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Jesus Christ, An Offence To ‘Westernized Christianity’
Kato Mivule
January 1, 2006
1 Peter 2:4-8
(ASV)
4
unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but
with God elect, precious,
5 ye also, as living stones, are built up a
spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6 Because it is contained in scripture, Behold, I
lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: And he that
believeth on him shall not be put to shame.
7 For you therefore that believe is the
preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the
builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;
8 and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence;
for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also
they were appointed.
Blessings in Christ Jesus as we walk through the year 2006. May
The Lord lead us and guide us through every step of the way
closer and deeper in Him more than before. Certainly there is a
lot of anticipation prophetically. However, The Lord will
continue His separation of those who are His from those who are
not.
‘Westernized Christianity’ on a Downward Spiral…
‘Westernized Christianity’ will continue on its downward spiral
too and continuously be OFFENDED by Jesus Christ and His Holy
Saints who hold onto the Testimony of Jesus Christ… “Westernized
Christianity’ is NOT Biblical Christianity and we MUST
SEPARATE TOTALLY from Such…
It is very clear that ‘Westernized Christianity’ has REJECTED
Jesus Christ and His Holy Word and therefore OFFENDED at
Christ’s Holy Word. Christ Jesus is not the Cornerstone of
Western Civilization and ‘Westernized Christianity’. Christ
Jesus has clearly become a stone of stumbling and a rock of
offence for the whole Western Civilization and ‘Westernized
Christianity’. They therefore stumble at His Word being
disobedient because they love the world and are friends of the
world.
Things will only continue on a downward spiral as Nations race
towards a One World Government that will rise to hate and fight
against Christ Jesus and His Holy Saints. Lots of warnings have
been given through the Holy Scriptures and by many ‘Prophetic’
Saints of our day.
There can be no excuse that we did not get the warnings. The
trumpets have been sounding loud and very clear. The Sounds of
the Trumpet warning the Saints to awake are sadly an offence to
those who practice and indulge in ‘Westernized Christianity’.
However, still the warning has gone out and there will be no
excuse.
“Christians” with one foot still in the world…
Sad to say is that many “Christians” refuse to prepare
spiritually by ‘Coming Out’ of The World and its “Christian”
Religious System. Even those who have come to know the Truth
about The Last Days still have one foot in the world and the
other in the things of God, all hoping that somehow God will
continue to give them an ‘extension’ and a ‘delay’ so they can
‘finish’ their plans in the world.
To such “Christians”, the warnings of Our Lord Jesus Christ are
an OFFENCE to them…they are greatly offended because Truth
requires action that they change their lifestyles from that of
ease to one by which they carry their cross and follow Jesus
Christ.
Having returned to Africa from the United States, I have been
astonished at the breadth and width of what I have termed as
‘Westernized Christianity’ and how this type of Christianity is
flourishing across Africa, especially in the urban areas
courtesy of ‘American Christian Media’.
The fruit of such labors by ‘Westernized Christianity’ has been
the ‘Apostasy’ and the ‘Great Falling Away’. Christians,
Churches and Church Leaders who used to love Jesus Christ have
turned their backs towards the True Word of God and embraced
fully what The West markets around the world as ‘Christianity’
but is certainly ‘Another Gospel’ and NOT Biblical
Christianity.
When it comes to understanding the Prophetic Times in which we
live, many have been mesmerized and hoodwinked by ‘Westernized
Christianity’ that all will be fine and ‘nothing bad will happen
to them’, that ‘they will be raptured away’…such false security
is very common and pervasive as is always the case with folks
who embrace ‘Westernized Christianity’ and its Doctrines.
Image of the World, World-ians, World-like…
I sometimes turn on Radio and TV to check out what the
‘Apostles’ of ‘Westernized Christianity’ are teaching here in
Africa. I have found an amazing thing…the teachings are
engineered to transform the peoples into a Western Christian
Image. This is what now millions around the Christian world are
striving for…to be like the American Christians they see of
Christian TV.
They are being conformed to the image of the World, which is the
Image of Western Civilization and all its wealth and riches.
Christians around the World are being transformed into the Image
they see portrayed by the ‘Apostles’ of ‘Westernized
Christianity’… They are not being transformed into the Image of
Christ Jesus but that of the World…
Romans 8:29
(ASV)
29
For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to
the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brethren:
Romans 12:1-2
(ASV)
1 I beseech you
therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is
your spiritual service.
2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but
be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove
what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
The Word of God is very clear, that we don’t be CONFORMED to the
IMAGE of this WORLD but we are to be TRANSFORMED by renewing our
MIND certainly by The Word of God and not giving excuses for our
easy and lax lifestyles while ignoring the Sure Word of Prophesy
that we have even in light of the days we live, knowing that
these are indeed the Last Days…
2 Peter 1:19-21
(ASV)
19
And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do
well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place,
until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:
20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture
is of private interpretation.
