'Just beginning' of Genesis-driven future

Earlier this week, just ahead of Thanksgiving, “President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order launching the Genesis Mission, a new national effort to use artificial intelligence (AI) to transform how scientific research is conducted and accelerate the speed of scientific discovery,” reported The White House in its official press release.

“In this pivotal moment, the challenges we face require a historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that was instrumental to our victory in World War II and was a critical basis for the foundation of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its national laboratories.”

From Gizmodo website: “According to Michael Kratsios, science advisor to the president, the Manhattan Project comparison is just the beginning. The Genesis Mission is also, we’re being told, ‘the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program.’ ”

Here is analysis from a YouTuber:

People say, “Maybe they just liked the name Genesis for representing the beginning,” but after looking up different news articles, I found out a week prior to Genesis Mission being announced, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be a CEO of an actual AI platform called Project Prometheus.

There are a lot of parallels between Greek mythology’s Prometheus and Genesis. When it comes to Prometheus, there’s the creation of humans and giving humans forbidden knowledge through the flame, the fire, and Prometheus facing punishment.

From Wikipedia: "In the Western classical tradition, Prometheus became a figure who represented human striving (particularly the quest for scientific knowledge) and the risk of overreaching or unintended consequences. In particular, he was regarded in the Romantic era as embodying the lone genius whose efforts to improve human existence could also result in tragedy: Mary Shelley, for instance, gave The Modern Prometheus as the subtitle to her novel Frankenstein (1818)."

In Genesis, it talks about humans being tempted by the serpent to devour the forbidden fruit and they face punishment.

These are the names of the two AI products announced just a week apart from one another. Is this just a coincidence?

Bezos’ Project Prometheus deals with the creation of these robots and, just like with the Book of Genesis, they will be giving their creations knowledge.

I’ve spoken about this card game before called “A Game of Conspiracy; The Illuminati Card Game,” and basically these cards do not work as fortunetelling or tarot, but it’s the so-called powers-that-be who are telling us ahead of time what they’re going to do, no different than any other form of media.

The card entitled “Sufficiently Advanced Technology” has a quote from Arthur C. Clarke: “Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

The card’s instructions read: “Place this card with your resources and link it to a science group you control. As long as that group remains science, it is also magic for all purposes. Or, if this card is linked to a magic group, then as long as that group remains magic, it’s also science for all purposes.”

But what I found interesting about his woman illustrated on the card is this crescent moon around her eye. If you look at the Genesis Mission logo (put out by U.S. Department of Energy) you can also see what appears to be three crescent moons, or one big crescent moon.

It’s just weird, this card talking about sufficiently advanced technology has this crescent moon symbol and the Genesis Mission is all about sufficiently advancing technology. You can’t make this up; it can’t be just a coincidence.

As they usher in AI, we must remember it’s something that’s been here for a long, long time and they’re trying to bring it to us like it’s brand-new but it’s not.

It gets even worse when you remember it’s not just AI. It’s not just all these resources being pulled from all these different AI companies, but they’re also taking from the Oak Ridge, Tennessee national laboratory. It’s basically CERN in the United States.

What is also very suspicious is the announcement of Prometheus and Genesis Mission correlates with the completion of ITER. News just came out, and I’m reading this article published on November 25, “World’s largest engineering project begins to recreate the sun’s energy on earth. On a plateau in southern France crews are assembling ITER’s core to create a solar fusion reaction here on earth. This is the moment when a decades-long plan to test starlight fusion on earth shifts from blueprint to hands on.”

They say they’re going to have the power of a star on earth, and they say it’s going to benefit humanity—we won’t need oil and things like that. But does anybody truly believe that? Do they ever do anything that really benefits humanity in that way? No.

All these countries that we think are enemies on the TV screen are all coming together oddly enough to complete this ITER project, from Russia to Europe to China and especially the United States.

We’re now at a point where the so-called powers-that-be can get caught doing anything on camera, or in a picture, and everybody will just come to their defense and say that, “Well, it’s probably AI. More than likely it’s AI. There’s a little discrepancy in the photo—it’s completely AI.”

So, they can get caught doing anything and it will just be AI. That is crazy. We’re now living in a day and age, in this little bit of time since AI has been brought out to the public, where they can now debunk anything and everything, no matter how bad it looks for them, as being AI.

That’s all they pretty much have to say: “It’s just a very advanced form of AI,” and how are you going to prove it’s not? It’s crazy because this is the AI that we’re aware of.

Imagine the AI that we’re not aware of; the AI that probably goes back decades upon decades and what they have faked. What they may have told us was real that was not real whatsoever?!

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Here’s other commentary from a YouTuber:

This specific Genesis Mission, if you read between the lines, they talk about advancing manufacturing, critical materials, nuclear fusion. These are all things they know the common person doesn’t understand, but if you look closely you’ll see “biotechnology,” right there front and center (in the White House press release).

Trump’s Genesis Mission says “Genomics analysis is exclusively called out as a priority area. Personalized, customized vaccines and gene-editing align with its goals for rapid-tailored medical breakthroughs such as AI-optimized mRNA therapies or CRISPR-based treatments.”

This is about altering what it means to be a human. Don’t forget that. The mission specifically calls for AI to revolutionize biotech and a shift toward gene-editing.

They’re going to tell you it’s a one-off deal. “You got cancer? All you need is a personalized, customized mRNA vaccine to edit your specific genome and you’ll be cancer-free. You got a thyroid problem? Diabetes? Oh, all it will take is one of these shots.”

