THE GREAT RESET - Government Reset

PERILOUS TIMES

(If you have read the reset of the church, scroll down to the reset of the government)

 

  We are in perilous times. The “Great Reset” has been reset. The Great Reset is from the Christian Era into the Antichristian Era. I am reading the Bible chronologically. Is it by coincidence that in my daily Bible study, this verse (the key verse) popped out in this explosive election week? Based on the vote so far, it seems likely that Biden has won the presidential selection process. If that is the case, life in America, and accordingly, the rest of the world, has been reset:

 

KEY VERSE: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2 Tim 3:1)

 

THE RESET OF THE CHURCH:

 

  Perilous times are now here because both Church and State have been reset. First, consider the Pope, who portends to be head of the universal (catholic) “Church.” Pope Frances made three very wrong and unbiblical statements:

 

(1)    ““Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it“ (Padgett 2020), and

(2)    “The most important aspect is to be a good human being.” (Alexander 2020)

(3)    That he supported same-sex civil unions, “ley de convivencia civil” (ibid)

 

  Andrew McCarthy responded to the Pope’s statement with the following observation: “The Catholic Church moves like a glacier...by inches. As a Cahtolic (sic) who has been lobbying and working with the Church for reform, I am encouraged by the Pope's words because they show the beginning of movement” (Padgett 2020).

  Before discussing the Pope’s comments, consider McCarthy’s response. He was “encouraged” because the Pope’s words, “show the beginning of movement.” McCarthy had compared the change in doctrine to a glacier. Ice builds up, suddenly breaks free, than slides with great force. McCarthy recognized that the Chuch that week had been reset!

  Frances claimed that homosexuals are “children of God.” What does scripture say about that? “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Lev 18:22), and “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do” (John 8:44) to those who lacked understanding of God’s Will for them. “Sinners” are no longer God’s “children;” they were emancipated. To be a child of God requires rebirth, wherein the nature of men and women are made anew in the likeness of Jesus.

Then, the Pope said that the “most important aspect is to be a good human being.” The entire New Testament disputes that; that works are futile, and that the most important aspect is to trust in the Word of God, Jesus. What does the Bible say about doing good? “All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” (Isa 64:6), and as Jesus pointed out, “Why callest thou me good? there is none good but One, that is, God” (Mat 19:17). “Being a good human being” is not Christianity; it is secular humanism, and that is another religion — a false one at that! “Being a good human being” is not righteous justice but “social justice” because society determines what is “good.” The theology of the Pope is not liberation from sin, but “liberation theology” in that God’s Will is oppressive.

  God determined that homosexuality is an “abomination.” That means it is disgusting to Him. The Pope does not find it abominable but acceptable!

  The Pope said that he supported civil unions between those of the same sexual orientation. What did God say about that? “A man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.  What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” (Mat 10:7-9). That is Holy Matrimony, or Holy Union. The Church cannot ordain “unholy union” that the world recognizes. The entire Bible is about Divine Law excelling Civil Law. By recognizing unholy matrimony, Frances put Holy Matrimony “asunder.”

With those three statements, the universal Church reset the Word of God. Now, the Pope’s words, according to the decree of papal infallibility, diminish God’s Words, and with that, they diminish Jesus.

  Paul said that some in the Church, “having a form of godliness but denying its power… And from such people turn away.” (2 Tim 3:4-5). Rather than turn away from the doctrine of the Pope, reformed protestant churches are conforming to the Catholic Pope’s “bulls.”

  In the end, Paul wrote, “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Tim 3:12-13). With that, the church will wax worse and worse with deception, then the government will provide the persecution. Just as with Jesus and Paul, the same will be done all over again, and now is the time for more persecution of Christians.

  The Pope should value the Word of God! Rather he diminished it to make do-gooders feel good. Rather, the true Father had another better idea: “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). Th Pope decried God’s inspired Words. Rather than reproof for correction, the Pope approved for neglection. The Pope is not THE Antichrist, but an antichrist, because he spoke against God. The Church is now reset, and in the end all but a remnant will be reset. A test of that will be accepting the mark of that, “666,” which seems to be the number of the Qu’ran according to their own admission.

  The Great Reset of the Church will be a unitary religion encompassing all forms of heresy dominated by a collusion between the Catholic Church and Islam. That is part of the Great Reset of the Church. Nazis called that new doctrine, “Positive Christianity,” because in it will be no Jews and no sin! What a reset that will be!

  Not by chance, the Great Reset corresponds with the Age of Aquarius. That is the New Age of Lord Maitreya, meaning “friend.” Ironically Tzar Nicolas and Alexandria called their religious leader, “Our Friend” and he was the most unchristian cleric ever!  However, he will pale in comparison to, “Our Friend,” the Antichrist who will be no friend but pretend to be!

  The Christian era began with the rising of Pisces, and ends with the Age of Aquarious. Jesus was born at the waxing of Pisces and His Doctrine will wane with Aquarius. Many believe that Aquarius rises as early as 1994 or is late as 2054. My perception is that, that age just commenced as part of the Great Reset.

  Just what is the Great Reset? It is when all that has been will no longer exist. Even the population will be diminished by obviously nefarious methods by 95%. Church and State will be reset, and everything will change, even our environment! Who will do those things? The elite billionaires, using socialism as their tool. The reset will be for all three of the estates: Church, State, and the “masses.” The common people will be discarded as if they are trash to be thrown out. So much for “the common good” for it will be for the good of the elite!

Tomorrow, I will continue with the Great Reset of the Government.

 

THE RESET OF THE GOVERNMENT:

  Not by coincidence, the great governmental reset is in progress at the same time as the religious one. There is no wall of separation between government and state. They are entwined; how goes the church so goes the state. Governments become corrupt because of evil people. Wicked governments either pervert Christianity or diminish Christ.

  In the case of the US government, they have created a new “Christ.” Of course, just as with the Athenians in Paul’s time, that new Christ is presently an unknown god. The reference for that is Acts chapter seventeen.

  The new Christ (sic) is not a triune God but a composite god. That “god” is an amalgam of all gods, even with some “good” within. The true God created the world, but the new god was a creation of the world. Like Jesus, the false god portends to be God and King. Just as the new government burns and tears down buildings, that same government tears down the invisible wall between Church and State.

  The Great Reset has been in progress for quite some time. The first attempt was with Adam and Eve when the Serpent endeavored to reset the Lord and just what Paradise meant. God governed there, and Satan induced two naïve righteous people of two things: (1) That he is the real God, and (2) that there is no government, The Antichrist, in the end of time, will declare that he is God and he is the government.

  The flood of Noah corrected the first reset. God rewound the tape of life and regenerated the world. The after-effects of the cleansing of the flood was with the True God in charge again with a new government. God was again King of the New World. Before long, there were resets after resets but through them all God reigned. The birth of Jesus was the Great Readjustment. A new dynasty was born, well-planned with the waxing of Pisces. In 6 BC, probably on March 21, a new King was born who is still God in the Flesh. The sign that Pilate made had written on it, “King of the Jews” but He was really King of all.

