Tending the vineyards of our soul

Paul writes in Romans 3:24, “Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”

“The general rule is that adverbs end in ‘ly’ and describe the action of the verb and so freely is an adjective for the verb justified,” explains Jordan. “Our justification’s a gift. God says, ‘I did everything. I’m providing the whole shooting match; it’s yours. I did all this work at Calvary for you and now I’m going to declare you righteous without you doing a thing. It’s a gift and it’s free.’

“The righteousness of God is unto all who believe, but it’s also UPON; it’s put upon all them that believe. Put upon is a state of being: ‘Here I am, this is what I am. I’m righteous.’ The result of having the righteousness of God put on you is justification.

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“The word ‘grace’ means ‘unmerited favor.’ Now, you need to associate with that the word ‘delight’ because that’s the word that needs to be placed into the definition. It’s favor, but it’s SPECIAL favor and it’s delightfully given. A person can show you special favor and do it begrudgingly, but the Lord doesn’t do that.

“Unmerited means you don’t deserve it, therefore it’s not of works. There’s no works in grace. Grace is the refusal of works because it’s a free gift God’s given to you, therefore you can’t work for it. You work for it and it isn’t a gift.

"Romans 11:6 is a verse you need to be familiar with when you try to show someone grace is the absence of works. It says, [6] And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

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“Romans 6:22-23 says, ‘But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

[23] For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’

“People think of eternal life as dying and going to heaven and living with God in heaven forever, but there’s not a verse in the Bible that defines eternal life that way.

“Jesus Christ defines eternal life in John 17:2-3: ‘As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

[3] And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.’

“Eternal life isn’t just dying and going to heaven and dancing it up around New Jerusalem, kicking up gold dust. Eternal life is to have a personal, intimate, fruit-bearing knowledge of the Father. In the end, the gold of it is that you know the Father in an intimate, everlasting way.

“You don’t just understand what the Father’s plan is and what His will is, you say, ‘Woo-hoo, I get the picture and I LIKE it! I think I’ll just join in and do this! I’ll let the zeal of the Lord of hosts . . . the thing that thrills Him thrill me!’

“It’s your faith resting in the truth of God’s Word, and when your faith rests in God’s grace--who God has made you in Christ--it will bring forth fruit unto God; righteousness unto holiness.

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“Holiness is talking about your character; about who you are. You’re someone who’s set apart for the purpose for which God created you. You’re able by the grace of God to bear fruit unto holiness. You’re able to bear activity and growth that represents who God created you in Jesus Christ.

“The word ‘holy’ and the word ‘sanctification’ means to be set apart for the purpose for which it’s created. His character begins to express itself through you and the end is eternal life.

“Look at Jeremiah 9. The passage reads, ‘Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

[24] But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.’

“Glory in the fact that you understand the Lord and that you have an intimate personal knowledge of Him. You understand what He’s about, what He thinks, how He reacts, what He’s planning, and you understand to the point it brings forth fruit in your life. If you’re going to rejoice in something, rejoice in that!

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“That thing about ‘exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight’—the key to knowing the Lord, and to knowing God, is to understand what He delights in!

"What is it that thrills His heart? It’s what He’s doing in His Son! If you ask the Father, ‘What is it that thrills you?’ He’ll say, ‘There He is at my right hand.’

“Psalm 40:7-8 is quoted in Hebrews 10 as being a reference to Jesus Christ, but I want you to see how it’s said in Psalms: ‘Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

[8] I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.’

“When the Lord Jesus Christ came, He said to the Father, ‘I delight in what you delight in. I delight in your will! I know what you delight in, Father, and you know what, that thrills my heart, too, and I’m ALL IN for what you delight in!’

“Paul says, ‘Let that mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus.’ Christ gives you the privilege of thoroughly, completely understanding what the Father’s thinking is, what He delights in, what thrills His heart, and He says, ‘Come on and delight in that, too! Get as thrilled about it as He is!’

