Category: Eschatology

Braving the Coming Global Storm—Hope into Victory

by James G. Owen

The disciples were sailing on a ship on the Galilean Sea. It was nighttime and very dark, and I can imagine only a candle lit for light inside the ship on a lower deck. The disciples were on the main deck when the storm began to rage. The ship was listing side to side and being tossed. The front of the ship going up high over the waves. The waves of the sea were very rough. The voyage was treacherous, and the disciples were afraid because they knew that some ships were not successful in making the journey across the sea. Before them, many men had died in similar storms. Peter is watching the storm on deck, and then he sees Jesus in the distance walking toward them on the water. He beckons Jesus to let him walk on the water, to come to him. In those days it was reported by sailors seeing a spirit walking on the water. They believed it was the spirits of the dead who had lost their lives of storms past. In the culture of their day the people thought the storm god Baal was angry and caused the sea to rage.

After hearing Peter’s call, Jesus tells Peter to step out of the ship and walk on the water. Peter obeys while keeping his eyes on Jesus while he walked on the water. As he looked downward at his feet he began to sink in the sea. He began to cry out for Jesus to save him. Jesus was there at the very moment Peter began to be taken down into the sea. Jesus reaches out his hand, Peter quickly grabbed his hand and was pulled upward to safety within the storm. As Jesus and Peter walked together on the water to board the ship, the wind ceased, and the sailors on board saw and believed what they had just witness and saying among themselves, Jesus who walked on the sea is the Son of God. Why? Because no man can walk on the sea without the help of God or being God.

All of us have storms that come into our lives. The storms are various throughout our lives, and these storms either causes us to mature, or they bring us down to destroy us. Many of the storms we encounter is our fault because of sin, lack of faith, or just a circumstance in life. But I am here to tell you after going through many trials and storms in my life there is hope. Where is the hope many may think? They have looked to and fro on this earth while not regarding God our creator. People have looked for peace, love, and hope in the ways of the world, but could not find it because they were looking in the wrong place, and their hearts were not on God. God is the place, the person in which we find hope and we can trust him to get us through. All we must do is obey his commandments and live in his covenant. He takes care of his children. We may go through storms, trials, and tribulation but he is always present. We reach out to him through prayer, fasting, and believing up on his word as we read the scriptures and believe.

The hope that we are looking for to give us peace within this world is a peace of mind knowing we have eternal life as we live our lives. This peace gives us strength to carry on. We receive this hope and peace in giving our lives to God by accepting his son Jesus. This is called salvation because we are redeemed by the blood of the lamb Jesus. When we believe upon Jesus, accept him as Savior, and are forgiven of our sins then we have been given the spiritual tools to victory. The tools given us we will need to learn to use. The tools begin with faith, even though a small measure is given to us at birth we must learn to exercise our faith to see and bring greater things in our lives. To trust and believe what our faith has spoken, and realizing it is the grace of God that has saved us. When the storms come, we should remember our faith and then become determined in our mindset to endure because as we endure, we are working towards an inheritance, a blessing, and a blessing even I cannot comprehend because it is so large and continuous. God loves us and wants us to be victorious! It is his children, those who know him and have given their hearts to him to serve him on earth. Through the salvation process is how we become to know God, and he to know us. Together we enter a relationship of friendship, intimacy, and finally marriage when he returns to receive his bride —the Church.

The spiritual way to victory here I will list to summarize, so that all can see in one place to receive it in our hearts and mind. They are faith, trust, grace, salvation, redemption, peace, hope, Jesus, endurance, and blessings. Jesus is always in the middle of the process. For it was through him we have been given the victory! Through him we have found liberty, peace, and hope to endure.  The prize is eternal life.

“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. “

Philippians 3:14  

This process we have been given throughout scripture will get us through any storm, battle, trial, or tribulation. We Americans, and the world are in a global storm. It is a physical and spiritual storm, but the spiritual storm is the largest aspect. We must realize we are seeing evil like we have never experienced. I believe evil will increase as time and days go by until we see our blessed Savior returning in glory and majesty on the Last Day. The last day is spoken of by John in his gospel,

“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6:40

As I conclude this group of scripture presents the truth and the hope to us all. It is only through Jesus that a hope is given that will bring us joy, peace, love, and understanding. Through him hope has become life.

“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”

John 7: 37-39

As of Acts 2 the Holy Ghost has been received and has continued until our present day. Jesus sent his Holy Spirit to strengthen us to serve, to empower us so that we can do the same ministry as he did while alive on earth. It is through his Spirit that the rivers of water flow when we receive the Holy Ghost at the time of salvation, and has we experience the living water flowing in our prayers and life. It is the witness of the Holy Spirit to others who see the hope and that God lives within because the Holy Spirit is our witness. Those of you who do not have Jesus in your life you can receive it today. Just reach out, pray, and ask him for forgiveness. This is how you receive hope. Those of you who know Jesus have hope knowing you have him in your life. Arise and live a holy and victorious life!

Notes:

All scripture used is taken from the King James Version, Public Domain, BibleGateway.

Life and Culture in America—The Changing of Mindset

 


by James G. Owen

Life and culture were vastly different before the computer age came to America. As a boy I remember going to the variety store, the 5 & 10 stores where one can buy a different item needed for the home, and toys for the kids. I would buy the wind-up trucks and cars that were less than a dollar and play in the sand with them. Also, plastic soldiers were part of my younger days. The source of communication was by telephone, CB radio, HAM radio, church socials, or hanging out on the drag, meaning sitting and talking with your friends at a hamburger joint while other teenagers’ road the same streets that made a circle. Life then was listening to soft rock, the songs of Jim Croce, and my country music favorites.

          As I got older, I began to see the first microwaves, calculators, and by the time I graduated college computers were coming into the colleges and universities to learn the Basic Code and programming. Typewriter’s were the keyboards of that day, and we had a lever to make the carriage return to the left of the page, now it is the enter key. Life was slower, and people knew one another better. That is the just a small peek into yesterday. There was more going on, but at a much slower pace.

