To A Beloved Brother in the Crusade Against False Prophets

3/10/2018 Christianity 5 Comments

Dear Brother Tim Kurek,

In this dispensation, seldom can I find preachers or religious leaders with the same line of thinking as me. This happened during the time of Paul the Apostle.

Most of the time, almost all preachers disagree with me.


In my country of origin, the Philippines, five famous religious leaders with contradicting teachings and faith once connived to work out my expulsion from a television network where I have been airing the religious program “Ang Dating Daan” or the “The Old Path” — the longest running religious television program in the country, exposing religious frauds, in light of the word of God in the Bible. Incidentally, it is also the most awarded religious show in our country – even in the internet. It won the “Gawad Amerika Award” in Hollywood, United States of America as the “Most Informative Religious Program”.

Here are some of the Recognitions and Awards the religious program “Ang Dating Daan” or “The Old Path” has received for the last two decades:







These pastors and preachers are irritated by my untiring exposition of their unbiblical teachings and misleading doctrines. Others are even influencing government authorities to suspend or get rid of my program. In the Philippines, our group’s religious freedom and freedom of speech and press are essentially being suppressed by some authorities in government in 2007. No less than the commission on human rights in the Philippines’ National Capital Region (NCR) found after investigation that our human rights were violated by the Chairman of Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), under the office of the President (2007).


We were being prohibited by the MTRCB and the Kapisanan ng mga Broadkaster sa Pilipinas (KBP) to even mention the name and the erroneous doctrines of the Iglesia ni Cristo ni Manalo (Manalo’s Church of Christ), a group very influential to the then administration. I believe this prohibition is against our constitution and the jurisprudence and doctrines being upheld by the Supreme Court of the Republic of the Philippines. (See Reference Below)


These groups are very much like the group you are trying to expose in your country. They are advocates of their unbiblical “prosperity gospel”, thinking that religion and holiness is a means of gain.


Their pastors do prosper by their “prosperity gospel” at the expense of their poor members.

I visited your blogsite and I appreciate your effort in trying to expose also, the deceit being employed by religious leaders in your country. We are one in these crusades of trying to “snatch” people from the hands of these ‘propheteers’, or should I say, profiteers.


These are the common denominators among false prophets: money and gain.


Nowhere in the books of the Old Testament, neither in the New Testament can anybody find that the meaning of prosperity is material wealth as these pastors of doom preach.

‘Shalom’ in Hebrew means safe, well, happy, etc., while ‘euodoo’ in Greek means success in reaching a goal. These words were translated in the English Bible as prosperity and to prosper respectively. They do not necessarily imply material wealth as these pastors and false prophets claim.

In the first century Christian Church, there were members whom we can consider as the poorest of the poor. They are not materially wealthy but are active members of the Church.


Most members of the primitive Christian Church are poor and hungry.


Their reward is reserved in heaven, not an assurance of wealth on earth.


Lazarus died a beggar but was saved!


Those that preach that to be a true Christian is to be rich and be blessed materially are worldly preachers and not of Christ.


These are people who love to be called pastor, reverend pastor, very reverend pastor, whose glory is in their shame. The word reverend was used only once in the King James Version of the Bible and was used to define the name of God Almighty.


Incidentally, you called me pastor in your comment on my last article; and while I will appreciate your constant visiting on my blog, I would appreciate it more if you will call me plainly and simply Brother Eli. Our Pastor or Shepherd worthy of that title is the Lord Jesus Christ.


There are pastors elected in the Church of God in the first century, but nowhere can you find anyone of them used the title “pastor”.


They were called brethren by repentant sinners.


Peter called Paul, a beloved brother — not beloved pastor.


The reason is simply because it is the teaching of Christ!


Thank you for your concern, beloved brother. I am praying for you, also.

May God bless you.