  God came to Earth from His throne in Heaven and knocked down that pretend wall between Church and State. He was both King and Royal Priest. Thereafter, western civilization, at least, became a theocracy. Jesus was Lord of all, and was King of Kings, just as scripture describes Him. Jesus knocked down the wall between the government and God. God ruled… for a while.

  Then men again became superior to God, in their own eyes, and Popes ruled men rather than God. Satan had reset again. Between Noah and Jesus, reset and readjustment were cyclic as king after king either exalted God or diminished God. The crucifixion of Jesus was an attempt at the Great Reset, but it failed because the Age of Pisces had not waned. “The Great Resurrection” canceled the Great Reset. Rather than resetting the world, Jesus realigned things. The crucifixion was the Great Readjustment, and the humiliated Satan died that same day, not as King, but his flesh buried unmarked in the Potter’s Field. Jesus foyled that attempt at “reset” by sacrificing  Himself for the “Great Readjustment.”

  Seventy years later, Titus, who would be king of kings tried a reset again, this time not as great. He tore down the Temple of God and built by King Herod, and attempted to end the theocracy in Israel, perhaps as an example to the entire world! The Romans reset the entire civilized world.

The king of kings in Rome was both “King” and Pontifex Maximus — the head of the college of priests. Caesars took from God what is God’s and gave them to Caesar (themselves). The Roman government again became a theocracy with an amalgam of false gods.

  Then, Jesus dealt with Emperor Constantine. He somehow saw the light. The king of kings would be a Christian, and at least received God as “God.” Then the Popes stepped in. The bishops of Rome proclaimed themselves “pontiffs,” replacing the Caesars. They had taken what belonged to Caesar for themselves! They replaced the emperor as Pontifex Maximus and soon became royal emperors as king of kings. Nearly all European kings bent their knees in tribute to the Pontiffs. The protestant reformation was another “Readjustment” of the Roman Reset.

  Before long, the protestants pushed the Reformation too far! They began to act as if they were pontiffs. They aligned with evil governments and began to burn opposing Christians at the stake. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, had caught on. That was the unholy “Holy Roman Empire” where Catholics and Protestants alike, reset what they thought the Reformation and Restoration restored.

  Then humanists “fixed” that by breaking it all. Liberal humanists such as David Hume, Friedrich Nietzche, and Voltaire enlightened the world with a humanist world view. Nietzche did what the crucifixion failed to do. He “killed” God by declaring God dead! By declaring God dead was admission that there is a God and He had been powerful.

The Enlightenment — the Age of Reason — reset the western world. Kings would abandon God and accept “enlightened” people, who ironically stepped back into the dark world to where Adam was cast out.

  We think of the US Constitution as a noble document. That it is, but it is still syncretic in that it exalts God and man at the same time. It is imperfect but the best that enlightened people could derive.

  At the same time, France decided to do a better reset as they guillotined royalty, clergy, and commoners alike. They destroyed the three estates at the same time by the guillotine and made an “Estates General.” That reset was an experiment in socialism that has been reset and readjusted multiple times because it never worked as they thought.

  People love freedom and socialism is a Faustian deal — it trades the soul for the things of the world. The first thing the socialists did was to reset religion. Christianity was quickly replaced with the Unknown Goddess of Reason, and even the calendar changed! That goddess stands in New York Harbor proudly this day. She represents the bringer of light… Lucifer.

  Liberty is Luciferian and pure democracy is “doing what is right in majority of your own eyes” which is sin. Democracy was wisely tempered by republicanism. The US is not a democracy but a republic. It is one of the few that has worked because malefactors can be voted out; they need not be guillotined! 

  Of course, the Greatest Reset of All, the apocalyptic government will do the last and final reset when the guillotine makes resets Christians into socialists! Their government will be communistic with a king to suit, who thinks of himself as God (The Antichrist, Lord Maitreya).

The Great Reset is really the final days of planet Earth before God burns it down and does the last and Final Readjustment! The Great Reset is based on the “economy, stupid” and depends on the “stupidity of the American voter” as Jonathan Gruber expressed. That means a new economic ideology outside capitalism, with a new government system. That New Age government is socialism. Part 3 of the Great Reset is “A New Way of Life” (Wikipedia; “Great Reset”).

  Today, Christians live the Way of Christ. They will be expected to live the “way of Marx” in alliance with Muhammad. Christian, by threat of beheading, will be forced to live their way, and communistic Sharia Law will certainly be that way!

  This election may be another “harbinger” as Jonathan Cahn calls the signs of the end. All the harbingers have been related to 9/11 and Isa 9:10: “The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them to cedars.”           First, consider the trees.

  Sycamores represent regeneration and plentiful fruit in the Bible. Cedars represent strength, endurance, and beauty, In Christology that would mean sycamores represent Christianity with its fruits, and cedars arrogant governments that portend to provide better things. Perhaps, those trees are metaphors for the Realm of God and the Tree of Life, in contrast to the Realm of Satan and the promise of better fruit. In other words, to replace our government derived from God with a new government derived from Satan through Karl Marx and Muhammad.

  That deals with the importance of the trees. How about “buildings?” Cahn’s book relates many harbingers based on bricks falling and rebuilding with hewn stone. Allow me to add one more harbinger — the 2020 US presidential election. Trump’s Motto is to “Make America Great Again!” That means to take the fallen “bricks” of our Constitution, and use the same “bricks” to rebuild.

Biden’s motto is “Build Back Better.” His desire is to use stones hewn by men to replace the “bricks” used in the Constitution of the US. Those mottos are a harbinger, and Americans had to choose between the bricks and mortar of which our nation was Constituted or use stones hewn by human hands.

  Of course, patriots rightfully consider our Constitution as the handiwork of God, and Democrats consider the Communist Manifesto a better “constitution.” Their platform has been called, the “Socialist Manifesto.” They want to use stones hewn by the hand of Marx to “Build Back Better.” Satan always considers his way the better way, and the Great Reset will commence a better (sic) way, at least in the philosophy of men!

 

SUMMARY:

 

  The Great Reset has been done! Both Church and State have reset into two ideologies: (1) Satan’s Law of Sin, and (2) Marx’s “insane ideology” as Galina Veshnevsky expressed it. (See my book: Galina: An American Story). The Great Reset occurred in 2020 — the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, end the waning of the Christian Era. No longer is this the era of Christ (2020 AD) but 2020 CE, of the Common Era. “Common” is the “vulgar” and the era of crooks, swindlers, thieves, liars, and the like  — all attributes of Satan.

  The Reset, like Readjustment, will take some time, but now is the time, and why salvation from the tribulations of the world is so important! 