The changing of America took place during the 1980s forward. Technology increased at a greater pace. This period in our history we saw the Radio Shack computers, Apple computers, cell phones, and later the internet. Information at your fingertips began to come, and the minds of Americans began to change, to be mesmerized by the screens of technology, and now we are consumed with everything digital. In the past we had our imaginations, told stories to one another, and dreamed. Today our minds are captured by the screens of computers, TV’s, cell phones, tablets, and pods. We are doing less critical thinking in our current times and believing what we are being told in the news, and all forms of media. Our imaginations have turned from cranial to virtual, and we are becoming less social and isolated with gadgets. Our minds have been captured. Our minds being filled with interests of the world with all forms of subjects, immorality, and games. Technology can change us without us realizing, and it shows up at the dinner table, restaurants, and in church gatherings where people are more interested in their phone screens than interfacing with real humans. Games that are violent are creating violent people who take what they encountered and reenact it. The articles, literature, books, magazines we read online influences us, and changes our moral and value system. These changes affect our spiritual lives, that is the area that should be the most surprising and we should come to realization. These worldly changes keep us from the word of God, our prayer life, and in the ministry of others. The change affects our righteous living because we are bombarded with immoral images, desensitizes us from life because of the influence and advocation of abortion. We should be concerned about moral values, and the sanctity of life, but we are more interested in pleasure and convenience. We tell ourselves we do not have the time for God, but the technology has become our god, an idol. We make time for the technology and what pleases us there on the screen. Do not get me wrong, technology is a great tool for us if we use them correctly and in balance, but what I see as well as others is an imbalance in life.

The enemy, Satan, wants our minds in carnality to keep our minds off God. Anything he can use to corrupt our minds he will use. Many of us do not realize we are in a battle of our minds. There is a tug of war between Satan and God, but I will tell you Satan will lose. He already has lost but he is working before his demise to take everybody he can with him to eternal separation. Paul in his New Testament letters tell us,

“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

Romans 8: 5-6

To return us to balance would be to get our minds upon God through the reading of his scriptures and doing the good works of our faith. To work continually for the salvation of man by presenting the gospel to all. We are to get our minds off the world, off the pleasures of the flesh. It is the world that brings trouble, suffering, depression, stress, and anxiety, but it is being in the presence of God that brings peace to our spirits.

We are in a war, and that war is for our souls. The mind currently is being controlled through indoctrination of philosophies and ideologies, speech has been suppressed, and truth repressed. The war is to keep us separated from God, knowing his truth, and teaching his truth. Also, in the speaking of truth in history and current affairs. Since we are in a war, what does each side provide us? Satan’s side presents us with death, corruption, and the promise of mankind being his own god. That lie has been unabated since the garden of Eden. The promise of being our own god brings a person desiring power, and influence, and causes the mind and soul to be prideful. This characterization in man is against God the Father. All sin is against God. The war rages against our mind. Again, Paul reminds us of the war.

“But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”

Romans 7:23

If Satan can keep our minds from serving and pleasing God through the pleasures of sin, then he has complete control of us. We do need God to help us out of this trap and ask him to help us overcome. The war of the mind would be from the partaking of addictive substances, images, pagan religions, Gnosticism, false doctrines, and fables. Satan wants to keep you blinded of things eternal, to prevent you from realizing your purpose in life and from attaining your destiny. Satan works to destroy all of God’s creation.

“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”

2 Corinthians 4:4

What does God want for us? He wants us to obey him. The Father wants us to have life, joy, freedom in life and spiritual worship. He works as a parent for us so that we can see the purpose God created us to achieve so that we can be happy in our purpose while he gets glory out of us living a holy and balanced life. He wants us to see, to hear, and be beware of things that can defeat us. Most of all, God wants us to conform to his image and remain in him because he has so much to give us in return for obedience. To conform to his image, we can have a relationship with God, and will not be separated by the veil of sin. We must be the guardian of our minds, and our souls.

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

Romans 12:2

How do we renew our minds? Our minds are renewed by continual and daily prayer asking God to purge the sin out of spirits every day, and every hour if needed.  We must strive to please the Lord in our living, and in serving each other in meeting needs through good deeds. This is a testament of our faith and showing love to one another as he intended.

How do we prove ourselves? By sanctification, and by the trials and troubles that challenge our faith that refines us. Sometimes the troubles and the sadness that life brings seem to be like we are in a fire, that life is overwhelming at times, but we are to welcome these times knowing it is improving us spiritually and helping us grow in maturity of our spirit so that we can help others who are in trouble and in spiritual need. It is the overcoming of these troubles and trials that brings us to perfection to righteousness.

Be on guard, for Satan comes as a wolf. He is a deceiver, and we must use discernment to be able to discern truth from a lie. We must be watchful, for evil is everywhere and tries to trap us in situations. We are to remain blameless, and to make sure that anything that causes us to spend time away from God could become an idol to us. The changing of life and culture creates a challenge to our minds and does affect our spiritual life. In the year of 2020, the world changed dramatically, and America changed. Change is still going on in America and seems to be changing at an exponential rate, not just in changes in technology, but in all areas of culture. Look for the positive things that will edify God and refuse the negative. Spend more life away from the screens and notice the difference in your thinking and decisions. America, look for a wave of the Holy Spirit in revival and respond to the Lord while we have time. The change spiritually will change the culture and the nation.

Notes:

All scripture is taken from the King James Version, Public Domain, BibleGateway.

Delving into Understanding Hope: What is Hope and Why We Should Hope?

Hope is endurance and looking for the prize at the end of the road.

By James G. Owen

What is hope? Hope is to be expectant, to have trust and being patient. It is about having trust in a God that will provide for his children and ministering to our needs. Hope is to wait and endure. It is also about a promise, our guarantee of an eternal life. Hope is endurance and looking for the prize at the end of the road.

The definition of hope among secular people does not take on a spiritual rational. Their rational is to hope for something material, or ephemeral. As in a lady hoping to be married and having children, or a little boy dreaming about being an astronaut. Their hopes are attainable, but for some people what they hope for will never come true.

