Seminar: Rapture Before OR After Tribulation?
Dates: 4 & 11 July 2026 (choose one Saturday)
Duration: 9 am to 6 pm
Venue: Near Tai Seng MRT Station
(Address will be given upon approved registration)
Cost: $35, includes 1 Lunch & 2 Tea-Breaks & Rental of Venue
Early Bird Discount from now to 30 Apr: $20
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Important Announcement:
With effect from next month, 1 May 2026,
I will pass the baton
as the leader of this ministry and the team
to Joseph and Sharon Kingsley.
Part 1: Pre-trib teachers, such as Joseph Prince, who promotes the idea that believers would be raptured to escape tribulation, brazenly contradicts Jesus’ purpose for the Church – to be overcomers in tribulation
Part 2: Joseph Prince is such a show-off he wants to give the impression that his prayer is more powerful than others
Part 3: Joseph Prince’s no-need-to-do-or-work religion will lead you to hell.
Part 4: Joseph Prince accuses God of giving us the holy law to cause us to sin; such a sacrilegious accusation against God can only come from an evil and detestable wolf in sheepskin – Joseph Prince
Part 5: Flesh Vs Spirit – Joseph Prince Exposed in his Sermon on 29 Mar, 6 days ago (By Ex New Creation Church members Joseph & Sharon Kingsley)
Part 1: Pre-trib teachers, such as Joseph Prince, who promotes the idea that believers would be raptured to escape tribulation, brazenly contradicts Jesus’ purpose for the Church – to be overcomers in tribulation
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“Pre-trib teachers promote the idea
that believers will be raptured
because they aren’t able to endure the tribulation.
This brazenly contradicts with what Jesus said
about the seven churches in the Book of Revelation.
For seven times Jesus said,
“To him who overcomes,”
or “He who overcomes”.
Jesus unmistakably expects the Church
to be overcomers in the tribulation
in Revelation chapters 6-18.
He didn’t sanction the idea
that the Church would escape tribulation at all.
The best that Joseph Prince and Pre-tribbers
would come up with is a weak defence
that these overcomers are “Tribulation saints”
who will only come to faith during the tribulation
as the church would have already been raptured.
This is preposterous!
If these baby Christians
can overcome the greatest tribulation
without the Holy Spirit,
according to Joseph Prince’s Pre-trib theology,
why can’t mature Christians who have the Holy Spirit
do the same?
Why do they have to be raptured before the tribulation?
If these uninitiated and baby Christians
can overcome the Antichrist
and reject the mark of the beast,
why do the more mature believers think that they can’t
and are afraid to go through the tribulation?
If God loves the mature Christian Bride too much
to see them beaten up and crushed,
according to Pre-trib teaching,
why would He allow the poor and fragile baby Christians,
who are only saved in the great tribulation
to be slaughtered?
If the tribulation is too difficult for mature Christians
to live through,
then why would God allow new Christians
converted during the tribulation to remain?
They would be the least equipped
to handle this trying time.
Can you now see the logical inconsistency
in Pre-trib theology?
Why would God rapture His Church,
filled with anointed men and women
who have walked with Him for years
and have dedicated their lives to the ministry,
because they supposedly couldn’t handle
the pressure of the tribulation,
and then allow these poor baby Christians
to go through the same trial?
That doesn’t sound reasonable and logical to me.
Does it to you?
It would seem rather silly for God
to prepare a Church for 2,000 years
and remove her just when she is needed the most
during the last climatic years before the end of this age.
Well, if Pre-trib advocates
can freely accept the divine protection of the Jews
in Revelation 12:14 while they live on earth
during the more-violent latter half of the seven years,
why do these same Pre-tribbers
suggest that it’s absolutely necessary
to remove the Church from the earth
for that same period?
Revelation 12:14 TLB
14 But she was given two wings like those of a great eagle, to fly into the wilderness to the place prepared for her, where she was cared for and protected from the Serpent, the Dragon, for three and a half years.
If Pre-tribbers can see the protection of the Jews,
why can’t God protect the Church
from these horrible persecutions
that they have to be raptured?
