Dear Christian Countrymen

                                                                          A cited, and fully scripturally referenced open letter to Christians of the world.

                                                                        The Journey To The Strait Gate And Narrow Way

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Dear Christians of the UK and other countries,

My forte is law and governance but I felt compelled to write this open letter to you, and to all followers of Christ Jesus.

I write this letter to you in the hope that it brings to light an area of the Christian walk that gets overlooked.

Very few citizens realise that what is stated in The Bible governs every single aspect of their daily lives. It also surprises me how few Christian citizens understand that governments adhere to, and follow, what it states in The Bible. The citizenry are in part governed by the “common law” because citizens of a country are what is known as “commoners”, and those that control the citizenry (the powers that be), are governed by the “Royal Law”, also known as: The Bible; I thought that you might find that interesting, and I am sure that may begin to pose some questions for you in your own mind.

This cited and fully referenced letter is written humbly and in good faith, and I hope that it is received in the way in which it is intended. Everything that is of importance which is claimed or stated in this letter, is backed up by Scriptural evidence via the (orange) hyperlinked words; if you click the relevant orange word it will take you to the supporting Scripture, or relevant link.

You will most likely already know that The Bible is known as the book of truth, but it is also known as the book of the law. The book of the law states that no word is to be altered or left out from its pages. It also states that the reader is to prove everything, and to be diligent not slothful. This is precisely why it needs to be read carefully, for the important law document that it is. The Bible is the highest authority on the law, and is described in The Confession of Faith Ratification Act 1560 as the infallible truth. Infallible means “exempt from error”. This book then clearly has importance for all of society, and not just Christians.

There are some passages in The Bible that I imagine will concern, and possibly even strike fear in to the heart of many Christians. These particular verses could cause some Christians a few restless nights: “strait is the gate and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it, and “broad is the way that leads to destruction”, and the quote from Christ Jesus which seems directed specifically to Christians: “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity“.

Those verses seem to me to be very clear warnings which could point to a misunderstanding that we may have, in relation to what we think we know about some of the teachings of the law in The Bible. Potentially, something could be amiss about our understanding, otherwise why would Christ issue that serious warning to Christians? It is an interesting thought.

God has stated that if His people are not doing as He commands of them by the law, that He will not hear them. Those not doing what He commands by law, are doing what is known in The Bible as: “iniquity”, and this is why it was quoted above by Christ at: Matthew 7:23. Clearly avoiding doing “iniquity” is extremely important for salvation, because it relates to following the commands of God written in The Bible: If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: Psalms 66:18.

We can accurately presume from those above passages in The Bible that many Christians will come before Christ Jesus, and He will tell them to “depart from me ye that work iniquity”, despite the many wonderful works you have done, and the prophesying in His name, because He says: broad is the way that leads unto destruction, and narrow is the way to life.

Iniquity means: transgressor, wicked, and lawless. It follows then that “iniquity” is about; “transgressing” God’s law, therefore becoming “lawless” and “wicked”in God’s eyes.

The Bible is the book of God’s law, so logically then, the “iniquity” that will befall so many Christians as foretold by Christ Jesus Himself, must be something to do with not following either some, or all of God’s law, and commands stated within The Bible. The Bible contains the commands and rules that Christians are duty bound to follow.

I have been led to write this letter because my area of study and expertise has allowed me to see a blind spot which many Christians may not be aware of. It concerns me that many Christians might be being deceived in to believing that they are on the narrow way, but as clearly as stated in the Scripture, many will be shocked to hear those fateful words of Christ Jesus because they are in fact, and by the evidence of the book of the law itself; on the broad way to destruction.

So, how can this be, how can we know for sure that we are indeed on the narrow; and not the broad way? How could this possibly happen to the devoted Christian of five, ten, or even thirty years or more; to you? Why then precisely will this effect many Christians alive today, and who may even be reading this? Just why will some of you inevitably hear those words: “depart from me”?

Because of my chosen area of study, I think I know why, in fact I am sure I know why, and I hope that I may be able to explain it well enough here to help you to understand why. Indeed that is the purpose of this open letter to you; to help you understand why that will happen to many Christians.

