'Ain't nothin' I'd rather do' (AC/DC)

Speaking to fifth-graders at the American Embassy School in New Delhi, India, the other week, the Dalai Lama, according to the New York Times, “said that a decade or two from now ‘I may be in hell,’ and that he would come back to check whether the younger generation had created a more compassionate world. If not, he continued, ‘I will be able to report that hell will expand, that 21^st century people are ready to come to hell.’ ”

Isn’t he adorable? Today, hell is just the cutest thing going. Just ask funeral directors who'll tell you AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” (which includes the lyric, ‘Hey, mamma, Look at me, I’m on the way to the promised land’) is one of the most popularly requested tunes people want played at their “homegoing.”

New Agers love to think of hell the way German theologian Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) did. He’s famous for assuring, "The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul. If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth."

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Once again, I heard another big-time celebrity referred to on the TV network evening news as a “devout Christian,” this time Prince, who was raised Seventh-Day Adventist (like Dr. Ben Carson) and then converted to the Jehovah Witnesses.

Seventh-Day Adventists deny a literal hell and Jehovah Witnesses, like a variety of Jesus-touting cults, believe eternal death, not hell, awaits a person’s physical demise.

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King James Bible authority Gail Riplinger writes in her 1993 expose book, New Age Bible Versions, “New Agers cling to the ‘new version’ of hades as a second chance: ‘Through the soul in Hades, having awakened to its unfortunate state, desires a change, it can attain such a change through reincarnation.’

“New Agers join ranks with the NIV, NASB, NKJV and Jehovah Witnesses in replacing the ‘torments of hell’ with, as (Grandmother of the New Age Movement, Madame H.P. Blavatsky) called them, the ‘seven mansions of Hades.’ ”

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Riplinger continues, “A ‘Revised’ and ‘Amplified’ version of hell has been ‘Standard’ and quite ‘International’ since the Assyrio-Chaldean culture. The new ‘Version’ of the facts is not so ‘New’, but represents a historically heathen picture of the afterlife.

“The Assyrian culture introduced the idea of hades as an intermediate state. They called it the Elysian or Happy Fields and described it as having ‘silver skies’, ‘resplendent courts’—‘an abode of blessedness’. Their female goddess Ishtar descended into Hades seeking Tammuz and found it a place of gates and shadows.

“Such ‘cunningly devised fables’ abound in world literature. The Egyptian Hades was called ‘Amenti’, a place of dreamless sleep. Inhabitants did not remain long in this ‘Land of Bliss’, but moved quickly to Amk, the exit gate.

“Scandinavian mythology tells of Frigga’s son, Bal-dur, who found himself upon death, in hades, seated on a stone, reading. In Greek mythology’s Prometheus, Hercules, the Sun god descends into Hades’ cave of Initiation. Aeschylus wrote that this ‘Meadow of Hades’ was the place where both good and evil people were purified by doing good works.”

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Most people don’t grasp the reality that it’s your soul that goes to hell and there’s a spiritual fire in the spiritual realm to torment the soul the same as a fire in the physical realm torments the flesh.

Richard Jordan (shorewoodbiblechurch.org) explains, “When the Bible talks about fire in hell, it’s not talking about a campfire out there burning up sausages or spareribs. It’s talking about fire burning up people’s souls. And it’s a fire in the spiritual realm. It’s illustrated by the fire in the physical realm. By the way, it torments, but it doesn’t consume.

“We know that from Exodus 3 when Moses turned aside to see the bush burned but not consumed. There’s a spiritual presence burning in that bush.

“The great passage in Luke 16 about the rich man who went to hell and was tormented by the flame is a doctrinal statement on the intermediate state and eternal judgment. Mark 9:42-50 is the dispensational viewpoint about it:

“ ‘And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
[43] And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
[44] Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
[45] And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
[46] Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
[47] And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
[48] Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

[49] For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
[50] Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.’

“Now that’s an interesting way to describe a place, isn’t it? ‘Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.’ Notice there is obviously conscious torment in this?

“Salt is designed to preserve things. Notice what these people in hell are salted with? The fire they experience doesn’t burn them up; it preserves them. It’s not like a fire in the physical realm.”  

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In times past, both saints and lost people went to hell because it had two compartments—a paradise side and a torment side. Later, the paradise side was moved into the third heaven, leaving only the torment side still in the heart of the earth. Hence, only lost people go to hell today.

“The geographical location of the torment side hasn’t changed but there aren’t any saints down there anymore because paradise isn’t in the heart of the earth anymore—it’s now in the third heaven,” explains Jordan. “So, you see dispensationally that this has changed, and if  you don’t study this doctrine ‘rightly divided,’ you’re going to wind up confused and that’s how you get all these people trying to do away with the doctrine of eternal judgment.

“Invariably, what they do is they start taking verses from back there (in the Old Testament and the Four Gospels) and making out like there’s no dispensational change in at all and that it’s only been one way all through the Bible when it hasn’t been.”

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People who want to tell you hell was only a figure of speech used by Jesus Christ, refer to hell’s usage in the New Testament simply being another name for “gehenna,” which was a Greek word used to describe a garbage dump outside of the city of Jerusalem that had a continual fire burning.

Jordan argues, “When Christ says it’s better for you to cut your hand off or pluck your eye out than go to hell you know He’s not talking about them going to a figure of speech. Why would it be better to cut your hand off than to be cast into a figure of speech? Wherever they’re going to be cast into, it’s going to be real. And it’s not going to be the city dump, because you’d have thrown your hand into the city dump. They’re worried not about him who will destroy your body, but him who will destroy your soul.

