Christians are deceived to worship Satan as Jesus Christ

Posted on July 14, 2012 by cmardern

Satan sits in all worship places, which are churches for Christians, shows himself as the Lord Jesus Christ, deceives Christians and is worshipped as God. “2 The 2:4 … so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”

The true God is the creator of everything. But people throughout the world create their own gods and worship them. There is Satan, a created angel called Lucifer, who desires to be worshipped, luring people, shows himself as god with different names to different people and is worshipped. God allows this and gives people the option to choose.

Christianity is one of the world’s largest religions. It has many denominations. Every denomination accepts the Bible as the inspired word of God, just for the saying. In fact they do not believe the word of God. Christians believe their preachers more than they trust the Bible. Preachers interpret (twist) the Bible in order to accommodate their own doctrinal beliefs as well as to attract the crowd. By doing this, churches stray away from Jesus Christ. Even though they are away from Christ, they put up a show as if they are worshiping Christ. Most churches modify and improve the method of worship, in order to attract more people and they are successful. They become famous. But, Jesus Christ says: “Matt 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” God says that they worship in vain. God does not accept their worship, but the devil does. “2 Thess 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”

1. Messiah in Old Testament
A. God became Man Jesus
‘God the Word’ who created man, himself became a man (flesh). “John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,” He became less in status than the angels. “Heb 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death,” He did not maintain his godly status and power, but became a mere man with no reputation as God. “Phil 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” But he knew where he came from and what for did he come. “John 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.” He was in communion with ‘God the Most High’ always, and called him Father. He obeyed God always. “John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.”

B. God’s Men in the Temple
The Temple at Jerusalem was God’s house. When the people wanted to offer any kind of sacrifices to God; they went to the altar in the temple. There was a laver for the purification of the Priests. The Holy place and the Most Holy place were in the temple. The Ark of the Covenant was in the Most Holy place. God’s glory has descended on the temple. This temple was the hope of God’s people. The Levites, Priests, Sadducees, Pharisees, Scribes and the High Priest were the servants in the temple. The temple was their life, in the sense that without the temple, their positions meant nothing. The people came to the temple to worship God. And their God was their strength and their hope.

C. Jesus Visited the Temple
‘God the Word’ who was Jehovah became a man. This man visited the temple. “John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” He said that the house of God, which should be ‘the house of prayer’, was made into a den of thieves. He accused the temple merchants as thieves and reviled them. “Matt 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” Looking at the life of the Scribes and Pharisees, he pronounced woe to them. “Please read : Matt 23:13-38” Looking at the city of Jerusalem, he pronounced his displeasure. “Luke 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! 35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate:”

D. God’s Men Killed Jesus
God’s people were waiting for the coming of Christ for their own redemption. Even though they were regularly reading the Scriptures, they had no understanding of how God would come into the world. So when Christ came, the chief priests, captain of the temple, elders, and the high priest joined together and crucified the Son of man who was the Christ. Of course they did it unknowingly. We like to think that such a mistake will not happen again.

2. Will History Repeat Itself?
At the first coming of the Messiah, the Jews made a mistake because their teachers were blind men leading the blind. They did not expect God to become a man who was the Lamb of God. They were expecting him to come as the Lion of Judah. Lack of understanding caused eternal death for many people. Now the same Jesus will come again, but not as a man, but as a Lion of Judah, as the Righteous Judge. “Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” His judgment will not be based on whether we are Christians or Jews or Heathens. God is not a respecter of persons. His judgment will be strictly on the basis of what we have done in our life according to the commandments of God. Are we ready to receive him as a Righteous Judge? Are you a spiritual criminal, who commit sin? If so, you are not ready. Will history repeat itself?

Have we built our houses on the rock of obedience to the sayings of Jesus Christ OR have we built our houses on the sand of Christian clichés which is the rhymes of our mouth and not the obedience to the sayings of Jesus Christ? “Matt 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:… 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:”

3. Christ in New Testament
A. Leaders in the Churches
Let us look inside the Church, which should be the body of Christ. The Apostles planted Churches. However, even in the first century, the enemy was beginning to take over the churches. Even the very apostle, who found the church, was not received in the church. “3 John 1:9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.”

B. Messages of Evangelism
The main thrust of evangelism is church growth. All kinds of workers, including evangelists, are involved in this. In order to bring more members to the churches, all kinds of messages are preached. The purpose of evangelism should be to convert the souls and to teach them to follow the life of Jesus Christ, if not we are not doing evangelism. False workers are turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, to help the people to live the way they desire rather than to help them to live in obedience to the Lord, which is denying the lordship of God, which is actually denying Jesus Christ. Accepting his lordship is to submit oneself as a servant to him in obedience. However, people are taught to call him Lord with their lips and to live their own way, in disobedience to God. The Holy Spirit says that these ungodly men are ordained to the condemnation of God. “Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

C. Servants of Corruption
There are false servants who love their monitory profit including pay checks and will not mind to be a part of unrighteousness to earn it. They speak swelling words of vanity and they themselves are servants of sin. Their latter end will be worse than the first. However those who are clean will escape from them. “2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;… 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.”

D. Shall Faith be on Earth?
The situation of the Church today is the same as the temple at the time of Jesus Christ. Most of the church leaders are the same as the temple leaders of that time. Knowing this Jesus speaks in the following verse. “Luke 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”

4. Who Worship Satan?
A. Another Jesus
The Holy Spirit has given a principle so that we may identify the true Jesus Christ who is God from the counterfeit Jesus. The simplicity of Jesus Christ who is God is to accept the chaste virgin for His bride. Chaste virgin is the one who will keep herself holy for the Lord Jesus Christ. The counterfeit Jesus says that he will accept any bride who will talk highly about the groom and the counterfeit Jesus will justify saying that nobody can be a chaste virgin. The counterfeit Jesus is the devil. He deceives God’s people with subtilty. “2 Cor 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.”

