welcome to a special program called deadly accusers of the Brethren which is
about satanic attacks on God's church the key chapter we're going to focus on
is Revelation chapter 12 the very first verse of chapter 12 says this and there
appeared a great wonder in heaven a woman clothed with the Sun and the moon
under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars this woman represents
God's church the last verse in the same chapter Revelation chapter 12 says this
4:17 and the dragon was wroth or angry with the woman and went to make war with
the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of God and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ this remnant of the woman symbolizes God's remnant
Church in the last days who keep the Ten Commandments and who followed Jesus
Christ revelation 12:17 says that the dragon representing the devil is making
war on God's remnant Church now one of the ways that he does this is described
in verse 10 which is really the focus of this program verse 10 says I heard a
loud voice saying in heaven now is come salvation and strength and the Kingdom
of our God and the power of his Christ referring to Jesus Christ for the
accuser of our brethren who accused them before our God day and night is cast
down this verse speaks of the accuser of the Brethren obviously the primary
accuser is the devil himself the term brethren applies to our
brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ who are part of God's church the Bible says
that Satan is the accuser of the Brethren he he hates the Brethren he is
at war with the Brethren he tempts the Brethren to sin and
sometimes he is successful and then he turns right around as as a devil does
and accuses them because of those very sins which he tempted them to commit he
does this the Bible says day and night seven days a week 52 weeks out of the
year accuse accuse accuse that's what Satan does unfortunately just as Satan
first tempted Eve to sin and then worked through Eve to attack Adam even so is
the devil at work today through human agents just like Eve to accuse the
Brethren some of you are familiar with a book called testimonies to ministers on
page 40 of this book this is what it says just one sentence Satan stands at
the head of all the accusers of the Brethren I'll read that again Satan
stands at the head of all the accusers of the Brethren now before I go any
further let me clarify something the remnant Church of Jesus Christ isn't
perfect far from it and there are times when God's remnant church and even its
leaders they do need to be corrected instructed and even rebuked and many
times God uses faithful Christians to do the correcting using Bible language we
might call these faithful Christians Watchmen on the walls of Zion but here's
a critical question as we get closer to Jesus Christ's soon return how can we
tell the difference between a true Watchmen on the walls of Zion and an
accuser of the Brethren isn't that a critical distinction an issue of
discernment for us let me share seven differences which I hope will be helpful
to you
true Watchmen obviously are led by Jesus Christ
whereas accusers of the Brethren are really inspired by the devil by Satan
himself as many as I love I rebuke and I Chasen the zealous therefore and repent
a true watchman who is truly led by the Holy Spirit will genuinely love the
Brethren just like Jesus Christ is Jesus is the lover of our souls
a true watchman really wants to help the Brethren he really cares about them and
about other people whereas an accuser of the Brethren he really doesn't care
about the Brethren at all his main interest is just to accuse them so we
need to look closely at people's attitudes and and through the
discernment of the Holy Spirit God will help us to tell the difference
between true watchmen and the accusers in verse 1 Jesus tells us all he says
judge not and that you be not judged in verse 3 he says why do you behold the
mote that is in your brother's eye and you do not consider the beam that is in
your own eye or how will you say to your brother let me pull out the mote out of
your eye and behold there is a beam in your own eye you hypocrite first cast
out the beam out of your own eye and then you will see clearly to cast out
the mote out of your brother's eye Jesus is that revealing a principle here true
watchman examine their own hearts first and they correct themselves before they
try to correct others in other words they are people that the Lord is really
working with to make them humble they are also daily learning of Jesus who is
meek and lowly in heart jesus said that in matthew 11 that that's what he is
whereas accusers of the Brethren they are generally
I say generally clueless about their own sins in their own hearts and their own
blind spots they engage in little self-examination as a result they can
easily become proud arrogant and self-righteous in 1st Corinthians
chapter 13 we have Paul's great chapter about love the great love chapter it's
very powerful when we should be reading this a lot in verse 6 Paul said that
true love rejoices not in iniquity but rejoices in the truth when a true
watchman sees sin in another member of God's church he is not happy about it
he doesn't rejoice about this instead it pains his heart whereas an accuser of
the Brethren rejoices in iniquity and he delights in discovering some new new
juicy sin in the brethren accusers of the brethren may produce a video about
those sins that they've discovered or they may write articles or book or host
a website sometimes they do it to get donations for their ministry or to make
money but their motives are not pure their motives are wrong they do these
things to profit from the sins of the Brethren and this is not a good sign
I heard a loud voice saying in heaven now is come salvation and strength and