“When Christ talks of ‘the fire that never shall be quenched,’ He calls it ‘hell’ three times, and six  times He says it’s a fire that shall never be quenched—‘where their worm dieth not.’ Some part of them is never going to die so I know it’s not the city dump, because the city dump outside the city of Jerusalem isn’t there anymore, is it? It’s gone!”

The corrupt new bible versions deliberately substitute the word “hell” for the words “sheol”, “hades”, “death”, “grave”, and “the depths”, in order to water down the gospel of hell and eliminate its literal reality.

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“The Lord Jesus Christ talked about hell a lot, but Paul never uses the term hell. And people say because Paul never used the term hell he must not have believed in it. And I think, well what do you think verse 9 is talking about?

“If you want to argue and say, ‘Well, that is that ultimate end out there—the lake of fire—then that’s not technically a reference to hell.’ But death and hell are cast into the lake of fire. Hell is the place where the souls of lost people are held in prison as it were, until the Great White Throne Judgment.

“And I’ve tried to use the illustration to you already about lost people. The prognosis is ‘he that believes not is condemned already’ (John 3:18). You don’t need to stand before God to find out whether you’re lost or not.

“Hell is like the jail in which the condemned are held; you’re already guilty but you haven’t been sentenced yet. The Great White Throne Judgment is the sentencing and after it death and hell are going to be cast into the lake of fire. That’s the Big House! So when we talk about hell, technically you’re talking about that confinement place up until the great white throne judgment. And then after that it’s the lake of fire. That’s that ultimate end.

“What Paul does talk about is everlasting destruction. He talks about the wrath of God. Ephesians 2:3.

“Ephesians 5:6. So why does the wrath of God fall on lost people? He says because of these sinful activities that people participate in they earn the wrath of God. Well, he didn’t say hell, but hell’s just the place where the wrath of God is executed.

“The idea that Paul didn’t believe in eternal judgment simply because he didn’t use the term that describes a temporary place where that wrath and judgment is executed doesn’t mean he doesn’t believe in eternal judgment.

“Romans 2:3. That’s what you get when you deal with God based on your own works. Now where does that take place? When Jesus Christ comes back ‘in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God’ and destroys them with everlasting destruction that separates them eternally from God.

“Romans 5:9. That’s a comforting verse when you think about the everlasting destruction that the wages of sin brings about.

“People say, ‘Well, when he talks there about everlasting destruction, that word ‘everlasting’ doesn’t mean that it lasts forever. You say, ‘Well, where do you get that?’

“The way people do that is they go to the Greek word ‘eon’ and the Greek term is ‘eon of the eons and age of the age.’ And the ages of the ages. And then they say, ‘See, when he describes eternity as the age of the ages, well, sooner or later, the ages are going to come to an end.’

“No matter how many there are, it’s a finite idea and they use the Greek terms like that, and what happens when people start doing that is what you find out is people don’t know enough about the Greek language to tell you what the Greek words mean, and you don’t know enough about it to find out about it either, so you wind up everybody being confused and led into error.

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“Now when he says they’re going to be punished with everlasting destruction, come with me one verse that will settle the thing. Luke 1:33: 'And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.'

“What does forever mean? It means no end. Well in the verse eons of eons means ‘no end!’ Eph. 3:21. How long do all ages last? World without end. When he said all ages, he’s not talking about all of them until they end. He’s talking about the fact they’re not going to end. It’s going to be world without end.

“If you come back to Isaiah 45 it’s a concept that comes out of the Hebrew Bible. Isaiah 45:17. So how long is everlasting? It’s without end. Isaiah 23, just in case you have a problem with that word ‘world,’ there’s more than one way that term world can be used.

“We can talk about the world and sometimes be talking about the earth, but most of the time we’re not. We’re talking about the activity of life on the earth during a period of time, which would be an age.

“You talk about the world of sports. Is there a planet called sports? No, you know that. The world of politics, economics, we’re talking about the cosmos, the system of sports. The system of economics.

“Isaiah 23:17. There the term world is obviously not a reference to the planet. It’s a reference to something taking place on the planet. The planet is the face of the earth. So when you see the word ‘world’ in your Bible, don’t just immediately assume it’s talking about the planet. It can be also be talking about the world on the face of the planet. In other words, the organization of the kingdoms of the world; the organized affairs of the governmental systems that are on the earth.

“So when he talks about world without end, being without end is ‘it doesn’t ever stop.’ There will always be the organized universe and it’s going to last forever. And the ‘without end’ the ‘eon of the eon,’ the forever means it never stops. It means it’s going to go on forever; it’s going to be an everlasting salvation.

“Another way people try to take eternal and say that it’s not forever is to say that when you die ‘the everlasting destruction’ is that they don’t exist anymore.

“In Matthew 25:41, Jesus is talking about people who are judged out of the tribulation. How long does that fire last? Forever, because it’s everlasting! It’s not going to be annihilation. Verse 46: annihilation means the punishment is over. It’s gone because you’re gone."

DNRs on DNAs

In today’s Chicago Tribune was an op-ed piece about the potential ethical nightmares posed by a powerful new medical tool called CRISPR.

“In the simplest terms, it helps researchers (and, someday, will help doctors) edit human beings," explained the article. "With CRISPR, researchers can invade a person's DNA, snip out the bad bits and replace or repair what's left. CRISPR carries immense potential and, possibly, peril.

“The potential: For some people born with debilitating genetic diseases, scientists could give them relief from their symptoms — and maybe even cure them in the not-too-distant future.