“In the Bible that’s called God-likeness or godliness. Godliness isn’t just doing what God does; it’s DELIGHTING in it, buying into it. It’s being ALL IN to it like He is.”

Beings with alien DNA

Transgenetic creatures are introduced in Genesis 6 when celestial creatures invading earth "saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."

"Angels don’t have a sex drive or procreation ability, so being physically attracted to these daughters would not be an issue with them," explains Jordan. "One of the mitigating factors is they could see human men and women having a good time and want to enter into that, but when you study the verse real; 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.' 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.

“The indication here is they begin to enter into genetic experimentation. They begin to work with the genetic mutations with man and 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. Noah, Joshua, Caleb and David all fought against these dudes and won, but nevertheless, the genetic engineering produced an advanced extraterrestrial human-type creature.

“Men of renown means men that were of great note, enhanced intelligence and superior ability.

"Daniel 2:43 is a really weird verse. Daniel interprets the dream of Nebuchadnezzar 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 of 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. 

“You see, there are going to be some things associated with the activity of the Antichrist that are FAR beyond political, economic philosophies. The ten kings that give power with Satan's man are described in the same terms as the characters back in Genesis 6 who give father to the ‘nephilim.’ The obvious indication is there’s going to be more of this stuff taking place in the future. The past becomes prologue to the future!

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"Isaiah 13 begins, 'The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.' 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?'

"This army is the mustering of the host for battle and they gather from the end of heaven. This is the crowd talked about in Isaiah 13. What happens if a natural normal person falls on a sword? But it says, ‘They shall not be wounded.’

“What he’s describing here is not an army made up of natural men; this is an army of supernatural creatures; celestial beings called from heavens' ‘angels.’ 

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"Jude verse 6 says, ‘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.’

"What Jude’s describing is these angelic beings using created matter to embody themselves in. People argue that angels didn't have a seed to create children with but the point in Jude is they left where they didn’t have it and came down to earth 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. Genesis 3:15 says, ‘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.

"The tale says Satan seduced Eve and fathered Cain. The verse they use for this is in Genesis 4 where Eve says, ‘Behold I’ve gotten a man from the Lord.’ The idea is he was the father of Cain but that isn’t what those verses are talking about.

"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 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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"When you start having genetic mutations, odd things come out. Deuteronomy 3:11 tells us the 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.

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“You remember in Genesis God said every species would 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 know today about how they want to produce the ultimate soldier, breeding into a person the ability to have the eyesight of a cunning sharp-vision animal creation, etc. 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 but these guys were technological marvels, men of renowned with advanced cultures in civilization. You know the angels that came down had some advanced technology they brought. Stuff in Genesis is going on in that context.

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“If you compare Genesis 10:8 (‘And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.’) with I Chronicles 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 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.

"Revelation 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 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."

And the band played on

Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, a picture-type of the Antichrist, employed loud, beat-driven music to engender the mass idolatrous worship of his “beast” image by the rulers of the nations—it’s judges, police, politicians, etc.

When Daniel and his three Hebrew compatriots—Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego—were about to be cast into a fiery furnace, Nebby implored, as Bible scholar Noah Hutchings writes, "I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’ll have the band play my song one more time, and if you fall down and worship the image, we will forget all about this first offense. But if you are still stubborn and refuse to worship the image, when the last note is played I will order the guards to overpower you and throw you into the furnace."

“We notice in these last verses that the musical portion of this false and idolatrous worship service is stressed twice again," observes Hutchings.

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Norwegian author Berit Kjos presents this excerpt from her book, “How to Protect Yourself from the New Age and Spiritual Deception”:

“Man's attempts to transcend the boundaries of the physical world through music are intricately interwoven with the history of mankind. While God encouraged His people to enter His presence through genuine worship and songs of praise, Satan offered seductive counterfeits.


“Thus, pagan societies used music as a conduit to help them connect directly with the occult spirit realm. Neville Drury, who promotes New Age meditation and visualization in his book, Music for Inner Space, points to ancient cultures as models for today:

" ‘In societies where magic and myth define and influence everyday existence man aspires to be like the gods and to imitate them.... [Magical] incantations and songs are a source of Power.’

