Eclipsing the Son---again
By Trevor Davis
9-7-2020

Perversity becomes the norm.
Twisted becomes known as straight.
Bitter is made known as sweet.
Darkness is put forth as light.
Unholy becomes esteemed.
COUNTERFEIT: Something that looks and sounds authentic but is a fake, a deception, not of value.

The purpose of this document is to illustrate how disobedience to the instruction of the Word of God is the norm and commonplace.

Why one who says they are a follower-disciple of Jesus must examine all things and not accept things based on tradition, majority, common place, norm and status quo.

1. Jesus is eclipsed by men and women standing in His place.
As the sun is eclipsed at times by other celestial bodies in the heavens. An illustration.
This is the message of John 10 especially vs 8. Those who “make public appearance—as superior to” Jesus, are thieves and robbers. They make entrance into the sheepfold, but refuse to go through (obey) the Door, who is Jesus. This is a parable.

Read Ezekiel 34 again and understand the message.

2. Jesus is NEVER to be eclipsed nor usurped by religious men.
“If any man have ears to hear, let them hear what the SPIRIT says to the church.”
Revelation 2:7,11,17,29; 3:6,13,22.

3. Jesus exposed this tactic of usurpers in Matthew 23 and John 10 specifically.

4. Other texts in the New Testament penned by apostles also spoke of this practice.

5. Why we are at an era of apostasy and deception now in these last days. False christs
(a christ is one who claims to be anointed by God and sent by Him)
---false brethren, false “ministries” eclipsing Jesus by taking His role as master and teacher/leader.
Matthew 23:8,10 specifically. Do NOT!

They are up on stages in front of the people.
The people sit at their feet.
They stand at podiums. https://www.etymonline.com/word/podium
Sophistry and rhetoric. No power, or life. Sound good messages. Fluffy puffy.
Censored what the Lord would truly say. The Spirit is QUENCHED. Like a flame put out.
Jeremiah 23 illustrates this! Read this and understand. Standing intimately with God in fellowhsip, is to hear His voice and declare what He is saying. The counterfeit offer a false comfort and a message that is NOT from Him. They do not know the Lord. They are pretenders. Disguising themselves.

1 John 2:27; John 14:26. “You have NO need that a man teach you. The Spirit of truth is the teacher and will show you all things. The truth is no lie.”
6. Paul's warnings of this.
Acts 20; Colossians 2. See if you can articulate what Paul's concern was. Do you ignore this?

7. 3rd John and Diotrephes who loved the preeminence even refusing the true servant John.

8. Following men or Jesus?

9. Disciple of men or Jesus?

10. Knowing Jesus or knowing about Jesus?

11. Causes of spiritual blindness...

12. Contagion of spiritual blindness. A little leaven of falsehood and hypocrisy will leaven the whole lump. IT ruins people. Jesus warned of this: of those who cross land and sea to make a proselyte.
The ones they capture become ruined and twice the child of hell, He says.

13. Falsehood can sound so good as junk food looks and tastes “good”.
A taste for synthetic replacements for the true pure Word of God that comes by the Holy Spirit.
Refusing the good and preferring the vile. Developing a taste for the counterfeit.
Dough conditioners, artificial color and flavorings, GMO, preservatives and such. Illustration.

14. “Follow me” or, follow Jesus?

15. Sit at men's feet? or sit at Jesus' feet byway of the Holy Spirit”?
Choose. Cannot have two masters.

16. Church-ism is not the Kingdom of God. Church going is not walking with Jesus.
This is the TEST.

17. Church-ism is iniquitous due to its violations of the commands and instructions of Jesus.

18. God is calling His people OUT of all corruption of man and the world. Out of error and into the truth that is in Christ. This is the meaning of ekklesia, translated as “church” in English bibles. It means, called out. It is people not a building or establishment. Flies in the face of the counterfeit on every corner as all the other fast food restaurants that seek to entice customers. Big Business.
Every gospel speaks of Jesus' anger as they turned the Father's House into a den of thieves and an emporium.
Jeremiah 7 also spoke of this. Nothing is new under the sun!

19. The snare is being set for the disobedient.

20. Blind guides lead the blind into the ditch. They can't see. They won't see.

21. Jesus does not commend any falsehood. He reproves it. He comes to bring instruction (judgment---meaning, His way vs the false)

22. Schools of the craft. Where men learn the ways of the system and pass it on. Esteemed by the flesh.
23. Nothing is new under the sun. The builders build religion founded on a false foundation or replacing the Word of God for the words and ways of men.

24. They serve the work of their own hands. They call people to keep it going despite God commanding it come down. God does not whitewash crooked, false, carnal, worldly or any such thing. All things must be wrought in God. He is the One building His ekklesia (translated “church”).

25. The masters of deceit sound good and deceive the gullible non-discerning by good words and fair speeches. Romans 16:18. They do not serve the Lord Jesus but their own belly (whims and desire based on self-interests). Empire builders.

26. The test of God is to see what an individual really wants. Is it the truth or not? Is it Jesus or not? Will one obey the Lord or not? Hearing only and not obeying Jesus is likened to the fool that builds his house on sand without a foundation. It will not stand in the time of storm and wind.

27. The Lord is the only Master. He is the Teacher/leader.
Hegemony is the principle of governing OVER the brethren which Jesus condemned! Matthew 23.
Peter agrees in 1 Peter 5:1-4.

28. When a follower of Jesus speaks (of scriptural spiritual themes), male or female, it is to be line upon line faithful to the Word and Spirit of God. God bears witness in the Spirit by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth. The Holy Spirit is the ONLY teacher in the Kingdom of God. 1 John 2:27; John 14:26.

Discern and understand, and perceive this in the Lord.