If we live, we live for the Lord;
and if we die, we die for the Lord.
So, whether we live or die,
we belong to the Lord.
Romans 14:8 NIV
8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
Hence, regardless of whether
we are protected or martyred
we will be winners
because we all belong to the Lord.
One test case is
when the 5th seal martyrs were crying out to God
to mete out His judgment against their persecutors.
9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. 10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” 11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.
They cried out in a loud voice,
“How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true,
until you judge the inhabitants of the earth
and avenge our blood?”
Did God say to these martyred saints,
“Oh, poor thing, I forgot to rapture you
and I’m so sorry that you were killed.
That reminds me
that I had better rapture all those saints
who are still on earth
so that they won’t suffer the same fate as you did.”
No, that’s not what God said to them.
Rather God told them
to wait a little longer,
until the full number of their fellow servants,
their brothers and sisters, were killed
just as they had been.
God would probably say to these saints,
“I’m aware that you have suffered much for me
and I’m proud that you gave your life for my sake.
But, I want you to be patient and wait a little longer,
as more and more of those who are totally sold out
for me will be killed.”
Does anyone, such as Joseph Prince
still insist that God will never allow you
to go through the great tribulation?
Wake up!
Get Real!
God will even allow you to be killed.
Because He hates you!
No!
Because He loves you enough
to give you the privilege of being martyred for His glory
just as Peter was!
John 21:18-19 NIV
18 Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” 19 Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!”
Very truly I tell you, when you were younger
you dressed yourself and went where you wanted;
but when you are old
you will stretch out your hands,
and someone else will dress you and lead you
where you do not want to go.
Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death;
– the death by martyrdom
– would glorify God!
God loves us so much
that He would even give us the privilege
to be martyred for His glory in the great tribulation!
Hallelujah! Glory be to God!”
Seminar: Rapture Before OR After Tribulation?
Dates: 4 & 11 July 2026 (choose one Saturday)
Duration: 9 am to 6 pm
Venue: Near Tai Seng MRT Station
(Address will be given upon approved registration)
Cost: $35, includes 1 Lunch & 2 Tea-Breaks & Rental of Venue
Early Bird Discount from now to 30 Apr: $20
For Registration, Please fill up the form below:
https://forms.gle/JtaJpJedsvj87zibA
Part 2: Joseph Prince is such a show-off he wants to give the impression that his prayer is more powerful than others
In the sermon on 29 Mar 2026, 6 days ago,
Joseph Prince said:
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“You know, again, I just want to say this,
that people tend to become very, shall we say,
they go into a motion like, you know,
I need to pray when I’m receiving.
You cannot.
Because when you’re praying, when God is dispensing,
it is pushing out instead of receiving in. Amen.
All you need to do is just receive. Amen.
Be in a passive receptive mode.
Are you listening? Okay.
Sometimes, I stop praying for people
when I see them praying, okay.
I pray, you pray.
Negate the whole power.
The power of God cannot flow in. Alright.
If the power is being dispensed, you receive. Amen.”
First, Joseph Prince said that
one should be on the receiving mode,
instead of the praying mode,
and that if we keep praying,
we are “pushing out” God’s answers to our prayers,
instead of receiving them.
Hey Joe, what nonsense are you talking about?
Can you show us which part of the scriptures
supports what you just said?
The other nonsensical thing
about Joseph Prince’s teaching is that
how does one know that one is in the receiving mode
before one stop praying.
Second, Joseph Prince said:
“Sometimes, I stop praying for people
when I see them praying, okay.
I pray, you pray.
Negate the whole power.
The power of God cannot flow in. Alright.
If the power is being dispensed, you receive. Amen.”
The absurdity is that Joseph Prince claimed that
while his prayer doesn’t negate God’s power to flow in,
the prayer of the one whom Prince is praying for, would.
What Joseph Prince is claiming is that
your prayer doesn’t matter, and in fact,
it would negate God’s power to flow,
but his prayer is so powerful
that it will invoke God’s power on you.
