This new teaching, 2025, from FFOZ is a bold new heresy, one utterly rejected by every N.T. author. In a nutshell, FFOZ is now teaching that the "radial" geography of the tabernacle/temple is eternal. Thus, they teach that gentile followers of Jesus are eternally 4th class citizens of the kingdom of heaven (behind the priest/Levites, Jewish men, and Jewish women) in accordance with the physical layout of the Temple. There are also two statements that hint toward the conclusion that because the Jewish people are eternally the "people of God," with permanent status of closer access, they don't need to accept Jesus as Savior.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Sermon Video: Do Not Give the Devil a Foothold - Ephesians 4:25-28
As a follow-up to his command that Jesus' followers adopt a new attitude divorced from our former futile thinking when we were apart from God, the Apostle Paul offers up in these verses three examples of what that will look like: (1) Embracing truth by putting off falsehood, (2) Keeping anger in check so that it does not lead to sin, and (3) Sharing what we have earned rather than taking (stealing) from others.
With respect to anger in particular, Paul frames it as a potential "foothold" that the devil might use to ensnare those who sin in their anger. The same holds true for the other two issues, and really any situation where we give in to temptation. The answer is always the same: embrace righteousness. When we say and do what is right, temptation (evil) has no opportunity to affect us.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Autistic telepathy and visits to heaven to talk to God? - First Fruits of Zion endorses The Telepathy Tapes
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Sermon Video: Getting a New Attitude - Ephesians 4:17-24
The Apostle Paul insists to his readers that they cannot live any longer "as the Gentiles do." He then describes humanity apart from God, the result being bleak. Instead, followers of Jesus need a new attitude to replace the old one, one that is like God's "true righteousness and holiness."
How are we to do this? Elsewhere Paul makes it clear that the Holy Spirit's empowerment is our only hope.
What does this new attitude look like? Stay tuned for the next three sermons as Paul gives practical examples of the change that we need to make.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Sermon Video: The Church that is Safe - Ephesians 4:14-16
We live in a world that is obsessed with safety. We are more aware of the dangers that exist than our forebearers, and spend more time trying to protect ourselves against them. But what about the Church? What can we do to help protect the Body of Christ from the people/things that threaten it?
One part of the answers offered by the Apostle Paul in these verses is: serve others. The maturity that comes from collectively working to serve others is a natural protective against both (1) false teaching, and (2) lying schemers. Why? When we are doing the will of God, and imitating Christ, we naturally turn away from the things of this world, and that orientation toward God takes us away from the things the false teachers tempt us with and scam artists or charlatans are seeking.