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Sometimes in the past I couldn't wait to get done with these
so I could get back to The Missler Genesis Commentary Series.
Now its just the opposite
because the next two chapters in this series are:
Chapter XI
Biblical Demonology and World Governments
and
Chapter XII
Biblical Demonology and Eschatology
(That last one? I am sure I am going to disagree with a lot. Largely because we are living and seeing things the author simply could not/did not in the time period when he wrote it. And I already know his position on the Locust of the deep being demonic. So there is going to be quite a lot of disagreement and explanations as to why when we get there.)
But those next two chapters were pretty much the reason(s) for purchasing the hard copy of the book, and I might add, right on time for our age, right here, right now.
A lil forewarning:
So without further ado?
CHAPTER X
BIBLICAL DEMONOLOGY AND
HERESY
THE WHOLE BODY of revealed truth, as constituting the Bible, inspired and God-given, is the great bulwark and defense against all wicked power and evil supernaturalism. Implicit faith in its teachings, and hearty appropriation of its precepts, moreover, constitute the only, but all sufficient, guarantee against Satanic subtlety and demonic cunning. As long as Scriptural truth is accepted and followed, Satan and his hosts are stripped of their power to harm or to lead the child of God astray. It is only when revealed truth is neglected or rejected, either in whole or in part, that the powers of darkness have opportunity to inflict damage and work havoc upon the Christian.
It is not surprising, therefore, in the light of these facts, to find Satanic and demonic assault directed particularly and relentlessly against the Word of God, nor is it amazing to discover that attack against the citadel of revealed truth is, perhaps, the most conspicuous and potent role played by demons.
A. DEMONISM AND DOCTRINAL
DECEPTION
Warnings against error and doctrinal corruption assume a position of remarkable prominence and importance in Scripture, and particularly on the pages of the New Testament. Whether it is Moses, passionately exhorting the Israelites to serve Jehovah and not to forget His precepts (Deut. 9), or David, in solemn assembly, giving counsel to Israel and to his son Solomon (I Chron. 28), or the prophets advising with stem uncompromising voice, or our Lord himself predicting the rise of "false Christs and false prophets" (Matt. 24:24), or the Apostle Paul cautioning the Ephesian elders against the inroads of "grievous wolves" (Acts 20:29), or Peter forewarning against apostate teachers (II Pet. 2), the Bible usually portrays heresy and false doctrine as simply the result of defection in the human agent. But there is not lacking definite revelation of a deeper cause than the mere manifestation of error and apostasy in human conduct. As usual, Scripture conducts one to ultimate realities and final causes, rather than to mere effects and developments.
1. DEMONISM AS THE SOURCE OF
DOCTRINAL DECEPTION
The Apostle Paul, in a pivotal prophetic passage, traces all doctrinal aberration to its deeper cause and its ultimate source in the invisible demon agents behind visible human actors. He presents the perversion of truth and godliness as the direct work of Satan's minions, the demons. "But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons" (I Tim. 4:1). The "seducing spirits" are the deceiving "demons," who are ceaselessly diligent in perverting the truth and in leading God's people astray from sound doctrine.
As the Church is guided "into all truth" by the "Spirit of truth" (John 16:13), the foundation head of all true inspiration, so He is opposed, in His beneficent ministrations, by Satan, "the spirit of error" (I John 4:6), the arch-enemy of truth and the great deceiver, who, with his demon-helpers, is the source of all false inspiration. But since Satan is a mere creature, and, unlike the Holy Spirit, neither infinite nor omnipresent, he requires the aid of an innumerable host of wicked, deluding spirits to carry on effectively his vast program of doctrinal corruption and deception. As the "Spirit of truth" inspires the genuine prophets and teachers of God (I Cor. 12:3), so the "spirit of error," and his spirit-satellites, energize the "many false prophets" who "are gone out into the world" (I John 4:1). Hence the Apostle John, like the Apostle Paul, traces error to its real source in satanic and demonic activity, rather than in the human agent.
The spurious inspiration takes the precise form of "doctrines of demons." The Pauline phrase does not mean "doctrines about demons," or demonology. Still less does it denote heresiarchs, or the human promulgators of strange isms and cults.
("We're sick and tired
of your ism and schism game"
RNM
"Get up Stand up")
It emphatically links demonism with false doctrine,' and has direct reference to wicked supernatural spirits, and specifically to the "doctrines taught by demons," which the Apostle James vigorously describes as representing "not a wisdom that cometh down from above," but which is "earthly, sensual, devilish," (daimoniodes, "demoniacal") (Jas. 3:15). In other words, James views what Paul calls "teachings of demons" as a perverted wisdom, which "belongs to earth, to the unspiritual nature, and to evil spirits" (Jas. 3:15, Weymouth).
The immediate occasion which evoked the revelation of demonism as the source of doctrinal perversion was an erroneous teaching taking the form of a false asceticism, condemning marriage and the eating of certain foods. The Apostle Paul had just ended on a triumphal note, as he reviewed the "mystery of godliness," and, then sweeping majestically over the great events of redemption, from the incarnation to the glorious ascension (I Tim. 3:16), he offered the finished work of Christ as a fitting background for his contrasting somber reference to satanic power in opposition to the faith and truth of God, and set forth the finished work of Christ as a sure and certain guarantee of the future triumph of truth over error, despite the present prevalence and grievous opposition of evil.