What they’re really doing is getting these personalized nanotechnology transhumanist shots inside of your body. Their obsession is eugenics.

Sleep on it! You're His poem, masterpiece

(Working on piece about Trump's newly announced "Genesis Mission"--think fallen angels, Nephilim from Genesis 6--and will post today for certain)

When the Lord comes to Solomon in a dream at night and says, ‘Solomon, I’ll give you riches and power, whatever you want; what can I give you?,’ Solomon answers, ‘I want wisdom.’ I Kings 3: [15] And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream.

“When the text says ‘Solomon awoke,’ what’s meant by that is, ‘You know, it doesn’t help you to work incessantly; stay up half the night, get up early to go to work, work through all kinds of difficult, sorrowful, hard, painful experiences--God gives you His gifts when you’re not working at all. When you aren’t even conscious; you’re asleep,’ " explains Richard Jordan. 

“Think about that. It’s not of works; it’s His workmanship, not of us. Think back through Scripture. When did God give Adam Eve? When did He cut the covenant with Abraham? He put him in a deep sleep. I mean, Solomon isn’t the only one in Scripture that that’s true of.

“When Paul says, ‘For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,’ he’s saying God’s the one who gives the blessing, not based on your merit, but on His giving. ‘For we are his workmanship.’ This is HIS doing.

“That word ‘workmanship’ (Ephesians 2:10) is talking about a ‘work of art.’ A masterpiece. Preachers like to point out that the Greek word translated there is the word we get our term ‘poem’ from.

“That word comes over in English as ‘poem.’ You’re His work of art. You’re literally the form through which He’s going to express Himself. A masterpiece is something you do to make yourself known.

“Romans 1:19-20 says, ‘Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. [20] For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.’

“Everybody knows something about God. He manifested Himself. Romans 2:14 says, ‘For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.’

“You see, God has indelibly printed into the heart of all men some information. You have to educate yourself out of that, and what the 'educated' guy says is, ‘Well, if you want to be sophisticated and educated, you have to get over your primordial tendency to believe in the superstitious idea of something bigger than you.’

“To get over that is to get over the mystery of life itself. You can look at creation and see the wisdom, knowledge and understanding of God; the fact there’s a Creator revealed, and in that term, ‘things that are made’ is a translation of the exact same word in Ephesians 2 about workmanship! Creation is God’s workmanship; His masterpiece demonstrating His wisdom, His understanding, His knowledge. He’s placed it in the Creation!

“When you look at the Creation, what you’re seeing is God manifest His purpose; what He’s accomplishing. You find out about Him!”

To whom much is forgiven, greater appreciation

(sorry for delay in new article and will have tomorrow now. had to get up super- super early to put in my 8 hours at work before heading to brother's house for Thanksgiving meal.)

The classic account in Luke 18 tells about “a woman in the city, which was a sinner,” who “when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

[38] And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.”

Luke reports, “Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.”

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California preacher John Verstegen explains, “You see the self-righteous, better-than-thou attitude of this Pharisee? He’s gone beyond condemning the woman to condemning Christ.”

Luke 18 continues, 40] And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.
[41] There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
[42] And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
[43] Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.

Verstegen says, “What’s the proportional difference between 500 and 50? Ten percent. It’s fascinating. Their debt was vastly different, but what was the same? They have no ability.

“The Pharisees were supposed to be leaders in the nation Israel. They were supposed to be the ones who led the understanding of the Word of God. Simon should have not just said, ‘I suppose.’ It’s almost like he’s trying to avoid the right answer here because he knows he’s condemning himself in saying this.

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“Look at Jesus Christ’s statement: [47] Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
[48] And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.

“You see the principle there? Salvation by grace doesn’t come along and say that, ‘Well, your sins aren’t that bad.’ It says, ‘Her sins they are many, but the reason it made such a difference in her life is she was willing to get beyond her fear of coming into the Pharisees where there was sure to be condemnation; coming into the house of the Pharisees where they probably all talked about her.’

“It’s because there was a person there who had the answer for her sins, that were many indeed, and when she sensed and knew and recognized who He was, an overwhelming appreciation of gratitude (love) is what she experienced.

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“What’s the result of ‘to whom much is forgiven’? A greater appreciation. A love that can only be experienced by an appreciation of the depth of the need, the extent of the forgiveness, the value of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.

"What I’m saying is one of the most essential aspects of a relationship of grace is an acknowledgement and an awareness of how much we need it!

“If we’re like the Pharisee, and we don’t think we have that many sins, well, we really won’t appreciate the grace of God that much because we think our need’s not as great as the woman of the city.

“But if we realize, ‘I may not be the ‘woman in the city’; I’m the man of the town,’ and it’s interesting how we always pick on the woman but, boy, we forgot the man. ‘My needs are just like this woman now, and it took the same blood of Christ to pay for my sins; the same grace of God to save me from a just condemnation that I deserve.’

“I’ve got a question for you. If you’ve trusted the Lord Jesus Christ for your Savior, how forgiven are you? Don’t answer yet because we could all say, ‘All of it, totally.’ Christ’s saying in that verse that the way you and I can appreciate how forgiven we are is a response of LOVE on our part because He loved us first. Isn’t that fascinating?

“Romans 5:1 says, ‘Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.’

“One of the immediate things that happens as a result of having all our sins forgiven is PEACE with the God of heaven and earth. That’s what’s in this relationship. The experience of the justice of God, rather than condemning us in our sins like the Pharisees condemned this woman, being FOR us forever, just like Christ was for that woman.

