Sunday, February 28, 2016

Deity thoughts translated

In Matthew 4:4, Jesus Christ says, “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

Jordan says, “When people talk about translating the Bible, the great translation problem was taken care of long before anybody had to worry about English; if you can translate deity thoughts and deity words into human words, now that’s the translation product!

“People talk about language limitation--there’s the language limitation! If you could take the thoughts of the godhead and put them in Hebrew and Greek, anything else taken from one language to another is a snap. God revealed it, made it known. He translated His thinking into our thinking.

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The Bible itself, through many different verses, tells you it’s going to be translated into all the languages of the nations.

Romans 16:25-26 says, “Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, [26] But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.”

“In II Thessalonians  2:2 there were some people counterfeiting epistles, writing them and saying they were from Paul when they weren’t,” Jordan says. “But the local church there had an office, a prophet, a God-empowered person with a supernatural ability as a gift of that church to say, ‘This is scripture,’ and to speak for God.

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Zechariah 8:23 is a verse in Israel’s program about the millennial kingdom as an illustration of what it means to preach to all nations: “Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.”

Jordan explains, “Now if you get 10 dudes come up there from 10 different languages and grab a hold of you and start talking, you got a problem because if you’re going to talk back to them, you got to do it in 10 different languages. You know what you’re going to need? The gift of tongues.

“Can you understand why, on the day of Pentecost, God gave to the apostles the gift of tongues? They’re flat going to need the ability to speak a lot of different languages.

“You see this effectual reversal of Genesis 11 in Acts 2:4: ‘And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.’ God is talking through them in other languages.

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“I Corinthians 14:21 says, ‘In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.’

“Notice God can speak more than one language. He tells Israel, ‘I’m gonna speak to you in a bunch of different languages, and when I do, it’s still going to be me talking.’ Language is not a barrier for God to talk.”

Acts 2 goes on, “Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. [7] And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? [8] And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”

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Jordan says, “You see that? They’re filled with the Spirit, they take God’s Word and they translate it into all these different languages ‘and they were all amazed and marveled . . .

“ ‘How come all these dudes from up north (Galilee) can speak all these different languages?’ Look at all those different languages! ‘And we’re all hearing in our native language,’ and they’re saying, ‘What in the world does all of this mean?!’

“When Paul says that over there in Romans 16:25, he’s expecting God’s Word to be taken and placed in the languages of the nations so that they would hear God’s Word in their own language.

“I Corinthians 14:21 is a quote out of Isaiah 28 and that’s God Himself talking. Notice God Himself can speak with other tongues.

“God speaks every language, and when His Word is placed in those other languages, it is as much the Word of God as it was in the original language as far as He’s concerned.”

*****

Another great illustration is in Esther 1:21-22: “And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

[22] For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.”

If you look at verse 1, it says, “Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces.”

“This dude’s the ruler over 127 different provinces. Do you think there must have been a little bit of a diplomatic communication issue here?!

“Verse 22 says they’re going to take that letter and translate it into 127 different languages, and when those 127 different nations and languages got that letter in their language, it was the word of the king and it was just as authoritative as it was in the original language the king spoke and wrote it in. Because once you put it in that Receptor language, that’s what he would have said had he written it in that language to start with!

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“The translators of the King James Bible wrote a preface from the translators to the reader. In it they said, ‘As the king’s speech which is uttered in parliament, being translated in French, Dutch, Italian and Latin, is still the king’s speech, no cause therefore why the word translated should be denied to be the Word. . . ’

“And then they referenced that passage in Esther 1:22. You see, the translators understood they were handling God’s Word and that when you translate it, it’s still God’s Word because the commandment of the everlasting God was that His Word would be made known to all nations.

“Somebody says, ‘Well, what about the language limitations?’ Obviously it didn’t stop the word of the king from getting into the other language. You say, ‘Well, you can’t translate perfectly from one language to another.’ Duh!

“If that’s a problem for you, I suggest you go to Acts 22 and read the first 18 verses where the Apostle Paul stands at the porch of the temple and speaks to his brethren, the Jews, in the Hebrew tongue, according to the text.

“Paul spoke at least 7-8 different languages. He spoke that in Hebrew but when Luke wrote it down, in every copy of any text that anybody ever reads, they say he wrote it down by inspiration of God in Greek.

“Hebrew and Greek are very different languages with different syntax, grammar, vocabulary and even letters. They use different alphabets. Hebrew says something very condensed; Greek is fuller.

“But that’s no big thing for Luke to do that. Moses talked to Pharaoh in Egyptian, but when he wrote it down in Exodus, he wrote it in Hebrew. When God the Holy Ghost decided to write down what Moses said, God the Holy Spirit dictated it in Hebrew. So God the Holy Spirit translated it!

“This translation issue is not the blank wall people make it sound like. The issue is to take God’s Word and to put it in the various languages of the nations and that’s been done since the very beginning.”

(new article tomorrow)

Friday, February 26, 2016

Filled with conversation

I’ve never forgotten an old TV interview Oprah had with a woman who was kidnapped by guerillas and held hostage in the deep jungles of Columbia for six-plus years (2002-2008), tortured and in solitary confinement where she had to ask permission just to use the toilet or brush her teeth.

The French politician said one of the biggest lessons learned from the ordeal, where she says she was stretched to the limits of loneliness and sorrow, was, “Whoever the person you ultimately want to be, that one you always dream about one day becoming, just be that person right now. You don’t have to wait.”

*****

In I Corinthians 2:9, Paul assures, “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

He implores the Philippians to “only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ.” As Jordan explains the use of the word “conversation,” it doesn’t have to do with speaking:

“In the middle of that word are the words ‘converse’ and ‘concourse.’ That doesn’t just have to do with speaking. When you’re conversant with something, you’re intimate in the way it works. You know how it happens and how it’s accomplished, and you can become conversant with a book, or a subject, or with a computer, or whatever it is you want to be conversant with. You have a thorough knowledge of it where you’re able to live it and handle it and deal with it.

“Conversation is more than just being able to talk about it. It’s that you get right into it, and into its life, and let what’s at the basis of who you are, and the way you live, be as ‘becometh the gospel of Christ.’ Let your manner of life, your lifestyle, who you are be becoming, adorned, make look good…

“Let who you are down inside adorn the doctrine. It’s Titus 2 terminology. Or as Paul writes in Philippians:

[8] 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, [9] 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: [10] That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.