("And we know
we shall win
As we are confident
In the victory
Of good over evil"
RNM
"We dont fight
FOR
victory
we fight
FROM
victory."
Brother Joseph Kim.)
The prophetic warning against latter-day demonic activity in corrupting the truth, and in turning many away from the faith, is couched in particularly solemn and impressive language. Paul seems almost to speak as if, under the prophetic influence, he had an activity independent of himself as an apostle.
(Disagree, Apostleship includes the spiritual gift of prophecy.)
"But the Spirit saith expressly (hreros legei, "distinctly declares") that in later times some shall depart from the faith" (I Tim. 4:1).
(Book was written in 1953.
I don't think he could have even imagined
where we would be today today:
The faith is, of course, the whole body of revealed truth, which, as the bastion of the believer's defense, is the special target of demonic assault, and which, Jude reminds us, "was once for all delivered unto the saints," and is to be earnestly contended for, as a treasure and resource subject to diabolic spoliation. The "later times" are the closing days of the gospel dispensation,
(Translation? NOW!)
as the professing Church lapses more and more into the prophesied lukewarm Laodicean condition (Rev. 3:14-22). Departing from the faith, neglecting and rejecting God's truth, the dupes of Satan will devote their attention to misleading spirits and pernicious doctrines instigated by demons.
(See images above.)
The Apostle is obviously describing a certain class of persons, who are themselves deceived, but who are not actively and aggressively deceiving others, and who do not maintain the direct and intimate intercourse with deluding demons that is characteristic of another class, represented in the succeeding verses.
(That is a HUGE distinction.)
This second group manifestly consists, not of those falsely taught, but of the false teachers who instruct them. These are not only themselves deceived, but are actively engaged in deceiving others. They are the human agents through whom the seducing spirits work, and so completely are they under demon tutelage and control, that their disciples, who listen to them, and follow them, are actually represented as giving "heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
(Jude 11-13
WOE unto them!
for they have gone in the way of Cain,
and ran greedily
after the error of Balaam for reward,
and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity,
when they feast with you,
feeding themselves without fear:
clouds they are without water,
carried about of winds;
trees whose fruit withereth,
without fruit,
twice dead,
plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea,
foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars,
to whom is reserved
the blackness of darkness forever.)
"It is the empty insincerity, the base pretense, and the perfidy of these lying teachers, together with a conscience so hardened and seared as to be devoid of the sense of right and wrong,
which enable the demons to make use of them as their special tools of deception. It is thus apparent that those who "fall away from the faith," and give "heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons," do so "through the hypocrisy" of their false religious leaders and teachers, who are exposed as "men that speak lies," and who are" branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron"
(I Tim. 4:1-2).
Although the precise form of error assumed by the "doctrines of demons," in this particular instance, is seemingly circumscribed and limited to some local heresy that immediately threatened the peace and purity of the Church at that time, yet it must not be supposed that demonic deception is confined to unsound teaching inculcating a hypocritical asceticism, forbidding marriage, and frowning upon certain kinds of foods.
"all religions are a path to God." He boldly proclaimed, (Pope Francis) "There's only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Some are Sheik, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths (to God)."
(By the time we get done with this chapter?
You are probably going to get sick of those pictures and that quote.
Cause I am just going to beat it like a drum.
I told honey this morning:
"If you wouldn't have tried to pitch your doctrine
to councils that were held in the 1st to third century?
(Up to the first Nicene in 325 AD)
Then dont bother and try and sell it to me either.)
The multifarious forms and almost endless variety, which the "doctrines of demons" may assume, are illustrated by the manifold perversions of pure Christianity,
which have been perpetrated in the Church in the course of the Christian era, and especially, by the bewildering Babel of cults and sects that afflict modem Christendom.
(That was in 1953!
Everything manmade
(including the Egyptian/Sumerian religions
that some hold so dear etc)
Moves from a state of purity to corruption.
We have proof:
However, the distinct type of doctrinal vagary emphasized by the Apostle has been significantly prominent in ecclesiastical history. Men under demon tuition early began to teach these heresies, even in apostolic times; and they developed into systems like Gnosticism, and later into Roman Catholicism, where priests are forbidden to marry, and people are commanded to abstain from certain meats on certain days. Today, precisely the same principles are advocated in spiritistic and other occult movements.2
("where priests are forbidden to marry"
The Immorality of Forbidding Clergy from Marriage
Why can't priests get married?
Exactly what scripture is the above based on?
NONE.
Matthew 19:12 and 1 Corinthians 7:32
are NOT put forth as conditions,
and?
Church tradition(s)
are not equal to Gods word
because
without Gods word?
You wouldn't have Church traditions.
See?
Simple, easy.
See:
"An advocate for a more "Revisionist"
(as in, "We need to reexamine some things
we have been thinking of as settled long ago),
and "Apostolistic"
(Teach the word and preach the gospel,
and live it such that others can see it in you.)
church."
if you need to.
Sometime we do things just because we have done em for such a long time.
IF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
HAD ALLOWED PREIST TO MARRY
(and they have in some instances)
DO YOU THINK THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN
THE AMOUNT OF SEXUAL ABUSE CASES
THAT THERE HAVE BEEN?