B. Son of Perdition
Jesus Christ has called Judas Iscariot as the son of perdition after Satan has entered him. Perdition is the state of being in utter damnation of the soul. The son of perdition is one who is possessed or influenced by Satan to do the work of deception. This person will have no hope of redemption. “John 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? John 13:27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly. John 17:12 — those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”

Satan disguises as an angel of God. His workers also disguised themselves as workers of Jesus Christ in order to deceive people. Their deception is subtle. They are placed in the field of God and the field is the Churches. “2 Cor 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”

A group of religiously zealous people claimed to Jesus Christ that God was their father. “John 8:41 — Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.” Jesus Christ replied to them saying that their father was the devil and said that the devil is a liar and he came to kill. “John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” A religion which is based on lies and killing is openly accepting the devil as their god. They will call the devil god and worship him using another name.

But the devil also deceives the people showing himself as an angel of light. Whoever do not have the love for the truth of God, will fall for the deception of the devil. Satan with his group of people are called in the Bible ‘the son of perdition’ and ‘the man of sin’. And the devil is seated in the Churches (Temple was the Old Testament name). “2 Thess 2:3 that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” Satan shows himself as god, angel of light, in the churches and is worshipped. If there is no reverence for righteousness, holiness, fear of God, and godliness in a church, then the presence of God will not be there. Satan gets into those places in the form of an angel of light, even with lying wonders, shows himself as god and receives the worship of those people. If the people reverence God with fear and godliness in their life, the presence of God will be in their worship. Satan cannot enter into those places of worship.

If only, those people who followed Satan for lying wonders and signs, would love the truth of God, they could have been saved. Just because they don’t have the love for the truth, God has sent a strong delusion to them to make them believe a lie. “2 Thess 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth,” That is the reason for their worship of Satan in the churches. These people will have no hope.

5. Deception on Churches
A. Form of Godliness
Every church is godly in its own sight, because they have a form of godliness. The true people of God will accept the power of God and will overcome sin. The false church will deny the power of God that can deliver them from sins, but will find easy broad ways of salvation, and will have a form of godliness. “2 Tim 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” False ministers will preach philosophy, politics, business, worldliness, world news, common sense and such things of interest. They will use Bible verses and religious clichés in the name of Jesus Christ. They will attract people in so many ways except true holiness. “Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

B. The Field of God
“Matt 13:24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”

According to the above parable and the following explanation, whenever God plants his people (workers) in his field of work (church) the devil also plants his people along with them. Both groups of people, the wheat and the tares are allowed to grow side by side. Verse 41 says, the children of the devil (the tares) will do iniquity (sin), and will offend the kingdom of God (promote false gospel). Jesus Christ says that the tares will be thrown into the furnace of fire and those who do righteousness will shine in the Kingdom of God.

“Matt 13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. 37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”

6. The True Worshippers
A. In Spirit and Truth
Jesus said that the true worshippers must worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth. Unless they have the spirit, how can they worship God in the spirit? Unless they know the truth, how can they worship in truth? Whoever worships God without the spirit and without knowing the truth, is not a true worshipper. “John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

B. Led of the Holy Spirit
Those who are born of the Spirit are mysteriously led of the Holy Spirit. “John 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 1 Cor 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” The Holy Spirit will teach them, reveals the things of God to them, will bring the commandments of Jesus Christ into remembrance and will give them spiritual power to fulfill them. “John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

C. Continue In the Word
Jesus Christ says that the only way to know ‘the truth’ is by continuing in the Word of God. As the Holy Spirit reveals the word, continue in the word, that is to study and obey his Word which will make them His disciples. Then only, they will know the truth. The Holy Spirit will teach and guide the believer with all the truth so that they may obey the whole truth in their life. They are the true worshipers of God. “John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 16:12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”

7. Second Coming of Jesus
The Churches are expecting Jesus Christ to come at any moment. People are ready to be caught up now in the rapture. Most of the churches proclaim this often to show their religious fervency. These statements are nothing more than a cliché to kindle just an excitement among the people. According to the Bible, two definite incidents must happen before the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. “2 Thess 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”

1. The first incident will be the falling away, which is the backsliding of the church. The spiritual church has to become worldly and materialistic. This has been fulfilled in almost all the churches all over the world. The churches have learned to talk very religiously for a facade without any godliness in their life. They have no knowledge of the truth of God. They read selected portions of the Bible, but study many books in order to know God. The lives of the Christians are empty without God. The falling away has happened.

2. The second incident will be that, the man of sin, the devil with his influenced followers, should be exposed (revealed) from their disguise. The Bible says that Satan is sitting in the churches (temple) and showing himself as God and exalting himself above all that is worshipped. For some reason God is allowing this deception to happen. The Scripture context refers the temple to the New Testament Churches and not to the temple at Jerusalem. Until Satan is exposed out in the open, that day, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the rapture of the church shall not come. The next great event in the church will be ‘the exposing of Satan’.

8. Things have not changed
The very people of God, who were waiting for the coming of Messiah, crucified Him when He came because they did not believe the truth of God. Things have not changed even today. Even now, people don’t want to believe the Word of God. But they do believe whatever they want to believe. They will not hesitate to go out of the way to refer to commentaries, different translations etc., until they hear what they want to hear. The natural tendency of the flesh is to believe a lie. Jesus Christ says that the devil is a liar and the father of it. People will believe the devil because he is the father of them. Jesus Christ told the truth and people did not believe him. God forsook them and they worshipped their father, the devil. “John 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.”

The truth of God can be understood by his disciples only. We have to start obeying His word to become his disciples in order to understand his truth. If we have a divided loyalty between God and mammon, which is the things of this world, we will not understand his truth. God will send strong delusion to those who do not have the love for the truth so that they may believe a lie. At this point Satan will blind their minds and will show himself to them as God and deceives them. They worship Satan thinking that they are worshipping God. So, love the truth and escape deception. “2 Thess 2:4 — he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 10 — because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth,– 2 Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”

If we love God with reverential fear, we will obey God – We will stop sinning.

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The Image of the Beast and the Martyrdom of Christians

Posted on June 2, 2012 by cmardern

The Image of the Beast and the Martyrdom of Christians

Revelation 13: 2-3 describes the first beast, the one who comes up
out of the sea, as “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard,
and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of
a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great
authority.
3. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his
deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.”

