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Ancient Antiochene Church of God Home Sanctum
We
thank God that His true church has continued to fulfill its mission. Through
many storms of life, it has traveled. The church is the “bride of Christ” on
planet Earth and she is pregnant with the saints – the begotten children of
God. This is the mystery of the church. To the world, the Christian “church” seems
to just be a group of fanatics who meet together once a week for a “shin-dig”. The
true Christian perspective sees the church as a mystical-living body. The true
church is an organism and not an organization.
Each church member must be realized as an adopted and
begotten child of Divine Intelligence. Each person in the church has his or her
purpose in serving. All serve to help each other’s cause. This kind of
understanding is missing in the fallen churches.
The true work of the church is to bring redemption to the
lost soul. The true church is not a place of amusement. It is also not just a
place of social reform or “social service”. Many churches have become physical
food stores just to keep membership. Many churches have incorporated self-help
programs and other groups to gain enough to keep the door open. Keeping a
church active is tricky today. Ancient Antiochene Christians have realized that
home worship is the most important. All Antiochian Christians have a personal
“home-sanctum”. Here is a special place where a table is set up that has a
religious icon of some sort displayed on it. Many use the battery candles now
and have one on the table. This little altar is a place to pray and meditate on
the things of the Lord. Using incense is also nice. Keep something to do with
“nature” on your altar, like a small stone, piece of bark, etc. is nice.
You may put whatever is special to you on your altar. The
idea is also to keep it somewhat simple. Many like to place a cross and or
Bible seen picture on the altar. Some have a picture of a close family member,
pet, or friend. We all need to have our sacred “closet prayer” place.
Christians who have begun the Antiochene Home-Altar practice have testified how
it has changed their life in good powerful ways within just a manner of days.
Some Antiochian’s have a shelf in their bedroom where their
altar is displayed. Some homes have made an entire room to be a home-sanctum –
like a small “house church” room. People set up these items for
themselves and how they are led to do so. Each sanctum carries a reflection of
its beholder. Antiochian Christians also awake with prayer, pray throughout the
day (over all food meals), and with others when possible, and at night before
bed. Reading Scripture daily along with a favorite book or two and maybe a
devotional – these are important practices of the true Christian.
Walks of Silence
Ancient Antiochene Christians have also the tradition of
taking a daily walk. Some do this in the morning, some during the day, some at
evening and night. Some are privileged to take more than one walk a day. This
is a good practice. During some of these walks we learn to meditate on
something that we believe that God is revealing to us. We get new insight as we
study and read. Personal study is extremely important.
We have come to call these special walks the “Walks of
Silence”. We say silence not to mean that there is no communication
going on, but instead we mean that a mystical communication has started.
Going to a healthy Christian church is also desired. Meeting with other Christians in at least some kind of Bible study is also to be desired. The taking of the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is important – this should be done more than once a year – best if done every week, always with other Christians.
As True Christians we believe in Freedom of Religion,
freedom for each of us to choose (or not choose) his or her own spiritual path.
Our Spiritual Path is our own choice. We also believe that the Ancient
Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the past have handed down our Christian Wisdom and
“religion” through numerous ages and dispensations of time. We believe that our
true faith has been protected throughout time and is still being protected
today by God’s Church, the Ancient Antiochene Church of God. We also believe in
Freedom of Speech and that gives us a right to share with those who have eyes
to see and ears to hear.
As
True Christians we do not believe in forcing beliefs against one’s own
conscious. Nor do we believe that our religion is meant to take over the entire
globe. We thank God for the freedoms that we still have, especially in America.
We use our God given wisdom and understanding to help prevent wars and
violence. We share a universal message of One God, and Forgiveness, Acceptance,
Peace, and Love.
Truly
free Christians
The Christian message is not an amalgamation of ideas
barrowed from Plato, Philo or the Send-avesta. Jesus the Christ states; “All
who ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear
them.” (John 10:8) It is not that God did not reveal sound theological ideas to
and through others, because He did. At one point God gave (implanted) truth
regarding monotheism to those pagans living in foreign lands such as pharaoh
Akhenaton – Son of the Sun.