(and the cover ups are just as appalling)
and yes, protestants got their LGBTQ issues
and the Southern Baptist got their
sexual abuse issues etc.)
All I am trying to say is,
it's not based on scripture
so isn't it worth
taking a second look at?
AND?
Likewise
where is the scriptural justification for:
"people are commanded to abstain from
certain meats on certain days"?
(fasting I understand)
But be a Berean again,
Search the scripture:
Acts 10:9-16
Peter’s Vision
9 About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.” 14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.” 15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” 16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
"They
will interpret scripture differently
than before.
They will seek out answers
on their own
they will not be content
to be spoon fed
what to believe."
Never have been.
Never will be.
Dont like it?
Tough.
Deal with it.
"The goal of every Christian is to be as Christ like as possible."
Bro Joeseph Kim
(and others)
So ask yourself:
Did Christ accept the status Quo?
Or did he shakes its foundations?
Such advocates of unscriptural austerities, which are really mere pretensions to superior piety, in forbidding what God has plainly sanctified and established as incompatible with their own assumed higher and holier character, thus exalt themselves against the authority of Him who ordained the institution of marriage, and the eating of all foods, and cast an aspersion upon Him, as though He were an imperfect being.
(AMEN!)
The inveterate satanic spirit of rebellion against God (Isa. 14:12-14), of confirmed falsehood (Gen.3:4), and of calumination of the divine goodness (Gen. 3:5), is characteristic of all "doctrines of demons," and is discernible, in greater or less degree, in one form or another, in all their multitudinous variations. The same is true if one sees in the phrase "forbidding to marry" the promulgation of doctrines of "free love," and the abrogation of the marriage relation, or whether one construes "commanding to abstain from meats," as following a prescribed diet, which will make one more amenable and susceptible to spirit communication .3 In any case, the essential satanic character is always apparent in the particular perversion of God's truth.
(How far things have been perverted when, in the 50's with regards to Heresy and "the doctrine of demons" the author is speaking of priest not marrying and abstaining from certain foods on certain days and fast forward to today where we have:
"all religions are a path to God." He boldly proclaimed, (Pope Francis)
"There's only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God.
Some are Sheik, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths (to God).")
In view of the ceaseless industry of Satan and his vast cohorts of demon-helpers, zealously bent upon instigating error, and perverting and distorting the truth of God
("We're sick and tired of your ism and schism game"
RNM)
with such contrariety of doctrinal opinion, even among those of the same denominational affiliation, becomes less and less difficult of explanation. The recognition of demonism as the source of doctrinal deception is the only adequate basis upon which to account for the modern religious Babel, and the present-day confusion of tongues.4
(Translation?
Satan is working overtime
to sew confusion
(by creating multiple
confusing doctrines)
such that one just gives up
and doesn't seek out
or believe in the faith of
the one true God at all.
Anybody ever met a Muslim or a Buddhist
(insert your own false religion/philosophy if you feel the need to)
false prophet?
Do they even have any?
My point is,
There is simply no need
to sew confusion there.)
2. DEMONISM AS THE DYNAMIC OF
DOCTRINAL DECEPTION
The zeal and energy with which leaders of new and strange cults disseminate their falsehoods and promote their propaganda are matters of common observation. Too often those who possess the truth sit idly and supinely by, while those who advance flagrant error and espouse fantastic heresy, propagate their vagaries with indefatigable enthusiasm and unflagging fervor.
The only adequate explanation of this glaring fact is that demonism is not only the source, but also the dynamic, of doctrinal deception. Error, which demons instigate, they take endless pains to propagate. The subtle allurement of idolatry and the fanatical zeal of its devotees can be explained only on the scriptural basis (I Cor.10:19-22), that "behind the idol there are terrible spiritual presences- demons."6
It is the Apostle John who reveals the truth that demonism is the impelling power propagating false doctrine. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world" (I John 4:1). It is arresting and very significant that the Apostle abruptly introduces the expression "false prophets" into this verse, instead of what might naturally be expected, "false spirits." He has been warning against deceiving, lying "spirits," the invisible demon agents, and, suddenly, without any apparent transition, speaks of their visible human agents, as if the two concepts were in the closest possible relationship indeed, as if they were actually interchangeable. The explanation is that the wicked, deluding spirits are definitely identified with their human instruments, because the demons are the impelling impulse and power that energize the spurious prophets.
False teachers are tireless and relentless in the extension of their aberrations, because the demons, inspiring and energizing them, are diligent and industrious. Besides actual heresy, it would seem that any religious fad,
(I mean what do you think this is but a fad?
We should have been explaining
about Gods wrath
thats coming
particularly when Covid
(Second woe)
hit.
To paraphrase my brother the Bishop:
"We've made everything
about Gods love so much
such as to pervert the truth.")
doctrinal hobby, or lopsided presentation of the truth, which does little credit to God's message and which does not redound to the divine glory, enjoys special demonical inspiration and assistance, if the strange enthusiasm and assiduity of those who promote such unbalanced teachings are any indication of the fact.
Because many false teachers have gone out into the world, inspired and impelled by evil spirits, the Apostle warns the people of God against the subtle danger of believing "every spirit." He does not say, "Believe not every teacher or prophet," but, "Believe not every spirit." He goes deeper to the source and dynamic of deception behind the false teacher. Heeding and believing the teacher is tantamount to heeding and believing the spirit motivating and controlling him.