The first beast is like a leopard, a bear and a lion. If only one of
these animals were mentioned, then
we could say it might be just coincidence that its a beast who is
metaphoric for a kingdom in Daniel Chapter 7. But since three of the
beasts of Daniel 7 are seen here as descriptive of the first beast,
then it is referring back to Daniel 7. “The first was like a lion,
and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked,
and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a
man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
5. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised
up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it
between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour
much flesh.
6. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had
upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four
heads; and dominion was given to it.”

The dispensationalists claim these four kingdoms are the identical
same kingdoms of Daniel 2, which are the empires of Babylon, Persia,
Greece and Rome. So the lion in Daniel 7 is Babylon again, the bear is
Persia, and the leopard is Greece. The fourth kingdom in Daniel 7: 7,
the fourth beast which is dreadful and terrible would be, according to
the dispensationalists, the Roman empire.

To the dispensationalists, who want to honor physical Israel as
remaining the chosen people of God, Daniel is a “Jewish” book of
prophecy. For them, Daniel does not deal with events and kingdoms on
the other side of the Cross. Never mind that Daniel 10: 4-21 tells is
that an angel came to give Daniel the prophecy which became Daniel 11
and 12, which does give us glimpses of things in the end times, which
is on the other side of the Cross.

So the first beast is government, that is, political government, while
the second beast of Revelation 13 11-18 might be said to be
ecclesiastical government, as well as the office of the False Prophet.
The second beast is identified as having two horns like a lamb,
indicating it is Christian, but it speaks like a dragon. The second
beast makes use of the dialectic to promote and defend his positions.
The second beast does not preach the Gospel in truth by “it is
written.”

The second beast has been called the False Prophet. The False Prophet
represents many false prophets as shown in Matthew 24:11, II Peter 2:
1 and I John 4: 1. The False Prophet operates within ecclesiastical
government, that is, in the churches.

One of the heads of the first beast, which is government in our time,
not in the time of the four kingdoms of Daniel 2, is wounded to death
but its deadly wound was healed and the whole world wonders after this
beast. This fits the nation of Israel, which received a deadly wound
in 70 A.D. when the Roman army took and destroyed the temple and much
of Jerusalem, but the deadly wound was healed in 1948 when Israel
became a nation. So the first beast has more than one head, but the
head whose deadly wound was healed is important enough to be mentioned
in this broad stroke kind of end time prophecy. The head of the beast
whose deadly wound was healed is important in the prophecy.

We will see that the second beast, the False Prophet, in verse 12 is
said to cause them which dwell on the earth to worship the first
beast, whose deadly wound was healed.”And he exerciseth all the power
of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which
dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was
healed.”

To make sense out of this prophecy, we need to know what the first
beast is. If the first beast is a government which has traits like
the lion, bear and leopard empires of Daniel 7, interpreted to be
political empires on our side of the Cross, then the first beast is
similar to the British, Russian and Nazi German empires. It can be the
United States and the United Nations, or the U.S. alone as a world
beater power.

If we see the beast whose deadly wound was healed as a different head
of the beast than that head which is like the British, Russian and
Nazi German empires, that is, the U.S.,then the False Prophet leads
people to worship the nation of Israel. We can see from contemporary
history that the U.S. has given much help to the nation of Israel, and
Israel has an influence on our foreign policy and in other ways.

The two verses of Revelation 13 that tell us about the image to the
beast whose deadly wound was healed are verses 14 and 15. “And
deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles
which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them
that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast,
which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that
the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as
would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”

The False Prophet deceives people into creating a likeness of the
beast whose deadly wound was healed.

The False Prophet, as many individual false prophets, causes those who
dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast whose deadly wound
was healed, that is, to Israel. Its the nation of Israel, but since
the nation of Israel claims to be physical Israel, the Jews, in the
modern timeline, we can say the False Prophet also causes people to
make an image to physical Israel, who dispensationalists claim to now
be a people of God and his chosen people.

An image, from the Greek eikon in Revelation 13: 14, is Strong’s
number 1504, which is said to mean,”from 1503, eiko, a copy, to
resemble, be like, statue, profile, representation, resemblance,
image.”

Some popular dispensationalist interpretations of the image of the
beast got off on the idea of a statue, and then they take verse 15
literally which says the copy of the beast speaks and kills to mean
that somehow this statue magically talks and kills people who do not
worship it. If the image of the beast is a group of people then it
makes more sense that literally members of the group can speak their
doctrine and can cause their enemies to be killed.

The image of the beast whose deadly wound was healed is a copy or
resemblance to the beast whose deadly wound was healed, that is, the
False Prophet causes others to create something which is like the
nation of Israel, and especially like physical Israel. The copy is an
ecclesiastical structure having a resemblance to ancient physical
Israel’s temple, the Pharisees, and in other ways honoring the chosen
people by becoming like them to some extent as their surrogates. This
ecclesiastical structure also honors the U.S. government head of the
beast by being incorporated as a corporation under the Internal
Revenue Service 501C(3) provision, putting it under that beast as
having its image in addition to being like the beast whose deadly
wound was healed.

The dispensationalist church honors (worships) physical Israel, or
“All Israel,” as the beast whose deadly wound was healed (Revelation
13: 12).

While dispensationists will sometimes give up their pre-tribulation
rapture theory when confronted by more than one New Testament text
which says Christ only appears at the last day (John 6: 40), at the
last trumpet (I Corinthians 15: 52) and after the tribulation (Matthew
24: 29-30), they will more often stick to their belief that physical
Israel, or “All Israel,” remain God’s chosen people. Their belief in
the supremacy of physical Israel is very important to them and they
will not give that up easily.

The dispensationalists are potentially one arm of two opposing
polarities. When two polarities clash – meet in conflict – a storm
often comes about. You could also call it metaphorically an
earthquake.
When two opposing groups become more polarized, then it is more likely
that a heightened form of spiritual wrestling will happen. One side
of the polarity is the dispensationalists having a relationship with
their doctrine about the chosen people of the Old Covenant remaining
the chosen people after the Cross. The Remnant is the other side of
the polarity and the Remnant people tend to have a love affair with
the truth of Scripture and want to defend it, and may go on the
offensive with the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God
(Ephesians 6: 17). When the Remnant is fully following the Lamb
wherever he leads, then sparks will fly and the conflict is more
intense.

