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geokuhns:
I need some help on this one. I have read Ray’s “Who is the Beast” and “The Beast Within” Part XIII and Part XIV of the Lake of Fire series. I have read both twice. In them Ray states that we must “Repent of “… leaving your FIRST LOVE.” He speaks of leaving our first love several times in both reports. My question is what is our first love? Please clarify for me. Thank you.

Kat:

Hi George,

When we are in the church we are introduced to Christ and you are taught about the person Jesus.  I can remember having a real joy when I came to a understanding of just what Christ repersented.  As the years go by and we get bogged down in playing church and keeping the traditions of man or leaving the church and going back into the world, that to me is losing your first love.  If you are one of the fortunate few God will drag you out and back to Him (John 6:44).  So to me our first love is when we first come to Christ and believe He is the Son of God.

Here are a couple of emails I found.
 
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,7112.0.html --------

Dear Heather:  My "First Love" was my first desire to repent and come out of this world and follow God's way, which I then deserted to a large extent and went back into the world, and then repented and returned to my First Love.


http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,7618.0.html --------

Many have left their initial belief and acceptance of God and Jesus and have gone back into the world with a spiritually-minded vengeance!  Thankfully, God recalls some out of that condition, as He has done with you.  All we who have "left our First Love" have similar feelings about how stupid, and selfish, and carnal we became.  But it is good to feel guilt and shame. These emotions help to continuously keep us from committing the same sins or to the same degree.  We have to "COME OUT"  of Babylon, and then we need to "STAY OUT."  And the staying out is often as difficult as the coming out. The more we spiritually grow and understand, the more we see our shortcomings.  It is good that God does not show us all of our sins all at once--it would be so over-powering and shameful, that we would have trouble facing another day.  Glad that you have seen the Light.

God be with you,
Ray 

Samson:
Dear Brother George,

                             I think Kat answered your question more than adequately with her response
                             quoting Ray and presenting some of her experience. I can vouch for this, feeling
                             a great joy when first involved with my life long denomination, but as time went
                             by, there gradually developed a feeling of disallusionment towards that Religious
                             establishment leading to my subsequent defection.

                             My mindset at that time(2004) was if they aren't teaching the Truth, I might as
                             well go at it alone, just read the Scriptures and I was determined not to be
                             misled, again. Although other Universalist Type teachers initially stimulated my
                             interest in pursuing a definitive belief structure, it wasn't until being exposed to
                             Rays material that a Geniune joy and interest was in my heart. I returned to my
                             first love.

                                                          Kind Regards, Samson.
                         

dogcombat:
To sum it up for you George.  Leaving your first love is so easy, even a child can do it.  And EVERY Child of God WILL.  Until God DRAWS you back (John 6:44)

Ches

geokuhns:
Thanks for your input Kat. I think I’m getting the picture. Does this make sense?

I was born and raised Catholic. Then I left that church to join the Worldwide Church of God. I left the WCG after 12 years and followed no one for about 25 years. Then I followed the A.E. Knoch group (Jeff Priddy) for about 5 years until 11 months ago God led me to Ray Smith.

Does leaving the Catholic church constitute leaving “my first love?” Or does leaving the Catholic church, WCG & Jeff Priddy combined constitute leaving “my first love?” I know that all those years (30 years) prior to Ray I was seeking the truth. But I do know that I was unconverted during that period. Since studying what God has revealed to Ray I feel converted now. I feel that way because I now can resist evil where before I could not. I attribute that to the power of the Holy Spirit that God has influenced my mind with. I certainly could use more of that power.

I am just blown away with Ray’s understanding of Revelations. At first it seems so foreign to me because all of our lives we read only the Hal Lindsay’s of the world and their interpretations. When I first read Ray’s report on who the Beast was I said “Are you kidding me?” But the more I read and started putting the pieces of the puzzle together I began to understand. I still said “Are you kidding me” but only because this understanding was so beautiful and completely opposite from the worldly view. I’m glad it is up to God to convert people because if I tried to convince people of my views they would want to send me to the “funny farm.” But I stand ready to give an answer when appropriate with the hope that is within me.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

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