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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 357
the Father, nor me.” (John 16:2-3)
The Ecumenical Movement
Jesus' Call To Be One
It was Jesus’ desire that those who had received him as their personal savior would be
one; he prayed: “…Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me,
that they may be one, as we are.…I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but
that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the
world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world,
even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also
might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in
thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the
glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in
them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that
thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” (John 17:11, 15-23) (Emphasis
added)
Jesus’ prayer had a condition. His condition was that we as believers would be one with
him as he was one with his Father. Jesus was one with his Father in every way: He kept the law
of God perfectly and was without sin.
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He said he didn’t do anything without first seeing that it
was his Father's will.
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He said if you have seen me you have seen the Father (John 14:9).
Therefore, in accordance with the prayer of Jesus Christ, we as believers can only
become one with those who are true to the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul writes about
this to the Romans, Ephesians and Galatians:
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded
one toward another according to Christ Jesus. (Romans 15:5)
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
reprove them. (Ephesians 5:11)
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you
than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said
before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that
ye have received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8-9)
The Antichrist's Ecumenical Movement
The current “ecumenical” movement in America and around the world is not in
accordance with what Jesus prayed or with what the Apostle Paul instructed. This is not only
apparent in the very movement itself but in the definition of the word “ecumenical”.
Ecumenical means “of the whole world.” Ecumenical has nothing to do with maintaining
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