The Bible teaches that we are created spirits. When
God placed our spirits into flesh, He gave us our souls. The souls are breathed
into us; hence the soul is likened to breath. The soul in the Greek is psyche.
It is your God given individuality, your person – personality. This includes
gifts. All humans have been given gifts. The Greek word psyche is where we get
the word psychology – the study of the soul. Everybody has an individual and
different soul.
We are not emanations from God in the sense of a
spirit (our gift of eternal life) that travels down through layers of
progressive degeneration. We are given one gift of life; we are not
reincarnated souls. The idea of reincarnation teaches that you earn your
salvation (proper relationship) with Divine Intelligence, on your own through
your own effort. This would mean that without God, on your own, you could
become God. This would mean that each time you are reborn into a body of
matter, you are automatically infected with sin again – doing the same thing
over and over again yet expecting different results. This is a fallen pagan
idea – heresy.
We do mature through a personal relationship with God
but we earn nothing. We are the created – creature – we are not the Creator.
God is Almighty, this is something that the fallen Human nature fights against.
Pride is the root of most all false doctrine. Everybody wants to be God. We
live in the Fallen Matrix. The virus of sin, which is terminal, can only be
cured through perfection, only God is perfect. Perfection cannot be earned by
something that is spiritually dead. All Humans are dead in their trespasses and
sin.
Thus, true salvation is gifted to us through God the
Son. Aristobulus and Philo introduced much fallen doctrine into Alexandria. The
Alexandrian Christian school, early on, became infected with false doctrine
that had been planted there from early years. The true Christians started in
Ancient Antioch (Syria), where we were first called Christian (Acts 11:26). To
understand the true teachings of Christianity one must accept Jesus Christ as
his or her personal Savior and become part of the First Church – His bride.
As true Christians we understand that pure doctrine,
correct Christian teaching, does not derive from the intermingling of oriental
and occidental religions and philosophies. It is true that Satan has mixed
Truth with error, he has done that since the beginning. It is very important to
read the Word of God and study it with the true church. You truly must be born
of the Spirit to gain proper understanding – you must become a true child of
God. The true faith is found in the teachings of the early church and it is also
a fact that God continues to reveal better understandings of His word
throughout time. Drinking from this water we never thirst again.
We fully understand the fact that God, through the
process of eclecticism and syncretism, spoke to all ancient civilizations
through many different religious expressions. We believe that all of these
“shadows” and “types” pointed to the ultimate revelation of Jesus the Christ.
We respect the fact that God has been merciful to all
cultures and peoples. World religions have special messages given to them by
the One true God. We learn to see God where we never could before.
As true Christians we fulfill the law to “love one
another.” We welcome all those who are truly awakening to their election.
Please stay with us here at “The Shepherds Way” and “Nugget of Truth”. All
baptized (by the water and the Word) Christians are welcome. As you grow
continue to share what God reveals to you to others. Be the Light in this dark
world.
If you are not a baptized Christian yet, find a good
protestant church and get baptized!
The complete revelation of God, our starting point,
is the person of Jesus Christ. We are to learn from all past religious
experiences and philosophies in light of the New Revelation, the revelation of
Jesus the Christ. We are the Children of Light by God’s grace and mercy.
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
AACG (July 9th 2026)
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Antiochene Theology Contemplations
Here are some short thoughts from Presbyter King – a
compilation from some past writings. These will be thought provoking. Each
statement contains a mystery that must not be overlooked. The Antiochene
controversy begins to unfold ~ Once forbidden mysteries now revealed.