ABOUT CHRISTIAN TERMINOLOGY

  This will be a short essay on terminology. Many say they are “saved.” What are they “saved” from? Obviously, they are safe (preserved) from the wiles of Satan, but Satan still exists. When Satan dies, then their minds, bodies, and souls shall be “saved.”

  There is one “you must be” in the Bible, and that is, “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7). That is what you must be to be safe from the Serpent. I reference, John 3:14. Those Hebrews who were bitten were healed and preserved, but they still failed to enter the Kingdom of God, excepting a few. “Born again” is safety in Christ because He died to defeat the Serpent, who was symbolized as dead on the pole. The Hebrews were saved from past sins but remained vulnerable to future sins. Those whose faith was not strong enough to reach the Promise Land, never made it. 

SAVED FROM SIN: 

  Paul used the expression “in Christ” quite frequently. So long as the eyes are on the brazen serpent already dead, then Christ preserves the new person. Thus, “To live is Christ; to die is gain” (Phil 2:1). Those who know they are living the Way of Christ have the “assurance of salvation.” It is the prize to be obtained (1 Cor 9:24). The brazen serpent does represent Jesus according to His purpose:

(Jesus) is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.  And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. (1 John 2:2-3)… If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)… Whom (Jesus) God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past… (Rom 3:25).

  Born again, or rebirth, is a cleansing from all past sins. Rebirth is more like the safety in gestation. There must be a continual cleansing to keep sins in the past. Rebirth is repentance, but Jesus propitiated the blood and water for the cleansing, not you, your mother, or anyone else.

  Understanding that Jesus made the propitiation, and not you is “born again,” coming from John 3:7. The appropriate thing for a new Christian to claim, is, “I am what I must be; I am a new person, cleansed from sin.”

   As such, the convert is saved from past sins, preserved from allure to future sin, and kept safe from the evil one. Once sins are past, then the Christian is freed from sin. Let that be called, “saved from sin,” not that you will no longer sin, but that your old nature should be gone. Better terminology is “safe from sin” because if the Christian truly knows Christ, commandments will be kept. The Holy Ghost, as the Comforter, is our Helper to retain righteousness. 

SOUL SAVED: 

  In the interval between rebirth and death, Christians are preserved. God seals the “jar” so to speak. Jesus referred to His “cup.” That is His Purpose, and surely His soul. God keeps the “cup” of Christians sealed, and only the person, by his own hands, can remove the seal to expose it to the corruption of the world. The soul is safe unless Satan successfully tampers with the “cup” and “temptation” is the tampering.

  The blood and water that Jesus spilt is what redeems:

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: ⁴ To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, ⁵ Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” (1 Pet 1:3-5).

  Because Jesus died and was resurrected, Christians have a “living hope” (NKJV) in that what was available to Christ is available to Christians. Jesus was resurrected. His Ghost had been given up, but His body was preserved in the grave. Preserved for what? The saving of the flesh. When Jesus gave up the Holy Ghost, the Father saved that “cup” and Jesus’s soul was saved.

  Of course, Jesus knew that His body would be as well because He had foreknowledge of that. He also has the foreknowledge who of us that shall have their souls saved. However, we do not; Christians have the “assurance of salvation,” and for those whose assurance is ascertained, call themselves “saved.” However, they are certain that their faith is strong enough to endure the world until the end, when they “shall be saved” (Mat 10:22).

  Endurance to the end is to overcome the wiles of the Devil and the trials of the world. The end, therefore, is death. That is why “death is gain”— testing is over, and the Christian has passed the test.

  What happens at death? Everyone gives up the ghost. Either the unholy or Holy Spirit is given up. Those with an unholy spirit perish and are forever dying. For them, death is not a “lively hope” but a brazen certainty.

  Those Christians who endure the world “shall be saved.” What is saved at death? The “cup” with its contents. The human soul is saved along with the Holy Ghost of God within it. With that, those who endure the world have their immortal souls returned to them just as before the beginning of the world (Ephes 1:4). 

FLESH SAVED: 

  “Salvation” is not yet complete. There is one more “process” for regeneration. “Generation” is as Adam — “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7). “Regeneration” is that same process again. The Lord takes the dust from the ground from which men came, and breaths life back unto it (1 Thes 4:16).

  Therefore, “regeneration” is not at rebirth, but that is the “beginning,” just as Gen 1:1 wherein God made the material and the space for it (i.e., the flesh and the soul, then with Adam, breathed life unto that soul and made it a “living soul.”)

  With the first sin, mankind’s soul was emptied of God’s “breath” and had the Serpent’s “breath” breathed unto them.

  As children of the Devil, all are born with their “cup” full of Serpentine poison until remission. Rebirth is when the Devil’s DNA is expelled as the cleansing process starts. Glorification is full regeneration — when the Christian is again “in the image of God” as generated in the beginning (Gen 1:27). God has three “images:” Mind, Body, and Spirit; or the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost of Jesus. When Christians are “glorified,” their minds are preserved at rebirth, their spirits are saved at death, and their bodies are saved at the general Resurrection. “Glorification” is back in Paradise in the Presence and on perfect terms with God. 

SUMMARY: 

  If you are alive, you are “born again” a “new person.”

  If you are dead, your soul is saved, IF you have been born again and kept the faith.

  Your hope is to be fully regenerated. That will happen when Jesus comes to save your body and breathe Life back into the soul.

  When you are raptured, then you shall be saved.

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THE GREAT RESET - Reset of the Church

 PERILOUS TIMES

   We are in perilous times. The “Great Reset” has been reset. The Great Reset is from the Christian Era into the Antichristian Era. I am reading the Bible chronologically. Is it by coincidence that in my daily Bible study, this verse (the key verse) popped out in this explosive election week? Based on the vote so far, it seems likely that Biden has won the presidential selection process. If that is the case, life in America, and accordingly, the rest of the world, has been reset: 

KEY VERSE: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2 Tim 3:1) 

 

THE RESET OF THE CHURCH: 

  Perilous times are now here because both Church and State have been reset. First, consider the Pope, who portends to be head of the universal (catholic) “Church.” Pope Frances made three very wrong and  unbiblical statements: 

(1)    ““Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it“ (Padgett 2020), and,

(2)    “The most important aspect is to be a good human being.” (Alexander 2020)

(3)    That he supported same-sex civil unions, “ley de convivencia civil” (ibid) 

  Andrew McCarthy responded to the Pope’s statement with the following observation: “The Catholic Church moves like a glacier...by inches. As a Cahtolic (sic) who has been lobbying and working with the Church for reform, I am encouraged by the Pope's words because they show the beginning of movement” (Padgett 2020).

  Before discussing the Pope’s comments, consider McCarthy’s response. He was “encouraged” because the Pope’s words, “show the beginning of movement.” McCarthy had compared the change in doctrine to a glacier. Ice builds up, suddenly breaks free, than slides with great force. McCarthy recognized that the Chuch that week had been reset!