(Or Her).
Putting the spirits to the infallible test of truth, trying them by the unfailing criteria of the Word of God, is the all-important task, if believers are not to "fall easy victims to the latest fads in spiritualistic humbuggery."7
In explicit terms, John gives the test of the Spirit of God: "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God" (I John 4:2). It is important to notice, that, whereas, in this whole context, the Apostle most definitely implies the existence of "spirits who are of God," that is, the good and elect angels sent forth and commissioned by God, yet the entire emphasis, in matters doctrinal, and in the realm of the revelation of spiritual truth, as is here the case, is very significantly not on these benign beings, but altogether on the Holy Spirit.
(This is such an important point (to me anyway), the revelation of spiritual truth doesn't come from Angels but from the Spirit of God, The Holy Spirit.)
The lesson is plain. Although angelic spirits have a definite ministry to the people of God here on the earth, and are "sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation" (Heb. 1:14), yet their beneficent activities are concerned with temporal mercies and ministrations, rather than with the revelation of spiritual truth. For this supreme task there is another Spirit, greater than all created spirits, the Holy Spirit of God, and "believers look not to angels for guidance and understanding," as H. A. Ironside says, `but to . . . the Holy Spirit, who came into the world to take the things of Christ and open them to us."8
It is important to note the force of the injunction (the mode of the verb is, in all likelihood, imperative) which is not "Hereby know ye the spirits who are of God," but, "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God."
(Might seem small on the surface
But that is a HUGE difference.)
This is the emphasis, and this is the goal and immediate intent of the doctrinal test-to recognize the Holy Spirit as the sole and all-sufficient Revealer of truth to the Christian.
(Why did evil spirits need bodies in Christ time again?
Toward the bottom of that link you will find:
"So now here is our theological conundrum:"
If you need to revisit the answer to that question.
And Ethan?
(Not Siegel lol)
THIS ISNT SOMETHING "NEW".
In fact its over 1600 years old.
And it perfectly explains our times.
THE LIFE FORCE IS THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD ALMIGHTY ALONE.
WE DO NOT GET TO SURPASS HIS CROWING ACHIEVEMENT,
(With the creation of digital intelligence)
THE MERGING OF THE PHYSICAL AND THE SPIRITUAL IN MANKIND.0
In this knowledge alone is the child of God safe amidst the incessant clamor of alien voices. He will know "the spirits who are of God," but by no means is he to be taught and guided by them into truth. They have no such ministry. This work appertains to the office of the Holy Spirit alone, who is infinite, and needs no helpers.
Knowledge of good spirits is necessary in order to furnish the criterion by which to recognize the evil and misleading spirits, because the latter can so subtly imitate the former that they often appear, like Satan himself, as "an angel of light."
"all religions are a path to God." He boldly proclaimed, (Pope Francis)
"There's only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God.
Some are Sheik, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths (to God)."
(TRANSLATION = CHRIST DIED FOR NOTHING.)
The never failing test to differentiate the false from the true is the basic truth of the incarnation of Jesus the Christ. All good spirits, who serve God, and are commissioned by Him, readily confess this foundational fact of Christianity.
On the other hand, the wicked and seducing spirits of Satan conceal, pervert, and deny this glorious truth, embracing, as it does, the finished redemptive work of Christ." And little wonder, for this is the seal and sure guarantee of their own undoing and doom.
(See images and comments above.)
In the Book of The Revelation, the Apostle John gives a striking illustration of the fact that demonism is the dynamic of doctrinal deception. What is seen in his Epistle as teaching, is presented in the Apocalypse as practice. In the last days of this age,
(My brother the Bishop does a great job here. Our times are not the "end of the world" but rather the end of this AGE. The age of grace (unmerited favor), The church age. After Christ return you still have the millennial kingdom and the white throne judgement yet to come. Gog and Magog being that version of our Armageddon, and their ages version of the final Good vs. evil saga. Reference Noah to New Earth presentations if you need to foe more on that.)
the kings of the earth and their armies will be led to such a depth of deception by demonic agency, as to imagine that they can fight against God himself, and be triumphant:
And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs: for they are the spirits of demons, working signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of the great day of God the Almighty . . . and they gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew Har-Magedon (Rev. 16:13-16).
(We are currently watching the stage be set for that.
Deny it all you want.
It is happening right now, right in front of us.)
These frog-like "unclean spirits" are deceiving demons, who come forth from the pestiferous quagmires of darkness, to perpetrate their deadly work of delusion in the evening shadows at the ending of man's day.
(What did Chuck Missler talks about in his Genesis series?
Going from Chaos to Order?
Chuck Missler Genesis Commentary Session Four
We now have the exact opposite of that
at the end of the age of grace.
Things moving from Order to Chaos.
Missler from the link above,
Somewhere between 20:25-24:17 lol
"...if we make an entropy profile of the universe I've got I've got Randomness entropy maximum entry at the bottom of this chart minimum going top and the and um or putting entropy being like chaos and minimum entry is order and obviously in day when and erev and boker came to mean later evening and morning for some reasons we explained in the earlier sessions it erev was really where you begin to you you you have disorder you can't lack of perception and that that's what happens in evening is the Shadows extend you can't see this clearly boker means orderly it's discernible and that later became a meaning morning so that's why we have this peculiar description evening and morning where the first day it later met evening and morning but we have ever and boker being steps from going from from disorder towards a step towards order.")