*****

When Paul advises to “be filled with the Spirit” in Ephesians 5, he’s not talking about getting more of the Spirit of God; it’s to be filled by His instrumentality.

Jordan explains, “God the Holy Spirit is going to be used by the Father to put some things into you that ought to be there. It isn’t about putting more of the Spirit of God in you; it’s rather by the instrumentality of the Spirit of God--by the working of Holy Spirit --that some things are going to begin to be produced in your life.

“What it is is to have God’s Word—the Spirit of God never works apart from His Word. It’s to have God’s Spirit; take His Word and fill your heart, your understanding, and renew your mind with an understanding of what it is God’s doing.

“It’s an objective, measurable operation of the Holy Spirit. It’s something that can be measured by words on a page in the Bible and be identified in your life in specific ways.

“To be filled with anything is to be saturated by that thing to the point that it completely dominates and controls your life.

“In Luke 5, when it says the Pharisees were ‘filled with fear,’ that’s saying they were so astonished and afraid that fear just took control of them, and the emotion of fear just completely consumed them to the place they were incapable of doing anything because it controlled them.

“In Luke 6:11, they were ‘filled with madness,’ meaning they were completely controlled by their rage and it gripped them and carried them along and they couldn’t get shed of it.

“John 16:6 says ‘sorrow hath filled your heart.’ The emotion just came in and grabbed them and wrenched them to the place that they couldn’t get out from under the control of it.

“We could go on and on with passages like that. To ‘be filled with the Spirit’ simply means to be under the complete, total dominion and domination of the Holy Spirit.

“It has to do with surrender. Boy, we don’t like that word. It’s the total surrender of your life and your thinking to the control of the Holy Spirit so that He carries you along through life.

“Being filled with the Holy Spirit is you lose, you can’t, you give up and He does. Paul said, ‘I’m crucified.’ If your Christian life is going to be what God produces, it won’t be you.

“It requires the DEATH of selfishness and of self-will in your life. It isn’t my thinking, my way. It’s His way. We got this whole thing about ‘my way or the highway,’ but it isn’t that.

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“I was in the bookstore specifically looking for books telling you how to be filled with the Holy Spirit and didn’t find one that had less than six steps to get there and the first two had to do with ‘confessing your sins’ and all that kind of bunk.

“How do you get there? To be filled with the Spirit is easy to understand; it means, ‘I surrender to His control. He controls me moment by moment, day by day.’ My life is to be lived in an attitude of complete, total surrender to the spirit of Almighty God.

“How in the world do I do that? It’s always fascinated me why there’s so much confusion about what it is that produces--what the means of producing this filling of the Spirit is.

“Like I said, it’s not simply a subjective feeling you get inside, that your emotions point you to. It’s an objective work of God the Holy Spirit in a non-experiential realm in your life, and you can measure it and identify it objectively.

*****

Just as Paul writes to be “filled with the Spirit,” he refers to “speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.”

This same advice is found in Colossians 3:16: “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.

Jordan explains, “If you get the same results from being filled with the Spirit that you get from being filled with the Word of God, what does that tell you?!

“Listen, if you get exactly the same results, doesn’t that tell you that being filled with the Spirit is equal to being filled with the Word of God? Sure it does!

“Being ‘filled with the Spirit of God’ is equivalent to saying, ‘Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.’ It’s the Holy Spirit working THROUGH the Word of God to fill your life with the qualities of spiritual maturity. It’s taking the Word of Christ and letting it INFUSE every part of your being. It’s having your thinking and actions controlled by the Word of God.

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“One of my favorite verses is I Thessalonians 2:13. Paul says, ‘For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.’

“There’s a lot of things to get from that verse. It’s the Word of God that effectually works in people that believe. When you by faith take the Word of God and step out upon what God says, God the Holy Spirit takes His Word . . .

“God the Holy Spirit today works indirectly in your life through the instrumentality of the Word of God as you by faith rest upon it. I don’t know how to say that any clearer; if I did, I’d say it another way.

“The way God’s going to work in your life, it isn’t you sitting down and saying, ‘Lord, I want you to take away this problem out of my life,’ and God’s just going to zap you and it’s going to be gone. That isn’t how that happens.

“As you objectively take your thinking processes, your actions and your attitude and bring them under the control and authority of the Word of God . . . As you begin to think in your own heart and mind the way God says He thinks in His Word, that is God the Holy Spirit working in you both to will and to do His good pleasure.

“So rather than looking out there, we look in here. Rather than asking God to move and do out there, it’s His Word that WORKS and He’s in us, living His life out through our mortal bodies as we walk by faith in what He says in His Word.

“If something is effectual, that means it WORKS. It’s effective; it gets the job done. It’s not a misfire. It works effectually IN you. That’s where God’s working starts. It’s in you that believe! That’s the catalyst of it.

“Colossians 1:9 says, ‘For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be FILLED with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.’

There’s that word again! Let the Word of Christ DWELL in you! Let it come and fill up your life and be at home in you and live there!

“What should be the result of you having a daily and a weekly intake of sound doctrine into your life? That you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing.

“The first thing God is interested in you understanding about Jesus Christ is not His earthly life and ministry. That’s what religion wants you to know about.

“When you look back to Calvary and watch all the things that happen there, then the Lord speaks seven times. Now, you can only see into the heart of a person when the words come out of their mouth. You can’t watch the actions of a person and tell exactly what’s inside of them. They can be fooling you.

“But you listen to the words that come out a person’s mouth and the Lord says that’s where the Spirit’s revealed. That’s where your inner man comes out.”

(new article tomorrow)

Thursday, February 25, 2016

So-so Solomon--so what!

It’s always interesting to see a so-called Bible expert reveal a personal understanding of God’s Word that’s both immature and unknowledgeable.

In a recent issue of Christianity Today magazine is a first-person piece by the General Editor of the so-called "English Standard Version" of the Bible, J.I. Packer, a 90-year-old Oxford-educated author of more than 40 books, including the bestseller Knowing God. He writes about how his favorite Bible book is Ecclesiastes, “whether (the writer) was the Solomon of history or someone impersonating him—not to deceive but to make points in the most effective way.”
Packer reasons, “Whoever he was, Qohelet was a realist about the many ways in which this world gives us a rough ride. But while temperamentally inclined to pessimism and cynicism, I think, he was kept from falling into either of those craters of despair by a strong theology of joy.