“The next verse 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.

“What does the word ACCESS mean? When you think of a computer or a cell phone, you’ve got to have a security code, or access. Access allows you to get in and keeps others out.

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“Think of the difference between that and in the Old Testament. Did the nation of Israel have access to God? They did but it was very limited. They had to go through the priest. The priest had access but it also was very limited. The priest could go into the very presence of Almighty God once a year and do everything JUST right.

“Remember Nadab and Abihu when they offered that strange incense fire? Boom, the fire burned them up right there and God said, ‘Hey, I told you whoever comes into my presence, I will demonstrate that I am holy.’ What could they say? ‘Yeah, you did tell us that. We’ll get it right next time.’

“Think about that. You and I have complete, total access INTO the grace wherein we stand. We have open-door access into the grace of Almighty God. Not only that, see how it says that in Ephesians 2:18: ‘For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.’

“The fellowship that were in is that fellowship that exists among the godhead. The access we have is into that relationship! That verse says the triune God is involved in that access given to us freely by the blood of Christ.

“Not only that, but look at chapter 3:12 and look at the nature of this TYPE of access. It says, ‘In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.’

“The priest could get access into the very presence of Almighty God in the ‘holiest of holies,’ but he could only do that once a year, and I’m telling you there was probably a little fear and trepidation in that man’s heart.

“You understand that twice a day every day that high priest literally came within inches of losing his life? He would go into the holy place and make sure the shewbread was fine, the altar of incense was fine, the candle stick was lit, and then get out of there because what was right on the other side of that veil? The glory of Almighty God. That guy came within inches of his life twice a day.

“Paul says we can have access with CONFIDENCE by the faith of Him. Who is our confidence in? Oh, not self. All this talk about how you need to have more self-confidence kind of thing; how you need to build up your self-esteem.

“It’s no wonder people have such difficulty with self-esteem because they find they keep doing what? Failing.

“Don’t have self-based esteem; have Calvary-based esteem. Don’t have self-confidence; have confidence that comes from the Word of God working in us because it cannot change; it’s perfect, God cannot lie. So it’s scriptural-based confidence.

“Not only do we have confidence, but look at Ephesians 1:6: ‘To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.’

“Everyone wants to be part of some thing or some one. People will compromise their integrity to BELONG to a group. People will compromise their morals to be in the ‘in’ crowd. Why do we do stuff like that? Because we think there is more value in the acceptance of the group we want to belong to compared to the value we hold in our character for our morals.

“As soon as we do something that violates the standards of the group, guess what? You’re out of there. Listen, God said He MADE us accepted in the beloved. Who’s the beloved? That’s the Lord Jesus Christ.

“I’ve got a question for you. If you’ve trusted Christ for your Savior, how accepted are you? You’re as accepted as the Lord Jesus Christ is. Isn’t that amazing? Just think about that for a moment. God MADE you accepted according to the same standard.

“Why is that good news? Guess what, all you can do is just realize, ‘Whew, wow, I can just rest and appreciate what’s there; who He is.’ You are loved eternally with the same love that exists among the godhead. There is no other kind of love He’s offering.

“It’s no wonder therefore then that the Apostle Paul can make a statement like this in Colossians 2:9-10: 9] For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
[10] And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

“This is why I get so upset when I see people attacking that verse, saying you’re complete in Christ theoretically, potentially.

“They absolutely undermine and destroy the very nature of the grace relationship God has placed us in. The only kind of grace relationship God has to place anyone in is the relationship that exists within the godhead.

“He doesn’t say, ‘We’re going to have this fellowship over here and you’re just going to be a second-class citizen. You’re still pretty good, but you’re over there.’

“This is not Tony Robbins and ‘fake-it-’til-you-make-it’ kind of stuff. When that verse in I Thessalonians says ‘Rejoice evermore,’ you say, ‘Well, let’s see. I’ve been forgiven of all my sins, I have peace with God, I’ve been accepted in the beloved, I have access, I’ve been blessed, I am complete, I’m sealed—I might just have reason to rejoice evermore!’

“That’s Paul’s point. That’s what it looks like. The natural byproduct of a trust that this relationship really is what it is, is it will impact the inner man and manifest itself in the outer man, hence whatever comes, we can just say, ‘Lord, for your grace and the blood of Christ.’ ”

Five on your side

(new article tomorrow)

Paul says in I Corinthians 14:19, “Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.”

Starting with Genesis 1, there are at least three dozen places in the Word using five-word statements for fundamental understandings from God.

The first five words, "In the beginning God created," represent the foundation of everything; all of history, all of theology, all of life.

“Notice God CREATED, so that means God is outside of creation," says Richard Jordan. "There goes pantheism and polytheism. What He created had a beginning. There goes materialism; the idea that matter is the ultimate reality.

“ ‘In the beginning God created.’ There goes deism; the idea that God doesn’t really get personally involved in creation.

“Have you ever had anybody try to tell you that Albert Einstein believed in God? Someone asked Einstein one time (I read his testimony about this), ‘Do you believe in God?’ and he responded, ‘Well, if you mean a personal God who intervenes in history, then no. But if you mean an ultimate FORCE that is behind everything, then yes.’

“ ‘In the beginning God created.’ What does that tell you about Creation? That tells you there’s a personal involvement, a personal plan, a personal activity. It’s a visible, supernatural presence. By the way, that’s the opposite of Kierkegaard’s existentialism.

