Saturday, December 16, 2023

THE BIG LIE


 

IN GOVERNING:

 

Each generation live their lives based on the ‘Big Lie.’ The great lie may be slightly different for each time and place, but regardless, each nation and generation have been deceived in such a manner that hardly anything can change their minds or outlooks on life.

Any ‘Big Lie’ has the same substance — “A big lie is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth, primarily used as a political propaganda technique… (used) to describe how people could be induced to believe so colossal a lie because they would not believe that someone ‘could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously’" (Wikipedia 2023).

The ultimate truth was revealed by the apostle Paul, “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Heb 9:27). There is no way to avoid physical death; everybody shall indeed die. The only two cases of death being avoided is with Elijah and Enoch. God had a special purpose for them, so only those two were able to avoid physical death.

The first ‘Big Lie’ was by Lucifer (aka the ‘Serpent’), who said to the woman, “You shall not surely die” (Gen 3:4).

What had God said? “Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die” (Gen 2:17). The phrase “surely die” in both instances, by God and Satan, is literally “mut, mut, mut” in the Hebrew, to “die, die, die.”

The western world gives little credence to the effect the Hebrew may have on the French, German, or even Latin languages. However, the English word ‘mute’ comes from the Latin, ‘mutus,’ or the shortened version, ‘mut.’

Mute means “silent, speechless, dumb” (Douglas Harper 2001-2023). Indeed, death makes people silent, speechless, and dumb; the latter meaning “lacking in intelligence” (Merriam-Webster 2023).

Both God and the ‘Serpent’ used the Hebrew word thrice — “mut.” With that said, perhaps mut has three indicators of death: (1) Silence, or physical death; (2) Spiritual death, and (3) loss of intelligence of the mind. If it was not for the grace of God, both Adam and Eve would have died in three of their substances: (1) The flesh, (2) the Spirit, and (3) the Mind.

Before sin, since both Adamah were made in the Image of God, they both would be glorious like God with incorruptible flesh, holy spirits, and the knowledge of only good.

After sin, the two began to die physically, withering for over 900 years before they both succumbed and lost their divine intelligence as they were deceived. They would have died spiritually as well, except for grace, when God put protective “coats of skin” onto them to cover their nakedness (Gen 3:21).

They would still suffer the consequences and physically die and lose their divine intelligence (wisdom) but their spirits would be preserved until the coming of the ‘Last Adam’ (Jesus) to provide for them a quickening spirit (1 Cor 15:45).

“Quickening” therein is a lively spirit; Jesus would restore, or regenerate, their souls. (No wonder it is believed that the bones of Adam are buried beneath Golgotha (Calvary) — “the place of the Skull” (Mat 27:33).

Paul, speaking to the Gentile Romans, said, “When the commandment came, sin revived, and I died” (Rom 7:9). Without the Law, Paul said, “sin was dead” (Rom 7:8). Essentially, without any laws, laws cannot be broken because they do not exist.

The one Law that was extant in the beginning was never to eat of that specific fruit. Without that one Law there would have never been sin and death would never have ensued. The more Laws that were created, the inevitability of death became more intense, if sin is indeed ‘death’ as Paul said.

Since all are sinners, then as such, all human beings are born dead. You may be alive physically, but not spiritually. Even the little children are spiritually dead, albeit if even quite mobile!

Physical death can be postponed but as you sit or stand there, your body is dying. You should have no expectations of living longer than 120 years (Gen 6:3) unless technology intervenes. (Science, using CRISPR-Cas9, is working on that in this generation. They are endeavoring, perhaps, to make God out to be a liar, or to diminish God.)

Of course, the Holy Ghost of Jesus saves your soul upon your demise, “He which converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death” (Jas 5:20), but everyone becomes dumber and dumber as time goes by! Not that they cannot speak but that their wisdom is diminished.

Whereas intelligence is “the skilled use of reason,” (ibid) wisdom is using that intelligence” (ibid), ostensibly for good. Hence, since original sin, mankind has become much more intelligent, making a name for themselves (Gen 6:4; Gen 11:4), but less wise. [1]

The first ‘Big Lie’ contradicted the ultimate truth of God. Mankind would certainly die. It seemed as if Adam and Eve had not, but time proved God right; they eventually died, although they were made immortal. The two Adamah remained spiritually dead as well, although preserved in flesh given to them by God, but were made alive again, spiritually, when Jesus propitiated His blood for “all sins that are past (Rom 3:25),” including the two Adamah.

However, because of sin, although still intelligent — homo sapien (‘wise men’), the two began to slowly loose their wisdom even as they learned more and more evil things. The Books of Adam and Eve are essentially the loss of their wisdom as Satan deceived them time and time again! They were fooled by all the ploys but the Word, Jesus, was there to compensate for their foolishness.

Although homo sapiens in taxonomy, mankind is so easy to deceive! The first case of propaganda was when the Serpent said, “You will not die, die, die,” knowing full-well that the two would die, die, die. Their death was not perceived because it was so slow in coming. That is the way propaganda works to this day — people are fed lies over and over, so slowly overtime, that after thousands of repetitions, according to Aldous Huxley, it becomes the truth.

