Cutting Stones to Fit
When God commanded Moses to make an altar to the Lord, He specifically commanded Moses that the altar should be built with whole uncut stones.
Deuteronomy 27:5-6 (7KB)
5 And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of [uncut] stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them.
6 “You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of [whole] uncut stones, and you shall offer on it burnt offerings to the LORD your God;
The altar made to the Lord was not to have any of the stones cut with an iron tool but it was to be made of whole uncut stones. This has spiritual application to the word of God which should be accepted wholly in unadulterated manner as God gave it without humans trying to cut God’s word (or adapt it) to fit preconceived human ideas.
Joshua 8:31 (7KB)
31 as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses–an altar of [whole] uncut stones, on which no iron tool had been used. On it they offered to the LORD burnt offerings and sacrificed fellowship offerings.
The believer’s worship of God consists of living their human lives on earth according to God’s commandments. This spiritual endeavor can be compared to building an altar to the Lord for worship to offer sacrifices and offering to the Lord.
Romans 12:1-2 (7KB)
1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove (define) what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Here the word of God speaks of the believers offering their own bodies (or their own selves) to God as a living sacrifice that is holy and acceptable to God. The next verse speaks of the believers not being conformed to the world but being transformed by the renewing their minds to prove (or define) what the will of God is for their lives demonstrating that God’s will for them as believers is good and acceptable and perfect. This all speaks of being a living sacrifice as believers conform themselves to the word of God in their conduct and thoughts and attitudes. This is how believers offer themselves as a living sacrifice to God by conforming to the word of God and conforming to the principles of the bible.
But this process is completely defiled if the word of God is cut or altered which is like building an altar of cut stones. Such an altar is built according to preconceived human plans and ideas and the stones are cut to size and shaped to fit this human plan. But this is not submission to God’s word when they cut or alter the word of God to fit preconceived human plans or ideas.
Revelation 22:18-20 (7KB)
18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book;
19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
20 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
These scriptures above speak of any believers adding to God’s word (things of their own human origin). Those who add anything to God’s word will be punished with the plagues described in the book of Revelation.
These scriptures also speak of the believers who take anything away from God’s word and these will be punished by having their share of the tree of life and the holy city taken away from them. This is a serious threat because it speaks of being banned from heaven and receiving eternal damnation. Never should anything be removed from God’s word for this reason. These scriptures are a warning to carnal believers who do not want to conform to God’s word so they work at adding their own ideas to God’s word or they work at subtracting away from what God has said and subtracting away from the commands God has given to humans to live by.
Predominately these are threats for anyone who adds to or removes from God’s word are made to believers who seek to alter the word of God because most unbelievers do not read God’s word and have no interest in the bible whatsoever. It is only carnal Christians who love the world and want to be like the world who engage in this deception of trying to adjust the bible to fit their own worldly standards rather than conforming their own behavior to adapt themselves to God’s word.
This principle about not adding or subtracting to God’s word can be applied to the entire bible (both Old and New Testaments) because every book of the bible is prophetic (meaning it has its origin in God). Therefore, nothing should be added or subtracted from what God has said.
It is a reasonable part of the worship of believers that they should read the word of God and study it to renew their minds to conform themselves to God’s standards rather than following the standards of the world.
Revelation 12:9 (NIV)
9 The great dragon was hurled down–that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
The world’s system is led astray by Satan to cause all ungodly humanity to drift far away from God’s standards. It is the job of the devil to deceive and to tempt humans to sin and to break God’s laws and to pollute them and defile them so they will end up in hell! Following the worlds system is like floating down a river of sewage that will wash everyone in that river over the precipice into hell!
It is for this reason that believers are to renew their minds to the word of God and adapt their behavior and actions in every way to offer themselves as living sacrifices to God that are holy and pure and fulfill God’s will by keeping God’s commandments for moral living. If the believer does everything exactly opposite of the unbelievers, they will typically be doing the right thing because the entire world of unregenerate humans follows after the world’s system of defilement which is controlled by Satan!
But there are carnal Christians who want to profess Christ for fire insurance to stay out of hell but at the same time they still love the world and love the ways of the world and they want to live in worldly manner. They do not want to comply with God’s laws so it is predominantly these types of carnal Christians who seek to alter the word of God so they do not have to obey it. They actively add to God’s word and take away from God’s word just like cutting the stones to fit their own preconceived ideas. Rather than obeying God’s word they feel free to add their own ideas to it or they remove from God’s word the clear principles that they do not want to obey. This is the reason there are many bible translations which have added things to the word of God from preconceived human ideas and many of them have removed or negated principles of God’s word by following their own preconceived ideas.
