“A THIEF!!! A THIEF IN OUR MIDSTS!”

 ok, this study was given between August and October sometime in 2008, and not on the Mt. Carmel DB.  At least I don’t recall it being

posted there, though a link to it likely was.

The intro here sets the stage, and I know this came after the timeframe in which the “Untimely Figs” study

was re-posted for emphasis.  Shortly after in fact, and the intro here details how I first came to conduct

Sabbath studies, you may find such entertaining, and thats ok.

 

 

 

INTRO:

 

 

 “A THIEF!!!

 A THIEF IN OUR MIDSTS!!!”

 

 

There was a time, when on Sabbath, I refused to do anything, I mean anything, answer phone, eat, I would sleep and goto the bathroom.  As time passed, I began to conduct ministerial duties in the timeframe.

Last night, I noted in the Sabbath Greeting how clean my house was this week.  I made a joke on the phone last night with my mother of the same issue, alluding to the movie “Field of Dreams” as I commented that after living here in this house (very bad neigborhood, very small house) I could name every person who has come inside to visit me since I have been here, noting how rarely I have company, and said jokingly…”If you clean it…they will come.”

Today they did. I was surprised, pleasantly I may add.  Surprise for me, is a treat sometimes, you see, I so often watch events unfold with a certain degree of expectancy, so that very little surprises me these days.  Well, that’s not exactly true, I still am awed when a hurricane, or earthquake or some event of great magnitude occurs after I have at the command of the Spirit spoke of it to come both prior to occurance and publicly.  Watching that occur is a kind of “I KNEW IT!” type of surprise, I mean you almost want to ask “Did that actually just happen.”
The first Sabbath Studies I held were in my home at 3302 Jupiter Drive in Fayetteville NC, 6 or 7 years ago.  The topic then, as it is so often addressed still, was many times the rapture doctrine, and the fact that the Seven Seals have been opened for quite some time.  Many times I would show people the fulfillment of 9/11 from scripture as a means of introduction, using Revelations 18, to show present (Then) application of scripture, to lead into disucussions of the person of David Koresh and the topic of the Seven Seals.

I didn’t canvas, I didn’t solicit people to come, but I would be told days in advance sometimes, to prepare a study, to get my clean enough for company, and that He would bring them.
Without fail, he did. Sometimes it was friends, sometimes family, but on more notable occaisions in my memory, and quite a few occaisions, total strangers would come knocking unexpectedly, and we would have a Bible study. I only remember one occasion that lasted less than 15 minutes and two when the people just decided they were in the “wrong place” and left.  Most lasted at least a half hour, to an hour, about what you would expect to spend in any traditional church in the land.  And on a couple of occasions, people returned to visit again and carry on the discussions in further detail, mind you, I am talking about TOTAL STRANGERS COMING TO KNOCK ON MY DOOR.

In one of the Sabbath Studies on “America in Prophecy” I note one named “FRED,” in my address of the Rapture doctrine and the topic of America in Nahum.

I was told this week to preach from the book of Luke for the Sabbath Study.  I wasn’t expecting anyone to come to my door.
Last December, I was told to walk to a church which is 16 miles away and call for revival. I did what I was told, 16 there, 16 back. OH, I was offered a ride home, but on the way there I had been instructed to in emphasizing the point that God was trying to make to “…WALK IT HOME.” So I did.  It was cold, moreso on the way home than there.

The church I visited would be the same church I was Licensed to preach in so many years ago. 1988 I recall.  Different pastor, and only a very, very few of the congregation that was there when I was there, though they had a nice crowd, enough to fill a little more than half the parkiing lot.  I stood outside that building for an hour before services began repeating one phrase, like a chant “God send us Revival” refusing to break cadence, and chanting out loud.

They must have thought I was crazy as hell.  Yeah, well I get that sometimes.  I did what I was told.  I went inside to attend service, I stopped chanting.