Hope in the spiritual and biblical sense is totally different because it involves for us to have a relationship with God.  That relationship begins in a prayer for forgiveness after believing he sent his son Jesus as our Savior and accepting him. When we hope in the biblical sense, we inactivate our faith knowing this kind of faith is long term. It is a hope to long for all the days of our lives, yet knowing if we stay on the righteous path, we will achieve our goal, and God’s goal for us, and that is to be with him. Hope is a prize of eternal life, and we achieve our goal by not walking in the flesh but walking in his Spirit. We cannot walk the road alone because of the obstacles that are placed in our path by the enemy, Satan, who does everything he can to keep us from victory.

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:”

Romans 8:1-3

Satan has accused us in God’s court of sin, or anything he can think of to accuse us, but if we walk in faith living in it, then we are free from the law of sin and death. Our walk is not by works, though we do works to win others to Jesus, the law of works cannot save us, only Jesus can through his blood and ushering in the new covenant.

To have hope, and to achieve our goal of eternal life, we must be unmovable and determined and keep ourselves in the word of God by daily reading and study. This is paramount. We are human, and if we make a mistake or sin, then we are to get right back up after asking for forgiveness and move forward. Jesus is our hope.

“For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;”

Colossians 1:5

The word of truth in the gospel is how we are saved by the blood of Jesus, and we are to take on his image by living and acting like he shows us in the first 3 books of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. He was perfect, pure, and obedient while listening to the voice of God, and for the voice of God to lead and guide. The word tells us how to live our lives, what God expects, and we will find our purpose in life by reading the bible. Also, prayer leads our lives as well because of our worship, and learning to stop and listen.

Will the road be easy in our walk on the road to hope and eternal life? Scripture teaches us that we will have temptations, trials, and tribulations. Some of will face persecution for serving Jesus, and this may mean torture or death, but it is an honor to be persecuted. Persecution will come to some, but not all, but what tribulation and trials come our way works patience to be within us. It is by patience we learn to endure, and to perfect our walk. It is by this experience we gain knowledge, wisdom, and understanding to help others walk the path and to give them hope

“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:”

Romans 5:1-4

For us to have hope here on earth, and the eternal hope, God sent his son to be the last sacrifice, to end the old covenant and annul it, to bring in a better covenant that will save a man by his blood, and not cover the sin by the burnt sacrifices of bulls. The better covenant was to begin his kingdom here on earth, and we enter his kingdom on earth by accepting his salvation by faith through grace. The new covenant prophesied that God would write the law upon our hearts, our minds and conscience so that the law would pass because it could not save us, but made us aware of our sins, and was to school us in righteous behavior. The hope that we look for is the return of Jesus and for him to resurrect us to life, and this is how Satan will be finished and sent to the lake of fire, for our victory is in the resurrection and it is the final blow to Satan.

Our hope is to be with Jesus eternally in the new earth and heavens. For a short while we will be fellowshipping with Jesus at the marriage supper of the lamb before we embark on our new lives and work in his perfect, pure, and balanced new creation. We will be made perfect and incorruptible because of the resurrection of our bodies on the Last Day. This is the reason we should hope because of our knowledge of a coming new world with peace and no longer a worry or fret, we are to set our eyes on the prize and not consider anything material, for we cannot gain in earthly things.  

Notes:

All scripture is taken from the King James Version, Public Domain, BibleGateway.

THE PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONAL CHURCHES COME TOGETHER IN UNITY

by James G. Owen

There are more denominations than choices of fishing tackle. Since the Protestant Reformation the Protestant Movement has grown in number of denominations. Churches split over various reason, but one reason is doctrine.

The denominations have different views for:

  • Water baptism.
  • Different millennial positions, such as Premillennialism, Amillennialism, and Postmillennialism.
  • Pretribulation, Mid-tribulational, and Post-tribulation.
  • Trinitarian or non-Trinitarian
  • Eternal Security
  • Predestination differences
  • Dispensational vs Non-Dispensational
  • Belief in the Speaking of Tongues and Baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues.

There are more differences in the denominations than the list I created I think, but we will carry on to making my point of unity. In today’s world, a bizarre year has unfolded, and there is an attack on the Christian Church—Christianity. The churches are not united in doctrine, nor united in spirit and the spiritual battle we are facing globally, and especially here in the United States must be defeated. This means that all differences in doctrine and of any kind must cease and find common ground in fighting this battle together. In numbers we will have victory, being split we are defeated.

The Protestant churches should respect one another and come to the basic of doctrines in scripture, and that is to preach Jesus born of a virgin, ministered, taught, healed, delivered, and raised the dead as spoken in the Gospels of the New Testament. We are called to make disciples of men. We are not to bicker over eschatological opinions and views, or for any other doctrine. Lay these differences down and preach Jesus as the Messiah the only way to salvation and eternal life. This is my point for unity. There may be other avenues for unity among the Protestants and Evangelicals, but we must stand together to fight the spiritual battle we are in globally. We are in a battle for the very soul of the nation of the United States of America. What happens here in this year of 2020 will determine the outcome for the whole world. In the last few months, I have seen reports of using a virus to bring global change, and that change has a name—the Great Reset. A name that I believe has changed from the original term I saw earlier in the year, and that was Tikkun Olam, meaning to fix the world.

To fix the world from the globalist view is to reconstruct the economy, set new rules for environmental issues such as climate change. I see an attack on the Christian churches of shutdown, and the outlawing of bibles. I am aware of the vaccines being produced that have been fast tracked and not taking the usual number of years to develop. For years I have been watching for a new world government to arise, and a new world religion, all set to become a One World System, and I believe I have seen the fundamentals being established using a virus to attain their goals.

So, I am making a clarion call to all Protestant Churches to assemble and to unite in a battle of good versus evil, a spiritual battle that will affect all mankind. Push back the differences and put on the Ephesians 6: 11-18 armor.