See the link “Bible Translation Mistakes” for more details.
But God’s word is like a whole stone or natural rock representing something that was created by God in its natural (unaltered state). But if humans cut it and adapt it or take away from it or add things to it then, they are not going to be building an altar of worship for the Lord. All false religions promise a false-hope of salvation without complying to God’s standards and carnal Christians who adapt God’s word to their own plans are engaging in false religion. All false religions go to hell because they are following their lord Satan who hates God’s word and whose job it is to deceive humans into hell (both unbelievers and also believers) who willfully follow his deceptions.
Joshua 8:31 (7KB)
31 as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses–an altar of [whole] uncut stones, on which no iron tool had been used. On it they offered to the LORD burnt offerings and sacrificed fellowship offerings.
The repeated command of the Lord to build an altar to worship God (out of whole natural stones) speaks of the principles of God’s word which are natural and created by God and should not be polluted or adulterated by men cutting them to fit their own preconceived human ideas.
The rock of God’s word is to be like natural whole stone that is uncut by the iron tools of humans cutting them to fit their own plans and agenda.
Feminist Agenda of Gender Equality
For example, the world has been swept away with gender-equality and even the carnal church embraces this demonic doctrine as carnal Christians falsely declare that the bible teaches gender-equality. But nothing could be farther from the truth! God created the male and female genders to be united together in marriage as one-complete person. Never did God create the genders to be individuals or act independent of one another.
Genesis 2:21-25 (7KB)
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh.
22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
The manner in which God created the male and female was different. God created Adam out of the dust of the earth but Eve was created out of the bones and flesh of Adam. This means that every man is born with missing parts which are only found in a female and that man will not be complete as a person until he is married to a spouse of the opposite gender. In fact, both the man and the woman are incomplete as singles and only find fulfillment in marriage to a spouse of the opposite gender. Two men cannot fulfill and complete each other because they both have the same parts. Two women cannot complete and fulfill and complete each other because they also have all the same parts. Humans cannot be completed by having pets because animals do not supply the missing parts to humans. Only marriage to the opposite gender can cause two humans to become fulfilled as one-complete person.
Adam had everything feminine removed from him and placed into his wife Eve. This is the reason men have nipples (which are traces of that which was once feminine in men) but was removed and placed in their wives. When a man is joined together in marriage with his wife this is only natural and everything that was removed from the man is again restored by marriage to a woman. Both the man and the woman have missing parts that can only be fulfilled in marriage to the opposite gender.
Therefore, God does not believe in gender-equality (which is an invention of the world and Satan) to cause perversion and disorder among humans. Instead of gender-equality God believes in “Oneness” and the two separate genders becoming one complete person in marriage together. The man is incomplete and barren as a single and the woman is also incomplete and barren as a single. But when a man and a woman are joined together in marriage, they become fruitful and both of them can procreate together.
Two males together or two females together cannot produce offspring because joining the same genders together is barren and they cannot supply what is lacking in the other of the same gender.
Therefore, only marriage of opposite genders is natural like a natural whole stone made by God because male and females were made for each other so that they would become one-complete person in God’s sight. But the world’s system fights this and passes laws to protect perversion because they follow Satan and rebel against God’s natural order for life.
Female Submission to Male Authority
Genesis 3:16 (7KB)
16 Then he said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”
It is part of the fallen sin nature within all women to have a desire to control their own husbands. This is rebellion against God’s natural order because God created the woman to be a helpmeet to the man and therefore God created the woman for the man and God intended that the woman submit to her male authority and allow her man to operate in his God-given position of authority in the home.
1 Corinthians 11:9-11 (7KB)
9 for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.
10 Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
11 In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
The woman was created for the man therefore it is a biblical principle that the wife should submit to her own husband because the one created for the man is to submit to her man and allow him to be head of the household. A symbol of authority on her head speaks of her coming under the spiritual covering of authority of her husband. Angels are involved in answering prayers of the husband and his wife but if the woman is not submissive to her husband and to his leadership then there is confusion within that household. The households of believers are to have the man as the head of the home and his wife submissive to his leadership. They are not to behave like those of the world who push gender-equality and have two heads in the household which is perversion in God’s sight.
See the lesson “Head Covering and Submission” for more details.