“What I’m saying is that all the philosophies men develop to try and create their own world, the first FIVE words in the Bible tell you that none of that is true. If you don’t get those first five words straight, the rest of the Bible’s not going to mean much too you.

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“Come to Romans 5:12 and notice another five words: ‘By one man sin entered.’ You know where the problem in Creation, the problem in your life comes from? That one man was a guy by the name of Adam.

“God gave Adam dominion over the earth and Satan coveted that dominion so he came along and deceived Adam into believing that Lie Satan propagated to him back there. Adam knowingly, willingly disobeyed the clear statement of God and sin entered the world.

“I Corinthians 15:3 says, ‘Christ died for our sins.’ Count the words. The Word that created everything was made flesh. He literally stepped outside of creation into creation and became one with us. He’s the one mediator between God and man. ‘Fully satisfying payment for us.’ That’s five words you want to remember.

“Count the words in, ‘And that he was buried.’ ‘And that he was sealed.’ He was buried and ‘rose again the third day.’ There’s five more words. ‘And that he was seen.’ There’s five more.

“All the message of the gospel there is in those five words. He died, He was buried. The death was real. It wasn’t a mystical, theological argument. It was a real death. Then He was raised from the dead.

“The theology is in the death and the resurrection. ‘And that he was seen’ is the historical validation. You understand your faith doesn’t rest in an enigma. It doesn’t rest in a theory. It doesn’t rest in some superstitious hoodileedoo.

“Come to Ephesians 2:5 and count the words in the parenthesis: ‘By grace ye are saved.’ Another five words that come along here and tell you everything you need to know!

“Colossians 2:10 says, ‘Ye are complete in him.’ How many words is that? Don’t forget that your completeness is in who God has made you in His Son.

“If you trust in Jesus Christ, God the Holy Spirit took you out of Adam and put you into Jesus Christ. Your identity isn’t in Adam anymore; it’s in Jesus Christ. His death became your death. The only answer to sin is death, so Christ died for you and you died with Him. His burial was your burial. He put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. His resurrection is your resurrection.

“By the way, ‘I am crucified with Christ.’ How many words is that?

“Let’s do one more. Titus 2:13: ‘Looking for that blessed hope.’ You know what, we’ve got a good future ahead, folks. The Lord Jesus Christ could come at any moment and catch us away." 

When you remember you're God's beloved

J.C. O’Hair once wrote in a poem:

If we’re on the way to glory,

Joy should fill our soul;

‘Tis done by the Holy Spirit when

The Spirit has control.

There are burdens, trials, sorrows,

But God’s abounding grace,

He says, is all sufficient for

Every single case

 

“I’ve been telling you for decades, I don’t care how high you get in your understanding of truth and about what God’s going to do and how exciting it’s all going to be, the first step in ‘getting out of the closet’ is just believing in God’s love for you," says Richard Jordan.

“The Book of Ephesians is full of this stuff. Ephesians 1:6: ‘To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.’

“You go out in the world today and there’s a cry to be accepted, to belong, to have a connection. People spend time, money, energy, resources to gain acceptance.

"You see young people giving their lives away—drugs, sex, etc.—because they want to be accepted; they want to be loved and valued and they’ll give away their future for the fulfillment of that.

"And you know what it is—it’s an illusion because it only lasts until, ‘What have you done for me lately?’ shows up.

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“There’s an acceptance that never goes away when God Himself accepts you; when He meets that need, that yearn, that drive, that thirst deep down in your heart and He accepts you.

"If no one else ever did, so what?! Who’s going to last the longest? Them or Him?! Whose opinion is going to be the one that really counts in the long run?

“I know how it is—you look at yourself and you say, ‘Who could accept me?!’ You know where God the Father finds you today if you’re saved? He doesn’t find you in a performance system where you’re living up to standards and pleasing Him because of it.

“He finds you in the one place in all the universe that He’s absolutely, sublimely pleased and that’s His Son. Whew! You can relax. Lose that tension, all that stuff the world, the flesh and the devil throws at you.

"You can say, ‘You know what, I’m enveloped in some ever-lasting arms of love, not because of what I do, but because I’m in Christ.’

“Satan knows that no temptation’s going to succeed in your life when you remember who you are; that you’re God’s beloved.

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“You remember what the name ‘David’ means? Beloved. It took a David to defeat a Goliath. It took David to destroy the giant. Listen, it takes someone who KNOWS that he’s God’s beloved to win the fights in life!

“When you understand that you’re God’s beloved, what that does is it makes you a victor no matter what the Adversary . . . no matter what the world, the system, the culture, the satanic drive and flow behind that culture; no matter how your old sin nature attacks, the answer and the victory is in being God’s beloved.

"One of the things the Holy Spirit prays through Paul who prays for you and me is Ephesians 3:18-19: 'That you may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
[19] And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.’

“Notice that word ‘comprehend.’ God desires that you be able to get your mind around something and understand it.

“Colossians 1:27 says, ‘To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.’

“That’s what God wants you to know. What do you think the Adversary would want to hide from you?

"The devil doesn’t care if you pack a Bible and study it--just don’t comprehend out of that Bible what is the breadth, and the length, and the depth, and the height, and to KNOW the love of Christ, which passeth all knowledge.

“Why does He want me to know? ‘That you may be filled with all the fullness of God.’ You see, the goal is to get to know something that will result in God Himself controlling your life. Even the mundane things of life, every area of your life.

“Then you move into the places where there are real challenges and struggles. The injustices of life, the harshness of life, the things that happen just because you were a bonehead, and yet He says that in all of it, 'We’re more than conquerors through Him that LOVED us.'