On the way there, I chanted every step of the way, and God illustrated to me, that that activity, which I knew wasn’t prayer, was the equivalent of what most “Christians” offer to him as prayer.  The make a wish list, chant it repeatedly until they wear themselves out, and fail many times to hear him when he actually responds to their efforts.  God to many, sadly, is an idea, a notion, an intangible force. 

While it may be that with people,  that husbands and wives sometimes to their own detriment chant endlessly at their spouse, They (people…you, me)  don’t speak to thier friends that way. If they chanted endlessly to the friends they wouldn’t have any.  Earlier this week I addressed the topic of “Speaking to God” in the thread “ON HEARING GOD;” communication is a two way street.  Unfortunately many think that street with God has  a northbound lane which only says endlessly “I want, I want, I need, I need” and a southbound lane which only says “Here ya’ go” or “No.”

 

God is my friend, and I talk to him like I do my friends.  That requires active conversation, listening, analytical evaluation…”HEARING,”  at least recieving the information of the other party.  As I walked to that Church last year, I was told that the way “Christians” treat God, is no better than the way they treat each other, or the lost, no better than the way they treat humans.  With many, the empasis is all about numbers, surface appearances, and there is no true concern for souls, lost saved or otherwise. They care about changing the statistics on a board on a wall, and place more emphasis on people accepting thier doctrines, than feeding widows, helping the poor, and I don’t fault them for it, it seems to be part of the human condition.  Still it makes you wonder in a land where separation of  Church and State has been hailed at the highest levels of institution,  aside from the quaint little sayings on billboards outside thier buildings, and the common steeple or occaisional cross,….how can you tell the difference.  I mean Bill Clinton rode a high horse in April of 1993, a week after Mt. Carmel had burned to the ground, a week after a U.S. Military led, Delta Force Supervised, ATF initiated, FBI maintained assualt was conducted using TANKS, and MILITARY HELICOPTERS against it’s own citizens on US Soil for the first time in History…Bill Clinton, made a statement to the effect that “this is a sad display as we witness what happens when people join cults in this country.”

 

Do you get that?  Do you realize the moral high ground he took, to condemn people of faith for following the same, as he further demonized them in defence of his position to take a Moral High Ground and affiliate himself by implication to the “Moral Right” those in political “Christiandom.”  And churches, and preachers across this nation got over their sadness and said….”amen.”

Wonder what they said when Clinton redefined “Blow Job.”  I didn’t see any tanks sent to his house, but then I didn’t quite see Nahum in that timeframe either.

 

 

 

Today, there was a knock at my door.  It was Fred, the last I time I seen him was at the Church I was told to walk to last December.  I was told in the Spirit last December that Fred and the Pastor would come to my house, and that I would address the Rapture Doctrine with Fred in further detail.  Today that happened.  Turns out Fred wasn’t here at my house intentionally of his own design.  Though God knew.  Fred was here “Soulwinning.”  He quickly tried to dismiss himself.  Told me he didn’t want to waste any time, I told him cynically “I don’t want to be a waste of your time.”

 

I did to get to address the passage of I Corinthians 15:51, and 52, and I did get to tell Fred and his partner, whom I asked emphatically “IS HE THE PASTOR” to be told  “NO”….that the seals of Revelations were not “GOING TO BE” opened, but had already been and are in the process of “BEING” opened.   I told them that just last year, I finally got proof after 13 years, that a lie was used to have me committed in 1995, that I was locked up due to my Visions, and the doctrine I was teaching and it’s emphasis on Waco and the Branch Davidians, and that often others who would be willing to accept me as psychic having witnessed so many events foretold them in advance come to pass, reduce me to that of a basketcase when I began to speak that unnerving truth, the realization of just exactly where we actually are in God’s prophetic timeline.  Fred listened reluctantly  but cordially, and with a smile on his face.  And if he sensed any negative overtones of my person towards himself, well I confess that for a moment, I actually thought he came to see me, but it was quickly revealed to me, by Fred, that he had no idea who was on the other side of that door when he knocked, and revealed to by God, just why Fred was here, that God had brought him both in fulfillment of that I was told last December during the cold 16 mile walk home, and to bring to Fred and Simeon’s attentions a passage of scripture, and in that passage…a single jot…a comma which indicates the thought is not complete, and points to an event…”AT THE LAST TRUMP.”

