Bunches of creeping things

From last night's study at my church:

Jeremiah 46:10: [10] For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

This destruction, this avenging, is like a sacrifice that He gives and Jeremiah’s talking about Babylon because Babylon is coming to take Jerusalem. But when he talks about the north, Bablyon isn’t north. Babylon is east of Jerusalem.

They come to Babylon from the north because that’s how they had to get around the mountains to get in, explains Richard Jordan.

Where did God come from? The north. When you talk about geography, there’s physical geography, but there’s also spiritual geography and there’s something important about that.

Ezekiel 39: [17] And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
[18] Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

When you’re talking about the feathered fowl and every beast of the field, and you go to Isaiah 34 and Revelation 19 and a host of other places, you’ll see a whole bunch of different creeping things listed.

What’s behind that? There’s a reason. Romans 1, talking about the nations of the earth, says, [21] Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
[22] Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
[23] And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

That’s how the heathen became heathen. That’s describing the events in Genesis 6-10, including the Tower of Babel. There’s a thinking process that led to the world we live in today and it was at the Tower that God did something with the nations of the earth.

Verse 24 says God gave them UP and verse 28 says God gave them OVER. Literally, He turned the nations over to the gods of the Adversary.

When He sets out to clean up the carnage, to cleanse the land--the carnage that the satanic policy of evil caused the nations to walk in--He sends birds and beasts. You say, “Well, why’d He do that?” He makes a sacrifice for them.

You ever wondered about the wording in Romans 1:23? They changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an idol. A graven image is one you’ve carved out and a statue becomes an idol when you worship it. It’s worshipping the creature that the statue represented. They started worshipping the creatures BEHIND; there’s a satanic push behind it.

Verse 25: [25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Deuteronomy 4: [16] Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
[17] The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
[18] The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
[19] And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

The verse says driven; spiritually driven to worship the creature rather than the Creator. This is exactly what Israel learned to do from the heathen.

In Ezekiel, he goes into the temple, in Jerusalem, the Lord takes him in there, and the Lord says, “I want you to see what’s happening in my house, where I live, the temple, and I want you to see why I’m leaving.” He says it’s behind the door; it’s hidden.

Ezekiel 8: [5] Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
[6] He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
[7] And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
[8] Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
[9] And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
[10] So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

They’ve got all these idols. It’s an idol because they worship the gods behind it; the little “g” gods. He uses the creation to retaliate, to take vengeance against the spiritual wickedness behind the physical representations.

You saw how he says this in Ezekiel 39 and how it reads. All the people that they’re eating up are the fatlings of Bashan. Bashan in Israel is a seat, an authority center for Baal worship. And you know where it is? It’s in the north, the tribe of Dan. The northern part of the northern kingdom.

Ezekiel 28:2: [2] Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Notice, he thinks he’s the big “G” god. “I sit in the seat of God.” He’s literally saying, “I’m sitting on God’s throne.” They had governmental positions in the satanic realm and they’re claiming them.

Now that shouldn’t surprise you because II Thessalonians 2 says the Antichrist sits in the temple on the seat of God in God’s house.

Bashan is used as sort of a spiritual placeholder kind of a term associated not simply with the geographic location that it is but with the spiritual activity associated with that place, all through your Bible.

Psalm 22:12: [12] Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Who’s around Jesus? The high priest of Israel, the elders of Israel, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, all those dudes that back over in Ezekiel 8 were hiding in the bushes and behind the wall, worshipping other gods; the apostate leadership of the nation. Jesus said, “You are of your father the devil. There’s bunch of spiritual devils around me and the bulls of Bashan.” Bashan is associated in your Bible with the spiritual powers of darkness.

Here's an old post:

“God said about the Flood in Genesis 6: [5] And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

“Their thoughts had been so corrupted . . . How did they get corrupted? The angelic host came down and corrupted mankind and that angelic invasion led men away to worshipping them," explains Richard Jordan.

“You see, idolatry didn’t begin in the Bible until Genesis 10. The gods had come down and men began to make idols to memorialize their visit. They began to get the idea about the idols to represent them. You do that. You take mementos when you go somewhere. You take pictures; selfies.”

*****

Isaiah 45: [20] Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

[21] Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
[22] Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

“God’s the big ‘G’, but He’s not denying that there are other creatures. He wouldn’t be saying, ‘I’m God and there’s none else beside me,’ if there wasn’t something over there to compare Himself with. Wouldn’t make sense if He said, ‘I’m God and I compare myself to nothing.'

“Notice how your Bible uses this terminology. In chapter 47, he’s talking about Babylon, the city: [8] Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

“When the city of Babylon is reported as saying, ‘I am and there’s none else beside me,’ is she saying there’s no other city in the world? No, she’s saying there’s no other city that can compare to her; ‘I’m incomparable.’

Zephaniah 2:15: [15] This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

“In other words, they know there’s other cities, but she says, ‘I’m the top dog.’

*****

“The Bible teaches the existence of other spirit creatures who are supernatural. They’re not human, but they're also not Jehovah.

“Satan says to Eve, ‘You see those gods out there? They know things you don’t know; they have an enhanced intelligence you don’t have and God doesn’t want you to be like them. When you eat of that tree you’re going to have the enhanced intelligence they have; you’ll be able to do the marvelous supernatural things they do—fly around and all that stuff.’ They were real; Adam and Eve could see them.

Psalm 96:5: [5] For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

“So they make these representations, these idols, of the invisible gods they’re worshipping.

Psalm 97. [7] Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

 “A graven image takes time and effort and dedication and love and commitment. He said, ‘Don’t put your skills to work and service of these gods by making representations of them.’

“Psalm 106, talking about Israel: [35] But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
[36] And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
[37] Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
[38] And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
[39] Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
[40] Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
[41] And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.

“Heathen, idols, devils. Those three things are tied together because the heathen, the Gentile nations, worship and are literally under the control of these gods.

“This is what Paul’s talking about in Ephesians 6 when he talks about ‘the rulers of the darkness of this world.’

Deuteronomy 32: [7] Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
[8] When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
[9] For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

“That’s the governing control that these gods have been given over the nations of the world. Every Gentile nation has been placed under the authority of these gods.

“When did He separate the sons of Adam and divide the nations? The Tower of Babel. They were engaged in universal global idolatry that was going to take that spiritual wickedness and permeate the whole planet with it. This is where Romans 1, historically, fits in."