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“I John 4:10 says, ‘Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.’

“You know what love is? Love’s not going out there, saying, ‘Can’t we all just get along?’ Love is what God did at Calvary when He paid for everything that’s wrong with you.

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“Under the law, God gave Israel a bunch of regulations about how to set things right when they were wrong and in Leviticus 27: 9-11 are rules about when something is lost and has to be replaced, how do you determine the replacement value of the thing.

“Verse 12 says, ‘And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.’

“They bring the thing. They say, ‘Here’s where I’ve been damaged,’ and the priest sets the replacement value. The value that the priest placed on it, well, that’s what God says the value is.

"Who is our high priest? You remember Hebrews 10:10? The verse says, ‘By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.’

“You know what your high priest says? ‘Here’s the value, here’s the way I value it. I have by one offering . . .’

“You see, if God was waiting for you to be perfect, Jesus Christ would have stayed home. He came so that He could provide perfection for you. Now, if the priest values it that way, God says, ‘That’s the way it is!’ If God values it that way, what say ye?

“When you’re working along in life, trying to figure out how God thinks about things, that’s where you start thinking.”

Quest for 'truth' behind society's demise

Here's another outtake from Sunday morning’s sermon and will have a new article later today for certain:

Truth is in Jesus. Obviously we know Jesus never told a lie; we know Jesus, morally in His character, His very nature, He is truth.

We need to acknowledge truth is a PERSON; that’s the problem with our culture, says Alex Kurz.

Pilate didn’t ask about truth because, “Man, I have a deep desire to know what truth is.” He dismissed the Lord Jesus Christ and he said, “What is truth?”

The most simple definition is “truth is reality,” as God defines it. Christ makes some earth-shattering declarations about Himself.

John 14: [5] Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
[6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

He says, “I am truth,” and that’s the problem the world has. You see, truth is a person. The real issue isn’t about information; it’s about who is Lord and that’s why the world resists and rejects what the Bible has to say about truth.

As Lord and God, Jesus is truth. There’s no negotiation. We recognize also that truth is preserved in a written form. By the way, Jesus is the living Word (capital “w”), is He not?

So the Lord Jesus in John 17: [17] Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
[18] As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
[19] And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

God never leaves it up to humanity to find truth; He says, “I’m the revealer of truth; the revelator of truth.”

By the way, God’s truth is available to more than 90 percent of all languages on Planet Earth. Do you think God’s interested in ensuring His truth is made available to all of humanity?

There’s this old Hinduism thing where they picture discovering God by using an elephant analogy. You know, "truth isn’t located in one central place but God, for some mystical, weird reason, is available all over the place."

Kind of like a blind man who bumps into an elephant. He feels the leg and says, “Ahh, a pillar.” Another blind man feels the tail and says, “Ahh, a broom.” Another blind man feels the trunk and says, “Ahh, a trumpet.” Another blind man feels the tusk and says, “Ahh, a plowshare.”

That’s the myth of religious pluralism, that everyone has a little bit of truth and what man now is instructed to do is, “You’re on a quest to try and find out what ultimate truth is.”

It says, “Well, you have this religious system, that religious system. There’s a little bit of scattering of truth here, little bit of truth there, so on and so forth and you know, God sort of leaves it up to man, like a jigsaw puzzle, and maybe one day you’ll discover ultimate reality; you will arrive at absolute, objective, authoritative truth.”

What did Jesus say? “Thy Word is truth.” A document, the Scriptures, that has been around certainly for 3,500 years, has been available for thousands of years, proven to be historically accurate.

You can study the sciences and archaeology and no one has yet been able to demonstrate a verifiable error in God’s Word.

People say, “Well, maybe that’s your experience but it’s not my experience.” How hypocritical is that.

What if medicine had the same attitude and mentality. My doctor says, “Hey, Al, you got this problem; here’s a prescription.” The pharmacist says, “Wait a minute, I don’t feel this is the best course of treatment.”

How would you like a banker to determine what truth is? I deposit $1,000 into my bank account and the bank says, “No, I feel you’ve got nothing in your bank account.”

When it comes to truth being defined by subjective feelings or experience, people don’t believe that, but for some reason, when it comes to absolute truth, all of a sudden it’s, “Well, that’s not my truth.”

You see the consequence of the spiritual attitude that grips even our culture today and we’re not immune. It rips cultures all over the world, how if people are going to operate on their own supposed truth, it has plunged society into destruction and chaos and confusion.

Absolute truth humanity won't yield to

Here’s an outtake from this morning’s sermon at my church about how “Truth is a Person”:

The world is at odds with the idea that Jesus is truth—you know, an uncomfortable, inconvenient truth. That’s the problem with humanity, says Alex Kurz.

You know what our culture does: “Your truth, my truth.” Kind of the mentality that Pilate had: “Well, who are you to impose your quote ‘truth’?" There’s no absolute truth; truth is relative.

You hear all sorts of nonsense like that and so the resistance is a far deeper spiritual antagonism against truth. That’s why culture relegates truth to this subjective, “Truth is based on what I feel; truth is based on what I experience.”

They scoff, they reject the idea that there can be absolute truth because they reject that Jesus IS the truth.

You see, God is the one who defines truth. God is the one who defines reality and what is man’s problem?

Romans 1:18: [18] For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

They hold it; they suppress it. Notice verse 25: [25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

The truth has to do with the identification of the one true God in the universe and man in his hard, alienated, dark, ignorant, blind heart—they reject the very idea that there can be an authoritative, absolute truth because they reject there is a God.

