SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - CREATING THE CRIME

THE CREATED CRIME

  Pontius Pilate had Jesus crucified, but those responsible for his death were the Jewish “Deep State” — those who castigated and crucified an innocent man. What Law had Jesus broken? Not one! However, they misused an ancient Law on the books since time immemorial. Jesus Himself declared that He did not come to break the Law, but to fulfill it yet He was accused of that. Jesus, according to the Law, was guilty of claiming the Authority of God. That is called, “presumptuous sin.”

Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel. (Deut 17:12).

  “Presumptuous” is failing to observe; in this case failing to observe the authority of the priest. What did Jesus do wrong? He claimed to be God, and with that, His authority was over the chief priest. The penalty for presumptuous sin was death and to be cast out of Israel. The chief priests, Jesus said, committed a greater sin than Pilate (John 19:11). Jesus’s crime was exalting Himself over the chief priest. The true crime were the priests of God exalting themselves over God! Does that not sound familiar in the present age? They diminished God, and that was the violation of the First Commandment. That truly was the greater sin!

  Compare that to the modern Deep States. Hitler exalted himself over Paul von Hindenburg, Lenin over Tsar Nicholas, and Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Ironically, Pilate never exalted himself, but he did exalt Jesus. He proclaimed Jesus “innocent,” but the spiritual Deep State would not accept the verdict from the civil authority. Jesus, by washing the feet of the feet of the apostles, exalted them, not Himself. Simon Peter would deny Jesus three times, but Jesus washed his feet. Simon, in return, told Jesus that He would never wash his feet, but then to be part of Jesus asked that Jesus wash his feet, hands, and head (John 12:9).

  Simon Peter was as guilty of crucifying Jesus as was Pilate. Pilate, in a ritual, washed his hands of Jesus’s death. Peter did not, but by grace Jesus cleansed Peter of his sins. Unfortunately, Jesus did not wash Pilate’s feet, head, nor hands. Pilate washed his own. That was not efficacious warranting grace. No one can wash themselves clean, only Jesus can, and indeed, He will if allowed to as Peter did! As for Pilate, history shows that his career with Caesar ended shortly, and there are extant letters from Pilate to Caesar wherein he marveled at Jesus (Paradise Post n.d.). Perhaps Pilate, guilty of crucifixion as well, saw the Light afterward.

  Many naïve people misunderstood Jesus. Even those educated did as well. That Jesus IS God seemed absurd. (That I will call the “Paradox of Jesus as God”). That seemed absurd to Ananias, and many of the officials. Perhaps to Pilate it was not as absurd because he had no more than a simple understanding of the Jewish God. The truth is that Pilate would have consider Jehovah God as absurd because He was not part of the Roman pantheon of gods that included Caesar. For all practical purposes, Caesar was Pilate’s Ruler and God!

  Now back to socialism. Effectually, Karl Marx is their “god.” People who cannot understand Jesus nor God’s Laws are akin to Pontius Pilate. Their ignorance is appalling but less so than those who know God but propagate Marx. Pilate represented Caesar but Caesar had no law to crucify for false claims. When Pilate washed his hands, he was saying, It’s not our law, it’s yours. His blood is on your hands. Pilate could have released Jesus because there were no grounds for his death under Roman law. Ironically, Jesus gave to Caesar the things that were his, and Caesar (through Pilate) gave to Jesus the things that were His.

  Jesus planned His own death. Pilate, as Caesar’s representative, gave to God the “things” that was God’s. Jesus had to die, and Pilate was there to fulfill that purpose. Pilate, however, failed to know just what he was doing in God’s Plan.

  There are always people who do things against others either because it is the law, and even if it is not, they comply with the mob. Now blacks and unwitting whites are the mob because of the unwarranted and cruel death of an innocent man. Some responsible Democrat leader could end the violence, but like Pilate, that unidentified person has surely washed his hands of it. There are always leaders who wash their hands in apathy. In the socialist Third Reich up to 93% of the “stupid German voters” washed their hands of the holocaust when they voted for Adolph Hitler as German Chancellor.

  Today, Christian Americans wash their hands of abortion, same-sex marriage, and the slime in the Washington “Swamp” because the left offers free health care, free cell phones, free housing, free immigration opportunities, and free citizenship. Nothing is free; somebody always pays the price, but voters wash their hands of the truth. The mob washed their hands of Barabbas, but Jesus paid the price for their eternal lives.

  On the other hand, selfish people become the mob. They care little for the truth so long as they get their way. The left is determined to have a socialist state, and the Jewish mob wanted to stone Jesus, but were happy when others crucified Him instead.

  Jesus was collateral damage in the chief priests' ploy to retain power. The ignorant Jewish mob saw only a man breaking the Law of God. They failed to see the Man fulfilling the Law by loving them so that He desired that they not perish but was willing to perish for their sakes (John 3:16). Of course, Donald Trump is not Jesus, but he is willing to sacrifice his own billions and his livelihood that the Deep State will sink in the sinking sands of the Washington “Swamp.”

  Jesus sacrificed His life for the lives of mankind. Mr. Trump is sacrificing his livelihood for the livelihood of the people. The mob is always the same; they want someone’s blood and blood they will get come Hell or high water. The coronavirus may be the “serious crisis” that the left awaits. Did China plan the crisis? They may have been the “Pilate,” but God planned it because He uses Satan to test His people. Where are God’s people? They have been taken out of the church building, but are they still in the Church? Satan desires that the Church dies, and Trump stands in the way of the Church’s “crucifixion.”

  The mob will always create a crisis when they need one for their purposes, and if there is no crime, the crime will be created. That is just how the spiritual Deep State operated with Jesus, and how it does throughout history. Is the world better off with Jesus dead? It is certainly not. Is the US better off with the President out of office? The world seems to think so, but will it be? Trump’s crime: He was presumptuous toward Mrs. Clinton who seemed to be ordained as Chief of State. Jesus crime? The chief priests thought Jesus was presumptuous of his authority. Truly, there is nothing new under the sun!

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SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - ORGANIZATION

ORGANIZATION AND LAWS OF THE DEEP STATE

  Jesus as the “Son of God” is legitimate heir to His throne. The “Constitution” of His Kingdom is simple; He must be loved, and all the people of the Kingdom must be loved by each other; even His enemies and the enemies of the other citizens of the world. God loves all His Kingdom, even those who plot to overthrow and even kill Him. The Greatest Commandment is the “preamble” of God’s Constitution:

¹ “Now this is the (Greatest) commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, ² that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged” (Deut 6:1-2) and Jesus confirmed that when He said that the great commandment in the law (is) ³⁷ “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” (Mat 22:37-40)

  The Ten Commandments, first listed in the Book of Exodus, are repeated in the Book of Deuteronomy, as the “Greatest Commandment.” It is certain that the Ten Commandments are the itemization of the Greatest Commandment and its corollary. The Ten Commandments are the “terms” of the Abrahamic Covenant, and the Covenant of Grace, making them one and the same. By grace, Christians are born again, and if new persons, they are fellow citizens in the Kingdom of God whose desire is to be Great Citizens, and have a willingness to obey God’s statutes, precepts, and judgments.

Evil citizens have no reason to obey the Law, but “good” citizens do so willingly. Those who followed Jesus would become good citizens in the Kingdom of God, not that they were previously, but once their nature changed, they would be. The legitimate government of God’s people are those who love Him, their fellow citizens, and even theirs and God’s adversaries.

  The world was created by God, and its “Constitution” was written by Him. He rules from Heaven on His throne and judges His “footstool” — the Earth. The Holy Cross is His scepter, and His Purpose was to make His Son, Jesus, His legitimate merciful Heir. God and His Son both knew the plan of the spiritual “Deep State” from the beginning:

¹¹ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,

And the sound of your stringed instruments;

The maggot is spread under you,

And worms cover you.’

¹² “How you are fallen from heaven,

O Lucifer, son of the morning!

How you are cut down to the ground,

You who weakened the nations!

