It doesn't have to be hard

Two much misunderstood verses in Paul's epistles are Romans 8:16 and 8:26.

[16] The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

[26] Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

People get mad about that reflexive pronoun 'itself''; they say it's dishonoring to the Holy Spirit because He's not an "it"; He's a he, explains Richard Jordan.

Well, your Bible knows that! If you look at verse 27, he writes, [27] And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Paul calls Him an "it" in verse 26 and a "he" in verse 27. So why does it say "it"? One reason is that's the exact translation. In the Greek language, the word "spirit" is a neuter noun. You have pronouns--he, she, it-- which are masculine, feminine and neuter.

Words have shades of meaning. The word "it" and "itself," when applied to a person, is designed to indicate honor, rank and status--to give dignity to it. "He's a king and he acts like it." He's acting like IT. What? That's the idea of status, like who he is.

So, it's a lack of understanding grammar to get upset about "itself" and "which." If the translators know more about your language than you seem to know, well, don't be mad at them because they're more educated.

When it says "the Spirit itself," it's talking about the function He's carrying on, not His person. You'll find sometime He's called the Holy Ghost and those verses talk about His person.

It doesn't say TO our spirits. That's the way people usually read that verse. We say, "I know I'm saved because the Holy Spirit bears witness to my spirit that I'm a child of God." That's not what it says. It says WITH my spirit which ALSO bears witness that I'm a child of God. So you've got a double witness here bearing witness together.

Then the question is, "Who are we witnessing to?" That's why verse 19 says, [19] For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

There's some people out there in the universe looking for what our testimony is about as members of the Body of Christ; what our being children is about and we're going to witness to them.

We are witnessing that we are the children of God. He's talking about a status, an identity. We are the folks. The reason that's important is in the next verse: [17] And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

What does it mean to be the children of God? "Then heirs; heirs of God." Oh, I see, our status means we have an inheritance. When you become a child, you become an heir of God. You will inherit the kingdom of God. We're joint-heirs with Christ.

Paul starts out giving you a kind of attitude adjustment. He says, "You know what the Spirit of God is going to lead you to do? Appreciate who you really are."

Sealing the deal

"When you trust Jesus Christ to be your Savior, believing He died for you and was buried and rose again in order to be your Savior, the Holy Spirit of God put you into Christ, and when you get into Christ, you are in what God has chosen to do today. It's that simple," says Richard Jordan.

"You're the chosen, you're the anointed! That's super to know. You're somebody special in the program of God.

"We live in a world that cries out for identity; the problems of mankind are EVERYWHERE. It's a turbulent, troubled, dangerous world. As Believers we need to understand who we are in that world.

"We get our identity from who God has established us to be in Jesus Christ and as a member of the Body of Christ, we're the chosen vehicle through whom He's working in the world today.

"II Corinthians 1:22 says, [22] Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

"God takes you and puts you into Christ, making you a part of what He's chosen to do before the foundation of the world. And then He makes sure you can't get out and He puts a seal around you.

"Ephesians 1: [13] In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
[14] Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

"You see how it says He sealed you WITH the Holy Spirit of promise? It's by one spirit you're taken out of Adam and put into Christ. He does that.

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"When you're canning vegetables you have a water bath and boil the vegetables, putting that lid on them. The minute you hear them 'pop' that lid seals.

"They were sealed WITH that gasket. You live literally in the encapsulized environment of the person of God the Holy Spirit.

"God the Holy Spirit Himself is the present guarantor of your salvation. A seal is designed to provide security, but the seal is not any better than the person who does the sealing.

Revelation 20: [1] And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
[2] And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
[3] And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

"Jesus Christ takes Satan, puts him in the bottomless pit and sets a seal on that and you know what? Don't you think Satan would beat on the door a little bit and try to get out? Sure, he's not a passive submissive, but he couldn't get out. Why? Because when God puts in a seal, you can't break it!

"You'll remember in Matthew 27 when they put Jesus, after He died, in that tomb, the Jews went to Pilate and said, 'You know, He says He's going to rise again. We better do something,' and Rome put a seal on the tomb.

"But you know what happened two days later? The Lord Jesus Christ came out of that tomb and some angels came along and slipped that stone away and broke the seal. No, a human seal won't do. When God seals it, it ain't going to let go.