“The peril: Scientists could also make permanent changes in the human germ line, the genes that parents pass on to their children. As those edited genes are passed from one generation to the next, the human race could be changed in ways that are not yet predictable. Or desirable.”

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My pastor, Richard Jordan (shorewoodbiblechurch.org), recently devoted a sermon to how DNA, or each individual’s unique genetic blueprint or code, was tampered with and demonically corrupted at the beginning of humanity with Satan’s fallen angels who came to earth to procreate with human women.

Specifically, Genesis 6: 1-4 explains, [1] And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
[2] That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
[3] And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
[4] 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.

Jordan began with, “You got to remember Satan had never seen a man before. Man was a new creature, and when God created Adam out of the dirt, Satan watched all that, but there was something he couldn’t see. Genesis 2:7 says, ‘And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’

“Satan couldn’t see man’s soul that God created inside of him. He could observe the process, but he couldn’t see the spirit part going on.

“So Satan begins to study man and as he does . . . listen, when he talked to Eve and told her, ‘You’ll be like the gods,’ Eve knew they were there. She saw the angels on the earth. She knew the earth was populated by angelic creatures; she could see them! She knew they knew some things, else Genesis 3:5 (‘For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.’) wouldn’t have made any sense.

“These angels would come to man and say, ‘We’ve come down to help you. We’ve come down to help in the next step of societal evolution. We’ve come down to give you some advanced information.’

“They began to intermingle with man and the ultimate result of it, if you go back to Genesis 4: 20-23, you see the cultural development that takes place with agriculture, music, metallurgy, etc.

“They’d learned the ability to find elements in the earth and the catalyst of melting and producing chemical compounds. They were entering into creation; they weren’t a bunch of old cave men with big clubs trying to knock old Jane out in the head and drag her by her hair back to a cave.

“These people had an advanced technological culture and they could dig iron up out of the earth and make brass and enhance it, and the angels come along and say, ‘We’ll help!’

“Verse 4 says they were 'mighty men, men of renown.' They had intellectual capacity that they passed onto man to do things that people today still don’t know how to do!

“Our science technology today STILL can’t figure out how they built the pyramids, for example. They still can’t figure out how they can understand the astrological movements and instructions of planetary movement found in Easter Island. There’s all kinds of things left over that we don’t understand how they did it. The Great Pyramid; the great heavenly measurements and readings that it can do. You say, ‘How did they do that?!’ They had help!

“But that help focused on something; it focused on taking what verse 2 says: ‘They took them wives of all which they chose,’ and bare children to them.

“When you have a child, the dad has 23 chromosomes and the mom has 23 chromosomes. You put them together and you’ve got 46 chromosomes that make up your DNA and the nucleus of the gene that makes up the chromosome that makes up you. So if they were having children, what were they meddling with?

“Genesis 6:9 says, ‘These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.’ You see the first four letters of that word ‘generation’? Generations have to do with genetics. They have to do with a SEED line.

“Verses 11-12 say, [11] The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. [12] And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

“In Ezekiel 26 and 28 you read about Satan, and one of the things he did when he went out and populated and merchandised his Lie Program—what did it fill them all with? VIOLENCE. When he comes and merchandises his program with man, what does it fill the earth with? Violence. Why did God destroy man? Because the earth was corrupt and filled with violence.

“It wasn’t just that you couldn’t go down to the We-Sack-It on a Saturday night and buy a pack of Juicy Fruit without getting your head knocked off. The violence stemmed from something deeper than that.

“There was an attempt to corrupt the genetic code of mankind so that man could not be used the way God intended to use man, but that Satan could use man to join heaven and earth together and create a new species that would do exactly what he wanted done.

“You see, genetic engineering didn’t start in the 21^st Century. All this GMO stuff people think the scientists are so smart about, listen, that didn’t just all start right now. In Daniel 2, that image Daniel interprets the meaning of for Nebuchadnezzar, he tells Nebby about a fourth kingdom that’s going to come and it turns out to be the kingdom of the Antichrist.

“Daniel 2:42 says, ‘And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.’ Who would 'clay' be in the Bible? Man. The term ‘clay’ is used in the Bible to describe two things: Adam and Israel. Iron in the Bible is associated with Satan and the fallen angels.

“The next verse 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.’ When you start messing with the seed, you’re messing with genetics. My point is it’s already happened, but it’s going to happen again.

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“In Daniel 7, it says the Antichrist is 'more stout' than any other person. His physical appearance was different than the normal man. He’s the ‘king of fierce countenance.’ He literally looks different, like a super version of a humanoid kind of a thing. Now it doesn’t work.

"In Psalm 139:15-16, David is describing the creation of man: [15] My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

[16] Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

“There was a point when David knew that when he was conceived (Psalm 51 says, [5] Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.) there was a book; God’s book in which everything David was going to be . . .

“Now we know that’s DNA today, but 50 years ago nobody knew what that was. When I was conceived in my mother’s womb, that first joining of those 46 chromosomes said I was going to have blue eyes, my daddy’s hands, my mother’s skull structure, on and on.

“When David says, ‘In thy book all my members were written which then just grew,’ he’s talking about the book of DNA that God wrote. Now, God wrote another Book and you’ve got it in your lap. What does Satan want to do with that Book? ‘We are not as many which corrupt the Word of God.’

“Jesus taught the parable in Luke 8 saying the ‘seed was the Word of God.’ You know what happens when you get saved? Jesus says the new birth is when God’s Spirit implants life into a dead spirit. Paul calls that 'regeneration'; when you were born of the Spirit of the God.