“In primitive Africa and South America, witch doctors function as mediators between the tribe and demonic spirits. The sacred drum (credited with magical powers) together with hallucinatory drugs (sorcery) induces trances, which transports him into the spirit world where he receives occult guidance and power.

“Nanci des Gerlaise, author of Muddy Waters, is the daughter and granddaughter of Cree medicine men. Now, as a believer in Christ, Nanci warns others about the occult music in Native Spirituality:

" ‘Now when I hear powwow music, my spirit recoils, and I know that it is because there are spiritual forces of darkness at work.' "

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“Every piece of living creation has music to it; has a vibration—that’s what music is,” says Jordan. “Music is really just math in regard to the tonal vibrations.

“When the Bible says back in Ezekiel 36 about the trees singing, well, they literally do. Music is so engrained in the creation that it’s everywhere.

“Music is called the universal language. You can thoroughly affect people with music. One of the most dangerous things that happens with your children is the music they listen to, because it communicates ideas and you don’t even need to have words to go along with it.

“Listen, baroque music is considered to be the highest form of musical expression, but Mozart was an ungodly wreck. They’ve done experiments where if people have Mozart in the background, they actually do better in their learning curve. You think, ‘Oh, that must be godly music.’ You ought to go find out something about Mozart!

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“Music is not an issue of sacred and secular. Lazy Christians have made secular and sacred out of life, but you don’t have a sacred life and a secular life; you only have a life in Christ, and in the Bible music is music. It’s not church music and ‘Saturday-night-boogie-oogie-woogie’ music.

"As Job 22: 15-17 says, 'Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
[16] Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
[17] Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?'

“What I’m trying to get you to see is God created music and from the Creation to the Flood, music didn’t go up, it went down and it degenerated from the Creation morning until it debauched the world and filled it with violence. They weren’t praising God; they didn’t want to know Him and He wound up wiping them out."

(new article tomorrow)

Magic carpet ride

The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts:

"According to Jewish tradition, the Hebrew language has a divine origin. In Genesis 1, God creates the world by pronouncing his will; hence language has the ultimate creative potential. This view forms the starting point for most of the Jewish mystical and magical traditions, from antiquity right up to present times.

"Sefer yetsirah, one of the earliest Jewish mystical texts of Hellenistic provenance, dated by scholars somewhere between the 2nd and 7th centuries CE, describes the process of creation as taking place through the 22 letters of the Hebrew language and ten cardinal numbers.

"Early on, Sefer yetsirah received magically oriented interpretations, which explained how to imagine and possibly repeat the divine process of creation through manipulation of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, to the effect of creating a golem.^[1] Giving a name to a golem was believed to animate and control its body and conversely erasing the name would annihilate the creature."

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When the Antichrist comes on the scene in the tribulation, the "false prophet" will supernaturally make an inanimate object speak, giving life to the image of the beast. 

In II Thessalonians 2, Paul talks about the coming of the Antichrist with "lying wonders," warning, "Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

[10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved."

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While it’s commonly understood that first-century Greek author Pliny the Elder named Zoroaster as the inventor of magic, the Bible clearly reveals its origins are with the 'wise men' in Babylon.

“As God scatters the nation Israel and brings the times of the Gentiles into vogue, Nebuchadnezzar takes Israel’s place as the king in the earth and in Babylon there’s this scholarly priest-class of people—the magicians, sorcerers, astrologers, the Chaldeans,” explains Preacher Richard Jordan.

“There’s this people with this supposed profound, supernatural-type wisdom and knowledge gained from reading the stars, and the wise men from Matthew 2, who journeyed to see Jesus as a young child, have this connection with being able to grasp this type of knowledge.”

