SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - PERSECUTION

PERSECUTION

  Jesus was in the Temple along with some of the Jews. Some spoke of the Temple and its beauty:

⁵ And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, ⁶ As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. (Luke 21:5-6)

  Jesus was a mysterious person much like the prophets of old. When prophets spoke of things to come, there was always immediate events and those in the distant future. Often the immediate actions were more obvious, but those in latter days not so obvious. “Eschatology” is the study of end-of-time events. “Ontology” is the study of the beginnings of existence and historical reality. Ontologically speaking, the Church was built of people. The prophets and apostles were the foundation, and Jesus the Cornerstone or the Datum from which the Church was built (Ephes 2:19-21). Christians are of the household of God, meaning they are part of the Church, “in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.”

  The beginning ontology of the Church was firmly established when Jesus came. Construction had begun when the prophets foresaw reality about the Stone that the builders rejected (Mat 21:42). Of course, the Jews rejected Jesus, and the Gentile Church accepted Jesus as the Cornerstone. Sure, Peter was part of the foundation as Jesus said, because he was an apostle. Evil forces throughout history endeavored to tear down the Church before it was ever built. The physical “church,” the First Temple, was soon torn down. Seventy years later, construction started again. Over time, the Temple was gradually eroded until Herod repaired and made it beautiful, and had it adorned with beautiful stones.

Enemies of the state are more prone to gradually erode the state, but if that fails, they usually resort to a serious crisis. In both cases, the enemies of the state who overcame Jerusalem were the crises that caused both temples to be destroyed.

  Jesus implied that Herod’s Temple would be torn down and in 70 A.D. it was, just as Jesus said it would be. Was Jesus speaking ontologically, or eschatologically? God cared little for the Temple as the entire world was His “Footstool.” Dark forces thought that they could kill Jesus by tearing down His building. Satan provoked nationalistic zealots into plaguing Rome. The Roman Emperor Titus had the Temple destroyed when and as Jesus said it would be. With the Temple gone, ironically, the Church would grow. Persecution grows faith for God’s promised protection, and the ontology of the Church is that persecution grew it!

  Today, some think, that persecution of Christians and Jews is as never before. Of course, hatred is rampant but has yet to turn into public crucifixions and beheadings. The eschatology of the heaven and earth is clear; Jesus wins and reigns, the heaven and earth are cleansed by fire, and existence is regenerated. Satan loses! He is as well dead already because John the Revelator saw him imprisoned and later destroyed. When Jesus hung on His Tree (the Cross) the Serpentine Judas Iscariot was hung on his tree. That is what the brass serpent on Moses’s pole represented. Jesus had finished His purpose by hanging the flesh of Satan in the body of Judas. If believers understand that it was Satan who suffered death in the Serpent’s tree (the Judas Tree), and not Jesus on His Tree, then they are born again.

  The two trees in the middle of the Garden of Eden were symbolic of Jesus as the Tree of Life, and Judas as the Tree of Death. The end (eschatology) of the spiritual Deep State was planned as soon as temptation overcame mankind. Genesis 3:15 was the revelation of the eschatology of the world. The Word, Jesus, revealed to Adam and Eve how it all would end: “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” That is what happened to the Serpent when Jesus died on the Cross. Right there in the middle of God’s Garden (Jerusalem), the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil withered, the Serpent was defeated by the death of Judas, and the Tree of Life yet lives and there will be no end as Jesus is the immortal Tree of Life!

  What Temple was it that Jesus was mysteriously speaking? The invisible universal Church. God, having no use for buildings, allowed Herod’s, not His, Temple to be torn down just as He had Solomon’s Temple. He would have no use for buildings. Christians are the Temple of the Holy Ghost (1 Cor 6:19). Dark forces allied themselves to tear down Solomon’s and Herod’s Temple. The Deep Spiritual State of Mankind tore down what belonged to God but failed to kill God. To their surprise and dismay, Jesus arose from the grave, and the spiritually depleted zealots are still trying to kill Him. Of course, God cannot be killed, but He can suffer and weep. As people diminish God, they make Him sorrowful that His creatures would choose another “father.”

  The Holy Ghost is Christ within. Christians house Jesus, the Tree of Life, and so long as Christians live the Church is alive. Jesus referred to Christians as “lively stones” who are His “spiritual house” (1 Pet 2:5). Together, Christians are the pillars of the Church. God said to John, “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God” (Rev 3:12). Overcometh who or what? Overcometh Satan and the world. The spiritual Deep State would continue to destroy the pillars until the end, but “he that endureth to the end shall be saved” (Mat 24:13).

