What the Christian life is--all in the appropriation

Paul writes in Ephesians 1: [13] In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

[14] Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

You know what an "earnest" is? When you buy a house, you give a down payment and you get the contract that says it's "earnest money." You're going to buy a $100,000 house and you put $10,000 down. It's earnest money and when it comes time for you to complete the sale that 10 was part of the 100, so the earnest is part of the whole, explains Richard Jordan.

God the Holy Spirit believes in what the Father's doing so much He was willing to give Himself as the earnest. He didn't just say, "I think it's right," He committed Himself to it, so much so that He comes to be the seal, the guarantor or our redemption. 

In the godhead, the life of the godhead is that everybody lives for the benefit of the other. Everybody lives with a confident expectation of what the wisdom and the plan is, and they all live in faith and in Word in the work of the Son. They all work together and that's God's life.

That's why Paul says in Ephesians 3: [12] In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

It's "in whom" and it's "the faith of Him." For you and me it all focuses on the Word, the Son. The one who is the bridge for you and me. The one by whom we have access through the Spirit unto the Father. The Lord Jesus Christ is the mediator. He's the one who brings all of that life to you and me.

In Romans 8 there's a strangely wonderful verse. Paul says in verse 38: [38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

[39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Where is the love of God? It's in a person. It's in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, and when you got saved, God put you in Christ and you participate in His divine life, His relationships. In all of the relationships Jesus Christ has with the Father and the Spirit, you share. "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

Galatians 2: [20] I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

You see that? He's our life. He's the one who gives us the fullness and the access with confidence. Don't spend your life trying to become something God's already made you.

Spend your life living in the reality of WHO He's made you and walk by faith in the details of your life-- in every detail of your life because every decision you make, and every choice you face, and every obstacle you have to overcome, every blessing you can enjoy, in all of those He is our life and we carry Him into life as we walk by faith in the reality of who He's made us. That's what the Christian life is.

It's not tithing, religious ordinances, on and on. We're not trying to get something from God. That's why people do those things. We're just simply being who we are and we get to be that because of our faith in Him.

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When we’re talking about the "blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works," we’re talking about the love, the joy, the peace, the longsuffering.

We’re talking about appropriating into your experience the reality of what God has given you in your position in Christ. You have an identity in Christ. God has taken your sin and set you free. He’s taken the guilt and sent it to Calvary.

He said, "I’ll remember it no more. I’ll not connect it back with your identity again. I’ll do it permanently and forever. You never have to come and ask me to accept you. I already have. You never have to ask to please forgive me my sins. I already have. I’ve made you complete. I’ve blessed you with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. Now all I want you to do is take what I’ve already given you and bring it into the experience of your life on a daily basis."

Colossians 2:10 says, "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power."  But then look at chapter 4:12: [12] Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.’

Wait a minute—I thought they were complete?! Why is Epaphras praying and laboring that they would BE complete?

Paul says in Ephesians 1, "You’re accepted in the beloved." In II Corinthians 5:9, he says, "Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him."

You say, "Wait a minute—I thought I was accepted!" That’s the difference between your standing and your state; your position in Christ and your practice in time; your identity in Him and then that identity living in your experience now.

If you’re complete in Him, there’s nothing to make your more complete. All you need to do is appropriate the completeness you already have—bring it into your experience. Have the practical, experiential possession of what already belongs to you.

That is to experience the joy of, "I am forgiven." Whew! That’s a wonderful thing. Let that inform your mind so that your emotions know how to relate to reality.

Now, there’s two things you have to have to appropriate anything. One, you got to know about it. You got to see what you already have in Christ. The key to the Christian life is knowing your identity, and you can never know your identity if you don’t study the Bible rightly divided. Dispensational Bible study is the most practical thing you’ll ever have in your life because it gives you the ability to know who you really are.

The other component is you not only have to know it, you have to be aware of your need of it. That’s because you’ll never reach out and appropriate into your experience something unless you know that you really need it.

Harmony at the molecular level

(well, sure enough, still working on new article and will post tomorrow now)

Paul writes in Ephesians 4:16, [16] From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

“ 'Joined together and compacted by' is that, ‘You can’t get a molecule between us,’ ” explains Richard Jordan. “There’s this harmony and solidarity and it’s held together ‘by that which every joint supplieth.’

“The Christian life isn’t me having the brains to run things; it’s, 'He’s the head.'

"You got all these members in your body that work in harmony and, in what I think is the most fascinating thing, the more you go into creation the bigger creation becomes.

"You talk about looking at the stars and how vast it is. I’ve always been fascinated by how the more you get into the molecular level of stuff, where the atoms and molecules are, there’s a big world there, too.

“What they’ve discovered with your molecules is every molecule is like a little factory. It’s got an intelligence center; it’s got an action center, a motor center. It’s got mechanisms in it and they all function; they all tell each other what to do and respond.

