Give Me Scripture To Keep The Passover

Greetings Brother:

Depends if you want to follow the Catholic model of the mass (multiple times a day eucharist), or the Protestant anytime communion, or the Biblical Apostolic Passover model.

The false interpretation of “often” in 1Cor 11:26 is where most give their reason for their whim days and events. They often take the word to mean any time and as much as a person, church, or pastor wants. Why is it that none of the whim days include the right day/evening on which Jesus instituted it? They will fight for the word "often" to justify their whim event, but let us use it for the Passover evening and they go stark raving mad. So we have every Sunday, first Sunday, Christmas, new years eve, Easter, weddings, baptisms, revivals, and many other whim days. To justify this they apply their false interpretation to “often.” They claim “often” cannot mean one time a year. It means many times during the year.

I refuted this many years ago with the following questions:
1) How often do you celebrate your birthday?
2) How often do you celebrate your wedding anniversary?
3) How often do you celebrate 4th of July?
4) How often do you celebrate new years?
5) How often do you celebrate Christmas?
6) How often do you celebrate Easter?
7) How often do you celebrate Valentine’s Day?
8) How often do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?
9) How often do you celebrate Thanksgiving?

Obviously the answers to all these proves that “often” can mean one time annually.

If you ask a Jew how often they celebrate Passover they will tell you one time a year. What is so hard to grasp that?

When Jesus observed his last annual Passover, it was on that night he gave the Church their memorial of him. He was giving the Church an annual memorial of his death on Calvary. This was to replace the old Passover. If it replaced the old Passover, then it replaced it on a specific day, on a specific evening, and in a specific month.

We have no evidence of an anytime Lord’s Supper by the early Church. They observed it on the evening of Abib 15, having prepared for it on Abib 14.

What we do find in history is the fight between Rome and the Catholics and the Eastern Asia Apostolic Churches. The fight was over the observance of Passover and Easter. In history this is called the Easter Controversy. It is also called the Quartodeciman Controversy. The argument was whether or not to observe Easter and the resurrection, or observe the Lord’s Supper on the same night the Jews observed their ancient Passover. The Asian Apostolic Churches claimed they were following the example taught to them by the Apostle John. Polycrates was a Pastor of the Asian group and he wrote that they followed the ancient practice of the Apostles. The Catholic and Nicaea monks claimed their practice of celebrating Easter came from the Apostles Peter and Paul. We know this is all false. But the fight was settled at Nicaea where 318 monks voted for Easter and no Lord’s Supper just observance of the resurrection. Oh, yes, they had a mass, but it was not the real Lord’s Supper. They voted against the annual Passover celebration and made it illegal. From that time the doctrine of “often” meaning any time has been the Roman model. It is the Protestant model. And for most Jesus Name people they are not far from their mama.

So, we have a choice, accept the work of the Nicaea monks or accept the ancient practice of the Asian and Israel Apostolic Churches.

Passover was always an annual event. It was the type and shadow of the real Passover on Calvary. The type and shadow was fulfilled on Calvary on Passover. And Paul said Jesus was our Passover (1Cor 5:7). Since this is the words of an Apostle we do not need two, three or a dozen witnesses to verify this fact. If he said it once it is the Word of God. If Christ is our Passover on what day shall we observe it? On pagan new years eve? On some whim day. On any day but the right day?

The choice is yours to make. If you can accept the Nicaea monks on this one, you can accept all their other changes also. If you reject their other changes on baptism and the trinity, why resist rejecting their Easter falsehood to replace the Lord’s Supper on Passover?

Because the Apostles were all Jewish and they were in the habit of annual Passover celebrations, there is no need for this to be a contention among them and it was not. Paul gave the Gentiles the Lord’s Supper teaching in 1Cor 11:23. I want you to notice the words of Paul that he said he delivered to them what he had received from Jesus himself (from the Lord). And he said Jesus told him “THE SAME NIGHT.” The same night Judas betrayed him and the same night he served them unleavened bread and the cup. I cannot express the importance of “THE SAME NIGHT.”

Well what was that night?

If you are honest you will admit it was Passover night.