  Life is all tribulation, ending in the Great Tribulation. In the end, the eschatology of Christians is to endure the persecution of the third Beast. The Serpent was the first Beast with Satan in him, Judas the second, and the Antichrist the third Beast. The Serpent was humbled. He lost his legs and crawls. Judas is dead and his ghost roams to and fro attempting to ensnare the powerful for his cause. The Antichrist is the powerful man who Satan will enter as the final temptation for the world. The “Serpent” will walk again and again be hearkened. The Deep State will be the deepest ever. But Jesus came to drain the Serpent’s “swamp.” In a later chapter, the eschatology of that “swamp” will be revealed.

  The spiritual Deep State tears down what God has built: birth with abortion, marriage with free love, the family with divorce, knowledge with the false media, happiness with sordid entertainment, truth with deceptive education, and the Church with the doctrine of social justice. The spiritual revolution is liberation theology. “Liberation theology” is tearing down all that God has built on the pretext that it is what God would want. Liberation from God is what that theology is all about, and what better way to liberate than Marx’s socialist ideology?

  The attempt to destroy the invisible Church is sneaking in during the darkness and undermining the pillars. One lively stone at a time, the pillars come down. That’s what Jesus was truly talking about when He said, “The days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another,” and everyone thought that He was speaking only of the Temple.

  The Deep State of apostolic times were those who persecute Christians:

The Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. (Acts 13:50)

  Jesus was persecuted unto death, but even with that, He is still alive. The Cornerstone was rejected, but was planted deeply, and only the Deep State could unearth Him. After He assured the people that He was yet alive, Jesus was unearthed as he arose to His throne in heaven. Jesus came back on the sly to keep men safe by inhabiting the souls of righteous men and women (Acts 2). The building of the Church continued, and the plan to destroy the Church is still ongoing to this day.

  Next, the Jews stirred up the false “church” — devout and honorable, but not loving men and women. The false church is used by the Deep State, then and now, to raise persecution against loving Christians. Note what they did; those devout men hated the haters, remembering that Paul had persecuted the Christians. Jesus made it clear that the enemy cannot be hated but even devout and honorable men and especially women hate those who they perceive as haters. It turned out that Paul had changed. He no longer hated, but the devout do-gooders thought that they knew his heart.

  Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance is the tool of the Deep State, especially George Soros and his numerous organizations. It has been mentioned many times in this book, but the reader must be constantly reminded: "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." The street protests throughout the US and the world today is all about intolerance for others that the mob sees as intolerant. The mob is persecuting the police who they see as intolerant, but by doing so are even more intolerant. The protestors are a mob of haters who are mobbing on behalf of tolerance. That is a “paradox” because it is so absurd! They are haters who are led by the Deep State to insight them to vengeance against the civil institutions.

  They burn down the property of innocent people on behalf of love! What scripture are they using? Who is their true “father?” They are beguiled by the Serpent and are completely unaware of who their leader is? Just who leads the mob? Nobody seems to know. Now you know.

  “Honorable women” were mentioned first as the instigators of persecution. Adam hearkened unto Eve when he sinned. Is it coincidence that the more emotional women seem to be leading the mob? The men are again hearkening unto the emotions of Eve’s. As Yogi Berra said, “It is déjà vu all over again!” And again, and again. The mob violence is like Ground Hog’s Day (the movie) wherein the same events were repeated with the sun. Indeed, as Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.”

  It is not Trump or even the cops they are after. It is us, and they get to us through the police and Mr. Trump. People doing what is right in their own eyes is chaos, and the entire nation is presently in chaos. The Church is under deconstruction as one lively stone after another is removed from God’s “building.” Perhaps, it is not Christians who they are after, but God! After all, Lucifer, as Hitler long after him, revealed his “struggle” with Lucifer’s own Mein Kampf. Just as Hitler, Lucifer wants to be God. All the socialist leaders want to be God. They have slightly different ideologies, but socialists, whatever their hatred is based upon, are still socialists just as Lucifer is still Lucifer whatever he calls himself.

  Persecution or any chaos in the world is to tear down the Church by hatred. God is dead to them, not when the buildings are torn down, but when Christians are deceived into hating their enemies.

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