They creep, and croak, and defile, and fill the ears of the nations with their lies and noisy demonstrations, until they stir up earth's godless populations to undertake an insane march against Palestine to crush out the divine purpose of establishing the kingdom of Christ on the earth. As the "lying spirits" in the mouth of King Ahab's prophets led the iniquitous monarch to his destruction at Ramoth-Gilead (I Kings 22:20-38),
(The Author left out verse 19 BTW
Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord:
I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left. 20 And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?’
That overlook seems a lil to obvious
not to have been intentional.)
so these "demon spirits" will perform a similar function in arousing whole nations, and recruiting vast armies from all countries, to march to their predestined doom at Armageddon. Such will be the devastating power of demon deception in the last days.
(Again, we are witnessing EXACTLY that, right now, in our time. North Korea just sent troops to Russia to fight in Ukraine. Israel just struck back at Iran.(I could go on) The point is, you are not going to stop the will of God. No matter who thinks the tit-for tat just ended, its still just getting started.)
These are the "seducing spirits," who go forth in the end time proclaiming the "doctrines of demons," of whom Paul warned (I Tim. 4:1) . They are dispatched on their miracle-working ministry by the satanic trinity-the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet -and the fanatical zeal and unbridled recklessness they engender in their dupes, bear all the earmarks of their prince leader, Satan.
("These are the "seducing spirits," who go forth in the end time proclaiming the "doctrines of demons," of whom Paul warned...and the fanatical zeal and unbridled recklessness they engender in their dupes, (a victim of deception.) bear all the earmarks of their prince leader, Satan."
He might as well have been talking about:
"all religions are a path to God." He boldly proclaimed, (Pope Francis)
"There's only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God.
Some are Sheik, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths (to God)."
Or the Evolutionary Biologist who PURPOSELY leaves out the fact that highly complex, sequential, 8 billion character codes (DNA, Genetic) CAN NOT AND DO NOT "EVOLVE".
Or the Cosmologist/Astro-physicist who doesn't like the abundance of design demonstrated in our physical reality so he makes: every possible combination of everything that could have ever been" (The Multiverse Faith Based Belief system) his faith.
Belief in something
you know you can not prove
is a faith based belief system.
And they don't even have an ancient text coming true right in front of your eyes.
Or the particle physicist, who, while believing in Quantum Field Theory, still maintains their believe in life having "evolved" from random "evolutionary processes" that cant possibly explain 8 billion character genetic codes, and even if they did? That cant possibly explain 17 quantum fields all acting together "randomly" to have created life.
False prophets and false teachers
are not just in the church in the end times.
They are in economics.
Politics.
Entertainment.
Media.
Governments.
Science.
Social Commentators.
Finance
etc etc etc...
Reference:
March 11, 2022
Saturday, March 5, 2022
and the link to:
Five Reasons to Value Studying the End Times
has been disabled here recently.
I wonder why that is?
Good thing I printed a hard copy.
Big fan of paper these days BTW.
You can have you "Bible Apps"
How much longer you think they gonna be around anyway?
THE POINT HERE IS:
DONT BE DUPED!
B. DEMONISM AND MODERN CULTS
It must be obvious, even to the most casual observer, that there is something wrong in this world of ours, in which there can exist such a state of appalling religious confusion and doctrinal jumble as is found in this present day.
(Published in 1953.
If he could only see us today.)
Many, realizing only too well that there is something awry and yet being ignorant of the unseen world of evil supernaturalism, are consequently at a complete loss to know what it is, or how to account for it.
(If you are "casting out" demons?
Do you even know where they came from?)
It is ever a matter of amazement to all such inquiring minds, that professing Christian people, having one Bible, following ostensibly one way, serving one Saviour, and led by one Spirit, can arrive at such diverse and contradictory interpretations and conclusions, even from the same passage of Scripture, and be divided into so many sects and isms.
(Satans plan.
Make it so confusing that many will simply not even try to understand it.
AND ITS WORKED!)
The lamentable facts of Christian disunity and disharmony must largely remain an unsolved riddle, a source of endless misunderstanding, and a prolific cause of stumbling to those ignorant of the devices of Satan (II Cor. 2:11) and the reality of the spiritual world of evil. Satan has thus gained large advantage over many, because of a widely prevailing incomprehension of even the first principles of Biblical demonology, and because of a manifest unacquaintance with even an elementary knowledge of the power and reality of demonic deception.
Some have laid the blame for this widespread religious confusion at the door of the Bible; and, imagining it countenances the various errors which false teachers allege to draw from its pages, they have abandoned all faith in it as divinely inerrant. Others do not hesitate to fasten the guilt on Christianity itself, and account it an unsatisfactory religion to give shelter to such a motley array of cults as parade under its banner. Others stumble over the inconsistencies and failures of Christian leaders and professors, and repudiate all religious faith as impracticable and unworkable, producing mere hypocrisy. All, failing to understand the powerful and sinister forces of spiritual evil at work behind the scenes, are incapable of accurate evaluations and correct interpretations, and, consequently, suffer great disadvantage and often irreparable injury, at the hands of satanic cunning and deceit.
