Romanticizing the early church

Many of those who claim to be Christian who have discovered the truth of following Torah romanticize the early church and think everything would be perfect if we could "all get along like the early church".  These people idealize the early church as being perfect when it was not.  Both Messiah Yeshua and the apostle Paul warned about wolves infiltrating the church.  Paul also told the believers to expel the immoral who claimed to be believers from among them.  In Corinth, Paul was upset with the immorality that had come in after he had left and in Galatia he was upset that they had gone back to keeping the works of the law for salvation instead of trusting Messiah Yeshua and obeying out of love for Him.  He also stated false brethren had infiltrated their fellowships  and that  a little sin corrupts the whole fellowship like a little least leavens the entire loaf. It does not take much corruption to destroy a fellowship of believers if you do not cast out the sin and protect the fellowship from liars and deceivers.

Matthew 7:15  Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Acts 20  (Paul)
29  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30  Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

1 Corinthians 5
1  It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
2  And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3  For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
4  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5  To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6  Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7  Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8  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.
9  I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10  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.
11  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.
12  For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
13  But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Galatians 2:4  And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Galatians 3:1  O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Galatians 5:9  A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Paul wrote to Timothy that he had given over two men in the fellowship to the power of satan because they were blasphemying Yahweh:

1 Timothy 1
19  Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
20  Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Even in the matter of a few decades, Messiah Yeshua was not at all happy with most of the seven churches He wrote letters to.  Much heresy / false doctrines crept in and corrupted the churches - even the church of Ephesus that the apostle Paul had warned would happen the last time he had visited them:

Acts 20
28  Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30  Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
31  Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

The apostasy of a fellowship is due to allowing heretical teachings and wolves to infiltrate and listening to and accepting their false teachings and accepting them as brethren without casting them out.  Paul did not tolerate the false believers when he was around - he threw them out so they could no longer corrupt the fellowships he had established.

In order to have a fellowship of believers who love and care for one another, you need to expel those who are bringing heretical and satanic doctrines into the fellowship.  Accepting everyone and whatever false doctrines they believe is a good way to corrupt and destroy the fellowship especially since so few have the discernment to know that they are false.  

Those who call out the false do so out of love for those within the fellowship although oftentimes they are the one cast out and the evildoers allowed to stay in the name of "peace and love"  This is the exact thing that destroys the fellowship and turns it into an apostate group where the members are unknowingly heading down the broad road to hell instead of following Messiah Yeshua as they may believe they are doing.


Jude 1
11  Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12  These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13  Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
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19  These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20  But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22  And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23  And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.