Mountain cast into sea of chaos, i.e., underworld

Here's the conclusion to yesterday's post:

Jeremiah 4: [23] I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

[24] I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

“The language here, which is describing the future, is the same kind of language from Genesis 1.

“I personally believe it’s the language of judgment. All we know is the day is coming where the mountains are going to tremble and the hills are going to be moved.

“Again, that’s characteristic of the undoing of something. All of this is the result of God’s judgment to be poured out on the earth.

Matthew 21: [21] Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

“When Jesus says, ‘You can remove a mountain,’ He then says you can cast it into the sea. The sea, in light of what God says is going to happen in the future--there is without question something that we would call ‘weather cosmicity’, the sea of chaos.

“There is a sea in the universe where the Leviathan, where the serpent abides. When Jesus says, ‘We’re going to dismantle these governments and you guys can cast it into the sea,’ the sea also represents the underworld.

“Jonah describes this sea. The Lord Jesus describes it in Psalms 69. We know that this chaotic sea contains what we would call the underworld.

“Remember when the Lord split the Red Sea open and the earth swallowed up the Egyptian armies? Their bodies were on the shoreline, floating and bobbing, but the verse says they were swallowed up and they descended into the pit. So there’s that type of sea where that creature abides.

Luke 17: [6] And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

“When the Lord mentions the sycamine tree, that’s an interesting one. He says, ‘You can tell that sycamine tree to be removed and you can plant it in the underworld.’ The sycamine tree represents the apostate nation of Israel. The fig tree, of course, represents Israel’s religious system.

“The sycamine tree is large; it grows in the desert and it produces figs. The problem is they are inedible. Jesus singles out the sycamine tree because it’s one of the largest trees that dwells in the desert area, but the fruit is so bitter it’s worthless.

“The nation of Israel has become bitter, worthless, fruitless. So the day’s going to come where the apostate nation is going to be removed and they’re going to be planted in the sea, representing the underworld.”

Moving mountains

Here's an outtake from Sunday evening's study at my church:

Matthew 17: [18] And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.

[19] Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
[20] And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

"Removing a mountain is a cataclysmic event; it denotes the world being torn apart. It denotes chaos, an un-creation, and I use that word deliberately because the Lord uses that language in the Old Testament," says Alex Kurz.

"He says, 'Remove.' Why would you want to remove a mountain? I mean, that's a cataclysmic event. It's something abnormal that God doesn't intend to do but God is going to have to do it.

"There are seven prominent mountains in the Book of Matthew. Why does Matthew make a big deal about mountains? Because it's in keeping with the theme, which is the king and His kingdom.

"Numbers of times in the Bible mountains represent kingdoms, nations and peoples. If Jesus talks about a seed of mustard, He's already taught the disciples that the seed is the Word of God. Jesus uses language that is intended to provoke thinking and God does say things about mountains. There are good mountains and bad mountains in the Bible.

Psalms 48: [1] Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

[2] Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

"That mountain is the city of God.

Verse 8: [8] As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

Verses 11-12: [11] Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

[12] Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

"The idea is you conduct measurements. Verse 13: [13] Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

"God has a city that's called the mountain of the Lord, the mountain of the king. That's a good mountain.

"By the way, in Ezekiel 28, when Lucifer is that anointed cherub that covereth, it says that that creature was on the mountain of God and that was in Edom.

"Let me say this personally, I believe that mountain was on Planet Earth and God removed that mountain and relocated it to the third heaven. God removed it in an act of judgment.

"Jesus is telling these guys in Matthew, "You guys are going to have the authority to pronounce judgment that results in removing a mountain."

Isaiah 66:20: [20] And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.

Jerusalem is described as the holy mountain. 

"In Daniel 2 we're familiar with Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream and in this dream there is this stone cut without hands that is going to destroy all of the Gentile systems of governance on earth.

"Daniel 2 describes how God is going to destroy and break in pieces: [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

[45] Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
[46] Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.

"There's a good mountain in Daniel 9:16: [16] O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

"There's a bad mountain in Jeremiah 51 where God's judgment is being pronounced on Babylon: [24] And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.

[25] Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
[26] And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.

"Does that sound like He's removing a mountain? He's going to roll the rocks. The Lord, in judgment, is going to uproot this system. The mountain represents the Babylonian system which is a shadow-type and it prefigures the ultimate battle in the Book of Revelation.

Revelation 17: [9] And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

[10] And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
[11] And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
[12] And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
[13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

"The five fallen would be Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Media-Persia and Greece. That represents the five empires historically who exercised dominion over God's people, the nation of Israel. They're described as five mountains.

"There's a reason why God is threatening the destruction of mountains, but Jesus is telling the disciples, "You guys are going to have the authority to do this."

"Remember, the Lord Jesus is being rejected and He's now concentrating on tribulation events, Second Coming events, and He's ultimately going to provide some information regarding His righteous rule on earth.

"These disciples are going to participate in the dismantling, in the shake-up of the existing world kingdoms when the Lord Jesus returns with a rod of iron. He's trying to tell these guys they are one day going to remove mountains. They're going to dismantle these Gentile systems of governance, and in its place will be the Lord's kingdom."