And if you are honest, you will give up all those pagan days the Lord’s Supper is forced on people. You will no longer accept whim days and events. You will respect the day of Passover not as do the Jews, but yes, on the same day they observe their old Passover, because it was on this one day of the year, Jesus gave us his memorial, shed his blood, and became our Passover Lamb. The Jews do not want us to celebrate this on their Passover. It will remind them of the one day in eternity they rejected their Messieh.

Shall we give more respect to our annual birthdays and other annual days?

I cannot at this time give you any other reasons to observe the Passover of Jesus, than what I have given you. There is more, but until you accept this you do not need the rest. In fact it will do you no good. Even this is putting new wine in an old bottle. And it can cause you to explode on me.

Passover this year is the evening after sundown on April 7th. If you have never done it right, how about this year doing it right?

Passover begins in Jerusalem and then goes around the world. For those west of the international date line, do not go by the Gregorian calendar. Abib Passover begins in Jerusalem and ends when that day is over in Jerusalem. Those west of the international date line (180 degrees) will observe Passover on the evening of April 8th. This includes all those islands and land areas falling west between 180 and 40 degrees longitude. While it will be April 8th according to the Gregorian calendar, it will still be April 7th and Abib 15 according to the Passover Jerusalem calendar. The Catholic church knows how to mess up a beautiful annual event and make it confusing. If our days started in Jerusalem instead of out in the Pacific along the 180 degree longitude lines, this confusion would end. For those who cannot figure this out, follow my instructions and you will be in perfect harmony with the annual Passover that begins in Jerusalem.

Do not allow others to deceived you that it is on some other night. There are many perverters out there and they cease not to pervert the right ways of God. Some of these perverters read my blog and my web site and pervert the right evening on purpose to deceive others and cause them not to observe the Lord’s Passover on the right evening. They have their reward. Follow me as I follow Christ.

If you fall in with these perverters, you just as well follow the Catholic church who also has selected their own false days.

All God's children should be gathered to the Table on the evening of April 7th.

Jesus bless you more,

Bishop Reckart
Made by God, for God
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This year let us observe the Passover of Jesus with honor. We are planning a great evening here in Tampa, Florida. It will be our greatest Passover ever. I am preparing my 2012 video presentation now. If you plan to attend here in Tampa, please let me know. I screen everyone who will attend.
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Lord willing I will be in Ireland a few days after the Passover. Please pray for me....

True Jesus Church, China

The True Jesus Church based out of China claims over a million members in over 40 countries. Supposedly it began around 1917 but I have seen no proof of this. I ran into this group in the Philippines. Most Jesus Name and Pentecostal Apostolic groups there have nothing to do with them. They are considered a cult by many. I am not sure I would go that far, but I will say they are not a true Apostolic group.

They do believe in baptism in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:38), but it is not clear what their actual baptismal formula is when spoken. They do make a link to Matthew 28:19 (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) and tie this to the use of Lord Jesus Christ. Since there is a lack of explaining this FS&HG and LJC, it remains to be seen if LJC represents the trinity of FS&HG. If it does then this group is not Oneness in its baptismal formula or its theology.

This group claims it was born out of the "Latter Rain" movement. This of itself is noteworthy because main-stream Oneness Pentecostals have never accepted many of the practices of the Latter Rain movement. The reason is simple: the Latter Rain movement was almost strictly trinitarian. It was born out of trinitarian run-amuck men and women. A check of present day Latter Rain churches and groups will reveal a wide-range of false doctrines and practices.

This group is proud that it is a Sabbath Day keeping sect. They believe all other Jesus Name groups are in great sin and evil for holding church on Sundays. This law-keeping sets them apart from all other Oneness groups except the law-keeping ones. What they teach about observing the Sabbath is all false.

They perform baptisms face down, frontwards. This is another strange difference that sets them apart.

They accept the tetragrammaton and the monk guess names of Jehovah and Yahweh.

They are hallelujah people.

They are amillennial. They do not believe in a future 1,000 year millennial reign of Jesus upon the earth.  According to their literature, the end of the world is the next major event on the prophetic charts. At this point it is not clear what their doctrine is on the antichrist, the tribulation, and the mark of the beast. I have attempted to discover if they believe in a pre-end of the world rapture, like the pre-trib secret snatch before the tribulation.

