After all of these years, I feel that the Lord is still so intimate to me and that I am so close to Him. I received the Lord sixty-seven years ago in 1925. They have no element of love toward the Lord personally. It is also like this with the tares in Protestantism, who are not saved. They have Christ in name, but they do not have any personal affection or loving element within them toward Christ. A number of Catholics are like this toward the Lord. On the other hand, if we do not love a person, we do not want to hear his voice, his word. If we love someone, we surely want to hear his voice, his word. This indicates that they do not have any love given to the Lord. They do not care for what the Bible says.
Those who are loyal Catholics respect only what the pope says, what the church says. This indicates that the Roman Catholic Church is a self-appointed prophetess, one who presumes to be authorized by God to speak for God. This is why the Lord Jesus in Revelation 2 says that Jezebel calls herself a prophetess and teaches and leads His slaves astray (v.
They do not say, “The Bible says.…” Instead, they say, “The pope says…” or “The church says.…” When they say “the church,” they mean the Catholic Church. Many in Catholicism are absolutely for the Catholic Church, but they do not love the Lord or His holy Word. The first thing we are charged to overcome is the leaving, the missing, the losing, of the first love (Rev. The Lord charges us to overcome all kinds of religion, and in these seven epistles He also charges us to overcome some other matters. TO OVERCOME THE LEAVING OF THE FIRST LOVE