“Imagine if all the different molecules that make up your body decided to do what they wanted to do and not what the head says. You see, this is where disease comes from.

"Most of the time disease is some kind of blockage that keeps the proper information from coming down to that gland or organ made up of the cells, and it starts working on its own thinking process. It will gang up with a few others and work on that thinking process and make a tumor or whatever.

“But the brain is what controls it all. It’s the boss; it tells it what to do. And when the brain is in control of everything, it works and functions in harmony.

“By the way, the head also supplies the power to do it. You see, your Christian life isn’t lived on your thinking process; it’s lived on HIS thinking process. It’s not lived in your power; it’s HIS power. It’s ‘Christ in you, the hope of glory.’ It’s the working of HIS power IN us.

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“When we grasp that, then we can understand when Paul writes in Ephesians 4: [17] This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
[18] Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

[19] Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

“Now that you are so radically different than who you were before, don’t walk like you don’t have intelligence.

“This passage, in verses 18 and 19, does what Ephesians 3:16 does, when he talks about being ‘strengthened by His spirit in your inner man.’ If you want to understand how reversionism works, where a saved man acts like he’s lost, there’s the inner mechanics.

“There in those verses is literally what goes on in your inner man when you, instead of walking intelligently in the wisdom God gives you, you go back and you substitute human viewpoint for God’s viewpoint.

“As a Believer, when you do that, it causes far more drastic consequences than it did as an unbeliever because now you’re not an unbeliever. You’ve been radically changed. Your spirit, soul and body have entirely different relationships between each other than they did before you were saved.

“Now, you talk about gumming up the works; throwing a wrench in the machinery and what happens then when you start walking in the vanity of your mind. All that you are is turned on its head!

“So he said, ‘You know what, you understand who you are. Be smart about life. Walk intelligent. Walk in the light of who you really are. Just let Christ be who He is in you.' That’s what the rest of Ephesians 4 is all about.

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“Now, when he says in chapter 5, ‘Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
[2] And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour,’ the ‘therefore’ is chapter 4:30-32.

“Paul writes, [31] Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
[32] And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

“Wow, that’s almost like that verse in Titus, isn’t it? You see how being in Christ is designed to change the way you talk and think? The way you talk comes out of your heart.

“Jesus said, ‘Out of the heart the mouth speaks.’ He said to let all the anger and turmoil and strife and bitterness of that old life be put away. That’s not who you are! Here’s how you do that: ‘Be ye kind one to another.’

“Paul writes in Colossians 3, [12] Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
[13] Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

“You can be forbearing, you can be kind and tender-hearted, but without forgiveness it will lead to bitterness. It will lead to all those things in Ephesians 4:31. The key that changes it all is forgiveness.

“Take the worst somebody’s done to you and I can tell you you’ve done far worse than that to God Himself. If God can forgive you, you can forgive them. There’s things you’ve done that you can’t even forgive yourself for and they come back in your mind sometimes and haunt you. You’ve done FAR worse than that to God and He forgave you.

“You know why you walk in love? Because you know what it’s like to be loved. That’s all there is to it. You know what it’s like to have someone love you when you didn’t deserve to be loved; when you were, of all things, unlovable.

“He said, ‘I didn’t love you because you were lovable; I loved you because of the will of my Father, and He loved you and gave Himself for you.’ I love that verse. Christ has given Himself for us for a sweet-smelling savor.

“He took a stinker like you and made you something that smells wonderful to the Father and He did it at Calvary. And He did it in spite of you, because of His grace. Now, you want to walk in love, think like that!

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“Psalm 119 says, 130] The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

“When you turn the light out what do you get? Darkness. He said, ‘You used to be in darkness.’ You might be a nuclear physicist who can land on Mars and live there for a lifetime, but you were in darkness. A six-year-old Eskimo that never learned to count is brighter than you are if he’s come to faith in Christ, because now he’s got the light of life.

“For a person who’s been given light, don’t go living like you don’t have light! How do you put the light out in a Believer? You abandon divine viewpoint and go on human viewpoint. When you think you know better how to handle things than God does, you know what happens? Blackout. That’s what Ephesians 4:18-19 is talking about.” 

Meekness, not weakness

Exodus 33:11 says, [11] And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. God says, "The only person I stood face to face to and talked to was Mo."

Numbers 12:3: [3] (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)

Do you think Moses was a Caspar Milquetoast? A rank-and-file backbencher who didn't do anything? This is the guy who walked into Pharoah and said, "Let my people go." That's not a guy trembling in his boots and weak, says Richard Jordan.

Jesus says in Matthews 11: [29] Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

[30] For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

You think the Lord Jesus Christ was weak? People have this idea, and I've heard this all my life, "Oh, that religious crowd; it's for women and children. Real men don't go there."