Listen, truth isn’t just a set of ideas. Truth isn’t just a system of principles or a system of concepts. Truth is about a Savior who needs to be received.

John 18: [37] Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Look at this pagan, godless response: [38] Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.

He’s standing right in front of you. You see what just happened? Pilate didn’t need more articulate, philosophical engagement. He needed submission. He needed to recognize, “You are ALL that you claim to be. You are the proof.”

This is a snapshot of the mentality of the world where they’re going around with their hands over their eyes: “Where’s truth? I can’t see it.” Truth is standing in front of Pilate and he makes such a foolish, ignorant statement.

That’s the problem with humanity; they don’t want to yield, they don’t want to bend. They don’t want to receive the truth that, “Truth is a Person.”

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Here’s an old study by Richard Jordan:

"When you have paganism, the symbol of it is the circle. The band Travis had a hit song some time ago that said, ‘There’s no wrong, there’s no right. The circle only has one side.’ That’s it; it’s a circle. In the movie Lion King, there was that circle of light and everything’s in it.

“Now, understand the new culture is very spiritual. It’s very into the supernatural. It’s very into the superstitious. That’s why everywhere you look you see vampires and zombies and avatars. The Barnes & Noble by the Woodfield Mall has a ‘Teenage Paranormal’ section as long as that wall to the door.

“I was raised in the Phil Donohue age where everything was naturalistic and there was no supernatural, miraculous intervention by God at all. Einstein said, ‘Well, I believe in a God but not one that intervenes into history.’

"All the philosophy then was about God being an ‘absentee landlord,’ as Al Pacino called him. That was the idea. 'If there’s a God, that’s okay; He just doesn’t get involved.’

“Naturalism says the world just works on the laws of nature like a washing machine. It just works because it works. That’s the way it is.

"Before you had to spend your time defending there’s a resurrection or a virgin birth or that there could be miracles. Now you don’t have to convince young people there’s a resurrection. What you have to convince them of is there’s only one! Because they believe in all kind of resurrections; all kind of life after death. UFOs, zombies. What is a zombie? It’s life after death! What are vampires? That’s animal and man put together in one creation.

“There’s no distinction; it’s gone. There’s a thinking and a social impact of that. Oprah made it chic to be spiritual. She said over and over, ‘It’s okay to get in touch with your spiritual side; just don’t use the Bible.’ Why? Because the Bible says there are two buckets and paganism says there’s just one. It's, ‘Can’t we all just get along.’ 

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“Paganism requires the philosophy of tolerance in order to be able to function. The only sin is believing that there is a sin. To say that any action is wrong, or any condition needs to be changed, is abhorrent. That’s why Bible-believing Christianity is presented as intolerant. It’s presented as unloving. It’s intolerant because it’s got two buckets.

“The old culture said that truth is what corresponds with reality. The correspondence idea of truth: ‘If it’s real, it’s true.’ That’s the fundamental thinking of the Bible. How do you know there’s a Creator? There’s a creation. Duh! The first-cause demands that.

“In the old Judeo-Christian thinking paradigm we all recognize truth is out there somewhere. We might not know what it is, but if we just keep searching and dialoguing, it will be there.

“You know the story of the three blind men that tried to describe the elephant? One felt his trunk and said it’s like a rope, another felt his leg and said it’s like a stump and the other felt his belly and said it's like a wall. That’s their perceptions, but the old thinking would say, ‘It’s STILL an elephant!’  It’s still the whole, not your part.

“The new thinking is, 'Whatever you experience it to be, it’s truth.' For you the elephant is a stump or it’s like a big old wall because the elephant is whatever you think it is. Because we’ve only got one bucket and any thinking process that you have, everyone’s experience and participation is right. It’s truth. And it’s not right to say there’s only one way. Truth is really just by experience, so it’s not right to say, ‘You’re wrong!’

“We have terms for the moral ethic that holds paganism together; egalitarianism is one. Multi-culturalism--that’s where the so-called feminist movement came from. That’s where the environmental stuff comes from. That’s where the homosexual stuff comes from. All of that comes from a completely different paradigm of thinking where there’s just one bucket and everybody’s in it. And that’s what paganism is all about."

Identifying people in heaven

You know you recognize people even when you don’t know them personally, and when you get to heaven, you’re not going to need name tags; we’re going to know each other, says Richard Jordan.

Luke 9: [32] But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
[33] And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.

You notice how Peter knew who Moses and Elijah were but no introductions had taken place? How in the world did he know? He never met them; he had read about them, studied about them, was taught about them, because they lived centuries before Peter did.

Here they are, appear before him, when the transfiguration is taking place. That is, Christ is carried to the position where His glorified humanity is put on display, and figures from the other side, as it were, appear with Him. Peter instinctively knows who they are.

It’s the same thing on the other side of the scope. Isaiah 14:9, talking about the Antichrist prophetically, says:

[9] Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
[10] All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

When that guy shows up in hell, they know who he is. They don’t look at him and say, “Agh, another one showed up.” When that guy shows up, all the kings of the earth who followed him identify him. They have a consciousness of who he is.

Can you imagine when the pope dies and goes to hell, the greeting he gets? You reckon when Mohammed went to hell, the guys down there said, “Boy, we’re glad to see you!”

You ever thought about that? They recognized him. You don’t go into hell incognito. If you die and go to hell, people say, “Well, I’ll have a lot of friends there.” There’s not a one of them going to be your friend when you get there.

