WHAT THE APOSTLES TAUGHT by Dr Anthony K Stevens I have spent much time meditating about what the apostles taught that had the authorities, the people, and the church leaders want to kill them. I have asked the spirit of Christ to help me understand this. The following is what I think they taught. The purpose of this paper is to give you things that you can meditate about with the spirit of Christ. Jesus Christ suffered for our sins in the garden of gethsemane. He was literally sent to hell. Satan and his follower told God that most of the people in heaven had sinned against people who were now in hell. If God would send Jesus Christ to hell then those sins would not be held against those people. This was simply an eternal concept that God agreed to so that eternal justice would prevail. Satan and his followers thought that they would convert Jesus Christ to be one of their followers and certainly the hosts of hell would be able to force their influence on Christ to tear him down. This was and is a great lie of satan and hell that they are the greater people and they have the true power. When Christ got to hell, all of the spirits there descended upon Him with their lies and hatred. Understand that the biggest lie of spirits of evil is that they lie to themselves that they are the real power and should be in charge of heaven or the afterlife. Christ took this pressure and responded with Love and the Spirit of truth. It is beyond our comprehension to understand the strength of Christ to withstand them and push back with Love and the Spirit of truth. A power of the spirit of truth is that the other spirits see that they are lieing. It causes them to see into themselves and see their lies. This was a great pain to them and they wanted Christ gone and pushed out of hell and back into the world. It is fine to celibrate Christmas and Christ dieing on the cross for us, but the main suffering He endured was in the garden of gethsemane and was were he suffered to remove our sins. Be aware that this was only one night to us, but the spirit world does not have time and we can not imagine how long in our point of view that Christ suffered in hell. Our purpose in life is to grow. We are to suffer in a small way the same as Christ did. This world is ran by satan and his influence. His follower in hell and his followers in this world will push us thoughout our life to accept their values. Judgement day is a choice: Do you want God or Satan ways. Satan's ways are hate, force and control, lies(manipulation), gain(taking from others), God's ways are love, helping, freedom, truth. You will not be able to lie on judgement day. Satan rules on this earth. Of course, we get the support of God's spirits if we request them. They insure that we will not be tempted beyond our capability. But it is our choice. We will fight similar to the way Christ did our whole life. Of course, we want to say that we will choose God and the joy of heaven and most will. But most in this world choose the ways of satan and that is the purpose of this paper to explain what people like about satan's world. When you go to judgement you will have to tell the truth about what you want and the values you have. In a nutshell, the apostles taught how satan was running this world and men were going along with his values. Satan said to Christ that the power and glory of the world was his and he would give it to Christ or whomever would worship him. We must understand that satan is the power on this earth and he is controlling man. We are here to learn about satan and determine that we do not want what he has to offer. But be clear that the world is full of satan's ways and we are here to learn that. The point is that we should be studying satan. Satan's ways are: POWER GAIN AND GLORY. These are not the values or desires of heaven. But, man gravitates to them. GLORY is that man or a man thinks that he should rule over other men. It is his desire to be in charge and boss other people around. Christ said that it was the evil of one man above another. POWER is that you prove or show the man above you that you will do as he wants or he will hurt you. ex: fire you, excommunicate you, imprison you, demote you, give you crummy tasks, etc. GAIN is taking what other men produce just because to are above them. To progress well in this world you need to learn how to show the men in power that you will do as they say, mainly, lie to support them. You flatter them that they are great and you will do as as they say or want. Those with Glory are not part of the production. In fact, they look on production as what lesser people do. They are to be in charge and get the main profit or gain from the production. Christ's system is no one man above another. You could say that the secret handshakes of following satan's followers is that you prove how you will kiss their ass. Be aware that most men who follow the ways of satan and are under his influence say that they are not satan worshippers and do not belong to any satan organization. This is mostly true, but they do follow his ways and values to the point that most religions attribute these values to God's ways or kingdom. All organizations in this world will be infiltrated by men who values and desires are power, gain and glory. Alma saw this in the beginning of the organization of the church of his day. All organizations begin to have levels of men, one being higher that others. The levels in all the organizations on earth have 10, 20, 30 levels of men above other men. The problem is that men at higher levels do not have to know the specifics of the production of the organization. They are just there to be incharge and tell the men below them to get the job done. Of course, there is some kind of accounting such as we sold this much or we had this many converts, but they are not directly involved with producing the money or converts. They are just in charge of those below them. Honest men could fill these positions and be trying to help with the production, but there is still the opportunity for men who only care about power, gain and glory to acquire these positions. They surround themselves with people who support them and reward those who