“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;”

Centuries ago, there was a Dark Age and there were differences of doctrine and beliefs. Martin Luther came to the forefront of the Reformation Movement and wrote his 95 Theses. Today, we are seeing a New Dark Age coming now being called a Dark Winter, and I have heard this term from a presidential Democratic candidate. The result is the same, but I believe we are into a more difficult time, an indignation because of a political ideology that was not present in the current form we have witnessed in my lifetime.

So, concluding let all Christians who love Jesus project, teach, preach, and evangelize Jesus. Fulfill the evangelical call and go into all the world and preach the gospel.

Notes: All scripture used was taken from the King James Version, Public Domain, BibleGateway.

The Deception of the Veils: Zionism and the New Age Movements. How Satan Uses these Deceptions to Deceive the Christian.

He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Hosea 12:7 ASV

Satan uses many tools to run his deceptions. One is pulling the wool over the Christian eyes. How could he pull the wool over our eyes? In today’s time it has become one who is in a hurry, distractions, the non-study of the Bible and the absence of reading the scriptures. Just these few points can leave us spiritually empty, and a prey to the world of deception. Not only are we empty of God’s word, its knowledge and wisdom, we are open to anything told from the pulpit, man’s doctrine, and in the conversations of people. We hear many things, but are you the one that does sit down and read so that you can point out to people the truth? Are you one that does read, but is blinded by the current tenets of doctrine that has been taught all your life? Especially, the teachings of eschatology—the study of end time prophecy and events.

My experiences of working in a microbiological laboratory is one of conducting quality assurance and quality control. We called it QA/QC. One of the aspects was checking the Standard weights to makes sure they were clean and weighed correctly. This meant sending them to the manufacturer for cleaning and for standardization of the weights by weighing them. If they did not comply, then a new set would be in order. Satan’s weights are never checked. They are corrupted by the dirt of evil, and his standards are continually evil. If he can deceive you, then he need not work any harder, except to make sure you stay in his webs of deceit. There are many ways in which he uses deceit, but I chose today to embark on two of the ways.

One is Zionism. What is Zionism? Basically, it is the establishment of the State of Israel, and is a political movement that is secular, with an influence of European and Russian Jewry. The Russian Jews are known to have been active in the Bolshevik Revolution, and those who came to rule in the Soviet Union which became a Communist nation.  Secular in the sense of not being loyal to Torah, meaning the commandments of God Jehovah, and bringing into the culture of the Traditions of the Elders, the Talmud. It also has within its rank’s religious Zionism, which is the practice of Judaism. Zionism is also nationalist and placing nationalism over religion. Zionism is a creator of a utopian state. Secular Zionism was influenced by Jewish Marxists under the Labor Zionism in which they brought the tenets of the Communist Manifesto into the Jewish Zionism.

The beginnings of the Zionist movement were not in 1948, but much earlier into the 1800’s. There was a plan to bring a Jewish state into being in other places of the world. One was Uganda. The first Jewish state is not the Modern State of Israel formed in 1948, but one that is called the Jewish Autonomous Oblast provided for by Joseph Stalin. This was some years after World War I. The Jewish state that is known to us today is the State of Israel. Why should I say a state instead of a nation? A nation is a diverse people with diverse culture, freedoms, and values. A state is a land with a sovereign government. It seeks, in my opinion, to have only one ethnic group.

Today, a Zionist state is working in many countries to enact laws with the help of their dual citizens to pass legislation that will impair and control freedoms. One such set of laws are the Noahide laws. These laws are being predominately promoted by a Zionist movement whose origin is in Lubavitch Russia. On the surface we do not see the problem, but underneath in the sub laws, the coding brings the deception to go back to the law, to Judaism, and to be under the control of that system.

Another danger is the preaching of Zionism in the pulpits and interpreting scripture to give support to Israel. Within Israel are different factions. One is the Zionist movement. Yes, there are those who do not adhere to the Zionist movement, or the Talmud, and are good people, but the government created is Zionist, and the Judaic religion is steeped into Talmud, and the Talmud is the origin of not only the Noahide laws, but later written into the Talmud is how their mind has described, is their hatred of Jesus. Since Jesus is vehemently hated, then this means the Christian is hated as well.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

Matthew 10:22 ASV

Within the Jewish State, and the world are a faction of Jews who have accepted Jesus, but a very large portion do not believe in Jesus as the Messiah. The Talmud has commentary of the hatred of Jesus. So, why would anyone who has come to this knowledge support the state of Israel as if this state can do no wrong? Why not use the gift of discernment to see through any fabrication that is coming our way? In America, the Jews have a strong influence politically by lobbying, and encouraging the Christian to support Israel because they know the eschatological doctrine beliefs. Why doesn’t the American Christian read and do their research into the Jewish behavior and use a check of balances? Is there deceit within the ranks of this State? My answer would be yes, and I will use the current example of Iran. It is believed that Israel has given the United States false intelligence for the United States to bring action against Iran. This means war, and that the United States will be fighting a war for Israel. I have heard these statements recently on TruNews videos.

Another deceptive act of Israel is the news of the attack and massacre of American soldiers and intelligence officers on the U.S.S. Liberty on June 8, 1967. The attack was scouted by Israeli planes, and then blackened air jets came and attacked the ship. Other small boats attacked the ship, thus making it look like a non-Israeli group was responsible for the attack. In other words, to put the blame on another militaristic group.

Why all these events between the Noahide laws and the military actions? To gain control of the biblical lands, which was pulled from the Israeli’s (Deuteronomy 28), to gain control of all the world—to dominate through politics, and religion through the guise of world peace and security. This could possibly be the beast system completing its rise. If so, then we will see that state controlling the world, instead of what was preached and taught through the years of the United Nations being the head of the beast system. It will play a part, but it will not be the head I do not believe because of the knowledge I am seeing now. If new knowledge points a different way, then we must investigate and consider, but this is the way I am seeing it currently.

