We Asked for It! Maya Jo Leon [Last Edit: 12/17/2015] Copyright 2015 by Maya Jo Leon Public domain. Website: notmocked.com YouTube & Email: Unless otherwise noted, Scriptures come from the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible. The cover image is from Wikipedia, At Eternity’s Gate by Vincent van Gogh. Contents Preface for the Series ...................................................................................................................... 6 Resources ....................................................................................................................................... 17 1. God Gave Us His WORD ............................................................................................... 24 2. God Chose Some, Not All ............................................................................................... 30 3. God Gave Us Paradise, We Lost It ..................................................................................35 4. God Promised We’d Get Paradise Back ......................................................................... 44 5. God is a Three-Part Being ............................................................................................... 55 6. God Gave Us a Light Bulb .............................................................................................. 63 7. God Chose All Elect to Be Born Again ............................................................................ 73 8. God Told Us Christians Would Fall Away ......................................................................79 9. God’s Spirit Requires Bible Immersion ......................................................................... 89 10. God Has Two Types of Prophets.................................................................................... 96 11. God’s Wrath .................................................................................................................. 120 12. God’s Tainted Story ...................................................................................................... 134 13. God’s Way is Better ....................................................................................................... 151 14. God’s Harvest Comes After a Storm ............................................................................. 159 15. God Anoints Some for Special Service.......................................................................... 168 Afterword ..................................................................................................................................... 172 The Pantry.................................................................................................................................... 173 6 Preface for the Series By placing Himself in the man known as Jesus and having Him fulfill over 300 prophecies of the Old Testament of the Bible, a book written by different people of different countries across a two thousand year period, God made it obvious for us to know that He’s the One true God. As the video created by Intelligent Faith 315 reveals, available on my YouTube playlist Christianity 101, the statistical probability of one person fulfilling just eight Old Testament prophecies is way out there—and He fulfilled over 300 of them. God made it a no-brainer for us to know that He’s the One true God. He meant for it to be obvious for us. HOMEWORK: Throughout the series I give you “homework” which helps further drive home the point of what’s been said. YouTube David Bowden I Believe In Scripture Spoken Word. The following Scripture, a theme of the Bible, sums up what God has done and why He’s done it: What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory (Rom. 9:22-23). If you’re a Vessel of Mercy yet refuse to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence about Jesus, that He is God, it’s because you have sin you’ve been unwilling to let go. In turn, God will harden your heart to the truth since you hardened it to Him first. That’s another thematic teaching of the Bible which is summed up in this verse, “Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved…for this cause God shall send them [a] strong delusion, that they should believe a lie” (2 Thess. 2:10-11). According to God, He created two types of people (along with supernatural beings), one type destined for hell and the other destined for heaven. Essentially, He was willing to create hell and vessels destined for it (both human and supernatural) so that He could reveal His love and mercy to those He destined for heaven. And because the human Vessels of Mercy have historically not appreciated what He’s done for us, He’s also given them over to a strong delusion. But, because “God is love” (1 John 4:8) and has this Plan He’s working out, He’s now revealing to the human Vessels of Mercy just how ungrateful and vile we actually are and have been, how much we need Him, and how much He’s actually done for us. Through my ministry, a ministry for which He raised me up (Eph. 2:10), along with the times in which we’re living due to our lack of respect for Him, God has made it so that the Vessels of Mercy will finally appreciate Him and His ways and, therefore, submit to His lordship. It’s because we haven’t historically appreciated what He’s done for us, that it’s worked out for us as it has. As He says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hos. 4:6). Anyone who’s remotely awake can see that we are being destroyed. If this is not obvious to you, take the time to do a Google or YouTube search on any of the following projects which are being carried out by those in power, and honestly consider the evidence: Geoengineering Climate Change Genetically Modified Organisms Vaccine Depopulation Agenda False Flags FEMA Death Camps Those who have been more enlightened to different aspects of what the power elite have been doing to us in an effort to destroy us, have been labeled as being crazy for believing in a conspiracy theory. And while there are many nuts out there, if you combine the evidence supporting the Bible with the evidence supporting most conspiracy “theories”— removing information that doesn’t line up with the Bible, as with aliens, for example—you end 7 up with a fairly clear view of reality. But in order to be able to do that, you have to know the Bible. The fact is that there has been a conspiracy in the works since the beginning of time. And the reason this is the case is because GOD’S MASTER PLAN involves a spiritual war between the Vessels of Wrath and of Mercy, as God warned us by telling us that “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against…spiritual wickedness in high places” (Eph. 6:12). As I thoroughly explain in my videos, Into to My Ministry and Exposing Christianity: Main Video, available through my website or YouTube channel (addresses provided on the copyright page), there are two teams led by two supernatural beings which use people to fulfill their purposes—either a positive or negative version of a New World Order: the Vessels of Wrath led by Satan and his demons (fallen angels) and the Vessels of Mercy led by Jesus and His angels. When it comes to people, Satan and Jesus each use whoever is willing to be used by them. And because the human Vessels of Mercy have historically denied Jesus’ lordship, Satan has been able to carry out all sorts of evil against us, destroying us and the planet, using the majority of the Vessels of Mercy to help him do it, including born again Christians. And while you don’t need to be a Christian to realize that we are destroying ourselves and the planet, you do need to be a genuine Christian in right fellowship with God, to fully understand that born again Christians are the ones most at fault because we’re under God’s judgment due to our rebellion against Him—due to Christian rebellion. And yet, all Vessels of Mercy are to blame. Since we have not submitted to God, He has damned us, cursed us, as He promised He would do if we wouldn’t obey Him (Lev. 26; Rev. 22:18-19)—and we haven’t. While God placed all of humanity under a curse because the first human sinned (Gen. 2 & 3) and because He had this Plan He was working out (Rom. 9:22-23), He made it possible, especially since the time of Christ, for the human Vessels of Mercy to choose to turn coat on Satan 8 rule over their lives and give that reign to Christ. Again, clearly explained in the videos and in the first two books of this series. My ministry—the combination of videos and books—explains, from God’s perspective as revealed in the Bible, what’s going on in the world as a whole, how we got to this point, as well as how to remove God’s curse and motivate Him to bless us so that we can work with Him to bring about Jesus’ version of a New World Order, a representation of heaven on earth. In short, God created human and spiritual beings. He created a material and a spiritual reality—both just as real (Gen. 1:1 & 1:26; Rev. 7:1). God also gave His created beings the ability to make choices (Gen. 3:6; Isa. 14:13-14). Ultimately, God set out to create an eternal Family for Himself (Gal. 6:10) made up of people who would genuinely love Him and love each other (Rom. 9:22-23; Mark 12:28-31). Basically, God has created a loving Family so large we’ll make up a kingdom, and that kingdom will be ruled by His Son, Jesus (Luke 1:33), Himself in bodily form. This kingdom, like God, will last forever because His Family members will all be granted spiritual bodies like His (1 John 3:2)—when it’s all been said and done. However, as explained in the Main Video, God said that He would give us a representation of heaven on earth BEFORE giving us the fullblown experience for the rest of eternity. It’s what Jesus told us to pray for when He said, “After this manner therefore pray ye…Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:9- 10). And the way God’s will is done on earth— therefore, the way that prayer will get answered—begins with His people, those He predestined for heaven, the Vessels of Mercy, more specifically, those who have become born again Christians, obeying Him, which Christians haven’t done. As Christians know, God has also told us that if we would repent and get right with Him, asking Him to fix the mess we’ve made, He would “heal the land” (2 Chron. 7:14). A healed land would be heavenly, a representation of heaven on earth—and don’t we ever need that! And the reason we need it is because by giving us free will, we’ve all made the choice to not submit to God’s lordship, revealing the truth of what He says about us, that we have hearts which are desperately wicked (Jer. 17:9). Therefore, instead of having a representation of heaven on earth, we’ve created a representation of hell on earth. God was willing to let us do this, enduring our rebellion this long and all the damage we’ve caused (Rom. 9:22-23), to make His point—that without Him, that’s all we’ll ever be able to do, create hell on earth (John 15:5). Further, while God gave us free will—the ability to make choices—there are two things over which He gave us no choice, whether or not we would belong to His Family and what our ultimate purpose would be in life, our calling. Jesus said to the first disciples, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you” (John 15:16). God chose the Vessels of Mercy (Rom. 9:22-23), also called elect of God, elected, as in selected— selected by Him. And He informed us that as elect, we were “created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (Eph. 2:10, emphasis mine). The literal translation uses the word ‘may’ for ‘should.’ God has given us the option to do this, and most Vessels of Mercy have not. In contrast, I have. I am walking in the good works God prepared in advance for me to do—to write these books and create the website and YouTube channel with the videos. And the way I discerned these were the good works God had for me to do is the way He’s detailed for us in the Bible, our Manual, by seeking Him and obeying Him. The more we do of both—seek and obey Him—the more of His will God reveals to us and the more of His power He grants us (Heb. 11:6). Having sough Him in earnest, I’ve followed Him through His Church (churches and Christian groups) since 1996, speaking up on His behalf holding Christians and Church leaders accountable to the Bible they profess to believe, since 1997. Those experiences and lessons learned plus my experiences before knowing God—as understood against the backdrop of Scripture—make up the material for the books He raised me up to write and videos to make. Essentially, God is a spiritual three-part being made up of the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit (1 John 5:7-9). When a Vessel of Mercy obeys Him, God pours His Spirit into us. Jesus says, “If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him” (John 14:23). God makes His abode, His home, inside of us by way of His Holy Spirit. That’s what it means to be born again. That’s what it means to be a real Christian. It’s when God has moved into your ‘vessel,’ making the move because you have loved and obeyed Him. And we know that we’re born again because we hear His voice as Jesus said we would (John 10:27)—and we’ll know it’s Him speaking (rather than Satan) because we know the Bible that well, well enough that we can tell the difference between Jesus’ voice and Satan’s voice, two beings no one today really believes exist, including professing Christians. If they actually believed in God and Satan, they’d obey God. But they don’t—as a whole. God created Vessels of Mercy and Vessels of Wrath. Eventually the human Vessels of Mercy will stop serving Satan, the one God has made the “ruler of this world” (John 12:31, Young’s Literal Translation, YLT), and start serving their true Lord, Jesus, God’s Christ. In contrast, the Vessels of Wrath will always serve Satan, while on earth. That’s why some people can do horrendous things and never feel bad 9 about it whatsoever. They can’t. They weren’t programmed to feel bad about it. At the same time, as a Vessel of Mercy with free will, the elect can also reject God in whole or in part for our whole lives until our very last breath if we chose to do so—as most have done, and also do horrendous or unbiblical things, sin. Yet because God predestined us for heaven, every Vessel of Mercy will die having genuinely cried out to God for salvation through Jesus Christ before they die, since Jesus is the only One—out of all the religions in the world—who actually represents God since He’s God in bodily form (as thoroughly explained in the Main Video). The more rebellious we—the Vessels of Mercy—are against God, the more of our time we waste and the more damage we do not only to ourselves for eternity, but to loads of others, as I’ll be revealing in the series of books. Essentially, every single action we take goes out like a ripple effect that has consequences which last forever—good or bad. However, since God is in ultimate control, there are boundaries to how far He is willing to let us make those negative ripples. God says that He “declar[es] the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” (Isa. 46:10). He really does have the whole world in His hands. Therefore, as He knew would happen, willing to let it happen since it was part of His Master Plan (Rom. 9:22-23), sin entered the world through the first human, Adam, who disrespected God and listened to Satan (Gen 2 & 3; Rom. 5:17). Adam’s disobedience caused all humans, including the Vessels of Mercy, to be born as sinners—as God knew would happen since He wrote the Book. And because we were all born as sinners and don’t submit to God— disrespecting Him while also ignoring the fact that Satan is real and ruling the world (John 12:31, YLT)—the Vessels of Mercy most often act as if they are Vessels of Wrath. In fact, today, most Vessels of Mercy reject God even when they profess to love Him— 10 including those who actually are born again. Comparing the New Testament to how Christians live, it’s easy to see that most professing Christians today are behaving like Vessels of Wrath (for the most part)—and that includes the best among Church leadership. In fact, none are in full submission to God, as I’ll be making thoroughly clear. Here’s a big part of the problem. If we draw close to God our sins get placed as if under a Spotlight since Jesus is the light (John 8:12), and that’s simply not what sinners are naturally interested in doing. We don’t want our sins exposed (John 3:20). In fact, some of us go to great lengths to not have them exposed, including murder. King David, a Vessel of Mercy did just that (2 Sam. 11 & 12). While the Vessels of Wrath will always walk in darkness since that’s all God created them to do, the Vessels of Mercy (who also walk in darkness, having been born as sinners under Satan’s reign) will, at some point, get convicted by God and let His light shine on us, at which point we get humiliated and repent of our sins and become born again (John 14:23). However, granted free will, born again Christians easily stop walking in the light—as we have historically done. The source of our all our problems is within us, the Vessels of Mercy. While we all think we’re fairly decent people at heart, God says that the human “heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jer. 17:9). For example, when interviewed on a documentary I watched years ago, prison inmates who’d committed brutal murders and rapes, all said—in no way prompted—that they really were ‘a good person at heart.’ They genuinely believed this about themselves, each and every one, even though they’d each committed hideously brutal crimes against people for no reason at all. And while we may not have committed such crimes, we’re all the same in God’s eyes because none of us is as good as Jesus, who, while “tempted…as we are, [was] yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15). Unlike Christ, we all sin repeatedly EVERY DAY because our hearts are deceitful above all things, as my ministry will repeatedly prove. We’re all like those who actually physically crucified Jesus, brutal murderers of the One who has loved us the most. Fast forward. Having deceitful hearts, we’ve become a society of liars—it’s The American Way. And while we think those “little” lies we tell aren’t that big a deal, it’s a very big deal to God. And here’s why it’s such a big deal: Satan, the one who will spend eternity in hell, the king of demons (Rev. 9:11) is “the Father of [Lies]” (John 8:44). Being liars, no matter how ‘white’ the ‘little’ lie, reveals that we are under the lordship of Satan, the one God has set up as “ruler of this world” (John 12:31, YLT). Every time we lie, no matter how small the lie, we are letting Satan use us for his purposes, to hurt, kill, and/or destroy (John 10:10). And today’s best Protestant Church leaders are fabulous liars—as I reveal throughout the series. Having ignored God for 2000 years, for the most part, even while God has made it so clear as to who He is and what His will is for us— rather than draw closer to God, in spite of all the trials we’ve had to endure as a nation with and since the 9/11 attacks of 2001, Christians have still not drawn closer to God. Rather, we keep growing further from Him as a whole, as the body of Christ, therefore, as a nation and world. Professing Christians keep getting further and further from God, as my testimony reveals, even though they were supposed to shed light on the world and bring about a representation of heaven on earth. That is the Great Commission Jesus left Christians to fulfill, He said, ““teach all nations…to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20). And to teach it and be taken seriously, they were supposed to obey His commands themselves. But because they haven’t, as a whole, the rest of the elect have not taken them seriously or taken God seriously (Rom. 2:24). Therefore, in order to stop this move towards full blown hell on earth and fulfill His Plan to provide a representation of heaven on earth, God is now in the process of making the point to His people—the Vessels of Mercy—that this is who we are, people who do have hearts that are desperately wicked (Jer. 17:9). While God has made it clear that His Family members who have been enlightened, born again Christians, should be united as one in Christ (John 17:21), functioning as a well-oiled Love Machine (Eph. 4:11-15)—since that’s the clear message of the New Testament—Christians are instead a severely dysfunctional wreck divided by an estimated forty thousand denominations who behave in extremely hateful ways functioning much more like a Satanic Machine. Today’s best (more biblical) pastors chase those who love God out of ‘their’ churches, when it is Christ’s Church since He is the head of the Church (Eph. 5:23) being that He purchased it with His life (1 Cor. 6:19). And since they’re not willing to obey the truth, yet preach it, those who have loved the truth, children, end up turning away from God in the frustration and heartache—since there’s a brutal spiritual war raging (Eph. 6:12: 1 Pet. 5:8), giving themselves over to Satan. So while unbelievers view Christians as being hateful, they’re right! But not for the reasons they think. Professing Christians are not hateful because they love Jesus and His commands, they’re hateful because they don’t love Him or obey His commands. Had they loved Him they would have obeyed Him. Had they obeyed Him, the rest of the Vessels of Mercy would have been drawn to Christ, as God has said (John 17:21) and modeled for us, most clearly revealed with the testimony of the early Christians as relayed to us in the book of Acts. Even with the 9/11 attacks and all the aftermath since then—so that America is now a police state—rather than getting right with God, Christians have instead continued business as usual, playing at Church and ruining whole families rather than helping them (Jer. 23:1; Titus 1:10-11)—as I’ll be revealing. While God has called Christians to teach others about Him (Matt. 20:18-20) and lead them to the truth, to the Man Jesus Christ who says “I am…the truth” (John 14:6), Christians don’t walk in the truth themselves, making it seem to the lost unbelieving Vessels of Mercy as if Jesus isn’t real. Like the Pharisees of Jesus’ 11 days on earth, Christianity Today is made up of major hypocrites. Protestant Church leaders today are actually bigger hypocrites than the Church leaders of Jesus’ day, men who had Him killed. In turn, the rest of God’s Family today— the unbelieving Vessels of Mercy—rather than realize it’s a no-brainer that God sent Jesus for them, don’t believe that God is real or that He’s the One of the Bible. So while today’s Christians blame the problems of the world on unbelievers, Christians, being hypocrites since they’re led by hypocrites, are the ones most at fault for the chaos going on in the world today—according to the Bible they profess to believe and the God they profess to love. Ultimately, Christian leadership is at greatest fault since they’re the leaders. That being the case, God is revealing to His elect, the Vessels of Mercy, through my ministry, that He is everything He has said He is, and will do everything He has promised to do, and that we are people who have hearts that are outrageously deceitful and wicked. So, at this point, if not before (unless God got through to you through the Main Video), you’re thinking how outrageously proud and delusional I am, and you’re not alone. I’ve often been yelled at or rebuked with the following words, “Maya! What makes you think you’re so special!” And it has most often come from professing Christians who spew out the same words as my unbelieving brother. And the answer to both sets of unbelievers is God. God makes me think I’m so special. All the Vessels of Mercy have been created by God to do “good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (Eph. 2:10). I am special because God made me a Vessel of Mercy and not a Vessel of Wrath. In other words, all the Vessels of Mercy are “special.” I just happen to know how outrageously special I am—and that thoroughly pisses sinners off. But that’s not my fault. It’s also not my fault that I have a very unique calling, as revealed through my ministry, revealed to all who will get right with God. God has raised me up for such a time as this, when 12 we’ve reached the point where we’re about to annihilate ourselves for not submitting to God. We’ve also reached the point where professing Christians get outrageously offended by the Bible they profess to believe. Like Mary who was chosen to birth Jesus, I have been highly favored by God, in my case, to prepare the way for the Lord’s second coming—so I’m much more like John the Baptist (Matt. 3:3). And it’s not because of anything I’ve done—as with Mary and John the Baptist—but because God needed someone to do the job. While today’s Church leaders preach about Jesus soon coming back in the flesh, not in submission to God, they’re all— for the most part—wrong. So God raised me up to point out what they’re doing and saying that’s wrong and how to get it right. God is coming back soon, but not in the flesh, in the Spirit. That’s the next major positive move of God so that what we should be mostly focused on. It’s like if you were a potter and made a bunch of vessels that are all the same—salt shakers—and yet they’re all slightly different since they were all made by hand. Then, when you were going to have your dinner party—the biggest dinner party of your life, your wedding— you grabbed that salt shaker from your studio shelf. This one is more special, not because it’s really different but because it’s getting used for this party while the others remain on the shelf. The special nature of this salt shaker had nothing to do with the salt shaker itself. The fact that it was used by the Potter for the Wedding, that’s what made it extra special. Anyhow, the only reason the New World Order has a plan to depopulate the world is because the Vessels of Mercy haven’t warmed up to God so that God has let Satan have his way in the world to get us to, essentially, cry ‘uncle.’ No matter what issue you look at—the environment, healthcare, education, the economy, spirituality, government, all of the performing arts, etc.—we have created a royal unrighteous mess. God having allowed us to get this far off Track and out of control—this far from Him—to do what He set out to do, reveal to His Vessels of Mercy His amazing glory (Rom 9:22-23). And He’s using me as a key tool to do that because He can. Unlike anyone I’ve ever met, I actually believe the Bible, not just with my lips, but with my life. Unlike the majority, I haven’t been a hypocritical Christian. But, it’s because of what God let Satan do to me that I was motivated to obey God fully, as shared in this series. In other words, NO ONE would have chosen my calling. I would not have chosen my calling. No way! The only reason I am not the typical hypocritical Christian is because God gave me something the typical model doesn’t have, the fear of the Lord. While I’m your standard ‘salt shaker,’ there is a slightly different glaze the Potter used on me (has used, as in, is still using), as shared in the books. He glazed me “in the furnace of affliction” (Isa. 48:10) in a way (with more heat) than He’s done with any modern model. While many have been glazed in this furnace, we are ALL different, just as every human finger print, ear, and snowflake is different. So before you assume that I’m saying that I have suffered more than anyone else in the world, STOP! That’s not what I’m saying. But you won’t understand what I’m saying until you’ve gotten right with God so that you can…understand what I’m saying! Therefore, I don’t spell it out til much later in the series. No matter what words I use, you won’t get it until you’ve been enabled to get it, and that won’t be until you get right with God, learn the Scriptures, and walk in my shoes—all of which you can do through the series. Essentially, in order to prepare His people for the coming trials, the worst period in all of history, “for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matt. 24:21), God kept me in the kiln a bit longer than the norm of the average Christian in the Western world so that I would take Him seriously so that I could get the rest to take Him seriously. So while God has had me warning Christians since 1997 to get right with God, NOT ONE has taken Him seriously and repented of their sins even though God says, “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy” (Prov. 28:13). Because Christians have not really/fully loved the truth, God has given them over to a strong delusion, just as He has to those who fully reject Him (2 Thess. 2:10-11). But God will be pulling off the blinders, and many, most, (all?), are going to have quite a rude awakening. I know this because God has made it quite clear to me, as I share in the books. The only real question for me is in God’s timing. However, because God has granted the Vessels of Mercy eternal life in Paradise, the rude awakening is not all bad (For the Vessels of Mercy.) It is an awakening, an enlightenment to the truth. It’s a mixed blessing, and much more good than bad. In any case, if you have been watching the videos and getting enlightened, it is ONLY because God has granted you favor. It’s like what He did for Peter: Jesus [asked the disciples]…Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven (Matt. 16:13-17, my emphasis). And to continue to get enlightened by God, you have to work with the Lord, which means you have to continue to earnestly seek and obey Him. May you, therefore, listen to what He is having me (and others) say in the videos and through these books—listen to everything that lines up with God’s WORD, the Bible—and humbly learn from the Father so that you too can know the good works He has prepared for you to do and walk in them (Eph. 2:10)—instead of getting totally creamed by Satan (1 Pet. 5:8). 13 God says, “Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein” (Mark 10:15). God means for us to be loving like preschoolers who eagerly sit and listen to the story their teacher is telling them, and they believe it. And since God has given us so much evidence to support the Bible, He’s obviously not asking for blind faith as is portrayed in most “Christian” movies. The evidence for God is overwhelming. All you have to do is weigh the evidence and side with the truth. And to be able to do that you have to do your Homework. To not do your Homework, ignore the evidence, and then proclaim that the Bible doesn’t make sense, only makes a fool of you—a very lazy and self-righteous fool. Either that or a Vessel of Wrath. God also says that “except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 5:20). Today’s Church leaders are just like the Pharisees of Jesus’ day, proud and hateful. I know this because I’ve followed the Lord through His Church (churches and Christian groups) for the last 20+ years, and He’s mostly led me to the more biblical ones. And they don’t care if they honor God or not, and neither do they care about people. In fact, the only way they could care any less would be to physically pick up a gun and pull the trigger on God’s people! I cover it in increasing measure in the series, and I’m not exaggerating. In contrast, loving God and people are God’s two greatest commandments (Mark 12:28-31)— which Christians have flipped around just like the Jews did as relayed in the Bible. It’s what everyone does because we can see people and can’t see God—so we love people more than God. (Also because we’re blind to the damage our sins cause.) In turn, today’s professing Christians are mostly not Christian since their lives don’t line up—at all—with the Bible. And the few who actually are born again, are prodigal—not right with God. Most of them, not even remotely. And yet, God can use them (as with the many Christian resources He’s had me employ) because He is in control of all (Col. 1:16). 14 And because Christianity has historically made such a huge and confusing mess of things, I’m starting from scratch and beefing up as I go, repeating points repeatedly in different ways to help you ‘get it,’ as God has called me to do— with the exception of this Preface where I’ve just dumped it all down in summary since it’s a preface informing you what this series is all about. Lord willing, you’ll join me on this journey and become part of the solution rather than continue to be part of the problem. I know that God has not called me in vain. I know it because when we obey God and walk closely with Him, not as a hypocrite but as a humble follower of Christ, He continually further enlightens us. In fact, He says, “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7). God has revealed much to me about where He’s taking this thing, this Runaway Train. And the sooner His Family members get right with Him, the sooner we can get the Train back on Track, and we really need to act fast because we’re running out of Track! And you don’t need to be a born again Christian to know that! I discern God will first mostly work through those who don’t yet know Jesus and with born again Christians who are more genuine—not with Church leaders. In fact, those who are in the ‘house of God’ (Christians) will not easily get right with God because they’ve bought into many lies and have seriously hardened their hearts, adamant that they’re already right with God because they’re believers, adamant even when they admit they’re not right with God! They do it because of the strong delusion God has given them since they haven’t really loved the truth (2 Thess. 2:10-11). So, God is beginning judgment on them because they’ve been granted the truth and refuse to obey Him. As God says, “Judgment must begin at the house of God” (1 Pet. 4:17), which is the same that He said in the Old Testament, “begin at my sanctuary” (Ezek. 9:6). That’s why He’s had me mostly hold Church leaders and lay Christian leaders accountable for nearly 20 years. Christians in Church leadership represent His sanctuary. Moreover, judgement in the Old Testament was to kill them, to “slay utterly” beginning with leaders of His people (Ezek. 9:6). But because of the work Jesus did on the Cross, that judgment comes down differently now. For the most part, God’s judgement is coming down (on Church leadership who are Vessels of Mercy) in the form of severe humiliation. God is mocking Church leaders, and Christians as a whole, through my ministry, as they will eventually see (Ps. 2:4). But He’s mocking all the Vessels of Mercy since the lost have also not submitted to His lordship. Essentially, all the Vessels of Mercy today are antichrist to one degree or another. So while God is using me to mock His people—to make fun of them—the judgment is very real since by not submitting to God a Vessel of Mercy wastes all the opportunities God has granted them, as explained in the Main Video. Through my ministry, the Vessels of Mercy, especially those who are born again and in Church leadership, will realize that they’ve wasted their lives away, which means that they’ve lost the rewards which could have benefited them for the rest of eternity. They’ll also see how much damage they’ve done to others, especially those they love most. As I noted on the video, some Church leaders are going to have a heart attack when they get enlightened. It’ll be like what happened to the unfaithful priest, Eli (1 Sam. 1-4). In any case, as more get right with God and fast and pray for current Church leaders with the largest platforms—men like John McArthur, Alistair Begg, and those from RZIM, for example (the more biblical ones, though they’re all EXTREMELY unbiblical)—when these men with the largest Christian platforms repent, because they have national and international influence, combined with today’s technology, the reformation God has purposed to bring about will spread like wildfire. But because of today’s technology and social media, this fire will spread way before Church leaders even get enlightened. And that’s basically what happened when Jesus came, many believed, many Gentiles (non-Jews) believed before Church leaders. And like that revival, God has prophesied that He is bringing about the greatest revival in all of history, a greater revival than the first Christians experienced. He says, “I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil” (Deut. 11:14). “Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the…latter rain” (Joel 2:23). The “former rain” was the outpouring of God’s Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2). And while that began a tremendous outpouring from God, He calls it “moderate” in contrast to what He’ll now be doing with this latter rain. So here’s a key point. We are in a spiritual war, dealing with the spiritual realm (Eph. 6:12). Therefore, there is an underlying layer of information not readily apparent to the untrained eye. For example, secret societies use secret symbols that only those who are familiar with the occult understand. To the rest, those untrained/unfamiliar with the occult, they seem benign when in actuality they’re powerful works of Satan. Likewise, Jesus also uses secret symbolism to communicate to the Vessels of Mercy. But to understand God’s symbolism, to have ‘ears to hear and eyes that see’ (Matt. 13:16), you have to know the WORD of God well since that’s the “code” He’s using, the language of God. In fact, many today see the dark side of secret symbols, as with the YouTube Channel TheScariestMovieEver. Seeing the dark side of the spiritual realm is not that hard. All you need to do is be a good researcher and God will allow you to make many connections, though you won’t fully understand their meaning without being in submission to God. In contrast, to see the light side of the spiritual realm requires honoring Jesus Christ, as God has made clear in the New Testament, so not many people see and understand that side of the spiritual realm. 15 While we’ve arrived at a place where we lie to ourselves (as a society) that words have no real specific meaning by saying that they mean what we want them to mean, words actually have very specific meaning. A good example of this is with the color spectrum, which I noticed while building my website. Every color on the color spectrum has a code made up of some letters and numbers. Change just one letter or number of that code and you’ve changed the shade of color. And that’s how it is with language, the spoken word, the code for communicating. It has very specific meaning, but the code is not only in the ‘letters and numbers’ but in the tone as well as in the context. Language—especially God’s WORD, the Bible—doesn’t mean whatever you want it to mean, it means whatever the code (the complex combination of numbers, letters and circumstances) reveals it to mean, as God designed. So to understand what God is saying, you have to know and understand the Bible, the historical context, the meaning of words in general, the context in which it’s being applied, and the tone being used, etc. You have to learn God WORD well and have His Spirit within— and be in right fellowship with God—to connect all the dots, to fully understand the code; which I’ll be helping you do, by example. However, you actually don’t have to fully or even greatly understand the historical details of much of His WORD (the history of the Old Testament) to be able to ‘crack the code’ because of God’s grace. In other words, you don’t have to be a scholar of history to understand what God is saying, you have to be a ‘scholar’ of Jesus Christ. For example, to understand a person’s heart, let say your wife’s, you don’t have to understand the details of her history, you have to understand her passions, her likes and dislikes. The more you do and the more you care about what she cares about, the more you’ll be in tune with her. Essentially, you have to know the Lord well, meaning, that you have to be born again and in right fellowship with Him—no unconfessed sin because that tells God you’re not really that interested in Him. He says, for example, “Your iniquities have separated between you and your 16 God, and your sins have hid his face from you” (Isa. 59:2). “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination” (Prov.28:9). If you do like Christians are doing, and have historically done—sin like crazy, blatantly disobeying God as individuals and as a group—God will further hand you over to a strong delusion (2 Thess. 2:10-11). He’ll help you believe Satan’s lies because “not loving the truth” means not loving His Son, Jesus, since He is the truth (John 14:6). In other words, it means not loving Him, your Creator—and He doesn’t appreciate that, especially considering what He’s done for you, the Vessel of Mercy. Further, not only do you need to discern what God is saying, you need to be able to confirm that it really is God you’re hearing from and not Satan deceiving you. Because whether you believe in Satan or not, he’s still doing what he has been allowed by God to do—deceive the Vessels of Mercy (2 Thess. 2:10-11), and much worse than just deceive (1 Cor. 5:5; 1 Pet. 5:8). The better you know the Bible and the Lord, the more of God you see and hear for yourself. But I’ll continually explain it throughout and provide plenty of examples to help you earn your ears. We’re all like Dumbo, very slow to learn the most basic truths. Yet, get serious about God, and He empowers our ears to enable us to fly. Praise God! Because “they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles” (Isa. 40:31). And to “wait upon the Lord” means two things: 1. You do nothing unless He personally gives you the command, you wait for Him; and, 2. You serve Him, you wait on Him. So, because God created everything (Gen. 1:1), and “all things were created by him, and for him” (Col. 1:16), God is able to use everything to relay His message—and He is using everything, as my ministry reveals: books, movies, songs, plays, animals, cities, you name it. Since God created everything, He uses everything to help His people, and He’s used many secular (nonChristian) resources to help me in order to help the rest. It’s like what John said, “There are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written” (John 21:25). Jesus is God and in control of everything He created (Gen. 1:1). Therefore, He is speaking to us and doing stuff around us all day long 24/7. As Jesus said, “My Father till now doth work, and I work” (John 5:17). God never stops working. He “neither slumber[s] nor sleep[s]” (Ps. 121:4). Twenty-four hours a day God is using everything for His glory and for the good of His people, the Vessels of Mercy (Rom. 8:28). And the closer you walk with Him, in right fellowship with Him, the more of that work you can see and hear. So, as I spelled out in the Main Video, here’s a glimpse of what He’s doing with the movie, Beauty and the Beast (1991). Because God’s people, the Vessels of Mercy, have been so proud and rebellious (Phil. 2:21), they are living under this curse (Gen. 3) like the beast and all the people in the castle, representing God’s kingdom (Luke 17:21), so that they don’t look like the people they really are (1 John 3:2; 1 Cor. 15:52). In reality the Bride of Christ (Isa. 54:4), Bride to the King of Kings (Rev. 19:16)—God’s people— looks more like a whore right now (Hos. 1:2) than the “chaste virgin” God created Her to be (2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:23-27). And God’s Prince, Jesus (Isa. 9:6), does look very unappealing to most Vessels of Mercy right now, like the beast in the movie (Isa. 53:2), when He’s actually a wonderful Man (John 15:17), the Best (Rev. 5:913). At the same time, the one everyone is now following, the “ruler of this world” (John 12:31, YLT), is like that idiot brute from the movie (Rev. 13:3), Gaston. He’s actually the real beast (Rev. 20:4)—totally self-absorbed (Isa. 14:13-14) and caring for no one but himself (1 Pet. 5:8; Rev. 12:9). But, he won’t win the last battle as he thinks he will (Isa. 14:13-14) because it’s actually already been won by Jesus (John 19:30), so that the curse will be broken as the Girl, the Lord’s Fiancée, makes up Her mind to love Him even though it’s not politically correct (Rom. 1:16), which She’ll finally do at the very last second (as the last petal falls in the movie). Then, the kingdom will be transformed on earth since the Vessels of Mercy will have been transformed from within (John 14:23; Rom. 6:6), making earth “as in heaven” (Matt. Luke 11:2) as they get ‘married’ (Eph. 4:22-23; Rev. 19:9). But none of the followers of that brute are invited to the wedding (Rev. 20:10; Ps. 9:17). Hallelujah! Believe it or not, that’s His Story, the Greatest Story Ever Told, and we’re now at the climax of it. So it’s time to start paying attention because the climax involves a huge battle where the whole mob, led by the brute, comes against the beast and His Girl (Matt. 24:21). On another note, I’ve called the series WORD, a word which has several meanings, from ‘What’s Up?’ to ‘I speak the truth,’ to Jesus, “the Word [that] was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:14), who says, “I am…the truth” (John 14:6). And this is what’s up, the truth of what’s been going on: Christians have been using His name while having discarded His WORD, Him, keeping Him as if locked up and behind bars because it is through Christian obedience to Christ that God will manifest His kingdom on earth. By not submitting to the Lord, the WORD that was made flesh, it’s as if Christians have bound and gagged Him. And since unbelievers constantly say G— damn it, asking Him to do it, He’s been obliging. Further, throughout history people have been warned of trouble right in front of them and they have ignored it, much to their sorrow. For example, on one of the videos of the tsunami in Japan of 2011, you see the highway that ran parallel to the coast and hear the sirens blaring and then someone warning them of the tsunami through a loud speaker—but they acted as if they heard nothing. Then they got swept away. On another video, they warned that a shark was in the water, yet a man walked right past the warning flag while also ignoring the audio warnings and swam straight to the shark that bit his legs off. Goggle Michael David Cohen Ignored Warnings, Mauled By Shark In Cape Town, South Africa (VIDEO). 17 God has been warning us our whole lives and the ‘tsunami’ is on us (1 Pet. 5:8) as are the sharks all around us (Eph. 6:12). Yet for the nearly two decades that He’s had me calling Christians to get right with God, they’ve refused to pay attention. So He’s coming upon them as He said, “a thief” (Rev. 3;3). And we’re all deep in it so that it’s time for all the Vessels of Mercy to react in an appropriate manner or you will get swept away and/or mauled. In fact, many will so that through their example a faithful group of Vessels of Mercy will arise (Zech. 13:9). Finally, the order God has provide for the books is one you need to follow. If you run ahead, you won’t be able to connect all the dots and think God is not speaking to you through them when He most definitely is. So this is the order: 1. 2. 3. 4. We ASKED for It! For Such a Time as This, There’s Joy While Waiting, and Can You Hear Me Now? WORD: It’s Christianeasy, is a dictionary, a reference tool. However, since most have bought into “Christian” definitions as defined by common unbiblical knowledge rather than by the Bible, it should be read. And it would be better to read it early on since it will thoroughly enlighten you. Ephesians 3:14-21 Resources We live in a day when most people have no idea what the Bible is really about, and that includes many who ‘teach’ it for a living. As the Bible says, “[though they are] teachers of the law…they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm” (1 Tim. 1:7, NIV). We live in a day when all Bible teachers do not know what they’re talking about to one degree or another because all have bought into many lies or turned a blind eye to them, the mother of all being denominations. In turn, “the time [has] come when [Christians do] not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts…heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears…they [have] turn[ed] away their ears from the truth, and…turned unto fables” (2 Tim. 4:3-4). Denominations are fables, as are all the other religions, lies spewed out by Satan which the undiscerning have bought into and which have helped them harden their hearts and clogged their ears. And the Vessels of Mercy have done it for the following main reasons: 1. They simply do not love the truth (2 Thess. 2:10-11); 2. They don’t want to admit that they’re sinners in need of a Savior (Isa. 64:6); 3. They love money and all that comes with it (1 Tim. 6:10); and/or, 4. They’re focused on this world rather than on their eternal well-being (Rom. 8:6; Matt. 13:3-7). Since Christianity has been so unfaithful to God, She’s caused much confusion for all. Therefore, God has had me write in very easy to understand language explaining as much as possible, using quite a few graphics and other resources, making video presentations as well. In the back of each book you’ll find the Resources specific to that book and you’ll find the Master list on my website (notmocked.com) under the Docs tab. 18 Moreover, if you’re not very familiar with the Bible or with the history of the New Testament Church, you should watch all of the movies, documentaries, and docudramas listed under General Resources, many of which are on my YouTube channel. Even if they’re not, they may be on YouTube itself. Since God is in control of all He’s not just using resources that are officially Christian. He’s using everything to reveal to all that He really is in control of everything. Essentially, He’s challenging, humbling, and blessing His elect, while at the same time, glorifying Himself by using everything at His disposal. So it’s like this: God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence (1 Cor. 1:27-29). God has me using many resources to help His people. The further you get into the series, the more outside resources you’ll come across. And the better you know the Bible and the Lord personally, the more you’ll see and understand— be able to connect the dots—PROVIDED you repent of all known sins, daily. YouTube God Speaking Mandisa. Bible References. I’m primarily using the more accurate King James Version of the Bible (KJV), as well as Young’s Literal Translation (YLT) at times, and also the New International Version (NIV). All three translations, along with others, including different languages, can be found on biblegateway.com. While there are some serious problems with all of the English translations, addressed later in the series, God still uses them. All you need in order to be enlightened by God is to be a genuine seeker and lover of truth, which means that you have to be honest with yourself and with God. You can’t hide anything from Him (Ps. 139). So here’s the scoop on the translations. The KJV is in older English so while it’s not as easy to understand it’s the most accurate English translation apart from the YLT. So while the YLT is a better translation in that it’s literal, it’s hard to read since it’s a literal translation. And while the NIV is in modern English making it easier to understand, it’s severely watered down, making it a bad translation. And most of the other translations are watered down versions of the KJV. So the way to get around the problems with the English translations is to be a genuine seeker and lover of truth and to read the Bible in a parallel KJV/NIV, while also listening to it whenever possible, available as free apps and at your library in the form of CDs. I point out where the YLT trumps the other translations— the places God has revealed to me, which will go a long way in getting His Girl ready for Her wedding day (Rev. 19:9). Basically, God says, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil (Prov. 3:5-7). Do that and He’ll fully enlighten you. God has not made it hard; we’ve done that. And because we’ve made it so hard, I suggest starting with The Beginner’s Bible, a preschool version. It’s a great shortcut in that you can get the gist of the entire message in about 45 minutes, with pictures. I am serious. It’s like an outline of the entire Bible. It also comes with a CD and is likely available through your local library. This is partly what God means by having “chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.” For example, it’s hard to even imagine a PhD in biophysics reading a preschool Bible to get to know God—that’s so beneath them! (And it’s pretty funny picturing it.) And yet, God says, “Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein” (Mark 10:15). The world has had God’s WORD in print for 500 years so that most of us have had it available to us our 19 entire lives. Born again Christians have been reading it since before they became born again and preaching it ever since. And yet, they have not fully understood God’s message. This will not be a problem with the preschool Bible. In other words, God has left you no excuse! WORD: Throughout the series I give you the full Scripture reference in the text as often as I can without making it too wordy (hopefully). And the reason I do is because my opinion doesn’t matter—just as yours doesn’t. What matters is what God says. And we know what He says because He has told us in His WORD, the Bible. Providing the WORD as much as possible, you’re left to look it up when I’ve only referenced it. And if you make the choice to not look up the Scripture references or not read them when provided, you’ll be selling yourself short because God’s WORD is how God gives us ears to hear and eyes that see. He does it by cutting deep into our hearts, like giving us spiritual open heart surgery. His WORD is how He changes us because “the word of God is…sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit…and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Heb. 4:12). God uses His WORD to convict us in the same way that a surgeon uses a laser—cutting and healing at the same time. The Sword of the Spirit is an amazingly powerful tool when used properly. Don’t sell yourself short as Christians have done historically. They’ll all be kicking themselves for it soon enough. A DISCLAIMER: Since God’s men have made a mess of things from the time Jesus was here (off and on and to one degree or another), there’s been a snowball effect. So while the following documentary does an excellent job in pointing out that the King James, the KJV, is the best English translation, there are some problems, not only with the KJV but with the documentary. And it’s the same with everything “Christian.” YouTube New World Order Bible Versions (2014). 20 Here’s the biggest problem in relation to this film which I have to mention or you might reject the good with the bad or accept the bad with the good. Pastor Anderson from Arizona has preached and prayed for Obama’s death (it’s all over the web). However, Jesus says, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another” (John 13:35). “One to another” includes everyone because He says, “love your enemies” (Matt. 5:44). God has also told us that “if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matt. 6:14). As with other Church leaders, we’ll know when this pastor has been fully enlightened because he’ll repent publicly—which he’ll do if he’s a Vessel of Mercy. Until then, we get right with God and pray for God to change hearts. As long as someone is alive we don’t typically know whether they’re elect or not, a Vessel or Mercy or not (Rom. 9:22-23), and that’s especially true in Christianity Today. What we do know is that we’re to “love…our enemies, bless them that curse [us], do good to them that hate [us], and pray for them which despitefully use [us], and persecute [us]” (Matt. 5:44). Jesus obviously didn't mean pray for them to die. For example, “When [the] disciples…saw [others not into Christ] they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them…But [Jesus]…said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them” (Luke 9:53-56). We don't pray for people to die, we pray for them to get enlightened by God. In fact, praying for Obama to die would be like the early disciples praying for Saul to die since he was disobeying God’s commands and hurting God’s people (Acts 9:1-2), but that’s NOT what Jesus taught nor what they did. And thank God, because Saul was converted and used by God to write much of the New Testament as Paul. He's been invaluable in building up God's Church, especially as he'll be helping Her get back on track as the elect, as a group, finally obey the words he wrote as directed by God. So here’s the lesson for all and the point of my ministry. If even a fraction of the elect got right with God and prayed for governing bodies to get enlightened, God would either change their hearts or move them out of the way. He might kill them, but it's not what we pray for. Moving them out of the way (however He chooses to do that) is what He has promised to do for us when we humbly rely on Him (2 Chron. 7:14). But for 2000 years, eh, more like 6000, God’s people have thought that they’ve known better than God and are more powerful than Him (Ps. 2:4), not just a little delusional (2 Thess. 2:10-11). This disclaimer also runs true for most of the resources God has had me use. You have to learn the Bible and get to know God well in order to be able to discern truth from error. No one else can do that for you. And if you rely on others and are too lazy to look up the Scriptures when they’re presented and read the Bible for yourself, or obey what God says in it, He'll ‘set you up’ for not being genuinely interested in the Truth, in Him (John 14:6; Thess. 2:10-11). It’s our choice. And it’s pretty much what’s happened to the Vessels of Mercy as a whole to one degree or another—mostly to a very high degree. In fact, in WORD: For Such a Time as This, I address a problem with the King James Bible which exists because God’s elect have historically relied on others rather than on Him. Yet God still uses all of the English translations, along with all of His elect (even non-elect) since He’s in control of all (Col. 1:16) and merciful (Ps. 116:5). Bottom line: if we seek God earnestly, humbly, and obediently, He protects and enlightens us, overall (Prov. 3:5-7; Deut. 32:46-48, see NIV). There’s so much ground to cover, especially for those who’ve never read the Bible before and aren't yet born again, that I’ve struggled on how to present the information. But the solution for all is to just listen to the videos, read the books, especially the Bible, humbly and repentant. Meaning, wherever and whenever you realize you've been wrong, repent. Acknowledge to God your wrong thinking and/or wrongdoing and change your ways, making it right with those you’ve hurt if possible (1 John 1:9). Here’s one of the biggest downfalls in the majority of the English translations of the Bible and, therefore, in Christianity Today. The NIV and some others leave out the last part of Romans 8:1 whereas the King James reflects the original language. That verse says, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (my emphasis). Pastors constantly quote the watered down verse which doesn't have the bold information. Yet the part in bold makes it clear that you need to be walking in the Spirit to be right with God, which you're not doing if you're sinning against God, as all of Christianity is with denominations, for example, which is why She is under God’s condemnation. Moreover, born again Christians, including the best Church leaders around, have all responded to me abusively, unbiblically, and/or with the ice cold shoulder (John 13:34-35) when they’ve been called to be ambassadors of Love (2 Cor. 5:20; 1 John 4:8) and Truth (John 14:6). They do it out of habit, a habitual response that reflects walking in the flesh (Rom. 8:5-8). If they actually walked in the Spirit, at the very least, they would say something like, ‘Thanks for trying to help me but I don’t agree, here’s why…’ and they’d provide their reasoning from the Bible. They would try to help me (and everyone else) by pointing out in the Bible how I’m wrong (2 Tim. 3:16-17). Ignoring, yelling, bullying, and overriding what God says in the Bible are responses of the flesh since they don’t represent “God [who] is love” (1 John 4:8) and truth (John 14:6). In fact, the Bible says that when we “walk in the Spirit…[w]e shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh” (Gal. 5:16). 