IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914

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IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914

• The history of Felix Manalo
• The history of his church
• The doctrines of the INC-1914

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OUTLINE OF OUR LESSON

• THE HISTORY OF FELIX MANALO
• THE HISTORY OF THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914
• THE TEACHINGS OF THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914
• APPENDIX
• REFERENCES

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KNOW WHAT THEY TEACH

• (1) The INC-1914 was established by God himself.
• (2) This new movement began in 1914 in the
  Philippines.
• (3) Felix Manalo its head, its first executive
  minister.
• (4) The original church of Christ apostatized.
• (5) Felix Manalo is the savior in these last
  days.
• (6) Felix Manalo is the last messenger.

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KNOW WHAT THEY TEACH

• (7) Felix Manalo is the ravenous bird from the
  east and the far country is the Philippines.
• (8) Felix Manalo the fifth angel rising from the
  east and the east is the Philippines.
• (9) Felix Manalo is Jacob, and the INC-1914 is
  Israel.
• (10) The Philippines is the isles of the sea.
• (11) Salvation is only in the INC-1914.
• (12) The year 1914 is the ends of the earth.

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KNOW WHAT THE TEACH

• (13) The INC-1914 is the people from afar off.
• (14) The INC-1914 is the other fold of Christ.
• (15) Christ was only a man and not God.
• (16) Christ was only made as Lord by God.
• (17) Christ worshipped not because He was God.
• (18) The Holy Spirit is not God.
• (19) The doctrine of the Trinity is false.
• (20) Those who believe that Jesus is both God and
  man are the antichrists.
• (21) The doctrine of soul-sleeping.

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I. THE HISTORY OF THEIR FOUNDER

• Place of birth Calzada, Tipas, Taguig, Rizal.
• Date of birth Mayo 10, 1886.
• Firstborn son of Bonifacia Manalo and Mariano
  Ysagun, both devout Catholics. He had a sister
  named Praxedes.
• Mariano Ysagun was a farmer and shrimp fisherman.
  So the family was dirt-poor.
• In 1896, the year of the Philippine Revolution,
  Mariano Ysagun, Felix Manalos father, died.
• His mother Bonifacia Manalo remarried, this time
  to Clemente Monzo, a widower.
• Reference Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, p. 86.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Y._Manalo

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The origins of Felix Manalo

• Bonifacia and Clemente Monzo had two children.
• Two months before the birth of their second
  child, Clemente Monzo died.
• To support the family, Aling Bonifacia found
  employment as a weaver of bamboo mats.
• On the other hand, Felix moved from one job to
  another, as a barber, photographer, goldsmith,
  and hat maker.
• Reference Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, p. 86.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Y._Manalo

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Felix found a Bible

• Felix had an uncle, a certain Mariano Borja, a
  priest of the Catholic church, serving the parish
  of Sampaloc, Manila.
• In 1900, in the parish home of his uncle, he
  found a Bible. Felixs later biographers wrote
  that Felix had been warned by his uncle about
  that book, but Felix got more curious. Reading it
  opened his eyes. He began to entertain some
  questions about the church of his birth.
• Reference Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, p. 86.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Y._Manalo

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Joined the colorum group and the Methodist
Episcopal church

• His religious journey brought him into contact
  with the colorum groups in Banahaw, Catholic
  sects that preyed on the untrained minds of
  searchers who wanted something new. He left the
  group when he discovered that the voice of some
  spirit speaking from the inner sanctums of the
  cave, mesmerizing its devotees, was actually that
  of the colorum leader.
• In 1902, he heard the debate between an American
  Protestant missionary and a Catholic priest. Two
  years later, he joined the Methodist Episcopal,
  studied Bible in their school, and became a
  Methodist preacher.
• Reference Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, p. 86.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Y._Manalo

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His quarrel with a priest

• His mother was dying and, being a good son, he
  went back to their home in Taguig to spend the
  last days with her.
• He saw the priest giving his mother the extreme
  unction. Being a Protestant pastor, and knowing
  from his studies at the Bible school that
  Catholic rites and practices were of no effect to
  the living or the dead, he opposed it. He and the
  priest had a hot discussion, an argument that led
  to nowhere.
• In order to teach the young pastor a lesson, the
  priest did not allow the remains of Bonifacia
  Monzo to be buried at the Catholic cemetery in
  Taguig. So, Felix had his mother interred in an
  Aglipayan cemetery in the village of Kabaong,
  near Pateros, Rizal.
• Reference Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, p. 86.

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His change of surname, his membership with the
Presbyterian Church and with the Church of Christ.

• He now sought to honor his mothers memory by
  changing his surname to Manalo. Felixs
  biographers downplayed the criticism that Felix
  had his name changed because Manalo was much
  well-known than Ysagun.
• This time he again had a change of churches, from
  Methodist to Presbyterian. This sect had much
  improved facilities and a much bigger Bible
  school, the Ellinwood.
• Manalo either was a restless soul looking for the
  right church or an opportunist looking for great
  gains for again he changed churches he now
  joined the Church of Christ. Indigenously
  American, this church operated the Christian
  Mission and a Bible college.
• References Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, pp.
  86-87.
• http//www.pipeline.com/selfsoft/coc1933/coc1933.
  htm

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His experience with the Church of Christ

• Leslie Wolfe wrote a letter to a certain brother
  Laspinas in answer to the latters questions
  about Felix Manalo, affirming the following
• (1) That Felix was indeed one of their students
  at their school.
• (2) That Felix was their supported preacher,
  preaching for the Church of Christ at Singalong,
  Manila.
• (3) That Felix had married one of their students
  named Tomasa Sereneo.
• (4) That Felix had been accused of domestic
  violence and was disciplined by the church for
  beating his wife. They had his support cut off
  when Felix refused to meet with them. As a
  result, Felix left the Church of Christ.
• (5) Brother Wolfe said that Felix had also
  fathered another child with another woman,
  according to court records.
• http//www.pipeline.com/selfsoft/coc1933/coc1933.
  htm

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His experience with the Seventh-Day Adventist

• In 1912, he attended a Bible lecture conducted by
  L. V. Finster, Adventist missionary. Before the
  year ended, Felix switched membership to the SDA.
• By this time Felix was already a widower. He now
  courted an Adventist lass named Honorata de
  Guzman. For reasons that were not explained,
  Felix eloped with the woman. Being a widower, he
  did not need to, for he was free to remarry. They
  married on May 9, 1913. He brought her to his
  church in Malolos, Bulacan.
• The Adventist church did not take too kindly to
  this action by their local worker. They put Felix
  under discipline for the elopement and for
  another infraction they called moral
  indiscretion. That was the last straw for Felix.
  He severed his ties with the SDA.
• Reference Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, p. 87.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Manalo

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II. HISTORY OF IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914The first
group founded by Felix Manalo