In modern times with a vast amount of technology and a viral media, repetition only takes moments. Hitler’s ‘Big Lie’ was basically that all the troubles of the world are due to the Jews; hence, the Jewish problem, and naturally, “The Final Solution.”

Of course, like the Serpent long before, the Jews were to die, die, die in all respects. In fact, Christians, at least ‘Confessing Christians’ became a part of the Jewish problem, because, as Paul wrote that a Christian is one who is a Jew inwardly (Rom 2:29).

Almost the entire German Church was deceived, and it too became National Socialist.

That brings me to one of the two purposes of this commentary; the ‘Big Lie’ that Nazism is something much worse than Marxism. Even that National Socialism is different than Russian Socialism (Bolshevik Communism) that was about to overcome the Weimer Republic of Germany.

To this day, the socialist narrative (propaganda) is that communist socialism is good for you, but that National Socialism is abhorrent and evil.

The truth is that both ‘isms’ by any other name remain destructive and both feed off the blood of capitalism to thrive. In both cases, what is there must be torn down to rebuild in a Marxist fashion.

The socialist motto, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” (Karl Marx), has a hidden meaning.

The original sin was that God, according to His ability, created the Tree of Knowledge. The sin was that each took the produce for their so-called ‘needs.” As it turned out, the needs were not needs at all, but desires, and so it is with Marxism. Marxism is a continual and eternal sin that deceives so many in every generation.

Both Russian Socialism (communism) and German National Socialism (Nazism) took what did not belong to them (other countries) for their own ‘needs’ (desires). You can call them different all you like, but both isms are Marxism, and even now our Republic is saturated with Marxists who deny that they are Nazis but act the part to a tee.

There is a commercial about the psoriasis not showing on those with that condition. In recent days, their Nazism is showing in the streets of America as the left-wing neo-Nazis continue the ‘Final Solution’ that was to never happen again!

Why is it happening again? Because the new Nazis are smarter than the original; they have learned much since Hitler’s time.

First off, they built a better propaganda machine that are not ‘propaganda,’ but ‘narratives’ that are fed to the public in large doses.

The ‘Big Lie’ is that it is not Nazis that you see, but peaceful Democrat protesters, only nice people trying to save our democracy. How? By burning it down, and building it back better, in a Nazi sense, anyway.

Many of you have fallen for the Big Lie and still vote for the “Nazi’ bastard sons of Hitler, all the while, thinking that they are only well-meaning socialists!

 

IN LIVING:

 

However, there are spiritual ‘Big Lies’ as well of which the most often is “I was saved.”

Now imagine this; you feel guilty for sinning because you have been taught right from wrong. Consequently, you answer the altar call or whatever and you are told because you answered questions to the satisfaction of some minister that you are now saved. Even worse, like the Catholics with pedobaptism and Campbellites with water baptism, water has made you saved.

The word ‘saved’ means that your life is no longer in jeopardy; that henceforth, you need not worry; God will take care of you until your death. You need not wait until you die to be saved from whatever; that you are saved from this moment forward.

Many who parrot ‘saved’ even fail to understand just what is saved and from what as well. It is not the body that is saved but the spirit that is called the ‘soul.’ The human soul has never even been explained to most! For now, just understand that it is the soul that is saved but not the flesh. Eventually, if you are a saved Christian, then your soul that is saved takes on new flesh; not the old flesh that sinned.

Where should anyone look for the answers? Holy Scripture and nowhere else. You do not look for answers from most ministers nor even me! You look to the Word, Jesus for all the answers, and consider that in days past that He inspired certain of His followers to write His Words: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16). Hence, you are to trust the very words of Jesus from the text of scripture. You are not to trust the preacher who has been taught only to repeat what they have been taught.

Most people believe what their parents were taught and most preachers what their seminary or catechism taught. There are ‘denominations’ of truth, unfortunately. For myself, I do not care what my preacher thinks nor what my church doctrine might be, but what the Bible says. What must be sought is the truth, and to be honest, churches that have different doctrines, of which one or both of them do not have the truth.

If I am wrong in any commentary, please correct me with scripture, not a version printed by men but from the received text of God.

I know that Jesus spoke in Greek and strongly believe that some ancient form of Hebrew was the Word. Admittedly I rely on James Strong’s definitions for they seem to provide multiple viewpoints that must be chosen for the context.

So, what is the Greek word translated ‘saved.’ Sozos. What does sozos mean? Paul speaking of faith to the Romans (Rom 10:8) wrote, “That if you shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved” (Rom 10:9)

Paul did not write that; the King James translators did. (I changed the ancient thee’s and thou’s to more modern terms.) Paul wrote in the Greek language.

Examine the Greek text for “You shall be saved.” That whole phrase is from one word, ‘sozo.’

‘Shall be’ is not in the Greek at all, nor are ‘thou’ nor ‘you.’ Standing alone is the one word, sozo.