“How far this matches the way people see me, I do not know, but this is how I want to see myself—and why I warm to Ecclesiastes as a kindred spirit. (One main difference, of course, is that his thinking is all done within the framework of Old Testament revelation.)
Packer continues, “Ecclesiastes is one of the Old Testament’s five wisdom books. It has been said that the Psalms teach us how to worship; Proverbs, how to behave; Job, how to suffer; Song of Solomon, how to love; and Ecclesiastes, how to live. How? With realism and reverence, with humility and restraint, coolly and contentedly, in wisdom and in joy . . .

“People who may not have read beyond chapter 3 might think of Ecclesiastes as voicing nothing more than bafflement and gloom at the way everything is. But 2:26 already goes beyond this: 'to the one who pleases him God has given . . . joy' (ESV, used throughout). In Ecclesiastes, joy is as central a theme, and as big and graciously bestowed a blessing, as it is in, say, Philippians . . .

"How then should we finally formulate the theology of joy that runs through and undergirds the entire book? Christian rejoicing in Christ and in salvation, as the New Testament depicts, goes further. But in celebrating joy as God’s kindly gift, and in recognizing the potential for joy of everyday activities and relationships, Ecclesiastes lays the right foundation. ‘There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God.’ "

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On the subject of Ecclesiastes, Jordan reasons, “The Book of Psalms says that ‘man in his best state is altogether vanity,’ and Solomon didn’t have to do all this stuff in Ecclesiastes to figure that out! The Bible already told him that if he would have just believed it!

“He didn’t believe it, though, or he quit believing it, and he got seduced by the wisdom of the world. Ecclesiastes demonstrates that all the places people seek wisdom apart from divine revelation are useless. Now, it’s fascinating that it’s that way, isn’t it?”

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Here’s a correlating passage from a recent study Jordan gave:

“In Acts 17 you see the whole city of Athens has been completely co-opted by taking the truth of God and changing it into a lie and worshipping and serving the creature more than the creator.
“There was nobody in Athens who even knew who Jesus Christ was! There was nobody who even knew what a Bible was except down in the synagogue.

“Paul went into a world that wasn’t arguing about who Jesus was or should we be Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Catholic, Presbyterian or Russian Orthodox.

“Acts 17:18 says, ‘Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.’
“They say, 'What’s this dude running off at the mouth about?!' These were the Greek wisdom lovers. Epicureans were followers of the Greek philosopher Epicureas. His philosophy was ‘let’s eat and drink for tomorrow we may die.’

“For Greeks, the ‘summum bonum,’ the greatest good in life, was happiness. Stoics, the Greek philosopher Zeno says, ‘No, good happens as bad happens; just need to tough it out.’
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“Did you know the 15 or 20 great philosophers of the ancient world all had the wisdom literature of the Bible on the table in front of them.

“Did you know Plato, Aristotle, Euripides, all those guys stole their philosophy out of the Bible? The wisest man who ever lived was a guy named Solomon. He wrote some books about his wisdom that were around hundreds of years before these men.
“The Book of Ecclesiastes has the foundation of every great Greek philosopher’s philosophy and these men never acknowledged it one time. A bunch of thieves, plagiarists, making a name for themselves. That’s the world Paul lived in.

“In Acts 17, Paul goes into the synagogue and they don’t want what he’s telling them, but the Jews only meet on Saturday so what does he do the other six days of the week? He talks to the Gentiles, daily, out there in the marketplace. He’s out holding street meetings!
“Preachers today say what you need to do is become relevant. You know how you become relevant? Tell people the truth. Look at what Paul does in Acts 17-22-23:

[22] Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
[23] For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
“Paul says, ‘You’re a bunch of superstitious religious ignoramuses and I want to tell you who you missed.' Does that sound like someone trying to relate to them? Does that sound like his biggest concern is trying to make ‘a connection’?

“Paul wasn’t trying to relate to them so they’d like him and therefore listen to him. He said, ‘I know something you don’t know and I need to tell you. I know what God says. I know something you need to know about.’
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“Paul goes to Corinth from Athens in Acts 18 and finds the Corinthians were dominated by the philosophies Acts 17’s talking about.

“He writes in I Corinthians 1: 18] For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
[19] For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
[20] Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
[21] For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.’
“You see who Paul’s thinking about? The Epicureans, the Stoics, the Athenians. He said, ‘God’s made all that stuff foolishness. It’s a bunch of ignorant superstitious religion. What’s the real answer? The preaching of the Cross.' But what do they consider that? Foolishness.”

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Bible on file in heaven before writers told a word

One of the great verses Bible defenders use to demonstrate God’s commitment to preserving His Word throughout time is Psalm 119:89: ‘Forever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.’

The thing about it that's so profound, though, is the verse is saying God’s Word was ALREADY settled in heaven and existed in a written form BEFORE any of it was ever put down on paper on the earth!

In proving this point, California preacher John Verstegen points specifically to an amazing passage in Daniel 10 where the angel Gabriel is sent from heaven to convey information to Daniel in response to Daniel’s prayer to receive it.

Daniel 10: 10-12 reads: [10] And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.
[11] And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
[12] Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.

Verstegen explains, ‘The information Gabriel gave Daniel is the information in what you have as the Book of Daniel. But watch what he says as he’s telling Daniel this information. Verses 20-21:

20] Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
[21] But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

“Do you see it says ‘that which IS noted’? He doesn’t say ‘that which you are then going to note in the scripture of truth.’ He doesn’t say ‘that which, Daniel, I want you to write down.’ The angel says, ‘I will show thee that which IS noted in the Scripture,’ and Daniel hadn’t written the Book of Daniel yet! That’s amazing. The scripture of truth was already noted before Gabriel even furtively told Daniel the information!”
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Jordan: “Brother Russ Hargett (preacher in Tampa, Fla.) made a comment a couple of years ago at a conference and I thought, ‘Wow, I missed that one! That was good!’

