Standing Up For Jesus

I learned many years ago that confessing Jesus was not just witnessing. It was also standing up for Jesus with a verbal profession he was the Messieh of Israel and the Savior of the world. To confess Jesus, was something many of the early Christians were compelled to do. Either confess and recant or die. Or, just deny and refuse to confess any association, belief, or faith.

I also learned to stand up in defense of Jesus. I remember my first encounter. It was not with trinitarians, with atheist, with antichrist Jews, or with a drunk or drug addict.

Knock, knock: open the door, yes, hello.

Good morning sir, we are members of Jehovah Witnesses and came by to ask you if you would like to enjoy the world tomorrow? And the man thrust a Watchtower magazine at me. He had it turned so I could see the front page of a nice looking family sitting in a meadow with butterflies, a lion, and other animals. As I caught the cover, he said: how would you like to live where there is no more war, no more killing and death, and the world has peace?  I replied to him, I am saved already and if Jesus will allow me into his millennial kingdom I do want to live in it during that 1,000 years of peace. I then told him I was a member of the United Pentecostal Church. He then said: O, you are Oneness then? I replied yes, we believe Jesus is God. He then proceeded to quote John 1:1 from his bible and it ended with the words: "was a God." I had never heard that before. See that was in 1969 and I was a fresh new born babe from the altar. Although my mom and some other brothers and sisters had already got the Holy Ghost, I had not. I was not turned on yet spiritually. But today, I had the Holy Ghost and wow was he my Paraclete that day. I told the JW: Jesus was not "a God" he was God. And we got into it. Standing behind this man was another man who was grave yard silent. As I stood up for the deity of Jesus the man in the back said: tell him Jesus is Michael. And the front man began to tell me Jesus was really the archangel Michael.  I was 23 years old and never heard this doctrine either. All I could think of was, did an angel die on the Cross? Did Mary birth an angel? How come no Apostle said Jesus was an angel?  I was not equipped that day to make war with a man who apparently had been well schooled in Kingdom tactics. I ended this conversation telling him Jesus was the son of God and he was no angel. An angel did not die for me on Calvary. I gave him back his WT magazine. At the same time, here came a wad of other JWs with their satchels walking slowly down the sidewalk toward my house. Apparently these two had missed their rendezvou point down the street and they came looking for them to extricate them out of any debates they may have gotten caught up in.

So, I got it in my blood. I told my pastor about the encounter. He praised me for my simplistic way of standing up for Jesus and saying no angel died for me on Calvary.

It was not long I ran afoul of trinitarians over Oneness. I stood up again that Jesus was God manifest in the flesh and there were no three persons in a trinity of gods in heaven. I kept at it, how many Spirits are there? How many separate beings are there? Will we see three separate Gods when we get to heaven. Will the Holy Spirit look like a dove? Was there two brothers in the trinity?  Each time I did this I met with anger, hostility, and threats of going to hell. Many years later when I was in Plant City, Florida I heard the pastor of the First Baptist church on the radio speaking about the mystery of the trinity that no man could understand. And he made this statement: "if you try to figure out the trinity you will lose your mind, but if you do not believe in it, you will lose your soul."

It was about this time I acquired a book by H.G. Wells on the Outline of History in which he describe the fist fight at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD over the trinity. He also said the Church did not know about a trinity until Nicaea.

I was called upon over the years to defend not only the truth about the deity of Christ but also the truths related to his Gospel, his Kingdom, and the Church. I cannot tell you every case I was involved in about defending the Truth, it is a very long story. Along the way, the Holy Spirit kept revealing to me the Scriptures in a great and magnificent way. I remember when I learned there was no such thing as women preachers. When I came out on this, I had to leave the church I was attending. I remember when I came out on there being prophets in our time. This also caused me hurt. I remember the Sunday School book I was given called "Apostolics In Action" (1969) by Search For Truth. I wanted the restoration of the Apostolic Church. I wanted the real restoration. This little Sunday School book led me to a life of fasting and prayer. I will not speak of it because when I mention what I have done it is railed on and criticized as boasting. Let me say, I became a seeker for the Truth. And I fasted many three day fasts, many one day fasts, several seven day fasts, and a couple 21 day fasts. I was dedicated. And the Holy Ghost rewarded me, not for my works but for my separation and dedication.

