The Lesson for the Ecclesia of Today
If you're a Christadelphian, baptised into the Truth as it is in Christ, then you have a responsibility of upholding that truth. A responsibility to ensure that the meeting that you belong to, ...you have a responsibility of upholding that truth. A responsibility to ensure that the meeting that you belong to, and your fellowship, are not following any "private interpretation" of scripture but that they adhere to and "earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints".and your fellowship, are not following any "private interpretation" of scripture but that they adhere to and "earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints".
So we understand that in the ecclesia those that are responsible for the condition of the house of Yahweh are the members. If the "leprosy" is with an individual meeting it is the members of the individual meeting that have to – are commanded to – act; if the "leprosy" exists in a fellowship it can only do so because the meeting(s) where the problem exists refuses to remove the offending situation from it's midst, and the other ecclesias in the fellowship accept the situation by refusing to act and therefore become "partakers of their sins". Then it is up to the brotherhood, and in particular the meetings in close proximity, to provide the remedy. Unless the correct action is taken to remove the uncleanness from the ecclesia or fellowship then the whole is defiled and ALL who refuse to condemn this situation and perform the corrective actions as instructed are condemned. If the error is not corrected then faithful brethren and sisters must remove themselves from the error or risk being condemned for accepting and condoning the error.
We saw earlier that Jesus inspected the house of Israel twice, and twice found it to be unclean, and that after the second inspection, in accordance with the Law of Moses the defiled, or unclean, stones were removed to a suitable place – one that was unclean.
We should be very careful in regard to our standing before Yahweh in this respect, "For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee" (Romans 11:21). Jesus will soon return to the earth to call the saints to judgement and we certainly do not want to be numbered amongst those who are not spared either before or at that day that we should not inherit that for which we have – or should have – strived so hard for, for we shall inherit that for which we truly desire. The defilements already current in the ecclesia are now so prevalent that the only possible course of action for the faithful is to withdraw themselves from fellowship with those in error according to the principles discussed and established from the Spirit WordIf we desire the things of the truth of Yahweh's Word being a "good and faithful servant" then we shall inherit the Kingdom, but if the things of the world then our inheritance will be the destruction that will come upon all them that look not for His coming.
The only action for the faihful brother or sister is to make sure that firstly you, then your ecclesia and your fellowship are not unclean and ready for destruction and removal to "an unclean place", which is the final destruction that will be meted out to all that defiles and offends. As we have discussed previously, in another article (The Reason for Heresy), the reason heresies are in the ecclesia is to try our faith in order to determine if we will be obedient to the principles of Yahweh's word. The defilements already current in the ecclesia (Christadelphia) are now so prevalent that the only possible course of action for the faithful is to withdraw themselves from fellowship with those in error according to the principles discussed and established from the Spirit Word in this article and others on Qodesh. "Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat" 1 Corinthians 5:8-11, KJV.