• Without a church and without support, Felix went
  back to his hat making business. This time he
  mingled with a group of skeptics, agnostics, and
  atheists. He however did not stay long with the
  group because of their deliberate misuse of the
  Scriptures.
• In November 1913, he secluded himself for two
  days and three nights in the room of a certain
  Eusebio Sunga in Pasay, who generously provided
  them lodging. From that experience, he came out a
  changed man. He now thought he had found the true
  church and that he had a mission To strive to
  end disunity among Christians.
• With his wife in tow, he boarded a banca across
  the Pasig River. In Sitio, Punta, Sta. Ana,
  Manila, he sought the people he had known during
  his preaching days. The place was the compound of
  Atlantic Gulf Pacific.
• Reference Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, p. 87.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Manalo

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The group was registered on July 27, 1914

• At the AGP compound, Felix had some success,
  immersing his first 12 disciples. This group
  became the Iglesia ni Kristo. Note that the
  designation of their church is a strict Tagalog
  translation of the Church of Christ, the church
  that had first supported Felix as their
  evangelist. And to put an end to criticisms that
  his church is a colorum group, he had it
  registered with the government, with the sole
  purpose of preaching the gospel.
• Reference Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, p. 87.
• The first paragraph of their Articles of
  Incorporation says Que los fundadores de esta
  asosacion son Felix Manalo, domiciliado en
  Taguig, Rizal, I.F. Pedro Inocencio, Atanacio
  Morte, Felicisimo R. de Leon
• In English The founders of this association
  are Felix Manalo, residing in Taguig, Rizal,
  P.I. Pedro Inocencio, Atanacio Morte, Felicisimo
  R. de Leon

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Cases of immorality

• In 1916, their number had increased. They started
  expanding outside Manila. By 1922, they had new
  congregations in the provinces of Tarlac, Nueva
  Ecija, Pampanga and Bulacan.
• That year too (1922) Felix was accused of
  immorality. Many members left his church while
  others chose to confront him of his sins. The
  most serious of these challenges to his authority
  was the Ora Rebellion, led by Teofilo Ora and
  another prominent INC leader named Basilio
  Santiago. This resulted to the loss of his
  churches in Nueva Ecija and Bulacan.
• Reference Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, p. 87

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Felixs trip to the U.S.

• PACIFIC SCHOOL OF RELIGION. Felix Manalo must
  have realized that although he had the Tagalog
  charismatic firepower, the great facility in the
  dialect, he, knowledge-wise, still lacked the
  power to convince his detractors of the
  reasonableness of his cause. He had already
  registered his church. He had already learned
  Bible at the Methodist school, at the
  Presbyterian Churchs Ellinwood facilities, and
  at the Church of Christs Bible college. Those
  were not enough. So we heard him making that trip
  to America, specifically to the Pacific School of
  Religion in sunny California in the year 1919.
• Well, if he did study Bible science in that US
  theological college, his name would have appeared
  in the roster of students. It did not (Joseph
  Giaime, Ni Iglesia Ni Cristo, Too Many
  Religious Sects?, 1980), p. 9).

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The doctrine of the Sugo (1922)

• In 1922, after the Ora Rebellion, Manalo started
  proclaiming himself as the Sugo (messenger)
  whom God sent in these last days to preach His
  righteousness, beginning with the Filipinos.
• Reference Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, p. 87.
• Their reasoning runs like this
• (1) What is the true church? It is the church
  that has a Sugo, the man to whom God alone
  revealed His will in these last days.
• (2) The Sugo is he who fulfills the prophecies
  about the ravenous bird from a far country
  (Isaiah 4611) and the fifth angel who rises from
  the east (Revelation 72-3). That ravenous bird
  and that fifth angel is Felix Manalo.

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The doctrine of the Sugo (1922)

• (3) The four other angels are the leaders of
  America, Great Britain, France and Italy.
• (4) The hurting of the earth is the First World
  War.
• (5) The east and the far country is the
  Philippines.
• (6) The servants of God are the Filipinos.
• (7) The sealing is the preaching of the gospel
  and the reemergence of the new church.
• (8) Any church that has no Sugo is not the
  Church of Christ. Since the Sugo is Gods last
  messenger, he too is the man whom men must accept
  for the saving and sanctification of their souls.
  Tanggapin natin siya sa ikababanal at
  ikaliligtas ng ating kaluluwa (PASUGO, Enero
  1954, p. 28 PASUGO, Sept. 1967, p. 43).

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The doctrine of the Sugo (1922)

• So both the Old and New Testaments are Felixs
  credentials for messengership. Now for the proof
  that the east is indeed the Philippines, you go
  to Philippine history book.
• Felixs messengership is proclaimednot in the
  Bible! but in his magazine called the Pasugo
  (Isang Pagbubunyag, p. 184). Why is this very
  important teaching of the INC-1914 written only
  in the Pasugo and not in the Bible? Well, the
  Bible had already been written and can no longer
  be revised to include Felixs name (Ibid.).
  Fantastic reasoning, isnt it?

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Felixs last days

• In 1953, Felix chose his son Erano (his fifth
  child by Honorata de Guzman, his third son after
  Dominador and Salvador) to take over his place as
  executive minister of the INC-1914.
• Ten years later, on April 12, 1963, Felix died,
  apparently of cancer. Erano Manalo, who had been
  waiting in the wings, took over as head of the
  church that his father had founded.
• References Joseph Giaime, Ni Iglesia Ni
  Cristo, Too Many Religious Sects?, p. 9.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Manalo
• Note This year, 2009, saw the demise of Erano
  Manalo. Eduardo his son is now the present head
  of the INC-1914.

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III. TEACHINGS OF THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914

• 1. WHO FOUNDED THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914?
• According to the INC, God did! Well, what is the
  truth?
• In 1914, a young Filipino by the name of Felix
  Manalo, 28, married, began preaching the Church
  of Christ in a place called the Sitio of Punta in
  the district of Sta. Ana in the city of Manila,
  Philippines. This event, which marked the
  beginning of a new religious movement in the
  history of what is known as the Christian world,
  occurred concurrently with the outbreak of the
  First World War in Europe on July 27, 1914
  (PASUGO, July-Aug., 1979, p. 14). (Underscoring
  ours).

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MANALO FOUNDED THE INC-1914

• The first paragraph of their Articles of
  Incorporation says
• Que los fundadores de esta asosacion son Felix
  Manalo, domiciliado en Taguig, Rizal, I.F. Pedro
  Inocencio, Atanacio Morte, Felicisimo R. de
  Leon
• In English That the founders of this
  association are Felix Manalo, resident of Taguig,
  Rizal, P.I. Pedro Inocencio, Atanacio Morte,
  Felicisimo R. de Leon
• Established in 1914 by Bishop Felix Manalo,
  says the Encyclopedia of the Philippines (Vol.
  xix, pp. 96-98).

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THE TRUE CHURCH HAS JESUS AS ITS FOUNDER

• MATTHEW 1618,
• And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter,
  and upon this rock I will build my church and
  the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it
  (ASV).
• Upon this rock. The construction custom in
  Judea, which too supplied the Lord with themes to
  use in his teaching (Matt. 724-27), is the
  building of a house or edifice on a rock, as a
  solid foundation providing security from
  inundations, tempests, storms and other vagaries
  of nature. The word for rock here is Petra,
  feminine, not Peter or Petros, which is
  masculine.

