New Book By A Presbyterian Scholar Is On The Mark

A new book by a Presbyterian scholar is on the mark concerning the Jewishness of the Church. He steps away from his own denomination to write an expose on the hijacking of the Jewish Church by Gentiles. For years he struggled with what was revealed to him but did not speak up or out. Now in his senior years and the sunset upon him, he has written a book that explodes the myth of the Gentile church. He has sent me this synopsis with permission to post it on this blog.

Salvation Is Of The Jews

Enjoy,

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves

Judgment & The Pastor

Judgment begins at the house of God (1Peter 4:17).

The house of God is the Church.

House of God denotes a building, a place.

Judgment concerns those things that are considered sin.

The judgment of sin then begins at the Church.

What is the role of the Pastor in this judgment place?

The Pastor is a shepherd. He is over the flock.

Does the flock have authority over the shepherd?

Who has the authority in the Church to set forth judgment?

Can anyone show me where it is a deacon board's duty and office?
Can anyone show me where a board or group of Elders have this duty or office?

Judgment against sin at the Church must include the ministry of the Pastor.

And if he does not judge sin by his ministry, judgment fails at this church and people are not delivered from their sins.

Why is it that in modern Pentecostalism, sin in the church is an accepted thing? Could it be that the Pastor himself is included in these sins and therefore can not judge them?

Why would he want to condemn those sins he allows?

Why is it that for most churches judgment is not part of the spiritual work?

If we are judged now righteously, we will not be judged later.

Some who reject being in a Church of judgment, will run to churches where sin is accepted. What does this tell us?

At the Passover of Jesus table, there is judgment. It is here we can judge ourselves. It is here if we do not and we eat and drink, we eat and drink damnation to ourselves. Should a Pastor allow people to eat and drink at the Communion when he knows they are living in sin and he knows they have not repented?

Can even the judgment of a Pastor begin at the house of God?

Yea, I say, if a Pastor fails his ordination, fails his duty, refuses to be a holy and righteous man of God, he is judged at the house of God. Let all Pastors examine themselves because they also stand to be judged.

I thank God that judgment begins at the house of God.

Jesus judge us, forgive us, and give us mercy.

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves

A Divine Truth

"Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all the people: for all the earth is mine" (Exo 19:5).

"But this thing command I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you" (Jer 7:23).

There is an exclusive choosing going on here. It is something so powerful no man can change it. Many have perverted this Divine Truth. But they only commit spiritual suicide.

It goes like this:

Until a person is born again of water and Spirit (John 3:3-5), they are not a child of God.

Those who are not born again are not a child of God.

Therefore, God is only God to those who are born again.

And only those who are born again according to Acts 2:38 are the people of God.

God chooses who he will be God to. God does not choose to be God to everyone in the world.

The world has their god and gods. And, the Kingdom of God has its God.

God is not the God of the kingdom of darkness. Therefore, all who are in the kingdom of darkness do not have God as their God.

This is set forth in the Old Testament in a clear fashion, so powerful that only a fool would mess with it.

God chose Abraham and his seed as his people and to whom exclusively, he would be their God.

No other people of the world. No other nation. No other religion. No matter if it was the Assyrians, the Babylons, the Medes, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, and the host of other Gentile nations: God was not their God and they were not his people.

While many billions may believe in God, this is not sufficient for God to be their God. And while many unbelievers believe in God, this does not force God to be their God (the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob).

God chooses whom he will be a God to. And he chooses that those to whom he is God, they are his people.

This Divine Truth cannot be overthrown. It can be perverted by novices and other fools, but it stands as an unshakable fact.

What did God say to Israel, to whom alone he was God.

"Obey my voice, and I will be your God."

When will preachers get it straight? When will they see that Repentance, Water Baptism, and being filled with the Holy Ghost is obeying Jesus-God?

Yes, when will they stop saying: "Peter said, Peter said, Peter said" and boldly confess that the words of Acts 2:38 may have been spoken by Peter but those words came from God. Those words came from God for the purpose of obedience of faith. When will Oneness preachers stop making Acts 2:38 a ritual and start preaching the Divine Truth here?

It was upon my very own faith that I repented. My very own faith I went into the water and was baptized in Jesus Christ name. And my own faith that I received the gift of the Holy Ghost. From faith to faith to faith, I obeyed God. I did not do all this as a ritual. It was not to me step one, step two, and step three. No, it was obey one, obey two, and obey three. I got it.

When I obeyed God and stopped playing church. When I obeyed God and laid aside my personal opinions. When I obeyed God and the Spirit fell and I began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave the utterance: I changed from having no God to having a God.

It was not preached to me clearly how and when I became part of the people of God. That revelation came years later. No, it was not a new revelation, to me it was new Truth that always existed, I just had not heard it preached in any Oneness Church I had attended.

Yesterday as I taught my lesson "Hearing And Obedience" it all came back to me in a flash. I remembered the day and the hour I became obedient. It was the day for the first time I actually showed respect to God and chose to obey him. I knew not that in all my disobedience I was showing disrespect to God. I can remember being at the altar and crying and crying. Seems like buckets of tears came down my cheeks as I humbled myself to a God who had never been my God. I wept my way before the throne of my God. I cannot tell you the washing of my soul that made me feel clean when I got up. All I know is, I had entered into the Spirit and there I soaked up the glory of God. I loved praying now whereas before it was a chore. At last I had a God and he was not far from me.

Today many think God is their God when he is not. Billions believe in idol gods and they cannot have our God for their God in all this idolatry. Sorry, but God will not give his glory to another, and he will not share his glory with any idol god. He will not allow any person to place him equal to other gods.

Then I got it:

"Hear, O Israel."

This is a command. "Hear" here is the Hebrew "shama" and means also to obey.

To tell the people of Israel to "HEAR," Moses was commanding them to listen. Listen to what?

"The Lord our God is one Lord."

Here it is in such great beauty.

"Our God."

I know the novices and reprobates will scurry to send me their hate emails. But save your fingers and time. I will not listen to anything you have to say.

My heart, my mind, my soul is fixed.

The day God became my God and the day I became one of his people: was the day God chose to be my God. And today, after 43 years, he is still my God.

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Is A God To

Change of use

The body, the soul, the spirit.

All made for the glory of God.

Each person has this eternal purpose.

The glory of God is not just earthly.

The glory of God is an eternal plan.

We do not know just now what we will be. But we know, when we see him, we will be like him. We will be changed from mortal to immortal in the twinkle of an eye.

But, some have not been a glory to God.

They are a shame to themselves. To their family. To their friends. To the House of God. And to God himself.

They do not know, or they do not care to know about it, or they do not want to hear it: that sin is not the glory of God.

So, do not even try it.

Do not even think that you, in your sins, are the glory of God.

Someone may have told you God does not care about your sins if you just believe in Jesus.

They lied to you. They are telling you in their religious mumbo-jumbo that God does not care about your sin and you can still be the glory of God in your sins.

Wow!

The devil would like to believe that big fat lie.

The Glory of God cannot be in you, upon you, and part of your soul journey until you have a complete CHANGE OF USE of your soul, your body, and your spirit.

I do not care who tells you that God will glorify sin. I am telling you this is a lie. And I am 100% correct on this. Do not expect your life to be the glory of God when you will not give up your open and secret sins.

All of us need a conversion from sin and ungodliness with a complete change of use.

If you do not want to surrender all to the glory of God, prepare for hell and the lake of fire.

If you want to hold on to your sins and backslidden ways, just keep on in your sins and rejecting the life of the glory of God.

I have had a change of use. For over 40 years I have lived a Godly and a righteous life. I came into this holiness and change of use by my obedience to Acts 2:38 by faith.

I did not fight against the holiness of a glory of God life. I did not backslide out of it either. I did not forsake the Oneness of God and join with trinitarians. I am the glory of God in this life and I will share in the eternal glory of God when Jesus comes.

So, if you have not submitted to the glory of God life, do it today. And if you want to share in the eternal glory of God plan: my advice is to come out from among all the backlsidden Pentecostal churches. Remove yourself unto this glorious glory of God life. Yes, it is a crucified way. Yes, it is a way of the Cross. Yes, it is all the Lord's Will and none of it our will.

Have you had a complete CHANGE OF USE?

Has your body, soul, and spirit been totally converted to the life of the glory of God? Or are you faking it?

Bishop Reckart
Living The Glory of God Life

Tampa Angels "Doing The Most Good"

http://tampa-angels.org/

Feeding the homeless, the poor, and those who are hungry. Tampa Angels, a ministry of Jesus House in Tampa, Florida.

Shelter from the cold during the winter and providing sleeping bags and hot showers. Washer and dryer available for washing dirty clothes. We even give hair cuts and hygiene kits.