21 Films & Clips. There are many visuals that are helpful in enlightening us to all that God is saying. I’ve placed all useful resources in bold, some of which I’ll spell out either in part or in whole at some point in the series. As time permits I’ll also pull those resources (when available) onto my YouTube channel under the appropriate playlist. I’ve listed all the movies and documentaries in The Pantry in the back of each book. Many of them are on YouTube, and there’s always the library. The last book reveals why I’ve called it The Pantry, though the discerning soul could figure it out. It’s not complicated (John 6:55; Ps. 34:8). Songs. The songs referenced are very useful because God loves to speak to His people through music. He says, “He will joy over thee with singing” (Zeph. 3:17). That’s why Christianity, unlike any other religion, has worship music—hymns and other spiritual songs expressing love for God. (Even though many are severely watered down, God is still using them.) This music is founded on the WORD of God and, therefore, can empower the genuine seeker of truth. In fact, He says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Col. 3:16). Books. There are many books I’ve read which have helped me connect the dots, the Bible being the most important one by far. Many can be found online as PDF documents for you to download or as audiobooks and I’ve provided a short list on my website under Other Books. But the most important thing is to get the Bible into your system. Therefore, you should read the Bible and listen to it, and also watch the biblical movies listed in the back. Getting the Bible into your system in the following order—for those who’ve 22 never read it before—should help you connect the dots faster: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Genesis Exodus John Acts The rest of the New Testament The Old Testament Later in this book I’ll talk a bit more about Bible study and the resources God is using in this series. I don’t recommend studying the Bible as Christians currently do since that’s obviously not been effective. What’s more, the way the Lord has shown me to ‘study’ the Bible, to get to know Him and His WORD well, is so much easier and more enjoyable—exciting even. It’s exciting because we are communicating with the Creator of the universe, God Almighty, who communicates with us as well. That’s what it means to ‘communicate,’ it’s a two-way street. It’s also exciting because He’s not the prude, dictator, or weirdo “Christians” have made Him out to be. God created man in His image (Gen. 1:26). The reason we have a sense of humor and like to have fun is because God has a sense of humor and likes to have fun—and He’s made a point of revealing this through my ministry to all who get right with Him. However, God is also holy. He’s into good clean fun, as I’ll be revealing. But, He’s also stooped down to our level, as you’ll see if you get right with Him. If you don’t get right with Him you’ll think I’m dishonoring God as some Church leaders have done. When Jesus walked the earth He was known for being a friend of sinners, ridiculed about it by Church leaders (Luke 7:33-39)—and He hasn’t changed, and neither have Church leaders. Part of the reason God has also stooped down to our level because He’s humbling Church leaders (Ps. 50:16-17). In any case, it’ll all fall into place as you go, provided you seek Him in earnest. He says, “Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart” (Jer. 29:13). Because He’s holy and Christians have been so unfaithful and unholy, God is using resources that no one would have ever imagined God would use, mocking them/us (Ps. 2:4). Christian unfaithfulness has left, even placed, generations of younger Vessels of Mercy in Satan’s grip facing a miserable future. Therefore, out of love and to convict current born again Christians, especially those in leadership, God is reaching out to His younger (and wilder) Family members in a way that will draw them in, because that’s what Love does. Love cares more about people than about what hypocrites think. Here’s a biblical example: Early in the morning [Jesus] came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more (John 8:2-11). According to God’s WORD, Jesus should have stoned this woman. Instead, He showered her with love and compassion—and the Pharisees didn’t like it, just like today’s Pharisees haven’t liked what I’m doing. Instead, like the Pharisees, they dishonor God and treat God’s people brutally—as I’ll be revealing. And it’s all over the web. Catholic priests aren’t the only ones who’ve been outrageously unbiblical. Google Protestant Pastor Scandal. God’s WORD on Repetition. If you’ve read the Bible you know there’s much repetition in it as with Chronicles for example and the Gospels. In fact, throughout the Bible God tells us the same thing many times but in different ways, doing it to help us understand His perspective. And, all things considered, we obviously need the repetition. Therefore, you’ll encounter the same in the series and on the YouTube channel. I’m saying the same thing repeatedly in a thousand different ways with different examples, taking it deeper as I go. I’ll provide a list of the videos I make under the Docs tab on the website, updating it regularly. God’s WORD on Sarcasm. Because we’re living in pretty drastic times, which will be getting much more drastic, God has provided comic relief. It’s really too hard to explain at this stage. I’ve tried for years but Christians get super offended—and they’re the ones who should understand. Essentially, when you walk closely with the Lord, no matter how difficult the Valley, the “joy of the Lord is your strength” (Neh. 8:10). He makes Himself your strength— your joy—by giving you what you need. And in order to fulfill this tremendous and tremendously difficult calling, I’ve needed some joy, as will the rest of His elect in the police state we call United. The issue with comic relief is complicated because God is making fun of us while also laughing with us and helping us (especially me). “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision” (Ps. 2:4). Except, since He’s God, His idea of making fun comes down much harsher. As Jesus says, “I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to 23 throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him” (Luke 12:5). And we haven’t, not even with Pearl Harbor or Nagasaki or 9/11… We just haven’t gotten it. So, He’s getting pretty brutal with us. Yet, at the same time, He’s being very playful in how He’s had me communicated part of His Message in order to motivate you to seek Him in earnest. Bottom line: if you pay attention and do as He requires, you’ll get it. The Bible’s Credibility Jesus confirmed the entire Bible by saying, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Matt. 5:18). He also said, “It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail” (Luke 16:17)—a tittle is the smallest little mark or letter of the written word, like a comma or the dot on the i. And God has provide the means by which we can know that the Bible is reliable. Historiographers study the reliability of ancient texts by using the earliest available copies of the ancient text to determine the authenticity of it under some guidelines, including the following (as I understand it): the number of manuscripts available; the dates of those manuscripts; and the accuracy of the manuscripts as compared with each other. And their findings reveal that no other ancient book has as many copies or as early copies as does the New Testament. And the rate of distortion between the manuscripts reveals that the New Testament is far more reliable than other ancient texts. Therefore, confirming the entire Bible. I’ve reproduced two TABLES, downsizing them, from Surprised by Faith by Dr. Don Bierle. 24 Besides that, archaeological evidence supports the Bible. But the greatest evidence revealing that Jesus is God and that the Bible (and not just the New Testament) is the WORD of God, is the fact that there are hundreds of Old Testament prophecies which Jesus fulfilled. I cover some of them in chapter 4 of this book, God Promised We’d Get Paradise Back. Shoot for the Moon While today’s Christians seem to think you have to go to seminary and be in some “official” leadership position in a church in order to have spiritual insight and God’s blessing, God says, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15). Since the Bible is the WORD of God, this is what we’re supposed to study. Other than humility and honesty, there is nothing else you need in order to get to know God well personally and hear clearly from Him. All God has asked of us is to humbly seek Him, listen to Him, and apply what He teaches us in the Bible. That’s it! How easy God has made it for us! But instead, we keep heading towards our annihilation! Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. —Isaiah 1:16-18 1 God Gave Us His WORD The very first words of the Bible inform us that it is God’s WORD for humanity because it says, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). Just with that one sentence we’ve been enlightened to the fact that God created everything including us, making the Bible several things: a library of books, a history book, a prophetic book, our manual for life, and the Manual for God’s Church. A Library of Books. The Bible is actually a LIBRARY compiled of 66 books, letters, and poetry written by 40 different people, from different walks of life in different countries, all 25 writing under the inspiration of God over the course of nearly two thousand years, and all pointing to the same thing—Jesus. The word Bible comes from the Greek plural noun biblia, meaning books. 5. A History Book. The Bible is a history book divided into two main parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament, which together cover a period of four thousand years of history along with prophecy not yet fulfilled. The Old Testament—The 39 books of the Old Testament can be divided into five sections covering the period from the beginning of human history (an estimated 6000 years ago) until about 2400 years ago, there being a 400 year period between the Old and New Testament—years of silence from God due to Jewish disobedience (Amos 8:11). The Pentateuch: This section is also known as the Torah and the Law. It includes the first five books of the Bible which are considered to have been written by Moses. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. 2. The Historical Books: These further describe how our obedience or disobedience to God is directly tied to blessings and curses on our lives, both as individuals and as a society, as a nation, and world. Joshua; Judges; Ruth; 1st and 2nd Samuel; 1st & 2nd Kings; 1 & 2nd Chronicles; Ezra; Nehemiah; Esther. 3. The Books of Poetry & Wisdom: These are located in the central portion of the Bible, and the most central one, Psalms, is something of a prayer manual. Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon. 4. The Major Prophets: “Major” refers to the amount of text not the importance of the prophet. And while Lamentations is a poetic book it’s placed here since the author is thought to be Jeremiah, a prophet. However, prophets are also found elsewhere in the Bible as with 1. 26 Samuel whose life is recounted in the historical books. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel. The Minor Prophets: These shorter books cover the lives of the following prophets. Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Malachi. The New Testament—The 27 books of the New Testament cover the period from about 6 B.C. to about 96 A.D., along with prophecy not yet fulfilled. And like the Old Testament, they can be divided into five sections. The Gospel: These books tell us of the life and ministry of Jesus, God’s Christ, meaning God in the flesh. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. 2. History: While the whole Bible is a history book, this one book in the Bible tells us of the beginnings of the New Testament Church. The Jews of the Old Testament were waiting for the promised Messiah, the Anointed One, and the Christians of the New Testament recognized that God came in human form, that’s how anointed is God’s Messiah. This book recounts the rise of the Christian Church informing us how the first Christians applied God’s WORD. (At that time the Old Testament was available as scrolls and the New Testament was in the process of being created. They were living it.) Acts. 3. Paul’s Epistles: These are letters written by Paul to the Christians with encouragement and instruction in godly living, along with warnings and corrections. Romans; 1st & 2nd Corinthians; Galatians; Ephesians; Philippians; Colossians; 1st & 2nd Thessalonians; 1st & 2nd Timothy; Titus; Philemon. 4. General Letters: These letters were written by other key Christian leaders of the early Church for the same purpose, that of strengthening the Church and 1. 5. foretelling of times to come. Hebrews; James; 1st & 2nd Peter; 1st, 2nd & 3rd John; Jude. Prophecy: Warnings to the Church and foretelling of times to come. Revelation. In short, the Old Testament points primarily to the Gospel, the life of Jesus. It includes prophecies which were fulfilled in Christ and which are still being fulfilled in His Church and world, as well as prophecies yet to be fulfilled. And the New Testament, which points back to the Old Testament, gives us an account of the life of Christ and of the early Church, along with prophecies which are being fulfilled and not yet fulfilled. The New Testament also reveals how the early Christians applied God’s WORD of the Old Testament along with Jesus’ teachings. A Prophetic Book. Throughout the Bible, God has prophesied of times that have come, that we’re living in, and which are yet to come. He says: I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure (Isa. 46:9-10). There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets (Dan. 2:28). Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets (Amos 3:7). In fact, the entire Bible is a prophetic book because “the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Rev. 19:10). Therefore, each sentence has a multiple aspect to it. A section—each verse—will speak about something specific at the moment, when it was written, while also being prophetic, and that prophesy may apply to several targets that have significance for the world. And it also applies to many hundreds of thousands of situations. In fact, millions! Prophecy is like a mountain range, each prophecy having several key peaks, targets, while also being their own mountain range. For example, the book of Hosea is about a prophet who was told by God to marry a prostitute. It recounts actual events that happened. But it was also an example of what was happening with God’s people at the time— the Israelites—since they were prostituting themselves by following after false gods, having forsaken their first love, God, who had brought them out of Egypt and had said to them, “Thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God” (Ex. 34:14). God was using His prophet Hosea (along with Hosea’s family) to give His rebellious people a very graphic lesson. It’s also prophetic because this is something God’s Church would do again, repeatedly, having done it before Hosea’s day, and just as Christianity Today is doing—as Christianity has consistently done for two thousand years, minus a very short blip. And because God uses His WORD to speak to individual people—as Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27)—each verse is also used by God a million different times as He speaks to His individual people. Hebrews 4:12 says, clearer in the NIV, “The word of God is alive and active.” Therefore, anyone filled with the Spirit of God, a born again believer, can be spoken to by God at any time with the same verse about Hosea, and with any other verse of the Bible—applying to their specific situation, which is often prophetic. That’s why each word is like its own prophetic mountain range since each peak represents a WORD—a rhema (look it up in Christianeasy)— for or about a specific person or thing. While there are key peaks of that mountain range as God uses that WORD for His Church and world, there are also smaller peaks as God uses that WORD to speak to individuals. For another example, the highest prophetic peak for this verse was clearly Jesus’ birth: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be 27 upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace (Isa. 9:6). Yet God has used this same verse countless times to speak to different people about another child being born. For instance, I could be hoping to get pregnant and in my daily reading of the Bible, picking up where I’d left my bookmark on Isaiah 9, having been begging God to get me pregnant, He might use this verse in my reading to speak to me, prophesying to me, that I will in fact be having a child. That’s how God works. As He says, “My sheep hear my voice” (John 10:27). Having heard His voice I would then beg Him to confirm His WORD to me so that I could be sure that I was hearing from Him correctly, and He’ll use another verse to confirm it. (I’ll explain it repeatedly throughout the series with examples.) Unlike other books, the Bible is not ‘dead’ or static because it represents God to this extreme: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made…And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (John 1:1-14, my emphasis). This passage tells us that Jesus, the Son of God, was with the Father in the beginning of Creation. That’s why God says in the first book of the Bible, “Let us make man in our image” (Gen. 1:26, my emphasis). That us refers to God’s three-part nature: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The passage also says that Jesus is the WORD, and that the WORD came to life. In other words, Jesus = God = the WORD = the Bible = the Father = the Son = the Holy Spirit, and more. God has over 300 names for Himself in the Bible as with Faithful and Consuming Fire, for example. (I put WORD in caps when referring to Jesus or the Bible for emphasis and to keep 28 consistent with the series title, WORD, presented in italics since it’s a book tile.) God’s Manual for Life. Jesus said, “If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him” (John 14:23). While this isn’t what today’s pastors preach, it’s how God works since it’s what the Bible says and, therefore, what some of us have experienced. Essentially, if we’re questioning the meaning of life, one of the many books we’ll read will be the Bible. And if we read the Bible with humility of heart, we’ll come to love Jesus because of what He’s done for us, so we’ll begin to obey Him because His WORD, a “twoedged sword” (Heb. 4:12) will convict us of sins we’ve been committing. The WORD of God cuts into us like a knife, at least that’s true for the earnest seeker of truth and faithful born again Christian. But God also sometimes cuts into those who weren’t looking for Him, He says, “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, ‘Here am I, here am I’” (Isa. 65:1). And that’s obviously what He’s now doing with His world as a whole, especially the U.S., as revealed through my ministry. At any rate, when we’ve been taking God’s WORD seriously and made changes in our life in order to be right with Him, God then sends His Holy Spirit to live inside of us, as John 14:23 states. He enables us to become a genuine Christian when we’ve proven our sincerity. And that’s not what today’s Church leaders are preaching, “Just say this prayer and you’ll be saved.” Having His Spirit within defines being born again. It’s the mark of a real Christian, a mark that is revealed by one’s obedience to God. In turn, by comparing the Bible, the New Testament, just one of the Gospels, to what Christians are doing as a whole, it’s immediately made clear that Christianity Today—as a whole— is way off Target. Further, when you have God’s Spirit within, you know it. Nobody has to tell you how to hear His voice or convince you that you’re born again—as today’s pastors constantly do. You know you’re born again because you hear God’s voice repeatedly throughout the day, every day, since you’re living in humble submission to Him while steeped in His WORD. And since pastor’s constantly preach about this—trying to convince people they’re born again—it tells me they’re not born again. They know about Jesus, but they don’t know Him—kind of like I know about Mr. Obama but I’ve never even met the man. If today’s pastors actually knew the Lord personally, they would know better than try to convince anyone that they’re born again. However, since God gave us the ability to make choices, the born again can choose not to worship Him in truth, not to obey Him. Those types of Christians are called prodigal or lost, depending on the translation. They’re not right with God. And since it’s impossible to tell the difference between a prodigal Christian and a person who just says they’re Christian but aren’t born again, and possibly a Vessel of Wrath (Rom 9:22-23), God tells born again Christians to separate from such people (2 Cor. 6:14-17; 1 Cor. 5:9-11; 2 Pet. 3:7). And the reason we’re to separate from them is because rotten fruit rots the good fruit that’s next to it—and He doesn’t want us to also get ruined. But since Christians have historically disobeyed Him, they have been spoiled—spoiled rotten! God’s Manual for His Church. While the Bible is a historical and prophetic book, the most important part about it is that it reveals how we should live in order to get the most out of this life, what I call our Tour of Duty, calling it that because of how God refers to His people and the Mission He’s given us (Matt. 28:19-20) and the war we’re in (Eph. 6:12). Moreover, God’s people need to view the importance of God’s WORD for our Tour of Duty as for the group since God views it that way as noted with the following passage, for example: 11He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love (Eph. 4:11-16). This passage is God’s Mission Statement which can be broken down into the following components: God’s Leadership Team: Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers (Eph. 4:11). God’s Purpose: For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ (Eph. 4:12). God’s Timetable: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ (Eph. 4:13). God’s Rationale: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive (Eph. 4:14). 29 God’s Strategy: Speaking the truth in love, [we] may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love (Eph. 4:15-16). God’s Church is not a building nor represented by denominations, and it’s not Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist…it’s a biblical assembly of people. The true Church today is made up of born again Christians along with those who have died with faith in Christ since the Old Testament pointed to Him. God’s elect who have gone before us continue to help us today with their writings and with their testimony as others have written about them. The Love Machine. According to the verses just quoted in block (Eph. 4:11-16), and a theme of the New Testament, God has set out to make His Church function like a well-oiled machine. And because “God is love” (1 John 4:8), this machine is The Love Machine which is powered by the lordship of Jesus, God’s Christ. However, born again Christians have yet to begin letting Him to little more than idle wasting precious gas, also known as the Holy Spirit. In turn, the lost Vessels of Mercy remain lost having no interest in joining a group spewing nothing but hot air and taking up space. Therefore, instead of Jesus’ heavenly new world order, we’re facing Satan’s version of it—hell on earth! If you do what today’s “official” Church leaders tell you to do—Protestant pastors, evangelists, and prophets—it will make you a blind follower of the blind, and “can the blind lead the blind?” (Luke 6:39). The answer is NO! Pretty soon you fall into a manhole. And that’s exactly where we’re at—deep in it. If you don’t understand the Bible and “become” a Christian, as today’s Church leaders encourage people to do, you’ll think you’re born 30 again even though you’re not, like most of those who make up Christianity Today, especially in the U.S. Or else, you’ll be born again but building your heavenly estate with material that will burn when God runs it through His testing process. You’ll end up wasting all of your heavenly inheritance as today’s most ‘mature’ Christians have done. God says: For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire (2 Cor. 3:11-15). And without Jesus as your FOUNDATION, it all burns, including you, because when we die “every one of us shall give account of himself to God” (Rom. 14:12). Without Jesus as our foundation, we don’t have a WORD to stand on—but no Vessels of Mercy will have that problem. Still, you want to get Home in better shape than as one who barely escaped the flames. According to God, the way for His people to live up to their full potential is by submitting to His lordship. And the way for the group as a whole to live up to God’s purpose and become the well-oiled Love Machine He created us to be, we have to the same as a group, “submit…ourselves one to one another in the fear of God” (Eph. 5:21). God’s WORD on Catholicism. Even though Catholics call themselves Christian or see themselves as being Christian, they cannot possibly be Christian because they reject the Bible’s infallibility. The Bible is perfect. Yet in their documents Catholics reject this truth, and you can readily see it with these examples: 1. Jesus says, “Call no man your father upon the earth” (Matt. 23:9). Yet what do Catholics do? 2. God says, “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works” (Eph. 2:8-9). Yet Catholics are so into works they declare people as saints by their works. In contrast, the New Testament letters address the believers as saints since that’s all that’s needed to be a saint, believe Jesus is God (Eph. 1:1; Phil. 1:1; Col. 1:2). If you actually believed it, you’d obey Him (John 14:21 & 23). 3. Catholics rely on the Pope as their high priest even though Jesus is our High Priest (Heb. 2:17, 3:1 & 4:14-15). 4. Catholics idolize Mary, as they do the Pope. Yet Jesus shot down one who elevated Mary (Luke 11:27-28), and God’s leaders shot down those who elevated them (Acts 10:25-26 & 14:1015). Even the angel wouldn’t have anyone bow down to him (Rev. 19:10). Yet the Pope has people bow down to him and kiss the ring on his finger! And people do it! (Jer. 17:9). Protestants aren’t much better as they call themselves “Reverend,” as if we’re supposed to revere these severely unbiblical men. In any case, the documentary Catholicism: Crisis of Faith (1991), provided under the playlist False Religion on my YouTube channel, explains the problems with Catholicism by people who know best since they were once priests and nuns who were enlightened by God and, therefore, came out of that false religion. 2 God Chose Some, Not All As noted, according to the Bible there are only two kinds of people in the world—Vessels of Mercy and Vessels of Wrath (Rom. 9:22-23)— those who have been chosen by God for eternal life in heaven and those who have been destined by Him for eternity in hell. Many get angry by this biblical doctrine and use it as an excuse to slam the door on God’s face. But if you’re a Vessel of Mercy and shut God out—whether not yet born again or as a prodigal born again—you are hurting yourself. This is your life, your Tour of Duty, your one chance to store up treasure in heaven for the rest of eternity (Matt. 6:19-20)—and that’s a pretty long time! Slamming the door on God’s face is not a good option. We don’t know when God has determined that we are going to die, but we do know that we are going to die one day, fairly soon. The older you get the more you realize that we haven’t been granted much time here. Maybe we have another 30 years to build up our stash for eternity, or maybe just another three days, and that’s IF we’re elect. Yet most people, believer and unbeliever alike, have done the following, they’ve said: I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God (Luke 12:19-21). And while I didn’t fully do that, I did get to be thirty-something when it finally dawned on me that I hadn’t stored up a thing for eternity! However, God has made it obvious through the series that I’ve made up for lost time. And since “God is no respecter of persons” (Acts 10:34), you can also make up for lost time, if God has 31 granted you the time. In other words, seize the day! And because some pastors mock those of us who believe the doctrine of election and the rest ignore this doctrine, I’m providing some of the Bible verses supporting it, the biblical teaching that only some have been chosen for eternal life in heaven, whereas others have been chosen for eternal life in hell—a teaching that, when understood, makes you, the one chosen for heaven, the elect, EXTREMELY GRATEFUL TO GOD! Because, we could NOT have been chosen for eternal life in heaven. God could have made us a Vessel of Wrath destined for hell. So, to help you see that God has elected some and not others for heaven, I’m getting as close as possible to the original biblical text. That’s why I’ve provided these verses in both the literal translation along with the King James. Today’s pastor’s—including those who say they believe the doctrine of election—teach that we accept Jesus, that all can accept Jesus. Therefore you need to decide, based on what the Bible says, God’s Rule Book, whether or not they’re teaching and preaching the truth. Psalm 65:4 O the happiness of [him whom] Thou choosest, And drawest near, he inhabiteth Thy courts, We are satisfied with the goodness of Thy house, Thy holy temple (YLT). Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple (KJV). Luke 18:7 Shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night—bearing long in regard to them? (YLT). 32 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? (KJV). Romans 8:33 Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God [is] He that is declaring righteous (YLT). Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth (KJV). John 6:37 All that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without (YLT). All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out (KJV). John 6:44 No one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day (YLT). No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day (KJV). John 15:16 Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you (YLT). Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you (KJV). Ephesians 1:5 Having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will (YLT). Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will (KJV). Romans 9:6-8 And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these Israel; nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but—`in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' that is, the children of the flesh— these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed (YLT). Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed (KJV). 2 Thessalonians 2:13 And we—we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth (YLT). But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth (KJV). Romans 9:11 For they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her (YLT). For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth (KJV). 1 Peter 1:2 According to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied! (YLT). Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Romans 11:5-7 So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been; and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work. What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened (YLT). Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but 33 the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded (KJV). As noted, there are many more Scriptures revealing that God elected, chose, predestined, foreordained some of us for salvation from our sins and from hell, and for eternal life in heaven. But it’s not the case for all. Only for “as many as the LORD our God shall call” (Acts 2:39). Concerning those destined for hell, God says the following: Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? (Rom. 9:21-24). In other words, God is using the non-elect to help His elect know Him better and worship Him accordingly. Rather than being angry with God, His elect should be deliriously humbled and grateful. But today’s elect are not because of the mess Christianity has made over the course of hundreds of years, especially in our day. In turn, as prophesied, “the many…wax[es] cold” (Matt. 24:12). love of If God had not elected us, it would mean that those who understand God’s Plan for humanity have that understanding on their own. And since they understand it and others don’t, it would mean there is something special about them. In turn, they’d have a right to be proud. But that nullifies the Bible because it says, “He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord” (2 Cor. 10:17). “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8-9). “For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the 34 purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth… As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated” (Rom. 9:11-13). According to the Old Testament account of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (found in Genesis 1150), in Romans 9:13 just quoted, God is speaking of two babies, one which was predestined as His elect, Jacob, and another one who wasn’t, Esau. God says, “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated” (Rom. 9:13). God “hated” Esau because Esau had zero room for God in his life, disrespected His commands, and took God’s blessings for granted. But the reason Esau did all that was because he wasn’t elect. So at this point you’ll get into the argument which God already addressed in the Bible: Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? (Rom. 9:19-21). The answer is that God does have the power over the clay, over us. He can do as He pleases, and does. And He has the right to do so since He is God and, Hello? We’re not! While it seems pretty clear to some of us that there are really only two kinds of people in the world, those chosen by God for eternal bliss and those who weren’t, most of Christianity Today’s pastors teach that everyone has to “accept” Christ, as if everyone can. In doing that, not only do they put the decision-making capability for salvation on us, they make it seem as if Christ— God ALMIGHTY—needs our acceptance when it is us who need His! God has created two types of people, those who can get to know Him and those who can’t. And since Jesus says, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him” (John 6:44), if you have any interest whatsoever in God, in the One of the Bible—the One true God—it’s because, and only because, God, the Father, is drawing you to Jesus, His Son. It is an expression of God’s love and mercy towards you. And that should humble you rather than make you proud. It should also make you pretty happy. People do the little happy dance over all sorts of stupid stuff. But if anything was worthy of doing the happy dance, this is it! And it is! It’s as if God, who created spices, took some salt and pepper and put them in their respective shakers. While both are spices which can go on the same dish (the world), they serve different purposes. Neither did either spice choose to be salt or pepper. God did that. He created them both and chose which type each grain would be, either salt or pepper. They just go where He puts them and do their job, salt or pepper the dish, salt representing the elect and pepper the nonelect. So what type of grain are you? Can you prove it? According to God, you need to (James 2:26). While today’s pastors preach that we need to accept Christ, on the contrary, Jesus says, “I have chosen you out of the world” (John 15:19). “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). “Those that thou [Father] gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled” (John 17:12). The “son of perdition” was—in this case, Judas—but he’s not the only son of perdition. All of the non-elect are sons of perdition. In the Old Testament they were often referred to as sons of Belial (1 Sam. 2:12; 2 Chron. 13:7). They serve Satan while on this earth. In hell they’ll all just hate each other and bow down to Jesus, as we’ve been told: Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Phil. 2:9-11, YLT). When we get the doctrine of election, we understand that we could not have been chosen by God. Therefore, we’re not only filled with gratitude, we gain a real sense of the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom (Prov. 9:10). Understanding the doctrine of election opens the door for the proper fear of God and belief in hell, that it’s a real place and not a nice place. Election enables us to understand that God is in total control. We then understand this verse which today’s unbiblical pastors seldom if ever preach, the one in which God says “I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things” (Isa. 45:7, my emphasis). Grasping this truth, we then appreciate what Jesus said, “I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him” (Luke 12:5). We also begin to grasp the fact that “the wicked shall be turned into hell” (Ps. 9:17), that they won’t just go there, but become it—and some of them get close to it while on earth, as we see more and more each day. Putting it all together, the elect are extremely thankful to God for having chosen us for heaven, and, therefore, obey Him (John 14:23). The doctrine of election gives the elect the jumpstart they need to succeed. A doctrine Christianity Today, at best, ignores, and at worst, rejects. God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that [is] above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow—of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth— and every tongue may confess that 35 3 God Gave Us Paradise, We Lost It This life is a test for the elect of God, a series of tests. Speaking about false prophets, those who lead you to other gods such as those from other religions or horoscopes, palm readers, or the god of Education, for example, God says, “Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul” (Deut. 13:3, my emphasis). God already knows we don’t love Him. The tests are for us, to show us this important truth about ourselves, that we don’t love God, our Creator. And the series of books He’s had me write will make it crystal clear that the born again (along with those who think they’re born again) have not loved God. Like peeling an onion, God is going to remove layer after layer of lies—and it will make you cry. The sooner you start shedding tears, the better. It’s a healing rain for your soul. And, as a group, it will be a healing rain for the earth. Doing our spiritual Homework, being honest, we realize we’ve earned an F. However, every wise student, at some point, settles down and gets serious. And it’s time. It’s high time. So this is how God opens His Book. He says: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the 36 waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day…And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together…and it was so…And God said, let the earth bring forth grass…and it was so…And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven…[And God did what He did for six days.]… And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work (Gen. 1-2:2). Yup, that requires a leap of faith! And if you continue doing your Homework, you’ll also learn that it must have taken place some 6000 years ago, which is quite different from the billions of years most everyone believes since it’s taught everywhere and accepted as truth even though it’s only a theory—an extremely flawed one at that. Yet, either way, whether you choose to believe that the universe is 14 billions of years old or merely six thousand, or anything in between—you can only “know” it by faith. There is no solid “proof” for any belief of how the universe came into being nor how old it is because radiometric dating methods are based on assumptions. And we all know what happens when we assume—we become what looks like the prefix. Moreover, Christianity has much more evidence to support it than all the other beliefs concerning what we’re doing here. You just have DO your Homework to be convinced of this truth. Yet most people haven’t done their Homework. Believing the Big Bang theory and evolution just because the majority says so and because there are “experts” saying so is not doing your Homework, but an expression of blind faith. And here’s an example of the danger in that. Doctor Benjamin Spock, a pediatrician, was an “expert” on childrearing who wrote one of the best sellers of all time, Baby and Child Care. And since his book was a best seller he had many followers. Yet near the end of his life he admitted having been wrong. Oops. That was only his life’s work! His example stresses the importance for everyone to thoroughly do their own Homework and ‘buy into’ only what makes the most sense because those who bought into Dr. Spock’s easy/lazy parenting ideas, convenient in the short-term, rather than help their children, hurt them. And it’s difficult to undo bad parenting. In fact, due to Dr. Spock’s bogus parenting methods, we’ve ended up, in great part, with spoiled brats serving as the leaders of our society. And while that’s bad enough, those who mislead others with their bogus ideas about the meaning of life are doing much more damage. So in order to not be misled, you must do your own Homework and do it thoroughly. But it’s not even hard considering all the resources God has given us in our day with the Internet. In fact, there must be thousands of presentations, books, and resources revealing that Jesus is God and that the Bible is God’s WORD for mankind— a few of which I’ve pulled into my YouTube channel. In the last 20 years we have been granted more information (and education) than any other generation before us in order to know the truth. Yet, while “ever learning…[most have not been] able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7). And they haven’t been able to do it for the following two reasons: Christian hypocrisy (Rom. 2:24) and your own stubborn pride (Jer. 17:9). Most people want a quick fix so they try taking shortcuts. But when it comes to God, there are no shortcuts. You can’t get His blessings without doing what He requires you to do to get blessed. At the same time, by having me write these books and compile these resources, along with everything else He’s had people compile and put up on the web, God has given this generation— while in a police state—the best shortcut to get to know Him fast and know Him well. But, it still requires a commitment on your part, of time, of sincerity, and of perseverance. Yet going through this series as one who is in earnest, even if coming in knowing nothing of the Bible, you’ll be able to quickly surpass today’s best born again Christians who have been born again for years so that God’s WORD will be fulfilled, “Many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first” (Matt. 19:30). Since they’ve ignored basics truths of the Bible, they’ve shipwrecked their faith and can’t even tell when God is speaking to them anymore, God having handed them over to a strong delusion so that they would believe lies for not having truly loved the truth—for not appreciating what He’s done for them (2 Thess. 2:10-11). In fact, God has handed them over to Satan as Paul told Timothy in the following passage: This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme (1 Tim. 1:18-20). Love is demonstrated by degrees, as you can see with the MARRIAGE SPECTRUM. And the relationship today’s born again Christians have with Jesus is like Housemates, when He gave His life for us so that we could each be Best Friends with Him (John 15:15). 37 God’s Angels In order to really understand His Story, our history, you have to understand the beginning of it, that God Created everything including angels. God created a spiritual realm, which makes sense since He’s supernatural, a Spirit. And it’s extremely important that we’re not only aware of the spiritual realm but understand how it works, how it fits into God’s Plan for humanity, so I cover different aspects of it throughout the series. We don’t know when exactly God created angels but we do know that God created them (Gen. 1:1; Col. 1:16) and that they were here before humans (Job 38:1-7). Throughout the Old Testament we also read of the angel of the Lord. It refers to God’s supernatural messenger, as with the following instances: The angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? (Gen. 16:7-8). The angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time (Gen. 22:15). And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept (Judges 2:4). Whether “the angel of the LORD” is one particular angel or different ones is not clear to me—and I don’t think it matters. What matters is that God has angels, that they represent Him, and we are to listen to them when we encounter them, should we encounter them. That’s made clear throughout the Bible (Num. 22:31; Luke 1:18-20; Rev. 22:8). 38 We also know that there are many angels. For instance, when Jesus was born the following took place: There were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly THERE WAS WITH THE ANGEL A MULTITUDE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST PRAISING GOD, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men (Luke 2:8-14, my emphasis). Then, when Jesus was nearing the appointed time of His death and Peter wanted to “protect” Him, Jesus rebuked him and said, “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?” (Matt. 25:53). A legion contained as many as 6000. Jesus was saying that God (the Father) would readily grant Him 72,000 angels to protect Him if that were actually needed. Then in the last book of the Bible, given a pretty decent peak into the supernatural world, John wrote, “I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels…and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands” (Rev. 5:11-12). Clearly, God created a huge number of angels. One Third of the Angels Fell. The crucial thing to understand about angels is that the most beautiful one rebelled against God so that he became the devil, alias Satan, who was followed into rebellion by one third of the angels: Thus saith the Lord GOD [speaking to/about Satan]; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more (Ezek. 28:12-19). For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit (Isa. 14:13-15). There appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven [angels], and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 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 (Rev. 12:3-9). Satan got it in his big head that he would become greater than God, his Creator (Isa. 14:1115), so that God kicked him out of heaven along with the third of the angels who followed him. Being “cast out into the earth” (Rev. 12:9), he became “the ruler of this world” (John 14:30, YLT), one who masquerades as a good guy, even as God, as we’ve been warned, “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14) and “he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Thess. 2:4). This explains why Catholic priests sexually abuse children and Protestant Church leaders have been doing the same, for example. Because, since Satan transforms himself as an angel of 39 light, “it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness” (2 Cor. 11:15). Satan and his demons (the fallen angels) camouflage as humans just like angels do. God says, “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares” (Heb. 13:2). By ‘entertain’ He means, welcome. Angels and demons can look like humans. We’re to welcome the good ones and reject the bad ones. We’re told, “Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). We try or test the spirits—what different people say to us—by running their words and actions through the sieve of the Bible. So again, you have to know the Bible well or you won’t be able to tell the difference between a good or bad spirit, as evident with Protestant pastors. If professing Christians knew the Bible and tested these spirits, they would see that there is not one biblical pastor to be found! And that’s what my ministry is about, exposing Satan who “as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Thess. 2:4). Satan uses people, in this case pastors, to ‘sit’ as leaders in the church buildings which currently represent the temple of God. It’s as if Satan, through men, is representing God. Yet because they’re unbiblical men, we can know that they don’t really represent God, more specifically Jesus, but are actually representing Satan. Today, pastors fall into one of three categories: 1. Non-elect Vessels of Wrath; 2. Elect Vessels of Mercy who are not born again; or, 3. Elect Vessels of Mercy who are born again but out of fellowship with God, prodigal, in rebellion against God. If there was even one faithful pastor, that man would be preaching what I’m preaching. Instead, they lie through their teeth when held accountable to God’s WORD. 40 Further, the Bible says, “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” (2 Thess. 2:3). But because Christians have been so unfaithful to God, they have wrongly discerned that “that man of sin” that will be revealed refers to one man. And in the past few years, they’ve pointed to the Pope, or Obama, or the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, for example. However, “that man of sin” refers to Satan who uses different men, whoever’s willing. And through my ministry, God is revealing that Satan has been using many men, including Protestant pastors. And while Protestant pastors are not sons of perdition if they’re Vessels of Mercy, since they’ve been serving Satan rather than Christ, they’ve been acting as sons of perdition. However, when they wake up to themselves, those who are actually Vessels of Mercy will turn coat on Satan whereas those who are not won’t. By that point, it will have been made clear that we’ve been living in the falling away period and “that man of sin,” Satan, will have been exposed through the many men serving him, and the sons of perdition will be clearly seen since they continue to serve him even though the rest have repented. Then, “that day” the day of the Lord will arrive. Meaning, the era when God’s people let Him lord over their lives even though He’s not yet physically here. By having me live the life I’ve lived and having me follow Him through His Church (the churches) for as long as He’s had me do it, and then having me write about it, God is making it clear that this is how it is—what Daniel prophesied and Jesus spoke about: When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place…then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be (Matt. 24:15-21). We are practically there. In any case, Jesus informed us of Satan’s real character. He said, “The devil…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” (John 8:44). The Devil, alias Satan, the Serpent, the antichrist (and he has many other aliases), is—and has always been and always will be—a murderer and a liar. He is The Great Deceiver, “that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world “(Rev. 12:9). It’s pretty important information. You’d think Christians would have focused on this, again, proving that Church leaders have NOT been serving Jesus but Satan so that we have been living in the falling way period. Our First Ancestors God tells us that He created a man He named Adam and a woman Adam named Eve. We read: God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them (Gen. 1:27). And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man (Gen. 2:21-23). God also tells us that He gave Adam a rule to obey—a rule, just one. “God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Gen. 2:16-17). As God knew would happen—since He “declar[es] the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done” (Isa. 46:10)—that was one rule too many for His created human beings. God gave them everything they could have possibly wanted—life in Paradise which included fellowship with Him, knowing Him. Then, He tested their love for Him. According to the Bible, God views Himself as our Father (John 20:17) who created people He views as children (Gal. 4:19). He says, “Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein” (Mark 10:15). God is not saying He wants us to be ignorant like little children, but loving like little children. I know this because His Greatest Commandment, His most important rule for us, is to love Him with all we’ve got, heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:29-30). Yet I’ve never met an adult who loves like that, only children—and my dog. Adults love others when it’s convenient for them. When it’s not, they don’t, which means they really didn’t love them in the first place. While God wants us to behave like sweet little preschoolers who love being with their Daddy just because he’s their Daddy, adults, beginning with Adam and Eve, are much more interested in being knowledgeable. In fact, many movies have been made of simple loving parents who struggled to put their child through college and then that child got proud and looked down on their not as educated parents, valuing knowledge more than love. In those movies the kid became a cold-hearted snob, went through some stuff which brought him back down to earth so that he apologized. Then they lived happily ever after. And that’s pretty much our story, history. We’re just not at the ending yet—just now getting to the climax. The Fall of Mankind. After God created everything including angels, one-third of whom rebelled with Satan, having created humans who God placed in His Garden Paradise, and having given them one rule to obey, the following excerpt informs us how Satan began to devour humanity: The serpent [Satan] was more subtil than any beast of the field which God had made. And [masquerading as a friend and wise counselor, that is, lying] he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the 41 garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, [correcting Satan] We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, [then she added something God never said, she said] neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die [lying to her]: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened [this was true], and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Satan twisted God’s WORD because they already knew good but now they would know, that is, experience, evil. Twisting God’s WORD, conniving as he is, Satan put doubt into the woman’s mind that God could be fully trusted.] And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat (Gen. 3:1-6). Eve equated knowing good and evil with being “wise.” It’s what most people do. For example, as homeschoolers the only real argument against us was that the girls “needed” to be out with the rest getting socialized. However, experiencing the cesspool of sin doesn’t make you wise, it makes you part of the sinful pack. Because, when in Rome, you do as the Romans—and if you know anything about Rome, we’re talking pretty sinful, as sinful as it gets. Following in Satan’s footsteps, as most have done, desiring to do their thing and know evil, disobeying God’s one rule, the Bible tells us what happened to Adam and Eve because of it: The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the 42 presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden (Gen. 3:7-8). Several things happened when God’s created self-willed humans ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Their eyes were opened so that they suddenly realized they were naked and were now ashamed whereas before they “were both naked…and were not ashamed” (Gen. 2:25). In other words, they lost their innocence, which is why God hadn’t wanted them to eat from that tree in the first place. They also now hid from God when you can’t hide from God (Ps. 139). So while they gained the knowledge that they were naked, they not only lost their innocence but the wisdom to know that you can’t hide from God. They also became afraid of God when before they hadn’t been afraid of Him. So even though it’s not possible to hide from God, they tried to hide from Him because while they lost their innocence they gained childish ways. In short, it wasn’t a great trade-off after all because Satan had lied. It’s what he does (John 8:44). And since “all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do” (Heb. 4:13), God caught up with them and they had no choice but to deal with the consequences of their disobedience and disrespect for God, as we all have to do sooner or later—and sooner is the much better option (Ps. 32:3-4). God Cursed Humanity. Rather than admit their guilt, these two played The Blame Game. They invented it. “The man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat” (Gen. 3:12-13). Knowing all three were guilty, God handed down their punishment as follows: The LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return (Gen. 3:14-19). While God had given Adam and Eve another tree in the Garden of which they could have eaten from, the tree of life (Gen. 2:8-9), they instead ate of the one which was forbidden because we always want the things we can’t have and aren’t satisfied with what we have. Having “commanded the man” not to eat of the tree of knowledge (Gen. 2:16-17), disobeying God for longing for what He couldn’t have, through “one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men” (Rom. 5:12). The “one man” was Adam. Since God had created Adam to be the head of his home (1 Cor. 11:3), God had commanded him not to eat of the tree. God had created Adam first—giving him the task of naming God’s other creatures (Gen. 2:19), including Eve (Gen. 2:23)—whereas Eve had been created second in order to be Adam’s companion and help mate. “The Lord God [had] said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him” (Gen. 2:18). So while Satan first worked on Eve, Adam, “her husband with her…did eat” (Gen. 3:6). It was ultimately Adam’s responsibility to hold the line, but he didn’t. However, Eve sure didn’t help her mate by standing there and engaging in a conversation with this sneaky creature in the Garden. Then again, Adam, who was “with her” didn’t stand up for the truth he knew which God had commanded him to keep, saying, ‘Don’t eat of it.’ So, they both blew it. And each and every one of us would have done exactly the same thing because “there is none righteous, no, not one” (Rom. 3:10). History proves this over and over and over and over and over and over again. Having disrespected and disobeyed God, not only did God kick them out of the Garden and curse them, sin and death entered into all humans “and death by sin” (Rom. 5:12). As God has said, Satan “was a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44). The Fall of Man explains why we don’t have to teach our children how to lie or steal. The cute little preschoolers do it naturally so that we have to teach them not to. If you don’t think you’re a sinner, it’s either because you still believe Satan’s lies as a Vessel of Mercy or because you’re a Vessel of Wrath (1 John 1:8). You really should figure it out. Having sinned, God had to kick Adam and Eve out of Paradise before they ate of the tree of life and lived eternally in their sinful state, reproducing sinful children in Paradise. Had that happened, pretty soon Paradise would have become a hellish place—like what we’ve done to earth. Here’s how God puts it: The LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden (Gen. 3:22-23). And it’s better for us this way since this earth is just temporary whereas Paradise/heaven will be forever—and the temporary mess we’ve made on earth is more than bad enough. 43 Chosen for Door #1. What God has done for the Vessels of Mercy is something like giving us TWO DOORS. Knowing we’d choose the wrong one, He chose for us. “He said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth” (Acts 22:14). The reason we choose the wrong door is because what Jesus is offering us for this Tour of Duty as the group works towards bringing heaven on earth doesn’t look appealing. At all. (Read the verse on the door.) Whereas what Satan’s offering looks pretty good. (Read that door.) Only it’s pretty damned good. Because the reality behind the doors is that Jesus is actually offering eternal life with the potential wealth of a Rockefeller in a utopian kingdom, whereas Satan’s offer is a monstrous lie (John 8:44). It’s nothing but sorrow for the rest of eternity after a few years of material wealth and/or sinful living here on earth. Hollywood is a great example— they play hard and die early, often from suicide. And while only non-elect enter that door without being allowed out, Satan fools the elect that his offer is real and that Jesus’ offer is a lie. And while only temporarily fooled, Vessels of Mercy are easily fooled for being shallow and materialistic. Entering Door #2, the elect dishonored God so that Satan won the battle— but Jesus already won the war (John 19:30). In fact, Satan knows the elect will not go to hell and that what’s waiting in hell isn’t glorious for anyone including himself. As we’ve been informed, “The devil is come down unto [earth], having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time” (Rev. 12:12). And the closer he gets to the end of his reign on earth, the more wrath he expresses. The non-elect also get fooled and think they’re OK, as with those who believe they’re getting reincarnated, for example. They’ve got a pretty rude awakening coming. In a way they are getting reincarnated, since death is not the end. However, they’re new life in hell is not what they thought they were getting. 