The Planet in Waiting for the Last Message

By Ionel Plesa

The small differences of interpretation that unjustifiably separate the Christian denominations, sometimes leading to extremely grave consequences in relationships between believers who lack spiritual maturity can be cause for worry.

The author reveals the planet chained with a gold chain symbol of wealth and corruption, together with the power of sin and death through the Devil's deceit, and the Lords provision for our redemption.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781449763671

Ionel Plesa

IONEL PLESA, an evangelist and teacher, has traveled extensively throughout Europe, spreading the Gospel in the German language, as well as his native one. He has authored five books, previously published in Romania, now translated into English. His writings and experiences bring a profound insight to God and His Word. He lives in Kennesaw, Georgia, with his wife. They are the parents of three grown children and one with the Lord, and have eleven grandchildren.

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Easter Celebrations Conflict In The Family

AT EASTER, IONEL CAME HOME on holiday. The joy of seeing his parents and siblings lasted just a few moments, because his father had decided to bring his house into order as he’d agreed with father Tarna. Thus, in an atmosphere of tension, the interrogation of Easter began:

"Hey, Gheorghita, tell me what are you thinking of doing? Why didn’t you tell me about the vow you’ve made with those renegades? Haven’t you got parents? Why have you hidden this from me? . . . Now, choose well! Or leave home so that I don’t have to hear your name again, or leave ‘that immoral law’ and the vow you’ve made with your repenters³."

Dear father, replied Gheorghita meekly and fearfully, repentance isn’t an immoral law, but is the commandment of our Lord Jesus Christ. In Mark 1:14-15 it says that man must repent. These words aren’t the words of the repenters, but of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Pardon? Is the egg wiser than the hen? It may be written in your lying books, but it is not written in the Holy Bible!

It is written father. Will you allow me to read it to you?

Throw out that lying Bible! Don’t you see that the cross isn’t on the cover? Father Tarna was correct. He isn’t a priest for nothing. He told me that those rogues have deserted not only the holy church, but also the holy secrets. Come on, tell me what you want to do! We haven’t time to lose. I don’t want the Easter celebrations to come upon us with anger nor with arguments. Do you want to obey me? If not, tell me clearly and from this moment you are no longer part of this family. I will disinherit you.

Dear father, I want to obey you in all things, replied Gheorghita, "but when it is about my faith, please forgive me, because I can’t obey you. The Bible says to obey our parents in the Lord, but if our parents, through lack of knowledge urge us to deny the teachings of the Saviour, then we must obey God rather than our parents. In Matthew 10:32-39, the Lord Jesus tells us the following, ³²Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. ³³But whoever disowns Me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven. ³⁴"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. ³⁵For I have come to turn "‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—³⁶a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’ ³⁷Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me; ³⁸and anyone who does not take his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. ³⁹Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

I beg your pardon, sir! It is a single truth among a lot of lies. Is it written in the repenters’ Bible about the cross? Why doesn’t your Bible have a cross on the cover? The priest told me that true repentance is confession to the priest and it has nothing to do with your wayward teaching.

"Yes, father! True repentance is confession, but if man confesses too easily, confessing his sins before the priest, then continues to sin without changing his attitude to God, then his confession has achieved nothing. Encouraging people to repent, the prophet Isaiah said to them, wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of My sight! Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! . . . (Isaiah 1:16-17). Concerning those who went to the Temple in Jerusalem, the prophet Jeremiah in 7:8-10 writes, But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. ‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, We are safe—safe to do all these detestable things?

In Matthew 21:13, the Saviour Jesus Christ, in reprimanding those who defiled the house of the Lord, said the following, It is written, He said to them, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.’ Therefore, man makes the place holy. What people call the Church, isn’t the Church, but a house of prayer. The word Church means a meeting of believers. As Christ is alive, so is His Church alive, because it is the Body of Christ. There is one Church. That Church is neither Catholic, nor Orthodox, protestant nor neo-protestant. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ isn’t built of bricks, but of living stones. The apostle Peter in his first epistle, chapter 2:3-5 writes to us: ³now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. ⁴As you come to Him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to Him—⁵you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. So it follows, Christ is a living stone and He is the Church’s foundation, and His Church represents all the Christians who hear His teachings, not taking into account their denominational adherence."

Who taught you such nonsense? Where have you ever seen a Church built of living stones? Excuse me! Is that the reply I was waiting for? Rafila! Prepare his clothes! He is to leave our house! I can no longer support his ravings . . . I’ve decided to disinherit him! It’s his business. He can go where he wants!

Saying those words, he went out into the orchard while Rafila, crying and lamenting, prepared his baggage for him to leave. Ionel was an unwilling witness to this unsettling discussion and confrontation. After Rafila gathered Gheorghita’s clothes together she also decided to give him something to eat. After all was prepared they awaited the unimaginable moment of departure. Father delayed more than was necessary, walking through the orchard. Rafila, with her mother’s heart, was praying that God would not allow such a dissension in the family. She loved Gheorghita because, since he had converted to the faith, she no longer had problems with him. He’d become an especially meek and obedient child, with a great pleasure in serving the Lord.

After seeing that father was delaying things in the orchard, she began to cry out in desperation. What’s happening? Gheorghita’s father was paralysed. He’d fallen like a tree trunk, remaining unconscious. After a few hours of wailing from the family, he came around, remaining however with a certain infirmity, being unable to get up out of his bed. Therefore the family’s conflict finished in an unexpected manner. In the situation that had come about, Gheorghita was no longer thrown out of the house. After about two weeks and a series of electrical shock treatments, prepared with an improvised installation, Ionel, with Gheorghita’s assistance, managed to get his father to his feet again and he moved about with the aid of a walking stick. The improvement in his sufferings brought renewed hope to the family. One day, after the tensions in the family had passed, Gheorghita came to his father and said, Father, God has given you the possibility to have a lot of time on your hands. Physical work is no longer recommended for you. Wouldn’t you like to read the Bible?

My dear Gheorghita, don’t bother me. Wasn’t it your fault that I am suffering like this? I’ve told you many times that your books, and your lying Bible, don’t interest me.

Father, if I bring you a Bible from the Church’s altar, will you read it?

I would read it with pleasure, but you won’t be able to bring me a Bible from the Church’s altar.

I’ll bring you one, father.

The following day, Gheorghita came with a large Bible, written with Cyrillic letters, from before Alexandru I. Cuza’s⁴ time. It weighed about 4 Kg⁵, having copper hinges and locks. The exterior was decorated with a large gold cross. On the inside cover was a picture of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Gheorghita had borrowed this Bible from an old man whose grandfather had been a priest. It was obvious that this Bible had been used at a Church’s altar. Although it was so old, it had been well preserved. Actually, it was believed that only a priest was allowed to read from such a holy Book.

This is the true Bible! exclaimed Gheorghita’s father, adding with great satisfaction: Bring me your Bible now and I will see how you can defend yourself now. Repeat those texts you quoted to me!

Father, open it to Mark’s Gospel: 1:14-15.

I’ll see what it is with your repentance. Hmm! See that here it is the same!

Now open it to Matthew’s Gospel 10:32-39.

After he’d verified both texts, and seeing that they were the same, he was amazed.

Open it to the prophet Isaiah, 1:16-17.

Eh, that’s too much! It’s even the same here.

"Open it now to Jeremiah 7:8-22 and Matthew