What is the danger of Zionism? It is the conditioning of the Christian to blindly agree with all things concerning the Modern State of Israel, and of their supposed attacks from ethnic groups, for example, the Palestinians. But could it be the other way around? I believe it to be so, that those groups are being discriminated against, and controlled by the State of Israel. These statements are meant to seek the truth in all these matters and in doing so, watching for the coming of Jesus, and watching to make sure I am not deceived and warning others of possible deception. Instead of preaching Zionism, we should be preaching Jesus, the Gospel. Through the preaching of Jesus peace and security comes through him, and not from a governmental state of control seeking to create a utopian world. A New World Order utopian world with one head as a monarch.

The Newer Age Movement. Another danger of deception that Satan uses is the New Age. This is a movement that is not new, but what is new about it is its infiltration into the ministries of the Christian church. Within the last year I have read a book about this infiltration of using Ouija boards renamed as angel boards, and tarot cards. These two examples are being used to prophesy to the Christian instead of relying on prayer and the Holy Spirit. It is the old idea of bringing paganism back into the church. In Paul’s day he preached against the paganism in the church concerning eating the food sacrificed to idols, and even taught against having a form of sexual immorality that even the pagans detested (1 Corinthians chapter 5 and 8).

In more recent news, we see a church has added a psychic to the staff so that parishioners may talk to their deceased family and friends. With news like this destroys the church, its mission, and causes people to not desire to come to church, much less than convert to Jesus. Evil works of the New Age, witchcraft, sorcery, idolatry are types of bondages that causes people to further dip themselves into greater bondages in which they will feel they cannot escape. It is through the work of Jesus that has broke all these chains of bondage to set us free and to live life freely and having victory.

Jesus wants us to know the truth. We are expected to read his word, come together as a body to pray, edify, and to minister to others need. We are to study the end times, to keep watch, so that we will be equipped to be a watchman so that people will not fall into deception. We have been taught this phrase, if we bless Israel we will be blessed, and if we curse Israel we will be cursed. Does scripture say so? No, it doesn’t. It is the tenet of the Christian Zionist movement in America to gain support for Israel. The Lord Jehovah-the Father of us all is speaking to Abraham and his descendants. That means Ishmaelites, Arabs, Hebrews, and the adopted disciples of Jesus. To say anything different is a misinterpretation of scripture.

and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 12:3 ASV

So, both Zionism and the New Age seeks not only to deceive people to keep them in bondage, but to control. Bondage is a type of control in which it imperils the spirit into a prison. Zionism presently is being used to control speech. That is, if anyone says anything against the group that is gaining special rights through legislation will face charges. People will be afraid to say anything because they fear spending time in jail. Zionism and the New Age seek to control your life. History is repeating itself here in America in certain ways, and that history is of the relationship, politics, and legislation of Russia, meaning the antisemitism laws enacted within that nation. There is a parallel here in history.

Satan is working his deceptions. He wants you bound and controlled and he will do anything to control, manipulate, intimidate, and to destroy you. What are you going to do? Are you going to sit there and do nothing? Are you going to start reading, studying, and watching for deception? Are you going to study to show yourself approved so that you can detect misinterpretations of scripture, and making sure the end time doctrine is correct?  Where will your loyalties be? Will it be to a government, or will your loyalty be to Jesus? The deceptions are real. This scripture sums it up.

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

1 Peter 5:8 ASV

Notes:

All scripture given was taken from the American Standard Version, Public Domain, Biblegateway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

http://www.jewishhistory.org/the-zionist-movement/

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/36226/jewish/About-Chabad-Lubavitch.htm

https://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_a_state_and_a_nation

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-if-iran-u-s-trump-war-israel-netanyahu-will-be-prime-suspect-1.7249974

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/04/30/pat_buchanan_on_iran_bibi_has_been_crying_wolf_for_decades.html

https://www.newsweek.com/israel-wants-war-iran-netanyahu-1330704

https://www.trunews.com/stream/six-day-war-massacre-uss-liberty-veterans-reveal-truth-about-israeli-attack-part-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism

https://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism

The Second Coming of the New Age, by Steven Bancarz and Josh Peck. Defender Publishing 2018

Talmud Unmasked: The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians, Rev. I. B. Pranaitis, IMPRIMATUR

Portion Five: Planting the Seed of Deception into the Generations of Man; The Teachings of the Noahide Law Emerge

Even though deception entered the Garden of Eden by the serpent, the seed of deception I am referring for this article began with Abraham and Sarah. They journey into another land where Abimelech is dwelling because of their displacement from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot and his daughters fled to Zoar that was a small town but far enough away from the destruction. As Abraham and Sarah meet Abimelech, Abraham tells him that Sarah is his sister, and Sarah concedes that he is her brother. Abimelech, a Philistine king has a dream from God, and God is telling him that Sarah is another man’s wife, and judgement is going to fall on him if he doesn’t return Sarah to Abraham. He is warned not to touch Sarah. (Genesis 20:1-18)

Time goes by, and Abraham and Sarah are reunited, and in their older years they have a child named Isaac. Isaac journeys to the same land, Gerar, in which Abraham and Sarah went during the destruction. Here Isaac repeats the same deception of his mother and father. He is fearful he would be harmed because of Rebekah’s beauty, but Abimelech intercedes before sin is committed in his camps. (Genesis 26:1-16)

More time flies by and we see the story of Jacob and Esau. Isaac bids Esau to go to the fields to hunt for venison so that he may have a bowl of venison stew. While Esau is out in the fields hunting Rebekah goes to Jacob and tells him to go fetch a lamb in which to make the savory stew. Jacob questions her after hearing her plan, and he obeys wearing the hairy skin of the lamb on his hands and neck. Jacob goes into Isaac’s tent and brings him the savory stew. Here, after Isaac asks Jacob who son he is, if he is Esau, and Jacob replies with the answer of I am. Through deception Jacob receives the blessing of the first born and becomes the supplanter. (Genesis 27:19)

Deception is now in the ranks and takes its root into generations of Israel through Jacob. Mind you that not all people have deception in their hearts, nor in their generations, but I am taking us through the ranks into how the Noahide law origin, its kept secrets, and now its rise into current times. The Noahide law is written into the Talmud, the traditions of the oral law, the law that the New Testament the Pharisee and Scribes followed. It is the traditions, that is, their law away from the scriptures, the Old Testament, in which some Rabbi’s follow. Also note that not all Jewish people, nor Rabbi’s follow the Talmud, but I am speaking of those who do. Its rise as far as I can tell, becomes known after the Jews establish a state in the Levant after World War II in 1948. The Noahide laws were not known by all Jews, but kept secret especially from the world, until the Jews began to make Aliyah to the land.

