The End Time Church: From the Cathedrals to the Catacombs

By Dan L. White

Copyright 2021 by Dan L. White, all rights reserved.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (WEB) which is in the public domain.

Chapter 100

The Difference Between Christ’s Flock and Satan’s Mob

The time has come for Satan to attack.

Not that the devil hasn’t been, but now the attacks are getting worse and worse. This is the end time, the last chapter of Satan’s world. Satan’s time is short, like a drowning rat running out of air, a desperate devil.

Rev 12 (WEB)
17) The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God’s commandments and hold Yeshua’s testimony.

How will Satan attack us? What will Satan try to get us to do?

The answer?

Same as always.

Satan will try to get you to break God’s Commandments, by getting you to think it’s good to break them.

Just as Satan told Eve. ‘Go ahead and do what God told you not to do. It’s all right. You won’t die.’

Poor Eve. It was just a juicy fruit, one of many in the garden, but different than the rest. Perhaps she only ate a little bit, maybe just a tiny bite, and it did taste good. So what’s the big deal?

The big deal was that Eve followed another god – Satan. She broke Commandment number 1 – “You shall have no other gods before me,” Exodus 20:3; and that also broke the first of the two great commandments – “you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might,” Deuteronomy 6:5.

That was it. That was all. Eve and Adam’s seemingly simple act derailed the human race: “So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; …through one man’s disobedience many were made sinners… Rom 5:18,19.

Who would have done what Yahweh did? Who would have embarrassed the first two people for being stark naked, then kicked them out of the luscious garden into the briers of the world, and sentenced them both to death, along with all their progeny, just for eating that one fruit?

Few would really agree with what Yahweh did. Most people would agree with Satan, thinking that what Eve did wasn’t that big a deal.

Did God overreact? Eve only ate a delicious fruit, to gain wisdom, to better herself, to find “self-fulfillment.”

But the fact that this one act condemned the whole human race to death shows how important it is not to overrule God, even if you mean well. Notice this from the Ten Commandments.

10^th commandment – don’t covet.
9^th – Don’t bear false witness.
8^th – Don’t steal.
7^th – Don’t commit adultery.
6^th – Don’t kill.
5^th – Honor your father and mother.
4^th – Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
3^rd – Don’t make the name Yahweh useless.
2^nd – Don’t create idols.
1^st – Don’t worship any other gods.

Those Commandments have an order, from less serious to most serious. The order of the Ten Commandments shows how important it is not to overrule God, even when you mean well. To follow another god is the most serious mistake you can make.

When Eve listened to Satan and ate the forbidden fruit, she overruled God. She considered what He said, she considered what Satan said, she considered what she thought, and in her very best judgment she overruled God. That broke the first Commandment.

With her wisdom, Eve could have sat on the US Supreme Court.

Eve and Adam directly disobeyed Yahweh, and that first sin condemned the whole human race to death. That’s how important overruling God is, even if you mean well.

In the very last days – and all the days before that – the difference between Christ’s flock and Satan’s mob is the same as the difference between Yeshua and Satan.

What is that difference?

Christ obeys the Ten Commandments.

Satan breaks them. And like their father, Satan’s mob overrules Yahweh God. Because they know better than Him.

Christ’s end time flock, like the first flock, is a bunch of Commandment keepers.

Rev 14:12 (International Standard Version)
12) Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and hold fast to their faithfulness in Yeshua:

Rev 22:12-15 (WEB)
12) “Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
13) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
14) Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
15) Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

In other words, outside are those who break the commandments, the sexually immoral, murderers, idolaters, those who do falsehood.

Christ’s flock, at the end time, is a bunch of commandment keepers, just like the first flock was.

Satan does not present itself as the dark devil. Satan did not go up to Eve and shout, ‘Hi. I’m the devil. Follow me and join the party.’

Satan comes across as an angel of light who brings new truth. ‘Hi. I’m Heylel the Light Bringer. Yahweh lied to you. You won’t surely die.’

Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote,

How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.

Satan’s followers think they’re doing good. How does the fallen angel trick them to get them to do that?

Let me count the ways.

1. First, Satan deceives people with the teaching that Yahweh does not exist. If Yahweh doesn’t exist, then His Commandments don’t exist. You can’t break what doesn’t exist.

So who believes this?

Most of the people who have an “advanced” education.

Their advanced education indoctrinates them to believe that all of creation was created without a Creator, the faith of evolution. This faith is completely without basis in observed fact; it is only a theory, totally lacking in evidence. No one has ever observed life coming from nothing alive. No one has been able to create life from non-living material, despite setting up the most favorable elements in scientific experiments. Louis Pasteur flat out disproved spontaneous generation or life coming from nothing alive. In spite of that, evolutionists still believe in spontaneous generation, that life came from nothing alive.

