The Burning Man Festival was cancelled this year, so Techie pyrotechnics fans who would have normally flocked to the Nevada desert just before Labor Day Weekend had to make do. They say the festival, where you roll around in the dust just to gain admission, is sort of the younger San Fran tech CEO's Bohemian Grove. Decisions about us and the country are made there.
According to Business Insider magazine, "Burning Man might have a reputation for being full of 'hippies,' but some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley have reportedly attended the event, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
"The wealthiest Burning Man attendees set up exclusive luxury camps with staffs of bodyguards and cooks, Recode reported in 2014, calling the area 'Billionaire's Row.'
"Burning Man is not a festival. Burning Man is a community. A temporary city. A global cultural movement based on 10 practical principles, the official website reads.
"A few of these principles include radical inclusion ('Anyone may be a part of Burning Man'), gifting, decommodification (no money passes hands at the festival), radical self-reliance and self-expression, leaving no trace ('We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather'), and participation.
"The name 'Burning Man' comes from the symbolic ritual burning of a large wooden sculpture ('the Man') that usually takes place on the Saturday evening of the event."
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Separately, a friend posted to Facebook an article yesterday about a man who started a wildfire in Oregon using a Molotov cocktail. After being released from jail he went out and started SIX more fires before being rearrested not even 24 hours later!
Here is a study from Preacher Richard Jordan, given 4-5 months ago while going through Mark 9, on the subject of fire and water:
Lucifer said, "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." Clouds have to do with hiding the glory of God from His creatures.
Isaiah 6: [1] In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Verses 4-5: [4] And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.Where does smoke come from? Fire. Verses 6-7: [6] Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:[7] And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Here's the fire that's going to come out of the throne's altar. Lucifer, says, "I'm going to ascend up above the clouds to where God lives above those clouds and I'm going to have them worship me like they worship Him."
This thing about the heights of the clouds . . . Did you ever notice all through your Bible in Baal worship they're always looking for the high places? It's not just for the purpose of getting some kind of tactical advantage.
What did they do in Genesis 11 at the Tower of Babel? It's top is going to reach to heaven. They're going there up in the high places and they're going to offer some sacrifices that are going to gain them authority to be heaven; to take God's heaven, take God's place, take God's rule.
II Kings 15, talking in the reign of Uzziah, [3] And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done; [4] Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
He did everything except remove the worship centers, the churches of Baal worship. What are people doing in the high places? "The people sacrificed and burnt incense."
Notice the description Jeremiah uses. Jeremiah 13:15.[15] Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. [16] Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
The dark mountains were the high places where they're worshipping Baal. He's not talking about physical darkness; he's talking about spiritual darkness. This is the condition Israel was in when the Lord Jesus Christ showed up.
Look at John 1: [3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.[4] In him was life; and the life was the light of men.[5] And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Now what kind of darkness is it that when the light shines it doesn't go away? It's not physical darkness. Chapter 3 says men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. The dark mountains were the places of spiritual darkness.
Remember in Jeremiah 44, he talks about them worshipping the queen of heaven and all the accoutrements that go with that. Israel was in complete satanic captivity and the dark doctrines of the Baal worship had completely captured the nation Israel and held them captive.
So Israel is in that condition of being completely engrossed and captured by Satan, and when he talks about fire, when you burn something, it's sadistic to do that.
When you focus on drowning people, that's sadistic too. But there's a difference between being sadistic and being masochistic. One is you torment yourself and you get pleasure out of that, and the other is you get pleasure out of tormenting others. And the fire and the water represent those two extremes Satan has gone to.
He starts here in the courts of God and he winds up . . . listen, what sin produces and where sin takes you . . . I Kings 8, when Elijah takes the prophets of Baal up on Mount Carmel and they cry out for Baal to light the fire, manifest himself, and he doesn't, they go and cut themselves. They flog themselves. That's the sadistic kind of torture that you get pleasure out of serving.
There's a place where sin takes you, where Satan takes a person. In Revelation 2 it's called "the depths of Satan." Where you're not just torturing yourself, you get pleasure in torturing others.
Romans 1:28 says, [28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
A worthless, useless mind seeking only its own ways, seeking only to deify the creature; worship and serve the creature to do those things that are not convenient.
Then he lists the things in 29-32: [29] Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
[30] Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,[31] Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
[32] Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
That's what happens in a culture. When you see that in a culture, that's how it got there. They not only rejoice in seeing people damned, they have pleasure; they get their jollies out of it. They don't just enjoy doing it; they enjoy seeing people damned in doing it with them.
Now, that's exactly the attitude of the Adversary. That's the depths to which sin takes a person. It will take you there if you mess with it. You go around with a reprobate mind, that's where you'll wind up.
Ezekiel 31, talking about Satan, says, [2] Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? [3] Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Here's Pharaoh but he's called the Assyrian. Pharaoh's an Egyptian. How did he become an Assyrian? In Isaiah 51 he talks about the Pharaoh in Egypt being the Assyrian. In other words, he had become a captive of the Adversary. That's why Exodus says there arose a Pharaoh that knew not Joseph. He's now a part of the satanic program.
By the way, the Assyrian turns out to be the description, the title of the Antichrist. It's that spiritual whore who rules over the kings of the earth goes all the way over to Revelation 17 and the Antichrist rides it to power.
The chapter goes on, [16] I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
[17] They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.[18] To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
What are they being comforted over? Come to Ezekiel 32:31: [31] Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
What's his multitude? All these people God had destroyed. He's going to look out at all those people who've just been damned to hell and destroyed and he's going to be comforted over that multitude back in verse 27-29: [27] And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
[28] Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.[29] There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
Even Pharaoh and all his army shall be slain by the sword. Now, that's the depths of Satan. That's what had spiritually captured God's nation. That's a terrible totality of destruction.
Satan is fascinated by the fire and the water because that was his original goal; it was to possess the position of judgment and authority of God's throne; to be the one they worship and answer to. "I'm your judge; you answer to me. I'm God; you worship me."
It turned out that sin destroyed all that. The fire turned into hell and the water--look at Psalm 18:
[8] There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
[9] He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
[10] And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
[11] He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
[12] At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
[13] The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
[14] Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
[15] Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Fire and water are Second Advent phenomenon connected with the destruction of Satan and his program. That's why that devil there in Mark 9, when Jesus said, "This kind comes out only by prayer and fasting. Only by understanding that I've got to go to the Cross."
The passage reads, [28] And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
[29] And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.[30] And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.
[31] For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
[32] But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
He means this total, complete control over the nation Israel through that satanic program that held Him captive. "That kind comes out with nothing but what I as the Redeemer will do."
(new article tomorrow)
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