I recommend to the entire Body of Christ that they avoid this group. Just because they believe in Acts 2:38 and Oneness does not sanctify them from all their other false doctrines and teachings. We all know that the Judaizers who tried to take the early Church back under the law were defeated in Acts 15. The Judaizers who refused to be corrected by the Apostles split off and began to deceive many of the early Christians. They are the enemies of Paul and they created all kinds of division in the Galatian Churches. Paul wrote important doctrine concerning these kinds of people who go back under the law for salvation, justification, and sanctification. Until the True Jesus Church repents and comes out of its false doctrines, we should all reject it.

This group also uses grape juice for the Lord's Supper. It does not observe the Passover of Jesus on the Jewish Passover. I have not seen any literature giving a date or dates on when they observe it. They do believe in footwashing. But what good is this, if the first part of the observance is false?

Bishop Reckart
Made by God, for God

Seducing Spirits 1Tim 4:1

In the latter times there will be seducing spirits.

Notice "spirits" is plural.

This means there are many demon spirits whose last day mission will be to seduce.

Seduce here does not mean a sexual act. Seduce here means "deceiving" (Strong's #4108).

The additional meaning is to "mislead."

These demon spirits will mislead millions of people. These people will be deceived by demon spirits.

The word "seduce" means to be influenced to do something that is wrong. All demonic seduction is not only wrong they are evil. There is no holiness or Godliness within them.

What Paul was telling Timothy was that in the latter times (the endtimes) many would depart from the faith. They would depart from biblical doctrine. They would be deceived, seduced, to believe lies, false doctrines, man-made theories, and even personal opinions. No greater seduction by these demon spirits is there except that a person believes a lie to be the truth. This is why the lie told to Eve by the serpent, she took to be the truth. And the Scriptures say she was beguiled and seduced (Gen 3:13, 2Cor 11:3 see Strong's #1818 "seduced").

Depart from the faith. Faith here is the one "Faith" of Ephesians 4:5. These who are deceived, beguiled, seduced, lead astray: have departed from the Scriptural interpretation of Truth and taken up a lie or lies.

What I have experienced in the past 20 years is that many are led astray by their own minds. They think they are seeking Truth when in fact they searching for it among liars, deceivers, and false teachers. They will believe lies and make these into the Truth. They set darkness for light. They receive the kingdom of darkness into their hearts and from that moment they will not be led any more by the Truth.  They have departed from it and they will never return to it.

These deceiving spirits are very smart. They know how to make us believe we have discovered something. Even when the lies are contrary to the Word of God, these men and women will accept these new self-revelations and then turn against the Truth. I have seen many men and women come to the place of birth in the Truth only to see them turn and go astray into all manner of deceptions. They have been seduced.

My lesson this Sunday will follow on this subject.

How many are like the seed that fell upon the stony place. I am seeing it all over the world. Men and women get the seed but before it can take a root, it withers and dies because these people make their hearts hard against the Truth. The seed cannot develop a root in these hearts of stone. And the seed will die.

How many men and women I have sowed the seeds of Truth to see them rejoice for a season and then see them go astray into this or that false doctrine and spiritually die.

As a Man of God I am particularly on guard against seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. I can take care of the doctrines of devils. But each of you will have to defend yourself from the seducing spirits. If you do not, you will soon leave the Truths I teach on this web site and you will slip off into the abyss and die lost.

The fact that "MANY' shall depart from the faith tells me I will see MANY of them. When I see they are no longer walking in the true doctrine but have gone off into some false doctrine, I will know these are part of the MANY.

This MANY are also those of "MANY are called but few are chosen." MANY did have a chance. But they could not and would not protect their minds from deceiving and seducing spirits.

I know many of you hate me writing like this. You want me to write smooth things, soft things, but I cannot. Do not send me emails that I do not love you. Do not send me emails that you are in the Truth when you are walking in lies and following false doctrines and false prophets.

Only those who remain in the Truths I preach will NOT BE DECEIVED.

I am on guard.

