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Teacher Maria vonAnderseck

Maria serves as a called and confirmed Chief Teacher in the restored government of God and she is an IDCCST Spiritual Life Coach. She is the co-founder of s8w Ministries. Teacher Maria walks you through spiritual transformation from start to finish, God’s way.  View my profile.

The Lord has been demolishing Satan’s wilderness gospel which he built using man’s own nature as a foundation, or seed. Nowhere is this “ME” gospel more destructive than in spiritual warfare and deliverance practices.

So what exactly is the “ME” gospel? It’s where the inner work of the Holy Spirit is centered on you rather than Jesus. And from this false seed grows the thorny heart.

  • The Spirit speaks expressly: if you are the foundation, then you become the focus. If Jesus is the foundation, then He becomes the focus.

False ministers set God’s foundation of truth aside to preserve the nature of man as their foundation. The ME gospel is deceptively wrapped in scripture, so you don’t see the shift.

In unsanctified hands, scripture is merely repurposed to function as a mirror to self. This is why fallen ministers reach back into the old testament and reinterpret tokens to support this mindset. A recent example is Kirt Schneider’s explanation of the brass laver—the basin used by priests for washing before ministering to the Lord. (Ex. 38:8)

Schneider claimed the laver teaches believers to “allow the Holy Spirit to be our mirror, showing us who we are and the truth about ourselves.”

There’s the ME twist, right there: “who we are” and the “truth about ourselves”. He said it twice. Is this counsel about me or is it about Jesus? Your foundation forms your answer. This counsel is clearly about self, not Jesus.

Schneider’s twist begins with what you want or lack in the covenant void: “if we’re going to be cleansed…” The enemy always starts with what he knows you lack. If you want to be cleansed, if you want to walk in the fear of God, if you want God to bless you… these are areas of lack for the wilderness believer.

The reversed gospel continues: “The Lord is always wanting to be holding up that mirror in our life so that we can see what it is that he’s wanting to correct.” And there it is again… “our life”.

The Spirit speaks expressly: the gospel that begins with you, ends in death. But the gospel that begins with Jesus carries the life of Christ for you to reciprocate to God.

A Mirror Held to Self is Satan’s Gospel

The “ME” gospel reverses God’s plan for you to see Jesus in His knowledge, His apostolic stewardship, and His tools that allow you to function in your priesthood. God had not at any time meant for you to see yourself—to reflect yourself:

  • what’s going on in your life
  • those things of your history
  • the fruits of iniquity (the thorns Satan uses to scar your soul)

This self-reflection is Satan’s gospel, and his priesthood is the psychology of the soul where he speaks of brokenness, transparency, and vulnerability. This has nothing to do with faith and Jesus’ covenant.

Under the Law, the laver did reflect the priest’s image—to magnify the transgression and confirm the barrier between man and God. The entire system was designed to show that the flesh cannot please God. The mirror was not the Lord’s invitation to self‑discovery; it showed man that the anointing does not work with man’s nature. The law will only magnify the transgression, not bring healing. (Rom. 3:19-20)

Just as all things of the earthly temple, the laver pointed to our true hope in Christ. It preached that everything would change when Jesus would come to give us Himself. The Holy Spirit now confirms Jesus in His own covenant. The Holy Spirit enters into all things that are hidden in Christ: His new spiritual tools to complete your faith by a new design. We see Jesus now—not self. (Col.3:3)

  • The “ME” gospel that Schneider accepted is Satan’s replacement of Jesus and His covenant.

The carnal mind only sees half-truths and interprets what it sees according to self and adorns it to dress it up as the love of God. Schneider thought that the Holy Spirit holding up a mirror to his life would draw him into repentance. But the reflection of self leads believers into the covenant void. God is not leading us to see ourselves, but to see Jesus. Can you see the difference?

The New Covenant Tools Shed Light on the Old

There are many from the Jewish community who were brought up on the diet of Moses’ law who desire to be teachers of the law. They believe that shinning a light on the old covenant will give understanding of God’s purpose in Jesus. But that’s not how God works.

When Jesus taught in the temple, there were many people who approached Him and said, “Let me tell you about this temple,” but Jesus corrected them because they really didn’t know its history and the purpose of the tools to mirror Him. He said, “I AM that temple.” (Jn. 2:19-22)

Jesus always was God’s pattern. All the physical tools had significance because they pointed to Christ and the spiritual tools that He would give to cleanse our conscience when we used them in service to the Lord. That’s why both our cleansing and deliverance are in our new spiritual priesthood.