"Your security is guaranteed by God Himself. God the Holy Spirit puts the down payment of His own presence in your life as the guarantee forever."

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Song of Solomon 8 says, [6] Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
[7] Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Bible expositor Cora MacIlravy (circa 1916) writes, "This passage is one of the most intense and passionate expressions of the love of the bride that is found in the whole book.

"It is evident that her words in the sixth verse look forward to a prolonged absence; and she is clinging to Him as love ever clings to the adored object when it is faced with an indefinite separation.

"All her strength has gradually disappeared, and she is leaning upon His breast; her arm, or strength, finds support only in His arm, or strength. She would have the pressure of her head upon His bosom, remain ever before His eyes as the impress of a seal upon His heart and affections.

"She would have the pressure of her dependence upon Him remain as a seal upon His arm, or strength. As she looks forward to His departure to His Father's house, whither He goes to prepare a place for her, she implores Him to uphold her by His arm and to hold her in His heart, so that upon His breast and upon His arm shall she ever appear, as He stands before God on her behalf."

"Cain we all just get along?" proponents

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The same famous people who want us to believe we are evolved from apes personally believe they are “royal” descendants of Cain. “Fans” are to resign themselves to the fact that their own bloodline goes through Cain and therefore they cannot be saved and are doomed to hell.

Bruce Springsteen opines in his lullaby Adam Raised a Cain: “In the Bible Cain slew Abel
And East of Eden he was cast,
You're born into this life paying,
for the sins of somebody else's past,
Daddy worked his whole life, for nothing but the pain,
Now he walks these empty rooms, looking for something to blame,
You inherit the sins, you inherit the flames,
Adam raised a Cain.
Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream,
Adam raised a Cain”

Bon Jovi sings in his Blaze of Glory: “When you're brought into this world
They say you're born in sin
Well at least they gave me something
I didn't have to steal or have to win
Well they tell me that I'm wanted
Yeah I'm a wanted man
I'm a colt in your stable
I'm what Cain was to Abel
Mister catch me if you can”

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Genesis 4 informs that “Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
[2] And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
[3] And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.”

“Eve was trusting God’s promise, looking for the promised seed, so she names the boy Cain. The name Cain means ‘to possess; to acquire.’ He was the one she believed they were going to get it all back (i.e., the fallen creation resulting from eating of ‘the Tree’) through," explains Richard Jordan.

“Then she bears his brother Abel. The name Abel means vanity. He was just an add-on. He was useless, futile; he’s not going to do anything to ease their burden. All their hope was in Cain. And they signify that by the name.

“It says in verse 2 ‘Abel was a keeper of sheep.’ In the Bible, keepers of sheep are sort of not very important. You remember David was a keeper of sheep? Samuel comes to pick one of Jesse’s boys to be king. None of them qualify so he says, ‘You got anybody else?’ and they say, ‘Well, yeah, we got the kid out keeping the sheep. Somebody’ll have to send for him; it’ll take two to three days to find him because he’s out there by himself.’

“Cain was a tiller of the ground. You know what Adam did with Cain? It was, ‘Here’s my boy!’ He brought him into the family business: Adam & Son. He taught him what he knew about keeping the Garden. That’s what God gave Adam to do. Adam and Eve’s hope was in Cain: ‘Gonna be the Promised Seed!’

“When it says, ‘And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought the fruit,’ notice that time passes. They had some understanding. God’s Word was accessible to them. Mom and Dad talked to them. Cain knew God had created all things. Adam had actually seen God create things on the sixth day.

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“The family knew God had a plan and a purpose for man in the earth. They knew about the serpent; they knew he was an enemy. They knew he was a liar and they were supposed to stay away from him. They knew about sin and punishment; why they weren’t in the Garden any longer. They knew about God’s mercy and grace.

“They knew about that first sacrifice. I’m really struck by the fact Cain brought the fruit of the ground because you got to understand Cain—he’s the first Pharisee (Abel was the first prophet). Cain is Mr. Religious. Cain brings the sacrifice, the offering..

