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I believe that in the visionary dream, "This is My Body", that the dark rectangular hole in the wall of the Roman Catholic Church, represented hidden foundational Truth, concerning God's relational Covenant He established in Holy Communion with His People of Faith.  Our fellowship in the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ should bring a separation from sin, and establish His holiness within His people of Faith.  Unfortunately, that which is absolutely Holy unto YHVH Yahweh God, remains covered and concealed throughout the centuries, by the Roman Church's ritualistic traditions, augmented by the mystery of the language within the Latin Mass, being compounded with the literary ignorance of the people of the pews.  Furthermore, the cultural form of Romanism infiltrated Christianity during the Constantine era, being maintained by the control of the elitist priesthood through the apostolic Magisterium, and strengthened by the pride of the papacy.  The political intrigue of Rome, led the people into centuries of un-repented idolatress sin, while the church proselytized the empire through ruthless force and intimidation, all in the Name of God.  Despite the errors of confusion, God's Salvation Grace through the Spirit of Christ Jesus was manifested to the many through Yahweh's Spirit of TRUTH that is ONE IN Yeshua/Jesus.

In order to maintain their position of power and control, Rome with its Church gradually enforced their formulated traditions to offset their breeches to the Word of Yahweh.  The man made traditions of the Roman Church, were established by the authority of the Magisterium, and in many cases they were given precedence over the inspired Word of God, hence the Scriptures became subject to the Roman Church's doctored interpretation.  With the backing of Rome, the now Roman Church seized an exclusivity of religious power, that enabled the Roman Church to rule by fear through intimidation, and also to abrogate portions of the Law of God, contained in the Ten Commandments.  My Covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My Lips. (See God's  Covenant Promise to David Psalm 89 verse 19 thru 34.)  Neither the Roman Church nor any other church, has the right to alter the core substance of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Commandments pertaining to God's protection order to his subjects. (Please see The Law, a Quagmire of Confusion.)

First Commandment: I AM the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondageThou shall have none other gods before Me.

Second Commandment is fixed to the First, as are all of the Commandments: Thou shall not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: Thou shall not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them:  For I the LORD thy God, AM a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that Love Me and keep My Commandments.

Third Commandment: Thou shall not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain: For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes His Name in vain.  God's Name is not god, but be very careful of any license that is within human vanity.  Bad manners breeds bad manners.

Fourth Commandment: Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God has Commanded thee.  Six days thou shall labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: In it thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. 

Jesus, the undefiled Word of God says:  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least Commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. (See Matthew 5 verse 18 thru 20.) The Apostle Paul in his writings to the Romans says: Do we make void the Law through Faith: God forbids. Yes we establish the Law. For the Law is Holy, and the Commandments Good, Holy and Just. (Romans 3 verse 31, and 7 verse 12.) James, the younger half brother of Jesus through Joseph and Mary, says in his epistle: For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend  in one point, he is guilty of all(See James 2 verse 9 thru 10.)  The idolatry of the flesh of fallen man, will seek to have its own way, and man's idolatry mired in self has displaced the Good, Holy and Just Rule of Almighty God. Therefore, the little gods of the Roman Church, as well of the Protestant Churches of superior understanding, needs to hear and then repent of their self idolatry, for the Lord God Almighty has said: Thou shall have none other gods before Me.

Not withstanding the above gross errors, the visionary dreams that have been presented in this website, are of the Spirit of God, and have revealed that Communion is of God's Holy Spirit of Grace and is not a vain tradition established by religious men.  The people of Faith that Love Yahweh God Almighty have each become members in the True Bread of Heaven that came down to become the Son of Adam, for Jesus the Man, gave His Life Blood for the dead of this world.  The New Covenant Communion Blood of Jesus Christ, being one with the Holy Spirit of God, is a Living Sacrifice that sustains Life for all of the saved members within the Body of Christ, past and present.  For by One Spirit are we all baptized into One Body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, [Catholics or Protestants], and have been all made to drink into One Spirit(1st  Corinthians 12 verse 13.) The Life of the One Body of Jesus Christ is in His Life Giving Blood, for the Spirit of Holy God Almighty provides the cleansing Life of Christ in Holy Communion that enables the members of our High Priest to come into His Father Yahweh God's Holy Presence.  No one comes to the Father but by Me, says the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE.