44 And since Satan has been allowed to fool all of us, including the Vessels of Mercy, there’s a test God has told the born again to put ourselves through regularly, daily. God says, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2 Cor. 13:5). Reprobate means rejected according to Noah’s Webster’s 1828 dictionary, the one he wrote before sinners watered it down. If Christians had payed attention to God and gotten in the habit of testing themselves as He told us to do— comparing their lives to His WORD— Christianity would not have landed Herself in the pit where She currently wallows. Moreover, the only way to get out of this pit is by running the test daily. It’s like we need look at our life as a sculpture God is creating. He’s the Potter and we’re the clay (Jer. 18). Read the Bible and get a vision for the person He wants you to be. Here’s a big ol’ hint—like Christ. Then get to work on your piece, daily cutting, gouging, scraping, burning, shaving, doing whatever needs doing to get the sculpture of your life to measure up to the image in God’s Head. Holy Spirit within and Bible as our Manual, we take a blow torch, chisel, or jackhammer, as needed, to get the piece to actually look like the vision the Master has in mind. You might even need some dynamite. Go for it. The outcome will be well worth it. 4 God Promised We’d Get Paradise Back Since God knew this is how it would go for His created humans—that no matter how much He would bless us, we would still reject Him—He handed out some severe consequences for Adam and Eve’s disobedience. But He also made some wonderful promises at the same time: God promised to curse Satan, saying, “Thou art cursed above all” (Gen. 3:14); God promised that the seed of the woman would bruise Satan’s “head” (Gen. 3:15); and, God promised that Satan would only bruise the “heel” of the woman’s seed (Gen. 3:15). Satan Cursed Above All. Having Satan cursed above all is easy to understand as a great promise considering how much damage Satan has done throughout history and in our own lives. Thank you, God! However, the next two promises require an understanding of the Bible even though we all understand that a head wound is greater than a wound to the heel since the brain is located inside the head. If you shoot me in the foot it’ll hurt, I might even lose my foot. But it’s not as bad as shooting me in the head. Satan’s Head Bruised. The promise that the woman’s seed would bruise Satan’s head means that a child, one born to a woman, would hurt Satan permanently. Children come from women like a seed of a fruit that breeds more fruit. And a wound to the head means lights out. woman’s seed (Mary’s child). Jesus did it by conquering death since He rose up out of the grave “because it was not possible that he should be holden of it” (Acts 2:24). Since Jesus was God in the flesh, it wasn’t possible to actually kill him and keep Him dead. Because Jesus gained the victory over Satan with His sacrificial death, God will cast “the devil that deceived [us]…into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever” (Rev. 20:10). “For ever and ever” is permanent. Satan received a permanent head wound. Like two boxers in the ring, Satan got knocked out by Jesus and he went down for the count. It’s a done deal. It’s just a matter of time. It’s like a very sloooooooow moooootiooooon drop—from our perspective. TIME VS ETERNITY can help you see His Story, history, from God’s perspective. We live in the grey area subject to time whereas God stands outside of it. He says, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending…which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty” (Rev. 1:8). Another name for God could be Eternity. In fact, in the past He was often referred to as Providence. The x on the ‘timeline’ is the ‘YOU ARE HERE’ spot. I think that’s about right because of the age of the earth according to the Bible (about 6000 years), and because of certain prophecies that have yet to be fulfilled before “the end” (Matt. 24:14; Rev. 20:3-7). But, that x could be closer to the ‘end’ of time. In any case, until the Vessels of Mercy, specifically those who are born again, start working together—unlike what we’re currently doing—we won’t know with certainty how this thing will play out. Everything they’re currently prophesying is full of biblical holes. God has Specifically, God was referring to the woman, Mary (that virgin) and her seed, her child, Jesus. As promised, Jesus ‘bruised Satan’s head’ by destroying his dreams of ruling planet earth forever and gaining the victory over Him and His people. All of those ideas in Satan’s head have been given a deadly blow by Jesus, the 45 purposed to have the Vessels of Mercy to work together humbly under His lordship (Eph. 5:21) so that it’s not until we do it that we’ll be able to discern with accuracy what He’s got planned. When we finally work together as one unit under His lordship, then the born again will be able to prophesy with accuracy about all future events. Just the same, our personal history ends when we drop dead so we all have much less time to make good use of this Tour of Duty. On top of that, it’s clear that we are heading into a pretty rough time of it all around the world. Still, the enemy of the elect has already lost—and that calls for a Yahoo! In God’s lingo, Hallelujah! YouTube The Enemy Has Been Defeated, Hillsong. The Seed’s Heel Bruised. The seed of the woman, Jesus, received a bruise to the heel by those who crucified Him, by men serving Satan, therefore, by Satan. Jesus said, “The ruler of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me” (John 14:30, YLT). Satan couldn’t get one over on Jesus since God created Satan (Ezek. 28:1517). In turn, the wound Satan gave Jesus was only to the heel, only temporary, whereas the wound Satan received to the head was permanent, is permanent. Since Jesus is God manifested in the flesh, He “gave himself [as] a ransom for all” (1 Tim. 2:6). And the reason God couldn’t ignore our sin of rebellion is because He is holy so that “the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ” (Rom. 6:23). Essentially, since God is holy, he can’t stand to have unholy sinners hanging around Him. So Jesus came to earth with a Mission, to give His life as payment for our sins in order that we, the elect, could again enter Paradise and live in close proximity to God as Adam and Eve had done. What God has done, His Story, is so that we—the elect Vessels of Mercy—could hang out together with Him forever (Rom. 9:22-23). Essentially, God, our Father, did what all good parents do. We tend to fix the messes our kids make—most often flipping the bill for it, the bulk of it, right? That’s what God did. His kids 46 made a huge mess, a mess we couldn’t fix, so He flipped the bill for it by paying the price for our sins with His own life. And like all good parents, God didn’t let us off the hook Scott-free. No. He is requiring us to make amends by demonstrating our love for Him and for people, since loving Him and loving others are His greatest commandments, what’s most important to Him. Again, He says: The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these (Mark 12:29-31). God, our Father, did what all good parents do. Only He did it bigger and better. WARNING: Israel refers to God’s people, “the Israel of God” (Gal. 6:16), which includes Jews and Christians and other Gentiles who become Bible believers, born again Christians—representatives from all the nations (Rom. 9:23). In contrast, today’s mess that calls itself Christian has bought into the lie that Israel still refers to the Jews, as if we’re supposed to be bending over backwards for these people who reject Jesus. Not so. But hear me right. Neither am I preaching anti-Semitism (Eph. 6:12). I’m preaching the Bible. And that Book says that we are not to hate anyone, but neither are we to ignore lies. “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother” (1 John 3:10). There is a huge satanic movement pushing for Israel, the nation, at the expense of others, and of truth. Don’t fall for it. There is only one line in the sand, the line between the Vessels of Mercy and Vessels of Wrath. You need to get on the right side of Sandbox—quickly. Understanding God’s Plan When buying gifts for friends who seemed to have everything, I found it hard since they already had everything. And the things they didn’t have—a great family—I couldn’t buy for them. That set-up made it easy for me to understand what God did for His elect. God, being God, already has everything—sort of. Everything He has, He created. If He wants it, He creates it. And, apparently, He wanted a Family. But not just any ol’ family—no dysfunctional family for the Creator of the Universe! Being that He’s holy, He will only have the best, a holy Family. God set about to create a Family made up of people who would love and respect Him and love and respect one another (John 13:35; Matt. 12:50). For example, nurturing the Christians in Ephesus, Paul told them how he was praying for them. He wrote: For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God (Eph. 3:14-19). God, who calls Himself Father, created a family—the Family of God—a loving Family. So while Paradise was lost to us due to Adam and Eve’s disrespect for God, since God set out to create a Family for Himself for eternity, He made them a promise and has kept that promise about the woman’s seed bruising Satan’s head. He did it with Jesus who calls Himself “the way” (John 14:6). Jesus is the way God kept His promise. God had commanded Adam not to eat of a certain tree because by eating of it they would “surely die” (Gen. 2:17). He meant spiritually and physically. Having disobeyed God, Adam and Eve died spiritually. Their disobedience to God gave their loving relationship with God a deadly blow since God threw them out of the Garden. Then He actually physically killed them. Even though the effect wasn’t immediate, God began the aging process so that they eventually died all shriveled up—as we all do, if we last that long. Having sinned against God bringing death upon humanity, God sent Jesus to pay the price for man’s sin of rebellion against Him so that the seed of the woman, God in human form, victoriously ‘swallowed up death’ for His Family: Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit in corruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep [he means die], but we shall all [born again] be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible [our current bodies] must put on incorruption [resurrected bodies], and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law (1 Cor. 15:50-56). The “law” refers to God’s requirements; the Bible. It is through the law—the Bible—that we know what sin is. Paul says, “I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, 47 except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet” (Rom. 7:7). Because of Jesus’ work on the Cross, one day all who have believed in Him—whether before, during, or after Jesus actually walked the earth, since the Old Testament points to Jesus—will be resurrected with an immortal body like the one Jesus was given (John 20:26). At that point we will begin to live forever in eternal Paradise in the kind of community we’ve all dreamt about—a righteous one. We, meaning the elect of God because the non-elect will never become born again, neither do they have that longing. While they might long for eternal life, it’s not in the same kind of setting that the Vessels of Mercy dream about. Their vision is more like what we see these days, sin gone rampant, Gee, what fun. On that note, a pretty good picture of Christianity and all the Vessels of Mercy is through the movie, One Day (2011). The Vessels of Mercy are played by the guy, Dexter, who’s a whore and a sorry excuse of a human being. Having raised him, his mother tells him that she knows he’ll eventually turn out to be a decent man, but right now she’s anything but proud of him. And his best friend, played by Anne Hathaway, tells him that she desperately loves him but she can’t stand who he’s become. Yup. So, after wasting most of his life, he marries the girl who’s always loved him but then she dies. So, as Mom knew, he would eventually turn out to be a decent man, but he wasted the bulk of his life being an idiot, ‘partying’ his life away thinking he was having such a great time—lying to himself that that’s what he was doing. So while today’s Christians would never view themselves as Dexter, once God enlightens them, they’ll see he’s exactly how they’ve been. And those who don’t even acknowledge that Jesus is God are that much more in the dark. Anyhow, while the Bible doesn’t give much detail about heaven, it does say what this community, this kingdom, will be like. “God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be 48 any more pain” (Rev. 21:3-4). That sounds so good I don’t really need any more details. That basically covers all of my needs, and then some. However, God has told us a bit more, enough that I am certain that all my dreams are covered as well—and then some. God says, “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think…Unto him be glory” (Eph. 3:20-21, my emphasis). Well, guess what, I can think up an AMAZING heaven, I’m pretty creative like that. And God has basically said that no matter how amazing we picture heaven in our minds, what He has in store for us is exceedingly abundantly better. I love this song about it. What God has done is so good we can’t really put it into words, but we can get a decent taste of it. YouTube Psalm 133 Chip Andrus and Friends. Most of us, elect, have dreamt of the ‘story book’ life: a loving community without heartache where everyone gets along, and where we have a story book family that lives in a storybook house, in a storybook setting with storybook pets who get no ticks and need no chemicals... And the reason we have this storybook desire is because God placed it in our hearts: He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart (Eccl. 3:11, KJV). The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart (Eccl. 3:11, YLT). God set the beautiful world—Paradise, His Kingdom—putting that knowledge in our hearts, in the hearts of the Vessels of Mercy, like a dormant seed that’s just waiting for the right season to be watered and have the light shine upon it so that it sprouts, grows, and then blooms…oh so pretty. Jesus conquered death so that the dead in Christ will be raised again with incorruptible bodies like the one Jesus had: Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed (John 20:24-29). There are many instances in the New Testament and in history since then where hundreds, even thousands at a time, have experienced the Lord’s living presence (Acts 2:41; 4:4). You need only do your Homework to know and believe the truth, and to know Him for yourself—here and now. And since God stands outside of time being that He’s from “everlasting to everlasting” (Ps. 90:2), and we live subject to time because of the Fall of Man, not all has been completed yet from our perspective. When we view things from His perspective—from where He’s standing—then we can see things with 20/20 vision. God has promised us that Satan will experience a “head wound” and be “cursed above all” “tormented day and night for ever.” But until we get further along in His Story and His elect start cooperating with Him, Satan remains the “ruler of this world” (John 12:31, YLT), which explains why so many horrendous things happen all the time. While Satan means these experiences to harm us, God allows them to draw us to Himself or closer to Him—at least that’s true for God’s elect (Rom. 9:22-23). A SATANIC DETOUR: God unleashes Satan on us for either one of two reasons. 1. So we know Him better even though we did nothing specifically wrong, or, 2. So we know Him better, since we hardened our heart to Him. And since it is God’s will for us to KNOW HIM BETTER, we should “submit…to God [and] Resist the devil, [so that] he will flee from [us]” (James 4:7). YouTube Identity 1: We Fell Tedashii. Messianic Prophecies Fulfilled Some Bibles have a section in the back listing Old Testament prophecies which were fulfilled by Jesus. I provide a few of them here to give everyone fresh eyes to appreciate God’s work on our behalf and to help build up your faith in Him since He’s had me couple them with YouTube resources. And considering all the lies everyone’s bought into, you really should take the time to soak in the Scriptures along with the YouTube resources because, for example, while having a chat with a professing Christian at the beach one day, the woman said, “The Lord…She’s so…” Hellooo? Jesus is a male name. While you can take liberties with God’s WORD, you’re only fooling yourself—and other fools (Gal. 6:7; Prov. 11:21). And if you don’t like that kind of music, the kind God has had me provide through YouTube, I remind you, it’s NOT ABOUT YOU (Col. 1:16). PROPHECY—Born Male: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isa. 9:6). FULFILLED IN JESUS: “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, 49 she was found with child of the Holy Ghost” (Matt. 1:18). YOUTUBE: For Unto Us a Child is Born London Symphony Orchestra. PROPHECY—From Judah's Tribe: “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be” (Gen. 49:10). FULFILLED IN JESUS: And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph, Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum...Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda, Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor, Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala, Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech, Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan, Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God (Luke 3:23-38). YOUTUBE: You're the Lion of Judah Robin Mark. 50 PROPHECY—Heir to David’s Throne: “Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this” (Isa. 9:7). FULFILLED IN JESUS: “He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end” (Luke 1:32-33). YOUTUBE: Cece Winans King of Kings. PROPHECY—Born of a Virgin: “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” (Isa. 7:14). FULFILLED IN JESUS: And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God (Luke 1:26-35). YOUTUBE: Breath of Heaven (Mary’s Song) Amy Grant. PROPHECY—Born in Bethlehem: “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting” (Micah 5:2). FULFILLED IN JESUS: he had diligently inquired of the wise men (Matt. 2:16). YOUTUBE: Cry of Ramah Colleen Fulmer. PROPHECY—A Prophet Would Prepare the Way: “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts” (Mal. 3:1). FULFILLED IN JESUS: Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn (Luke 2:4-7). When the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee (Luke 7:24-27). YOUTUBE: Mary Did You Know Kenny YOUTUBE: Prepare Ye the Way Michael Rogers and Wynonna Judd. PROPHECY—Children Killed on His Account: “Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not” (Jer. 31:15). FULFILLED IN JESUS: Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which W. Smith. PROPHECY—The Son of God: “I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee” (Ps. 2:7). FULFILLED IN JESUS: “And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matt. 3:17). YOUTUBE: Jesus, The Son of God Chris Tomlin & Christy Nockels. 51 PROPHECY—Minister in Galilee: Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined (Isa. 9:1-2). FULFILLED IN JESUS: Leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast…Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up (Matt. 4:13-16). YOUTUBE: The People that Walked in Darkness Have Messiah Handel. Seen a Great Light having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel” (Matt. 15:30-31). YOUTUBE: I Won’t Go Back William McDowell. PROPHECY—Rejected by His Own: “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not” (Isa. 53:3). FULFILLED IN JESUS: “He came unto his own, and his own received him not” (John 1:11). YOUTUBE: Above All Michael W. Smith. PROPHECY—Comes Humbly, yet Victoriously: “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass” (Zech. 9:9). FULFILLED IN JESUS: PROPHECY—The Prophet: “The LORD Joseph” (John 1:45). YOUTUBE: The Prophet’s Story: A Movie on Jesus. Uploaded by theprophetsstory. They brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him. And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest (Mark 11:7-10). PROPHECY—Sets Captives Free: “The YOUTUBE: Palm Sunday God’s Way. thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken” (Deut. 18:15). FULFILLED IN JESUS: “Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound” (Isa. 61:1). FULFILLED IN JESUS: “Great multitudes came unto him, 52 Uploaded by HyperPixelsMedia. PROPHECY—Sold Out for Cash: “They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver” (Zech. 11:12). Fulfilled in JESUS: “They covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver” (Matt. 26:15). YOUTUBE: Thirty Pieces of Silver Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper. PROPHECY—Silent to Accusations: “He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth” (Isa. 53:7). Fulfilled in JESUS: “Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marveled” (Mark 15:4-5). By His Wounds Mac Powell. YOUTUBE: PROPHECY—Smitten and Spat On: “I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting” (Isa.50:6). Fulfilled in JESUS: “Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands” (Matt. 26:67). YOUTUBE: Stricken, Smitten, Afflicted Fernando Ortega. and PROPHECY—Hated without Reason: “Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause” (Ps. 35:19). transgressors” (Isa. 53:12). Fulfilled in JESUS: “When they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots” (Luke 23:33-34). North Losing. YOUTUBE: Tenth Avenue PROPHECY—Pierced Through: “They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn” (Zech. 12:10). Fulfilled in JESUS: “One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side” (John 19:34). YOUTUBE: Were You There? Aaron Neville. PROPHECY—WOULD BE GIVEN VINEGAR AND GALL: “They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink” (Ps. 69:21). Fulfilled in JESUS: “They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink” (Matt. 27:34). YOUTUBE: The Invasion (Hero) Trip Fulfilled in JESUS: “If I had not done Lee. among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause” (John 15:24-25). PROPHECY—Rises Again: “For thou wilt YOUTUBE: Man of Sorrows! What a Name Master’s Chorale. PROPHECY—Crucified with sinners & Prays for His Enemies: “Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption” (Ps. 16:10). Fulfilled in JESUS: “Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils (Mark 16:9). YOUTUBE: He’s Alive David Phelps & Gaither Vocal Band. PROPHECY—Gives Gifts to Men: “Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them” (Ps. 68:18). Fulfilled in JESUS: “Having then gifts 53 differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness” (Rom. 12:6-8). YOUTUBE: Every Perfect Gift Casey Darnell. PROPHECY—Has an Eternal Throne: “In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever” (Dan. 2:44). Fulfilled in JESUS: “He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end” (Luke 1:33) YOUTUBE: Fernando Ortega. Lord of Eternity PROPHECY—Called a King: “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass” (Zech. 9:9). Fulfilled in JESUS: “And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS” (Matt. 27:37). “Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords” (1 Tim. 6:15). YOUTUBE: Jesus, King of Angels Fernando Ortega. PROPHECY—Forsaken by God: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?” (Ps. 22:1). Fulfilled in JESUS: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matt. 27:46). YOUTUBE: Joel Limpic Psalm 22 The Artist Bible. 54 God has provided hundreds of prophecies about His Messiah which were obviously fulfilled in Jesus so that we could discern that He actually is God, since the probability of hundreds of prophecies getting fulfilled in one man is EXTREMELY unlikely. There are many things Jesus is saying every single day to every elect individual, but most can’t hear Him for being hell bent on doing their will rather than God's will. As noted previously, John said, “There are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written” (John 21:25). I heard some unbeliever laugh about that, when he totally missed the point. What it means is that Jesus is constantly doing many amazing things so that if His people were paying attention there would be too much to write about EVERY SINGLE DAY for every single one of us! But since everyone is so dead asleep and hard hearted, God again says the following, which He has been bringing about: I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it (Jer. 6:17-19). God has every right to be angry with us. And while expressing His anger (Matt. 24:21), He has also been merciful (Matt. 24:22). YouTube Phil Vassar This is God. Uploaded by PhilVassarVEVO. Faith in God I have no problem believing in the God of the Bible, in great part, because I did my Homework. I seriously considered what the Bible says and what other religions say, as well as the world around me. However, before I was ‘sold on Jesus’ intellectually, I had cried out to Him for help (when I was 24), having done some of my Homework. Like most elect, I think, I’d been crying out to ‘God’ for help my whole life, this God I didn’t know. Having revealed Himself to me, briefly, when I was four, at that point I wanted to serve Him, but didn’t because my family didn’t. Later, reading the Bible, parts of it when I was 17, I’d wanted to follow Him but because professing Christians weren’t anything like the New Testament, I’d figured the whole thing was just a myth. I focused on people more than on God, when I should have focused more on God then on people (Mark 12:30-31). Then, suffering because of my poor judgment and lack of God in my life, because God knew the plan He had for me (Jer. 29:11), He taught me the fear of the Lord (Prov. 9:10). Then, giving me time to let the dust settle, in my early thirties I finally became what God died for His elect to be, a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ. And just as soon as I got serious, it’s as if He transported me into Boot Camp and then gave me my working orders, my personal commission—on the Frontline (Eph. 2:10). So while today’s non-Christians scoff at Christians for believing in God and not believing in evolution, they themselves believe in astrology, aliens, eastern religions, hocus pocus, Mother Nature, whatever. You guys make it up as you go! Earnestly considering all of that, including evolution, reveals that you have to believe these things by blind faith. In turn, all the Vessels of Mercy today have fallen deep into a ditch, because even professing believers don’t really believe in God, and those who are born again have ‘forgotten’ that He actually means everything He says—even though that’s what they preach. In order to get us out of the ditch, God has provided everything we need to logically discern that the Bible is the actual WORD of God, many resources, some of which I reference. Progressive Revelation. God has made it clear throughout the Bible that He enlightens us in steps, by degrees, there’s this progression. But since there’s so much information to take in, I’m plowing ahead and re-addressing issues repeatedly in the books and videos, with increasing depth. Lord willing, you’ll do your Homework as needed, not only reading the Bible and these books, but looking into the resources provided, along with whatever else God places on your path to help you know Him—repenting as needed. If you ignore your sins you won’t be further enlightened. In fact, God will go all out in letting you believe lies because you haven’t loved the truth, not only as presented in the Bible, but as He’s gone out of His way to have me re-present it to you with so many resources (1 Thess. 2:1012). There’s quite a trail behind me of people who have destroyed their lives for not taking God seriously. And they’re so delusional that they don’t even realize they’re the ones responsible and that they’re lives are destroyed—just like the idiot in the movie, One Day (2011). One day they’ll finally get it—and it will be too late, they’ll have wasted the bulk of their lives and the damage done will last them for eternity. As God says, “He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy” (Prov. 29:1). All Vessels of Mercy will get to heaven, but the consequences will amount to a huge loss, without remedy. He says: Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward (2 John 1:8). Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall 55 be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire (1 Cor. 3:11-15). HOMEWORK: We all come in with different experiences that work like baggage, like cannon balls shackled to our ankles, which make it harder for us to warm up to God. Take your list and turn it over to God. Just ask Him to release you from it: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you (1 Pet. 5:6-7). [God] hath anointed [Jesus] to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent [Him] to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound (Isa. 61:1). If the thoughts running through your head have something to do with your woes being greater, your trials being harder, your experiences being worse, etc., forget it! It’s a lie Satan is whispering in your ear knowing you love to fall for it. God became a man and suffered brutally for us, having committed no sin (Heb. 4:15). In contrast, we have all sinned throughout our lives, and have NOT suffered as He did. In fact, we have all caused many others to suffer, many times over. If you’re honest, you’ll admit it. Beyond that, whatever you’ve been through, God is able to heal it, to heal you. He allowed it to happen to you so that you would turn it over to Him for Him to heal you from it. If you understood the Bible and knew the Man, you’d have zero doubt about it whatsoever. In fact, you’d wonder why in the world you held onto your pain rather than turn it over to Him. The ONLY reason we do that is because our hearts really are deceitful (Jer. 17:9). We are so sick that we love to be the victim. But you don’t have to live that way! 56 5 God is a Three-Part Being It’s as if God is the author of a rather exiting novel called His Story. Only it’s not a novel, it’s a true story. And since He’s God and the best writer around, before ever writing down a thing, He thought up the whole storyline and created all of the characters. Being One who knows “the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done” (Isa. 46:10), God was able to coordinate our sins into His Story, history, and make it all work out well for His favorite characters, the elect—in the end. It adds up to this common Scripture which is so often misquoted and misconstrued, “All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Rom. 8:28). In His Story, all of God’s human characters start out as those who do not love Him. But since He chose a certain group to be the “good guys” (His elect, the Vessels of Mercy), in the end of His Story, when it’s all been said and done, we (the elect) will love Him—having become born again and obedient to the faith. Essentially, when we put on a show we do it for our friends and loved ones. In similar manner, God has been putting on a Show—His Story—for His friends and loved ones. But He’s primarily doing it for Himself because “all things were created by him, and for him” (Col. 1:16). So while in our stories, we, the actors, bow down to the audience, our family and friends, in His Story, God’s Show/Life, we, the actors, will bow down to the Author, the Playwright and Audience—God—because all the world is a stage, His. “As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me” (Rom. 14:11). But because we’re now at the part of His Story where nearly everyone is extremely deceived for being so extremely rebellious and/or self-absorbed, God is about to enlighten and/or further enlighten His elect, taking us to the climax of His Story. That’s what these books will do combined with what’s going on in the world. By having me (or those I reference) dissect it all—the Bible, history, the current state of the Church, and of the world—God will be separating the elect from the non-elect, the sheep from the goats, sheep being those who will love Him and goats being those who will never love Him and who are out to destroy His Church and world, allowed by God for His glory (Col. 1:16) and because of our outrageous rebellion (Gen. 3; 2 Thess. 2:10-12). Our Triune God God exists as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, also known as THE TRINITY. In His WORD, the Bible, God has informed us that “there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one” (1 John 5:78). In fact, all matter comes in three forms: solid, liquid and gas, so the concept of the Trinity shouldn’t be all that mindboggling. In any case, we can get a better handle on God’s triune nature if we consider H2O, an element we’re all familiar with as water, steam, and ice, each of which is useful in different ways— different yet the same. It helps because God’s three different parts also do different ‘jobs’ while being one and the same, God. In the same way that water, steam and ice equal H2O, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit equal God. They’re the same yet different. God, the Father—He oversees all and draws people to His Son, as Jesus says, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:44). God, the Son—Jesus gave His life in exchange for those the Father gave Him “that the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none” (John 18:9). And since “the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:14), Jesus is the Bible personified who set the example for His elect of how we can make the most of our Tour of Duty on planet earth. Even though Jesus came to earth 2000 years ago, because He is the WORD made flesh also written down for us as the Bible, it’s as if He still dwells among us. That’s one of the beauties of the written word, it brings characters to life. But there’s also another way He dwells among us. God, the Holy Spirit—Since Jesus says, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him” (John 6:44), before an elect soul becomes born again, God, the Father, has been drawing them to His Son by way of His WORD, the Bible, and by His Holy Spirit in the born again. He does it, draws us to Jesus, throughout the course of our lives. As far back as you can remember, the Father, through His Holy Spirit, has been drawing you to Jesus, if you’re elect. For me, it started when I was four years old—as far as I can recall. Finally having admitted the truth, that we’re a sinner in need of His saving grace, having surrendered to Him by changing some of our ways to line up with His WORD (something I did when I was 24), God enables the soul to become born again by sending His Spirit to live within them so that they can begin to hear Jesus’ voice with increasing clarity even though He’s not physically here today. But it’s slow going at first because it’s like when we were first born. As a newborn baby we didn’t understand what those around us were saying. (And what they were saying was that they loved us.) We had to grow up a bit and learn the language. In this case, the language is the WORD of God, the Bible. And Jesus, who is the WORD, says, “My sheep hear my voice” (John 57 10:27). Jesus says, “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep” (John 10:11). “I…know my sheep, and am known of mine” (John 10:4). Making these statements, Jesus was building on what He had already said to us through others, conveyed in the Old Testament as with the following psalms: Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations (Ps. 100). The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever (Ps. 23). While God was only present on earth 2000 years ago when Jesus walked the earth, He has allowed His people, His sheep, to know Him throughout history by way of His Holy Spirit— both before Jesus came to earth and after, but differently. And ever since He walked the earth up through the present day, for those who believe what the Bible says about Jesus and who place their faith in Him, obeying Him, the Holy Spirit enables us to not only hear His voice, but to see 58 God’s hand in the world around us fulfilling Jesus’ statement, “When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me” (John 15:26). The Comforter is another name for the Holy Spirit. When we’ve become born again, He allows us to experience Him—to hear His voice and see His hand in the world around us—in increasing measure; in the measure that we obey Him. The more time we spend in the Bible obediently submitting to God, the clearer we hear His voice and see His hand in the world around us and understand—from His perspective—what’s going on in the world as a whole and in our own ‘little world.’ Another important job the Holy Spirit has is to enable the born again believer to do God’s will, fulfilling Jesus’ prophecy that we would “receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you” (Acts 1:8). However, the most important job the Holy Spirit has is to “reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment” (John 16:8). What that means is that He convicts us. He’s the One who pricks our heart and mind making us feel guilty when we’re in the wrong, or when He wants us to do something, or when He’s showing us something wrong elsewhere, for instance. But in the same way that we can ignore people, we can ignore the Holy Spirit of God. They did it repeatedly in the Old and New Testament, and Christians have done it to the extreme since then, every year all the more— making it extremely difficult to know who is actually born again today. And the reason Christians, and most Vessels of Mercy, haven’t been able to hear clearly from God and get convicted is because the Holy Spirit has kept everyone deaf, dumb, and blind. “He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted” (John 12:40). God has hardened hearts for not loving the truth (2 Thess. 2:10-11). We harden our hearts first so that God then helps us go in the rebellious way we chose. It’s a theme of the Bible, of history. For example, God has told born again Christians, “Grieve not the holy Spirit of God” (Eph. 4:30). Yet, knowing this, it’s mostly what they have done. While Christians have spent the last 2000 years trying to “win the world for Christ,” what they should have been doing is obeying God and asking Him—praying—for Him to win the world for Christ since that’s a thematic teaching of the Bible—that the work He has called us to do, we do by obeying Him so that He brings it about for us. Had Christians been faithful to God, He would have done this already, enlightened all the Vessels of Mercy. I know it because when He was here, Jesus told the rebellious Jews, “How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” (Matt. 23:37). Two thousand years is more than enough time for Christians to have gotten it together. Yet, like the Jews, we have also not been willing to let Him gather us together. I know it from studying Christian history and from personal experience. However, even though we’ve been this unfaithful, we’re told that “if we believe not, yet he abideth faithful [because] he cannot deny himself” (2 Tim. 2:13). And thank God for that! Still, as He says, “God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Gal. 6:7). The Names of God. Since God has more than 300 names for Himself—such as Man of Sorrows (Isa. 53:3), Bridegroom (Matt. 9:15), The Way (John 14:6), for example—each part of the Trinity does much more than what I’ve summed up. The Bible tells us how God revealed Himself to people in different ways so that they called Him by one of His many names. For example, in the Old Testament when Abraham sent Hagar and their son away, coming to the end of herself in the desert and what she thought was the end of her life, God appeared to her (Gen. 16). In turn, “she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi” (Gen. 16:13-14). Beerlahairoi means ‘well of the living one who sees me.’ Lahai-roi is The One Who Sees Me. God is the One who sees all of us. As you become born again and start following Him, something you do as you obey Him—no blatant sin involved—you’ll get to know Him as the One who sees you. King David wrote this psalm about it, provided here in part: O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy 59 thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee (Ps. 139:1-18). It’s like the birds outside my window. I have half a dozen bird feeders along with a bird bath and fountain, a bird house, and crape myrtle trees protecting them—a little bird sanctuary. And because I placed a film to keep the heat down in the room, I can see out but they can’t see in. I’ve placed my nose on the glass and still wasn’t able to see in. But, I can see them very clearly, so can the cats. I’m like God with the angels and demons who can see everything they’re doing while they are oblivious to our presence. I also supply for them. And since I have two feeders right on the window, the cats will be right on top of them while they are totally oblivious. And that’s exactly how it is for most people—oblivious little birds who have all their needs met by God who they don’t even realize exists and is watching their every move, protecting them and letting his spiritual Vessels of Wrath cause them havoc as needed, for His glory (Isa. 45:7). As you walk with the Lord, meaning, as you live a life seeking God in His WORD, the Bible, obeying it/Him, you’ll get to know God in different ways. The more time you spend with Him, the better you’ll get to know Him—just as you do with anyone, getting to know them in many different ways. And the place to start with God, is by getting to know Him as The Way, The Truth, and The Life (John 14:6)—which these books will help you do, especially as you also immerse yourself in the Bible while taking detours to absorb the resources referenced. Essentially, getting to know God is similar to learning a foreign language. It takes a little time, but it’s not impossible nor does it take all that long, neither is it that hard. It’s not like studying nuclear physics. So again, thank God for that! For example, if you were to move to another part of the world knowing nothing of that language, within just a few months you’d know 60 quite a bit. Immersed in that culture and applying what you learn, your understanding of the language and culture continually and quickly improves. Eventually, you own it. It’s as if you become a native. That’s how God works as well because His language is the WORD of God, the Bible, and His culture is biblical Christianity. You learn to hear His voice as you familiarize yourself with it and apply what He’s taught you. Getting to know the Lord is not complicated. What’s complicated is the fact that His culture of Christianity Today is not biblical—not even close—so it’s like trying to learn a foreign language in the slums of the culture. Not ideal. Because of Christianity’s unfaithfulness to God, it’s much harder to learn the language today. They’ve dumbed it down so much to the point of idiocy, like the rest of American society. And since the churches, even the best ones, are outrageously idiotic, as I make clear in the series, you are much better off learning the Bible and getting to know the Lord outside of the churches. Going in without being born again and/or aware of the damage their doing, you’ll just get defiled by the slumlords (2 Tim. 4:3-4), and making a slum out of your own estate. And the reason you do go into the slums (if/and/or when the Lord leads) is to help people. Think soup kitchen. Jesus says, “Lovest thou me? [If the answer is yes, He says]…Feed my sheep” (John 21:17). God’s Spirit Works Like a UN Interpreter. The Holy Spirit works in the born again believer in the same way that an interpreter works between two people who speak a different language. Unlike a translator who takes a written document and exchanges it from one language to another, an interpreter most often stands next to two people listening to both translating their words in real time. As each of them speak, the interpreter immediately states the information to the other party relaying it in the language the other person can understand. In that way, the two who wouldn’t otherwise be able to communicate can fully understand each other right away. Becoming a born again Christian enables God’s interpreter, the Holy Spirit, to ‘stand’ between you and God for the rest of your life so that you can clearly and easily understand what God is saying—and doing. The difference is that He doesn’t stand next to you but moves in and lives inside of you. “Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye [can get to] know him…and [He can]…be in you” (John 14:17). Since Jesus was speaking to His disciples who had spent years with Him, they knew Him. The way for us to get to know Him today is through the Bible, God’s WORD. Jesus says, “All things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you” (John 15:15). Jesus has made all things that His Father has told Him to tell us, known to us through the Bible and by way of His Holy Spirit. By obeying His Father to lay down His life for the elect, Jesus enabled the Father to send the Holy Spirit to live inside of the faithful believer and act as His interpreter. One of the reasons most people think the Bible is confusing or doesn’t make sense, is because they don’t have God’s interpreter helping them understand it. It’s like they’re trying to read German when all they know is English. They’re able to make some of it out since English is a Germanic language, but not much—definitely not enough. On top of that there’s the 2000 year old mess Christians have made of Christianity, confusing the mess out of everyone today. As I said, it’s the slums. So let’s say I speak French and someone Russian is trying to communicate with me. Since I don’t understand Russian and they don’t understand French, we have an interpreter who speaks both languages working between us making it possible for us to communicate. But, if French is not my native language and I only barely know it, it doesn’t matter how great an interpreter we have because I still won’t be able to understand what’s being spoken to me. Likewise, while we, as a born again Christian, have the Holy Spirit as God’s interpreter, it is our job to get to know the language well, and that language is the WORD of God, the Bible. If we don’t know it well, which most of today’s born again Christians don’t (never mind the ones who profess to be Christian and aren’t), we won’t fully understand what’s being spoken to us, even at all. Sin works the same way. It clogs our ears because God says, “Your iniquities have separated between you and your God” (Isa. 59:2). The better we know the Bible as a born again believer in right relationship with God—no unconfessed sin getting in the way—the clearer we hear God’s voice through the Holy Spirit of God by way of His WORD, the Bible, the better we can follow the Lord, which is God’s will for us since Jesus repeatedly says, “Follow Me” (Matt. 4:19, 8:22, 16:24, 19:21, Luke 5:27, 18:22, John 21:19, etc.). It is through the Holy Spirit that we hear God speaking to us, a work enabled by His Son, Jesus, who was so loving that He “lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). And if the Holy Spirit convicts us that we have sinned, whether born again or not yet born again, all we have to do is “confess our sins [to God because] he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). You don’t have to beat yourself up over it. You just need to confess it to Him, and to whomever you’ve offended if possible, and make it right. You have to stop sinning (John 8:11). Further in this book and in the next one I spend quite a bit of time going over, again, how exactly to become born again and what it means. Like the young child learning the language, even before learning how to read and write they spend much time listening to it spoken, especially with books being read to them, the same books. So no matter where you are right now spiritually, just relax and listen. For example, before called to homeschool, God had moved us to Indianapolis, aka Nowhere, USA. Stuck at home with two preschoolers for years, I’d get so many books from the library they often asked me if I had a daycare. No, just my two. And while the girls loved for me to read to them, they also loved to have the same books read to them repeatedly, so 61 much so that for a while I hid Curious George. I couldn’t take it anymore! Part of the reason they liked to have the same thing read repeatedly was because they were familiar with the words, they were learning the language, not just hearing the story. They were connecting the dots with the words on the page and the pictures, and real life. And they learned so well that both scored at the 5th grade reading level by kindergarten on the national achievement tests. And it’s the same with the Bible. Hearing it and reading it over and over again, you’ll learn the language and learn it well. You’ll become Curious George (Matt. 7:7) and the yellow Man will be your Best Friend (John 15:15; Rev. 22:16). The Holy Spirit—Our Teacher I’ve realized over the years that I tend to grab/use whatever is at my disposal to help the person before me understand the concept at hand. I use word-pictures, real pictures, idiomatic expressions, facial expression, props…you name it. Whatever’s on hand, I tend to use, and since we’re often sitting at a dining room or restaurant table, I’ve often use the salt and pepper shakers to explain the concept of election, as I already did. I’ve also realized that what I do is essentially how Jesus taught the first disciples. Walking by the sea, hailing His new recruits as they cast their nets into the sea, He said, “Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men” (Mark 1:17). Another time walking through the fields, He said, “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow…if God so clothe the grass of the field…shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? (Matt. 6:28-30). Jesus used His surroundings to clearly get His point across. And that’s still true of how God works today though His Spirit, which is why I do it. Since everything is at God’s disposal, the Holy Spirit of God uses everything to teach and guide us, or to help us teach others. However, He does it by coupling it with His WORD so it’s as if we “hear a word behind [us], saying, This is the way, walk 62 ye in it, when [w]e turn to the right hand, and when [w]e turn to the left” (Isa. 30:21). Therefore, if—as a born again believer— we’re only listening for God in the Bible or during the sermons at church or in Christian circles, without spending much time reading the Bible or with sin blocking the way, as most Christians are doing, we’ve sold Him and ourselves short because He is always speaking to us. While He says, “I stand at the door, and knock” (Rev. 3:20), considering that for 2000 years born again Christians have refused to fully obey Him, He’s now standing at the door BANGING! On the other hand, if we think we’re hearing from God yet what we’re hearing contradicts the Bible, as so many professing Christians are doing, we’re not hearing from God. Rather, our lack of devotion to Him and disrespect for Him has moved Him to mislead us, using Satan to do it. If we continually disrespect God, He fools us since we thought we could fool Him. He gives us a taste of our own medicine since we disrespected Him. Again, this is a theme of the Bible, especially in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, God says: Because they received not the love of the truth…for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie (2 Thess. 2:10-11). As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient (Rom. 1:28). God does this to us—gives us over to a strong delusion for not loving the truth—whether we are non-elect or elect (lost or born again). For the non-elect it’s a permanent delusion, whereas for the elect it’s only temporary, but it can last most of our lives. I’ll explain it repeatedly. The Bible, combined with God’s Spirit, and a pure heart—an earnest desire to know and please God—is how we know that we are indeed hearing from God and not from Satan, another spirit God uses, one who is “seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet. 5:8), “a liar” and “murderer” (John 8:44). Having chosen the elect, God gave us the right to choose who we would serve on this earth, either Jesus or Satan. Those are the only two choices because serving ourselves is serving Satan. That’s why Jesus says, “He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth” (Luke 11:23). If you’re not a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ, you are a servant of Satan—as most are today. So while everyone chooses to ignore and dishonor God, they then complain—often blaming God—when bad stuff happens accusing God of being unfair and hateful. Not quite right. Where He Leads, It’s Time We Followed Let’s say I was in a garage parking lot and there was a 7.5 earthquake. I’ve been hurt, but alive. I need help getting through the darkness and rubble with my wounds. Jesus, by way of His Holy Spirit, speaks to me words of comfort, encouragement, and direction, symbolically taking my hand and leading me out to a safe zone, providing whatever I need along the way including healing AS HE SEES FIT. The better I know the Bible and the more time I’ve been spending with Him, reading it daily, obeying Him—His Spirit within me—the more clearly I hear His voice and experience His presence. In other words, the more He tends to see fit (overall). That’s why the early Christians described in the New Testament, especially in Acts, experienced such power from God that they were able to heal others and even raise the dead—they walked by faith in obedience to God. Today, most of the “miracles” performed by professing Christians are fake and Christianity as a whole is merely spouting words. It’s because of our disobedience. Further, Jesus, through His Holy Spirit, is with the born again believer in a private and confidential relationship, so confidential that no one else can see Him or see what He has revealed to this one follower, to you, unless and until He decides to reveals it to them (Matt. 13:15-17). Like Cage in Edge of Tomorrow (2014), trying to explain to others what Jesus has revealed to you “is going to sound crazy.” But just like Cage said, “Your very lives depend on it.” One of the many things God is doing through me is showing His elect, especially the born again, how they have NOT been listening to Him because of their extremely low level of faith in Him. For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are [my] eyes, for they see: and [my] ears, for they hear (Matt. 13:15-16). But since God is so good to us even though we don’t deserve it—and we sure don’t—He also helps others in the way I described in the earthquake (to one degree or another), others who don’t spend time with Him or who only spend a little time with Him. “He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matt. 5:45). Essentially, what most haven’t grasped— since they don’t do it—is that the more time we spend with God as an obedient born again Christian, the more sensitive we become to His voice and presence—to the point that He becomes visible and audible, in a way. Unlike today’s Church leaders, God doesn’t just have me ‘talking,’ but demonstrating His truth with power. As Paul said, “My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power” (1 Cor. 2:4). But in order for you to recognize His power, you have to become born again and cultivate your relationship with Him. And to do that you first have to learn His language. Unlike those in Christianity Today I use no big words and don’t focus on what others have said but on God’s WORD, what God says in the Bible, which is so simple a child can understand 63 it. What keeps people ‘blind’ is pride, and pride is sin, it’s the mother of all sins and what landed Satan in eternal hell. So while most people seem to think pride is a good thing, here are a few verses revealing God’s perspective on pride: The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee (Obad. 1:3). For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble (Mal. 4:1). God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble (James 4:6). For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world (1 John 2:16) [and] whosoever…will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God (James 4:4). For a Vessel of Mercy to even begin to have eyes that see and ears that hear what God is saying, in order that we can follow Him, we have to let go of our pride. And while that’s hard enough for sinners to do under normal circumstances, we live in a society that encourages us from birth to be proud, just look at the bumper stickers boasting I’m a proud… (fill in the blank.) Every single day we get bombarded with messages about believing in ourselves and how much we deserve such and such. We are all super proud Americans. That’s understandable for the Vessels of Wrath, but the rest really need to get it together: Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me (Rev. 3:1720). 6 God Gave Us a Light Bulb Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21). It’s as if God placed a three-way light bulb within the minds/attics of His elect, in those who belong to His Family—the Vessels of Mercy. It’s a three-way light bulb with a dimmer between each level. Basically, the elect will be interested in getting to know Jesus at some point in their lives, whereas those who aren’t elect, won’t ever be interested in Him. While the nonelect may put on a show in order to deceive others (knowingly or unknowingly), they will never genuinely be interested in God, in His kingdom, in righteousness, or in His people. They can’t have that interest because the kingdom of God is not “within them.” Rather than being children of God, they are children of “the devil, and the lusts of [their] father [they] will do” (John 8:44). Their “father” is Satan, so they’ll do all the stuff that lines up with his desires: lie, cheat, steal, torture, kill…everything defined as dark and wicked in the Bible. That’s all they’ll ever know how to do. Sure, many of them hold noble positions in this life, or don’t do the darker satanic stuff like murder, but behind the scenes, they are not people of noble character. We see it in the news all the time, some university professor, for example, got arrested for pedophilia. So while the elect can do all of these things as well, and many do, we have this light bulb in our ‘attic,’ a light God placed in there and over which He is in control of turning on and turning on brighter since “it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy” (Rom. 9:16). And when that light comes on, we immediately get convicted about the greater sins we’ve committed and turn from them, abhoring ourselves for having done them. However, while God is the One who is responsible for turning the light bulb on and turning up the power, we are the ones who 64 enable Him to do this. The Bible says, “It is written in the prophets…they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me” (John 6:45). We decide if we want to learn from the Father by reading His Book, the Bible. Reading it, if we’re earnest about what we’re reading, we’ll learn from God and come to Jesus since that’s who the Bible is all about—the WORD who was made flesh (John 1:14). We’ll come to Him if we appreciate what He’s done for us. If we do, we’ll start obeying Him, in turn, God will send His Spirit to live inside of us (John 14:23). And it’s necessary to have God’s Spirit within because “the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them” (1 Cor. 2:14). Therefore, humility is what moves the elect in their “natural” state to seek God who then turns on the light. And since “There is none righteous, no, not one” (Rom. 3:10), even that humility is placed in us by God. As he says, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father” (James 1:17). We can avoid pride—avoid higher doses of it—by remembering that every good thought we have comes from God. Straying from that, even just a little, opens wide the door for pride and massive failure, as seen with Christianity Today. The Biggest Fail Ever! However, God also says, “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’” (Isa. 65:1). For nearly two decades I’ve obeyed the Lord to reach out to people who were not seeking Him and who have all turned out to be totally not interested in Him—mostly professing Christians, many in Church leadership. And recently the Lord had me reach out to an environmental activist who said something like, ‘Where are the spiritual leaders? Why aren’t they speaking up?...I know the Scriptures.’ If anybody actually “knew the Scriptures” we would have been on our faces before God—as a group—way before the 9/11 attacks which took place YEARS AGO. Obviously, God is revealing Himself to those who did not ask for Him, to people who have not sought Him, to a nation that has not called on Him. Praise God! The Light’s First Level When God first turns on the three-way light bulb that’s sitting in the attic of our house, we suddenly see that we’re sinners in need of His saving grace, so we become born again. Because, “there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), and “except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Believing in Jesus, obeying Him out of gratitude for what He’s done for us (John 14:23), we become born again as God comes to live inside of us by way of His Holy Spirit so that we can then “see the kingdom of God.” Meaning, there comes a time for the Vessels of Mercy when we can finally see the difference between the life we’ve been living and the righteous life God has intended for us. We begin to grasp how sinful we have been. We finally ‘get it.’ The light has been turned on! Hallelujah! God “hath delivered us from the power of darkness [Satan’s realm], and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son” (Col. 1:13), who says, “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8:12, my emphasis). But since Christianity Today has focused on “accepting Jesus” and “getting saved” rather than on following Him, most of today’s born again Christians only have the light turned on to the first level. That’s it. While there are many professing Christians, most of them are not actually Christian since they never obeyed Jesus enough that God came to live inside of them (John 14:23). And while some are actually born again, the majority of them are not followers of Jesus. 65 And not being a follower of Jesus most often leads to darkness since that was God’s rebuke to the Church as stated in the New Testament. He says: I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent (Rev. 2:4-5). Doing their own thing and not being followers of Jesus Christ, God threatens to remove the light, and without the light we’re left in utter darkness. And since Jesus is “the light of the world” (John 8:12), we’re left without Jesus, so it’s not likely that we were actually born again in the first place because a born again soul cannot lose their salvation. God says: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. 