The Remnant does not threaten the dispensationalist church as long as
it is not having an influence on some members of that church. As long
as the Remnant people communicate only with one another, it does not
threaten the dispensationalist church very much, even though the
Remnant people are outside the church. The church then pretends that
the Remnant does not exist.

But if the Remnant people become more anointed in the truth, are
without guile (deception) and follow the Lamb wherever he leads, know
the scriptures better, and begin to communicate more with members of
the dispensationalst church, then the Remnant is a threat. At that
point the two groups will be more polarized and the two polarities
will clash in the end time spiritual conflict.

Revelation 13: 15 says the image of the beast whose deadly wound was
healed causes “…that as many as would not worship the image of the
beast should be killed.” Here is the connection between the image of
the beast and the martyrdom of Christians as predicted by Matthew 24:
9, Luke 21: 16 and John 16: 2.

“Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you:
and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.” Matthew 24:
9

“And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and
kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to
death.” Luke 21: 16

“They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.” John 16:
2 Synagogues in Strong’s can mean churches as well as synagogues.

Daniel 11: 33 has something to say about persecution and killing of
believers. “And they that understand among the people shall instruct
many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity,
and by spoil, many days”.

“They” may mean that those who are instructed will fall by the sword,
though it could mean those who understand and do the instructing will
also fall by the sword. During the first century A.D. all the
Apostles except John were murdered.

Interestingly there is a prophecy in Deuteronomy 32: 36, a place where
such a prophecy might not be expected, that is relevant to the
martyrdom of Christians in the last days spiritual conflict. “For the
LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when
he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or
left.”

But Ezekiel 5: 1-5,12 is even more relevant, especially when put
together with Zechariah 13: 8-9.

Zechariah 13: 8-9 says “And it shall come to pass, that in all the
land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but
the third shall be left therein.
9. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine
them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they
shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my
people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.”

It says a third part, not necessarily one third of all, will be
brought through a fire, refined, and they turn to the Lord who accepts
them.

Ezekiel 5: 1-5 shows us four groups who claim to be the people of God
(it says in verse 5, “This is Jerusalem.”). Here there are three
groups like Zechariah 13: 8-9, plus a small group shown in verse 3.
Ezekiel 5: 12 then deals with the fate of the three larger groups. “A
third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine
shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall
fall by the sword round about thee and I will scatter a third part
into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.”

The group who scatters into all the winds could be those who come out
of the dispensationalist church as the image of the beast, while the
other two groups stay in the church and die at some point in time from
pestilence and famine or by the sword. No mention is made in Ezekiel
5: 12 of the fate of that small group who in verse 3 are hid in ol
Ezekiel’s skirts.

 

Bernard

The Remnant Blog

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Supernatural Sid

Posted on May 31, 2012 by cmardern

SUPERNATURAL SID:

An Exposé of Jewish Supremacist Sid Roth

A popular “Messianic Jewish” media figure, Sid Roth has a significant following in books, radio, print, and television. Based in Georgia, his TV show It’s Supernatural! is carried by mainstream Christian broadcasters, and Roth’s recent book entitled They Thought For Themselves: Ten Amazing Jews, has over 1 million copies in print.

Sid Roth’s ministry is one of those which requires a bit of an effort to analyze, because the style of the message tends to sidestep and/or avoid the nuts and bolts of New Testament doctrine – instead utilizing a feel good, relationship driven message of encouragement and reconciliation, all predicated on a supposed effort to reach out to Jews.

Such verbiage sounds good to most believers, but as we know, the Scriptures tell us

“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end therof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 16:25).

The idea of reaching out to anybody, including Jewish people who need Jesus, is certainly a good thing – but the question du jour is, reaching out with what? As is the case in every Messianic ministry involved in the so called Hebrew Roots movement, Sid Roth’s message is reaching out to the Spiritually cold Jews with a lukewarm manifestation of the Gospel – yet another version of the Jewish Supremacism, which is guaranteed by the Scriptures to lead its adherents into perdition.

Those who have toured the heretical landscape that is found throughout the Antichrist movement which is known as Messianic Judaism can tell at a glance that something is wrong when they see the six pointed Star of Moloch (Amos 5:26) prominently displayed in any ministry masthead; but it’s usually a bit more difficult to precisely pin down just what is doctrinally wrong with such a ministry – especially when you have to dig to find out just what they really teach.

The fact is, any ministry that has not seen through the so called “Star of David” fraud, and continues to display the wretched symbol, whose denunciation resulted in the murder of Stephen the evangelist in Acts 7:43, indicates that ministry is so completely devoid of the truth that all should steer clear.

The prominent presence of the Molochian Star notwithstanding, the ambiguity found in ministries such as Sid Roth’s, is usually related to the fact that they’re trying to build a consensus among disparate Spiritual factions, and clear and coherent doctrinal statements virtually always offend people – a practice not conducive to financial support., or broad acceptance. This is related to the fact that Jesus said

“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law” (Matthew 10:34,35).

Like all larger ministries, it’s difficult to tell if Sid Roth personally wrote various items in his newsletter (entitled Mishpochah), or if it was prepared by an associate, such as Lonnie Lane, who has written dozens of articles for one of Sid Roth’s websites. However, Sid signed his name on a recent column in which he describes the “single sin” that “releases” the LORD’s “end time” judgment on nations – and predictably, that is the sin of “dividing” His land.

Citing the prophet Joel, Roth spins his web of deceit, clearly indicating that America will be judged for her part in attempts to bring a lasting peace to the tinderbox which is the Middle East.

Since the cited passage in Joel was penned centuries before Christ, and spoke of a coming captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, Roth’s sleight of hand in pushing the prophecy into our time clearly diminishes the astounding prescience of the prophet, who saw the events of the Roman siege, and the captivity and dispersion of the Jews, hundreds of years before the fact.

This is part and parcel of the Messianic fraud that claims America (or anyone else for that matter) will be judged for her treatment of the contemporary apostate state of Israel – thereby insinuating the famous prophecy that God will curse anyone who curses the “seed” of Abraham applies to the modern Jews – the foundational lie of the Spirit of Antichrist.

Don’t get me wrong: America is under judgment, but not for the reasons put forth by the Messianics. However, that’s not the central issue in the present exposition, as this work intens to shine the light of the truth on Sid Roth.