The Bible is the book of the law, and readers are told that it must be read diligently, and the reader is not to be slothful. We have seen that many Christians who do not do so will be told, “depart from me ye that work iniquity”. As the Bible is the book of the law, we are therefore going to need to understand some of the very basic aspects of the law, and how it applies to us to be able to understand some of what the Bible is teaching us; and to avoid hearing that heartbreaking, and soul crushing phrase from Christ Himself.

I would like to use my knowledge of the law to help you to stay on the narrow path to salvation, if you will allow me five more minutes or so of your time…

In my experience chatting with some Christians, nowadays The Old Testament is not that well studied. However the Old Testament works in perfect unity with the New Testament, and even prophesied the coming of Christ Jesus: Isaiah 53:3 – 11. Of course the New Testament contains the message of the final and ultimate sacrifice in the Gospels, but we need to understand The Bible in its fullest, to understand better; where we came from, who and what we are, our lives, ourselves, and how to live a proper life according to Scripture, and to avoid becoming “iniquitous”.

We have seen that God calls those that do not follow His commands: “lawless transgressors, and wicked”. To drive that point home a transgressor is defined as an “evil doer, and breaker of God’s law”. Therefore it is clear; if you do not follow God’s commands, you are a transgressor and are iniquitous, and The LORD will not hear you: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear – Isaiah 59:2

Here are some other similar examples which explain “iniquity”:

• Ezekiel 18:26 – When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die

• Malachi 2:6 – The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.

It follows then that it is not beneficial to be prophesying and doing wonderful works in Christ’s name if we have not understood, and diligently read the commands given in His law book: The Bible; because He can not see or hear us if we have not understood His law correctly. Why then if they are “commands” have so many Christians fallen foul, why will so many be on the broad way to destruction, and be told “depart from me”, what are some Christians seemingly missing?

An analogy that I will use to describe whether we are following Gods rules, is that I would liken this situation to two separate rooms in Gods House. God is in one room, but there is a coded personnel lock on the door, and we are in the other waiting room. To get in to the room that God is in and be heard by Him, the Christian must first find the code for the door, which is found by reading The Bible diligently as commanded. Once you have found “the code” from reading The Bible, you can use it to open the coded lock and enter in to Gods House, and He can now hear you. Sadly it would seem from the Matthew 7:23 quote from Christ, that many Christians mistakenly believe that they are in God’s House; but according to Jesus, they are in the waiting room where God can not hear or see them. Therefore we must be diligent and make sure that we have followed what is commanded of us using the Scripture.

If some Christians are not quite getting the correct entry code to enter in to God’s House, somewhere along this path they must be either deceived, or are not quite understanding fully some of the important aspects of the law which The Bible teaches.

No man that is deceived has ever known it, for if he had he would no longer be deceived.

This letter will I hope, help us to get to the bottom of whether you are in fact and in law, on the broad way to destruction, or the narrow way; and whether you have been deceived or not. I will also state that everything that is explained and briefly touched upon herein, is also fully evidenced, detailed, and explained throughout the public articles freely available at the capillarywave.com Home Page should you wish to verify what is stated.

For Christians to be on the wrong path, it would surely mean that they have been deceived in some way, and The Bible does state that the whole world has been deceived. If that is the case then we are up against it, and as you read this you may be wondering to yourself; am I a victim of deception? The only way that I know of to root out deception is to measure things against the book of truth; which is what we shall do. By the time that you have finished reading this letter, you will have an answer, you will know which path you are on; the narrow or wide one.

Since this letter is principally about avoiding iniquity and staying on the right path, we will now examine some of those commands from the Scripture. Most people are aware of the ten commandments and most Christians would believe that they adhere to these basic ten commands. So we shall park that discussion here for a moment.

What exactly is a command? A command is an order from authority. A command of the Bible famously starts with “thou shalt not”, however many other less well known commands start with: “neither ye”, “Be no”,or “let me not I pray you”, for example. So commandments can come in several different forms, and not just by way of the famous versions in the ten commandments. This must be what The Bible is referring to when it states that we need to be diligent. Clearly there are many more commandments than the ten that we are aware of, and therefore there are many more ways than the ten commandments in which we could in fact fall foul of the law, and become “iniquitous”.

You will be glad to hear that I am not going to go through the entirety of The Bibles commands. I will however point out an area of the law in which many Christians reading this will, I guarantee, have fallen foul of, and are therefore shockingly, already on: the broad way to destruction and in iniquity, using The Bibles own bench mark.