support them and punish those who do not. More and more of these type of men will continue to infiltrate the levels of organizations. We see in this world that in the end they run the organization into the ground because these kind of men fill all the levels of management. In the end, government, business and church leadership is simply a burden to the people and there is no progress. We will study the specifics of how this has worked in the US later. It is important to understand that lieing and deception become normal in all of these organization. As part of your learning experience in life, you may have one of these positions. You must then reflect in yourself if you are being honest - mostly to yourself. Are you learning how the values of satan are in play. Do you sincerely not see the personal value of power, gain and glory. Do you feel that you are no better than the people in the bottom of the organization. Again, we are in this world to see how satan would structure things, actually how hell is. I repeat here, most in this world think that its structure is fine. The description of heaven and hell is difficult for men as we are just children in comparison to the beings in heaven. When a man goes to heaven he progresses for eternity in love and truth. God's love shows the truth about yourself so that you can learn to love more. God is infinite in his love and we want to learn to be as He is. We want to help others and do. There is no one man above another in heaven, there are no levels. Heaven is a place of freedom and you can associate with whom you like. The spirits in hell do not want to be in heaven where they see the truth about their hate and lack of love and selfishness. Hell is not being in heaven. In hell, they lie to self and each other and say how they will rule heaven someday. They say that they are the great ones and have been cheated. They hate the spirits in heaven and claim they stole their right to rule over them. In hell, they set up their structure based power, gain and glory just as we see how they have influenced it on this earth. God does torture them in hell. Their hate and angry is the fire and brimstone. They will manipulate each other and use each other trying to force and control others. Everything is based on lies. All of them lie to others and brag about how great they were when on earth. For our progression, God lets them influence us on this earth. They brag about all the evil things they get us to do. Yes, there are delights in hell, but they are the same kind of delights that bullies get in this life. In summary, heaven is freedom, love and truth. Hell is lies, hate, anger, and force and control. We will now go thru some examples. The first I choose is churches and I will begin with the LDS church as that is the one that I have been in and studied. If you are in the LDS church, I am not saying that you are not suppose to be. It has good people and can give you support. It can be the experience that God want you to go thru. The important thing is that you are following the spirit of Christ and asking Him or God to direct your life to get the experiences best for your growth. But be aware that the biggest experience you will have is to see how satan's values are controlling and getting stronger in this world. The LDS church began with the BofM which explains the evils of priestcraft and explains how satan's values are accepted by the people. After the BofM came forth believers in it gathered together. At that time, these people also read the works of Swedenborg which contain much of what is called Mormon doctrine. One of his teachings was that Jesus Christ had already returned to earth, but resided in a location where only the true followers of Christ could come. Its name was the New Jerusalem. The followers of the BofM and Joseph Smith traveled to find the New Jersalem. They were a very righteous people who had many healings, they spoke often in their congregation by the power of the Holy Ghost and they believed in following the spirit of Christ. They believed in eternal progression and were a very productive and industrious people. At a gathering of what could be called their leaders, Joseph Smith told Signey Rigdon to lay his hands on Joseph's head and ordain him to the Melchezedik priesthood. Many good people came to join with those who had gathered to be followers of the BofM and it is fair to say of Joseph Smith. But also men came like Rigdon and Bennett who wanted to create a big church. This is the first we saw priestcraft start to come in. In the BofM, Alma said that when they created a big church men of priestcraft immediatedly began to infiltrate it. Again these are men who want power, gain, and glory. The glory is based mostly on having one man above another. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was created and grew with many good Christians coming to join. As the church grew, the three witnesses to the BofM left the church as they could see that it was following the path of the Church created by Alma in the BofM and knew that this was not good. The main feature was having one man above another. As time went on, the church declared that the head of the church was a Prophet, Seer and Revelator. But there was no evidence that he was. The church also began using the Book of Commandments which were revelations by Joseph Smith. The first chapter of this book was a revelation to Joseph telling him not to publish this book. That chapter was removed. After time, the members of the church sustained this book as scripture. No revelation, no witnesses. The point of this is that man was now saying that they had the power to determine scripture. The church grew and moved to Salt Lake City. They told the people that they should come to SLC because it was the New Jersalem and Jesus Christ was the leader of the Church. Many good christians came to Utah. Again they were a righteous and industrious people as most of the member are today. But we begin to see how lofty lies were being introduced to glorify the church and its leaders. The fourth President institued tithing on all of the members increase. This was the beginning of the leaders wanting gain which is taken from the people