"Today, millions of Americans awoke to social media feeds awash with images of and commentary about a landmark event," began a Nov. 4 article in GQ Magazine.
An accompanying photograph was of the pope, wearing all-white, standing next to an older, graying man wearing all-black (save for his shirt's white collar showing), including a black hoodie with the hood up, black leather gloves and a black umbrella.
"As the nation began to digest the results of a historic election that seemed to herald the arrival of a new America, two of our very best Americans met for a private audience on the other side of the Atlantic," the article went on.
"But even if the two men hail from similar geography, the sight of them together under the bright fluorescent lights of an anonymous Vatican office looked like the product of a well-crafted AI prompt, if not an outright fever dream. The images were so unexpected, so uncanny, I would’ve been convinced they were fake had they not been published by an official press organ of the Vatican."
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It was none other than Bob Dylan with the pope, who gave Dylan a rosary.
Anybody who's ever watched a YouTube video about celebrities admitting they sold their soul to the devil in exchange for fame (and creative genius) has likely seen the clip from the old 60 Minutes interview Ed Bradley did with his favorite artist Dylan, who at the time was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature.
Bradley: "You're still out here doing these songs, you know, you're still on tour."
Dylan: "I do but I don't take it for granted."
Bradley: "Why do you still do it? Why are you still out here?"
Dylan: "Well, it goes back to the destiny thing and I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago and I'm holding up my end."
Bradley: "What was your bargain?"
Dylan: "To get where I am now."
Bradley: "Should I ask who you made the bargain with?"
Dylan: "You know, with the Chief Commander."
Bradley: "On this earth?"
Dylan: "This earth and in the world we can't see."
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(note: I'm working on new article that I will have tomorrow now)
Isaiah 14 is a prophecy about the Antichrist. It’s not talking about Lucifer in the beginning; it’s talking about the Antichrist at the end.
What you have here is Israel, as Satan is thrown down into hell (verse 9 says, "Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming"), literally casting a proverb into the mouth of the Adversary, explains Richard Jordan.
Verse 4 says, "That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!"
They’re literally going to mock him as he goes off into the bottomless pit. What they’re going to say to him is in verse 13: "For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north."
It’s, "Here’s what you said back in the beginning. Look at what it’s got you!"
So verses 13-15 are going to give you the original plan Satan had. The goal of it was to be like the most high God, but notice the steps he’s going to use all have to do with high places--taking God’s place in the heavens, and in the government there, and having control; the religion.
When he says, "I will ascend into the heavens," he’s going to ascend up to the top position and assume rulership.
“I will exalt my throne." Notice he has a throne. In the original order of things, Lucifer had authority, but it wasn’t enough.
He says, "I’m going to exalt my throne ABOVE the stars of God. I’m going to become the ruler over the angelic creation. All of it! I’m going to be the one who has the opportunity to dictate its directions, and talk about and explain what it’s going to do."
“I will also sit upon the sides of the north."
"I’m not only going to be the head ruler, I’m going to be the one people come to and give account."
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The mount of the congregation on the sides of the north is a location in the universe.
You remember in Job 1 when the angels came to appear before God and Satan came with him?
Have you ever wondered how Satan got to come up into heaven and talk to God? The dirty rascal. Well, he didn’t go to the third heaven. That’s not where he met. He met on a place the Bible calls "the mount of the congregation."
It’s a planet in the universe where the angels would congregate and give account for their activity. It was an accounting thing. That’s what they were doing in Job.
That’s why he asked the devil, "Where do you come from?" He said, "From going to and fro in the earth. I control the earth. I’m down there running what I control down there!"
That mount of the congregation on the sides of the north is the . . . when you talk about the sides of something, you go back in Samuel, and Saul is pursuing David, and David hides in a cave--he’s in the sides of the cave. What that’s talking about is the farthest back recesses of the cave.
When he talks about "the sides of the north," he’s talking about the upper region of the north up here.
The universe has an identifiable shape to it. It has locations to it. There is a north (not magnetic north in the earth) but a north relative to the universe and that north is where God’s throne is.
New Jerusalem is north. It would do you well to always know which way north is. There is a place up there in the sides of the north where God calls His angels together and Satan says, "I want the whole universe to be accountable to me. I want them to be answerable to me."
Then Satan says, "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds." God’s throne is surrounded by clouds. In Samuel, when Hannah and David talk about it, He dwells in the darkness. That’s because when Paul says He dwells "in the light which no man can approach," God holds back that glory with a veil.
Satan says, "I’m going to go sit up there where He sits! I’m going to be the one that the universe worships! I’m going to be the one whose plan the universe is executing!"