¹³ For you have said in your heart:

‘I will ascend into heaven,

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;

I will also sit on the mount of the congregation

On the farthest sides of the north;

¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,

I will be like the Most High.’ (Isa 14:11-14)

  Lucifer fell because he was pompous. That is prideful, and as such He was cast down into Hell. Compare that to Adam who was also pompous but was cast out of the Garden. His destiny would have been Sheol as well had it not been for the coat of flesh from a living being which kept him safe from Lucifer and the world. It is likely that the coat was made from a gentle lamb in that Jesus is the “Lamb of God.” Adam and all mankind joined the leader of the spiritual Deep State with the first sin and became adversaries of God. Adam was an enemy of the “State,” knew what He was doing much like Judas, but God had mercy on His enemy.

  Eve was naïve, not knowing what she was doing because the Word had not spoken to her but to Adam. She represents the “stupidity of the American voter” that the Deep State counts on for support. Eve was much like the Roman soldiers who did the actual killing who Jesus said, “They know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34). As such, sin is accounted to Adam, and not directly to Eve, but considering that Adam knew the Rule of Law, he became God’s adversary, and also represents mankind who know the will of God soon after natural birth: “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Rom 5:12), or as David said it, “I was shaped in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5).

  When Jesus was born, He was destined to be King of the Kingdom of God. Herodians thought that Jesus came to displace the Herodian kings and the Hasmonean Dynasty. The religious leaders assumed, but should have known better from the prophets, that Jesus came to displace their religious leadership and to end the Law. Jesus endeavored to ease their concerns by indicating that not one tittle of the Law would be changed. Jesus did not do away with the Law, but confirmed its legitimacy, as it was the Law of Love.

  Lucifer, perceiving himself as royalty, took on a royal title. He was God’s “Adversary” from the time he was created by God when the “heaven” (not Heaven) was generated. God, before He created life from the elements (the dust), He created life from invisible substance. The angels were prototypes for mankind, and in heaven, Lucifer failed God as Adam did in the material world. It seems that God wanted His creatures, both the angels and men, to be able to make decisions. He did not create automatons but free-thinkers. With that, angels and humans were endowed with free will. God foreknew that Adam would make the same wrongful decision because his prototype had before. God chose not to perfect that flaw. Hence, Lucifer and Adam were not made perfect in the exact image of God, but merely “very good” (Gen 1:31). What was not so good? They were not God but both wanted to be!

  Lucifer was created as the leader of the invisible Deep State, so deep that it cannot be seen with the naked eye. Only those with “bright eyes” with a “bright nature” understand the spiritual Deep State. Along with the coats of safety, God gave Adam and Eve bright natures and bright eyes so that they could see into the spiritual realm (Books of Adam and Eve). Christians that are covered by Jesus’s blood should have both bright natures and bright eyes to discern the workings of Satan. Christians should understand that, indeed, there is a spiritual “Deep State” and know its organization.

In Jesus’s time, the groups had different names; they were scribes, Pharisees, Herodians, Sadducees, priests, and disbelieving Jews who all knew the Law of God but disregarded both the Law of their land and its government:

  For unto us a Child is born (Jesus), Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (Isa 9:6)

  God established Jesus as the legitimate King and that His government would be God’s Laws — the Law of Love. The citizens of the Kingdom of God are to be good citizens, respect God’s authority, and His Law:

¹ Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. ² Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. (Rom 13:1-2)

  The “Deep State” can now be identified using modern terminology: As Prince of the Power of the Air (Ephes 2:2) the “Beast” Satan is the invisible force, or deepest power, in the Deep State. Rebels of all eras establish estates based on the Law of Sin from the thoughts of Satan and his messengers, those who are the dark angels in the invisible empire.

  There is a difference between the Deep State and legitimate concerns. The Deep State always does things in stealth without declaring their intent. The American “patriots” were transparent in their endeavors, and wrote a Declaration of Independence wherein they declared their intentions. Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Adolph Hitler all had their declarations as well, but they were not for the good of mankind, as they portended, but to man’s and God’s diminishment.

  Marx’s declaration was the Communist Manifesto. Lenin’s was the Decree of the Land, and Hitler’s Mein Kampf (My Struggle). Ultimately, the patriots in the US attempted to make government based on that divinely instituted among men:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. (US Declaration of Independence)

  American “rights” are endowed to God’s Creatures from their Creator. The US Government is based on the Kingdom of God whereas socialist governments are in rebellion from God’s Authority. Marx’s “Socialist Manifesto” as he called it as well, was based on revolution from extant institutions endowed to the people from God. Lenin took that philosophy and made it a coveting and violent revolution, and Hitler made the hatred of Jews official. Socialism is not based on truth but deception. It says to be for the “common good” but is for the benefit of the leaders and schemers, and the commoners are duped just as Eve was in the beginning. Neither do they know not what they do, or as Jonathan Gruber has declared, “We depended on the stupidity of the American voter.” Marx, Lenin, and Hitler depended on the stupidity of their people and now the American Deep State depends on that as well!

  If the reader is blind to that, then perhaps their eyes are not so bright, and perhaps their nature is more like Lucifer’s than God’s.

  Inalienable (inborn and God-given rights) are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The respect for life is given first. Today, that is called “sanctity of life.” God endowed life in the Creation, and spiritually legitimate governments respect life. Marx did not, Lenin did not, and Hitler did not. The Deep State today is led by those who have no respect for life, unfortunately the clergy as well as the party of Democrats.

  Liberty is a result of respect for life. That is freedom without undue regulation. God’s Will is that men be free from bondage. With sin, there is always a quid pro quo. Socialist governments expect something for something. For the good of some, they expect the taxation from others. If their expectations are not met, incarceration follows, and for the most dissident, socialism has shown death to be the last resort, but oftentimes the first recourse! Good governments respect life and freedom. Evil governments value neither!

  And how about the pursuit of happiness? Get real! The Deep State uses their “useful idiots” for their Epicureanism and Narcissism; they care little about the happiness or the “common good” of the masses. In fact, people are no longer seen as individuals, but bundled masses of warm bodies readily duped by their scheming.

  God, on the other hand, is a personal God. He cares about everyone, and desires that none should perish (John 3:16). He has a plan and a future for everyone, and it is for individual “good” and not merely for the “herd” (Jer 29:11).

  Lucifer is the leader of the spiritual Deep State without regard to the times or the false doctrine. Crony capitalism is as evil as practical socialism, and the elitist capitalists are usually the leaders of the socialist revolution. Why would that be? They expect and get the “low-hanging fruit.” The masses must step up and reach high to get even the spoiled fruit. The Serpent lets them eat freely, but the common man is not quite so important to the Devil. His demons actually prevent the fruit from being eaten and laugh at their gullibility!

  Lucifer always needs his man to lead the ignorant and gullible. The Serpent was his “man” in the beginning, Judas Iscariot in apostolic times, and the beastly Antichrist in the end. True to form, the Antichrist will appear to be very socialistic and humanitarian, but in the end, he shows himself for what he is, and that is the Beast who kills for disobedience. The socialist-minded Antichrist just as Lenin and Hitler long before, finally shows his true colors, and his disdain for life, liberty, happiness of the people, and for God. In the end, just as Muhammadans of that time, they must choose between their souls and their heads.

  Who is the main antichrist today as there are many? George Soros seems to be the main one, but gradually the American system of justice keeps identifying more. Those who unmasked citizens are now being unmasked as traitors to the legitimate government of the US.  If the reader has listened to legitimate news, then they know that Comey, Clintons, Biden, Obama, and many Democrat leaders are the Deep State. They are the “Herodians” of Jesus’s time who want to maintain the crooked government and their own “Slaughter of the Innocents” in a very Herodian manner. “Off with his head” is implied by most but was done in public view by Kathy Griffin. They want Trump to be the New Herodian’s “John the Baptist.”

  Scribes were members of the spiritual Deep State. They were the “lawyers” of that day. Judicial decisions were often brought to them because they knew the law inside and out, and how to circumvent it as well. Not all of them were bad, but many were. That seems to represent the modern-day judicial system quite well. The courts know the laws of the land, but also know how to extend the law beyond its intent. The Democrat visible government has endowed them with power that the Constitution did not. Rather than interpret the law, they make new laws, and it is difficult to catch them in their misdeeds.

  The Sudducees and the Pharisees were the religious leaders. They all knew the Law, but not the intent. The Sadducees did not believe in the Resurrection, but the Pharisees did. The former represent the false church that doesn’t care what the Word says, and the latter, those who know the intent of the God’s Will but do it the way of the world. Those two groups represent the false church. In modern times, they are the denominations that espouse “social justice” over divine justice, and “liberation theology” over Christian liberty that the truth is what makes one free (John 8:31). Social justice is a socialist Utopian concept, and liberation theology a communistic totalitarian notion. However, some churches have one or the other, if not both!

