Last night, which is at the beginning of the year 2024, a woman came to our home at our invitation, who turned out to be in enormous need. The woman behaved strangely, but the love of the god was there for salvation. Unfortunately she did not respond and then went away. In the morning, when I woke up, the god's presence was so strong, so great, it had not gone away, as if last night we had been at a great assembly of the god, which it also was, even if this was not easily understood. Then I realized that the god's presence cannot be privatized by the so-called churches. Because although I have repeated hundreds, if not thousands of times this truth, that the god is everywhere, and that where two or three are in the name of Jesus, there he also is among them, somehow the idea had escaped me that these people — the leaders — want to privatize the god's presence, constantly explaining how a person had to go to church, choose one for himself, and similar fables.
Why do they do this? The simple answer is monetization of the god's presence, and the use of the god for their glory and benefit. And once already entered into their institution, you lose all rights to do that for which you have been called by the god. So, they neither allow you to serve the god outside their palaces of darkness, nor inside.
Therefore my advice is, never listen to the pastors and the priests when they want to enslave you to their own will. Because Jesus truly died and was three days in the grave and on the third day came alive, but this is not a truth locked for the pulpit and a prerogative of their papal authority, but the freedom and responsibility of everyone to serve the god always and everywhere.
Various examples
Let me continue and let us specify more “details”. Let us take the separate religious activities which take part in the modern church "service of the god” and what is written in the Bible. If you want me to quote to you from the Bible, which I have known well for a long time, how one acts during a wedding, what prayers are offered, what the ceremonies are, then I cannot, because in the Bible there is lacking any information whatsoever on the question. The lord goes to a wedding together with his disciples, which consists of a celebration, the famous one, yes, when he turns the water into wine. But there is nothing about some prayers, worship services, anointings, or whatever else.
And on the third day a wedding celebration took place in Cana in Galilee. And the mother of Yesus was there. And Yesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the wedding. And because the wine ran out, the mother of Yesus says to him:
– They have no wine.
Yesus says to her:
– What is there between us [two], woman? My hour has not yet come.
His mother says to the servants:
– Whatever he says to you, do.
And there were there six stone vessels [for water] placed according to the purification of the Judeans, which contained two or three metreti each (one metretes is about 39.5 L.). Yesus says to them:
– Fill the vessels with water.
And they filled them to the top. And he says to them:
– Now draw and carry to the head of the celebration. And when the head of the celebration tasted the water become /*/ wine, and did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew, the head of the celebration calls the bridegroom and speaks to him:
– Every man puts first the good wine /on the table/ and when they get somewhat drunk then the lower-quality one; you have kept the good wine until now.
This beginning of the signs Yesus performed in Cana in Galilee and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him. After this he went down to Capernaum — he and his mother and his brothers, and his disciples — and they remained there not many days.
John ch. 2
The people have a celebration. From this you cannot make “joining in marriage” as a “priestly function”. The priest stands and prays and then “the incredible happens”, because of his prayer the people are married correctly, according to the god, but if they have only “a civil marriage”, then this is not correct — complete nonsense! Completely unbiblical! If only because you like the religious ceremony you allow yourself to self-deceive that this is the god's will and a prerogative of the priestly “job description”, then forget knowing the god as he himself commands you. Because you go to the council, in order to legalize your marriage before the state, so that the laws of the state can have effect, such as inheritance, adoption, care for the children and whatever else there, and not because this is your joining in marriage. It happens before the god! Period. But even the people who do not know the god have a right given by the god to marriage.
The envoy of the god Paulos, who wrote a large part of the letters to the assemblies, says that “this mystery (marriage) is great”, but gives no instructions to “sacredly perform joining in marriage”. Anyone can try to fool you, supposedly that there are verses which he will show you, and supposedly he shows you such, but if you look carefully, there is not even the slightest elementary resemblance between the verse and what they want it to say. But then how is a person to marry? Normally, according to the requirements of the state, that is it. Marriage begins with the given word, it is an oath. The need for witnesses is so that the given document may have witness testimony that it is real, and not because this changes anything before the god. Orthodox church, Catholic, Protestant, whatever they may be, are religious inventions and if you participate in them, you will deceive yourself, your husband/wife, your future children, your friends, your relatives, (about two hundred people at least), the people in your church, and possibly still more people, if you are a more known person.
And “joining in marriage” is only one of the many activities which can be examined in the light of the word, illuminated and demonstrated as false religious activities, which deceive people that this pleases the god and helps you for his blessing. For example in the case it would be not only a long-lasting, but also an “eternal” marriage, “until death separates us”.