1. DEMONISM AND DOCTRINAL
DIVISIONS
The Holy Spirit of God, the Spirit of truth, is the great Unifier. In answer to the Saviour's fervent intercessory prayer that those whom the Father had given Him "may all be one" (John 17:11, 21, 22), the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost to unite all God's people positionally into "one body," the Church, by the baptism with the Spirit (I Cor. 12:13; Rom. 6:3-4; Eph. 4:5; Col. 2:12; Gal. 3:27). The most impassioned exhortations of the Holy Spirit, through this Apostle, are to the end that God's people may maintain experimentally the unity which they possess positionally, by the Spirit's baptizing work (Eph. 4:1-6; Phil.2:2-3).
Whereas the "Spirit of truth" is the great Unifier, "the spirit of error" (I John4:6) is the great divider.
(Happening, right now, right in front of ya,
not just in the United Methodist Church either.)
Satan and demons have the keenest perception and appreciation of the eminent practicality of the old adage, "in unity there is strength." When unable to keep their victims from contact with truth, light, and salvation, they resort to the next best device to further their detestable plans. With serpentine subtlety and venomous malignity, they strike at the very foundations of Christian unity to disrupt and disorganize the efficiency and testimony of those, who, when standing together, possess such exhaustless energy, and wield such tremendous power against them.
Since truth unites, and error divides, Satanic strategy launches its most ferocious and fearful assaults on the Word of truth, the Holy Scriptures.
(Does Satan attack:
Buddhism?
Muhammadism?
Confucianism?
There is simply no need to.
Only the one truth
gets attacked.)
In proportion as the truth of God is concealed, perverted, or distorted,
(And never so much as they are today.
Queue the prince song
Surely, in view of these facts, the great prominence given in Scripture to warnings against false teachers, heresies, and divisions, and the appalling spectacle of such a multiplicity of sects and cults in Christendom, lose all aspect of singularity.
That Scripture views the destruction or impairment of Christian unity as one of the chief disasters and calamities of demonic deception and the satanic introduction of false doctrine into the Church,
appears clear from the prevailing New Testament use of the term "heresy" (hairesis). This word is never employed in its strict modem sense, as meaning "heterodoxy" or "doctrinal aberration," but consistently denotes a "sect" or "faction" produced by the introduction of such error-thus inseparably identifying heresy with factional division.
It is true, however, that the later meaning attached to the word in ecclesiastical language and common parlance is, perhaps, implied in one passage in Peter's second Epistle; yet even here the emphatic idea is the doctrinal divisions themselves, rather than the erroneous "opinions" or "tenets" producing such divisions. "But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies (haireseis apoleias, "sects of perdition"),
denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction" (II Pet. 2:1). The Twentieth Century New Testament accurately renders the expression "ruinous divisions," and Weymouth gives "fatal divisions," both recognizing the descriptive force of the genitive apoleias, as well as taking into account the primary emphasis of the word, as elsewhere in the New Testament, upon the effect produced by the false teaching, rather than upon the false teaching itself, as the cause of that effect.
In conformity with the general denotation of an effect, rather than a cause, the word "heresy" is employed to designate a "sect," "party," or body of men who have separated themselves from others, advocating some particular doctrine or special mode of life, in accordance with their own peculiar beliefs. Thus the term is used to refer to "the sect" or "party" of the Sadducees (Acts 5:17) and the Pharisees (Acts5:15; 26:5). Likewise, the expression is applied derogatively to Christians (Acts 24:5, 14;28:22).
In Galatians 5:20 "heresies" are listed under "the works of the flesh," along with three other terms of similar import: "factions" (eritheiai, "party spirit, feuds"), "divisions" (dichostasiai, "splits"), and "parties" (haireseis). This list of three vices is evidently arranged in accordance with the progressively aggravated character of the sins enumerated. "Party spirit" degenerates into actual "divisions," which, when developed into distinct and organized parties, are called "heresies." A similar use of the word occurs in I Corinthians 11:19: "For there must be also factions (haireseis) among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you." But the force, in this particular verse, is likely simply "dissensions" arising from diversity of opinions and aims. In Titus 3:10 the adjectival form of the word occurs, signifying "creating or fostering factions": "A factious (heretical) man after a first and second admonition refuse."
In the fixed ecclesiastical sense, which it ultimately attained, the term "heresy" indicates not only any doctrinal distortion, but open espousal of fundamental error with respect to the central truths of Christianity, in the face of all better instruction, often combined with aggressive assault upon the common faith of the Church, and its defenders. However, its strictly New Testament usage is seen not to contain these elements, except, perhaps, by implication in II Peter 2:1, but is found significantly to center all emphasis on the connection of heresy with disunity and division in the Church of Jesus Christ.
The inference is clear. The Holy Spirit, the Creator of Christian unity, the Revealer of the truth by which that unity is nurtured and maintained, the infinitely efficient Worker, who operates with unimpeded power in the sphere of true Christian concord and agreement, emphasizes Christian solidarity as a supreme blessing to be realized experientially by God's people, and views heresy not at all as primarily false doctrine, as is done in the extra Biblical conception, but first and foremost, as sectarian disharmony, and factional division, and lays practically complete emphasis upon the thought of a deadly and damnable satanic device, utterly destructive of Christian oneness.
("The Holy Spirit...
The Revealer of Truth..."
Why did Fallen Angels
Need bodies again?