8:35-39, my emphasis). However, a born again Christian can be prodigal as demonstrated with the following account: A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and 66 took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found (Luke 15:11-32). Christianity Today is like the son that took the money and ran—and She has yet to come back. But, She’s also like the brat who stayed home with his father, unloving and proud. Both sons lacked love for the father and were living in a form of darkness, yet differently. Both sons represent Christians and both sons were unfaithful/unloving towards their father and their brother, representing others. because they had God’s seal, His stamp of approval, and they had it because they had “been with Jesus.” They had spent time with Him. Since we don’t know if we’re elect or not, the way to make sure that we’ve actually been sealed with the Holy Spirit of God and don’t have Him turn the light off on us is by continually studying the Bible and obeying God so that He cranks up the dimmer and finally flips the switch to the second level of light—and then the third, cranking up that dimmer as well. Likewise, it’s obvious that God was not pleased with what Christians were doing in the early Church. Out of seven churches, God rebuked all but two, Philadelphia and Smyrna (Rev. 2 & 3). And this was shortly after Jesus was here, just 60 years or so later and “some [were] already turned aside after Satan” (1 Tim. 5:15), stressing the need to quickly move up to the next level. When we don’t follow Christ, we risk living in a pig pen (look around) having the light turned off. And while it hasn’t been fully turned off in our world, it has been severely dimmed. In contrast, those who think they’re born again and aren’t will be found as such when “the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is” (1 Cor. 3:13). Those who fail God’s fiery test, are the ones Jesus spoke of when He said, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Matt. 7:22-23). They thought they were headed for heaven, prophesied in His name, did many wonderful works in His name, and yet when the time came/comes, they’ll be cast out. These people thought they were Christian. It looked to them and to others as if they were serving God. Yet He “never knew” them. Meaning, they were never born again. They weren’t elect. They were Vessels of Wrath. And that’s true of many professing Protestants today, many Protestant leaders. God also says that “the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his” (2 Tim. 2:19). And “He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true” (John 3:33). God seals the born again with His Spirit. It’s like a seal a company puts on their stuff so that everyone can know who’s responsible for this great piece of merchandise. It’s what happened with the first disciples of Christ, “When [others] saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and [uneducated] men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus” (Acts 4:13). The people took notice and marveled at them How this can happen is because “Satan…is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore…his ministers [are] also transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works” (2 Cor. 11:14-15). But it’s also because when humans refuse to obey God, He hands us over to a very powerful delusion, whether we’re a Vessel of Mercy or of Wrath. “Because they received not the love of the truth…for this cause God…send[s us a]…strong delusion…[so that we] believe a lie” (2 Thess. 2:10-11). And America is living—has been living—in the age of deceit. If you don’t know that, you need to watch the documentaries on my YouTube channel under the playlists, 67 New World Order & Counter-Reformation and Time to Wake Up! It gets complicated because of the prophetic nature of the WORD of God. For instance, this passage in 2 Thessalonians is primarily speaking of the non-elect, but it is also speaking of the rebellious/prodigal born again. As noted, the non-elect get damned for good but the prodigal born gain only get damned for a season, as we’re all suffering right now, to one degree or another, just as the born again suffered during WWII in concentration camps or elsewhere. There’s eternal damnation and also a temporary damning curse, a curse we were born into (Gen. 3) and remain under for not worshiping God as required (John 4:23-24; John 14:6; 2 Thess. 2:10-11). Most professing Christians (whether they really are Christian or not) have deceived themselves because they love their worldly living. They’re so deceived (especially the more conservative ones in Church leadership) that they don’t realize they’re dishonoring God while they’re living off the fat of the land even though He’s clearly taught us throughout the Bible not to live worldly lives AND it’s what they preach. Today’s Church is a royal mess. Pastors constantly preach about it, even while prodigal. That’s the essence of hypocrisy and the problem with lying: you believe your own lies, become blind to your lies and to other people’s lies, and can’t tell the difference between the truth and the lies anymore, or between good and bad, right and wrong. So God says, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isa. 5:20). The Test of Faith. God has told us how to make sure that we really are born again, a test every professing Christian should know since it’s in the New Testament—the easy reading of the Bible. God says, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2 Cor. 13:5). God’s Spirit is inside those who genuinely believe the Bible—since they’ve obeyed Him 68 (John 14:23). So we “examine ourselves” by comparing our lives to what the Bible says. Are we living—today—in a way which measures up, or not? This is not hard to understand or do, because all that’s required is honesty. And if you don’t know the Bible well enough to know if you’re right with God or not, you’re not! In fact, God made it super easy for us by giving us the following passage. He says: Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed (James 1:22-25). Over the years, countless numbers of professing Christians have told me early in the relationship how much I bless them and how eager they are for me to open up the Bible to them. Yet, while they admit to some of the things they’re doing and which the Church is doing that goes against God’s clear commands, none of them have changed a thing, not having applied anything they’ve been so “blessed” about having learned. NONE of them! So it’s just as God says, as if they looked in the mirror, saw how dirty their face was, and went to work anyhow without having washed up at all, completely forgetting that they have spaghetti sauce all over their face! These types of Christians represent the best available in Christianity Today. That’s been my experience as I’ve followed the Lord through His Church and Christian groups since the 1990s, and what I’ve met my whole life. Yet Christianity Today blames the lost, those who don’t even know that Jesus is God and that the Bible is God’s WORD, for not taking them and God seriously. But would anyone even consider taking the President seriously if he gave an address with spaghetti sauce all over his face? The fact is that you wouldn’t take anyone seriously looking like that. The Light’s Third Level The Light’s Second Level He does based on our genuine love for Him and for others, being that these are His two greatest commandments (Mark 12:28-31), He finally enables us to understand how we, personally, fit within His Plan for humanity historically and eternally. We finally understand our personal calling and ministry, something given to every elect soul, to every member of His Family. “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (Eph. 2:10). The more we walk in God’s ordained path for our lives, the more God reveals so that we come to fully understand not only God’s purpose for our lives but our position in His Family for eternity. For those who become doers of the WORD and not hearers only, God is pleased to flip the switch and crank up the light. We then immediately realize that storing treasure in heaven is more important than doing it here. God says: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Matt. 6:19-21). Rather than going through the motions of playing Church as Christianity Today does, as if you can fool God—you can’t (Gal. 6:7)—the sincere follower of Jesus Christ will seek after God fervently (Titus 2:14), sifting everything that comes in through the sieve of the Bible— especially when it’s coming in from professing Christians—keeping only that which lines up with the Bible having tested the spirits (1 John 4:1). The genuine born again Christian will store up treasure in heaven by becoming a follower of Jesus Christ, giving only to the causes Jesus personally leads them to give, whether that is financially or with time and energy. However Jesus LEADS, whenever He leads, wherever He leads—they will follow Him as opposed to simply doing stuff that Pastor or other “Christians” suggest they do, or which they feel like doing. Today’s hypocritical Christians seem to think that giving to anything that calls itself Christian is God’s will and God’s leading. Giving or participating, they’ve earned their Brownie Points with God, so they think. Then they go about the rest of their business leaving God on the shelf. Yet MOST of what’s passing itself off as Christian today isn’t biblical. You really do have to engage your brain in order for God to favor you with more light (2 Cor. 10:5). When God turns on the light to full power, which God’s Family is like the Army, only we were drafted since He chose us (John 15:16). Once in, we can choose to stay at the lowly level we came in or move up the ranks, Jesus being our Commander in Chief. And the level we attain here on earth while on our Tour of Duty is closely tied to the level we’ll have for the rest of forever—something God is revealing through my ministry, revealed to those willing to get right with Him. But even now, you should be starting to see the light of how foolish Christians have been. All they’ve focused on, for the most part, is becoming born again. Not even. They’ve focused on “getting saved,” so most of them are not born again. It’s not until the light has been turned on to the third level, that the born again believer begins to live life in the full measure of the joy that is granted us in Christ. Until we have been fully enlightened by God, we cannot live this life as He meant for us to live it. Jesus says, “I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly” (John 10:10, YLT). The NIV for this verse says that we may have life “to the full” (John 10:10, NIV). Yet Christianity Today lives as if we’re slaves. In fact, we are slaves to the “ruler of this world” (John 12:31, YLT), to Satan, because until 69 we submit to God—as a group—we’re all stuck under Satan’s grip since he’s the ruler of this world in which we live. So even if we’re not submitted to Satan as an individual for being born again and having the light turned on full blast, God has purposed for His body—a group of people—to submit to Him (Eph. 4:11-16). That’s why we shouldn’t be divided. He says, “There should be no schism [i.e., division] in the body; but…the members should have the same care one for another. [Because if] one member suffer, all the members suffer with it” (1 Cor. 12:25-26). The literal translation, as well as the NIV, uses the easier to understand word division for schism. God has created the body to be one in Christ, not a body that has been mutilated and cut up into tens of thousands of pieces by Jeffrey Dahmer. But since that’s what we have today, no one can live up to the full potential in Christ. It’s not until the body lives up to God’s calling as a group, that we, as individuals, will experience all He has for us on earth, “life to the full,” so full that life on earth will resemble heaven on earth. That is what Jesus told the disciples to pray for and He wasn’t lying because “God…cannot lie” (Titus 1:2). Jesus said, “After this manner therefore pray ye…Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven (Matt. 6:910, my emphasis). It is part of God’s Plan to make earth represent heaven. That’s why He’s called His disciples, born again Christians, to be united as one, because when we finally learn to get along and not fight among ourselves, the Church will mature and become what He called us to be (Eph. 4:11-16), a well-oiled Love Machine. It’s only as The Love Machine that Christianity will positively influence the rest of the Vessels of Mercy. And not only them, even the Vessels of Wrath will be positively affected by the Love of the body of Christ so that earth will become a peaceful place representative of heaven—for a season—as God heals the land/the earth—just as He promised: If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from 70 their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land (2 Chron. 7:14). The following movies gives us a clue of how the Vessels of Wrath and the most hard-hearted Vessels of Mercy can turn to God, and it was inspired by actual events. Supremacy (2014). When Christianity Today transforms Herself into The Love Machine, Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer will get answered by the Father, “That they all may be one…[so] that the world may believe that thou hast sent me” (John 17:21). When born again Christians behave like Christians, like Christ, as the first Christians did, the rest of those whom God has determined belong to His Family—the currently lost elect Vessels of Mercy—will get interested in God and start studying the Bible. In turn, they’ll also get enlightened by God to the truth of who Jesus is and what He’s done for us, as Jesus says, “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me” (John 6:37) and “no man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him” (John 6:44). One of the reasons the Father is not drawing many to Jesus today, hardly anyone, is because Christianity Today’s “Christians” are not just hypocrites, they’re quite hateful—testimony I provide in the series. And the worst among them are Church leaders—and I’m talking about the most conservative, the ones who preach the Bible better. Since Christians have not been interested in Christ, in getting right with Him, I discern God will work around most of them and enlighten currently lost Vessels of Mercy through my ministry—to star with. I discern that’s a big part of the reason He’s had me make the video presentations. The sinner’s guard immediately goes up when confronted by a person explaining the Bible to them. However, with a video, while having the same stuff explained, that person, while in your face, is not actually in your face, giving you the freedom to relax, which in turn should enable the connections to be made in your brain. So after having called me to make the video presentations, the Lord impressed me to have business cards and POSTCARDS made to use as tracks, to mostly send to currently lost souls, those who would otherwise not listen, but who will probably tune in to the video just out of curiosity. Many will tune in primarily because they want to see Christians blamed since they have so much hatred for them—and God will use it for His glory and their good (Rom. 8:28). Go God. Enlightened & Darkened by Degrees If we’re obedient in one thing, God enlightens us more, and so on. He says, “Because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over [more]” (Luke 19:17). Likewise, if we’re unfaithful in a little, He does the opposite by letting us believe lies for not having loved the truth (2 Thess. 2:10-11; Ps. 81:11-12). God has a limit to how much He’ll reach out to us, so that if we keep ignoring Him He hands the hardhearted lost Vessel of Mercy along with the professing or prodigal Christian further into Satan’s grip or back over to it, since we were all born into his ‘hand’ being that he’s the ruler of this world (John 12:31) and we were all born as sinners (Gen. 3; Rom. 5:12). For example, in the New Testament, Paul speaks of two men, “Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme” (1 Tim. 1:20). Elsewhere he says of a sinning professing believer, “Deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord” (1 Cor. 5:5). And God says, “I change not” (Mal. 3:6). In other words, He has not changed His ways. Even if we are born again, if we refuse to repent when necessary, God hands us over to Satan. Welcome to the USA a la George Orwell—a Police State. In contrast, if we seek after God and obey Him, He increasingly enlightens and empowers us. As long as we keep seeking Him, repenting as needed, doing what Jesus calls us to do, “bring[ing] forth…fruits worthy of repentance” (Luke 3:8), God keeps enlightening us all the more. As noted, it’s like the three way light bulb has a dimmer on each level. So even after He turns the light on to each level, there are varying degrees within that level, and God turns the dimmer up or down based on our actions. Really, it’s based on our attitude (Matt. 5:8). I once explained how God turns up the light like this. We’d been sitting in the living room which was well lit, but as I spoke of how God turns on more of the lights (Luke 3:8), I went around the room giving examples of what He’d revealed to me while turning on one light after another. In the end, we were amazed how much brighter the room had become, even though it had been well lit—or so we’d thought. Like the characters in the movie, Edge of Tomorrow (2014), we’re in the biggest battle of history. If we lose, all is lost (but we don’t lose, as a group). Anyhow, every time Cage died, he moved forward with more information, more insight, more enlightened. It’s the same for the Vessels of Mercy once we’ve become born again and take God seriously. The more we die to self, the more enlightened we become: We…are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh (2 Cor. 4:11). I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who 71 loved me, and gave himself for me (Gal. 2:20). 18:4). Christianity, on the other hand, came out and then went back in. To die to self means to make choices that are not our first choice but God’s choice. Rather than going into Door #2, we enter Door #1—and take the heat, suck it up, or whatever’s needed. We “fight the good fight” (1 Tim. 6:12) as a faithful warrior for Christ and not as a coward, “for God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7). By “her” God means the fake church, whatever religion or false doctrine is available, and there are so many. The real Church, the one made up of born again Christians, is viewed by God as His Bride. He says, “thy Maker is thine husband” (Isa. 54:5). Throughout the Old Testament God refers to His people, at that time Jews, as a harlot, a whore. God says, for instance, “Thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord” (Jer. 3:1). With Her tens of thousands of denominations today, She’s an outrageous whore! But Jesus is still calling Her back. On the other hand, if we don’t seek after God and/or don’t obey Him, He increasingly lets us get darkened. And He says, “If thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matt. 6:23). That darkness is great because, having been handed over to Satan, either from birth or as a prodigal Christian, Satan further lies to you, lies you believe because God gave you over to a strong delusion for not having loved the truth (2 Thess. 2:10-11). So while Jesus enlightens and uses anyone who is willing to submit to Him, Satan darkens and uses anyone willing to submit to him—all under the authority of God the Father. Because spiritual reality trumps the material one, material entities such as humans, money, weapons, positions, and nature, for example, get used as pawns by the spiritual forces in the heavenly realms (Eph. 6:12). To be used by the Forces of Good rather than by the Forces of Evil, you have to submit to God by submitting to Jesus AT ALL TIMES, “casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity EVERY THOUGHT to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor. 10:5, my emphasis). This is why Jesus says, “He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth” (Luke 11:23). If you’re not serving Jesus you are serving Satan because we were all born into Satan’s side since Adam and Eve, our first ancestors, rebelled against God (Rom. 5:12). We have to leave Satan’s turf and get on Jesus’ turf—and stay there. God says, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins…that ye receive not of her plagues” (Rev. 72 In fact, Her lewd behavior is the reason why “the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; [because] thou hadst a whore's forehead, [and] thou refusedst to be ashamed” (Jer. 3:3). The latter rain is God’s ultimate Plan for the work He will do through His Church on earth, what He told us to pray for, His will to be done “in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10), a healed land (2 Chron. 7:14). As increasing numbers of elect start walking in obedience to God, the easier it will get for all of the elect to live up to God’s requirements because, not only will more be enlightened and fully enlightened, but because “a threefold cord is not quickly broken” (Eccl. 4:12). Simply put, there’s strength in numbers. The Comatose Bride of Christ The born again make up the Lord’s body on earth. God says, “As the body is one, and hath many members…so also is Christ…ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular” (1 Cor. 12:12 &27). God is saying that the Church represents Jesus’ resurrected body on earth, and that different elect souls represent different parts of the body. For example, I’m a mouth and my husband is a backbone (though he doesn’t even realize this!)—and it should be obvious that I’m a mouth since I can’t shut about Him. Start asking Him what part you are as soon as you become born again. And never forget that Jesus is our Head because He has all the brains—not you, not any one of us. God says, “He is the head of the body, the church” (Col. 1:18). Since He’s God Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, He knows much better what needs doing and how to do it. So while God’s Church is referred to as His body, it’s also referred to as His Girl, His Bride (to be), one wo has repeatedly played the harlot like Hosea’s wife, Gomer. “The LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD” (Hos.1:2). But God has also said this about Her, about His Beloved Fiancée: Christ…love[s] the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (Eph. 5:25-27). Yet God again says this about His Girl: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee (Rev. 3:1-3). even the “best” Christian leaders this world has. Some of the men God has had me address, repeatedly, represent the brightest Christian minds in the world, as with Alistair Begg, Sunder Krishnan, Peter Bocchino, Stuart McAllister, Ravi Zacharias, for example. These men are hardly dummies! Yet they’re comatose dead asleep! If you don’t know who they are look them up. They’re each scholars of the Bible knowing it (and everything else) a million times better than I do! Their problem is that they didn’t put it all into practice. They didn’t fully take God seriously so that they’ve been handed over to a powerful delusion (2 Thess. 2:10-11)— like all the rest. What outrageously wasted potential! Through these books, God is revealing His amazing grace and mercy to the elect worldwide. While we “have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton… nourish[ing]…our hearts, as in a day of slaughter” (James 5:5), not willing to let His Girl burn in bed, Jesus is coming in through the flames, picking Her up, and taking Her safely out of the fire as the Building—the man-made institution we call Church (churches)—collapses around Him (Jude 1:2225). Ya just gotta love Him! (John 8:24). The Lord’s Bride is currently “dead” as in comatose, temporarily brain dead since Jesus is not Her Head. He says, “Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” (Luke 6:46). If She were dead as in R.I.P., God wouldn’t be telling Her to “wake up” in the NIV and to “watch” and “remember” in the KJV. Think about it. If there was a fire in the room where you lay in a coma, no matter how close to your bed that fire raged, you’d still lay there oblivious. And that’s what’s happened to 73 7 God Chose All Elect to Be Born Again God is using many resources, Christian and otherwise, to help His elect get to know Him and understand what He’s saying. He can do that because He’s in control of it all (Col. 1:16). He even uses things that are 100% works of Satan, since He created Satan and controls him as well. As made clear through the book of Job, Satan cannot do anything unless God first gives him permission to do it (Job 1). God also revealed this through the demons He allowed to go into the pigs in the New Testament (Matt. 8:29-34). Satan is like God’s German Shepherd, since God is the Law. And Jesus sics him on whoever He needs to in order to accomplish His will (Isa. 46:10) and fulfill His purposes (Rom. 9:22-23). He has the right because He’s God Almighty. The Faith of a Child “Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein” (Mark 10:15). God requires preschooler faith because those younger than five are the only ones who CLING to their father, BELIEVE what he tells them, and OBEY him. Since He’s bigger than they are they FEAR him, and they also fear those around them. Preschoolers know they’re vulnerable so they stick close to the one who can protect them, trusting him to do so. However, as we age we become increasingly self-assured and phony. Everyone beyond preschool is adept at ‘wearing a different face’ depending on who we’re with and/or where we’re at. And the older we get, if not walking in the Spirit, the more adept at it we get. In fact, our society has gotten so into it that even the “best” Christians think God can’t tell they’re lying. But God says, “He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?” (Ps. 94:9). Just because He hasn’t come down on them/you yet, doesn’t mean His judgment isn’t coming—and it is! That dog is on your butt! 74 Our Father had me write these books to help His children make a sound assessment about your selves, not only to make you see your guilt, but to produce in you godly sorrow since that gives birth to salvation (becoming born again). It also gives birth to carefulness, clearing of yourselves, indignation, fear, vehement desire, zeal, and revenge, as we read: Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! (2 Cor. 7:10-11). That revenge is against Satan who’s lied to you, and God has let him lie to you because you’ve been a liar (Ps. 18:26). While Jesus says, “I have called you friends” (John 15:15), we DON’T become besties if we’re being phony—and He’s not the One full o’ baloney. YouTube What If We Were Real Mandisa. God wants to see genuine gratitude like the kind a preschooler shows her Daddy. And why shouldn’t He expect and require that from us after all He’s done for us? Is there anything you have that He didn’t give you? To help you answer that question, consider the following: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning (James 1:17). For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? (1 Cor. 4:7). Clearly, there is nothing we have, including our brains, which we did not receive from God. Therefore, He expects us, the elect, to walk humbly before Him so that we can live forever with Him and the rest of His perfected Family in eternal bliss, gratefully acknowledging His Deity. Instead of hating Him, using Him, giving Him lip-service, or asking Him to pour out His wrath on us, since that’s exactly what we do each and every time we say G—damn it, we should be bending over backwards in gratitude to do whatever He asks of us, as the first disciples did. Becoming Born Again. One of the non-Christian resources the Lord is using is the following movie based on the life of Alvin C. York, Sergeant York (1941). While not entirely accurate, as are all things Hollywood, it’s helpful because it has a great scene of becoming born again. It also reveals the very unbiblical times we’re living in because Hollywood, of all places, handled it so much more biblically than Christianity Today does. YouTube Give Me That Old Time Religion Gary Cooper. Today’s Christian leaders have everyone close their eyes and say this prayer. It’s a tradition of men which began with Charles Finney in the 1830’s and which starts newbies off on very bad footing since God has told us to “be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord” (2 Tim. 1:8). Pastors are saying, ‘It’s OK to be secretive and ashamed of Christ at church, but when evangelizing, STAND FIRM!’ What?! In any case, you don’t have to be with anyone or at a church to become born again. You could just be thinking to yourself, knowing in your heart that it makes sense, and just confess to God the truth that you are a sinner, as He says, “There is none righteous, no, not one (Rom. 3:10), “for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). You confess the truth and ask Him to forgive you and change you. God is listening, “For there is not a word in [your] tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether” (Ps. 139:4). Have you ever lied? Just once in your life? Yup, you’re a sinner. WELCOME TO THE CLUB! And the only way to overcome our sin is through God’s Man, Jesus. YouTube G.O.S.P.E.L Propaganda (Full Video). Another movie presenting the Gospel message well, even though it’s only a side dish of the movie, is Amistad (1997). In a really cool way, the character learns from the Father by way of the Holy Spirit and then evangelizes. Believing God, you’ll understand the Bible from His perspective and, therefore, what’s going on in the world around you and what’s presented in this series. When you become born again you start changing as God’s Spirit in you works with you. God says, “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Phil 2:12-13). The more work you do to get to know Him by studying the Bible, without trying to hide any sin from Him, as if you could (you can’t), the faster He changes you and the greater He uses you. He touches on that in the Parable of the Sower, saying, “Other [seed] fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred” (Mark 4:8). The seed that bore fruit had “good ground,” ground that had been prepared by studying the Bible with sincerity of heart, teachable and open to all God says. The better we prepare our ground, the more fruit we’ll bear. If we want to make the most of our Tour of Duty on earth, we’ll do what He has told us to do. Instead, Christians have taken on the common notion expressed in most religions, that the more work you do, the better you’re ‘in’ with God, which runs contrary to the Bible: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Eph. 2:9). Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my 75 sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her (Luke 10:38-42). According to the Bible, the more time you spend with God, on His turf, the better you’re 'in' with Him because you’ll be able to hear His voice and understand what He’s saying, so that you can follow Him. And without being able to hear His voice, there’s NO WAY to follow Him. YouTube Born Again Third Day. You’ll be pretty surprised when I tell you about how I’ve lived my life in order to be like Mary while living in the climax of the apostate Church which has fallen away from the truth (2 Thess. 2:3-4). But because of it, God has blessed me greatly with His presence, enough to write these books to turn the world right side up again—and that blessing will spill over into eternity because that’s how God rewards us for our faithfulness (Matt. 6:19-20). So no matter what we have to endure on this earth in order to follow Him, it will be worth it because eternity will last much longer than the total sum of years we have on earth. At most we have 120 which is less than a drop in the bucket compared with the endlessness of forever. As we’ve been informed, by walking in submission to God we get a “better resurrection” (Heb. 11:35). And God is revealing how much better that can be through my testimony. Contrary to the Bible, sinners hold beliefs which are convenient because the truth is harder to swallow, we love ease, and we love our sins: This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may 76 be made manifest, that they are wrought in God (John 3:19-21). The fact is that we love being our own god! But since we’re not God, becoming born again and letting God lord over us is the better way to go. YouTube Born Again Live. Uploaded by Gaither VEVO. Filling Up an Empty Tank Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21). His kingdom was placed within the elect because God “predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will” (Eph. 1:11). God’s Family is made up of “elect [souls] according to the foreknowledge of God the Father” (1 Pet. 1:2). He placed “this treasure in earthen vessels” (2 Cor. 4:7). “This treasure” refers to the gift of salvation placed in elect human beings who God refers to as “earthern vessels,” containers made of clay, pottery. More specifically, He’s talking about the Vessels of Mercy (Rom. 9:22-23). To Him we’re like pots made of clay because “the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground” (Gen. 2:7), and dust is dirt, which is also clay from which you make pottery—earthen vessels. However, while earthen vessels—clay pots— were something the society of Jesus’ day was very familiar with, to us pottery is more of an artwork, something we’re not as familiar with especially in America where we’re so into plastic and Styrofoam. So for Americans who love to grill, the biblical doctrine of election can also be explained like this. It’s as if God placed an empty propane tank inside of each elect individual. When a Vessel of Mercy learns from the Bible and puts God’s WORD into practice, God comes in and fills up our empty tank with His gas, His Holy Spirit (John 14:23)—powerful stuff that can start a fire, which is exactly what God is working on, a fire of revival (Matt. 3:11). And since “God is love” (1 John 4:8), that’s the kind of gas it is, not the nasty fumes Christianity Today has been discharging. It’s like the difference between Channel No. 5 and your old dog’s gas. And unlike the elect, non-elect have no such ‘propane tank’ within. Therefore, they never feel the emptiness elect souls do because there is no empty tank within them to feel empty. They are complete without God whereas the elect are not. That’s why some people can do horrendous things and never feel bad about it whatsoever. Think psychopath. Think Hitler. He didn’t take his own life because he was remorseful. He took it because he was an insane coward who didn’t know that by killing himself he was pressing the FAST FORWARD button to hell. Now he knows. As for the elect, rather than go to Home Depot, we need to go to the Bible, our Heavenly Home Depot, to get our supplies. God comes in by way of His Holy Spirit and lives inside of us if we obey His WORD, the Bible. The Bible—and only the Bible—is where we get the gas that fills up our empty tank, making it our heavenly Home Depot. The Bible tell us that “all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Tim. 3:16-17). The watered down translation actually states the end of this passage better. It says “so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:17, NIV). We don’t need to go shopping anywhere else but our heavenly Home Depot—the Bible—to get everything we need to live this life successfully. Further, shopping is a repeated exercise so that besides the initial filling of the Tank, we have to get continual refills. God says, “Be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord” (Eph. 5:18-20). Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs (truly spiritual ones), come from the Bible. God also says, “Stir up the gift of God, which is in thee” (2 Tim. 1:6). So, if you put it all together, it’s like there’s this Gas to which we add other chemicals made up of this Gas, and then we shake it up and stand back because there’s an explosion coming. That ‘explosion’ is called reformation. It’s like a metamorphosis, a total mind and body transformation, a work done by the Holy Spirit of God within us with our cooperation. Because, having experienced His chemical reaction, God tells us to do the following: Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind…put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption (Eph. 4:22-30). God doesn’t just wave His ‘magic wand’ and poof we’re suddenly like Christ. No. He says, “My beloved, as ye have always obeyed [which is what caused the ‘chemical reaction’], not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence [meaning, even when the novelty of Christ has worn off], work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil. 2:12). In fact, if you do that, the novelty, the newness, of Christ will never wear off. Instead, He’ll always keep you intrigued and wanting more, much more. In contrast, Christianity Today’s Christians “get saved” but they don’t change hardly at all, if at all, when they’re supposed to become like Christ because “whoever claims to live in him 77 must live as Jesus did” (1 John 2:6). It’s another pretty good clue that they’re not really Christian. While they might be elect, they’re not likely born again when that’s what matters since that’s the very first step to becoming like Jesus. Today’s Christians are like an explosion that either didn’t or couldn’t explode—either way, a dud, as God says, “Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead” (Rev. 3:1). She looks sort of like a Christian. She says She’s a Christian…but…She’s a royal dud. So, in the same way that you might frequently go to Home Depot over the years to get the supplies you need to successfully care for your home, the born again need to repeatedly go to the Bible, our heavenly Home Depot, to get all we need to successfully live this life. It’s like how often you’d go to Home Depot if you were doing a total makeover of your house—a DIY project. You’d be at Home Depot all that time! Because it’s not just about surviving this Tour of Duty, it’s about getting Home with honors: In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you…shewing all good fidelity; that [you] may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things (Titus 2:7-10). It’s about preparing for the real life, heaven, by storing treasure in heaven which you do by honoring Jesus, our Commander in Chief, while on this Tour of Duty. Therefore, we “study to shew [our]self approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15). Getting to Know the Holy Spirit. Ratatouille (2007) reveals how God’s Spirit works through the one who acknowledges his total inadequacy then learns how to live in submission to God, mastering the walk. The chef in the movie hasn’t a clue as to what he’s doing while the rat knows better than anyone what to do and how to do it. Therefore, the chef—who 78 was actually a dish washer (Matt. 26:23)— represents the lost elect who acknowledges his inadequacy and desperate need for help so that he becomes born again when he befriends the rat who represents God. And the reason God is represented by a rat is because of this Scripture pastors ignore. God says, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things” (Isa. 45:7). Job knew God was, at times, a Rat with a capital R, since this is what God allowed Satan to do to Job even though Job was “perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil” (Job 1:1): The LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath…But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD (Job 1:6-12). Allowed by God, Satan did quite a bit of damage when let loose on poor Job, as we read: A messenger [said to Job]…they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up [everything]…and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans [came]…and I only am escaped…While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating…And, behold, there came a great wind…and I only am escaped (Job 1:14-19). And that was just the beginning! Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life. So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown (Job 2:1-7). However, in the end, God blessed and restored Job for his faithfulness (Job 42:10-17), even though he had also tripped up (Job 4042:1-6). And a huge lesson for us from Job is that while “his wife [said] unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die…[Job] said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” (Job 2:9-10). Do we react to the Rat as Job did? Watch almost any modern Christian movie and you see a “Christian” brat angry at God and throwing a temper tantrum because something went wrong, totally lacking faith. A good one is Raising Izzie (2012) because they give you a clear picture of today’s “Christians” from many angels, including that of the producers as they have the woman get spoken to by the dead which is super unbiblical (1 Sam. 28). While she didn’t conjure up the dead, this is NOT how God works. As is typical, they’ve taken the truth and smothered it with Satan’s lies. But it’s really more like Satan has taken his lies and sugarcoated them with the truth, giving us a clear picture of how Christianity Today functions. For example, in the whole movie, representing many days in the lives of some professing Christians, the actual seeking of God and submission to His WORD is miniscule—just a couple of scenes—representing reality. Christians today mostly seek God only when desperate. The rest of the time, they ignore Him or “worship” Him just as they please and quite contrary to what he requires (John 4:24). The whole thing is so sappy and ‘out there’ that no Vessel of Mercy with a functioning brain would be drawn to Christ by it. So another “good” one is God’s Not Dead (2014). In contrast, in Ratatouille (2007), the chef learns to let the rat/God control him from the top of his head so that in the end they work very well together. And, the rat, who represent God, gets the credit he’s due. Likewise, the born again learn to walk in submission to God by “bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor. 10:5). If we really want to know the Man who is the Truth (John 14:6), Jesus, we let God say what He wants to say to us and do what He wants to do with us and through us, like the chef did the rat in the movie. We don’t behave like the cold food critic who represents Church leadership (Rev. 3:9), or like the really mean guy who represents Satan, or like the gross rats who represent all of the elect. And if you don’t think humans are rats, do your Homework. 79 HOMEWORK: Who fights wars? Who molests children? Who looks down on the homeless? Who has adulterous affairs? Who are the hypocrites? Who puts Hitler types in power? Who turns a blind eye to God and swallows Satan’s lies whole? YouTube The Kinsey Syndrome (2009). Ratatouille (2007) is also prophetic. The only question is how hard we’ll make it on our ratty selves and each other. In other words, how long will it take us to get cleaned up and refined—like in the movie. God says: Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow (Isa. 1:16-17). 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 (Zech. 13:9). YouTube Change My Heart Oh God by Eddie Espinosa. 8 God Told Us Christians Would Fall Away Comparing what the Bible says with what Christianity Today is doing, and what Christians have been doing for hundreds of years, we learn that we are currently living in the period the Bible refers to as the “falling away,” also known as the Great Apostasy. God warned us, saying, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first” (2 Thess. 2:3). “That day” refers to the epoch Jesus prayed for in His High Priestly Prayer, that born again Christians would be united as one under His lordship so “that the world may believe that thou [the Father] hast sent me” (John 17:21). Jesus prayed for Christians to be united in love in the same way He was united with His Father, since “God is love” (1 John 4:8). He prayed for His followers to also be united in love so that the rest of the world would see what a no-brainer it is that the Father sent Him to pay the price for our sins. This is why He wants Christians to be “submitting…ourselves one to another in the fear of God” (Eph. 5:21). It’s so that He can use us to make earth look more like heaven than what we’ve done to it. And it’s a pretty safe bet that the Father will answer His Son’s prayers since He was “well pleased” with Him (Matt. 3:17). While some like John MacArthur have preached that God already answered Jesus’ High Priestly prayer, this cannot be the case. Even a young child can tell that forty-thousand different things are not one. The reason an intelligent Bible scholar like John MacArthur can’t tell, is because he turned a blind eye to many truths of the Bible—as have all Bible scholars—and in doing so, he has not truly loved the truth so that God has handed him, along with the rest of them, over to a strong delusion that he should believe a lie (2 Thess. 2:10-11). 80 In fact, Christianity Today looks like the first pie of the CHRISTIAN PIE CHARTS when, according to the Bible, we should look like Christianity at the Last Trump by now having had 2000 years to mature in Christ. Moreover, there are several things wrong with the Christianity Today pie: There are non-elect in the Christianity Today pie, when there shouldn’t be; There is a huge Lost Harvest (elect who don’t yet know the Lord, people who are found inside and outside of the churches); and, There are no Perfect Frontline Soldiers in Christianity Today when that is God’s requirement, having repeatedly told us to “be perfect” (Deut. 18:3; 1 Kings 8:61; 2 Cor. 13:11; Phil. 3:15; James 1:4). And there can’t be any Perfect Frontline Soldiers when the body of Christ as a whole is so totally out of sync with the Bible. Because it is as God says, “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it” (1 Cor. 12:26). Until Church leadership gets right with God, no one can fully live up to their calling in Christ because every born again soul that is alive at the time—today—is dependent on and depended upon the rest of the body. To become perfect, as required by God, born again Christians have to be in submission to God and one another (Eph. 5:21), essentially, fulfilling God’s greatest commandments (Mark 12:29-31). The “last trump” refers to the time when Jesus comes back for His Church, when the purpose for His Church on earth will have been fulfilled. God says: Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep [i.e., die], but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality (1 Cor. 15:51-53). According to the Bible, unlike the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye, which is what many (most) pastors preach, no elect souls will get left behind when the Lord gathers up His Church. The belief that the Lord will return and rapture His Church half-way through the tribulation period is one which was introduced by a Jesuit as part of the counter-reformation. It was a move of Satan. It is a lie from Satan. 81 What Christians have historically done can be visualized with two apple pies. Jesus said He came to make the Church look like the apple pie that just came out of the oven so that Christians could honestly tell the rest, “Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him” (Ps. 34:8). Instead, Christians have made their own apple pie and cut it up into some 40 thousand slices, making mush, and they keep trying to push it off on others as if it’s ‘delicious’ when it’s actually gross! And since Christianity is God’s means by which to bless the world rather than gag them to death, it’s clear that the world is living in the curses and plagues God described in the Bible: For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen (Rev. 22:18-20). Christianity has added to and taken from the Bible, covered in detail further in the series. If the majority of professing Christians of the past 2000 years had actually believed the Bible, if they had really believed God wholeheartedly, they wouldn’t have divided God’s Church into smithereens in the first place, nor would they be OK with denominations today, as they are—and they are. With the exception of a very few—so few I’ve only spoken to one or two in my whole life (and I’m 51)— Christianity Today is oblivious to this huge sin we’ve committed before God and which has led to a mountain range of other sins and landed the planet at the brink of disaster. While anyone can say they’re a Christian, the way to know if this is actually true of them is by comparing their life to the Christian 82 Manual—the Bible. If it lines up with the Bible’s requirements, then it’s true. But if it doesn’t, then they’re either not a Christian or in rebellion against God, which is nearly as good as being a Vessel of Wrath since prodigals act like antichrists. And since Christianity Today is divided by the tens of thousands, Christianity as a whole is prodigal and in rebellion against God. While Christianity has had 2000 years to mature in Christ so that God’s Church should have long ago become the well-oiled Love Machine God describes in the New Testament, one in Christ as Jesus prayed for and died for Her to be (Eph. 4:11-16), instead, Christianity Today is extremely immature, mostly not in Christ, the furthest thing from being one, nor representative of the love Jesus called Christians to be bound by, saying, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another” (John 13:35). The whole reason Christianity is divided by the tens of thousands is because of our lack of love for God, for His WORD, and for others, not only for each other in Christ, but for everyone! You may not yet see that (Wow! You’re blind!), but the series will make it clear—provided you get right with God. Until at least some key Church leaders repent and get right with God, not one Vessel of Mercy can fully live up to their calling in Christ because the leaders affect the whole group, either for good or bad. And since they’ve so far refused to even acknowledge a single sin against God, they’re affecting the whole quite badly. In other words, until some key Church leaders obey the teachings of the Bible, the rest of the body of Christ suffers. And if the body of Christ isn’t living up to Her calling, then the rest of the world suffers because God has called Christians to be “the light of the world” (Matt. 5:14). In fact, there’s a Christian song and video that covers it well—what’s happened. YouTube Casting Crowns City on a Hill Animated. Uploaded by Casting Crowns. It’s not as if I’m saying something born again Christians don’t know—that’s the really frustrating thing about it. They are aware of the problems, of our many sins. They just refuse to repent, so far, because they’re blind to the consequences they are creating. Having struggled with Christians on this since the late 1990s, it’s as if everyone has been waiting on someone else to repent first, like the following poem you see in the office posted by the coffee pot: This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done. —Author Unknown What’s happening with Christianity Today is something like what happened with the Nazis. Most people that could have done something, didn’t do anything, so the whole thing got way out of control. Again, the following Scripture is key, “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it” (1 Cor. 12:26). Clearly, every part of the body of Christ is suffering in Christianity Today so that every elect soul is suffering, at the very least, living way below God’s purpose for our lives— living way below our potential. On the other hand, if one part of the body is honored, every part rejoices with it, so says the Lord. The fact is that God has honored me, as revealed through the books He’s had me write. But so far no Christian in leadership has been willing to acknowledge this, unwilling because it makes them look bad and because they’re blinded by their sins. Basically, they “love darkness rather than light, because their deeds [a]re evil” (John 3:19). Rather than being humble, Christianity Today’s leaders are extremely cold and proud, resembling Jewish leadership of Jesus’ day—evil. However, because God is gracious, “He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities” (Ps. 103:10). Instead, He has been using His prodigal remnant (along with the rest) to put together resources (books, films, songs, etc.) that He is now using to show everyone the Big Picture. He’s using the stuff everyone’s put together— including Satan’s non-elect servants—to lead us out of the mess we’ve historically made. When born again Church leaders repent of what they’ve done and acknowledge the honor God has given me, the rest of the body will rejoice because all born again Church leadership will repent and start preaching the whole truth as spelled out in the Bible and no longer abuse God’s people as they currently do, because it’s through these books and videos that God is enlightening His Church to the consequences of Her many sins. Correction, it’s through them that God is motivating His people to finally react to the sins of the Church, sins of which Christians have been aware. God is again doing what He’s done many times before, especially as revealed in the Old Testament. And everyone (elect) will rejoice because obeying God as a group will turn things around not only for the Church but for the world. Instead of earth looking and feeling more like hell, she’ll start looking and feeling more like heaven on earth. Currently divided by the tens of thousands, Christianity Today, by Her very existence, makes it clear that we’re in the “falling away” period as prophesied in the following Scriptures, and have been in it for hundreds of years. God said: 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; 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 (2 Thess. 2:3-4). 83 Rather than heed God’s warning(s), born again Christians have been deceived so that Satan, through non-elect and prodigal born again men (and women), sits as God in the churches, as if he represents God. Sure, the Pope does this, but so do Protestant pastors, prophets, and evangelists. Like Jesus, Satan works through humans. Moreover, it is through these books that God will reveal that “man of sin”—Satan’s servants—making the way for the following things to happen, prophecies being fulfilled: 1. The day (the era) that God’s Church matures and becomes God’s welloiled Love Machine (Eph. 4:11-16); 2. The day (the era) that the Lord’s prayer for His Church of becoming one (John 17:21) is answered so that all lost elect see what a no-brainer it is that God sent Jesus to die for their sins; and, 3. The day that the Lord returns for His Church. While many of today’s Christians seem to be aware that the Church is a huge mess, they yet ignore the many sins they personally, and the Church as a whole, are steeped in, along with the calling God has on His Church which She hasn’t lived up to—as if they’re blind to God’s will for the Church. And that’s just it, it’s not ‘as if.’ They are blind because that’s what it means to be “dead” (Rev. 3:1), you can no longer see. Christianity Today has been blinded by God because rather than heed God’s warning to not let anyone deceive us (2 Thess. 2:3), unfaithful born again Christians have deceived themselves for hundreds of years by not being doers of the WORD and hearers only, or mostly (James 1:22), repeating the cycle repeatedly, so that instead of being united as one, Christianity Today is outrageously divided! Rather than being followers of Christ, Christians became followers of men, men who live in a planet which has Satan as its ruler (John 12:31, 14:30, and 16:11, YLT). And since Satan is the ruler of this world, and the Church is worldly, Satan is also 84 obviously sitting as ruler of the Church—a very worldly Church because men who don’t follow Jesus Christ follow the antichrist, Satan. That’s why Jesus said, “He that is not with me is against me; he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad” (Matt. 12:30). If we’re not with Jesus, following Him, we’re with Satan, following him. Christians started doing this with one denomination, then two, then pretty soon twenty-two, and now, forty thousand or more! Rather than being united as one in love, Christianity Today is divided by the tens of thousands in hatred for being followers of the biggest hater of all, Satan—one hardly anybody even really believes exists! Or else they think he’s good! How deceived is that?! And while everyone, especially Christians, will want to have a heated debate about how loving they are, the books the Lord has had me write reveal how utterly hateful EVERYONE is including born again Christians and especially born again Christian leaders. Our society has gotten so far from God that it has no problem depicting Satan in movies and books for children. This society is so deceived that we let our children play with the most dangerous being in existence! It’s worse than that, we buy them tickets to see movies, and games to play, and books to read, and clothes to wear which glorify Satan. Having strayed from God for hundreds of years Christians have thoroughly fulfilled what Jesus said and scattered abroad (Matt. 12:30). Dividing the one truth, Christianity, into forty thousand or more religions that believe slightly different things, is scattering abroad. Christians have enabled Satan to be thought of as someone who is not real so that the unbelieving push their children into Satan’s stronger grip. And the children of Bible believers also end up in his stronger grip because children can readily see hypocrisy for what it is—a lie. Having lying “Christian” parents and Church leaders makes our children also not believe that Jesus and Satan are real and/or that it’s OK to disregard God’s WORD and be a hypocrite. It’s the reason Jesus has such a problem with hypocrisy (Matt. 23). This is what God warned us about throughout the Bible, that if we would refuse to honor His ways, He would blind us to our sins and hand us further over to Satan so that we would have a representation of hell on earth. That’s the theme of the Old Testament, what God repeatedly did to the Jews. We’re told: The house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me…Wherefore thus saith the LORD…I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel…they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword (Jer. 5:11-17). Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them (Ezek. 20:13). In the New Testament God says: Deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord (1 Cor. 5:5). Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme (1 Tim. 1:20). This is exactly what He’s done with the United States and world. And it will continue to get worse until His people repent. Blinded by sin, born again Christian leaders today look at those who don’t believe Jesus is God and blame them for ruining society, when born again Christian leaders are the ones most at fault because they were the ones granted the Spirit of God within, His rules to obey, placed in leadership, and entrusted with the management of His Church—but like Adam and Eve, they blew it. However, it began with our ancestors, the born again Christians that came before us who consistently and drastically disobeyed God. Still, it’s not as if today’s Church leaders don’t know how to read. If only they would learn how to be honest. In God’s words: Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it (Isa. 1:16-20). When key pastors with decent platforms repent, men like John MacArthur, Alistair Begg, and those from RZIM, the fire of revival will very quickly spread worldwide—considering our technology—transforming the hellacious mess we’ve made into one that’s more representative of God’s heavenly kingdom. However, I discern elect pastors won’t turn to God until many of God’s elect become born again and prodigal born again repent and start praying for these pastors and other Church leaders to repent—since that’s what we were supposed to be doing in the first place (1 Tim. 2:1-2). Church leaders have been allowed to get extremely proud—as I’ll be revealing—and the only way to melt that pride is by pleading with God to do it. Therefore, as a decent group of elect get right with God and plead with God to do His Thing, these men will finally repent. Prayed for and held accountable in a loving manner AS GOD LEADS, elect Church leaders will publicly repent for their personal sins as well as for the sins of the Church. Those who aren’t elect, won’t. Still, revival and reformation will officially begin as they finally start using the 85 platforms God gave the elect for His glory as they were supposed to be doing in the first place. A History of Anti Christianity in Spite of God’s Blessings Sixty years or so after Jesus walked the earth God had John (Jesus’ best friend) see a vision and call the churches to repent (Rev. 2 & 3). So it didn’t take Christians long at all to fall away from the truth. Then, having gotten outrageously off Track by the Middle Ages, God totally reformed the Church, a period known as the Great Reformation or Protestant Reformation, whereby Protestants separated from the original group, Catholics, because they didn’t represent the teachings of the Bible—and still don’t. However, Protestants—those who protested the teachings of the Catholic church— immediately disobeyed God again themselves by becoming followers of men rather than of Christ. They became Lutherans who followed Martin Luther, and Mennonites who followed Menno Simmons, for example, picking and choosing what to believe and obey out of the Bible doing what God told us not to do having clearly stated that we weren’t to add to or take away from the Bible (Rev. 22:18-19), and that “there may be no division in the body” (1 Cor. 12:25, YLT), and, that we are not to idolize men but Christ (John 5:44). Moreover, God had clearly rebuked the first Christians for disobeying Him this way as we see in the following passage. At the time, the Church—the assembly of professing believers— met in Christian homes. To them Paul wrote the following: It hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? (1 Cor. 1:11-3). 