By embracing the monstrous fraud that physical Jewry still embodies the office of the “chosen people” as the “seed of Abraham,” Sid Roth and the burgeoning “Messianic” movement, coupled with evangelical groups such as John Hagee’s decrepit Christians United For Israel, are finding themselves warmly welcomed in mainstream Jewish circles.

Since the Spirit of Antichrist has been energizing the Israelite rejection of Messiah for centuries, The Rapture Cult, and a multitude of Messianic groups take this to be an indicator that “all Israel” is on the verge of being saved – thus fulfilling their corrupted version of the Gospel.

For example, Roth recently exulted

“I still cannot believe the great miracle God has just done! The Atlanta Jewish Times, a major traditional Jewish newspaper , recommended their subscribers read my Jewish evangelistic book…” (Mishpocha, #1105).

The obvious question should be, What’s wrong with this picture?

Anyone with an ounce of Spiritual discernment knows that “traditional” Jews (a euphemism for the Talmud-taught Semites who vehemently revile Jesus) practically spit when someone tries to “evangelize” them , so this Spiritually null and void generation of “Christians” assumes this new receptivity to the supposed gospel must be prophecy being fulfilled. This is because our entire generation has been weaned on the Rapture Cult originated concept that, after all the “Gentiles” that are earmarked for salvation have come into the fold, God will then move to save “all Israel” – and this faulty assumption is the stock in trade of virtually all Messianic groups.

It is an increasingly rare believer who can see through the charade, and realize that Messianic Jews have now found just the right admixture of truth and fiction to allow them to appeal this generation of collective Jewry.

As previously stated, the primary lie is related to the seductive concept that Jews are still the premier party in the LORD’s great plan – at a time when God has repeatedly declared the real Jew is the one who has left all behind (which would include vain traditions and previous Old Covenant standing) in order to embrace the cross.

But Sid Roth isn’t taking any chances with the fiscal health of his ministry, so he’s added a dash of the prosperity doctrine into his cauldron of Judaeo-Christian apostasy. He writes

“…no matter what happens to America, people who sow into the salvation of Jewish people will be extravagantly blessed. In the midst of judgment, watch God supernaturally protect you, your family, your income and health” (Mishpocha, page 6, emphasis mine).

Hopefully the reader accurately deciphered that veiled statement in Sidspeak. He just said that if you “sow” into reaching out to Jews – the word “sow” being synonymous with sending Sid your tax deductible donation – God will supernaturally protect you and your “income” because you helped the “chosen people.”

Ironically, Sid Roth is positioned to see explosive growth in his ministry, as the unholy partnership between Jewish Supremacist factions and apostate Christianity is prophesied to rise to unheard of heights in our time; but, as Jesus said

“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36)

When one digs a little deeper to get at more detailed data concerning just why Christ-rejecting Jews are supposedly so open to the “gospel” presented by Roth and company, we find it’s because Sid has synthesized the truth of Christ with the lie of Judaism, and produced an abomination which maketh desolate.

For instance, on Sid Roth’s website, his associate Lonnie Lane tells us that when the Holy Spirit baptized the believers in Jesus Christ at the event called Pentecost,

“…the event was still within Judaism…. It was Judaism fully realized when all persons could be filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit, to fully follow the God of Israel.” (Roth website, Birth Of A Nation, Birth Of A Kingdom, L Lane, emphasis mine)

I’ve read the New Testament many times, and even have copies of most of the corrupted translations, but I’ve yet to find a verse that says when Jesus came into my heart to be my Saviour, I adopted “Judaism” as my religion!

If this were not an incorporated religion, we might suspect Roth is a master at product branding, for he has succeeded in a serpentine mingling of attributes from both Christianity and Judaism, and laced their wicked offspring with marketing hooks which appeal to both. Utilizing slick slogans such as “It’s Supernatural!,” and what he calls “One New Man,” this intellectual witch’s brew is saturated in a syrupy love for Israel, and seasoned with a touch of the prosperity gospel. In short, Sid Roth is a marketing charlatan who is leading significant numbers of believers to the lake of fire.

Over the years, we’ve learned the key to the many permutations of the Antichrist’s offerings is always related to the racist Jewish primacy found in Judaism. Thus, in Roth’s aberrant approach, every aspect of his version of end time’s events is predicated on the identification of Jewish people, and the present political state of Israel, as “the apple of God’s eye” – i.e. the “chosen people.”

So called “Messianic Jews” invariably seek to subtly emphasize to their Christ rejecting physical brethren that, if they will just come to Yeshua (Jesus), they will realize that they are fulfilling a promise which God made that Jews are unconditionally chosen to be drawn to the LORD. This is a deadly lie, and as long as it remains within the hearts and souls of adherents to this worldview, the results will always be in accord with the Spirit of Antichrist.

Indeed, in the process of trying to build bridges between the Gospel and physical Israel, instead of the truth being exported to the lost Jews, the leaven of the Pharisees is regularly imported into those seeking to reach them.

As a case in point, author Lane seeks to build rapport and relationship with lost Israelites by sidestepping the fact that they are in a Spiritually desolate condition, through saying the Old Covenant still has some value – but of course, they still couple such statements with the need to know Jesus. She starts out in the past tense:

“The sacrifices of Israel brought forgiveness to Israel, but they did not restore Israel to intimate fellowship with God such as born again believers enjoy” (The New Covenant Is Jewish, L Lane).

With this Dialectical approach, Sid Roth’s spokesperson tries to sustain the relationship with the Jews through a theological concession which asserts the Old Covenant still has a benefit, but quickly plays to the Christians by including the imperative that Jews still need Jesus.

She then subtly shifts her Diaprax (the practice of the Dialectic) to the present tense, and says that an Old Covenant animal sacrifice still has some value in the here and now:

“It may forgive individual sins, for that is what the Old Covenant sacrifices forgave, but it still leaves them in the sin nature that would mean eternal separation from God. Individual sins may no longer be counted against them through the sacrifices, but only sinlessness can be in, let alone remain, God’s presence and that is only accomplished by the atonement of Yeshua. I think we can all agree, with that information….” (The New Covenant Is Jewish, L Lane)

This is a classic application of the Dialog to Consensus (also called Neuro-Linguistic Programming), as highlighted in the previous quotation. For those unaware of the now pervasive process of the Dialectic, it was refined by Karl Marx, who drew from the earlier German philosopher Georg Immanuel Hegel (the process then known as the Hegelian Dialectic) ; but it’s most candid practitioners openly admit their primary role model was the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

The point is, the entire procedure is thoroughly Satanic, and it is built around the goal of trying to move a party away from a fixed position, through the process of Dialog, and the writings associated with Sid Roth just reek of it.