One specific case is the Romani “joining in marriage”. Since they want to marry truly as children (according to most countries' standards), they cannot go to sign in the municipality. Romani fathers very often seem to stop at a given moment fulfilling their obligations and the children remain either without a father, or are given, at least part of them, for adoption in the “institutions”. This vicious circle seems as never-ending among them. Since I know not a few of them, I can claim that I know some basic problems of Romani existence. And the solution is that they must study in school in their own language. This is the true solution of the problem.
I have been abroad without good knowledge of the language, I have also been with good knowledge of the language, the difference is enormous. A person who in his own language studies the basic subjects, and above all the Bible, which is the most important subject for a child, if it is taught to him with faith and understanding of the spiritual, this is what will take the Romani community out of the “enchanted circle” of marginalization. Why does the state not do it? Because the state does not teach the Bible, and also for the so-called “political reasons”. Because if the Turks begin to study in Turkish, according to the state it is possible “at some point that they want to separate and gather together with their Turkish relatives or want autonomy”. Or the Romani to want autonomy. Of course nobody wants his state to be “divided”. But otherwise we have thousands of Turks and Roma who have serious problems, especially the Roma. And what do the Romani pastors do? Nothing, they simply preach. And the child needs to be able to read the Bible during his childhood, and more than once. He needs mathematics in Romani, Romani grammar, a Romani Bible, a Romani primer, so that he can learn Bulgarian.
(Because if you know well any one language whatsoever, afterward it is easy to add another one, I say this from experience. And if you are not clear what a noun is, how will you learn grammar, especially a foreign one?)
This will make the children understand life, which is the most important thing. And then they will stop wanting to marry at the age at which the other Bulgarian children play football, study languages, educate themselves, in general develop, in order to become citizens of society. This is a prerogative of the state, but the state often does not understand clearly its obligations toward all citizens. The equal-rights treatment toward children commands that they be able to study in their familiar, mother language, all subjects, and naturally to study Bulgarian. Because now it is different-righted. And the first who must take up this problem are the servants of the god, but so far they show no interest at all, because the state refuses to allow education in Turkish or Romani. But the state cannot stop (nor would it do so) the children from being taught by the sacred-servants, who are the parents who have believed, and from teaching them everything in their own language. This is natural. But how can you teach someone, if you yourself do not know and do not even have a desire to strain yourself?
Let us return to all religious leaders and their desperate practices. Why do they do all this: to baptize children and babies, to join in marriage, to bury, to celebrate all kinds of unbiblical holidays, to pray for the dead, to pray to the “saints”, to offer inciense, to make themselves something greater than the rest, to sprinkle “holy-water” on things, to throw and take crosses out of water, to harass people with tithes, with lifelong going to church on Sunday, with lording, but in a very political light with greasy words, but do not do the commanded thing, that we are brothers, that is, equal, and that the servants are slaves, servants of the brothers?
The lord especially explains that we should beware of the leaven of Pharisaism and similar things, which are hypocrisy (or double-facedness). What does this mean? Exactly what we are examining: people who in the name of the god do things which the the god has not commanded them, but do not do the things which he has commanded them, this is the problem. Because not only do they join in marriage, but they “allow” up to four divorces (the Orthodox), the Protestants show full tolerance with one divorce, even though the the god has forbidden it completely. So, leaders divorce constantly and if the Catholic ones do not divorce, it is only because they have never married. Because marriage is a constant responsible cohabitation, and sometimes it may be not easy at all. Only if you truly love with the god's love, not with yours, then you can endure “until death separates you”. And when I say endure, I do not mean in front of the television, but living reasonably before the god and for his glory.
Exit
Before everything, the things of the god should not be explained with worldly devices. The things of the god are explained as the spiritual is compared with the spiritual. What does this mean? It means that a person must have learned that nothing from the world can help him to know the god and Jesus, who is our salvation. The only thing is the god's word and the holy spirit. Only and solely, and nothing else. Jesus died for our transgressions before the god, was three days in the tomb, and on the third day came alive from the dead, and appeared to many witnesses, some of whom also write books with their testimonies. If someone believes in these facts, if he repents for his transgressions before the god (every person is a transgressor before the god in the spiritual), if he is immersed in water in the name of Jesus the anointed son of the god, if he receives the holy spirit, if he understands the Bible well and keeps holiness, love, goodness, hospitality, brotherly-love, hates lording, loves godliness, cares for the weak, this person is a mature person in the faith, he can care for the god's assembly, if he has proved that he can care for his home. Such must be the people whom you appoint for yourselves as elders, and not to allow unknown persons to come from the States, or from the synod, or from Greece and appoint for you people who will be interested in and will defend the interests of the institution, and not yours in the spiritual.
