Son of Man Ministries, The Reformed Apologetics Ministry of Michael A. Petillo: April 2011

CONTENTS

A Spiritual Cop for Good and a Spy for Righteousness

A Spiritual Crime

Charge 1: Self-Destruction: Testifying Against Themselves

Charge 2: Deceit: Malice Mischief

Charge 3: Cruelty Unveiled: A Loving Malice

Charge 4: Defiled Whoremongers: They Cometh From the Bowls of Satan

Charge 5: Sleepless Pretenders: Damning Souls As A Masquerader of Evil

Charge 6: Unholy Succession: A Long-Line of Ungodly Men

Charge 7: Spiritual Espionage: Giving Secrets Away For Vainglory

Chapter 1:

A Spiritual Cop for Good and a Spy for Righteousness

The Bible speaks about doing what is right. We are called as Christians to do what is pleasing before God the Holy Trinity. We are called to live in light of His holiness. “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things” (Philippians 4:8). The Lord Jesus Christ spoke of the spiritual criminality of a defiled heart: “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man” (Matthew 15:18-20).

A spiritual cop recognizes that he is filled with faults and sins. We can acknowledge this because we have the sensitivity to sin, wickedness, and evil. Our hearts are not in conformity to the standard of perfect righteousness. Unregenerate people have their hearts in bondage to sin, Satan and hell. When are hearts are changed from above, we ought to recognize our sins, and engage in faithful repentance. Every Christian should be a spiritual cop of their own hearts. Wherever there is sin, wickedness and evil, we must repent of it to our Trinitarian friend: the One in Three, and the Three in One. Man is not the standard of righteousness, but God is the standard of sinless righteousness, and perfect justice. We ought to examine our hearts in light of the truth of what is forbidden in the Ten Commandments. We need to be investigator of our own hearts, because this is where sin emerges, and it is where the reprobates fail, and are utterly forsaken by the Trinitarian majesty. Do you live in light of the perfect heart of the Lord Jesus Christ?

The Lord Jesus Christ never had a speck of sin in Him, and no element of darkness. He lived as the God-man, and always did what is right. The Lord Jesus Christ is a picture of Immaculate Righteousness, and Goodness. We turn our attention to Matthew 19:17: “And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.” As Augustine said, the question is asked in light of seeing the Lord Christ as a mere man. The Lord Christ answers the questioner with a question: in light of being a mere man, how can you call Me good? That is, mere men are not good. The true Scriptures bear witness to the total depravity of man: “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes” (Romans 3:10-18).

Spies of righteousness ought to spy out the land (Numbers 13:16) from our spiritual Moses: the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought to spy in our land of Canaan (Numbers 13:17), and report our righteous judgments to the King of Israel. We ought to follow our spiritual Joshua who sent out two men to spy secretly (Joshua 2:1), and to advance righteousness as Rahab who dwelt in Israel that day (Joshua 6:25). Spies may be sent from Satan to spy out the people of God unto destruction: “And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage” (Galatians 2:4). Spies of malice wickedness come, saying “I repent” and creep in the spiritual flock of His pasture: “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ” (Jude 1:4). Elect angels are also used as angelic spies to record and catch enemies of the gospel. The spiritual salvation of peace was proclaimed to Lot in Sodom by the two angels: Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city” (Genesis 19:15). God calls us out of the whoredadoms and heathendoms that have elect Lot in them. Those in such a whorish and hellish ways are like the residents of Sodom: a spiritual immorality, and a spiritual city of Babel. And when He rescues His chosen few, He sends His angels to take charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways (Psalm 91:11). It is Him who sends His holy ones to protect them and keep them in all thy ways!

The consequence of being a spiritual cop is to call attention to where there is false doctrine, and false doctrine is the advance of corruption and spiritual fraud. False doctrine pertains to not only essential doctrines but also doctrines that focus on the heart of the godly. If my ministry teaches sound doctrine, does my heart believe them? If I am in the ministry, is my heart spiritually pure in light of the Scriptures’ doctrine of repentance? Is my heart in public life consistent with my heart in my secret life? Is my thought life consistent with the good others see outwardly? If God allowed someone to see your heart, would they see a secret life of sin, or a life open for godliness? Do I advocate the greatest hypocrisy in light of what I preach? Am I submitted to Satan while I preach Christ? When I quote Scripture, do I do it in the way Satan did? Do I claim to be on the side of good yet work for the side of evil? I have seen people who are outwardly “sold-out to Christ” but by their secret actions they are inwardly “sold-out to Satan.” These are the questions that pertain to the heart: And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7). Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day (1 Kings 8:61).

