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Surprise of surprises; the boy that this week killed his mother, stole her guns, and went to an elementary school to kill 26 children and teachers in Newtown Connecticut before offing himself with a bullet to the head… was quietly reported to be on long-term, prescribed pharmaceutical medications.
Yet the instant outcry from government and do-wellers is to bring up the tormented topic of gun control as the always-ready immediate answer to violence.
It is a true marvel to me that we are so self-sophisticated that Uganda’s Kony style witchcraft is beneath us but we are utterly blind to our very successful replacement; Pharmaceuticals.
While Kony stole away the Ugandan’s children to “cleans” them with sacred water and “cure” them with incantations to make them killers, our American Demons are circumventing your Kony doctors as the pushers they once were, and the pharmaceutical manufacturers supported by our governments are now using our TV to push their witchcraft directly. Our own parents then run to their doctors as street-dealers from which to buy their latest fix, and then often drugged themselves they force it on their children who usually don’t want it. How completely backwards is that?!
Like the number of fatal vehicle accidents would plummet to almost none if you removed those related to alcohol, so would the accounts of mothers killing their children and children killing their parents, friends, and total strangers, if we removed those events that include people on pharmaceutical “medications.”
But the great champion illusion of these medications is “the great need”;
“My child is hyperactive, unruly, or A.D.D., I am under stress, I can’t sleep, I’m depressed…” the list of excuses is near unending and the promised fix is the designer drug, and hey; “the government carefully regulates the drug industry to make sure they don’t sell us anything dangerous.”
Really?~
As the many TV adds warn: “…Stop taking ____ if you have thoughts of suicide or feel nausea or…”
SAY WHAT?!
When did drug induced thoughts of suicide become a casual “side affect” like nausea!?
And if the government is so carefully regulating these manufacturers as to require the very long list of side affects that range from rash to death (another casual side affect), why don’t they require “strong thoughts of murder” in that list as well? Oh, I remember; it’s because you only get those feelings when experiencing withdrawals! A designer drug with a built in grave deterrent that ensures you never detox from it…; Brilliant!
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The word pharmaceutical comes directly from the Greek word:
5331 pharmakeia; from 5332; medication (“pharmacy”), i.e. (by extension) magic (literal or figurative):-- sorcery, witchcraft.
5332 pharmakeus; from pharmakon (a drug, i.e. spell-giving potion); a druggist (“pharmacist”) or poisoner, i.e. (by extension) a magician:-- sorcerer.
And although that is itself quite shockingly revealing, the bible translators actually used the English word “witchcraft” for the rightfully direct Greek word meaning a pharmaceutical medication:
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest (obvious), which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft( 5331), hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings [as in “letting loose”: Partying], and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God” Galatians 5:19-21.
Yet while Christians don’t "Party like animals," commit fornication or join seditions, many, MANY, Christians drug themselves and their own children, ensuring that they do not enter the kingdom of God!
Do you actually believe in God and his word, or is that really just a comfortable religion to you that doesn’t actually translate into reality? Am I striking too close to home now?
“But what about the very real condition that ‘needs’ the drug to manage it?”
Am I denying the condition exists? Not at all; rather I am confirming the actual condition. But because we are already so doped up on our spiritual drugs that we cannot “see straight” to make right decisions; we simply cannot recognize these very real conditions as spiritual problems manifesting in the temporal; We simply don’t actually believe the two realms are actually that connected, so having prayed, we leave God at church and then run to the approved witchdoctor for real help. Yet somehow it’s the backward black Ugandan savages that should be pitied as so simple of understanding that they are hardly human and deserving of human dignity, right?
“…behold, to obey is better than (Jesus’) sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft (7081), and stubbornness is as iniquity (205) and idolatry (8655). Behold thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee…” I Samuel 15:22-23.
Witchcraft 7081 qecem; [Hebrew] from 7080; a lot; also divination (including its fee), oracle:-- (reward of) divination, divine sentence, witchcraft.
Although the English translators used the same word “witchcraft” for both the Hebrew and the Greek words, they are not actually the same thing, though they result in the same condition; that is a sought out deviation from the way God intended but the fabricated illusion that this is what he wants. A false prophet is just such a pharmacist as is the whore prophetess that dispenses these “much-needed” medications;
“…there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts” Nahum 3:3-4.
Medications for these presumed exclusively temporal conditions are not God’s answer. How many more murdered innocents are needed before we see this very plain truth? The guns are merely the amoral means often used, as is the car. God tells us the actual issue is a stubborn persistence in denying God his role in solving our problems that present as “conditions,” and this stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry; meaning we make gods of our other answers and those answers are created from a mind that thinks only to foolish and empty ends of further destruction (Romans 1:21-22).
Iniquity 205 ‘aven; from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol:-- affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners…
Idolatry 8655 teraphiym; plural from 7495; a healer; Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol:-- idols (-atry), images, teraphim.
Sure, we can blame the pharmaceutical companies for their greed, and the governments for playing along for the same (though more complex) reasons, but when it really comes down to it the parents that refuse to turn to God in personal obedience, willingly turn to the family idols of pharmaceutical witchcraft to answer their children’s problems when God doesn’t come through for their own problems.