Bishop Reckart
Made by God, for God

Home

I arrive this morning back in the US after my missionary trip to the Philippines. I will be sending out a mission report to those on my email list. I appreciate all those who used their prayer power on my behalf. Also for those who gave mission money to help pay for this trip and the travel expenses. Thanks to three of you our Bible School students now have new Bibles. The power of the Holy Ghost was upon me. The true doctrine of the Apostles was preached and taught. The fruit of this harvest will come forth. This fruit some of you will be part of when rewards are given at the Throne. I love you all in Jesus Name, the name above every name.

Bishop Reckart
Made by God, for God

DIe That Way

Resist the truth, then die that way.
Pervert the truth, then die that way.
Fight the truth, then die that way.
Many are dying cut off from God.
When Jesus said to shake off the dust, he was saying let them die in the condition of their rebellion.
Resisting, opposing, fighting, perverting, rebelling against the truth will damn your soul. I am willing to let you die that way.
You love the truth your mouth will speak it. From the heart the mouth will speak.
I thank God for the men and women who love the truth preached here. The rest, they can die in their way of Cain; their way of Balaam; their way of Judas; their way of backsliding wickedness.
Die that way!

Bishop Reckart
Created by God,for God

Replacement Theology

Is the New Testament Church as founded on the day of Pentecost the only salvation for Jews and Gentiles?
As it relates to salvation: did the Church replace the Temple?
As it relates to worship of God: is the worship in the New Testament Church the only valid place where Jews and Gentiles can worship in Spirit and in Truth?
As it relates to the Old Testament priesthood: did the New Testament priesthood replace it?
As it relates to blood sacrifices: did the sacrifice of Jesus replace all animal sacrifices forever?
As it relates to the high priesthood of the law: did the high priesthood of Jesus replace that of the law?
As it relates to the Old Covenant: did the New Covenant replace it?
As it relates to Jew and Gentile Paul said there is now no difference (Rom 10:12). Must Jew and Gentile receive and believe upon Jesus Christ for salvation?
As it relates to the promises of Abraham: did many Jews forfeit these promises by rejecting Jesus, and did many Gentiles become joint heirs by receiving Christ as their Savior?

While the pre-tribbers continue to claim those who believe in replacement theology hate Jews: this is nothing but lies spread by men such as Hal Lindsey. The fact is, there is no salvation for any Jew apart from Calvary Judaism. Peter settled this in Acts 2:38-40. If any Jew wants God and wants the mercy of God, they must come to Jesus. If they do not they will die in their sins. That is something Hal Lindsey will not change by accusing those who believe this of hating Jews. In fact, we love the Jews and want them to be saved and will tell them the truth. It is men like Hal Lindsey who tell Jews they can reject Jesus, practice the law, and they will be saved by the promises of Abraham. This is a lie and Mr. Lindsey should be ashamed of himself.
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The issue of replacement theology for me began back around 1972 when I first learned the dispensational pre-tribulation rapture was a hoax. Not only was the time of the rapture false, the whole purpose for a quick secret snatch was false. I can remember so well suckered into the falsehood that God the Son had to get his Bride off the scene so God the Father could turn back to his wife Israel. Yes, I was suckered. Men who knew the ropes of the pre-trib rapture doctrine were very equipped with their Scofield Bibles to impregnate minds with falsehoods. I was one of those whose mind has been tampered with. The dispensational prophecy teachers were very good at mind manipulation. They were so good at it, they could teach their nonsense and make you feel like you got a revelation from God all on your own. I was convinced that my belief in the pre-tribulation rapture was a revelation I got from God. This personalized the false doctrine in such a way I had to deny God ever gave that mess to me. And to deny God gave it to me was the same almost as me denying there was a God. The pre-trib doctrine had a grip on my mind where each time I saw something false, I had to grapple with other aspects of the rapture. And not able to reconcile all the contradictions I would relapse back into dispensational pre-trib rapture thinking.

But then all on my own I discovered Ephesias 2:14. In all my pre-trib brainwashing I had never been told that Calvary demolished the middle wall between Jews and Gentiles. In fact I had been told there would always be a separation between Jews and Gentiles. Jews would always be the chosen people of God and Gentiles were not and never could be the chosen people of God. At best, Gentiles had to accept their status as being separate from the Jews. Gentiles had to always praise, worship, look up to Jews while they considered themselves the off-scouring of the nations who would be privileged to become the bride of the Son of God if they accepted Jesus as their personal Savior.