Although the Dialectic is complex, it is useful to simply boil it down to the simple formula that absolute truth, also seen as a fact, is subtly diminished through the process of Dialog, which seeks to preserve the relationship.

The fact is, Jesus Christ is the truth, and the Jewish rejection of the truth manifests the primary lie. Emphasizing the relationship with both, Messianic Judaism seeks to bridge the gap between the two. Ironically, this places Messianic Jews in the role of the mediator between Christianity and Judaism – thus replacing Jesus Christ who is the mediator between God and sinful man.

The Greek word for “in place of” is anti –- so in every sense of the word, Messianic Judaism is Antichrist. All of this, and much more, is accomplished using the language of Lucifer, and Sid Roth speaks it fluently.

Thus, whenever we encounter this process in religious circles, we’ve learned to recognize the true Spiritual source. Revelation aptly describes the use of the Dialectic in the end time’s “church” with the following prophetic imagery identified as the False Prophet:

“…he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon” (Revelation 13:11).

Incidentally, many believers are unaware of the fact that a resumption of animal sacrifices by Jews is rarely repudiated by Messianics, because they see this as a vehicle which will help to build affinity with their Christ rejecting brethren. We have previously documented the efforts of other supposed followers of Yeshua who actually encourage a resumption of sacrifices among Jews, as they see this as a small step back towards the LORD.

Thus, we weren’t surprised to find Roth’s writer saying that Old Covenant animal sacrifices “may forgive individual sins” when, in fact, a resumption of any form of sacrifice is a giant leap into the bottomless pit.

Earlier, I noted how the presence of the Star of Moloch (which has been definitively linked to Saturn and other names of blasphemy, as opposed to David) is a Spiritual Signature, which reveals the hidden nature of various ministries.

The same is true of Dragonspeak, for whenever a supposedly Christian ministry (one that looks lamblike) is found to be speaking with the language of Lucifer known as the Dialectic, they have involuntarily betrayed their true nature.

There are dozens of other examples of Dragonspeak in the various writings found on Sid Roth’s website and print materials, and the Dialectic is widely utilized. Of course this group is hardly novel, as we live in the time of the long prophesied Falling Away, and in previous work we’ve repeatedly shown the final apostasy is a new world order, built around a consensus between Judaism and Christianity (the so-called Judaeo-Christian religion) , with its seductive power emanating out of the earthly city of Jerusalem.

Unfortunately, Sid Roth and many other ministries of a similar orientation have positioned themselves to rise along with this tide of apostasy -– but the true Remnant believer will study the Scriptures, and they shall know the truth — and the voice of Sid Roth they will not follow (John 10:5).

— James Lloyd

Christian Media Research

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Ambition

Posted on May 26, 2012 by cmardern

Greetings all saints may God’s peace and rest be upon you

The OT Israel was supposed to be a light unto the gentile world,…. after 1500 years that light had slowly become complete darkness, from the time of Moses forward…Israel had become iniquity on steroids……. now after 2000 years of sorcery from the false prophet (Acts ch 8), the same thing has repeated over again; the Christian church, who was supposed to be the light unto the world, has also become iniquity on steroids again, and has become the darkness unto the world…No more gospel going forward (the sun is darkened, and the moon turned into blood, and stars are falling away from heaven).
This is why Jesus said in the Olivetti Discourse that “iniquity will abound” –“and the love of many shall wax cold”……(this is the same story with Lucifer, iniquity was found in his heart in Ezek 28, and Isaiah 14) ….. Lucifer encounters his own ambition, likewise man encounters the zenith of his own ambition, this is “666” in Rev ch 6……it’s man’s own ambition….That is why it references Solomon the man of wisdom, and the number of the beast, six hundred and three score and six,,,,,,,It was referencing how Solomon’s ambition destroyed everything,,,,,,,,These are the death and hell riders of the pale horse….The death is (iniquity of man’s heart. “aka” lawlessness ), and the hell that follows after is the false prophet (the church, world religion),,,Both of these beasts get their power from the dragon (Rev 13)…Both of these beast get cast into the lake of fire…Restoring the waist land is when God rebuilds the wall (typed with Joshua, and Zerebubel in the OT) ‘aka’ the 144,000…This wall has been re-building since Pentecost, This is how Israel gets restored , Jesus has been restoring Israel through the power of the Holy Ghost…This is basically unseen by man and the world, because they are blind……The whole world today is drowning in the flood lies which brings about his own worst enemy, his own ambition’ ‘ie’ trying to help God, just as the Jews and the Pharisees were 2000 yrs. ago in there epoch of ambition…Man has reached the zenith of his own ambition,,, (gen 6,and every thought of his heart was continually evil)…
They will copy all of the bible prophecy in the flesh; this is the natural order of unregenerate man. He sees and does everything from a earthly perspective., thus they recreate their own shadow of bible prophecy….(man lives in the shadow, while he rejects the Spirit and true substance of “Jesus Christ”) Likewise does he miss the real substance of HIS prophecies; the TESTIMONY of Jesus Christ is the Spirit of prophecy….They don’t know what the testimony of Jesus Christ is, because the are darkened by the shadow of things, and can’t grasp the real substance….The have missed everything by 2000 years…God is restoring an Israel to himself today, but they can’t see it….Their very own ambition blinds them….The underground Christians in China, Africa, Indonesia and many other places all over the world is the true “Israel that God” (Gal 6-16) it is being restored through persecution, the church in the western civilized world won’t be restored until that persecution reaches Australia, Europe, Canada, America, and the rest of the one world utopian society..One by persecution will they become God’s people again….this is sad but true, they age of deception is closing (the false prophet) and the age of the beast is rising (persecution)……The deception by all the little Simon the sorcerers, such as TPC are going to lead everyone back to the first beast of persecution…..same old story over and over again in the text….Inn the book of Job it is found in chapters 40 and 41,,,,Behemouth and Leviathan…