What Joseph Prince has said regarding both points,
directly contradicted the holy scriptures.
Luke 3:21-22 NIV
21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
Luke 3:21-22 clearly says that as Jesus was praying,
“heaven was opened
and the Holy Spirit descended on him…”
Daniel 9:20-23 NIV
20 While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the Lord my God for his holy hill— 21 while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. 22 He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. 23 As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:
The text clearly says that while Daniel was still praying,
God’s answer came through the Archangel Gabriel.
2 Chronicles 7:1 NIV
When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
It is a fact that when Solomon finished praying,
fire came down from heaven and consumed the sacrifices.
Acts 22:17-18 NIV
17 “When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance 18 and saw the Lord speaking to me. ‘Quick!’ he said. ‘Leave Jerusalem immediately, because the people here will not accept your testimony about me.’
It was only when Paul was praying,
that the Lord spoke to him.
These are just 4 passages out of the many in the scriptures
that proves the power of prayer
– that as or when the people of God prayed, God answered.
Hence, Joseph Prince teaching that
one should be in the receiving mode,
instead of the praying mode,
and if we keep praying,
we are “pushing out” God’s answers to our prayers,
instead of receiving them,
ought to be thrown down the rubbish chute.
Part 3: Joseph Prince’s no-need-to-do-or-work religion will lead you to hell.
In the sermon on 29 Mar 2026, 6 days ago,
Joseph Prince said:
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“Okay, look at this passage here in Romans 6.14.
It explains a lot of things
that the body of Christ is going through.
And it says what?
Let’s all read together, shall we?
For sin shall not have dominion over you,
for you are not under law, but under grace.
So, very clear.
I’m under grace.
Those are powerful words to utter.
I’m under Your grace.
God, I’m under Your grace.
I’m a man under grace. Amen?
I’m a woman under grace.
Amen. Confess that I’m under grace.
Before you pray for people, say, I’m under grace.
So God is working.
God is active under grace.
But under law, you are active.
You are doing. You are working. Amen.
And the devil doesn’t want you to see God working.
So the devil is saying,
you’ve got to work,
you’ve got to do,
You got that? Okay.
That’s why in Romans 6, verse 14;
it tells us we are not under law but under grace.”
Joseph Prince’s teaching
that grace is God working and doing for you,
but law is you working and doing,
and that’s what the devil wants you to do
is from the pit of hell
as I will prove to you
that such a teaching will lead you to hell.
In ‘Destined to Reign’, Joseph Prince wrote,
“In fact, because Jesus has already died on the cross for us,
He has already done everything on our behalf.
“Remember, Christianity is
“done, done, done”, not “do, do, do”.”
What Joseph Prince has written in his book,
“Remember, Christianity is
“done, done, done”, not “do, do, do”.”
is patently against the Holy scriptures.
This is because Christianity
is not only
“done, done, done”,
BUT ALSO
“do, do, do”.”
In a teaching session, David Pawson said:
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“But the believers’ mistake is the opposite.
And that mistake is to think that a Christian
is someone who does nothing;
who says, Christ has done it all.
And who believes that good works are no use
because we’re not saved by works; we’re saved by faith.
And to many Christians,
that means that Christ has done all that is necessary,
and all I need to do is accept that.
And I want to show you before we finish tonight
that a believer can finish up in hell in the wrong eternity.
So that’s my theme for tonight
– that Christians have to do many things
if they’re going to be saved, eventually.
And the Bible is full of dos and don’ts,
of things we should be doing
and things we shouldn’t be doing.
And whereas in the Old Testament
there are 613 dos and don’ts,
how many do you think there are in the New Covenant,
in the New Testament?
There are over 1,100, nearly twice as many dos and don’ts
for Christians as there were for the Jews.
And those who say it doesn’t matter now,
you’ve accepted Christ,
you’ve done everything you need to do,
and He’s done everything for you and that’s all
– and what happens to the 1,100 dos and don’ts
in the New Testament?
In a teaching session, Derek Prince said:
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“And then I want to analyse for a moment
Matthew chapter 5 (should be Matthew chapter 25).
