Future takeovers

God asks Job, “Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?”

Jordan explains, “He said, ‘Job, you can’t even get a dumb old animal to plow for you unless you’re standing there with a whip. And then he don’t want to do it. You can’t trust him just to go do it.’

“If Job was to have dominion over the beast of the field shouldn’t he be able to do what those questions are asking him if he can do? You see, what God says is, ‘You’re supposed to be out here in Creation as The Man! Rule it! But you ain’t got any idea what’s going on; you can’t explain why the wind blows. You can’t even get a unicorn to plow for you. There’s something wrong, Job. There’s something wrong with you.’

“You see, there’s something wrong, not just in the heavens, but there’s something wrong with man’s part in it. And man isn’t out there doing his part in the restoration process.”

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Job 40 starts, “Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
[2] Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it."

Jordan explains, “God says, ‘You’re so smart, Job, you think you know better than I do what to do. You don’t think I know what I’m doing. All right, smarty boy, tell me what to do. Here’s Creation, I made it to dwell in it, then there’s a problem and I broke it up. You’re not doing your job but you’re running off at the mouth telling me you know better than I do. Speak up!’

“Job says, ‘Lord, I ain’t saying a word.’ Is that a good idea or not? God is then going to describe to Job what it’s going to take to deal with the enemy; what it’s going to take to deliver the earth and man from Satan.

“Here’s what it’s going to take: ‘Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
[10] Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
[11] Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
[12] Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
[13] Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
[14] Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.’

‘When you can do those things, Job, come talk to me; then you can complain. Until then, hide and watch.’

“You see, Job is suffering because God’s got a plan to do something but it’s not there yet and they’re still here and, ‘Job, until you can do what I can do, you just hide and watch. And if you’re suffering then you’re suffering according to the will of God. You’re suffering because you’re at a time in my program when suffering’s gonna have to be there.’

“You see, that’s what suffering according to the will of God is. It isn’t that God just wants you to suffer. It’s that God’s doing something; He’s got this big plan going on and you just happened to be a time when this is what’s going on. So get on with what God’s doing and forget the rest! The patience of Job is to wait for the end.”

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Jesus prays to the father in John 17:12, “While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”

The initials of the son of perdition is sop, points out Jordan, making the connection to John 13:26-27: “Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
[27] And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.”

Jordan says, “That’s a play on words in the English text. English is a fascinating language in some of those ways. Why did He choose Judas? ‘That the scripture might be fulfilled.’ Christ wasn’t deceived; Judas didn’t trick Him. Christ full well knew what He was doing and chose Him in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled ‘that my old familiar friend will lift up his heel against me.’

“He literally, in order to fulfill the Scripture, was willing to have one brought into His companionship; one who would sit right at His left hand at this Last Supper and be a familiar friend turned into a familiar fiend. The Lord was willing to embrace him and allow that kind of heartache; that kind of tragedy to take place in His life.

“Notice in II Thess. 2:8 this son of perdition has the title of Wicked with a capital W. It’s a proper name for him. The career of the Antichrist is literally in two sections. First, he’s the man of sin and then he becomes the son of perdition.”

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In Revelation 11, in the midst of the 70th week, the Antichrist suffers a deadly wound and is assassinated but then that deadly wound is healed.

“He’s resurrected, as it were,” explains Jordan. “In connection with that is Rev. 11:7: ‘And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.’

“Part of hell is a compartment called the bottomless pit and it’s part of the Underworld. Hell has a torment section. It had a paradise section that was moved up to the third heaven. The Greek word is tartares, which is the section where the angels are kept in chains of darkness reserved for the great white throne judgment. Then there are other spirit creatures that are in the bottomless pit.

“The Antichrist comes out of the bottomless pit. The beast, or the Antichrist, at some point becomes inhabited by—he has Satan enter into him in the person of a creature from the bottomless pit. The mechanics of how that takes place is that in the middle of the week, the man of sin (a human like you and me who is under the control of the satanic policy of evil) . . .

“Just like Jesus Christ is called ‘the Son of man’ and He’s the personification of what God intends humanity to be, the son of perdition becomes the personification of what Satan’s man is going to be.

“But in the midst of that 70th week, he becomes something more than just Satan’s man. He doesn’t become Satan incarnate but he becomes one of these evil spirits incarnate. And the process that that goes through is the guy, the son of man, dies. A lost man’s soul goes down to hell.

“His body is laid there and then an animating spirit out of the bottomless pit comes up, takes his body, reanimates it, and now he’s no longer the man of sin; he’s transformed into the son of perdition.

“Rev. 9:2-3 says, ‘And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.’

“All these demonic creatures come out and they have a king over them. They’re a hairy-looking bunch of dudes; they’re not insect locust because in Proverbs it says the locust, talking about the insect world, don’t have a king over them.

“The king over these unclean demonic spirits is the angel of the bottomless pit whose name, according to Rev. 9:11 says, ‘And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.’

“Those two names adds up to mean ‘the destroyer.’ He comes out and has these spirits follow him. The phenomenon is that in that 70th week, there are creatures from the Underworld, from the infernal world, who are going to be released upon the earth to torment men and lead in a deception of them.”

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Daniel 2:43 says, “And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”

Jordan says, “That’s probably one of the two or three weirdest verses in the book of Daniel. That verse opens up a can of worms that, when you start going down the road with it, you have people thinking you been reading Mad Magazine and Wired magazine and having bad nightmares. Because there are some really strange things here, but the more you study them the more you think they aren’t quite so strange.

“Clay represents man. Got to the potter’s house in Jeremiah 18 and Israel is described as ‘the clay in the potter’s hands.’ Now notice in Genesis 6:4 there were giants before and AFTER the Flood. The verse says, ‘There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.’

“The phenomenon that produced them came before the Flood and then again after the Flood. The women didn’t voluntarily go; they’re abducted. And they’re abducted, not with mutual consent, but with experimental purposes. And these human women we’re abducted by these angelic creatures and there is a cross-breeding that goes on that results in them bearing children who became giants and men of enhanced intelligence.

“There’s a process of genetic engineering. The Frankenstein book was written as a parody on the mechanization of culture. In Arnold’s movie ‘The Terminator,’ machines are taking over. This thinking has always been in the back of people’s minds about the machine age coming, but in our day . . .

"There are actually symposiums taking place this year where they’re talking about taking and enhancing genetic structure and genetic engineering with Nano machinery that would go in and work at a molecular level and one of the ethical questions is, ‘Well, is it still human, and if it isn’t, what is it?’

“But these dudes back here had all that stuff figured out! When he talks about that in Gen. 6, look at Daniel 2:43 about what it said. If they mingle themselves WITH the seed of men, the implication is they are not men themselves. These creatures that are not man are going to mingle with man and seek to reproduce a creature that functions as man.

“Deut. 3:11 says, ‘For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.’

“This is one of the last giants that hasn’t been killed; there are some that make it on all the way through to David and there’s six of them still alive at the time David kills Goliath.

“Notice Og’s bed is 12 feet long and six feet wide. He must have been 9-10 feet long and 4 feet wide to need that bed. It’s made of iron. You’ll find these giants; the one element they are consistently associated with in Scripture is iron.

“When you come back to Daniel 2 and you see it’s the iron that is mixed with clay, and it’s on a level with mingling their seed together, all of a sudden you begin to see some of the things we’re talking about. These creatures are going to be supernatural creatures functioning with a supernatural leader. All of that is associated with Rev. 17:14: ‘These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.’

“That war, that conflict, that battle that culminates over here, culminates literally in all the forces of hell being liberated against the Lord Jesus Christ and His purposes and plans, and you have at one moment finally a personification of that.”