“Cain had a desire to have God’s approval. He longed for the day when God would say, ‘You’re the seed!’ He had that desire, that motivation, that fervor of religion to have God’s approval; to be the one who’s praised by God as the promised seed and magnified before all of his family as the ‘Chosen One.’

“The problem is he didn’t bring the right thing. He thought, ‘I’m gonna go and offer something to the Lord; I’m gonna make it the best it could ever be!’ And he worked and toiled and he made it the best HE could make it so that he could prove to God just how worthy he was to be the promised seed.

“Jesus said that’s where the Pharisees come from. Paul said that’s what he was—‘a Pharisee of the Pharisees.’ Paul said, ‘I had confidence in what I could do.’

“This was supposed to be Cain’s day and it didn’t work out. Cain’s best turned into rage and anger and blood lust for murder. It didn’t turn into good things. It didn’t bring peace and joy and happiness. It brought destruction to his brother and to all that followed him.

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“You go down through the rest of this chapter and you’ll see ‘the way of Cain.’ He develops a whole culture of people who follow him, and that generation that begins to follow him when Jesus comes along . . .

“Jesus looks at the Pharisees and He says, ‘You are of your father the devil, the lust of your fathers you will do!’ Cain bought into Satan’s lie and all the Pharisees in the ages . . . Paul says, ‘That’s where I was. I was over there trusting my works, my efforts, what I was going to accomplish, and I figured out that’s all just dung. Everything I do is just filthy rags.’

“You can translate that ‘dung-covered rags’ if you want to. You see, what’s going on in Philippians 3 is something that’s been going on all through the ages. There are just two choices and the question he asked Cain about ‘Why?’ is the question we have to answer today.

“Genesis 4 says, ‘And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
[7] If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.

“You see, he was giving Cain a hope even then. Cain wasn’t a helpless victim who was run by sin. He had the opportunity to make some choices; he could have believed God’s Word and God’s Word would have liberated him.

“Cain’s desire was to usurp God’s authority and trust his own resources. Abel had no confidence in his own ability and just believed God, trusting God’s Word and doing what it said. That’s life.”

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Here is older post that I briefly put up a week or so ago and then took down:

From a BBC News article about the Baphomet statue erected by the Satanic Temple in Oklahoma City's Capitol Building:

"On the front of the statue, above the inverted pentagram, will be one of the Satanic Temple's seven fundamental tenets: 'The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.'

"The back of the stone slab will display a passage from Lord Byron's dramatic work from 1821, 'Cain,' that reads: 'Then who was the Demon? He who would not let ye live, or he who would have made ye live forever, in the joy and power of knowledge?' "

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On the CIA’s website--yes, the Central Intelligence Agency of America!--you can read a PDF of the whole book by Fritz Springmeier on the "13 Bloodlines of Cain the Illuminati Serpent Seed."

There’s a very interesting expression in Jude 11: [11] Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Jude is a book written for the last days and when you get over into that tribulation period right before the Second Coming of Christ, they’re still talking about Cain. Cain sets a way, a path in Genesis and it’s the way of man’s rebellion against God to do it himself, his way. 

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Matthew 23: [33] Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

[34] Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
[35] That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

Talking to the Pharisees, Christ says, "You guys slew all that righteous blood; your part of a group of people who have shed all that righteous blood beginning with Abel--Cain was the first in the line."

There's something that began with Cain that goes all the way through the Bible; the way of Cain. First, it was the way of a man; a system of religion.

Jesus, talking about that way, said, [13] Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.'

This way of Cain had become very broad; lot of people walking on it now, says Richard Jordan. Opened that path out. You ever go trace a trail through the woods? One guy, two guys walk it and it's just a narrow path, but then you get 10-15 walking side by side and the whole thing is stomped through! 

By the time you get to Jude, it's BROAD, Jesus said. You know what's happened? Paul says, "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers." They've been working! They've been spreading this way and it's become the way of all flesh. That religious fervor of Cain's doesn't end until the Antichrist religion.

Luke 11: [49] Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

[50] That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
[51] From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

Notice that Christ traces the blood to this generation; to this offspring, this spiritual lineage that reaches all the way back to the slaying of Abel and all the way over to the last days.

A parallel passage to Luke 11:49-51 is Luke 23:34-35: [34] Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. [35] And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God. 