Tie that binds them is Mystery Babylon

(sure enough, I'm running out of time to finish new article and will have to wait to post tomorrow now. I have to get up extra early for work in the morning and still dealing with headaches and fragile digestive system after having the flu over a week and a half ago!)

The word mystery in Revelation 17 is extremely appropriate in light of this invisible activity that IS taking place in human history.

Verses 4-5: [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.

"What is the significance of this purple and scarlet color? Interestingly enough, in Matthew 27, do you remember what they did to our Lord Jesus Christ?

[28] And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
[29] And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

Mark 15: [17] And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, [18] And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!

"If one verse says scarlet and another verse says purple what can we conclude? It was both. The color of the garment the whore has in both purple and scarlet. It was a robe that contained the two principal colors of majesty and royalty associated with being a king," says Alex Kurz.

"In other words, that great whore has this political influence. That great whore is seating on a beast, which denotes the control she has upon that ten-nation confederacy.

"In the Old Testament there is a queen singled out and the Lord uses different terminology to describe this queen. She's not only a whore, she's also a virgin.

"Isn't that a contradiction? How can you be a virgin and a whore? Ah, when we study that Babylonian system we're going to learn some things about a woman who is viewed as a queen, who is both a whore and a virgin.

"Starting to sound familiar? A mother who's a virgin who gives birth to a child. All of that stuff precedes the birth of Jesus Christ by about 2-3,000 years. Nothing new under the sun, as we find out.

"Not only is this woman wearing the garments of royalty, but verse 4 also says she was 'decked with gold and precious stones and pearls.'

Revelation 18:11: [11] And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

[12] The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

"Who's buying from who? This city Babylon is importing these products."

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Revelation 17:1: [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:

"You know what the angel is saying to John? 'I'm going to show you.' The passages are going to interpret themselves. The passage tells us this great whore is a city.

Verse 2: [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.

"This is the spiritual fornication and spiritual whoredom that's been taking place in human history going all the way back to the book of Genesis. That's why it's called a mystery.

"It's not a mystery in the sense that it's unknowable, but it's a mystery because there is operating, in tandem to the satanic policy of evil to control a literal geographic land mass, a spiritual arm to that political arm.

"When humanity is concentrating on the physical, the material, the literal, the geographic, behind it all is a spiritual system that's operating. That's why it's called Mystery Babylon. Israel was victimized by this and they became participants in the spiritual whoredom.

Verse 15: [15] And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

"This woman is a city; the waters represent the nations, represent the multitudes, peoples, various tongues out there. We're being painted a picture here of what John is witnessing.

In verse 3: [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.

"What does that denote? In a number of passages the woman is sitting, which denotes control. Certainly there's a relationship between the woman and the beast. In fact, the woman is going to ride this beast.

"So there's this tremendous influence that the religious system has over the kingdom of Antichrist.

Verse 9: [9] And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

"The seven-headed monstrosity, which is the beast kingdom, the Antichrist kingdom, has those seven heads that represent those seven kingdoms in human history.

"We know from history that these kingdoms rise and fall and yet in the image all seven kingdoms are there. Spiritually there is a unifying force; a tie that binds them which is Mystery Babylon.

"Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, the northern kingdom, ultimately the No. 7.

[10] And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

[11] And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

"The eighth, that's the son of perdition; that's the last half of the 70th Week of Daniel."

Wormholes, blackholes and God moving around

(new article tomorrow)

"Psalm 18 is one of these wonderful psalms; it's a psalm of David and it was sung in the day the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. It's actually repeated in II Samuel 21 and it's a picture of the Second Coming of Christ, the deliverance of Israel by their Messiah.

Verse 7: [7] Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

"God's wrath shakes the earth; that's the Second Coming," explains Richard Jordan.

[8] There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
[9] He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
[10] And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
[11] He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

"Israel had a pavilion, a tent, a tabernacle made out of skin. You go inside of it and it's pitch-black dark. They had it all layered over and you couldn't see anything inside. That's why they had to have the seven-candelabra lamp stand. Without that there wasn't any light in it.

"God shrouds Himself in darkness. His presence is in the third little room back there; the Holy of Holies, and only the high priest could go in there. But the glory of God would fill that place.

"There's a supernatural manifestation of God's glory. Ezekiel sees it in Ezekiel 1. He sees this great light; it's like a rainbow. Instead of being a white light like that, it's all facets of the light refracted. Like the coat of many colors kind of thing and it demonstrated the glory and the majesty of God.

"When He wanted to demonstrate His glory to Israel that's what He did. You remember when they're in Egypt and He put darkness on the land? There's a verse that says it was darkness that 'could be felt.' Just completely consumed all of the light.

"There was a darkness that God laid on that land and then there was a supernatural light that He put in those houses.

"God has this glory that manifests Himself, but He blocks it off so that it can't shine down from the third heaven.

Job 26: [9] He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it. [10] He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

"There's a sea up here and He puts clouds on it. Clouds make a pavilion of darkness, but when you see in Psalm 18 where it says 'He made darkness His secret place,' He hides himself. 

"Genesis begins, [1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

[2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

"God is light and darkness is the absence of Him. He literally put a tent around Himself. Now that tabernacle is the picture of something bigger. He made the tabernacle after the pattern in the heavens. Isaiah 40:22 says when He made the universe, He was making a tent to dwell in.

