The Ignorance of Apostasy - UBM [David Eells]

I was visiting the old church I went to when I lived in El Paso, Texas. The church building was a lot larger than I remember. On this day, the church was having a large conference of some kind and all the age groups were broken up. I decided that morning I wanted to help with the children's activities and everything that had to do with the children.

After I began helping with the children, I noticed that there was a group in the auditorium that was kind of in their own section, not surrounded by any other group of children. I thought that was a little strange. I asked a few of the other volunteers/friends and they very quietly, in almost a whisper, told me "that those children had HIV and no one really knows about them other than the church staff and those who volunteer with the children; most of the other children don't even know. Those who have found out have left the church". The children here represent the people in the church who are spiritually immature. {1 Cor.14:20} Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men (Greek: of full age). In the natural HIV is Human Immunodeficiency Virus, which weakens the body's immune system until it can no longer fight off its enemies. This leads to AIDS, which is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and death shortly thereafter. One who is spiritually immature cannot fight off their enemies and is ultimately conquered and spiritually dies even though they still occupy a pew. Those who find out that their church is in this state generally leave.

When she told me this I was alarmed that no one truly cared to help these children and had been keeping this very serious matter a secret to most of the congregation. Nonetheless, I continued working with the children. Most of the spiritually immature do not know that there is spiritual HIV in their own congregations.

At the end of the conference, all of the families left and then all of the church staff and volunteers began to leave. When I started walking out, I saw my father and a few of my friends. I ran up to them and asked, "Did you know that there is a large group of children who have HIV in this church?"

They all agreed that they in fact knew that there were children with that ailment and didn't seem to care. (This state is so common that it is not looked on as a great danger.) Then I asked them, "How did the children get HIV? Why haven't you guys left the church like the others?" In the natural, children generally get HIV from their mother at birth and the mother gets it from the father. Spiritually, the father is the one who sows the diseased seed which destroys the immune system of the church who is the mother of the individual members. The seed that is sown in most of the church makes perpetual children out of its members, who have no real defense against the principalities and powers who administer the curse. "Come out from among them and be ye separate".

My dad told me, "I'm not really sure how the children got HIV but I do know the church leaders know. Maybe you should ask them. (They know how the children got in this state because they sowed the seed.) I haven't left the church because this is my church and I'm not leaving just because there is a disease here". Those who will not leave when they see this state in the church don't because they are in gross idolatry with their dead religion.

I couldn't understand how and why the church was so secretive about this issue that they had in their church. I thought all of the people who had stayed, including my father and friends, were extremely ignorant. I knew that I would not stand for a church that covered up something. I left the parking lot of that church very disturbed at how much it had changed and knew I was never going back. Amen!

As soon as I woke up the Lord revealed to me what this dream meant:

He was showing me how prevalent the apostate church is in America. The children with HIV represent a disease in the church that the church members and leaders knowingly ignore. Instead of coming out of the church many stay knowing it is not what the Lord desires for them. Shouldn't those children be healed of their ailment since by His stripes they were healed?

I believe this is a warning to those who the Lord has revealed the apostate church to but have ignored His revelation and continued to walk in their ignorance.

Since my earthly father was in this group of people, I knew the Lord was confirming to me that He was in fact talking about the ignorant children who have seen the apostasy but didn't turn back to Him. For many years, my father has ignored many of the revelations that the Lord has given me that I have shared with him and has decided to ignore them.

The Lord's children need to turn back to Him if they have seen the apostasy and have ignored it. If He has not yet revealed the apostasy to them, let this be a testament to His love for them to show them what is going on in our churches and come back to Him.

{Hos.4:6} My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children. {7} As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame. {8} They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity. {9} And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings. {10} And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah. {11} Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding. {12} My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.

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