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THE TRUE CHURCH HAS JESUS AS ITS FOUNDER

• The rock refers to the truth that Peter just
  confessed Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
  living God. Everything that Christ isHis deity,
  His divine sonship, His messiahshipis one great
  foundation on which to erect a divine institution
  that could stand amidst the flames of persecution
  and other trials.
• I will build my church. Christ says I will
  build my own church (assembly, gathering). The
  term is applied to Christians as being called
  out from the world, a body of men and women
  devoted to a certain Master, a society of people
  united in a goal to serve God and worship Him in
  a place.

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THE CHURCH IS THE HOUSE THAT GOD BUILT

• PSALM 1271, Except Jehovah build the house,
  They labor in vain that build it Except Jehovah
  keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain
  (ASV).
• 1 TIM. 315, But if I tarry long, that thou
  mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in
  the house of God, which is the church of the
  living God, the pillar and ground of the truth
  (ASV).
• Note The theme of Psalm 127 is that human
  endeavor succeeds only with divine blessing. If
  we apply the word house to the church, the
  principle still holds true. Any church-building
  effort that does not have Gods sanction is an
  empty enterprise. Also, any church that God did
  not build is not His, and they who promote it are
  just wasting their efforts.

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THE PLANT THE FATHER HAS NOT PLANTED SHALL BE
ROOTED UP

• MATTHEW 1513. But he answered and said, Every
  plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall
  be rooted up (ASV).
• ? de ap?????e?? e?pe? pasa f?te?a ?? ???
  ef?te?se? ? pat?? µ?? ? ???a???? e???????seta?
  (Wescott-Hort).
• Literal translation And he answering said
  Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not
  shall be uprooted.
• Jesus compares the Pharisees to plants in a
  garden that were not planted by the owner of it,
  and declares that they shall be rooted up. They
  were teaching without divine authority or
  approbation and what he had said was intended
  not to please them, but to root them up (J. W.
  McGarvey, Commentary on Matthew and Mark). Note
  The principle also applies to church planting and
  church teaching without Gods sanction. Sects and
  cults exist without His authority they too shall
  be rooted up.

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TEACHINGS OF THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914

• 2. THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO BEGAN IN 1914, AT PUNTA,
  STA. ANA, MANILA.
• This movement began in 1914 (Encyclopedia of
  the Philippines, vol. xix, pp. 96-98).
• Their PASUGO says
• In 1914, a young Filipino by the name of Felix
  Manalo, 28, married, began preaching the Church
  of Christ in a place called Sitio of Punta in the
  district of Sta. Ana in the city of Manila,
  Philippines. This event, which marked the
  beginning of a new religious movement in the
  history of what is known as the Christian world,
  occurred concurrently with the outbreak of the
  First World War in Europe on July 27, 1914
  (PASUGO, July-Aug., 1979, pp. 14, 50).
  (Underscoring ours).

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THE TRUE CHURCH WAS PROPHESIED TO BE ESTABLISHED
IN JERUSALEM IN THE LAST DAYS!

• ISAIAH 22-3, And it shall come to pass in the
  latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house
  shall be established on the top of the mountains,
  and shall be exalted above the hills and all
  nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many peoples
  shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to
  the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God
  of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways, and
  we will walk in his paths for out of Zion shall
  go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from
  Jerusalem (ASV).
• IN THE LATTER DAYS (OR LAST DAYS)
• JEHOVAHS HOUSE SHALL BE BUILT (cf. 1 TIM. 315)
• ALL NATIONS SHALL FLOW INTO IT
• HE WILL TEACH US HIS WAYS
• OUT OF ZION COMES THE LAW JEHOVAHS WORD FROM
  JERUSALEM

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THE TRUE CHURCH WAS ESTABLISHED IN JERUSALEM ON
PENTECOST DAY (ACTS 2)!

• Day of Pentecost50th day from the day Jesus was
  resurrected from the dead (ACTS 21).
• They waited in the upper chamber of a house in
  the city of Jerusalem (ACTS 112-14).
• They were filled and guided by the Spirit (ACTS
  22-4).
• They preached the word of the Lord and the law of
  salvation (ACTS 237-38).
• Those who were saved were added to their number
  (ACTS 247).
• Those baptized were added to the one body (1 COR.
  1213 COL. 118 EPH. 523).
• They were the first church of Jesus (ACTS 81).
• When did this happen? 33 AD, based on our
  history.

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TEACHINGS OF THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914

• 3. FELIX MANALO THE HEAD OF THE IGLESIA NI
  CRISTO-1914.
• The present head of this church is Bishop Felix
  Manalo (Encyclopedia of the Philippines, vol.
  xix, pp. 96-98).
• In 1953, Felix Manalo and his ministers appointed
  Erano his son to be the head of the INC-1914, the
  position Erano assumed when Felix died in 1963.
  This year 2009, after Eranos death, his son
  Eduardo Manalo took over the helm of the church
  that his grandfather had founded.
• Because there were no precursors to the
  registered church, external sources and critics
  of the Iglesia ni Cristo refer to him as the
  founder of the Iglesia ni Cristo and describe him
  as such.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Manalo
• The heads of the INC-1914 are all Manalos Felix,
  Erano, Eduardo.

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CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF HIS CHURCH!

• EPHESIANS 523, For the husband is the head of
  the wife, and Christ also is the head of the
  church, being himself the saviour of the body
  (ASV).
• ?t? a??? est?? ?efa?? t?? ???a???? ?? ?a? ?
  ???st?? ?efa?? t?? e????s?a? a?t?? s?t?? t??
  s?µat?? (Wescott-Hort).
• Literal translation Because a man is the head
  of the woman, as also Christ is the head of the
  church, being himself the saviour of the
  body.

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CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF HIS CHURCH!

• EPHESIANS 122-23,  And he put all things in
  subjection under his feet, and gave him to be
  head over all things to the church, 23 which is
  his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in
  all (ASV).
•  ?a? pa?ta ?peta?e? ?p? t??? p?da? a?t?? ?a?
  a?t?? ed??e? ?efa??? ?pe? pa?ta t? e????s?a 23 
  ?t?? est?? t? s?µa a?t?? t? p????µa t?? ta pa?ta
  e? pas?? p?????µe??? (Wescott-Hort).
• Literal translation And all things he
  subjected under the feet of him, and gave him to
  be head over all things to the church, which is
  the body of him, the fullness of him filling all
  things with all things.

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CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF HIS CHURCH!

• COLOSSIANS 118, And he is the head of the body,
  the church who is the beginning, the firstborn
  from the dead that in all things he might have
  the preeminence (ASV).
• ?a? a?t?? est?? ? ?efa?? t?? s?µat?? t??
  e????s?a? ?? est?? ? a??? p??t?t???? e? t??
  ?e???? ??a ?e??ta? e? pas?? a?t?? p??te???
  (Wescott-Hort).
• Literal translation) And he is the head of the
  body, of the church who is the beginning, the
  firstborn from out of the dead, in order that in
  all things he may be holding the first place.
• The ?efa??, kephale, head, metaphorically
  speaking, is one who does the executive duty of
  administering the system, the organization,
  providing authority or direction (cf. Vines,
  202, see Head). Paul says Christ is THE head
  definite article appears both in Greek and in
  English.

