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.

(picture credit: Leonardo DeVinchi from Pinterest)

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)

(picture credit - The Doomsday Clock from Shutterbug by Athenon)

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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SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - JUDGEMENT

CAUSATION AND JUDGEMENT

  God provides men to either test His people, or to rescue them from tyrants. For instance, the nation of Babylon was created and ordained by God to punish the Jews for their wickedness. God even provided a ruler, Nebuchadnezzar, to destroy the “harlot” Jerusalem. But you thought Babylon was the “harlot” did you not? Well Babylon was the “mother of harlots” and Jerusalem became the harlot and still is until New Jerusalem returns to its foundation in Jerusalem after she is cleansed from harlotry.

  Nebuchadnezzar was a narcissistic and evil man who God humbled. He was so into himself that he proclaimed himself a god and had a statue built of himself for the people to worship. However, at the end, he had his “Jesus moment” as he saw Jesus saving the three young men that he persecuted in a fiery furnace. Seeing Jesus saving Shadrack, Meshack, and Ebednego, humbled Nebuchadnezar. He ate grass as a domesticated animal would. He was the “beast” that God tamed. The point is that Nebuchadnezzar changed, and God changes those for whom He has a purpose.

  Nebuchadnezzar was a wicked man that God used for His purposes. Not only did he see Jesus, but the prophet Ezekiel wrote that Nebuchadnezzar's assault on Egypt is represented as a divine initiative undertaken "by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon" (Ezek 30:10).

  Before that, God had used another sinful man to establish the Kingdom of God. David was a man after God’s own heart (1 King 15:3), but although his spirit was willing, David’s flesh was weak. As with many great leaders, the lusts of their flesh rules their hearts.

  Looking even before that, Abram deceived, Moses murdered, and Saul was jealous. God used sinful men for His purposes. Why would he do that? Because those to whom he forgives the most, loves Him the most. Jesus said that. (Luke 7:46).

  Then came Saul; he was a member of the “Deep State” existing in Judea. That small country was a tributary to the Roman Empire. There were Jewish zealots who sought to gain independence from Rome. “Zealots” are fanatic revolutionists and are entirely dedicated to their cause. Jewish zealots were also dedicated to Mosaic Law. Saul did not belong to the Deep State against Rome, but he was a zealot dedicated to the destruction of the new Christian sect. As such, Saul was a religious zealot who had more respect for the Law than for love. Saul had his “Jesus moment” for three days as Jesus’s Holy Ghost struck him blind. In his blindness, Saul, now Paul, saw the Light as he was born again a new person in Christ.

  Those are ample examples. Never would rational people select a murderer, adulterer, liar, nor a cruel jealous person as a leader, or would they? But Jesus used those types of people for His ends. They all became useful to God in developing and propagating Christianity. Likewise, Barack Obama was as useful as Nebuchadnezzar, or even Pharaoh, in the making of a new kind of US president. Saul was questioning God, and as Paul, he was humbled; ironically just as Nebuchadnezzar was transformed from a feral beast to one domesticated. Indeed, the meek shall inherit the earth (Psalm 37:11).  God makes meek (humbled) men from narcissistic beasts.

  In scripture, names mean things. “Saul” means “questioning” and “Paul” means “humbled.” Barack Obama means “blessing bent.” Donald Trump “means ruler of the world (Donald) of the one who blows the trumpet (Trump).” It seems that if names do mean things, and they do, that Obama changed the direction of America from the way God instituted it to his way. Perhaps Donald Trump was ordained to be President and the most powerful man in the world. Of course, Jesus is the ruler of the Kingdom of God, and Satan the ruler of the world, but those are in the spiritual realm. Sometimes God ordains wicked world leaders and others for His Plans.

  This theological history exemplifies why Christians voted for Donald Trump. They did not vote for Trump as Chief Priest, but to be our czar (Caesar.) Jesus recognized Caesar as the legitimate civil authority in Judea, but not a spiritual authority (Mat 21:22). When asked by the Herodians, friends of Herod and Caesar, to whom to pay tribute, Jesus responded to pay taxes to Caesar as the civil authority, and essentially to honor God as the Spiritual Authority. Donald Trump is not Jesus, but he is a czar. He must be honored.

  The Jews did not like it, but Jesus told them to honor Caesar, who by the way, in the face of Jesus, had proclaimed himself a god as the Romans had many. Jesus was implying that Caesar was to be honored for his position, but not as a god. That, He said, is reserved to the True God.

  Barack Obama was a “czar” as well, and Christians were required to honor him as Jesus taught that Caesar was to be honored. Note that Christians didn’t like Obama any more than Jews liked Caesar, but we honored his position, albeit he changed the US in much the same way that Caesar changed the Kingdom of God. Jesus was no Caesar and neither is Donald Trump a Jesus, but Trump was ordained by God to be our Caesar as Obama was. Trump and Obama are both types of Sauls; Obama as King Saul who changed his spiritual allegiance to himself and even played the role of priest. Obama as Saul was arrogant. On the other hand, questioning Donald Trump was changed into humbled Donald Trump. God again has used his “crooked stick” to straighten out the world; not a perfectly straight stick, but one straight enough to serves His Purposes.