“James 1 says it was the ‘engrafted word.’ Literally, when you trusted Christ, God took His Spirit and engrafted Him into your, I’ll say it like this for an illustration, ‘spiritual DNA,’ and became one with you at a level that is comparable to becoming one with you in your DNA physically.

“Satan’s goal is to form a creation that unites HIM with creation—heaven and earth with HIM as the boss; with HIM on the throne, but it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work in Genesis and it doesn’t work in Revelation. It’s a failure. Just like you can’t corrupt that Book, he can’t successfully corrupt mankind. You know why?

“In Matthew 24, Jesus said, ‘And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.’

“So you know what He does? He shortens them. That’s why the tribulation’s 70^th week only lasts seven years and, in that part of it, only 1,240 days. Because if what Satan put into motion there were allowed to run its normal course, all of humanity’s flesh would be corrupted, but God won’t let that happen. He’ll stop it. And He stops it by the Word of God coming, the Lord Jesus Christ (Revelation 19) coming from heaven to destroy the Adversary.”

(new article tomorrow)

Akron spawns 6' 8" Power forward Satanist

I was in my car returning from the gym when Akron’s classic rock station (WONE 97.5) suddenly broke its programming to announce LeBron James had signed a deal to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers. It was like the whole city had just learned it had won the super lotto. With my windows rolled down on what was a perfect July afternoon in 2014, I could hear cars honking off in the distance.

The funniest site for me was seeing a man standing at the street curb outside his house, waving at passersby with several colored balloons in his hand. Next to him was a large handwritten sign that read, “WELCOME HOME LEBRON! GARAGE SALE.” Sure enough, his garage door was open and bicycles and assorted furniture items had already been pulled out onto the driveway. He had the biggest grin on his face, as did I. The collective feeling for my hometown’s No. 1 hero, recognized at the time as the greatest basketball player in the world, was unadulterated euphoria.

Fast-forward to last month. I saw an image of LeBron on some internet news site giving the ever-popular Illuminati pyramid hand sign. I remember thinking, “What?! I thought he was a Christian!” 

Upon investigation via Google, up popped multiple You Tube videos showing LeBron’s personal satanic pre-game ritual in which he makes the Freemason triangle with his hands, quickly followed by the 666 “okay” signal with his fingers, then fist-pumps to his chest and a weird swirling motion with his arms, said to be a “welcoming in” or invoking of evil spirits. All of this is done courtside while the National Anthem finishes being sung! Yikes! So much for "King James"--YUK!

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Of course, once you start looking for something, you see it everywhere. In making reference to the popular use of the circle with the pentagram star in it, Richard Jordan (shorewoodbiblechurch.org) said in a recent sermon, “In Amos 5, you see the star Israel carried around; you call it the ‘Star of David,’ but the Bible calls it the ‘Star of Molech.’

“That star is really two triangles put together and it makes six points. There’s six triangles and six sides. One triangle points to heaven and the other to earth. It’s a symbol of heaven penetrating the earth.

“What are stars in the Bible? Pictures of angels. Revelation 1 and 9 and Job 38. In the Bible, the Star of David has never been the symbol of Israel; it’s a satanically inspired symbol. The symbol in the Bible is the burning bush (Malachi 3:6). They’re burned but not consumed.

“Go see how many places you find that (Molech) symbol. Go find the numerology associated with that symbol and you’ll go, ‘Woah!’ The only place you’re going to find the key to it, by the way, is in a King James Bible.

“Your Bible is the only authoritative key to the symbols, the types, the allegories and the pictures that the culture uses to hide its purpose.

“What (the Mother of Harlots from Revelation) is offering you is this insider wisdom of understanding: ‘I can look at the star and figure out what it all is.’

“People think, ‘I can know the thing God’s trying to keep from me,’ when the reality is God isn’t trying to keep ANYTHING from you! He wrote it all in a Book for you! But when you’re always thinking there’s this secret thing behind—that conspiratorial thing that’s back behind. Why, folks, the Bible is full of that guy’s (Satan) conspiracies."

(to be continued tomorrow)

'Oh, Yeezus, we're SO fooled!'

Satan’s game is to counterfeit whatever God’s doing, so in this “mystery program” operating today it makes perfect sense for there to be “soldiers for Satan” out evangelizing, proselytizing and laboring sacrifically to convert the masses over to their side.

Since they’ve been duped into believing Satan wins all the marbles in the end, actually negating whatever the Bible promises to the contrary, the mission for this “little flock” of Satan's elite forces is to be bolder and more dedicated to the battle than the "average believer,” thereby gaining positions of authority in the after-world Utopia kingdom Satan will set up as King reigning from his throne atop heaven and earth.

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When Kanye West released his latest album, “The Life of Pablo,” the other month, it was assumed by fans the rapper was referencing artist Pablo Picasso or drug lord Pablo Escobar. No one guessed it was the Apostle Paul.

In revealing this, West, who coined the nickname "Yeezus" for himself, tweeted, “Paul ... The most powerful messenger of the first century... Now we stand here 20 centuries later... Because he was a traveler...”

West went on to draw comparisons between Paul's life and his own. He called for people to dance in the streets, tweeting, "I am consumed by my purpose to help the world."

"(Paul) was a learned man not of the original sect so he was able to take the message to the rest of the world,” West further tweeted. “He was saved from persecution due to his Roman citizenship…”

Then, in another tweet, "I have the right to speak my voice...Please forgive the profanity and give hugs and blessings to my brother Kirk for standing by me…"

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“The goal of the enemy going back to Genesis has been to gain possession of the heaven and earth and bring the two together with Satan on the throne,” says Richard Jordan (shorewoodbiblechurch.org). “That’s the great hidden agenda; the great conspiracy.

