Chief complaint about Satan

YouTube interview with author of book Return of the gods:

"There's another side to this Ashtoreth/Ishtar/Aphrodite and it comes from the sexual revolution. If you look at her ancient inscriptions, it says, 'I am a woman, I am a man.' It says, 'You, goddess, have the power to turn man into a woman and turn a woman into a man.' This is the goddess, the principality of the destruction of gender. Androgyny, merging male and female, blurring female and male. Merging them and that's why we are all watching this in our culture right now. It is a spirit; it's not natural. It is this exact principality that is affecting everything.

"It couldn't happen earlier; it was too radical. The 1960s America--it was too radical for that. But as this goddess of sexual immorality gets entrenched in the culture, her darker works start coming out and we are now in the next phase. That's why it's literally affecting everything now.

"Look at what's happening in our culture. There is actually a war on men. She seeks to take men away from manhood, away from fatherhood, away from marriage, away from providing--AWAY FROM WOMEN!

"She was actually the goddess who hated the patriarch. She hated any kind of authority from men. This is so thick in our culture you could cut it with a knife. If a man acts masculine they'll say that's toxic. If a woman acts masculine, they'll say, 'Bravo! That's wonderful!' What is that? That's this spirit.

"It also says she de-feminizes women, so her job is also to take women away from womanhood; away from motherhood. She was a goddess who was female but she had masculine qualities, so she's seeking now to make women into her own image.

"She had an ancient priesthood where men who walked around her temples dressed up as women. Acting as women, talking as women, appearing as women in drag. You know what stopped this? The gospel. When you take God out, it's inevitable this is coming back. We could have predicted this.

"When you see this returning to the culture, and when you see the culture celebrating it, you know the gods are back and you are in very dramatic times. The thing is, you know, Jesus said they come back worse.

"In ancient times she possessed her priesthood, but now she's seeking to possess an entire generation of children. She is using the very school system that once led them in the Lord's Prayer to transition them.

"The month of Tammuz is named after her lover, which is June in English. One month where she especially possesses the culture. I looked at the writings of St. Jerome and he identifies her--he says it's the month of Iunium, or in English, the month of June. June has gone back to its old form.

"Not only that, she was the goddess of parades. She caused men to parade through the city streets dressed up as women. The other thing is there was a sign associated with her. You know what it was? The sign of the rainbow. The rainbow belongs to God, but as part of her myth it says that she steals what belongs to other gods for herself."

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"Now we've moved into a real sense that the country is falling and what we're watching is the disintegration of a culture that's been here for several hundred years," says Richard Jordan.

"It goes back 500 years to the Protestant Reformation and when you hear all this stuff about 'white privilege,' etc., those are code words/buzz words for being anti-European, and being anti-European is being anti-Christian.

"America is a modern-day manifestation of the political, social, economic impact of Protestant Christianity for good or bad. Our country has never been a Christian country, but as it has applied the understanding from Protestant Christianity to the social issues of the day, there's the issues of freedom and so forth that America has had.

"The pendulum goes one way and then it swings itself back and we're on the back swing of the thing. When the pendulum goes over sometimes you get your head cut off and that's where we are.

Isaiah 14:12 is Satan fixing to be cast down into hell: [12] How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 

"When they watch Satan cast into the bottomless pit the thing they say about him, the thing they've been observing about him is something we don't generally think about.

"Of all the things they say about him, the headline is that this is the character who weakened the nations. That's their chief complaint about him.

"That's a fascinating complaint. You would have thought he would have said a whole lot of other things about Satan but when the one chief headline is, 'There goes the guy,' and what's he done? He weakened, not just the nation Israel, but all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 20 begins:

[1] When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
[2] And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
[3] And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
[4] For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

"Don't be afraid because you understand who you are and what God created you for. If you've got some sound doctrine resident in your soul you understand what it takes to be courageous.

"Listen, warfare, the successful defense of the people in a nation, requires moral and spiritual courage. It requires something in the heart of the citizenry that understands something bigger than just that imaginary boundary out there being the issue.

"The course of a nation will be determined by the amount of sound doctrine resident in the mind and heart of the citizenry.

"How do you weaken a nation? You don't first go after its economy, its politics and social structure. You go after the HEART of its people. Because it starts with volition, marriage, family--then nationalism.

Now here's a verse I love. Proverbs 15:4: [4] A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

"The Lord Jesus Christ had a wholesome tongue. He had a pure tongue. His tongue was so pure He could pick up a piece of dirt, spit on it and take it and rub it on a guy's eyes and the guy could see. Man, that's some powerful spit. Well, it's more than that. No corruption in anything He ever said.

'But perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.' You want to put a hole in the wall for the counsel of the Adversary to come in, it's perverseness in words.

"You don't have your faith resting in that sound doctrine out of that pure book about the issue you're facing. There's all kind of counsel out there about how to handle an issue and that counsel will vex you and pound on you, looking for a breach so that it can say it's king in your life and run your life.

"He says, 'You know what, righteousness exalts a nation and sin is a reproach to any people.' Way before it becomes true for any nation, it starts over here with the individual."

(new article tomorrow)