Where did the demonic possessions in Christ time come from again since angels are spirt beings and need no such abode?
ties up as many loose ends
as a proper interpretation of
Genesis 6:1-4
does?
Noah perfect in his generations.
Giants still around after the flood.
If you wanna come at me
for promoting division?
Heresy?
Etc?
THEN BRING YOUR
SETHIAN VIEW OF GENESIS 6
AND AN ARMY WITH YOU
AND WE CAN SIT DOWN AND
DISCUSS IT THEN.
The Revealer of Truth indeed.)
Now back to
BIBLICAL DEMONOLOGY AND HERESY (Chapter 10)
Hence it is apparent why demonic industry is indefatigably directed against the bastion of God's revealed truth,
(Forget about 325 AD.
and the adoption around the same time of
The Sethian view of Genesis 6.
Christ Kingdom has been under attack since John the Baptist showed up on the scene:
Matthew 11:12
From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence, and violent people have been raiding it.
Reference other notes in parenthesis above if needed)
and why distortion
or obscuration
(the action of hiding or concealing something)
of
ANY PART
of the divine revelation
is a real asset to Satan
and a victory for his kingdom.
("Distortion...of any part of the divine revelation...
Why do you think Satan went after
Genesis 6 so early on?
(By 400 AD or so it had become the view of the church)
So what is your answer for that?
My answer is:
HE KNEW HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS GOING TO BE
RIGHT NOW FOR WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR WORLD!
Go read Misslers quote about the prophetic implications of Genesis 6 again if you need to.)
There being but one divine standard of truth, and that being the norm of all Christian faith and practice and the basis of all Christian harmony, and there being but one Spirit of truth opening the divine revelation of truth to man, any deviation from that norm, either in doctrine or practice, must inevitably lead to disunity and disharmony, and must be accounted the direct and destructive work of Satan and demons.
2. DEMONISM AND Docrnr xs OF DEMONS
(In converting the PDF to a word document?
Doctrine here,
and ONLY here
was transposed:
Docrnr xs)
Throughout the Christian centuries, from the very days of the Apostles themselves, new sects and isms have arisen to trouble the purity and peace of the Church. Taking leave of the Ephesian elders at Miletus, Paul warned that "grievous wolves" would enter in among them, "not sparing the flock," and that even from their own select group would "men arise, speaking perverse things,
to draw away disciples after them" (Acts 20:29-30). With prophetic sweep, the Apostle scanned the centuries and saw the rise of innumerable sects in Christendom, and particularly the great apostasy
(Going on a lil detour about the great apostasy
for a minute:
He might have went on and become a preacher and led many to Christ:
I THINK ITS HORRIBLE.
BUT IF YOU THINK ITS MURDER?
and the multitudinous cults of the latter days, which he brands as "doctrines of demons" (I Tim. 4:1). Peter, in similar prophetic vision, beheld them as "destructive heresies," or "ruinous divisions" (II Pet. 2:1). Jude boldly inveighs against the wickedness of their human promulgators (Jude vv.12-13). John sketches a historical tableau of their progress and development, and the interminable confusion they cause in the professing Church (Rev. 2:3).
But "doctrines of demons" are not to be thought of as errors and aberrations wholly beyond the Apostles' times and ministries, and confined to succeeding centuries, from whose bane early Christians were immune. So far from this being true, the Apostles themselves were harassed by every imaginable form of unorthodoxy-legalism, antinomianism, Gnosticism, humanism, materialism, false asceticism, (As in "YOU HAVE TO PRACTICE THIS.)
and pseudo-rationalism. Demonic deception left no cardinal Christian doctrine unattacked, from the deity of Christ, to the resurrection of the dead. Of course, sufficient time had not elapsed for the formation of elaborate systems of heterodoxy, and the organization of well-defined sects, as proceeded apace in succeeding centuries,
(By 400 AD The Sethian view of Genesis 6 was already well established.)
but the doctrinal perversions were present none the less, if unformulated and unsystematized.
With the formation of systems of error, and the organization of weakening schisms, the Church of Rome, in alarm, sought to establish a man-made unity instead of a Spirit inspired one, and, in the place of the infallible Word of God, substituted an infallible so-called "Church."10
(EVERYTHING MAN TOUCHES HE PERVERTS, DILUTES AND CORRUPTS SO HOW CAN A MAN_MADE CHURCH SUBSTITUTE FOR THE INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD?
AND THE FARTHER AWAY FROM THE SOURCE WE GOT?
THE WORSE IT GOT.
THAT AXIOM PROVES ITSELF TO YOU.JUST LOOK AT YOUR WORLD.)
In thus attempting to escape the inevitable ravages of "doctrines of demons" from without, in dethroning the Word of God, it laid the foundation for a whole new brood of "doctrines of demons" from within, and became a well-knit and brilliantly organized system of incredible error, a very citadel for the "doctrines of demons.""
Many of the so-called "heretical sects" which arose during the course of the Christian centuries, were true and sincere children of God, often, however, poorly instructed, and ignorantly embracing certain fanatical and erroneous notions. Others were so misled as to have had no essential conception of Christ's saving work at all.
(There were also some of the so-called "heretical sects" in the early days of the church who were dismissed as such on purely POLITICAL or TECHNICAL GROUNDS and who werent really "heretical sects" at all.