And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 11:9-19 KJV

The Noahide law has found its way passed into law in the United States in 1991 standing ready to be enforced as the opportune time arrives. That opportune time, currently my era that I am living in. These set of laws were passed into law under the Education Act that also commemorates a Rabbi’s birthday and is mentioned by the signing President that these are the values of the American people, which they are not. The values of the American people are the Christian values that derive from the Ten Commandments and the scriptures of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. The very act of speaking of the bill that the Noahide law are the values of the American people is deception and false.

Look within your government legislation and check to see if a similar bill has been passed into law. As to my understanding laws of this kind are to be passed into law in every country. These seven laws, which has sub laws are supposed to bring peace to the world through a court system that is under the Sanhedrin jurisdiction. My thoughts are that peace will never come through the efforts of man, but their efforts will only bring control and dictatorship. The only peace, the true peace that man will ever know is not only of having accepted Jesus into our hearts and lives, but in through the kingdom on Earth that Jesus the Messiah will establish. The kingdom that is coming through the Noahide law is not the messianic kingdom, nor is it the true light.

The deception of the Noahide law is that it will bring peace, but also of being “one” throughout the world, but that oneness is not achieved because these laws will keep separate the Jew and the Gentile. Peace is not achieved because in enforcing the seven laws will bring death to many. Most definitely those who will not make a declaration to these laws, those who will not denounce Jesus, and will bring death to the Christians. The deception is also one that will bring a depopulation of the world.

There is only one peace. He is Jesus the Messiah. He broke down the partition of Jew and Gentile, thus placing all mankind back to one group. There is no separation of the Jew and the Gentile, but we are one new man.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,  having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace

Ephesians 2: 14-15 ASV

Could these Noahide laws and the courts they create possibly be the One World Government we have heard about all our lives? It certainly looks like it. What makes the emerging of these laws into a World Government system are also the agreements between religious entities that will bring all people under one system that agree and accept these laws for living righteous.

The way to righteousness is through Jesus the Messiah, by grace and not of works. The interpretation of the Noahide laws of repentance is that one can pray to the “hand of heaven” and ask forgiveness, but if one sins and then does a good work, then that good work cancels the sin. This is another falsehood. Only through Jesus is sin forgiven and by his blood. Salvation is by grace and not of works, though we do good works for witness, works cannot save.

Using ambiguous wording like the “hand of heaven” is deception because my thoughts are one does not really know who we are addressing. People any think it is God but could be addressing Satan because it is also written that Satan is the prince of the air. His throne is in the second heaven, which we know as space. My position is to call God by his name, which he has many, but he is known to us as I AM, Jehovah, and Jesus. Recognize him when you pray by calling his name, and acknowledge him as God, Lord and Savior. His name is not ineffable!

So, since the Noahide laws originate in the Talmud and are purported to bring peace and oneness how could the Talmud be “truth”? How could it be “truth” when chaos breaks out in the world?  There will be chaos because people will see the deception. How could it be “truth” when it brings death, war, and destruction? The only truth we know will be in God’s word, the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. I implore everyone to read the Bible so you will know the truth and recognize the deception that is here! The more I study, the more I am convinced that the World Government will make its final rise enforcing the Noahide law, thus bringing oppression, destruction, famine, and other destruction to the world. The One World Government system may comprise of the agreements formed, that will affect honest non-Talmudic Jews, Messianic Jews, Christianity, and Coexist religions, thus bringing all religions under the same umbrella. This government may be a triad of the major religions. Its leader will be one that will be a counterfeit to the Messiah Jesus.

Of all the religions, there is only one way in which to reach eternal life, and that is through the blood of Jesus who bought our salvation for our souls by the final sacrifice! There is no need to sacrifice, to return to the Law of the Old Testament because of his sacrifice.  For Christians it would negate what Jesus did on the cross providing salvation to all mankind. It would be going backward and not forward bringing Christians back to the Law. We are under grace and live by faith just has Abraham did. The law reveals the sin, and grace, faith, and the blood of Jesus conquers the sin.

Notes

Portion Two: Educating Christians of All Nations, A Serial Analysis of the Noahide Law

Why do we Gentiles need to learn the Noahide Laws? These are laws for the Gentile in which the person is taught how to act within a community to decrease crime and chaos in the world, and these laws are universal. The Gentile, who is identified as a Noahide must learn these seven laws and abide by them. I have seen in my studies that it is incumbent for the Jews to teach these laws, their liabilities, and exceptions, an interpretation by Maimonides and Schneerson. To observe the Noahide laws a Gentile would be leaving behind their faith in Jesus because within the Noahide laws there is a void of spiritual life, that is devotion to the learning of Torah, and not being permitted to worship with the Jew in the festivals and sabbaths. Maimonides interpretation is that the Gentile is forbidden to study Torah, which to the Christian is the Pentateuch, and the Old Testament. What is the reason for the Gentile not being permitted to study Torah and observe the sabbath? It is his opinion that the Gentile will be taking on an extra commandment outside of the Noahide law. The Gentile is to stay within the Noahide law, but an exception is made that the Gentile (Noahide) may study only the parts of the Torah that pertain these Noahide laws.


Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Colossians 3:16 LJV

In order to keep the Gentile outside of the Jewish observances of scripture a prayer book and a book of laws for the non-Jew is being created. The siddur is called the Brit Olam, and the book of laws is a Shulhan Aruh type for the Gentile. These books will have prayers written just for the Gentile, and the laws will tell the Gentile how to live and what laws are acceptable, or not acceptable to follow.

Last night I was reading Isaiah 56, and in my reading, I could see and understand that God never intended for the Jew and Gentile to be separate from worship to him. We are to come together under one house, that his house is a house of prayer for all peoples. He will make for us, the foreigner (Gentile) a memorial in his house, their burnt offerings will be excepted [today, offerings in worship will be prayers lifting our hands in praise].