[21] Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
[22] It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
[23] That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

"The third heaven is like that Holy of Holies in that third place in the tabernacle where He's boxed Himself off and creation can't see Him, except they have the light that He gives them; the candlesticks that show light on the table of shewbread.

"You know what's on that table of shewbread? Twelve loaves of bread in two rows of six each. So the light shines on the six six. Sixty-six. 'Man shall not live by bread alone . . . 

"You see, I told you this stuff kind of gets weird. It just goes bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop.

"If you look back at verse 9, it says, [9] He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

"I don't know how much you've studied Einstein's theory of relativity but what he postulated was that if you could bend the universe . . . One of the things he demonstrated is we don't live in space and time, but we live in space-hyphen-time. The time is an integral part of the universe we live in.

"If you could bend the universe like this, then you could reduce the time it takes to go across there, by going from here to here. You remember Star Trek and the Starship Enterprise where when they wanted to go somewhere, what speed did they go at? Warp speed, and you know how they defined warp speed? It was that you warped the universe; you warped the time shape of the universe and you created from this point to that point a worm hole (we call them a black hole) through which things are sucked.

"What they're theorizing has to do with an explanation of how you can travel, you know, 850 million light years in a span of just a moment. What they're doing is taking what we can understand from science and observe through the application of mathematics to the creation and they're working.

"Now Einstein, if had not been for this theory of relativity, we would not have gotten to the moon. Because he demonstrated that the closest route between two points is not a straight line but it's that curvature and that bend. But he wasn't saying, 'Travel the bend.' He was saying, 'Realize that you can go from here to there and you don't have to go that way--go this way.'

"That verse says, 'He bowed the heavens and came down.' You ever wondered how the Lord Jesus Christ can get, physically, with all the armies of heaven, from the third heaven which is millions of light years away, down to here, instantly like that? He knows something about travel; He knows something about worm holes and black holes and moving around.

"I'm just saying there's stuff about the universe long yet to be discovered and I tell you repeatedly, when you read something in the Bible and it doesn't make sense, chalk it up to your ignorance, not the Bible's.

"You read a word and you don't understand, chalk it up to the fact the Bible knows more about your language than you do. It knows more about things than you do. You say, 'I'm the ignorant one; I need to keep studying,' because you know what you do? You study and you find answers.

"If you work that out, you can see where that fire comes in and my point in Psalm 18 was that fire. That stuff's associated with the Second Advent over there. Fire is taking molecules and releasing the energy. Think about what fire does and the chemical catalyst involved in fire and what it does to creation."

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Here is a related study on the tabernacle's untold dimensions:

God’s original intention was to dwell with man in His Creation and then sin threw a monkey wrench into the plan.

“The great issue in the universe all along has been God dwelling in His creation and sharing His life with His creation," says Jordan. "The tabernacle God gave Israel is a foreshadowing of that. As the verse says, ‘The Lord chose Zion and desired it for his habitation. This is my rest forever; here will I dwell for I have desired it.’

“His intention is to put His throne in the city of Jerusalem on the hill of Zion; that special place in Jerusalem that was the dearest to David’s heart.

“The tabernacle, built by Moses, is a picture of the first coming of Christ and the temple, built by Solomon, is a picture of the Second Coming of Christ.

“The tabernacle was a temporary structure--made to be moved from place to place—but the temple was a permanent place built in the city of the great king, Jerusalem. Moses is the prophet who builds the tabernacle and it’s the king who builds the temple.

“The temple is the second meeting place; the tabernacle’s the first. The temple was renowned for its glory, majesty and beauty; it was like the city on the hill. People would come and marvel at its majesty.

“The tabernacle was just the opposite. It wasn’t built in the city; it was built for life in the wilderness. Not life in the kingdom reign of glory, but in the wilderness of nomad life. It was humble and unattractive in its outward appearance.

“When you walked up on the tabernacle, what you saw was a funny-looking wall made out of boards and skins and post. It was not outwardly attractive.

“What does Isaiah say about Christ in His first coming? ‘There was no comeliness about him.’ He was a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief.

“The tabernacle was a place where God’s majesty dwelt but it was veiled behind the skins of that building. I keep emphasizing that the building was made out of badger skins and goat skins and all kind of skins. Well, where does God put His life? If He puts it in you, where does He put it? He puts it in a body of flesh. That’s the idea back there.

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“God gives Moses the dimensions of the tabernacle. It’s going to be a tent and there’s going to be an opening and an altar and then there’s a laver to wash. Then there’s another little building inside, and in that is the table of shewbread and the altar of incense and the candlestick.

“After you get saved and have forgiveness of all of your failures and your guilt and shame for all the things you’ve done, you begin to walk and discover that you still have stuff inside you that seeks to manipulate you.

"God takes that righteousness that you have and brings it into your life and how does He do it? The priest goes in and lights the candle. That’s the light of the Spirit of God working. The oil that lights up, it shows light on the table. What’s on that table? That table is the table of shewbread.

“They had six loaves of bread in one column and six loaves of bread in another. Six plus six because there’s provision for the whole; every tribe in the nation Israel. But when you see 66, what have you got? You ever count the number of books in your Bible?