Before I explain to you where many Christians might well be going wrong, I will firstly and very briefly, need to explain to you some of the basic aspects regarding the law, and how it relates to you. Although some aspects of the law and The Bible can be quite technical, what I am going to explain is very straightforward, is mostly common sense, and it can be easily verified by The Bible itself. In short, a Christian should understand aspects of this already from your grasp of The Bible and its teachings, but we will still need to be diligent and to humble ourselves before the Scripture because: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2 Timothy 3:16

To explain this aspect of the law; you may already be aware that The Bible uses capitalisation to differentiate between the same words, to show different entities. For example: the words “LORD”, “Lord”, and “lord” all share the same letters, but very importantly point to different entities via the use of capitalisation. “LORD” being El the almighty LORD God; “Lord” being Christ Jesus, and “lord” being an earthly lord or ruler.

Likewise in The Bible, the word: “God” beginning with a capital letter “G” is the supreme being, and the same word but with a lower case “g” god is an earthly god; meaning a god “of the ordinary sense”; such as a king, judge or ruler according to Stong’s concordance. This is why The Bible tells us to be diligent, and these can be extremely important fundamental distinctions as far as the law and your salvation is concerned, because if we do not understand these distinctions for example, we could be praying in error to the wrong deity, or misunderstanding which entity is being referred to in The Bible. Clearly understanding these aspects of the law is very important. I would hope that we can all agree on these uncontroversial, self evident Scriptural points, and move forward together from here.

Now that I have explained, and clarified one method of discerning words and entities of The Bible via capitalisation, and we are in agreement, we will now move on to explore some other points which are expressed and numbered below; so that we can gain a better, and more full understanding of some more of the basics, using the Scripture itself as our teacher.

I would like to show you how some Christians may have been deceived. Once we understand and can see the deception; the deception will end.

I have said that I know that many of you reading this will have sadly already fallen foul of the law, and are therefore transgressors, lawless and wicked according to the Scripture. I am aware that is a bold statement, but it is one which I can further evidence and prove to you. I am willing to risk causing a temporary upset, if it saves souls.

Let us explore a few more things about what is stated in the Scripture:

1. You may already understand that “the powers that be are ordained by God”. Meaning: the powers that be (the king, governors, ministers etc of the country) are in place and have a job to do, as ordained by God. That is why for the UNITED KINGDOM and the commonwealth countries they have government “Ministers” operating out of “Ministries”.
2. This point might be a surprise to you, but God says he forms the light and creates evil. This is important and will become apparent as we progress.
3. God also says: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, and against the worldly gouernours, the princes of the darkenesse of this worlde, against spirituall wickednesses, which are in ye hie placest – Ephesians 6:12, Geneva Bible 1560, –. [King James had this particular verse altered in his authorised version. Perhaps one can now see why] The worldly governors are very clearly described as: the princes of the darkness of this world.

A quick recap of the above numbered points sees that God allows the powers that be, He ordained them which is why in the UK and commonwealth countries they have “ministers working out of ministries”. God creates the light and evil, and ‘the powers that be’ are evil, and are the darkness of the world according to Scripture. Below we will learn more about the world and why worldly things are evil and of the devil, as we continue to use Scripture to lift the veil of deception.

4. You may know that man’s civil government (that which was ordained by God) is by definition: “secular”. But do you know what “secular” actually means? – It means “living in the world” and “belonging to the state”. So if it is “secular” it is worldly, and belongs to the state, this will become important.
5. The “state” is “a political organisation of a country, a supreme civil power” – see Word Index: Country for further expansion.
6. The “world” and “worldly things” are evil scripturally speaking as we have evidenced above at Ephesians 6:12 (point 3), and here famously at: John 15:18-25. Also see Word Index: World for a further breakdown of what it means.
7. The Bible can be used alongside a “Strong’s concordance” to define words. The Strong’s concordance definition of the word: “world” is very revealing. The Strong’s concordance definition of world can be seen by clicking the index link for “world”, but I will list the main points here:

• “the ungodly multitude; the whole mass of men alienated from God, and therefore hostile to the cause of Christ”.
• the aggregate of ungodly and wicked men.
• to speak in accordance with the world’s character and mode of thinking, i. e. the devil, he that is operative in the world (also of the devil).
• worldly affairs; the aggregate of things earthly; the whole circle of earthly goods, endowments, riches, advantages, pleasures, etc., which, although hollow and frail and fleeting, stir desire, seduce from God and are obstacles to the cause of Christ”:
• the incentives to sin proceeding from the world, the obstacles to God’s cause.