Listen, if you want to find men wearing laced britches go out on the tennis court, the golf course or into the business world.

You want to find men who know how to wear the armor, you get involved in the work of the ministry. It's no place for weakness.

Meekness is the issue of power, but it's under control. When He says meekness, you've got the power, but you're not using it independently on your own. Meekness is the opposite of independence.

When Jesus said, "I'm meek and lowly," His voice was the voice that thundered on Mt. Sinai. His voice was the voice that said, "And let there be . . . " and spoke a universe into existence. What is that? That's power. The world came into existence by the word of His power.

When He said, "I'm meek and lowly," He said, "I've got that power under control and I'm not using it just to demonstrate power. I got a plan and, by the way, the plan is the plan of my Father."

Rather than being independent, meekness is the idea of being dependent. John 4: [32] But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.

[33] Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
[34] Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

"The thing that feeds my soul, the thing that satisfies me, the thing that nourishes me," Jesus said, "is to do the will of my Father."

He chose to take this power, put it under control and submit it to the plan of His Father. In the shadow of the Cross, He says, [42] Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

As the man Christ Jesus, He says, "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak, but I'll take my flesh and submit it by faith to the Father's plan."

That's why Paul talks seven times about the faith of Christ. Jesus Christ lived His life meek and lowly in His humanity. That's why Zechariah talks about His meek and lowly coming and His coming in power and great glory. That's two sides of the same Messiah. He comes in meekness; He comes submitting Himself to the will of His Father. He comes living His life in total dependence on the will and the word of His Father.

Paul says, "You know what walking worthy of the Lord is going to look like for you? It's going to be a life of humility of mind. You're not going to be strutting your stuff; it's going to be the opposite of pride. It's going to be a meek and lowly walk; a walk where the power that is yours--the identity that is yours-- is going to be dependent on the Father's will. It's going to be a life of longsuffering."

That means put up with it a long time. That's the opposite of self-will. When something is longsuffering, what happens is that you don't quit. In my mind, the word longsuffering means endurance.

In Colossians is one of the most powerful verses on longsuffering anywhere in the Bible: Colossians 1: [9] For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

[10] That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
[11] Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
[12] Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
[13] Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
[14] In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

That's just a shorthand version of the prayer at the end of Ephesians 3. That your life would be under the control of the knowledge of His will. That the wisdom and spiritual understanding that comes to you when you understand what God's doing today would grip your life and your life would be under control of the love and grace of God revealed through His Word rightly divided.

Why? That you might walk worthy of the Lord. There's Ephesians 4: [1] I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

[2] With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
[3] Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Suiting up in Him as our battle garb

(been dealing with some unexpected things the last few days. fortunately, all is okay and will have a new article tomorrow for certain. below is post from 2020)

Paul begins Galatians 5 with, [1] Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

"Liberty and freedom are those kinds of terms that maybe we lost a sense of even prior to the masks, the shutdowns and the mandates," said Kentucky Preacher Greg Resor last weekend at a Bible conference in North Carolina. "Because in the U.S. we've lived free for so many years . . . 

"The liberty Paul's talking about in the passage is totally different. There's a guy I talk to who has a prison ministry and I've often thought, 'If you can give a person in prison real liberty, in a place that they can't get out of because they're probably going to be there until they die, this liberty can set you free even though you're in prison!'

"That's an amazing thing to think about and that's one of the reasons Paul's able to say, 'Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ,' yet he's as free as you can be. That's why his circumstances at the time were not what he relied upon. It was the liberty he had because of who he was in Christ."

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Paul writes to the Ephesians, [11] Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

[12] For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
[13] Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
[14] Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

Jordan explains, "When he describes those pieces of the armor, what he's really describing is things that are true about the Lord Jesus Christ. When he talks about the armor, you're literally putting on Christ; that's what's going on here in the passage.

"Isaiah 59 is where Paul gets the illustration from. Most of the time people say Paul's talking about the Roman soldier. I think he's thinking more about the Bible.

Isaiah 59: [15] Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

[16] And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
[17] For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

"The 'he' there is Jehovah. In other words, the Lord Jesus Christ is putting on the battle armor; He's a warrior dressing to go fight for Israel. 

"Notice it says He put on 'garments of vengeance for clothing'? Woah! That's what the armor is; you're dressed for a FIGHT, and what you're dressed in is the Lord Jesus Christ. What that armor's describing is who Jesus Christ is for you. When we put that armor on, we're literally dressing ourselves in the identity God's given us in Christ and we put that on into our life; we put it on by faith.

"Romans 5:2 says, [2] By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Ephesians 3:12: [12] In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

"You see, you don't fight in your own capacity; we fight in HIS capacity, in who He is. He's the one who maintains the message. He's the one who gives credibility to the message, not you. You were going to screw it up to start with. He never trusted you, never depended on you, never required you to do those things, because you weren't going to be able to.

