Zombie lifestyles in Bible

Everything people involve themselves with out in the world comes from a spiritual source, as noted in yesterday’s blog post. Today’s insatiable love affair with all things zombie--zombie graveyards, zombie invasions, zombie apocalypses, etc.—“follows a religious pattern based on Christian ideas of an end-times war and messiah,” according to Wikipedia. Of course, explanations can easily be found in the King James Bible.

Jeremiah 8, for one great example, reveals, [1] At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
[2] And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
[3] And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

“These people recognize there’s a spiritual being behind the symbols they’re worshipping, and they’re doing it in a graveyard, by the way,” explains Richard Jordan.

“Zephaniah 1 talks about ‘them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops.’ In the passage there are two different branches, or denominations, of Baal worship: the Chemarims and Malcham. Baal worship has a lot of facets but the fundamental issue in it is that issue of worshipping ‘the host of heaven.’

"There’s a satanic policy of evil that fills up the universe with darkness, and no matter what manifestation, or what stage of the darkness you’re in, that’s the system.

“In Zechariah 13, a passage about the kingdom Jesus Christ sets up when He comes back, verse 2 says, ‘And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

“God says, ‘When I set up my kingdom, I’m going to throw out all that satanic stuff and fill my kingdom with light.’ Darkness and all of its source, all of its manifestations—all the forms of Baal worship and idolatry will be eliminated.

“You know, it’s interesting that just like the name Jehovah has a lot of compounds to it, Baal has a lot of compound names, too. There are actually more compound names of Baal in the Bible than there are for Jehovah. That’s how pervasive this stuff is. It’s everywhere.

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“When the Lord Jesus Christ returns, there are two great marks of His kingdom. No. 1, He’ll take away the physical bondage of sin and disease, the curse, and No.2, He’ll do what that verse in Zechariah 13 said: He’ll throw out all the darkness; throw out all the devils and unclean spirits out of the land.

“So when Jesus Christ came to earth He did two things: He healed the sick and cast out demons. In Luke 8: 1-2, for example, it says ‘he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
[2] And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils.’

“Christ didn’t just preach it; He SHOWED them. He gave them a foretaste of the powers of the world to come. One of the things He does, if you go down to verse 26, is He goes to the coast of the Gadarenes, north of the Sea of Galilee, and meets the maniac of Gadara, who has a whole bunch of devils’ names in him. You go down the passage and see Jesus asked him, ‘What is your name?’ Why’d He ask him that? Zechariah 13 says He’s going to throw out all the names.

“Verse 27 says, [27] And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.

“This maniac guy, he doesn’t have on any clothes and doesn’t dwell in any house; he lives among the tombs. Remember, in Jeremiah 8 we saw how they got all the bones of the people out of the graves and stood there and worshipped.

“What this maniac of Gadara’s doing is practicing an outward, overt form of Baal worship. He’s a picture of the nation Israel captivated by that satanic religious system.

“As Mark 5 reports, [2] And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
[3] Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains.

“Now, that’s what a devil is; it’s an unclean spirit. You have THE devil and then you devils plural. They’re never called demons in the Bible; that’s a carelessness on our part. They’re called devils so you understand these are the guys carrying on the devil’s work. Did you notice that word ‘devil’ is d-EVIL?

“It says he ‘had his dwelling among the tombs.’ Do you remember how he said he didn’t have a house? Where’s he dwelling? Among the tombs. In Proverbs 21:16 is the commentary on that: [16] The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

“When you rebel, you run away from life. God is life. Where do you run to? A place where there’s no life. All that’s left is death. Death rules by fear, by insecurity. Hebrew 2 says, ‘And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.’

“This man’s in bondage to the fear. You see, death motivates and rules by fear, by insecurity. You know, if you’re around dead people they make you feel alive. Dead people don’t threaten you, they don’t reject you, they don’t bawl you out, they don’t correct you, criticize you, condemn you. They can’t do much for you, but they don’t do a lot against you. So people find comfort, but when you live around dead people, you’re really living in an alternate reality and that’s what the darkness produces.

“This guy had a dysfunctional family life and we’ll see that after he gets right, he goes home. The first thing Jesus said was, ‘GO HOME!’ The man had a home but he couldn’t function there.

“When darkness fills a life, one of the first things that goes is home. What’s the second institution God created for the stability of mankind? First is volition, second’s marriage and third’s family.

"You see, what this darkness does is it reaches down to destroy the very basic foundation of life the way God designed it to work. People say, ‘We’ve got something better!’ but it doesn’t produce better; it produces death, and you wind up dwelling among the dead. No order, just confusion.”

(to be continued tomorrow)