But ignorance of God is no excuse, just as ignorance of the drug does not negate the affect; God holds the parents accountable first for their own sin and then for those that they force on their children… But you can sure see how the Godless leadership that they have elected in ignorance has steered them to their committed destruction, and the resulting destruction of the innocent “collateral damage” (Genesis 6:5).
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Am I suggesting that medicine is never rightly needed? No, in fact there will be a tree in the restored kingdom city of Jerusalem-- which through it flows a new river-- whose leaves will be used for medicinal purposes (Ezekiel 47:12). But what I am saying is that long-term medication, especially one that alters the nature of the individual, is a violation of God’s design and intent; it is an alternative to God himself.
In a similar way we see Americans flocking to churches, lighting candles and saying prayers for the recently lost: Candlelight vigil (http://abcnews.go.com/US/connecticut-shooting-computers-home-gunman/story?id=17989753).
But honestly, what is the actual point? Is it an earnest clothes-tearing agony of heart and spirit begging God to show us our sin that has allowed this to come upon our land? Or is it rather a knee-jerk emotional expression that simply says to the hurting; “It’s the only way I know how to show my sympathy”?
What is the actual point of the sudden shrine built from a heap of junk placed reverently and ceremoniously at the place of bloodshed, as if we are guiltless to a meaningless tragedy that just must be suffered. The makeshift shrine itself is actually our way of agreeing with the hurting, but in the agreement comes the feeling of innocence; “I am a victim too,” "We're all victims here." Such a functionally useless reaction is too reminiscent of the Jews who likewise quietly and mournfully endured the Holocaust as just something that must be suffered on the innocent.
Where is the expectation that God should have kept this from happening? WHERE IS THE BEGGING GOD TO SHOW US OUR GUILT that has obviously disallowed that protection He wanted to provide? Where is national Repentance in recognizing this as a national consequence?
"We don’t need to repent we just need to outlaw guns and make better drugs."
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The Witchcraft of Uganda
post 272
Did you get your copy of George Otis Jr.’s DVD An Unconventional War(*1) yet? You really need to.
Not so much because you need to see the unspeakable horrors those people suffered but because you need to comprehend the true solution by seeing the true cause.
Reading about Christians burned on poles as Nero’s street lights thousands of years ago is easy to disassociate those long ago events from reality but northern Ugandan’s horrific situation is a recently past, twenty-year long, current events situation so recent that even today it is not wholly concluded.
In this video you get first hand narration of the horrible events they experienced and while it is sometimes hard to understand their English speech don’t forget to be amazed that they speak it at all, and to your benefit. Do you speak Ugandan along with your English? No? Then don’t disassociate their intelligent humanity from your own because they have a different skin color; these people are not ignorant or less human because they happen to live in another country and setting, try to achieve even a little of their international intelligence by overcoming your ignorance of hearing your own language in another voice. Their human problem is your human problem; see your own potential suffering through their eyes; their stolen sons and daughters are your sons and daughter, their murdered people are your relatives and neighbors, their destroyed schools and churches and homes are yours. Own their suffering as a shared common humanity of suffering against the demonic violence (Romans 12:15b-16).
Their demonic violence took on a complex nature as the LRA was an organization that believed their spirits were Christian and were led by the spirits of God the Father and the Holy Ghost. The LRA is an acronym for “The Lord’s Resistance Army.”
Add to the complexity of a so-called violent-Christianity-of-death-unto-salvation, the fact that the stolen sons were forced into the LRA to do the killing and maiming of their own communities from which they were abducted. So although the leadership was from another neighboring region of Uganda, the actual perpetrators were not strangers from another nation or even from a contending tribal group; the murderers were their own sons forced by fear to kill their own people, and their own stolen daughters became the mothers of their enemy’s children, all while everybody claimed to be Christian, including the driving spirits.
“and while the people felt anger at Kony (the LRA leader), they were torn between the two; because it was their own children; their own cousins, and nephews and nieces, who were doing this”
How’s that for complex?
The people of Uganda have a traditional faith in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. When they are concerned or in a quandary or in fear, they turn to the Savior, and when the demonically driven cult army was seen near the protectively walled Catholic school for girls, the parents consoled their daughters by phone; “You have to trust in God and always to pray, whatever happens.” And when the demonically driven cult army came abducting and maiming and murdering, these same parents cried out in anguish to Jesus;
“…I say ‘Jesus, Why?’, I say ‘Jesus, Where’s he at?’” - Sarah Odongo Mother of abducted Janet Akello.
“Parents were rolling on the ground wailing” - another mother of an abducted daughter.
But their faith in Jesus- in spite of their troubles- did not crumble, though that didn’t keep them from asking searching questions as to the reasons and their right responses.
From three different mothers we see the progressive anguish of a severely tried faith:
“He (God) knows people are suffering, He knows they’re dying, that doesn’t mean God doesn’t listen to us, doesn’t care anymore…”
“After wailing, I thought back and say Eh!... Eh (like a sharp sigh), How will I continue wailing, who will be my savior (illegible)?”
“I was lost, I would do nothing. I almost gave up. I almost gave up”.