There are three classes of people there,
who were totally rejected by God.
The foolish virgins
who took no oil,
the one-talent servant
who did nothing with it
and the goat nations
who did not help the brothers of Jesus.
And they were all totally and finally rejected by God.
And I said to myself one day,
“What did they all have in common
that caused them to be rejected?
What did they do?”
And I got a simple answer,
“They did nothing.”
That’s all you have to do to be rejected
– just do nothing.
It’s a solemn thought.”
Derek Prince mentioned that
these three groups were rejected by God (and went to hell)
because they have not done what they should have done.
Have you now been sobered up and shaken up
by the fact that your doing or not doing
can affect your eternal destiny?
And yet, Joseph Prince can teach
that we are not to do or work because that’s under law.
In a teaching session
on Matthew 24:42-51 and Matthew 25,
David Pawson said:
Please click here to listen to the audio:
“Now the 5th thing that is in common to these stories
and here we are coming near
for the burden for this morning.
In each of the 4 stories, some were not ready.
The whole point of these 4 stories
is that some were not ready.
And the shock that I got when I ask
in what sense were they not ready was this.
They were not ready
because they had not done certain things.
They weren’t criminals.
They weren’t full of vice.
There wasn’t a murderer, an adulterer among them.
In fact, none of them is accused of a single vice
or a single crime or a single sin.
They are only accused of having not done something.
Do you know a man can go to hell
not because of what he’s done or anything he has done
but because of what he didn’t do?
Now, that’s a shock of these 4 stories.
Remember, He’s (Jesus) speaking to the disciples again.
And He’s saying you are in danger of doing nothing.
In fact, to get to hell, that’s all you need to do – nothing.
That’s the teaching of Jesus.
All you need do – nothing.
In the first case,
a man had been left to give food
to the other servants
and he hadn’t given it.
In the second case,
they were supposed to have enough oil
to light the wedding
and they hadn’t got it.
In the third case,
the man with one talent had failed to improve it.
He just hasn’t done anything with it.
And in the fourth case,
Jesus said, you never visited me, you never clothed me,
you never gave me a drink.
And you know they gave the whole game away
when they said O Lord if we realised it was you.
What social snobbery lies in that implication, doesn’t it?
In other words,
O we thought it was just some unimportant person.
If we’ve known it was you,
if we’ve known it was important,
we would have done it.
You see, that’s awful, isn’t it?
The sins of neglect.
What I call the sin of omission
of what Jesus is talking about here.
Not the bad things we’ve done
but the good things we haven’t done.
And that’s a serious word.
And it’s not very nice to be told you going
to be judged for what you haven’t done.
Now, look at the punishment that was meted out
to those who were not ready.
Cut to pieces, weeping and gnashing of teeth,
shut outside in the outer darkness,
weeping and gnashing of teeth again,
cursed to eternal fire, eternal punishment.
And you know I cannot get round those words of Jesus.
And here we have the profound truth said,
and we’ve got to grapple with it in the last few minutes.
The disciples who are not ready, go to hell.
And we must grapple now with this very serious truth
which Jesus is giving us.
It is disciples He’s talking to
and disciples who were not ready, go to hell.”
Let me reiterate what David Pawson had said.
How do believers finish up in hell?
From the teachings of Jesus,
it has to do with what they didn’t do what they should.
In Matthew 25,
Jesus was talking to His disciples,
not to unbelievers.
He warned them not to be caught not doing.
First, they must do by filling the oil
as the five foolish virgins didn’t have enough oil
because they didn’t top it up,
and was locked out of the celebrations of the bridegroom.
Second, Jesus warned that they must do something
with their talents,
The one-talent man didn’t use it, but he buried it,
and he went to hell.
He didn’t do anything with what God had given him.
Third, Jesus warned about doing something
– about the need to serve the least of your fellow believers,
especially those who are in need.
Because they didn’t do what they should,
they were cursed to the eternal fire.
These three groups went to hell
because they have not done what they should have done.
Have you now been sobered up and shaken up
by the fact that your doing or not doing
can affect your eternal destiny?