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TEACHINGS OF THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914

• 4. THEY SAY THE ORIGINAL CHURCH TOTALLY
  APOSTATIZED.
• Their PASUGO says
• The church of Christ shall not be spared. Others
  shall be killed and many disciples shall be drawn
  away to follow false teachings. The fulfillment
  of this prophetic warning by Christ and Paul
  resulted in the complete disappearance of the
  church of Christ, that is, there remained no
  faithful members (PASUGO, May-June 1981, p. 4
  Nov.-Dec., 1980, p. 5).

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THE GATES OF HADES SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST THE
CHURCH

• MATTHEW 1618, And I also say unto thee, that
  thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build
  my church and the gates of Hades shall not
  prevail against it (ASV).
• ?a?? de s?? ?e?? ?t? s? e? pet??? ?a? ep? ta?t?
  t? pet?a ????d?µ?s? µ?? t?? e????s?a? ?a? p??a?
  ad?? ?? ?at?s??s??s?? a?t?? (Wescott-Hort).
• Literal translation And also to you I say, that
  you are Peter, and on this rock I will build the
  church of me, and the gates of Hades will not
  prevail against it.

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THE GATES OF HADES SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST THE
CHURCH

• Hades was the name of the abode of the dead. Its
  gate symbolized its power because the military
  forces of an ancient city always sallied forth
  from its gates (J. W. McGarvey, Four-Fold
  Gospel).
• Death shall neither destroy the organic church
  which is in the world, nor the members thereof
  which go down into the grave (I Thess. 415 I
  Cor. 155456) (Ibid.).
• Will not prevail against it, ?? ?at?s??s??s??
  a?t??, ou katischusousin autes. The verb
  ?at?s??s??s?? is future indicative active of
  katischuo, to overpower, to have strength
  against, to gain mastery over (Rogers Rogers,
  37). Death has no power over the church, so says
  the owner and builder of it.

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IT IS A KINGDOM THAT IS ETERNAL, SHALL STAND
FOREVER

• DANIEL 244, And in the days of those kings
  shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which
  shall never be destroyed, nor shall the
  sovereignty thereof be left to another people
  but it shall break in pieces and consume all
  these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
• Shall never be destroyed, meaning it shall be
  indestructible.
• Of the increase of Christ's government and peace
  there shall be no end. The Lord shall reign, not
  only to the end of time, but when time and days
  shall be no more. As far as events have gone, the
  fulfilling this prophetic vision has been most
  exact and undeniable (Matthew Henry Concise
  Commentary).

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CHRISTIANS TRANSLATED INTO THAT KINGDOM

• COLOSSIANS 113, Who delivered us out of the
  power of darkness, and translated us into the
  kingdom of the Son of his love (ASV).
• Delivered, e???sat?, errusato, is aorist
  indicative middle, meaning to rescue, to
  deliver (Rogers Rogers, 460). Deliverance is
  a theological term for salvation. The indicative
  middle speaks of Fathers direct involvement in
  mans salvation He himself delivered us.
• Transferred, µetest?se?, metestesen, is aorist
  indicative active, meaning to remove from one
  place to another, to transfer (Rogers Rogers,
  ibid.). This verb implies that the kingdom was
  existing back then.

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IT IS A KINGDOM THAT IS UNMOVABLE, UNSHAKEABLE

• HEBREWS 1228, Wherefore, receiving a kingdom
  that cannot be shaken, let us have grace (ASV).
• The kingdom is characterized to be unshakeable,
  asa?e?t??, asaleuton, not able to be shaken,
  unshakeable (Rogers Rogers, 549) cannot be
  moved, permanent, unchanging, never to pass away
  (Barnes Notes on the NT).
• Receiving, pa?a?aµßa???te?, paralambanontes,
  is present active participle the infinitive of
  which means to receive (Rogers Rogers, 549).
  The present tense speaks of an on-going action of
  receiving the kingdom.

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SOME, NOT ALL, WOULD FALL AWAY FROM THE FAITH!

• 1 TIMOTHY 41, But the Spirit saith expressly,
  that in later times some shall fall away from the
  faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and
  doctrines of demons (ASV).
• t? de p?e?µa ??t?? ?e?e? ?t? e? ?ste???? ?a?????
  ap?st?s??ta? t??e? t?? p?ste?? p??se???te?
  p?e?µas?? p?a???? ?a? d?das?a??a?? da?µ?????
  (Wescott-Hort).
• Literal translation Now the Spirit in words
  says that in the later times some will depart
  from the faith, attending to misleading spirits
  and teachings of demons.
• Some, t??e?, TINES, means anyone, anything,
  someone, something, many a one, many a thing
  (BAGD, 819). t??e? also means several but it
  does not mean all (Ibid., 820).

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TEACHINGS OF THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914

• 5. FELIX MANALO IS THE SAVIOUR IN THESE LAST
  DAYS.
• Their PASUGO says Tanggapin natin siya Felix
  Manalo sa ikababanal at ikaliligtas ng ating
  kaluluwa (PASUGO, Enero, 1954, p. 28).
• In English Let us accept him Felix Manalo for
  the sanctification and the salvation of our
  souls (PASUGO, Enero, 1954, p. 28).
• We are duty-bound to have faith in him whom God
  sent. The sending of Gods messenger is an act of
  God, His work, and must therefore be believed
  (PASUGO, May, 1976, p. 3).

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NOT FELIX MANALO, BUT CHRIST, IS SAVIOUR!

• BY ONE ABSOLUTE DECLARATION, GOD SAID HE IS THE
  ONLY SAVIOUR.
• ISAIAH 4311, I, even I, am Jehovah and besides
  me there is no saviour (ASV).
• When God says there is no other saviour, this
  means there is no more room for anyone, not even
  for Felix!
• BY PROPHECY, GOD APPOINTED JESUS TO BE MANS
  SAVIOUR.
• MATTHEW 121, And she shall bring forth a son
  and thou shalt call his name JESUS for it is he
  that shall save his people from their sins
  (ASV).
• ACTS 320, And that he may send the Christ who
  hath been appointed for you, even Jesus (ASV).
• God had not appointed Felix Manalo to save man
  Manalo just appointed himself!

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CHRIST BECAME A MAN TO BE MANS SAVIOUR!

• BY ONE GREAT MIRACLE, GOD SENT HIS SON TO BE BORN
  AS A MAN, IN PREPARATION FOR HIS MINISTRY OF
  SAVING MAN.
• ISAIAH 96, For unto us a child is born, unto us
  a son is given and the government shall be upon
  his shoulder and his name shall be called
  Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting
  Father, Prince of Peace (ASV).
• ISAIAH 714, Behold, a virgin shall conceive,
  and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel
  (ASV).
• MATTHEW 123, Behold, the virgin shall be with
  child, and shall bring forth a son, And they
  shall call his name Immanuel which is, being
  interpreted, God with us (ASV). 
• HEBREWS 105-6, Wherefore when he cometh into
  the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou
  wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for
  me 6 In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for
  sin thou hadst no pleasure (ASV).