According to a website, “The religion of the Persians is often connected with the name Zoroaster, who enjoyed a wide reputation in the ancient world as the founder of the order of the Magi, and by extension as the founder of the wisdom of the Persians. Many classical Hellenic (Greek) authors and philosophers so preoccupied themselves with Persian culture that they journeyed, studied, and as a result, adopted many Persian-Magian-Zoroastrian ideas and skills.”

Jordan says, “The wise men who saw Jesus Christ’s star in the east were from Persia, from Babylon, no doubt. It was about a 1,200 mile journey. They come into the house where Jesus is now a toddler, and it’s a house, not an inn or stable. He’s not in the barn or in the field. He’s not in Bethlehem; He’s in Nazareth.

“If you remember, Herod tries to get to Jesus by ordering that children two years old and younger be killed, so the implication is it could have been as much as two years gone by since the wise men first saw the star.

“In the Book of Daniel you see these wise men came out of the tradition of Babel and Babylon. When Nebuchadnezzar came in to take Israel away, it says he took away the choicest young men.

"As Daniel 1:20 says, ‘And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.’

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“The word ‘magi’ is where you get the term ‘magician’ and it didn’t have to do with David Copperfield and all that sleight of hand stuff you see these guys do today.

“Zoroasterism was a religion based on the ability to read the stars, but nobody can figure out when or where Zoroaster lived. They got about three dates that cover about 900 years and they got him living anywhere from Pakistan to middle Persia to up into Turkey.

"It’s a mess to try and figure out who this dude was and what he did, but the fact is these wise men pre-date Zoroaster, who simply came along and took up some of these guys’ position. Where these guys come from goes all the way back to Genesis 11.

“The magicians and astrologers were people who practiced predicting the future; claiming what was going to happen by calculating the planetary positions, taking these maps of the heavens and the signs of the zodiac and all these 'influences' of the stars.

“They professed to be endowed with profound wisdom and extraordinary knowledge in spiritual things, but we’re told Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah were 10 times better than these other guys. Why do you think that would be? Their wisdom and understanding comes from the Lord.

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“The psalmist writes in Psalm 119, [97] O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
[98] Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
[99] I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
[100] I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

“He’s saying, ‘You know, I’m smarter than my teachers—all these people with all this experience in life—and you know why? Because I’ve got God’s Word!’

“So compared to the ability to read the planets, or deduce human observations based upon whatever source, having God’s Word as the basis of your understanding makes you 10 times better than everybody else.

“How do you think those people are going to think about you, though? You remember Daniel wound up in the lion’s den? That’s not because they loved him so much; that’s because this crowd couldn’t take a guy who outshone them like Daniel did.

“Their deal was always, ‘You tell us your dream and we’ll interpret for you.’ Nebby says, ‘No, this time you tell me the dream and then I’ll know the interpretation is real.’ That sounds like a smart guy. These magicians responded, ‘Whoa, nobody ever asked for that before; we never heard of such a thing!’

“We read in Daniel 2:10-13: [10] The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
[11] And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
[12] For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
[13] And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

“You see how it says he commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon? Who was it that came in Matthew 2? It was some of those magians. The wise men. They were credited with this profound wisdom and extraordinary spiritual knowledge because they were thought to be able to predict fate, the future, by calculating planetary positions.

“The question that comes to my mind is what would make somebody think such a thing? What would they know about the planets anyway?

“Isn’t it interesting that every child learns the song, ‘Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky’?

“These guys didn’t have telescopes and I’m sure they laid out under the desert sky and looked at the twinkling stars and they wondered. But all of a sudden they discover they KNOW; they got all kind of knowledge about these things.”

(to be continued tomorrow)

Conspiracy back behind it all:

The goal of the enemy since Genesis has been to gain possession of heaven and earth and join the two with Satan on the throne. This is the great hidden agenda; the great conspiracy.

“There’s a conspiracy out there all right; it's the one you read about in the Word of God!" says Jordan. “All that other stuff is just the chaff that falls off of the real one. The whole 'system' out there, satanically inspired, takes counsel TOGETHER against the Lord and His anointed. They’ve been doing that all along.