God does not approve of men or women standing as master teachers/leaders before the religious people. This is what Israel did when they forsook God the Fountain of Living Waters...and dug out cisterns, broken cisterns, which could not contain water. (Illustration/parable) Jeremiah 2:13.

“My people committed two evils”. Forsaking Me. And then following men, the broken polluted cisterns without water. https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/jer/2/13/s_747013 EVIL!

Jesus is the one that gives water to a thirsty soul, He said, would never thirst again. When people look to others other than the Lord, they are not able to get the water that the Lord gives. They in essence are choosing another master, another spirit, another source other than the Lord, and hence, are doing the same thing that Jeremiah illustrated about those who forsake God for broken cisterns...that can not contain water...

Solution: “Come to ME,” Jesus says. “Follow Me. Learn from Me.”

But, people do not. And most---will not. They are following blind guides who have eclipsed the Son. They are blind and fools. They are illegitimate and false.

The effect of their lifeless powerless word is deception and damage to the spiritual state of those who are under their influence. NOTE.

The ones on stages are often saying true things. But it is noteworthy to observe what they do not say.
As in the Covid Event of global governance being set up now. And, how God is judging every aspect of the world (cosmos order) including CHURCHISM. Religion. It is a stench to God.
While God has some of His beloved in their hold, He is calling them out.
God told Jeremiah and Isaiah that He had spoken but the religious would not hear. He called but they would not listen.

He then warns of sending delusion to them as a judgment. And this is what we see today as countless crowds of religious followers following men despite of Jesus' commands and warnings, and are oblivious to the truth and danger realities of these days. They wear masks thinking that keeps them well. They believe the memes of the false medical system that is profiting from the planned pandemic. They will trust in a brew of deadly vaccines that will lead to their destruction...

“Come out from among them”, says the Lord. They say, “no.”
“Touch not the unclean thing,” God commands. They say. “no.” They won't do what He says.
“Be ye separate”, says the Lord. They insist, “no”.

God shut down the church system in His mercy and grace. His call was to have those who would hear His voice return unto Him whom they have wandered and departed by embracing church-ism rather than His Kingdom that stems from a yielded obedient heart.

No one can stop a genuine worshiper of God. They worship God in spirit and truth. They do not embrace any falsehood or myth of any kind. They walk in the truth. They love the truth. They are people of truth just as God is the God of truth, giving the Spirit of truth, and His own Son Jesus who is the Truth. His very living Word is truth...

But how many multitudes have chosen the junk food of men schooled and trained in a counterfeit rebellion just as the ancient “fathers and elders” of Israel who rejected and laid aside the commandment of God to keep and hold their own dogmas of traditions they manufactured. Mark 7. Isaiah 29:10-13.

It is the same old thing.

If it is not Jesus who you must have, then you will settle for most anything. Including the false teachers and titled men who refuse to obey Jesus but rather eclipse Him posing as a master teacher over the multitudes. Woe woe woe unto them.


The house that Jesus is building is not named, divided nor governed by men.
Jesus is the one and only Master, leader, teacher and the like.

It is not incorporated.
It is not a 501c3 IRS tax code association with secular government.
It does not have men exalted OVER the people. The brethren are brethren with Jesus as Master.
Over seers and real elders are followers of Jesus. They serve Him. They are not using Jesus for their own agenda of self-exaltation, money and pleasure.

There is no such word in the Greek text as “office”. This is a purposeful mis-translation of the word meaning “SERVICE”. A function of the Spirit, by the gift of the grace of God, that WORKS, or, is the working source of function through the servant of Christ. Manifesting in various ways listed in Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians for example. It is spiritual not natural.

Jesus speaks against the system of hegemony: Mark 10:42-45; Matthew 23: especially vs 8, 10.
'The nations rule OVER the people.'
“But, it shall not be so among you,” Jesus said to His disciples.

There is no such thing as the idea of clergy/laity in the Kingdom of God.
This is the idea that comes from the builders that reject the Cornerstone Jesus.
There is no such thing as an elite class of men or women that govern OVER the people as Jesus teaches.

The body of Christ is to gather together in the authority and presence of Jesus, with Him in the midst.
HE is the head. HE is the Shepherd. HE is the over-seer. The teacher and all.
The various people may as led by the Spirit of God share with the brethren. One has a song, hymn, teaching, revelation, and such. IF something is revealed to one who sits near by, the first one speaking is to hold back and allow. All things are to be done decently and in order. All things are to be tested by the Spirit.

So, there is no such thing as an audience and spectator mode as is present in CHURCHDOM. IT is a counterfeit system using the Word of God here and there for semblance of authenticity only.

God is doing a work in those who will allow Him.
To those who obey and follow Him in little, more is given. To those who reject and refuse, even the little they have is taken away. Mark 4:23-25.

Jesus addresses issues among the people. He does not whitewash and excuse any falsehood. He commands and reproves those He loves. If they endure the process of His work by the Spirit, they will endure and be perfected in maturity in Christ. That is how it works in the Kingdom of God.
Which is it that you are part? CHURCHISM or the Kingdom of God?

ASSOCIATIONS: Six admonitions of 2 Corinthians 6:14-18.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/2co/6/1/s_1084001
Faith and faithless.
Righteous vs unrighteousness.
Christ vs belial the wicked.
Believer vs non believer.
Light vs darkness.
Dwelling place of God vs idols (demons, spirits of the fallen entities worshiped by the world and Israel)

Separation unto God. Crucified unto the world and the world unto you. Garments un-spotted from the world which is your duty. Helping widows and orphans, keeping yourself un-spotted from the Cosmos/world.

Or, melting pot?
Synthesis.
Blending.
Salt with savor?
Salt without savor? Useless to Jesus, to be thrown out. Not good for the soil or dung heap Jesus says.
Wow!