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CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED TO BE MANS SAVIOUR!

• BY HIS CRUCIFIXION, JESUS BECAME MANS SAVIOUR.
• 1 PETER 224, Who himself bore our sins in his
  body on the tree, in order that, being dead to
  sins, we may live to righteousness by whose
  stripes ye have been healed (Darbys
  Translation).
• EPHESIANS 17, In whom we have our redemption
  through his blood, the forgiveness of our
  trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
  (ASV).
• PHILIPPIANS 25-8, Who, existing in the form of
  God, counted not the being on an equality with
  God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself,
  taking the form of a servant, being made in the
  likeness of men 8 and being found in fashion as
  a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even
  unto death, yea, the death of the cross (ASV).
• For Manalo to be mans saviour, he needed to be
  crucified and to shed his blood, too! Yes, we
  know Felix diedof ulcer, cancer, whateverbut he
  never died for mans sins!

46
NO SALVATION IN ANY OTHER NAME!

• ACTS 412, And in none other is there salvation
  for neither is there any other name under heaven,
  that is given among men, wherein we must be
  saved (ASV).
• ?a? ??? est?? e? a??? ??de?? ? s?t???a ??de ?a?
  ???µa est?? ete??? ?p? t?? ???a??? t? ded?µe???
  e? a????p??? e? ? de? s????a? ?µa?
  (Wescott-Hort).
• Literal translation And there is not in other
  not any salvation for neither name is there
  under the heaven having been given among men by
  which it behooves us to be saved.
• t? ded?µe???, to dedomenon, having been given,
  a perfect passive participle, showing an action
  done in the past with continuous abiding results
  in the present.
• e? ? de? s????a? ?µa?, en ho dei sothenai hemas,
  by which it behooves us to be saved. The sense
  of the text is that Jesus is the only source and
  ground of salvation available for mankind!
  (Rogers Rogers, 236).

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JESUS DIED ONCE TO SAVE, AND LIVES FOREVERMORE TO
INTERCEDE!

• HEBREWS 725, Wherefore also he is able to save
  to the uttermost them that draw near unto God
  through him, seeing he ever liveth to make
  intercession for them (ASV).
• Jesus is able, d??ata?, dunatai, he is able.
  Manalo isnt.
• Jesus is able to save, s??e??, sodzein., to
  save, to deliver. His death, which the devil
  thought was his apparent weakness, was His power
  to deliver His people from sin.
• Jesus is able to save the uttermost, pa?te?e?,
  panteles, to the entire, unto completeness.
  The word can have the sense of for all time, or
  fully and completely (Rogers Rogers, 531).
  Jesus offers full salvation.

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JESUS DIED ONCE TO SAVE, AND LIVES FOREVERMORE TO
INTERCEDE!

• He is able to save those who draw near. The
  participle here is t??? p??se???µe????, tous
  proserchomenous, the ones approaching, present
  middle deponent whose infinitive means to draw
  near, to come (Rogers Rogers, 542). Present
  speaks of continual activity.
• He saves those who draw near to God through Him.
  d? a?t?? t? ?e?, di autou to theo, to God
  through Him. Dia genitive speaks of agency.
  Coming to God by other mediators wont save.
• He lives to intercede for those whom He has
  saved. He died once, now he is alive forevermore,
  mediating for us in heaven, interceding for us in
  our prayers!

49
JESUS BLOOD KEEPS SAVING MAN FROM ALL SIN!

• 1 JOHN 17, But if we walk in the light as he is
  in the light, we have fellowship with one
  another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
  cleanses us from all sin (Darby).
• ea? de e? t? f?t? pe??pat?µe? ?? a?t?? est?? e?
  t? f?t? ???????a? e??µe? µet a?????? ?a? t? a?µa
  ??s?? t?? ???? a?t?? ?a?a???e? ?µa? ap? pas??
  aµa?t?a? (Wescott-Hort).
• Literal translation But if in the light we walk
  as he is in the light, fellowship we have with
  each other and the blood of Jesus the Son of Him
  cleanses us from all sin
• Cleanses, ?a?a???e?, katharidzei, present
  indicative active. God does more than forgive
  He erases the stain of sin. Present suggests it
  is a continuous process (Rogers Rogers, 592).

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JESUS IS SAVIOUR OF THE ELECT!

• 2 TIM. 210, For this cause I endure all things
  for the sake of the elect, that they also may
  obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus
  with eternal glory (Darby).
• d?a t??t? pa?ta ?p?µe?? d?a t??? e??e?t??? ??a
  ?a? a?t?? s?t???a? t???s?? t?? e? ???st? ??s??
  µeta d???? a?????? (Wescott-Hort).
• Literal translation Therefore all things I
  endure on account of the chosen ones, in order
  that also they salvation may obtain in Christ
  Jesus with glory eternal.
• e? ???st?, in Christo, in Christ, is dative of
  place and has the locative sense, which means
  that the source of salvation is in no one else
  but Christ!

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TEACHINGS OF THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914

• 6. FELIX MANALO THE LAST MESSENGER?
• Their PASUGO does say so
• Under the leadership of Gods Last Messenger,
  the late Brother Felix Manalo (PASUGO,
  July-Aug., 1979, p. 1).
• We are duty-bound to have faith in him whom God
  sent. The sending of Gods messenger is an act of
  God, His work, and must therefore be believed
  (PASUGO, May 1976, p. 3 Nov.-Dec., 1982, p. 25).

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JESUS IS GODS LAST MESSENGER!

• HEBREWS 11-3. By divers portions and in divers
  manners, God, having of old time spoken unto the
  fathers in the prophets, 2 hath at the end of
  these days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he
  appointed heir of all things, through whom also
  he made the worlds 3 who being the effulgence of
  his glory, and the very image of his substance,
  and upholding all things by the word of his
  power, when he had made purification of sins, sat
  down on the right hand of the Majesty on high
  (ASV).
• HEBREWS 11-3, p???µe??? ?a? p???t??p?? pa?a? ?
  ?e?? ?a??sa? t??? pat?as?? e? t??? p??f?ta?? ep
  es?at?? t?? ?µe??? t??t?? e?a??se? ?µ?? e? ???
  2 ?? e???e? ???????µ?? pa?t?? d? ?? ?a? ep???se?
  t??? a???a? 3 ?? ?? apa??asµa t?? d???? ?a?
  ?a?a?t?? t?? ?p?stase?? a?t?? fe??? te ta pa?ta
  t? ??µat? t?? d??aµe?? a?t?? ?a?a??sµ?? t??
  aµa?t??? p???saµe??? e?a??se? e? de??a t??
  µe?a??s???? e? ??????? (Wescott-Hort)

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GODS MESSENGERS WHO WERE THEY?