The narrator describes the response to the Aboke St. Mary’s girl’s school kidnapping; “Wounded and confused, family members gathered in churches to pray. Petitions for the safe and speedy return of their daughters were sealed with bitter tears.”
And in the wounds and the confusion of a severely tried but uncrumbled faith, they began to retrace the promises of scripture with freshly earnest eyes of real discovery. One mother named Angelina explains in hindsight their adventure of discovery;
“He told us; ’Come unto me all of you who are heavily laden and I will give you rest’, and we wanted that rest, and that rest was that we had to be broken; our pride, our resentment, our fight against our own brothers had to be broken. We realized that unless we were concerned for our fellow man we will not be able to get anything from the living God”.
But this truth was hard to put into actual practice. Angelina learned that her own daughter was now pregnant by the rebels that took her;
“I had such anger in my spirit, I wanted to - if I could - if Kony was around - I would have maybe gone and fight him. And if I hear anybody talking the language of Kony’s people a lot of bitterness and resentment built in my spirit. One day my neighbor had a visitor from that region and he was talking that language, I was so angry with the man, and I just walked to him and said; If my daughter ever came up with a child from Kony I will have throw the child into the subcounty(? illegible) and will never want to see anybody from that place.
But then, the lord in the light told me; Angelina is that why you are praying? then don’t pray, you have not forgiven, you cannot get anything, you have nothing to get. Because bitterness and resentment and anger has clouded your mind.”
The narrator continues; “Stunned by this revelation, Angelina cast herself into a season of earnest repentance. It ended when a young visitor in her home began speaking Acholi”. * * *
The Iron Power of the Destroyers:
“Throughout the 1990’s Uganda’s military grew increasingly frustrated by its inability to subdue the LRA,” to the point that it seemed as if the LRA was going to succeed in overthrowing the Ugandan government. “Given the UPDF’s (Uganda’s military) superior firepower and training, something just didn’t add up.”
“They seemed to get overpowered in a way that you cannot explain rationally.”
“All sorts of mysterious things happened in the battle field.”
“Kony’s elusiveness was especially baffling.”
“The military people told us stories of times when he was more or less surrounded, and they don’t know how he escaped” - James Magara Director of Intercessors for Uganda .
“This war, to me, is not a conventional war; it has a lot of spiritual aspect.”
“It became evident that there was a very strong witchcraft involved.”
“The spiritual foundation of this war was very clearly demonic.”
“This is not an ordinary war, It is the Devil, it is Satan out to finish the Acholis.” - wife of Leukoya and mother of Lakwenna (two of the three figureheads of the demonic power).
“The extent of the destruction done by the rebels cannot be man made.”
“They believe that these evil spirits have much power, and they believe that Kony had such spirits” - the Honorable Yoweri Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda.
It took time for the consensus to become refined enough to actually understand and fully accept that the very real war Uganda faced personally, communally, politically, and militarily, was a demonic war. Such a thing is just too “strange” to actually believe for a normal people caught up in a temporal reality even though the vague concept is quite obvious. But vague concepts have no power. These Christian people were helpless against the very committed focus of the miry rebel leaders to the source of their iron power.
“Many former rebels confirm the LRA’s reliance on witchcraft. One of them, Air Force Brigadier Kenneth Banya, reports that spirit voices routinely informed Kony of government raids.”
“Many former rebels confirm the LRA’s reliance on witchcraft. One of them, Air Force Brigadier Kenneth Banya, reports that spirit voices routinely informed Kony of government raids.”
“Then he would predict when the enemies would come in, and he would tell you the number of the enemies.”- (Former LRA Commander) Air Force Brigadier Kenneth Banya.
“It is because when you get abducted, you immediately get anointed (as he points to the forehead between the eyes), and through that, there is that strong allegiance and commitment, and love and passion, you have to him.”
Suddenly we see a Type of the power in the Mark of the Beast; an anointing into a complete loyalty to the Antichrist that goes beyond human reason:
“And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image…” Revelation 19:20.
“LRA abductees are told that oil can cure them from any disease, and that sacred water can remove all sin.”
And now I understand my long unexplained aversion to these TV preachers who want to send you vials of sacred oil and holy water, and the Mormons wanting to secretly baptize every American living or dead even without knowledge. These trinkets are but talismans of wickedness in the name of God like the Olympic athletes who in superstitious incantations ask for Jesus to help them win (*2). This is the sin of the Hebrews confidently going to war with the Ark of God leading them, as if by the magic of its location they could not be defeated in war like they were without it (I Samuel 4:3).
Their previous defeat had nothing to do with the proximity of the Ark, but the iniquity in their ranks that defied the Ark even while with them. Yet the talisman gave them confidence to blunder forward to their destruction. The LRA goes still further in mingling elements of the true Christian faith with demons through jointly used symbolism:
“With their recruits duly cleansed of sin, the controllers begin to mix white clay with Shay nut Oil” (It is very curious the symbolic use of clay, and remember “waters” easily includes such oils with “other than water” properties).
“And put crosses (of this clay mixture) all over your body; on your back and your forehead, everywhere crosses.” - Kenneth Banya.