  Frances claimed that homosexuals are “children of God.” What does scripture say about that? “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Lev 18:22), and “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do” (John 8:44) to those who lacked understanding of God’s Will for them. “Sinners” are no longer God’s “children;” they were emancipated. To be a child of God requires rebirth, wherein the nature of men and women are made anew in the likeness of Jesus.

  Then, the Pope said that the “most important aspect is to be a good human being.” The entire New Testament disputes that; that works are futile, and that the most important aspect is to trust in the Word of God, Jesus. What does the Bible say about doing good? “All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” (Isa 64:6), and as Jesus pointed out, “Why callest thou me good? there is none good but One, that is, God” (Mat 19:17). 

  “Being a good human being” is not Christianity; it is secular humanism, and that is another religion — a false one at that! “Being a good human being” is not righteous justice but “social justice” because society determines what is “good.” The theology of the Pope is not liberation from sin, but “liberation theology” in that God’s Will is oppressive.

  God determined that homosexuality is an “abomination.” That means it is disgusting to Him. The Pope does not find it abominable but acceptable!

  The Pope said that he supported civil unions between those of the same sexual orientation. What did God say about that? “A man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.  What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” (Mat 10:7-9). That is Holy Matrimony, or Holy Union. The Church cannot ordain “unholy union” that the world recognizes. The entire Bible is about Divine Law excelling Civil Law. By recognizing unholy matrimony, Frances put Holy Matrimony “asunder.”

  With those three statements, the universal Church reset the Word of God. Now, the Pope’s words, according to the decree of papal infallibility, diminish God’s Words, and with that, they diminish Jesus.

  Paul said that some in the Church, “having a form of godliness but denying its power… And from such people turn away.” (2 Tim 3:4-5). Rather than turn away from the doctrine of the Pope, reformed protestant churches are conforming to the Catholic Pope’s “bulls.”

  In the end, Paul wrote, “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Tim 3:12-13). With that, the church will wax worse and worse with deception, then the government will provide the persecution. Just as with Jesus and Paul, the same will be done all over again, and now is the time for more persecution of Christians.

  The Pope should value the Word of God! Rather he diminished it to make do-gooders feel good. Rather, the true Father had another better idea: “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). Th Pope decried God’s inspired Words. Rather than reproof for correction, the Pope approved for neglection. The Pope is not THE Antichrist, but an antichrist, because he spoke against God. The Church is now reset, and in the end all but a remnant will be reset. A test of that will be accepting the mark of that, “666,” which seems to be the number of the Qu’ran according to their own admission.

  The Great Reset of the Church will be a unitary religion encompassing all forms of heresy dominated by a collusion between the Catholic Church and Islam. That is part of the Great Reset of the Church. Nazis called that new doctrine, “Positive Christianity,” because in it will be no Jews and no sin! What a reset that will be!

  Not by chance, the Great Reset corresponds with the Age of Aquarius. That is the New Age of Lord Maitreya, meaning “friend.” Ironically Tzar Nicolas and Alexandria called their religious leader, “Our Friend” and he was the most unchristian cleric ever!  However, he will pale in comparison to, “Our Friend,” the Antichrist who will be no friend but pretend to be!

  The Christian era began with the rising of Pisces, and ends with the Age of Aquarious. Jesus was born at the waxing of Pisces and His Doctrine will wane with Aquarius. Many believe that Aquarius rises as early as 1994 or is late as 2054. My perception is that, that age just commenced as part of the Great Reset.

  Just what is the Great Reset? It is when all that has been will no longer exist. Even the population will be diminished by obviously nefarious methods by 95%. Church and State will be reset, and everything will change, even our environment! Who will do those things? The elite billionaires, using socialism as their tool. The reset will be for all three of the estates: Church, State, and the “masses.” The common people will be discarded as if they are trash to be thrown out. So much for “the common good” for it will be for the good of the elite!

  Tomorrow, I will continue with the Great Reset of the Government.

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ON SECURITY

 

  Paul’s first letter to Timothy could as well be called, “KEEP THE FAITH” because within the letter are several warnings about not taking faith for granted; in other words, the faith of Christians is not secure.

  Indeed, this commentary is controversial, but the Words are not mine; they are Paul’s words that the Spirit inspired Paul to write, to wit: “The Spirit speaketh expressly” (1 Tim 4:1). Like everyone, my wish is that my faith is secure, but that depends on me.

  Just what is “faith?” Paul defined that for the Hebrews who questioned it, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1). What is the “hope” of the Christian? “We are saved by hope” (Rom 8:24). Therefore “hope” is “salvation.”

  What then is “salvation?” It is “raised up on the last day” (John 6:44), and those who are raised up, “will enter the kingdom of heaven” (Mat 7:21).

  Of course, rebirth is “saved from sinning” as is written, “He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins” (Jas 5:20). Rebirth is not salvation; it is conversion from a lost person to one with the hope of salvation. Hiding those sins, is no longer holding them against the sinner. Jesus propitiated His blood for “sins that are past” (Rom 3:25). Repentance is a continual cycle of conviction, guilt, contrition, repentance, and God forgetting those sins. When and if that cycle is not forthcoming, then faith gradually diminishes with neglect. That cycle is one of trust. Christians sin and trust God for pardon. If a Christian no longer feels guilt when they sin, then the Holy Spirit cannot Comfort.

  “Saved from sin” is conversion at rebirth. No longer is the person chained to sin, but freely choose not to sin. They have liberty to sin, but if a disciple of Christ, will choose not to sin. The Holy Spirit changes the nature of people.

  Satan, to diminish God, has one avenue to do that; to snatch Christians away from the Holy Ghost. Of course, Satan still uses deception to do that, and the most obvious is for Christians to believe they are secure when they are not. Anyone that feels secure and continue in sin are the most vulnerable to the wiles of the Devil. They think as if they are already saved from the Devil, but the Holy Ghost of Jesus has them safe but not secure. Only when the Devil can no longer persuade people to blaspheme the Holy Ghost are they saved from sin, and that is why Paul wrote, “To die is gain” (Phil 1:21).

  Death, for the Christian, is gain, as Paul wrote because Satan can no longer snatch you away; only Jesus can snatch you up. That is called the “rapture” of Christians, both those dead in Christ and those still alive at that time. Physical death is when the soul is saved. The rapture is when the flesh is saved and made new. Hence, care must be taken as to what and when salvation occurs.

  Obviously, Christians are not secured from sin because they still sin. Unless they continually repent their faith is doubtful because doubt is what is lacking in faith. God alone “knows that He knows that He knows” as many say, but Christians must trust what has not become reality. The M.O. of Satan is to increase doubt to the extent that there is no faith. Even a little faith, by grace, is enough.

  Paul was worried about the security of the Churches in Asia and wrote a letter to Timothy, apparently with “cc’s” to all the Churches there.