But all of this is part of human worship to God when the believers seek to know God’s will and then conform themselves to it. Rather than adjusting God’s word to fit the ways of the world they will adapt themselves to the word of God with the man assuming leadership in the home and the wife submitting to her husband’s authority. It is an act of worship to conform with the standards of God’s word rather than altering God’s word to fit their own preconceived human ideas that flow with the ways of the world’s system inspired by Satan. Satan is the author of all confusion and disorder and he is the inventor of gender-equality and this perversion has entered into the carnal church and even modern bible translators have altered the bible accordingly.
Example of Altering God’s Word
1 Timothy 3:12 (NASB)
12 Deacons must be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own households.
The office of deacon is a male-only office because the requirements of God’s word state that the deacon is to be the husband of a wife. Only men can be husbands so it is evident that this is an all-male ministry office. No woman can be a deacon because a woman cannot be a husband of a wife because only men can be husbands.
See the link “Alteration to Invent “Deaconesses” for more details.
So the carnal Christians have a problem promoting their gender-equality of the world’s system (which they love so much) into the church when in fact women are banned from leadership positions be virtue of the fact that deacons and all of the Fivefold Ministry gifts of Apostle, Prophet, Teacher, Pastor, and Evangelist are all-male offices requiring that these men be husbands of a wife and that they have their households in order with their wives in submission and their children obedient.
1 Timothy 3:5 (NASB)
5 (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),
If any man in any of the leadership positions in the church (which includes the Fivefold ministry and deacons) does not have his household in order then he is disqualified from these leadership positions. These leaders are to serve as examples to the congregation because it is God’s will that every household of the entire congregation come into full maturity and have their own households in order. If a man cannot rule his own household it is a sign of spiritual immaturity and it is as if he is still wearing diapers and using a baby bottle. No baby is able to lead others when they have to be carried around and bottle-fed and have their diapers changed. Only those who are fully mature and have their own households in order are qualified to lead the church and hold any of the offices of the Fivefold ministry or even that of a deacon. A deacon does natural service in the church so if a man’s household is not in order he is not even qualified for the least role in the church and cannot even sweep the floor in God’s house!
1 Timothy 2:12-14 (NIV2011)
12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
God’s word reveals that women are prone to deception and are easily deceived by the devil and therefore unfit for leadership positions. Women are not permitted to teach or assume authority over any men so this qualification bars women from any of the Fivefold ministry offices because they cannot teach a mix-gender congregation or they would be assuming authority over men and teaching men. This is unnatural because God does not permit women to teach men or assume authority over them.
Women will always introduce feminine thinking into the pulpit and focusing only on God’s love and mercy while they ignore the masculine traits of God judging sinners and requiring humans to obey his standards found in the bible. So, these women preachers remove the fear of the Lord from the congregation and paint an image of God as being a big “sugar-daddy” God who winks at sin and hands out hugs and kisses to everyone (including unrepentant sinners who are living in rebellion for decades without repenting). Feminine thinking in the pulpit is perversion for this reason and results in the carnal church losing the fear of the Lord and they become worldly and defiled and will end up in hell for a lack of masculine teaching which brings the fear of the Lord!
Titus 2:3-5 (NASB)
3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,
4 so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.
Older godly women who are Levite woman can teach younger women to love and edify their husbands and to love their children (who need a mother’s love to develop normally). The role of women teachers is restricted to mature Levite women teaching younger women their proper God-given role in the home. They are not to assume teaching positions over men in any capacity because this breaks biblical precedent.
Matthew 7:24-27 (NASB)
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
25 “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.
26 “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
27 “The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
God’s word is compared to a rock and the rock of God’s word is the principles that believers are to live by to order their lives according to God’s divine order. Those believers who study God’s word and apply these principles to their lives are like a home owner who built his house upon a solid rock foundation. When the storms of life come and rain falls and floods beat against that house and the winds blow hard then those believers who built their lives on the word of God will stand. They will not fall when the storms of life test them. But those who ignore the word of God or they take away from God’s word or add their own human ideas to God’s word will not stand when disaster strikes because they are not founded upon the unshakable rock of God’s word.
Removing from God’s Word
There are churches which teach that healing has passed away and therefore this teaching stops people from receiving healing. This is an example of removing from God’s word by negating the scriptures about healing.
But if a person attends a dead denominational church which teaches doctrines of demons that healing has passed away then they will be in trouble when the satanic storms of disease attack their bodies. Where will they go for help when they are taught that healing as passed away? They will become victims of the devil because they believed his demonic lies that healing has passed away!