“People think, ‘I can know the things God’s trying to keep from me,’ when the reality is God isn’t trying to keep ANYTHING from you! He wrote it all in a Book for you! When you’re always looking for that conspiratorial thing back behind--
why, folks, the Bible is full of that guy’s (Satan) conspiracies."

“Genesis 6 informs, ‘Here’s what Satan's been doing since man started multiplying with Adam’s children,’ which means we’re back in Genesis 4. Genesis 6 doesn’t just happen over at the time of Noah.

“At the time of Noah, God’s going to do something about what Satan started when man began to multiply. Too often people think that when you get to Genesis 6, none of this ever happened UNTIL Genesis 6, but it was happening all along.”
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DNA, or each person’s unique genetic blueprint/code, was tampered with and demonically corrupted at the beginning of humanity with Satan’s fallen angels.

“When God created Adam out of the dirt, Satan watched all that but there was something he couldn’t see," explains Jordan. "Genesis 2:7 says, ‘And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’

“Satan couldn’t see the soul God created inside of this new creature. He could observe the process but he couldn’t see the spirit part going on.

“So Satan begins to study man and as he does . . . listen, when he talked to Eve and told her, ‘You’ll be like the gods,’ Eve knew they were there. She saw the angels on the earth. She knew the earth was populated by angelic creatures; she could see them! She knew they knew some things, else Genesis 3:5 (‘For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil’) wouldn’t have made any sense.

“These angels would appear, promising, ‘We’ve come down to help you. We’ve come down to help in the next step of societal evolution. We’ve come down to give you some advanced information.’

“They began to intermingle with man and the result of it was there were 

'mighty men, men of renown.' They had intellectual capacity they passed onto man to do things people today still don’t know how to do!

“Our science technology today STILL can’t figure out how they built the pyramids, for example. They still can’t figure out the astrological movements and instructions of planetary movement found in Easter Island.

"There’s all kinds of things left over that we don’t understand how they did it. You ask, ‘How did they do that?!’ They had help!

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"This supernatural help focused on something in particular: ‘They took them wives of all which they chose,’ and bare children to them.

“When you have a child, the dad has 23 chromosomes and the mom has 23 chromosomes. You put them together and you’ve got 46 chromosomes that make up your DNA and the nucleus of the gene that makes up the chromosome that makes up you.

"So if the (angels) were having children, what were they meddling with?

“Genesis 6 tells us 'Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.’ You see the first four letters of that word ‘generation’? Generations have to do with genetics. They have to do with a SEED line.

“Verses 11-12 say, [11] The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. [12] And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

“There was an attempt to corrupt the genetic code of mankind so that man could not be used the way God intended to use man, but that Satan could use man to join heaven and earth together and create a new species that would do exactly what he wanted done.

“You see, genetic engineering didn’t start in the 21^st Century. All this GMO stuff people think the scientists are so smart about, listen, that didn’t just all start right now. In Daniel 2, that image Daniel interprets the meaning of for Nebuchadnezzar, he tells Nebby about a fourth kingdom that’s going to come and it turns out to be the kingdom of the Antichrist.

“Daniel 2:42 says, ‘And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.’ Who would 'clay' be in the Bible? Man. The term ‘clay’ is used in the Bible to describe two things: Adam and Israel. Iron in the Bible is associated with Satan and the fallen angels.

“The next verse 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.’ When you start messing with the seed, you’re messing with genetics. My point is it’s already happened, but it’s going to happen again.

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“In Daniel 7, it says the Antichrist is 'more stout' than any other person. His physical appearance was different than the normal man. He’s the ‘king of fierce countenance.’ He literally looks different, like a super version of a humanoid kind of a thing. Now it doesn’t work.

"In Psalm 139:15-16, David is describing the creation of man: [15] My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

[16] 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.

“There was a point when David knew that when he was conceived (Psalm 51 says, [5] Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.) there was a book; God’s book in which everything David was going to be . . .