  A false doctrine was circulating. I have written before that the doctrine of Simon Magus was Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” that was for, “the messenger of Satan to buffet me” (2 Cor 12:7). By then, not only was Satan buffeting Paul, but the other ministers. Why would that be? Gnosticism, founded by Simon, was “secret knowledge” to be saved. Paul wrote, not about secret knowledge to Timothy, but “the mystery of godliness” (1 Tim 3:16).

  Gnosticism buffeted the entire apostolic Church and almost won out! Gnosticism, or Simonism, attempted to dissuade Christians from their faith. Why would Satan buffet Paul and other Christians if they could not fall? Now examine Paul’s many warnings about the buffeting the Body of Christ (The Church) was taking: 

·         Regarding bishopric candidates, Paul wrote, are ,“Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil” (1 Tim 3:6)

·         Regarding regulations that they cannot themselves keep, Paul wrote, “The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils” (1 Tim 4:1)

·         Regarding good doctrine (3:16), Paul wrote, “Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. (1 Tim 4:16)

·         Regarding stewardship, Paul wrote, “If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. (1 Tim 5:8)

·         Regarding young widows when they grow wanton, Paul wrote, “When they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith” (1 Tim 5:11-12)

·         Urging young widows to marry, Paul wrote, “Give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. For some are already turned aside after Satan” (1 Tim 5:14-15)

·         Regarding believing bondservants, Paul wrote, “Count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the Name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed” (1 Tim 6:1)

·         About those who love money, Paul wrote: “They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith” (1 Tim 6:9-10)

·         To Timothy himself, Paul wrote, “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith” (1 Tim 6:20-21) 

  Blasphemy is denial of the Holy Ghost. That seems strange, but remember whose “Ghost” that IS. Jesus gave up the Ghost; the Spirit of God in Him who suffered death and replaced the sin of all mankind. Denying the Holy Ghost is taking the crucifixion of Jesus vainly. The Third Commandment warns of that, and even provides the penalty for blasphemy: “The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain” (Exod 20:7). That corresponds with, “He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation” (Mark 3:29).

  Vanity would be taking the death of Jesus without value. That is what Bonnhoeffer called, cheap grace.” Unbelievers are blasphemous because they do not trust that truth. Christians can blaspheme by taking it vainly by forgetting. If that happens it is as if crucifying Jesus afresh (Heb 6:6).

  Satan endeavors to prevent conversion by making sinners feel good in their sins. Satan undermines Christians by persuading them that what Jesus did was in vain or did not even happen. Gnosticism promotes the notion that only a phantasm was on the Cross, and that Jesus did not die because He was not really on the Cross. They would support the thesis that the Holy Ghost shed the blood and water, but only Flesh could do that.

  Hard as he tries, Satan is satisfied that Christians forget Jesus — that they do nothing in remembrance of Him! How can anyone forget the Savior? By disregarding His Will for us to walk His Way — in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:23), not according to some secret knowledge.

  “Erring from the faith” is not understanding the provisions of faith. Faith is a gift, but a gift that must be used. If faith is hidden away and forgotten it is not faith. Keeping the faith that God gave us is a responsibility; a sacrifice of our own flesh as Jesus did his. Paul called living a holy life, giving our self for Christ’s sake, and referred to it as a “reasonable service” (Rom 12:1). If Christians are not living for Christ, they are dying for the Devil.

  Pride in Christians, just as with the angel Lucifer is, “fall(ing) into the condemnation of the devil.” What happened to the Devil? “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer” (Isa 14:12). Lucifer fell from grace, and if Christians return to their father the Devil in pride, they too will fall!

  Then Paul wrote, “In the latter times some shall depart from the faith.” They will not lose their faith but depart from it. That is knowing the faith, having received the Holy Spirit, but committing presumptuous sin. That type of sin is presuming that a Christian shall be saved through belief only, without trusting Jesus for it. Forthcoming salvation, “in the last days” is forfeiture of that hope.

  Paul wrote to for them to take heed and continue in the doctrine of Christ. He elaborated on that doctrine in 1 Tim 3:16. The mystery knowledge is revealed there. It must be believed and trusted in, not just one time at conversion, but continually. The hope of salvation is dependent on a continuation of what a Christian once believed, to wit: “Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed” (Rom 13:11). Christians become nearer to their salvation. They are not yet saved but kept safe until that time. Not continuing in the faith is forfeiting that safety.

  Paul wrote about those who have “denied the faith.” They once had faith, then later denied what they once believed and trusted. Paul said that an infidel would be better off than denying what was once believed.

  Then Paul wrote about the widows that, “have cast off their first faith.” Note that the Holy Ghost comforted them in the faith, and did not remove that comfort, but the young Christian widow could cast off their own faith.” They essentially were in danger of throwing away the gift that God gave them by grace.

  Some of the widows has already, “turned aside after Satan.” They had abandoned their Savior for His adversary. They had turned away from their first love to another. That is fornication against God and is a violation of the First Commandment.

  Lastly, Paul warned in that letter to, “keep that which is committed to thy trust.” Keep the faith! It is a gift from God; do not throw it away!

  How can anyone consider eternal security when Paul makes clear throughout the letter that Christians were wandering from the faith, and that they were in danger of losing their hope? He said, that some already had, and Gnosticism was buffeting them from the Church to damnation!

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TRUTH ABOUT FEMINISM

   I am writing as I read the Bible in chronological order. I cannot just skip over God’s Word as it is there for a reason. I will never passover biblical truth to avoid offense. If the Word of God does not offend, then how could we ever be convicted of sin? Today, because I must, I tackle the divisive issue of gender roles. Remember, I am only a messenger, so do not shoot me! However, I do believe that women do have a role in the Church, but that is for another day. 

  Feminism is based on the idea that women are no longer to be silent. Initially, it was only limited to two goals: (1) The right to vote, and (2) job equity, or equal pay for equal work. Few could argue against those two things, and ironically, men saw the light, and women gained the right to vote, and men provided the opportunities for equal pay.

  The right to vote was fair. Negroes, in the Constitution, had been counted as 3/5^th citizens, but women non-citizens. America is not Paradise, and this was for citizenship in a country, not a spiritual realm. Countries have different laws than the Kingdom of God, and hence the concept of “fairness” differs between Church and State.

  In the Kingdom of God, women and men are equal, but their roles differ. Examine the evidence: (1) Only Adam was given the Law, and (2) only Adam was given an assignment; “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it’” (Gen 2:16-17), and “The Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it” (Gen 2:15). Eve was given no such command nor authority but took it upon herself to tell the Serpent the Law, wrongly, and it was she who stood under the wrong tree.

  The two trees in the middle of the Garden were metaphorical trees as well as real trees. The Tree of Life was the Way to eternal life (Gen 3:24). Cherubim were placed to the east of the Garden to keep the Way to life. That had been Adam’s role, but Eve assumed that position, but she “guarded” the Tree of Death, or the Wisdom Tree. Hence, cherubim were assigned to do Adam’s job.