Feeding Monday-Saturday from noon to 1:30pm. And on Sunday evenings from 6-7pm.

We are going on our third year of this ministry to the hedges and highways and compelling them to come in.
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What can you do?

Donate money of course;
Donate food of any kind;
Donate blankets and sleeping bags;
Donate bath towels;
Donate a dozen tooth brushes and tooth paste;
Donate bars of soap;
Donate razors and shaving cream;
Donate socks, underwear, and t-shirts;
Donate money for used coats, sweaters, and hats;
Donate money for dresses and skirts for girls and women;
Donate money for pants and shirts for boys and men;

While it does not cost anything to pray for us and the ministry, how about sacrificing for this missionary work being done right here in the back alleys, in vacant buildings and houses, in garbage dumpsters, in cars and vans, and in the hedges and along the highways?

Sure, I am asking for money and I am not the least bit ashamed. If you have not fed your 5,000 try it now. $5,000 will pay for 5000 hot meals. That will feed the poor here at Tampa Angels for 4 months. Of course you could give less. It cost about $1 per meal per person.

Or,

You could just send an offering because in your heart you want to help people. Plus, on Saturday evenings many of them are in Church and Pastor Reckart reaches for their souls. The altar is full of sinners asking the Lord to help them, to forgive them, and to be saved. We have baptized many souls. Jesus is doing a great work at Jesus House.

This heart of love transends our stand for the True Apostolic doctrine. In fact, our love for souls is why we stand strong on Apostolic doctrine. We want to reach them and see them saved. We will reach their need as Jesus reaches their hearts.

If you have not given to those who are naked, hungry, and poor: do it right now. Click on the image above. Go to the Tampa Angel's Home page. And click on the donation folder and give.

Jesus bless you more and more,

Bishop Reckart

A Man Who Loves The Lost

Sabbath Keeping

Sabbath keeping appeals only to a small group of men and women who think they can go beyond the blood of Jesus and make themselves more holy or more righteous by observing the 7th day as a religious practice.

But, do any of them really keep and observe the Sabbath law?

EXO 16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to-day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

EXO 16:29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

EXO 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
EXO 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

EXO 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

EXO 31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

EXO 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
EXO 35:3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
LEV 16:31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
NUM 15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
NUM 15:35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

First, the Sabbath was given to Israel and not to any Gentile people. Nothing that is underlined above was binding upon Gentiles. If a Gentile within the land of Israel did not keep the Sabbath he could not be cut off from Israel because he was never a part of Israel. He could not be stoned to death because this death penalty was only to be applied to Israelites. The ones to put to death a Sabbath breaker was the Israelites. No Gentile had a right or authority to take part in or put to death an Israelite who had broken the Sabbath.

Second, there was to be no cooking of any kind on the sabbath. All of the food eaten on the Sabbath had to be prepared on the 6th day. Jews who try to abide this law will not even tear a paper towel from the roll on the Sabbath. Now why was the man out collecting sticks? There is little doubt they were to be used to kindle a fire. And there is little doubt the fire was for cooking as at this time it was not cold or winter time. Who was to put this man to death? It was the members of the congregation, that is the assembly of Israelites. The law of the Sabbath did not excuse anyone from throwing stones to kill this man. Everyone had to throw a stone. This was part of the Sabbath law. For anyone not to cast a stone and they were an Israelite of the collective congregation, was to break the Sabbath law.

Third, observing the Sabbath according to the Sabbath law, means the whole law of the Sabbath must be observed. Who among all of the so-called Sabbath-keepers observes the WHOLE SABBATH LAW? I have not found one person in over 40 years. And I have met scads and scads of Sabbath law-keeper pretenders. And the majority of them were Gentiles. They were never a part of the congregation of Israel. They imposed the Sabbath law on themselves without Scriptural authority. And they impose the Sabbath law on others as a means to say they cannot be saved unless they keep the 7th day as they do. But these do not keep the Sabbath law and so: are they saved by what they are pretending to observe?

Sabbath keeping by Gentiles is not required in the Old Testament and not in the New Testament. In Acts 15:20, when the Apostles and Elders considered the applicability of the sabbath law upon Gentiles, they did not include it. They knew that according to the laws of Moses, Gentiles were exempted. So why now force upon the Gentiles a law God never gave for Gentiles?

I have met many of these Sabbath keepers who as soon as they begin this pretend observance, the males will seek to be circumcised. The reason they do this, is because the Sabbath law was given to Israel and to a people where all the males were circumcised. And it was the circumcised males who as head of the house and home observed the Sabbath. So these Gentile men had themselves circumcised so their keeping the Sabbath would more authentic. And to them, or according to them, the Sabbath day is not holy if the men observing it are unholy because they had not been circumcised. Now, there are many pretending Sabbath keepers who the males are not circumcised. So the Sabbath keepers are themselves arguing and fighting between them as to who is holy and who is not holy and keeping the Sabbath.

Paul tells us this in Galatians 5:3 that a man who is circumcised is debtor to do the whole law. Now he is not saying that circumcision makes law-keeping valid. What he is saying is: that if a person is circumcised according to the law, that this circumcision is an act to observe all the law. And if he keeps not all the law, then his circumcision is nothing but a hoax. It is ritual without accepting the purpose of the act.

There are many Apostolic Oneness Pentecostals who have gone off into Sabbath keeping. Once they do this, they then try to enforce other law observing practices upon themselves, their families, their churches, and those whom they make converts. They start holding dietary laws. They start observing the old feast days. And they even go so far as to try and speak Hebrew so they appear as Jews. But I have tried them and found them to be liars. They have no Apostolic authority for Sabbath keeping, dietary laws, or feast days. In fact, because they use the law as a means of justification, sanctification, or salvation: they have tried to add to the finished work of Christ on the Cross. They do not believe in salvation by Christ alone, by grace alone, and by faith alone. They do not believe salvation comes totally by the New Covenant in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. They believe part of salvation still comes from the Old Testament law.

Are New Testament believers lawless? Are they free to sin and commit sin? Are there any laws in the New Testament which a Believer should apply to his/her life?

Why of course. Even Acts 15:20 was an Apostolic law.
What about the law of faith (Romans 3:27)?
What about the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2)?
What about the perfect law of liberty (James 1:25; 2:12)?
What about keeping the commandments of Jesus (John 14:15)?
What about Revelation 22:14, "his commandments" referring to the commandments of Jesus?

We who follow Christ and his Apostles know the commandments of Christ. We know the perfect law of liberty in the Gospel of grace. We know the law of faith. We know the law of Christ. We submit to these laws of the New Testament.

In fact, we submit to the point of an annual celebration of this faith by drinking the Passover Cup which is a token of our obedience and adherence to the Gospel of grace, the New Covenant in his blood. When we drink from this Cup, there is no Old Testament law-keeping intended or implied. This is an act totally dedicated to the finished work of Calvary without the deeds of the law. We know and confess by taking this Cup and eating the Unleavened Bread, that our salvation is by Christ alone.

No one keeps the Sabbath law, NO ONE!

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves

You Did Run Well

His name, Theron. Once a strong believer when he was a young man. But he got into a marriage with an unsaved girl and was unevenly yoked. He thought he could change her from casual drinking and from drugs. Instead he was the one who in a time of weakness changed. First it was to drink with her. Then did pills with her. His flesh got out of control. This is what sin does.

The power of sin overcomes the spiritual nature. Of course he backslid. He never went back to God. When he could no longer afford his wife's drugs she left him and took up with other men. He was broken hearted. For several years he was in and out of prison. He broke into cars. He robbed houses when no one was home. He stole checkbooks and wrote bad checks. He stole credit cards and used them. He spent several years in jail. He repented several times. He cried to the Lord over and over. He regretted his first marriage which he could see was a bad mistake. His love for someone evil overcame his love of Christ.

Out of prison again, he was living in the woods in a tent. He was homeless and broke. He tried to get work but no one would hire him because of his prison record. So he pan-handled and would fly on a street corner. Walking to a store to buy another bottle of loco, he went by a dumpster and there was a table and some chairs someone had dumped. On the table a Bible. But he walked on by. He got his beer and went back to his camp in the woods. He drank it and then laid down to sleep on his blankets. At 2am in the morning he woke up. He could not go back to sleep. A picture of the table and the Bible seemed to remain in his mind. Something in him compelled him to go back and get the Bible. He walked back to the dumpster and the table and chairs were gone. He then looked into the dumpster and there on some trash was the Bible.