God designed your priesthood to oversee your spiritual growth. All the tools were designed to reflect Jesus, the one who loved us and gave Himself for us.

  • And since the mirror that God holds up is not self—we don’t see ourselves—we see Jesus—and we overcome the history of the flesh.

God joined the stewardship to the priesthood to protect you from Satan’s gospel. Moses spoke to Aaron and Aaron carried out that which was revealed through Moses’ stewardship. This is repeated through the scriptures. If you deny the apostolic stewardship then your priesthood is void of sanctification.

God’s Pattern Begins With Stewardship

The Lord specifically instructed that His completed pattern, given to His steward Moses would be the only pattern the people followed. God commanded Moses to personally oversee the making of all the tabernacle tools to ensure that it was according to the one pattern God showed him.

Exodus 25:9
According to all that I shew thee [one steward], after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

God’s communication to Moses established His terms for contact with the people of Israel when they came to worship Him in His temple with His tools. When God said to Moses, “Follow the pattern I gave you,” He knew that others would challenge Moses’ stewardship and claim to also receive a pattern from the Lord.

God knew that the enemy would sow many “patterns”, many “foundations”, and many “truth(s)” that would look like they are God-authored, but are Satan’s substitutes meant to replace Christ. And we see that taking place in the church today.

What happened when the steward (Moses) was not active among the people? Remember that Moses went up into the mount and was out of eyesight for 40 days. The people immediately made idols to replace his leadership.

So it is today. In the absence of apostolic stewardship, Christians make up their own truths to represent their faith. But in their presence, believers are established in the one true covenant foundation of knowledge and Jesus represents us before the throne of God.

Everything about your faith is according to the pattern of Christ. All the terms and spiritual tools for contact were designed by God and given to His apostles to give to the people. (Heb. 8:5)

The work of the Holy Spirit to create the fruit of Christ’s nature in us does not need sin as a foundation or a measure. Jesus is your new foundation and therefore your repentance is sealed in the tools He gave you to reciprocate to God what He is.

The Seducing Spirits Behind Satan’s Gospel

Jesus gave us Himself as the one token of redemption and yet people choose Satan’s substitutes. You might be wondering how Satan’s deception can be so convincing. While in prayer this week, the Lord allowed me to hear the seducing spirits behind these deceptions. They confessed their own work:

  • “I was the ME gospel” –revealing how Satan turned the gospel inward
  • “I was the dead sentence”—revealing how Satan turned scripture into confession
  • “I was deliverance” –revealing how Satan used man’s nature as his truths
  • “I was spiritual warfare”—revealing how Satan changed the battlefield of faith

What I heard was the Lord compelling seducing spirits to confess their hand in constructing Satan’s Christianity—the dead teaching of the Charismatic‑Evangelical culture that has thrived for over fifty years. These are the many foundations and truths the enemy engineered to keep the door of Jesus’ covenant shut.

But God is changing that. God is removing Satan’s power and removing the scales of ignorance from your eyes.

We read the same thing in the Testament of Solomon, where God forced 36 demons to reveal themselves to Solomon who functioned as a type of Christ. The demons tell the steward, Solomon, their names as he requested. One demon said, “I am deception”, another, “I am strife”. One by one, the Lord removed the scales and compelled them to identify themselves to Solomon: “I am battle”… “I am power”… “I am error”.

And the worst is deception. That seducing spirit said: “I deceive and weave snares here and there, and I whet and excite heresies.”

But this was God unveiling the source of deception, not Solomon practicing a technique.
It was God revealing the enemy’s mindset, revealing the nature and source of Satan’s lie. God was not instructing His people to hunt for spirits by name as we see today.

God unmasking seducing spirits in the Testament of Solomon is not the same thing as the modern Charismatic practice of naming demons to expunge them from your mind, from your towns, cities, states, and countries. Claiming to cleanse the land, bind the spirits, and thereby orchestrate the perfect environment for Jesus to return.

But God Himself let’s Satan and his demons loose upon the earth.

Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

This takes place mid-way through the tribulation. And the Lord says, “Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”

The only environment God created for us is Jesus’ covenant. When His gift is refused and Satan’s false gospel is accepted, God’s judgments follow. All the news feeds testifies of this.