“The children are instructed not to wash for three days” (Specifically Three? Hmmm). “Having been made holy the abductees are now ready to hear from the spirits, and when the spirits want to talk, Joseph Kony becomes their mouthpiece” (as the Son of God).
“When the spirits are talking, you will not know what the spirit has said, but there will always be a secretary, That secretary is always appointed by the spirit. So, he will be given the power to write EVERYTHING that the spirit said, and not miss.” - (Former LRA Commander) Air Force Brigadier Kenneth Banya.
Now while many may blow-off this perspective as religious paranoia, the secular Ugandan government and military was useless against the LRA until they fully accepted that this was indeed a demonic war and took up real spiritual arms to fight it temporally.
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Discovering the Talismans of Power:
“Although Kony frequents ritual sites throughout the northern bush, his spiritual umbilical cord is tied to sacred alters at Awere (Hill) and Kilak Hills.”
“Altars, alters have been put up all over the place, where they made a covenant with the gods. The full measure places sites where these things can be found to confirm these a alter; the water spots, the forests, and then on the rocks, and fourthly on the grave yards. Any time you get a pot with drinking tubes in one of the four areas, it is a sign that that is a alter where a covenant was made there.” - national Rev. Julius P. Oyet.
“From time to time the LRA leader Joseph Kony would have to come back and draw power from here. All his commanders would know and say when his power was draining and he has to come back to Awere Hill.”
“He used to come to those place after every six months, to regain his special power.” - Ugandan Military Commander.
“Superstition, idolatry and witchcraft have stood as the ever-present partners of these unspeakable horrors. They continue to do so today.” So while such talismans and incantation are the vehicles through which the children of Satan get their power, we see that such things are not where the children of God get theirs. And now we begin to get a more clear picture of how similar elements have very different uses to the different waters, and how in ignorance the potter’s clay people with good intentions can become unintentional traitors in aiding the opposition by a wrong application.
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Discovering the Origin of Power:
Through investigation and interview we learn of the specific circumstances that resulted in Kony’s demonic rein of terror and death.
Severino Lukoya, a notorious rebel witchdoctor, cult leader and father of Alice Lakwenna, was born with “the accompaniment of mysterious messengers.” He explains it like this:
“A certain messenger came me in the form of a snake, and that messenger snake had twelve horns, and it passed over my mother.”
“As an adult, Lukoya claims to have been possessed by seventy-one spirits and given control of the heavens and the earth,” (they said;) “I am the spirit of God the Father, I am God the Father; I am that spirit,” explains Lukoya.
So is Severino an actual demonic hybrid child? I would suggest by the evidence that he did not die when the spirits left him, that it appears he himself was only mired clay, though deeply mired by the Miry spirits that possessed him.
Let’s allow the possibility that Lukoya’s mother was actually overshadowed by “messengers” at his birth as alleged, and that he was deeply Mired by his many spirits starting at that time, but let’s presume that he is still “fully human” because his actual conception was by his human father and not apparently by the “messengers,” and so he has from birth additional spirits of unearthly waters to his earthly water spirit that gave him life.
Now he, with his additional spirits, bred with Everina Ayaa, a normal woman, and he had a daughter they named Alice. Could the conception of this child be assisted by his spirits to produce an actual hybrid offspring? No, although surely he passed on of his demonic waters along with his DNA. It is just too easy to jump the track and imagine the hand-arching supernatural of vague spiritual alchemy, but demon possession is just that; demon possession. And if we treat these victims as our enemies we fail the grace of God.
In 1985 Alice Alma (Lakwenna) received a calling and went to Cairo to converse with the spirits for a month “under the waters of the Nile” (Exodus 7:19 with a new perspective; wood and stone but not clay). When she returned and completed her initiation her mother says; “She had powers; she was healing people.” And “a year later Alice proclaimed herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwenna or ‘messenger’ (*3). With the support of her father Severino Lukoya, she proceeded to launch the ‘Holy Spirit Movement’; a rag tag band whose fanaticism very nearly overthrew the Ugandan government.” But she was defeated and fled to Kenya.
Her father, having the compatible spirits, then tried to take up her calling but could not, and so he returned to Gulu and established a cult shrine. His wife says;
“I have refused to enter that alter, I don’t even want to know what they are doing inside there. For me I just know that claim of his is demonic, and that is how I have lost all my children. He has brought the demonic spirit in my home and it has finished my children.” (I think it is important to note that while Lukoya had the spirits claiming to be God the Father, his daughter had the spirits claiming to be the Holy Ghost of the Father).
“After the defeat of Leukoya and Lakwenna, the self-proclaimed voices of God the Father and God the Holy Ghost, their spiritual mantel was picked up by twenty-five year old cousin Joseph Kony, claiming to be the Son of God. Kony emerged as the final member of Uganda’s trinity of evil. His vicious gorilla force was called The Lord’s Resistance Army or LRA.”
And “to the LRA’s ascended prophet, bloodshed was not only appropriate it was essential”;
“He also told us that he would kill because the people have sinned, that’s why he killed them” - Former Young Slave Wife.
“And to this day, he believes he is a clean man, and has not done anything wrong.”