Somewhere in all this pre-trib mess I had to deal with the falsehood of two persons of the trinity who each would have their wife/bride. I could not rationalize or accept the trinity like this. And for God the Father to have his wife Israel and God the Son to have his wife the Gentile church, was just over the top. When I asked about God the Holy Spirit and his wife, I remember someone telling me the Holy Spirit was a monk and would never have a wife. Of course this was funny and I have repeated it many times over the years.

It was at this time I learned about dual-covenant theology. That while God the Son was working out his salvation of the Gentiles by the New Covenant, God the Father was still working out the salvation of the Jews according to the Old Covenant and Daniel's 70th week. So, in the trinitarians scheme, there were two covenants in operation at the same time. At some point in all this I discovered that dual covenant theology was the antithesis of replacement theology. At first I did not label New Covenant Judaism as replacement theology. I did not use the term replacement until after I was accused of hating Jews and trying to take from them their divine right as the exclusive chosen people of God by claiming Gentiles were spiritual Jews. By claiming Gentiles could be Jews by conversion according to Romans 2:29, was something dispensational pre-tribbers and law-keeping Messianic Jews hated. So, I suffered a lot of hate and continue to get hate emails over this issue.

Indeed there are several different doctrines on replacement theology. Some of them have most of the truth within them, and some are distorted to the point of antisemitism. Many who hate Jews will use replacement theology as a cover for what they believe is a legitimate reason to teach Jews are totally rejected and can never be saved. These false uses of replacement theology are the ones often used by dispensational pre-tribbers and law-keeping Jews to scream and yell and make out-landish accusations against all of us who believe in the New Testament doctrine of replacement theology.

Let me be clear here: In the New Covenant there is no special race class of Jew or Gentile when it comes to salvation availability. No Jew and no Gentile can claim they alone are the ones who can be saved. Christian salvation began among the Jews on the day of Pentecost and Gentiles were added later on in Acts 8 and 10. Salvation by Jesus Christ is open to all nations, tribes, kindreds, and tongues. No one is placed in a class position above another. We all stand equal at the foot of the Cross. We do not hold race to have any merit, our hope and confidence is in grace and not race. So, in the New Covenant, being a Jew or a Gentile is not the deciding factor of who God loves.  The way I see it in Ephesians 2:14-16 there is a new man, a new creation, where there is no Jewish ethnicity or a Gentile ethnicity. It is this one new man that both Jew and Gentile must come into creation. This is the new Jew. The inward spiritual Jew. The spiritual Jew both Jews and Gentiles must become. The new Jewish man replaces the old Jew and the new man replaces the old Gentile. In the eyes of God there is then no Jew or Gentile class wars where Jews can continue to claim being the exclusive people of God and Gentiles are allowed in the back door if they will become Noahides and law-keepers.

Here there is a war: law-keepers holding on to that on the Old Covenant side of the wall, demanding Gentiles to keep the law, males be circumcised, wearing all the law ornaments, fringes, head-coverings: dietary rules and celebration of new moons, the sabbath, feast days, and other Jewish customs. Then on the other side of the Old Testament law wall are the Gentiles who believe in Jesus Christ according to Acts 2:38. So many keep the Law walls up and do not tear it down. The cut a hole in the wall to usher Gentiles back past Calvary into Old Testament religion.

I could not grasp this when I first visited a law-keeping Sabbath Apostolic church in 1970. All I heard for almost two straight hours that Saturday afternoon was "obey God and keep his Commandments." In over two hours I never heard anything about faith in Jesus Christ, faith in the finished work of Calvary, or salvation by grace. I was at that time in my life trying to find the balance of my faith. I could not then or now see that by law-keeping my faith was perfected or my faith was made better. I could not see how law-keeping added anything to Calvary. I reasoned that if my salvation was based on law-keeping and not Calvary, Jesus was was dead in vain and not needed at all. This was Paul's same conclusion in the first chapter of Galatians.

