Saturday, July 18, 2020

SPIRTUAL "DEEP STATE" - TRIUMPHED


TRIUMPHED

  Jesus was “trumped” with all the accusations. When one failed, the accusers merely created another. Jesus created the world, but the mob created lies about the Creator! How ironic is that? Indeed, each time Jesus escaped death, the mob trumped up another charge. Donald Trump’s name is fitting for that occasion.
  Names in scripture always means things. Always, when names and places are mentioned in Scripture, explore the etymology of the name or noun. For instance, Saul means “questioning.” He questioned Christianity and Christians and persecuted them. When God began the regeneration process, Saul was renamed “Paul,” meaning “humbled.” Saul’s arrogance diminished and God humbled him.
  Another example is King Nebuchadnezzar. That king’s name meant, “Nebo, protect the boundary” (Douglas Harper 2001-2020). Nebu was the god of literacy, rationalism, and wisdom. Symbolically, Nebu would represent the Tree of Knowledge (aka; the Wisdom Tree), and socialist-types of thinking.
  Nebuchadnezzar had a statue of himself to which worship was demanded. By bowing down to Nebu or Nebuchadnezzar, it would have been a sin for Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego. With poetic justice, when the king was burning the three in the fiery furnace, he saw the “Son of God” (Dan 3:25), saving them. It was Jesus who protected the “boundary” as Jesus put a hedge between the heat and the three young Jewish men who had great faith.
    That background is to demonstrate that names means things in the Bible. Like it or not, God ordained Mr. Trump for some purpose. Perhaps that is to save America. “Obama” has no direct etymology. However, “Luo elders say 'Obama' does not have a solid translation in their Dholuo language but is similar to the word 'Obam' meaning 'crooked' or 'bending'" (Dealy 2008). Compare that to the meaning of Trump, “a dependable and exemplary person” (Merriam-Webster 2003). The contrast is substantial and from a religious standpoint is viable.
  The mob that killed Jesus had at least four groups: (1) zealots, (2) supporters, (3) onlookers, and (4) empathizers of Jesus. Zealots demanded their type of justice. Supporters cheered them on with, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” Onlookers were there because of the excitement, but empathizers were there because they were afraid of the mob but still supported Jesus from afar… but not very far! Surely, the zealots were the minority but the “loud minority.” As had been shown the week before at Palm Sunday, the multitude were the majority, but in this case, the “silent majority.” They stood by quietly while the mob had their way.
  If the mob had yelled, “Jesus is God” the supporters would have yelled the same. If the mob had yelled, “Jesus is a glutton and a drunkard,” the mob would have echoed that. Not only that, but when mobs yell things, not long after, they become the “cause of the day.” On the day that Jesus was in town, the cry was “Crucify Him!” and with that echoed from the small loud-mouth supporters, that became reality and the “cause of the day.”
  The “silent multitude” could have prevented mob justice, and “Judge Lynch” would have been shamed. All the apostles who followed Jesus would not pick up their own “crosses” and follow them until it was too late to save Jesus. No matter. Jesus had to die to save all the multitude because to the emotional crowd, Jesus’s life did not matter!
  The mob is always the vocal few but their amplitude and fidelity to their myth makes them seem more numerous. A tactic in the military is to make a few very loud and boisterous soldiers sound as if they are many. That is the mob’s tactic as well. And when the mob is vocal, the media echoes it. They make the small mob seem much larger than it is. By including the silent majority as part of the mob, the mob seemed big because those who were silent appeared to be included in the number who wanted Jesus crucified.
  There was no vote to impeach Jesus or to have Him abdicate His Kingship. The majority ruled and by staying quiet, it seemed that everyone polled wanted Jesus crucified. Mobs “vote” with their anger and loud voices. Those who remain silent, do not have their “votes” counted. Hence, the “silent multitude” in the death of Jesus were guilty as well. Christians especially, crucified Jesus by their silence, and in modern times, Jesus is crucified time and time again, by the majority of silent voices.
  One Christian wrote about the holocaust; that when the trains past their church, the Jews wailed and screamed. He said, when the train was coming, the Christians just sang a little louder so as to not hear the crying.
  The same goes for abortion. When the unborn scream their silent scream, Christians just sing a little louder. When the socialists come for them, the silent majority sing even louder. The Church denies that Satan is Prince of the Power of the Air, and think denial eliminates him. Many Christians fail to believe in Satan and demons at all, and scarcely believe in Jesus! They do, however, believe in Marx’s “social justice” for the “common good.” The “serious crisis” that the world has now, is the very opportunity that the socialists have been awaiting. Marx is man of the hour, just as Jefferson Davis was when the states were in a very serious crisis in 1861.
  Choose wisely whose side you take. Some chose Davis, knowing full well that, “If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.” (Davis 1881). If the United States dies, it should have on its tombstone, Died of a Socialist Theory.” The confederacy was not a socialist government, but the plantation system in the United States in the South was very much so.
  Jesus was finally trumped. He screamed in agony, “’Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?’ that is to say, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’” (Mat 26:41), as even God the Father had seemed to have abandoned Him. He had not. The Father had experienced death with the Son, and the Holy Trinity, all three, suffered death. As soon as the killing was over, Jesus “gave up the Ghost.” The Spirit of God had been transformed to the Ghost of Jesus by the experience of death. That God in all three substances died is significant. The Jews killed God, the Christians killed Jesus, and “whosoever” (John 3:16) killed killed the Holy Ghost, as they could have been the Temple of the Holy Ghost.