• VERSE 1 God spoke to the fathers by the OT
  prophets.
• God spoke, ?a??sa?, lalesas, aorist active
  participle, showing this to be a finished,
  unrepeated action in the past (Rogers Rogers,
  516).
• God spoke to the fathers, t??? pat?as??, tois
  patrasin, meaning the fathers of the Jews.
• God spoke in old times, pa?a?, palai,
  formerly (remember paleontology, the science
  of ancient life?).
• God spoke by the prophets, t??? p??f?ta??, tois
  prophetais, inspired men who were His spokesmen.
• God spoke to them in divers portions
  (p???µe???, polumeros, many portions), and in
  divers ways (p???t??p??, polutropos, many ways).
  Poly means many, as in polygon, a figure with
  many sides.
• The contents of Gods message to the fathers
  became the Hebrew Bible, what we now call the Old
  Testament books.

54
JESUS IS GODS LAST MESSENGER!

• VERSE 2 God spoke to us now by His Son.
• God spoke to us, e?a??se? ?µ??, elalesen hemin,
  aorist indicative active. The aorist indicates a
  past act, the active voice shows God did the
  speaking, and the indicative shows that past act
  was a fact. It is a fact that God, having spoken
  to the fathers, also spoke to us! Furthermore,
  the aorist in both cases showed that God has
  finished speaking! There is no room here for new
  revelations, and the better this truth is stamped
  into the brains of the ignorant, the better it
  would be for their souls!
• God spoke to us in these last days, ep es?at??
  t?? ?µe??? t??t??, ep eschatou ton hemeron
  touton, in the last of these days, a rabbinic
  phrase indicating the time of the Messiah (Rogers
  Rogers, 516).
• God had spoken through the prophets before he
  spoke to us now in His Son, e? ???, en huio,
  in one who is a Son (Rogers Rogers, 516).

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WHY JESUS HIS SON?

• e? ???, in one who is a Son. The absence of
  article fixes attention upon the nature and not
  upon the personality of the mediator of a new
  revelation. God spoke to us in one who has this
  characterthat He is Son (Rogers Rogers, 516).
• This Son is the one whom God appointed heir of
  all things, ?? e???e? ???????µ?? pa?t??, on
  etheken kleronomon panton. The word ???????µ??,
  kleronomon, heir, had been used for dividing
  property that a father left to his children when
  he died. Only one son meant only one heir.
  Christians will inherit heaven and eternal life
  but Christ is the heir of all things! The reason
  he becomes the heir of all things is because God
  has only one heir, His only begotten Son (Rogers
  Rogers, 516).

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WHY JESUS HIS SON?

• This Son is one through whom indeed God made
  the ages, ep???se? t??? a???a?, epoiesen tous
  aionas. According to rabbinical usage, ages,
  a???a?, refers to periods of time as well as
  content of the world (Rogers Rogers, 516).
• The Son is one who is the radiance of his
  glory, ?? ?? apa??asµa t?? d????, hos on
  apaugasma tes doxes. The word apa??asµa,
  apaugasma, radiance, effulgence, has the active
  meaning of emitting brightness (Rogers and
  Rogers, 516). Jesus radiates the glory of the
  great God.
• The Son is one who is the ?a?a?t?? t??
  ?p?stase?? a?t??, charakter tes hupostaseos
  autou, the image or the representation of his
  reality (cf. John 148-11). The noun
  ?p?stase??, hupostaseos, means essence,
  substance, nature, reality (Rogers Rogers,
  516). Christ is the exact representation of Gods
  substance!

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WHY JESUS HIS SON?

• The Son is the one who bears all things by the
  word of his power, fe??? te ta pa?ta t? ??µat?
  t?? d??aµe?? a?t??, pheron te ta panta to rhemati
  tes dunameos autou by the word of his power, he
  carries all things forward on their appointed
  course (Rogers Rogers, 516).
• The Son is the one who had just cleansed his
  people of their sins, ?a?a??sµ?? t?? aµa?t???
  p???saµe???, katharismon ton hamartion
  poiesamenos, having made the cleansing of sins.
  p???saµe???, having made, aorist middle
  participle, shows that Christ himself (both the
  Godhead and the humanity in Him) did the
  cleansing (Rogers Rogers, 516)! He did that on
  Calvary. The aorist shows that to be a finished
  act.

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WHY JESUS HIS SON?

• The Son now sat down on the right hand of the
  majesty in the high places, in the heavens,
  e?a??se? e? de??a t?? µe?a??s???? e? ???????,
  ekathisen en dexia tes megalosunes en hupsilois.
• e?a??se? is aorist indicative active the
  infinitive of which means to sit down, to take
  ones seat, indicating that his work is
  finished.
• e? de??a, with the preposition e? indicating a
  locative sense, in the right hand. Right hand
  signifies a favored place.
• We know for a fact that he is now sitting in the
  right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the
  heavens (Hebrews 81). Having finished purifying
  them, he now sits in the heavens, reigning over
  all.

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FELIX MANALO IS NOT GODS LAST MESSENGER!

• MANALOS CLAIM IS A LIE!
• The INC-1914 admits that the doctrine of Felix
  Manalos being the Sugo or messenger is not
  found in the Holy Scriptures but is taught only
  in their PASUGO magazine!
• Bakit sa Pasugo mababasa at hindi sa Biblia?
  Sapagkat ang pagpapakilala ng Sugo sa huling araw
  na ito ay hindi maaaring maisulat sa Biblia,
  sapagkat ang Biblia ay naisulat na (Isang
  Pagbubunyag sa Iglesia ni Cristo, p. 184).
  Underscoring ours.
• In English Why is it found only in the Pasugo
  and not in the Bible? Because the introduction of
  the messenger in these last days can no longer be
  written in the Bible, because the Bible is
  already written (Isang Pagbubunyag sa Iglesia
  ni Cristo, p. 184).

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FELIX MANALO IS NOT GODS LAST MESSENGER!

• God spoke to us through Jesus in these last days.
  The aorist indicates that after he was done
  speaking, God never spoke again. Anyone who
  claims God spoke to him also is ignorant of the
  mechanics of Gods revelation!
• God appointed Jesus to be His last messenger
  Manalo just appointed himself!
• Jesus is everything that Felix Manalo is not
  Jesus is the heir of all things through Him God
  made the ages and the worlds He radiates Gods
  glory He shows us the real God He supports all
  things by His powerful word He died for us on
  Calvary and now hes reigning over us all!
• Manalos claims are not only an impossibility and
  a lie, it is also a blasphemy!

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TEACHINGS OF THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914

• 7. FELIX MANALO IS THE RAVENOUS BIRD AND THE FAR
  COUNTRY IS THE PHILIPPINES (cf. ISAIAS 4611)?
• Their PASUGO says As a ravenous bird symbolic
  of a man who will execute his counsel in a far
  country (Isaiah 4611). The far country is of
  course the Philippines. The fulfillment of the
  prophecy IS OUR LATE Brother Felix Y. Manalo, the
  last Messenger of God (PASUGO, June 1977, p.
  13).
• ISAIAH 4610b-11 says, My counsel shall stand,
  and I will do all my pleasure 11 calling a
  ravenous bird from the east, the man of my
  counsel from a far country yea, I have spoken, I
  will also bring it to pass I have purposed, I
  will also do it (ASV).