Who ever took the table and chairs did not want it. The people who put this Bible there on the table did not have the guts or maybe a cold heart to throw God's Word in the trash. Theron climbed into the dumpster and got the Bible and climbed back out. He did not open it. He took it back to his camp. For the first time in years, the Bible laid next to him. Sweetness came over him and he fell back asleep. It was about 4am. He awoke the next morning and got up. He saw the Bible laying there and picked it up. He then noticed the little blue ribbon page marker. He opened up to the page and there underlined on the page were these words:

"Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place" (Rev 2:4-5).

His heart was smitten.

He laid down the Bible and walked to the nearby supermarket to pan-handle for something to eat. There he saw a young Black woman with a little boy. He passed them and said "God bless you, have a good day." The woman nodded in recognition of his words. The little boy turned and looked at him as he kept walking with his mother to their car. He turned around again toward them. The woman looked back at the same time. Again he said: "God bless you, have a good day." The little boy jerked free from his mother's hand and ran back to Theron, falling at his feet, looking up into his face said: "sir Jesus loves you." And Theron fell to his knees in the supermarket parking lot and hugged the little boy and cried.

Theron testified that this was the moment God removed the callus from his heart. After crying and releasing the child, the little boy ran back to his mother and they drove away.

The words kept coming into his mind: "THOU HAST LEFT THY FIRST LOVE."

Theron is now visiting Jesus House. He said he wants to get back with God where he was before he met his first wife and went astray from God.

When I listened to the history of his life: a life of good and then 19 years of shame, sorrow, hurt, addictions, abuse, prison, and sin; I also remembered some words from the Bible:

"Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth" (Gal 5:7). 

There is a lot in that one verse of Scripture:

Ye did run well.

Apparently all running had ceased.

Who did hinder you?

The who here can be others or even ourselves.

Hinder here literally means obstruct or get in the way where the person does not continue running.

I remember some runners in a race and people were stationed in different places on the ten mile course. Some had water and stuff to give him to encourage him on. Others had nothing but a hand clap. And still others passed to him a beer instead of water. Several did this, and he sucked them all down. By the time he was at the 8 mile marker he was not running any more. He was jogging but he was no longer in the same starting condition. He never made it to the 10 mile maker. He never crossed the finished line. Somewhere between marker 8 and 9 he quit, sat down, and never got back up. There was a lot of laughing as someone handed him another beer.  What did hinder him? Who did hinder him?
When a soul is hindered from their first love of salvation, this can become such a bad spiritual injury the person may never come back to God.

What happened here?  Paul asked the important question:

"That ye should not obey the truth."

Like Theron and many others, they got carried away in their own lusts and forgot their first love. When this happened TRUTH does not matter any more. Personal opinions matter now. And any TRUTH that runs counter to a person's opinion will be rejected. The only thing that can restore a person to their proper place in God is to turn back to their first love when the Word of God in its simple TRUTH was a treasure.

First Love:

Having departed from sin and a sinful life, our first love is to be in Church, to feel the presence of God, to worship and surrender to his will. To give up everything that was not holy. To clean out the house, the car, and our personal possessions and remove all ungodly things, including clothing that was not holy. We loved Jesus so much we were willing to let him mold and make us after his image. We asked for this. We prayed for it. We changed our whole way of thinking. We had a mind toward God. We forsook all sin and evil. We refused to partake in anything that even had the appearance of evil. We were sold out to God. There was nothing in our hearts but love and honor for God. We fasted and prayed often for ourselves and for others. We were altar workers praying with those repenting and seeking for the Holy Ghost. We were eager to sing and play music. We wanted to be useful to God in the Church. And when it came to jobs and Church, we would not take a job that interfered with going to Church. We would not miss Church for anything. We would not even take vacations where we could not be in Church. When we came to Christ, we received the love that was in his heart for souls. No where did Jesus use his love for others to entice them to sin. No where did he allow himself to be the one responsible for someone sinning. This is the first heart of love we have when we become born again the Acts 2:38 way. This is our first love.

But many have been hindered.

They did run well.

Now where are they? I think the statistics one preacher quoted was that over the past 50 years nearly 80% of those who were Acts 2:38 saved are no longer in Church (moms, dads, children, grandchildren). These have been replaced by newer converts coming into the Oneness ranks in many cases into liberal and backslid churches. These have no clue about or knowledge of the old fashion Apostolic Pentecostal holiness life. They were hindered from the get go. Modern Oneness Pentecostalism reminds me of the Pharisees as Jesus accused them: compassing land and sea to make a convert and then make them two-fold more a child of hell.

Whole churches no longer run well.

Many pastors and preachers among the Oneness Pentecostals no longer run well.

This results in many members who do not run well.

What has happened?

It is about TRUTH.  Paul asked: "that ye should not obey the truth."

In these endtimes, there will be some men and women, and some young men and women who will not turn to the right or to the left and follow after that which will weaken them spiritually. They will not allow their flesh to take authority over the Spirit. And they will not allow their opinions to rule over TRUTH.

Like Theron, many spend years in their own deceptions. They fall from God and many never make it back home. Many never even return to their first love. And these of course will have the final judgment:

I will remove thy candlestick.

I cannot think of what this means, except that total darkness will sweep over that soul and they will never again come back to God.

I can see now how you that really love God, who have surrendered. Who have not left your first love. How you will pray that this darkness never take over your soul. You will pray for the light of TRUTH and love it. You will love those Men of God who are dedicated to holiness and a separated Christ like life. You will encourage other Brothers and Sisters to continue in their faith. And you will not give or endorse anything whereby thy friends will stumble and fall.

How many have had their candlestick removed? We can only tell when we see their lives and read or hear their words, as the things of darkness are made manifest. They cannot hide this. They can fake being born again. They can fake it and claim to be Apostolic Pentecostal. But it will all come down to the darkness or the light that is within them.

You did run well.

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves
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Pray for Theron and many others like him. He is really struggling to overcome 19 years of self abuse and running from God. Will he make it? I do not know. But you know Pastor Reckart will do everything he can to love him back into the sheepfold.

Souls Come And Go In The Order Of Their Appointed Times

Souls Come And Go In The Order Of Their Appointed Times.

A time to be born and a time to die (ECC 3:2).

When a soul is born it comes into the world at its appointed time.
When a person dies, life departs from the body at the appointed time.

It is appointed once for a man to die, then the judgment (Heb 9:27).

We have no control over the appointed times in our lives of birth and death.

Each appointment will be kept.
There will be no late appointments.
There will be no cancellations.
There will be no re-scheduling.

There is also an appointed day and time of salvation for God to hear our prayers (Isa 49:8, 2Cor 6:2).
There is an appointed day and time for the judgment when everyone will be give an answer to the idle word "NO" and other such idle words (Matt 12:36).

If a person chooses to miss the day and time of their salvation they may never be saved. Most who turn God away and say no, never get another chance to be saved.

Many think they can say no as if they can re-schedule with God to be saved at some other time they choose. This is putting their decision above God's day of decision. It will never happen. When God decides this is the day of salvation, harden not your heart: it is best that this soul fall down and surrender to God immediately.

Many try to re-schedule their salvation to the day they are on their death bed. They want to say no and shove God out all the way up until the day their body is a trash can ready to be dumped. Who do these think they are?

If you miss your day of salvation, only God can forgive this sin. And if he does not, this person is damned.

God will only hear us in the time accepted (2Cor 6:2).

You better pay attention the time he will hear because this is the only accepted time. And God chooses the time and day to hear, not us.  When God determines we have shut out his voice, his pricks, and we refuse to pray in HIS ACCEPTED TIME: he can refuse to hear any other of our cries (Isa 1:15, 59:2; Jer 7:16; Amos 5:23; 2Cor 6:2).

There is an accepted day of salvation for God to hear the prayers of a person and a nation (Isa 49:8; 2Cor 6:2).

Praying in a time of judgment like that in Revelation 6:15-16, when before this there was no turn to God will not get a reply of help or salvation. Crying out to God in bitter tears for mistakes of conduct will get us no where, when we cross the line of God's mercy (Heb 12:17). Many preachers are telling people they have plenty of time to get right since Jesus has not come yet. They talk people out of their convictions and pricks to get right with God. These men are devils in the pulpit. When conviction falls upon a soul it is time to seek God with all their heart. It is time to hit the altar. It is time to call upon Jesus name. It is time to pray through to the Holy Ghost and stop all future wrath and judgments of God.