  The Roman centurions did the killing of Jesus. They were not part of the spiritual Deep State but were merely doing what they were told to do. As Hitler’s lieutenants claimed, they were just “following orders.” Many of them were, but few questioned the moral implications of the orders. For that, although they were not responsible for the atrocities, they were held accountable. Perhaps the most powerful ally of the spiritual Deep State is Planned Parenthood and its supporters. The general public even provides taxes to murder, not knowing what goes on inside those centers where unborn babies are crucified wholesale. The doctors and officials of Planned Parenthood are the “Roman Centurions” who are only doing the jobs assigned to them and allowed to by the government.

There is a deeper organization based on “survival of the fittest” wherein the left desires that only the fittest shall survive, even during this plague. However, they define who are the fittest to survive. The most unfit to live in God’s eyes, are those who decide the fittest to live.

  Those who “know not what they do” are the “stupid American voters” who aggrandize Marx and themselves but deny God and His statutes. Even most “Christians” believe it is okay to abort babies or terminate the elderly. They play God just as the Serpent anticipated. They wipe clean God’s Laws and institute their own among men, contrary to the US Declaration. Scripture says that in the time when there was no king, the people “did what was right in their own eyes” (Jud 17:6). Those who are deep in the Deep State without even being aware, are doing just that. They diminish the Law of God and rewrite the statutes to their liking. Now “You shall not kill” has had exception after exception added to the point it is kill whoever is inconvenient. In the last days, Christians and Jews will again be inconvenient to the communist Antichrist.

  Who then is the Deep State? Those who are apathetic to God’s Will. So long as people are somewhat comfortable and have things, they care little about God’s Will or Plan for them. Those who depend on the State for comfort fail to depend on the Comforter. That is blasphemy against Jesus’s Holy Ghost (Mat 12:31).  That describes the majority, and a democracy that is not God-centered. When most have the capacity to make laws to their suiting, then that is democracy. Scripture refers to it as spiritual chaos (Jud 17:6) and it is dangerous. Democracy must be tempered with representation, and the US Constitution enables that temperance in accord with God’s Will with the freedom of worship and assembly. The Deep State, as is now demonstrated, does not adhere to that essential right. And the reader disbelieves in a spiritual “deep State.” How clouded can anyone be?

SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - WHY?

THE PURPOSE

  Why did Jesus have to die? To put an end to the spiritual “Deep State” which was about to destroy Him. Only a few leaders were there to crucify the One Man who came to save the world, but in spirit all mankind was there. Anyone who has sinned were accomplices to the death of God. When anyone denies the Word from Scripture, they as well crucify Jesus.

  Trust no one not to sin for “all have sinned” (Rom 3:23). The penalty for sin is falling short of God’s Glory. That is the inability of returning to Paradise and living forever in the Presence of God. Adam-kind were generated in God’s Paradise. Regeneration is mankind’s return to Paradise lost. Adam was cast out of the Garden into the tribulation of the world. The unregenerate will be cast out into Hades. Paradise is the reward for God’s good and faithful servants, and Hades, or Hell, is the wage for evil and rebellious Narcissists. “Who is he?” you ask. Look at your reflection. If you love who you see more than God, then you are Narcissus.

  Imagine what Judas saw. He surely looked into his mind’s eye and saw himself with beautiful things that money can buy, or perhaps prestige in the eyes of those around him. The silver is not valuable in itself, but vain people treasure what it will buy — they are lusts of the eyes, flesh, and pride (1 John 2:16). Narcissus killed Jesus, and unless sinners have become new creatures in Christ, they are all Narcissus and are “as God” in their own eyes. (Gen 3:5).

  The whistleblower, Judas, was chosen, “for I (Jesus) know whom I have chosen” (John 13:8). Remembering that Satan was about to enter Judas (John 3:27), it was Satan that God had chosen in the beginning. It is worth discussing the nature and supra-nature of Lucifer for a moment. His given name is “Lucifer,” his personalities are the Serpent, Judas, and the Antichrist; his title is “Satan” and that is his purpose as well, and his ego is the “Devil.”  Satan was chosen. When was that?

¹⁴ And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: ¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee (Satan) and the woman (Eve), and between thy (Satan’s) seed and her seed (Eve’s); it (Eve’s seed) shall bruise thy (Satan’s) head, and thou (Satan) shalt bruise his (Her seed’s) heel. (Gen 3:14-15)

  Of course, it was Satan in the Serpent. Judas is Satan’s “seed” since Satan had entered him. As mother of all (Gen 3:20), Jesus is the seed of Eve. In the beginning, Jesus knew that His Purpose was to crush the Serpent; not really the Beast, but the spirit within it. The promise was that Jesus would bruise His heel by stepping on the Devil, and that the head of the Serpent Beast would bruise Jesus’s heel. That was the way it was to happen. [1] However, Jesus said, “He that eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.” Satan’s plan was to crush Jesus; that is why he would lift his heel against Jesus. Fortunately for mankind, God’s Plan was for Jesus to lift His heel against Satan, that was Jesus’s Purpose, and that is what His crucifixion would do!

  How so? “To die is gain,” as Paul said, when Christ is in us. The Holy Ghost of Jesus IS Christ in His people. Jesus did not lose by sacrificing Himself. He won the souls of all that would trust His Crucifixion as efficacious for their own sins. Who died that day? Jesus? Jesus experienced death. In his words, he was asleep, but all the while His Holy Ghost was busy. What was happening while Jesus was in the tomb?

  Satan’s “vessel” and vassal for that matter, had died that day as well. Satan no longer had flesh. Much as the demons died when the pigs ran over the cliff after leaving the man of the Gadarenes, with Judas gone Mark 5, Luke 8), Satan was without flesh as Judas gave up the unholy ghost. The Holy Ghost who had left Jesus (Mark 15:37), unseen to mankind, was battling in the spiritual realm with the unholy ghost of Judas. [2]

  Regeneration begins with spiritual rebirth (John 3:7), and that entails looking at Satan dead on his pole: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up” (John 3:14). It would appear that the serpent on the pole represented Jesus. However, the Serpent represents Satan, not Jesus. What was Jesus’s Purpose? To defeat Satan. It seems that the Hebrews who looked at the dead Serpent in his “tree” (the pole) saw the Adamic Covenant fulfilled. Perhaps when Judas hung himself, his limp dead body hanging from a tree limb was the brass Serpent dead on his pole.

  With Jesus’s death on His “Tree” (Acts 5:30), it spiritually “killed” Satan in his tree. The brazen Serpent surely represented Judas and with him dead, Satan was defeated as Jesus’s Purpose was finished (John 19:30). Was Jesus dead? Was that what Jesus said was finished? Surely not! Satan was as well as dead and would be when Jesus comes to reign.

  Jesus died so that Judas would. The flesh is weak, but the spirit strong. Judas died easily, but Satan’s death as evil spirit would be lengthy. Jesus chose his whistleblower. It was Judas who God selected way back in the Garden of Eden. Judas fulfilled prophecy and represents mankind. Just as Satan’s flesh would have to die, the flesh of all men must die as well. The old creation must be made anew (2 Cor 5:17). Those who follow Jesus must pick up their cross and follow Him to be worthy of regeneration (Mat 10:38). Judas propitiated his own flesh to compensate for his gross sin of denying Jesus. That was not effective. If he had only looked at that Tree and saw the Serpent instead of himself, then perhaps he would have depended on Jesus on the other tree instead.

  Christians often see only one cross. One cross was intended for Barabbas, “the son of the father” but he escaped death that day. The true “Son of the Father” took his place. Of the other two crosses, one represents those who look at Jesus on His Cross and see salvation but need not see Judas hanging a distance away. They are those who knew Jesus’s death defeated Satan.

  The third cross is seldom considered. It represents those who will have their flesh regenerated, but their souls tormented. Those people fail to see that Satan was defeated when Jesus gave up the Ghost. And most of all, people fail to even look at the Judas Tree and what really happened there.

The identity of the whistleblower was not even noticeable and to this day, no one notices that the whistleblower was evil and that he suffered the consequences of his actions. Because Jesus lives, we shall be regenerated as He was. Because Judas is dead, we can understand that Satan is defeated.