But in the Bible it is written about ordination, someone will say! How so?! Well, this opens the question about the translations. Your translations are corrupted, they are translated in such a way that “their authority” looks legal. This is laid down still from Jerome, from the reformers, from the Catholics, from the Orthodox, from everyone. The important thing is that there be religious institutions. Remember that the assembly of the god is not a religious institution. It does nothing which requires institutionalizing. They, however, do, because they collect donations and “command the parade”, without it having been given to them from the sky.
The word which “they” translate as ordain in Acts ch. 13, choose (cheirotoneo), and one of its forms with a prefix is katacheirotoneo means: I vote for a death penalty, I vote against someone. And the verb itself means: I choose by raising a hand. And this is the only place, there is no other, which is in context of choosing elders.
One question: who chose the seven who served at tables and performed miracles? The people, that is the truth. Hands were laid on them only after they had been chosen. Thus are chosen leaders who do not command, but help, because they understand the spiritual. And today's leaders cannot distinguish anything. Like blind men who lead blind men. So, the laying on of hands chooses nobody. Timotheos had a task from Paulos to appoint for them servants from those who fulfill some long lists, which I partially quoted. Gifts can be transmitted from person to person, only if you have them. But authority you cannot transmit with ordination, because authority comes from the god, that is, it does not depend on the choice of people, and authority is given for building up, and not for commanding. Nobody can teach the others for a salary. God's assembly is a mystery, a spiritual mystery, and cannot be marginalized to papal dictatorships, as is every church whatsoever today throughout the whole world by condition. Therefore the world is in such a desperate condition, because it has been ruled by religious dictators for so much time, without it having been given to them from heaven, without them having deserved it, simply through deception. Both Catholics, and Protestants, and Orthodox. Spiritual authority is spiritual for this reason, because it is founded on love and brotherly-love, and not on the religious dictatorships.
And love and the spiritual are everywhere, as the god also is everywhere. Because the the god wants his word to be taught everywhere, because where his word is, there is also his spirit. And what more suitable place for this than the homes of the Christians? There the god wants to be, there his son Jesus the anointed, the lord, also wants to be. He wants his word to be in the homes of his children. He wants the gifts to be in the homes of his children. He wants if someone enters into the home of the Christians, to repent and to believe. He wants the children of the Christians to live in his presence in their own homes (examined a little further on).
But today's Christians are meager in love. Otherwise they would not flow in multitudes into these places which are so meager in love, such as the organizations called with the resounding name “churches”, even though they are not. Because the word church, even though it is a terrible translation, always in the Bible means only and solely us believers, and not the religious institutions, (as is for example the synagogue, or the Islamic mosque). Only us! And the correct translation, however much “they” may not want it, is assembly.
Where is the god's presence? In today's time there are two denominations which practically completely have forgotten what this is: Catholics, Orthodox and some Protestants. They know only some things such as the peace of the god (relatively) and the god's word, but not the face of the god, his glory. And where is it? It is in the speaking of his word and the doing of his word without “interpretations”, without evasions, without deceptions, without “facilitations”. There is the god. But the contemporary leaders do not want the believers to gather believers in their homes and to become independent, to speak the word, to save both their homes, and neighbors, and whoever wants to be saved, and they want to monetize everything for themselves.
Thus the Christians, because they are weak in faith and in love, instead of suffering for the truth and being rejected by religion, submit to double-facedness and begin to invest their efforts in the dictatorship of the ignoble. Because the ignoble unjustly claim that the god has commanded them to go to church. And this is a lie. The god has commanded the Christians to gather, which means that in your home, if you are Christians, you gather, and if they are not, then you can go to some Christian close to you to pray together and if you want you can see whoever you want in the lord, without anyone having any rights to tell you whatever, except the prophets and the messengers, who speak in the name of the god truth from the sky (but if they speak about churches, they are probably false or deceived, or both). Consequently, the work of the elders is, as Simon Stone went around all, so also he is to care that the Christians grow in the true teaching and in the true spiritual, without religious double-facedness. These are the true shepherds, without exceptions.