I remember in 1971 being confronted by law-keepr Apostolics in Atlantic City, NJ about keeping the sabbath. I was invited to attend their shabat service. I went. I saw a normal Apostolic service. I heard some preaching on keeping the sabbath day holy. I was impressed by the way the pastor handled the service and the members worshipped. What I saw was that these people were no different than what our Church was. They just did not worship on Sunday because they believed the Catholic church changed the sabbath from saturday to sunday.  Later I ask my Pastor about this. He told me: Brother Reckart, no day is the sabbath. What ever the Catholic may claim, just as they do about the trinity and other false doctrines they hold, is not what the Bible teaches. No day is the sabbath. Jesus is our sabbath. And I got it. I mean my Pastor transferred to me a revelation and I got it. I often wondered why most other UPC pastors never preached this? In fact, other than my own Pastor and myself, I never heard another preacher preach this from 1968 to 2003. You read that right. I kept this treasure of the bride in my heart. I have defended it. And no other bishop, pastor, minister, apostle, prophet, deacon, elder, ever posted anything on the internet about Jesus being our sabbath that I am aware of. Now I am sure someone will try to post something and back date it now. This is not about boasting. It is about standing up for Jesus.

We are now in a time where major issues have come up and standing for Jesus is important.

When I was called to defend the name of Jesus in 1993 in Conyers, Georgia there was NO MAN WHO STOOD WITH ME TO DEFEND IT. NO MAN!

Even to this day there is none from among those who attended that debate who has stood up for the name of Jesus like I have. They will not because as one minister said: WE CANNOT. We believe there are other names of God beside Jesus that are equally as important. And we believe these names are equal to Jesus, and Jesus name is the fulfillment of them. So, they held Yah, Jah, YHWH, Jehovah, Yahweh, Yahshua, to be acceptable names for God. And they still do, the ones that are still living that is. Have any of these men ever gotten on the internet and thanked me for standing up for the name of Jesus?  NOT ONE!  Has any of them ever written a web page standing up for the name of Jesus like I did? NOT ONE!

It was at this time I separated from some brethren within the Post-Trib ranks because I could see they were not walking according to the Truth. I was then called by Jesus directly to begin LIGHT TO THE NATIONS. And I began to send forth studies to the nations in 1998. I began JMFI, Jesus Messieh Fellowship International. Jesus touched hearts in a couple countries and a revival of Truth began. Some have since backslid and gone trinitarian and throwed the Truth under the bus. They walked away from it. But others became on fire. And the Truth of God began to spread. Men who read my studies would tell me how they cried. Women would tell me how they fell on their knees and the Holy Ghost came upon them. Elders and Deacons would email me they were glued to the internet all night and could not go to bed. Pastors emailed me they saw the Truth. Emails came in from all over the world wanting me to come rebaptize them. Wanting me to come and start a Church. Wanting a Bible school established. And several Brothers and Sisters said they would no longer attend their church and practice pagan holidays and sing songs to Jehovah and Yahweh. They wanted help on home church. And the revival continues.

Yes, I met a few reprobates along the way who either could not stay in the Truth, or they wanted to build for themselves something using the Truth, but did not really have a calling of God to do this. Some made web pages. Some put up message forums. And some tried to get in competition with me over issues like head coverings, altars in the Church, baby baptisms, law-keeping, preterism, unconditional eternal security, YHWH, the woman of Revelation 12, who are the 144,000, the Church is Gentile and not Jewish, the Judaism of Jesus, the Israel of God, being a Jew by Choice, and so on and on.  Many of these seeking a new revelation became my bitter enemy if I did not validate their concoctions. They thought they could race past me and go into revelations they concocted that I had not discovered. They became in competition. Some wanted my members and ministers and plotted to get them. War was launched against me by several men. They thought they could destroy me on the internet by using dozens of different fake screen names and attacking me. All because I stand up for Jesus in a way no other person in their life ever has and they detested it. And when I asked about their pastors what he has written, what he has accomplished, they went insane and the little porch puppy dogs went to yapping.

Some of them have pastors who are indeed deaf-mute and dumb dogs that cannot bark. You will never read anything they wrote. They will not post his preaching in their mp3 offerings. Why? Because he is incoherent. He rambles. He does not make sense. He talks crazy stuff. And he really sounds stupid. They do not post his preaching because he is an embarrassment. I am not afraid to identify them as dumb dogs, because they hide behind young lap puppies and stay in the house or on the porch. They do not have the courage to call me to debate on the issues at hand. They want to send out provoked little pig renders. And of course I will not debate with these kinds of pulpit boasters and their pride.

I am very thankful for the many men and women who are in the Truth of God. Who know the Truth. Who know I do not write foolishness. Who have been touched by the Holy Ghost and they want to be a part of Light To The Nations. These men and woman are special to me. They are the sweetest people on earth. And they are the most powerful people on earth praising the name of JESUS above all names.

To you true JESUS ONLY people I want you to know I love you.

Thanks for your prayers for Sister Reckart.

I will see some of you soon.

Bishop Reckart

A Man Praising Jesus Higher Than The Bible