Walking dead

 Last March, news came that the CDC was warning people of an imminent “zombie apocalypse” complete with an electricity outage. From one such article on Yahoo News:

“Back in the 16th century, French astrologer Nostradamus predicted that there would be a zombie apocalypse in the year 2021. And now that it's actually 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention want to make sure you’re prepared…just in case.

“The CDC offers up lesson plans for teachers on zombie apocalypse preparedness, a downloadable poster that reads, 'Get a Kit. Make a Plan. Be Prepared,' next to a zombie’s face, and general information about disaster preparedness."

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The Antichrist is described as ‘the beast who ascends out of the bottomless pit.’ This beast animates that body and so you have all these shows today about vampires and the walking dead,” explains Richard Jordan. “There’s this fascination with all that kind of stuff because that’s part of the mythology of man’s mind; it’s part of what’s there because the creative genius of unsaved people is satanically inspired.

“This beast out of the bottomless pit comes up and inhabits his body and he literally becomes ‘Satan incarnate.’ There’s an angel who’s king over the bottomless pit in Revelations 9, so there’s a lot of weird stuff going to happen.

“And if I want to prepare the world to worship me, what am I going to do? I’d take all the young people in the world and I’d teach them this is normal, common, ordinary kind of stuff.

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In Job 26, where Job makes some statements about what his understanding of creation is, verse 5 reveals, “Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.”

“Notice the connection with water and dead things under the water. Verse 6 says, ‘Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.’ Hell is naked before God and destruction can’t hide from Him. 

“There’s some people living under the water and Hell is under the water. Destruction, or those things connected with dead people and hell, are underneath the water.

 “Verse 7 says, [7] He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

“There’s a place up there in the heavens that’s empty; it doesn’t have a bunch of inhabitants. This place is not given to anybody. It’s an empty field and above it is ‘the north.’ There is an absolute direction for the universe.

“Psalm 75 says, ‘[6] For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.'

“You’re going to find these verses in strange little places and they’re just going to be dropped in. Little explanations, little statements dropped in because the Bible is written in such a way to assume that you’re going to read all of it and pay attention to the details, picking them up as you go along. It’s meant to be a treasure hunt.

“When Psalm 75:6 says, ‘For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south,’ do you see from the Book of Job how God is put in the place of the fourth direction? He does that because that’s where God is!

“The message is, ‘Look, promotion doesn’t come from the east, it doesn’t come from the west, it doesn’t come from the south—it comes from, only one direction left. But he doesn’t tell you the direction; he tells you WHO it comes from that lives there! It comes from ‘the north,’ but Job says it comes from God because God . . .

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“Now you understand God is omnipresent. That’s a theological term to try and describe the immensity of who God is. He is not limited by time or space. And yet you know, although God is everywhere, as theologians would say, you know He’s not everywhere in the same sense. You know if God the Holy Spirit indwells you as a Believer, He is in you, in communion with your spirit, in a sense in which He is not in an unsaved person.

“God isn’t limited by where He can be, but He chooses to manifest the glory of His person and His personality in certain places, and the place where He has chosen to manifest for His creation, the glory and the majesty of His person, is a place located in ‘the north.’

“So when I start Genesis 1, I’m going to need to know that there is a place that God calls 'north.' Anytime you get a map out, the first thing you need to do if you’re going to get directions is find the little arrow that is always pointing north. Why doesn’t it always point south, or east or west? That’s interesting but now you know.”

(new article tomorrow)