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[1] My book, The Skull of Adam, is about that premise. It is called both the Edenic Covenant and the Adamic Covenant, but in reality, it is the Covenant of Grace in that it would be fulfilled when Jesus came to fulfill the Law of Grace.

[2] In my book, I contended that Adam’s skull, representing sin, was beneath Calvary, and that Jesus may have stepped on the very dust of Adam. If so, Adam’s original sin was propitiated by Jesus’s blood of which the death of a living animal was in Genesis 3. I believe the time interval of “five and one half days” (5500 years) was from Adam’s original sin to his reprieve, and that in the interim, the coat of skin that God gave kept him safe from Satan.

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SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - LOVE OF MONEY

FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY

  People will do about anything for money. The love of money is both crony capitalism and practical socialism. “Practical” because socialism is all about wealth, and who has it. People will accept any doctrine for something that is essentially worthless. Money is not what people love but the antennae for pleasure, prestige, and power. Those three attitudes are the lusts of original sin, and money causes people to sin, and of course, sin has consequences, as is written, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs” (1 Tim 6:10).

  Think on that. Poor people worry about their necessities and health. Billionaires worry about death and economic catastrophe. The wealthy must guard it at all times because if they do not, their wealth may evaporate and be gone with the wind, so to speak. Solomon wrote that whatever his eyes beheld as given to them (Ecc 2:10), but he soon realized that all is vanity (Ecc 2:15). Monetary gain and grief are proportional. Wise men can have money, but cherishing it is vanity. The love of money begets the sin of coveting because no amount of money is enough; wealthy people must have the wealth that belongs to others. That is crony capitalism and how socialism always works.

The masses (i.e. the people) must be used for others to gain, and socialism is like a Ponzi scheme where the first to enlist are those who gain, and it is on the backs of those who enter later when they see the gain of those before them.

  Note that money is not evil. It is nothing more than the medium of exchange for goods and services. However, many seem to worship it because it is a symbol of power and wealth, and those who have it are prestigious in the eyes of the lesser. The love of money is the evil. The “Root” of the Tree of Life is God. The “root” of the Tree of Knowledge is the love of money. Money is not the physical root of the Wisdom Tree but the things it represents.

  According to Solomon, the one most wise, the root of the Wisdom Tree would be vanity. Vain things are those of no account or negligible significance. Money is insignificant. Think not? What if there was an economic collapse. Why would anyone want money? Perhaps one would suppose that would never happen. It has many times. Inflation was so bad in the Weimer Republic of Germany that any amount of money could not buy things. It became worthless. Inflation at that time was so bad that the value of money was no more than for fire kindling. People paid before they ate at restaurants because the price increased as they ate the meal!

  Worthless money was the catalyst for National Socialism. Too much capital in the wrong hands creates crises, and too little money in the right hands as well. The Nazis never let that particularly serious crises go to waste. The Third Reich was built on the crisis of the Weimer Republic. Today, America is in an economic crisis and the time is ripe for a deeper plunge into the socialist “swamp.”

Judas was the treasurer of the apostolic Church. Many church treasurers in modern times have been seduced by easy access to money that is not theirs. Money can lure even the most righteous person from God, and Satan knows that. The ideology of socialism is built on the concept that capital does not belong to the few but belongs to all without regard to the capacity of those to whom it belongs. It is one of two ways: (1) Thieves are socialists, or (2) those deceived by socialism become thieves without realizing it.

  There exists in the world a deserving attitude. Adam and Eve had their basic needs met, but their attitudes were, we deserve this luscious good fruit and the wisdom it will bring. They ate and enjoyed the good fruit, but what did it bring? Shame, grief, wandering from the faith, isolation from God, and hard work. They got what they deserved. The world outside of Paradise is what everyone deserves, and the world is the place of tribulation. Why is death gain, according to Paul? To escape tribulation.

Socialism has always brought grief because it is the wrong way for gain. Faith in government is as bad as faith in the Serpent. The Serpent looked innocent and clever, but that was his evil persona. Inside, he was still the Devil! It turned out that Adam and Eve traded their souls to the Devil for a few bites of a fig. Marxism, not quite as cunning, uses the “carrot.” They do provide, but the “fruit” is not what it seems.

  For Adam and Eve, the luscious fruit was grief and death because that was the consequence of their eating the fruit. In the case of the Wisdom Tree, the fruits of it were merely the monetary standard of the day. Adam and Eve bartered their eternal lives away for mere figs. Figs were the exchange medium in the Garden of Eden, and when God said, “do not eat of that fruit,” He meant don’t love what figs can buy because it is only death!

  Customs change with time, and so does the economy. In apostolic times, the exchange medium was no longer free things, but a thing (silver) accumulated in one of three ways: (1) Hard work and sweat, or (2) charity, or (3) usury. Judas was deceived by the cunning Beast, now out of the snake and the tree, but in him. Judas could have worked or be satisfied with the charity from the disciples. After all, he had the treasurer’s sack, and none were starving. Judas, unsatisfied with ample, wanted more. That is how socialism works as well. Where was he to get more? Along came those with money, and he saw the opportunity.

  Judas was not the usurer, but the victim. The Jewish leaders used Judas’s love of money to captivate him. They held out the bag and all Judas saw was money that would require no work. It was his for the taking. There was one provision, though — he would be required to turn on his friend and Savior. Jesus was the King of the Jews and mankind. He was Supreme to Caesar. Jesus was the most valuable Asset to ever exist. The Jewish leaders were paying only thirty pieces of silver and the return-on-investment was terrific. Jesus was the interest on the Jewish money, and they were the worst usurers ever. Ezekiel saw that crisis. Whoever does the abomination of usury deserves death and his blood shall be on himself (Ezek 18:3).

  The Jewish leaders had the greater sin than Pilate. Their sin was usury, and the penalty for that was death. Their gain was the death of Jesus at the mere cost of a little silver. Socialism accepts the “death” of God for a mere minimum wage! Socialism is another extreme case of usury. Judas saw the light too late, and grief overwhelmed him. Like Adam long before, he had traded his soul for what “money” can buy. (Adam was redeemed; Judas was not).  Godless socialism works the same way. Dependence on evil men is diminishing God, and Marx diminished Him out of existence. The philosopher Nietzche made God dead in the eyes of liberalism, and Marx struck the fatal blow. The acceptance of socialism is making God as dead and the government as God.

  Who is it? asked John. It was one of the twelve who supped with Jesus, which of course, was to be done in remembrance of Him. It may be that each apostle expected it to be himself. They all knew the calamity inside. They had left everything to bear their crosses for Jesus. Was it worth it? Perhaps each and everyone questioned their motives. It turned out that the most trusted one of them, and the most frugal turned on Jesus. Judas had hidden his love of money based on charity when the woman wasted expensive ointment to ready Jesus for His death. Judas, in his heart was saying, That oil could have been sold for money and  used for my purposes rather than for Jesus’s feet!

  The masses are taught that the money of capitalism is better used for themselves than its rightful owners. Who “owned” the thirty pieces of silver? Not by Caesar as his likeness was not on it. God made the silver, and His Face was there at its creation. It was Jesus who turned nothing into silver, and here it was. Judas used what belonged to God for his own desires. Judas as well struck Jesus in the face with His own silver.

  As treasurer, Judas carried the “vault” so to speak. It was a heavy burden to bear, and rather than he who leaned on Jesus, it was probably John. His “cross” was the money bag, and John’s the Cross of Jesus. Oftentimes, it is a friend who will betray. It was Judas who Jesus and the others trusted with finances that betrayed Him. Beware, those who betray the most are those you may trust the most! Nearly everyone has ulterior motives. It turned out that Judas died much like Jesus and many Muslims accept his death as propitiation, not for mankind, but for his own grieve. Judas got more than he wanted for his sedition, and the silver meant nothing to him any longer because he had lost his soul.

  With that grief, Judas tried to pay for his own sin by his own effort. He remained a Jew in his heart to the last dying breath. He totally had misunderstood what Purpose Jesus would serve. Islam is a religion of works, and many believe that Judas is the Muslim “Jesus” (Isa). It seems that during the Great Tribulation that socialism will be the government and Islam its religion, especially since the Beast, the Antichrist, will arise from the Euphrates (the Middle East; Rev 13:1).