“Now we know that’s DNA today, but 50 years ago nobody knew what that was. When I was conceived in my mother’s womb, that first joining of those 46 chromosomes said I was going to have blue eyes, my daddy’s hands, my mother’s skull structure, on and on.

“When David says, ‘In thy book all my members were written which then just grew,’ he’s talking about the book of DNA that God wrote. Now, God wrote another Book and you’ve got it in your lap. What does Satan want to do with that Book? ‘We are not as many which corrupt the Word of God.’

“Jesus taught the parable in Luke 8 saying the ‘seed was the Word of God.’ You know what happens when you get saved? Jesus says the new birth is when God’s Spirit implants life into a dead spirit. Paul calls that 'regeneration'; when you were born of the Spirit of the God.

“James 1 says it was the ‘engrafted word.’ Literally, when you trusted Christ, God took His Spirit and engrafted Him into your, I’ll say it like this for an illustration, ‘spiritual DNA,’ and became one with you at a level that is comparable to becoming one with you in your DNA physically.

“Satan’s goal is to form a creation that unites HIM with creation—heaven and earth with HIM as the boss; with HIM on the throne, but it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work in Genesis and it doesn’t work in Revelation. It’s a failure. Just like you can’t corrupt that Book, he can’t successfully corrupt mankind. You know why?

“In Matthew 24, Jesus said, ‘And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.’

“So you know what He does? He shortens them. That’s why the tribulation’s 70^th week only lasts seven years and, in that part of it, only 1,240 days. Because if what Satan put into motion there were allowed to run its normal course, all of humanity’s flesh would be corrupted, but God won’t let that happen. He’ll stop it. And He stops it by the Word of God coming, the Lord Jesus Christ (Revelation 19) coming from heaven to destroy the Adversary.”

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Life in a capsule, submerged

Three words, ‘in Christ Jesus,’ and variations such as ‘in Christ,’ or ‘in Him,’ are phrases used by Paul more than 130 times in his 13 epistles.

"It was the dominant thinking of Paul because in his mind being ‘in Christ Jesus’ is the essence of what Christianity is all about; it’s the essence of the grace of God and who we are," says Jordan.

“Christ is our life, our mind, our goal, our strength; He’s the sum total, the excellency of all that we have. In Christ—you’ve got to get the idea—is to be IN something. The idea is to be IN the sphere of something.

“I like to say we’re encapsulated. You see, if you were in a circle, that would be different. When you’re in a capsule, you’re surrounded with protection and then if a brick fell, what would happen? It would bounce off! You’re completely surrounded. That’s what it means to be ‘in Christ.’

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“God has chosen us IN HIM and we are made alive IN HIM,” writes Bible expositor Cora Harris MacIlravy. “We are new creatures IN HIM and are to walk IN HIM as we received Him, rooted and builded up IN HIM and established in our faith.

“We become the righteousness of God IN HIM, we are established IN HIM, and can do all things IN HIM that strengtheneth us. God always lead us in triumph IN HIM, making us a sweet savor of Christ unto God. IN HIM we have all spiritual blessings in heavenly places; as we abide IN HIM, we are made complete IN Him who is the Head of all principalities and powers. And we are made more than conquerors THROUGH HIM that loved us.

“It is as we realize upon the vital union which God has put between Christ, who is the ‘Chiefest of ten thousand,’ and us, who are members of His body, that this mighty Conqueror enables us to set up banners (floating over, His own peculiar banner, bearing His name, ‘Love’) through the power of His work upon Calvary. Thus is He glorified.”

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Paul says in Colossians 3:3, “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”

“I used to struggle with this verse, wondering, ‘What does it mean?!’" admits Jordan. "Then it dawned on me it means exactly what it says. What a thought!

"If I’m standing in a circle, I’m not hid and you can see me. It’s just on one plane. But if I’m in a capsule and ‘hid with Christ,’ I’m totally submerged inside of God with Christ!

"You know what that is? That’s security! That means I’m safe and secure inside of Him from any harm; any foes on the outside. And I’m completely supplied by everything that’s in the capsule.”

(new article tomorrow)