"People say, 'Well, I messed up.' Listen, when you messed up, think about it--two thousand years ago Jesus Christ already knew about it and He died for it! And you think, 'Well, I messed up, maybe God's not going to love me anymore.' Well, 2,000 years ago He took care of it. It didn't surprise Him; didn't catch Him by surprise. That's a wonderful thing to know. But see we get too much interested in ourselves, really."

Even as our days are numbered

(new article tomorrow--sorry for delay)

“The way things have gotten now numbers are really everywhere and everything is numbered. If you go back 50 years ago it wasn’t this way. The advent of computers numbers everything and has made numbering systems for identification ubiquitous.

Part of what that’s a precursor to is Revelation 13:18: [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

“My point to you is there’s going to come a time where it’s going to be extremely important to be able to identify numbers and the fact that everything in life today has come to a place where it is numbered is just demonstrating that these kind of passages show we’re just kind of moving toward that," says Richard Jordan.

“Now the Bible is a book of numbers and, in fact, has named an Old Testament book the Book of Numbers. The Bible’s full of numbers. I read a commentary one time where one in five verses in the Bible on average has something to do with a number in it. The point is there’s just a lot of numbers.

“Numbers are basic to the structure of the Bible. When you study the Bible you can’t miss the fact that the Bible is set out with a basic structure that is numeric in its structure and its arrangement . . . 

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The nation Israel was conquered about 1,000 B.C. by the Philistines. I Samuel 4:21 reports, [21] And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

I Samuel 5 says, “And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. [2] When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon."

“You ever sing that song, ‘Here I raise my Eben-ezer, hither by thy grace I come’? That’s a Bible term; a place of significance in the Bible. They took it from a place of blessing, where God’s blessing resided, and took it to Ashdod. Why there? When the Philistines took the ark of God they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.

“The name Dagon, that god, the first part of that name means ‘fish.’ Dagon was the fish god. You ever see the pope when he comes in with that hat (called a mitre) where the top looks like a fish mouth? That’s the hat of Fish-god Dagon. Get the book ‘Two Babylons,’ by Alexander Hislop, and he’s got wood carvings and pictures of it from 1,000 B.C.

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“What Catholicism does is, when Rome would take over a country, they would do what Israel did. They would assimilate all their gods and all their paraphernalia into the worship of Christ. That’s why I keep telling you that modern Christendom is just a plagiarized form of Old Testament Judaism. They’ve made all the mistakes Israel made and they assimilate that.

“That’s why when you study Baal worship in the Bible, you see over and over and over and over and over again what you see in Catholicism, whether it’s Roman Catholicism, Eastern Catholicism or the Protestant versions of Catholicism. The symbols, so the pope wears the fish god’s hat in his ceremonies.

“Now, it’s important to understand who Dagon was because Dagon, the god of the Philistines . . . they take the ark of God and place it before Dagon. They’re adding them together. They’re ecumenicists. They’re going to put Israel’s ark in with their god and they’re all going to be TOGETHER.

 “Nebuchadnezzar did that. He’d take the things out of the temple of God and put them in his temple. Why? Any time you see the ecumenicists get together, that’s what you’re dealing with. ‘Let’s mix truth and error; let’s put God and the gods together, because they’re all equal.’

"Watch what happens: ‘[3] and when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

“Dagon has hit the ground and he’s bowed down to the earth before the ark of God! I don’t know about you, but if I had set my god in front of the ark and now he’s bowed down to Him, I might get the idea that my god, the stone, thinks that’s who I should be worshipping. Right?

 “Well, they set him up in his place again. Picked him up, he can’t even get up himself. That’s what Isaiah says about how stupid it is to worship false gods. If my god couldn’t get up himself, wouldn’t you get the idea that maybe you’re on the wrong team?! But if you live in darkness and that’s who you love, because you love what he lets you do, you make excuses for him.

“Verse 4: [4] And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

“I mean, the dude’s done come to pieces! The guy’s fallen apart--his head, his hands. They loved, they served, they took his advice (his counsel, his thinking) and did what he said, and it’s all gone to pieces!

“You know what happens when you follow Dagon? Everything’s going to go to pieces before the ark of God. Now, while you’re all by yourself and don’t have the truth of God around, it might be okay. That’s why men love darkness rather than light.

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“Dagon was the Babylonian god of fertility and nature. He was said to be the son of Baal; the son of God. He was the personification of the primordial waters, or the primordial soup, that man evolved, or emerged out of. That’s why he’s represented in idolatry as half-human, half-fish.