21 For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but
men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
We cannot afford to continue be transformed into the Image of
this World and still call our selves “Christians”. We are NOT
Christ-Like if we are CONFORMED to the Image of this World.
Those so-called Christians who are Conformed to the Image of
this world are to be called ‘World–Like’ and therefore
‘World-ians’ and NOT Christ-Like or Christians.
We MUST TOTALLY SEPARATE from all that calls us to be
transformed into the Image of the World. Certainly as we shall
see ‘Westernized Christianity’ is a powerful vehicle that is out
to transform “Christians” in their churches into the Image of
the world, even if possible to hoodwink the Elect – Remnant into
this Image of the World.
There is absolutely no doubt that the world has successfully
entered in to the Church and the doctrines being taught and
promoted by ‘Westernized Christianity’ are geared to conform
“Christians” to the Religious Image of the World and finally to
be like the World.
The Ingredients
of ‘Westernized Christianity’…
Below I have listed some of the Doctrines taught and being fully
funded and supported by the “Christians” in the West through
their Churches, bible Colleges, and Worldwide Western Christian
Media. This has become the norm around the world and Christians
are abandoning Biblical Christianity in exchange for what
the West has offered them…
1) Once Saved Always Saved
Doctrine (False Eternal Security)…
2) ‘Ask Jesus in Your Heart’
Doctrine…
3) Pre-Tribulation (Fly Away)
Rapture Doctrine…
4) Prosperity and Materialism
Gospel Doctrine…
5) Purpose Driven Life Gospel
Doctrine…
6) ‘Hell is Not Real’ Doctrine…
7) ‘Jesus Loves All, Don’t Offend
Anyone, False Tolerance’ Doctrine…
8) Church Growth Movement
Doctrine…
9) One-Man Pastor Leadership
Doctrine…
10) Tithes Doctrine…
11) Women Pastors (Ruling Over
Men) Feminism Doctrine…
12) ‘The Bible Gives Various
Opinions’ Doctrine…
13) ‘Miracles Not for Today’
Cessation Doctrine…
14) ‘Marriage and Divorce
According to the West’ Doctrine…
15) ‘You cannot Overcome Sin
until Jesus Returns’ Doctrine…
16) Dominionism, Political
Christianity – Christians Taking Over World Governments
Doctrine…
17) Ecumenism, Universalism, and
False Unity (Don’t Separate) Doctrines…
18) ‘Multi Million Dollar Mega
Church Building Project’ Doctrine…
19) ‘The Holy Scriptures are not
ALL True’ Doctrine…
20) Denominationalism Doctrine…
21) Gay Marriage Doctrine…
22) ‘Seeker Friendly Churches
(Friends to the World)’ Doctrine…
23) ‘Bible Colleges and
Intellectualism of Christianity’ Doctrine…
…And many more, just to mention a few…
All the above Doctrines are what make up Western Christianity
and are FULLY FUNDED and PROMOTED around the world by the False
Apostles of ‘Western Christianity’. This is Clearly ANOTHER
GOSPEL and NOT BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY as founded on the
foundation of the APOSTLES AND PROPHETS and BOOK OF ACTS
CHRISTIANITY.
Galatians 1: 6-10
(ASV)
6
I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called
you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel;
7 which is not another gospel only there are some
that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, should
preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached
unto you, let him be anathema.
9 As we have said before, so say I now again, if any
man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye
received, let him be anathema.
10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God?
or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I
should not be a servant of Christ.
So, the characteristics of Childishness, Ignorance and Lies is
what in my humblest terms can best describe ‘Western
Christianity’, Paul The Apostle would have better words for
such…that those who hold this “Another Gospel” be ACCURSED…
1 Peter 1:13-16
(ASV)
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Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set
your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you
at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
14 as children of obedience, not fashioning
yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of
your ignorance:
15 but like as he who called you is holy, be ye
yourselves also holy in all manner of living;
16 because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am
holy.
17 And if ye call on him as Father, who without
respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass
the time of your sojourning in fear:
18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with
corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain
manner of life handed down from your fathers;
19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without
spot, even the blood of Christ:
‘Westernized Christianity’ = Traditions of Men…
It is very clear that all Doctrines that make up ‘Westernized
Christianity’ conform one to their ‘former lusts’ as in their
time of ignorance. These ‘Westernized Christianity’ Doctrines
certainly conform one to the Image of the world and cause one to
follow after the lusts of the world. The Lord Calls us to
TOTALLY SEPARATE from such and be Holy as The Lord Himself is
Holy. We are not at one time to compromise and eat of the leaven
supplied by ‘Westernized Christianity’.