Isn’t it eerily remarkable that this Jesus’ (Isa) thirst for bloodshed against “sinners” so accurately reflects that of modern Islam…which itself is a perversion of Jehovah’s scriptures, or that watching the lethargic suffering of the malnourished marching captives is so reminiscent of the Jews in Hitler’s concentration camps. This complex confusion is exactly why Jude declared:
“Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves” Jude 1:9-10.
And this is also why king Hezekiah instructed all the people not to answer a word to the emissary of the Assyrian king who claimed that instead of defending them, God was both unable to help them, and had sent him to destroy them (II Kings 18:17-36). The complexities were just too complex to answer and so a mute faith in God was the right reply (Acts 8:32), though at the time it was not looking favorable:
“It seems God has abandon us, it seems we have done something terrible and that’s why these people are abducting us. I used to think that maybe God has forgotten about us.” - Former Young Slave Wife.
Is this unholy trinity a trio of hybrids? Does it really matter at this point? They did a great job of bringing a Genesis 6:5 Noah’s Day kind of violence to the country of Uganda. This is the kind of violence that will cover the whole earth before God finally destroys it a second time, and this is the kind of violence that Islam claims they must bring before their messiah will return! We all agree there will be violence, but who is the god of the violence? (Luke 17:1).
But if God is going to destroy the earth because of this kind of violence, then what about all the innocent recipients of the violence, why destroy them too?
Ahh! Now that is the sixty-four million dollar question.
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So what did Angelina learn when a guest in her home began to speak Acholi?
“That language started to ring in my ears like music. And then - it was then that I realized I have really forgiven. And it was then that I rose up to (illegible) and reconciliation and forgiveness, Amongst parents even forgiving the very people who abducted our children.”
“And I say Lord, I forgive Kony, I forgive Ortee, I forgive the rebel leaders. I forgive them with all my heart. I forgive all those who have abducted my daughter, I forgive them and I set them free, and Lord I pray that, Open a door where’s no door, that they may come out of the bush, in the name of Jesus’” - Mother of an abducted girl.
“We cried to the Lord, and we covenanted with him, and we said; ‘We are not going to consult another god. We are going to wait upon you, whether we see all the children or not. But we will wait upon you” - Angelina.
“We said; ‘There is no, no body who will rescue them apart from God” - Sarah.
“The character of these Christian families became a shining testimony of God’s grace.”
“And then they had an amazing way of living with the difficulty, they are so strong.”
“Now known as the Concerned Parents Association; an energetic child advocacy network, the families have become a source of mutual strength.”
What happened, not so much by information as by experience, was a genuine active faith of strength that sprang out of deep need (Luke 18:7-9). And since we recently studied the nature of iron strength, we know that it can be strength for good or for evil, depending on the waters of the iron. This is where the information becomes vitally important.
Now that their faith was more than vague religion, they had a real, iron strength of God to battle the real, iron strength of Satan! (Daniel 7:21-22, and chapter 10), and the weapons of their iron were completely different than Kony’s, except to note that both had clay, both had iron, and both had waters, the difference was in the conditions of each element and the sources of the waters that mixed them.
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” II Corinthians 10:3-5.
Have you ever handled a weapon that you are unfamiliar with? It might as well not be a weapon at all! So it is with the weapons described above, because until these become a part of you by diligent and earnest practice, they are just so many useless words in a war against guns and knives!
A sure sign of an unskilled user is a Christian who immediately tries to apply these weapons on the enemy first. While they do have a very real application there, the first application is on the user, where our own imaginations and many high things claim a greater usefulness than the knowledge of God. These weapons are first used to bring those destructive thoughts and imaginations into captivity where they cannot spread their poison of ineffectiveness.
“But what about the innocent?”
Is ignorance of something you should know, a description of innocence? Hardly. Innocence is ignorance of something you should not know, Guilt is ignorance of something that you should know but don’t. It didn’t matter that their parents never taught them, Jesus declared punishment on the ignorant Jews for not knowing the day that he presented himself king in Jerusalem:
“And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! But now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation” Luke 19:41-44.
And only a few decades later Jerusalem was destroyed and the Jews were scattered by the Romans never to return until 1948!
Why was the Judge Jesus Christ Just, in such a horrific Capitol Punishment of the entire people group of ignorant along with the wicked? Because they were obligated to know what they were ignorant of. The religiously faithful to God were not innocent, though they had no idea what they had done wrong. Look to their parents for why. Their error of not knowing was due to an adulterated understanding of the true scriptures that faithfully told them the exact day that the messiah would come:
“Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troubled times” Daniel 9:25.
True; It’s not a very simple calculation, what with the changing of the length of the calendar year from 360 to 365 days, the addition of periodic leap-years, the re-structuring of the whole calendar, and the several close but not quite commandments regarding the temple but not the city…Yet true it is, and obligated they were to know it (*3).
Vague and casual religion, even if it is of the True and Living God, is not sufficient. But in a time of peace that truth is not easily seen; such truth only appears obvious in a conflict with the darkness, and only after a lengthy period of intense suffering while figuring it out. Outside observers are incapable of seeing the truth that is discovered in the suffering.
