Restoration Threatens the God of This World

I have been watching videos from The Last Reformation during breakfast.

I have written about The Last Reformation already. It’s a movement that started in Denmark, of all places. Europe gave up on God a long time ago, and the Scandinavians are generally not interested in him. They are known for arrogance, hard work, socialism, and sexual sin. It’s strange to see Scandinavians being used to do a major work for God.

TLR promotes proper water baptism. That’s interesting to me, because in today’s Christian church, almost no one knows the purpose of baptism. The Catholic-penumbra churches are especially ignorant. They don’t baptize at all. They sprinkle babies with water. Baptism means complete immersion; it comes from Jewish ritual immersion, and the Jews go under. You can’t baptize a baby, because baptism requires a conscious decision to serve God.

If you were sprinkled when you were a baby, and that’s all you have, you have not been baptized.

Most churches that immerse are wrong, too. They think baptism is a sort of initiation rite, like a college graduation. They think it means you acknowledge Jesus before men, and that’s it.

Torben Sondergaard, the big figure in TLR, says baptism isn’t just a symbol or a way to become a member of a church. It’s for remission of sin.

Why is that interesting? Because it’s what John the Baptist (the Complete Jewish Bible calls him “John the Immerser”) said. He called people to be baptized in repentance. Once his ministry got going, Jesus came for the first time.

Now we have a group pushing baptism combined with real repentance. If they’re doing things correctly, aren’t they doing the work of John the Baptist? If that’s true, then could it be that they are preparing the world for the return of Jesus? Perhaps this is their purpose.

The Bible says Jesus will return after the “gospel of the kingdom” has been taught to all peoples. Most churches aren’t teaching the gospel of the kingdom. They teach the gospels of salvation, hard work, positive thinking, licentiousness, greed, anger, and so on. Some of the gospels they teach are true, and many are wrong. In any case, most churches aren’t teaching people about establishing the kingdom of God inside themselves.

Remember, Jesus said the kingdom of God was within us. The disciples expected him to conquer the Romans and establish the kingdom on earth, but he left the Romans in charge and focused on changing people internally.

There is a difference between teaching about Jesus and teaching the gospel of the kingdom of God.

TLR is teaching total repentance. They are teaching the baptism with the Holy Spirit and prayer in tongues. They expect the people they minister to to become ministers themselves, immediately. If that isn’t the kingdom of God in operation, it’s certainly much closer to it that what you will see on TBN and Daystar, and it’s light years ahead of what the Pope teaches.

In Acts 2, at Pentecost, Peter told the Jews they needed to be baptized for the forgiveness of sin, and that if they did, they would be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Jesus himself was baptized with the Holy Spirit when he was immersed. The Holy Spirit manifests at TLR baptisms all the time. People begin speaking in tongues while they’re still in the tanks, and demons leave them.

I received things out of order. I got the baptism with the Holy Spirit before I was (badly) baptized with water. I want to get everything corrected. I still have problems with demons, and I want them to end.

Generally, we don’t teach people to become ministers. We aren’t really interested in becoming pro-active and serving God wholeheartedly. We go to church as a matter of duty and fear, hoping to be protected and helped without giving too much of ourselves to God in return. We are satisfied with treading water when we should be walking on it.

Peter taught that the flood, which drowned beings that later became demons, was a shadow of New Testament baptism. That can’t be a coincidence.

When you watch TLR at work, you have to ask: is Elijah finally here?

In the Old Testament, Elijah was one man. In the New Testament, John, who continued his ministry, was only one man. Elijah and John lived under the old covenant. Under the new covenant, things are different. It’s about reproduction and multiplication. Just as Israel was a man and a nation of men, Jesus is God and a nation of men. He has a body made of of many people. One of the main purposes of his coming was to allow him to generate countless powerful replicas of himself to carry on his work. If Jesus has a body, can’t the work of Elijah also be carried out by many people?

It’s as if Jesus were Ulysses and the church were Penelope, beset by crass, selfish suitors while her husband makes his way back to her. The important components of Christianity are like axe heads that have to be lined up before Jesus can shoot his arrow through them and take his authority back. Proper baptism is an axe head.

I hope TLR is evidence that the Elijah anointing is back, because it would mean this tawdry, cruel world was coming to a permanent end, to be replaced by something much better.

God has taught me a great deal, but there are still a lot of holes in my knowledge. They should not be there. I let myself down by giving up on prayer many years ago, and churches let me down by replacing sound knowledge with paganism and self-help nonsense. I suppose churches have been useless since the beginning of the Middle Ages. It’s very sad. But how can I condemn when I made myself useless? God would have taught me a lot more by now, had I held onto what he showed me and put it to use consistently.

I am looking forward to seeing TLR in person. I fully expect Satan to come up with all sorts of obstacles to keep me away, so I am praying for a clear path. My young friend Travis is trying to get free to go. I hope he makes it. He has the same concerns I do. I’ve told a bunch of friends about it, but only one really seems motivated.