  The one who was the most trusted turned on Jesus. Beware in whom you trust.

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SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - GREATER THAN

                                                         GREATER THAN

  The Deep State are those who think of themselves as greater than the existing ruler(s). For some, Judas is greater than Jesus. Islam denies that Jesus died but readily admits that Judas Iscariot did: "They did not slay him, neither crucified him, only a likeness of that was shown to them." (Qur'an 4:156). With that, they believe that Yahuza al-Iskhriyuti (Judas Iscariot) died for the sins of mankind, and not Isa (Jesus), as is understood as true by many Muslims. With that confusion, the Muslim Isa, their “Jesus” will return with a vengeance. In other words, Judas is Isa and their idea of  “Jesus” is that He is the imposter, “Antichrist.” The death of Judas in his tree, dying for his own sins, substitutes for Jesus, dying on His “Tree” for the sins of mankind.

  Who then is the greater, Jesus or Judas? The name “Judas” means “the praised one” and Iscariot “man of Kerioth” having the same root verb (Qara) as Qu’ran. Revelation chapter twelve prophecies the end of Islam. Who is greater, Judas or Jesus? Judas will be destroyed for he is the Christian “Antichrist” and is the Islamic “Christ” whose name is Isa, and the one they call “Jesus.”

“Qu’ran” comes from the verb “Qara,” the “one who calls.” Who will call to Islam? The praised one, Judas.

  Islam and Christianity are the opposing religions of the Bible. All others are less significant. The church of the Apocalypse is a synthesis of Islam and liberal “Christianity.” The former is a religion of works, and the latter of “social justice.” The theology of the aberrant church and Islam are both “liberation theology.” Islam seeks to liberate the world from Christ, and the liberal church from the Doctrine of Christ.

  It is worth mentioning a second time so that it will not be forgotten; Satan entered the Serpent, he entered Judas, and he will enter the Antichrist. The latter is the same “Beast” who hung from a tree in Genesis chapter three, the same “Beast” who hung from his tree when Jesus died, and the same “Beast” that Jesus will defeat in the end. The Beast is the Antichrist but was surely the Serpent and Judas as well. Who is greater, Christ or the Antichrist? In the end, just as in the days of Noah, for most the Antichrist will be greater.

  Islam is part of the “Deep State” in a spiritual and now a political sense. Not a day goes by that some public figure, and even preachers, chat the mantra, Islam is a peaceful religion. Fundamentally Islam is a cruel religion. Whereas zealots for Christ “kill” the evil doings of people with love, zealots for Isa kill people with the sword. Whereas the Cross points to Heaven and Peace, and is grounded in the earth, Isa will have the moon under his feet (Rev 12:1). Allah is believed to have been created from the moon God “El” (No wonder that Allah is confused with Elohim — A god in one person is not God in three Persons!)

  The crescent symbol of Islam has its roots in the Turkish Empire which at that time consisted of mostly the fertile crescent of the Middle East. Perhaps that crescent represents that fertile and holy land. Be clear; all those things point to Islam as a huge player in the Apocalypse. Jesus came to save the world and to overcome the sin in it. Islam came to rule the world with Sharia Law. Which is greater, God’s Law or Sharia Law?

  Sharia Law of the Muslims has much commonality with communism. Both are highly regulatory and cruelly judgmental. (Communists tax, enslave, starve, and shoot people whereas Sharia Law tax, enslave, starve, and behead people.) The Deep State is now welcoming the Muslims. Why would that be? “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is an Arabian (Muslim) proverb but is also in the Bible. It must be sought out diligently:

¹¹ Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked Him (Jesus). Dressing Him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate. ¹² That day Herod and Pilate became friends—before this they had been enemies. (Luke 23:11-12)

  Two enemies, each who ruled the same land, became friends. The commonality was the Name “Jesus.” Herod and Pilate became friends because of their common enemy. How is it that Democrats and Muslims are so friendly toward each other in this age? Democrats, as communist Marxists, are the enemy of Christ as are Muslims. Pilate is stereotypical of Government, and the Herod stereotypical of Muslims. Herod was half Idumean (Edomite). Edomites were the family of Esau, the adversary of Israel, and have the same progeny as Mohammad. In the end, Marxism and Sharia Law will be destroyed by Jesus and replaced by a Benevolent Theocracy with Jesus as King and God! That is the   “hope” of Christians and the “fear” of Christ’s adversaries.

  Satan’s M.O. is based on him as greater than Jesus; thus Lucifer (aka Satan, the Serpent, the Antichrist, the Devil, and the Prince of the Power of the Air) portends to be greater than God and desires to be king of the World and Heaven. The nature of mankind since Adam was “bitten” by the Serpent is to be greater than God, and that must entail being greater than others.

  The apostles of Jesus were doing something horrific. They were “as Satan” in that they were arguing who would be greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. (Luke 12:24). Each thought that himself greater. Essentially, the question was which of the apostles would sit at the right hand of God in Jesus’s place. Naively so, they were desiring the same privilege that Lucifer sought.

  In ancient kingdoms, there were always pretenders to the throne. Usually, they were the kings’ own family members or nobles within the royal court. Seldom, except in chaotic Russia, were they common citizens, but were always notable people once on good terms with the King. There was always a “Deep State” out to overthrow the king. Oftentimes, adversaries of the king sought to destroy him, and the best man take the throne. Enemies befriended each other because their common enemy was the king. The same applies to Jesus. The plot to assassinate Jesus were the various opposing groups who joined together for a common cause. They thought that killing Jesus was for the “common good” of the Jewish people and even the world, represented by Pilate.

  Socialism is based on a false assumption; that old enemies can put their individual interests aside and do things for the common good. Fascists call that same concept fascio (bundling). Fascism is merely another form of socialism as is Bolshevism and Menshevism but just a little different. What do all those “isms” have in common? They want to be greater in the making of a new kingdom. Each apostle had their own “ism” wherein they each saw himself greater than the others and deserving of authority in the Kingdom of God.
  Even Jesus’s friends and followers abetted the Deep State. Jesus died for the sins of His friends as well as His enemies! Today, even Christians are part of the Deep State and fail to realize it. The philosophers, politicians, and media are the “Adams” with eyes wide open, and the masses of people are the “Eves.” Eve-like Christians, thinking they are eating the Passover in remembrance of Jesus, are eating the forbidden fruit from the Philosophy Tree that socialism represents.

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SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - THE PLOT

THE PLOT AND WHISTLEBLOWER

  Jesus said, when the woman used precious ointment to anoint him in preparation for his eminent death, "For you have the poor with you always… but Me you do not have always” (Mark 14:7). Jesus did not come for “social justice” but divine. He did not come to provide prosperity to the world, but to the faithful. One of the most misunderstood things in the Bible was that the land promised to Abraham was more than the Holy Land, but the Kingdom of God. Where is the Garden of Eden? It appears to be the “Fertile Crescent” in the Holy Land, with Jerusalem in its midst. When God promised land, it was His Kingdom and New Jerusalem. Prosperity was not, and never will be, ownership of the physical Kingdom of David, but the just as real spiritual Kingdom of God.

  Poverty is a result of disobedience (Gen 3:17-19). God’s Will for mankind after the original sin, was hard work and poverty. Why would anyone want back in the Garden if Paradise was where they were cast out to? Why would anyone want the Kingdom of Heaven if the Fiefdom of the Devil was as good? People can escape from poverty by dependence on God; anyone can escape spiritual poverty by diminishing themselves and exalting God.

  Jesus rightly said that the poor would always be extant. Judas saw things differently. He thought he knew how to escape poverty! First off, he wanted to preserve the precious oil to sell for mankind’s benefit. Judas had no concern with Jesus but was indignant that the woman would waste precious oil on his Lord when it could be sold, indubitably to fill the coffers for him to steal from, and not used for God’s sake. The Motto of Judas seemed to be, From Him with the ability, to those with desires. Is that not like the Socialist motto? Was not Judas the leader of the plot among Jesus’s own party? Was he not seditious of his own people, expecting things from Jesus’s adversaries?