“In the beginning, in the south, we would not pay much attention, because they say; ‘we suffered so much because of them soldiers from the North’, now their own children are killing them, It’s not our business.”
“For a long time people were saying; ‘Oh, those Acholis are finishing themselves.”
“At a time when spiritual guidance was needed the most, even Uganda’s churches lost their courage, and their voices”:
“Even believers no longer believed God’s power could help in this situation. It was like their minds were bewitched.”
“The church has not been very active, unfortunately. This explains why this problem has taken this long.”
What a Mirror-of-Reflection to see such a reality directly reflecting our own powerless American Christian faith looking back at us as we blankly observe the dark storm approaching our own shores...And for the world to likewise see the same powerless Christian faith on a global scale against rising Islam!
“The protracted nature of the conflict has brought devastating consequences:”
“There is a whole generation that does not know peace. People born, and they are twenty years old, even going to twenty-five years, who were babies when it all started, they don’t know peace. They don’t know who they are. They don’t know why things happen this way. Some of them do not even know God, they have grown up in fear and superstition.”
“More than 1.6 million people; 85% of Northern Uganda’s entire population have been displaced. Most now live in squalid make-shift settlements known as; ‘Internally Displaced Peoples Camps.’”
It is impossible not to see the repeating pattern of Hitler’s internal Concentration camps or the internal Islamic peoples camps called Palestinian refugees rejected from among their own nations. The cyclic nature of history is screaming for us to recognize the repeating pattern and learn how to address it properly to defend the defenseless even if they are the very ones doing the destruction.
And then there is the permanent social destruction, born of the war, that continues to grow even after the war is passed. It becomes another nearly unwinnable war of its own because the ignorantly damaged do not see their failed part in their original circumstances of victimization and so turn to the self-destructive vices of hopeless purposelessness in the aftermath.
This is not a conventional war, and we will not win it with conventional means:
So now, “IF there really is a God, why does he allow all the suffering?”
It’s not his job to stop it; it is the job of his Church to stop it with his Unique “Iron-like Power” of Christ’s Love that he has made available to us.
But because the Church won’t take up that battle and use it, America is about to fall to the Northern Ugandan horrors with a uniquely American presentation. And the suffering will be protracted because the Church of the Savior Jesus Christ has been bewitched to think that God’s power cannot be applied in such a situation. God has not abandon us; we have abandon God!
Buy the DVD and own the suffering in order to comprehend the solution even before it is fully experienced, they have shown us the way at a very great cost! America does not need to fall if Christ’s Church would repent to receive God’s Power and enter the war as saints with intent to win it in the nature of Christ!
“My People are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings” Hosea 4:6-9.
In their national scale revival type meetings of preparation to enter this war to win, the “innocent” “Christians” in mass would run to the front, emptying their pockets of all their familiar witchcraft paraphernalia onto the stage as they turned to Jesus for real.
One minister reports; “I mean, I could SEE that they came back to their senses, like something has been torn- like there was a blanket of darkness that was torn apart and suddenly they could see.”
Until then, the innocent were not as innocent as imagined. Of a truth, God was Just in his early destruction of these “innocents” but in reality the destruction was in their own weakness of faith against the great evil.
“And THOUSANDS came, Thousands upon thousands of people came from different parts of the North to listen to the gospel”.
“Thousands of people gave their lives to the Lord”.
And “coincidentally” the tide of the physical war immediately turned at the same time, to the point that the President of Uganda and his top military leaders took council with evangelist Rev. Oyet, and through the resulting education and the understanding of the government leadership, the government was spiritually united with the general Church of Jesus Christ in a singular advance against Satan’s forces.
“When you find a leadership that understands the sovereignty of God, and begins to turn to God for the solutions of the things they can't solve, then you get this very strategic partnership between Church and State… It’s not State running Church or Church to run State; it’s the bringing together of the spiritual and the physical to work together for a common cause.”
And in this unified coalition of Church and State they went out to these sacred sites and reclaimed them by destroying the alter elements and praying Christ’s redemption over them (*5).
“Colossians 1:20 says that through his blood he chose to redeem all things, we usually think of it as just salvation but it’s more than that; the blood of Jesus redeems land as well.”
“The power bases had been destroyed and the witchcraft activities had been cut off, and I knew this man is going to loose power.”
“As prayer went on Kony himself began to communicate to his commanders that the spirits have left him.”
“And then he said, I have to tell you today that now the spirit have left. They will not come back” - (Former LRA Commander) Air Force Brigadier Kenneth Banya.
“From that day effectively we began to ambush those people and get them and crush them” - Uganda military leader.
“After years of seeming invincibility, Kony’s magic had finally worn off.”
“He had to flee back into Sudan.”
But as scripture abundantly shows, even in victory there are further dangers lurking to draw you back in, which must be avoided by faith. Buy the DVD and study it for campaign strategies against the Devil, both nationally and personally, their very current experience of the 2004 victory follows the detail of ancient scripture amazingly. Now their faith is no longer vague, it is who they are: the personal children of the Living God! (*6).
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(*1) An Unconventional War DVD: (http://www.explorationfilms.com/An_Unconventional_War.php).
(*2) Post 256 On The Olympics (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/08/on-olympics.html).