“Now how in the world, before Moses ever wrote a book in the Bible, did he know how to lay out the number of books on the shewbread?! Well, Moses didn’t, but God did! Amen, amen, amen! This kind of stuff makes me want to turn into a Pentecostal for a morning.

“The Word of God is the bread of life. He puts light on there and when the Spirit of God works in your life through the Word of God, the altar of incense is prayer. Prayer is like the breath of your new nature. The Word of God is like the food of your new nature. Prayer is simply talking to God about the light His Word puts upon the details of life.

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“You and I often forget that the footprint of Adam’s sin resides in us and it distorts us. We’re born with it. God didn’t make you that way. Sin did. People excuse their sin, saying, ‘Well, I was born this way!’ Yeah, but it isn’t the way God intended for you to be born. You’re born that way because of Adam’s sin. It puts a fingerprint on you.

“That’s why this whole tabernacle is housed in boards. You remember how many boards there were? Twenty boards on one side, twenty boards on the other and then another six boards. What’s 20 + 20 + 6? There are 46 boards that make up the structure of this little tent that hold the linen that make the wall. They’re made of shittim wood, which is the Hebrew word for what we call acacia wood today. That is, it’s a thorn bush.

“Thorns in the Bible are associated with a curse. Genesis 3. God says, ‘I’m going to make my house inside of some walls made out of a curse.’ Now, the way you hang those boards up with the sockets and stuff, you’re to have silver sockets. Silver in the Bible is a picture of redemption. Are you beginning to get the picture?

“You know where God lives in you? He lives inside of a house. You’ve got an old sin nature. That ‘body of sin,’ as Paul calls it. And He lives inside of your body.

“By the way, the altar and the Ark of the Covenant is also made out of that cursed tree. The difference is that inside the tabernacle, the shittim wood on the altar is covered with brass, which is a symbol of judgment in the Bible. God has judged our sins at the Cross of Christ and put us inside the protective covering. Your life is hid with Christ in God.

“Then when you get into where the ‘mercy seat’ is, where the Ark is, that little box in the most holy place, it’s made of the same shittim wood that that altar is made out of.

"The altar is covered with brass and the Ark is covered with gold; a picture of the deity of Christ. Do you know how God sees you? He’s accepted you in the Beloved. There’s not a precious metal more beloved than gold. But there you are, covered with Him!

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“When God saw the altar, He didn’t see the shittim wood; He saw brass. When He looked down from between the cherubim on the ‘mercy seat’ He saw the gold and He also saw the blood that came off of that altar. And because of that judgment that Jesus Christ suffered at Calvary for your sins, God can reside, look down and see you in His Son.

“The outside walls are made of 46 boards. Because this tabernacle is not simply a picture of redemption, God’s conquest over sin—actual sin, indwelling sin and original sin . . . It’s not just a picture of man—our body, our soul and our spirit—it’s also, literally, a picture of the cellular structure whereby He made you! Because as you sit here right now, you originally started as one cell.

“Do you know we all started as a female? There’s the egg and then it’s fertilized. When they’re 23 chromosomes from mom and 23 chromosomes from dad joined together, it creates a cell, a little zygote, that’s you and everything you are. How you look, all about you, was all in that original cell. We now know it was all in what we call DNA, and in those 46 bundles of chromosome pairs that make up you, everything that you are is there.

“David says in Psalm 139:15, ‘My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.’

“That’s talking about when God made Adam, He made him out of the dust of the earth. Genesis 2:7 says, [7] And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

“He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and Adam BECAME a living soul. David says in verse 16, ‘Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.’

“That’s describing the development that takes place in every person from the time you are conceived to the time you get to be an adult. There’s a book of DNA written in every one of us. DNA is literally a book written in the nucleus of your cell.”

Generational memory gone for the simple

Proverbs 7:7 says, [7] And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.

They’ve literally been stripped of any ability to understand all the important issues that make up the foundation of a normal life--God, marriage, honesty, integrity, respect for your father and mother and family. There are the four foundations God laid, with volition being personal responsibility and choices, explains Richard Jordan.

Ephesians 6: [1] Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

[2] Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

[3] That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

The simple have no understanding of that. They’re void of knowing, "Why do I obey my mom and dad?" Because it’s right! It’s what the normal human being does. Why? Because they’re put there in your life by God to guide and protect you.

God put mom and dad in place to train you; to impart some truth into you that will give you the capacity to live successfully as a person.

For the simple, all that generational memory is gone and that inner strength necessary that needs to be passed on to each new generation, hasn’t been put in them.

Go back to Psalm 78 and see what Asaph, one of the prophets in Israel, says: [1] Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

[2] I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
[3] Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
[4] We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
[5] For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
[6] That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
[7] That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

Notice where he gets this information--his father. There’s some generational memory that’s been passed down to them. Parents are put in your life to do that and you know what the simple do? They’re void of any understanding of the purpose; any understanding of the history, the working of what’s there.

Proverbs 14: [15] The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

[16] A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
[17] He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

[18] The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

They "believeth every word"; that’s their problem. They don’t test anything! They don’t evaluate anything; they’ve got no framework to do that.