 

 

Sensing Fred’s Reluctance, I gave them the opportunity to leave, telling them to come back and visit when they actually had time to “come see me.”  Ten minutes later, the pastor stood before me in my yard.  Trailing behind Fred and Simeon to knock every other house, I sat on my steps and as he passed, I told him…”I walked 16 miles to your Church from this very house, every step of the way.”  He couldn’t hear me over the “hood music” of neighboring houses, and approached me to inquire, I repeated what I said, He smiled, said…”oh really…what’s your name.”

 

Hmmm…what’s my name, once it was written on a visitor’s card, you think it would have been important beyond the measure of form and rhetoric.  I told him my name, called to his attention a past coversation, not noting it verbatim, but repeating it’s contents, to inquire if he related to an evangelist with the same last name, the same question I opened our last conversation with, a phone conversation in January or February of 2008.   You see, I  came one day in that timeframe to find a tract on my door from that church, with a message written and signed by one with the same last name. 

 

I called the pastor of that church, as I had been told of the Spirit he would visit my house, and I told him I regretted missing his visit.  He told me he had not visited, and I found that it was actually his brother who visited.  I made a joke to the effect of “oh…I see your brother is a brother!”   I recall him responding “Your a bright devil” but concede I may have misuderstood him, and if not, well he offered it casually as if it were a common phrase to him and perhaps not with any intent of malice.  I don’t recall telling him God told me he would be by, though I may have, I just don’t recall it now.  But I do recall being told again he would be by, told of the Spirit.

 

I do recall inviting him over to visit, and that perhaps we could have a Bible Study. Prior to today, that never occurred, and today, as far as any intent of consciouslly visiting “Steve Crider” with forethought, well, as Far as he was concerned, I think perhaps such never entered his mind, though God had different plans, and I think this whole affair re-affirms the need in this land, even with Freedom Baptist Church at 2115 Middle Road, Fayetteville NC, 28312….the need for a true, God sent….”REVIVAL.”

 

I told Pastor Worley in that phone call, I had walked every step of the way to his church.  I wonder if he grasped today, as I told him again, I WALKED 16 miles to visit his church…and now…about 9 months later he only just now made the effort to visit me, and then, that effort was only a conscious one on his part for about 20 to 40 steps.  I wonder Pastor Worley, when you pray revival in the land, when you pray for results in your church later on, I wonder Pastor Worley….how far did you walk today?

If I compelled you to walk with me one more mile….would you go with me two?   Next time you visit, bring your tennis shoes, before you dismiss this entire event, answer just one question…”Do you really want Revival?”

 

But before you ask, keep in mind, you may get an answer you don’t want to face, true Revival, may mean letting go of that which is in need of repair, for that which repair would offer.  Doctrines…are profittable for reproof. 

 

And now Mt. Carmel, this brings us to our Sabbath Study, and this one will be a short one, as this post above has served as the introduction.  We look today at the subject of    “A THIEF IN THE NIGHT,”  and we visit passages in Luke.  I assure you, there is a point in this study often overlooked.  To all who come truly seeking the righteousness of YHWH, and his truth, may you be blessed, and to those with ears to hear…let them hear, to those with eyes to see, let them see….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“A THIEF!”

“…A Thief IN OUR MIDSTS”

 

 

 

  Considering the introduction, today’s study will be conducted in the Baptist Style of sermon, emphasizing a point by a series of mini-points building to an apex, using portions of scripture taken from independant passages of the Scriptures to drive home a lesson.  I warn you that such practice is dangerous as it leaves room for those who would take things out of proper context to convey ideas which are both spiritially dangerous and against the actuall teachings of the holy scriptures.  This is not to say such practice ”ALWAYS” committ such, but notes that it often does, usually in the promotion of doctrines which are emphasized above the actuall truth.  Scripture denotes that doctrines at times come in need of revision, that they are “profittable for reproof, for instruction in righteousness.”  So often, many assume this reproof is to those to whom such doctrines are actually being preached as opposed to the reproof being applied to the doctrines themselves.  But as we consider that it was Paul, whom God used to pen such words

 

(2 Timothy chp 2)

“… charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.”

