Generation upon generation of tragedy

Working on a new article to post tomorrow. In the meantime:

“The problem 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. 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”—Richard Jordan

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Jewish historian Josephus observes, “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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Proverbs 30:11 says “there is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.”

When Jesus Christ said, ‘This generation shall not pass until all be fulfilled,’ He said of the generation He was talking about, “O generation of vipers who hath warned thee to flee from the wrath to come?”

Jordan explains, “When He talks about a generation, He’s not talking about a period of time somebody lives. We talk about the Baby Boomers and the Millennials. He’s not talking about that. He’s saying, ‘You were generated; you were created by snakes.’ Who is the viper? Satan.

“In other words, ‘You’re the offspring; your father is the devil.’ The generation is talking about the SOURCE where something comes from and in that Last Day, look at Proverbs 31:1: ‘The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.’

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“You see the Book of Proverbs is not just a book of history. It’s a book written for the prophetic program specifically to give the Little Flock in Israel, in the Last Days, some wisdom to stand against the lie program; to stand against the ‘strange woman who rides the beast.’

“There’s a generation that will be there and they love ‘Give me! Give me!’ Here’s one of the characteristics of that apostate generation in Proverbs 30:14: ‘There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.’

“In Matthew 23:13 is just one illustration of how this stuff fits: ‘But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.’

“Those hypocrites are the ones Jesus said, ‘You are of your father the devil.’

“Now, if you devour a widow’s house, aren’t you doing what that verse is talking about there? ‘Whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.’

“How did they do that? They devoured widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers.

“Think about that for minute. Here’s a widow and you’re going to devour her house, and the way you’re going to do it is by pretense, making long prayers. Who would a widow want you to be praying for?

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“You ever hear of anybody praying for the dead? Well, a widow’s got a dead husband. You’ll find back in the Book of Maccabees, one the Apocryphal books, the whole issue.

“In fact, if you ask a Roman Catholic, ‘Why do you pray for the dead?’ they go to the Book of Maccabees and quote a passage that tells you what the Pharisees taught about praying for the dead. What are they doing? They’re going to that extreme with their religion just to get and suck.

“Here’s what they look like. Proverbs 30:15 says, ‘The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough.’

“It’s, ‘Give! Give! We need more money! We got more expenses! The mortgage’s got to be paid. We got to reach out! More, more, more! Give, give, give!’

“You see, they’ve perverted the truth of God into a system of enrichment. Micah 3 says, ‘Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

[10] They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

[11] The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

[12] Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.’

“In other words, the princes and the kings and the rulers of the nation are judging for money. ‘The priest thereof teach for hire. The prophets thereof divine for money.’

“When you see all that stuff in religion today, it ain’t nothing new. Hosea 8 says, ‘Israel hath forsaken God and built temples,’ and you see that going on today. Build monuments and to keep them going you got to, ‘Give! Give! Give!’

“In Israel at this time, the politicians, the priesthood, the prophets--it’s just suck, suck, suck out of the people. That’s why He wrote over it, ‘Ichabod, the glory’s departed.’

“So the indictment against Israel, the sins as He proclaims them, have to do with being corrupted into a nation that can’t be used by God, because this false religious system has so corrupted the thinking of the people, and of the leaders, that they have no ability to even identify the truth.”

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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,” confirms Jordan. “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.

“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!’

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“So verses 13-15 are going to give you the original plan Satan had. The goal of it is 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!’ ”