We ought to act in firm love against false doctrine, and using the true Scriptures to shed His darkless light upon our dark souls: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works (2 Timothy 3:16-17). A spy of righteousness lives in light of the Divine Word, and because of this the enemies of God hate, and fear such a one who spies of the disunity, and fake ways of the reprobate. It is hidden in the heart of Satan, and the reprobates bear his image in their souls. We ought to live, not as cultists picking on every little thing, or abusing our relationships with other people. We must live in light of the Law of God in the Ten Commandments, and the New Testament Commandments. The law for the spiritual spy is a law of pure righteousness and the law for the spiritual cop is also the same, and the ultimate question is: does my heart match the right things I say? Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life (Proverbs 4:23). Even so, amen.

Chapter 2:

A Spiritual Crime

These days are a most dangerous time. Most people would not think church could be a dangerous place, but I beg to differ. We are living in the age of a threefold Antichrist: a political Antichrist; a Reformed Antichrist and a Roman Antichrist. They actually hate one another as is according to their nature. It is to contrary the Holy Trinity of the Bible. The Antichrist has come from the pit of hell; He is the Master of all spiritual crime. Below is a list of spiritual indictments against the enemy. He comes from the ungodly tradition of Satan who sought to rise above the Most High Trinity. I believe the prophecy is true that the Reformed Antichrist would come from within the church that bears the true gospel of the doctrines of grace, and the solas of the Reformation; a rediscovery of the sacred truths of Scripture. The Antichrist is the spiritual murderer of the souls of men in imitation of Cain who murdered his brother. The children of Antichrist were born before he took power, but his Father of Darkness always sought to destroy the church of God, and the long-line of ungodly men exists to this day. Antichrist is the spiritual Balaam, a master of wrongdoing; and he is a spiritual Saul, doing evil that good may come; he is a spiritual Judas, being a bearer of stealing the souls of men, and murdering the innocent Savior, while giving Him a tender kiss of cruel death! He is after the following of the wild beasts that fought against Paul in Ephesus, and he is the spiritual giant of Alexander the coppersmith who did the apostle Paul much harm, and he is a spiritual Goliath, a giant of sin. The spiritual David, the Lord Jesus Christ, shall come and destroy the Roman Antichrist with the sword of His mouth as David beheaded his enemy. All manner of unrighteousness is found in Antichrist who exalts himself above God. I bear witness (as a eyewitness of the deception), before God and His elect angels, and the sinless saints in heaven; that this book is true, and whosoever believes in the Deceiver will be cast into hell forevermore.

· He is not God but a master of rebellious sinners.

· He is not greater then God but a fool greater then other fools.

· He is a devil but he does not have the superlative holiness of the Triune majesty.

· His ministry is active but it bears no God-approved fruits.

· He outwardly knows the truth of God but inwardly hates them.

· He speaks with kindness but it is a tender cruelty.

· He claims to work for God but he works for the dictator of evil.

· He preaches the outward truths but he is not of the truth.

· He preaches the gospel of life but there is no life in him.

It is my belief the Reformed community must act against this Reformed Antichrist because the world is watching, and we are accountable to God the Holy Trinity for acting against him. Will we act in justice? And will it counter the alliance Rome has with the coming of the Roman Antichrist? All the rebels of sin I have faced are in harmony with the Roman way in all secret mischief. I write it for the spiritual record that I am calling for a unity against the Reformed Antichrist, because as the body of Christ we have the right and the responsibility to publicly renounce it. If we do nothing, how will we be better then Rome when the other Antichrist arises? As Christ will deal harshly with teachers on the Last Day, we have the accountability to deal with him with the churches fullest judgment in renouncing him by the unity of Reformed churches this day, lest we become like a spiritual Eli who did not rebuke sin but let it prosper in reckless foolishness! Even so, amen.

Chapter 3:

Charge 1: Self-Destruction: Testifying Against Themselves

Days bear the crimes of sin, and sin is a cosmic offense against God the Trinity. This charge against the reprobative enemy has been displayed by the reprobates of the Old and New Testament. Cain testified against himself by being the initiator of physical murder after the imitation of Satan who spiritually murdered the first parents of humanity. Cain testifies that he is physically alive yet he murders one who bears his image: the image of God when He created. Satan, who inspired Cain, testifies that he uses life for spiritual and physical death. These are the ones who bear witness against themselves. Balaam commits wrongdoing, and is known for it, and makes the children of Israel fornicate like Jezebel of Revelation, to sin against their own bodies. To sin against your own body is to use a means of death. The body is meant for life, but sin is an instrument of destruction, death and desolation. Judas bears witness against himself, because he served the King of life, and murdered Him, and murdered his own self. Even life testifies against them, even as they live, yet bearing a hand of death.