  The “Deep State” is more than adversaries against legitimate authority, but those imbedded within who are against their own people. For Trump, it is were those within his administration that plotted to have him disenfranchised, and for Jesus it was Judas Iscariot. The President was plagued by the Russian Hoax and Jesus by the “Caesarian Hoax.” Had Trump plotted with Putin? The Deep State made it appear that he had. Had Jesus plotted with the Romans when he said, “Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars?” Did it not appear that Jesus and Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, were in collusion when Pilate sought justice for Jesus, but when justice failed, Pilate washed his hands of the plot to kill Jesus?

  What crime had Jesus committed to deserve death? No crime at all! What crime had Trump committed to deserve impeachment?  No crime at all. Just as the Jews created a crime to accuse Jesus, the Deep State created a crime to accuse Trump.

  Who committed the crime with Jesus? The opposition. Who colluded with Jesus’s adversaries? His own people. Judas colluded with the Sanhedrin to impeach an impeccable Man. Mrs. Clinton may have colluded with both the Russians and the US’s own “Sanhedrin” (Congress) to impeach an imperfect man.

  In the case of Judas, he had Satan in him (Luke 22:3). In the case of Mrs. Clinton, is Satan in her? People often say that Satan made them do certain sins. That is self-aggrandizing. The common person is not esteemed that highly by Satan. He esteems himself to the extent that he cares who he enters.   Most often, it is the stupidity and arrogance of people that make them sin. Some are a little tougher for Satan to seduce. In those cases, Satan sends demons for the hard work. On two specific occasions, Satan went into other beings; Satan entered the Serpent and Satan entered Judas. They were significant personalities that God used for His Purposes. God will soon allow Satan himself to enter a political person and that is the Antichrist. The question is, Has Satan entered Hillary, or was it demons, or was she working for her own godhood? Regardless, Satan and the demons are her cheerleaders!

  After the plot to kill Jesus was finished, there was a Passover Feast and Jesus’s Last Supper was prepared. God would Passover the Jews — all of them except three: two thieves and Jesus. Oh yes, the Lord would Passover Barabbas as well. Ironically, Jesus was the Son of the Father, and “Barabbas” means “son of the father.” The Death Angel passed over the Devil’s “son” but did not Passover God’s Son. God knew the injustice of that but did so anyway. Satan did not kill Jesus. He hung himself on a tree in shame. God allowed His only Son to die instead of the sons of the Devil.

Judas was the “whistleblower.” He snitched on Jesus for made-up things. In the case of the Russian government, the KGB had “informer” friends that created false narratives that would threaten the communist government. In the case of German socialism, the informers were friends and family. In the case of the Sanhedrin against Jesus, the whistleblower was one of the Lord’s chief “bureaucrats.” It was his own apostle, Judas, who turned in an innocent Man and King.

  The Herodians despised Jesus because they saw Him as a pretender to the Herodian throne. The Jewish leadership despised Jesus because they saw Him as a threat to them as administrators of Mosaic Law. They wanted to be the government, but Jesus stood between them and God the Father. Jesus did not come to drain Caesar from the “swamp” but Herodian and religious zealots. His death defeated both Herod and the Sanhedrin, but His life defeated the zealot Saul!

Saul’s role was much like the FBI’s in modern times under its bad leadership. Saul took many of the Lord’s closest allies to their demise.

  God made evil Saul “good.” God renamed him “Paul.” On the other hand, James Comey remains James Comey. To some, he seems good, but inside, there is a much different persona.

Jesus identified his betrayer — the man who blew the whistle on Him. Trump never did that. His identity is known but it was not the President who exposed his betrayer to the public.

  The comparison between the events leading to the death of Jesus and the coup d’etat against the President is made to demonstrate that the “Deep State” in some form or another always exists. For the French, it was the Jacobin philosophers who finally revealed themselves as murdering socialist tyrants. For Russians, it was the Democratic-Socialists who later revealed their true identities of Bolshevic Communists. For the German Republic, it was the German Socialist Workers Party that soon revealed itself as Nazis. In all situations, it is always the angel Lucifer that seems so good that turns out to be the Devil Satan.

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SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - THE MAN OF THE HOUR

THE MAN OF THE HOUR

  The time had come! Jesus’s moment in history had arrived. He was born to die, not for his own misdeeds, but the sins of the world. That includes all mankind, the “whosoever” in John 3:16. Jesus said himself, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified” (John 12:23). “Should” in that passage seems to be one of the most mistranslated passages in the Bible. Sinners “should die;” Jesus should not but was. Jesus was destined to die. He knew that before He was ever born. As God, He planned His own death. Did Jesus cause everything to come true as prophesied to His Plan, or did He merely understand the nature of His self-emancipated creatures?

  Did Jesus agonize for mankind only before His death, or did God weep for His rebellious children all along? Imagine, if you are a parent, how a father loves his children so greatly, and the mother as well, that they tolerate their misdeeds all their lives! It does not cease at the age of maturity but continue as grown adults still behave and think immaturely. God came into the Flesh because He agonized for His lost children. Mankind are all His prodigal sons, putting the things of the world before the Father in Heaven. God came to Earth to adopt His children, at least those who want to be reinstated to the loving environment in which they had been created.

  Mankind was created in a glorious condition; they were unashamed to be in the Face of God. After sin entered them, they were ashamed. Satan has entered only two created beings: the Serpent and Judas Iscariot. He will enter one more — the Antichrist. Satan is not in anyone, but only demons who serve him. Satan is not accountable for individual sins, each person is! Everyone who desires glory must repent of infamy.

  For Christians, “to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). “Gain” is again being in the image of God — being like Jesus. Perhaps, Jesus should, indeed, be glorified. That is sitting at the right hand of God. That is where He should be, not on Earth dying for mankind. He needs to sit on the throne, not crucified on His footstool. Perhaps the footrest of the Cross was what God was thinking of all the time way back when. The Cross was His footstool but points toward His throne. When Jesus was crucified, immediately He gave up His Ghost, and the Holy Ghost of Jesus was with the thief that same day in Paradise. Is Paradise merely an instant away in an unseen realm? It seems so because Jesus moved freely between the physical world and the invisible. Jesus said:

²⁷ “Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, saying, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.” (John 12:27-28).

  The Voice from heaven, not the place, but another realm, spoke. The Father was there all the time. It was the time… it was the very hour that all the prophets had awaited but that evil men neglected. Jesus was to suffer death in all three substances, but only the Person Jesus would die. The Voice indicated, I have glorified your Name before, and I will do so again! What was God thinking? Was Jesus glorified when He was born?

  Perhaps the transfiguration was the initial glorification. He, the Father, and the Spirit were one for a time on the mountain. Perhaps Jesus considered His death as gain because He had experienced Glory before. He showed Elias, Moses, Peter, James, and John “what He was made of.” He showed them the Three Substances of the Holy Trinity in the Person of Jesus.  Why was Jesus glorified the first time? Because God, in all Three Persons, must suffer on the Cross. We should have been, but God was because He was willing to die for mankind — the captive sons and daughters of the Devil from whom His death freed mankind if they indeed want freedom.

  Somehow Isaiah had seen God’s glory.  He was not there at the transfiguration; how could that be? Because Isaiah had bright eyes. John revealed what Isaiah saw when He said, “These things Isaiah said when he saw His Glory and spoke of Him” (John 12:41). What did Isaiah say? That God had blinded people so that they did not understand that He could and would heal them (John 12:40). The Jews were blind to God’s Glory, but Isaiah could see God on His throne and His Face was that of the Son of Man. Isaiah was not blind as the others because he was able to see through the barrier between the physical and the spiritual, and through time, just as John the Revelator could:

And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.(Rev 15:2)

  Isaiah saw Jesus Glorified. Now the time had come for glorification. To die was gain for Jesus as well. He suffered death as everyone will someday, but He looked forward to being One with God on His throne. But first the time had come to die. God had to experience death for mankind, but He had to live on afterward to provide hope.

  Jews believed in Jesus because of His miracles. Gentiles believed in Jesus because He makes sense (1 Cor 1:22). It makes sense that mankind can be regenerated after death because they were generated in the beginning merely from the twinkle in God’s eye. When God created man, it was in their image (Gen 1:21) but still in the image of God. How could that be? Because Jesus was on God’s Mind in the beginning.

  In fact, the Garden Paradise was Glory, and that is where God’s adopted children shall return. Cherubim guard the narrow path and strait gate to enter in. The Zion Gate adjacent to Mount Zion is the original gate to the City of David. Could it be to enter heavenly Zion that the entry is through that gate? Perhaps cherubim are there unseen. Or perhaps it is the Golden Gate that Jesus last entered, and is know as the Gate of Mercy, as it is believed that it is the gate that Jesus will enter through in the last days.