According to Strong’s Dictionary, that one word does not mean, you shall be saved, but strictly ‘safe.’ The phrase you shall be is implied. It could as easily be you may be, you will be, or you have been. The key word there is one — sozos which Strong defines as “safe.” Suppose it had been defined as ‘saved;’ then is it past, present, or future. There is no way to know. The only thing that is known for sure, if those things occur, you are safe, not saved.

Before, this idea is abandoned, consider salvation in the verse, “To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins” (Luke 1:77) and many other places.

“Salvation” therein is “soteria” in the Greek — “deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation” (Strong 2006). Which is it? The meaning is ambiguous and must fit the context. Some may choose salvation and others safety, depending on their doctrine, or belief. It is not known to be a past experience, a present condition, or a future event. Preservation applies to all three. The only ambiguity is it past, present, future or even for a time, or forever?

The way to live life is in vigilance, as is written, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8). The apostle Peter is believed to have written that letter. He was speaking to Christian elders (1 Pet 5:1). If they were Christians who were already saved, why would there be a need to be vigilant? Why were saved ones in danger of destruction if they were already saved?

Then Peter went on to explain himself: “When the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of glory that fades not away” (1 Pet 5:4). When Jesus comes again, then you will be saved in that your safety does not go away.

Before continuing, consider the time of salvation (preservation). Peter also wrote about the time of salvation and just what it is that is saved, “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls” (1 Pet 1:9). Obviously, the end of your faith is at the end of your physical life. That is why Paul wrote for those in Christ, to die is gain (Phil 1:21). What is the “gain’? The salvation (soteria) of your souls.

The human ‘soul’ is the Image of God (Gen 1:27) and is God within you. It is gathered from scripture that your soul is a “shadow” or “phantom” (ibid) of your material image and would look like you just as the Holy Ghost of Jesus was identified as Him (Luke 3:22). Your soul is still you, not you in material substance, but some glorious heavenly substance.

It is not physically you that is saved, but the real you with the Image of God within.

At what time is your soul saved? When Jesus comes again. Your soul is preserved on Earth for the coming of the Lord, Jesus when it shall finally be saved, “For 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” (1 Thes 5:6)… “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). The change from safety to saved is when the new flesh is placed on the still alive soul. ‘Incorruptibility’ is indeed ‘saved’ because you can no longer perish, either in Spirit or the flesh.

Until then, Christians are not saved, but in grave danger. Although God seals them, like any preserves, the seals can be broken from within due to impurities in the subtance of the soul.

It is okay to have hope! Paul wrote, “We desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end” (Heb 11:6). ‘Hope’ is looking forward to something. What is it that Christians look forward at? Full assurance — knowing at the end, you believed rightly!

Adam and Eve, both made in the Image of God, were glorious like God and were immortal in the beginning. Just as God would never die, neither of them should have either.

However, their safety was conditional; to never eat of the forbidden tree. The penalty for disobedience to God was eating forbidden fruit — knowledge. Although perfectly safe and although God willed that they never die, they ate and died. They died in spirit without ever knowing they were dead. They thought that indeed they would never die and felt secure, eternally secure.

Then came the ‘Big Lie’ from Lucifer, the ‘Serpent’ — you will not die, die, die. They would surely not die in either mind, spirit, or body, they thought. They died right then in spirit as God degendered them of His Image. Without the Image of God within them, Satan was able to devour them, and according to the Books of Adam and Eve, Adam was devoured many times, all because Adam thought himself, even though of God, eternally secure. All the while, both him and Eve were always in danger in the world. They lost their security and were in jeopardy all their lives even while in the safety of the coats of skin supplied by God.

The Devil wants you to believe that your soul is invulnerable to his wiles. If you believe that you are some sort of superman or supergirl, then you put a target on your back. Anyone who feels invulnerable is always the most vulnerable because he fail to be vigilant. If you are a Christian who has been told that you are ‘saved,’ you are the most vulnerable to destruction as the wolf in sheep’s clothing will come at you with you unaware, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Mat 7:15). Those ‘wolves’ are ‘false prophets’ now known as preachers that preach another strange doctrine (Heb 13:9).

Believe the Word of God… you are not saved but must still wear “the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” (Ephes 6:11), to keep you safe until you are saved in the end (Mat 10:22).

To be honest, preachers who preach that you are saved and are eternally secure really believe that. They have been misled just as they mislead you. They believe that because it has been how they were wrongly taught. They take the doctrine that has been handed down to them as worthier than the actual words of God.

The problem is that thinking that you are already saved puts you in jeopardy because your defenses go down, making you even more vulnerable.

When you sin with impunity, as if there are no consequences, judgements, or danger of perishing; then your very soul is in jeopardy because rather than God’s Will that you do (repent), it is Satan’s will that is done.

When asked when I was saved, I only answer, “I have been persuaded that Jesus is God.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



[1] According to the Books of Adam and Eve, Genun invented many evil things for Adam’s and Seth’s kind before they perished. Also, since the Tower of Babel was built on a plane and had a sort of “engine” (Book of Jasher), perhaps Nimrod was trying to build a rocket to find and destroy God, as science is doing to this time.


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