The enemy testifies against themselves when they act kind but it is in cruelty; when they act compassionately to administer destruction; when they act with love they mean it in deceit to creep in among the brethren. This kindness is no true kindness; this compassion is no true compassion and this love is not a true love. To speak the message and glad tidings of the gospel, and yet, deny it in your heart in malice hypocrisy, is a living contradiction. They speak life but their hearts are of death. They speak the truth like Judas but their lives bear witness against them. They speak words of warmth and yet their hearts are cold as stone, and their lives are as cold as space. They speak the gospel of life, and call for repentance, and yet they are born of Esau who was denied repentance, and follow the malice repentance of Judas. They throw back the silver pieces of betrayal in a malice deceit. Even so, amen.

Chapter 4:

Charge 2: Deceit: Malice Mischief

These criminal reprobates are like Balaam. Balaam sacrificed to God, but for what purpose? To sin against God by meeting God at His own terms. It is a lie to use the ultimate sacrifice for sin by the Lord Jesus Christ to destroy God’s people. However, this is what the enemy does even today. This doctrine of Balaam is around us today, because people use the Cross of the Lamb of God to destroy His people by ministries of condemnation. This is the doctrine of malice mischief by the reprobative enemy. Satan is the Prince of Malice Mischief. He comes as a living being but causes spiritual death, and plagues humanity with sin that God condemns to hell. Esau used his soul corruptly to gain the world, but he loses his soul to perish to hell; having no chance of repentance. Cain acted in malice mischief when he saw that his brother’s sacrifice was acceptable. Herein is a mystery, the truth makes men commit iniquity. The rage of the passions of sin is a crime in itself, and destroys life. Judas acted in malice mischief when he followed Christ, and yet betrayed him with malice forethought. The ways of sin act against the ways of life.

The political Antichrist (the Antichrist that represents the cults, and who is in imitation of Nero) speaks of heaven, and yet he is from below. Malice mischief acknowledges the truth and the opposite of truth shows their ways: a bondage to the ways of the wide gate in all spiritual destruction. The Reformed Antichrist recognizes the sacred truths of God, and yet lives in the church to conquer it by its message. They come in white robes, and glowing faces, but the truth they bear is a way to deceive and not save; a pursuit of condemnation. Would you suppose Satan would work with those who speak falsehood? Most truly, he does. But, is it not more malice, and more mischievous, to come bearing the truth of God, and yet having minds, hearts and hands of malice mischief? An anarchist and a deceiver, comes with the truth, but in the context of how they live, they show they disbelieve the truth, and grant to themselves a greater judgment, condemnation, and damnation. I call all people to reject the truths the enemies’ profess because it is in the context of a malice state of their hearts. Can a heart that produces death correspond to a mouth that speaks the words of life? There is no fellowship between the two. The secret of Satan’s work of condemnation is the mystery of sending forth carbon-copy Judas’s. Most think the malice of mischief of Judas helped the furtherance of the gospel (they ask, didn’t he preach the Gospel?), because Christ is still preached. It is true that Christ is preached, but this is how Satan damns sinners. Does a destroyer come, saying to his prey, “I come to destroy”? No, he comes with the same message but it has opposite ramifications. But I think one day we will see the enemy speak of their intentional malice ways for the “glory” and “honor” of hell. If there is no fellowship between a heart of death, and a mouth of life, then, we must reject it on the basis of having no agreement with Satan and Christ. If Jesus came speaking life and His heart was of death, it is a way Satan would damn, and so, behold, the malice sleepers!

I recommend to all people of His pasture that if they have profited from a ministry of darkness that pretends to shine a true light, to repent. We should reject it and commit it back to the Lord Omnipotent One if it was spiritually rational. Why should we give any ministry more credence? Let us not give any of those who speak words of life and have hearts of death credence in ministry any longer. Those who have stood against me will perish with the Triune King against them. Even so, amen.

Chapter 5:

Charge 3: Cruelty Unveiled: A Loving Malice

The enemy loves their malice. Cain came with malice and murdered his brother; Esau sought to kill his brother after he sold his birthright; Judas loved malice to spy out the apostles with Christ. Is your report of what you see to Christ or to His archenemy? Balaam had a loving malice when he committed himself to disobedience, and offered sacrifices to change God’s mind for wrongdoing. Saul had a loving malice when he disobeyed his own law, and committed himself to disobedience by occultic ways. The Pharisees and the Romans who murdered Jesus acted against him with a loving malice, and the Pharisees sought to kill Him by seeking someone to betray the Innocent One; the Sinless One; the Blameless One. Diotrephes ruled the church, and did not fellowship with God’s chosen under a loving malice to replace the Headship and Kingship of Christ under Popish ways.

The cruelty is unveiled by a loving malice of Satan whom has followers of spiritual death, and it is a crime that deserves the greatest, supreme and highest punishment that there can be.