The whole fake Israel thing in the middle east is mans ambition, it is codified with world trade agreements ,the UN, international law, peace treaties, building more churches for God, mans figure prints are all over it. Let’s build it for Him,> This iniquity of ambition has now encompassed the whole world, it was not possible before the discoveries of (steel and alternating current) in the 19th century..This allows man to fulfill all of his ambitions, and build his world utopia of Babel…and it’s all for God too they say; this is what they think and believe in their carnal minds.
Man has become the epoch of his own ambition, (goals, builders, and climbers) so he is trying in his mind, like the false prophets such as Stan Johnson, to recreate bible prophecy in the flesh….we can ,we can, we can, we can do it!!!……It was never given to them to understand what Ezek was writing in the first place, it can only be understood by the Spirit of God…..which is absent in the world religious construct of man…”ie” a famine is upon the land” (Amos)….. it is a spiritual famine, thus when it come to discerning bible prophecy they try to recreate everything in the flesh through the impudent power of the carnal mind……They have not eyes to see, ears to hear, nor do they have a heart to understand….The traditions of men have made them completely blind…..At best, some of them have a patch over one eye, and can see half of the picture (patch the pederast pirate)…..The only understanding they have is of a carnal man. Peter and Jude called these false prophets “brute beasts”, while having no more understanding than an animal who seeks to provide for his belly… Man himself is the beast of revelation….It’s when the” transgression come to the full, “full apostasy” the abomination that makes everything in the church desolate…This is when man encounters the fullness of his own ambition, “HUMANISM”…..The whole middle east deception on both sides is nothing more than carnal beast HUMANISM……This is hard saying who can hear it….

To make it simple they take the book of Revelation, and the books of the prophets and turn them into carnal readings..Why? Because that is all a beast can understand….A beast cannot understand the spiritual warfare, and spiritual things. So the false prophets reads scripture with a carnal mind, and then ambitiously sets out to accomplish it all for God……Same story over and over in the bible….secular Israel is a carnal recreation of God’s true Israel.. (the carnal mind is at enmity with God)……..The whole world is of a carnal mind, and are at war with God….They be killing you and thinking they do God a service John 16-2….They are killing souls spiritually in the fake churches, and fake prophecy clubs with their false prophets, (little Simon the Magus’s) all the while thinking in their own carnal understanding they are winning souls for God…Big writing Luke put into Acts ch 8. Why because Luke saw the effects of this 30 years later in Rome….The people think the Simon the sorcerers like Stan Johnson are great men of God…
Luke did not first introduce the second beast of Revelation in Acts chapter 8 for no reason….The story is huge, and the world is full of little Simon the sorcerers trying to buy the Holy Spirit…There everywhere in the church today….It’s Simon Magus’s on steroids today….Satan is the prince of the power of the air, and his ministers (little Simons) come as angels of light….The people heap upon themselves these false teacher, while having itching ears, for signs, wonders, and fables….Simon was the best at giving them fables….They put all their trust in this great wizard from Samaria…He is still doing a job for Satan today, Simon has not gone away….Acts ch 8 is a huge revelation given by God through the apostle Luke….
Simon is alive and well today, while doing some great relief pitching for Satan in the CHURCH…

Once again; just like 2000 years ago, it’s all irony….Irony, Irony, Irony…..Man seems to never learn…his biggest enemy is his own ambition…..We will fix it for God they say, we’ll set up secular Israel in the middle east, because somehow Jesus forgot to finish it, even though he said twice, ‘it is finished’…Once time in the garden, and once on the cross…IT IS FINISHED,,,,,man says; Jesus somehow forgot to set up born again Israel……This is why Jesus told Nicodemous: YE ‘MUST’ be born again….Man cannot with all of his ambition even add one cubit to his own stature….And guess who Jesus used for an example when he told them that? The ultimate man of 666 Solomon (the man of his own ambitions)
Luke 12:27 Consider the (((lilies how they grow))): they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Solomon in all his wisdom and glory could not like one of God’s true children…Who was the ultimate “Lilly of the valley:? It was Jesus Christ..Mans ambition is the opposite of Jesus, and is at war with God..

26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

“The lilies” are (God’s true people, the children of Israel) “they toil not” (they have no self ambition)….They take no thought of tomorrow….The are in Gods Sabbath rest every day, one day at a time….

The beast like Solomon are obsessed with their own ambition, while always seeking to and cubits to their own statures (building up the world trade utopia)….Building up God’s church and reconfiguring HIS plans back into the flesh,,,That will work out real well…..Same story as Gen 11 and the Tower of Babel, it’s all confusion of faces….Daniel prayed in the prophecy in Chapter 9 for God to heal the “confusion of faces” of His people….Daniel 9-24 was FINISHED by the Son of man Jesus Christ 2000 years ago…He forgot nothing!!! HE RESTORED THE House of Israel…..It’s now born again Israel (Jeremiah 18) Now all man has to do is surrender and get in on it before it’s too late…Take heed; surrender is the opposite of ambition… Building secular Israel and a forced migration is not surrender, its ambition to fix it for God…..

Peace be with you, God bless the remnant of Israel and have mercy on the multitude…Joel 2-17…..Pray for the lost in the valley of Medigo (this is the battle of Armageddon that rages in the soul of the lost gentiles, the unregenerate man of the carnal mind, the beast) ……..“Jumping Josehosaphat” There was a time when Christians’ knew what this saying meant, multitudes, multitudes in the valley of Medigo, the valley of decision…It’s Time to make a surrender to Christ…
Ambition is the opposite of surrender..

Peace be with you always in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
bill

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“sell that thou hast”

Posted on May 24, 2012 by cmardern

Mat 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

I have been asking God for quite some time to reveal to me what this looks like, in other words how does this look in our lives. I am sure there is more meaning to be found here, but for now this is the understanding God gave me.

