When children reign over, down to a perfection

(well, still working on new article and will have to post it tomorrow now. In the meantime:)

II Peter 2:13: [13] And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

Just go around sporting and rejoicing. The passage says, "Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." Presumptuous, meaning, "I'm right and you're wrong." The audacity, the boldness, the daring. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Their self-will leads to rebellion against anything super-imposed on them, explains Richard Jordan.

Of course, the absolute final moral authority in all the universe, the Bible, they have no interest in. The knowledge is intuitively, instinctively built-in, but they reject it; they despise it.

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In Isaiah 3 where it says children are going to reign over you, the reason you discover for that is the people who are charged with the responsibility of passing on the traditions of society and the principals of a culture . . . 

Isaiah 3:[1] For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

[2] The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
[3] The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
[4] And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
[5] And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

When nobody is there who will say to the kid, "No, you can't do that; that's wrong and not in your best interest," then they just go out willy-nilly and do whatever they want and they get addicted to that and that's what they want all the time.

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Jewish historian Josephus once wrote, “Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it was through His means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. . . "

The problem is the role of fathers has just been totally decimated, and the war on fatherhood has been waged with such devastating force that, I tell you, our culture has sentenced the next three to four generations to a disastrous tragedy upon tragedy.

The Bible talks about the sins of the fathers being visited on the third and fourth generations. When you raise a wicked generation of fathers, it takes 3-4 generations to root out the evil that’s produced in a culture, and you’re going to have generation upon generation of tragedy.

You know the nature of adolescents—"If mom and dad do it this way, I’m going to do it that way," so they produce this tremendous cultural revolution.

And though the children have grown up, they still have the taste of children because the whole of society has been changed and picked up like a rising tide from its moorings and set adrift.

Isaiah 3 documents a time in Israel’s history when the Jews were in a similar kind of situation we are today, culturally, and there’s a strong statement by Isaiah about what happens to a people in that situation:

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Here is an outtake from a 2023 sermon on the dangers of Asbury University's "Christian revival" and similar ones held at other colleges (From Wikipedia: "Notably, news of the 2023 revival largely spread on social media, as the participants were mainly members of Generation Z. It was attended by approximately 15,000 people each day. By its end, the revival brought 50,000–70,000 visitors to Wilmore, representing more than 200 academic institutions and multiple countries.")

"They believe God is still speaking, the revelation's not completed and the spiritual gifts are still working. They believe you can lose your salvation, you have to have the second blessing, the anointing, the sanctification, really weird kind of Christian living kind of stuff that's all a bunch of legalism, explains Jordan.

"They're egalitarian, believe in women preachers, they endorse the LGBTQ stuff. Listen, they have people confessing their sins and that's not one of the sins they confess.

"If God the Holy Spirit was working in the midst all of that, those things would be addressed. He doesn't ignore sin to produce something. The big issue of the whole thing is you never hear the gospel.

"Ninety-five percent of the music being sung is produced by Bethel, Hillsong. Some of the most demonic, most heretical people you'd ever find are writing for Bethel and Hillsong--that genre of music--and that's what drives it all.

"If you listen to K-LOVE and all that stuff, almost all the music is produced by them, and it's a genre of music that's been subverted by mysticism of the New Age, witchcraft, that has crafted a sound that produces a euphoric high that pulls you away from the truth into blindness. It imitates the way the Holy Spirit works; it's emotionally driven, it's experience-based and it's exactly what Paul's talking about in I Corinthians:

I Corinthians 12: [2] Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

"That music, when you study it, and if you don't study it you don't know about this stuff and the euphoria it produces hooks you in the sensualness of it . . . it's designed to carry you away, to lead you away into darkness, to captivate your mind and your emotions and make them the captains of your faith.

"Listen, music is a powerful, powerful instrument. In Ezekiel 28, the anointed cherub that covers, Satan, he has musical instruments built into himself. He had those instruments and musical talent literally built into him so he could lead creation in the worship of the God of creation, and when he fell he took that with him and he uses that as a lead methodology of carrying people . . . you know you get carried away.

"You get up in the morning and you don't feel so good you just put the music in your ear and it captivates your mind and your thinking. That's how things become emotionally driven.

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Deuteronomy 32: [31] For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

[32] For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
[33] Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

"When he talks about the vine, the wine, he's talking about what in Revelation 17 is the fruit and the intoxication produced by this false religion.

"The Antichrist, in the latter days which Deuteronomy is pointing to, he's seen as riding a woman:

[1] And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
[2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
[3] So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
[4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
[5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

"She's able to deceive, to intoxicate the whole population and draw them into her false religion."