 

(2 Timothy chp 3)

15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBVERT

Pronunciation:

\səb-ˈvərt\

Function:

transitive verb

Etymology:

Middle English, from Anglo-French subvertir, from Latin subvertere, literally, to turn from beneath, from sub- + vertere to turn — more at worth

Date:

14th century

 

Paul here in the timeframe just after Christ (Annointed one) Yeshua has ministered on earth and been murdered via the tool of state execution, is giving instruction to Timothy. In Chapter one, we see Paul notes those whom Timothy considers Faithfull men, to put them in remembrance, to counsel them about their use of words, of Scripture as they lead others that their words were not to be of no profit, that they were to be to the subverting to the hearers.  Lets examine the definition of this word Subvert and look at in context of Paul’s preaching and experience: 

 

1 : to overturn or overthrow from the foundation : ruin 2 : to pervert or corrupt by an undermining of morals, allegiance, or faith  

Those doctrines had sewn perversion of the truth, but were the established dogma and needed to be overthrown at their foundations in order to bring others to the truth.  Paul counsels Timothy to Shun Vain and Profane Babblings.  I cite to you that the promotion of false doctrine, is a promotion of vain babblings, there is no profit in them, only waste.  I cite that for those coming to the truth, and then to continue in promoting such false teachings, is a profanity against  Heaven.  And while no where in scripture are we commanded not to say that such is Bullshit.

As we are afforded the luxury of use of the word Bullshit, it’s use, while not noted dogmatically as a sin, is discouraged.  We Know it is profane, and we are encouraged to shun it, but we now know that to continue in promotion of doctrines we know to be fallicy, is also, when knowing better profanity, and very best in ignorance a “vain babbling” and we are encouraged to shun such, as it leads to more ungodliness.

 

 

 

 

 

REPROOF

Pronunciation:

\ri-ˈprüf\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Middle English repref, reprofe, from Anglo-French reproefe, from reprover

Date:

14th century

: criticism for a fault : rebuke

 

 

 

DOCTRINE

Pronunciation:

\ˈdäk-trən\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin doctrina, from doctor

Date:

14th century

1archaic : teaching , instruction2 a: something that is taught b: a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma c: a principle of law established through past decisions d: a statement of fundamental government policy especially in international relations e: a military principle or set of strategies

 

 

Now we know that Scripture is profittable for Doctrine, and For Reproof, in the instruction of righteousness as well as for the instruction of righteousness.  We know the Christ Yeshua challenged the very Doctrinal postions of the Pharisees. Christ did not denounce Scripture, nor the same doctrines he Challenged, He denounced their applications by the Pharissees, the Sadducees, noting that they had lost sight of the origins of intent in those same doctrines, and that their mainstream presentation in his day was perverse and in need of correction.  To place reproof in action, one must “REPROVE.”

 

REPROVE

Pronunciation:

\ri-ˈprüv\

Function:

verb

Inflected Form(s):

re·proved; re·prov·ing

Etymology:

Middle English repreven, reproven, from Anglo-French reprover, from Late Latin reprobare to disapprove, condemn, from Latin re- + probare to test, approve — more at prove

Date:

14th century

transitive verb1: to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent2: to express disapproval of : censure <it is not for me to reprove popular taste — D. W. Brogan>3obsolete : disprove , refute4obsolete : convince , convictintransitive verb: to express rebuke or reproof

 

 

 

We see this in action in Luke, as Christ Yeshua speaks in Chapter 12:

 

1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

 

 

Notice in verse one Christ warns of “THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEE’s” and points to thier “Hypocrisy.”  Now Christ did not deny the scriptures

they used in thier teachings, nor the doctrines whose origins were true and extablished in previous generations by the Spirit of God through his servants.  Christ Yeshua warns however of the “LEAVEN” of the Pharisee’s you see, they had ingredients which were true, but that cake they were baking and feeding the people, was using a leavening agent of blasphemy, and such is the root of thier hypocrisy, having been exposed to so much truth only to deny it when it stood before them, and then to continue using the scriptures in displays of Abomination.