“As the psalmist says in Psalm 2, ‘1] Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
[2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
[3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
[4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
[5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
[6] Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

“There’s a conspiracy out there and it’s not the one you read about in all the conspiracy websites. It’s the one you read about in the Word of God!

“All that other stuff is just the chaff that falls off of the real one and the whole system out there, satanically inspired, takes counsel TOGETHER against the Lord and his anointed. They’ve been doing that all along. This isn’t anything new.

“Genesis 6 informs, ‘Here’s what Satan has been doing since man started multiplying with Adam’s children,’ which means we’re back in Genesis 4. Genesis 6 doesn’t just happen over at the time of Noah.

“At the time of Noah, God’s going to do something about what Satan started when man began to multiply. Too often people think that when you get to Genesis 6, none of this ever happened UNTIL Genesis 6, but it was happening all along.”

(to be continued tomorrow . . . )

Law of Attraction WORKS

When Deuteronomy 18 lists witchcraft among the abominations God says not to be a part of, it has to do with, “I know secret code words I can speak and when I speak them, it gives POWER in the spirit world.”

“You ever heard a preacher tell you your words have power? It’s called ‘word of faith,’ ” explains Richard Jordan (shorewoodbiblechurch.org). “In the business world they call it the ‘Law of Attraction.’ It’s all the same thing and it’s EVERYWHERE. Why? Because it’s the way the world’s been made to work; that (other) spirit that RULES and WORKS.

“This Mystery Mother prospers everywhere the Word of God, the springs of living water, doesn’t go out; where there’s hunger for God’s Word and yet it’s gone and people are out there in that barren wilderness of life. She doesn’t prosper where God’s Word holds sway, because light drives darkness away.

“In Jeremiah 7 and 44 she’s called the Queen of Heaven. Baalam, the sun god, the god of heaven, marries the earth and he’s got a queen. The whole issue here is the joining of heaven and earth together. That’s Satan’s original intention. That’s the secret; the intent behind it all to make Lucifer the head of heaven and earth. It’s to put him on the throne and bring the two together under his control.

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In his book on Apostasy and Ecumenism, author Dave Hunt writes, “Catholicism has become the ecumenical leader in a move to unite not only the ‘separated brethren’ of Protestantism but all of the world’s religions in a new world church . . .
“One finds every shade of New Age, occult, and mystical belief inside the Roman Catholic Church itself . . . One of John Paul II’s most amazing feats was the gathering at Assisi, Italy, in 1986 of 130 leaders of the world’s 12 major religions to pray for peace.  Praying together were snake worshippers, fire worshippers, spiritists, animists, North American witch doctors, Buddhists, Muslims, and Hindus, as well as ‘Christians’ and Catholics. The pope declared that all were ‘praying to the same God.’ On that occasion the pope allowed his good friend the Dalai Lama to replace the cross with Buddha on the altar of St. Peter’s church in Assisi and for him and his monks to perform their Buddhist worship there . . ."

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“In 313 A.D. there was the Edict of Milan with Constantine.  Christianity was persecuted and the statement, ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seedbed of the church,’ comes from the era with Titian. Constantine came along and said he had a vision, the sign of the Cross, and the message was that ‘in this sign conquer’ and he did what every good Roman Catholic does; he just said, ‘You’re all Christians now.’ And through the Edict of Milan he declared the Roman Empire to be Christian. Is that how you become a Christian? You know that but lost people don’t know that.

“You go out here on the corner and you talk to a lost guy, if he’s my age, and you say, ‘Are you a Christian; you’ve got to trust Jesus Christ,’ and he’ll snap, ‘You say I’m not a Christian?!’ I got a brother-in-law who has NO interest in God and spiritual things—anything of that nature. Last year, though, he was telling me how he was a Christian. And I said, ‘Well, when did that come about?’ and he answered, ‘I was born that way.’ It was like, ‘What do you think I am?! I’m not a Muslim, a Hindu, a pagan.’ Well, see, you know better than that but for lost people . . .

“Rome is Christianized and what that did was take the persecution away but it also established . . . If your church is in the capital city of the empire, who do you think eventually is going to win out? So by 500, you’ve got the first pope; a dude named Leo. And they declare the Roman church and the hierarchy of the Roman system and the established church becomes the Roman-dominated church and that’s how all of that came about.

“Now in the meantime, you got all these people up in Antioch who are preaching and carrying the word out. In 380, a guy by the name of Jerome produced what’s called the Latin vulgate. That became the official Bible of the Roman Empire. That’s the Roman bible.

“Nine hundred years later, in the 1200s, there is in southern France what was called the Council of Toulouse, which gathered together a persecution of the Aldengians and the Albigensians who were using bibles from Antioch. And the Council was a crusade in southern France and northern Italy to destroy these bibles and replace them with the Roman bible.

“The Dark Ages are the dark ages because . . . you remember the Vandals and the Visigoths? They sweep down into Europe, destroy the Roman Empire and the feudal system developed. One of the things that happened when these pagans came down and overthrew and wiped out Rome, they were arrested, overawed by the pomp and the rituals of the Roman Catholic Church and the succumbed and submitted themselves to the Roman system of religion.

“They were barbarians, basically, who gave themselves over to the splendor and the ‘jazz’ of the theater and took back with them Romanism, run by Catholicism, and Jerome’s Alexandrian bible became their bible. And so it prevailed as the standard bible of the church in feudal Europe all through the Dark Ages.