“In Isaiah 30, God tells Isaiah, ‘Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.’
“Russ made the point, and he’s dead right about this, ‘Holy men of old SPAKE as they were moved by the Spirit of God.’ Inspiration is God putting His Spirit in the words. How did He do it? He spoke. He then caused those words to be written down so they could be preserved.

"So you know what the original writing of the Scripture was? It was an act of preservation. You follow that?!
"Everybody gets real mad when we talk about preservation, but the original writing down--script, what’s written--was the preservation of the SPOKEN Word of God!
“That’s why in Romans 16:22, Tertius could say, ‘I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.’ Who wrote Romans? Well, the ‘amanuensis,’ or the secretary who took the dictation from Paul, was a guy named Tertius. But the Spirit of God spoke through Paul. All of a sudden this issue of inspiration and preservation becomes ALIVE to you because you’ve got God’s Word!
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Jordan continues, “Listen, we’re going to be living in a world that is more and more like the world Paul lived in. With cell phones and all most of us have instant communication but Paul didn’t have that. The issue is not how fast can I communicate; the issue is what am I saying.

“Acts 17 says, [18] Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
[19] And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
[20] For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
“Can I tell you that if you go out into the world you live in and ask 10 people, ‘Do you have any idea where you’re going to spend eternity; have all of your sins forgiven?’ six of them will let you tell them. They’re not telling you they’re going to believe it.

“You’ll find there’s a hunger in people just like with these dudes (in Acts 17). They want to know! One of the blessings for you here is Paul, up until the end of his ministry, never had to fight apostasized Christianity. You’re watching apostate Christianity fall on itself right now.

“By the way, the era of the megachurch is over, in case you hadn’t noticed. More megachurches went bankrupt in 2015 then were founded.
“Verse 21 says, [21] (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

“The majority aren’t going to hear you but there’s going to be a remnant that does. If you want to see what the real church is going to be like next year and the next decade, read II Timothy.”
(to be continued tomorrow . . .)

Monday, February 22, 2016

OX NEWS ALERT

Daniel 4:33 reads, “The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.”

Jordan explains, “That madness that goes in Nebuchadnezzar; there’s a name for it in the books: lycanthropy. It’s when a man or a woman imagines themselves to be an animal and Nebby goes stark-raving buggy, or I should say beastly. He just goes berserk. He’s out in the field and thinks he’s an ox.”

If you look on Wikipedia, clinical lycanthropy is defined as “a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can transform into, has transformed into, or is a non-human animal. . . Affected individuals report a delusional belief that they are in the process of transforming into an animal or have already transformed into an animal.”

Jordan continues to explain, “Now this madness he’s involved in here, notice the terminology. Over and over again, the madness and the reason for the detailed descriptions (in Daniel 4) are the terms that match the tribulation period. He goes out and he eats grass like a what? An ox. Do you remember when we studied Ezekiel 1 and Ezekiel 10 and Revelation 4 and we saw who an ox was a representative of? The cherub. Who’s that? Satan.

“Folks, people talk about him with the two horns--the two horns are the horns of an ox! People go around like this with their two fingers—peace, victory, that kind of stuff.

"Do you remember over there in Genesis 3 when He talked to the serpent and said you’re going to be cursed above all the cattle of the field?

“Some dumb thumps come along and say, ‘Well, see, your Bible’s not very scientific. It doesn’t know the difference between a reptile and a cattle.’ Well, my dear friend, you just haven’t studied far enough! There’s a revelation there that science can’t pick up on and botany and biology can’t get! That tells you that the serpent standing there was cattle—he was an ox!

“ ‘And his hair grows like eagles’ feathers.’ You go over in Ezekiel 1 and you’ll see that eagle associated with that same type of thing. That’s a Second Coming passage, by the way.

“His nails are said to grow like bird claws. You ever read in Revelation 18 about Babylon over there being the habitation of every filthy and foul bird? You know what birds are types of in the Bible? Demons.

“Did you ever read that parable in the Book of Mark and in Matthew about the sower who went out there and sowed that seed, and then the fowls of the air came out and what did they do? They snatched that seed away and Christ said, ‘That’s what Satan’s done; taken that word out of those peoples’ hearts.’ Those birds are demons that go in and snatch out that Book, see? That’s why in Revelation 18 they’re used in a passage that’s describing demonic activity.

“When Hitchcock put that movie out about how the birds are coming, you just thought he had a nightmare, didn’t you? You didn’t know that that fellow had . . . I tell you people that the creative genius of unsaved people is satanically inspired. Satan knows that Book even if a bunch of dumb Christians don’t.

“The greatest handbook on types and symbols in the universe is that one right there in your hands! Don’t you let somebody come along and say that Book isn’t important. That Book right there will explain to you what’s going on in the world when you don’t understand what’s going on.

“The types and the symbolism in art, movies, theatre of today come right out of that Book! In the great movie ‘Star Wars’ they say, ‘The Force be with you.’ That’s a quotation out of Daniel 11.

“See people, that book is THE Book!

“The tribulation period is going to be a time when God looks at the Antichrist and says, ‘He’s the beast! He’s a mad man!’ And what does the world do? They bow down and worship him and exalt insanity! Madness!

“Psalm 49:6 says, ‘They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.’ Verse 10 says, ‘For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
[11] Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.’

“ ‘They call their land after their own names.’ Boy, isn’t that the telling the truth! ‘Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.’

“He said, ‘If you’re a guy like that, you know what you are? You’re a beast.’ Peter in II Peter 2 warns about a class of people who are literally beasts. II Peter 2:12 says, ‘But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.’

“Natural brute beasts. Just fit for nothing but destruction. That’s a class of people that are just beasts.

“Notice the reference to Balaam in verse 15? Come over to Jude. Compare II Peter 2 with Jude and you’ll notice references to Sodom and Gomorrah preceded the passage we just read as they do in Jude verses 6 and 7 and then verse 8:

“Verse 10 says, ‘But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.’ All of that’s like Revelation 2:14 and 2:20.

“Verse 16 says, ‘These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.’

“You get the idea that these are a bunch of bad rascals, don’t you? This is just man gone mad and it’s the madness of self-will, and that willful king leads the nations in a mad pell-mell rush to destruction.

“Go back to Daniel 4 and notice Nebuchadnezzar is restored into his kingdom here. Daniel 4:34 says, ‘And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation.’