"But the prudent man looketh well to his going." He’s somebody who has some wisdom to examine life with. Proverbs 22:3 says, [3] A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

The simple guy says, "I just want to have what I want!" and doesn’t consider the danger. He just wants his own interests, and when you’re simple and you believe anything that comes down the pike, and you don’t investigate anything, and you don’t have any frame of reference, you become careless because of your ignorance.

Somebody comes along and tries to show you proof otherwise, but you've become so set in your ignorance; you’re your own interest. That’s what sin does: "I want to have my gratification, my interests and I don’t have the 'check' of a conscience fortified by God’s Word."

Proverbs 9:8: [8] Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Proverbs 13:1 says, [1] A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

That’s the next guy; the scorner. The simple, ignorant become the ones who despise instruction because now they've got their way and can’t listen to any counsel. He will not hear rebuke or counsel from his father--the very person God put in his life to protect him from evil and to teach him about the evil of this world.

Worries into prayers

The all-time classic hymn, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, has as its refrain: "Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms; Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms."

The 1887 song, written by a teacher as a sort of "consolation letter" to two former pupils who had lost their wives, was inspired by Deuteronomy 33:27: [27] The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: 

Here's a sermon outtake on the power of prayer and will have a new article tomorrow for certain:

"I received an email regarding a sermon I gave that asked, 'So what you're saying is we need to turn our worries and concerns into prayer?' " says Richard Jordan. "After I thought about it, I answered, 'That's exactly right!' We need to take our concerns, worries, our cares . . .

"Philippians 4 says, [6] Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. [7] And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

" 'Be careful for nothing' means, 'Don't be overtaken by the cares of life.' When you're looking at the things that you're anxious, worried, cumbered about with, what should you do? The way prayer works is depending on how God's working.

"Prayer in a way is sort of like marriage. There's not a lot in the Bible about marriage; it's pretty cut and dried. But there's an awful lot in the Bible about relationships and marriage is the most intimate relationship you'll ever have with another person.

"So, if you want to know how to function in marriage, look for the Bible instruction about relationships. Well, prayer's that way. Instead of focusing on prayer and what should I say, focus on what God's doing, because the way prayer works is determined by how He's working.

"So, if I know how He's working, I know how to talk to Him. I know how to expect Him to respond.

II Cor. 4: [16] For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

[17] For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
[18] While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

"That's the reality in the things you're concerned about, in your fears. How do you get renewed? In the spirit of your mind. Romans 12 says, [2] And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

"Take that sound doctrine and let it renew the way you're thinking about the things. When it says, 'For our light affliction,' it's still an affliction, but it's a light affliction. The weight is not in the affliction; it's in the glory that's going to come. 

"Romans 8: [18] For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

"You see how it's an eternal thing, not temporal? It's a glory that's going to last forever.

"How do you see something you can't see? Hebrews 11:1 [1] Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

"That's why he says in II Corinthians 5:7: [7] (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

[8] We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
[9] Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
[10] For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

From mental asylum to poet for God

(new article tomorrow)

Author of the great old hymn There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood, William Cowper (1731-1800) was one of the most popular poets of his time.

According to Wikipedia, "Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him 'the best modern poet', whilst William Wordsworth particularly admired his poem Yardley-Oak."

Cowper's father was one of King George II’s chaplains and his mother was related to the poet John Donne. His mother died when he was only six years old and he was then sent off to a boarding school where he was treated badly and ostracized by his peers.

At 18, he became a lawyer’s apprentice and spent the next decade training to become a lawyer but struggled with depression and, as he was about to be examined to practice law, had a mental breakdown. He was sent to a mental hospital, in those days called "asylums."

"He struggled from manic depression and often felt that he was doomed to eternal damnation and hell," informs one website. "He made several attempts at drinking poison only to have spasms in his hand which prevented him from doing so. He then tried to hang himself with a strong garter. He passed out and then the garter broke while he was still suspended. He struggled with knowing that God could forgive him for this attempt.

"One day at the asylum, Cowper found a Bible on a bench. He opened it up and turned to the account of Lazarus being raised from the dead, which Cowper said showed him the mercy of the Savior."

He turned to Romans 3, where he read, "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus."

It was upon reading this passage that Cowper said he was immediately converted. He wrote, "The full beams of the sun of righteousness shone upon me. I saw the sufficiency of the atonement He had made, my pardon sealed in His blood, and all the fullness and completeness of His justification."

Once regaining his mental health, Cowper left the asylum and moved to the English town of Olney, where John Newton became his pastor. Newton encouraged Cowper to write hymns and he completed 68 of them in a short period of time. There is a Fountain Filled With Blood was the first one he wrote.

"There are many interesting stories told about the impact of this great hymn and one has to do with a large religious service conducted at the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco," says a post at Barry's Blog. "The gifted speaker began to direct most of his eloquence against the power of the blood of Christ. When he was done, an elderly lady stood up in the midst of the crowd and softly began to sing this hymn as a touching rebuttal to the speaker's remarks.

"A hush fell over the audience as they listened. But before she could begin the second verse, about one hundred people rose to join her. By the time they reached the third verse, nearly a thousand were singing along. The triumphant, thrilling strains rang out - 'Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood shall never lose its power, 'til all the ransomed church of God be saved to sin no more.' The message, written by one cured by the Lord from deep depression, still rings out today in the hearts of those who've experienced the power of the blood of Christ."