  Isaiah walked in the Light. He could see Jesus plainly and unblurred by the barrier of time. He saw through the sea of glass, perhaps not a floor in a physical sense, but a barrier between the seen and unseen. Jesus looked forward to the other side when He was finished with His Purpose. Jesus, in His own Way, came to drain the swamp. Evil men created the “swamp” when they sinned with impunity in the days of Noah. God allowed the waters to increase because sin was rampant. He gave them a storm to control, but only He and His eight chosen people could outlast the storm.
  When it was all over God drained the “deep swamp” and all the sins of mankind were washed away. Jesus saved the day because it is He who calms storms. God’s creatures would live in a new world, cleansed by Almighty God. The world had been regenerated and a few people with it. Only with Jesus can storms be calmed and waters drained. Now, the President is man of the hour. Only with God whose Name is Jesus can the world be saved but is it worth saving? Donald Trump is not godly, but as Obama before him, be was also chosen by God for His Purpose. The question is? Are people worth preserving? That depends on everyone. The world is only worth saving if there are enough to warrant saving.

  Some have asked me, “Are we in the last days?” That depends on people. Only God knows the time because only God knows our hearts. The time will be when there are few left worth saving. How many is that? Fifty? Ten? Eight? Five? Is that not the type of question that Abraham asked God about Sodom and Gomorrah? To save from the flood, God thought that eight made it worthwhile. For Sodom and Gomorrah, it was Lot’s family (excepting his wife who turned back). How many will be saved before the world is destroyed by fire? That is up to mankind. Jesus will save 144,000 Jews, but how many Gentiles? Just a few because the remnant will be snatched up before the fire.

  One person asked if Trump is the Antichrist. Antichrists are those against God. Trump does not fit the identity that Scripture provides. Those against God disrespect God and His creatures. That is not for anyone to judge but God Himself. However He gives clues to who is His people and who are not. The greatest clue is that Christians must profess the Name of God and that glorious Name is Jesus?

Like Noah before him, the President is “man of the hour,” but that is totally dependent on the Will of the Man of the Hour.

 (picture credit: Harry Anderson "Noah's Preaching Scorned")

SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - THE TIME

IT WAS TIME

  They came to get Jesus. It was not Jesus that they were after, but the people. Does that sound familiar? Trump wrote a meme that, “In reality, they are not after me; they are after you.” “They” are adversaries in both cases. “They” were the mob out to get Jesus, they were the mob that were out to get Trump, and they are the mob that are out to get you. What happened to Jesus will happen to Christians. The adversaries did not want Jesus, but his disciples. They wanted the respect and authority that they feared Jesus had. Satan wants the people, and Jesus stood in the way. He had to be done away with. First, they impeached His character, and finally they demanded His life! The “King of the Jews” would not abdicate so they ended His reign, at least for a while.

  Some believe that Christians will be raptured before the Great Tribulation. “Rapture” means “snatched up” and is a theological term for joining Jesus in heaven. In the doctrine the rapture will occur before the Great Tribulation and is called “pre-tribulation,” but others believe that Christians will not be raptured until after the first 3-1/2 years of the Great Tribulation (Mid-tribulation). The first period will be one of content with a socialist-type of government. That will be explained later. However, the Church will be persecuted, as it has been since apostolic times. In all that time, it has been the “Church Age” and the tribulation of the Church is a foretaste to the Great Tribulation.

  The autocracy of the Antichrist will not occur in an instant, but like a wave, it will become more intense until it reaches a crescendo until it is too late for a defense. At this moment, the wave is engulfed with hatred. “Judgmental” (sic) Christianity is waning. One New Age disciple said that Christianity must die because it is so intolerant. Intolerant of whom or what? Intolerant of Lucifer’s false religions and rebellious people. Intolerance is the most used weapon in the arsenal of the New Age. George Soros uses Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance as a weapon against Christians; to wit: “"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."

  Is it not obvious at the present that the religion of love is called “haters” by the world. It is okay, in their eyes, to hate Christians because Christians are intolerant of sin. Since the world consists of sinners, then they perceive that Christians hate them. They do not understand that as God so loved the world that none should perish (John 3:16), true Christians love those in the world that much. Love is hard work. That is the reason that God commanded it, as is written, “This commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also” (1 John 4:21). “Brother,” of course, refers to other people. Oftentimes, people hate those who love them the most intensely. Love induces conviction, and those who dislike guilt respond with animosity. Jesus knew that He would not come to bring peace to the world, but animosity (Mat 10:34).

  In Jesus’s day, “they” were the mob of adversaries against Jesus. They were represented by factions that misunderstood God. They were the “church” (Pharisees and Sadducees), the government (the Sanhedrin) and the gullible commoners. The three “estates” — church, nobility, and commoners were represented and were all guilty of crucifying Jesus. They represent everyone, and in the last days, the Antichrist will be a “god,” an autocrat, and the people will take his mark. They will be persuaded by the false narrative that he brought peace and prosperity, but to have peace and nourishment with the freedom to buy and sell, the gullible people must give their soul to Beast. That is exactly the way that socialism operates. Its motto could as well have been, “From those who exalt God; to those who exalt Big Brother.”

  In the present age, “they” are those who reject God and His institutions. Remembering that Jesus gave to Caesar what belonged to him, it is obvious that Jesus did not come to establish an earthly kingdom. Neither should Christians attempt to overthrow kingdoms in God’s Name. The socialist French Revolution killed wantonly for their aims; there change was a revolution as the republic replaced the autocracy. Soon after, as Russia did much later, the insidious socialists had another revolution, and they murdered their own revolutionaries. They replaced a weak republic with an intolerant and cruel communistic oligarchy with Maximilien Robespierre as the autocrat.

What did Robespierre do? He beheaded his opponents. That is what socialism will do to gain power. The Bolshevik brand of socialism used guns, but the Antichrist will return to beheading because it is more intimidating.

  When will all these things happen? No one knows when. “But of the day and the hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father (Mark 13:32). The reason that the time cannot be perceived is perhaps because it is so gradual. Before an inauguration, the stage is set and arranged. Perhaps the Church age is preparation for the inauguration of the Antichrist. No one knows the exact time, but there are numerous signs.

  Christians must not depend on signs to direct their lives. Trusting God’s Plan is all that is required, but Jews require a sign (1 Cor 1:22). Sometimes the “sign” is so obvious that they miss it. Astrology is directing people’s lives to adjust to astronomical signs. Astronomically speaking, God provided a sign in the heavens (Mat 2:9). In the Greek, the word “aster” is used both literally and figuratively in the Bible. Theologians have always taken it to mean a “star” but perhaps it was another astrological phenomenon. Astrophysicist Grant Matthews says there was, “a planetary alignment (of) the sun, Jupiter, the moon and Saturn where all in the part of the sky known as Aries” (Sloat 2016). Aries is the time interval between March 20 and April 21. Many believe that Jesus was born at the equinox (March 21) in 6 B.C. which aligns quite well with history.

  6 B.C. coincides with the estimated beginning of the age of Pisces. That is one reason Christianity is identified with a fish. The Church Age then coincides with the Age of Pisces, and it began with the astral sign of the alignment of the Sun, Jupiter, the Moon, and Saturn. That alignment was perhaps the “star” that the Zoroastrians saw from the East. With that said, astrological ages cycle every 25,860 years. Given twelve ages, that is 2155 years for each sign, but due to apparent widths, each age may differ from that. Hence “ages” are not discreet nor exact.

  No one knows the number of years but can only approximate it. However, using the average, the year 2149 would begin the Age of Aquarius. New Agers believe that is the age of their sage. Christians should recognize the Age of Aquarius as the Antichurch Age ruled by the Antichrist. “Utopia” for the world will finally arrive. The ideals of the socialist state will be achieved, but at the expense of the Church and at the diminishing of Jesus. The entire globe will be a kind of Paradise until the deception is discovered. After 3-1/2 years, chaos will ensue, and the Utopian world will be revealed as a wicked Satanic autocracy.

  Some believe the Age of Aquarius commenced as early as 1994. Perhaps this is the Age of the Antichrist already; not that the Antichrist yet rules, but the stage is being set for his introduction. The Beast will come from the Euphrates. Look toward the Middle East for a leader of the New World Order.