“Folks, when Nebuchadnezzar humbled himself, God restored him and he’s found in his right mind. In verse 26 he comes to know that the most high rules in the kingdoms of men; he comes to know that the heavens DO rule!

“He’s not just saying, ‘God’s the boss.’ He’s saying that the heavens RUN things!

“There’s an interesting reference in verse 13: ‘I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;’ That holy one, by the way, Nebby understood that to be angels. If you go back to verse 8 he talks about ‘the spirit of the holy gods.’ Those are angels.

“Verse 17. In verse 23 he talks again about the watcher and the holy one coming down and giving the word. There’s a decree these angels bring down that results in what happens to Nebuchadnezzar happening.

“People, the watchers and the holy one there, that is a reference to the administration of the affairs of the universe. God Almighty has a government over this universe, not just over the earth, but over the whole universe.

“Notice they’re called the watchers. There’s a special class of these people who have the function of going about in the earth and seeing what goes on and carrying back to God the report before the judgment throne of God.

“Go to I Kings 22 and you’ll see a little glimpse of some of the activity of this deal. 22:19. There is a courtroom scene whereby what is going to happen on the earth, and what is determined, is decided upon, and there’s one that’s sent from that court down to the earth to see to the execution of God’s purpose.

“Now I can’t give you perfect understanding about how all that goes on, but Nebby came to understand that God Almighty ran the show and that what happened down here, happened according to His governmental authority and His control and His rule and His decision-making!

“The Book of Daniel is full of this stuff. Daniel 10:13. The reason Daniel and his prophetic import is so full of this is because in the tribulation period this is going to be the issue! Jesus Christ is going to come back down into the heavens and take over the government of the heavens, cast Satan down onto the earth (Rev. 12) and then follow him down here and take the earth away from him.

“People, the issue from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, is the authority of a throne over this universe!”

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Alien alter-egos all the rage, dontchaknow

“The latest incarnation of man's rebellion against God is the transhumanist movement,” informs a Christian website. “Many within the movement believe the singularity will lead to the emergence of ‘post-biological humans’ who are able to shed their biological bodies and ‘upgrade their hardware.’

“Others believe that by downloading themselves into a network, they will effectively become ‘immortal.’ True believers have modified their diets, exercise regimens, and entire lifestyle in an effort to increase the likelihood of living to witness human reversal of the aging process and eventual human ‘immortality’ . . .

“Believing this event will usher in a new era for the human race in which limited mortals transcend their biological bodies and set out to conquer the universe, transhumanist anticipation of the singularity is comparable to Christian anticipation of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.”

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Here is an old blog post on the subject:

Genesis 6:1 presents a passage that describes a transgenic kind of an issue: “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”

Jordan explains, “If angels in heaven do not marry or give in marriage, why would they have any sexual interest in the daughters of men? When it says they saw ‘that they were fair,’ the thought would be they were good-looking and that they were attracted to them, but since angels don’t have a sex drive, and they would have no pro-creation ability, this would not be an issue to them.

“One of the mitigating factors there is they could see men and women, and they could see them having a good time, and want to enter into that. But when you study the verse really carefully it really isn’t talking so much about that.

“The Hebrew word for ‘fair’ is literally the idea of a ‘fit extension.’ It’s the idea of being an acceptable or good host in which to implant yourself. The verse says 'they took them wives.'

"Now when you take somebody, you’ve heard of alien abductions, they didn’t go in and court the women and win them; they TOOK them. Just the terminology tells you this is an involuntary kind of a thing. It was not mutual consent; they came in and took them.

“The indication here is they begin to enter into this genetic experimentation and they begin to work with the genetic mutations with man and they create a mutant life form. Genesis 6:4 says, ‘There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.’

“Notice it says there were giants in those days and after that. That’s important. It didn’t just happen before the Flood; the same genetic experimentation happened after the Flood.

Jude verse 6 gives little bit of understanding of how this could take place: ‘And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.’

“Their first estate was in heaven. These guys leave their original estate, leaving their own habitation. They had a habitation that God had built for them to live in. What Jude’s describing is these angelic beings using created matter to embody themselves in. People argue angels did not have a seed to create children with but the point in Jude is they left where they didn’t have it and came down here and took upon another form so they could have it.

“In fact, in the next verse says, ‘Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.’ Do you remember what was going to happen in Genesis 19? These two angels come with Lot and the guys in town come and they want to take these two men (angels) and we get the term sodomy from Sodom because they wanted to have homosexual relationships with them. Lot offers them his daughters but they wanted the guys.

“Before you get all fired up about the angels not having a seed, notice that Satan has a seed. Gen. 3:15: ‘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.’ Satan comes to Eve as a Brad Pitt kind of guy. Notice Satan’s seed is going to function among humanity. That’s what Jesus Christ is referring to when he says of the Pharisees, ‘Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers.’ They were a group of people who were spiritually generated and produced, had their origin from Satan. I John 3:12 says, ‘Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.’

“Notice Cain was OF, produced BY that wicked one. You know why people say prostitution is world’s oldest profession? They say that because the old wives’ tale is that Satan and Eve had sex in the Garden and that that was the Original Sin. And that he seduced her and fathered Cain. In Genesis 4, Eve says, ‘Behold I’ve gotten a man from the Lord.’ The idea is he was the father of Cain. This is the verse they use for that. But that isn’t what those verses are talking about.

“If Cain was a physical son of Satan, his brother Abel was Adam’s son. Then the descendants of Cain, and the genetic contamination that would have taken place because of that, would have to somewhere still be here today. If you read about the human genome and DNA, 97% of the genetics in DNA is non-codable. Only about 3% of the DNA we’re using is codable and so what people then say is, ‘Well, 97% is the alien DNA from the wherever.’ You could run this stuff off to the place where it gets to be a little too much with the speculation.

“When it says ‘Cain is of that wicked one,’ Cain bought into the lie program, and just as Satan was the spiritual father of Israel’s leaders in John 8, and they were OF that wicked one, Satan was their father. Cain was the very first Pharisee, the progenitor of those birds who wanted to kill Christ and Jesus identified him that way in Matthew 23.

“So it’s a spiritual parentage when he’s talking about the seed, but it’s interesting that Satan does have prodigy. It’s not like he doesn’t have children. He certainly does. He has prodigy.”