  God gave the Law to Adam before Eve was even created. It was Adam’s Law to keep, not Eve’s. Eve’s sin was like the Centurions who killed Jesus; they knew not what they doing, according to Jesus (Luke 23:34). Eve had no idea what death was nor the Law. When she ate the fruit, she showed her ignorance of the Law by misstating it and did not fear death as she knew only life!

  Sin was accounted to Adam (Rom 5:12). Adam committed “presumptuous sin.” That means that he knew the Law, understood it, and broke it anyway. He had “hearkened unto the voice of thy wife” rather than God. She had become his “goddess” (Gen 3:17). She, rather than hearkening unto Adam who had revealed the Law to her, she listened to the Serpent.

  Adam sinned because Eve did not remain silent. Also, her voice did not discount the Serpent’s but perhaps Adam’s would have. Adam should have been there, standing under the Tree of Life, not the Wisdom Tree, and rebuking the Serpent from afar.

  The canopy of the Tree of Life was their “Church.” The canopy of the Wisdom Tree was the “false church” which I call the “Philosophy Tree.” Paul warned, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy” (Col 2:8) and when he wrote his first letter to the younger man, Timothy, he was warning about philosophy and its influence in the church in Colosse: 

¹¹ Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. ¹² But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. ¹³ For Adam was first formed, then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. (1 Tim 2:11-14) 

  Paul was telling Timothy that women are to be silent in the church. The reason he gave was the case of Eve assuming the role of spokesman over Adam in the beginning. Although Adam broke the Law, it was Eve’s fault. He listened to his wife who should have been under the Tree of Life, and standing there silently. Adam was God’s “priest,” but Eve was not a priestess. It was Adam who was to serve and preserve future men and women (dress and keep them, as it is translated).

  All that Paul was doing was explaining the Will of God, which is that a woman is not to teach nor have authority over men. They were to be a “help meet for Adam” (Gen 2:18). A “help-meet” is “one who helps” (Strong’s Dictionary). Women can be deaconesses and administer to young girls and women. Like men, whose body belongs firstly to God, the body of women belong also to men: “The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife” (1 Cor 7:4). Husband and wife have authority over each other. That is referencing conjugation in that passage.

  Feminists soon added another demand; that they have power over their own bodies. They demanded sexual freedom and independence from men. Rather than “one flesh” under God (Mat 9:16), feminists demanded that authority be put asunder. The feminist movement had cracked open the “door” that God made. Their demand was to be “Eves” and do whatever suits them.

  Then the “door” opened more as women stretched the limits. “My body, my choice!” became their slogan. They referred to bodies of another human being. God ordained women to bear children: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it” (Gen 1:28). Adam and Eve were to be one, and the two together were charged with replenishing the Earth. Feminists make themselves out to be goddesses as Eve did things as if she is God (Gen 3:5).

  Paul pointed out that neither men’s nor women’s bodies are their own; the body of both genders belong to God and to each other. Feminism defiles God, and shamefully, woos men still hearken unto deceived women!

  And then feminism opened the door even more! They supported homosexuality. Their bodies no longer belong to Adam, but to other “Eves.” After all, it is their body to do with as they please! Why did Adam and Eve make “aprons of fig leaves” (Gen 3:7)? Because they were their own “law” and they had to cover their shame.

  Somehow their genitalia had become their masters. Rather than procreate, Eves were to deviate with Eves and Adams with Adams. The feminists movement is all about sexual freedom, and that is why Paul taught that they should remain silent in the Church.

  Eve finally submitted to God and the Word (Jesus; John 1) covered her with His “flesh” as he supplied the lamb. Eve suffered the consequences of her sin and was humbled. That would not work for Satan. Satan had surely lusted after the flesh of Eve. She surely felt his eyes on her.

  Why would that be? Both of them covered their flesh? From the eyes of whom? God had already seen the flesh. After all he made it very good! They covered their flesh from the leering eyes of Satan.

  Because Eve would no longer be his help-meet, Satan created another one. He supplied Adam with a fictitious wife. He her name was “Liyliyth” (Lilith), the “screech owl,” “night creature,”  and female demon from Isaiah 34:14. She was not in the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil but early creation mythology placed her there as the “night owl.” Then they made Lilith Adam’s first wife as if there had been two creations!

  Perhaps Eve was ashamed because she saw a demoness in the Tree of Knowledge with the Serpent. Perhaps lesbianism introduced itself to mankind when Eve lusted the fruits of that tree! Of course, that is speculation, but they covered their genitals for a reason, and soon we learn that the Sons of God had carnal knowledge with the daughters of men. Perhaps, as sacred literature states, that angels and humans had intercourse. Carnal activity with spiritual knowledge was only for human men and women, not for angels or beasts!

  What do “beasts” do? They fornicate at will without hindrance. Their bodies belong neither to God nor each other. With original sin, Adam’s seed and Eve’s offspring became as the beasts, not as gods!

  Lilith was handy and feminists quickly adapted the myth of her to their cause. As the story goes, Lilith left Adam because she demanded independence. As such, Lilith was the first presumptuous feminist if she had been real. Lilith is the sex goddess of myth-based pagan religions. Lilith is also the mentor of feminists who admire her independence and sexual prowess. She was even said to have eaten her babies, and that the eggs of the night owl were not even safe under her! That is why she is the abortion goddess!

  God did not create Lilith. Satan did! He needed Lilith to diminish God. Screech owls are noted for one thing; they are not silent! Now can you understand why women must be silent in the Church and why they are under the authority of men?

  Why were vocal women seen to be a problem in the Church? Just look at the modern churches; the most liberal are churches that allow women preachers, ministers, bishops, and deacons. From an anecdotal, but obvious, standpoint, women preachers preach feminism and are defiant of the authority of men in the Church.

  Preachers fail to preach the truth about gender-role assignments to not offend liberal-minded women. Women are to help men reach the lost, but their role is much different. Obedient Christian women understand because they listen to God in their silence. They say more with their silence than vocal women do with their clamor!

  Why is same-sex marriage allowed in mainstream churches? Because their bishops listen to the philosophy of men. Psychology created their own “truth”” that they “are born this way.” Women spread that deception. Lady Gaga sings “Born This Way.” The Church listens to the false doctrines of the world.

  Why do mainstream churches remain silent about abortion or even condone it? So as not to offend independent-minded women! Why is the Church becoming the “harlot” in God’s viewpoint? Because they have not even shame to even conceal their doctrine of sexual independence. The “fig leaves” have fallen as the bricks fall from the Church (Isa 9:10).

  Now for my own apologetic: I write this because it is the truth! I am not a Meninist nor do I want to diminish women. However, when feminists exalt themselves, they diminish God. I am angry because most preachers would rather keep silent to not offend women even though they offend God. Adam even had the courage to credit the woman for alluring him to sin, but preachers remain silent on a huge problem. Is it not ironic that it is the women who are to remain silent, but instead woos men do? Yes, indeed, men are the Adams!