86 Paul’s questions were rhetorical. The answers so obvious that he didn’t expect an answer from the Christians, his brethren. Neither did he need to further explain his position. But since our generation is so far from God, I’ll spell it out. Paul was saying that some Christians were saying they were followers of one man or another—as professing Christians do today with denominations. Yet they were called by God to be followers of Jesus, His Christ. God the Father expects His people for whom His Son gave His life to follow His Son since He is God who came in the flesh and now communicates with us through His Spirit by way of His WORD, the Bible. God expects us to honor and follow Him, not other sinners. Makes sense. Therefore, if we choose to follow ‘blind guides,’ God promised we would fall into a ditch (Matt. 15:14)—and so we have, repeatedly. Christians fell with the Catholic church, and then with denominations which led us to WWI, then WWII, and now nearing WWIII. These are pretty big ditches. And since it’s all so serious yet everyone so antichrist, uninformed, unbelieving, misinformed, disbelieving, and proud, I’m breaking down the time periods since Jesus was here up to now, summing things up since there are excellent documentaries and docudramas which can quickly bring you up to speed—listed in the Resources section in back and provided on my YouTube channel. Early Church. The early Church was blessed in that they or others they knew had actually seen the resurrected Lord, as we read: That he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles (1 Cor. 15:4-7). The early Church also had good teachers, like Paul, Peter, and Barnabas, for example. Therefore, they experienced the ministry of the Holy Spirit in great measure. Thousands at a time would come to genuine faith in Christ (Acts 4:4) and they performed miracles (Acts 5:16). Most importantly, they lived selflessly, loving God and man, as required: The multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need (Acts 4:32-35). Further, because they were up against extreme persecution (Acts 8; Heb. 10:34), they had a tangible reason to be serious about their faith. Of course, the downside to it was that they were brutally persecuted. But because of it they earned a “better resurrection” (Heb. 11:35). They also had another disadvantage in that they didn’t have the Bible written down for them as we do, all nicely compiled in one book and available as an app for our pocket. So it was much easier for them to get off Track, as they did (Rev. 2 & 3). Middle Ages. While some like the Albigenses and Waldensians rejected the false doctrines of the Catholic church, the Church as a whole got way off Track. As had been the case in Old Testament days, so it was since Jesus’ days (and still is) with only a very small remnant remaining faithful to God (Isa. 1:9). However, since they still didn’t have the Bible readily available to them as we do, what the average commoner knew was passed on to them by leaders of the Catholic church who themselves were way off Target teaching things the Bible didn’t say and not teaching what it actually says—just as they do today. Reformation. In His mercy, over the course of several hundred years, God enlightened different Church leaders, priests within the apostate Catholic church, to the actual teachings of the Bible and the fact that their practices did not line up. God also helped the Church by having the printing press invented so that the Bible, Old and New Testament, was finally provided in increasing measure and at increasingly lower cost to the lay person. And as with the first Christians and the remnant that had existed all along, persecution inspired the elect of the Reformation period to follow God more closely. Persecution motivates God’s elect to increased faithfulness while the non-elect think it will move them to reject God. It actually makes it easier to follow the Lord because, in part, it becomes clearer to see what’s really decent and what isn’t, and who really is for Him and who isn’t, since lying, torture, and killing don’t square with the teachings of the Bible. Modern Times. Today the Bible is so cheap it’s available for free. Not only can we read it, we can listen to it and even watch parts of it dramatized, with multiple options for taking the Bible in under each category. For example, we can read it in different translations, as a study Bible, as a comic book, as prose, etc. We can listen to it read as prose or dramatized. We can watch it as a cartoon, claymation, or docudrama, for example. And yet, today’s Christians are “ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7). While some know what the Bible says and are actually born again—having refused to acknowledge the huge inconsistencies between what the New Testament says and what Christianity has been doing and repent of these, born again Christians have blinded themselves to the truth even though the know it. Ever learning, they still haven’t been able to come to the knowledge of the entire truth. 87 For example, one of the most mature conservative Christian women I’ve ever known— a “friend”—who had been led to the Lord nearly forty years ago, whose husband has been an elder in a conservative Protestant church in the Bible Belt for decades—an example of all the better Christians I’ve ever met—rather than stand up for the truth as written in the Bible, when there was dire need for her to do so (concerns of suicide with a Christian teen), instead of responding in a loving and biblical manner, she coldly said, “Maya, I study the Bible. I pray. That’s all I need to do.” Wow. And while her response was typical—even better than most Church leaders who most often don’t respond at all—that is not what the Bible teaches us to do. God says: As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith (Gal. 6:10). One of you [will] say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; [so] what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone (James 2:15-17). The Old and New Testament are both very clear that believing in God without expressing that belief is totally inadequate. You may as well not believe at all. You may as well never have been enlightened at all, as we read: For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame (Heb. 6:4-6). 88 As noted, part of the reason I’d reached out to her as I had to other Christians including several members of RZIM, one of whom was Ravi, was because a young adult was suicidal directly related to what pastors are doing. As always, I was reaching out to them because of the state of the Church, only this time the consequences were right in my face, so I placed it in front of their faces. But no Christian can seem to be bothered with the fact that God’s leaders are seriously hurting people, or that they’re not helping people, children. Yet Christians, especially those in leadership, are supposed to be the most loving people on earth, according to God’s Greatest Commandments: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these (Mark 12:30-31). If born again Christians can’t do the most important commandments of God, how could they possibly do anything of worth in God’s eyes. In fact, He says, they can’t, because “he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much” (Luke 16:10). And being a leader in the Church as a pastor, evangelist, elder or elder’s wife, not caring about God’s children being suicidal because of the Church’s apostasy, is clearly being unjust in much. As it is, Christianity Today is made up of Christians whose faith is dead because while ever learning they never come to the knowledge of the truth that if you don’t love people you don’t love God. This is not my opinion. God says, “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? (1 John 4:20). It is hateful to not lift a finger to help someone, and to dishonor the One who has done so much for you. And if you don’t care about one person, you deceive yourself that you care about many people—any people. Writing a check once a month to help some people you’ll never meet this side of heaven is not the same as caring. YouTube You Don’t Love God if You Don’t Love Your Neighbor. Then, to top it off, they add to their grave sins by rebuking the one who is actually faithful to Him (me). This woman had the nerve to rebuke me for not being in submission to my husband, which isn’t even true. That’s what she assumed. It’s exactly what the Pharisees did with Jesus. While they were being extremely unfaithful and hateful to God and people (John 9:22), they referred to themselves as being faithful and told Jesus—God Himself—that He was a blasphemer and demon-possessed (Matt. 12:24). And what’s happened to Christianity Today, especially in the United States, is exactly what happened to Satan. Being the most beautiful and powerful angel, he got super proud and thought he could be greater than God (Isa. 14:13-14; Ezek. 28:17). Only thing is, he was dead wrong. Likewise, the U.S. has been blessed by God from the very beginning with greater blessings than any other nation on earth. In turn, we’ve sinned, like Satan, greater than any other nation on earth. American Christians haven’t had any real persecution, not even a real war on our home turf since the Civil War. And it has made us, most specifically, Christianity Today’s leadership, what God call’s “fat.” He says, “Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter” (James 5:5). A Form of Godliness. The most conservative Protestant pastors today preach the Bible well, in part. But they deny Jesus the authority that’s due Him as God because they’ve all bought into the lies that have been brought into the Church system over the last five hundred years—making it extremely confusing for all—and revealing that they are prodigal. (Since this is their career, and they’ve studied the Bible more thoroughly, supposedly, they should know it well.) The Bible says that they are men who have “a form of godliness, but deny…the power thereof: from such turn away” (2 Tim. 3:5). Church leaders today fall into three categories, and we’re to turn away from all three of them, according to the Bible: 1. They’re Vessels of Wrath, 2. They’ve Vessels of Mercy that are not actually born again yet, or 3. They’re Vessels of Mercy who are born again but prodigal. If you don’t turn away from them, you’ll end up like them and like the rest of Christianity, a coldhearted hypocrite deceived for having bought into many lies so that you won’t be able to discern truth from error. For years, especially since the 9/11 attacks, God has been revealing to us that we’ve been lied to as a group, as a nation. And since Christians haven’t been sincere, they’ve also been fooled. We’ve all been fooled, repeatedly and to the extreme. It’s time to wake up and take God seriously or you’ll soon have an awakening that’s way beyond rude. Christianity Today as we know it is a sham! “The leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed” (Isa. 9:16). Throughout the series I cover different aspects of how the leaders of God’s people— Church leaders—have caused and keep increasingly causing God’s people to “err” so that our lives are being “destroyed.” 89 9 God’s Spirit Requires Bible Immersion Since 1997 the Lord has had me reach out to many people calling them to get right with God. He said said to me: Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul (Ezek. 3:17-21). Then in 2009, He had me begin writing a book I’d called Wake Up! Carest Not? Then, since God had me give parts of it to many “mature” Christians while also sharing some pretty real concerns, seeing they couldn’t care less about God or man, the Lord had me change the title to WORD: For Such a Time as This, all the while teaching me more and having me incorporate those lessons into the book. Then in 2015, when I was sure that I was finally ready to publish as an indie publisher, 90 the Lord showed me something else using this verse: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now” (John 16:12). Except God wasn’t saying that He had many things to say to me, He was talking about the Vessels of Mercy, especially about the born again. God meant that the born again have had their eyes and ears shut because of their disobedience. “As it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear” (Rom. 11:8) so that He’s mostly reaching out to the lost elect, those who don’t yet know Him. I knew that before, I just struggled, and still struggle, with the fact that all born again have been made blind, that every single professing Christian, among the best around, in nearly two decades, is dead to God’s WORD. I live in the Twilight Zone. So, rather than having me publish, since even the born again can’t understand what God is saying, even though they supposedly believe the Bible, He made it clear that I was to break the book down into the series, spelling things out more clearly and chunking it down to bite sized pieces since I’m speaking to people who don’t even believe the Bible in the first place. Then as soon as I started on that, God added the website (which He had mentioned before) and YouTube videos—always keeping me busy busy busy while everyone ridicules me for how I waste my time. In any case, whoever humbly reads/watches the series as a good student, what the Bible refers to as being a Good Berean, that person will clearly hear what God is saying, having their faith in God increase in relation to the measure of their obedience. About the Berean’s God says, they “were more noble…in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so” (Acts 17:11). So that’s what you need to do. Don’t just take my word for it, check up on me with God’s WORD—and don’t ignore Him. WORD: Make the Most of It The following is a combination of how to get the most out of the series and out of the Bible, the WORD of God. I touched on it in the beginning and now take it further since you should now be able to better appreciate what’s being said. Resources in Bold—The books in the series along with a Bible will enlighten the earnest seeker of truth. However, God has also provided a ton of material (much of it on the web) to help His elect know Him, grow in Christ, and grasp the depth of what He’s saying. These resources are not suggestions. God has had me reference them so that as you grow in knowledge and wisdom, and become born again, and a faithful follower of Jesus Christ, He will use them to further enlighten you as you take your thoughts captive to His WORD (2 Cor. 10:5). Even if you’ve seen the movie before, for example, you should still watch it again because, having gotten right with God and learned from Him, you should now be able to connect some of the dots whereas before you wouldn’t have been able to. YouTube—After I do all God has called me to do (regroup the books and make a dozen or so videos), I’ll go through and pull all the resources that are available on the web into my YouTube channel. So you can either find them there, or search Google by typing in YouTube and the name of the resource. When a specific address is necessary, match the “uploaded by” information to the clips that come up. Either way, the way I see it, if the item has been removed it was either not God’s will for me to use it (I messed up) or for you to see it. Or, He could be testing your willingness to look into the issue for yourself. God says, “Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” (Heb. 11:6). For 2000 years the majority of people who have called themselves Christian have sought Him without diligence, not really believing everything He’s said—so it hasn’t worked out well for them. Lacking faith in God never will. Music—As noted, God loves to speak through music (Zeph. 3:17). By speaking through His WORD, especially when He does it through music, the Lord showers His people with His love. Therefore, my iPod Nano holds a combination of hundreds of songs and more than half of the audio Bible. It’s a huge blessing to have God minister to you anytime, anywhere, as He ties in His WORD and music to what else is going on in your life and in the world around you at the moment. He does that without the iPod too, but having it increases His opportunities. He says: See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is…be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (Eph. 5:15-20). In telling us to be filled with the Spirit, God means for us to have Him inside of us by becoming born again and by continually feeding on Him (John 6:55), without unconfessed sin getting in the way, because, as He says, “Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you” (Isa. 59:2), and “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me” (Ps. 66:18). My iPod is one of the many ways I fill myself with the Holy Spirit. Setting it on shuffle, I ask God to give me ears to hear. He says, “Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart” (Ps. 37:4). The more time we spend with Him, the more He changes the desires of our hearts into the desires of His heart, the more we become one, like an old happily married couple—best friends (John 15:15). YouTube Darlene Zschech Jesus Lover of My Soul. 91 Documentaries—These help us understand Reading the Bible—God has used many God’s account of humanity, especially when we know the Bible and Jesus well personally. Some of the best Christian ones I’ve come across are put out by Adullam Films (adullumanfilms.com). They tend to be exceptionally long, but excellent. I’d watch all of them, more than once even. As with any subject, repetition increases learning. But there’s another reason. Because reality is really quite different than what we’ve considered it to be, and there’s so much information to absorb, repeated viewing is very helpful. different translations of the Bible and types of Bibles to teach me different things over the years, even though all English Bible translations are flawed. The Bible is not flawed as unbelievers assume, the translations are, explained in parts of the series and through some of the documentaries. The key is to work out your salvation with “fear and trembling” (Phil. 2:12). Doing that, seeking God in earnest, God will continually further enlighten you in spite of human sins, yours and those who translated the Bible as well as those who preach it. God is trustworthy. I noticed on a forum that many Christians don’t agree with Chris Pinto because he’s saying that the Church has been apostate for years. He’s right. Part of the reason others can’t see it is because Chris Pinto doesn’t mention the sin of denominations and how that’s brought in so many other sins into the Church. Denominational division is the foundation on which the wreck of Christianity Today lies. Most of today’s Christians think the Church has just recently headed into apostasy, the falling away from the truth as prophesied (2 Thess. 2:3-4). However, the Church has been apostate from the very beginning, over all (Rev. 2 & 3). Movies—As the elect wake up, you’ll be SHOCKED at how clearly God has been speaking through everything around us. So I only open up a few movies in detail, interpreting what God is saying through them by way of the Holy Spirit, since even babies feed themselves with those pudgy little hands. “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby” (1 Pet. 2:2). Christian Resources—If you’re elect and genuinely want to know the truth, God will enlighten you to the problems within His Church and world. Jesus says, “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me” (Matt. 11:29). “Every man…that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me” (John 6:45). We learn from the Father to come to Jesus and then we learn from Jesus through His WORD and Spirit. 92 As noted previously, The Beginner’s Bible by Zonderkidz is great for the newbie (or anyone) seeking God in earnest. It’s all true and cuts to the chase. It also provides a great test. Are you too proud to read a preschool Bible? If you are you need to change (Matt. 18:3). This little Bible will help all who ‘dare’ to read a preschool book get closer to walking humbly before God by caring more about knowing Him than about what other people might think. But most of all, it’s helpful because the goal is to get to know Jesus well, fast. And being able to get a decent sketch of the entire Bible in one hour is great! That’s SUPERFAST! And you’ll get immeasurably more out of that hour than if you listened to one of today’s typical pastors for just as long. Ravi Zacharias from RZIM is a great example. This man has brains oozing out of his ears, and yet, he drones on and on and on and on—and never really says anything of biblical value! Or not much. Moreover, with all of those brains, he’s still bought into tons of stuff that disagrees with the Bible, while professing that He loves God and believes in the Bible and that we’re not to add to it or take away from it (Rev. 22:19-20). Listening to the preschool Bible you will learn tons more than listening to most Church leaders of Christianity Today, including Ravi. Because, even when they do teach the Bible, the do so with tons of unbiblicalities. Trying to separate truth from error when coming at you from a Church leader is like trying to get all the sauce off the spaghetti noodles. No matter how hard you try, you won’t get it all off—and certainly not in a decent amount of time. eReaders: Here’s a great free resource, Google Olive Tree Bible Study App. Having given it years of thought and prayer, and having come from a home that did not know God, my recommendation for one who’s just getting to know the Lord is that you consider including the following in your study (at some point) besides the videos and what I give you for Homework: Read the Bible. Listen to the Bible. Use Bible study helps such as the concordance, Bible maps, and Bible dictionaries. (Pull out that library card.) Read Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary starting with the New Testament. (It's available for free through Olive Tree as part of the app). Get into the habit of using several devotionals (covered shortly). Write for the Lord. Write a blog or a journal, or create a vlog, and/or write out what you're teaching others because writing on a subject—presenting it—is the best way to really learn the subject yourself. Whenever you write down what you think you know, you quickly realize you don’t know it as well as you thought you did. However, as you write you learn stuff you didn’t even know needed to be learned. As you develop your writing concerning the things of God, you'll see God making connections you hadn't realized were there. We all get "brainwaves." Following Jesus closely you get them on steroids. And it’s fun seeing stuff appear on your screen as you’re writing that you didn’t even realize you knew—cuz you really didn’t know it—but now you know. Walking closely with the Lord as a writer is something like channeling. But instead of allowing a satanic spirit to take over your being, you’re letting the Holy Spirit of God take over. And that’s much better. Keep reading the Bible and obeying God for the rest of your life—because “it is your life” (Deut. 32:47). Since 1996, I’ve been reading the Bible in three places daily: the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the books of poetry and wisdom placing a 3M sticky for a bookmark in each section. I typically read a bit of each section at each sitting and when I’m done with that section I start back at the beginning of it. I also make notes on the page as God ministers to me. And it doesn’t get boring reading the same thing year after year because God speaks to us through His WORD, as He says: He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living (Mark 12:27). For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do (Heb. 4:12-13). All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works (2 Tim. 3:16-17). The more we read the Bible, the more interesting it gets as Jesus becomes clearer to see and to hear (John 14:21). It is that simple. Therefore, after reading that Bible, typically for several years so that I’ve gone through it many times and it’s pretty marked up, the Lord has me switch to a different translation or a 93 different study Bible. As He leads, I do because “He [still] saith…Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matt. 4:19). which has an excellent audio version of the KJV, and 9jaStar Radio has a great dramatized version. The better you know the Bible, believing it so that you're born again, the more God reveals—as long as you’re not in rebellion and are open to what God is saying (John 15:7-8; Heb. 11:6). So after He’s revealed some things and you’ve had time to digest it, He reveals more. And since His mind is so vast as Creator of the universe, you can't outgrow Him. Watching the Bible—Film producers have In contrast, follow God through the churches and you’ll soon realize they all preach the same couple dozen sermons repeatedly, year and year after year after year. No wonder people doze off. You also need to savor what you’re eating. Jesus says, “My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed” (John 6:55). Jesus gave His life (His flesh/meat) on the Cross, shedding His blood (drink) in payment for our sins. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11) which is why blood transfusions save lives. Jesus donated His to save His elect from our sins and from hell so that we could live with Him and the rest of His Family forever in bliss, after our Tour of Duty on earth is over. And just as we don’t typically eat the same thing all day but different things, all of which are food, we do likewise with the WORD of God. “Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst” (John 6:35). The more biblical the material, the spiritually healthier, the better. So all the biblical resources in these books are delicacies for you to “taste and see that the LORD is good” (Ps. 34:8). The goal is to ‘eat’ all day long, letting each morsel melt in your mouth like fine chocolate. Think Godiva. Listening to the Bible—For most of history the Bible has been read aloud by a priest or prophet while others listened, which is very powerful. Most libraries have audio Bibles and they're available on the web as free downloads. Biblegateway, for example, has a free App 94 taken liberties, so watch the biblical movies scrutinizing them against the Bible, which is why I’ve grouped them with the corresponding Scriptures in the back of the book (those I recommend). For example, in The Miracle Maker (2000), when Jesus dies on the Cross, the centurion says something like, Surely, this was a son of god. However, in reality, the centurion said, “Truly this was God’s Son” (Matt. 27:54, YLT). While the difference is miniscule linguistically, it’s the whole point entirely! Jesus is the Son of God, meaning God in the flesh. All other gods (lower case) are nothing: Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them (Ps. 115: 3-8). But since the producers of The Miracle Maker (2000) got the rest of it right, I highly recommend it. It’s informative, a great work of art, and fun to watch. Animated Stories from the Bible: This series by NEST (nestlearning.com) is likely at your library and many are on YouTube. I started growing most in the Lord when my girls were in preschool, not only because I was spending more time reading my Bible and obeying God, but because of the preschool Christian shows we were watching, as with this series. Children’s material (some of it), tends to be unencumbered, or less so, with man’s sinful pompous ideas. Keeping it short and simple for young children, there’s less room for sinners going off course. Faith Lessons - That the World May Know: A Bible historian takes groups to places about which he’s teaching. They’re likely at your library, and YouTube has excerpts. (faithlessons.net) Devotionals—These are daily readings which open up the Bible. There are many, such as My Utmost for His Highest (utmost.org), Our Daily Bread (odb.org), and Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening (oneplace.com), for example. (They're also available in book/booklet format). The downside with devotionals is that the author’s words are not Scripture and are, often times, unbiblical. “[Where]as for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried” (Ps. 18:30). Just the same, even with the pitfalls devotionals are great because, through the Scriptures, they provide confirmation of what God is saying to you. That being the case, dated ones are the most helpful especially if you use more than one. They add umph to what God is telling you by making it harder to second guess Him since you’ll be hearing Him say the same thing from different sources. And since they’re dated, you’ll be certain this is God’s WORD for you on this day. The more confirmations you have from Scripture, the better, since the goal is to be following Him (Matt. 4:19). Using dated devotionals with your own Bible reading, you’ll be less likely to run ahead (2 John 1:9, see NIV), fall behind (John 12:37-40), or stray (Ps. 34:7)— if not being a hypocrite (Matt. 3:8). For example, the Lord brought a young man to live in our home. After several months, we were discerning that season was ending so we specifically put the question out to God in prayer and listened for His answer in the sermon and in our Bible and devotional reading. And because God had been so clear when my girls were in preschool with Jesus Wants All of Me by Phil A. Smouse, the children’s version of My Utmost, I was using that along with other devotionals. And that day’s reading was entitled, Goodbye, and the whole thing tied in—as did the sermons. It clinched it. Google My Utmost April 22. The Light That Never Fails. Sure enough, the boy soon left abruptly. As you hear the same thing echoed through the different means by which you’re feeding on God’s WORD, it makes it easier to discern His will for your life, the immediate direction He wants you to take. Because, even though God’s people have gone astray and Church leaders are SUPER PROUD and COLD—making life in a sinful world MUCH HARDER for all—the power to overcome this life triumphantly is found in God’s WORD which says, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Tim. 3:16-17, see NIV). Yet, knowing this, Christians tend not to look up Scripture for being so unfaithful—and they’re about to realize what they’ve missed out on, and start kicking themselves for it (1 Cor. 3:11-13). The message of the Bible isn’t hard to understand or believe. The Bible is hard to obey because sin temporarily satisfies our flesh. Yet the system God has set up requires that we read, believe, and obey the Bible in order to have “ears to hear” His voice (Matt. 13:9). And we need to hear it in order to follow Him and do His will (Matt. 4:19). And doing His will is the only way to store up treasure in heaven and actually accomplish anything of real value while on earth. God has clearly told us, “Without me ye can do nothing” (John 15:5). The proof of what He said is seen in Christianity Today since She’s as far from God as 40 thousand denominations place you, and She’s accomplished something more like hell on earth rather than heaven—much more like hell! Free Cloud Storage Here’s where the born again have royally messed up for the last 2000 years, minus a very small group. According to the Bible, the sooner we line up our lives with God’s will as defined in the Bible, the more meaningful our lives are on earth and the better our outcome for eternity. I’m not speaking about salvation. I’m talking about the opportunity God has granted every elect soul. He has given us the ability to use this life as a bank account for savings that will 95 benefit us for the rest of eternity, summed up with the following passages: start following the Lord very early on. That’s true for all Vessels of Mercy. [God says] lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal (Matt. 6:19-21). For example, God had me praying for my girls while they were in my womb, and many have done that, as led by Him. And while I wasn’t born into a Christian home, He started explaining Himself to me when I was four—it’s what He does with all the Vessels of Mercy (Acts 10:34). For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire (1 Cor. 3:11-15). According to God, you can get to heaven as one who has a bank account like a Rockefeller, extremely loaded, or as a homeless person who barely escaped the fire in the warehouse—or anywhere in between. And that will constitute your funding for the rest of eternity. Food for thought! So while the one who gets to heaven as having barely escaped the flames will still be deliriously happy since they’ve been granted eternal life in heaven where there will be “neither sorrow, nor crying, neither…any more pain” (Rev. 21:4), and hell is just the opposite of that forever, it’s obviously better to get to heaven with the savings of a Rockefeller. I have no problem shopping at Goodwill while on this Tour of Duty, but NOT forever! And since we’ve only been given one life to live, it helps to start seeking God—in earnest—as soon as possible. And since He starts reaching out to us while we’re in our mother’s womb (for those in born again Christian homes, you could 96 However, in order to live in a way that you maximize your Tour of Duty on earth and get Home as a Rockefeller, or better than the one who gets there empty handed and smelling like smoke, you have to have genuine rock solid faith in God, “and that rock [i]s Christ” (1 Cor. 10:4). Essentially, the ecumenical movement so many keep pushing for—the idea that everyone worships the same God—is clearly a lie, clear to all who engage their brains (2 Cor. 10:5). They’re saying that everyone, from those who worship Satan to those who worship the God of the Bible all worship the same God. Really? The fact is that by not having taken God seriously, Christians over the last 500 years have laid the foundation for the ecumenical movement with their denominations. Five hundred years and this is what Christianity has accomplished, laying the foundation for Satan’s New World Order and getting Home with next to nothing in the Bank. Oops. Therefore, thus saith the Lord, ‘I told you so’ (John 15:5). In contrast, when we let God lead us, and do the work His way, we can actually make a permanent difference in this world and store loads in our Storage Cloud. Think Dropbox: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Matt. 6:19-21). Best of all, with God, things change quickly. The first Christians turned the world upside down in a very short time—without our technology—because what God says is true, we conquer our enemy “not by might, nor by power, but by [His] spirit” (Zech. 4:6). Trying to make the world a better place without submitting to God, we’re doing that work in our own power and we are no match for Satan! We’re no match for Satan on our own. But, with Christ in us, all we have to do is stab him with our steely knife, the WORD of God (Eph. 6:17)—repeatedly and persistently. When we use our weapon as God meant for us to use it, Satan and his army will take a hike as commanded by God because “greater is he that is in [the faithful born again soul], than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts… Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up (James 4:7-10). 10 God Has Two Types of Prophets Since the beginning God has spoken of false prophets who would try to deceive God’s people, who would be deceived for not taking Him seriously. He’s also spoken of true prophets as those who serve Him by watching out for God’s people and who reveal His glory—and who God’s people typically don’t listen to. Therefore, this section shows you what to look for in the world, in the Church, and in my books. Similarities Between True and False Prophets There are several similarities between the true and false prophets because God is testing His elect, especially those who profess to be born again, to see whether or not we actually love Him. God says: If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder COME TO PASS, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul (Deut. 13:13, my emphasis). According to this passage, there are two very important points about false prophets: 1. They can perform signs and wonders, prophesying correctly; but, 2. They entice people to follow false gods, not God. Deuteronomy 13:1-3 reveals how seriously we were supposed to be studying the Bible, obeying God, and getting to know the Lord so that we wouldn’t head in the wrong direction, 97 waste our lives away, and ruin the planet. Since false prophets can prophesy correctly, they can preach the truth according to the Bible, but their underlying message is to draw people away from Jesus, which is what has happened so that Christianity Today is as far as tens of thousands of denominations from God. We have to study the Bible carefully because if you’re elect, the only way to make the most of your Tour of Duty on earth is by getting to know Jesus as well as possible. And since false prophets serve the antichrist, Satan, the one who masquerades as an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14), you need to be discerning enough to pull his mask off—a mask he loves to wear at church (Isa. 14:13), but he wears it everywhere since he’s the “ruler of this world” (John 12:31, YLT). False Gods and Idolatry: God says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Ex. 20:3). Throughout the Old Testament He warns the people not to make or have idols/gods or to get rid of the ones they have. An idolater is one who has a false god, whether that’s expressed through an idol such as a little statue or through a love for someone or something other than God, a hope in someone or something other than God. So while today’s average American doesn’t have even one little statue in their home which they worship, we are a nation of idolaters. Just consider the show American Idol, or football, for example. There aren’t just a few offices or colleges in America that talk non-stop about actors and actresses, rock stars, etc., and about the team they idolize. And since false gods/idols are anything or anyone that we love more than God, including ourselves, most see the false god we worship with unparalleled devotion every single day in the mirror. We have three of our very own idols: me, myself, and I. Having gotten so far from God as a society, false prophets are not only all over the place today, they have taken over Gods Church and preach from the most conservative pulpits 98 around, not merely the liberal ones since Satan, through people, “sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Thess. 2:4). God warned us. He said, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matt. 7:15). “Of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them” (Acts 20:30). But since the Vessels of Mercy haven’t taken God seriously, we’ve been getting devoured. And it’s complicated because there are true and false prophets and true and false teachers. The prophets go beyond what the Bible says and predict things whereas teachers simply ‘interpret’ what the Bible says, either correctly or not—but I’m lumping all the false together. God has created a ‘system’ which requires His elect to be very diligent in studying His WORD in order to have the discernment to know the difference between what is God-honoring and what honors Satan, in fact, to quickly discern the voice of the Lord versus the voice of Satan. But because we have become a society that views the Bible as the last thing worthy of our attention—including among Christians—we keep pressing on towards our annihilation. Discerning the false from the true can be tricky because much of what our society, along with Christianity Today, considers loving is actually hateful according to God, and much of what our society calls hateful is actually loving according to God. He says, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isa. 5:20). The way to judge what’s actually good or evil, loving or hateful, from God’s perspective, can only be done by understanding His perspective which is found in the Bible, a Book you can only understand by being born again and not have any unconfessed sin (1 Cor. 2:14; Isa. 59:2). Today’s elect are like the teen who views her Dad as being hateful because he grounded her and is keeping her from go to the party. Yet Dad grounded her because she was caught doing drugs and the people having the party provided them. The girl’s perspective is tainted by her personal desires (her will) and by her immaturity. Were she to grow up, she’d acknowledge that Dad is being very loving. Essentially, it’s time for God’s elect to mature, because God has our best interest at heart. If you genuinely respect Him for who He is—God Almighty—you’ll obey Him. But you won’t know who He really is without getting to know the Bible well, His Spirit within, no unconfessed sin. That’s the system God has set up as declared in His WORD, the Bible. Lack of Discernment. If you know the Bible, it’s easy to tell the major differences between true and false prophets. An example of false would be the prosperity preachers who tell you to give them money so that God will bless you in return and make you rich. That’s so obviously unbiblical (1 Tim. 6:10; Rom. 8:6). even when the light has been turned up higher. While Satan meant the 9/11 attacks to hurt us, God has used them to help Americans start seeing their government more clearly. (And, it’s also been a step to help the Vessels of Mercy be more readily open to acknowledge God, acknowledge that they’ve been fooled, for years.) Since 9/11, lie after lie after lie has been revealed about American and world history—revealed to those who’ve been paying attention and willing to acknowledge the evidence. The best example I can think of within Christianity of how we get fooled is with the former Executive Director of Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), Tom White. VOM is the leading ministry serving the persecuted Church worldwide. Therefore, Mr. White was considered by many born again Christians to be a Christian. Yet he killed himself in 2012 because he was being investigated by the FBI for having sexually abused a child. Had he been innocent he would have stuck it out trusting God to clear his name since that’s what God tells us to do (Ps 25:20, 27:12, 31:1.). Tom White would not have killed himself had he been born again because God But, to discern the finer points, you really have to know the Bible and the Lord well, especially in our day when we live in the climax of the falling away period (2 Thess. 2:3-4). God tells us that we live in a day when there are so many lies passing as truth that the elect nearly get fooled. In fact, I would say that all have been fooled, just not permanently. God warned us, saying, “There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect” (Matt. 24:24). While it’s not possible to deceive the elect permanently, it is possible for the elect to get deceived temporarily. The LIES UPON LIES graphic sums it up, except the layers probably go a thousand deep! At least. All elect start out being deceived until God turns the light on for us to the first level— since we were born as sinners (Rom. 5:12) into a world ruled by Satan (John 12:31, YLT). And we can be deceived many times and in many ways 99 says, “If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are” (1 Cor. 3:17). The born again Christian is the temple of God because God’s Holy Spirit lives inside of them (John 14:23). By committing suicide Tom White would have destroyed God’s temple had he been born again. So he could not have been born again, not even elect. Yet many born again Christians were deceived by him, temporarily. But knowing the Bible and the Lord well, reading some of the stuff VOM peddles, you would have seen a huge problem with the whole ministry, as there is in the whole Church, a line blurred, nearly completely erased, between Catholicism and biblical Christianity—a blurring that began with the first denomination. Now that we’re at so many, it’s like nearly everyone has forgotten all about the Reformation, and Catholicism is just another “OK” denomination. Only it’s not. It’s super difficult these days to tell who, even among the most conservative Protestant Christians, is actually on the Lord’s side so that, as God says, “If it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect” (Matt. 24:24). The only reason it’s not possible to deceive the elect permanently is because God chose us even before we were created in our mother’s womb. (If you need a biblical reference, go back and read chapter 2.) To be deceived permanently, it would mean that we could lose our election. Therefore, it would mean that Satan is greater than God—but he’s not. God created Satan. God’s account of humanity, His Story (our history), isn’t a science fiction movie where the computer takes over the world because the man who created it can’t control it anymore! God is all powerful, much more than idiotic men or any of His created beings—that’s what it means to be God (Isa. 45:7). The Difference Christ Makes Since Jesus is God and the Old Testament was pointing to Him, just like the New Testament points to Him, there are two key points to make 100 about the Bible in relation to prophets and their prophecies: 1. Jesus fulfilled the Scriptures, and, 2. There is no new revelation. Jesus Fulfilled the Scriptures. Because Jesus paid the price for our sins on the Cross, the Scriptures have been fulfilled in that He is the promised Messiah—the Prophet. Therefore, some of the Scriptures no longer apply as with the Old Testament sacrificial system and God’s wrath. THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM: As the Lamb of God (John 1:29 & 36), Jesus fulfilled the sacrificial system. Now, the born again, those purchased with His blood, offer to God sacrifices of obedience, praise, and thanksgiving. Our service in obedience to God is “an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God” (Phil. 4:18), as was Christ’s (Matt. 3:17). GOD’s WRATH: Because Jesus gave up His life on the Cross, He satisfied God’s wrath. But, because His elect, especially the born again, have taken His Gift for granted (2 Cor. 9:15), God’s wrath has been fueled (refueled?). In addition, Christians have been participating in the wars fought around the world over the last 2000 years bringing home the point that Jesus made in saying “He that is not with me…scattereth abroad” (Matt. 12:30). God knows how many people today have “the forest as their cathedral” in great part due to hypocritical Christians. And that’s just it, God does know, and it gets into higher math because His wrath has been fueled. There is No New Revelation. Jesus said on the Cross, “It is finished” (John 19:30). Therefore, all who’ve discovered a “lost” book of the Bible or written their own Bible (as with the Mormons, Muhammad, and Anton LaVey, for example) have spewed something out of their own darkened minds, spurred on by Satan. No matter who decided what books belonged in the Bible and what was left out—meaning, decided upon by sinners—the Bible has been completed. God’s WORD is complete. It is finished. As they say, the canon of Scripture is closed. Rather than have me write an argument about it, God is clearly revealing this through my testimony as shared in this series. Believe it or not, that’s your God-given choice. At the same time, Jesus also said, “Every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old” (Matt. 13:52). Those who treasure the WORD of God, the Bible, are able to bring out of it not only lessons God has taught them applying the Bible to the present (new things) but a deeper understanding of Scripture as it applied in the past as well (old things). It’s what Jesus meant when He was speaking to the Samaritan woman at the well. He said, “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up” (John 4:14). And when He said, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38). The Bible, God’s WORD, is living (Heb. 4:12) because Jesus lives (Matt. 28:6). In turn, whoever becomes born again and walks in submission to Him, being a good student of the Bible, a follower of Jesus, a scholar on the Lord, that person will have the wisdom that Jesus has, to a degree, because “we have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16). So…according to that Scripture, to a very high degree. Jesus is the WORD (John 1:14), and that WORD is a Book, the Greatest Story Ever Told. When we love a book or a person, we immerse ourselves in that book or with that person. We learn everything there is to learn about what makes them ‘tick.’ And when you do that with the WORD of God, the Bible, the Man, Jesus, “rivers of living water” flow out from you. It’s like if you were married to an amazing person, spending time with them makes you a better person, and, therefore, kind of amazing as well because they’ve brought out the best in you. That’s what God does for the sincere born again believer. So it’s obvious that today’s Christians haven’t been all that impressed with the Man. The Prophets FOR CLARITY: When speaking of false prophets I’ll specifically say false. Modern-day prophets are those who adhere to the Bible and apply it to the past, to current day, and also foretell of times to come. In a nutshell, the prophets of the Old Testament were sent by God to point to God, ultimately to the Prophet, Jesus Christ, God’s Messiah. And the prophets of the New Testament—up through the present day—are sent to point to God, Jesus, the Messiah. So Old Testament prophets mostly pointed to the future whereas New Testament prophets point back and forth. They point back to the Bible—Old and New Testament—and they point forward to the Lord’s return as well as to the culmination of all things, to heaven and hell. And, again, unless you know the Bible and the Lord well, and are in right fellowship with God—born again without any unconfessed sin since that separates you from God (Isa. 59:2: Jer. 5:25)—you won’t be able to discern correctly, and/or won’t have the conviction to move forward biblically. It’s a pretty big problem because born again Christians have disobeyed God for centuries so that the world today is loaded down with false prophets who are misleading God’s people while, at the same time, God’s people—the elect—refuse to listen to God’s true prophets. We’ve made a royal mess! A ROYAL mess! In fact, many of today’s Church leaders would have everyone believe that God no longer sends prophets, that this ended with Jesus, The Prophet. But that’s not biblical. In the Old Testament God said He would send two kinds of prophets, true and false, which is equivalent to good and bad; and in the Gospels Jesus said He would continue to send prophets; and in the New Testament God repeatedly tells us that 101 there were then and would be both true and false prophets moving forward, therefore, now. In the Old Testament God Said He Would Send Prophets: The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken (Deut. 18:15). Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? (Amos 3:7-8). Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream (Num. 12:6). Jesus Said He Would Send Prophets: Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar (Matt. 23:34-35). Examples of Prophets in the Early New Testament Church: Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them (Acts 15:32). We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy (Acts 21:8-9). 102 Declaration that there Would Prophets in the Future/Today: Be Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world (1 John 4:1). And [God] gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ (Eph. 4:11-12). Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge (1 Cor. 14:29). But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction (2 Pet. 2:1). Clearly, there have always been prophets, and there are still prophets today. And since the main role of the prophet is to point to Jesus, and Jesus has yet to return—having made it clear that He will be returning (Acts 1:6-11)—the prophet’s role remains. One of the reasons many of today’s Church leaders say there are no more prophets is because of the following verse: God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds (Heb. 1:1-2). Before Jesus came, no one was given the Holy Spirit except for a few prophets, and then only for seasons at a time, with the exception of John the Baptist who was “filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb” (Luke 1:15). However, ever since Jesus poured out His Spirit on the believers at Pentecost (Acts 2), He has continued pouring out His Spirit into all genuine believers (John 14:23). He has also given us the Bible, the whole thing, which they didn’t have in the Old Testament. Early Christians had Him in the flesh (John 1:14), along with the letters about Him which would bring about the written WORD of God, the Bible—the completed WORD of God. Therefore, during Old Testament days it’s as the Scripture says, “God spoke…by the prophets” and today He speaks by His Son, Jesus, through the Holy Spirit and His WORD (Heb. 1:1). There’s a pretty big difference between the Old Testament and ever since Pentecost. Today every born again soul can hear clearly from God, directly, God speaking to us through His Son by way of His Holy Spirit coupled with the Bible— provided we’re in right fellowship with Him. However, God has also clearly stated that He has placed “in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers” (1 Cor. 12:28). He basically says the same thing elsewhere, that “he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ” (Eph. 4:11-12). Essentially, today’s true prophets are like any other born again believer, with the exception that they have the light cranked up to the third level because the Holy Spirit in us gives us power, and the combination of enlightenment and power makes for good leadership. True prophets trump the bad leadership of the unbiblical Church leaders of the man-made institutions we call churches. That’s how God has worked historically. You need only to know the Bible. Further, apostles are those who saw the Lord, which is another reason today’s pastors justify their stance that there are no more prophets. They say that the “office” of both the apostle and of the prophet ended with the early Church because no one has seen the Lord since then (for apostles) and because the canon of Scripture is closed (for prophets). They’re partly right. There is no new revelation. Nothing can be added to the Bible as some have done, as with Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormons. Today’s Church leaders are right but they’re also wrong. They’re right in that the canon of Scripture is closed. But they’re wrong about apostles and prophets because the Bible makes clear that Paul was an apostle even though he only saw the Lord in the Spirit and not in the flesh. We know this because the Bible tells us about Paul’s first personal positive encounter with Jesus. It was after He had been crucified and resurrected, as we read: As [Saul who was later named Paul] journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do (Acts 9:3-6). Saul/Paul had an encounter with the Lord in the Spirit since He had already been crucified and resurrected. All things considered, I discern that there are still apostles today who, like Paul, have seen the Lord in the Spirit—though I’ve never met one. But I think that’s only because we live in the climax of the falling away period. There are many who say they have seen the Lord in a vision, or who simply call themselves apostles, but since their lives don’t line up with the Bible, they can’t be apostles. An apostle’s life, as well as that of the true prophet, as well as the life of the mature born again Christian, has to line up with the Bible—for the most part. It won’t ever be 100% perfect because we’re all human, not yet 103 transformed. But, the mature in Christ will be perfect as a humble follower of Christ: actively seeking God, obeying Him, submitting to Him, and readily disciplined by Him not behaving like a spoiled brat but like a teachable child. God has called all Christians to be perfect (Deut. 18:3; 1 Kings 8:61; 2 Cor. 13:11; Phil. 3:15; James 1:4), in the same way that obedient young children are perfect. There aren’t too many of those left these days, especially where I currently live, but there still are some. Living very isolated in the Midwest, I had two—sweet, loving, obedient little children. They were perfect little girls. They fought and disobeyed once in a while, sure, but not much. And they readily accepted direction and correction. That’s what God means in calling us to be perfect. Characteristics of True and False Prophets Satan is God’s copycat, except everything he copies—and he copies everything of Christ—he does with a darkened and twisted sinister agenda. Therefore, Satan’s false prophets do and say pretty much what Jesus does and says, with a twist. While there are more similarities and differences than what I list here, this is pretty thorough, and enough to help the genuine seeker of truth get on Track and stay there. Similarities between True and False Prophets: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 104 Can Be Anyone Have Dreams and Visions Preach the Bible Value the Bible Say they speak for God Have a way they want to be viewed Have a distinct character Have a specific way of viewing money Have a certain number, and, Preach freedom Besides that, there are distinct points about true and false prophets: True Prophets: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Build Up the Church Speak When God Tells them to Speak Get Ignored Won’t Be Understood until God’s Timing Have No Real Choice but to Speak Up for God False Prophets: 1. Help Evil Increase 2. Slander True Prophets Prophets CAN BE ANYONE. Whether true or false, prophets can be anyone. True Prophets Can Be Anyone: It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy (Acts 2:17-18, my emphasis). False Prophets Can Be Anyone: If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods…thou shalt surely kill him (Deut. 13:6-9, my emphasis). Prophets HAVE DREAMS AND VISIONS. The only way to discern whether a prophet’s dreams or visions—their message—will lead you closer to God or further away from Him is by knowing the Bible and Jesus well. And if you ignore the true prophet, you’re staying closer to Satan since he’s the ruler of this world (John 12:31, YLT)—and you’ll be dishonoring God. So while most have taken the position that they’re better off not bothering, that doesn’t work since everyone is already in Satan’s grip since he’s the ruler of this world with a mission to kill and destroy (John 8:44)—being quite successful due to our indifference. True Visions: Prophets Have Dreams and Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream (Num. 12:6). The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully (Jer. 23:28). The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward (Isa. 1:1-4). And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy (Acts 2:17-18). The Last Days: We have been in the last days for the last 2000 years because the New Testament says, “God…Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son” (Heb. 1:1-2). Also because, “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Pet. 3:8). False Visions: Prophets Have Dreams and [God says] I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal [a false god] (Jer. 23:25-27). And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah…that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake…saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon...I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon… Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years… Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the [true] prophet [saying]…Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast 105 broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron…The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie (Jer. 28:1-15). PROPHETS PREACH THE BIBLE. False prophets twist God’s WORD taking it out of context (like Satan did with Eve) whereas true prophets apply God’s WORD in a manner that lines up with the full counsel of God, in other words, with the rest of the Bible. However, prodigals also preach the truth while taking only some of it out of context. Still, no matter what, we go with what the Bible says—so you have to know what it says. True Prophets Preach the Bible: The king commanded…saying, Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book. And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess…And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah: Because they have forsaken me…[but] Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD. Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace (2 Chron. 2:20-28). 106 Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. The things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully…Of these things put them in remembrance (2 Tim. 2:1-14). False Prophets Preach the Bible: The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. And the people to whom they prophesy [as in those who listen to them] shall be cast out in the streets (Jer. 14:14-16, my emphasis). But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies [twisting the WORD of God], even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you (2 Pet. 2:1-3). 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 (Jude 1:4). DENYING THE LORD: This doesn’t necessarily mean that someone denies that Jesus is God, it can also mean that they deny Him the respect He’s due. To deny God can mean that you don’t acknowledge the Bible as God’s WORD; don’t fully acknowledge it (as with the Pope); or do acknowledge that it’s the inerrant WORD of God but don’t fully obey it. Either way that person is denying the Lord the respect due Him and leading others astray. PROPHETS VALUE THE BIBLE. The ‘best’ false prophets and prodigals say they value the whole Bible, that it’s the inerrant WORD of God, and that it should be fully obeyed. However, they don’t obey it. In contrast, a true prophet will say the same thing but obey it, not perfectly all the time since we’re all sinners, but mostly while also readily acknowledging when they’ve been wrong, repenting as needed. There is not one elect soul who does not have to experience a ‘learning curve’ because we’ve all been born as sinners and live in a fallen world. Even Old Testament prophets weren’t perfect. A good example is Moses, deemed by Jews as the most important prophet. And he was very important, but not more important than Jesus. While enlightened by God, he messed up enough that God didn’t allow him to enter the Promised Land (Num. 27:12-14). I bring this up because today’s prodigals Church leaders, most specifically those from Eagle Church, wouldn’t listen to what I had to say on the basis that I’m not a 100% perfect human being (as if anyone is!). They’re like the little kid whose teacher caught them stealing. While caught red-handed, instead of acknowledging the truth, the kid pointed out something wrong with the teacher. It’s time these men grew up. “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things” (1 Cor. 13:11, my emphasis). In short, man up. In any case, a true prophet will speak and prophesy according to the Bible. But because prophesy is something that happens in the future, you can’t just decide if that prophet is telling the truth depending on whether you believe it or not. That would be to make yourself out to be your own god. Instead, you have to know the Bible and Jesus well yourself in order to be able to take everything that prophet is saying—and doing—and weigh it against the Bible. And you have to be honest. If the scale tips in favor of the Bible, chances are that person is speaking the truth. To know for sure, you have to have a close relationship with the Lord yourself. Knowing the Bible and the Lord well, He’ll confirm to you whether or not this person is in step with Him or not. That’s how I know that those in Church leadership today are either false prophets or, at best, severely prodigal born again Christians. It’s easy to discern this because their ministries and lives don’t line up with the Bible—not even close. The Lord has consistently shown me their outrageous hypocrisy, so that I could show you. And He says, “Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil” (1 Thess. 