What I am seeing are millions of people who have rejected salvation in the day God called them and they are not hearing a second calling. I have had many tell me they cannot feel God any more, even when they come to Church. Some who backslid in their heart tell me they doubt their salvation now because they cannot feel God. Let me warn you: DO NOT PLAY CHURCH. And do not play games with God. Those who do this will suddenly discover when they come to Church they will not feel the presence of God. They are not moved by the Spirit of God to repentance any more. Being convicted and moved by Godly sorrow to repent is a gift from God (2Cor 7:10). Godly sorrow is from God. If a person angers God because of their rejections of his Word, his Truth, his holiness standards, and compromises with sin: they may have transgressed past the day of their grace and will be eternally lost (2Pet 3:11). They said no to God one time to many. They came against the Man of God one time to many. And just as God turned from the whole nation of Israel to the Gentile world to allow them to be saved: God can turn away from anyone who treats him like the Jews did, who rejected the words of the Prophets. When judgment was determined upon Jerusalem and the Temple, no amount of crying, screaming, praying, caused God to have mercy and cancel the destruction. 70AD should be a reminder to all Jews and the rest of the world, there is a day when God will hear the prayers of sinners. Go 24 hours past that time and you cannot reverse the judgment. The Jews had 40 years (14,610 days) from the time they rejected Jesus to the 70AD destruction and they did not repent. 14,610 sunrises and sunsets and they refuse to humble down and repent for their sins and evils. The day came when any repentance was rejected. Even to this day, God will not hear a prayer from the Temple mount no matter how many go there, rock, say prayers, and stuff written prayers between the stones.

The modern church world thinks they can be more wicked than the Jews were and they have salvation security because they believe in Jesus. Well, the Jews believed in God also, but believing in God did not save them. It takes believing in God enough to turn from evil and wickedness and repent and live holy. It takes crying out to God and asking for mercy during the accepted DAY! It takes praying until the Holy Spirit moves and there is a visible turn to God. Modern churches think by their choirs, cheerleaders, go-go dance girls, the flag wavers, the stick gymnastic twirling, their stage productions, their singing artist, that God will see and hear all this and ignore their sins and wicked lives. Well, they forget there was a time when Israel was so unrepentant and evil God refused to accept their music and singing.

See Amos 5:23.....

You can sing and have choirs, and you can dance the isles and put on a show: but God may reject it all because those doing it and those enjoying it are not saved. They have long departed from the life of a child of God and now serve sin in body, mind, and soul. The church to them is just a place of entertainment now. Let a Man of God stand up and preach a message from the Throne and they will hit the door running like rats from a sinking ship and like cockroaches when you turn on the lights. These people who cannot endure sound doctrine, who think by their entertainment programs the impress God, are a stench to God.

All souls must come to the Lord Jesus Christ in the hour that has been chosen for them, in the day chosen for them, and in their appointed time.

If you have gone past your time, no wonder you are a reprobate. When God turns over a person to a reprobate mind, they have gone past their time of repentance and turning to God.

What we are seeing today in the world, even among Apostolic Oneness people, are reprobates of all different levels. They are not Godly people. They are contentious and refuse to live holy and righteous. They are not at all converted from their sins. They love themselves more than they love God (2Tim 3:4). They search the internet in search of men and women to fight against. They delight in attacking Men of God who hold a standard of holiness. One such reprobate now attacks the long hair on women to ridicule against the power she has on her head. Claiming such is the "magic hair doctrine." I warned this man before he became a reprobate. Many such who have rejected the Truth are now also examples of those whom God will no longer hear. They will cry unto the Lord and he will not hear them.

Mockery of the ways of God will not be tolerated by God.

All souls will come into the world and go out from it in their appointed times.

See that while you are living upon God's earth that in the day he calls you, you will answer and turn to him with all your heart, your mind, and your soul.

Do not say no and allow your day of grace and salvation pass you by.

You have a future day to stand before the Lord at the judgment. You will not miss that appointment. You are going to be there.

There is a future day where your eternity in heaven will begin, or your eternity in hell and the lake of fire will start. Your future judgment will not be delayed. Your day to stand before God is coming. Only a fool would not prepare for this important moment.

I have warned all of you.

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves

The World System Will Be Destroyed

The world system that has been developed since the creation of the United Nations and NATO will be destroyed. At the head of these two beast monsters there are men involved in a super cult that staggers the human mind. It is a Godless cult. It certainly does not embrace the God or Jesus of the Bible  nor the Gospel of salvation concerning Calvary. This world system has become a beast that only the book of Revelation can describe. At the current time it has the power to destroy nations. It has in its control all the economies of the world. Every single life upon the earth is under its control. Each life can be destroyed at the will of the leaders of this beast system. Who are these men? We really do not know. The pawns out front with faces, names, political office holder, are just front-men. We will never know who the real power brokers are or their names. They are the world's most powerful men. And none of them will be saved.

Are the wealthy in control? Are they the people of the beast? Huffington Post

In fact, there will not be a single billionaire upon the earth who does not comply with and play the international games of this secret world system. That is why you will not see any of these billionaires involved in the work of Jesus Christ. The recent deaths of world famous inventors, billionaires, shows us they were everything but a born again Christian. They died and went to hell. Not one of them died a true follower of Jesus. The world wonders after the men of this beast system. Look how how people worshipped Steve Jobs and sang his praises. And he was not a follower or believer in Jesus. He chose not to be born again. He totally rejected Jesus Christ and cast him down in his heart and mind. All of this man's skills was to develop electronic gadgets and master the skill of economics and get in the money. But he died a bible fool. His God was not the God of the Bible. This God he cast aside. What shall I say of Mary Cargill, Dan Duncan, Walter Shornstein, George Steinbrenner, John Kluge, Paul Milstein, Roger Milliken, Frederik Meijer, and Charles Wyly? None of these were active Christians and reaching to help save souls from the flames of hell. NONE! And none of them took a single penny with them into the hereafter. How many of these were members of the Masonic cult we do not know. How many were members of the Bilderbergers we do not know. We do not know if they attended the Bohemian grove rituals and the sacrifice of a human body or human effigy called "Care." I can say this, God will curse them all. They will not survive. In 10-30 years they will all be dead and gone and new leaders among the beast will come forth. And at last the antichrist will step up and that will usher in destruction around the world. The world system will be destroyed. Is God using climate change to begin the destruction?

On death watch:
Bill & Gloria Gates, Ted Turner, Slim Helu, Bernard Arnault, George Soros, Oprah Winfrey, Rupert Murdoc, Warren Buffet, Larry Ellison, Amancio Ortego, Eike Batista, Charles Koch, David Koch, Stefan Persson, David Thomson, and Jim Walton. Over 400 billionaires in America and none of them true followers of Jesus Christ and care about souls who are lost without salvation. Over 400 godless graves will be filled within the next 50 years with men and women who will go to hell and burn in the lake of fire. They have gained the world and lost their souls.

These billionaires will all see their end. They will all die. They will take nothing with them into eternity. And as it stands right now they will all die Godless having rejected Jesus Christ.

Jesus said it clearly: NO MAN COMETH TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME.

Many will be like Steve Jobs: cast Jesus down. Then like Jobs, worship the golden idol image of Buddha and burn incense to this idol god. Or like Hillary Clinton and pour water on an idol image head in a religious act of worship. She has long ago rejected Jesus Christ.

But the world system has them in total control. We are not sure how many of these men are involved in the super cult. But it is impossible that they cannot be in contact and personally know the beast leaders who ever they are.

As I read the book of Revelation last night from beginning to end, I can see why God will destroy so much of the earth. I can see why the catastrophic calamities that are coming. God is going to destroy the world system. He is going to destroy the beast system. What is unknown, is how many people will be killed, destroyed, before this system is reduced to ashes and the men involved cast down to hell fire?  What we do not know, is how many millions or even billions they will wipe out as they develop their control over all the earth.

It is very evident that Christianity and all of its different denominations and groups is scheduled and destined to be destroyed. The methods are already working and in place. How soon the actual avalanche comes upon the world is not known.

What then shall I say of those backslid churches who think that ungodliness is gain and that sin is is no longer sin? Of those who hate doctrinal correctness, choosing rather to follow after foolish questions that gender strife, and oppose holiness standards and separation from the world? We are seeing how easy it will be for Christians to want other Christians dead. If as Christians we tolerate other non-Christian groups to allow them their own religious freedoms, why is it that Christians are the greatest haters of other Christians? More Christians hate other Christians than there are Muslims who hate Christians. Isn't that strange?

When discussions about the Bible comes up among Christians, if anyone dares say there can only be one Truth, one Doctrine, one Belief, about a matter, the hate comes out. It is brutal. It is vicious. And it is deadly. This is the poison of the asp under their tongue. People today want their opinions and beliefs to be true even when they are not. And they will fight and destroy to defend their lies and falsehoods.

This is at the root of the world beast system: lies and falsehoods. Anyone who dares oppose the world system stands to be destroyed by one means or another.

What shall I say about the end?

That all will stand before the judgment bar of God. They will stand before Jesus Christ. And if they are not Acts 2:38 born again and living a holiness life, they will be cast into the lake of fire.

And I will say this: all who go into the lake of fire will go there naked. No one in the lake of fire will have clothes on. All will be naked for all eternity.