What Joseph Prince teaches that Christians do nothing
because Christ has done everything for them on the cross,
is sending those who really believe what he said to hell.
What we do and we don’t do
can mean the difference between heaven and hell.
There are two eternities.
Which eternity we will end up in
will be decided by what we do or not do in this life.
I hope, those who have been influenced
by Joseph Prince’s doing-or-working-is-under-law false religion
that Derek Prince and David Pawson have proven
will lead you to hell,
will wake them up from their slumber before it is too late.
Part 4: Joseph Prince accuses God of giving us the holy law to cause us to sin; such a sacrilegious accusation against God can only come from an evil and detestable wolf in sheepskin – Joseph Prince
In the sermon on 29 Mar, 6 days ago,
Joseph Prince said:
Please click here to view the video:
“Are you listening?
So, the sin was already there.
But the moment they received the commandment,
it manifested.
So there’s a verse in the Bible that says
the sting of death is sin
and the strength of sin is the law.
So you see my problem.
I endeavor to show people these truths
and then people are saying,
he’s just making people lawless.
You will stir up all kinds of lust, okay?
So remember this.
The strength of sin is the law.
We hardly hear that preached.
But it’s preached every day in hell.
Okay, it’s not in hell.
I don’t know where the headquarters of the devil is.
Alright? It’s usually somewhere
in the atmospheric heaven or whatever.
Hell is where they burn, isn’t it?
But it’s not in hell.
So somewhere, all the little minions are being taught,
all the apprentice is being taught by the master himself,
master of darkness, Mr Soren, is being taught,
okay, this verse.
Remember, don’t ever find out about,
don’t let them ever find out about this verse.
The strength of sin is the law.
Because this is our device.
None of them, alright, will be, will be averse to the law.
When you bring the law,
you tell them, you must keep this.
Eh, by the way, going to church and all that is fine.
Listening to the gospel is fine.
Believing on Jesus is fine.
But it’s not enough.
You cannot just believe on Jesus
and then you are righteous.
Wah, just like that.
So simple. Alright? Use the words, sloppy agape,
greasy grace, cheap grace, hyper grace. Alright?
And then you make them scared.
So they will focus on the law or not.
So they will use both.
They will say, I have grace, I have law.
You got them.
Because, you know what?
No one will reject the law.
It’s God’s law.
You see what I’m saying?
And you bring in the law, and people accept it.
Now we got the strength of sin in their lives.
People, can you see it?
I am setting you free by sharing you this truth.
From the power of the strength of sin.
Joseph Prince uses the verse,
“because the strength of sin is the law. (1 Cor 15:56b),
to teach the demonic doctrine
that our focus on the law
will strengthen sin in our lives.
Joseph Prince keeps deceiving people
that it is the law that strengthens the sins in our lives
when he wrote in ‘Destined To Reign’:
“… because the strength of sin is the law (1 Cor 15:56b).
Sin is strengthened when more law is preached!”
But when Paul says,
“…the strength of sin is the law,” (1 Cor 15:56b NKJV),
what is meant is that the law exposes sin
for all its vileness and evil.
The law makes sin to be sin
but the law doesn’t cause sin or strengthen the sins
that are in our lives.
Without the law,
is sin still sin?
Of course.
But the law makes sin even more recognisable and vile.
That is what Paul meant in 1 Corinthians 15:56b.
But Joseph Prince has twisted 1 Corinthians 15:56b
to mean that the law is responsible for our sins
and has caused us to sin even more.
The truth is, although the law may give sin the strength,
finally, the one who is responsible for sins
is not the law
but the person himself.
In ‘Destined To Reign’, Joseph Prince wrote:
“However, the Bible is very clear
that the “strength of sin is the law” (1 Cor 15:56).
It is not grace
that gives people the strength to sin.
It is the law!
The more you are under the law,
the more sin is strengthened!
… Unfortunately, there are well-meaning people today
who are preaching a completely different message…
So when they see sin, they preach more of the law!