Let us have another quick recap of what has been stated this time of points 4 – 7. Civil government is secular. Secular means belonging to the state and living in the world. The state is  the supreme civil power. Worldly things are wickedness, evil, and are in opposition to the cause of Christ; and are of the devil, according to Scripture.

Those definitions may be surprising to some of you reading this. You may also be puzzled as to why this is so. It would be natural to be puzzled, especially if you have been deceived. I will explain these aspects further.

I purposely titled this letter: “Dear Christian Countrymen” and used the sub title relating to ‘Christians of the world” because I know that many Christians will be completely oblivious as to why those specific words I have chosen for the titles are so bad for them. Alarm bells should have been going off in your own mind as to why anyone would write a letter to Christians calling them countrymen and “of” the world. Those words on Christian ears, should burn.

Many modern day Christians would, I am sure, be happy to state that they are “citizens of the world”, “Christians for Canada”, or “Christians of the UK” and that must be because they have been deceived in some way; because those statements are completely contradictory to what is commanded in The Bible at the very first commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me as we have just evidenced. We explained the importance of capitalised words in the Bible, we explained that small “g” gods are the earthly kings and rulers, and yet; most of us broke the very first commandment – and in doing so then proceeded to break the following four consecutive commandments. I will clearly explain in simple terms below why this is iniquitous.

If you are reading this letter and still do not understand why being a “UK or Canadian Christian” is very very bad Scripturally speaking, then we know for sure that you have been the victim of a deception. How did this happen to you and so many other Christians?

So far in summary we understand and have proven beyond any doubt that man’s government is secular, which is worldly and evil. Countries are political organisations based on civil law, which is the legal system of rules which govern its citizens, and a country is secular by design. Secular things are by definition in opposition to the cause of Christ. Citizens belong to the state; to the country, are countrymen. Countries make up the world, and worldly things are evil.

“Belonging to the state” as a citizen, as a countryman therefore contradicts the first five of the ten commandments. God does state that satan deceived “the whole world” and that “broad is the way that leads unto destruction”. Maybe we are now beginning to understand just how broad that way is.

Therefore it follows Scripturally speaking; that man’s government, its country’s laws, are worldly and are in opposition to the cause of Christ. That is what the Scripture itself states, and that is also what the word definitions also evidence and corroborate. Now the LORD had said unto Abraham, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house, unto a land that I will shew thee: – Genesis 12:1. This is why Christ calls Christians to be “in” the world but not “of” it. If you were “of” the world you would be evil, Christ went “in” to the world to rescue lost souls from “it”. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16.

I realise that every bone in your body will be wanting to rail against, and refute the evidence of your own eyes, your own conscience. But this is why all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2 Timothy 3:16.

You (as you read this), are quite likely to be; a citizen “of” your country – which breaks the first commandment. A citizen is “of” the world, belongs to the state, is secular, iniquitous, and in opposition to the cause of Christ. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. – Matthew 7:23

Now that this deception is being revealed by the Scripture, perhaps you can see the broad way to destruction that so many are on? Hopefully now you can see how you might have been deceived in to transgressing the laws of God, and accepting man’s secular laws instead? If you are still a little perplexed and confused do not worry, this next section will bring it all together, and everything out in to the light.

I will now show you why the things of the state, the things of countries, are considered evil and in opposition to the cause of Christ. I repeat: opposite to Christ, and in opposition to Christ.

• Oppose (v.) late 14c., opposen, “to speak or act against; accuse, question, interrogate,” from Old French oposer “oppose, resist, rival; contradict, state opposing point of view” (12c.), apparently from assimilated form of Latin ob- “in the direction of, in front of” (see ob-) + French poser “to place, lay down” (see pose (v.1)), with the sense blended with that of Latin opponere “oppose, object to, set against” (see opponent). The meaning “to set or place over against or directly opposite” (transitive) and “interpose effort or objection, be adverse, act adversely” (intransitive) are from 1590s. Related: Opposed; opposing.

When you see the direct comparisons opposite each other, you will know why in your heart and conscience why it is evil: Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God – 2 Thessalonians 2:4