the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our
brethren has been cast down or is cast down now notice that one little word our
the word our describes heavens perspective this is talking about what
heaven sees and heaven uses the word our and that's the same perspective of the
true watchman in other words they realize true watchman realized that
their brothers and sisters in God's church which applies to leadership - are
their own brethren that we are all part of God's family and they seek unity like
Jesus told us to pray to pray for in John chapter 17
they seek unity with their brethren but accusers of the Brethren they don't see
this at all they have an us-versus-them mentality
it's not our brethren it's just the Brethren and again there there really is
no love there's no humility and there's no real concern for the leadership or
the people in God's church
in mark chapter 4 Jesus tells parables to the multitude he talks to the masses
verse 1 talks about a great multitude who gathered to hear him and then in
verse 34 it says that when Jesus was alone it says when they were alone
referring for referring to Christ in his disciples he expounded all things to his
disciples when they were alone this tells us that to Jesus there were some
things that were for the multitude for the masses but there were other things
and Jesus wanted specifically to tell to his church to his disciples alone now
think about this if if people or or even leaders in God's church do commit sins
do you think that Jesus Christ wants those sins to be made public before an
unbelieving world think about Joseph the husband of Mary in Matthew chapter 1
verse 18 and 19 there's a very instructive lesson for us in verse 18 it
says before the birth of Jesus Christ when as his mother Mary was espoused to
Joseph before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit now
this tells us that when Joseph who was engaged to Mary first found out that his
his bride-to-be it was pregnant this didn't look very good to him his first
thought was that Mary had committed a wicked sin with another man but he still
loved her so what did he do did he expose Mary publicly before the world
well verse 19 is very instructive verse 9 verse 19 says then Joseph her husband
being a just man and not willing to make her a public example was minded to put
her away privately and then he had a dream
we're an angel of God told him that Mary had conceived from the Holy Spirit and
that he should take her as his wife but my point is in verse 19 because joseph
the bible says was a just man he didn't want to he didn't want to expose her sin
publicly before the world so he decided to put her away
privately now there's a big lesson for us in this as we get closer to the end
of time Watchmen on the walls of Zion if they really love God's church they won't
take the private sins of the Brethren and make them public before an
unbelieving world but accusers of the Brethren they will do that and they will
do so greedily back to this little book testimonies to ministers on page 36
there's a very powerful sentence and this is what it says it was a betrayal
of sacred trust to take that which Jesus designed it should be kept secret and
publish it to others and bring upon the cause of truth reproach and injury the
Lord doesn't want the cause of truth to be injured in one of the ways it can be
injured is by taking the sins of the Brethren and publishing them in front of
an unbelieving world
revelation 14 which is the wonderful chapter about the three angels messages
which are messages which the remnant church has been called by God to give to
the world this reveals what our work should be in these last days our primary
work verse 6 says I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven having the
everlasting gospel to preach to them who dwell upon the earth to every nation
kindred tongue and people true Watchmen while there are times when
God does use them to correct his church or to warn other believers in the church
about errors which have entered his church true Watchmen still have one
primary mission and that mission is to give the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ
to a lost in a dying world and to teach God's endtime truths to
those who are deceived out there not so with the accusers of brethren their main
focus is to take a guess it's the brethren and their sins so they can
accuse them but God wants us to primarily focus on the mission of giving
the three angels messages to the world and if we do that God will support us
and he'll bless us and by the way part of our mission is to reach out to the
accusers of the Brethren to because believe it or not Jesus Christ loves
them also and he wants to save their souls and he wants to use them in his
work just like he wants to use all of us revelation 12 verse 10 back to our key
chapter verse 10 says I heard a loud voice saying in heaven and this voice
coming from heaven reveals Evans perspective now is come salvation and
strength and the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser
of our brethren who accused them before our God day and
night has been cast down I'll close with Revelation chapter 12 verse 17 the last
verse which says that the dragon representing the devil was wroth or
angry with the woman representing God's church and he went to make war here's
the final war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of God
and have the testimony of Jesus Christ brothers and sisters this is not the
time to join the dragons war against the remnant or against our brethren instead
let's make war against the dragon himself
let's make war on the right in the right place war on the devil and against his
deceptions and let's do it in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