  It seems that the mob won the day. Indeed, most thought that Jesus was defeated. If Jesus did not die on the Cross, then He would have been defeated. Being persecuted as God’s Name was gain for Jesus. What happened? He was resurrected and is still King. But not of only the Jews but the entire world, the heavens, and is the King of kings!
  Who was defeated? Satan was. Remember the pole that Moses held up with the dead serpent on it… a lifeless brazen serpent? When anyone thinks that Jesus is dead, look only at the tree nearby. There Christians should see Satan dead as a fruitless fig tree, hanging lifeless from its branches. The Wisdom Tree had withered and with the Serpent still in it!
  Since Satan was defeated, who triumphed? Jesus remains alive to this day. Who do the people of the world accept as their king? By their actions, they stand under the Judas Tree and worship the Serpent with Satan in disguise as usual. Those who are not for God are against Him. Those standing silently behind the mob did not testify on behalf of Jesus, as is written:
  Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have. (Phil 1:27-30; ESV)[1]
The silent Christian majority to this day have been warned to, “not (be) frightened in anything by your opponents.” Why be frightened? Jesus arose did He not? Likewise, the spiritually brave shall be as well. That is what salvation is all about — trusting Jesus enough not to be frightened and depending on Him for safety. How did Jesus triumph? He is still King! He is still God. He is still alive! He shall return!
He shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Mat 24:31)
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Cor 15:52)
16 The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thes 4:16-17)
  Note that the mob loses and Christians triumph. The mob dies eternally, and Christians who trust Jesus’s sacrifice of Himself shall be glorified. The death of Jesus defeated death, and the mob, in the end were the ones trumped.
  His triumph is when Jesus returns in the flesh to resurrect the dead just as He was resurrected. What is more, those Christians who are still alive will be glorified to death… dead to the world, but alive to Christ. The “trump” (trumpet) shall be sounded to announce Jesus’s defeat of death. Imagine the mob when they wake up and there are no more Christians to mock, persecute, and kill! What will they do then? Who will they victimize? Who will they blame? They shall blame themselves.
  On the other hand, maybe not. They denied that Jesus is God. They denied His right to live, and they persecuted Christians. Likely, the mob will establish a “narrative” for the triumph of Jesus. Perhaps a virus or plague of some sort may have dissolved them into thin air. Just what excuse will they fabricate is not known at this time, but certainly they will make it sound viable and will chorus it all over the world. Being in love with masks, perhaps they will censor the event or mask it as if it never happened. Perhaps those remaining will be told that those they loved never really existed, then conditioned to believe that Big Lie — the absurdity that matter can just disappear without a cause. Is that not how the universe came about, and people believe that? People are prone to believe lies. That is a curse, and it is easier than finding the truth.
  Those who continued to trust Jesus after His crucifixion shall be saved. When is the time of salvation? “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation” (Heb 9:28). When Jesus comes the second time. Theologians say that the “second coming” is for the triumphal reign of Jesus. Paul made it clear, in that passage — that salvation is when Jesus appears the second time; the time after He was crucified.
  How about the President. The silent multitude may shout loudly on election day. They would be foolish to allow the mob to rule!
  Triumph for Christians is when they are saved. That is their “great day.” On the other hand, the “terrible day of the Lord” is when those He redeemed reject the redemption. Christians will rise triumphant when they are snatched up into the heavens… to a room in God’s mansion.
With that said, the “terrible day” is for the mob and their followers. There they will meet their Deceiver and will despise Satan for his scheming.
  Why did the silent majority just take up swords and free Jesus? Violence is not the Will of God. Anyone who kills innocent people are under the spell of Satan. Those who killed God certainly were. Not Satan personally, but his legions of demon angels.
  Peter tried vigilante justice, but Jesus chastised him and undid the damage that Peter did to the servant of the high priest. The Deep State is doing much damage in this age but that will be undone. The Book of the Revelation of John is a picture of things to come. In that vision, Satan is finally all the way dead, the heaven and the earth regenerated, and Heaven will again be visible on Earth. The harlot Babylon, old Jerusalem, will become virtuous again when New Jerusalem appears on its foundation of peace.
  Before Jesus was crucified, He rode on a donkey in triumph. He knew what would happen and who would be King. Some of the multitude did too, and they waved palm branches and shouted, “Hosanna to God in the highest.” That pales compared to the triumph of Jesus when Satan is finally defeated, there is no pretender to the throne, and all that will, shall be saved.
  Jesus is glorified, and in the end, Christians shall be glorified with Him. What makes glorification? The Presence of God and the subsequent absence of Satan. Satan could not physically appear in the Garden of Eden. He required a surrogate — that time the Serpent. He will never ever again appear in any form after the triumph of Jesus because the triumph is over evil and the evil one.
  Christians will triumph as well. They shall proudly display their new apparel, not the skins of animals as with Adam and Eve, but white linin stained with the blood of Jesus… and they shall not be ashamed! Jesus will appear as a majestic tree. He will stand tall by the River of God (Rev 22:2) where He stood before sin ever existed.
  That “Tree” in the Garden? That was Jesus. Even a blind may could see that. As Jesus was speaking and healing the blind man, that man, Bartimaeus, could finally begin to see. Before his sight was fully restore, he said, “I see men; as trees walking” (Mark 8;24). He was among the few who saw Jesus as the Tree of Life! That majestic “Tree” who triumphed on the “tree” of the Cross (Acts 10:39).



[1] All quotes are from the King James Version of the Bible unless designated otherwise or if they are paraphrased. This quote is from the English Standard Version.

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