honor the Lord, either. (See Webster 1828 dictionary) They even today hold Christ only at the highest in the rank of spirits and disdain His work as Creator (nature) (“And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” Col. 1:17); and the Lord’s redeeming blood and work upon Calvary. (Luke 24:47; Rom. 3:25) Evil! So much a sorer punishment shall they reap. Agnostics, different from Gnostics, even hold to a false narrative. Teaching there might be a God, but you cannot know Him. Wrong. (“Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;” Phil. 3:8-10) We grow in the knowledge and the knowing of Christ as we are in His Word and doing His will in our lives. (Matt. 11:28-30) These false narratives are all sin and balderdash. (“…vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,…”) (Pride)

 The worst danger of all is this Laodicean church age: lukewarm, neo-evangelical, watered-down preaching, no need of God, rich in this world, wretched, (poor, blind, naked, miserable, and diluted spiritually), pampering people just to come and stay in church, no fear of God, apostate, heroical, cultic, and on the way to hell churches. Aye, the Lord said it would be so. (Rev. 3:14-19) The Lord calls saints to come out of it.

 Yet this writer sees on the horizon and believes it to be the last generation. The increasing of the cults, apostasy, and Roman Catholicism. The increase of persecution and death of true saints. Then shall the Lord appear in the air taking His bride, the church. Ushering in the time of Jacob’s trouble: the seven-year Tribulation Period, known also as Daniels’s Seventieth Week. God’s time dealing with His people, the Jewish nation and a time never seen upon the earth.

 Now, taking the honor and glory of Christ, giving them to another: Watch out. You turn from Christ Jesus and hold to others or to a diverse phantasmal theme, you have no Stay or Anchor for thy soul and only a devil’s hell awaits. Awful and Wicked it is! Repent, turn and hold to the precious Saviour, Jesus Christ, our righteousness. Amen.

 Beholding and holding to the Head, our Lord Jesus Christ in love, honor, and glory. Man is naturally rebellious and hates authority, or any ruling over them. We see this throughout society: employee to boss, people to governments, wife to husband, man to Creator, and even saints to church leaders, etc., all having the inclinations of guile, deceit, and rebellion. Let us examine and repent, trusting in our Saviour, committing our all unto Him. For we hold Him to be our Head for all things. (“And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,” Eph. 1:22) (“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.” Eph. 2:19-22) (Eph. 1:22) Whereby we, saints (church) are strengthened, fed (nourished), ministered by, and enlarged (increaseth) by our Shepherd (Head), Jesus Christ our God. Ever ready with grace and salt give an answer to every man that asketh of the glorious gospel of our Saviour (reason of Hope). (“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” I Peter 3:15) Propagating the gospel throughout and holding to our Head, Jesus Christ (to the church).

 Thus, we ought not and cannot live as we would of ourselves or this world. Only to behold the perfect Lamb of God, our Lord Jesus “Christ Our Perfection”. (“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” Gal. 6:14)