“In that period of time you had ancestors—the Waldensians, the Vaudois’, those names come mainly 

from the places they lived. They were the mountain people in the Swiss Alps, for one example. These people fled there basically to live in peace. They were back there because they wanted to be able to live and raise their families believing what they wanted to believe and preach, living in the light they had. They’re preserving God’s Word sort of behind the scenes. And when you get over into the times of the Crusades, a lot of the crusades are focused on these folks."

Selling out for 'the bennies'

The religious system the Antichrist uses to come to power started back in Genesis, but when God changed the program from the prophetic program to the mystery program, the Antichrist program morphed into a mystery form, called “the mystery of iniquity,” to counterfeit godliness.

“This is what the real battle’s about,” says Richard Jordan (shorewoodbiblechurch.org). “Most people sit around and try to fight the symptoms--the evil things they see in the world today-- and they miss the source.

“If you take a course in using a fire extinguisher, the first thing they tell you is you don’t spray at the flames; you spray at the base where it’s coming from. You get to the source, not the symptoms.

“All these religions out there have their own little religious system but they’re all worshipping the same ultimate program. She’s the mother of all kind of other things that just reflect different aspects; different cultural expressions of her lie.

“All these religious systems have things they do. An image is a symbol, an idol is a symbol, a sacrifice is a symbol, a temple is a symbol. It’s an expression of a thinking process. There’s a spirit of thinking people have to express themselves in these things.

“We don’t need a symbol; we’ve got the reality. We don’t need all those go-betweens. We don’t need bellhops and busboys. We’ve been made ‘accepted in the Beloved.’ You don’t need aids to worship; you’ve got the truth of God’s Word that you can understand and walk in an intelligent understanding of His will written in His Word. You stand on truth, objectively demonstrated and by faith understood. We don’t need all that stuff, but if you don’t have the other, that’s all you’ve got.

“It’s like Micah in Judges 18 when the guys took off with all of his idols and his priests. He’s wailing, and the guy looks at him and says, ‘What aileth you?’ Micah says, ‘You stole my religion!’ Well, you can’t steal a belief.

“To steal your religion, they’d have to take Christ out of you, and if Christ is one with you, to take Christ out of you--what would it leave in you? Nothing; you’d go with Him! You see what a different mindset that is?! Sometimes we get so stuck on what we have—our money, our job, our possessions, our plans, our things—but this world isn’t it; that’s not our real identity.

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“Nahum 3:4 says, [4] Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

“Notice it effects families and nations. It effects the whole culture you live in; not just you but your family and the world you live in.

“When it’s described as a harlot, it’s describing someone who sells benefits. Here’s someone selling the benefits that this goddess is going to produce. It’s not free love; they want money in exchange for what they’re going to give you.

“When it talks about witchcraft, they’re billed to do miracles and prayer circles and sacred code words.

“I was at an evangelism meeting where a guy got up at the end of the meeting said, ‘Now, we want to have unity in here, so let’s all join hands and make a big circle and sing and have a kumbaya moment.’ I thought, ‘Where’s the restroom; I’ve got to be excused.’ I mean, even in Bible-believing places where people want to preach the gospel, it gets in.”

(to be continued . . . )

Like Sgt. Schultz: 'I hear nothing!'

Paul reveals in II Timothy 1:15 that nearly everybody has rejected him, writing, “This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.”

Jordan explains, “If you compare that with I Timothy 1, you’ll see the drift in how things are going. He writes in I Timothy 1:6, ‘From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling.’

“Notice they didn’t leave the Bible; they just left Paul. They didn’t quit believing the Scripture; they just quit being dispensational. While in I Timothy 1 he says some, not everybody, in II Timothy it’s become all. So there is a widening apostasy.

“I Timothy 4:1 says, ‘Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.'

“Doctrines of devils affect those who are not perfected in Paul’s doctrine; those who don’t hold fast to Paul’s message. You have to change Paul’s doctrine to have that kind of thing happen to you. Some have had that happen. In II Timothy, it’s everybody.

“Paul warns in 2 Timothy 2 ‘[16] But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
[17] And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
[18] Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.'

“Notice, they’re not denying the resurrection but they’ve erred concerning the truth about it, putting the resurrection at the wrong place on the timeline. In other words, they’re not getting the resurrection dispensationally positioned correctly.

“You depart from Paul and your dispensational scheme is going to get confused. And when it does, you’re going to err concerning the truth and that develops into something else.

“Paul says in 3:8, ‘Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.’

“When you err concerning the truth, it won’t be long before pride shows up. They say, ‘Well, I know I’m right,’ and when you begin to try and show them their error, they are men of corrupt minds who RESIST the truth.

“And when you resist any correction, that winds you up in chapter 4:3: [3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
[4] And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

“They won’t simply resist it, they won’t even let you teach it. You see how far you’ve gone here? You start out by forsaking Paul, turning away from right division, and that causes you to take in error, which causes you to build a system that resists the correction of truth—the doctrine, reproof and correction. And when you get into that system, now you don’t even want to hear it.

“It’s just a complete, ‘I’m not hearing it!’ You turn away your ear: ‘I’m not listening! I can’t hear what you’re saying.’ It doesn’t happen overnight. That’s the course of the apostasy.

“Paul’s saying, ‘That’s what history in the church is going to look like, Timothy, until Jesus comes.’ Now, we’ve had 2,000 years of church history that bears that out.”

(new article tomorrow)

The 'great artist' behind Prince

"Today, the world lost a creative icon," Obama said in a statement offering condolences to Prince’s family and band. Obama reminded that Prince once said "a strong spirit transcends rule," adding, "nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative."