 

 

This process was not new in the days of Christ Yeshua, it is not new to us.  We see David Koresh preaching from the Prohpecies of Ben Roden, Ben Roden preaching from Victor Houteff, Victor Houteff Preaching from Ellen White, Ellen White preaching from William Miller,  and all preaching from the prophecies of Yeshua, and Christ Yeshua preaching from Daniel, And Daniel from Jeremiah, and all dealing with similiar concerns in thier day, each contending with established lies and hypocrisy resting upon use of scripture to tout thier abominable heresies as holy truths sent of heaven, sent by God, YHWH the living God.  We see Jeremiah, allude to this long before Christ Yeshua would do the same…

 

“Surely, our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.” (Jer. 16:19.)

 

So now as we proceed to our topic, we note the most commonly taught illustrations of a “thief” in the Bible are the thief on the cross who spoke to Yeshua asking him to remember him when he enters into his kingdom. And we see so often, hear so often, Christ described and quoted by his own Prophecy recorded in scripture to return as “A thief in the Night.”  Now remember, I told you I was going to point to an aspect of this, which is commonly overlooked, and I will, for some perhaps several, but we start here, with that prophecy.

 

Let’s look again at Luke Chapter 12, a little further down

 

36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

 

and so we see here, Christ alludes to a point which should address an proper attitude in understanding his prophecy to return.  The aspect in which so many look to the skies, with hopes of a raptural event which would take them to that grand amusement park in the sky, as the gleefully pray for such events ignoring the plight of the wicked as they pray for such an event, knowing full well by thier own doctrines that such fulfillment is a time of great darkness to those who inhabit the earth, and in praying such, earn themselves…WOE, as it was promised in Scripture to those who would desire the day of the Lord. (Amos 5:18). 

 

 

 

This improper attitude alone should indicate to those who express such, that they do not understand the scriptures, they do not possess the truth of the prophetic teachings of the Bible.  Yet they persist in praying for thier “Rapture,” not understanding that which they pray for, nor the abomination of hatred displayed by thier hearts in so praying.  If they would only read Amos 5:18, perhaps a whisper to the truth would attach to thier ears.

 

The very nature that the mainstream Rapture doctrine in all it’s popularity is so widely embraced would indicate one of two things, either,

if such teaching and it’s embracement is true, that Christ is a very poor thief, or the teaching is incorrect, and the scripture upon which it draws inspiration is misunderstood.  Here, in the above passage, we see if the Goodman of the house had known the tactics of the thief, he would have been ready.   I live in the hood, the possibility of getting robbed here is always present.  You just never know, but you expect here, and you act accordingly such a potential threat is believable.  I have two Dogs, Boxer Mastiffs, one very very large.  My dogs are trained, one, very well and in English, Chinese and hand Signals.  I display such training to my neighbors and other onlookers when I take him for a walk, letting them understand his potential, and his role as a bodyguard.  I often leave him in charge of my possessions, and when he is in the yard, a 5foot reptile, with claws, the ability to climb like a cat, and the potential aggressiveness of a sidewinder, Shaggy, my Iguana, roams free in my home, at all times…those few neighbors who have visited, are nervously aware of such.  Years ago, I kept a snake as a pet for security reasons in another bad area I lived in.  It only takes one visit from a neighbor, with the snake not in his tank, and upon inquiry to his whereabouts announcing…”oh, he’s around here somewhere…” to secure results.

  I purposefully have trained Kung Fu in my yard at some times, busting cinderblocks with my bare hands to send a message to would be assailants of my person.  The point is, I have lived in bad neigborhoods, You expect trouble, you prepare for it.  It  may never come, and that is a desirable outcome, still you prepare.