We are to discern it and purge out all the leaven. We are not to
give excuses, without holiness no one will see The Lord…knowing
that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver
or gold, form your vain manner of life handed down from your
fathers – Traditions of Men. Clearly the ingredients of
‘Westernized Christianity’ are the Traditions of Men, which only
cause men to love the world and be friends of the world. The
bible is so clear that we be not conformed to the Image of this
world, be friends of the world or even love the world. We are
clearly to be SEPARATE and HOLY unto The Lord…
Romans 8:5-8(ASV)
5
For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh;
but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind
of the Spirit is life and peace:
7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against
God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can
it be:
8 and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
So, a very critical analysis of the Ingredients of ‘Westernized
Christianity’ clearly shows that such doctrines are formed to
entertain the flesh and not put death to the flesh that the life
of Christ Jesus might fully be formed in us. ‘Westernized
Christianity’ is after the mind of the flesh and therefore an
enemy to God. One can therefore NOT Please God while embracing
the Doctrines of ‘Westernized Christianity’. It is clear that we
must weed out and purge out this leaven of ‘Westernized
Christianity’ and follow wholly after God’s Pure Word with NO
COMPROMISE…
1 Corinthians
5: 4-8
(ASV)
4
in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and
my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the
destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the
day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new
lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been
sacrificed, even Christ:
8 wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old
leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but
with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
‘Westernized Christianity’ is All About Man and Money…
…And if one notes carefully, All the above doctrines have to do
with Man and a RETURN to The LAW by Rejecting God’s Word and the
Grace it Provides…and also a Money Making Scheme and an Easy
Life that the Western Culture Provides, especially in America…
The West is the GREATEST promoter of the ‘Another Gospel’
because of her wealth and affluence. Therefore the West receives
the “harshest, sharpest “ of all rebukes. Western Christianity
is Totally tied to Money and Mammon and engrained in the Culture
of Babylon as in Revelations 18…
Come Out of Her, Come out of The Harlot System…
My advice is that All True Christians should COME OUT OF HER;
least they partake of her plagues and judgments… Yes, The Lord
is calling ALL True Christians to come out of Babylon America
and her ‘Western Christianity’ and Return to Bible
Christianity as established by The Teachings of Jesus
Christ, the Apostles in the Book of Acts and the Epistles…
I lived in America seven years and I had to ‘Come Out’ of the
‘Western Christianity’ Doctrines – I had to come out of the
Babylonian Religious System… It was hard and painful but very
releasing and actually healing to me as I obeyed the Word of The
Lord. Once I came to hear and know the Truth from God’s Word,
it set me free from the Traditions and Laws of ‘Westernized
Christianity’ a.k.a. Modern, Post Modern, and Emergent
Christianity.
Truth is sometimes painful and hard to deal with because Truth
requires you take action to act on the Truth we have known or
heard. The Human tendency is to shield our selves with numerous
excuses and of course the West has devised ways to not be
offended by Truth…God’s Word is Clear COME OUT OF HER, BE
SEPARATE…
Revelations 18: 4-5
(ASV)
4
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my
people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues:
5
for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath
remembered her iniquities.
‘Western Christianity’ boasts of its wealth and resources and
therefore refuses to REPENT and turn away from such evil
Doctrines and even takes the audacity to chastise and persecute
those who speak Truth by calling them “Hateful”, “Unchristian”,
and “Filled with Bitterness”. The Lord Jesus Christ is so clear…
Revelations 3:14-22 (ASV)
14
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things
saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of
the creation of God:
15 I know thy works, that thou art
neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16
So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will
spew thee out of my mouth. 17 Because
thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of
nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and
miserable and poor and blind and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold
refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white
garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of
thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine
eyes, that thou mayest see. 19 As many
as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and
repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door and
knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come
in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21
He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my
throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his
throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.
‘Western Christianity’ Offended by Truth…
With this kind of ministry I have from The Lord to warn and call
people to repentance, I have been distasteful to those who
practice and embrace ‘Westernized Christianity’. I have been
referred to as “Hateful”, “Lacking Love”, “Full of Bitterness”,
“Intolerant” and “ Self Righteous”, many more. The Truth is that
the Parishioners of ‘Westernized Christianity’ HATE TRUTH and
are OFFENDED by the very words of Jesus Christ.
I have noticed many who stand in the same calling and anointed
to call God’s people to Repentance being called “Hateful” and
“Filled with Bitterness” and “Self Righteous” by those who love
the goodies that the rich and affluent western civilization
offers. This includes those so-called remnant Christians who
refuse to repent and still love the world and the things
therein.
