10/08/2025
PORTRAITS OF COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIANITY 1
1. KINGLESS EXISTENCE (CONTINUED)
In Hosea 3:1-3, we see God instruct the prophet to go make a harlot his wife. The prophet’s acquiescence to God’s instruction makes him have a harlot under His roof for a wife.
Then in the same chapter, the fourth and fifth verses, we begin to see the symptoms of counterfeit Christianity X-rayed.
It’ll be unrealistic to say that the harlot will never wear the cloak of unfaithfulness as soon as she becomes his wife. A huge possibility definitely exists for her to indulge herself with other men because her wenchy ways cannot just be straightened overnight.
In the New Testament, the church is metaphorically described as Christ’s wife (Revelations 21:9). She plays the harlot by getting conjugal satisfaction from ‘other gods’ as Israel did to God, a point God was trying to prove by asking prophet Hosea to marry the harlot in the Old Testament.
The fourth verse of Hosea 3 says, “For the children of Israel (that is the church – you and I) shall abide many days (a longtime) without a king or prince…” (Emphasis is mine).
This is kingless Christianity! When there is no king, as we earlier established, there is no authority and when there is no authority, the result is lawlessness or anarchy.
One of the first persons God used to provide leadership for His people in the Old Testament was Moses. The law was brought and established by his leadership.
During his time, people lived by the law, whether or not they savoured it. When Moses left, Joshua took over. When Joshua left, God did not hand over the leadership to any established authority structure. He (God) passed the baton to the elders. This was a fragmented kind of leadership which was not His original intention. This type of leadership easily lent itself to plurality of government. After the elders, the issue of leadership in Israel fizzled out for a while.
The people were led by no one. The resultant effect of this scenario was that every man did what was right in his sight (self-government, a fundamental principle of Satan).
To be continued…
CULLED FROM MY BOOK, KINGDOM RECALIBRATION
With love from your brother,
Arome Osayi