This is an example of removing things from the word of God (like healing) so that the devil has free license to wreak havoc with their human bodies because they have no knowledge to resist the devil.
See the link “Factors that Affect Healing” for more details.
Attending a church or denomination that teaches doctrines of demons can result in people dying a premature death when they embrace the devil’s goods (of sickness and disease) rather than resisting them. If these people are taught that sickness is of God, they will embrace it rather than resist it. But they are also not logical because the same people will take medicine to be healed while at the same time declaring God gave them the sickness to teach them a lesson. If God gave them a sickness (like a boil) then they should poke that boil with a rusty nail to make the infection worse so that they can really get into the will of God more fully! Why are they taking medicine to get healed if God is making them sick? This is not logical because the devil’s lies are always crazy and it is the devil who taught them that sickness is of God so that those deceived by this demonic doctrine will embrace the devil’s goods instead of resisting them.
Offence at God’s Word
1 Peter 2:8 (7KB)
8 and, “A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.
The word of God is like a rock or a stone that causes offense because God’s instructions contradict the ways of the world and go contrary to the sin nature that dwells within humans. There is a tendency for all women seek to control their husband and this is evidence of the fallen sin nature of Eve within them. Eve also assumed leadership over her husband and ate the forbidden fruit and gave this fruit to Adam after she had already fallen and died spiritually. This is an example of a female assuming leadership over her husband and this female leadership brought a curse to the entire earth!
See the link “Sin Nature of Eve” for more details.
There is offense at the word of God every time it comes into conflict with the fallen sin nature in humans who do not want to obey it or submit to it. Scriptures that speak of wife submission are offensive to women liberation and gender-equality of the world’s system and worldly carnal women rebel and want to remove that from the bible so they do not have to obey it.
Jesus Our Rock
1 Corinthians 10:4 (NIV)
4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
The Lord is also called a rock just as God’s word is also called a rock and this speaks of something that is unchanging or eternal. Only those who use an iron tool on a rock and cut it will alter the way a natural rock was created. In the same way God’s principles govern all that is natural on earth and they have to be polluted or defiled by layman theologians and false bible translators to add things to the word of God that did not previously exist.
Romans 9:33 (7KB)
33 As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
Anytime that people stumble over what God has said in his word then it means they resist the truth of God’s word and would prefer to cut it or alter it so that they do not have to comply with that which they do not want to obey.
Luke 6:47-49 (7KB)
47 I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice.
48 He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock.
49 But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”
Again, Jesus teaches that the study and application of God’s word is like building a house upon a foundation of rock This is the purpose of the real church on earth to teach believers how to apply the word of God to their lives. Those who build their lives upon the principles of God’s word will never be shaken by the storms of life because they are founded upon the rock of God’s word.
Exodus 20:25 (7KB)
25 If you use stones to build my altar, use only natural, uncut stones. Do not shape the stones with a tool, for that would make the altar unfit for holy use.
If the stones of God’s altar were cut with an iron tool then they were unfit for holy use. Only natural whole stones could be used in making an altar for God for the purpose of worship. In the same way, God’s word is like a natural whole stone and it is not to be cut or altered by humans who seek to give themselves freedom to follow their sin nature by changing God’s word.
If women do not want to submit to their husbands, they can find a bible translation that alters the scriptures about wife submission. If the layman wants to intrude into the ministry, they can find bible translations that authorize laymen to enter the ministry. But submission to the word of God is an act of worship and altering God’s word by adding human ideas to it or removing things from God’s word (saying it has passed away) or in any way adapting the word of God to suit the human sin nature is polluting God’s word.
Never should a believer alter the clear word of God or follow polluted translations of the bible that give themselves a license to sin. Any time that the word of God is altered or adjusted to suit humans then it is polluted. Why engage in such pretense and self-deception of pretending they are obeying God’s word (when in fact it has been altered to suit them)? If they want to break God’s word then they can discard it altogether and jump both feet into the world’s system and become completely defiled and go to hell together with the world. Why play games of altering the word of God so they can have women serve as deacons in the church or have women preachers in the pulpit or have women assuming leadership over husbands in the home. Rather than altering the word of God by added to it or taking away from it or adjusting it with footnotes then they should just discard it altogether and become a godless “heathen” and stop playing games with God’s word. Those who pretend to be Christians but alter God’s word to avoid obeying it will have a much greater damnation than the unbelievers that go to hell.
It is a large piece of self-deception for believers to alter God’s word in order to avoid having to obey what God has said.