Ecumenism is the principle of worldwide Christian harmony and unity. The word ecumenical is derived from the Latin oecumenicus or Greek oikoumene or oikoumenikos distortedly translated as the ultimate dwelling which place refers the to utopia government of Satan during the Great Tribulation. The devil is building the One World Church that will be revealed in its ugliness after the true Church is rapture or removed from the earth.

Satan aims to enlist all local churches from all religious sects and attach them to the ecumenical bandwagon. He has the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES and all the religious sects around the world. The Roman Catholic is now using the ploy of praying for world peace as a bait to trap religious groups into this evil and monstrous scheme.

The pressure is on. Satan wants to make connection with every local church around the globe and the pressures will continue to mount every day until the Lord Jesus Christ takes the Church Age believers by rapture. Ecumenism is not from God, it is not Scriptural but is only the invention of the apostate churches. Ecumenical is a theological term dealing with universality, unity and dominion of the Christian faith [Catholic doctrine] and the Christian church [the holy Catholic church].

The unity of the ecumenical church is political in nature and not spiritual. The universality refers to every kind of doctrine and belief [pagans, cultic, occults, liberal and anything] bounded by a common objective to establish peace and prosperity on earth by the abolition of religious distinctive and doctrinal viewpoint of all churches.

Such abolition will bring about the world dominion of the revived Roman Catholic religion as the world political power and absolute dictatorship. The ecumenical church is not concerned about beliefs and doctrines of the different churches because the objective is to make the whole world worship Satan as god. Satan will disband the One World Church in the second half of the Great Tribulation and introduce himself as god (Revelation 13).

Ecumenism in the seminaries and universities have dethroned God and replaced Him with a man. They will openly reject the Word of God, will accept a humanistic viewpoint.  They will apply evolutionary philosophies to the Bible and Christianity. They are now working toward the widespread rejection of the Bible as the Word of God as the sole authority of the Church.

They will reject the divine inspiration and direct revelation from the God of the Bible. They will reject the accuracy of historical accounts from the Bible, and the miracles as actual events. They will claim that many characters of the Bible did not really exist and but are just fictitious.

Ecumenism capitalizes on human love toward others. LOVE YOUR BROTHER regardless of his views, beliefs, and race, colors, creed, doctrine, and principles in life. Loving your brother in this context is not a Christian virtue but the act of acceptance, ignoring all differences for the sake of a common objective to gain the approval of Satan.

They are accusing the fundamentalists as unloving and unchristian because of Biblical separation. Their love is full of hypocrisy because it does not operate on the basis of truth and reality.  The phrase do not mind others and do not do anything that will offend your brother are translated as loving your neighbors. Such love is hypocritical and based on human viewpoint.

Ecumenicalism is good for many since it appeals to the human ego and sinful nature of man. It is well accepted among the nominal Christians because it provides adequate room for surface level peace or goodwill, human good works and a lot of room for the of expansion of arrogance.

Ecumenicalism is a hungry wolf in sheep's clothing pretending as lover of God. Its tail is of the dragon dragging men to hell. Since Satan masquerades himself as an angel of light, deceiving people to do many things unnecessary and unrelated to spiritual growth and advancement, it is always safe to put your confidence on God. The projects of Satan are always good in the sight of men. What is good in the eyes of men and Satan is not good in the eyes of God. Beware his power of to entice and deceive.

God designed every local church to be independent and autonomous and not under internationalism, nor under direct or indirect supervision of a committee controlling the ministry, teaching and mission. The local pastors cannot refute or correct the doctrinal errors of their religion but rather mechanically follows the decree set by their leaders. Such local pastors are totally dependent on men for their financial support and material needs, leaving no room for trusting God.

The freewill volition of the pastors are barred and under dictatorship. Interdenominational church is open for fellowship with any religious sects, regardless of beliefs, doctrines, and creeds as long as they can ignore their differences. The true faith is the Bible doctrine given by God in the pages of the Scripture. This faith is the only basis of the Christian fellowship, not the political unity of the apostate church.

There is only one Bible doctrine and if their doctrine is not the bible doctrine, then, we cannot accept them. God forbids us to fellowship with people who have rejected the Bible doctrine (2 Corinthians 6:14-18).  They have attached the title Christian to their religion still their denial and rejection of Bible doctrine has put them under the category of apostate and we are mandated to expose such apostasy (Eph. 5:11).

Biblical separation is acceptable and justified because God commanded us to separate from the apostate. Any point of spiritual compromise is abomination before the Lord and God Himself made our spiritual separation from the world since we are the citizens of heaven.

God has separated the Church as His people, even though Christians are in the world, they are not of the world. We are on earth but we must live for the things above (Colossians 3:1-2). We cannot obey God without being separated from the world and its devious tentacles, religions invented by men.

The missionary approach or mission strategy of modern denominations are not biblical but humanistic. They have adapted and modified the marketing strategy of the world. The church is not like a MacDonald franchise that you can apply the pyramid and networking schemes without corrupting its objective and mission in the world.

The local church is designed as the classroom for teaching Bible doctrines to nourish the souls of the believers and not to market the commodities of the world. The Church is not a business enterprise but a spiritual institution commissioned to preach the Gospel and to convey Bible doctrine.

It is normal for any religion to engage in any business in the world since they are of the world. The mission of the local church is very simple: to proclaim the Gospel of salvation and to maintain the teaching of Bible doctrines. There are a thousand and one so called mission of the church that are excluded in the purpose of God for the believers. Majority of the so-called "ministries" of the 'dynamic and mega churches" are designed to satisfy the old sinful nature rather the fulfilling the purpose of God. For example, Dr. Rick Warren is able to drag his followers nearer to the devil than to God.

Cultic churches enlisted and joined the ecumenical church without any reason since they rightfully belong to it. Some evangelical protestant sects joined the ecumenical church for various reasons without suspecting that they joined the flocks of wolves. They wanted to be properly identified and counted. In the near future, genuine believers are going to be outcasts and identify as heretics, and the apostate mistaken for genuine Christians.

The One World Church will come to full power after the rapture of the genuine Church, with religious unbelievers as its members, with the Beast and the False Prophet as their charismatic leaders. The One World Church belongs to the Great Tribulation but the recruitment of membership is now going on. Some have claimed that they are Christians and that they will be left behind after the rapture for the Tribulation (to become Satan's most avid followers).

Satan is preparing the people for the One World Church by introducing a common mode of worship, Christian music, preaching style, prayer style, activities, church programs and others. The devil is imitating and counterfeiting everything that legitimately belongs to Christians. That is spiritual piracy of things that belongs to God. Satan cannot create something new; he can only corrupt the perfect creation of God. As the impostor of God, he is trying to counterfeit every details of Christianity and was has a great success in deceiving the majority of mankind.

In reality, Satan was unable and will never have success in imitating or counterfeiting true Christianity. There is no way, Satan can duplicate or imitate whatever God has made. The primary reason he was successful in deceiving men is because they were ignorant of Bible doctrine. Satan cannot counterfeit Christ and His works or the works of the Holy Spirit. In short, there is only one Christ, one Savior, one salvation, one filling of the Holy Spirit, one Scripture, one Bible doctrine.

The ecumenical have one thing in common, everything they have are counterfeit.

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