John 19:28-30
King James Version
28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Cliff Hanging Christianity
Have you ever watched a movie or read a book that ended in a cliffhanger?
The cliffhanger in literature or a movie has a purposeful manipulative effect making the viewer or reader more likely to purchase the soon upcoming book or movie sequel to see how the story might end.
The cliffhanger is the manipulation of the author to sell more in a series of books or movies for financial gain.
A story whether fiction or non-fiction is left unfinished for marketing purposes, it is market manipulation, and it works quite well.
Stories and movies made to entertain or amuse might be good places for the use of manipulative cliffhanging… but not the good news of the Gospel of Christ.
The good news of the finished work of Christ on the cross was never left as a cliffhanger in scripture, quite to the contrary.
In the dying words of the Savior came the words “it is finished,” there was no cliffhanger, the final words left His mouth …. There was nothing left to do or say, it had been done HE said His work and our salvation had been accomplished……. It was over…..finished forever.
What was the finality and end of the salvation experience was converted by the religious manipulators to give them the opportunity to sell sequels to the finished story.
What was (and is) the finished good news was converted to an ongoing false religious narrative for the sake of filthy lucre, and it has proven quite beneficial to those cliffhanging religionists who have prostituted the finished work to make multitudes dependant upon themselves and their ungodly man-made systems.
The purposeful manipulative cliffhanging produced by the pulpit prostitutes has grown to be a major religious financial empire while offering an unfinished lie in place of the finished truth of the finished work of Christ.
Fasting forward through history we see the devastation of the wickedness of man-made religion, the struggles between the divided bodies arguing over doctrines of their own creation denying the finished work Christ had performed.
The books were written, and the authors made fortunes telling others their particular version of “how to be saved” when salvation has already been accomplished by the precious bleeding Christ.
Each divisive denomination proclaimed itself to be correct and the others incorrect by default, while each denied the finished work of Christ.
As religion merged with its Antichrist counterpart of politics it fueled bloody wars, people were torn to shreds while living, all in the name of the peaceful Christ who had never shed blood.
The cliffhanging wickedness of man-made religion provided the Satanic psychological warfare which has served its antichrist master through the years, dividing brothers and sisters into feuding juvenile offsprings instead of the mighty army of God.
The manipulative cliffhanging religions have successfully reduced the soldiers of the cross to cowards hiding behind stained glass man-created structures falsely called churches.
The rightful soldiers of the cross have been indoctrinated by religious liars and are still trying to accomplish what only Christ could and HAS accomplished.
The devastating effects of religious Satanic psychological warfare have crippled victims to the point of weakness and incompletion… ongoing lifelong struggling to accomplish what Christ and ONLY Christ could and did accomplish.
Consequently, we see the devastation religious deception has caused and continues to cause. This is the great falling way described in scripture, and it is indeed great in magnitude and damage.
The good news of the finished work was turned into the deception of unfinished bad news by the antichrist religions, but God is not finished.
As the Father is restoring the body of Christ many are being drawn from the false religions and back to Christ….. Religion is losing deceived followers as the Father reveals the finished work of Christ.
Are you still struggling to be saved? When will you know that you have completed your salvation? What religious measuring device will you use to determine when you have bought your salvation?
Will you ask your Pastor if you have passed his or her religious requirements to be saved?
Will you ask the fellow sinner in the little booth you are confessing to if you have said enough Hail Marys?
Will you seek approval from your denominational governing body to approve your salvation?
Have you paid enough in unscriptural tithing to have bought your salvation?
Have you sent enough money to your favorite TV guru to assure your salvation?
IF your salvation was not finished by Christ on the cross WHEN AND HOW WILL IT BE?
Are you the body of Christ, or of the deceived religious serving the divisive system instead of Christ?
Are you being awakened by the living God or being allowed to slumber in dead religion?
Are you being called from the harlot church system or going down with it?
Are you content to remain in religious manipulation, or ready to proclaim and live in the finished work of Christ?
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