Reference:
and
separating primarily over differences in Christology.)
Modem cults offer an interesting study in the various degrees of demonic deception. Spiritism, theosophy, ChristianScience, Christadelphianism, Swedenborgianism, humanism, Mormonism, atheism, agnosticism, the NewThought, and Bahaism are systems of almost incredible distortion and fantastic obscuration of truth, displaying everywhere the evidences of extreme demonic deception. Such sects as Russellism (Jehovah's Witnesses, or International Bible Students' Association), Seventh-Day Adventism, Buchmanism, and British Israelism offer the tragic spectacle of a mass of truth vitiated by error, and demonstrate a more keen and subtle type of demonic distortion. Perhaps, the most deadly and devastating of all, parading with pious sanctimoniousness "as an angel of light," and perniciously and ingeniously working within the great historical denominations, is modernism, Satan's masterpiece of delusion.12 Others may slay their thousands. It slays its tens of thousands as a cancerous growth within, eating at the vitality of historical Christianity.
(We are now in the Postmodern age.
Some might say
"Well Rastafarianism is a cult too Andrew"
To which I would say,
I never not once ever believed in
or wrote about
or confessed
the Deity of Hallie Selassie.
Only that he was the last blood relative of Christ.
And that as a young white boy in the suburbs,
the philosophical stance
of rejecting an overly materialistic, superficial commercial culture
appealed to me.
Plus there was lots of good music :-).
Rejecting the truth that "all Scripture is inspired by God" (II Tim. 3:16) and consequently doubting and denying the authority of the Word, the supreme tragedy of our day is a far reaching departure in the large evangelical denominations from the great doctrines of historical New Testament Christianity.
(If the author only knew
The appalling result is a weakened, worldly Church impotent to regenerate, powerless to attract, and unable to answer the distressed cry of sinful humanity for spiritual reality. A prey to seducing spirits, only a sweeping revival of the Spirit of God
("Another type of resurrection would be the of the Church during the end times, from an afflicted and persecuted state, to liberty and peace. Again, we just don't normally think of resurrection along these terms. Resurrected Church? Who ever heard of such a thing.)
can keep the professing Church from lapsing more and more into that lukewarm state, in which our Lord threatened he would "spew" Laodicean professors out of his mouth (Rev. 3:16).
Elmer T. Clark, in writing on the smaller church denominations, says that there are approximately four hundred religious denominations of various kinds in the United States.13
He further adds:
One who regards the present as an `age of doubt' has evidently failed to study the convictions of the small sects; for one familiar with the doctrines held by multiplied thousands and even millions of their adherents will rather be impressed with the amazing credulity of a large section of our population. Many strange beliefs are crystallized in the dogmas of these churches.
(If you think my understanding of Genesis 6 is a "strange belief"?
Then Come explain the Sethian view of Genesis 6 to me again,
and how that would explain
any of the other associated difficult scriptures
that pertains to it
or how it explains
so obviously what is going on in our world today.
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING.
IT GOES A LIL LIKE THIS:
TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION.
IF IT WERENT FOR THE FACT THAT ITS TRUE?
THIS ENTIRE FAITH
COULD BE CLASSIFIED AS
"A STRANGE BELIEF".)
Some of them are undergirded by erratic interpretations of Scripture.
(That is EXACTLY
what the Sethian View of Genesis 6 gives you:
You have to have
"erratic interpretations of Scripture."
To get it to work.
THATS WHY EVERYBODY STAYED AWAY FROM IT.
CONVINCE ME THAT WASNT SATANS PLAN.
IM ALL EARS.
Go ahead and explain:
Noah perfect in his generations.
Spies in Canaan.
Goliath.
Goliaths brothers.
Giants still around after the flood.
Angels bound up.
With it.
I been asking for somebody,
anybody,
to come and do
just that for me.
Trivial differences of opinion have caused groups to split up into various independent denominations. It is difficult to see how the voices speaking to the American conscience in the name of God could be more completely confused.14
(Again this was published in 1953.
If I could send a note to the author?
About that above paragraph?
It would be this:
"Well?
Somehow we allowed ourselves to become
even more
"completely confused."
In the midst of this appalling confusion of modern cults and the innumerable sects of Christianity, the Bible, God's living Word of Truth, is the Christian's only sure protection against doctrinal deception and demonic despoliation-the Bible, rightly understood, however, and implicitly obeyed. Satan and his hosts can by-pass human opinions and men's interpretations, but they cannot penetrate the impregnable defense of God's Holy Word!
Dear LGBTQ community.
You are in my payers daily.
(I was going to take a picture
of my prayer list but I left it at home.)
But just as I would not be in favor
of allowing a non-repentant sorcerer(s)
to marry in the church,
or to conduct worship?
Im not in favor of members
of the LGBTQ+ tribe
being able to do so either.
SCRIPTURE IS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR:
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful,
and unbelieving,
and the abominable,
and murderers,
and whoremongers,
and sorcerers,
and idolaters,
and all liars,
shall have their part
in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone:
which is the second death.
And those of you who are fearful
for what is so obviously
about to be coming
over the whole world?
Luke 21:26
People will be terrified at what they see coming upon the earth, for the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
YOU ARE RIGHT THERE WITH THE ABONINABLE.
I DIDNT SAY IT.
CHRIST DID.
You cant say I didn't forewarn you.
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