Only those who are redeemed from the earth will be granted to wear white raiment and these will be in heaven.

I warn everyone, do not be shocked by the world powers that you will see active and the deaths of millions that will take place. Just live for God and do not deny the faith of Jesus Christ.

The way I see it: when the sins of America are full it will be destroyed as we now know it. Already the seeds of total destruction as a nation have been planted. While multiculturalism and multi-ethnicity has been the American way, the present racial and religious divisions continue to grow and with immigration of all manner of pagan religions and people, the once American spirit is being destroyed. When Christianity is destroyed America will be destroyed. Of course, we can see what other nations look like with no Christianity. And these nations are now the pattern our social engineers are planning for America.

As with America, when the end comes upon the world God will not have to repent for making hell and the lake of fire. A lot of men and women will deserve every eternal millennial they are in torment.

There are many trying times coming. For you that are faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ, and who have obeyed Acts 2:38, do not be ditched with unimportant questions and strifes against holiness and separation from the world. I can perfectly see now, why in the endtime we are told: COME OUT FROM AMONG!

I came out, where are you?

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves

Messianic? Which Shall Christians Accept?

There are basically three types of Messianics now:

Traditional orthodox Messianics;
Reformed Jewish/Catholic Messianics;
Apostolic New Testament Messianics.

Traditional orthodox Messianics;

The orthodox observe the Torah (laws of Moses), while believing the son of David has not come yet. They hold all the traditions of Phariseeism, Kabbalism (mysticism), mixed with their theories about the Messiah they look for to come. They have concocted a long list of requirements for their Messiah to fulfill and qualify. Their Messiah must comply with this job application BEFORE he can come to them or to their new Sanhedrin Council, and ask for approval and acceptance. Because the requirements are so so strict and no Jew will ever be able to fulfill them, there is no chance in the next 10,000 years a man will come into the world to give them their utopia dream in Israel. I might say here, the requirements for this job position as Messiah was put together by men who want to make sure another Jesus cannot come forth.

Orthodox Messianics often cry against a personal son of David being the Messiah. Many of them claim the actual nation of Israel itself is the suffering Messiah. Well, I checked this idea against the job application criteria and Israel as a nation failed to meet the requirements. This means all of Israel is an unemployed messianic failure.

These Messianics have created several items with which to celebrate their religious rituals. They have created the messianic dances most of which seem to have Turkish and cultic origins. These circle dances and the moves used in them are connected to ancient pagan rituals. They cannot be proved to be biblical and practiced among those Israelites that came out of Egypt or those who lived afterwards for 1400 years. They have created use of the tallit as a symbol of the yoke of the law upon their shoulders. When this prayer cloth is pulled up from the shoulders and draped over the head, the man has his head covered to indicate he is law observant and has submitted to the authority of God over his life and soul. The knotted fringes represent the laws of Moses also. Then there is the kippa, the round moon tire that is placed upon the head to also indicate law observance and being under the canopy of God's authority. Wearing this head covering the person gives a sort of public witness they are peaceful and have no mental design to harm or hurt anyone. If they do plan such an act they are to remove these bits of clothing and cast them and all the other law-keeping symbols down off of them before proceeding (see Acts 7:58).  It is a sin to wear these decorations while committing a sin. The kippa must then be removed when a Jew knows he plans to sin. Then there is the tzit tzit. This is a knotted collection of white strings and a blue one. These must be tied in special knots as described in the Babylonian Talmud. They must be tied in strict observance of laws of gematria (numerology). So, there is a secret numerical number attached to this device. These are worn on the tallit as a fringe or tied to belt loops of a man's pants. They hang way down and swish as the man walks. These are also decorations claimed to fulfill the requirements of a fringe worn on clothing in Numbers 15:38-39. Some think they keep away evil spirits. But a careful read of the Torah at this point shows us the fringe is on the borders of the garments of both male and female. These garments and the fringe have no connection to the tallit or the tzit tzits. The wearing of the tallit and the tzit has no real purpose in the Messianic hope. They are all invented trinkets by Kabbalists trying to pass upon the men some gematria secret meaning. That these are mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud, shows us the inventions go back many hundreds of years. There is no proof these existed in the days of Jesus. If they did, there is no proof Jesus or the Apostles ever made use of them.

Then there is the shofar, the ram's horn that many think the blowing of which somehow signals the beginning of worship or summons God to come into their pending worship program.

So we have among the messianic orthodox Pharisee sect of Judaism, the use of the tallit, the kippa, the tzit, and the shofar. These are decorations used in religious expression and a part of messianic circle dances. Circumcision, dietary regulations, observing religious holiday and feast days, and other parts of the Torah must be acknowledged and practiced. These do not believe Jesus was the Messieh. They are proud to speak evil of him. And they still resent other Jews who believe in Jesus and count them no longer as Jews.

Reformed Jewish/Catholic Messianics;

There are a number of Jews who believe Jesus was the Messieh. These are generally Catholic and trinitarian and no longer believe in one God. They accept the Catholic councils and the decrees and creeds. They accept the use of the tallit, the kippa, the tzit, and the shofar. They also continue to practice circumcision and generally observe all the holiday and feast days. The ones I have met accept also the Babylonian Talmud and Kabbalistic mysticism. They are heavily into the circle dances and moves as part of their religious expressions. Only two things separate them from the orthodox and that is belief in Jesus as the Messieh and in the trinity. The majority of Jewish messianic synagogues and prayer centers are of this trinitarian Catholic type.

Apostolic New Testament Messianics.

There is no evidence Jesus or the Apostles or early Christians ever used the tallit, the kippa, the tzit, or the shofar in any religious expressions or during worship or Church services. Since the tallit, the kippa, and the tzit specifically identify the person wearing them as Law-keepers, these would not have been worn by the first Jewish and Gentile Christians. The tallit for instance is referred to as a yoke about the neck of men to signify they accept upon them the responsibility of keeping and observing the law. The kippa and tzit likewise signify the same thing. First Jewish and Gentile Christians would not have worn these man-made devices. The tzit as a fringe is a false Jewish substitute for the real "wing-fringes" that were to be upon the borders of the garments of both men and women. A fringe on the borders of a garment is not the same as a couple strings tied in mystic knots and hung from a belt loop. We know Jesus did not have these trinkets on him when he was arrested and or when he was at Calvary because there is no mention of any gambling for these items. Apostolic Messianics agree to accept upon them the yoke of Jesus. Jesus said his yoke was easy and his burden light. This is spiritual. The yoke of Jesus is not Torah but it is the grace and love of God.  That the law was a yoke none could bear is seen in Acts 15:10. The Apostles saw it clearly that the yoke of the law was not to be put upon the lives of the Christian community. There was then no requirement to wear the tallit, the kippa, or the tzit which represented the yoke of the law upon the individual wearing them.

Apostolic Messianics do not engage in circumcision, the observing of Old Testament holidays or feast days. We do not observe sabbath days, new moons, or dietary regulations. We do not perform circle dances or the blowing of the shofar. We cannot find these in the Christian New Testament in any Church.

I want to be perfectly clear here: Apostolic Messianics are not Pharisee Judaizers. They are not trinitarians. They are Oneness men and women who believe Jesus is God manifest in the flesh. Apostolic Messianics do not accept the Babylonian Talmud or any part or use of the Kabbalah. We totally reject any use of mysticism in the tying of knots, use of strings, and the men having their heads covered.

I am writing this because I have been made aware of Apostolics going off into chasing after Orthodox and Catholic Messianic traditions and thinking they are somehow getting closer to God. True Apostolic men of God will never place a tallit around their neck. They will never put a kippa on their head. They will never wear a tzit on their belt loops. And they will never partake in any circle dances.

Messianic? Which shall Christians Accept?

They shall accept Apostolic Messianic Christianity because it is in line with the New Testament Gospel of faith and grace salvation WITHOUT the deeds of the law.


Jesus bless us all to be greater people of God,

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves

Walking In The Light

When I made my personal decision to be saved back in 1968, little did I know this choice was a far greater decision than repentance, water baptism in Jesus name, and being filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:38).