  No one would have ever thought murderer Saul would be the principle apostle, and no one would have thought “King Midas” Donald Trump would ever be President. However, both Obama and Trump were ordained by God, even with their “baggage” for His Purposes. Ask yourself the question, “Would there even be a President Trump without a President Obama?” Obama caused Donald Trump’s presidency. God’s people had had enough of Czar Obama as the Hebrews had had enough of King Saul.

  As such, tribute must be paid to Trump as our “Caesar” as we paid tribute to Obama for the same reason. God has a Plan for us to give us a hope and a future (Jer 29:11). Obama was part of that Plan and so is Donald Trump! Of course, Christians must pay tribute to Caesars in things pertaining to him, but to God as they pertain to Him. In the course of life, Jesus is our King and God and civil and clerical leaders are His representatives.

  The zealots in Jesus’s day, were zealots for the Hasmonean Dynasty. The homage that they paid Jesus was as a secular king. Paul was zealous for Jesus after his zealousness for the Law was changed. It seems that President Trump is indeed a zealot, but in America zealous presidents are rare birds. He was elected as a zealot for civil affairs, and somehow, he perceived that the “Deep State” is much different than a bog in Washington, but a stench over the entire world. Trump campaigned on “draining the swamp.” Jesus came to drain the spiritual swamp that 400 years of God’s silence has allowed to seep in.

  Trump saw things amiss because he had been skimming the “swamp” for years. His demeanor was much as the Saul’s before Saul was transformed. Like Saul before him, Jesus seems to have given him spiritual insight, a little different than Saul, by removing the blinders from his eyes. We must admit that Trump saw things that even the best Christians could not see because he has had “swam” in the swamp, so to speak.

  The Deep State did not like Jesus and neither does it like Mr. Trump. Why not? Jesus came to drain the deep, smelly swamp of religious zealotry, and the Donald came to drain the stench of the economic swamp in the US, and even elsewhere — even the world. What is it that the US leaders fear? Judgment and punishment. What was it that the Jewish leaders feared? Judgement and punishment.

³¹ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: ³² And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: ³³ And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left… ⁴⁶ And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. (Mat 25)

  The American “Deep State” fears exposure and judgment. The Sanhedrin, Chief Priest, scribes, Pharisees, Herodians, and scribes knew they had been exposed by their Messiah and denied Him His authority. They not only sought to diminish Jesus, but when that failed to work, they found it necessary to eliminated Him. They knew Jesus came to “drain their swamp” and feared that they would be sucked down the drain into the bottomless pit. The leaders did not fear Jesus who they thought would clean up the Herodian “swamp” but because they feared that Jesus would upset their kingdom of the Devil on Earth.

  Jesus called them “vipers” (Mat 3:7). They were not truly sons of God, but children of the Devil (John 8:44), and by relegating them to serpentine creatures, Jesus identified their “father” as the Serpent.

  The Deep State is always the will of Satan who pretends to God’s throne. Our US Deep State are merely goats doing Satan’s will so he can be czar, not only in earth, but in heaven.

The Deep State is not an alliance of Democrats, Socialists, feminists, Soros’s organizations, Planned Parenthood, liberal mainstream churches, the media, and such… but an alliance against God. They are all fools (useful idiots) that Satan uses as his tools for his purposes. Jesus already came to save the world from Satan, and now all these things must happen for Him to come to reign a thousand years.   In sort of a “groundhog day” way, the events of Noah’s day must be repeated, and now we are in it. Deep water came from the ground and drowned their own version of the Deep State and the huge swamp of the world will again be “drained” by fire. The Deep State fears that! They fear God and fear Donald Trump because like it or not, as our Caesar, he deserves what is his.

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SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