That, my friend, is like adding wood to fire
because the strength of sin is the law. (1 Cor 15:56)
Sin is strengthened when more law is preached!”
What Joseph Prince is saying is that the law is responsible
for causing or bringing about more sin in the people.
His argument is that the more law is preached,
the more sin is caused.
So, the problem is with the law,
and it must be done away with.
Joseph Prince is no different from saying
that if a man has committed murder,
it is the law against murder
that is responsible for causing him to murder.
Joseph Prince is also implying that since the murder law
is the culprit for causing him to murder;
so, we need to do away with the murder laws,
so that no one would be convicted of murder (even if he murders).
What sickening logic is that?
The simple logic is that the murder law is to convict people,
and is not responsible for the crime of murder
committed by the people.
In the same way, the function of the law is to reveal sin,
and is not responsible for the sins
that are committed by the people.
But Joseph Prince is teaching
that the law is responsible for the propensity to sin in people;
he is in effect accusing God of giving us the law
to cause us to sin more.
Joseph Prince is no different from saying
that if a man has committed murder,
it is the law against murder that is responsible
for causing him to murder
when the murderer himself
who committed the sin of murder
is to be blamed.
While the function of the law
is to reveal and bring sin into the open,
hence giving sin strength:
“the strength of sin is the law.” (1 Cor 15:56),
the law is not responsible for sin in the people.
But Joseph Prince falsely teaches it this way
– that because “the strength of sin is the law” (1 Cor 15:56),
we must have nothing to do with the law,
as all it does is increase the strength of sin in our lives
– placing the blame squarely on the law.
But the right perspective on 1 Corinthians 15:56
is that the blame must rest squarely on the sin
which is the cause,
not on the law, which merely provides the occasion
for the cause.
If a mum who had to cane a child to discipline him
has brought forth a greater rebellion in the child,
is the discipline of the mum
to blame for the rebellion in the child?
The discipline of the mother in caning the child
may have provided the occasion
for the display of the child’s rebellion.
But it is the rebellion in the child that is to be blamed
– as such a rebellion is all the while latent in the child,
only waiting for the right stimulus, mum’s caning,
to bring it forth to action.
In the same way, the phrase in 1 Corinthians 15:56,
“the strength of sin is the law,”
does not lay blame on the law
which merely provides the occasion for the display of the sin,
but it is the sin that has to bear the full responsibility.
The more the law is preached,
the more sin that has remained hidden
will be brought forth to the surface.
The law thus serves a critical function of uncovering sin,
not causing us to sin more.
In a teaching session, George Ong said:
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“Give you an illustration.
This maid is very lazy.
She didn’t clean up the house.
So, the boss went away for a while.
And because the maid was lazy,
didn’t clean up the house,
all the cockroaches will come crawling
between the cracks,
hiding between the cracks of the wall
and behind the cupboards.
It’s not too apparent to the eyes.
So, when the boss returned home,
he switched on the torchlight.
To the shock of his life,
he discovered so many cockroaches
hiding between the cracks and behind the walls.
Now, tell me who was the cause of these cockroaches?
Is it the torchlight?
No!
Who was the cause?
It’s the laziness of the maid.
Right, that’s the cause.
It’s not the torchlight.
You see, but Joseph Prince blames it on the torchlight.
The torchlight of the law only reveals the immensities
and extremities of the cockroaches.
Same thing when the law shines into our lives,
of course, it reveals all the dirt.
It does not cause the dirt.
Joseph Prince says the law causes the dirt
is the same as saying the torchlight of the man
causes the genesis of the cockroaches.
It’s like an x-ray machine.
X-ray machine does not cause the cancer.
Somebody got stomach problem, right.
So, he decides to go for x-ray,
Wah, he was horrified;
the doctor was horrified,
so much cancer germs inside.
Did the x-ray cause the cancer germs?
No.
The x-ray only reveals
all the germs that is inside.
You must know this difference.
But he turns it around
and say it’s the law that causes you to sin.
It’s the law that revives sin in your lives.”