The lyrics:

(1) There is a fountain filled with blood

drawn from Emmanuel's veins;

and sinners plunged beneath that flood

lose all their guilty stains.

Lose all their guilty stains,

lose all their guilty stains;

and sinners plunged beneath that flood

lose all their guilty stains.

(2) The dying thief rejoiced to see

that fountain in his day;

and there may I, though vile as he,

wash all my sins away.

Wash all my sins away,

wash all my sins away;

and there may I, though vile as he,

wash all my sins away.

(3) Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood

shall never lose its power

till all the ransomed church of God

be saved, to sin no more.

Be saved, to sin no more,

be saved, to sin no more;

till all the ransomed church of God

be saved, to sin no more.

(4) E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream

thy flowing wounds supply,

redeeming love has been my theme,

and shall be till I die.

And shall be till I die,

and shall be till I die;

redeeming love has been my theme,

and shall be till I die.

(5) Then in a nobler, sweeter song,

I'll sing thy power to save,

when this poor lisping, stammering tongue

lies silent in the grave.

Lies silent in the grave,

lies silent in the grave;

when this poor lisping, stammering tongue

lies silent in the grave.

Mysticism's origins in ancient world

Jude 1: [13] Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

[14] And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
[15] To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Jude identifies Enoch this way so you know he's not the Enoch who is the offspring of Cain. This is the one later on who's the ancestor of Noah; he's the one in Genesis 5, explains Richard Jordan.

When it says Enoch "prophesied of these, saying," none of that's found back in Genesis 5. You didn't know what Enoch preached back there until you got to Jude to find it.

So you went from the first book of the Bible all the way to the next to the last book of the Bible before you found out what Enoch preached. That's fascinating.

There is a piece of literature called the Book of Enoch, and on the basis of this passage in Jude, they say there was an ancient Hebrew book Jude's quoting, but Jude isn't quoting any book. What the verse said is Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied these things and then Jude wrote it down, which is the issue of subsequent narrative.

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According to Wikipedia, "The book of Enoch plays an important role in the history of Jewish mysticism":

"The introduction to the book of Enoch tells us that Enoch is 'a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come.'

"The first section of the book depicts the interaction of the fallen angels with mankind; Sêmîazâz compels the other 199 fallen angels to take human wives to 'beget us children'. This results in the creation of the Nephilim (Genesis) or Anakim / Anak (giants) as they are described in the book:

"This results in the creation of the Nephilim (Genesis) or Anakim / Anak (giants) as they are described in the book:

And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three hundred ells:^[h] Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.

"It also discusses the teaching of humans by the fallen angels, chiefly Azâzêl:

And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl, taught astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Ezêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun, and Sariêl the course of the moon.

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New World Order religions such as the Freemasons, Theosophists, Kabbalahists, etc., are said to believe God created Adam double-faced and split him to make him of two backs, depicted facing one another.

"They take Genesis 1:27 ([27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them) and try to change the meaning of the word 'them' to make it singular," explains an expert on ancient Jewish Kabbalah mysticism teachings. "Obviously, it means 'one male, one female', but they say Adam was created male and female.

"He created Adam as a lifeless mass extending from one end of the world to the other; He created him filling the whole world. That's the 'cosmic androgyne.' It's like the Force in Star Wars. The entire universe is an androgyne and we're all androgynes, too, we just don't know it.

"This is why mass media tells us we're gender-neutral and we're all on a gender spectrum. It's straight out of rabbinical commentaries; the oral traditions of the rabbis from ancient Babylonian mysticism.

"Nimrod didn't invent it either; it goes back to the ancient world. I personally believe it came from the pre-Flood Nephilim. This is what the fallen angels were teaching people back then to try and wipe us all out.

"The midrash says the Holy One created Adam a hermaphrodite, a bisexual. They say that according to Jeremiah's opinion, Adam had both sexes and thus is a real hermaphrodite in the old mythical sense. It's identical with the conception of Hermes, in which he is understood to be the Logos, Alethinos. This is what Plato taught."

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A reminder:

"There's a connection all through prophecy between the activities in the spirit world and what goes on in the conflict of the nations on this earth," says Jordan. "I'm just trying to make you aware there's a war out there.

"When you see this physical stuff, and you think its Democrats vs. Republicans, and you think it's just all this stuff you see in the media with economic gains and political diplomacy, etc., I want to disabuse you of that idea so you understand the conflict is something far more important; far, far bigger."

"Behind the scenes of world affairs, behind the scenes of the conflicts of nations on this earth, there's a spiritual conflict going on that's reflected in the angelic realm. What's happening as the nations of this earth work their wiles, it's an outworking of something more than just the animus between one nation and another."

Angel animates 'dead' Antichrist and world goes, 'We knew HE was the One!'

(sorry for delay--new article tomorrow for certain) 

Regarding the Antichrist, Zechariah 11:17 reveals, [17] Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

The way that verse is understood in most teaching is the sword, like in the Book of Job, is his power that’s going to be broken. You know, Christ sits at the right hand of God; the right arm of power," explains Richard Jordan.