  From the end of the Civil War until the 1930s, a group of Democrats called the “Ku Klux Klan” lynched people because of their skin color, their culture, or beliefs. Before the lynching, they often had a mock trial. The presiding “judge” was a prominent person within the Klan and the jury was Klan members. The witnesses were not necessarily Klan members, but those who had something against the accused. Usually, there were no witnesses for the defense of the accused, but were always witnesses for the prosecution, even when it was necessary for the Klan to fabricate witnesses to condemn the accused.
  Everyone has a history; it would not take long for some self-righteous neighbor to fabricate a crime based on perceptions, hearsay, or exaggeration. A woman would say, “He leered at me,” and that was enough whether he leered or not! My point is that many innocent people were lynched by a mob of hateful people just because of their identity. Today, that would be called “identity politics.” Everyone must be “politically correct.” The problem is correct to whose law? For the Klan, it was correct to whatever law they deemed right in their viewpoint.  Law, even today, is what progressive Democrat judges make it. They care little for the substance of the law of the land, but how they can use it for the Democrat advantage!
  That type of standard of law and jury was referred to by those who understood what they were doing as “Judge Lynch.” It mattered not whether the accused was guilty or innocent, but whether the judge and jury could convince themselves that what they thought was what mattered. Even if someone came forward to vindicate the accused, they would jeopardize their own safety. Their testimony could even make them guilty of collusion with the accused. For instance, a white person who stood by the Negro might be found guilty of being a “Nigger Lover” to use the words that Democrats use so often, now in private.
  That type of justice is nothing new but is very efficient. Often the Klan would accuse the Negro of murder but when they found no evidence, something minor from his life was used to condemn him. The accused had no chance at all because the only media that was there were KKK supporters. (I have a photo from 1891 where cousins of mine was lynched by the KKK because one story was that they killed the sheriff. That was by the testimony of the sheriff’s family, and undoubted was to protect the daughter who was the one who murdered her father.)
  “Judge Lynch” could always find “witnesses” against the accused, but none would step forward to vindicate the man out of fear of shunning by their neighbors, or even for their own safety. The newspapers would report what the KKK said occurred without question; after all they were all friends and neighbors.
  The same type of Klan justice was used by the Democrats against the accused, Donald J. Trump. Somehow Adam Schiff “appointed” himself as “Judge Lunch” and the hanging jury consisted of the House Intelligence and Judicial Committees headed by Schiff and Gerald Nadler, respectively. Nancy Pelosi brought in the Democrat “observers” to see that justice was done; that was the Democrat controlled congress. The Republicans sought to have all the evidence and present their case in defense of the accused, but Judge Lynch (Schiff) did not need evidence for he has his own perception of the truth. It would not matter at all about the facts because he knew the ways of Donald Trump.
  Trump came to “drain the swamp” of the Democrat Deep State and their Republican “Never Trumpers,” and Schiff was the deepest in the polluted water. Trump knew who the “swamp creatures” are because he had dealt with them for years on their slimy turf. All those who once loved Trump for his money turned on him. You know the story; Trump was an innocent man lynched by the Democrat mob.
  They are too cunning to admit that their culture is still Klan culture, but act as if they are the patriots who are merely fighting injustice in the Trump Administration. We saw what happened to Gen. Flynn just because he was an associate of the President! If the mob cannot lynch, they can be appeased by the imprisonment of the innocents. (On a side note, innocence means nothing to the Democrat mob. The murder of the most innocent with abortion reveals that the Democrat Klan is alive and well today.)
  My commentary is not, however, about the Democrat version of justice in either the case of the Klan nor Democrats hating Trump, but the establishment hating Jesus Christ. Whereas slaves were born to die for the utility of the Democrats, and Trump to be impeached for the narrative of the Democrats, Jesus was born to die for the “Deep State” existing at that time. Yes, it was the Deep State of Judea that caused the legitimate government to crucify an innocent man. The Pharisees, scribes, chief priests, Sanhedrin, and the mob were the “Deep State” at that time, and guilt nor innocence was of concern to them. They needed a lynching and who better to lynch than the Man of the Hour who came to drain their self-righteous swamp? God came in the Flesh to drain the Deep Swamp of the Sanhedrin version of the Law and those who lived by false laws and judgments.
  The people in Jesus’s case who were proponents of false justice hated Jesus as much as Never-Trumpers hate Donald Trump, and more so than the Klan hated blacks. They had their own laws and their own ways, and there came Jesus with justice and truth.
  The “Big Lie” is something so absurd that it could not be made up. With the black on the hanging tree, he may as well be hung because he leered at the woman. That may as well be rape! For Donald Trump, he as well have been a Russian agent because the Democrats and the media propagated that narrative. The “Big Lie” with Trump was that he is a traitor. The “Big Lie” with Jesus is that he was a traitor to God and blasphemed Him for claiming to be God.
  The Big Lie backfired on the Jews. For the black man who was lynched, there was no justice. The Klan saw to that by intimidation. Democrats are great at that!
  For Trump, the Big Lie was exposed; it was not him who had colluded with the Russians but the Democrats and the Deep State.
  The Big Lie in Jesus’s case turned out to be so absurd that it could not be true. Jesus admitted that He IS God! Pontius Pilate, in the manner of Plato, asked, “What is truth” (John 18:38)? The truth is that the Negro who was lynched raped no one, and that Donald Trump was impeached by deceptive Democrats. I the case of Jesus, the truth is that He IS God! He was lynched for the truth.
  Tomorrow, and as long as it takes, we will study the case, The World Against Jesus, and compare it to justice in contemporary and end times. The modis operandi of adversaries is always the same, and perhaps we can learn about the coming destruction by studying about Jesus and the spiritual “Deep State” which is always there to undermine God and His institutions. We can always predict the future by the past, but naïve people must be stepped on time and time again just because they do not know the way of the citizens of the  world; those that the Russians call “Cosmopolites.”  Tune in tomorrow for more.

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