For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

Isaiah 56:4-7 KJV

Also, it is forbidden for the Jew to teach the Gentile the Hebrew or the Aramaic because the Gentile would be able to read those languages of the Hebrew scriptures, thus enabling the Gentile to have a different interpretation than what is given in the Jewish commentaries, and will have a different insight than the Jewish thoughts of Rabbi’s and Sages. My reaction to prohibition above is that God speaks to all of us and he speaks to us through his word. This thought of forbidding Gentiles to study Torah completely and to read his word in the original language is keeping the Gentile from knowing God completely. That, this is a control mechanism to control the life of the Gentile. God has meant for all men to be free, to inhabit the earth, multiply, living life to the fullest, also being able to think for himself-a freewill. God has given his word for all mankind and by giving his son Jesus as a sacrifice brought the Gentile into the fold by grafting us into the fig tree.

Another concern for the Christian is the Declaration of the Noahide. One will be required to take an oath, a declaration stating that you will observe the seven laws and live by them. There are two oaths. One for the righteous gentile who does not want to convert to Judaism, and a short oath for the Gentile who wants to convert. These declarations are through rabbinic tradition. There is the word tradition again. These laws, the traditions are commentary seen as law, and Talmudic law is mainly followed. God gave us his law for all mankind, but the Talmudic law are laws on top of the scriptures of the bible.


For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

Matthew 23:4 KJV

There is coming a time when men, women, and children will have to decide. That decision would be either to take the mark of the beast or not. I have read this declaration and I feel that possibly could be a renouncement of God. Could this declaration be part of the mark of the beast? Possibly. As I study, I see a multidimension of aspects toward the mark. Throughout my life I have heard preachers say it is a microchip, others a literal mark, and much more, but in Revelation it states the mark will be on your right hand or forehead. Could it involve a microchip, a literal mark, and a declaration? Possibly, and we need to be fully aware to prevent us from being deceived.


And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls ofthem that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped thebeast, neither his image, neither had received his markupon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Revelation 20:4 KJV


And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Revelation 13:16-18 KJV

What should we do then concern the Noahide laws? I have studied enough that we should look to Jesus, stay within the Christian faith winning others to Christ including Jews to Jesus. We are to continue studying the bible learning what it says and live righteous lives and obeying God. As Gentiles, we are to look to God, our Father, in Heaven for guidance, for he says he will never leave us nor forsake us. Ask God the questions you may have, then listen to his still sweet voice. As a child of God, you will know his voice within you. My advice and understanding are for no one to accept the Noahide law.

Notes

All Scripture given was taken from the King James Version, Public Domain, Biblegateway

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-modern-noahide-movement/

http://www.wikinoah.org/en/index.php/How_to_become_a_Noahide

The Divine Code, Third edition, by Moshe Weiner, Ask Noah International 2018

The Sons of God Explained

I have read and studied for a very long time now, off and on for the past eleven years about the identification of the sons of God—the bene Elohim. Following are the results of my examen from scripture and other readings.

In Genesis 6 we first read about the giants that came upon the earth, and that the sons of God came and took wives of the human daughters and had children with them. Who were these bene Elohim? In the Hebrew the bene Elohim refer to the angels of God. In one source it was stated that these angels came down to earth to teach men of the law of God which was not written in those days from Adam to Noah, and gave the law orally so that the people could believe in their creator and God. When these angels became enamored with the daughters of men then they left their estate—the habitation and became the fallen ones, the Nephillim. This is one probable statement of the sons of God.


And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Genesis 6:1-2 KJV

Another thought, which I have hold to currently is that the sons of God were angels that rebelled against God and was thrown out of heaven because of Lucifer’s pride and influence on the 1/3 of angels he took with him as an army to insurrect against God. The children of the union of these sons of God with the daughters of men created the giants, which is called the seed of Satan in Genesis 3:15. These giants, the seed of Satan is one form of the enmity expressed in this scripture.

How do we know that the sons of God were angels? When we go to the book of Job we find that the angels of God along with Satan came and presented themselves in the presence of God. This is the conference between Satan and God about the testings that Job were to go through. This discourse is presented twice in the book of Job, I believe to serve as a witness and state that the sons of God are angels. Another instance in Job is at Creation the morning stars, another type of angel, and the sons of God rejoiced at the beauty of God’s creation that he created complete in six days. For these angels shouted for joy. This is scriptural proof that the sons of God were angels. So why is this important for us to know now?


Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

Job 1:6 KJV


Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:1-7 KJV

Later, when Jesus was born and began his ministry he taught the law and salvation. That salvation was to come through him and his death, resurrection, and ascension to the Father. Here in lies where men, women, and children who believe upon Jesus as Messiah and that believing upon him brings us eternal life. When we believe upon Jesus who brought the world salvation, and ours, then we who believe in him by faith and follow him have become sons and daughters of God by adoption. With our confession of our sins we are adopted into the family of God as children because we have been separated from God by sin.


Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Romans 8:12-25 KJV


Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Galatians 3:24-29 KJV

Will the sons of God that came to the earth and had children return? In scripture we have seen this twice in the form of Nephillim and Rephaim. The bible says as in the days of Noah so shall it be. By this statement we would have to see, but it is highly probable. Before we conclude, what happened to the angels who married the daughters of men? Peter explains that these angels who sinned, that left their habitation were chained in hell waiting for their day of judgement. In scripture we do read that four angels that are under the rivers will be loosed. Are these four part of the number of angles who married the sons of daughters? That is question that needs more exploration.


For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

2 Peter 2:4 KJV


And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Jude 1:6 KJV


But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Matthew 24:37 KJV

What has happened in the days of Noah will return to this earth as described in Matthew 24. I would invite you to read this whole chapter.

In a short discourse this is who the sons of God are as explained in scripture.

Notes: This Season of Angels, Perry Stone, ppgs 109-110, Faithwords First Edition, October 2018.