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“As true Christians we serve Divine
Intelligence, the only true God [Hashem]. Throughout all the Aeon’s our God
exists and fills all things. In Him we live, move, and have our being. (Acts
17:28) In the silence of His spiritual presence, we breathe and come to
understanding. (Psalm 46:10) We serve the Almighty.” (From: “Coming into
Space”, By Presbyter King – Aug. 3rd 2024)
“Eventually many saints will return and rule with
Christ as kings and priests for 1000 years on a restored planet Earth to
fulfill the Davidic Covenant in our current Space-Time Continuum.” (From:
“Introduced to the Heavens”, By Presbyter King – 2024)
“As for those who reject the
resurrection of the body, they do not understand that the entire Pleroma will
be renewed, at the Restoration of All-things. This will include glorified
bodies. St. Paul confirms this under inspiration. There will be New Heavens and
a New Earth. We worship the True God”, From: “This, we hold to.”, By Presbyter
King – Aug. 4th 2024)
“Satan is the craftsman of this Fallen Matrix - these
lower heavens in which ye dwell. The world has become blinded by the senses.
Most all seek short term pleasure in the feelings and the senses. The material
world feeds the fallen senses as if throwing vomit forth to feed pigs. The
material world has but mere shadows of the pristine realities awaiting the
saints. It is through the true Christian knowledge which comes out of the
Ancient Antiochene Church of God that gives articulation and explanation of the
true human condition.”, From: “Rebuke Materialism”, By Presbyter King – 2024)
“The Greek word used by Apostle Paul
for “dispensation” is oikonomia and it basically means a specific economy
[order] of time, a dispensed amount of time. Biblically, we say that a
dispensation represents a period of time in which Humanity is tested in respect
to a revelation [message] given by God to man. The revelation is a condition or
covenant that God reveals, a covenant that should be kept between Humans
(specifically Israel) and God.” From: “the Dispensational Mysteries”, By Presbyter
King – Sept. 4th 2024)
“We believe that this Seventh Angel has appeared and “sounded”
(Exodus 23:20-22). We read in Revelation ch.10 that “in the days of the voice
of the Seventh Angel, the mystery should be finished”. There is no
“trumpet” mentioned here in the original Greek – this is not a trumpet angel.
This angel is the Seventh Angel to Laodicea sounding the final “Seventh
Message”. The King James renders this verse correctly. It reads that the
“mystery should be finished” once the final church massage is given but
it still has time yet to go forth until those in the church that need the
“seal” get “the Seal”.” (From: “the Mystery of the Sealing Message”, By
Presbyter King – Oct. 21st 2024)
“We do not witness an impersonal God while witnessing creation. We
see and experience relationship. We witness “active” and “passive”
relationships in the things of Chemistry. In the human and animal kingdom we
have the “male” and “female” relationship. The natural law of attraction
denotes that God’s love also permeates everything.” (From: The Antiochene
Mystery of Oneness”, By Presbyter King – Dec. 17th 2024)
“We read the fact that Israel and Judah stayed separate
and had their own kings. The capitol of Judea was the city of Jerusalem and the
capital of Israel was Samaria. When we read about Samaria in prophecy it is
always a reference to Israel and not Judah. Even though geographical Israel
became again a legitimate nation (old Israel which included Jerusalem) on May
14th 1948 the fact is literal Israel (originally headed by Ephraim
& Manasseh’s descendants) remains separate from Judah and will until the
great ingathering at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.” (From: “Identifying
Israel”, By Presbyter King – 2024)
“There was a pre-Adamite Earth (earth before Adam &
Eve). Lucifer (Satan) and his angels were in charge of the planet long ago.
Satan rebelled and brought destruction on the first world. The geographical
earth-plates shifted during this first great rebellion. The earth literally became “without
form & void”. We have Scripture which confirms that Lucifer once walked in
the Garden of Eden and he was still without sin, he was here before this great
destruction.” (From: “The First Earth”, By Presbyter King – 2022)
“Jesus warned that right before He returned it would be “like in the days
of Noah”. (Matthew 24:37-42) During this time the “daughters of men” were being “given
in marriage” to the Hans-Nephilim (angelic beings not from our planet). We
see this happening today through all of the so called “extraterrestrial abduction” cases. This along with other strange
demonic activity being witnessed on our planet shows that the “fallen spirits
of the air” are already here. These beings along with the Kenites make for an
interesting planet.” (From: “The Antediluvian Dispensation”, By Presbyter King
– June 2nd 2020)
“A war broke out in three heavens; Earth’s atmosphere, outer
space, and the spiritual realm.