Jordan always reminds: “Satan’s spirit works in lost people and the creative genius of unsaved men and women is satanically inspired.

“Did you know that music is one of the most dangerous things in your life, second only to false religion? In fact, it’s false religion that gives it its power in your life.

“How many of you when you get up in the morning turn on the radio or put in a CD to get yourself motivated instead of God’s Word?

"You’re looking to a spirit in the world to produce in you what God said His Word is designed to produce in you and you make that choice.

“You watch a movie, TV program, radio theatrical production and there’s not a one of them that doesn’t have music in the background. It’s all boring without the sound; you need the mood music to make it meaningful.

“Music is powerful. It’s called the universal language and it affects everybody the same no matter what language you speak. The moguls that produce that stuff have a spirit behind them. People say, ‘Well, I like what it does for me.’ Uh-huh, that’s why you choose it.”

*****

Music is the only language in the world that affects people even when they don’t know it’s happening. It’s designed to control.

“Your music influences your spirit, your soul and your body,” says Jordan. “You don’t have a choice about that; it does it and it controls. It controls you and you respond to it.”

*****

In what has to be one of the dumbest observations of all in Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven Drivel, he writes, “God loves all kinds of music because he invented it all—fast and slow, loud and soft, old and new. You probably don’t like it all, but God does!”

To make matters worse, he then observes, “Christians often disagree over the style of music used in worship, passionately defending their preferred style as the most biblical or God-honoring. But there is no biblical style!”

*****

All through the Bible are references to music—the kind that pleases God and the kind that doesn’t.

We know from the Book of Genesis God was the one to set up music and it degenerated with the fall of Satan. Exodus tells us how God restored music to its original purpose when He called the nation Israel out of Egypt. It later degenerated. From I Chronicles 16, we know God rescued music once again with David, and then it degenerated again.

“The world you live in, if you’re under 30 years old today, you have never have been fed a steady diet of music that pleases God,” says Jordan. ‘And if you’re over 30, it was way back when when you maybe heard it.

“Christians will deny evolution of the species and everything else but they believe music’s getting better and better and better and the Book indicates it’s not. The fact is, the music we are exposed to is music designed not to please God; it’s designed to please you, whether it’s contemporary Christian music, or gospel music, or bluegrass, or jazz, or the blues, or rock, or easy listening stuff.

“Contemporary Christian music is gutless. It has to do with the way it’s written; it has nothing to do with the people doing it. Good people, nice people may be doing it, but if you write bad music—if you follow the rules of music that cause it to be weak—

what kind of music do you get? Weak music.

*****

Listed in I Chronicles 16: 8-12 are nine reasons David gives for the music he’s writing and they match what Psalm 68:4 and Col. 3:16 say about the three categories of music.

“God has music and He does it His way all through the Bible,” says Jordan. “What you want to do is find out how God does His music and do your music that way—not just your church music, but your music.

“There’s an order and a structure to the way God does things and you can’t miss the fact that God is a God of planning, order and structure. Proverbs 11:1 says, ‘A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.’

“If you take that word balance, you’ve got the key to good music, and when I talk about good music, I’m talking about music that pleases God.

“Music is a language and a language has grammar. When you write a sentence, you have a subject and a predicate. It has structure to it. If you see a prepositional phrase, you know how to diagram that; you learn the parts of speech. Well, in music there’s three parts of speech. Melody, harmony and rhythm. Those three things are what music is constructed out of.

“Melody, that’s the tune. God’s spirit works through His Word and melody in music is designed to carry the words. It’s designed to help you understand the words and to say the words and to preach the words. Melodies are constructed in very specific ways. There’s an exact, mathematical design that you construct a melody with.

“Now, harmony is when you play two or more notes at one time and it carries the melody. All of this has an exact science to it. Melodies run horizontally. Chords—or the harmony—run vertically. The chord is how you get your feelings affected.

“By the way, the melody makes you think something and harmony makes you feel something. Rhythm makes you do something. Each one’s designed to affect your spirit, your soul and your body, in that order. The melody impacts your spirit (Phil. 3:3), harmony impacts your soul (Eph. 4:16) and rhythm impacts your body or your flesh (Rom.13:14).

“God works through His word as you in your inner man trust it and His word works out through your soul and your body. In music, the place you’re going to worship God is in the melody because we worship God in spirit and the melody’s what matches your spirit. That’s what God’s interested in.”

*****

From Isaiah 51:3, a passage about the future kingdom when God redeems Israel, we know there’s going to be a pure music restored by God and it will be carried in the melody.

The verse says, “For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.”

By contrast, Amos 5:21, in which God tells Israel He despises their idea of “feast days” and “solemn assemblies,” contains the sharp rebuke, “Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.”

Jordan explains, “They’ve got a melody that God says is nothing but noise. Now, it is a melody, but God said, ‘It’s not a melody I want; take it away!’ So their church music had degenerated from something that God designed it to be into noise and into violating the rules of the language of music to the extent that God said it’s just noise.”

(new article tomorrow)

Scalia caught in MOTHER of all secrets

You got to figure U.S. Justice Antonin Scalia would have picked a thousand other places to be found dead than at a remote ranch participating in a secret society for power elites that has its roots with the Illuminati-laden Bohemian Grove.

