"The Chinese New Year arrives on February 17, 2026, bringing powerful Fire Horse energy," reports an article on MSN's news feed. "This rare celestial event occurs only once every 60 years. Though most zodiac signs present a mixture of light and darkness, the Fire Horse is remembered only for one thing: the total and absolute Chaos . . .
"The Fire and Horse elements combined create a 'double flame', which makes it even more fiery and hot-tempered. In ancient societies, people refrained from major life events during this year, considering the energy so volatile that stability would be impossible. Well, the same energy is now getting revived again. The 60-year cycle is being reshaped, and the 'Ghost of 1966' is gradually manifesting itself in the modern-day systems."
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Here's a study by Richard Jordan on fire and will have a new article Friday evening:
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."