To the Roman Catholic Church's credit, they have rightly maintained the essential Essence of the Holy Spirit’s Presence in the Sacrament of Holy Communion, although their changeable liturgical doctrine is clouded over with the Church's rigid stance on transubstantiation, encumbered with its abundance of their attached anathemas.  Because of the false indoctrination of transubstantiation, the Roman Church for centuries, has withheld from the people of the pews, God's New Covenant in the Life giving Blood of God's Only Begotten Son, the Man Christ Jesus.  The Roman Church's self serving doctrine sets apart their priesthood, from the Lord's called people of faith, who sit in the pews of captivity. 

Unfortunately, unto this present day, the heart essentials of God's Covenant, sealed in the the Life Giving Blood of Jesus Christ, has been conceptually misunderstood throughout the whole of the Roman Church.  The relational knowledge in Holy Communion, through the administration of the Holy Spirit of God. is not conveyed to the people of the pews.  For centuries the New Covenant Blood of the Holy Life of Christ Jesus, has not been given to the laity for the remissions of their confessed sins, and provides God's cleansing freedom that releases the conscience from the condemnation of sin's rebellion. God New Covenant IN His Mercy is sanctified through God's Holy Spirit that is ONE in the Blood of Christ Jesus and is One IN the Covenant Body of the Savior of the world. 

The doctrines and traditions of men, with their multitude of anathemas, are contrary to the Love of God IN Christ Jesus, and have exchanged God's Perfect Love, for confusion that is maintained within the Vatican leadership.  In all of the confusion, the Roman Catholic Church has deemed that only their ordained hierarchal priests can offer this celebration of sacrifice to God.  The confusion was first generated by the powers of the air, and would eventuate in time into the Great Schism of 1054 that separated the Catholic Church of Rome from the Church of Eastern Orthodoxy. 

Now let me ask: If after the schism of the Apostolic Church in 1054, followed later by the protestant reformation, is then the Roman Catholic priesthood exclusive to God, in deference to the Orthodox priesthood of believers, or to the Lutheran priesthood of believers, or to the Anglican priesthood of believers or to the ecclesia of the pews, who are all called upon as members of the ONE Body of Christ to administer the Word of God in Holy Spirit Truth?  Is it even remotely possible that there could be an exclusive separate priesthood within the One Holy Body of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?  Nay, for we are all called to be One in Christ Jesus! 

For now through God's indwelling Holy Spirit, there is only the one priesthood of believers: For by one Spirit are we all baptized into One Body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into One Spirit.  For all believers have died in Christ Jesus victory over sin and death, and in our worship of the Almighty, we are all called to be ministers to God and to His Son's One Holy Body of believers. 

Even though this is true, all things of God should be done in good order.  Let the neophytes wait in patience as they grow in the Grace of God.  In the collective church Body of Christ, only those who are proven in the Spirit of faithfulness, should be set apart with the laying on of the hands of the people, to serve the Lord and His people in Spirit and Truth.  Those servants who have been set apart to administer to the people, will faithfully serve only God's designated provisions of unleavened bread and wine (fruit of the vine) that through God's Spirit of Grace are to become the Body and Life Blood of our High Priest Jesus/Yeshua, Who alone makes the only Entrance before Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty. (See John 4 verse 23 thru 24.)

Then again, how do you reason God's response to the following scenario?  If any universal cleric is caught up, or entangled in gross sin through unrepentant flesh, or his own unbelief, is his disciplined performance over the elements, the only call that will invoke the Lord's Presence in the unseen faith dimensions within the Bread and Wine, and the souls of men?  Scripture says: The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: But the prayer of the upright is His delight.  The way of the wicked is an abomination unto Adonai: But He Loves him, that follows after righteousness. (Proverbs 15 verse 8 thru 9.)  We can see from the Scripture, that idolatrous sin in conjunction with the flesh of man kind, does not come into the presence of Holy God Almighty, nor are the sacrifices of the unrepentant sinner acceptable as reparation to the only Living God. It is the believing soul that hears the Word of his Lord that is sanctified IN Christ Jesus.  Somewhere some one wrote: "Fear not the personal quality of the administrant, for the command and ordinance of Christ constitutes and makes efficacious the sacraments". (For incite see Ex opere operato.) 