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This idea of the mingling, the genetic engineering, as observed in Genesis 6:4, is the result of the genetic experimentation and engineering between ‘the sons of god’ and the daughters of men producing a mutant life described as giants in the earth.

“These were men of greatly enhanced intelligence, enhanced strength, enhanced size and also some really weird things otherwise,” confirms Jordan.

“When you start having genetic mutations, odd things come. In Deuteronomy 3:11, for example, this giant’s bed was 12 feet long and six feet wide. He must be 10-11 feet tall and three-feet wide. The point is he’s uncharacteristically large. When you read about these giants you see the genetic engineering produced a lot of misfires in the mutant forms that they took. Goliath was a big guy and very skilled, strong, adaptive. He wasn’t just a freak in size.

“II Samuel 21:20 reveals, ‘And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.’ II Samuel 23:20 says that ‘Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab.’

“In the Apocrypha’s Book of Enoch it talks about angels experimenting with animal genetics. So they weren’t just doing it with humans evidently; the common lore is it was also with animals. Well, that would explain for you some of what’s going on in II Samuel where you would have the successful corruption of the species barrier.

“You remember in Genesis God says every species will reproduce ‘after its kind’? So He created a barrier and they’re trying to bridge that barrier and produce some mutations that would be beyond that normal-species barrier between normal reproduction. And the intelligence, the instincts that they would be trying to create . . . you now see in sci-fi stuff even today, in fact in the last few years you read about how to produce the ultimate soldier and they try to breed into a person the ability to have the eyesight of a cunning sharp-vision animal creation. It involves the senses and so forth and that isn’t anything new.

“People tend to think about men in Genesis as if they were all cave men with clubs going out and bumping gals in the head and dragging them home into cave. These guys were technological marvels, men of renowned with advanced cultures in civilization. If the angels had come down, you know they have some advanced technology that we don’t have. Some of this stuff is going on in that context.

“If you compare Gen. 10:8 (‘And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.’) with I Chron. 1:10 (‘And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.’) they say the same thing.

“What does it mean to say Nimrod ‘began’? It’s almost like he subjected himself to the genetic experimentation and was willing to have that genetic altering in himself in order to partake of the enhancement. It’s Nimrod who establishes Babel in Genesis 11 and it’s him who designs the Tower of Babel to reach unto heaven.

“So all of these things back in Genesis get kind of connected that way where you have these supernatural forces and a guy like Nimrod would be trying to take these supernatural forces and put them under human control. Jesus says in Matthew and Luke, ‘As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be in the days of the son of man.’ What you’re reading back there in Genesis is really a template for what’s going to be in the Last Days.

“In Daniel 2 you have this great image of Nebuchadnezzar. The feet represent the kingdom of the Antichrist. Daniel 2:43 says, ‘And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.’

“Who is the ‘they’? Well, there is no real antecedent unless it’s the toes back in verse 42. Now if they’re going to mingle themselves with the seed of men, whoever they are must not be men; must not be human or there would be no comparison with it. You look up the word ‘iron’ in a concordance and you’ll be amazed how often it’s associated with the giants. My subjective guess is it has something to do with magnetism and electronic forces and that kind of stuff. Superman had kryptonite and they got iron.

“What you have here in Daniel is something that isn’t human mingling with the seed of men. All of this satanic activity starts all over again in the Last Days. Rev. 11:7 says, ‘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.’ That’s talking about the two witnesses.

“Isn’t that an interesting way to define the ‘son of perdition’? He’s the ‘beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit.’ He is moved from that dimension into the human dimension. He’s doing exactly what the angels back there in Genesis did. If you recall, we’ve looked at a bunch of verses back in Isaiah about the idea of the portals; the places where you can move from one dimension to the other dimension.

“Of course, it’s God’s light that holds that darkness back, and as you look at world today and see how darkness is just engulfing it, along with that is this openness to these types of things.”

When Genesis 6:2 says the "sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair," this means these earth-invading angels found the human women “useful.”

“They went out among them and found appropriate subjects and you’ve got these celestial creatures invading the earth and conducting procreative experimentations with women,” explains Jordan. “Now, Joshua, Caleb, David and Noah all fought against these dudes and won, but nevertheless, the genetic engineering produced an advanced extraterrestrial human-type creature."

As Gen. 6:4 reports, “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”

Jordan explains, “Men of renowned means men they were men of great note, enhanced intelligence and superior ability. Daniel 2:43 is a really weird verse. Daniel interprets the dream of Nebby’s and sees this great colossal image. He writes, ‘And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.’

“The indication is these kings aren’t going to be on the seed of men but are going to mingle their seed with the seed of men. Over and over in the scripture, man is described as clay. In this particular case, it’s not just any men; it’s the nation Israel. Iron is associated with the giants. The idea is those 10 kings who reign with the Antichrist, who is the SON of perdition, he’s the beast who ascends out of the bottomless pit.

“You see, there are going to be some things associated with the activity of the Antichrist that are far beyond simple physical, political, economic philosophy. The 10 kings that give power with him are described in the same terms as these characters back here in Genesis 6 who give father to the ‘nephilim.’ So, the indication is there’s going to be some more of this stuff taking place in the future. The past becomes prologue to the future!”

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Isaiah 13 starts with, “The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.” Jordan says, “When you got a burden it weighs you down. When he sees this about Babylon he says, ‘Here’s some horrible things that I got to tell you about what’s going to happen to Babylon.'

Joel 2:11 says, “And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?” Jordan says, “This army is the mustering of the host for battle and they gather from the end of heaven. This is the crowd he’s talking about in Isaiah 13. What happens if a natural normal person falls on a sword? It says, ‘They shall not be wounded.’

“You see, what he’s describing here is not an army made up of natural men, humans, this is an army made up of supernatural creatures. Celestial beings called from the heavens ‘angels,’ and the army of the Lord that He comes with is an army of these ‘mighty ones’ back in Isaiah 13. What happens is, first He whets His sword in the heavens (Rev. 12, Isa. 34) and Michael takes the armies of God and goes out through the heavens and casts Satan and all of his angels down to the earth. And then the angelic armies of heaven, having cast Satan out of the heavens to the earth, they come down with the Lord Jesus Christ to finish the job.”