5:19-22)—which is hardly what Christians have done. True Prophets Value the Bible: But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed (Gal. 1:8-9). When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness (Acts 4:31). 107 False Prophets De-value the Bible: The LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them (Jer. 9:13-16). [Baalim was a false prophet who devalued God’s WORD.] The children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord, and served not him (Judg. 10:6). It’s harder today than in Old Testament days because today’s false prophets preach out of the Bible, yet with a twisted teaching: as with Pat Robertson, Rick Warren, Benny Hinn, Robert Schuller, Oral Roberts, James Swaggart, Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, John Hagee, John MacArthur, Alistair Begg…and the list goes on and on and on. In fact, Christianity Today is so messed we can’t know if these are actually false prophets, as in Vessels of Wrath, or merely severely prodigal Christians or unenlightened Vessels of Mercy—not until they are publicly challenged with the truth, again, meaning, with this ministry since God is having me expose, reexpose, the truth. Challenged, if they refuse to acknowledge the sins of the Church and change their ways, then we’ll know for certain if they’re truly a false prophet. We’ll know if they don’t repent. But until then, since they appear to be false prophets, that’s how you deal with them. You don’t submit to their leadership. Google False Prophets Today. 108 PROPHETS SAY THEY SPEAK FOR GOD. Both types of prophets can profess to represent God, though not all false prophets do, some just say they’re prophesying. In any case, you can only discern the truth by knowing the Bible and the Lord well. So here’s an interesting Old Testament example of how God tests our obedience with His prophets, doing it on a prophet with a false prophet: The man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place: For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel. Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father. And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah. And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon, And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am. Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place: For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him. So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. And it came to pass…when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him…And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him. And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother! (1 Kings 13:830). God had specifically told His man, the true prophet, how He wanted him to go about it. Then God tested this man with a false prophet, and the true prophet failed the test. He disobeyed God so God had him suffer the consequences. God used a liar, servant of the Liar (John 8:44), to test His servant, His prophet. And God says, “I am the Lord, I change not” (Mal. 3:6). And the lying prophet is so deceived that he doesn’t know he is a servant of the Liar and mourns for the one he was used to set up. As I’ve said, you really have to know the WORD of God and the Lord WELL. In fact, this is exactly what God has done with His Church as a whole. He gave His faithful believers, the born again, the Holy Spirit along with His WORD, His rules to obey. Then He tested us over the course of the last 2000 years, giving us a review 500 years ago with the Great Reformation, also providing the printing press making the Bible increasingly more available to the general public. More recently, He’s made the Bible available to just about everyone for dirt cheap, free even. So now we’re getting our ‘test scores’ back. God is revealing to the born again, especially to those in Church leadership in America, how they still failed His test and failed it miserably. No matter how far God has gone to help us, born again Christians have still FAILED the test for the same reason as the Old Testament prophet who got mauled by the lion— disobedience to God. Like Satan, even born again Christians have loved themselves more than God, their Creator (Jer. 17:9). And the only reason I know some are born again is because God always has a remnant (Rom. 11:5) and because of what He has revealed to me as shared with you in this series of books. The Bible also says, “For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God” (Deut. 4:24). “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Heb. 10:31). Since we’ve refused to learn on paper, we are going to have to learn the Lesson in the flesh, especially those currently in Church leadership as they get chewed out by the “Lion of the tribe of Judah” (Rev. 5:5), Jesus Christ. And they’re getting much worse, we’re all getting it. Here’s why, because for nearly two decades Church leaders—among the best available worldwide—have refused to humble themselves before God when He had me call them to repentance (and He’s had many calling them to repentance for many years). Among many other Scriptures, I’ve repeatedly reminded them of this passage as led by the Lord: At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them (Jer. 18:7-10). 109 It’s not as if the word ‘instant’ is hard to understand. And most of these guys have PhDs. righteousness” (Mal. 3:2-3). True prophets are more like Peter in this account: Truly, God is outrageously patient and loving towards us, not dealing “with us after our sins; nor reward[ing] us according to our iniquities” (Ps. 103:10). Even if God were to nuke us and let everything climax to its most horrific end, He would be justified in doing it and still not dealing with us as we deserve considering what He’s done for us and how we’ve thanked Him. [Jesus] poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter [then] saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head (John 13:5-9, my emphasis). Jesus warned us saying, “Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many” (Matt. 24:4-5). “I am Christ” doesn’t just mean that they claim to be the Messiah as with the Pope and Sung Myung Moon, for example, but that they represent Christ as Protestant false prophets and prodigal Christians do. In fact, “many” have come saying they represent Jesus, by way of 40 thousand denominations, and have deceived many since no denominations are in the Bible. And aliens and all the other stuff that goes against the Bible spoken of by false prophets is also not of God but a very strong and powerful delusion (2 Thess. 2:10-11). PROPHETS HAVE A WAY THEY WANT TO BE VIEWED. False prophets, having dark and hardened hearts, are more concerned with how they’re viewed by others. It’s like they want to be viewed as if they were spiritual guru’s, as if they were the most High, like Satan, and the Pope (Isa. 14:13-14). In contrast, true prophets wants you to view them as they are, servants of the most High, sinners saved by grace. Knowing how wicked we all really are (Jer. 17:9), true prophets are not afraid to have the light of God shine on them, they want it. They understand that God’s light has a purifying effect. “He is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall…purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in 110 The true prophet of God wants to be as right with the Lord as possible—squeaky clean— because they understand things from God’s biblical and eternal perspective. They also understand that the WORD of God is God’s Scrub Brush because “all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Tim. 3:16-17). True Prophets Want to Be Viewed as Servants of God: When the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein (Acts 14:11-15). [Christianity] heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables” (2 Tim. 4:3-4). As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man (Acts 10:25-26). While today’s world is falling apart at the seams, church services are like walking into a house owned by one of the Stepford Wives. Christianity Today is SUPER fake (Rev. 13:3). And that explains why the rest of society is drowning in mis- and dis-information. They took the Light of the world and shoved it under the bed (Mark 4:21), so the beds are burning. False Prophets Want to Be Viewed as If They are God: Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation (John 11:48-49). [Jewish leadership wanted the people to focus on them rather than on God giving them the honor, not God.] When they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus: Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God. But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith (Acts 13:6-8). Whether obviously false as with Jim Jones, or not so obvious as with the most conservative Church leaders in Christianity Today, false prophets want people to focus on them and or their lies. If they wanted God’s people to focus on Jesus, they would be humble and eagerly accept correction. But they don’t. Christianity Today’s Church leaders, even among the best, get offended if you so much as question anything they’re teaching. They’re proud, cold, abusive, and royally self-centered. “For the time [has] come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall PROPHETS HAVE A DISTINCT CHARACTER. False prophets tend to be charismatic yet slick, whereas true prophets tend to lack charisma. A great example of a true prophet is Paul, whose “bodily presence [was] weak” (2 Cor. 10:10), yet who suffered all things for the sake of the elect “in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren” (2 Cor. 11:26), and many more perils. Rather than trying to get one over on God and man, he was willing to go through hell if needed to bless God and man, fulfilling the two greatest commandments of God (Mark 12:28-31). And, like Christ, the godly can seem to the undiscerning as being harsh and cold. For example, Jesus stood up for the truth each and every time, focused more on His Mission than on people’s feelings, making Him seem unkind, unloving, or rude, at times. When His mother spoke to Him about the lack of wine at the wedding supper in Cana, for instance, “Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?” (John 2:4). Ouch, that was abrupt. Then He performed His first public miracle (John 2:1-12). Likewise, when a distraught woman sought His help, Jesus ignored her: Behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, 111 saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour (Matt. 15:22-28). Since Jesus was God in the flesh, He knew what she was about to answer Him—He had a Plan He was working out. We have been informed that Jesus did things knowing what was about to happen (John 6: 6). So He used this example to do several things: reveal His focus (God); reveal His character (holy); and reveal that He was more concerned with God’s Big Picture than with individual’s feelings (obeying the Greatest Commandments in order). Jesus used this woman to give many some important lessons, still being taught today. And that’s how God has consistently worked in the Bible with His prophets, and continues to do today. He uses true prophets more than the average Christian, for His purposes, so that they may seem to be cold, abrupt, rude, or even crazy—to the undiscerning. In the Old Testament, God’s true prophets sometimes behaved in a manner we would not readily define as loving. However, the true prophets of God were/are so focused on their mission—going against the grain of the masses in order to honor God and help God’s people (Big Picture)—that it can seem as if they’re unloving to individual people or groups at the moment. Yet God uses them for the betterment of His entire Family which includes those in the 112 future, Vessels of Mercy not yet born. In reality, no matter how they might seem to others, they’re the most loving of all because they’re walking in the greatest commandments, loving God first so that His people as a whole can get to know Him better (Mark 12:28-31). And they do it at the expense of their own lives, not thinking of themselves first. As Jesus made clear, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). Eventually, the typical set-up of having flipped God’s order of love around reveals itself for what it really is, self-centered. That’s why the professing Christian divorce rate is nearly just as high as it is with everyone else. While Jesus should have made all the difference, there is no difference because their marriages were not grounded in love, in God (1 John 4:8), so they failed. Even though many say that Jesus is their Lord, as with the typical Christian, Jesus says, “Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” (Luke 6:46). A lord is one who has authority over the others. Moreover, God says, “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin” (Rom. 14:23). Whatsoever covers quite a bit of territory. God is more concerned with us respecting Him and His prophets, than in having His true prophets respect people for something they’re not, faithful to Him—and that really makes faithless people angry. So while false prophets can seem nice in that they tell the people what they want to hear, being people pleasers who go with the flow headed towards destruction (Matt. 7:13), they’re not helping people because they’re lying to them. Being lied to isn’t nice because it makes you, the one lied to, head in a direction you wouldn’t have taken had you been told the truth. And that’s the thing: real love tells you how it really is even when they know you won’t like hearing it (Prov. 27:6). Further, since “the leaders of this people cause them to err” (Isa. 9:16), the true prophet mostly addresses Church leadership and those in the Church. Therefore, their manner is more abrupt with those people, those in the Church— professing Christians. Paul says, “For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth” (1 Cor. 5:12-13). “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God” (1 Pet. 4:17). When a true prophet speaks, no matter how much it hurts your feelings, it’s for your best. True prophets can sound harsh because we’re all so sensitive, yet it’s for a higher purpose, to draw people—you—away from Satan and closer to God. It’s like if you were not paying attention and someone yelled at you to save you from getting hit by the bus and you then filed a lawsuit because their yelling hurt your feelings. Would you really rather have had them gently say, ‘Excuse me, you’re about to…’ Oh shoot…Wow! That was gory. as Lord, God Almighty. While Mother Theresa claimed Jesus was Lord, she lived her life as if He wasn’t God. Instead of submitting to Him, she submitted to the teachings of the Catholic church which says, among many other false teachings, that the Pope is God on earth, in other words, equivalent to Jesus Christ. And it just ain’t so. Our good works, no matter how much we sacrificed ourselves in the process are nothing. To God, “our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” (Isa. 64:6). Only God knows if Mother Theresa or Ghandi turned to Jesus before actually dying. If they did, they made it Home only as those who barely escaped the flames of hell, nothing stashed in their heavenly bank account (1 Cor. 3:11-16). We’ll see. Well, I will definitely see. True Prophets Seem Weak, Meek, Homely, etc., by Worldly Standards: The Bible says: If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing (1 Cor. 13:1-3, NIV). If you don’t understand what love is, then you’re going to be the one gently whispering to people so they get squashed by busses. In God’s eyes, you’re worth nothing because you didn’t do what you should have done to help people. Yet our society thinks that anyone who does good works and is politically correct is loving when anyone who does God’s will, as described in the Bible, is actually loving. There’s a HUGE difference. For example, the sinner’s view places Mother Theresa and Gandhi in heaven because they did such good works, whereas God places them in hell since they did not recognize Jesus [Elijah, the true prophet] went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them (2 Kings 2:23-24). With this Old Testament example, God is making the very graphic and brutal point that if we don’t raise our children to respect God and His servants, God will make them—both us and our children—suffer for it. That’s why the Bible says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Prov. 9:10, my emphasis). False Prophet Appear To Have it More Together: Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned [as with denominations]; and avoid them. For they that are such serve 113 not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple (Rom. 16:17-18). PROPHETS HAVE A DISTINCT WAY OF VIEWING MONEY. There’s a huge difference between the true and false prophets when it comes to money and their message. Basically, false prophets rake it in while true prophets tend to go without. True Prophet Serve God for Free if Needed: As ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give (Matt. 10:7-9). We do not peddle the word of God for profit (2 Cor. 2:17, NIV). While God’s prophets are allowed to make a living from the WORD of God, they are not to exploit the WORD of God as Christianity Today is in the habit of doing all across the board. God gave us the following instructions: [Jesus said] I send you forth as lambs among wolves. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you (Luke 10:38). Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. For the scripture saith, thou 114 shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward (1 Tim. 5:17-18, my emphasis). [A “double honor” is very different, much less, than the millions today’s false prophets and prodigals are raking in.] In fact, you can hardly hear a sermon on the radio today without the pastor or ministry then asking you to send them money for this supposedly great work they’re doing which isn’t even biblical, for the most part. False Money: Prophets are All About The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money…and say, Is not the LORD among us? (Micah 3:11). [Having been healed by the true prophet, Naaman] said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant. But [the true prophet] said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused…But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold…I will run after him, and take somewhat of him…And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents…And Elisha said unto him…Is it a time to receive money… The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow (2 Kings 5:15-27). Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation (John 11:47-48). [To them it was all about money and power.] PROPHETS PREACH FREEDOM. While living as slaves of Christ (1 Cor. 7:22) True prophets preach freedom in Christ, that believing and obeying God releases you from the bondage of this world ruled by Satan. In contrast, false prophets are worldly and materialistic, living in spiritual bondage while preaching freedom. True Prophets Christ: Preach Freedom in What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith (Phil. 3:7-9). False Prophets Place People in Deeper Bondage: 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. 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. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire (2 Pet. 2:18-22). PROPHETS COME IN NUMBERS. Throughout the Old Testament it’s clear to see that the false prophets outnumber the true prophets, as with the example of Elijah and the 400 prophets of Baal (1 King 18:22-36). However, God tells Elijah that in all of Israel there are still actually 7000 men who have remained faithful to Him—a remnant of the people. While they weren’t prophets, I’m taking a little detour because of how many pastors preach on this passage wrongly. And since one did it as I was working on this section, I know that’s what God wants me to do (John 10:27). After the scene with the bulls on the altars, Elijah was threatened, ran off, and the following transpired: Behold, there came a voice unto [Elijah], and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. [In other words, God just prophesied to Elijah that He was going to deal with His people and make them pay for their sins.] And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto 115 Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him (1 Kings 19:13-19). I’ve heard many pastors scoff at Elijah when they preach on this passage because he supposedly got off focus and was just feeling sorry for himself. However, Elijah had been the only prophet left standing up against God’s people who had become severely corrupted, making his discouragement legitimate. While Elijah had been unaware that not everyone had turned away from God, here God clues him in while, at the same time, informing Elijah of His plans to discipline His corrupted people. Elijah would have remembered that God always keeps a remnant of people faithful to Himself if he had had our hindsight, but he didn’t. The reason we know God always keeps a faithful remnant of followers is partly due to the example provided by Elijah’s day and those who came after him. There are typically more false prophets than there are true prophets, loads more. While there may have been more true prophets to begin with, as during Elijah’s day, the false prophets, to go along with the majority of wishy washy people, tend to outnumber the true prophet standing up for the Lord and taking the heat. This verse sums up what happens, God says, “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so” (Jer. 5:30-31). God also says the following: There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them (Ezek. 22:25-26). As noted previously, in God’s organizational scheme, prophets outrank pastors (Eph. 4:11-13; 116 1 Cor. 12:28-29). Yet pastors have decided that apostles and prophets no longer exist, placing themselves above all in the Church since evangelists are traveling ministers, and prophets hold no “official” position in the churches, giving pastors more control over God’s people in the local congregations. Changing some of the teachings of the Bible, pastors opened wide the door for today’s false prophets to prophesy falsely and, the pastors (equivalent to Old Testament priests), “bear rule by their means.” In other words, pastors lead God’s people in the congregations by the false doctrines of false prophets—a work that’s happened over hundreds of years having gotten increasingly worse because “the time…c[a]me when they…[stopped] endur[ing] sound doctrine; but after their own lusts…they heap[ed] to themselves teachers, having itching ears” (2 Tim. 4;3). Church leadership, centuries ago, began to love to hear only what they wanted to hear. In turn, God’s people today—professing and born again Christians—more interested in having a pastor teach them than in earnestly studying the Bible for themselves, “love to have it so,” not realizing the damage they’re doing. Tutorial Detour: On August 16, 2015, God used a prophet to rebuke John MacArthur on his false teaching that prophets no longer exist. YouTube Exclusive Footage John MacArthur Confronted. Uploaded by Dorma Productions. The man says this: You have grieved the Holy Spirit of God. The doctrine of cessation is in error. He has been grieved John MacArthur and He sent me to tell you that. You’re sharpening the sword and you’re cutting each other. You don’t believe in prophets; you’re looking at one. God have mercy on you and teach you the truth. The doctrine of cessation is in error, John MacArthur! It’s in error! I’ve been sent to tell you it’s in error! …repent of your sins… etc. not all intelligible…God bless you people! Apparently, that’s what this erroneous unbiblical belief is called, the doctrine of cessationism. I hadn’t known that. And it is heresy because it rejects the clear teachings of the Bible. (And there are many other reasons why John MacArthur could be called a heretic. However, because of the times we’re living in, he could ‘just’ be an EXTREMELY prodigal born again Christian. Time will tell.) Several other YouTubers almost immediately arose arguing about what happened—mostly wishy washy in one way or another. We decide whether what the man did and said was right based on the Bible. For example, one YouTuber was saying that this method was inappropriate, as in not polite etc., approaching John MacArthur like that in “his congregation.” However, it’s not his congregation it is God’s since He purchased His Church with His own blood. And because of the unbiblical Church system man has created, Christians have left no room for doing it biblically. While the Bible says, “Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge” (1 Cor. 14:29), the Church system man has created has left a platform only for the pastor and his leadership on which to speak—and that, only as long as he approves what they have to say. So what’s left is to approach them outside of service in person or in writing, and when we do that they deny God’s WORD, and then, do not inform God’s people that they were approached. So God had this man do it in front of the congregation to get them talking and thinking. And He’s having me do it with these books and videos. Bottom line: “official” Church leaders today, those with the platforms (official from man’s point of view), refuse to listen to those God has sent to speak to them, sending others to speak to them since they won’t listen to Him directly. And most of the people sitting in the congregations are Bible illiterate idolaters of unbiblical pastors. It’s a problema. True Prophets Flying Solo and Against the Grain in the Old Testament: The child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision [meaning, they didn’t hear much from God]…And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth (1 Sam. 3:1 & 11-13). The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! (Ezek. 34:1-2). Example of a True Prophet Working Alone in the Time of Christ—As with the Old Testament, Jesus, the Prophet, stood up alone against all Church leaders. While many came to believe in Jesus and to worship God in Spirit and in truth as He requires (John 4:23-24), it happened through His ministry after He was crucified because even though they “loved” Him while He walked the earth and as He healed all their deceases, they cried “crucify him” (Mark 15:12-14) or left him alone to be crucified (John 16:32; Mark 14:50). Examples of True Prophets Working Alone or in Small Groups in the New Testament Church—In the New Testament Church, true prophets also tended to work alone or in very small groups, speaking up for God, informing them of what was coming down the line, rebuking the people for their sins, and building up the Church. 117 In these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar (Acts 11:27-28). Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away (Acts 13:1-3). Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them (Acts 15:32). As we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles (Acts 21:10-11). Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge (1 Cor. 14:29). Example of True Prophets Working in a Small Group in the Future—The following passage tells us that true prophets will again work as a very small group going against the grain of the whole in the future. I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in 118 sackcloth… And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth (Rev. 11:1-16). The reason these true prophets torment the people is because the people refuse to submit to God. As He did in the beginning with Elisha’s example and the little children, God will continue to do to the end, cause grave damage to those who disrespect Him—and, naturally, they don’t like it. So God has repeatedly warned us that it’s better to be found on the Lord’s side no matter what hardship that might entail, as with the following example: Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people…And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men [the Lord’s disciples who had been preaching and prophesying the truth]…let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God (Acts 5:34-39). History reveals that Jews were fighting against God with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70. A.D. Additional Key Points about True Prophets. Since there are so many lies twisted in with the truth, I’ll also list key points concerning true and false prophets, for another angle on it. As Paul said, “To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe” (Phil. 3:1). True Prophets Build Up the Church: He that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church (1 Cor. 14:3-4). And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love (Eph. 4:11-16). True Prophets Speak When God Tells them to Speak: And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not (Rev. 10:4). And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand (Rev. 22:10). True Prophets Get Ignored: I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me (Jer. 35:15). A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house (Mark 6:4). What True Prophet’s Speak, the Elect Won’t Understand Until God’s Timing: The LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the 119 understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel (Isa. 29:10-19). And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed (Dan. 11:35). True Prophets Really Have No Choice But to Speak Up for God: He said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at 120 their looks, though they be a rebellious house. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee (Ezek. 2:1-8). Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul (Ezek. 3:17-21). Whenever I speak, I cry out proclaiming violence and destruction. So the word of the LORD has brought me insult and reproach all day long. But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot (Jer. 20:8-9, NIV). Additional Key False Prophets. Points about False Prophets Help Evil Increase: I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah (Jer. 23:14). False Prophets Slander True Prophets: Ahab said unto [Elijah], Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim (1 Kings 18:17-18). While the elect should be much further along 2000 years since Jesus came to earth, we’re not because “men love…darkness rather than light, because their deeds [a]re evil” (John 3:19). It’s the reason we need a Savior in the first place. 11 God’s Wrath Because of Christian rebellion against God, Christians keep Jesus locked up behind bars while they do “God’s work” without Him. But as He said, “Without me ye can do nothing” (John 15:5). He meant nothing good, nothing worth doing. Without Him, without obeying Him, what we’re doing is ‘obeying’ Satan the ruler of the world, the Liar and Murderer (John 8:44). Many who have read and understood the Bible, have obeyed God enough that He sent His Spirit to live inside of them. But, at some point, they broke fellowship with God by not fully obeying Him. I discern it starts by ignoring the New Testament teachings which clearly reveal that denominations are unbiblical. Turning a blind eye to denominations sets the born again Christian on a course of further disobedience and, therefore, blindness. One lie leads to another and another…so that pretty soon they’ve believed the lies, lies which get bigger with time. In turn, born again Christians today, for the most part, believe the monstrous lie that God has no problem or not much of one with denominations, and then they’ve gulped down a ton of other lies besides. God says, “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Tim. 3:13). We are all “evil men” because we all do more of our will than God’s will. At least that’s been our history so far, with very few exceptions. (I share in the series how I walked down the same path and how God set me straight—quite painfully at that—so that I would be motivated to go against just about every grain there is and be able to produce this series for His people, while also understanding where everyone is coming from.) Christians, like unbelievers, love to stand on this super lame argument, “Why would God use you? What makes you so special?” When that’s the point of Christianity. God chooses and uses whoever He wants, whenever He wants, however He wants, because it’s “Not of works [of any good in us], lest any man should boast” 121 (Eph. 2:9). The only reason anyone is a Christian in the first place is because God chose us, and He did it because we were special to Him. He says, “The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the LORD loved you” (Deut. 7:7-8). It’s understandable that unbelievers wouldn’t understand this, but Christians? The reason Christians haven’t understood it is because they’ve chosen to go with the flow of the established church system or some form of it, rather than stand up for the truth as defined in the Bible contending for the faith are required by God (Jude 1:3). So while there are born again Christians today (those who actually are) who are contending for the faith, like Chris Pinto, they are also in broken fellowship with God, in part, because they’ve ignored the Church’s many sins. So God says, “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent” (Rev. 3:19). Chasten, in God’s WORD, means punish. We are all being punished for our sins, all across the world—not just our own sins but those of our unfaithful ancestors. And God will continue to punish us, allowing Satan to have his way with us, until we, as a people, repent. In other words, because of all of our rebellion, including, and especially, that of Christian hypocrisy, God has been allowing Satan, the leader of the spiritual forces of evil and “ruler of this world” (John 12:31, YLT) to use people and nature to oppress us all, doing it because the Vessels of Mercy do not acknowledge Him for who He is, God ALMIGHTY. Jesus clearly stated, “I will 122 forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him” (Luke 12:5). Fearing God enough to obey Him, as a good child fears her father, God then blesses us. But instead, born again Christians have not obeyed Him, and the rest use Jesus as a curse word and constantly ask Him to curse us by saying G—damn it. So He does, just like He did it to the Jews who said, “His blood be on us, and on our children” (Matt. 27:25). Then we get mad at Him because of stuff that happens! But we ASKED for it (2 Thess. 2:10-11). We have not loved Him, the Truth (John 14:6), and use His name as a curse word, actually asking Him to curse it all, and then we blame Him for having cursed it. If you cannot see that we are at fault, you are still under a strong delusion. You have not done your Homework as required. And since God knew exactly what we would be like before He even created anything and got things in motion, He incorporated our sins into His Master Plan by letting Satan have his way with us, within His limits. I don’t quote Scripture to support my statement because it is the theme of the Bible. Read it. Essentially, reality from God’s perspective looks like the ETERNITY graphic. God, made up of three parts, is represented by the Godhead, the foundational black arrow. He has no beginning and no ending. He just is, and therefore calls Himself “I Am” (Ex. 3:14). The Bible says about Jesus, the Son, that “in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Col. 2:9). God, this spiritual all-encompassing Entity we can’t see, packaged Himself—the essence of Himself—in the bodily form of Jesus, His Christ. As such, and having paid the price for our rebellion, Jesus rules a righteous kingdom made up of Vessels of Mercy. While it’s NOT very righteous right now, it will be because that’s what God has planned, written in His Book, our Manual for Life, The Manuscript. First, that kingdom will be represented on earth, and then in heaven. God is creating a “a new heaven and a new earth” (Rev. 21:1). Likewise, the Vessels of Wrath, led by Satan as authorized by the Godhead, have their kingdom which is also represented on earth and then in hell—hell on earth first, and then hell in “the bottomless pit” forever (Rev. 9). And God has allowed us to experience hell on earth first so that we, the Vessels of Mercy, would get a taste of what exactly He saved us from—not just hell itself but from our own sinful natures that have helped create hell on earth. And considering the fact that God predestined the Vessels of Mercy for heaven (Rom 9:22-23), being saved from our sinful natures is much more important. Had Christians focused on the doctrine of election, they would have focused on our need to obey God so that our sinful natures would be kept in check and also changed and Christians as a group would have already been made more like Him. So now, getting more and more of a taste of hell of earth, we’ll be a bit more grateful for what He’s done for us. Public Awareness As Daniel said, “There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh [things] known” (Dan. 2:28). Therefore, ever since the 9/11 attacks the public, overall, has become increasingly aware of government corruption in this country. However, because society has many components, as with healthcare, politics, education, spirituality, banking, the environment, etc., different things are revealed to different people, people He has ‘wired’ in that field, all revealed in God’s timing. For example, I couldn’t hold up my end of a conversation on geoengineering or on politics or the banking industry or transhumanism or any other subject to any degree of mastery. I’m laughing at myself having written that sentence. I’m an idiot on most subjects! I listen and understand, somewhat, but the way God has wired me has to do with spiritual reality. Concerning the things of God, I could go on forever! But I haven’t gotten through to anyone because it hasn’t yet been God’s timing (Rom. 9:16). It’s not as if what I’m saying is hard to understand or doesn’t make sense. Just the opposite—it’s mostly no-brainer stuff. While God has been revealing things to us, different things to all of us, His ultimate goal is that we—the Vessels of Mercy—learn from each other and work together, under His lordship (Eph. 5:21) to take the power away from Satan and his servants—and turn the world right side up again. HOMEWORK: D. L. Cuddy put together a chronological History of the New World Order. It’s the top layer of Satan’s scheme playing out “for we are not ignorant of his devices” (2 Cor. 2:11). Google D. L. Cuddy New World Order. And since there’s so much disinformation people have bought into, or they’re misinformed, or uninformed, this chapter presents a broad brush of Satan’s New World Order and the next chapter is a timeline sketch of some of it. The Resources in back and on my YouTube channel should help you fill in the areas where you’re uninformed, and those resources point to tons of others. Just take your thoughts captive to Christ and follow Him (2 Cor. 10:5). A good website is globalresearch.org. While I’ve sought the Lord and taken my thoughts captive to Him, I’m sure I’m dis and mis informed on tons of it—because I’ve focused on knowing God rather than on knowing what’s going on in the world. But, eventually, God’s elect will all get on the same page, when we start working together. Besides, what’s most important—for all of us—is that we know the Solution. And I do know Him pretty well, and how to motivate Him to help us. 123 Satan’s Diabolical Plan While there are tons of New World Order organizational charts on the web, which I’ve summed up with my PYRAMID, the people who are aware of these issues either reject God and/or don’t know that we desperately need to repent. In the same way that Jesus has His key players for the Forces of Good with “apostles…prophets…evangelists…pastors and teachers” (Eph. 4:11), Satan has his key players in the occult. Having had six thousand years to build up his Forces, working towards his plan of “exalt[ing his] throne above the stars of God…and sit[ting] also upon the mount of the congregation…be[ing] like the most High” (Isa. 14:13-14)—mostly unchallenged—Satan has nearly reached his goal of ruling the earth out in the open with his “New” World Order. In fact, the United States has been in Satan’s grip from the very beginning, almost entirely, so that today, the major American and international organizations are all already 124 united because just about every organization of greatest importance has been created by the Illuminati, mother of all secret societies, or bought off by them and/or other power elite to harness all the resources. They’re just now making it tighter in order to repeat Nazi Germany on a global scale against everyone who doesn’t submit to them, which is really to Satan. And while the whole thing sounds crazy, the Bible confirms it and the evidence is overwhelming, so overwhelming that it’s truly amazing more people aren’t aware of what’s going on or don’t see the seriousness of it all— again, pointing back to God who has kept them blind/asleep (2 Thess. 2:10-11). For example, as a Christian, I’ve known for years that the United Nations is closely tied to Satan’s overall plan for the world. But it wasn’t until more recently that God revealed to me that the UNs publishing company, The Lucis Trust, was originally named The Lucifer Publishing Company because the founders were Satan worshippers. And many tied to the UN have been heavily into the occult, as with Franklin Roosevelt. And it makes sense since the UN is at the center of Satan’s plan to rule the world out in the open as it promotes not only a one world government but a one world religion—a project nearly completed: Lucifer…thou hast said in thine heart…I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation…I will be like the most High (Isa. 14:12-14). In the same way that God has been historically ignored, recounted for us in the Bible, and Jesus has been ignored for the most part since He came, most people have ignored these warnings, placing blind trust in our leaders assuming their decency, even when it’s been revealed that they’re not decent at all. Even those who’ve stopped trusting them, by not having placed their trust in Jesus they’ve remained in the Luciferian trust. The Secret Societies. There is an overabundance of information supporting Satan’s work in the world on the web: tons of books as PDFs, videos, documentaries, official documents etc., some of which I’ve pulled into my YouTube channel. HOMEWORK: YouTube John Kennedy’s Secret Society Speech. F. While informative, all of the resources fail to recognize one, some, or all of the following factors: The biblical REASONS behind it; GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY, the fact that God is in full control; and, THE SOLUTION. While revealing much to many, God has kept all blind to one degree or another, apparently letting me put all the pieces together in these books for His people, the elect. The Use of Secular Resources: Secret societies have secret symbols, tons of them. The symbols are how Satan has been communicating his devilish plan throughout the ages, right out in the open. He’s been able to do it because these symbols have different layers of meaning so that only those who are aware of the occult meaning of the symbols can see what’s really meant and going on. That’s why they’re out in public for everyone to see, because most can’t see what’s really meant by Satan and his closest followers, as with the many occult symbols throughout this nation’s capital and on the U.S. dollar, for example. Most people have been oblivious until more recently. And in the same way that Satan has had a hidden agenda beneath the surface of society while right out in the open, God has had His hidden symbols and meanings (also right out in the open) as He’s been working out His greater agenda—which trumps Satan’s. By having me open up non-Christian and anti-Christian resources, God is revealing to all how much greater Jesus is than Satan. He’s also proving that He really is who He has says He is, and alive and well, because “He is risen from the dead” (Matt. 28:7). He’s also confirming to His people, the elect, that He’s behind what I’m saying and that it’s time to follow Him. But, as with Satanic symbolism, ONLY THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND THE SYMBOLISM CAN SEE WHAT’S GOING ON, that God is the One speaking through them, and understand what He means. In other words, you have to be born again and know the Bible well, without sin blocking your eyes or ears, in order to see God’s hand in the world around you, as I share with these resources (mostly in the other books of the series). Each book in the series is set up to help earnest elect souls learn the WORD of God in it’s pure form as I expose the lies the Church and world have bought into—so that you can understand what God is saying through His hidden ‘symbols,’ so that you can see and hear what’s been right in front of you as communicated by God. 125 Those who are more awake, believer and unbeliever alike, have focused on Satan’s secret messages while being blind to Jesus’ secret messages because of the Church’s sins and their own wicked hearts. And Jesus has much more stuff hidden under the surface than Satan does, and much more meaningful stuff. So that’s what I’m building up to, but you have to do your part. So far everyone’s behaved like a royal brat saying stuff like, Who do you think you are! Why would God speak to you! You’re nuts! On and on. But they haven’t done their Homework. Tired of working on this, I just watched Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). I’d seen it years before, along with the first one, and knew back then what I saw again. Only now I’ve walked in it for much of my adult life. For example, in the second one, nobody believes the girl when she had always been speaking the horrible truth. (And they still don’t believe me!) So here’s the rundown of how Satan has historically been carrying out his diabolical plan to rule the world and usurp God’s authority. Jesus “liveth to make intercession” (Heb. 7:25), and Satan also liveth, except Satan lives to make the need for Jesus’ intercession, keeping Him ever busy praying for His Family—that’s what intercession means. Jesus is standing between us—His elect—and the Father, praying for us, interceding before Him on our behalf much like a lawyer does for his client standing before the judge. Both, Jesus and Satan, live in the spiritual realm, neither one ever sleeping. In other words, neither of them ever stop working. YouTube The Katinas Praying for You. Like Jesus, Satan has been busy busy with his plan to rule the world with one government controlling all the assets and all the people, leading to one religion with all under his 126 lordship. And while Jesus is more powerful than Satan since He is God in the flesh (Rom. 5:8; John 10:30), Satan has been excelling because born again Christians haven’t let Jesus lord over them. Instead, to one degree or another, “all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's” (Phil. 2:21). The effect of it is that born again Christians have kept Jesus, their Lord, the One they supposedly love, LOCKED UP. For instance, most Christian ministries focus on helping Christians have better marriages, better finances, or not give in to pornography etc., when, instead, they should be focused on what Jesus is focused on, His Church, since He brutally “gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (Eph. 5:25-27). BIBLICAL SYMBOLISM TUTORIAL: “The Son of God…hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire” (Rev. 2:18). Red is the symbolic color for fire, caution, anger, love, and passion. God is fuming mad! Yet, at the same time, He’s passionately in love with His Church, His Vessels of Mercy, His Girl. And considering we’re in a spiritual war zone (Eph. 6:12), we really do need to proceed with caution (Phil. 2:12) because “our God is a consuming fire” (Heb. 12:29). So while Jesus has been recruiting followers since before He came to earth, few have continued to follow Him, explaining His anger. In contrast, while Satan has also been recruiting new members with every generation, most of his recruits have been very committed to him, with just a few exceptions like William Morgan, murdered for turning coat on him, since that’s what Satan does, “he was a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44). [If you don’t know who William Morgan was…Wikipedia, or WORD: It’s Christianeasy.] Having begun with Adam and Eve, Satan then focused on their sons, recruiting Cain: [Eve] again bare…Abel [who] was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him (Gen. 4:2-8). By his actions—by not giving God a gift of the best that he had but of his leftovers, the stuff he didn’t really want—Satan was able to discern that Cain was probably not elect. Therefore, tempting him, Satan told him something like, ‘If you just kill him you’ll look better since you’ll no longer have his competition.’ And Cain went for it. And billions throughout history have continued to fall for Satan’s lies, including born again Christians to whom he says stuff like, ‘Sure, most of those denominations are wrong but these few are right, and you’re in the most correct one. That’s right.’ Only thing is, Satan is a damned liar because none of them are biblical. In fact, to choose which ones are supposedly right with God, you’d have to become god to decide who makes the cut since no denominations are designated in the Bible and there is supposed to be “no division in the body” (1 Cor. 12:25, YLT). Wanting to be like God (Isa. 14:14), Satan always fools people with the same lie, that we are as good as God, because by not worshipping God, we worship him. Except we’re so deceived we think we’re doing what’s best for me, when it’s actually what’s worst for us, best for Satan who has nothing to lose having already lost it all. As God has informed us: [Because] Thou [Satan] hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation…I will be like the most High…thou shalt be brought down to hell (Isa. 14:13-15). Having lost everything, Satan gains by keeping God’s elect from serving Jesus and honoring God, while also ruining our lives in the process. In fact, most American “Christians” deceptively think they’re lives are great since they’re fairly well off and they’re going to heaven, not thinking that this life is just a test, not the real thing, in fact our Tour of Duty (2 Tim. 2:4)—even though they know it. They’re delusional (2 Thess. 2:10-11). So while there are only two types of people in the world, elect and non-elect, Satan has been able to work with both groups. It’s the theme of the Old Testament, and what’s happened ever since. Recruiting new members, nations at a time, Satan was able to quickly and easily build his kingdom on earth, empowering people as they bowed down and worshipped him as they fed their own sinful lusts. So while most wouldn’t openly worship Satan, there are several reasons why most do: 1. They are non-elect sons of perdition, destined for hell (Rom. 9); 2. They are unsaved elect souls hungry for power, fame, and all that Satan has to offer. Thinking this life is all there is, most people will do whatever it takes to get what they want or save their own skin. Satan says, for instance, “All these things will I give thee” (Matt. 4:9), and 127 they go for it. As God says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hos. 4:6); 3. They are prodigal born again, as God says, “For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions” (1 Cor. 3:3), “He that is not with me is against me” (Matt. 12:30); and, 4. God has granted Satan powers which he can pass on to others. Satan’s powers are referred to as secret mysteries, or secret knowledge, also known as the occult. These powers are first doled out as human power which comes in the form of status or money, for example, and then, the more you serve Satan, he empowers you with supernatural powers, enabling people to do things they would not otherwise have been able to do (Acts 8:9 & 16:16; Rev. 13:13, 19:20). Actors, writers, and musicians often talk about suddenly having the whole thing just delivered to them. Whether they knew it or not, they were talking about Satan giving them what he wanted them to have for his services—under God’s overriding authority, feeding their sinful lust for wealth and fame while using it for His purposes (Rom. 9:22-12). Apparently a secret society works something like this. They might ask an initiate (someone they’ve chosen because of their intellect, funds, position, connections, etc.) if they’re willing to spit on the cross. If not, they pat him on the back and say something like, Great, no one decent would ever do that. But that person never moves up in the organization. Instead, the one who does spit on the cross, or performs some other unrighteous act, is moved up and given more secret knowledge. And they keep moving up gaining even more secret knowledge along with power just as long as they remain willing to do Satan’s wicked deeds, all the way to murder, to mass murder like dropping atom bombs or conspiring against us with the 9/11 attacks, for instance. 128 The Illuminati and its many branches of secret societies have been able to persevere because the secret knowledge they possess is actually the power Satan gives them to succeed, allowed by God to chastise the Vessels of Mercy because of our lack of gratitude for what He’s done for us through Christ. For instance, pagan societies like ancient Egypt and that of the Maya have massive pyramids which we still haven’t been able to figure out how they could have been constructed without modern technology, and which many think was done with the help of aliens. At least part of the answer is that it was done with supernatural help from the powers of the forces of evil: For the mystery of iniquity doth already work [meaning, Satan has been at work since the very beginning]: only he who now letteth will let [God is letting Satan do his thing], until he [Satan] be taken out of the way [in God’s timing]. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders (2 Thess. 2:7-9). The Illuminati’s plan and strategy is actually Satan’s so that their underlying force comes from the powers of darkness which play out on the surface as secrecy, deception, distraction, greed, and murder, for example. In turn, the history we’ve all been taught is a lie—partial truth smothered in lies and the powers of darkness. And it’s all soon coming to a climax. In the measure that it gets worse in the material world, God will be increasing the amount of enlightenment He allows His elect to have of the spiritual world so that God’s Team finally gets it together and Satan is destroyed by the light shed abroad through God’s born again faithful servants. As God said in the Scripture just quoted in block, “He who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth” (2 Thess. 2:7-8). That’s what these books will do, reveal Satan, the Wicked, along with all of his servants—many who don’t actually belong to him—because God is about done letting Satan fool His elect. Satan will be “taken out of the way” as the Lord consumes him “with the spirit of his mouth.” The spirit of the Lord’s mouth is the WORD of God, the Bible, the Sword of the Spirit (Eph. 6:17; Rev. 1:16). So while the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were part of Satan’s wicked plan, God has used them to enlightening His elect so that the secret societies are no longer secret to the average person. While some were informed before, as with William Cooper, most were not. Yet since 9/11, the web has been flooded with information about the Illuminati, secret societies, false flags, and the power elite. As God’s people get serious about the WORD of God and, therefore, get fully enlightened, they’ll see things as they really are. They’ll see Church leaders for who they really are along with all the sins the Church has bought into, all that wickedness spewed out by Satan and his servants, non-elect, elect who’ve been serving him, and prodigal elect. Empowered by the Holy Spirit of God and the WORD of God, Satan and his representatives will be taken out of the way, consumed by the Light and the Truth, Jesus Christ—a move of the Spirit of God. But it’s also been flooded with disinformation purposely planted by the Illuminati, as well as misinformation by those who haven’t been as enlightened by God through His WORD, which is why it’s so important to have God’s discernment, so as not to get fooled. It’s amazing how many people who ‘believe’ that Jesus is God, and know the Bible, are focused on aliens and all sorts of stuff they’re prophesying, yet never ever mention our need to repent and get right with God! They have been handed over to a powerful delusion, wasting their time making presentations and movies “prophesying” about the future with a sprinkling of the WORD of God. Then there are those who totally reject Jesus and are nevertheless being used by Him to educated the rest of us on some of what’s being carried around the world by the forces of evil (Rom. 8:28). As things climax, it will be like a tale of two cities. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” only it will be the best of times and the worst of times in all of history (Matt. 24:21), for a season, as Satan and his cronies are exposed then take a hike because the dark gets trumped by the “light of the world” (John 8:12). But, Jesus is first coming again as a “move of God” as He did in the Old Testament with His prophets, using them to spark a revival back to the truth (Isa. 40:3 & 62:10), and then again in the Middle Ages with the Great Reformation, as at other times in history with spiritual awakenings. It’s a spiritual return of the Lord. God purposed to make His Church a raving beauty (Eph. 4:11-16), and that’s what He’ll do, using the forces of evil to motivate His people to finally submit to Him. With that purpose in mind, God is preparing the way for the Lord (spiritually) though me with these books and videos like what He did with John the Baptist (Mark 1:3), a prophet who preached in the midst of a severely corrupted and faithless Church and tyrannical government—and then the Lord physically appeared. So, again, we gain the clearest discernment from sincere reading and application of God’s WORD. To the sincere seeker of truth, God says, “I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee” (Isa. 41:13). KEY POINTS ABOUT SATAN’S SECRET SOCIETIES: They’re Spiritual: They have a spiritual nature so that the leaders are often called priests—only they’re spiritually dark. They’re Wealthy: Since they have secret powers the leaders are often seen as being ‘greater’ than others, they have, therefore, been funded by the rest so that they’ve always been wealthy. And they’ve also acquired much wealth by stealing it, in one 129 way or another. Consider, for example, the Pope and the Vatican. They’re Wicked: They perform deeds the WORD of God considers ‘wicked,’ in order to release/gain power from Satan. However, most don’t realize this power is actually satanic and/or all that such means. Over time, recruiting among the non-elect, empowering them with secret knowledge, Satan created a power elite in the world as nations conquered other nations amassing great wealth through the spoil of those they’d conquered as well as through their slave labor (whether those people saw themselves as slaves or not), funds which mostly went to the priests and other ruling elite, all within Satan’s plan to rule the world out in the open in opposition to God’s righteous ruler, Jesus. Therefore, by the time of Christ, the Roman Empire ruled the world with men who would claim to be gods, or descended from the gods, a claim ruling elite had held in prior civilizations and still hold today because that’s what Satan whispers in their ears, as with Shirley Maclaine, Out on a Limb (1987). People believe this fantastic lie—that they are God—because they’re either non-elect or very deceived elect, having been handed over to Satan “because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved…[so] God…sen[t] them [a] strong delusion” (2 Thess. 