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 . . . )
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