All scripture used is taken from the King James Version, Public Domain Biblegateway.

The Promise of a Messiah

Before Creation began God had a plan. That plan was for the salvation of his new creation upon earth that is formed in his image. This creation was formed by God’s hand like a potter using clay, and his thoughts were on his creation’s future. God knew one day that mankind would fail and fall into sin, so he had a plan to provide a messiah—a savior that would be a perfect sacrifice to provide the salvation for man. This messiah had to be a man, but not born of man’s seed, but of God’s Holy Spirit. This is the promise:


And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis 3:15 KJV

Within this one scripture we see an abundance of meaning. First, let’s take the word enmity. In the Hebrew enmity is ebah, which means hostility and hatred. In the context here, I believe that hostility is fitting because the serpent beguiled Eve and caused her to take of the fruit of the Tree of Good and Evil and then lead Adam into the act of sin. The future messiah will have hostility towards Satan and later his seed because of his deceitful and deadly spiritual action.

When I speak of Satan’s seed what could I possibly mean? From years of studying Genesis 6 about the Nephillim— the fallen angels, these are the angels that come to marry the human females and they have children with the daughters of men. The result of these unions are the giants of the earth. How did these fallen angels become the father of the giants? The answer is that they left their habitation (Jude 6).

In Noah’s day we refer to them as Nephillim as well, and after the flood they are referred to as the Rephaim, or Rephaites. These are the physical seed of Satan that were defeated first by the flood, and also later by Moses men and the David, the future king of Israel.


And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Genesis 6:1-4 KJV

Examples of the Rephaim in scripture is Og of Bashan, and Goliath. Og was killed by Joshua, and Goliath killed by David. There were many who lived in the land of Israel. These are just two of the hundreds that were warred against by the Israelite’s and overcome.

But what is meant by the enmity of the seed of Satan and the seed of Eve? A messiah was promised by God to come for the salvation of man. Through his ministry of being a shepherd first he will defeat Satan by dying on a cross by the spillage of his blood, thus becoming the sacrifice, the lamb provided by God that has the DNA of man, and also the DNA of God. God had to send his son to redeem man by his blood. For the blood of man cannot redeem itself because man’s blood is defiled by sin. This is the meaning of the bruising of the head and the bruising of the heel. Jesus was on that cross that eventful day during Passover in which he bruised the head of Satan, actually fractured the head of Satan, and in return Satan bruising Jesus’s heel. Jesus is the embodiment of God and is very powerful being his Son who has always been with God. Satan is God’s creation that sinned by the act of pride, and is not powerful as God, but weak. Satan’s actions of the sin of pride brought death to him and his armies, and also brought death to man when he deceived mankind. This is the enmity that is between God and Satan, and it will all be brought to an end , and soon.

Today, we see the actions of people who do not know God, and the actions of people who do know God. The interaction between these two groups causes enmity because the evil in men’s heart does not agree with the godliness of those who have the Spirit of God within. We have the messiah today to bring us out of sin (enmity) if we accept him, and confess that Jesus is Lord.

Notes

www,messie2.fr, enmity H0342

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rephaite

biblehub.com/topical/r/rephaim.htm

All scripture used is taken from the King James Version, Public Domain, Biblegateway.

The Lands of Israel

God gave a promise to Abraham of many nations. These nations would come from his seed. Abraham was old, in his nineties to one hundred when his wife Sarai bore their son Isaac. The promise made to Abraham would come through Isaac. It is through Isaac’s son Jacob that the tribes of Israel were to come to fruition later to help establish the lands of Israel.

What are these lands of Israel? How many miles approximately do they cover? Approximately 1500 by 2000 miles. In today’s world, these lands that were promised to Israel have gentile ethnic groups living within them, and claimed by them, but in the end these lands will be established from the promise God made to Israel. These lands are in identified in our times as Egypt (east of the Nile River), Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, all of Israel as we know it, the area of Gaza, and the West Bank. This is a large piece of land, approximately 1500 by 2000 miles. Why would God give such a large piece of land to Abraham? It is possible that all the lands identified is the area of the Garden of Eden, and it his will is to reestablish the Edenic paradise and fellowship with mankind.


In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Genesis 15:18-21 KJV

As I looked at the areas mapped with borders it took shape of a partial pyramid—a mountain. Upon seeing this shape I thought of the New Jerusalem in the book of Revelation. This new city will cover most of the area described in the amount of about 1500 miles square. Many preachers I have heard have thought that the city of the New Jerusalem to come would be in the shape of a cube, but I don’t believe it will be, but will be in the shape of a pyramid. Why? Because I see this city as the mountain of God, and the Mountain of Eden restored in future times after the old earth is destroyed, and the new earth established.


And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:2 KJV

So, the lands being fought over today are between the two sons of Abraham, Ishmael—the Arabs, and Isaac —the grandfather of Israel. As we go further, we see two more sons have a division. These two sons are Jacob and Esau, the sons of Isaac. It was God’s will that the nation of Israel would be established through Jacob with the 12 tribes, but Esau by tradition and first born was to receive the blessing. However, God’s will is to be done. This is one of the many reasons why this land is being fought over because of the traditional blessings, but Satan knows that God wants to bring the world we live in to a close, place Satan, his army of fallen angels, and his seed into the pit for warring against God. This means his final defeat and judgement. This is an eternal sentence.

God is reestablishing his creation and his kingdom to be enjoyed by the nations of people who have accepted his son Jesus and have been given the privilege to live in an “heaven”, a new earth that is not defiled by sin, as this earth we live in is defiled.

This nation of Israel, and the lands that have been promised will be the center of the world to come. A place where Ezekiel’s temple will be established for all nations to come to worship God. A nation of lands promised to Abraham. A eternal covenant, and God bringing his promise to fruition. This is what all generations have seen. God’s will and purpose coming into being, that is, a eternal kingdom with man.

Notes:

curtlandry.com/whose-promised-land-is-it-part-1-ancient-borders/

theisraelbible.com/biblical-boundaries-land-israel

All scripture used is taken from the King James Version Public Domain Biblegateway

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