As a babe in Christ, my first years in Church developed in me a foundation of spiritual strength. When I look back I can see the worth and value of faithfulness. I never missed a Church service. In fact I loved Church and each service held for me something new. I cannot put my finger on all these little things that each service brought to my soul. But I know they happened. I cannot recall for instance the service where holiness and my dedication to it started. I, like others, just dressed the way other people did who went to Church. But at some point holiness was not someone else's standard, it became mine. I do not recall a single moment of fighting or arguing about holiness standards. This, while at the same time I was surrounded by those who claimed their personal convictions allowed them to do all sorts of sins uncondemned. I can recall hearing people tell the Pastor they did not care what he preached, they would live their life like they wanted. I heard them say their light on a matter was not the same light the Pastor had. While I was surrounded by all manner of malcontents and other misfits among the Apostolic Oneness people, it did not effect me or my spiritual life. I had made a decision to be saved and this included staying saved. Staying saved and walking in the Light was not something I thought about the night I turned loose of the seat back and walked the isle to the altar. At that moment, all I was thinking about was being saved. I had been under conviction for several Church services. The Holy Ghost moved upon me during the song service. And when the Pastor preached it was like he was reaching for me with all the anointing of his preaching he could muster. It is hard to explain sometimes how preaching can shake the soul loose from all that holds it back from saying YES LORD.

My formative years were not spent trying to find fault with Pentecost or the Apostolic way. I had no desire to have the haughty spirit of many who always seemed to find some fault in what the preacher preached. I took no joy in trying to catch something the preacher may have said that he seemed to contradict himself on. I was not one of those who ate the meat and spit out the bones. Or ate the grass and spit out the briars. These two sayings were the way others described how they would take from the Pastor's preaching what they wanted and the rest they would spit out on the ground and reject it. Frankly, I never experienced bones and briars in the preaching. I guess because my flesh was under control of the Spirit and there was nothing I was so brave about to be spitting out parts of the message. All those who did this I noticed over the past 40 years died lost and backslid. After I got saved, I always released myself into the preaching and ate it all up. As the Pastor brought his anointed message to its close, I was there with him in spirit knowing he was pulling for souls. I wanted the altar call so I could go up and pray with those making a decision and who would cry out in repentance and begin seeking for the Holy Ghost. I loved the altar time more than any other part of the service. How many I helped pray through to repentance and being filled with the Holy Ghost I do not remember. But there were many. The altar time was my time of the service when all of my own fasting and prayer unleashed in me a love for souls and a burden for their salvation.

Love of souls and a burden for their salvation: that was not at all in my mind or heart the night I went forward to be saved. How did these two things ever come into my heart? I remember, looking back how many who came to Church would leave the service as soon as they detected the Pastor was ending his message. They would up and walk out. The whole family would leave (whole families that ended up lost. You do not walk out on a move of God). Here and there some woman or man would leave. They did not want to be there in the Church during the altar service. I learned later they were going home to catch Sunday evening TV programs.  I still do not understand this contradiction to my own heart. The night I got saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, was the last night the TV played in my house. I moved it out because I saw in my own weakness of the flesh, how this tool of the devil would influence so many to be spiritually weak and many would lose out with God as it became more an inspiration to their flesh than praying around the altar in a passion for souls. But, now that I look back I can see, that after my own salvation, walking in the Light was what I was doing. This inner experience with God was something I loved and no sacrifice for the Church, for the Truth, for souls was to much. Indeed, I learned what making provisions for the flesh was all about. I learned also, that the closer I drew near unto God, the farther away the world became and the less power it exerted upon my heart and mind. I saw in this, that walking in the Light was a journey with God out of and away from all darkness.

Over the years as I walked in the Light and did not turn back to the beggarly elements of a carnal life, or compromised my holiness standard, or added some ways of the old olive tree life back into the mix, I became a "real" Apostolic. I then knew how Jesus must have felt as he was in the world but not of it. How being holiness does not exclude us from the presence of others, but does make us a separate person. How no sin of others can cause us to approve it because they are family or friends. I developed a Jesus mind on love for souls and a burden for their lost condition. I could see something that stuck with me. These were people that God loved. And when I saw this, although I did not make a distinct connection to my own situation with God: I learned by loving others, that GOD ALSO LOVED ME!  It was this very tiny revelation that caused me to say GOD LOVES ME. This also became the underlying reason why today I can write

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves

I know some of you hate me saying this. I am still puzzled by all the emails I get from some of you hating me because of my saying this. You actually want God to hate me. I got that message. Actually I am shocked. I have gotten a few emails from people who have said:

Bishop, God does love you and I love you also.

But these are very few as compared to the hate emails I get by ending my post this way. After my first hate email I decided to do this because it was true, but also to make my enemies go rabid everytime they read it.

I am a man who believes in walking in the Light. If this infuriates others, if it causes them anxiety, if it makes them cringe in anger, if it causes them to break out in sweats of contempt, and they can send me rebuking hateful emails of scorn: I know I am doing something RIGHT! When the flesh screams out against me like the demons did against Jesus, I know my walk in the Light is the cause.

In the days of Jesus there were people who did not have a single eye toward God and walk in the light. They were double minded and claimed they were in the light: but they were really in darkness and didn't know it.

LUK 11:34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
LUK 11:35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
 
When others walked away from the Light and lived a life of darkness and paraded their sins before me, like I was missing out or it didn't take all that to be saved: I knew they had dark hearts. They never really had the same Holy Ghost experience I got back in 1968. And they never got any of the same subsequent spiritual development that God wrought in me. This was very clear to me, that the reason why, was because they were not sold out. They were bargain hunting for a church where they could do as they wanted and the pastor never preached against sin and living a holiness standard. They loved the sermonizers with their fancy titles in which there was no conviction power of God in any of the preaching. Laodicae was born.
 
As my own life developed and God began using me in many different ways, I made a conscience decision I would die in this Apostolic Light doctrine that was born in me the night I got the Holy Ghost. I made a decision I would not die and pass into eternity WITH THE LIGHT OUT IN MY SOUL.
 
I saw in my own personal relationship with God, that if I am going where the Lamb is the Light;
If I am going to the New Jerusalem where the only Light is God;
If I am going to leave a dark world and approach unto the eternal Light:
 
Then let me die when the Light in me:
 
IS THE BRIGHTEST.
 
I refuse to die with the Light out in my soul.
 
I also refuse to make darkness Light.
 
Some of you hate me and send your nasty emails because you are in darkness and your speech betrays you.  You cannot resist sending those evil hateful words because in some way, you feel better. You are so proud of yourself with your scorn, mockery, and jealous hearts.  Yes, you are jealous for sin and the world, while I am jealous for the God who loves me.
 
And because I love a God in whom there is no darkness, not even a shadow;
And because this God loves me;
 
I will let my light so shine before men and they shall see my good works.
 
I encourage young men who love Truth to follow my way of life and love the Light as much as I have.
 
I will match my life with that of any liberal reprobate.
 
Let all who love the Lord Jesus Christ depart from all darkness.
 
Let there be NO PART dark.
 
And when you depart this life: let it be when your light is the brightest.
 
Walking in the Light is all of this and more.
 
Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves

Butterball Turkeys, Meat, Products Boycott?

Got a call today about the Butterball turkey scare now going around the world. Scare, or maybe fear or better yet, anger. Here is the story:

In October 2010 Jewish writer and author Pamela Geller, came out that some meat companies and processors were slaughtering animals and draining the blood from them according to Islamic religious law "halal." In the "halal" slaughter the throat is cut so the blood can drain out. The head is not totally cut off. According to Islamic sources, for an animal to be "halal" or holy, or kosher, (not being touched by an infidel to defile it), a prayer is said as the blood comes from the animal body: "bismillah allahu akbar" (in the name of Allah the greatest). It is this prayer to Allah that is said to make the animal meat now holy or halal.

Pamela Gellar wrote again about this Islamic ritual in her Atlas Shruggs web site a few days ago. Her purpose was to get Christians and others who oppose Islamic infiltration of America to boycott Butterball turkeys for Thanksgiving. According to her, there is a hidden tax in the price of all Butterball turkeys and this money is given to Islamic societies who in turn use that money to assist in Jihad against Americans. The Butterball turkeys that have this tax associated with them are marked in big letter "Halal".  Ms Geller hopes by her warning that Christians will not purchase Butterball turkeys and thus help stop money flow to Jihad supporting organizations. But for Christians she warns, if you eat one of these Butterball turkeys you are eating something offered in some way to Allah who is not the Christian God. Therefore, to eat a Butterball turkey on Thanksgiving while thanking God, would be a form of idolatry.

In telephone calls to Butterball company, there is no representative who says that this Islamic prayer is said over each killed turkey. Or, is there an Iman or some other qualified Islamic person present on the day of slaughter to do one prayer over all the turkeys? Or, is there an Iman or some other Muslim present to make sure the blood is drained without the whole head removed? I am sure in the coming months we will learn more about the so-called "halal" slaughter methods.