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TRAINING UP A CHILD

KEY VERSES: ¹⁶ Because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. (Ephes 5:16-17)

This is the same key verse as yesterday, but today’s “stoked the fire” even more with,  “The days are evil” in Paul’s time. Now, “the days are evil” but since then Satan has increased his power. Satan has “wised-up” but people are more lacking in wisdom.  Then, they understood evil and its sources. If not, Paul pointed it out to them: 

¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³ Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. (Ephes 6:11-13; NKJV) 

  Generally, the theologian spends time discussing the whole armor of God. I did last year and compared it to David killing Goliath. He refused Saul’s armor because it did not fit and put on the armor of God which fit just right; right enough to kill Goliath.

(See https://kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com/2016/08/five-smooth-stones.html)

  We have a different “Goliath” today. He is not a huge man with a five-foot sword, but the entertainment industry with the voice of a giant — a demonic giant. Christians need armor against the Devil. Paul mentioned the “wiles of the Devil.” God told Moses, “the Serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field” (Gen 3:1). With sin, Adam and Eve were demoted from “very good” with the Spirit of God in their souls, to mere “beasts” with original sin. Since, Satan is more wily and cunning than any man!

  David defeated Goliath, but Goliath, unlike the Serpent, was not possessed by Satan, but was a provocateur. (1 Sam 17:16). He fought for Satan, but Goliath was not wily or cunning. David was! He understood that to defeat Goliath, he must trust the Lord. It was God who provided the stones, provided the man, and provided the courage for a small physical man to face a giant. Then God guided the missile to the forehead of Goliath. All David did to kill his Goliath was trust God, and God did all the rest. That was the whole armor of God and He provided it all!

  Today, the “Goliath” has demons in “him;” to wit: “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

  Little you and me are provoked by stronger “Goliaths” and many more of them: principalities, rulers of darkness, and spiritual hosts. “Hosts” are armies. “Heavenly hosts” are angels of God, and “spiritual hosts” are demon angels. Angels are messengers from another realm; hence, “spiritual hosts” are demons who provoke humans through propaganda, lies, temptation, and such things.

  Goliath, “stood and cried out to the armies” (1 Sam 17:8). His voice resounded in the valley and raised fear in the armies of Saul. His voice was a giant “megaphone” that made most of the Hebrews cower. They would have submitted to him if not for David. The same goes for Christians and the “Son of David,” Jesus by Name. The Voice of God was silent but encouraging!

  The most powerful weapon in the arsenal of Christian soldiers is, “understanding what the will of the Lord is,” from the key verse. The Will of the Lord is that sin be defeated, and Jesus died for that purpose. As such, Jesus is the “whole armor” because with His sacrifice, Satan hung in another tree at the same time in Judas. Jesus removed His armor and put it on all who would wear it. Most enter the battle with no armor at all or the wrong armor!

  The battle is not against flesh and blood, but principalities (those who fulfill higher orders and administer them in the world), powers (warrior angels), rulers of darkness (those who issue orders), in addition to the demon armies themselves. You cannot fight them alone unless God is with you, in you, and over you.

  Those demonic forces, we have learned from Job’s encounter, cannot kill your body, but they can kill your soul. They need not use the sword as Goliath did, but provoke by different means. Goliath bullied the Hebrews and they cowered. The Powers of today, bully more cunningly!

  A 50,000 watt AM radio station can be heard for hundreds of miles. Satellite television can be heard all over the world. Cable television can as well. Movie theaters are all over the world. Face it, Goliath megamedia provokes Christians all day and night long. Mature people can escape it by turning off the source of power, but juveniles are plugged-in through ear buds most of the day and into the night. Young people and immature adults are plugged into the world much of the time!

  What are people plugged into?

¹⁵ Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. (1 John 2:15-17)

  Entertainment is you plugged into the world to which lust and pride are transmitted. Just what is it you hear and see from the world? “The works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like” (Gal 5:19-21).

  From whom do those evil things come? The world — those outside the Christian community, and now with Satan’s cunning, from within modern church buildings. All week long the youth are plugged into the world and are molded into worldly creatures, then, on Sunday morning, musicians feed the youth “Jesus” to the tune of the world!

  Sound waves and television transmissions are not evil. They are only the Power. The “spiritual hosts” are the problem. They provide the entertainment and such that bombards the world. Face it, most rock musicians, rappers, and even some contemporary artists are not Christians. Music and entertainment are persuasive. The youth get their world view from Satan and his dark angels. They use nefarious people to provoke people to sin. Not only the youth, but adults are provoked by tempters and temptresses. Pornography is widespread and millions are tuned-in!

  Paul wrote, “Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord” (Ephes 6:4). We think of fathers provoking their children by bullying them. That is too obvious. Parents provoke their children to wrath against God. They get angry because they have the things of the world are taken away. That should be obvious, because the alternative thing that Paul wrote was to train and teach your children the Word of the Lord. The wiseman wrote, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov 22:6).

  Fathers and mothers provoke their children to sin by relegating them to demon messengers. Permissive parents essentially let demon angels raise their children. With that laxity, evil becomes engrained in innocent children to the extent that their innocence is lost. Rather than train them as they should go forthwith, parents let the entertainment industry, friends, and even teachers trian them up in the way they should not go.

  “Friends” is used loosely. Rather, the term should be, “fellow provocateurs.” Christians are to be set apart. The culture of Christians should be sanctification, meaning that a Christian household should be set apart from the world. When sinners were born again in apostolic times, they and their households were safe because the parents headed the household: “The Lord said, ‘Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household’” (Luke 12:42).

  The problem with contemporary families is that parents are not head of the households. Children, from a young age, rule the parents. They become pre-pubescent “Goliaths” who provoke their parents day after day. They are so successful, that parents raise loud-mouth, demanding little Philistines, who are symbolic of Satan.

  It should be obvious, but the entertainment industry is the “voice” of modern Goliaths. Music, movies, and such all provide messages. That is why writers write them and producers produce them. Like it or not, the world is molding your children, and may be transmitting the same messages to parents. Little “Goliaths” copy big Goliaths. They look at provoking parents and provoke others. Again, a reminder to not think of provocation only to anger, but to evil doings. Teaching by doing evil demonstrates to children that, I am okay; you are okay, and the world is okay!

  Christians are not to be of the world, but overcome the world, as is written, “Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God” (1 John 5:5)? How can a young man or woman overcome the world when they are imbued with the things of the world? Rather than filled with the Holy Spirit, they are filled with Satan’s messages transmitted by the world.

  I have provoked my own children by stealing their childhood. I let them follow themselves as their own masters. When I came to that realization, it was too late for me to bring them up in the way they should go, and now it is their responsibility. If they choose wrongly, then I have provoked my children to evil. I would not need to prod, but they would, like obedient sheep, have taken the easy path to perdition. The point is that demanding words are not the only way to provoke, but leading children the wrong way is provocation in itself!

