Found in Egypt in the
1970s
This document, the
Gospel of Judas was found by some
Egyptian peasants, fellahin, who
stumbled upon a cavern near the banks
of the River Nile. Across the river
from Maghagha, not far from the
village of Qarara, they found the
cave containing the skeleton of a
wealthy man in a shroud. Among a pile
of human bones, they found a
crumbling limestone box containing a
mysterious leather-bound book, a
codex, written in Coptic on papyrus.
Emmel: Gospel of Judas
“Could Create a Crisis of
Faith”
Then began a bizarre
cloak-and-dagger journey, as the
gospel of Judas, first sold to
dealers in Cairo, would eventually be
shipped around on three continents
for 25 years. After landing in a bank
vault in Switzerland, from there it
traveled to New York and deposited in
a bank vault. Eventually the
manuscripts were turned over to Yale
University to be translated. Yale,
worried about legal issues, declined
to buy the manuscript, and then was
sold to an antiquities dealer in
Ohio, from there it returned to
Switzerland, where Rodolphe Kasser,
one of the world’s preeminent
translators and scholars of Coptic,
went to work on the text. Other
scholars joined. An American scholar,
Stephen Emmel, one of the first to
see the Gospel of Judas, warned that
this gospel of Judas “could
create a crisis of faith.”
Stephen Emmel quoted in Krosney, p.
8.
A Crisis Only For New
Age Gnostic-oriented
“Christianity”
It will only create a
crisis of faith in those who are not
anchored in the accounts of Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John. However, the
open-ended ‘spirituality”
created by the New Age has rendered
an apostate “Christianity”
open to any new thing. For this New
Age Gnostic-oriented
“spirituality” the
appearance of the Gospel of Judas is
an earthshaking event that arms them
even further in rebellion against the
truth of the true, Biblical gospels.
“Christian”
Gnosticism rose about 100-130 AD.
Irenaeus, a Church Father, denounced
the Gospel of Judas about 180 AD as
being “fictitious history.”
However, in today’s New Age
revival of gnosticism, hosts of
Gnostic “gospels” are being
put forward as valid gospels.
Jesus Warned About the
Gnostic Sect of Nicolaitans
Christ Himself warned
John the Revelator, in vision on
Patmos, about the terrible heresy
that even then was gripping the
world, as the Gnostic sects arose. To
the church of Ephesus, the church at
that time, Christ declares, “I
know thy works, and thy labour, and
thy patience, and how thou canst not
bear them which are evil; and thou
hast tried them which say that are
apostles, and are not, and hast found
them liars…This thou hast, that
thou hatest the deeds of the
Nicolaitans which I also hate.” Revelation
2: 2,4.
Irenaeus, Clement of
Alexandria, and Tertullian all
referred to the Gnostic sect of
Nicolaitans. So does Ellen White:
“The doctrine is now largely
taught that the gospel of Christ has
made the law of God of no effect;
that by “believing” we are
released from the necessity of being
doers of the Word. However, this is
the doctrine of the Nicolaitans,
which Christ so unsparingly condemned
(ST January. 2, 1912).”
–7BC 957.
“A Document
Associated With the Cainites”
One cannot accept the
Gospel of Judas Iscariot and the four
gospels in the New Testament at the
same time, for they are completely
opposed to each other. The Gospel of
Judas, Dr. Ehrman, as scholar whose
field is in early Christianity,
writes, is “’a document
associated with the Cainites. The
Cainites were named after Cain. It
was a contrary movement- this would
have been part of their New
Testament. The Cainites wanted to
show their allegiance to the one true
God. This meant they had to break
from what they considered the
inferior God of the Old Testament. The
Cainite doctrine was that you had to
break every law there was in order to
have salvation.’”
–Bart D. Ehrman, quoted in
Herbert Krosney, The Lost Gospel:
The Quest for the Gospel of Judas
Iscariot. Washington, D.C.:
National Geographic, 2006, p. 268.
The Cainites, one of many heretical
sects in the Second Century, believed
that Cain was a good brother.
Satan is Now Teaching
Millions That An Invasion From Orion
is Coming and That Orion is the
Center of Tyranny
As the great apostasy
is developing, there is now a great
effort to present Satan’s side
of the Great controversy as being
true, valid perspective. Truly, the
hostility of mankind against the God
of heaven is being taken rapidly to
new depths.
The writings of David
Icke, read by millions, are preparing
the apostate world to resist an
invasion from Orion, which declared
to be the center of tyranny. Here
Satan’s original charge against
God that he is a tyrant, is being
revived in bald-faced boldness.
An invasion from
Orion is indeed coming, and it will
be led by the One Who alone sets men
truly free, Jesus Christ, on a white
horse, with the armies of heaven
following Him.
Sealed:
Settled Into the Truth Intellectually
and Spiritually
Sealed, Settled Into
the Truth Intellectually and
Spiritually
By contrast to post
modernity which sees settled,
unmoving conviction as an impediment
to survival, and which fears the
punishments inflicted by the
postmodern world upon those unwilling
to adapt with expediency to its
ever-changing relativism, those who
are sealed by God in the great
Sealing of Revelation seven are
settled into the truth,
intellectually and spiritually. “They
lack the discernment to see what is
going to break upon us at any time. There
is a spirit of desperation, of war
and bloodshed, and that spirit
will increase until the very close of
time. Just as soon as the people
of God are sealed in their foreheads,
it is not any seal or mark that can
be seen, but a settling into the
truth, both intellectually and
spiritually, so they cannot be moved,
just as soon as God’s people are
sealed and prepared for the Great
Tribulation, it will come. Indeed, it
has begun already; the judgments
of God are now upon the
land, to give us warning, that we may
know what is coming.”
MS 173, 1902, pp. 3-6. (“Medical
Missionary Work in Southern
California,” November 20, 1911.)
1 MR 249, 250.
The Way of Truth
The
way of God’s true people is the
way of the everlasting gospel of
Jesus Christ, not the way of
“cultural relativism” to
contemporary, postmodern, nihilistic,
Gnostic “seeker
spirituality.” The way of truth
is the way of true discipleship of
the person of Jesus Christ, not the
substitution of the “fellowship
of the church” for Christ. The
way of the truth is the way of being
sealed into the truth intellectually
and spiritually, not the way of
nihilism and its expedient adaptation
to a world with no moral absolutes,
no convictions, no truth, no
worldview. As the midnight darkness
of almost universal apostasy takes
the world by storm, God’s true
people will be the last of
the breed, the remnant of the seed of
the woman.
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