 

Now with the whole world embracing the notion that Jesus is coming back in the sky and all the Christians are going to simply disappear before this great time of trouble to come upon the world, you gotta wonder, what kind of thief tips his hand so soon, so obviously.  I mean, if he was coming while others were aware, and he would still take his spoil, he would be more of a conqueror than a thief, so you would think.

Doesn’t stand to reason, that perhaps that passage is misunderstood then?

 

I mean in actuality, did not Christ come like a thief 2000 years ago?  I mean you had an entire nation of Hebrews, with Scriptures and prophetic teachings handed down for generations, and generations…they were so close in thier interpretation, that their expectations stirred Herod to slay every male child in the land under 2 years old, yet they failed to recognize the event as it happened before their very eyes, and they nailed him to a cross.  Here they are waiting for thier king, and when he shows…they murder him.  Sounds like they kinda got caught unaware to  me.

 

To matters of accountability we see in Peter, a prudent Inquiry, and in reply, Yeheshua, offers again a glimpse of the future as well as counsel to those in his present timeframe when the statement is recorded to have been made, alluding to the fact that the world could not see what was so plainly occuring before their very eyes:

 

 

41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?

 

You know someone made a statement in my presence once, that struck a nerve, made me examine my life.  I was not leading a desirable life at the time.  And this was a martial arts instructor who was carrying on a conversation with another in my presence as I was in his school considering joining when the statement was made.  I never went back and joined, but that conversation was a lesson I carry still.  Whether it was for my benefit or not, I don’t know, but it served so.  They were talking about an encounter one had elsewhere with an undesirable person.

They described an individual who was a “NOT SO–Bad Guy.”  Then the term was defined in my presence. 

You know what a “Not So-Bad Guy” is?  It’s not the guy who will shoot up your car while your kids are inside, but it is his buddy who will stand by and watch him.  HE is not really the Bad guy, and he certainly is not the good guy, he is a “Not So-Bad Guy.”

To these in attendance, Christ Yeshua, notes that Good servant to whom will be given dominion in his Lord’s kingdom, likewise the Wicked, and the “Not So-Wicked” and the attitude of those who say, “oh he’s not coming yet…” those who would be wrong, who would get caught unaware, and be held in accountability, some moreso than others.  Then he points out the obvious, that they, who can tell the weather…hmm, that’s interesting considering recent events…they who could tell the face of events in the sky and upon the earth could not decipher what was happening before their very eyes, whose presence they were standing in, and then he asks a most important question…

 

57 Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

 

 

Christ asks them….”WHY DON’T YOU JUDGE WHAT IS RIGHT?”  but his question is rhetorical, as he has been trying to tell them the whole time

that “YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT!” Yeshua is trying to bring them to truth, to know they don’t know Right from wrong.  They are like children who cannot discern their left hand from their right. 

 

Now Peter is so moved by this experience, and later by the Holy Ghost that we see him draw reference to it in speaking of prophecies of Malachi Chapter 4  and former prophets when writing his Epistle:

 

 

 

 

 

King James Version: 2 Peter Chapter 3

1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

 

 

 

 

42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

47 And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

54 And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.

55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.

56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

 

AMOS 5
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

 

37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

 

2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:

9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.

11 And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

13 And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

14 And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

 

— sub·vert·er noun

 Now having an awareness of Pauls teachings on personal holiness, we can assume that his intent was not to pervert or corrupt others.  However, the early Christians, were comprised mostly of Jews, even though the ministry was to, and did and would reach gentiles.
There was in place the established dogma, the doctrine of the land, the doctrine of generations, handed down by tradition to various groups with thier own differences between them, nonetheless, the established hierarchy during the time of Yeshua, the doctrine of the Pharisees, Scribes and Saducees.  Christ Yeshua himself challenged the established doctrines of his day; he was not well recieved for his teaching of the truth.  The same doctrines came from somewhere, obviously in thier roots, at their origin they were applicable to the generations to whom they were given, and given in righteousness.  By the time of Christ however, the same doctrines he challenged were so far off base from their intent that they had to be addressed openly, challenged by the Son of God, here on earth, in the flesh.