This evolutionist faith is taught in most government schools around the world. The foundational belief of this faith is that Yahweh does not exist and there are no Ten Commandments. Each person can act as his own god, setting his own commandments of right and wrong.

“…you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil,” Satan said.

Amazingly, even many people who call themselves Christian believe this evolution faith. They believe that God exists while at the same time, they believe He doesn’t exist. This may be the most convoluted, confounding and confused belief of all, the simultaneous belief that God is and isn’t.

Much of the world rejects Yahweh as Creator and throws His Ten Commandments out with the mythological garbage. This is particularly true for the most “advanced” nations of the world.

1Cor 1:26-27 (WEB)
26) For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
27) but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

Again, how does Satan get people to follow it while thinking they’re doing good?

2. Second, Satan deceives followers with the belief that God does exist and the Bible is His word, but in His great mercy He gave His Son to destroy God’s Ten Commandments.

Here is a typical Christian view of the Ten Commandments.

[T]he Ten Commandments are no longer in effect today. The Ten Commandments were written on two tables of stone and given to the Jews at Mount Sinai when they came out of Egypt (Exodus 20:3-17). These commandments were a part of the Law of Moses and the covenant that God made with the Jews- the Jews would keep the commandments, and God would make the Jews His special people (Exodus 19:5). The law of Moses, including the Ten Commandments, was “nailed to the cross” with Christ.
https://www.timberlandchurch.org/articles/are-we-under-the-ten-commandments-today

In reality, the teaching of “Grace destroys law” means that with grace, there is no law – the Ten Commandments are destroyed. Christian theologians often say that nine of the ten are reestablished in the New Testament, but that contradicts James’ statement that breaking one is breaking them all. If you’re 90% obedient, you’re 100% disobedient.

The reality of the ‘grace not law religion’ is that the Ten Commandments are almost wholly ignored by almost all the Christian religion.

Secularists had a good laugh a few years back, when Stephen Colbert nailed Georgia Representative Lynn Westmoreland, who had co-sponsored a bill requiring display of the Ten Commandments in the House and Senate chambers. “What are the Ten Commandments?” asked Colbert.

Westmoreland came up with three.
https://www.salon.com/2014/07/15/why_christians_get_the_10_commandments_wrong_partner/

An article on the Answers in Genesis site by Albert Mohler, a Southern Baptist, refers to that Ten Commandment ignorance.

Article by Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr.:
A Barna poll once indicated that at least 12 percent of adults believe that Joan of Arc might be Noah’s wife. Another survey of graduating high school seniors revealed that over 50 percent thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were husband and wife. A considerable number of respondents to one poll indicated that Billy Graham preached the Sermon on the Mount.

88% of US adults say their household owns at least one Bible.

48% of US adults read the Bible less than 2 times per year.

60% of Americans can’t name even five of the Ten Commandments.
https://answersingenesis.org/christianity/scandal-biblical-illiteracy/

Now if people don’t even know the Ten Commandments, they’re surely not afraid to break them.

Theologians make ‘grace not law’ sound good, by misusing Paul’s profound teaching that we’re justified only by Christ’s obedience and not our own failed obedience. This approach has deceived many people, and the result of this deception is –

They follow Satan’s example of breaking the Ten Commandments, instead of trying to follow Christ’s example of obeying them.

The ‘grace not law’ doctrine teaches that Christ kept the Ten Commandments just so we can be like Satan and break them.

This belief has particular animus to the Sabbath, the memorial of the Creator. The lawless twisting there is that Christians keep the Sabbath every day. They have magnified the law from one day to seven!

The reality is they have no Sabbaths. They have no days when they follow Yahweh’s example of total rest, totally focused on Him.

So it is said that Christ came to destroy the Ten Commandments. But who wanted them destroyed?

Satan. To destroy the Ten Commandments is exactly the role that Satan has. But Satan has a lot of followers who believe that God does exist and the Bible is His word, but He sent His Son to destroy His Ten Commandments.

Again let me count the ways that Satan gets followers, who think Satan’s way is right.

3. Third, with the belief that God does exist, the Bible is His word, and the Ten Commandments are His law, but the Commandments don’t actually mean what they say; and sometimes the Bible doesn’t mean what it says. Instead of what the Bible says, we are to go by theological or cultural interpretations.

This carries duplicity one step further, by supposedly accepting God, the Bible and the Ten Commandments, but just ignoring what they say.

Again a prime example of this is the Sabbath. That’s the one Commandment that Christians remember probably more than any other, yet it’s the one they are most determined to break.

The Sabbath Commandment is very detailed and explicit.

Exo 20:8-11 (WEB)
8) “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9) You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
10) but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;
11) for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

Notice the specificity – “Remember the Sabbath day.” Sabbath is not just any day. Sabbath refers to a specific day. If you say, “Hey, I’ll see you Friday!” That’s not just any day. That’s Friday.