Furthermore, Joseph Prince spends lots of his energies
only on the second part in 1 Corinthians 15b,
but he keeps silent on the first part of the verse
in 1 Corinthians 15a, as if it doesn’t exist:
1 Corinthians 15:56 NKJV
56 The sting of death is sin,
and the strength of sin is the law.
In a teaching session, George Ong said:
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Now let’s look at NKJV.
He said, “the strength of sin is the law”.
Remember I told you this is not the whole verse.
But he dared not quote you the first part.
Can you read the first part?
“The sting of death is sin.”
“The sting of death is sin.”
So, what causes death?
What causes death?
Sin.
It’s not the law.
You see, he uses the second part of the verse
to deceive us,
“the strength of sin is the law”.
But he never quotes the first part,
“The sting of death is sin.”
In the context of 1 Corinthians 15:50-57,
the thrust of the passage
is about the hope of our resurrection
that will finally defeat death which is caused by sin.
So, just now the passage read to you, right.
What is the context of the passage?
The context of the passage is about death.
What causes death?
Sin.
That’s why we need to be resurrected.
So, the problem of death is sin.
And when we are resurrected, the problem is solved.
The law is only incidental.
The law is only incidental.
But here he (Joseph Prince) makes the law the big thing.
Keep on harping on this half-verse
– that the law causes us to sin even more.
Okay, that’s what he’s doing.
So, you know already, right,
the real cause of death is sin.”
To reiterate, let’s take a look at the bigger context
of 1 Corinthians 15:50-57,
in which the verse in question,
1 Corinthians 15:56, is located:
1 Corinthians 15:50-57 NIV
50 “I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed – 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 15:56 NKJV
56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
In the context of 1 Corinthians 15:50-57,
the thrust of the passage is about the hope of our resurrection
that will finally defeat death which is caused by sin:
“The sting of death is sin…”
So, the primary issue in the passage
is about sin causing our death,
but one day that death would be overcome
by our glorious resurrection.
The law that is mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15:56b,
“the strength of sin is the law,”
is only incidental,
and yet, Joseph Prince has deceptively made it the focus.
Why?
– For the sake of advancing his false grace theology
by giving the law a bad name,
so we can do away with it.
Joseph Prince keeps harping on the line
in his books and teaching videos and audios
that it is the law that kills
or it is the law that causes death.
But we have to ask Joseph Prince,
what does 1 Corinthians 15:56a say?
1 Corinthians 15:56a says,
“the sting of death is sin….”
Does the law kill or does sin kill?
It is not the law
but it is sin that kills and causes death:
“The sting of death is sin…”
The law to be true to its rightful role
must sentence sinful lawbreakers,
such as murderers to death,
and in that sense, it gives strength to sin
as sin’s chief and evil purpose is to bring death to us.
But the law is no way responsible for our death.
Sin, being the root and the ultimate cause of our death
must bear the chief responsibility.
But while the law cannot remove the sentence of death
(which is not its role anyway),
the grace of God
through the death and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus
did, 1 Corinthians 15:57.
Joseph Prince never even bothered
to explain what I have done carefully.
Why?
To give you the distorted and false impression
that the law is the bad guy
that causes and worsens sins in our lives,
and even bring about our death
and therefore, it has no place in a believer’s life
and must be abrogated.
By such a teaching, Joseph Prince is accusing God
for giving us the holy law
to cause us to sin more and bring about our death.
Such a sacrilegious accusation against God
can only come from an evil and detestable wolf in sheepskin
– Joseph Prince.
Part 5: Flesh Vs Spirit – Joseph Prince Exposed in his Sermon on 29 Mar, 6 days ago (By Ex New Creation Church members
Joseph & Sharon Kingsley)
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This article was also sent to Bishop Philip Lim, President of the National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) and Rev Dr Ngoei Foong Nghian, General Secretary and for the attention of the Executive Committee Members.
This article was also sent to the Alliance of Pentecostal & Charismatic Churches of Singapore (APCCS), for the attention of the Chairman, Rev Yang Tuck Yoong & Co Chairman, Rev Dominic Yeo (General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God of Singapore) and Council Members.