There is agreement in this point: For the earthly provisions of the earthly are sanctified within the whole estate of Christ Jesus by His Word through God's Holy Spirit of Grace.  God's Love and Mercy is spoken within the hearing and the reception of the communicants of faith.   It is not the power or authority of the minister that sanctifies the Bread and the Wine, but it is the power and authority of the Holy Spirit of Father God, the Almighty, Who from the beginning is One with the undefiled spoken Word of Christ Jesus, and thus is One with the Life giving Blood of His Son, Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah.

However, if a person is known to have gross unrepentant sin, then they should be excluded from the Table of the Lord and set outside of the community until repentance is found in their humility of confession.  This injunction is also for the so called priest or otherwise.  Holy Just Lord God Almighty never justifies any sin or wickedness, but the Holiness of God judges sin for the death that it is. (See Exodus 23 verse 7.) Therefore, when we eat at the Lord's Holy Table of Grace with a known unrepented sinner, then we make ourselves accomplices to their sin by condoning their wickedness. (See 1st Corinthians 5 verses 1 thru 11.)

When all is said and done, the only sacrifice that is acceptable to the Holiness of God, is the Holy Sacrificial death of His Son, the Incarnate Man Jesus Christ.  With the Chagigah Offering for the sin of His people, by the innocent Man Christ Jesus, Yahweh God was well pleased IN the Son of Adam, and returned LIFE to His Holy WORD of TRUTH that is IN the Person of Yahweh's only begotten Son.  If we see ourselves as dead IN the death of the Man Christ Jesus, then IN Jesus' resurrection to LIFE, the believers are to emulate the Life of Christ of God.  In TRUTH we are to present our earthly bodies as living sacrifices to God, having our minds renewed by the Spirit of Holy Yahweh God, so that in this earthly life we may demonstrate the Good and Perfect Will of God Almighty.

Now the celebrant pastor, or a priestly person IN Christ Jesus, is very important in communicating the substance of faith, for this faith is the unseen fact that is manifested to the collective Body of Jesus Christ.  Ideally, after true repentance and upon hearing or understanding the Words of consecration, the collective priesthood, in the living Body of Jesus Christ, is to identify with the celebrant and each other as one priesthood within the Lord.  For from the moment that the Words of Sanctification are spoken in the Spirit of TRUTH, it becomes incumbent upon all of the celebrating priest in the pews, and those in home fellowships, to agree, and consecrate within the depths of their hearts, the consecrated faith substance to be God's Blood of atonement for sin, and the expressed unity in the unleavened Bread of Life, Christ Jesus Himself.  It is God, Who is honored in His Son, and God honors the hungry heart of those, who have prepared themselves by faith, to be in the Almighty God's own Divine and Loving Presence, even within His Son. The heart and soul of the believer, is bound in God's Covenant of Love within Christ Jesus and that Love eternally abides in the Perfection of LIFE within God's Only Begotten Son.   Halleluiah, Halleluiah, Halleluiah Amen, Amen, and Amen! 

Like Paul and Apollos, the Ecclesia "known as the church" is called to plant and water the Seed according to the Divine Word, nevertheless it is God the Father Who gives the growth through His Spirit of Life. (See 1st Corinthians 3 verse 6 thru 8.) The Faith of God that we have been Graced with, is a precious New Covenant Gift from the Almighty God that is to be nurtured within us through His Holy Spirit of Grace.  God's Holy Spirit is part and parcel with the Blood and Serum Water that flowed, from the open wounds and the pierced side of the Body of Jesus Christ.  The Water and Blood of LIFE fell from Christ's pierced Body and mingled with the dust of Calvary.  Even as God is unlimited in Power, so is the Purity of the Faith that was in His Son, and so should be this undiluted Factor within the Gift of Faith that brings LIFE to those who are IN Christ Jesus.  If the Faith of Christ is a Gift from the unlimited Eternal Yahweh God, then why do any of us who are born of the Faith in Him, remain in the distortions of the sin of unbelief that breeds only the confusions of death.  This confusion distances ourselves from Holy God, and His Sanctifying Word in Holy Communion that is to bring us into unity within Father God and Christ Jesus through the Body and Blood of God's Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ.  And Jesus said unto the unbelieving: Where is your faith?  Nevertheless, when the Son of Adam comes  shall He find Faith on the earth?