Lucifer and one third of his followers
lost their attempt at ‘take over’ and were no longer regularly allowed into the
third heaven but were confined to outer space and earth’s atmosphere. Of
course, they all lost their glorified
physical bodies in the spiritual battle. Some of the fallen ones today try
and get into human souls (psyches) to
experience embodiment which is something that they miss. The process in which
the fallen ones do this is called “demonic possession”.” (From: “The Planet
Odyssey”, By Presbyter King – 2020)
“God says not to be turned to “spirit
mediums” (Leviticus 19:31; 20:6, 27). God condemns people who try and
contact dead things. God warns that
those who practice such things will go to
hell (Revelation 21:8; 22:15). All forms of contacting the dead are
condemned by Divine Intelligence (Deuteronomy 18:10-12). To go to something
other than God to find answers is just another excuse to ignore SIN. “(From:
“Exposing Spiritism” By Presbyter King, 2022)
“The
true Christian understands the fallen-nature of Humanity and the fact that we
are all living in the Fallen Matrix. We must never expect perfection down here
– in the Fallen Matrix. What we can expect from God is undeserved kindness,
mercy, forgiveness and love. God knows how to judge properly, we do not. This
is why we must be guided by His word every day. Our wisdom must be divinely
inspired.” (From: “Self-righteous Trap” By Presbyter King – May 29th
2024)
“When we talk about affirmations of God, we are
talking about specific certainties in understanding God. This would be what we
refer to as a cataphatic (more literal) understanding – using human senses and
human reason in our theological understandings. However, when we begin to talk
about the abstract aspects of God – the mysterious God, or “mysteries” of God –
now we enter paradox and apophatic theology.” (From: “Understanding Apophatic
& Cataphatic Theology” By Presbyter King – 2024)
“Everything under the Sea of Glass is the created realm. The
Pleroma contains all of creation, the first Four Heavens – everything under the
“Sea of Glass”. God’s uncreated energies work
in and throughout the Pleroma. Paradise is actually the last “created heaven”
before one cross’ the Sea of Glass and into the Eternal Heavens.” (From:
“Threefold Progression” By Presbyter King – 2024)
“Exoteric”, or practical alchemy was the attempted chemistry of
trying to create gold by mixing the right metals and “stuff” – the prima
materia. “Esoteric” alchemy was the transmutation of the Human soul into
precious-spiritual-perfection – a mystical or philosophical alchemy.” (From: “A
Glimpse at Antiochene Alchemy” By Presbyter King – 2025)
“The Bible teaches that when a nation forgets it’s God it has
chosen a downward course. Today we
see less and less Christians in America. There is so much disrespect for others amongst her people. God has warned over and
over in His word what happens to a nation that once trusted Him but now chooses
to ignore and forget Him.” (From: “The Degeneration of a Nation” By Presbyter
King – July 19th 2020)
“Undisciplined churches attack ministers who, though imperfect, are teaching the Word of God. They
are threatened by the Truth. God’s word exposes them all as hypocrites. It is always easy (sissy la la) to attack the
“messengers” instead of listening to the Truth of the message. All practicing sinners (Christians who
refuse to grow) look for excuses.”
(From: “Exposing Silent Christians” By Presbyter King – Aug. 12th
2020)
“May we constantly learn from others. May we learn to respect
those of other religions. Let us, as authentic Antiochian Christians, remain
humble in our growing process. Jesus our Christ is always with us, we need not
be afraid.” (From: “We need Not be Afraid” By Presbyter King – July 1st
2018)
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
AACG ~ and “The John Class” (July 9th
2026)