2:10-11). It would be very easy to TAKE OFF on that road of deception as a Vessel of Mercy if you had more things going for you than the average person— considering the apostate (unbiblical) state of the Church today. Moreover, God has set everyone up to fall for Satan’s lies to one degree or another because of our initial rebellion in the Garden and continual rebellion. He does it to the elect in relation to the measure that we continue to reject Him as He reaches out to us throughout the course of our lives: [God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the 130 face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being (Acts 17:26-28). The more often we reject Him, the more He lets us waste our lives away and/or ruin them, and not become saved until later, maybe not until our very last breath so that we end up wasting our entire lives away, and the quality of our lives is so much less than what it could have been, what God has meant for us, Jesus having “come that [we] might have life…more abundantly” (John 10:10). By the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire had become the “Holy” Roman Empire which also called itself the Universal Church. This was another lie because it was run by Satan, thereby being a very unholy empire having grown in strength, wickedness, and wealth since the time God rebuked the Church through His servant, John, hundreds of years before. Again, not long after Jesus walked the earth, about 60 years or so later, God spoke to John about the horrendous state of the Church so that out of seven locations, only one congregation was still walking closely with Him summed up as follows: [God said] I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love…thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam [a false prophet]…thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication…I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not…I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts...thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead…thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth (Rev. 2 & 3). Fast forward, during the Reformation of the Middle Ages, while God enlightened many, they immediately broke into denominations, again doing their own thing rather than fully submit to God—which, of course, He knew would happen (Isa. 46:10). And since Satan is out to conquer all (Isa. 14:13-14), and because he is a spirit who has many demons working with him (Rev. 12:4), and because “the [human] heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jer. 17:9), Satan has been able to work through many nations and groups all along, worldwide, throughout history, so that the unholy Roman Empire, the Church of Rome, aka the Catholic church, represents only one of his most prominent tentacles today. In any case, by the 1700s, another of Satan’s wealthy wicked tentacles was the House of Rothschild, used by Satan to further strengthen his army and focus his strategy as the Rothschilds funded Adam Weishaupt who further tightened up Satan’s strategic plan so that the organization we know as the Illuminati came into being, even though it had already been quite active. The point is that 1776 is a key date on the timeline of Satan’s strategic plan to rule the world, a date that is also very significant in the history of the United States, a key nation in Satan’s strategic plan—a plan actually coordinated by God to show us how foolish we’ve all been “because that, when [we] knew God, [we] glorified him not as God, neither were [we] thankful; but [we] became vain in [ou]r imaginations, and [ou]r foolish heart[s were] darkened. Professing [our]selves to be wise, [we] became fools” (Rom. 1:21-22). The Illuminati is the ‘mother’ underground society which has ‘come up’ with a plan for the end, a New World Order. Only it was Satan’s plan all along since he had “said in [his] heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation… I will be like the most High” (Isa. 14:13-14). And Satan has been allowed to carry out his plan, under God’s supervision [as he was also granted over Job (Job 1-2)], since born again Christians have been so unfaithful to God. And those who reject the Bible don’t believe in Jesus at all, all of which God knew would happen even before He created the heavens and the earth—because that’s what it means to be God, He is omniscient. Nothing happens outside of His will (Isa. 14:24). It’s like the old riddle, Which came first? The chicken or the egg? The answer is the chicken since God created the first chickens (Gen. 1:20-21). God is the one in control who knows the beginning, the end, and everything in between because He is the “Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending…which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty” (Rev. 1:8). He also reveals secrets to players on both sides of the Game, to one side under the Spirit of light, and to the other under the spirit of darkness. “He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him” (Dan. 2:22). And Jesus says, “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8:12). Because born again Christians have not following Him, God has allowed Satan to persevere with his wicked schemes. Rather than follow Jesus, the light, born Christians have mostly walked in darkness. In turn, by 1917, because of the Bolshevik revolution when the masses killed the royal family, other royal families got scared that it would happen to them. At the same time these royals were making loads money on government contracts for WWI—tons of more money than they already had. So when the war ended, their light bulb came on as Satan whispered sweet nothings into their ears so that they facilitated WWII in order to fund it and continue to rake in the money, “they” being the Rothschilds and other power elite. And they have since been orchestrating and funding all the wars, funding the opposing sides so that they are guaranteed to get richer still while everyone else gets poorer as well as worn out. As God prophesied, “[Satan] shall wear out the saints of the most High” (Dan. 7:25). The saints are so worn out today that they 131 barely have any faith in God left at all! If they had any, they’ve be letting go of all their sins and joining as one, worshipping God “in sprit and in truth” (John 4:24) begging Him to save us from the coming slaughter! YouTube Indefinite Detention. And again, God has allowed Satan to wear out the saints because the saints haven’t been as saintly as they should have been—on many counts. For example, rather than fighting with material weapons, we should have been fighting all along with the Sword of the Spirit which is the WORD of God (Eph. 6:17). But Christians didn’t and haven’t because they’ve lacked faith in God. They’ve reasoned that we must fight our perceived human enemies when the biblical example is to “live by faith” (Heb. 10:38) and turn the other cheek (Matt. 5:38-40), letting God fight the battle for us. He says, “Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you” (Deut. 3:22). God has promised to fight for us when we humble ourselves before Him. “Submit[ting]…ourselves therefore to God. Resist[ing] the devil [so that] he will flee” (James 4:7). Only, we haven’t. Or, like Christ, we are to be willing to die for His Cause, trusting Him that He will reward us with a better resurrection (a better eternal outcome) for having done so, as He has clearly modeled for us in the Bible and recounted for us in what’s known as The Hall of Faith (Heb. 11). Unfaithful to God, He has allowed the power elite to fund the New World Order, working out Satan’s plan with taxpayer money and power we have given them so that Satan, through his ‘secret’ societies today ‘owns’ the governments, secret agencies, universities, media, Hollywood, pastors…the works. He has persevered by deceiving and bribing those in leadership with money and promises, placing them in higher positions and/or giving them perks (Matt. 4:9) so that when those people finally realize what they’ve actually gotten themselves into, it’s been too late. However, it’s only been too late for the nonelect. Over the years, elect souls have come to 132 their senses and written books or otherwise spoken up. And they have often been killed by them, like John F. Kennedy and William Cooper—and countless others. Satan doesn’t care who he kills, if they’re on the same team as he is, because he’s Satan. He cares for no one. “The devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet. 5:8). Kill, devour, same thing. And “whom” is anyone. Elect or non-elect, Satan doesn’t care. Satan’s goal is to establish a global government (a totalitarian regime), with one religion, promising peace—because Satan is a massive and chronic Liar (John 8:44). Satan and his Team are like the Borg, they’re fiercely determined to destroy the Lord’s Army. And nothing will stop the Borg but Jesus, God’s Christ. And He does it with the help of His Team, the Vessels of Mercy, who “endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ [and do not]…entangle…themselves] with the affairs of this life; that [they] may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier” (2 Tim. 2:3-4). HOMEWORK: Satan is God’s copycat. Therefore, he has his Ten Commandments. YouTube Georgia Guidestones and carefully consider these in light of the world’s current population—7.2 billion as of December 31st of 2014. Chris Pinto has a new documentary out, Dark Clouds Over Elberton: The True Story of the Georgia Guidestones (2015). Geoengineering Climate Change. For years the government has been artificially controlling the earth’s weather. The goal? God knows in the minds of the insane men in charge. But, ultimately, Satan is a control freak and murderer, using uncaring and uninformed people as his pawns. And the way to begin fighting back on this front is by getting on the Lord’s side and following His directives. He is our Commander in Chief. Venturing off on your own and doing what you think is best is mutiny. And “behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled” (Isa. 10:33). One Religion. Since Satan copies everything God does, though in a twisted and darkened manner, there is some truth to His New World Order religion. There is only one religion, but it’s not a combination of religions, it’s the one represented by the Bible. Jesus says, “There shall be one fold, and one shepherd” (John 10:16). In contrast, the worldly New World Order is working towards one fold under many shepherds—not quite right. Logic tells us that there can only be one God, one Creator. And He says, which obviously makes sense, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). And since this is what God requires, until we (the Vessels of Mercy) do it— as a group—He will keep letting Satan take us closer and closer to a brutal—the most brutal— totalitarian regime the world has ever known. And a big part of the New World Order is a one world religion, the exact opposite of God’s requirement to worship Him in Spirit and in truth. And it makes sense since Satan is the one behind the New World Order of the power elite, one who has proclaimed, “I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation…[and] be like the most High” (Isa. 14:13-14). YouTube One World Religion. Deceiving the Enlightened. One of the key ways Satan has God’s Vessels of Mercy duped, is through a concerted effort to water down both the Bible and the Christian faith. For hundreds of years, Satan has used the Jesuits, founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, to pose as Protestant pastors and evangelists, as well as infiltrating all areas of society in the highest positions of power, getting away with it because most born again Christians don’t know the Bible well, and those that do, enjoy being lazy followers of blind guides, having ignored Jesus’ warning that doing so will land them in a ditch (Matt. 15:14). In fact, it lands all of us in a ditch as is so evident today. HOMEWORK: 1. Google Rulers of Evil by Tupper Saucy PDF. 2. Go to chapter 1, Subliminal Rome, and read at least up to page 5. While this is old news, it’s only gotten worse since then. If you don’t understand the problem with the Catholic church, you haven’t done your Homework. Here’s your report card—F. The Age of Deceit Listening to what people say on the web while also listening to what God says, I’ve seen two things going on. Every year God has been enlightening more people to the layers and layers of lies by which we’ve been fooled. Yet nearly EVERYONE is still being fooled because they reject the Bible, or don’t believe or apply all of it. For instance, every day this week the Lord has revealed another fantastic lie to me, revealed by people who have spent tremendous amounts of time putting together excellent presentations providing much evidence that uncovers the lie. Yet all of these people are still buried under massive lies—still in Satan’s grip—because they reject the Bible either in whole or in part. That’s why for years they’ve been ‘predicting’ events (prophesying) which haven’t happened. And thank God they haven’t! While God is allowing some truth to be revealed, until His elect acknowledge Him and start working together “submitting…ourselves one to another in the fear of God” (Eph. 5:21), we all remain in Satan’s grip (John 12:31). When we acknowledge Jesus for who He is and start humbly working together under His lordship, God will pull all the blinders from our eyes as a group because it’s what He has promised to do. “God…revealeth secrets, and maketh known…what shall be in the latter days” (Dan. 2:28). While God has revealed much to me, which I spell out in the series, there are questions which will not be answered until the 133 body of Christ begins to work together as God has called us to do (Eph. 5:21). than in simply trusting Him. As He says, “The just shall live by faith” (Rom. 1:17). Spending countless numbers of hours studying the occult or the history of the world, is not what’s needed. What’s most needed is knowing the Bible and knowing it well. More than that, you need to know the Lord, Jesus, well, One you get to know by knowing the Bible and submitting to God. He says, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27). Following Jesus is God’s will for all the elect so that, through Him, by His power, we turn the world around. It benefits us and glorifies Him—a win win. For those who clearly see the present devastating danger we’re in, the hardest part will be to spend a good hunk of time on seeking God because we all think we can do things faster our way than by reading His WORD and praying it. Yet God is the One in control. He can blink and fix it all. What He wants is for His children to honor Him and get to know Him. That’s what you need to be focused on. That’s what Christians haven’t done in 2000 years, landing us in the current worldwide mess. God’s WORD on Digging Deep— All elect need to look into the real history of the world on your own. But you don’t want to get lost digging too deep into it for several reasons: 1. You’ll Waste Your Time: God has only granted you so much time to get to know Him and know Him well, the purpose of which is to be used by Him to help Jesus build His kingdom on earth for which He rewards you with treasure in heaven (2 Chron. 7:14; Matt. 6:1920). The bulk of your time should be spent on knowing and serving Him. 2. You’ll Never Know EXACT History: The record that we know as history is tainted by those who conquered others, by those with an agenda, as well as by well-meaning sinners. The best we can do is to consider the evidence and make a sound judgment, which we do with God’s help. He says, “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths” (Prov. 3:5-6). 3. It’s a Distraction: Getting us off focus is one of Satan’s key strategies in keeping God’s elect ineffective while he builds his kingdom on earth, his New World Order. And God allows it because we’re focusing more on our knowledge and supposed brilliance (‘works’), rather 134 I leave it up to you to look into it—the current state of the world—for yourself while I focus on giving you a sketch of it from a biblical perspective. There’s plenty of information on the web to help you out. Besides, that’s really all that’s necessary. However we actually got to where we now are worldwide—politically, financially, socially, environmentally, and spiritually—the way for an improved outcome is through Jesus Christ. The key point is that the minority control the majority and most of us in America have been part of the problem rather than part of the solution—and that has to change. While this is ‘old’ news, it gets the point across, and I’ve given you other resources elsewhere. YouTube Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh. Uploaded by TeamSweat. Moreover, the way God has given us, as laid out in His WORD, the Bible, is the only way to go about it. That’s why He’s having me spell it all out and also why He has repeatedly backed up what I’m saying, having done it in many different ways. 12 God’s Tainted Story Unlike what many Christians say and think, Satan is not God’s enemy. God created Satan and is using him as His tool, something like the hand a father uses to spank his disobedient children, or how cops use German Shepherds. And Satan is using the Illuminati as his tool. And because of Satan and his Illuminati, God 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” (Rev. 12:12). Woe to us indeed because his time is nearly up. The closer we get to his allotted time, the more his ways are openly expressed—like it was when Jesus walked the earth and everywhere he turned the demons were on overdrive (Mark 5:1-18, 9:20; Matt. 8:16, etc.). Satan and his demons have been using people to fight against us for his purposes since the very beginning of history, and the Illuminati, composed of secret societies and the power elite, have been deceiving the rest throughout history, which is so obvious today. And they’ve gotten cocky seeing themselves as having already won. For instance, when asked on public television if he belonged to Skull and Bones (a diabolical secret society), former President G. W. Bush laughed as he admitted it. However, they are all deceived to one degree or another so that one dreadful day, when they die, finding themselves in hell, they’ll say to Satan, the antichrist, and the false prophet, “Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?” (Isa. 14:10). While they thought they had it made for the rest of eternity, they’re going to find out it’s just the opposite. While the Vessels of Wrath have been lying to the masses for centuries, they themselves have been lied to by the Father of Lies, Satan (John 8:44)— allowed by God for the benefit of the elect, His Vessels of Mercy (Rom. 9:21-25). SIN’S SPECTRUM sums it all up, not only the series, but the state of the world and of the true Church. It also sums up human nature, sinful (Gen. 3; Rom. 5:12). I’ll break it down 135 throughout the series with words, but it should help you see the Big Picture in graphic form before I continue. While I didn’t plug in Scriptures for every arrow, it is a biblical picture of what the Bible says, of what we’ve done and are doing, and of where God is taking His Church, the born again, a group God refers to as saints throughout the New Testament. By now, 2015, many have acknowledged that there is a conspiracy working against us behind the scenes, but I’ve yet to hear of anyone, including born again Christians, connect all the dots. I don’t mean outline every single event, but connect the dots with what God has said in the Bible with the situation the world is currently in, that it’s born again Christians who are mostly at fault—and have been so historically. Yet if you know the Bible, it’s easy to see for yourself—to discern—by a person’s words, actions, or affiliations whose side they’re on, Satan’s or the Lord’s. And hardly anyone has been on the right side, since that’s what God said, the way is narrow (Matt. 7:13-14). So I’ve come up with a sketch starting with Satan’s rebellion against God to his present reign as ruler of this world, with key people and groups he’s used along the way and is still using. I also include some key points on the way to Jesus’ version of the New World Order, heaven on earth. And while no one can know whether any of these people who’ve already died, died with faith in Christ, we can know the influence they primarily had while they lived. In other words, the people and groups included in my timeline have mostly been used by Satan, with a few exceptions. However, any of them may actually be elect, something we won’t know this side of heaven. It’s not likely for most of them considering Jesus said, “By their fruits ye shall know them” (Matt. 7:20). But we do have the account of the thief hanging on the Cross next to Jesus: One of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other 136 answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise (Luke 23:39-43). The disciples were amazed by the Lord’s hard teaching—by the Standard He expects us to live by—so that they asked “Who then can be saved?” (Matt. 19:25). Jesus replied, “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible” (Matt. 19:26). In other words, it’s impossible for any of us to get saved, considering what we’re all like (Jer. 17:9; Rom. 3:10). But with God and His amazing grace, it is possible for anyone, whoever He has decided will get saved (Rom. 8:30) to get to heaven because, “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom. 10:13). It’s just that not all of the Vessels of Mercy get Home in the best shape. In fact, most do not. And only those He predetermined would call on Him will call on Him (Rom. 9:22-23). Since others have done a great job putting together books and documentaries, it’s up to you to do your own Homework seeking the Lord taking advantage of everything He’s provided, in order to make a sound biblical judgment for yourself. This is what I’ve put together, chunking it down since it just goes on and on and on! And you really have to do your Homework because I could be wrong (Rom. 3:10). I know I am! EVERYONE has been wrong on points here and there. However, because of everything God has revealed to me, as shared in the series, I know I have the overall picture right as it concerns Him and what He’s doing. The point is that there has been a war taking place in the spiritual realm (Eph. 6:12) in which humans are used as pawns (1 Pet. 5:8)—allowed by God to make His Point— that we’re a bunch of miserable sinners who need to repent. A Timeline of His Story *Dates according to The Annals of the World by James Ussher. 4000 BC: Satan & Angels Rebel. [Jesus said] I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven (Luke 10:18). A great red dragon…drew the third part of the stars of heaven (Rev. 12:3-4). *4004 BC: Adam & Eve—The Fall of Man. She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat (Gen. 3:6). *2348 BC: Noah & the Flood. The wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man…But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD (Gen. 6:58). *2242 BC: The Tower of Babel. They said…let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name… And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence (Gen. 11:4-8). *2188 BC: Egypt. Egyptians are known for their ‘towers,’ the pyramids. Freemasonry’s origins appear to point back to Egypt. Thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High (Isa. 14:13-14). 1500 BC: Rosicrucians. Secret society possibly started in Egyptian temples as select students were inducted into the “secret mysteries” of life, what God calls the knowledge of evil and we know as the occult. First made public in the 1600s. Focused on religion, politics, and science. A very evil secret society. 28 AD: Jesus’ Ministry. I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing (John 18:20). Great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel (Matt. 15:30-31). 70: Jerusalem is Trashed by the Romans. Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down (Matt. 24:1-2). 90: The Church Had Fallen. While the Holy Spirit was poured out on the believers at Pentecost, only 60 years or so later Christians had mostly strayed from God. Out of seven churches only two were right with Him. [God said] I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love…thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam [a false 137 prophet]…thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication…I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not…I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts...thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead…thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth (Rev. 2 & 3). 156: Divine Authority. Romans ‘came up’ with the idea that the emperor was divine. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation…I will be like the most High (Isa. 14:13-14). 156: Idolatrous Christianity. Professing Christians began collecting bones and other relics of the martyrs. (Satan had them focus on this earth, the material, rather than on the future, their ultimate destiny. Begun with Catholics, the same mentality would spread to Protestants.) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened (Rom. 1:21). 177: Gnosticism Revived. Belief that there is salvation without Christ based on ‘secret’ knowledge and that angels govern the world rather than God; and spiritual people (Gnostics) are superior. Gnostics used Christian terms, fooling the masses, as well as themselves. Jesus [said]…in secret have I said nothing (John 18:20). But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [meaning secretly] shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the 138 Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction (2 Pet. 2:1). 196: Bishops Think they Can Pardon Sins. The idolatrous fake church started calling the bishop of Rome Pope, as in Father, making him equal with God—when it just ain’t so. All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation (Mark 3:28-29). Who can forgive sins but God? (Mark 2:7). 250: Monasteries are Begun. Men living in isolation under vows of poverty and chastity which Jesus never called for from His disciples. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband (1 Cor. 7:3). 312: General Constantine “Converts.” He sees a vision of Christ saying “In this sign conquer,” and justifies killing in the “name of Christ.” Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit (Matt. 7:17). 325: Council of Nicea. Constantine began the practice of uniting the “church” with the state/empire. [Jesus says to His disciples] you do not belong to the world (John 15:19). 405: The Vulgate Bible Translation. Jerome translates the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek to Latin. In 1519, it’s proven by Erasmus to be an extremely bad translation. Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved…for this cause God…sen[t] them [a] strong delusion, that they should believe a lie (2 Thess. 2:10-11). force, to keep tabs on church and state officials. Monasteries are made into cultural banks. 590: Pope Gregory I – “The Great.” Encouraged “saint” veneration/idolatry. Taught purgatory/a lie. Spread Catholic power; bishop of Constantinople claimed to be ecumenical (Global) Patriarch, a sort of parallel to the Pope. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain (Isa. 56:11). How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? (John 5:44) 1095-1600s: Catholic Crusades. Pope Urban gains recruits with promises of less time in purgatory (a place that doesn’t exist). Fight to gain converts for Christ, or so they say. Catholic church gets rich off the spoil. 606: Pope is Made Head of All Churches. The papacy is officially established in Rome. This was a major milestone in setting up Satan’s kingdom on earth, a union of church and state— politics and religion. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived (2 Tim. 3:13). Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ (Matt. 23:10). 1129: Catholic Church Endorses the Knights Templar. Real followers of Christ don’t kill. 610: Muhammad Preaches Islam. Using parts of the Bible—Judaism and Christianity— along with his own satanically inspired thoughts, Muhammad creates Islam. Eventually new ‘holy’ scriptures are written, the Qu’ran. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph. 6:12). I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book (Rev. 22:18-19). c. 1170: Waldensians & Albigenses. They practiced and taught the New Testament for which Catholics brutally persecuted them. 623-1050: Muslim Conquest. A political and religious conquest similar to Catholicism. They that take the sword shall perish with the sword (Matt. 26:52). 800: Pope Crowns King as Emperor. Pope Leo II crowns Charlemagne as Emperor keeping alive the idea of the Roman Empire. Charlemagne creates Missi Dominici, a police All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution (2 Tim. 3:12). 1215: Fourth Lateran Council. Pope Innocent III says, “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one at all can be saved." He claims to be Vicar of Christ, mediator between God and man. Officially made transubstantiation part of the Catholic church. The Council allowed the state to punish “heretics” and confiscate their property, stealing their money. The Council required Jews to wear identifying badges which led to Jewish ghettos (paving the way for Hitler). There is…one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Tim. 2:5). 139 1216: Dominican Order. Pope Honorius III makes Dominican friars a powerful military weapon for the Catholic church—for Satan. 1415: Catholics Burn John Hus. Hus preached the truth learned from Wycliffe and his followers, the Lollards. Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them (Deut. 11:16). Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isa. 5:20). 1252: Pope Authorizes Torture. Innocent III authorized torture as a means to obtain information and get confessions of “heresy.” 1456: Bible Printed on Guttenberg’s Press. God is working it all out for His ultimate purposes. Whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all (Mark 10:44). Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning (James 1:17). 1273: Summa Theologica, Aquinas. A mixture of Scripture and human reasoning, later used by the Catholic church against Protestants. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar (Prov. 30:6). 1378-1417: The Great Schism. Two popes claim to be Vicar of Christ. There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect (Matt. 24:24). 1384: John Wycliffe. Opposes Catholic teachings which got him banned then excommunicated. He also translated the Vulgate Bible into English. Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men (Col. 3:23). 1390: Oldest Mention of Freemasonry. Occult secret society. Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops (Luke 12:3). 140 1478-1834: Spanish Inquisition. Catholics brutally persecute born again Christians, Jews, Muslims and others, ‘trying’ to make “converts.” In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth (2 Tim. 2:25). 1500: European Renaissance. Humanism takes hold. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked (Jer. 17:9). 1503: Selling of Indulgences Begins. Catholic church begins bribing people in exchange for God’s favor. Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money (Acts 8:20). 1517: Martin Luther Opposes Catholic Corruption. Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3). 1519: Erasmus Provides a Parallel Bible. He provided a parallel New Testament in Latin and Greek, confirming that the Catholic Vulgate was severely corrupted. I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it (Matt. 16:18). 1523: Zwingli Reveals Himself a Hypocrite. Leader of Swiss Reformation, Ulrich Zwingli dies fighting. I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also (Matt. 5:39). 1525: Protestants Persecute Protestants. Like Catholics who killed them, Protestants kill Anabaptists. Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? (Luke 6:46). 1526: William Tyndale’s Bible. Using Erasmus’ work, Tyndale provides a New Testament and much of the Old before being killed by Catholics. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints (Ps. 116:15). 1529: Martin Luther Refuses Unity in Christ. Protestants meet at Marburg Castle but Luther won’t reject transubstantiation (a false doctrine) so that he won’t even shake hands with another Protestant. Submit…yourselves one to another in the fear of God (Eph. 5:21). 1534: The Act of Supremacy. Parliament declared the king to be the supreme head of the Church of England. Christ is the head of the church (Eph. 5:23). 1540: Society of Jesus Founded, aka the Jesuits. Ignatius Loyola started this secret society vowing total obedience to the Pope. The following is an excerpt from the Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction: To be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe no man, to trust no man. Among the Reformers, to be a reformer; among the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist; among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant, and obtaining their confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might be enabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope…plant the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces, states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace. To take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means... Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another (Lev. 19:11). 1543: Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions forming the basis of the Copernican system, a heliocentric universal view as opposed to the ancient (and more biblical) geocentric one. While noted by many as being “deeply religious” he was deeply Catholic as a Dominican priest. 141 “Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray” (Deut. 27:18). 1545-1563: Council of Trent. This council reaffirmed the unbiblical position of the Catholic church. God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Gal. 6:7). 1549: Book of Common Prayer. A combination of Protestant and Catholic beliefs used by the Anglican church. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (2 Cor. 6:14). 1582-1610: Douay-Rheims Bible. Catholics finally gave in and provided an English translation based on the Vulgate. And even though the Catholic church preaches lies, their own Bible also speaks the truth. However, some words in their version of the Bible are very misleading. For example, repentance was translated penance. That’s a big difference because repentance is made to God asking for His forgiveness which is granted by grace just for the asking, whereas penance is doing works as directed by a man to gain forgiveness from God through a man supposedly acting in God’s name. Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition (Mark 7:9). 1550-60s: The Geneva Bible. This was the first Study Bible, the one of the Reformation, and of the Pilgrims. 1611: King James Bible. As supposed Head of the Church of England, and desiring to rid himself of the Geneva Bible because the study notes made the truth clearer and him look bad, King James authorized this translation. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path (Ps. 119:105). Let us not be desirous of vain glory (Gal. 5:26). 1562: Huguenots Massacred at Vassy. The time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service (John 16:2). 1561-1626: Sir Francis Bacon. Leader of the Rosicrucians and first Grand Master of modern Freemasonry, he wrote The New Atlantis, a ‘vision’ of a democratic commonwealth governed by scientific achievement. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man (Ps. 118:8-9). 142 1620-1691: The Mayflower Compact. IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten… Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith…Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation… The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether (Ps. 19:9). 1630: Puritans & John Winthrop. Originally biblical, the first Christian settlers to what would become the United States, increasingly lost focus. 1663: American Capital Originally called Rome. A portion of the original property donated for the capital city was called Rome, and the foundation and architecture is all pagan. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain (1 Cor. 9:24). Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee (1 Sam. 15:23). 1642-1727: Sir Isaac Newton. Regarded as one of the most influential scholars in the history of science, he was known to associate with many secret societies, be a lover of the Rosicrucians, and of alchemy. He wasn’t so much a scientist but an occult magician. 1678: Dissidents are Persecuted. King Charles II reneges on his promise of freedom. Only the Anglican church is accepted. [God] honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not (Ps. 15:4). Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge (1 Tim. 6:20). 1735: Great Awakening & Jonathan Edwards. Not 100% biblical so not successful. 1646: Westminster Confession of Faith. Standards for the Church of England. If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all (Isa. 7:9, NIV). Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man (Eccl. 12:13). 1770-76: Rothchild & Weishaupt Create Illuminati. They formulate a modern plan to put Satan’s New World Order into effect. The purpose is to divide and conquer by turning everyone against each other through politics, religion, economics, and social means. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book (Rev. 22:18-19). 1650-1780s: The Age of Reason. Men hoped to reform society with toleration, science, and skepticism, rejecting Christ’s authority. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good (Ps. 14:1). Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure (Ps. 2:1-5). 143 1776: American Revolution. Thomas Paine inspired the American revolution, a man who adamantly rejected the Bible. Key Founding Fathers who Rejected the Bible: George Washington (Freemason), John Adams (Unitarian, Illuminati), Benjamin Franklin (Freemason, Illuminati), John Hancock (Freemason), Thomas Jefferson (extremely antichrist). This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings (Ps. 49:13). 1782: Freemason Illuminati Merger. In the same way the Herod and Pilate became friends through Jesus’ crucifixion (Luke 23:12), all evil groups tend to easily unite their evil ways to press on with their wicked plans. 1797: Treaty of Tripoli. Article 11 states “the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.” It was signed by John Adams and unanimously approved by the Senate. In contrast, there’s been a movement among professing Christians (key spokesman being David Barton) teaching that this country was firmly founded on Christian principles, when only the Mayflower Compact was Christian. All liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone (Rev. 21:8). 1799: Church Missionary Society (CMS). An arm of the Anglican (fake) church since it did not have Jesus as the head. Christ is the head of the church (Eph. 5:23). Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished (Prov. 16:5). 1804: British and Foreign Bible Society. Another arm of the Anglican (fake) church. 1784: New World Order Plan Revealed. Courier carrying Illuminati conspiracy plans is killed. Warnings of danger get ignored. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived (2 Tim. 3:13). Though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction (Jer. 32:33). 1816: African American Episcopal Church. Founded because Black Christians weren’t allowed to pray next to white Christians. (How fake is that!) 1787-1788: U.S. Constitution. Made it possible for Catholics to hold public office. Do all to the glory of God. Give none offence (1 Cor. 10:31-32). I myself will fight against you (Jer. 21:5). 1825: The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order, Leone. Leone overhead Jesuits and wrote to warn the world how they planned to take control of the Bible. 1793-1793: Reign of Terror and French Revolution. It’s financially backed by the Rothschilds/Illuminati. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth (Ps. 34:16). 144 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck (Jer. 7:25-26). 1830: Charles Finney’s “Revivals.” Finney appealed to people’s feelings, beginning a movement among Protestants in that direction. 1854: Charles Spurgeon, Prince of Preachers. Preached the Bible yet ridiculed by the Anglican church. Do I now persuade men, or God?...if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ (Gal. 1:10). Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me (Ps. 101:6). 1832: Skull & Bones Founded. Repulsive secret society of Yale University connected to the Illuminati. Closely connected with Nazi Germany, modern psychology, and modern education. Members have included the following: 27th William Howard Taft, U.S. President; Prescott Bush, Wall Street banker and U.S. Senator, Father of President Bush; Harry Truman’s Secretary of War; G. H. Bush, 41st U.S. President; George W. Bush, 43rd U.S. President; and, David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize winning author/historian. A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised (Prov. 12:8). 1833-1845: The Oxford Movement. A Catholic effort led by John Henry Newman to swing the Protestant church back to the papal ritualistic system. The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Rev. 21:8). 1840: Albert Pike Heads the Illuminati. Pike builds on Weishaupt’s plans for fulfilling Satan’s New World Order. Established strategic bases around the world. Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood (Prov. 1:16) 1854: Immaculate Conception. Pope Pius proclaimed that Mary was conceived without sin. All have sinned (Rom. 5:12). 1855: Dwight Moody. He built upon Charles Finney’s worldly traditions. Forerunner for the “great” Billy Graham, one who claims to be Christian yet says there are many ways to God. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it (Isa. 5:14). 1857: National Education Association (NEA). Largest labor union which works for teachers while hurting students and all of society. Publications encourage teaching in favor of global government. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven (Matt. 18:10). 1859: Origin of Species, Darwin. Believed we can’t know God. This is his full book title, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life—a philosophy put into practice by Adolf Hitler. I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart (Jer. 24:7). 145 1869: First Vatican Council, Pope Pius IX. Proclaims Papal infallibility, meaning, when he speaks from the “chair” as Pope he is incapable of making a mistake. Uh huh. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity (Ps. 94:11). 1874-1947: Nicholas Roerich. Highly influenced President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Wallace (Freemasons). Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes (Ps. 119:155). 1882: Warning to Posterity Erected. A group set up a pillar after William Morgan’s death saying that he had been “abducted…by Freemasons and murdered for revealing the secrets of their order.” Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword (Matt. 10:32-34). 1893: Orlando Ferguson Publishes His Map of a Flat Earth. Ferguson uses the Bible to produce an image of the geocentric Earth during a time when everyone, including Christians, are already deeply sold on pseudo-science and an antichrist mentality. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace (Rom. 11:5). 1898-1963: C. S. Lewis. A professing Christian who is loved by Christianity Today even though he was antichrist according to his own writings, as with the follow excerpt: There are people in other religions who are being led by God’s secret influence to concentrate on those parts of their religion which are in agreement with 146 Christianity, and who thus belong to Christ without knowing it (from Mere Christianity. p. 176-177.) [Jesus says] If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins (John 8:24). 1906: Azusa Street Revival. A “revival” that led to the Pentecostal movement and an unbiblical and extensive demonstration of “speaking in tongues” along with many other unbiblicalities. If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God (1 Cor. 14:27-28). 1913: The Federal Reserve. An unconstitutional system created by and for the power elite. Google 10 Things that Every American Should Know about the Federal Reserve. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord (Ps. 14:4). 1914-1918: World War I. Rothschilds appear to have financially backed opposing parties while also controlling the media. He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him (Prov. 28:22). 1916: Planned Parenthood. The name is satanic double-talk for murder since it’s all about killing the innocent. Presented as a peace plan, it was founded by Margaret Sanger, a racist who echoed Hitler’s views. You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb (Ps. 139:13, NIV). 1919: World Christian Fundamentalist Association. A move among more conservative denominations to get the Church back to the basics. Ignoring the huge sin of denominational division (among other sins), it led to more denominational splits. 1932-1967: Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth. I haven’t read it though I’ve read that it affirmed most biblical teachings but did not accept all events as factual—“serving” God while not believing Him. In any case, there’s a great review on Amazon.com: For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge (Jer. 4:22). Do we really need 31 volumes of longwinded, exegesis? Know where I got…my info? I read God's Word, and pray for wisdom. (Uploaded by LastMinute Mark on April 28, 2012.) 1920: League of Nations. An antichrist organization aimed at “attaining world peace” with Satan’s help. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child (Ps. 131:2). For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land (Ps. 35:20). 1921: Council on Foreign Relations. A stronghold of the power elite controlling national government and multinational corporations, promoting a world government through media, foundation grants, education, and bribes and kickbacks. I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you (Lev. 26:30). 1922: The Lucifer Trust & the United Nations. Though they changed their name from Lucifer Trust to Lucis Trust, the publishing arm of the UN remains Satanic as does the aim of the UN—peace, healing, and growth without Jesus Christ. A lie. They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace (Jer. 6:14). 1935: Satanic Seal is Placed on Dollar Bill. President Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Wallace had the masonic/Satanic seal placed on the American dollar. There fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image (Rev. 16:2). 1939: World War 2. Both sides were funded by the power elite so the rich got richer and you know the rest. How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? (Num. 14:11). 1940: The Kinsey Reports. Partly funded by Rockefeller, it led to the sexual revolution, the abortion movement, the gay rights movement, the widespread use of pornography, and extensive child sexual abuse. God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually (Gen. 6:5). 147 1942: Bush Funds Hitler. G. W. Bush’s grandfather’s company was seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act for funding Hitler. I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings (Jer. 17:10). 1945: The United Nations. Supposedly aimed at attaining world peace, it is just the opposite. We have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves (Isa. 28:15). 1945: Harry Truman. A Freemason for global government. When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever (Ps. 92:7). 1945: Operation Paperclip. United States government ‘cleanses’ the records of some 1500 Nazi criminal and begins using their expertise in their favor funded by the American people without their knowledge. The arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous. (Ps. 37:17). 1948: UN Division of Palestine. Leads to a blood bath. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God (Ps. 9:17). 1948: Israeli Flag Uses Satanic Symbolism. The hexagram is the symbol for Moloch and Astaroth, in other words, for Satan. I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be 148 delivered. Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them (Amos 9:1-3). 1948: Rothschilds Behind Israeli State. Bribe Truman with $2M. They have rejected me, that I should not reign over them (1 Sam. 8:7). 1948: World Council of Churches. A major step towards a one world religion. Can be traced back to D. L. Moody to Charles Finney. Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord (Zech. 1:4). 1949: Mao Tse Tsung & People’s Republic of China. Funded by Rothschilds. Murders more than Hitler & Stalin. They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy (Jer. 50:42). 1949: Billy Graham’s Crusades Begin. Hundreds would come up to “receive” Christ, yet there it zero fruit of it in Christianity Today. By their fruits ye shall know them (Matt. 7:20) 1951: Mossad, Israeli Secret Service. Their motto: “By way of deception, thou shalt do war.” Wisdom is too high for a fool (Ps. 24:7). 1954: The Bilderberger Group. The world’s power elite meet annually to conspire on how to protect and enhance their status. Ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? (Ps. 94:7-8). 1955-1956: Operation Deep Freeze. th Admiral Byrd’s Last (4 ) Expedition to Antarctica. Speaks on T.V. of the wealth of natural resources and unchartered territory. A Freemason funded by Rockefeller before the government got involved. The heavens are yours [God], and yours also the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it (Ps. 89:11). 1959: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is Established. Wernher von Braun, SS Nazi criminal, is made Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center. He warned the assembly, “Move back from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.” (Num. 16:26). 1959: Antarctica Treaty. Keeps the public from Antarctica. Overseen by the U.S. and the United Nations’ UNODA. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies (Ps. 58:3) 1960: Charismatic Movement Begins. Focused on feelings and emotions rather than on truth, opening wide the door for Satan. Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth (Hab. 1:4). 1960: Catholic President Elected. John F. Kennedy. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (2 Cor. 6:14). 1962-1965: Vatican II. States that every human must be subject to the Pope. Widened the door for a one world religion. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction (Prov. 1:17). 1965: Council of the Americas. Founded by David Rockefeller promoting trade to benefit the elite. The rich man is wise in his own conceit (Prov. 28:11). 1966: Tragedy & Hope, Carroll Quigley. Acknowledged the international network working towards a global government. Shame shall be the promotion of fools (Prov. 3:35). 1969: Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones Preaches to the Deaf. Pastor/historian preaches at a pastor’s conference to pastors about our sin of denominations. I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not (Rev. 2:21). 1969: The Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey. The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD (Obad. 1:3-4). 149 1970: World Conference of Religions for Peace. Different religions working together towards peace, supposedly. Headquartered at the UN, supported by the Vatican. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people (Ps. 83:3). 1973: Trilateral Commission. A joint effort among the power elite to safeguard their interests via global governance. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God (Matt. 19:24). 1980: Georgia Guidestones. They reveal Satan’s murderous agenda. There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men (Prov. 30:14). 1993: Re-enactment of the Laying of the Capitol Cornerstone. Freemason Senator Strom Thurmont re-enacted this event. Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god (Ps. 16:4). 1993: European Union (EU). Political and economic union—a big step towards a global government. Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him (Prov. 26:27). 1994: North American “Free Trade” Agreement (NAFTA). Trade agreement between Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. governments, safeguarding the interests of multinational corporations. The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined (Ps. 10:2). 1986: First World Day of Prayer for Peace. The Pope organized this ecumenical movement where 160 leaders of different religions and denominations come together for prayer and fasting. Among them are leaders of the Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Voodoo, Protestants, and all of the Luciferian religions. 1995: World Trade Organization (WTO). Improves the lives of the elite at the cost of the majority. Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God (Lev. 19:31). 1997: Geoenginnering by Government Begins. More than likely it began earlier. It’s the deliberate attempt to change the weather/climate—to play God—in spite of unknown, and even known, repercussions. 1990s: Patriotic Christianity. David Barton, James Kennedy, Peter Marshall and others have made a career of preaching that America was founded on Christianity with men like Washington and those of the American Revolution—men who were quite antichrist. Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. (Ps. 15:1-2). 150 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them (Ps. 35:6). Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver (Ps. 50:22). 1997: Pastors Refuse to Repent. God had me start calling pastors to repentance beginning with Eagle Church in association with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM), one of the brainiest Protestant groups internationally, yet blind as can be and hardhearted as Satan. [God says] At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them…And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart (Jer. 18:7-12). 2001-present: War on Terror. We’re actually in a war of terror waged on us by Satan and everyone helping him, which is mostly everyone to one degree or another since hardly anyone is fully committed to Jesus Christ—most aren’t at all. In turn, every important aspect of societal life, worldwide, is in a state of chaos consistently growing worse by the day. If ye will not hearken unto me…I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror (Lev. 26:14-16). Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish (Luke 13:3). 2000: UN World Council of Religious Leaders. Two thousand of the world's preeminent religious leaders gathered for a Peace Summit—working towards a one world religion. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast (Rev. 17:13). 2001: 9/11 Terror Attacks. Alas, alas that great city…that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come (Rev. 18:10). 151 13 with Him, the better fellowship we have with one another. God’s Way is Better What it Means to Be Prodigal While we can’t see Jesus in the world today, He is present by way of His Holy Spirit. Therefore, those who have become born again can see His hand in the world and hear His voice (John 10:27), especially when they are followers of Christ (John 12:26). Therefore, two or more born again Christians who are in right relationship with God, no unconfessed sin blocking the way, can have fellowship with each other and with God—the best possible relationship humans can have this side of heaven. Basically, fellowship with God and with others looks like the Unity in Christ graphic. A prodigal Christian is born again but in rebellion against God. Having experienced the fellowship of the believers, at some point that person rebelled, wanting to do something God disapproves of, or not wanting to do something He was calling them to do. (As noted, I discern that turning a blind eye to denominations historically has made it very easy for every born again Christian to turn a blind eye to personal sins, beginning a downward cycle.) For whatever reason, rather than submit to God’s will, the born again Christian decided to do her will, breaking fellowship with the Lord and with her friend. No longer a follower of Christ, she is now serving Satan again, as she’d done before becoming born again—but likely with a different set of sins. The point is that she’s again serving Satan, the ruler of this world, and not serving Jesus whom she professes to love. She’s become a hypocrite blind to her hypocrisy. Actually, it would look more like two people sitting at His feet listening to Him and talking with Him, like preschoolers do with their teacher during story time. But I’m no artist. My ‘sketches’ are made from cropped scans of pictures and drawings I’ve tweaked by a process of tracing, repeated scanning, cropping, and pasting. In short, this was easier. Walking closely with the Lord, what one hears from God, the other one in fellowship with her and in fellowship with God can also come to understand as they seek God about it. The best fellowship God has enabled us to have on earth would mean that God’s people get along as well as possible without any hidden agenda or sin hindering their fellowship (Eph. 5:21). It’s the epitome of love, joy, and, peace—what Jesus died to give us on this earth (John 10:10), then in heaven (Rev. 21:3-4). The better we each know the WORD of God and the Lord, and the closer we each walk 152 Consequently, becoming prodigal is about the worst thing a born again Christian can do because while she tells everyone she’s a Christian, she behaves in a way that totally dishonors Christ, confusing those who don’t know the Lord or who barely know Him. A prodigal Christian places a “stumbling block” in front of others when Christians have been commanded not to do that (Rom. 14:13). And yet, it’s what Christianity has done as a whole, for the most part, ever since Jesus came. Since the prodigal is in rebellion against God, her friend who isn’t in rebellion is called by God to separate from her friend if the prodigal refuses to turn back to God, because if she doesn’t break ties with her prodigal friend, she’ll also break her fellowship with God. God says, “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted” (Gal. 6:1). And if this sister in Christ refuses to repent, God says, “Deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord” (1 Cor. 5:5). And if the prodigal keeps hardening her heart, she’ll just keep wasting her life away, while causing havoc. She’ll repent the day the Lord makes it obvious to her again that He is still on the Throne. serve God better than they do. And Christian leaders do it when a Christian not in leadership surpasses them in biblical understanding. Everyone acts like a spoiled brat, like Cain, rather than admit they’re not as right with God as they need to be and change their ways. The prodigal is ‘delivered to Satan’ when the faithful believer breaks fellowship with her so that she now has to ‘fend for herself’ in Satan’s territory since Satan is “the ruler of this world” (John 12:31, 14:30, and 16:11, YLT). Instead, she could have remained in the safer haven of fellowship with the Lord and with her brothers and sisters in Christ. Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. 8:30-39). However, she actually handed herself over to Satan by refusing to continue to submit to Jesus. It’s the lesson God gave us in the very beginning with Cain and Abel. Abel had given God a better quality offering which made Cain mad, so this is what God told Cain: Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door (Gen. 4:6-7). While it is neither mature nor biblical to get mad at someone because they did something better than you did, it’s what most do because we’re all sinners boiling over with pride (Jer. 17:9). The power elite do it by seeing themselves as better than ‘regular’ people. Regular people do it as unbelievers when they express anger at Christians who are more noble than they are by acknowledging that Jesus is Lord and opting for a more righteous way of life. Lay Christians do it when another Christian proves to know and And since the one in our example was actually born again—something God knows for certain—she cannot lose her salvation. While she lost the battle, she did not lose the war. Jesus already won the war on the Cross for her soul and said, “It is finished” (John 19:30). The fact that born again believers cannot lose their salvation has been made crystal clear to us by God with the following passage: 153 Clearly, nothing can separate the born again believer from the love of God. We cannot become unsaved/unborn again. The question is whether or not we were born again in the first place, because the born again soul can get off Track to one degree or another. Doing so, they also lead others off Track. The best biblical example of this is the following: When Peter [a born again Christian] was come to Antioch, I [Paul, also born again] withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision [fearing man rather than God]. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation (Gal. 2:11-13). Peter got off Track by being more concerned with what people thought of him than with being right with God, flipping God’s two greatest commandments around (Mark 12:28-30). And in so doing he led others astray including Barnabas, one who otherwise walked closely with the Lord, called by God to work alongside with Paul (Acts 13:2) who was called to write the bulk of the New Testament. Therefore, Barnabas was also ‘up there.’ Yet he fell because of Peter’s hypocrisy. So while Christianity Today considers their hypocrisy to be no big deal, God has repeatedly revealed how much damage it does. It’s the theme of the Old Testament and of the Gospels. And He’s using me to reveal that Christian hypocrisy has enabled the power elite to nearly destroy the planet! That’s how big a deal it is. And in case you’re wondering, I know that Peter was born again at the time because the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost had taken place before his hypocrisy at the lunch table (Acts 2:14-33). Knowing the truth and filled with God’s Spirit, Peter got off Track and led others astray by being a hypocrite so that Paul had to openly rebuke him (Gal. 2:11-13). 