“You can go on the internet and look up pictures of Dagon that look like what Walt Disney animates as the Little Mermaid. You know what they’re doing? They’re inculcating into the minds of people—children and adults . . . You have this lovable little half-fish, half-woman, and you don’t know where it came from.

“Listen to me, Dagon was the god of evolution. The teaching, the idea behind Dagon was the religion of evolutionism that’s taught in the government schools and in religion all over the world.

“When you hear atheists protest over somebody teaching Jesus Christ in the government schools, they’re literally pulling their tongue out of their own mouth because what they want taught as fact is the ‘theory,’ they call it, of evolution, which is really the religion.

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 “The Babylonian doctrine, or teaching, of evolution demonstrated by Dagon was picked up by the Greek philosophers. The religion of evolution didn’t begin with Charles Darwin.

 “Just go look up the history of evolution. The Greeks had no term for evolution but they used the term ‘emanation.’ Faels asserted that all things originated from water. Eximenes called ‘air’ the principle of all things. They considered individual beings and the phenomenal world as the result of evolution, development.

“The Epicureans and Stoics they had the rudimentary suggestions of the Darwinian Theory whereby things are adapted to a certain end by a sort of natural selection. That didn’t start with Darwin. Darwin took the Greek philosophy, looked for it in nature and applied it to it.

“You come to guys like Plato and Aristotle and they used the Teleological addition. They say it didn’t just mechanically get done but it was overridden by a deity and they came in with the theistic evolution.

“Anaximander taught life originated from the moisture that covered the earth before it dried up. It was dried up by the sun. The primordial soup man emerged from—you know, first he was a tadpole swimming in the sea, then he . . . you know the stuff.

“Bodies come into existence out of atoms and ultimately entire worlds appear and disappear from and to eternity, over and over and over. Organic beings from what is inorganic moisture, earth, or slime.

“You read that stuff and say ‘Wow,’ but the Greek philosophers are the people who set the tone for Western culture and they had the idea that all living organisms lived in an evolutionary hierarchy.

 “Aristotle called it ‘the great chain of being,’ and man is at the top. They expressed that stuff before the time of Christ so don’t give me this about evolution being all brand-new and ‘something they just found.’

“You know what it is? Dagon falls down before the God of the Bible and his head falls off. It’s mindless, brainless, religious fanaticism. That’s all it is. The worship of the ‘host of heaven’ didn’t stop two millenniums ago; it permeates the world out there and comes right in to where you are today.”

'Turning point' lies with astrology, sun

I found this gem the other day: "The book 'Templar Meridians' goes into the important 'cardinal turning points in the sky.' I thought it was interesting that astrologers use this term 'turning point.' The solar turning point is the September Equinox which arrived September 22. It's the new year with the sun. The different eight cardinal turning points, which is where you get the Rose Compass, which is the Jesuits' IHS sun logo with the 32 spokes . . . "

Remember, Kirk's assassination was three days after the September Blood Moon and his memorial service September 21 occurred on the day of a partial solar eclipse.

Erika Kirk attended Notre Dame Preparatory High School in Scottsdale, Ariz. She later played basketball on the NCAA women's team of Regis University in Denver, Colo., which is a prominent Jesuit university.

Says an online commentator: "A lot of people don't know much about the significance of the Jesuits, but they pretty much quietly run the world, as was alluded to in all the books and movies with the fictional character Jack Ryan. Jack Ryan, the Jesuit-educated CIA agent, would always say, 'We Jesuits run the world humbly.' "

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Donald Trump attended prominent Jesuit university Fordham in the Bronx. 

From an article today: "But, what most people didn't know, is that Kirk's father, Robert W. Kirk, was an architect who helped design Trump Tower - the US president's New York City skyscraper."

Here is a portion of a PDF written by Jeremy James of Ireland, entitled "Donald Trump's Allegiance to the Sun God Apollo":

Trump's NYC penthouse itself has two items which show that Trump identifies himself with, or takes particular inspiration from, the sun god Apollo. The first is a large reproduction of a painting by, or copied from, Guido Reni (1574 1642) called Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn, Bringing Forth a New Day. The original was painted in 1614. The work is clearly the centerpiece in the room, situated between two Masonic-type pillars. It gives pride of place to Apollo, son of Zeus.

This centerpiece is blatantly emblematic of the New World Order, representing the dawning of a new age as the sun god, the false messiah, appears on the scene. Apollo rides his four-horse chariot across the sky in the same way that Ra, accompanied by Osiris, sails his solar barque across the heavens. Throughout the pagan world this is the preeminent task of the gods, to ensure that the sun continues to warm the earth and enables mankind to survive and prosper.