(*3) Believe What They Say?
Not to side track the narrative of Uganda but today there are many American ministers come in the name of Christ, the Father, and/or the Holy Spirit, who perform miraculous healings to validate their claims. But are they then certainly of God or could they be imposters of the Devil? As wisely evidenced by the mother in this comment; the answer is in the fruit, but sometimes that fruit takes a while to present…especially when you are not familiar with qualified fruit inspection practices (Matthew 7:16-20, Ezekiel 34:27-28, I Corinthians 6:2-3, 5:11-13). Curious; Mohammad is also called Messenger.
As the light began to dawn, a new perspective comes to bear on people in governmental positions of power:
“I don’t believe this war is political.”
In reply to their claim to be of God; “Whatever they have been doing is actually, according to the teaching of the scriptures, really directly serving the powers of darkness.”
“They, they are, they are powers through witchcraft” - Col. Nathan Mugisha, Commander, 4th Division, UPDF.
“They claim to be in the light but are in darkness. “ - Capt. James Serunjogi, Ugandan People’s Defence Forces.
“The LRA war is a psychological war; they use fear, they instill in these children fear, a lot of fear“ - Denis Oruk Former Administrator of Word Vision Gulu.
While blinded by a perceptional division between the temporal and the spiritual, the source of the power cannot be comprehended and therefore cannot be conquered because it is powered where you consider impossible.
This perceptional division is the singular intent of American Movies and TV as we watch things presented in a very real image, that don’t affect our reality. The effectiveness of this perceptional-division-training is shown in our every day lives as we practice sin in iniquity while believing that we are spiritually guiltless. We have disconnected the one from the other as being in two different worlds. Faith has been segregated to the enteratainment of our imaginations, which though enjoyable and comforting, has no place in reality.
(*4) Who has that kind of time?
Do you balk against the obvious amount of time it would take to learn these things of the scriptures? Sadly, that is just more clear sign that you really don’t have a clue as to what God meant when he said;
“Blessed is the man…(whose) delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doeth he meditate day and night” Psalm 1:1-2.
Or;
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee” Psalm 119:11.
Or;
“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.
Our founding fathers understood this truth and this is why they established government funded schools where the word of God could be learned through the skill of reading and then hours put in at school studying the scriptures.
Kony has no problem devoting his life to his god, and Islam the same with theirs, but you? “Who has time?” Are you ready for the bloodbath of the “innocent,” with leaders (parents) that don’t know what went wrong or how to solve it? Perhaps you will find the time then, at a very high cost to learn it.
(*5) Church and State?
Can you now see the specifically demonic power here in America that has patiently and methodically indoctrinated the people to abandon their own Church-and-State coalition that was carefully entwined and then protected by our founders at the birth of this nation? (*5b). The powers of darkness were powerless against this land until they succeeded in getting us in beguilement to cast up a wall of separation between them, and then convinced us that at all costs they should never be allowed to rejoin.
America has successfully stripped herself of her only rescue!
(*5b) Religion In Government Post 050 through 054 (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2010/01/part-1-of-4-religion-in-government.html).
(*6) Support Information:
Rocket Stoves (http://aiduganda.home.comcast.net/~aiduganda/).
Rachele Rehabilitation Center, Lira, Uganda, 2005. Abalo Joyce, Lacor Hospital, Gulu, Uganda, 2006 UPDF Escort, Acholibur IDP Camp, Uganda, 2005 St (Sadly The Rachele Rehabilitation Center closed in 2006).
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Did you get your copy of George Otis Jr.’s DVD An Unconventional War(*1) yet? You really need to.
Not so much because you need to see the unspeakable horrors those people suffered but because you need to comprehend the true solution by seeing the true cause.
Reading about Christians burned on poles as Nero’s street lights thousands of years ago is easy to disassociate those long ago events from reality but northern Ugandan’s horrific situation is a recently past, twenty-year long, current events situation so recent that even today it is not wholly concluded.
In this video you get first hand narration of the horrible events they experienced and while it is sometimes hard to understand their English speech don’t forget to be amazed that they speak it at all, and to your benefit. Do you speak Ugandan along with your English? No? Then don’t disassociate their intelligent humanity from your own because they have a different skin color; these people are not ignorant or less human because they happen to live in another country and setting, try to achieve even a little of their international intelligence by overcoming your ignorance of hearing your own language in another voice. Their human problem is your human problem; see your own potential suffering through their eyes; their stolen sons and daughters are your sons and daughter, their murdered people are your relatives and neighbors, their destroyed schools and churches and homes are yours. Own their suffering as a shared common humanity of suffering against the demonic violence (Romans 12:15b-16).
Their demonic violence took on a complex nature as the LRA was an organization that believed their spirits were Christian and were led by the spirits of God the Father and the Holy Ghost. The LRA is an acronym for “The Lord’s Resistance Army.”
Add to the complexity of a so-called violent-Christianity-of-death-unto-salvation, the fact that the stolen sons were forced into the LRA to do the killing and maiming of their own communities from which they were abducted. So although the leadership was from another neighboring region of Uganda, the actual perpetrators were not strangers from another nation or even from a contending tribal group; the murderers were their own sons forced by fear to kill their own people, and their own stolen daughters became the mothers of their enemy’s children, all while everybody claimed to be Christian, including the driving spirits.