Confusion displaces Faith in the Word of God.  The hierarchal priesthood, with in all of the divided Catholic traditions, has presumed far too much upon themselves.  With indifference to the Lord’s Word, “Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father in heaven”. The catholic clergy have maintained a tradition, in which they are to be called “father”, (See Matthew 23 verse 8 thru 12.) thus leaving the people they control in spiritual diapers, and who are presumed to be unable to understand deep spiritual matters apart from the priest's understanding.  If Jesus is pleased to call His disciples, His brothers, and to see me in the same light, even though He is the Lord, then why should I call a priest, father, when he can be no more that a brother to the Lord Jesus Christ, and not His Father?  For both He that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of One: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren. (See Hebrews 2 verse 10 thru 11.) But, idolatry and the pride of life is universally rampant.  The worse case for this blatant idolatry is the designation for the Roman pope to be called the holy father, when there is only the One Holy Father, Yahweh God Almighty.

Dogmatic Confusion.

As of the beginning of these writings in 1997, until very recently, the Roman Church has for centuries, set aside the giving of the Holy Spirit's sanctified and spiritual Life Blood of our Lord, to God’s people of the pews.  Apparently, the Blood was reserved from the people for expedience sake

The following transcription was taken from the Catholic Encyclopedia, 'Communion under Both kinds'. (Trent, Session Twenty one, chapters 1 and 2). "Not only, therefore, is Communion under both kinds not obligatory on the faithful, but the chalice is strictly forbidden by ecclesiastical law to any, but the celebrating priest."  

As you can see, the Roman Catholic priest is usually the only person who partakes in this essential sanctifying Blood of the Eucharistic Sacrament.  Although the Roman Church recognizes, as they say 'two species', the Church implies in its expedient and cost effective doctrine of Transubstantiation, that the Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ would naturally be with His physically raised Body, and therefore in His Person as the Bread of Life.  This supposition is not so, for St John the beloved apostle, witnessed for us that the Water and the Blood flowed out from the pierced side of our Savior's body, and with John's witness being true, then the elements of the Blood of Jesus Christ remains mingled with the dust of the earth. (See John 19 verse 34 thru 35.) This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood.  And it is the [God's] Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is TRUTH.  And there are three that bear witness, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood: and these Three are One. (1st  John 5 verse 6 .)

Again the Roman Church has seriously erred in the giving of the Communion Sacrament through an omission, followed by, its ambiguous teaching concerning the omission of the giving of the Blood of Jesus Christ.  The Word of our Lord Jesus Christ says: "This is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sin".  Where then is the expiating shed Blood of Jesus Christ that establishes the New Covenant Word of Father God, and Sanctifies the soul of the repentant believer?  If you haven't read "The Holy Spirit of Truth" and the chapter "The Crucible", then please revue them to understand more fully the Communion Blood of Jesus Christ. 

God's Covenant Word was original established with His Word in the Garden of Eden, and the protection of His Covenant Word was set in motion at Mt Sinai with the giving of the 10 Commandments and then the whole of the Torah.  The Law's protection of the Jewish people was to enable the remnant race from the original DNA of Adam to bring forth God's Promised Word of Redemption through the genetic seed of Adam's wife. (See Ishshah/Woman/Eve) And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.  God's mercy and forgiveness in His Covenant Word was assured in the shed blood of the animal sacrifices, but the blood of the beast was not to be eaten. 

God's Eternal Covenant is established in the LIFE giving Blood of His Eternal WORD and beloved Son, for He came down as the True Bread of heaven to be born the Son of Man in the flesh of Adam.  The True Bread and the True LIFE of mankind is in the Eternal Sacrifice that God gave as His Passover Lamb, Who was crucified and lifted up on a wooden cross that was planted on Calvary.

Now for us, the Communion Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ is to be received by the members of the New Covenant faithful for the renewal of God's Covenant Life that lifts up the spirit of our minds.  Our spirit's may be willing, but the flesh of our humanity remains subject to its self indulgence in sin.  However, sin shall not have dominion over the members of the Body of Jesus Christ, for the Covenant Blood of our Savior, through God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH, cleanses us from all confessed unrighteousness, for in God's Love He covers the hidden weaknesses and ignorance's of our flesh.  That same Holy Spirit of the Blood of Jesus, empowers the faithful members of Christ' Body with the Life of our risen Lord, so that we may walk in the power of His Love, no matter where He may lead us.