As I saw more and more lies and falsehoods in the dispensational pre-trib rapture doctrine, I began to hold a new Bible in my hands. When the Scofield and Larkin glasses came off, I was able to see the Word of God in its simplicity. I was so shocked at the enormity of the falsehood within the rapture doctrine hoax. I can remember how for days and weeks I would read my Bible every night and verses leaped out at me to show me how Jews and Gentiles were one in Christ and not two. I could see a new picture developing of the Church. It was not a Gentile bride as I had been lied to. The kingdom had not been postponed and delayed as I had been lied to. The whole lie that God the Father reserved the 70th week of Daniel off the Cross so he could use law-keeping and a rebuilt temple to get Jews and Israel back, was now exposed. The 70th week was not future it had been fulfilled. I new thing happened.

I saw the Church as Kingdom Judaism. It was a remnant Judaism. It was New Testament Judaism. The only valid existing Judaism right now. Sinai Judaism is no more. Law-keeping remnant Judaism is no more. I saw the new Israel of God under the Lordship of Jesus and he replaced the Old Testament system of law keeping with a New Covenant.

No, the Jews were not replaced as to a people, their religious system had been replaced. Their nation had been replaced. The Temple had been replaced. The Sacrifice system had been replaced. The High priesthood had been replaced. This means all Jews must be born again and come into the Kingdom of God or they would have no connection to God at all (John 3:3-5). If they rejected to come into the Kingdom they would all perish. And if they chose to remain in unbelief they would remain cut out of the olive tree as dead branches. I then saw how Gentiles replaced cut off Jews and were added in where they were cut off.

Jews today who refuse to accept the New Covenant alone for their salvation and hope will die lost. There is no salvation for them except Acts 2:38. They do not have a special deal worked out where they can remain Christ haters and still be saved. They cannot remain in antichrist doctrines of denying the Father and the Son. They cannot continue to claim Jesus Christ has not come in the flesh and be saved.

They must come into the New Testament Church.

Replacement theology is a Biblical fact.

Bishop Reckart
A Man God Loves

Later Rain Falsehoods Continue

Latter Rain Prophets & Their Shams To Deceive

During the years after the out-pouring of the Holy Ghost in the early 1900s, a group of ministers and followers began to hail themselves as the "Latter Rain" new order. Many were indeed baptized with the real Holy Ghost and many did have accompanying signs and wonders. They took the new wine in old bottles and for several years they prospered. But the wine skins were to burst and then worms took over the empty wine skins. The latter rain prophets spread throughout the United States and in some places around the world. They ordained to preach everything that shouted and danced at their meetings: women, young girls, small boys, teenage boys, and a host of men who had no more of a calling of God than a chattering baboon. But, these people were not genuine. Most were trinitarians who saw no evil or sin in unscriptural excesses and fleshly manifestations (unholy clothing). These infiltrated many new Oneness Churches in the disguise of the operation of the spiritual gifts. At that time, the new Oneness had just come out of trinitarianism and their standards and doctrines had not been fully established or tested. So there was a lot of loose fellowship between trinitarians and the oneness. For the most part, those who founded the latter rain movement were clean men who had good characters as far as that goes, but their doctrines were not so clean and this brought a need among those with the Oneness doctrine to take a stand against them.

The latter rain group did not believe in religious organizations because it was those in organizations who opposed them. In fact it was these false doctrines that caused the need for men to unite in an organizational structure for a covering and protection of their churches. The organizations had such large numbers of ministers that within one month from publications sent out, the latter rain movement was dealt a decisive blow of defeat. This happened in the February 1950 edition of the Pentecostal Herald. While this article mentioned a few important matters it did not deal with all of the issues at hand.