This verse is a part of something much bigger. This encompasses all the following.
　
Mat 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mat 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Luk 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Mat 8:22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Mat 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Mat 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Mat 10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

Mat 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Mat 22:4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. Mat 22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

Luk 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

When we turn to follow Jesus we are his servants and can no longer tend to all the “stuff” in “our lives” we must sell it all, give up our lives and seek first (and only) his kingdom. This is not simply a suggestion. We must be rid of everything that distracts us from taking up our cross and following him.

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The 70 weeks

Posted on May 22, 2012 by cmardern

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I have to take time to repent of some false understanding concerning the 70 weeks of Daniel. The next watchmen show. http://www.watchmenweekly.com will clear up some error I taught. Ouch! I’m pulling the 2 prior teachings off the blog. 

The Abomination of Desolation Study has opened up some new understanding that caused me to revisit the 70 weeks. I’m seeing something I hadn’t seen before. It involves not throwing the baby out with the bath water. Hoping the show will come together in the next couple days.
Chris

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Understanding the Metaphors

Posted on May 6, 2012 by cmardern

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Hos_12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
We know the Lord uses similitudes (metaphors) to teach. Gods use of metaphor in comunicating with us is his means of conveying deep spiritual understanding using what we know what we have learned from the world around us.
Rev 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Here we have locusts and scorpions. These are metaphors teaching deep spiritual truth pointing us to our understanding of these nasty little creatures. Locusts fly by being carried by the wind (tribulation) they devour green things (green symbolises life) they travel in unison, tightly conected in a swarm, so thick it can block out the sun, (the light of the gospel) The refence to this same identity as the scorpion we see more metaphor, The scorpion “dwells on the earth” his tail has a piercing effect as it stings. This is howthe metaphorical language works.
Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
These identities known as locusts and scorpions hurt men.
Isa_61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Studying “trees” we see reference to trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD.
Deu_28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
And also reference to locust consuming trees.
Rev 9:5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
v 5 we see a reference to “five months” Considering the metaphor of the 70 weeks of Daniel and the 70 weeks being symbolic for 70 weeks of years, we apply the same principle to the 5 months. 5 months would mean 150 years.
Now we use scripture to look deeper into the locust scorpions.
Luk_10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Jesus told the disciples they would have power over serpents and scorpions and they wouldn’t hurt them. All but one of the disciples were martyred so the “hurt” Jesus is talking about can’t be litteral. for the sake of this study we will say that the disciples had power to tread on scorpions, the scorpions wouldn’t hurt them. This is important for us because we remember back in Rev 9 v3 “power” was given to the scorpions.
Joe 1:2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
Joe 1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Now we jump to Joel where we are admonished to listen. God is making it clear it’s important. We are admonished to tell our children about it so they can tell thier children.
Joe 1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
We also see the locusts eating something during the same period of time, palmerworms, cankerworms caterpillers are all types of locusts. (look it up)
Joe 1:5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
The new wine is cut off because of these locusts.
Joe 1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
We have lions too here in Rev 9 in the same context as the locusts.
Rev 9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
Now the Lord is using lions as a picture, a metaphor to teach,
Joe 1:7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
They lay the vine waste and strip the bark off the fig tree. Christian 101 teaches the vine is Jesus and the fig tree is the covenant. The vine and the fig tree together in scripture refers to the confirmed covenant, the law written on our hearts. It seems the eating and devouring going on here in Joel ends up with the covenant covering being removed.
Joe 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
We are called to lament like a virgin with sackcloth over this aweful situation. These locusts, these lions have done tremendous damage. They’ve made people drunk.
Isa_61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
The trees in Isaiah are doing the same thing, mourning, lamenting.
Joe 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
Through Joel God is speaking to those who mourn in Zion.
Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Again Christianity 101 teaches Zion, Jerusalem is above.
Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
Zion becomes Sion in the New Testament.
Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
That’s where the same people who are being protected from being “hurt” are. The “trees” of righteousness, sealed, on Mt Sion. This is the born again christian of course the truely regenrated christian..
Joe 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
The scene in Joel is not good, many generations of the locust devouring has caused thick darkness. We know the picture of the locusts in Egypt, so thick in the sky they blocked the “Sun”
Joe 2:7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
This swarm of locusts in Joel is likened to an Army.
Joe 2:20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Praise the Lord, he steps in and tells us he will remove this army. (from the north, referencing Gog Magog)
Joe 2:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
Joe 2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
The metaphor in Joel is much bigger than this study will allow notice the “beasts” these are likened to the oxen being sold in the temple, having trouble finding pasture, in context going right to the picture of the tree bearing fruit, again after the Lord steps in and the vine and the fig tree (the everlasting covenant wriutten on our hearts) yields here strength again.
Joe 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
This story is told over and over throughout scripture it always ends at the same place The Harvest.
Joe 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Here we see God restoring all the damage the locusts, the cankerworms, the caterpiller, the palmerworms, his great army did.
Jer 51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
We realize the biggest religious movement on the earth today claims to be “Joels Army” This term was coined by Rick Joyner who happens to be a Knight of Malta, another study, is responsible for the rise to power of the character Todd Bentley who has “Joels Army” tatooed to his chest.
Rev 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
Rev 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Rev 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
We understand the context here, the locusts come at the sounding of the fifth trumpet, the trumpet judgement. the smoke the darkness, that those in Zion are mourning over. Sound the trumpet in Zion (Joel 2:1)
2Ti_4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
The Lord warned us about this those with itching ears heap upon themselves teachers. The army of locusts who have power, hurt men. Hurt is a metaphor for decieve. The locust army is the false teachers that assend out of the bottomless pit.
Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
The locusts corrupt with flatteries causing thier follower to “lay waste the vine and bark the fig tree”, in other words they do wickedly against the covenant, (but I thought that’s what the antichirst did) Like I said “he will corrupt with flatteries”
Rev 9:10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
Five months, that would be 150 years, that just about how long the doctrines from the Schofield Study Bible, the Jehovahs Witnesses, The Mormons, the Azusa Street revivals have been on the scene. Hmm.
We’re under judgement, the false doctrine is the judgement. Those with itching ears are getting exactly what they want. Today the antichrist harlot religious system is a smorgasbord of doctrine. Every wind of doctrine to be exact. Wind is metaphoric for tribulation.
Joe 1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Tell your children because you sure won’t hear this in church.

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