God’s perception is the same now as it was from the beginning: if you minister the lie Satan gives to clothe your conscience, that is the lie you become. If you preach the counterfeit gospel, you become its steward. If you normalize deception, you embody the deception you normalize.

Assimilating the Text is the Serpent’s Scale

God is challenging the false church body. Ministers assimilated the text into their own narrative. And that’s the serpent’s scale. Every verse is twisted to become the scale of the serpent. It’s not the measure God put in Jesus’ covenant.

Every minister measured their Christianity (their ideas of what it means to be a Christian) to the serpent’s scale. Let’s look at a few examples:

  • Kenneth Hagin — promoter of the “you have what you say” doctrine (positive confession as spiritual law).
  • Oral Roberts — architect of the “God is a good God” prosperity‑healing message.
  • A. Allen — champion of “pleading the blood” as a power‑formula for miracles and protection.
  • Bill Hamon — developer of the “many truths” prophetic‑apostolic gospel (progressive revelation, new truths, prophetic activation).
  • Cindy Jacobs — major promoter of prophetic declarations as tools to shape events, nations, and spiritual atmospheres.
  • Isaiah Saldivar — teaches that Christians can be inhabited and influenced by demons, therefore every believer should practice deliverance.
  • John Eckhardt — promotes spiritual warfare ideas: that prophetic words can break curses, shift atmospheres, and disarm spirits.
  • Alexander Pagani — known for the concept of digging up hidden demonic structures within the believer.
  • Kathryn Krick — teaches that anointed declarations break demonic power and release deliverance.

These are all scales of that same serpent. Each minister is dressed in the same seduction. When they reject God’s apostolic stewardship they reject everything of Jesus that the stewardship carries.

Apostle Eric vonAnderseck received a vision on June 9, 2026. He saw a bright light in his prayer room. The Lord showed him of a well-dressed minister in a yellow shirt and brown tie. As Apostle Eric fixed his gaze on the man, the tie changed and became a serpent that moved slowly and lifted its head.

The bright yellow shirt represents Satan’s promises that are preached through the mouths of his stewards. The tie that dresses the shirt identifies the source.

Charismatic Circles and the Jewish Influence

To deepen your understanding of the Jewish influence in the church, let me share a portion from Apostle Eric vonAnderseck’s new book, Apostles Restore the Lost Foundation. In the following excerpt, Apostle Eric reveals Satan’s mindset: use the things of Moses to replace Jesus. Let’s get into that section now:

We’re identifying the many ministerial and journalistic voices that endorsed thousands of Charismatic and Evangelical beliefs that branched out into circles and groups that took on many familiar forms—home Bible studies, Spirit-led churches, mega churches, music ministries, conferences, shepherding movements, word-faith movements, seeker sensitive initiatives, prophetic movements, and deliverance ministries.

Each of these Charismatic circles felt like “safe” places, but they were actually exemptions Satan exploited to keep Christians out of God’s covenant environment.

Charismatic circles also include the Jewish influence: rabbis who claim to accept Jesus as Messiah yet seek to Judaize Christians by teaching that true faith requires understanding the roots of Christianity through the practice of Jewish customs, feast days, worship through physical tools, and traditions handed down through Moses.

At this point in the teaching, we’ve already covered a number of exemptions. So, it’s natural to feel a pause—Wait… there’s more? Yes. And we need to talk about it.

We have to talk about it—because it is one of Satan’s strongholds. We cannot not talk about it. I know that sounds uncomfortable. But that’s the point. This stronghold has gone unchallenged for too long.

Activating your faith with the things of Moses is widely accepted as spiritually essential for preserving a God-given identity and cultural heritage. It feels like honoring the things of Moses legitimizes God, as if the things of Moses is simply an acknowledgment that God is real.

So why not activate those things? Why not blow the shofar? Why not light the menorah, tell the story, and repeat the prescribed prayers? Why not observe the Jewish feast days and retell the old accounts of Israel’s triumphs over darkness?

  • Because Jesus is our new God-given identity. Jesus only. Not Jesus and Moses.

“Jesus only” means we choose to resource Jesus’ spiritual tools as our light. We honor God by making this choice of faith to only observe Jesus as the living reality of our faith. We honor God by honoring the distinction He placed between the blood of an animal and the blood of His Son and come into 100% agreement with God that these are not the same.

Most Christians know about the ark of the covenant and how Moses was instructed of God to place within the ark these three things: a pot of manna, the tables of stone written by the hand of God, and Aaron’s rod that supernaturally budded.