they are over. As time went on the tithing was changed to be on everything that a member earned. As the years passed the church began to buy corporations where the leaders were included in the leadership of this corporation so that they could get more gain. The members were motivated my giving them more glory. They were told the lie that they had the Melchizedek Priesthood which was given to them by Peter James and John. Today that has increased in that most men are now High Priests after the order of Melchizedek. Members are told that men can give them a temple recommend which means that they will be exalted in the next life. The promises of great glory is a major enticement to the good members of the church and they do not see that the offers of glory(being above others) are what Satan offers. In heaven, we exist as a family with God being our Father in Heaven. We do not desire to be above others. It is your desire to help others. Satan takes much pleasure that members of religions like his values. The actual values of Satan are not taught in churches. When the apostles taught that all organizations would be infiltrated by men that use Satan's rewards, most leaders and people in those organizations wanted to kill them. Satan's values are power, gain, and glory. These are lies. There is no value in them. The biggest power used by these men are to demote or fire those who do not go along with them. The LDS church does not allow those who do not accept these to progress in the leadership. If a member is strong in his values to not be controlled and to push that we follow the spirit of Christ, not the church leadership, he is excommunicated or chastised until he leaves the church. It is then said that he is a son of perdition and will be tortured by God for all eternity. God does not torture people in hell. They have been cast out of heaven and exist in their own place where they live with power, gain and glory. They lie mostly to themselves that they are great. They hurt others that do not agree with them. They do exactly what is being done on this earth now. Everyone talks about the influence of satan and evil spirits in this world, but amazinly they claim that satan and his followers are in hell being torured with fire and brimstone. God allows them on this earth for men to learn that they do not want the values of Satan. The BofM says that satan will say, I am no devil for there is none. Again we see that Satan has men believing that he does not exist. This also means that the values in this world are not his. If you teach of his values, you are considered the bad person. Of course we can call on Jesus Christ and the spirits of heaven to help us and protect us from satan in this world and most people do. Nonetheless, most also are enticed by the values of satan. Christ told us to meet together. It is fine for Mormons or members of any church to go to their congregations and get the support of others. But, they should also be away of the power in their churches that are trying to control and get them to follow men. We will now discuss how organizations are controlled by satan using power, gain, and glory. Glory is getting a position above others. The positions are gotten because these people believe that they have a right to be above others. This is a lie of satan, but they enjoy that lie. Of course, there are people who have positions that do not follow satan and just want to do a good job, but those who follow satan think they are just better than others and should be glorified (they do not use that term). As time goes on in an organization, they surround themselves with people that are the same as they are. The point is that the organization becomes more and more corrupt or more and more have the spirit of satan. Most will not believe themselves that they follow satan, but they enjoy the lie of satan that they are to be above others. In their postion, they accomplish little or nothing. They are just there to be in charge. They constantly lie that they are in charge and taking care of everything. Again we see that they live in lies. If you do not go along with them then they hurt you because they are in the postions to have power over you. Of course, they should have gain. They have produced nothing, but they get the large share of the production of others, ie, their salaries are greater the higher they are in the organization, even though they do nothing of value. Again, do not think that all in leadership are evil, many are trying to do a real job, but you will see that fewer and fewer of honest men exist in the leadership. The bottom line is that this is satan's world and its organizations will become more and more evil. Including that they think that they have a right to have sex with children and women. We will begin with studying the legal system of our country. Notice now that it is a legal system, not a justice system. The ABA was formed by men and they worked to gain position and authority (Glory). They took control of the justice system and made it so that only people who they gave a license to could appear in their legal system. The system has grown and grown with more and more levels. The lawyers are now considered great people and receive much pay (gain that they did not produce anything for). Their pay comes from the people, ie, they are stealing it from the people. If you oppose them, they can take you to court and sue you and take everything you own (power). Paul told us that the common man should make the rulings and that was the way it was before the ABA. What sense does it make that a man goes to a school sanctioned by the ABA for two years and that makes him know better that a righteous man what is right or wrong. The legal system has removed God from its courts. Did not satan's influence then replace God's? Most people say "no". Just as satan said "I am no devil for there is none". This is a clear example of how people walk away from God, but say that they do not follow satan's influence. One of satan's best lies in the court system is that truth is whatever you can prove in court. Do not all followers of God have a conscience and can determine truth. The lawyers say no, it is only what they