Why is the forbidden tree not the “Tree of Death” then? Because it represents both good and evil. If you’ll remember, the Serpent was the most cunning of all the creatures that God had created. It was not because the snake was created evil, for it too was “very good” (Gen 1:31). The snake was imbued with evil; in other words, Satan entered into the Serpent and made it cunning. The Serpent, just as the “beast,” Judas and the “Beast,” the antichrist, are instruments of Satan’s deception. In all cases, Satan endeavors to deceive God’s people with his cunningness. Censorship and propaganda are the primary techniques!
Satan had no power to burn the Tree of Life so he could merely try to cut it down. The entire Bible is about Satan’s attempt to cut down the Tree of Life. To do so, he uses deception which is finely crafted from goodness with just as smidgeon of evil. Satan represents evil as good in all cases! That is deception.
The “Tree of Death” is not the tree itself but its poisonous fruit. In Galatians 5 the fruits of the Tree of Life which leads to death are enumerated: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance (contrariness), emulations (rivalry), wrath (anger), strife, seditions (resistance to regulation), heresies (adherence to other gods), envyings (jealousy), murders, drunkenness, revellings (carefree pleasure), and such like.
Of all those fruits of the forbidden tree, Satan’s aim is sedition:
How art thou
fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the
ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I
will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will
sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will
ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isa
14:12-14).
Lucifer whose self-acclaimed royal title is “Satan” was cut down from heaven. God already cut down Lucifer’s “tree” – in this case his soul, and will have no need to cut down the Serpent’s Tree. The Beast and the doctrine of sin from the Tree of the Cunningness will be burned, along with the Beast in the bottomless pit. Lucifer wants exaltation even above the stars (angels) of God. Who is God’s Star Angel? Jesus Christ. Lucifer intends to have a coup to undermine the King of the Jews and Gentiles, and him take Jesus’s seat in the face of God on God’s throne. The First Commandment can also be written, “Thou shalt not have other gods in God’s face.” God’s “face” is Jesus Christ. Satan endeavors to be the face of God. To convince people that he is god, Satan uses cunningness. His main two techniques are propaganda and censorship of the truth.
Do not take truth too lightly. The truth is what sets people free from the wiles of Satan (John 8:32). Therefore, Satan must suppress truth to achieve his high goals. In order to achieve his goal, most people must believe the lie. I have discussed before the “colossal lie.” That is the lie which brings down the extant institutions in the quickest manner: the Doctrine of God, the Church, the family, real prosperity (capitalism), the educational system, individual freedom, and the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of contentment. Socialism achieves all Satan’s aims in one basket. Those who fall for the colossal lie of socialism are the “basket of deplorables” in reality about whom Hillary Clinton should have spoken! Socialism is the destruction of all those institutions and the doctrine of sin has been enumerated in the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engles. Just like Satan, their main tools are propaganda and censorship. They propagate the colossal lie, and censor the absolute truth!
Propaganda is merely spreading the narrative through all the various avenues. The narrative is whatever “colossal lie” that people will believe. It must be absurd enough that the masses could not possibly believe that it is a lie. Satan’s colossal lie is, “Eat; you will not die.” “Eating of the forbidden tree is accepting deception as the truth. Satan even countered God’s warning with his own promise: “Ye will be as gods.”
The following are today’s key verses about censorship:
KEY VERSES: Jeremiah
called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah
all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house
of the Lord: Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written
from my mouth (36:4-6). It came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three
or four leaves, he (King Jehoiakim) cut it with the penknife, and cast it into
the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire
that was on the hearth. (36:23)
That book burning was a case of God being censored by another king who was seditious to God. Jehoiakim was a type of Lucifer in that he wanted to have authority over God just as Lucifer before him in the beginning of sedition.
Juhudi was reading God’s Word, spoken by Jeremiah, and transcribed by Baruch – the very thoughts of God and what was spoken to Jeremiah by Jesus himself. He placed himself greater than the messenger. His sin was Lucifer’s sin!
Jehoiakim, not only did not want to hear the truth, but he wanted the truth destroyed. Like many autocrats who came after him, Jehoiakim was a book burner. The truth would have drained Jehoiakim’s “swamp” so to speak. He paid tribute, not to God, but any foreign dictator he feared. He paid tribute to Necho II of Egypt and then to Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. As such, the Lord revealed to Jeremiah that the Deep State of Judah would be destroyed and Jehoiakim along with it. What did the king do to endeavor to change the course of events? He burned the truth. He censored God! Then his own propaganda machine began to operate – Ye surely won’t die! His narrative was that they were safe and secure, but they were soon to be utterly destroyed. The king won for a short time, then it all came to an abrupt end! It did not happen that instant, but God’s justice prevailed. Nebuchadnezzar sacked Jerusalem and the Temple. A later king – Zedekiah – suffered the consequences for covering up the truth.
Note that Jeremiah did not present a version (perversion) of the truth, but the whole truth. Autocrats always resort to partial truth. They create fallacies which stupid subjects take as truth. How could the majority of Germans be converted to Nazism? By propaganda and censorship. They promised prosperity but got destruction. They destroyed the Church and replaced it with partial truth; namely Positive Christianity wherein the entire old Testament was censored, as well as that Jesus was a Jew! Jesus must be, to achieve or maintain power; either twisted, censored, or totally destroyed, People are stupid, but are seldom stupid enough to accept colossal lies unless they are tempered with some truth.
Just as the Serpent said, “Ye shall not die,” and they did, Germany said they would win the war but like Judah before them, when they turned to deception, their “king” and country was destroyed. Socialism does seem good. Utopia seems ideal, but it will never happen on Earth until done under the auspices of King Jesus. Socialism will always fail because it is based on sedition against God’s authority. Like any autocracy, socialism is about who would be king. Note that it is never Jesus, but a bunch of Narcissists who think they are cleverer and superior to the masses of people. They depend on stupid people accepting colossal lies, and the propaganda spreads those lies, and truth is censored.
Why do secularists not want God’s Word in the schools and other public arenas? Like Jehoiakim long ago, they believe in censorship. They do not want the people to hear the truth for fear they will believe it, and do something about it! If people believe in God and what he prescribes, then their covert ploys will not be accepted!
True Christians always tell the truth. You can tell who they are just by listening. In America at the present there is a deep state much like Johoiakim’s. They are no longer in power, but tried to retain it like Jehoiakim by burning the evidence. Jehoiakom, in modern times, are the stooges Obama and Hillary Clinton. For a time, America is safe because the truth is slowly being revealed. Hillary burned much of the truth (30,000 emails) but much truth survived. The modus operandi of the left at the present is to distort the truth to retain power.
Hillary and company censored the truth but enough remained to maintain suspicion. Adam Schiff’s and Gerald Nadler’s modus operandi are to shade the truth by deception as socialist-minded people are wont to do. Their “colossal lie” is that Donald Trump is the one seditious and not the Bidens, Clintons, and Obamas. If only they can get enough people to believe the lie before election time, then their deception will be safe and a continued useful tool to retain power!
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