Latter Rain People And No Standard Of Holiness

The latter rain group were not independent because they were following any New Testament pattern. They were independent because their doctrines and teachings were not in conformity to the accepted Apostle's Doctrine. Many of these latter rain preached against tithing. They did so because they believed this one element would destroy those churches where the pastor depended on tithing for the existence of the church. The plan was to get people to stop giving tithes would destroy these churches. To help finalize the destruction they invented spiritual communion to cause people to leave their Pastor and church over the Lord's Supper. They were so bold the latter rain prophets did not accept Acts 2:38 as the only plan of salvation. They taught John 3:16, Romans 10:9, Eph 2:8  as the plan of salvation. They called themselves "One-Steppers" whereas they mocked the Acts 2:38 ministers and churches as "Three-Steppers." In many cases, the ministers were wishy washy and would baptize however a person wanted. If they wanted baptized in Jesus Christ name they would do it although they had never been so baptized themselves. They were all baptized in the trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Only in the case of those Oneness who chose to join them, were there any ministers among the latter rain order who were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. But these flipped flopped and would baptize a person according to Acts 2:38 or Matthew 28:19 or reword the formula to make them into one baptismal formula like: "on the confession of your faith I baptise you in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost in Jesus name." To appease their trinitarian friends they made up the doctrine that Father, Son, and Holy Ghost was really Lord Jesus Christ. So when saying Lord Jesus Christ they were baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost: "on the profession of your faith I baptise you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost which is Lord Jesus Christ." This received wide-spread acceptance among many Oneness. While they did not join the latter rain movement they practice Lord Jesus Christ Matthew 28:19 baptisms and not Acts 2:38 baptisms. At no time did the latter rain movement accept that remission of sins was in the name of Jesus Christ at the time of water baptism. They rejected any and all salvation faith in water baptism claiming it was a work and not an act of faith. Therefore, to the latter rain water baptism was not essential to salvation. Many Oneness have since those early years accepted this false doctrine. It is no strange thing these days to see many Oneness churches whose baptistery has not been used in months or years. In one case, the pastor filled it with dirt and planted flowers in it.

The latter rain movement opposed a formula for water baptism. They chose no baptism over baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. How could a Spirit filled people fall away into such apostasy? How could men who loved God also join them? Whole churches went into this latter rain order and eventually poisoned the Oneness doctrine at its very core. Organizations could not resist adopting many latter rain false doctrines. The latter rain group rejected long sleeves for men and women. Men and women could wear short sleeves and the women even sleeveless blouses and tops. They saw no need to keep the neck lines high and in many cases the cleavage of a woman or girl was clearly visible. Makeup and jewelry at first was limited but between the 1930s and the 1950s it was common for women to use makeup power on their faces, pluck their eyebrows, trim their hair and bangs, wear pants, and put on earrings. Of course along this latter rain path they put on wrist watches and other bracelets. At first they allowed wedding bands and then all manner of finger rings. Members in the stronger holiness churches saw all this loose living and the speaking in tongues, and began to rationalize that if God allowed all this and they still had the Holy Ghost, then it must all be ok. So they took on this unholy character and began to parade it into the churches. It was at this time, the doctrine of personal convictions was born among the latter rain to help free people from strong holiness standards and the flood-gate of worldliness was now opened. Who would be able to stand. Who would stand? No Oneness organization has been able to withstand this onslaught. And none have retained their first holiness. Like Ephesus they need to repent and turn back to their first love. But I am an outsider in this matter and as one UPC person said: "you are not one of us, so keep your mouth shut." How arrogant? How disrespectful to a man of God? But this is the fruit of the wild vine of Sodom speaking.

Latter Rain Children Deceived

Within this rouge movement many false doctrines were born. Among them the Adam doctrine and the Serpent seed doctrine. Then there was free love. Being Brothers and Sisters could share each other uncondemned, love being a fruit of the Spirit. Child preachers arose who did not have the Holy Ghost. They were sent by latter rain prophets who lied to them. Thousands thronged to hear them and all of it was fake. It was not long that amillenialism sneaked in and many believed Jesus returned in 70AD and we are now waiting on the end of the world. They spiritualized the millennial to cover from 70AD until the end of the world. While they taught the secret rapture doctrine, and claimed to be pre-trib believers they were really past-trib or no-trib and believed Jesus could come any second and the end of the world would usher in.  It is hard these days to get a Pastor to declare what he believes on prophecy. But we can tell by his doctrine and what he has made his church, if he is teaching or practicing any of the latter rain heresies.