Isaiah 13:2 says, “Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles, shake the hand nobles.” In other words, there is a portal through which they’re going to come out of the angelic dimension into our dimension in order to be able to fight.

“Angels are not made of Carbon-14 and in the scripture, there are passageways; we use the term portals,” explains Jordan. “In literature, they use the term Stargates. Fascinatingly, that’s what the Bible calls it. If you come over to Rev. 9, all the ones I know how to identify geographically are in the Middle East. One is described being in Egypt, one in Babylon, one in Palestine. They are doorways.

“If you think about in the angelic world, they’re just as real as you are. They’re just not made of the same physical properties. Life in their realm is just as real as it is in our realm. I’ve tried to show you that in heaven are farms and cities and manufacturing plants. We talk about the business of heaven. Paul describes the invisible realm and he use exactly the same terminology to describe it as he does for down on earth. There’s work, there’s jobs, there’s life to be carried on.

“In Daniel 10, Gabriel leaves heaven and it takes him 21 days to get to Planet Earth because the passageway he traveled through to get down here had some roadblocks. Every time he crossed a territorial boundary, the government that he crossed into wanted to see his passport or diplomatic pouch and they held him up and slowed it down. He said it took him 21 days. He said, ‘When I go back there’s a war up there going on and I’ll have to go back through all that stuff.’ So there are routes across the heavens.”

Jude 6 says, referring to the days of Noah, “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” Similarly, II Peter 2:4 states, “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.”

Jordan explains, “The angels had a house built by God and they left it. They shifted their dimensional habitation. They literally came into man’s dimension to reside to participate in this experimentation, and that’s where those gates come in. Revelation 9 starts out: ‘And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.’ All these demonic creatures come out. Once again, there’s this coming in and going out.

Gen 6:4 says there were giants in the land AFTER the flood. “What they were trying to do, through the genetic engineering, and these procreation experiments, was corrupt humanity so the seed of the woman could not produce a Redeemer,” says Jordan. “The reason Eve was taken out of Adam and not created separately is because there could be only one head of the human race. Everybody had to come from one person or you would have needed more than one Redeemer.

“Well, if you could create a human that was something other than human…the whole argument, the whole bio-ethic discussion about this kind of stuff hinges upon man being created in the image of God. If you weren’t created in the image of God, what difference does it make? Breed you like a dog or cow or pig. Eugenics is the thing to do. In fact, Richard Dawkins, the big atheist of our day, endorses the idea (even though you can’t endorse Eugenics per say because Hitler did that).

“What’s the difference between breeding somebody to be an athlete or training them? Well, ethically if you think we’re just the product of evolution, there is no big deal. In fact, it’s the logical, natural thing to do. ‘Let’s enhance things.’ If you understand the importance of man as a creation of God, as having a purpose in the earth, ‘Go out and have dominion; reclaim it.’ See, that’s why Satan was seeking to do that in Gen. 6.

"After the flood he starts over again but then he quit. The reason he quit was because the issue was no longer about corrupting all of mankind; because the seed of the woman became the seed of Abraham. ‘Now we only had to get Abraham.’ That’s an easier task then all the rest.”

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Acts 16:16 says, “And 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.”

Jordan explains, “She was someone who was empowered by the oracle of Delphi; by the spirit of what they would have called a python--a pagan god. She was a spirit of divination who had this connection with this crowd we’re talking about and she had this demon who could speak through her. She says, ‘These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.’ Now, is she telling the truth or not? Have you ever wondered why in the world this demon-possessed woman would say such a thing?

“Did you ever notice back in Matthew 8:29 Jesus cast demons out of a guy and the demon says, ‘Hold on thou Son of God, have you come to torment us before our time?’ You see the demons knew exactly what was going on dispensationally in Matthew 8. They know what’s going on dispensationally right here. Satan keeps up to date on what God’s doing and he opposes what God’s doing. He doesn’t shoot blanks and he doesn’t waste ammunition shooting at something God used to do and isn’t doing anymore.

“That’s why the giants were going after Israel. Today, the Adversary knows God’s not trying to repossess the land of Palestine. What’s He doing? He’s forming the Body of Christ.”

Jordan explains,  “The ‘sons of God’ are angels. These celestial creatures, aliens from Planet Earth from outer space, from the realm of the stars (angels are identified as stars in the Bible because of their association with the stars), invade Planet Earth and literally begin to conduct procreation experiments, and they begin to experiment with genetic engineering; biogenetic engineering at an advanced level.

“Verse 4 says ‘there were giants in the earth in those days.’ The experimentation that these celestial creatures engaged in with humans produced abnormal offspring. The Hebrew word that is translated ‘giants’ is the word ‘nephilim.’ You’ll see that through the Scripture—the giants.

“The verse goes on to say that ‘when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.’ They became people of extraordinary enhanced intelligence because of the inbreeding; the genetic engineering.

“Now we have no idea how that could have happened until just recently with the discovery of the human genome and DNA and all that kind of stuff. People, 4,000-plus years ago there were aliens on this earth who understood that and experimented with it and practiced it!

“If you look into the history of ancient cultures, consistently there is a storyline of alien, extraterrestrial invasion. In fact, it is becoming common place today. Richard Dawkins, the leading atheist of our day (he took Carl Sagan’s place), has come out publicly suggesting life on Planet Earth perhaps came from an alien invasion and the aliens came here and produced life.

“In the late ’70s there was a big, popular book called ‘The Chariots of the Gods,’ and it postulated that the human race was the direct result of extraterrestrial activity. They made movies about it. One of the ways they argue this is they show you the murals from the caveman, they say, and you see these strange looking creatures that are half-human, half-animal; weird-looking kind of things. You say, ‘Where would they have got that idea?!’ but you begin to realize there was a lot of genetic experimentation going on back there, as in this passage from Genesis 6,  and then you begin to realize maybe there’s an explanation for some of it.

“I was looking just the other day on the internet at a mural of a Roswell New Mexico, big, bug-eyed dude supposed to be the alien, and he’s got the little-bitty feet and arms and you think, ‘He’d be worthless!’ It didn’t look like he could even feed himself if he had to. But when you’re trying to genetically engineer things you got to come up with some things like that.