They’re going to do like these guys do. They’re going to mock you for being the fools they were. They’re going to hate you for your influence on them that put them there. They’re going to know you.

In Luke 16, this guy dies and when he goes to hell he knows what’s going on.

Luke 16: [23] And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Notice, he still had eyes. Your soul has a literal bodily shape inside of you. There’s a person inside of your body and it’s real.

[24] And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

How’d he know who father Abraham was? He never met him. You see how you know who they are? It’s not just being conscious of being in someone else’s presence; you can put a name to them and a face.

[25] But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
[26] And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

When you get there, you have memory. You remember the incidences and things that happened.

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Luke 23: 42] And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
[43] And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

When that guy goes there, you reckon he knew he was there? You reckon he knew who Jesus was? Every implication you have is that way.

II Corinthians 12: [1] It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
[2] I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
[3] And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
[4] How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

If this guy’s caught up into the third heaven and Paul says, “I can’t tell whether he’s still in his body or not,” when he wasn’t in his body, he must have still looked like he was.

He says, “By looking at the guy I can’t tell if he’s dead or alive.” He’s in the third heaven, though. What’s up in the third heaven? His soul. But what did he look like? Paul didn’t say, “Well, he died but I don’t know who he is.”

Out of the body he looked just like he looked IN the body.

Philippians 3: [20] For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
[21] Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Your vile body. The word vile means humiliating. That doesn’t mean it sags where it didn’t used to sag. Just don’t wash it for 3-4 days. It’s a body of corruption.

He’s going to change that vile body and fashion it like His glorious body. You’re literally going to share in the physical glorification of Jesus Christ in a body that reflects His glory.

I Corinthians 15:35: [35] But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

Some people have the idea that when you get your glorified body, we’re all just going to be carbon copies where every one of us is going to look exactly the same.

[36] Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
[37] And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
[38] But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

You know what you’re going to get in the resurrection? You’re going to get your own body; a body that bears your distinct identity. A body that you own out of which the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ will radiate. He’s going to be glorified in YOUR body.

By the way, if I have my own personal body with its own personal appearance, would that give people the capacity to recognize me as distinct from someone else?

I Thessalonians 2: 19 tells me something about the resurrected body: [19] For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
[20] For ye are our glory and joy.

Paul says, “You Thessalonians are going to be my joy and my crown.” Well, then he must know who they’re going to be! There must be a way for him to look at the Thessalonica saints and say, “You guys are it!”

There’s some saints that he would see there that aren’t going to be quite as ? for him. They’re going to be like those Corinthians in I Corinthians 13 that are “saved yet so as by fire.”

To use the expression in Job, they’re “saved by the skin of their teeth,”  and that’s not very thick.

But the Thessalonians, in their resurrected bodies, as they stand at the judgment seat of Christ, he’s going to be able to identify who they are.

Now, when you get to heaven, aren’t there some saved people you are a little embarrassed to be around right now? You got a little difference of opinion with them?

Paul says in Romans 7: [15] For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
[16] If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
[17] Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

He’s talking about the difference between your old man and your new man; your old nature and who you are in Adam and then who you are in Christ.

When you die, or at the resurrection, your inner man is removed from your outer man and it’s only your new man that goes into that new body.

So all those old-man problems are left behind and all the things that need to be judged and straightened out, worked on, that confront and confound and make you guilty, all that’s gone.

I think one of the great security blankets for the Believer is the Judgment Seat of Christ where all those works that are you and not Christ—what does he say happens to them in I Corinthians 3? They burn up and they’re gone.

Revelation 21:4: [4] And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

There’s things that have happened in your background and in your life—dastardly, evil things that have happened—and all that’s gone.

On the other side, there’s the things you’ve done to others that you bear the weight for. Those things that in a quiet moment of reflection come back to haunt you.

You see, when you wake up to your brothers and sisters on the streets of glory those things aren’t going to be the issue, not because you don’t recognize them and know who they are, but because you’re just going to know who they are in Christ.

You’ll say, “Hey, there’s Brother Rick!” and you’ll remember Christ in Brother Rick, and all that was “I” and not Christ will be gone. Blank pages.

Isiaah 65: [17] For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

What’s he talking about? [16] That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

That’s the former things. [18] But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

The blood of Jesus Christ is going to cover all that stuff.

God's frequency-hopping 'spread spectrum'

The reason a violinist can make crystal glass break is because the instrument is able to duplicate the frequency the crystal vibrates at with an intensity that shatters it.

“That’s a physical phenomenon, but when the Bible refers to the mountains singing at Christ’s return, in Ezekiel 36 for an example, I’m not so sure that’s all just figurative talk,” says Richard Jordan. “And when He comes back, all of creation’s going to ‘sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.’ (Psalm 68:4)

“Notice it didn’t say sing praises about Him. You can’t talk to God if you don’t know Him. Lost people can’t sing praises to God until they’ve called upon His name—until they’ve gotten saved.

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When Doubting Thomas had the opportunity to see the prints in Christ’s hands and the scar in His side, he bowed down and said something that no new bible version has yet to take out of the Bible—“My Lord and my God.”

“Of course, Jesus Christ doesn’t respond, ‘Wait, wait, wait! I’m not that; you shouldn’t attribute things to me that belong to God'; He accepted the title and the (corrupt re-translators) don’t notice that it’s there. It’s exactly correct even in a Jehovah Witness bible.