One of the greatest errors of the latter rain movement was that of laying on of hands. A man who was an evangelist could lay hands on a man and ordain him to be an apostle. An evangelist could lay hands on people and give them the gifts of the Spirit. These renegade preachers could speak in tongues at the drop of a hat, turn and tell a dirty joke, and then a couple hours later ordain a kid to be a prophet. The laying on of hands by these so called evangelist, apostles, and prophets (even prophetesses): is all false. From this the charismatic movement was born. It is nearly impossible to root and ground men and women who are snared into this apostasy and great falling away. They are contentious, rebellious, and reject submission to a pastor. They call themselves, ordain themselves, send themselves, and make up their own ministry. They are all of them out of order.

The true Oneness Ministers do not practice the promiscuous laying on of hands. We let God divide to whom he will the gifts. And we will consider the life of the gift user when they are so used. If their life does not line up we do not receive them and we do not allow them to engage their out of order fake gifts among the congregation. We will guard our platforms from wolves in sheep clothes. We will not allow greasy grace preachers who speak falsehoods and use their fake gifts to deceive the people. We will not allow such renegade preachers and preacheretts to deceive our people with their latter rain practices.

It is now time for us to recognize that not all speaking in tongues is the real Holy Ghost. And it is also now time to take a stand on our Apostolic doctrine. We cannot allow the children of the latter rain movement to turn us into Laodicaea which is exactly what is happening. We must stand for holiness no matter what the latter rain order says about us.

One of the things I have noticed over the years is that latter rain people cannot be pastored. They rebel against Pastoral authority. They claim they have their own ministry and go about to fulfill a fake vision that never materializes. They usually fall away into gross sin and evil and never fit into any Church and become a blessing to God or a move of God. They usually will go astray into the yahweh cults or some other fringe cult that while they speak in tongues, they are full of the devil. By their fruits ye shall know them. Today they teach against women with long hair calling it a magic hair doctrine. They teach all manner of personal convictions where there is nothing Apostolic remaining except the name. Yes, like Sardis, they have a name but they are dead. It is time for the true people of God to say enough is enough and come out from among them. It is time to quit giving tithes to these preachers and churches. It is time to vote with your feet. It is time to stand up and help establish prayer groups, home churches, and even new Churches. The latter rain deceptions will not take captive everyone.

On a final note I must speak about these monk days that so many continue to follow and practice which shows they are not far from mama Rome.  I speak about monk day #1 St. Nicholas Christmas. This was started by a monk. He went forth and gave gifts only to Catholic children. There is no proof he gave gifts to non-catholics. I am sure they will rewrite his history now. Then there is monk day #2 St. Valentines Day.  Then monk day #3 and St. Patrick's Day. And then monk day #4 and Easter day. It was at Nicaea that 318 monks adopted Easter as the replacement of the Jewish Passover observance that Jesus gave as the Communion. The latter rain movement in all their speaking in tongues, all their fake gifts and fake offices as apostles and prophets, continued in all the monk days of their mother church. They never did leave the trinitarian doctrine completely. So they were always monk influenced.

I am writing about this today because so many are following one, two, three, or many of the latter rain heretical doctrines. In this great apostasy they teach no one can live above sin. I will tell you here and now that is a false doctrine. You do not have to sin. You can live above sin. And we do not have to compromise with sin in the life of the pastor, his wife, his children, the church members, the organization, or from any other people. The reason many teach the latter rain doctrine that we must all sin, that we are never free from sin, that we cannot live above sin: is because they have not fully repented and surrendered to the life of Christ. There is a perfected life of Christ where sin does not reign over the mortal body. You must get up walk out and never go back and listen to a man who claims we all must sin. This man cannot perfect himself, how shall he perfect anyone else. Come out from among them.

As we enter the times of many false prophets doing all manner of signs and wonders using Jesus name, we will see massive gatherings of people who will believe these men are servants of God. They are not. Signs and wonders are prophesied for the endtimes to be done by false prophets who will deceive many. I warn one and all, if these are not the true endtime servants of God. Do not follow miracle workers, have your faith in Jesus alone if you never see or receive a miracle.


Bishop Reckart
A Man That God Loves