Then they say his eye--the source of light, wisdom, understanding--is going to be dried up and so the judgment’s going to come and his arm’s going to be clean dried up. He’s going to lose all his power and his wisdom’s going to be completely gotten rid of and that's what’s going to happen in the Second Coming of Christ. The Antichrist and his power will be negated and gone forever.

That’s what the preachers say about the passage and that’s okay if you want to take it with a spiritual bent like that, but if you just leave it for what it says, there are some fascinating things in connection with this. What it would mean is that the sword shall be upon his arm and his right eye. This guy’s going to be wounded.

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How do you get both a guy’s eye and his arm? You could probably get this eye and that arm but you’d have to whack at him. You remember Peter in the garden, he cuts the guy’s ear off with a sword? How would you do that?

To swing hard enough to get it you’d hit his shoulder. But if he was ducking, you could get his ear and it would fly up in the air. Jesus caught it and stuck it back on and healed him. In other words, Pete was trying to cut his head off. Well, in the case of the Antichrist, there’s a sword attack that wounds his arm and his right eye.

Revelation 13, talking about the Antichrist in verses 1-2, says in verse 3, [3] And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

The Antichrist sustains a deadly wound that’s healed. If you have a deadly wound, that’s a mortal wound you die from, so this means he’s not dead anymore. In the process he lives.

Talking about the two witnesses, Revelation 11:7 says, [7] And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

Notice there’s a beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit that used to be on the earth. You’ll see him again in chapter 17:8. The beast used to be on the earth, he’s gone out, and now he’s going to ascend and be the one who ultimately goes into perdition.

Isaiah 37 reports, [5] So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
[6] And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
[7] Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

This is Hezekiah and the Assyrians that are attacking him, but notice what he says in verse 7. You can find all that in Daniel 11. "And I will cause him to fall by the sword."

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About the judgment on the Antichrist, Isaiah 14:18-19 says, [18] All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house (i.e., they’re all dead).
[19] But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

He’s killed by his enemies with a sword but notice what happens to him. He goes down into the grave, wounded with a sword like all these others, but then he gets cast out of the grave.

The idea there is this guy professes himself to be God. Somebody says, "Well, how do you know Jesus Christ is God?" Romans 1:4 says, [4] And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

The dude gets assassinated. He dies. When a man dies, you know where his soul goes? To hell. You know how his soul gets out? You know how people get out of hell? You get out at the Great White Throne Judgment when God casts you into the lake of fire.

But there lies that dude’s body and there’s a spirit down in the bottomless pit (a fallen angel) which ascends up, takes residence in that body and animates that body.

He stands up and all the world goes, "We knew HE was the One!" That deadly wound is healed and all the world declares him to be God because he’s declared to be God by that resurrection.

Listen, Satan is a consummate imitator and counterfeit of what God has done. Satan is a counterfeit of God the Father; "your father is the devil."

The Antichrist is a counterfeit of God the Son and ‘the false prophet’ is a counterfeit of God the Holy Spirit. That unholy trinity--the beast, the false prophet and Satan--works together. Revelation 20:10 says they all wind up in the lake of fire.

That idol shepherd and the wound he has--the things we’re reading about and why those things become so prominent in the Scripture is because there’s some things that go on in the midst of that 70^th week in connection with the Antichrist BECOMING, and that’s the word people use—he’s becoming.

You ever seen the movie Red Dragon? The red dragon, the protagonist, keeps saying, "I am becoming. I am becoming." And he’s transforming himself into this great demonic thing. That becoming is a part of the occult.

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Mystery Babylon the Great comes into all of that. Zechariah 11:16 says, [16] For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.

You remember how they worship the queen of heaven? They have drink offerings of blood, as Psalm 16:4 calls it, and are eating flesh. You go to a Catholic church and their Mass and they believe when they ring the bell and do the blessing that little cracker becomes the flesh of Jesus Christ. When you put that cracker in your mouth you’re literally eating the flesh. When you take in that hooch you’re drinking the blood.

In Zechariah, when they eat that flesh, they’re literally sacrificing those believing Jews, the souls under the altar. They’re literally sacrificing them to this character in their religion. "They teach thy servants to commit fornication and eat things sacrificed to idols." That’s not just the symbolic stuff; at that point it gets to be the real thing!

So God’s people are being persecuted in a way that’s hard to fathom. Back in Kings it says they had such famine they ate their babies a span long. They’d take a little 18-inch baby and starve him so bad that he dies and then they eat him.

You think, "How does it get that bad?" When you’ve got a Burger King and a McDonald’s on the same corner you’ve got no way to imagine what it is when you’re starving. This stuff, though, they’re not doing it just because they’re starving; they’re doing it to sacrifice to Satan.