154 Any born again Christian can get off Track, and it has happened to Christianity as a whole just as it did shortly after Jesus walked the earth up to the Reformation of the Middle Ages, and then again right after the Reformation so that today God again describes His Church as being dead (Rev. 3:1). Christianity Today has a reputation for being alive (a reputation held among themselves and by many who don’t have a clue of what it really means to be a Christian), yet they’re as good as dead in God’s sight. The Rudder & the Gap Speaking of the dangers of how we use our words, the Bible says, “Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth” (James 3:4). The “small helm” is the tongue, which we use to bless or curse others, and to pray to God and curse His name. Using this passage along with the following, God gave me a graphic to help His elect understand what’s happened. He used something I like to do, kayaking; all the Christian friends I once had; my native land; my hometown; the place where my father is buried; and a place where my sister’s friends rode their bikes to from Minnesota. As noted, the Holy Spirit of God uses whatever is at His disposal to teach and direct us—and everything is at his disposal (Col. 1:16). In turn, having raised me up to enlighten His elect through His WORD and my testimony, He put these things on my path, coordinating it all for His glory and our good (Rom. 8:28)—the good of His Vessels of Mercy. Therefore, as seen in the RUDDER SYNDROME, it’s as if the two born again friends from the Unity in Christ graphic had started out together in the same ‘place’ when they shared fellowship with each other and with the Lord. But when the Lord said, “Follow Me,” one friend decided to do that while the other one decided not to. Instead of doing things God’s way, she decided to do it her way. Rather than continue to follow Jesus down the ‘narrow’ way, this girl opted for the easier route most people take, the broad way that leads to destruction (Matt. 7:13-14). Most Christians think of this verse as destruction meaning hell, when destruction also means a ruined life. Therefore, this verse applies to both the Vessels of Wrath and the Vessels of Mercy. So while they’d started out in the same place, united in Christ, one little deviation—one little rebellious choice like the slight move of a rudder—made the born again Christian prodigal and set her on a path that would land her extremely far from God, as has happened to all of the most mature Christians I’ve ever known. They’ve ruined their lives, and not only theirs. They’ve ruined the lives of their children, those they loved the most—and they don’t even realize it. Since we’re in a spiritual war (Eph. 6:12), and God is a Spirit (John 4:24), and the born again Christian is supposed to follow Jesus (Luke 14:27), One we can’t see, it’s as if Jesus went ahead of us in His stealth fighter kayak. So while both friends were supposed to follow Him since both are born again, only one did, the one who chose not to sin against Him. That’s the harder choice because it means living life going against a much tougher current. In contrast, the other one chose to do it her way, opting for the easier lifestyle, ignoring the fact that in doing so she would break her fellowship with the Lord, ignoring it because she lacked the fear of God and for not knowing the Bible as well as she should have, not studying it like she should have (2 Tim. 2:25). In turn, she wasn’t convicted enough to “work out [he]r own salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil. 2:12). And because she broke her fellowship with the Lord, her sister in Christ had to break fellowship with her since that’s what God has told us to do for our own protection. It’s like if you were an orange in a box of oranges. If the one next to you rotted and you remained her ‘friend,’ you’d soon rot out as well. God says, “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you” (2 Cor. 6:17). “Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son” (2 John 1:8-9). “If we walk in the light, as he is in 155 the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). The one who rebelled and went prodigal bought into the lies Satan whispered in her ear, that this was a better way. Except that’s the thing about Satan, he’s a damned good liar (John 8:44). And because she went rogue, and the longer she remains rogue, the more questionable it becomes as to whether she was actually born again in the first place. In time, the obedient friend of Christ ‘landed’ near Valparaiso and Santiago, which mean Paradise Valley and Saint James, respectively. James was the Lord’s brother (Gal. 1:19), who was a believer and, therefore, a saint. In other words, the one who sticks close to Jesus, like His brother, lands closer to Paraside—while on earth. On the other hand, the rebellious Christian is landing closer to Tierra del Fuego, which means land of fire, as in hell, since that’s one of the ways the Bible describes hell, “the furnace of fire” (Matt 13:49-50). While the three had started out together in the same ‘place,’ only the obedient born again Christian has landed herself in the right place, the best place, close to Her Lord and to Paradise. God says, “If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be” (John 12:26). Having chosen to take the easy way as if on a cruise ship—the broad way which most people choose, including Christians, especially of the past 60 years—this rebellious girl has landed herself in the wrong place, even though she’s possibly born again (though prodigal) and even though she had started off in the right place, in fellowship with the Lord. With time, as with the work of a small rudder, her rebellion caused a gap of both knowledge and fellowship between herself and her Lord, as well as with her sister in Christ. Over time and in increasing measure, she’s forgotten what the Lord was like, even much of what He taught her, so that she’s lived like the rest of the world, landing herself as close to hell as the rest of the world, as the lost and non-elect. She’s been fooled because, as God warned, she “received not the love of the truth…for this cause God [sent her a] strong 156 delusion, that [she] should believe a lie” (2 Thess. 2:10-11). In other words, her “iniquities have separated between [her] and [he]r God” (Isa. 59:2). Even though she has the Bible and reads it, now and then, she keeps ‘forgetting’ what she knows is true because she refuses to repent and do what the Bible says to do. Pretty soon she starts doubting what she had known to be true. She has become a listener of the WORD of God but not a doer of it, so she doesn’t experience the blessings God has meant for her, but curses instead, which make her doubt His love all the more. God says: Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed (James 1:22-25). Unlike the girl who chose to “live…in pleasure…nourish[ing he]r heart…in a day of slaughter” (James 5:5), the one who stayed true to Christ, putting more effort into her relationship with Him—represented by traveling in a kayak as opposed to a luxury cruise ship— this girl has continued to grow in knowledge and fellowship with her Lord. Rather than let someone else steer her along (a combination of her own wicked heart and Satan at work), she has been working out her own salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12) since the open water gets pretty rough and it’s much harder to travel alone than with a pack. A kayak is small and there are huge waves, sharks, and whales out there (Eph. 6:12; 1 Pet. 5:8). But she’s motivated and strengthened all along the journey by the near presence of the Lord just ahead of her and inside of her, “receiv[ing] power [since]…the Holy Ghost is come upon [her]” (Acts 1:8). Even though both born again believers will end up in heaven when they die (provided the one is actually born again and ‘only’ prodigal), the quality of their relationship with God on earth is EXTREMELY different. threesome represents the distance from Pentecost to today, and the cruise ship represents Christianity while the kayak represents the very small remnant of God, both nearing land—the end of the Trip. Essentially, by setting me apart from the lost and from Christianity Today’s professing Christians, God has been able to teach me what He wants His people to know in order to get right with Him. Reading these books as a humble seeker of truth, doing what God calls you to do—obey Him—it’s as if you (whether you’ve been a prodigal or are newly born again) will be traveling up the coast, by kayak, and hooking up with the Lord somewhere between Santiago and Valparaiso. Praise God! God has also made it clear in the series that I’m represented by the one in the kayak because, unlike the typical Christian, I’ve followed the Lord through His Church going against the grain of Christianity Today’s antichrists as well as today’s unbelieving antichrists, as well as disbelieving Vessels of Wrath—major antichrists—taking the heat from all angles, and from Satan directly. It’s the same ‘trip’ all of God’s Old Testament prophets took. In turn, I’ve ‘arrived’ at a place where my fellowship with the Lord is much stronger than the norm so that I can hear and see what He’s saying and revealing much more clearly than the rebellious prodigals which make up Christianity Today. So, while on this earth, the obedient Christian continued to hear the voice of the Lord clearly and see His hand in the world around her in increasing measure as she cultivated her relationship with Jesus by making the harder but better choices. On the other hand, the disobedient girl stopped hearing clearly from God. In fact, she got increasingly more fooled by Satan since he is the master at being “transformed into an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14). With every day that she refused to repent and get right with God, hardening her heart when she heard His voice calling her back (Heb. 3:15), this rebellious born again Christian— representative of God’s Church as a whole, the body of Christ—got further and further from the Lord and closer to Satan and the land of fire, allowed by God because she rebelled against Him and refused to repent. But it’s also because He delivered her “unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus” (1 Cor. 5:5). Every trial and hardship that God allowed in her life was to draw her back to Him. It was to help her depend on Him again. Except she was so hard-headed the trials and hardships made her even more hard-hearted. What has happened with the one rebellious Christian is what has happened to Christianity as a whole. It’s as if the distance from the unified But it’s not because I’m any better since “there is none righteous, no not one” (Rom. 3:10). It’s because of God’s calling in my life and His grace on us, the elect. This is not something I set out to do—testimony shared elsewhere. Rather, God’s calling on my life is to draw Christianity Today and God’s elect to or back to His side. That’s the purpose of the books He’s had me write which will bear fruit in His perfect timing. It’s His purpose for my life since I was “created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that [I] should walk in them” (Eph. 2:10). Having coordinated our sins—the sins of the elect—with His Master Plan (Rom 8:28), at some point, God will begin to enlighten His rebellious children and they’ll do what they could have done at any point in Christian history and at any point in their own lives, they’ll repent and get fully restored, resuming their loving fellowship with Christ or begin to have such a fellowship with Him, because “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). God’s elect don’t have to ‘beat themselves up’ over their sins because “as far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our 157 transgressions from us” (Ps. 103:12). All God asks of us is to repent and fulfill our duty to “fear God and keep His commandments” (Eccl. 12:13). However, because of the damage God’s elect have done to themselves and to those God loves—many currently prodigal born again Christians will be beating themselves up, mentally, especially those in Church leadership. Yet God will be using their sins for the greater good—to draw the rest of His children back to His side, and so they don’t waste every last minute of their lives as prior generations have mostly done. Repenting publicly, today’s prodigal Church leaders will salvage their last days on earth and be used by God to get His people back on track. They’ll be like Saul turned Paul of the New Testament. When born again Church leaders begin repenting publicly— because of today’s technology—God’s people, the born again who are currently riding the cruise ship will abandon that ship of fools, grab a kayak, and make their way over to Jesus closing the gap of knowledge and fellowship as individuals and then as a group. Currently born again prodigal Church leadership will also glorify God by being an example for a younger generation to not do as they’ve done. While they’ve been extremely hateful, as elect of God (those who actually are), they will finally express genuine love. However, as noted previously, I also discern God will have some key leaders drop dead like Eli of the Old Testament (1 Sam. 1-4)—used by God in that way to inspire a more faithful generation of Church leadership. Separating the Clean from the Unclean While born again Christians have been more enlightened than anyone else in the world, ignoring God’s WORD and refusing to repent, they’ve been helping Satan build his kingdom on earth because they’ve created a massive gap between Christianity Today and the Lord Jesus Christ, fulfilling what Jesus said, “He that is not 158 with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad” (Matt. 12:30). What’s happened can be summed up with the following parable: When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first (Matt. 12:4345). Enlightened by God yet rebellious, the state of Christianity Today is so much worse than it was 2000 years ago or even 500 years ago. Having begun united as one in Christ we now have an estimated forty thousand “Christian” denominations which is much worse than the first state—the lost state—because most of these “Christians” are deceived today to think they’re born again and/or headed towards heaven, blind to the fact that, even if they are born again, they haven’t stored anything up for heaven (Matt. 6:20). And most of them are not born again. It’s also worse because of all the lies they’ve led others to buy into. We don’t earn any Brownie Points with God when we lead others astray. Instead, we lose our rewards. God repeatedly warned us about this: For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward (Mark 9:41). Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward (2 John 1:8). For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire (1 Cor. 3:11-15). In fact, I just watched a movie which reveals how far Christianity has led everyone from God, As it is in Heaven (2004). While this movie has so much right (as far as the things Christianity Today has done and is doing), it has just as much wrong (concerning the truth about true Christianity). This movie highlights the lie that just about everyone has bought into, that we can live up to our full potential without God. In fact, that God is the problem. And a big part of why nearly everyone has bought this massive lie is because Christianity has lied by ‘joining hands’ with denominations. While some born again Protestants adamantly still protest the teachings of the Catholic Church, and rightly so, they have also kept others from knowing the truth, knowing Jesus, because they have also not obeyed everything Jesus has commanded us. And since we have two extremely thick layers of lies professing that Jesus is Christ (Catholic and Protestant), nearly everyone with a functioning brain has decided that Jesus is a myth! Only He’s NOT. Don’t let fools keep you from knowing God and knowing Him well. While God’s people were not called to worship God alone, but to be part of the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12), we live in a day where, for a season, individuals need to walk entirely alone with the Lord, so that they can then empower others, because you can’t teach what you don’t know and you also get taught wrongly by those who have been taught the wrong things. We’re living a re-run of the days before Jesus came to earth and before the Reformation of the Middle Ages. Moreover, peer pressure is super powerful— as the 2000 year old Christian mess testifies. Considering all the horrors we currently face, it is imperative that a core group of people take the time, and muster up the courage, to get real with God so that they can grow in the faith and influence the rest so that the body of Christ rises up out of the ashes. It requires courage because you have to go against every grain there is. I know it requires courage, and loads of faith, because that’s what I’ve had to do. It’s tough. It’s why hardly anyone’s done it. But it is the only way we will get delivered from the many challenges we face, as with the following: Constant war; Monetary global collapse; Environmental collapse; Nuclear fallout from Fukushima; Political façade; Education in shambles; and, Healthcare in shambles. I’m stopping since it’s too discouraging to make a complete list! It’s way too long, we’re too deep in trouble, and too many are dead asleep. And I have loads of work to do yet—for people who have ZERO interest in God—before I’ve fulfilled this part of my calling. It’s hard working like a dog and talking to brick wall for…decades. And it’s worse even. It’s like talking to an icebergcold brick wall since people turn on you when you reach out to them. Considering that God is not providing me any help whatsoever for this little project, having shown me for years through hundreds of the most “mature” Christians available how unbiblical and unloving they all are and how cold and unbelieving the lost are, along with everything else He’s shown me, the remnant today is so small, it might very well be the size it was during Noah’s day! And it’s actually what God prophesied: As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day 159 that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be (Matt. 24:37-39). However, since He has also prophesied of several things happening before His physical return, and concerning His Church, I know the remnant is actually bigger (around the world) and we’re not as close to the end as it would seem—as it does seem—though we are at the edge of horrendous times around the world (Matt. 24:21). God is first coming as a move of the Spirit of God, building His Church and making Her what He died for Her to be, The Love Machine (Eph. 4:11-16), so that She can get us through the tribulation and usher in the Latter Rain (Joel 2:23), as a representation of heaven on earth, proving that He is real, stronger than Satan, and loving in spite of all of our wicked hearts (Jer. 17:9). He’s proving how desperately we actually need Him. 14 God’s Harvest Comes after a Storm It should be obvious by now that Christianity is most at fault concerning the problems we face in the world. By not submitting to God and walking in the truths they know, born again Christians as a group have enabled Satan to persevere with his plans, his lies that education, politics, loving “Mother Nature,” or force can bring about world peace for the good of mankind, when the only thing that will bring about world peace is genuine love which is only found through Jesus. And there’s a much bigger lie for those Satan is using the most, the power elite, that what they’re doing will actually work out well for them. So busy swimming in their billions, they haven’t read the account of Lazarus and the rich man (Luke 16:19-31). While humans, even born again Christians, don’t seem to know that genuine love comes from God, Satan sure does. He knows “God is love” (1 John 4:8). I know Satan knows this because in the New Testament there are several examples of demons knowing who God was and that He was the One in control, as with the following: When [Jesus] was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? (Matt. 8:28-29). It was not these men who were actually addressing the Lord but the demons within them, as revealed in the rest of the account: Art thou come hither to torment us before the time? And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us 160 to go away into the herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters (Matt. 8:29-32). These devils, demons, had to ask God’s permission to do what they wanted to do. Moreover, the fact that Satan and his angels are under God’s control is a clear teaching from the book of Job (Job 1:8-12). Here’s another account revealing that demons know what’s going on better than sinners do, even saints: It came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour (Acts 16:16-18). The people Paul was addressing didn’t know who Paul was or who Jesus was, but the demon inside this woman knew. Satan and his demons know much more of what’s going on in the world than God’s rebellious elect. In fact, “the devil [who] is come down unto you [down to earth], ha[s] great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time” (Rev. 12:12). Satan knows that God has allowed him to reign over this world only for a season of time, until Jesus is handed over his kingdom on earth—whether he knows that part of it or not, I don’t know, but he knows he has only a short time. Considering the length of eternity, 6000 years is “a short time.” When Jesus is handed His kingdom on earth, is allowed to rule on earth as in heaven, when born again Christians start walking in the truth—when they hand it over to Him and let Him Lord over them since He is the Lord, after all—then Satan will get locked up for a thousand years to be released again for a short time afterwards. That’s what the Bible says: I [John, in a vision] saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season (Rev. 20:1-3). Pulling up this passage in biblegateway.com, you can also pull up “Show Resources” and read what Matthew Henry, one of the best Bible scholars of the past, had to say about these verses. Basically, God is building up His Church and when we, as a group, “submit…to God. Resist[ing] the devil…he will flee” (James 4:7). He will flee because God’s angel will grab him by the tail and throw him in the bottomless pit—for a season. Unless I’ve missed something—which I could have done since the body isn’t working together as it should be—essentially, God has allowed Satan to reign over His people, over earth, until the born again get it together. At that point, he will no longer have the power that he now has since born again Christians won’t give him that power any longer. Standing firm on the WORD of God, empowered by the Holy Spirit of God, the Church of God will mature and grow up to be what Jesus died for Her to be, The Love Machine (Eph. 4:11-16). And this is where it gets confusing: how long will the Church remain on earth giving us a representation of heaven on earth? A thousand years? Or does something else come next? Or before? Or have I misunderstood something else? We can’t know until the Vessels of Mercy, 161 for the most part, work together. That’s the system God has set up. In any case, having received a head wound (Gen. 3:15), Satan’s ideas of his New World Order will not fully or, better said, permanently, come to fruition. Instead, the One who only received a wound to the heel, Jesus, will fulfill His New World Order, a representation of heaven on earth, just as He taught us to pray for (Luke 11:2; 2 Chron. 7:14) and for which He Himself prayed (John 17:21). God’s New World Order is one in which the born again “Submit…one to another in the fear of God” (Eph. 5:21), allowing Jesus to Lord over us since that’s who He is, Lord God. The Latter Rain God has prophesied of an end times revival like the world has never before seen, and the world has seen genuine spiritual revival throughout history, in pockets, the biggest one to date (not counting Pentecost) was the Great Reformation of the Middle Ages, but there were others as with the Great Awakening, which actually consisted of four waves of awakening in the United States. Though biblically thematic, some of the key verses concerning this coming revival are the following: In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old [God first meant this physically and now means it spiritually, first came a physical building of the Temple and now the spiritual building of His temple in the souls of His elect, the born again (1 Cor. 3:16)]: That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt [as in proud people shall melt]. And I 162 will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel [the Israel of God, the elect], and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land [a world of peace] which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God (Amos 9:11-15). For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts (Haggai 2:6-9). Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil (Joel 2:23-24). But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever. In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem (Micah 4:1-8). Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain (James 5:7). And as the Bible makes clear, no revival has ever taken place without repentance, the literal translation for which is reformation. Yet Church leaders today so far refuse to repent/reform while preaching of everyone else’s need to repent so that God can send revival. And they’ve done it because they are super self-absorbed hypocrites. In fact, it seems that they’ve ‘given up.’ The preaching I hear that’s remotely awake is mostly on the end of the world coming and God’s people being taken out of the world. The best I’ve heard is that our response to the New World Order is to keep up with the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19-20). And while that sounds good, it ignores the sins of the Church. In other words, we can’t keep up what we haven’t been doing. There’s not one Christian leader, alive, giving any depth of thought to what Jesus said about His Church concerning what He purposed for Her on this earth—that I’m aware of. It’s like they’re totally deaf to what Jesus has said about His purpose for His Church. Only it’s not ‘like,’ they are totally oblivious about it! The only ones I’ve ever heard preach or write about it have been long gone. Anyhow, in order to understand the latter rain, all you need to understand is basic gardening. I understanding it because we taught ourselves how to grow a vegetable garden when first called to homeschool—first grade. As I’ve said, God has not made it hard for us to understand His will or ways. So, the picture of the latter day rain is agricultural. The ‘crops’ (God’s elect) need two downpours to mature for harvest—a former and a latter rain. The first downpour softens the ground so the seed can germinate. (Germinate. That’s a big word for first graders. It means to begin to grow.) This was the outpouring of God’s Spirit at Pentecost which took place after Jesus was resurrected and returned to the Father. Here’s the account: When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear 163 we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved (Acts 2:1-21). Since the Bible is the living WORD of God (Heb. 4:12), every prophecy in the Bible has several key targets. This one, spoken by the prophet Joel, was targeted primarily at Pentecost and also for another time, the latter rain. The first rain was moderate (Joel 2:23-24; Hag. 2:6-9) signifying that the latter rain will be bigger—a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 164 It will be greater because God’s elect have so many more resources and greater technology to know Him well compared to back then, which includes instantaneous worldwide communication to spread the WORD faster. Following the first rain, the farmer continually cares for his crops. The Farmer is God since it is His Field being that “God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen. 1:1), and He says, “I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment” (Isa. 27:3). God has been caring for His baby plants for the past 2000 years as plenty have come to faith in Christ. They, as a whole, just haven’t matured. But one fine day He will permit us to mature as a group: Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit (Heb. 6:1-3, my emphasis). I happen to know God is permitting it, will be permitting it fairly soon, as revealed in this series. In fact, He’s been permitting it as you’ve been reading this book and having the light in your attic turned on and/or cranked up. However, so far, the following parable explains what has been taking place: The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept [while the born again slept (Rev. 3:1)], his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 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? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 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 (Matt. 13:24-30, my emphasis). The latter rain will ripen the crops, meaning, there will be mature Christians and ‘mature’ devilish human Vessels of Wrath. Then, He says, He will gather the tares, the Vessels of Wrath. What’s left is a mature Church which has become one flock under the one Shepherd (John 10:16). God says, “I will give you…the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil [the harvest]” (Deut. 11:14). The first rain was Pentecost and that season of the Church, and the latter rain will be this coming revival, a season of major growth in God’s Church so that She finally matures. God also says the following: I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn (Zech. 12:10). The “house of David” is God’s Church, the elect, so it includes Jews, Christians, and Gentiles (covering the earth’s entire population of elect). The elect will mourn because they’ll realize what they’ve done and haven’t done, landing us in the mess we’re in today and having caused tremendous heartache for millions of people worldwide. In turn, as a group, we’ll finally have a ‘spirit of supplication’ at long last becoming people of biblical prayer having been humbled and enlightened (2 Chron. 7:14; 1 Tim. 2:1-3). We’ll also have a ‘spirit of grace,’ realizing how wicked we’ve been and how merciful God is being. Enlightened elect will mourn and rejoice, eagerly extending grace to others, finally becoming biblical and loving rather than unbiblical and iceberg cold, since it’s pretty chilly to profess to love Jesus and not care at all about Him or people, especially youth who are suicidal because of the loveless hypocritical Church. The Narrow Way Jesus told us to do the following: Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it (Matt. 7:13-14). Several years ago as I followed the Lord, He had me create THE NARROW WAY graphic revealing how the narrow and broad way work. God’s elect are born in one of two places, either into a family that’s clueless about Him or to one that knows Him or professes to know Him. So I’ve called the clueless one the Dirt Road and the ‘enlightened’ one the Paved Road. THE DIRT ROAD: This road is a very difficult one on which to travel, to live. I know because it’s the one I was born on, and as difficult as my upbringing was, it was paradise compared to many of God’s elect around the world. Having been given something of a clue and not being dirt poor, I was born on a nicer part of the Dirt Road. Still, no matter what part of the Dirt Road you’ve been born on, it’s a much harder place to grow up on because you have no idea, neither do those closest to you, that God actually exists or that Satan exists. Neither do you know anything about the spiritual war. You have no real clue about any of it. 165 THE PAVED ROAD: This road is a much easier place in which to grow up because, at least, you have some understanding, from Day One, that God exists. And while the Church is a royal mess, the experiences and discussions that take place in your home and among your family and friends help enlighten you—enlighten God’s elect—to the spiritual realm. At the very least, you know that there is Someone 166 to call on for help if and when needed. Those on the Dirt Road don’t really know that, other than by way of the unbiblicalities they pick up here and there, like on T.V. In any case, when God turns on the light bulb and the elect soul on the Dirt Road becomes born again, they instantly make a UTurn and start heading heavenward, immediately moving up to the Paved Road. Similarly, when an elect soul born on the Paved Road becomes born again, they also immediately make a U-Turn and start heading heavenward. over for a season because of the melting snow. The creek becomes a river, temporarily. However, while they should quickly move up to the Wilderness Road, because of the comatose state of Christianity, most have joined the massive group that makes up Christianity Today and set up camp on the Paved Road so that few are actually on the Wilderness Road. Even fewer are on the Road of Sound Doctrine, and those who are, aren’t far along that path either. Honestly, I don’t think anyone is on that part of the Road yet. I think that when the Church gets right with God, He’ll clarify the prophetic time clock for us, how exactly things will go moving forward, the order of events and whatever else we’re not yet clear about. I think some people have discerned some things correctly, but there are holes—and the order is definitely off as are some of the prophecies. Falling away periods give birth to revivals— they go together. Biblical examples include the following: And since no one knows if they’re elect until God reveals it to them, since “no one cometh unto the Father but by [Him]” (John 14:6), and also by how they actually live their lives once it has been revealed, examining themselves to see if they actually are in the faith (2 Cor. 13:5), the Lord tells us to “enter…in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matt. 7:13-21). And by now it should be abundantly clear just how outrageously narrow is the narrow way. However, here’s the beauty of what God is now doing. Since we’ve come to the climax of the great falling away period (2 Thess. 2:3) and to the point where God is going to be drawing His people back to the truth with the second outpouring called the latter rain, we live in a time when God is going to make the narrow way broad for a season, as broad as it will ever be. That’s what He always does during a revival, many come to the knowledge of the truth so that the narrow way becomes temporarily broad. And we’re talking about the greatest revival of all time—the latter rain. It’s like when a creek floods Nineveh (Jonah); Judah during Josiah’s reign (2 Chron. 33-34); The 400 years of silence from God due to Israel’s rebellion was quenched with John the Baptist (Matt. 3:1-6) and Jesus’ earthly ministry; and, Fifty days after crucifying the Lord, the Spirit of God is poured out at Pentecost (Acts 2). What God is now doing/will be doing is what He’s always done. And since Church leaders are the ones who have formally studied the Bible and the history of the Church, they should understand these things better than anyone, but they don’t because they’ve gotten so proud and off Target that God is “destroy[ing] the wisdom of the wise [has destroyed it], and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent” (1 Cor. 1:19). In other words, God is going to reveal that the wisdom of the “great” men of the Church, along with the “great” men of the world, is not as great as they’ve thought. Moreover, He’s using children’s books, for example, to teach what they haven’t understood, so that God sits up there cracking up (Ps. 2:4). Believe it yet or not, God is using me like He used John the Baptist, to “go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord” (Luke 1:17). The major difference is that God had John prepare the way for the Lord to come in the flesh, whereas He has me preparing it for Him to come in the Spirit, mostly. I discern that’s the next stage, and the rest of His Plan—the end—won’t be clarified until the Church as a whole gets in gear and becomes His well-oiled Love Machine (Eph. 4:11-16). 167 While the way to get on the narrow way is always the same, during periods of revival God makes it easier to ‘hop on.’ Because He’s the living God, the Road is always moving, like a moving walkway you might see at an airport. God has made it easier for His elect in our day by having me write the books with the resources and examples He’s had me include, and then summing it up in video format, and providing it all for free since that’s what all born again Christians are supposed to do. Christianity is not for profit. God says, “Freely ye have received, freely give” (Matt. 10:8). And He’s made it easy for us to do this with our current technology. Glory to God! He’s made it much easier for you to get up to speed than it was for me, for example—much easier. Because, you don’t have to go through everything I’ve had to go through to learn all the lessons I’ve had to learn. This is what makes a wise person wise, they can learn from other people’s mistakes and experiences. A great example of this is with a movie I just watched, The Book of Daniel (2013). The movie represents history and the Bible with minor points that are off which you can easily catch by comparing the movie to the Old Testament account. Watching the movie I was enlightened to what God has again done for His elect. What I mean is that the prophet Daniel had to experience years of hardship and a lifetime with God to get to the point that king Cyrus was able to understand exactly what God expected of him, and to step into it quickly, as dramatized in the movie. Instead of having to spend years learning everything that Daniel had learned, all he had to do was listen to Daniel’s testimony and connect the dots in order to get enlightened and do the right thing, fulfil God’s calling on his life. Likewise, all you have to do is read what God has had me write along with the Bible, doing your Homework, while also watching the videos, etc., and you’ll be just as enlightened. You’ll end up knowing God and His will for your life and for the world around you, in a fairly short time (Eph. 2:10). 168 The Greatest Moves of God As far as I can see, there are five great moves of God—the greatest moves of God—as follow: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. God created everything; God became a Man; God poured His Spirit into man; God’s latter rain; and, The Last Trump—the beginning of the real life for all the elect. If you follow the Lord through this series, doing what He tells you to do, as elect, you’ll discern what I have. In turn, you’ll do your best towards making the body of Christ become one in Christ in order to facilitate the latter rain and get us closer to the Last Trump (1 Cor. 15:52). Beyond that, it’s up to us as a group. God did His part and I’ve done mine. But if everyone continues to sit back and ignore what God is saying, He’ll just let things continue on this downward trend until after this generation is dead, as He repeatedly did in the Old Testament—making it all that much harder on our children and on our old age. And it already looks likes it going to be bad enough. A great example is with the generation God delivered out of slavery under the Egyptians. Refusing to obey God, they did not receive the blessings God had wanted to give them: Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God…For we are made partakers of Christ, IF we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end…And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief (Heb. 219, my emphasis). Satan’s New World Order will be implemented as far as we let him implement it. Not too many years ago the world saw how far the Jews let him take it, and we’re on the exact same track as many scholars and politicians know. In fact, as many lay people know. But what the average person doesn’t seem to know is that no amount of education, ‘good’ politics, or weapons will stop the New World Order since they don’t realize Satan is the one ultimately in charge of the New World Order. Neither do they realize that God is the One in charge of Satan, and that He has allowed Satan to be our ruler because we have not loved the truth. And since that’s how it really is, only a humble submission to God, not only acknowledging Jesus as Lord but actually letting Him lord over us as a group, will put an end to Satan’s New World Order and usher in, instead, the New World Order of the Lord Jesus Christ, a representation of heaven on earth. 15 God Anoints Some Special Service for When God revealed Himself to people in the Bible it was typically to give them a specific assignment. Adam, among other things, was given the task of naming animals (Gen. 2:19). Noah’s job, besides preaching (2 Pet. 2:5) was to build an ark (Gen.6:5-8). Moses was commissioned to deliver God’s people (Ex. 3:910) and receive God’s Law (Ex. 24:12). David was called to fight for God’s people (1 Sam. 17:32-37) and lead them (2 Sam 2:4). God raised up Solomon to build His house (1 Chron. 28:25). He chose Mary to have and raise His Son (Luke 1:26-35). God changed Paul’s heart (1 Tim. 1:15) so that he could spread His WORD and write much of it down for Him (Acts 9). And the initial disciples—along with all disciples—were, and are still, called to obey God’s WORD and teach others to do the same (Matt. 28:18-20) while also giving each one of us a very specific Job within His Master Plan (Eph. 2:10). So while everyone thinks the connections I make are abnormal, they’re right, they’re not normal, they’re anointed. YouTube The Great Commission Only For Obedient (Matthew 28). Uploaded by Trulylatino. Behind the Hall of Faith Hebrews 11, known as the Hall of Faith, commemorates men and women who plowed through against the grain knowing God’s will for their lives and obviously anointed with His Spirit and power (Phil. 4:13). Here’s an excerpt: [They] through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions. Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might 169 obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens (Heb. 11:33-38). Rather than go with the flow of hypocrisy, followers of Christ are “peculiar people” (Titus 2:14) “zealous” for God and His Church (1 Pet. 2:9)—zeal which gets us in trouble (2 Tim. 3:12). However, being fired up for God also highly empowers us to plow through it all. Here’s how it works. You listen to and learn from the Father (John 6:45). In turn, you fall in love with Jesus enough that you obey Him so that He moves in (John 14:23). Then you follow Him (John 10:27), repenting as needed as often as needed (Matt. 3:8; 1 John 1:9). By continually expressing an earnest love for God, He sends someone your way to do what Paul did. “When Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied” (Acts 19:6). Under God’s direction, servants of God place God’s gift of zeal within us, yet we–born again Christians— have to continually build that fire up within ourselves (Phil. 2:12). God, by the power of His Spirit, working through His people, anoints us for the “good works” He has prepared for us to do (Eph. 2:10) so that we can plow through everything and everyone that will come up against us (Eph. 6:12). In fact, He continually sends people our way since there’s so much opposition (1 Pet. 5:8). Out of nowhere someone will come up and say something like, “I heard God tell me to lay hands on you and pray for you. Do you mind?” And you’ll be like, ‘Thank you, Jesus!’ especially as you hear what they pray because it’ll be exactly what’s going on with you—only they won’t have a clue (2 Tim. 2:13). And if you're a newbie, then you won't have a clue either! 170 In any case, those God uses are just trusting and obeying God while out on their personal walk with Him, and you have to learn to do the same. China Cry (1990) provides a demo, and New Testament examples include the donkey (Matt. 21:1-3), Saul and Ananias (Acts 9:10-20), and Peter and Cornelius (Acts 10). As I point out throughout the series, I discern that when more start walking rightly before God and closely, we’ll all be more clued in, not only to what He’s saying to us, but to what He’s doing overall, making it easier for us to work together. An example of that is with Elijah and those who weren’t quite so dead asleep (2 Kings 2:3-6). It’s like a team working on a science fair project. The best team is made up of people who are each very informed about the subject (science) while, at the same time, doing the best job they can with their part of the project. The more they each know the better they work together to accomplish the task at hand— provided they’re not self-centered jerks. For Christians who excuse themselves from serving God because they’re not as “strong” whine whine whine, as the majority do, especially women, it's a sure sign from God that they haven't done their Homework and are, therefore, not anointed. More than likely, not even born again. In the next book, I spell it all out further, helping you see the problem more clearly along with the Solution. Commissioned by His Grace Studying the Bible you see that God's encouragement comes in two forms: fear of God and love for God. So when I was 24 God clearly let me know what Jesus meant when He said, “Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell” (Luke 12:5). Then after I got over the excess of that fear, nearly ten years later, and was at the verge of joining the comatose crowd, the Lord drew me in as His close friend (John 15:15), preventing me from joining that crowd. God prepped me for this calling by giving me the necessary amounts of the fear and love of God, a mixture we all need in order to obey Him. Too much fear of Him makes us keep our distance from Him like I did for eight years. But if all we have is love for God, we take His warnings for granted, as Christians have done for hundreds of years, revealing that what they actually have for God is less than genuine love. He's not a Big Teddy Bear in the sky or simply the 911 Dispatch, He's God Almighty, all powerful, all knowing, a Jealous God (Ex. 34:14), able to cast the lot of us straight into hell (Luke 12:5). So between 1988 and 1996, my fear of God leveled out and my life and mind stabilized (Prov. 2:1-6). Having gone back to finish college, married, worked in my field, and become a mother of two, the Lord led me to yet another valley experience—in Nowhere, USA (also known as the wilderness and Indianapolis). Reinspired to cry out to Him for help, He led me to Eagle Alliance, now known as Eagle Church. It was then, at thirty-something, that I was fully enlightened to God’s H2O nature. In turn, gaining spiritual insight by making that connection, the Light came on to full power. YouTube Eagles Third Day. And since Eagle was closely associated with RZIM, their associates often spoke there (Stuart McAllister, Sunder Krishnan, and Peter Bocchino) along with many from other ministries. Besides that, I was also stuffing myself with God’s WORD and following Him around the city to different church services, prayer meetings, concerts, gathering, marches, and conferences. So while I’d grown spiritually very slowly over the previous eight years, within a year I was totally lit up, often referred to by Christians as being on fire for God. Having fanned my flame as directed (2 Tim. 1:6), God matched my donations so that Satan’s been hanging out with his playmates for years trying to put it out. What’s happened is similar to what happened to Paul who wrote, “We would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us” (1 Thess. 2:18). And God has allowed Satan to hinder the work because today’s Christians love him more than Jesus, more than the truth (John 14:6; 2 Thess. 2:10-11). Historically, the more Satan works at putting out God’s Flame, the more God’s Fire grows, so my prayer life bloomed (1 Thess. 5:1618), not only on my own but as I prayed with several groups around the city. And because of the royally hypocritical state of the Church, a prayer partner and close friend from a different church lamented one day to my full affirmation, saying, “Church is SO draining!” Then, within days of the draining comment, an “elder’s” wife said she had a WORD from God for me, so we met in a conference room. (I put it in quotes because elders in the Bible are older people whereas Christianity Today unbiblically appoints ‘elders,’ and they’re not typically older or wiser.) Coming in, this woman took the last sip from her Styrofoam cup and said, “The Lord keeps filling you to overflowing!” This was very true (Ps. 23; Isa. 30:21). Then she poked a hole in the cup’s bottom side, while saying, “But it all drains out just as soon as He pours it in!” This was also true, as my friend had noted, the Church was/is draining because She’s loaded down with sin, with people who love to sin. Then I realized that this woman was GLARING at me, at which time she said, “He wants you to plug the hole in the cup!” This woman—who didn’t know me—was really mad at me. Taking in her words and demeanor, fearing God, wondering what I’d done to make Him so mad at me, I sincerely asked her, “Do you know what the hole is?” A horizontal, ice cold, nod (1 Cor. 4:5). Taking it all in, I suddenly blurted out, “It’s the Church!” My comment abruptly ended our meeting, unbiblically (John 7:24; James 1:19-20). I’m sure this woman thought I meant the church as in our congregation, which I did, since plenty there didn’t square with the Bible. It made her 171 mad because she was an elder’s wife. As a typical Christian, she cared more about her position than about God, as Jewish leadership did during the time of Christ (John 11:48; Matt. 15:1-9). However, I already understood by then that Eagle and RZIM were representative samples of the whole Church. So I discerned God was saying there was a “hole” in the Church and that I was to fix it! And my reaction echoed the one Moses had when given His working orders (Ex. 4:13, see NIV). Prince of Egypt (1998). YouTube The Powerful Burning Bush Scene…Uploaded by Get Beyond. At the time, God was also teaching me that throughout the Bible, when God’s men failed to fulfill their calling He used women to do their job. Here's the rundown. Moses, the man of the house and God’s main man (Ex. 3:1-10) was supposed to circumcise his son—but didn’t—so his wife got stuck with the dirty work (Ex. 4:2426). And it was no small thing since God said that he would have killed Moses because of it. Then again, since the men wouldn’t, Deborah, a woman, led God’s people (Judg. 4:1-4), and another woman, Jael, was used by God to kill the villain since the man who should have done it was a faithless coward (Judg. 4:8-9). Yet again, when Nabal enraged the future king David, Nabal’s wife, Abigail, stepped in and saved the day by keeping David from carrying out a slaughter (1 Sam. 25:4-33). Even during the time of Christ, the women believed and spoke out when the men should have (Luke 24:1-11). And history, we all know, repeats itself, as was just demonstrated. Men in Church leadership know all of this, but pride surpasses knowledge when you’ve been given over to a powerful delusion (2 Thess. 2:1011), which is why their response has consistently been unbiblical and abusive—which God knew would happen when He commissioned me. He knew He was sending me into the lions’ den (Isa. 1:2-6) and that it would play out the same way as before, like with Isaiah, for example (Isa. 6:813). God blinded Isaiah’s society because of their sins, wasting their cities. And while U.S. cities haven’t been “wasted” (yet) like some cities 172 around the world, our City on a Hill, the Church, has been (Ps. 63:1). And because the Church Lady has wasted Her God-given opportunities, today’s younger set is NOT going to make it. This next song is true for all of the U.S., aka us. (No coincidence on those initials.) YouTube American Dream Casting Crowns. Uploaded by CastingCrownsVEVO. At the end of the next book I’ll be more specific about how God called me to this ministry, to write the original book which He then had me break down into the series of books and videos, for which He had me create a website and YouTube channel. Considering I’m speaking to people who are either not yet born again, just born again, or prodigal born again, there’s a ton of ground to cover before you can begin to understand what’s being said. Not because you’re not intelligent enough, but because you have to understand the Bible, have God’s Spirit within, and be in right fellowship with Him to be able to connect the dots. As God says: The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (1 Cor. 2:14). Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie [In other words, that they would believe lies and not the truth] (2 Thess. 2:10-11). Without getting right with God, He won’t let you know and understand the obvious but, instead, convince you that the lies you believe are true. “For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness” (1 Cor. 3:19). Afterword Because of the nature of spiritual enlightenment, so much depending on how well you know the Bible and how pure your life is, how obedient you are, how much information you have, how much free time you have, etc., much of what I’ve presented in this book will not be fully appreciated until you read the next book, even if you work your way through all the resources in this one—which you should do. My discerning guess is that for the average person, it will take several months of working through all four books in the series to fully understand who God is, what’s going on in the world (from His perspective), and what you’re specific purpose is in His Scheme of Things—and that’s for someone who really digs in and puts in the heart and the hours—blood, sweat, and tears, as they say. And that’s actually pretty good, amazing, in fact. Considering that it has taken Christianity 2000 years to not get it right, that an earnest seeker of truth who comes in knowing nothing of the Bible, could get up to speed in, let’s say three months to a year—that’s awesome! And it’s possible because of all of the resources people have put together, resources God has had people put together. For example, I had to spend years learning about God’s Church—half of my life! In contrast, someone coming in knowing NOTHING can get to the same point in a fraction of the time. Just the same, even if you understand everything that’s been presented in this book, including the extracurricular resources, let’s say you became born again through this book, the following books will build on all of this information to further enlighten you, as well as enhance it, to further help you understand what it means to be born again, how to walk with the Lord, how to hear His voice, and so on. If you take God seriously and make the most of what He has provided for you, you can become among the first fully enlightened and empowered individuals of all time! I’m shaking my head, not only because it’s an outrageous claim, but because it’s true! Considering the mess we’ve made—we, humanity. If you understand God’s WORD and His Plan for humanity, the Big Picture, that we’re at the end of this ‘chapter’ of His Story, you’ll realize my claim is true. As God says, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). Throughout all of history, no one has been fully enlightened globally and spiritually, yet that is exactly what God is doing for this generation—for the one that takes Him seriously. That’s where He’s taking us. The spiritual aspect is just the last phase of what He’s been doing for years— enlightening His people—as with WikiLeaks, for example. I’m not saying you will understand every subject, and I’m certainly not saying that I do—I don’t! Far from it! I’m saying that God is allowing a generation, for the first time, to have an overall understanding of what is going on around the world from His perspective while also getting a pretty good feel for what He’s doing moving forward. While much of it is very hard information to face, since He is in control, the good cancels out the bad. And the more numbers of people that take Him seriously sooner, the better it gets for all faster. For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge— that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. —Ephesians 3:14-21, NIV 173 The Pantry Bible Abbreviations Old Testament Gen. Genesis Ex. Exodus Lev. Leviticus Num. Numbers Deut. Deuteronomy Josh. Joshua Judg. Judges Ruth Ruth 1-2 Sam. 1-2 Samuel 1-2 Kings 1-2 Kings 1-2 Chron. 1-2 Chronicles Ezra Ezra Neh. Nehemiah Esth. Esther Job Job Ps. Psalm Prov. Proverbs Eccl. Ecclesiastes Song. Song of Solomon Isa. Isaiah Jer. Jeremiah Lam. Lamentations Ezek. Ezekiel Dan. Daniel Hos. Hosea Joel Joel Amos Amos Obad. Obadiah Jonah Jonah Micah Micah Nah. Nahum Hab. Habakkuk Zeph. Zephaniah Hag. Haggai Zech. Zechariah Mal. Malachi New Testament Matt. Matthew Mark Mark Luke Luke John John Acts Acts Rom. Romans 1-2 Cor. 1-2 Corinthians Gal. Galatians Eph. Ephesians Phil. Philippians Col. Colossians 1-2 Thess. 1-2 Thessalonians 1-2 Tim. 1-2 Timothy Titus Titus Philem. Philemon Heb. Hebrews James James 1 -2 Pet. 1-2 Peter 1-3 John 1-3 John Jude Jude Rev. Revelation 174 General Visuals Many are on YouTube or Elsewhere on the Web Note: The films about the Bible should be watched after having read the biblical account and then scrutinized so that you are aware of the actual biblical story without buying into the changes to God’s WORD sinners have made. The visual drama is helpful in understanding the biblical record but you have to be careful to discern the difference between fact and fiction. History/New World Order 9/11: Explosive Evidence Experts Speak Out (2012) 9/11 Press for Truth (2006) 9/11: Road to Tyranny (2002) Catholicism: Crisis of Faith (1991) The End of America (2008) Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement (2007) Eye of the Phoenix: Secrets of the Dollar Bill (2009) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2008) Fall of the Republic (2009) The Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers (2005) Hollywood Unmasked 1 & 2 (pub dates ?) The Kinsey Syndrome (2009) A Lamp in the Dark: The Untold History of the Bible (2009) Loose Change (2014) Megiddo: March to Armageddon: Bible Prophecy and the New World Order (2004) Megiddo II: The New Age (2005) The New World Order: A 6000 Year History (2013) Police State: The Rise of FEMA (2009) Riddles in Stone: The Secret Architecture of Washington, DC (2007) Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings: The New Atlantis (2010) Tares Among Wheat (2012) TerrorStorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism (2006) The Obama Deception (2009) Welcome to the Truth Full Documentary 2014, Uploaded by Nebulous 1982 We Need to Talk about Sandy Hook New 2015 Documentary (2015) Biblical History Resources Abraham (1994) Gen. 11:26-25:10 Jacob (1994) Gen. 25;19-50:14 Joseph (1995) Gen. 30:22-Ex. 1:8 Joseph: King of Dreams (2000) Gen. 30:22-Ex. 1:8 The Prince of Egypt (1998) Ex. 1:9-Deut. 34:7 The Book of Daniel (2013) Ezra 1-6, Isa. 44-45, Daniel. Messiah: Prophesy Fulfilled (2004) Gospel The Miracle Maker (2000) Gospel Jesus: He Lived Among Us (2011) Gospel The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John (2003) The Visual Bible: The Gospel of Matthew (1993) The Visual Bible: Acts (2004) Chapter 1: God Gave Us His WORD Movies Websites Biblegateway.com Google Protestant Pastor Scandal Books The Beginner’s Bible, Zonderkidz Surprised by Faith, Dr. Don Bierle Documentaries New World Order Bible Versions (2014) YouTube God Speaking, Mandisa Catholicism: Crisis of Faith (1991) Reformation God's Outlaw (1986) About William Tyndale John Wycliffe: Morning Star of the Reformation (1984) John Hus (1977) Luther (2003) Martin Luther (1953) The Radicals (1990) The Forbidden Book (2006) A Lamp in the Dark: The Untold History of the Bible (2009) Tares Among Wheat: Sequel to a Lamp in the Dark (2012) Resources Listed By Chapter Preface for the Series YouTube David Bowden I Believe In Scripture Spoken Word. TheScariestMovieEver (YouTube Channel) Google Geoengineering Climate Change Genetically Modified Organisms Vaccine Depopulation Agenda False Flags FEMA Death Camps Michael David Cohen Ignored Warnings, Mauled by Shark in Cape Town, South Africa (Video) Movies Beauty and the Beast (1991) Chapter 4: God Promised We’d Get Paradise Back YouTube The Enemy Has Been Defeated, Hillsong Psalm 133, Chip Andrus and Friends Identity 1: We Fell, Tedashii For Unto Us a Child is Born, London Symphony Orchestra You're the Lion of Judah, Robin Mark Cece Winans, King of Kings Breath of Heaven (Mary’s Song), Amy Grant Mary Did You Know, Kenny Rogers and Wynonna Judd Cry of Ramah, Colleen Fulmer Prepare Ye the Way, Michael W. Smith Jesus, The Son of God, Chris Tomlin & Christy Nockels The People that Walked in Darkness Have Seen a Great Light, Messiah, Handel The Prophet’s Story: A Movie on Jesus, Uploaded by theprophetsstory I Won’t Go Back, William McDowell Above All, Michael W. Smith Palm Sunday God’s Way. Uploaded by HyperPixelsMedia Thirty Pieces of Silver, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper By His Wounds, Mac Powell Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted, Fernando Ortega Man of Sorrows! What a Name, Master’s Chorale Tenth Avenue North, Losing Were You There? Aaron Neville The Invasion (Hero), Trip Lee He’s Alive, David Phelps & Gaither Vocal Band Every Perfect Gift, Casey Darnell Lord of Eternity, Fernando Ortega 175 Jesus, King of Angels Fernando Ortega Joel Limpic, Psalm 22, The Artist Bible Phil Vassar This is God, Uploaded by PhilVassarVEVO Movies One Day (2011) Chapter 5: God is a Three-Part Being Movies Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Chapter 6: God Gave Us a Light Bulb Movies Supremacy (2014) Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Chapter 7: God Chose All Elect to Become Born Again YouTube What If We Were Real, Mandisa Give Me That Old Time Religion, Gary Cooper G.O.S.P.E.L Propaganda (Full Video) Born Again, Third Day Born Again Live, Uploaded by Gather VEVO Change My Heart Oh God, Eddie Espinosa Movies Sergeant York (1941) Amistad (1997) Ratatouille (2007) Raising Izzie (2012) God’s Not Dead (2014) Documentaries The Kinsey Syndrome (2009) Chapter 8: God Told Us Christians Would Fall Away YouTube Casting Crowns City on a Hill Animated, uploaded by Casting Crowns You Don’t Love God if You Don’t Love Your Neighbor Chapter 9: God’s Spirit Requires Bible Immersion YouTube Darlene Zschech Jesus Lover of My Soul Websites adullamfilms.com biblegateway.com nestlearning.com faithlessons.net utmost.org odb.org oneplace.com Google 176 Olive Tree Bible Study App My Utmost, April 22. The Light that Never Fails Movies The Miracles Maker (2000) Books The Beginner’s Bible, Zonderkidz Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary Jesus Wants All of Me, Phil A. Smouse Chapter 10: God Has Two Types of Prophets Google False Prophets Today YouTube Exclusive Footage John MacArthur Confronted. Uploaded by Dorma Productions Chapter 11: God’s Wrath Google D. L. Cuddy: Chronological History of the New World Order YouTube John F. Kennedy’s Secret Society Speech The Katinas, Praying for You Indefinite Detention Georgia Guidestones One World Religion Proof that the News is Scripted Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh, uploaded by TeamSweat Movies Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Out on a Limb (1987) Documentaries Dark Clouds Over Elberton: The True Story of the Georgia Guidestones (2015) Books Rulers of Evil: Useful Knowledge about Governing Bodies, Tupper Saussy Websites Divine Cosmos (divinecosmos.com) Center for Research on Globalization (globalresearch.org) Chapter 12: God’s Tainted Story Books The Annals of the World, James Ussher Google 10 Things that Every American Should Know about the Federal Reserve Chapter 13: God’s Way is Better Movies As it is in Heaven (2004) Chapter 14: God’s Harvest Comes After a Storm Websites biblegateway.com Movies The Book of Daniel (2013) Chapter 15: God Anoints Some for Special Service YouTube The Great Commission Only for Obedient (Matthew 28), uploaded by Trulylatino Eagles, Third Day The Powerful Burning Bush Scene, uploaded by Get Beyond American Dream, Casting Crowns, uploaded by CastingCrownsVEVO Movies China Cry (1990) Prince of Egypt (1998) 177