  Overcoming the world is hard work, but a good start is tuning-out the world. That means putting you and your children away from temptation. Friends should be those who are friendly to the rules and culture of your Christian household. Foreign wives always destroyed righteous men, according to scripture. That also means that “foreign” (unchristian) friends can also spoil a Christian household.

  “Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God” (1 John5:5)? To overcome the world requires tuning out the world and tuning in God. Parents have responsibility to fine-tune their households. Even churches cannot do that for you.

  If I had read this when my own household was in turmoil, I could have either rejected this commentary or considered it. Today’s reader can do likewise. This was not geared to anyone specifically, but to everyone generally. It is not a family but a global problem! It so happened when I came to study my Bible this day chronologically, this message was up next. Do with it as you wish, but perhaps it was meant for you.

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COMMANDS AND WILLS

 

KEY VERSES: ¹⁶ Because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. (Ephes 5:16-17)

  “Commands” are when an authority directs. It is one of a higher-level controlling another. The best human example are masters controlling their slaves. It turns out for the children of the Devil (John 8:44) sins are the “commands” and evil is the “plantation” system. On that plantation grows many appealing things: Paul enumerated many of them in Ephesians chapter 5: “fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness” (verse 3), “filthiness, foolish talking, jesting” (verse 4), and “whoremonger, uncleanness, (and) covetous man, who (one who) is an idolater” (verse 5).

  Satan allows his “slaves” to partake of those fruits and many more. However, he forbids his slaves to love one another as God loves them. Satan is a sly fellow; people fail to understand that they are controlled by him. The Devil never makes you do things but puts things in front of his children to entice them to be under his authority. For instance, planting a beautiful woman or a handsome man in a secret place grows lust, and when it is full-bloomed, lust begets sin: “When lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death” (Jas 1:15).

  The ”crop” on the Devil’s “plantation” is a bundle of dead branches because Jesus is the Vine, and Christians are its branches (John 15:5). Ironically, Satan is not a cruel master but quite a generous one, but his crop does not even compare with the bountiful harvest of Jesus.  God’s harvest is slow in growing, but Satan’s spontaneous and appealing.

  Satan controls, not by commands, but offerings. He knows that the idols of humans are their fleshes, and Satan feeds the desires of their flesh. The sacrifice that Christians are to make is to submit their flesh to temperance, not for their own good, but because it pleases God. Paul wrote, “Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma” (Ephes 5:2, NKJV).

  Christians are to imitate Jesus since they are in His image. As such, neither does God command us! “Command” is one interpretation of the Greek, but another is “direct” (Strong’s Dictionary). It depends how the worker understands it. The context depends on the receiver. “Slaves” would consider it a command to love their master. On the other hand, willing workers would consider love valuable direction. Freedom is the “understanding (of) what the will of the Lord is” from the key verses. If the Will of the Lord is perceived as demanding, then it is a command; but if it is perceived as voluntary, it is a directive. Thus, commands and directives depend on the hearts of the recipients.

  Those with “circumcised hearts” (Rom 2:2) follow directions like appreciative, willing workers, but those with uncircumcised hearts like disgruntled, controlled slaves. Is John 15:17, then, a command or a directive? That depends on you!

  When Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice, was it a command or a directive? That depended on how Abraham looked at it. His willingness to sacrifice his son was credited to him as righteousness; to wit: ““Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness” (Rom 4:3).

  Note that God gave Abraham directions, and that he could have received them in either of two ways: commands or directives. Abraham was wise. He understood that he had the freedom to follow directives or not.

  If they had been commands, God would have controlled him by coercion. Abraham, without hardness of heart, considered them God’s Will to be done, and was willing to do them out of love for God. Abraham understood beforehand that God would do that same thing for him and all his seed. God planted another “Garden,” perhaps on Golgotha, wherein he had planted Adam’s seed in the beginning. Israel is the Garden of Eden, and there God planted all his “seeds” at different times! It is believed that even the seed of Noah was planted in the Kingdom of David which was then the extent of the Garden of Eden!

  Adam was advised to be a willing worker — “God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it” (Gen 2:15). Note that God did not command but expected that from Adam. His “direction” to Adam was to tend the Garden and preserve it just because it belonged to God. The “Garden” was real but at the same time, a metaphor for a “Garden of Living Souls.” Adam was to demonstrate love by serving the vine and preserving its branches! In effect, God’s intention was that Adam operationalize the “Ten Words” of pre-incarnate Jesus, the first four which are serving God, and the last six preserving living souls.

  Can you not see that the Ten Commandments are not commandments at all, but the “Ten Wills of God?” What is God’s Will? “That whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). What are the conditions in His Will for His heirs? “That whoever believes in Him (trusts Him)” (John 3:15). How is trust demonstrated? By following His directives, or prescriptions for eternal health. Jesus came to heal the nations (Rev 22:2). He is the Divine Doctor preserving dying souls. His prescriptions for healing and preserving are itemized. The Ten Directives are prescriptions that dying patients must willingly take to live forever.

  The Abrahamic Covenant is God’s Will for mankind… all the seed of Abraham. As God’s Will, there must be an “estate.” That “estate” was enumerated as the Kingdom of David, or Paradise. The environment on that plantation is not demeaning. No one is required to work! Because they love the Lord and His Garden, they are pleased to serve without coercion. What is grown in the Garden? Charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance, gentleness, faith, modesty, self-control, and chastity — the Twelve Fruits of the Holy Spirit. (Gal 5:22-23; Vulgate).

  How to grow those twelve fruits? God provided directions for His tenants — the Ten Directives. Of course, he does not command their use, but it is left to the “farmers.” Abel used agreeable “fertilizer” and grew a good crop which he dedicated to God. Cain, on the other hand, grew a paltry crop which he shared only because of duress. He knew that blessings would only come by sharing, but he shared as little as possible. His heart was not in the “farm” nor God, but on himself and pleasure. Cain could have fertilized with God’s Prescriptions using God’s directions, but he sowed and reaped what he had sown!

  If Cain had only understood God’s prayer his living soul would have never died: 

⁹ Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

¹⁰ Your kingdom come.

Your will be done

On earth as it is in heaven.

¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.

¹² And forgive us our debts,

As we forgive our debtors.

¹³ And do not lead us into temptation,

But deliver us from the evil one.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. (Mat 6:9-13; NKJV)

 

  “Your Will be done… On Earth as in heaven.” That is the key; — to do God’s Will here as we will do in the heavenly Paradise. Never expect to be one thing here and another there. Does failure mean damnation? No! Willingness to follow directives is the key. Commands are required because of unwillingness, but for willing hearts, they are not. It is just how you look at the directives!

(picture credit: Getty Images: "Adam and Eve, circa 1639. Artist Simone Cantarini; Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)