The Man-Made Church and Who is the Harlot?

What is the man made church? Did Christ die to have men start a church organization? Do we need a man made institution called 'church' would be the better question. The answer is no. Christ delivered us from the law of sin and death ~ Romans 8:2. His body is the true church. Yes, we do need to congregate (come together in worship) in His name for Jesus Christ is the true church, His body is the only True Church which we as Christians belong. We know this from the first congregation of apostles after Christ's death which was and is called Pentecost. Hence, the Pentecostal movement of Christianity derives its name from this New Testament event, as the movement emphasizes direct personal experience with God, akin to the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles.

Christ died to redeem us from the law of sin and death; in fact, He came to deliver us from institutionalized religion based on legalism and ritual. He did not come to create a new and or better institution called - church. That is man's way of doing things in this fallen world. If that were true, then why did Christ have to come at all and tell us that the Kingdom is within, let alone die for our sin? Because, we cannot keep the law.

This is a fallen world; and yet now, because of His sacrifice on the cross, there is eternal hope because He is our eternal hope and that we all have access to and can choose to embrace. Our hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ and His return. Until, then we should go about our lives walking by faith and not by sight ...making the Jews jealous (Romans 11:11) in order to show them that in Him we live and breathe. "For in Him we live and move and have our being" ~ Acts 17:28.We no longer live under the law of sin and death but that we live by His bread alone. Jesus guided and guides us to move beyond what man in this fallen world deems to be the right way to the Father.

No one enters the Kingdom except by Him.  Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" ~ John 14:6. Jesus Christ is our high priest, the curtain was torn. "And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split" ~ Matthew 27:50-51.

Go, walk with the Lord, for you/we are resurrected in Christ. There is no 'church' other than His body which we are all part of by His Mercy and Grace.

Does that mean we should not join any kind of 'church' as in man made organization? If you understand that the organization is just a place to meet as in congregate in the name of Jesus Christ to fellowship and to worship Him, then there is no harm. People are social creatures, we were created to be social. For He himself is such being three in one. But, we must not treat any man made organization as the true body of Christ, we are the True Body of Christ... where two or more are gathered, there I am.

"Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst"~ Matthew 18: 19-20

*From reading the Bible, we understand that the Harlot represents backsliden Christian churches - The Harlot Church System. "There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries" ~ Revelations 17.

What does that mean? The Harlot Church System as backslidden? It means that people who call themselves Christians attending 'Christian' churches have forgotten that this is a fallen world and that there is no other way to the Father except by Jesus Christ. That every man and woman is a sinner in need of Jesus Christ. These 'Christians' are engaged in works of 'oneness' and works of the flesh= the idea that man has to do something and glorify that which he does' not in the name of Jesus but in his own eyes Isaiah 5:21.

“The trumpet of the Lord is sounding an alarm to God's holy remnant to come out of her My people, that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues” ~ Revelation 18:4

The true church is the body of Christ. "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst"~ Matthew 18: 19-20. "And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it" ~1 COR 12:26-27. "...so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others" ~ Romans 12:5.