Freemasonry is essentially a solar cult, where Apollo-Helios-Osiris is revered as the most perfect expression or embodiment of the so-called Light-Giver, Lucifer. The Bible refers to the chariot and horses of the sun god in the second Book of Kings: “And he [KingJosiah] took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.” (2 Kings23:11)

This wonderful king, Josiah, overthrew the filthy works of darkness that had been erected here and there across the land of Judea. The Word of God tells us specifically that he destroyed the equine statuary that his predecessors had dedicated to the cult of the sun, and that he burned the chariots that were attached to them. Some were even located next to the Temple itself! So, which god do you think Donald Trump worships?

If you still have doubts, take a look at his penthouse ceiling– our second exhibit. The following is a detail from a tableau that overlooks a large portion of the main chamber . . . 

Once again, we have Apollo (or Helios) the sun god, in his four-horse chariot, riding across the sky. The figure to the right of Apollo/Helios in the above penthouse photo is probably Phaeton, falling from the sun chariot. He was a son of Helios, born from a dalliance with a mortal. One day he tried to steer the chariot himself but was too inexperienced for the task, lost control and fell to his doom. This myth fits with the Illuminati idea that only the best, and best prepared, of men can become gods.

The Elite have put Trump where he is today to act out a key role in their multi-faceted plan to impose a New World Order. They have written the script and he is now acting out his assigned role. Donald Trump, the aspiring sun god, is one of the best actors in the business. He wants to emulate Apollo, not Phaeton.

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Here are some past articles of mine about sun worship and will have a new article tomorrow:

“Moses warns them in Deuteronomy 4:19-20, ‘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.

[20] But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.’

“Why are the sun, moon and stars there? You go back to Genesis 1 and you understand why. They’re to divide the light from the darkness. They’re to rule. They’re for signs. How'd they know that? Moses told them. He said, ‘When God created things, here’s what He did and here’s WHY He did it,’ " explains Richard Jordan.

“Do you see what the Gentiles were up to? They look at that stuff in the heavens and worship and serve them. Now we call that idolatry. That’s what the pagans were doing.

“They weren’t just worshipping the physical sun, moon and stars, they were worshipping the powers associated with them. The rulership, the message, the sign language, the teaching.

“But what did Job say about the heavens? Is that a good place to get your message? Is that a good thing to worship? Is that a good thing to serve?

“By the way, when he says worship, there’s a worship in connection with the powers—the sun, moon, heavens. When you worship something, you’re worshipping the invisible powers that these bodies were just the signs and symbols of.

“That’s why in religion, God said, ‘Thou shalt have no graven images.’ The image to represent that power . . . because worshiping the image, you’re really worshipping where the image came from. The image is just an expression of a thinking process. There’s spiritual force behind the making of that image and then they serve them. It always has a religio-political acts of service connected with this worship

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Job 31:26: [26] If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

[27] And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
[28] This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

"What's Job talking about? Job, the oldest book in the Bible, and he already knows the power and the influence--how insidious, how cunning the satanic policy of evil . . .

"Where's Job from? The Land of Shinar and in his day he sees the prevailing system of sun and moon worship.

"Obviously he can see the sun shining and the moon walking in brightness, a full moon, and 'my heart hath been secretly enticed.' Enticed to do what? To worship that. You see the power of this system in that region?" says Alex Kurz.

"People say, 'Well, who today worships the sun and the moon and the star?' You better believe this worship goes on. It may not be a direct act before the sun god, but there are subtle ways of worshipping that ultimately is directed to Baal.

"We won't call it the s-u-n. We won't call it the moon. What if we just switch names? By the way, at the Tower of Babel all the languages were confounded. Just because over here they call it the sun and the moon--well, over here they call it something else but it's still the principal deity. You see the corrupted master genius of this creature, Mystery Babylon?

II Kings 23:5: [5] And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

"By the way, when you study Baal worship there's always the issue of the high places. What did we read in Genesis 11? A tower whose top may reach unto heaven. This fascination with the high places.

"How often, over and over, does God warn Israel and you know what the sad part is? Israel falls victim to all of this.

Jeremiah 8: [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.

Jeremiah 10: [1] Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
[2] Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

"If you're involved in the astrological, astronomical movements and activities, what would cause a heathen to be dismayed? In the Babylonian tradition--heathenism, paganism--why did they worship the sun, the moon and all?

"What type of season might cause a heathen to be dismayed at the sign up there in heaven? Historically, guess what happens when the days are getting shorter and shorter? The heathen says, 'Wait a minute, we can't let the sun god die!' 

"So how do you appease the sun god? Wow, you should learn some things about the Aztecs. Do you know how they would appease the sun god? They would sacrifice their enemies. They would take the heart of the victim and give it to god. Have you ever heard anybody say, 'Give your heart to Jesus.' Don't give your heart to Jesus; that's what the pagans did.

"The pagans will rip your heart out and offer it up to the sun god because 'Hey, we want the days to get long again.'