  Christians must watch. Scripture is being fulfilled each day. The persecution of Christians has commenced, not with outright acts of cruelty, but intimidation and hatred. It will increase each year until the time is ripe for the Adversary to surprise the world. Jesus warned that Christians must be vigilant:

³⁴ “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. ³⁵ For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. ³⁶ Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:34-36)

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SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - MOTIVE

THE MOTIVE

  Enlightened philosophers killed-off faith in God. They were much as the Jewish plotters who indicted Jesus. Jesus answered Pontius Pilate’s bloviation about his power with, “You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore, the one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin” (John 19:11). Pilate was the man who ordered the murder of Jesus. However, who was the one with the greater sin? The chief priest.

  Socialism is a conglomeration of “enlightened” ideas from philosophers. If one examines who influenced Karl Marx and his colleagues, they were philosophers. Charles Darwin’s philosophy of “survival of the fittest” made it popular for the most fit to survive lesser people. National Socialism was based on Jews as less fit, and even considered as parasitical sub-human beings. It is easy to kill “parasites” and that they did. The Enlightenment darkened the mind of those who fell for the deception from philosophy. Darwin, Fredrich Nietzche, and Wilhelm Hegel committed greater sins than did Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin. The man, Darwin, indirectly responsible for Nazi and Bolshevist atrocities developed the philosophy taught in schools all over the world and is considered a great man. His notoriety should not be as a great man, but a great sinner.

  The charlatan Charles Darwin can be taught in schools to tender young minds, but the truly Enlightened One cannot be. Darwin, like the Serpent before him, spoke some truth, but it was riddled with deception. Lies are not effective because they can be discovered, but deception is more abstract. With Darwin, the evolution of the species quickly was re-interpreted as evolution to the species. With that philosophical hypothesis, mankind was relegated to the same species from which monkeys and even amoeba came! It is easier to kill a “sub-human monkey” is it not? and even easier to step on “amoeba.” Step on a human being early enough and call it an embryo or fetus, and who would be there to accuse of murder? God.

  People want God dead because God knows their inhumanity. Criminal acts in the Holocaust were crimes against humanity. The Soviet Socialist Holodomor by Josef Stalin were even more numerous crimes against humanity. The period of “Chinese Land Reform” (aka Tugai) was the ultimate socialist initiative. It redistributed the land of Chinese landlords and gave it to the peasantry. Mao Zedong did that by killing millions of landowners, but Karl Marx’s and Charles Darwin’s sins were greater than Mao’s! Why do socialists and “enlightened” people want God dead? So they can kill with impunity and without fear of judgment.

  If only they can convince themselves that God is dead, then there will be no fear of divine accountability. Do enlightened philosophers believe that God is dead? No! The Enlightenment sought to eliminate the possibility of the existence of God. God did is that He is nothing. Sigmund Freud and Karl Jung understood scripture. Both were secular Jews who “killed” God by operationalizing His Word and misappropriating it as their own work.

  For instance, Freud’s faculties of the ego, id, and superego are no more than you, your desires, and your conscience. Jung’s “collective unconscious” is the concept of “original sin” handed down from Adam, and the “archetypes” are ideas coming from “animas” or what Christians would call “demons.” Jung’s “shadow” coincides well with denial of the iniquity in people. That “shadow” seems to represent the duality in the spirit and the flesh, and the free will of mankind in operation. Most often the “shadow” wins out and the Light is lost. Each time people sin, it is Jung’s concept of the shadow which is supreme.  In truth, the Jungian shadow is the “darkness” mentioned so often in scripture.

  The field of psychology came from philosophy. Paul, debating with the philosophers in Athens (Acts 17), was debating with the “psychologists” of his day. Philosophy, as the love of wisdom, is congruent to psychology, the study of the soul. Freud and Jung, as did most other psychologists, merely took theological truths and twisted them into scientific theories and failed to credit God. The Jews crucified God but the philosophers did so a second time. The Crucifixion of Christ was the physical murder of Jesus and the Enlightenment the death of His Truth; in that from that time on the truth was secondary to reason.

  Socialism is a philosophy which distorts truth to rationalize their deception as can be seen with, “Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ” (Col 2:8).

Philosophy cheats. It is not enlightenment but right out deception. The free-thinkers who submit that they know the truth, have been deceived by empty philosophies. It is astounding that otherwise rational people will accept the opposing doctrines of philosophy and psychology and accept them as truth. For instance, that abnormal behavior and thinking are inborn is one theory, and that it is behavioral is another. How can it be both? It is paradoxical to hold conflicting beliefs, but spiritually abnormal people do so very day!

  Albert Einstein defined insanity as, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By Einstein’s definition, socialism is insane. Galina Vishnevskaya referred to the Russian brand of socialism as, “our insane ideology.”  Socialism has been tried over and over again and has always failed. Socialists an insane end goal. Think on it; is not a vision of Utopia fantastical knowing the evilness of mankind? Perhaps, they will kill off all the evil people, from their perspective. Will that not make them eviler? (Herrin’s Paradox of Evil).

Of course, this discourse is not about socialism, but the crucifixion of Jesus. Socialism most often has resulted in organized mass murder. The socialist mobs ignore the rule of law and do things there way. Jesus spoke of the mob when he said to Pilate that the leader’s of the mob sins were greater than his, and the mobs’ sins were, therefore, greater as well. The mob knew what they were doing, but the Roman executioners did not: “Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34).

  The mob was incited to riot, persecute, and then murder the Man who came to save them from perishing. Those who incited sinned the most horrifically were guilty, but those who watched on or even cheered were guilty as well. Hence, everyone killed Jesus because He died for all the sins of all mankind. Why was it necessary for God to die so that mankind could go on living their own philosophy? And just what is mankind’s philosophy, “Do what thou wilt; that is the whole law” (Anton LeVey). Those are the words of LeVey and that is the Satanic Philosophy.

  Sin is essentially, when offered two choices, doing what “thou wilt” over what God Wills for the person. The philosophy of mankind is diminishing God’s Authority. That is the original sin, and the sin ingrained in the hearts of men. Jesus was pierced in the side, but sinners must be cut to the heart. Circumcision of the heart is the “crucifixion” that Christians endure when they take up their own cross for their flesh to be crucified. Jesus was crucified for two reasons: (1) that sinners need not ever die, and (2) that God was willing to die on their behalf. Judgment is based on who is willing to suffer their own cross and who is not willing to. The mob’s motive for killing God was so that they would not have to vacate their false beliefs in themselves and need not heed God.

  The motive for killing Jesus was the identical motive in the Age of Reason. The Age of Christ was for God’s crucifixion, and the Age of Reason for His re-crucifixion. God physically died on the Cross, but philosophers killed God’s wisdom, and replaced it with human rationale. Finally, human beings had become “as God” (Gen 3:5).

  What do gods do? They create life and they take it away. The mob that killed Jesus never created anything, and they knew in their hearts that they were not gods. However, by deciding that God must die, a crescendo was reached. The ultimate sin is blasphemy — wishing God dead either in Spirit or Truth. At the crucifixion, in reality (truth), God did die. At the crucifixion of the Enlightenment, God died in Spirit; no longer did the masses rely on God but on themselves. Socialism is a futile attempt at self-reliance without God, ironically by depending on others rather than God.

  Why is it so imperative to refute socialism to defend God? Because it will be shown later that the philosophy of socialism will endeavor to crucify God the third time, or maybe the fourth, or maybe an infinite number of times in that whenever anyone sins, it is their individual decision that “kills” the Spirit of God. The Antichrist will come to replace God. That is what Lucifer attends to do: “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High” (Isa 14:14). Well, it was Jesus who ascended into the clouds; Lucifer was buried for a time in the Potter’s field in the body of Judas. Lucifer failed in deposing God and crowning himself, but he will try again when he enters into another “Beast” in the end.

  Lucifer’s motive is to displace God and reduce Him to nothingness — back to whence He came. Human motives are much the same; Lucifer wants to do what he wants to do, and like him, men want to do what they want to do. Without God, Lucifer’s aims and mankind’s are both met. When people sin, they become one of the many bundled in the mob. In Italian, “bundled” is fascio for strength. Mobs are no more than a bunch of fascists working together to undermine authority.

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