prove in court??? Satan is the father of lies. This is a clear example of it. The legal system is an example of satan's priestcraft of Power, Gain, and Glory. Are there any righteous lawyers? Yes. This is their experience in life/satan's world. And there are honest lawyers, but they still live on a high income that was taken from the people as a justice system is free or at very low cost. Of course there are lawyers that are not really part of the legal system who are trying to help people. Government is an entity that many people think or act like it is a god. Government is made up of people who seek position and power. It grows and grows and grows. It continues to enact more and more laws and regulations to control the people. The BofM says that there should only be as many laws as the common man knows them all. One must ask what qualifications do the people in government have to control the people. They are political scientists. They are not trained in how to produce. Frankly, they are incompetent in running the economy and governing the people. Why does government have to increase continually in its power and size? The US was the economic power by far on earth and the people were the most prosperous. As government has grown freedom and prosperity has decreased. Taxation continues to rise. Tax on wages did not exist in the past. The government instituted a small income tax on the increase of the very rich. Then it lied and changed the meaning of income to include wages. Men can no longer have private property. Men must now pay government a rent for the property they own, ie, the government owns it. Most say that they still have private property. Stop paying your property taxes and the government reposes the property. It is a rent. The government was not allowed to own land in the past. The government now owns massive amounts of land. Who is the government that they now own land. They are men who want control. They are men who study how to lie. The government leaders LIE that they are helping the people. This immediately is a sign that they enjoy the rewards of satan or enjoy the values of satan. People in government use to be called public servants. That term has went to the wayside. Now they are controllers and have great glory and power. They steal the gain of the people. The government produces nothing. The people have not been taught that government has become the reflection of satan's values of power, gain, and glory. They were taught this in the 1800s. Before discussing satan in business. A review of what type of men seek satan's power, gain and glory is good. These men take pride that they can work the system and manipulate people. This pride is a lie of satan. These men lie to themselves and puff themselves up that they are the smart ones and greater than others. These self lies are what satan and those in hell live on. This is the pleasure and motivation of hell. Satan has gotten much control of this world such that these concepts are not taught in church or anywhere else. At best, these type concepts may be taught or discussed in some books or classes, but they are not attributed to satan and that satan uses them to gain control of men and this world. Nor is it taught in churches that removing our desire for the reward of these concepts are the main purpose of our life. They do not exist in heaven. I must repeat that God does not care to be above anyone, He loves all, He wants you to see Him as your father. Businesses have continued to grow. As they grow they create management levels. This is an example of how one man above another does not stop. As men desire the glory of higher positions they continue to create more levels. After the second level the managers are not in contact with the actual production of the product that the company produces. In fact, the vast majority are incompetent to accompish the job of the producers. Yet they require those below them to praise them and they get much larger salaries (the gain of the producers). To gain more position they surround themselves with people who support them. Yes, these are people who lie about how great these people are. There are those who brag about how good they are at using the SYSTEM to progress in the company. Notice that the system and the company are based on lies. They are lies that are done with a smile on the face and an air that everything is wonderful in the company. As the leadership of incompetence grows the quality of the product and the purpose of the company decreases. Of course, they need good people to actually produce, so there are promotions and pay increases, but there are also those in charge filling positions with their incompetent supporters. The way people and products progress is by learning by mistake. In life we make errors/sin and see weakness in ourselves. We then work on that weakness to make us stronger. We will do this for eternity, increasing in love and help to others. One of the big downfalls of companies is that the people who identify mistakes and work to correct them are identified with those mistakes. In fact, they are blamed for the mistakes. Of course, all managers say that they would never do that, but they lie, mostly to themselves. Understand that they probably do not even understand the problem. Also, most of these problems should have been identified and corrected by them. But they are incompetent so they hurt the people who are actually solving problems to cover up their own incompetence. This is their power. They can get rid of the people who do not support their incompetence.These are satan's methods and throughout history have resulted in the downfall of economies. Yes, almost all businesses follow this path of satan to there downfall.This is what hell is and what goes on there with an understanding that there are no good people/productive people there to use. Most of these leaders and followers do not think that they follow satan. In fact, they would be angry if you said so. We are not allowed to teaching the values of satan as it shows that most leaders and their supports are following satan's values which means that satan is in control as he claims. Good people have been taught that people who teach of