"Now, how will the heathen react to the shortening of days? Verses 3-5: [3] For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

[4] They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

[5] They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

"What heathenistic response happens because they're dismayed by the shortening of the day? A tree, which represents life . . .  

"We find there are these customs of the heathen to appease and to satisfy; all of the astrological phenomenon going on out there.

"What if we moved the moon over and the star over, what do you get? A crescent moon. You see why we're focusing in Revelation 17 on where?

"The moon, Ashtaroth, is called the face of Baal; she's called the Lady of Baal. It's fascinating that if we study the Babylonian tradition, their infatuation with sun and moon and the movements, etc.

"Listen, there's a symbol today called the crescent of the moon. You've heard of a solar eclipse. That's when the moon eclipses the sun. The moon becomes more important than the sun. You see, she's a mother."

Greedy dogs, speaking lies in hypocrisy

 (new article tomorrow)

II Peter 2 begins, [1] But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
[2] And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
[3] And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

He’s so familiar with it and it’s so closely associated with what he thinks is in the Bible that he won’t hear anything; that’s why they’re false teachers, explains Richard Jordan. These guys, in Israel’s situation, are going to be professing Israel, but they’re apostate Israel and the truth of God is going to be evil spoken of.

That word feign, false, is an artificial kind of word that is molded. We use the word plastic. The word plastic comes from a Greek word that means to press into a mold. These people’s words are that way. They find out what you want to hear, what you want said, what will sell.

We see it in political realms today. You go out and ask, "What do you want to say?" and I’ll mold it to what you want so that I can get the position, the power, and I’ll just go do whatever I want to do.

Through covetousness. They’re greedy for power, for control, so they take words that are designed to fit the situation.

Verse 18 says for when they speak great swelling words of vanity: [18] For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
[19] While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

That’s a chilling verse. Great words—oh they sound good. Wonderful oratory. But they’re words of vanity. We’ve got a great word—we say "airheads." That’s really what it is.

Paul talks about the vanity of your mind. If you have something that has absolutely nothing in it you have a vacuum. You open it up and it sucks stuff in. There’s these great swelling words that are just sucking in all of these false ideas. They allure through the lust of the flesh.

It’s like I Timothy 4 says: [1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
[2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

The path of faith is wearying to the flesh. You see, your flesh loves the performing. Makes it feel good; it satisfies. It hangs constantly to being able to do something.

Revelation 18, you’ll see how it fits in II Peter: [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,
[13] And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

Revelation 17 and 18 is that religious system that rules over the earth is the religious system that’s heads up in the Antichrist and false prophet.

You look at verse 12 and the first thing in the list was gold. The last thing was souls. They’re selling the souls of men just like a merchandiser would sell his wares. This is the consistent pattern of false teachers.

Isaiah 56: [6] Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
[7] Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
[8] The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
[9] All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

[10] His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
[11] Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

Somebody said that’s the real DD degree. You ever see a preacher with a DD after his name? That means dumb dog.

Micah, looking toward the tribulation period, he’s looking on that fifth course of judgment on the nation Israel, Micah 3: [8] But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
[9] Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
[10] They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
[11] The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
[12] Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

I'll tell you something about money--listen, folks, one of the clearest ways you know what’s valuable to you is where you spend your money. Religious hucksters all they’re interested in is the money and they’re just as alive and well in the dispensation of grace as they will be in the tribulation.

I Peter 4: [17] For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
[18] And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
[19] Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

There’s a passage just like this in Hebrews 10: [26] For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
[27] But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
[28] He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
[29] Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 

Phony, dark moments at Kirk memorial

Here is a YouTuber giving commentary on the Charlie Kirk memorial service held yesterday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.:

This is supposed to be a memorial service, but they have fireworks going on. Of course, they're saying it was a celebration of Charlie Kirk’s life . . . 

First we have the bizarre stuff where Erika Kirk recorded herself over Charlie Kirk’s casket wearing a "G" ring.

(From a website: "Erika Kirk, widow of slain activist Charlie Kirk, posted a video mourning her husband, but attention quickly shifted to a gold ring she wore, marked with a prominent 'G.' Speculation online linked it to Freemasonry, God, or her daughter Gigi. Experts stress there’s no verified connection, suggesting the ring’s meaning may be personal rather than secretive.")

Look at the colors Erika Kirk is wearing for her pantsuit at the memorial service. The white with the black. Obviously, that is one of the main calling cards of the Masons and the Illuminati.

There’s a lot of dark symbolism surrounding this event. You also had all the red symbolism. Usually, red has to do with sacrifice; a blood ritual.

The white has to do with purity. The white and the black is duality. Again, this also took place during a partial solar eclipse.

