Do you want to please God?

Apostle Dr. Gabriel Sanchez Velazquez and his wife
the Apostle Esther

“And the anointing oil and the sweet incense for the holy place. According to all that I have commanded you they shall do.”  Exodus 31:11

When looking in the Bible at the outstanding characteristics of Noah, Abraham, or Moses, we see that they were sustained in the presence of the Lord. It is that they were willing to do all that God had commanded them. This is the faithfulness that God asks of his people today.

But also the History of the People of Israel, led by their kings and religious leaders, is a painful succession of acts of disobedience to the precepts of the Lord.

To fall in false creeds, institute secret rites, raise idols, or serve the sun, moon and the stars; has been the twisted paths that the sons of God have fallen in over and over again.

To revert to the spells, that uncontainable ramification of spiritism and magic, has in the same way been fatal traps for many souls.

It was the year 740 years before Jesus Christ when the people of Israel presented a clinical picture of extreme spiritual prostration that in a few days later would drag them to national destruction, the fall of Jerusalem, and the destruction of the Temple. But, why would a pagan people be able to defeat the people of God? Why would an army of unclean people put the Temple of Jehovah of the heavenly hosts on fire? Was Israel the chosen people of God or not?

Yes, it was. But all that the people had received from God and that was contained in the Holy Scriptures, had been painfully mixed with the wicked paganism. These were the days of the prophet Hosea. Hosea was a contemporary of the prophets Amos and Isaiah. Hosea primarily prophesized to the kingdom of the north, called Israel, when Jeroboam II was the king. While Jerusalem was the capital of Judah, it was governed during this time by: Uzziah, Jotham, Acaz, and Hezekiah.

II Kings 17:12 says: “For they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, ‘You shall not do this thing.’”

We note that Israel could not remove itself from the religious customs of the people among which it lived. Despite knowing the living and powerful God, they continued serving the mute idols of the peoples that surrounded them.

What was this? RELIGIOUS SYNCRETISM. Add the pathetic and no less sad declaration of II Kings 17:33: “They feared the Lord, yet served their own gods--according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away.”

Abandon the Babylonian celebration of Christmas? Don’t even think about it! Many say that this would signify the end of all social relationships, and even more the family relationships. It is like going against the current.

Abandon the babylonian celebration of Christmas

And this is true, but is necessary. God honors those who honor Him. You should take a step of faith. Turn your back on the Christmas festivities, hold fast to the Lord and his Word, and great spiritual blessings will be added to your life.

Habakkuk and Zephaniah were contemporary prophets. Zephaniah brought to Israel a message in the year 630 before Christ: THE DAY OF THE WRATH OF JEHOVAH IS NEAR. Why? Because the Jews of this time had mixed their faith in God with the Babylonian idolatry. We see that Zephaniah 1:5 declares: “Those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops; those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord, but who also swear by Milcom.”

Today there are those who with spiritual levity and irresponsibility of conscience like to talk of “friendship” and “good will” as being part of all types of pagan Christmas parties. The posadas and the winter nights are a platform for all types of disorderly passions, and there also are the Christians joining in together.

The prophet Samuel, after 50 years of faithful service to God and his people, around the year 1112 B.C., when he was already in his old age was moved by the Holy Spirit to call the people to account, because even when they knew the power of God, they had not renounced their idolatrous customs. He gave them this message, which is the message that the Church in this generation needs to receive. The message is registered in I Samuel 7:3-4: “If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines. So the children of Israel put away the Baals and Ashtoreths, and served the Lord only.”

Do you want to please God? Do you desire to be part of the people of God that live and work for the restoration of all the things in the Church? Do what that generation of Israelites with Samuel did, who renounced all vestiges of idolatry. It eliminated all religious mixing and only served the living God.

We have had people with a closed heart that have refused to consider this message of restoration. But in our offices in all the countries where the Philadelphia Christian Community has arrived with the message of restoration, we have countless and moving testimonies of Christians who for years were tied to the Babylonian traditions and saw the celebration of Christmas as a burdensome weight that had to be carried on their shoulders all their lives. When they received the message of restoration, they demolished the Christmas idols and now pass the month of December, resting, in peace with their families, seeking the face of God, without compulsive shopping or irrational debts.

Contemplate a natural Christmas tree at the end of the year, and you will see it dried up. It is dead. “It is a cadaver” and represents Tammuz who is dead, the Babylonian legend saying that he was attacked by a group of wild pigs. But ask yourself: How are the souls of those who are stuck to Babylonian traditions? They are also dried up or dead. In these people there is not a true move of the Holy Spirit.

In the prophetic clock of God, everything has its time. Already in the XVI century with the Religious Reformation the alarm had been sounded for those that have a hunger for God. The message of Revelation 18:4 has been a faithful and constant message since then until today. The Lord says: "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities."

Thanks to God that millions are counted of those who have left Rome, the "Great Babylon", the Babylon of mysteries, among those mysteries, the most important: The Mystery of the Religious Mixing.  Now the only thing lacking for these Christians is that they are willing that Babylon and all its abominations is taken out of their hearts.