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WHO WAS THIS RAVENOUS BIRD FROM THE EAST?

• CYRUS THE GREAT, EMPEROR OF PERSIA, WAS THE ONE
  REFERRED TO HERE!
• The term ravenous bird refers to Cyrus the
  Great, emperor of Persia, so called on account
  of the rapidity of his marches from the distant
  regions of Persia to pounce on his prey (see on
  Isa. 412 Isa. 4125 Jer. 4922 Eze. 173).
  The standard of Cyrus, too, was a golden eagle on
  a spear (see the heathen historian, XENOPHON, 7,
  where almost the same word is used, aetos, as
  here, ayit) (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible
  Commentary).
• International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says
  that standard is the griffin (Vol. 1, p. 477).

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The Standard of Persia in the time of Cyrus the
Emperor (559-530 BC)
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CYRUS THE RAVENOUS BIRD FROM
THE EAST (ISAIAH 4611)

• (1) Cyrus was called so on account of the
  rapidity of his marches from the distant regions
  of Persia to pounce on his prey (see on Isa.
  412 4125 Jer. 4922 Ezek. 173)
  (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary). In
  foretelling Gods judgments upon Babylon, Isaiah
  4611 refers to Cyrus as a ravenous bird from the
  far east, the man of my counsel from a far
  country (International Standard Bible
  Encyclopedia, vol. 1, p. 477). Bird is an
  allusion to the fact that griffin was the emblem
  of Persia, and embroidered on its standard
  (Ibid.). A griffin is a mythical monster with
  the head and wings of an eagle and the body and
  tail of a lion (Dictionary, MEPS 2003).
• (2) He came from the east, from Persia, and
  Persia was a great nation in the east. Cyrus had
  been mentioned several times in the Bible Isaiah
  451 4428 Ezra 11-4 513 63-5 2
  Chronicles 3623.

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Persian Empire, the domain of Cyrushttp//en.wiki
pedia.org/wiki/Persian_Empire
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Persian Empire in the time of Cyrus, its Emperor
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NEITHER MANALO NOR THE PHILIPPINES IS THE SUBJECT
OF ISAIAH PROPHECY!

• Neither Felix Manalo nor the INC-1914 is alluded
  to or mentioned by name in Isaiah 4611.
• A ravenous bird from the east is also the same
  as the man of my counsel from a far country,
  descriptive phrases that both referred to Cyrus.
  The east and the far country referred to is
  Persia, not the Philippines.
• Far country had once been applied to Babylon.
  See ISAIAH 393. Persia, Cyrus domain, is even
  much farther than Babylon (now Iraq).
• The setting of this prophecy was Jerusalem, where
  Isaiah prophesied. From the point of reference
  which is Israel, Persia (or Iran) is a far
  country. Compare the maps below.

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PROPHET ISAIAH IDENTIFIES WHO THE RAVENOUS BIRD
FROM THE EAST IS

• The anointed of God here is named, but hes not
  Felix Manalo. Thus saith Jehovah to his
  anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have
  holden, to subdue nations before him (Isaiah
  451, ASV).
• The anointed of God here is called by name though
  he has not known God. For Jacob my servant's
  sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called thee by
  thy name I have surnamed thee, though thou hast
  not known me (Isaiah 454, ASV). Cyrus was not a
  Jew nor a believer, therefore he had not known
  the God of the Jews! Felix claimed he did know
  God, therefore hes not the subject of the
  prophecy here!

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TEACHINGS OF THE IGLESIA NI CRISTO-1914

• 8. FELIX MANALO THE ANGEL FROM THE EAST
  (REVELATION 72)?
• We firmly believe that Brother Felix Manalo is
  the fulfillment of the prophecy, Rev. 72-3, as
  Gods instrument in the reemergence of the Church
  of Christ in the Philippines, the third group of
  people promised to receive the Holy Spirit
  (PASUGO, March-April, 1981, p. 21).
• REVELATION 72-3,
• And I saw another angel ascend from the east (or
  sunrising), having the seal of the living God
  and he cried with a great voice to the four
  angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and
  the sea, 3 saying, Hurt not the earth, neither
  the sea, nor the trees, till we shall have sealed
  the servants of our God on their foreheads (ASV).

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INC-1914 INTERPRETATION OF REVELATION 72-3

• (1) The angel could also be a man.
• (2) Revelation 612-15 spoke about the First
  World War.
• (3) The four other angels of Revelation 71 were
  the four leaders of the United States of America,
  Great Britain, France, and Italy.
• (4) The fifth angel rose from the east
  concurrently with the outbreak of the First World
  War on July 27, 1914.
• (5) The east mentioned in Revelation 72-3 is
  the same one mentioned in Isaiah 4611. It is the
  Philippines.
• (6) The fifth angel in Revelation 72-3 seals the
  foreheads of the servants of God. The seal was
  the Holy Spirit. The sealing had something to do
  with the preaching and the reemergence of the
  true church. The servants of God here are the
  Filipinos.

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INC-1914 TEACHING ON REVELATION 72-3 REFUTED

• REVELATION 72-3. And I saw another angel ascend
  from the east (or sunrising), having the seal of
  the living God and he cried with a great voice
  to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt
  the earth and the sea, 3 saying, Hurt not the
  earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we
  shall have sealed the servants of our God on
  their foreheads (ASV).
• (1) If the east here is literal, then, to be
  consistent, the angel is to be interpreted
  literally too. First, what is the true nature of
  the angel?
• They are spirits (Gr. pneumata, spirits) (Hebrews
  17).
• They are more powerful than men (2 Peter 211).
• They are higher than men (Hebrews 27).
• They are not married nor are they given in
  marriage (Matt. 2230). Felix Manalo had been
  married twice (to Tomasa Sereneo and Honorata de
  Guzman).

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INC-1914 TEACHING ON REVELATION 72-3 REFUTED

• (2) A score of nations and states constitutes the
  far east Peoples Republic of China and
  Hongkong and Macau, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea,
  South Korea, Republic of Taiwan, Brunei,
  Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia,
  Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Laos,
  Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Russian Far
  East! See the Wikipedia website below.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_East
• (3) Sun Myung Moon of South Korea also claims he
  was the fifth angel of Revelation 72-3 and that
  his church, the Unification Church, is the true
  church (Donald Platt, Counterfeit?, p.105). Ellen
  G. White also used this text to prove she is the
  Spirit of Prophecy. Now which of these three
  are telling the truth?
• http//www.letusreason.org/Iglesia5.htm

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• (4) Revelation 612-15 does not speak about the
  First World War. That is just a figment of INC
  imagination!
• (5) That the four angels of Revelation 71 are
  the leaders of the Big Four countries (Clemenceau
  of France, Wilson of the USA, Lloyd George of
  Great Britain, and Orlando of Italy) is an added
  figment to their collection of figments! The
  facts?
• Georges Clemenceau was not prime minister of
  France during the First World War!
• Microsoft Encarta Premium Suite 2005, art.
  Georges Clemenceau.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Clemenceau
• Woodrow Wilson and the US had never been involved
  in the First World War!
• Microsoft Encarta Premium Suite 2005, art.
  Woodrow Wilson.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson

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• David Lloyd George became prime minister of Great
  Britain two years after the First World War!
• Microsoft Encarta Premium Suite 2003, art. David
  Lloyd George.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lloyd_George
• Vittorio Emmanuel Orlando favored the entry of
  Italy during the First World War on the side of
  the Allies but that was only on May 23, 1915 to
  satisfy its claims against Austria.
• And we doubt if these four ever heard of Felix
  Manalo of the Philippines!
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Clemenceau
• Microsoft Encarta Premium Suite 2005, art.
  Orlando, Vittorio Emmanuel.
• (6) The cause of the First World War was the
  assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
  Austria by a Bosnian Serb militant in Sarajevo on
  June 28, 1914.