What RFK Jr. talked about was bizarre. Listen to this:

RFK Jr: “He thought that conversation was the only way to heal our country. This was particularly important during a technological age. We’re all hooked into social algorithms that are hacked into the reptilian cores of our brain.”

It almost sounds like he’s talking about man merging with machine. It also sounds as if he’s talking about a certain type of “species.” You know, the REPTILE people. It’s very bizarre that he mentioned that.

Of course, Trump and Elon reunited at the service. They ended their “beef” completely from the looks of it. But look what they are flashing. They are flashing the inverted pyramid that they flash over and over and over and over and over, because they are showing you that they are “part of the club.” They are with the system. It’s all by design.

If you look at this shot it almost looks like Elon is flashing the “devil horns.” So that is bizarre in and of itself.

Again, this whole thing with Trump, this supposed "beef" that they had was nothing more than part of the show. This was nothing more than a WWE script. And then even right here, if you notice, Elon and (UFC President) Dana White do a Freemason handshake. Notice the finger going up near the wrist and so forth.

I mean, c’mon. If people can’t see by now that there were a lot of dark symbols surrounding this memorial service, I don’t know what more I can say.

The fact that they chose to do “the thing” with Charlie three days after a blood moon and then they chose to have his memorial service on a partial solar eclipse.

Speaking of the duality, Elon said this in a tweet: “Charlie was shot by the Dark for showing people the Light.”

That is more duality. Elon is a satanist; he has been seen wearing the Baphomet on his chest. The fact that Elon puts it this way should tell you all you need to know.

In a roundabout way he is mentioning the duality for everybody to see. Dark to Light. This is what these people are about; this is what they do constantly over and over and over and over and over again.

This whole entire thing with Charlie Kirk was one big ritual, in my honest opinion. They are telling you without telling you that they are coming for the remaining freedoms that we have.

Erika Kirk made sure to flash the “devil horns.” I know you’re going to have people out there who say it’s sign language for, “I love you,” because she has a thumb out. No, no, no, no, no. This was the devil horns. This was about their “As Above, So Below” motto. This is what all of this boils down to at the end of the day.

It’s by no accident that what happened to Charlie Kirk was 33 days before his next birthday. It’s by no coincidence that Kirk and George Floyd shared the same birthday.

We are in the Chinese “Year of the Snake” and it’s funny how the stadium they chose to do this in--the outside of the building was designed to represent a barrel cactus with a coiling snake whose head is at the north ramp by Gate 2.

You tell me if this is all just coincidence or there’s something more going on here.

Lies that produce extreme destruction

Here is the subsequent outtake from the Wednesday night study at my church:

Isaiah 9: [14] Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

What’s that talking about? [15] The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

So what he’s talking about is you’ve got some bad leaders. And the bad leadership in the nation, the prophets and then the politicians, and what they’re doing is they’re teaching lies, explains Richard Jordan.

Those bad leaders don’t lead people to seek the Lord. They lead people away from the Lord. There are two phases of the thing.

In Isaiah 9:16 is the problem: [16] For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

They’re not preaching truth; what they’re doing is preaching lies.

The whole problem starts with a spiritual problem; it starts with the prophets prophesying lies instead of sound doctrine.

Jeremiah 5:31: [31] The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Well, there’s the underlying difficulty. The spiritual problem behind the prophets prophesying lies and the religious system supports that and the people love what they’re getting out of it and that’s total deception.

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,

The prosperity is going to go away: [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.
[6] When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
[7] In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

He’s going to take away all the people who have some wisdom and he’s going to put people over them that are just dumb as the kids.

You ever watch kids try to run something? It’s all about who? "Me." They don’t have the expertise to do those things. They’re just a bunch of self-interested, self-promoting kids.

Isaiah 5: [13] Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

[14] Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
[15] And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

So they’ve lost the people with understanding, because truth isn’t being proclaimed. Lies are being proclaimed and lies don’t produce health. Lies only produce destruction.

Isaiah 9: [17] Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

That’s an amazing verse. You read it and say, “That’s really weird.” He’s not going to have any joy in young men, neither have mercy on their fatherless and widows.

Isaiah 10: [1] Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

[2] To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
[3] And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

These are people that the law said you’re to take care of. God says, “I got no joy in any of that.” It’s completely the opposite of what you would think. They’re the people you’re supposed to take care of!

In verse 17 He tells you the reason. What’s happened? Everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer. In other words, the corruption has penetrated the whole culture all the way down to the most extreme . . . it’s extended to all the classes of the culture. Completely gone.

Isaiah 1: [17] Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

[18] Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

That’s what they were supposed to be doing. You say, “Well, why does God turn on them?” Because the culture has gotten so corrupt; the leadership is so bad that the corruption has extended all the way down into the very bottom levels of society. Even down to the place where the people have no power. The decay has spread and infected the entire culture and God says, “I’ve got no use for any of you.”