“If you go down to Easter Island in South America . . . or you take the Great Pyramid . . . There are navigational markers in both of those places that, until we sent people into outer space, we didn’t understand. After going to outer space, experts went back and looked at those things and said, ‘They’re spot-on exact!’ People scratch their heads and say, ‘Where did it come from?’

“Listen, the reason these guys were observing the stars thinking they could get wisdom is there WAS a time when some of that stuff WAS going on, and when God abandoned the message He put there in the stars, and man’s ability to read it was corrupted by these birds coming along and doing to the Word of God (that He put up there in the heavens) what people are trying to do to the Word He’s put on the page now, it became worthless.

“I read Wired Magazine, which is sort of the Mad Magazine of the 21st Century. The January 2011 cover reads something like, ‘Artificial intelligence is here but it’s nothing like we expected. How genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, now a technology in human enhancement, herald the dawn of techno-dimensional spiritual warfare.’

“Every year now there are increasing numbers of scientific gatherings, many sponsored by the government, where trans-human technology is being produced. You see it every now and then; the human cloning kind of thing is just the tip of the iceberg!

“Just like there was a spiritual invasion from the heavenly realm . . .  why did those angels come down in Genesis 6 and do that experimentation? They did it because they were trying to corrupt the seed of the woman. And it said that ‘after the Flood there were giants.’ They didn’t give up with the attempt to corrupt the seed line. What happened after the Flood is God said the seed line is not just any woman; now it’s just the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

“No longer did the (fornicating angels) have to go and try to corrupt all of humanity. Now it was just Israel. And the attacks began on Israel’s seed line. And that’s why the giants were in Israel’s land. And when Israel goes into the Promised Land, the giants, or the nephilim, are already there, holding it as ‘the sons of belial’ to prevent the land from being occupied and used by the promised nation to accomplish its promised purpose. God didn’t mind that, though, because Israel needed a Redeemer first, so he had time . . .”

Friday, February 19, 2016

Everybody's hooked on something

Light. Change. Progress. Power. Revolution. Freedom. Transformation. Transcend. Believe. Love. Forever. Infinite. Peace.

These are some of the most popular “positive” words being pushed today by Satan’s programmers, i.e., parts of the news media, entertainment industry, corporate advertising, etc. Start looking and listening and they’ll appear everywhere.

The Super Bowl halftime show this year had as its theme: “Believe in Love.” These words were even spelled out in the stands by seated crowd members lifting rainbow-colored placards at the performance’s close.

Pope Francis and the Vatican released a minute-and-a-half long video on January 6 that went viral about how all religions are equally valid. Profiled was a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian, all of whom said in different languages at the end of the video, “I believe in love.”

The pope proclaimed, “Many think differently, feel differently, seeking God or meeting God in different ways. In this crowd, in this range of religions, there is only one certainty that we have for all: we are all children of God.”


Think about how the cults and secret societies, etc., prey on children made to think they are "different" and not "fitting in."
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“We’re living in the most important, impactful decade of our life right now,” repeatedly reminds my pastor, Richard Jordan. “Genesis 8 says God has a nation to function on a life cycle—spring, summer, fall and winter. We’re in the wintertime right now in our culture.

“People talk about the Millennial Generation and the G.I. Joe Generation and all that. That generational structure came from studies by two guys in California at UCLA—Strauss and Howe.

“These guys didn’t know anything about the Bible, but they described in historic terms exactly what Genesis 8 says a generation is to be like. When I read their book and saw those two things come together I said, ‘Woah!’

“We live in right now what the Bible calls the wintertime and what Strauss and Howe call the ‘unraveling,’ where things CHANGE.

“The most important cycle of the year is the wintertime. If you’re a farmer, what do you harvest in the fall? What you planted in the spring. When did you decide what you were going to plant in the springtime? You made those decisions in the winter.

“There are choices and what you see unraveling out there, if you want to see what happens when a nation falls apart from a complete abandonment of the things of God, look at the nation Israel (in the Bible).”

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“Everybody has some kind of thing they are dependent on,” assures California preacher John Verstegen. “The world depends on drugs, sex, alcohol, politics, pride, fame, wealth, popularity. Everyone lives with some kind of dependency.

“The psychologist says to the psychiatrist, ‘Oh, you have this dependant relationship.’ He responds, ‘Yeah, but so do you.’

“Watch this dependency: ‘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 loved me, and gave himself for me.’ (Gal. 2:20)

“This life that we call the ‘Christian life,’ ‘Christ who is our life,’ is a life of dependency. It’s the only life of dependency that really makes any sense and it’s the true cling of dependency. Everything else is just trying to counterfeit for the true, for the real.”

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Jordan: “Somebody says, ‘Joe, you’re created in the image of God.’ Problem is you weren’t; you were born in the image of Adam. Genesis 5, the first three verses, go read it.

“God created Adam in his own image, but Adam did what? He messed the image up; he effaced the image. He introduced sin into the image of God and you’re born in the image of a fallen creation. Somebody says, ‘Well, I was born that way.’ That’s right. You were born a sinner.

“David said, ‘In sin did my mother conceive me.’ He’s not talking about his mother stepping out on his daddy. He’s talking about the conception of man. You’re a sinner from the moment of your conception. It’s in our nature.

“But in our makeup, in the way God made us, He made a part of us that is designed to know Him. And when that part doesn’t function, you have an empty place.

“What we do is try sticking something in that empty place all the time. We have a sense there is something down inside of us--there’s a cry for validation and acceptance and forgiveness and meaning and purpose in life that we have--and we keep sticking stuff in to try and get it and it never works.

“The reason  for that is God put down in us a knowledge of Him; a place for Him. ‘ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.’ (Rom. 1:20)

“Listen, nobody’s born an atheist. To become an atheist you have to talk yourself into it. Understand, you have to be ‘growned’ into atheism. You have to be led into it. Now you’re led into it willingly. ‘The fool has said in his heart there is no God.’

“You know who you want to be God? You. You know the problem with that? You ain’t God. You know how I know? In the beginning God did what? He created the heaven and the earth.

“You want to say, ‘I’ll create my world.’ Well, okay, step out over there into nothing and create you a universe and you can be God. You see, you’re in HIS creation. We try to create our own little world but we steal His stuff—His air, His food, His creation, His people. We steal to do it because we aren’t God. So we all start out knowing, having an innate understanding that there’s a God.”

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