Love does not belong with evil or malice. Love belongs with godliness; love belongs with a lust for righteousness; and love belongs with a heart sold-out for the One who is all about all-righteousness: God the Holy Trinity. If love is attached to malice, it is a corrupt contradictory thing, and it shall also been thrown into hell, where death will die, and where justice will be rendered against lovers of evil. Even so, amen.

Chapter 6:

Charge 4: Defiled Whoremongers: They Cometh From the Bowls of Satan

The deception Satan; the murderous Cain; Esau, the unrepenter repenter; Saul who was a lover of tyranny over David in the manner of the tyranny of the Evil One; and Balaam who was born of Baal: all are the sore meals of Satan, who have passed through his bowls to be high hypocrites; to become the opposite of life, defiled whoremongers. They were meals prepared by the chefs of sin, and odors that still blow the mind in all sore stenches. It was as if the Dark Lord (who does not have infinite power) pooped out the remnants of defilement, darkness and abounding whoremongers who live in the Towel of Dung, reaching to the heavens, and the heavens bear witness against their twisted insanity.

We are all a spiritual David who seeks refuge from the Tyrant of tyrants, our spiritual Saul: Satan. We are not made in the bowls of Satan, but in the heart of Christ who saves men by His Spirit from God the Father. The Threefold Antichrist came from the bowls of Satan, and they are darkness that speaks; they are dung hills with polluted flowers blooming to destruction; they are pillars and monuments to themselves, seeking after vainglory (which is no glory at all) in all manner of unrighteousness, unholiness, immorality and abusive violence. Behold the stenches that will stink lower then the grave! Like the Ark of the Lord brought the idols to destruction, their names shall be blotted out of remembrance! Even so, amen.

Chapter 7:

Charge 5: Sleepless Pretenders: Damning Souls As A Masquerader of Evil

Satan is a masquerader of darkness; the one whom Judas surrendered thereunto; Diotrephes came as a friend but was an enemy; and the one who Saul obeyed by the submission to the medium. The ministers of condemnation came as sleepless pretenders, and they seek to avail by the appearance of goodness as Satan comes and seeks to avail by it in the same way. Those who submit to it are reckless and turned over to their sin. Pretenders come as elders; pretenders come as deacons; and pretenders come in the congregation of the household of faith and seek to damn those who love the ultimate way of damnation. If they cannot be the greatest saints, they want to be the greatest of devils. But in this pursuit, it is a way of eternal death. They heap condemnation upon condemnation, and punishment upon punishment. They have a low view of sin, because they realize it does not matter if they are the greatest devils, because hell will always be punishment. In this, they condemn themselves, and for every crime, hell will be worse, and worse, and end in: retribution, vengeance, perfect justice, and faithful and true wrath.

The demons are considered about being punished before the time, and it will be my mission to do things before the time, so the instruments of the pestilence of wickedness will be shut down, and under my watch, it shall be brought down to hell forevermore. Even so, amen.

Chapter 8:

Charge 6: Unholy Succession: A Long-Line of Ungodly Men

We hear in the church today about apostolic succession. Romanists like to allege that this is a true doctrine. I maintain that there is a succession of true doctrine by the rediscovery of the Divine Word of God. We see more of a long-line of ungodly men who did not follow Christ but after their own ungodly tradition. From Cain to Esau; from Balaam to Saul; from Judas to Diotrephes: we see a starting ground of the line of wickedness. If succession leads to unbiblical ways, and teachings, it means it has become corrupted, and if it has become corrupted, we must trust the matchless Word of God over against ungodly men who support the doctrine of Antichrist. Even so, amen.

Chapter 9:

Charge 7: Spiritual Espionage: Giving Secrets Away For Vainglory

The Korah rebellion against Moses was a time of spiritual espionage, and Judas bore this rebellion to heart as the greatest spiritual spy for Satan. As fallen angels even try to trick elect angels by transforming into an angel of light, so it is true for human beings. The ultimate pursuit of the enemy is vainglory, and it is contrary to God, because God the Trinity seeks after a superlative glory based in superlative holiness. The enemy uses the dark arts to give away secrets and to steal secrets. For example, as a criminal taps a phone to destroy his enemy, so to, through the dark arts they seek to tap into God’s hidden knowledge about the future. As the demons testified about the Messiahship of Jesus, so they seek to find out secrets to use against God. They use the Bible for corruption, and they use godly secrets for wickedness. But I have been one who God led to fight the enemy by being in the midst of them, so the elect angels would find them out. Spying for righteousness and truth and justice is acceptable only in light of holiness, but the reprobative spies shall not avail and they testify against themselves in the way of death. Even so, amen.

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