Who does Luke 11:49 say Jesus Christ is? The wisdom of God. You see how one passage says one thing and the other passage says something else, but they're both talking about the same person? In your Bible, the wisdom of God is personified in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ says Abel was a prophet. That's fascinating--the stuff going on in Genesis 4, it wasn't just two brothers fighting. There's a religious system conflict going on back there; a spiritual battle.

Since the fathers fell asleep . . .

Here we are on the cusp of Father's Day weekend and our fearless leaders are mocking us once again. 

In today's news were photos of Bill Clinton nodding off at the "opening ceremony" for Obama's library.

"Former President Bill Clinton has sparked health fears after he was caught appearing to doze off during Barack Obama's public library opening ceremony," reported Thursday's Daily Mail.

"Clinton and his wife Hillary joined several former presidents and first ladies on Thursday in Jackson Park, Chicago. 

"The celebration was jam-packed with performances and speeches and the long event appeared to take a toll on Clinton, who seemingly fell asleep on stage, directly behind Barack and Michelle Obama. 

"At one point he used his hand to cradle his head, which appeared to tilt downward although his dark sunglasses shielded any view of his eyes."

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Meanwhile with the G7 Summit currently in France, "the internet mocked President Donald Trump after photos and video footage showed him wandering off the stage among world leaders on Tuesday," said Raw Story.

"Trump was in Évian-les-Bains discussing the Iran agreement and during a family photo, he appeared to be somewhat disoriented, moving away from the group of dignitaries who tried to direct him back to the group. Another photo also revealed Trump needed a helping hand from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to climb a single step for the photo opportunity."

(Note: In the Economist magazine's "World Ahead in 2026" cover, Trump is shown sort of doddering about right next to India's Modi.)

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Of course, this follows earlier in the week when headlines on Drudge Report were about how Trump actually fell asleep at his birthday UFC match:

"President Donald Trump appeared to doze off in the front row of his own UFC birthday celebration (June 14), handing critics fresh ammunition and reigniting calls for his removal from office," reports Raw Story among countless other news outlets. "Footage circulating from UFC Freedom 250 on the White House South Lawn shows Trump, who turned 80 on Sunday, seated beside UFC chief Dana White with his eyes closed and his head slumping to one side, according to the Mirror and various observers.

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This follows the Knicks' Game 3 finals last week in Madison Square Garden where Trump appeared asleep:

MSNBC’s Morning Joe crew mocked President Donald Trump on Tuesday after viral footage from his NBA Finals special suite appearance on Monday night sparked speculation that the president briefly fell asleep while watching the action.

From Patriot-News: "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among those accusing Trump of snoozing during Monday's big game.

"Call to Activism shared a clip of Trump, who appeared to have his eyes closed in the box during the game and wrote, 'Donald Trump has fallen asleep at the NBA Finals in Madison Square Garden.'

Ocasio-Cortez shared the post and wrote, "WAKE TF UP."

"JUST IN: Donald Trump has fallen asleep in MSG watching the NBA Finals," Polymarket Sports wrote on X.

"Trump takes a long blink during the NBA Finals," MediasTouch wrote on X while sharing a video clip of the president appearing to have his eyes closed.

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A quote from a YouTuber last year: “We can all look at these psyops and say, ‘Wow, this is really bad production,’ and it’s not that the CIA doesn’t know what they’re doing. They are master manipulators, masters of mind control. They have a sense of humor, I believe. They make these things so poorly produced and then watch people fall for it and they crack up and can’t believe people are falling for it. They listen to people like us and they just laugh, ‘Well, these people see it; they noticed this and they noticed that.’ ”

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“Recognizing the evil intent of the world leaders, there should be no doubt there’s a powerful hidden source that controls world events, the economy, the media, and the agenda of the world governments,” reads a blog post to Adventofdeception.com “Anybody famous and popular sold out to the Illuminati on their rise to fame.”

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Here is an old post on fathers, etc. and will have new article tomorrow:

“The problem in our country is the role of fathers has just been totally decimated, and the war on fatherhood has been waged with such devastating force that, I tell you, our culture has sentenced the next three to four generations to a disastrous tragedy upon tragedy," says Richard Jordan.