I have spoken to a number of Pastors and Church Leaders here in
Africa whose eyes are open to see and hear Truth and they DETEST
‘Western Christianity’ and are asking what they should do. They
are fed up with Western Christian TV Programming and lies spread
on so-called Christian TV. They see the fruit is the World in
their congregations and a Great Falling Away. These things are
taken lightly in the eyes of Americans who hold onto Western
Christianity Doctrines but it is very GRIEVOUS BEFORE THE LORD…
I have called a ‘Spade’ a ‘Spade’ and not called a Spade a
‘Big Spoon’. I know The West has been socially engineered to
believe and accept only “Love” Gospel and total Hate for any
‘John The Baptist’ Preachers; the West always ‘requires such
preachers’ heads on a platter’… I am used to e-mails of people
calling me “self righteous”, “bitter”, “hateful”, “bigot”,
“filled with rage” simply because I challenged them and told
them that their ‘Western Christian Ways’ of Thought are
Childish, Ignorant and Lies…and none can dispute any of those
HARD PAINFUL FACTS AND TRUTH…
Jeremiah 16:19
O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the
day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the
ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited
nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no
profit. (ASV)
The West has been Socially Engineered to not be “Offended” at
All, every one has to be “Positive” and anyone who does
otherwise is “filled with bitterness” and “a hate for the
brothers”, and “not weak to the weak”…this is nothing short of
an escapism mentality and pure double mindedness and hypocrisy
on part of the West while The Rest of The World FULLY ABSORBS
‘WESTERN CHRISTIANITY’ LIES WITH NO RESISTANCE…
Proverbs 27:5
Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden. (ASV)
No
Apologies for Truth…
I cannot therefore apologize for Truth as laid down in God’s
Word. If I did, I would have to totally recant all that I
believe as True and put all my Tools back in the Tool Box and
head back to Rome. (I hear The Pope needs more “open-minded”
people and “love” from Christians”).
The West and ALL its civilization is OFFENDED by Jesus Christ
and His Word. This can be seen in all institutions of the West
such as Academic, Political, Social, and Economical…Jesus Christ
and Holiness don’t sell.
The Rock of Offence for the West is Jesus Christ. He is also a
Stone of Stumbling and as a result Judgment is headed towards
the West in great severity and harshness because they knew the
truth and rejected it for lies.
Repent and turn away from ‘Westernized Christianity’…
My message to Christians in the West is to totally REPENT and
turn away from ‘Westernized Christianity’ to True Biblical
Christianity. Let this be the year that those who stand make a
clear stand and not ‘soft peddle’ the Gospel in endeavors to
entertain and not offend the Rich and Affluent ‘Westernized
Christians’… There is no middle ground. The time for ‘Cheap
Grace’ is over and the time of Christians using “be weak to the
weak” as a cover for their sins, error, and self-indulgent
lifestyle is over.
If you are of The Lords’ then make your stand known and not
lukewarm, if you are cold be cold, if you are hot then be so…
Decide this day whom you will serve, ‘Westernized Christianity’
– Babylonian Christianity or Jesus Christ in Holiness and Fear,
working out your salvation in fear and trembling…make your
choice today and don’t hinder those who want to run after The
Lord by claiming grace, grace, when it is a cover to indulge
more in the delicacies of ‘Westernized Christianity’…Make Your
Choice Today!
Repentance Preachers, Sound your Trumpets Louder…
For those who are called to preach Repentance and Warn all men
about the coming Judgment, sound your Trumpets even louder.
Don’t ‘relent’ Truth; call a Spade a Spade and Don’t Call a
Spade a Big Spoon so as to sound Politically Correct so as not
to offend ‘Westernized’ hearers. This is the time when Men hate
to Hear Truth…and are busy looking for teachers who will
entertain them… ‘Westernized Christianity’ HATES the Cross of
Jesus Christ and are not willing to carry their cross an
inch…that is why when they hear about the coming judgments, they
ask for more extensions from The Lord so as to indulge more in
the delicacies of Western Civilization…
2 Timothy 4:1-5
1 I charge thee in the sight of God, and of Christ
Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his
appearing and his kingdom:
2 preach the word; be urgent in season, out of
season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and
teaching.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure
the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to
themselves teachers after their own lusts;
4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and
turn aside unto fables.
5 But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship,
do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry
Those who tell them the Truth are their enemies…
Galatians 4:16
16
So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?
The West and its ‘Westernized Christianity’ is increasingly
becoming very hostile to Truth and those who proclaim Truth and
call for Repentance are seen as Enemies… Jesus Christ is the
Rock of Offence to the West and Western Civilization but for
sure Jesus Christ is the same Stone of Stumbling that will cause
the Collapse and Demise of Western Civilization…for His
Judgments are Righteous, Just, and True…Amen!
Your Fellow Servant in Christ Jesus
Kato Mivule
Entebbe, Uganda. Africa
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