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• Austria declared War on Serbia on July 28, 1914.
  No war outbreak yet.
• Russia, in support of the Serbs, ordered partial
  mobilization on July 29, 1914. No war had broken
  out yet.
• Germany mobilized their troops on July 30, 1914.
  France ordered mobilization on Aug. 1, 1914, and
  declared war on Germany on the same day.
• Great Britain declared war on Germany on August
  4, 1914.
• First clashes of the war occurred on August 7,
  1914, in Africa, involving German, French and
  British colonial troops. There was no need for
  Manalo to tell the World Powers to stop the war
  so he could seal the foreheads of the Filipinos.
  Philippines was very far from the war front!
• Microsoft Encarta Premium Suite 2005, art. World
  War I.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World_War

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• (7) The doctrine that Felix Manalo is the fifth
  angel who rises from the east is taught only in
  the PASUGO
• Why is it found only in the Pasugo and not in
  the Bible? Because the introduction of the
  messenger in these last days can no longer be
  written in the Bible, because the Bible is
  already written (Isang Pagbubunyag Sa Iglesia
  ni Cristo, p. 184).
• (8) Revelation 72-3 does not say what the fifth
  angel sealed. Ephesians 113 says the Christians
  were sealed with the Spirit, dative
  instrumental, which means that the Spirit was
  the agency of the sealing. The INC-1914 claims
  Felix Manalo was the instrument of the sealing.
• (9) Those sealed were not Filipinos but
  Israelites, e? pas?? f???? ???? ?s?a??, ek pases
  phules huion Israel, out of every tribe of the
  sons of Israel (74).

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• (10) Where did Manalo get his authority? For two
  days and three nights he closeted himself in Mr.
  Sungas room, eating nothing, drinking nothing.
  After that closet experience hes telling us now
  he had met God and that he had been appointed as
  the messenger in these last days?
• (11) If the INC-1914 asks you, If Felix Manalo
  is not the fifth angel of Revelation 72-3, then
  who is it? My answer I am not duty-bound to
  tell anyone who is it. But you are saying its
  Felix Manalo, so prove it!

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• 9. FELIX MANALO IS JACOB AND THE INC-1914 IS
  ISRAEL (ISAIAH 431-6 4114 418-10)?
• The last messenger of God the leader of the
  last generation called by God is called Jacob,
  and the Church of Christ in these last days is
  called Israel, to show the relation to Jacob and
  Israel, the seed of Abraham in the flesh. The
  last messenger and the Church of Christ are the
  Jacob and Israelthe seed of Abrahamfrom the
  ends of the earth (PASUGO, Nov.-Dec., 1980, p.
  10).
• Ang Jacob na sinasabi sa Isaias 418-10 ay hindi
  tumutukoy kay Jacob na anak ni Isaac. Ang Jacob
  na itoy ang lumitaw sa Pilipinas sa panahon ng
  digmaang pangsanglibutan noong 1914, samakatuwid
  bagay si kapatid na Felix Manalo (PASUGO,
  Agosto, 1971, p. 23, 27).
• My translation The Jacob that is mentioned in
  Isaiah 418-10 is not referring to Jacob the son
  of Isaac. This Jacob is the one who emerged in
  the Philippines in the time of the First World
  War in 1914, who is brother Felix Manalo.

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JACOB AND ISRAEL DO NOT REFER TO MANALO AND
THE INC-1914!

• THE REAL JACOB AND THE REAL ISRAEL
• (1) Jacob is the son of Isaac and Esaus twin
  brother (Genesis 2525-26).
• (2) The name Jacob later was changed to Israel
  (Genesis 3228).
• (3) The descendants of Jacob in the flesh were
  called Israel. And what one nation in the
  earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom
  God went to redeem unto himself for a people, and
  to make him a name, and to do great things for
  you, and terrible things for thy land, before thy
  people, whom thou redeemest to thee out of Egypt,
  from the nations and their gods? And thou didst
  establish to thyself thy people Israel to be a
  people unto thee for ever and thou, Jehovah,
  becamest their God (2 Samuel 723-24 ASV).

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JACOB AND ISRAEL DO NOT REFER TO MANALO AND
THE INC-1914!

• Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called
  by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of
  the waters of Judah who swear by the name of
  Jehovah, and make mention of the God of Israel,
  but not in truth, nor in righteousness (Isaiah
  481, ASV)
• Unto this day they do after the former manner
  they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after
  their statutes, or after their ordinances, or
  after the law or after the commandment which
  Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he
  named Israel (2 Kings 1734, ASV).
• Praise ye Jehovah. Praise ye the name of
  Jehovah Praise him, O ye servants of Jehovah,
  2 Ye that stand in the house of Jehovah, In the
  courts of the house of our God. 3 Praise ye
  Jehovah For Jehovah is good Sing praises unto
  his name For it is pleasant. 4 For Jehovah hath
  chosen Jacob unto himself, And Israel for his own
  possession (Psalms 1351-4, ASV).

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ISAIAH 43

• (1) The INC-1914 uses only verses 1 to 6 of this
  chapter as their proof text, to the neglect of
  the context of the whole chapter and the intent
  and purpose of the prophecy. In our quest to
  understand what God meant, we need too to
  consider prophetic language, the figures the
  prophet uses, his syntax, even his grammar.
• (2) Traditional dates for Isaiahs ministry are
  ca. 750-680 BC. (Unger, Merrill F., Ungers Bible
  Handbook, p. 306). The book expresses Gods
  concern for His people. Figures or personae
  relevant to this thesis are mentioned only
  because they are Gods agents for disciplining
  His people and for restoring them back to Him. I
  insist They are mentioned. Therefore there is no
  room for making any mistake in identification.
  The problem with the INC-1914 interpretation is
  that it inserts figures that are not mentioned or
  irrelevant to the texts (Felix Manalo,
  Philippines, their Iglesia, etc.)! Such is the
  way of the ignorant who twist the Scriptures!

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• (3) Isaiah is one prophet who fondly uses
  parallelism. In grammar, that simply means the
  use of equivalent or identical syntactical
  constructions in corresponding clauses or
  phrases.
• For example, verse 1
• (a) Jehovah who created thee, O Jacob
• (b) He that formed thee, O Israel.
• We know that he in the second syntactica