"The Bible talks about the sins of the fathers being visited on the third and fourth generations. When you raise a wicked generation of fathers, it takes 3-4 generations to root out the evil that’s produced in a culture, and you’re going to have generation upon generation of tragedy.”

Jewish historian Josephus observed, “Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it was through His means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power…”

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“You know the nature of adolescents—‘If mom and dad do it this way, I’m going to do it that way,’ so they produce this tremendous cultural revolution,” explains Jordan. “And though the children have grown up, they still have the taste of children because the whole of society has been changed and picked up like a rising tide from its moorings and set adrift.

"Isaiah 3 documents a time in Israel’s history when the Jews were in a similar kind of situation we are today, culturally, and there’s a strong statement by Isaiah about what happens to a people in that situation:

[1] For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

[2] The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
[3] The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
[4] And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
[5] And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

"God is directly intervening in the life of this nation to bring about disaster that they had contracted to receive if they rebelled against--morally and spiritually--His (Mosaic) covenant. So He’s sending it to them.

“Notice what he says. The first thing they lose is prosperity. They’re going to lose the store that they have--the bread, the water, the basic elements of life. They’re going to lose their economic prosperity. They’re going to begin to be in want. 

“God is going to take the blessing away from them and their enemies are going to surround them and take them captive and they’re going to go up into that 5^th course of captivity in Leviticus 6 and they’re going to be taken away.

“Famine is going to come on them. Economic disaster is going to befall them. They’re going to lose their leaders. The mighty men, the leaders of the nation. They’re going to look around and there aren’t going to be any statesmen to lead them in the political and economic realm and in their institutions. They’re going to be adrift.

“Their military is going to be decimated. Disarmament is going to be the idea of the day. The judges are going to be so corrupt that they’re going to corrupt the law to the point that when you need them you’re not going to be able to depend on the legal system of the day.

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“The prophet and the preachers are going to be prophesying lies. Jeremiah said the ‘people prophesy lies and the people love it so.’

“You see, the basic institutions of their society are just going to be decimated. ‘The prudent and the ancient.’ Prudence is the ability to make good decisions and their government is going to be in a situation where there aren’t going to be men and women in government who have the capacity to make good judgments and decisions about things.

“The ‘captain of fifty’ is going to go right down through the structure. It’s not just going to be the people at the top; it’s going to be the people that come down through the structure of government in society. The honorable men.

“They go out in their culture and they look for somebody that they can trust. Somebody in government, somebody in leadership; somebody in public position in the church and in education and in the government that they can say, ‘There’s somebody who can tell me the truth. There’s somebody who’s decent and honorable that I can trust what they say.’ Those people are going to be gone!

“The counselor. That’s somebody who gives you good advice. You’re not going to get good advice. Not just bad decisions but there’s nobody there to tell you what you ought to do! That’s not going to be found anywhere in their institutions and government society anymore!

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“ ‘A cunning artificer.’ That’s the artist. And the oracle. The real true artist, whether it’s with painting or music or words, the real true artists are going to be gone! And all that’s going to be left is the filth. 

“But this is Isaiah, 750 years before Christ. It really sounds similar! ‘And I will give children to be their princes and babies shall rule over them.’ That’s what Robert Bork called those ‘wave of savages who must be civilized’ by their parents and by their schools and churches.

“What’s happening are the people who have been charged with civilizing the children and the babies, and bringing them in and teaching them the traditions of the culture they’re in so they would know how to live, and teaching them in their history of who they were as a nation and what God’s purpose for them was, in Israel’s case.

“Those people have lost their moorings and there’s no one there to do that. And the impact of that absence is when, every year, this new generation of kids that come on the scene, there’s no one there to give it to them! So they’re set adrift and they’re left to their own devises.

"The adults have lost the strength of character, the will, the backbone. There’s no one there to tell the child, ‘NO! You can’t do that! NO, this is wrong!’ There’s no one left to give them the directions and teach them what’s right and wrong.”

Inspiration courtesy of Judas, not Jay-Z

(new article tomorrow)

In the Gnostic tradition, Judas is “the Enlightened enabler of Christ's secret mission.” In the Illuminati, Judas is the rebel to be revered. As Lady Gaga sings in her tune entitled Judas, “I’m just a Holy Fool, oh baby he’s so cruel But I’m still in love with Judas, baby.”