Pamela Geller cries the alarm to Christians in particular. Most oppose the Islamic religion while they believe Muslims can have what ever religion they choose. But Pamela's goal here is to boycott the Butterball company who is exporting millions of pounds of turkeys to Islamic countries where Muslims will eat this meat and enjoy the taste of this great bird. She does not want Muslims to eat turkey from America. And if they do, she does not want a prayer said over the birds to Allah. It appears she does not accept Allah as the same God she worships. But there are plenty of Jewish rabbis who believe Allah is the same God the Jews worship. You can Google this and it is there on thousands of pages. So what then is the problem for Jews to eat a Butterball turkey that some Iman or Muslim has chanted the name of Allah over? Or is this objection really a way to turn Christians into Islamicphobics?

I know for Christians the Islamic "halal" issue will be a big one. Many are already going to the frig, snatching the bird out, and have a private cremation in the back yard, or they are marching out to the garbage bin and tossing it. Or they are going to give it to non-christian friends so they can increase their sins against God by eating meats offered to an idol. I am sure there will be other disposal methods used.

What does all this mean to we Apostolics? It means nothing or little at all. Is there a New Testament law, commandment, ordinance, teaching, doctrine on the eating of meats? Or eating meats offered to idols? Or on foods or drinks that go into the body? Yes.

As all of you know, Jesus said it was not what entered into a man;s mouth that defiled him but what came out of his mouth (Matthew 7:18-19). This was Jesus talking about eating things not considered kosher by religious inspectors watching what other people eat. And especially if they ate something with unwashed hands which in their traditions made not only the food defiled the moment it was touched, but that going into the mouth and stomach, the person was now damned.

We also have the doctrine in Acts 15:20 of eating meats where the slain animal has been strangled, that is, its neck has been wrung, or twisted off, or even simply choked to death. The purpose is said to keep the animal from strangling on its own blood as it breathes to continue living after its head is removed. Blood gushing out of the arteries of the neck of the animal is sucked back into the windpipe and back into the lungs, and thus the animal is strangled on its own blood. The ordinance in Acts 15 seems to deal with killing any animal in which the blood is sucked back to the body through the wind-pipe and the animal dies partly due to strangling on its own blood. Now, have Christians in the past ever preached against wringing off a chicken's neck? Or has any Christian hunter ever killed an animal and then hung it up quickly so it does not strangle on its own blood? Has any deer hunter or other game hunter for rabbits, squirrils, or other game done this to keep blood out of the lungs of their kill? Have they eaten animals that strangled on its own blood before dying? Have Christians inspected slaughter houses to make sure the beef, chickens, turkeys, fish, etc. etc. were quickly hung upside down so the the animal does not strangle on its own blood? What ever turkey you eat for Thanksgiving this year have you certified it did not die by strangulation? Or will you simply throw up your hands and eat peanut butter sandwiches instead of any meat?

Then we have another important doctrine here: eating of meats "sacrificed" to idols. Since I cannot verify any prayer was said over any particular turkey chicken in a sacrifice ritual etc., I have no proof it was offered to an idol as a sacrifice. Is saying a prayer over something the same as a sacrifice? What about a dinner prayer, is this the same as saying the meal was a sacrifice?

If something is marked "Halal" it may be an indication an Islamic prayer to Allah was pronounced but is this a sacrifice? But so was a prayer over many foods we eat by Jewish rabbis and they are marked with a circle and a U in the middle or a K, or an L, or some other letter. Did these Jews say the name of Jesus or some name they invented for a God they also say is Allah? But we eat all these foods and meats with all these Jewish symbols indicating they are kosher, that is, not touched by an infidel, a Christian, or some other idolater. Are we going to boycott all these alleged kosher foods with these symbols?

The Acts 15 text teaches us not to eat meats we know were offered to idols in a sacrifice. The Apostle Paul lets us know there are times when it cannot be known if a meat was so offered. He said not to ask questions just eat. But, he also said, if a person informs us they are witness a certain meat was offered to an idol, not to eat of it. But it takes witnesses. If we cannot condemn a person for a sin without two or three witnesses, how can we judge a turkey, or a piece of meat, based upon hearsay, or someone who was not a witness?

My conclusion is this: if there is one or two eye witnesses that all Butterball turkeys were offered to Allah in some mass sacrifice ritual, then I will not eat. According Pamela Geller said her Jewish people will not eat an Allah Butterball turkey because they will eat one only with Jewish symbols on it. And by the way, Butterball makes these also. So, if you buy a Butterball look for a circle with a U, a K, an L, or some other Jewish letter. Or, you can always buy ham.

No Jew or Muslim will be making ham sacrifices this year.

If I learn more I will post it here.

In the mean time, I think I will check out a Butterball turkey and see which symbols are on it so I can know if I need to eat only ham this year, or chicken. But then, I must make sure these did not die form strangling on their own blood. Oh, forget it, lets all just vow to eat peanut butter sandwiches for Thanksgiving.

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves

What Would You Do?

Tampa Angels

What would you do?
Here are two homeless men who have just eaten dinner at Jesus House at our homeless feed. These men come every day for something to eat. Many times the one meal is their only meal of the day.

Today they went outside the gate and sat down talking. One decided to lay down and put his backpack for a pillow and went to sleep. In his fist he is grasping my last Sunday lesson "The Love of Sin". I am not sure what held his attention with what he read, but he fell asleep in a ditch along side this fence. Just a few feet from him, his friend laid down in the ditch and went to sleep. These men are alcoholics. Their lives are a wreck. And winter is coming. They have no place to lay down when the north winter winds come howling down from Canada.

Last year, we at Jesus House showed our charity to these addicted and lost souls. Pastor Reckart opened the Tampa Angels dining room and to let several homeless men come in out of the cold. He sent out a request of financial help and many of you responded. With your help we were able to feed them a hot supper with hot coffee and hot chocolate. We provided them with sleeping bags. And they slept on the floor. The next morning at 6am Pastor Reckart was there to fix them a nice breakfast. And allowed them to stay as long as they wanted. Some of you provided the $500 for the hot water heater and the shower for them. This year we want to add a shower for the women. This past year we added a washer and a dryer so the homeless could wash their clothes.

What would you do? I see this as the same thing as the beggar at the gate. The rich man would do nothing, not even give the crumbs so the beggar could eat. I observe these men and women living behind empty buildings. Some sleeping in trash dumpsters. Some sleep wrapped up in several blankets on a bus bench with their backs facing away from the direction of the wind.

Last year we could not take in any women because we did not have a separate bathroom or a room separate from the men. This year, Pastor Reckart plans to open up another part of the Tampa Angels building where we have things stored. Church members will move things around and we will try to make places for homeless women to come in out of the freezing cold. Pastor Reckart wants to make some beds out of 2 x 4s and plywood. Then find some mattresses and blankets.

Just to let you know, on Thanksgiving day at our Award Service, Pastor Reckart will be baptizing two homeless men and two homeless women. All of them now have a place to stay except for one homeless woman. Would it be right to baptize these and then tell them to go back and live in vacant building? Or go back and sleep in a garbage dumpster? Or should we try to find a way to help those who have turned to God?

What would you do?  Doing nothing is not an option.

Pastor Reckart takes a lot of hits every day from enemies of all kinds. Although he is strong. He is bold. He is unmovable and unshaken in faith. He is still a man of great charity and love for the lost. An although he stands strong on doctrine and the Word of God, he loves lost souls and reaches out to them every day.

Some of you have your own programs to support. Many of you do your best to show love for the outcast, the downcast, and the souls in the gutter. Maybe you are doing all you can do. I read something yesterday that shook me:

"We hate selfishness in others but all of us are guilty of it when we see someone in need and we shut up our bowels of compassion against them. We turn so many over to the grace of God and give them no grace from our own hearts."

Jesus said: "the poor you will have with you always."

Pastor Reckart is going to do something. You can count on that.

And some of you are going to do something.

Where ever you are go out and find some homeless man or woman and give them a brown bag lunch with a sandwich, some snack food, some fruit, and a drink. Just try it and see how much better you will feel.

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves
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PS, if you have an extra million dollars give it.

Burial or Cremation?

Cremation is not a Jewish or Christian practice. Burning up the dead was and always will be a pagan and heathen practice.  Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism all mandate burning up the dead by means of cremation. These do not accept the same beliefs about the human body and the soul that Jews and Christians have.

Anyone can research this subject, but those who refuse to honor and respect the choice of God in the care of the body at death and in burial will accept paganism and cremation.

In pagan religious cremations it is an act of friends and relatives purifying the soul of the dead. The dead cannot do this salvation act for themselves. So their salvation or their future in the karma/reincarnation cycles will depend on friends and relatives to purify them by the fires of cremation. Family and friends can purify the dead of their sins and evils by the fires of cremation. Cremation is said by the religions that practice this fire-purifying, to release the soul and spirit of the dead to go to heaven for a short stop-over, allowing a space of time for them to come back to earth in a reincarnation. Or, as some believe, the fire/purifying allows them to ascend up to the next higher level of consciousness in another spiritual realm.