With LNWO adherents abounding

I haven't finished new article, which I will now post tomorrow (still recovering from my bout of unknown flu-like illness). In meantime, since last night's post got good readership, here's another one on the same subject:

"After graduating from high school, my friend went to medical school, and I found myself a little lonely at that time. The spirits, to console me, told me that I would come into contact with the one who rules the universe — Lucifer. You should know that, in esotericism, there is a big difference between Lucifer and Satan. Lucifer is the angel of light who brings his knowledge; he is the gnostic par excellence. So I was offered a number of black-magic rituals to get in touch with him. And there, I entered a very dark period of my life. I did very bad things."--from interview with Luciferian-turned-priest 

New Agers like to see the letter X as "the mark of the beast." From the book, The Mark of the Beast: Is It 666, or is It X?: "The Mark of The Beast is Chi (X), The Name of The Beast is 'Perfect Creature of The Earth' (interpreted as being 'Perfect One'), and The Number of The Beast is 6 (possibly written as VI)."

In an NYT bestseller book about Luciferic initiation, Communion, author Whitley Striber writes, "One of the biggest advantages we have as New Agers is, once the occult, metaphysical New Age terminology is removed, we have concepts and techniques that are very acceptable to the general public. So we can change the names and in so doing, we open the New Age door to millions who normally would not be receptive."

Michael Horton's The Agony of Deceit: What Some TV Preachers are Really Teaching: "They are unaware that they are repeating the errors of the past. Because they do not understand Greek philosophy or Oriental mysticism, or 19th century theosophy [Luciferianism], they do not know how seriously they have been affected by such thinking."

Here's the summary paragraph for the book The Illuminati Luciferian Agenda: "For more than two centuries, the Illuminati has slowly infiltrated all levels of our government. Expertly using the illegal Federal Reserve System, they control our economy, and both houses of Congress. Their master plan is to create a One World Government they control."

In a chapter called "They Worship the Dragon," Gail Riplinger's book New Age Bible Versions explains, "(All the new bible versions) have removed the name Lucifer, thereby eliminating the only reference to him in the entire bible. The word Lucifer then falls to the realm of the poets and writers of mythology and ceases to be an identifiable character of biblical origin. He is thereby divorced from the truth concerning himself. In John 8:44 Jesus said, 'the devil . . . is a liar, and the father of it.' He can now have whatever characteristics he desires."

In his book Dark Secrets of the New Age, the late Texe Marrs, a Christian authority on the occult oft-quoted by Riplinger, wrote, "Why then is the world still confused about the Luciferic roots of the New Age. In part this comes about as a result of the New Ager's absurd contention that though Lucifer is lord, he is not Satan. Satan is said to be a figment of the Christian imagination. Lucifer is not Satan. Lucifer is a good angel."

Prominent Freemason Albert Pike (1809-1891) instructed Masons, "Yes, Lucifer is God . . . The doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer . . . you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees: The Masonic religion should be . . . maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine."

From PDF paper found on Google search:

"Blavatsky argues that Satan – or Lucifer, or the Devil, as she often uses the names interchangeably (e.g. Blavatsky 1888a, Vol. II, 510–3) – brought mankind spiritual wisdom, and is ‘the spirit of Intellectual Enlightenment and Freedom of Thought’ (Blavatsky 1888a, Vol. II, 162).6 

"Like the Romantics, she draws a parallel between Satan and Prometheus (Blavatsky 1888a, Vol. II, 244). Satan’s function as a cultural hero in the same spirit as the Greek Titan is evident in the Bible, she claims, provided it is read correctly: […] it is but natural – even from the dead letter standpoint – to view Satan, the Serpent of Genesis, as the real creator and benefactor, the Father of Spiritual mankind.

"For it is he who was the ‘Harbinger of Light’, bright radiant Lucifer, who opened the eyes of the automaton created by Jehovah, as alleged; and he who was the first to whisper: ‘in the day ye eat thereof ye shall be as Elohim, knowing good and evil’ – can only be regarded in the light of a Saviour.

 "An ‘adversary’ to Jehovah the ‘personating spirit’, he still remains in esoteric truth the ever-loving ‘Messenger’ (the angel), the Seraphim and Cherubim who both knew well, and loved still more, and who conferred on us spiritual, instead of physical immortality – the latter a kind of static immortality that would have transformed man into an undying ‘Wandering Jew’. (Blavatsky 1888a, Vol. II, 243.)

"There can be no doubt that Blavatsky views the figure of Satan in this narrative as an unequivocally good force, a helper and friend of mankind: ‘Satan’, once he ceases to be viewed in the superstitious, dogmatic, unphilosophical spirit of the Churches, grows into the grandiose image of one who made of terrestrial a divine man; who gave him, throughout the long cycle of Maha-kalpa the law of the Spirit of Life, and made him free from the Sin of Ignorance, hence of death (Blavatsky 1888a, Vol. I, 198).

"When quoting the French occultist Éliphas Lévi’s linking of Satan and anarchism in a passage from his Histoire de la Magie (1860), Blavatsky touches briefly upon the political dimension of celebrating Lucifer. In the quotation as she gives it, Lévi seems to praise the fallen angel, and proclaims that Satan was ‘brave enough to buy his independence at the price of eternal suffering and torture; beautiful enough to have adored himself in full divine light; strong enough to reign in darkness amidst agony, and to have built himself a throne on his inextinguishable pyre.’ "

In 1871, Pike wrote his famous "Three World War Letter." It reads:

The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the “agentur” (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions.

The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm."

The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam and political Zionism mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…

We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.

Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view.

This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.