the real way satan works in this world are OUT OF IT. If you are an honest manager or producers who cares about the product and making it better and helping your customers, good, this is the attitude that is in heaven. You will love and help others for eternity, not caring if you are above them or if you get anything from them. Years ago the American Medical Association took over the medical industry. To be a doctor you must get a license approved by the AMA. Doctors are given much glory. In other countries, a doctor is at the technical level needing only a four year degree. Medics in the military need only technical training and can do what doctors do. The AMA has taken over the drug industry. Who are they to determine who gets what drugs. More over, the medical industry pushes their patients with more and more of their drugs. If you get drugs from anyone but them, then they have created the power to send you to jail. They take great glory in being a doctor and they take large gain from the people to be a doctor. Medical schools are increasing and making it easier to graduate. The industry needs more sickness to increase the industry. Cancer is an example. Naturopaths have had cures for cancer for years, but the income from cancer treatment is very high so a cure by the medical industry is not desireable. Heart surgery is very profitable and has increased over 100 fold. If the medical industry is curing everyone, why does it continue to grow. There are computer programs and websites that will give anyone the same information as a doctor has concerning their illness or problem. Why is a doctor the only one that is allowed to treat people with any drug or procedure using whatever equipment available. To say that the values of satan and satan's influence is guiding the medical industry is considered ridiculous. Yes, satan is controlling this world and people do not want to believe it. Satan has created a world where people are not allowed to explain his influence. His influence is so strong that most believe that it does not exist, ie, he has convinced them that he is not a devil for there is none. God's kingdom is freedom. You have the right to choose your own medical care. Satan's kingdom is force and control. The NEA is a labor union, but it has taken over the public education system for the entire country. The administrators get large salaries with large retirement. This is all taken from the pockets of the people. The education of the students continues to erode which means they are eroding the product they are suppose to produce. Everyone in the school system is given great praise. Their power is that they can force your children to attend their schools and your children can be taken from you if they do not. You have no say over what is taught. They have purposely removed God from the schools. They teach evolution for science. Evolution has been proven to be ridiculous. They want the complete control of how your children think and it is according to atheism. The students are graded on respect for authority and a determination that you do not respect authority it is a black mark that is on your records for the rest of your life. Who is this authority? It is men. The children and our society is being taught to put their trust in men, not God. Why should you have to prove that you follow men if you are doing you school work and passing. Why is this such an important thing in the schools. Who pushed it, satan. Most teachers and administrators do not see or think they are following the promptings of satan. It is obvious that the entire education system is based on power, gain, and glory. It teaches the student to desire the lies and values of satan. Most people think that satan is just evil acts of bad people. When a person robs someone, they have taken power over the other person's property and they brag about what they got (power, gain, and glory). The greatest evil is pedophilia. The man as the power over the child to get his lusts. He thinks that he has taken the child's virtue for himself. He claims that he is a great man that he is allowed to have children for is lusts. The power, gain and glory of priestcraft are defined as the power over other people, gain is taking what others produced or have, glory is that you are better than other men and should be above them. Glory is to be praised by men and to have the power to hurt others to show their power. They enjoy hurting others and putting them down gives them a feeling that they are great. These are the values of hell, but the biggest value is lies where they claim to others and self that they are not trying to hurt anyone, they love. God does not want worship. We kneel to humble ourselves and ask Him for help. He wants us to desire Him to prepare the way for our growth. The worship of God as taught in most churches is the way that satan wants to be worshipped. Another sign of how satan has gotten control of the world with his lies. Note that worship is just another word that describes glory - how men want other men to serve them. And what is the biggest desire in life that most agree they want, "for others to serve them". Just another way of saying power, gain, and glory. When you go to work, you should want to produce a good product and help your customers. You should want to help others. No matter what level you are at, you should desire this. In this life you work and produce and help others. This is what you will do in heaven. Yes, you should prosper as Jesus said his followers would. The whole world would prosper if we did it God's way. This earth was designed for prosperity. For example, there is all the oil we could possibly want, but people who want power and glory have taken control of it in order to control people. There is plenty of lumber, but people have taken control of it and they do not allow companies to gather the waste after fires which hurts the forrest. They do not allow forrests to be thinned which helps the tree grown. Men want to control others and lie to do this. At judgement day, people who are working on themselves to help and love others will go to heaven. Those who desire glory and to control others and to hurt others will be cast out.