But what Christians don’t know is how Jesus is now the ark of His own covenant and how God places three new tokens in Him: government, truth, and Spirit. Christians thought that honoring God meant celebrating what Moses placed in the ark, but they neglected what God placed in Jesus.

Most Christians also know about the veil of the temple, the altar of sacrifice, and the holy of holies. But what they don’t know is how Jesus is now these things for us. They don’t know how Satan worked to preserve the tradition of faith in the things that God no longer uses.

At God’s word, Moses sprinkled the blood of an animal upon the physical tools, the tabernacle, the basin for cleansing, and all the vessels of the ministry, and the people. All the commandments of the law were touched by the blood of an animal. (Heb. 9:19-21)

This is so clear in the mind of Jewish history that even the rabbis don’t deny it.

  • The shofar was touched by the blood of an animal
  • The menorah was sprinkled with the blood of an animal
  • All of Moses’ physical tools were sprinkled with the blood of an animal

There can be no mistake about the Lord’s instruction to use the tools He sanctified by blood so that when Jesus came to shed His own blood for our redemption we would know what to do… choose to only use His tools. Choose only the tools touched by Jesus’ blood.

  • Jesus’ blood flowed upon Himself and He would say, “I AM the tool of your redemption. He that touches My tools, touches Me. My tools are now your only point of contact with God.”

God accepted the faith of the children of Israel on the condition that they observe the things touched by the blood of an animal. But their conscience was yet defiled until Christ would become their conscience.

God sprinkled the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ, on His own spiritual tools and the knowledge of His covenant to set them apart for us. By this, God made a distinction between the earthly and the heavenly, the carnal and the spiritual, and ultimately, what He inhabits and what He does not inhabit and weighs our choices.

Will we use the carnal, earthly tools touched by the blood of an animal that are now unsanctified? Or will we restrict our faith to use only those tools which God has now sanctified with Jesus’ blood?

The Lord was saying, “I will be in these things I sanctified with My own blood. And if you use these things I inhabit, then I will be your God, and you shall be My people. But if you use the things I’m not inhabiting, as the things of Moses and the things of your own nature, then you will not see Me nor find Me.”

The Apostle Paul, speaking by the Spirit instructed the church to observe the distinctions that God placed in the tools of Jesus that are “not seen”—those are the eternal tokens for His eternal work in our hearts. God places our focus on the spiritual tools of Jesus that are not seen.

2 Corinthians 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Can you see the contrast God developed between the visible tools of Moses sprinkled with the blood of an animal and the invisible, spiritual tools God sprinkled with Jesus’ blood?

  • God’s instruction is that we don’t look for Him in the things that are seen—the earthly tokens.

And what are the earthly tokens? You will recognize the earthly tokens—tithing, water baptism, physical communion, observing the sabbath day, observing Jewish festivities, and blowing the shofar.

Blowing the shofar is nothing more than a sound that is made. In the mind of God, it possesses no spiritual power for our faith. The things which are seen are temporal and have no eternal value. Despite what has been taught, we do not learn to value Christ by first learning to get connected to the history of the things of Moses.

Many tell the stories of the victory of light over darkness when lighting the menorah and tell the stories of God’s glory when they blow the shofar but never resource Jesus’ knowledge and tools as their light and God’s glory, so their reality does not change.

Celebrating God by renewing these practices is earthly, fleshly, and carnal. It is not how we observe Christ and partake of Him and will never bring the reality of God’s work in your heart. Your conscience remains defiled.

And you can discern that in how believers are taught to communicate. In the false church body, believers are taught to communicate their sins and their struggles. They communicate their transparency and vulnerability. Saying for example, “I sin therefore I’m a real person.” No. You’re confessing Satan who is the counterfeit and mirror his hypocrisy and his history.

The hypocrite is one who is true to himself. Satan is a hypocrite because he is true to himself, and so are his children. People were trained to look at their vulnerability as some kind of righteousness. No. Jesus Christ is our righteousness, not your vulnerabilities. Christ is your true identity, not Jewish custom and law.

  • When you confess your sins, you’re not confessing Christ as the reality you now live. That means no transition is taking place.

God uses the things of Jesus Christ to free the conscience for fruit bearing. Because our knowledge has changed, our communication has changed. We now communicate Christ from the foundation of His truth. His knowledge—His tools. Jesus represents us. We don’t represent ourselves before the throne of God.

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