The particular Ancient Order Scalia was aligned with is named after Saint Hubertus, a French bishop in the 700s who “took his story from Saint Eustace, once a Roman soldier named Placidus,” according to Salon.com. “In medieval illuminations, the hart of St. Eustace/St. Hubert appears with a crucifix suspended between its antlers, which have 10 prongs to represent each of the Ten Commandments. As described in the Golden Legend, 1275:

So on a day, as he was on hunting, he found a herd of harts, among whom he saw one more fair and greater than the other… And [the hart] spake to him, saying: Placidus, wherefore followest me hither? I am appeared to thee in this beast for the grace of thee. I am Jesu Christ.

*****

For me, any notion Scalia was a “devout Christian,” as many news outlets readily identified him at his death, went out the window watching his uber-ostentatious Washington, D.C. Catholic funeral in which his own son, the priest who led the homily, repeatedly urged listeners to pray for his father’s soul--that the Supreme Court judge be allowed to “rest in peace” and be “purified,” “perfected” and admitted to heaven.

The priestly Scalia actually began his homily expressing thanks “for allowing us to have this parish funeral Mass here in this basilica dedicated to Our Lady. What a great privilege and consolation that we were able to bring our father through the holy doors and for him to gain the indulgence promised to those who enter in faith.

He assured the crowd, “God blessed Dad with a deep Catholic faith: The conviction that Christ's presence and power continue in the world today through His body, the Church. He loved the clarity and coherence of the church's teachings. He treasured the church's ceremonies, especially the beauty of her ancient worship. He trusted the power of her sacraments as the means of salvation as Christ working within him for his salvation . . . The Mass looks to Jesus yesterday. It reaches into the past — reaches to the Last Supper, to the crucifixion, to the resurrection — and it makes those mysteries and their power present here on this altar. Jesus himself becomes present here today under the form of bread and wine . . . ” 

*****

In a recent sermon about secret societies and their inherent occult core, Richard Jordan (shorewoodbiblechurch.org) confirmed:

“Satan’s spirit works in lost people. He’s got a whole crew of people; the rulers of the darkness of this world. The politicians, the business executives, the music moguls, the movie producers, the newsmen, the preachers. All of the people in the upper echelons who RUN things have a philosophy and thinking process that is in line with the Lie Program.

“You need to understand, when you look to politicians for your answers, that’s where they’re getting their answers from. When you look to business executives to lead your nation, or your life, that’s where they’re getting the answers from.”

*****

Referring to the ancient Baal system of which the Catholic Church is a modern-day manifestation, the Book of Revelation says, [5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Jordan explains, “This verse is not just about the Mother of all mysteries, which is 'Mystery, Babylon the Great,' but there’s the Mother’s mystery maidens. The verse says she is the mother of harlots, meaning she has offspring that are of her lineage, so she’s got a lot of children in the world.

“Paul writes in Ephesians 3, [9] And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
[10] To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God.

“When Paul talks about the manifold wisdom of God being made known to the principalities and heavenly places, there’s a satanic counterfeit mystery system. Satan always seeks to counterfeit what God’s doing.

“Unlike the Adversary, when God does something, He doesn’t keep it hidden behind codes and walls. I love in Matthew 10:27 where Jesus Christ says, ‘What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.’

“God wants things made known, whereas the Adversary’s whole system is based on this secret society; that’s what the ‘occult’ means, by the way. It’s this kind of thing where I’ve got wisdom, understanding, powers that are secret that you can only get in contact with if you have my instructions and you’re one of my initiated.

"In Deuteronomy is the warning from God, 9] When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
[10] There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
[11] Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

“All of those titles and names are descriptions of attempts to use special knowledge to try and tell you the future, claiming they have power in the spirit world to pull things out—hidden wisdom, hidden understanding and knowhow.

“You see, the devil has power and he uses it to coordinate things together to achieve his end. His aim is to install himself on the throne of the universe.

“Satan’s goal is the deification of the creature: ‘I will ascend into heaven; I will be like the most high.’ It’s to take the creature and make God out of it. That’s the ultimate, fundamental lie that, when you buy into it, you’re following the Adversary. You’re make him your authority. It’s only when you follow the truth of God’s Word that you make God your authority.

“The Bible says of Satan, ‘Behold thou art wiser than Daniel.’ He uses his wisdom to traffick. He uses his ability to know a secret that you can’t know and that only he and those he shares it with know. He uses that enticement, that appeal of inside knowledge that only he and those who are his associates can have. That’s the basis of his marketing plan. He did that starting with Eve.

“Genesis 3:1 says, 1] Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

“You see that word ‘subtle’? He’s going to use deceit; he’s not going to just come up to Eve and say it out clearly; he’s going to try and deceive her.

“You get these sales calls on the telephone and they ask you a question so they can get this answer, and if they get that answer, they got this other thing for you to answer and it’s all designed to get you to the point where you say, ‘Yes, I’ll buy the product.’

“Now, Satan uses his wisdom to deceive. He says, ‘I know something you don’t know. If you knew what I know . . .’ It’s that enticement. ‘Yeah, hath God said?’ He’s saying, ‘Are you sure that’s all there is to it?’ You see how he puts that little thought in the back of your mind?

“Satan says to Eve, ‘For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.’

“He’s telling her, ‘You’re going to be like me and those folks associated with me.’ Knowing good and evil means knowing something only God knows. While God says ‘Good and evil’s mine,’ Satan says, ‘You know, I can tell you how to know something God doesn’t want you to know. I already know it. My guys know it!’

“Like I said, he uses that enticement of, ‘It’s secret information nobody can know unless they come and get it from me, and you’ve got to come do what I want you to do, and when you do, then you can have it.’

“The people who fall for that wind up ‘ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,’ because they’re always reaching for it and never quite get there.”