One decade ago now the National Geographic Society proudly unveiled, after 1,700 years missing, the ancient Coptic, or Egyptian Christian, manuscripts of the “Gospel of Judas.”

"This lost gospel, providing information on Judas Iscariot—considered for 20 centuries and by hundreds of millions of believers as an antichrist of the worst kind—bears witness to something completely different from what was said [about Judas] in the Bible," proclaimed a famed clergyman at the time.

In the found script, “Judas is Jesus' closest friend, someone who understands Christ's true message and is singled out for special status among Jesus' disciples,” explained National Geographic. “In the key passage Jesus tells Judas, ‘you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.' ”

A chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina was quoted by the magazine saying, "This gospel has a completely different understanding of God, the world, Christ, salvation, human existence—not to mention of Judas himself—than came to be embodied in the Christian creeds and canon."

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A subsequent New York Times front-page news story heralded the archaeological find (scholars knew of the existence of the 'Gospel of Judas' because of references to it in other ancient texts as early as A.D. 180), reporting:

“The discoveries of Gnostic texts have shaken up Biblical scholarship by revealing the diversity of beliefs and practices among early followers of Jesus.

". . . As the findings have trickled down to churches and universities, they have produced a new generation of Christians who now regard the Bible, not as the literal word of God, but as a product of historical and political forces that determined which texts should be included in the canon, and which edited out.

“ . . . For that reason, the discoveries have proved deeply troubling for many believers. The Gospel of Judas portrays Judas Iscariot not as a betrayer of Jesus, but as his most favored disciple and willing collaborator.”

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The reality is the Gnostic “Cainites” who produced the bogus Judas gospel would in no way be considered “early followers of Jesus.” Paul even warns about them in his epistles.

From the Bible, we know Judas was a half-breed Syrian Jew indirectly kin to Nimrod, a classic type of the Antichrist in the Word of God.

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The Illuminati’s love for raising one arm, hiding one hand, stretching out one or two fingers and giving the “Eye of Horus” (where they hide one eye, either by winking or covering it with their hand, etc.) is directly derived from the Bible’s Judas.

The name Judas Iscariot itself breaks down to mean “the man from Kerioth,” and as Jeremiah 48:24-26 reports, “And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
[25] The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
[26] Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.”

Jordan explains, “Notice there’s a man whose judgment comes at the Second Coming of Christ. If you look back at verse 15, it talks about the king whose name is the Lord of hosts. That’s Christ and he’s talking about the judgment coming, and in Moab, judgment’s going to be upon Kerioth, and upon a man who’s got a broken arm—a broken-armed man from Moab.

“Come to Zechariah 11 and watch all this stuff begin to come together:

[15] And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
[16] For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
[17] Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

“That word ‘idol’ there means like a statue, an icon. You know that fellow over there in Revelation 13 who sets up an image and they fall down and worship the image? That’s this guy right here!

“It says ‘the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye.’ That’s a reference to the deadly wound the Antichrist suffers in the midst of the week. Did you ever see a picture of Napoleon? He’s standing with his arm tucked into his coat like they do. People say, ‘I wonder why he did that?’ Well, I wonder why you see old Adolf and he’s walking around like that.

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“Then you see these pictures of baby Jesus and His finger’s out. You buy a Bible for kids and it’s got all these pictures of people who’ve got their hand out like that.

“You ever watch the pope bless somebody? It’s the same thing. That’s the sign of the papal blessing—three fingers out like that and two fingers out like that.

“And so you see the baby Jesus at Christmastime and His hand’s out like that, or His hand’s over here like this. And in Revelation 6, that Antichrist is described as an archer and he shoots that bow, and you know what the sign of an archer is?

“In a college archery class I took, the instructor would show us how to shoot and aim, and he said if you do it right—if you pull that bow out and pull it back, and you always seat that little ‘v’ in your hand right up next to your chin and then let it go—you come out like that with the sign of an archer.

“I’ll never forget him standing out there on that hill, holding those two fingers up, saying, ‘That’s the sign of an archer.’ I thought, ‘Aha!’