“The Lord’s that way with the Word of God—you find doctrine scattered out in Scripture where when you’re looking to find it and eliminate it, there’s enough of it scattered that you can’t get to it all.

“There’s a great comparison made to this in a book by a Bible teacher who earlier in his career was involved in military communication and producing anti-jamming devices. A jamming device is where you put a broadcast out and a signal jams it and you can’t receive your signal.

“Well, in the military when you’re trying to send commands to your troops—

or nowadays to satellites and missiles—if you’ve got the ability to jam the communication, it can’t go where you want it to go.

“And so, in order to eliminate the ability of an opponent to jam your communication, what they do is communicate on dozens of different frequencies. The idea is if you can jam a third of the frequencies, the receiver can still figure out from the other two-thirds what it needs. He said that’s the way the Bible is!

“The Bible is a book that demonstrates itself to have been written by someone who was outside of time. Whoever wrote Genesis understood something that couldn’t have been known for another couple of thousand years. So, whoever wrote Genesis was not bound by time. They knew something that was going to be revealed in the future that nobody could know except God Himself.

“Years ago, I used to think, ‘Why is it that you have to search all through the Bible to find these things? Why did God just scatter it all over everywhere, seemingly willy-nilly like?’ Well, it turns out it’s not willy-nilly; it’s all PLANNED!

“If God had it all written out for us in simplified jargon, we’d read it maybe 345 times, enough to memorize it, and then we’d get bored with it and quit reading it.

“But the way it is, you never get bored with it because you never quit finding stuff; you just keep discovering and putting links together.

“Probably, a better reason than that, though, is what this guy was saying—it allows it not to be jammed as it comes through history. You can’t destroy it; you can’t get rid of it. There’s no way to destroy the supernatural evidence, or the evidence of the supernatural nature of the Word of God, because of all that. That’s such a fascinating thing about the Scriptures and what makes it so fascinating to read and study.”

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Handel’s Messiah is considered the greatest piece of music composition ever put together and yet it’s nothing more than the King James Bible quoted and put to music.

“Notice it’s not the NIV, or the ASV, or the RV, or the Geneva bible—it’s the KJV put into music form,” says Jordan.

One of the events that led Gail Riplinger to write her explosive 1994 book, New Age Bible Versions, which thoroughly exposes the corrupt nature of the modern bible versions, was a campus bible study in which Riplinger, a college teacher at the time, had a young Christian woman approach her seeking words of solace after a romantic break-up.

Upon instructing the student to open her bible to Luke 4:18 to read Jesus’ words, “[He] hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted,” Riplinger found out the entire sentence had been removed from the woman’s NASB version.

Riplinger later found the same verse missing from the NIV, Good News for Modern Man and all Catholic bibles.

As she relates in her book, “The omission is impossible since Jesus was in the synagogue reading from Isaiah 61: 1:2, which contains the sentence in question. Its removal is censorship of the strangest kind since the sentence appears in The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text.

“Its critical apparatus indicates the sigla of the German M, which according to Dallas Theological Seminary professor Zane C. Hodge, indicates the sentence is ‘one that is supported overwhelmingly.’ In this case ‘overwhelmingly’ is a modest estimation since all Greek manuscripts except two, Aleph and B, have it. Even Alexandrinus, an ancient uncial, has it.

“Tsk . . . Tsk to Nestle and his resurrected Westcott and Hort ‘New’ Greek text for leaving it out. NIV committeeman Ronald Youngblood admits his committee disregarded the majority text here.”

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Another huge corruption Riplinger learned of in trying to comfort the heartbroken student was that the reference to Christ as “the Comforter,” found in four different verses in John, had been replaced with “the Helper,” something true of not only the NASB but the NKJV and New World Jehovah Witness Version. He is called “the Counselor” in the NIV and the “Advocate” or “Paraclete” in Catholic versions!

Riplinger explains, “There is no semantic basis for this revision. The NASB translates the same kind of Greek word as ‘comfort’ eighteen times elsewhere (e.g. Matthew 2:18 ‘she refused to be comforted’).

“The NIV’s ‘Counselor’, bouleutes, sumboulos, is not in any Greek manuscripts. The NKJV’s word ‘helper’, or help, boethos, antilepsis, epikouria, is no where in the verse either, nor are words such as antilambano, cheir, epilambano, antecho, propempo, huperetes, or prosantis, all of which the new bibles translate as ‘help’ often.

“Cults like the Jehovah Witnesses use ‘helper’ since they deny the Trinity and the personhood of the Holy Spirit. The Plain Truth magazine explains why they too avoid the KJV and its ‘Comforter’: ‘[T]he Holy Spirit is not a person but the power God uses—much as man uses electricity.’

“The New King James Version and the New American Standard Version are in poor company rallying with, not only these two cults, but the New Age. Author of Dark Secrets of the New Age observes, ‘New Agers who communicate with Satan’s demons see these spirit entities as their ‘helpers.’

“Vera Alder, for example, when referring to these entities, uses the NASB and NKJV term. (New versions are ‘helping’ to build the ‘semantic bridge’ which Vera Alder and other New Agers said must be built between the New World Religion and existing sectarianism.)

“The NIV removes ‘the comfort’ of the Holy Ghost in Acts 9:31. . . The bride of Christ is no longer comforted with the salutation ‘Beloved,’ but met with ‘Dear Friend’ in III John 2 (NIV). Ephesians 3:9 speaks of the intimacy of our fellowship with God. New Versions join the Jehovah Witnesses in replacing ‘fellowship with the groom’ with the coming ‘new age administration’.”