Vatican Flip Flop

Of note: In 2001 the Bishops of the United States of America, petitioned Pope John Paul the Second, to be able to serve both kinds to the parishioners.  The indult was granted in 2002, which is a gross contradiction to the infallible edicts of the Council of Trent (Session Twenty one, chapters 1 and 2.) as seen above.  Part of the indult, allowed for the extraordinary ministers of the laity to clean the communion instruments, and vessels, but was not extended beyond 2006.  Presently, there is a clamor among the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Rome, to return to the Latin Mass, and the return of the serving of the one kind.  Pope Benedict the Sixteenth, was to reintroduce the old Tridentine Rite, which would be known as the “Gregorian Rite”.  At this present time, the change has not happened.

New Vatican Notice

Confusion remains evident even in the recent change of the Liturgy

On October 17, 2006, a letter from Cardinal Francis Arinze acknowledged a poor translation of scripture in the Roman Church's liturgy of the Mass.  This regarded the New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Christ that He established at His last Paschal Supper with His disciples.  Prior to this entry, the Roman Church's rendering in English was: "Take this, all of you, and drink from it: This is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me." 

The change takes place at "and for all" where this inserted misinterpretation is rightly discarded, for it definitely is not the Word of Jesus Christ in any translation in English or other wise.  The so called formulation words for the so called transubstantiation are printed in the old missal and the new missal is being changed to accommodate the better Roman translation.

Confusion in the Epiclesis

 Epiclesis is a prayer invoking the Holy Spirit to bless the bread and the wine.

This is an explanation letter found on the internet.  Any changes to the internet letter is after the fact.

Why did the words of consecration change recently? One point of contention in the new translation of the Roman Missal is the new rendering of the words of consecration with regard to the Blood of Christ. The new rendering says, “Take this, all of you, and drink from it, for this is the chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant, which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this in memory of me.” The old rendering said, “for you and for all.” Some feel that the new rendering can be misinterpreted as saying that our Lord did not die on the cross for all of humanity. However, this misinterprets the new translation. What the new translation points out is the very real doctrine that although redemption was wrought for all by our Lord’s sacrifice on the cross, each of us has the ability to choose to accept the gift of salvation, and some of us choose against it.  Additionally, it echoes the fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah’s Suffering Servant who “shall lay down his life for sin” and “shall justify many” (See Isaiah 53:10-12).

The Lord of Holy Scripture, makes it abundantly clear that the members of the Body of Christ, are to drink  in faith of the Blood of the New Covenant, for the LIFE of Christ would confirm within us, and before God, of the removal of the guilt of our confessed sin.  He that eats My flesh, and drinks My Blood, dwells in Me, and I in him. (In context: John 6 verse 55 thru 57.) (Please read the Whole Chapter: of John 6.) The faithful communicants when eating of the Flesh and Blood of Jesus Christ are fully identifying with the Holy Sacrifice of the LIFE Jesus Christ for sin, and are One IN God's Spirit of Holiness.  God, in His faithfulness and justice, will obliterate all confessed sin, and will cleanse the believers from all unrighteousness: For IN His Righteousness, He will order the steps of a good man.  (See 1st John 1 verse 9, and Psalm 37 verse 23 .) Mercy and Truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.  Righteousness shall go before Him; and shall set us in the WAY of His steps. (See Psalm 85 verse 7 thru 13.)

The very Life and Soul of Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of Man, was within His whole Blood.   The Life and Soul that was IN the Whole Blood of God's Sacrificial Lamb, was completely poured out of His Body for the sins of the world,  The unseen proof of the elemental substance of the Blood of Christ Jesus, was mingled with the elements of the earth beneath Golgotha.   In Christ's resurrection, through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord’s Physical, and as yet unknown Spiritual Body, ascended into the heavenly realms to be with His Father, and He lives by that Eternal Power of the Spirit of the One God.  It is we, the earthly, who desiring to live spiritual lives within Christ's Spiritual Body that are dependent upon the Life Blood of the Lamb of God, which was poured out upon God's Mercy Seat for the violence of our sin.

"And they shall overcome the evil (accuser) by the BLOOD of the LAMB, and the Word of their testimony, and they loved not their life unto the death."  (Revelation 12 verse 10.)

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