In Hinduism, children under two are not burned up. Because their soul is considered pure until they reach their third birthday. Children three and up are cremated so they can be purified. They make their dead children pass through the fire of cremation exactly like the ancient pagans in the land of Canaan. Something God forbid the Israelites to do. God called this cremation ritual an abomination. If it was an abomination for children, we see no reason God would change his mind about this heathenism if adults were burned up.

Within these religions, cremation is the time the soul is redeemed. A person will pass through the fire to be redeemed. Passing through the fire in cremation was practiced by Gentile heathens before the time Israel came out of Egypt. God hated this pagan invention of salvation. Man created this alternative religious ritual. God is not needed to purify, man will do it on his own by fire.

According to Leviticus 18:21, God said to Israel: "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech."

Molech was a god of the children of Ammon (Ammonites). The Ammonites descended from Lot and his youngest daughter. This god was a god of those enemies of Israel. The Ammonites were a profane and ungodly people. Their god was the example of their immoral and ungodly practices and rituals. Their god Molech demanded the worshippers of the Ammonites to burn up their dead, to cremate them. And by this act of fire, the souls of these dead were believed to pass "to" the presence of the god Molech. So far as I am concerned, every idol god was nothing but a facade of the devil himself. It was satan who was behind all idol gods and they in some manner represented something about him. In the god Molech, and in the cremations involved, the dead would pass through the fire to satan himself. Cremations are not a funny matter. This is not a subject to be treated with stupidity.

According to my research, prior to the cremation ritual, there was a final purification of the body of the dead with special "holy water." Something similar to the last rights observed by Catholics where the body must have its last sprinkle of holy water before going to be purified by the fires of purgatory so they can go to heaven. This "holy water" was sprinkled upon the dead and prepared the body for the final purification of the soul by the fire of cremation. The special holy water is said to come from a worship ritual by the friends and relatives of the dead. Once the special ritual has been completed, the flowers and water used in the ritual are now considered to possess special purifying powers. The ritual is called Puja. And the flowers and water are Puja. At lease one source said Puja is Pu=meaning continuous repetitious praise; Ja is the same as Ya and refers to some god. So the special holy water comes from a ritual were the worshippers have been chanting the name Ja or Ya. And by the chanting of this name over the flowers and the water, they are transformed into having a purifying power for the dead.

It is interesting that Baal and the worship of this god also included cremation rituals together with dancing, shouting, and joy as the dead children and adults were consumed.

This special holy water is now acceptable to sprinkle on the body of the dead. With this application of water upon the dead, the body is now purified, all sins have been removed, and the cremation by fire can now commence and release the soul.

It is believed by those who follow this religious belief, that the soul of the dead cannot be saved if they are not burned up. The soul must be released from the body by the fires of cremation. As the flames of fire from the body jump and leap upward toward heaven, the celebrants of the cremation will rejoice and dance that the soul has been released. There is happiness, joy, dancing, and shouting as the fires get higher and higher. This is said to signify there was a great and good release from the body. According to one source of my research, the pagans believed that by burning up the body of the dead, it prevented the deceased from being a vagabond ghost. By burning up the body the soul would not be cursed to be a homeless spirit trapped in this condition. It was believed that by burning up the dead, evil spirits are prevented from taking possession of the dead body. The Romans and Greeks held to some form of this belief.

I am sure those of you who are honest Christians can see that all of this cremation ritual totally rejects the Lord Jesus Christ and the finished work of Calvary. We also can see that salvation depends upon each individual's acceptance of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. This great salvation of being born again is something we must do while we are alive and have our appointed day. There is nothing in the Christian faith were someone can purify us by their works after we are dead. And there is nothing in the Christian faith of the dead being released from their sins and evils by the fire of cremation. Cremation is an act of saving the dead. In the Christian faith, no one can do anything for the dead. There is nothing anyone can do for the dead once they are dead. All these rituals of Catholicism and Protestantism for the dead are all from pagan sources.

Cremation is not and never will be a Christian or a Godly way of disposing of the body of the dead.

God has his way, the devil has his way.

Burial is God's way and cremation is the devil's way.

If someone ask you to participate in their cremation after they are dead, I advise do not do it.

In fact, I will not conduct a funeral for anyone who will be cremated. I will not even attend their funeral. I refuse to participate in a funeral where the body of the dead will pass through the fire to satan by means of cremation.

No Jew or Christian can find cremation and burning up the dead in the Bible among the true followers of God.

It is my belief that anyone who wants to be cremated is turning from Christ to paganism in their death. Jesus was buried. Our water baptism is by faith in this burial. And so at our death we expect our family who remains to give us a proper Biblical burial.

I heard recently that many backsliders from the Apostolic faith are now saying they want to be cremated. I can understand this choice. I mean if they are going to reject salvation in Christ to die a sinner, why not go ahead and start the fire early.  Sure, some of them are so silly to think if they are already burned up God will not restore them to a body he will then make suffer the eternal flames of hell. So they psych themselves out believing as they will not know about the fire of the crematory furnace, they will not know of the fires of hell.

I want to be perfectly straight-forward here, if you choose a pagan and heathen way of disposing of the body, you are not showing faith in the Biblical manner God has accepted.

God will never accept cremation.

All who choose cremation are going against God's will.

And if you do this, cremated or not, you will still burn in the eternal fires of hell.

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves

What is a novice?

The word "novice" is found one time in the Bible (1Tim 3:6).

Here, the subject matter in which the word is found concerns qualifications for a Bishop.

A novice cannot be a Bishop.

The Greek meaning of "novice" is someone who is newly planted. Strong gives his opinion that this means a young convert. I believe it goes much further than this. But taking a young convert as a starting point, a novice is then a man who has no experience in matters of doctrine, faith, practice, conduct, and order. A man may know a lot of things, he may even have a measure of intelligence, but he has not been tried in areas of important doctrines. A Bishop cannot be a man who flip-flops, wavers, changed his doctrine all the time, who is not faithful in Word or Deeds, and who has a record of giving false doctrine acceptance. A novice is an unskilled man. He has not perfected himself in areas of important doctrines. This is why the qualifications of a Bishop must be applied to all men who desire to claim this office.

There are many levels to being a novice. How does a person ever leave being a novice? How do they become a seasoned Man of God? Is there a set time of months or years for a novice and then he graduates? Does a man cease to be a novice when he gets a ministers license or is ordained?

I will use myself. I began preaching in 1972 although I had been preaching before this. But because I was preaching did not promote me from being a novice. Instead, it was my preaching that granted me to be called a novice. I was a beginner. But I was not skilled. I was not doctrinally sound in all the Apostolic doctrines. I lacked understanding in many areas of Apostolic theology. I was unlearned in many areas of Apostolic faith and doctrine. I had beliefs I later found out were false. I was a novice. I was a newbie. I was a new minister. And I had no answer to many of the complex questions about the Bible. My Pastor was a seasoned Man of God. I could not hold a candle to him in preaching, teaching, knowledge, understanding of Scripture, prophecy interpretation, and in holiness standards. My Pastor was a great Man of God who made few if any mistakes in doctrine and judgment. He was a very intelligent Man of God. He did not waver in doctrine, faith, practice, conduct, and order. I was taught that when I became the man my Pastor was, that was the day I was no longer a novice. I had to measure to some Man of God's life who was the most perfect example around me of purity in Apostolic doctrine.

I look back and I was a novice for over ten years. I gradually learned and became a Man of God who earned a higher standing in the Ministry. I did not promote myself. I let the Holy Ghost teach and promote me. I had lots of things to work out, give up, change, and begin to be faithful in all matters of Apostolic doctrine. I was confronted by all manner of false doctrines to test me. I stood the testing and remained unshaken. As I passed from being a novice into a Man of God, I could see the importance in being rooted and grounded. I could also see that being faithful to doctrine was a very high priority. So I dedicated myself to apologetics. I was confronted over and over to defend Apostolic doctrine. And each time I was confronted I took up the challenge and began debating. I never lost a single debate. Because I was never in the wrong. This is where a Bishop comes in. A Bishop should not be off in any doctrinal area. Men who are not well grounded and who are off on all kinds of doctrines will remain novices until they correct themselves or they die.

Novices train themselves and allow themselves to be trained by other great Men of God. They never exalt themselves above their teacher. They are humble men who do not offer opinions but always offer the true interpretation of Scriptures. By standing for the Truth, this will promote a man.

A novice is inexperienced because he either has not been at his calling for very long or he is not maturing as he should to be able to stand alone as a Man of God.

What we need are not more men with opinions but more men who are seeking perfection in doctrine, faith, practice, conduct, and order.

Fulfill these areas of doctrinal importance and you can graduate from being a novice.

Bishop Reckart