And the Sabbath day is not just any day. It means the Sabbath. In the Bible, that’s the only day that has a name. All other days of the week were just numbered, one through six.

That fact alone shows the special position of the Sabbath.

Sabbath came after those other six ordinary, unnamed days and in contrast to them, it had a name –

Sabbath!

The Sabbath Commandment refers back to creation, when Yahweh made heaven and earth in six days and then rested the seventh day. There is no doubt about which day is to be kept holy.

Some say the Commandment does not mean the Sabbath but means any one day in seven. You can set your own Sabbath day, by choosing whichever day you want. You are as God, setting good and evil.

In reality, though, only one day of the week is chosen as their sabbath. That day is the first day of the week, the day that Constantine the sun worshiper enshrined in the Roman Church. Again, this day is not even named in the Bible. It’s just one of those ordinary, nameless days, that first day.

That’s like the comedy movie Galaxy Quest, where crewman number 6 said “…my character isn’t important enough for a last name, because I’m gonna die, five minutes in.” That’s Sunday, the most important day in sun worship religions around the world, but not even important enough to be given a name in the Bible.

Why would God replace the Sabbath, which remembers the Creator from His the time of His creation, with the pagan sun worship holy day?

He wouldn’t.

How do we know that?

Simple. Because that’s not what He said. There is no Bible commandment making Sunday holy.

Yahweh God spoke that fourth Commandment with His own voice, wrote that Commandment on stone with His own finger, and has that Commandment, along with the other nine, in the Ark of the Covenant at His throne.

In speaking and writing the Commandment, Yahweh was very careful to be precisely specific about which day He made holy. God was so careful in His elucidation of the Sabbath that the Sabbath Commandment is the longest of the Ten. He is a meticulous lawyer. After all, it is His law. But He is a good lawyer.

And you thought there weren’t any!

Again the point here is theology teaches that the Bible does not mean what it says, as with the Sabbath. And if the Bible does not mean what it says,  then who says what it means?

Somebody besides God.

This technique of claiming obedience to the Bible while ignoring what it says reaches much farther than just the fourth Commandment. For example, the Bible is explicit in the role that God gave women in this life –  to be submissive wives and loving mothers. They are not to teach men. Yet in this end time world, what the Bible says about women is ignored by almost all who claim to follow the Bible.

Including all women preachers.

This is now being carried one step further, when all the Bible says about Sodom is being reinterpreted with a ‘different cultural standard.’ Sodom is continually cited throughout the Bible as the epitome of evil, in Genesis plus fifteen other books! Yet teachers claiming to follow the Bible brazenly ignore what it actually says about Sodom.

So the difference between Christ’s flock and Satan’s mob is the same as the difference between Christ and Satan. Christ obeyed the Ten Commandments. Satan disobeyed them. Christ’s flock obeys the Ten Commandments. Satan’s mob disobeys them. It was Satan – not Christ! –  who came to destroy the Ten Commandments.

So that makes it easy, right? Don’t worry about the devil deceiving you, as long as you believe in obeying the Commandments.

But the sneaky snake is so tricky that they think they’re following the light, when they head straight into darkness. And this includes those who think they are obeying the Ten Commandments.

Sabbath keepers, for example –

They who acknowledge the fourth Commandment, yet they often come to the point where they think that with their advanced Bible knowledge, they have new truth about the Sabbath. This new truth leads them to do the same things that Sabbath breakers do. They do commerce, play games, take trips – you know, just focusing on all the things they’re interested in. About all they do differently than Sabbath breakers is go to church for a couple hours on the seventh day.

Here’s new truth.

If you’re doing the same things on Sabbath that Sabbath breakers do, you’re not keeping the Sabbath, either.

All of this comes from overruling God. Just taking His word and then overruling it with human reason. Remember the terrible penalty when Eve and Adam overruled God, by taking His words and reinterpreting them.  When Eve listened to Satan and ate the forbidden fruit, she overruled God. She considered what God said, she considered what Satan said, she considered what she thought, and in her very best judgment she overruled God. That broke the first Commandment and condemned the whole human race to death.

It’s not a light thing to overrule God.

See how tricky Satan is? Satan gets followers who are indubitably convinced – in their hearts! – that they are doing right. How does Satan do that?

With the belief that Yahweh does not exist, or that He sent His Son to destroy the Ten Commandments, or that the Bible often doesn’t really mean what it says?

With these three tricks, Satan has speared countless multitudes with the fiery darts of the wicked.

But there is a fourth way that Satan will draw followers – most of the world! – who are sure they’re doing good.

That fourth way is by sitting in the temple of God, doing miracles like God, claiming to be God on earth.

This one is yet to be seen, but it’s coming. And when you see things that are hard to understand, remember –

Christ’s flock obeys the Ten Commandments.

Satan’s mob disobeys them.