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“That Bible you’ve got in your lap, people, is the greatest scientific textbook on things you don’t understand. You see them and you say, ‘Go on, I don’t understand them,’ but it’s amazing.

“When I was a kid there was the song, ‘The one-eyed, one-armed flying purple people-eater.’ Well, there he is, right there. He’s one-eyed, one-armed and he eats people—‘he shall eat the flesh of the fat.’ He flies (Genesis 6) and he’s red, which ain’t too far from being purple.

“Go back to verse 12 of Zechariah 11 and notice why I bring that passage in. It reads, ‘And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.’

“Where else do you read about 30 pieces of silver? Isn’t it in Matthew 26? That’s it! The next verse in Zechariah says, ‘And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.’

“So you’ve got a prophecy about the betrayal in verses 12-13, and there you have the 30 pieces of silver, or how much he’s going to betray Him for, and in the context, it’s the Antichrist.

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“In II Thessalonians 2:3 is a reference to the Antichrist. John 17:12—this is Jesus praying to God the Father about the 12 apostles—it’s Judas in the passage.

“People, Judas Iscariot in this  Bible, is associated as a type of the Antichrist and what you’re dealing with when you’re back here in Matthew 26 is a satanic operation designed to cause and bring about the destruction of the Lord Jesus Christ and the purpose and program of God Almighty.

“Matthew puts all the elements on the table for you. There’s the sovereignty of God and the foreknowledge of God: ‘I’m going to go die.’ There’s the religious plot of the religious hierarchy and then there’s the disciples just sitting around fat and happy, not knowing what’s going on.

“Then there’s that little group of people who really enter into it, and then there’s Judas and the Adversary coming in.

“In Exodus 21:32, you’ll see that 30 pieces of silver was the price that was paid for a slave when he was either killed or rendered useless. The guy that did it had to pay 30 pieces of silver to his master. So what Judas sold Christ for was just the price of a useless slave.”

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“In Matthew 26:21, when they’re in the Upper Room having supper, Christ says, ‘One of you fellows is going to betray me—one of you men, my friends.’ He wants the idea to sink into them.

“They say, ‘Is it me? Is it me? Could it be me?’ In other words, these fellows, all of a sudden, they’ve got a guilty conscience. All but one of them.

“In John 13:25, notice one of the disciples didn’t say, ‘Is it I?’ One of them didn’t have a guilty conscience. One of them knew it wasn’t going to be him. John doesn’t say, ‘Is it me?’ He says, ‘Lord, who is it?’ You see, John was the only one of those guys who had a clear conscience.

“In John 18:15-17, there’s old John with Jesus in the palace of the high priest while Peter’s standing outside. John stuck with Christ all the way there. In John 19, who is standing at the foot of the Cross that Jesus commits His momma to? John goes with Him all the way. John was true.

“There wasn’t but one of the apostles to whom Christ revealed who it was that would betray Him and it was John. John is a type . . . you’ll hear people say that in Revelation, John is a type of the church the Body of Christ. If he is, then the church the Body of Christ, in type, is going to have the Antichrist revealed to them and therefore they’re going to have to go through the tribulation.

“John’s a type, people, of the tribulation saints who have the Antichrist revealed to them and remain true to the Lord in the face of it.

“Now in Matthew 26, notice that while the other disciples ask, ‘Lord is it I?’ Judas says in verse 25, ‘Master, is it I?’ Judas Iscariot just could never bring himself to call Jesus Christ ‘Lord.’

“In John 13:13, Jesus says in the Upper Room to His disciples, ‘You call me Lord and Master.’ All the rest of them call him Lord, but with Judas it’s ‘Master.’ He just never could bring himself to be submissive to Christ as Lord.

“In this chapter, there are seven different times Christ tries to win Judas from doing his dastardly deed, and Judas went on in spite of all those attempts by the Savior to stop him.

“Judas went on his way and had his way in spite of the Savior’s attempts to change him. I suppose you and I will never fully understand what that means to live a godly, faithful life, as the Savior did, and then at the very end be betrayed by a trusted confidant—one that you thought enough of that you let him keep the funds for the group.

“He was someone Christ had confidence in and then to be betrayed by him. That’s a heartache that we’ll probably never fully understand, and yet it’s there.”