“and while the people felt anger at Kony (the LRA leader), they were torn between the two; because it was their own children; their own cousins, and nephews and nieces, who were doing this”
How’s that for complex?
The people of Uganda have a traditional faith in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. When they are concerned or in a quandary or in fear, they turn to the Savior, and when the demonically driven cult army was seen near the protectively walled Catholic school for girls, the parents consoled their daughters by phone; “You have to trust in God and always to pray, whatever happens.” And when the demonically driven cult army came abducting and maiming and murdering, these same parents cried out in anguish to Jesus;
“…I say ‘Jesus, Why?’, I say ‘Jesus, Where’s he at?’” - Sarah Odongo Mother of abducted Janet Akello.
“Parents were rolling on the ground wailing” - another mother of an abducted daughter.
But their faith in Jesus- in spite of their troubles- did not crumble, though that didn’t keep them from asking searching questions as to the reasons and their right responses.
From three different mothers we see the progressive anguish of a severely tried faith:
“He (God) knows people are suffering, He knows they’re dying, that doesn’t mean God doesn’t listen to us, doesn’t care anymore…”
“After wailing, I thought back and say Eh!... Eh (like a sharp sigh), How will I continue wailing, who will be my savior (illegible)?”
“I was lost, I would do nothing. I almost gave up. I almost gave up”.
The narrator describes the response to the Aboke St. Mary’s girl’s school kidnapping; “Wounded and confused, family members gathered in churches to pray. Petitions for the safe and speedy return of their daughters were sealed with bitter tears.”
And in the wounds and the confusion of a severely tried but uncrumbled faith, they began to retrace the promises of scripture with freshly earnest eyes of real discovery. One mother named Angelina explains in hindsight their adventure of discovery;
“He told us; ’Come unto me all of you who are heavily laden and I will give you rest’, and we wanted that rest, and that rest was that we had to be broken; our pride, our resentment, our fight against our own brothers had to be broken. We realized that unless we were concerned for our fellow man we will not be able to get anything from the living God”.
But this truth was hard to put into actual practice. Angelina learned that her own daughter was now pregnant by the rebels that took her;
“I had such anger in my spirit, I wanted to - if I could - if Kony was around - I would have maybe gone and fight him. And if I hear anybody talking the language of Kony’s people a lot of bitterness and resentment built in my spirit. One day my neighbor had a visitor from that region and he was talking that language, I was so angry with the man, and I just walked to him and said; If my daughter ever came up with a child from Kony I will have throw the child into the subcounty(? illegible) and will never want to see anybody from that place.
But then, the lord in the light told me; Angelina is that why you are praying? then don’t pray, you have not forgiven, you cannot get anything, you have nothing to get. Because bitterness and resentment and anger has clouded your mind.”
The narrator continues; “Stunned by this revelation, Angelina cast herself into a season of earnest repentance. It ended when a young visitor in her home began speaking Acholi”. * * *
The Iron Power of the Destroyers:
“Throughout the 1990’s Uganda’s military grew increasingly frustrated by its inability to subdue the LRA,” to the point that it seemed as if the LRA was going to succeed in overthrowing the Ugandan government. “Given the UPDF’s (Uganda’s military) superior firepower and training, something just didn’t add up.”
“They seemed to get overpowered in a way that you cannot explain rationally.”
“All sorts of mysterious things happened in the battle field.”
“Kony’s elusiveness was especially baffling.”
“The military people told us stories of times when he was more or less surrounded, and they don’t know how he escaped” - James Magara Director of Intercessors for Uganda .
“This war, to me, is not a conventional war; it has a lot of spiritual aspect.”
“It became evident that there was a very strong witchcraft involved.”
“The spiritual foundation of this war was very clearly demonic.”
“This is not an ordinary war, It is the Devil, it is Satan out to finish the Acholis.” - wife of Leukoya and mother of Lakwenna (two of the three figureheads of the demonic power).
“The extent of the destruction done by the rebels cannot be man made.”
“They believe that these evil spirits have much power, and they believe that Kony had such spirits” - the Honorable Yoweri Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda.
It took time for the consensus to become refined enough to actually understand and fully accept that the very real war Uganda faced personally, communally, politically, and militarily, was a demonic war. Such a thing is just too “strange” to actually believe for a normal people caught up in a temporal reality even though the vague concept is quite obvious. But vague concepts have no power. These Christian people were helpless against the very committed focus of the miry rebel leaders to the source of their iron power.
“Many former rebels confirm the LRA’s reliance on witchcraft. One of them, Air Force Brigadier Kenneth Banya, reports that spirit voices routinely informed Kony of government raids.”
“Many former rebels confirm the LRA’s reliance on witchcraft. One of them, Air Force Brigadier Kenneth Banya, reports that spirit voices routinely informed Kony of government raids.”
“Then he would predict when the enemies would come in, and he would tell you the number of the enemies.”- (Former LRA Commander) Air Force Brigadier Kenneth Banya.
“It is because when you get abducted, you immediately get anointed (as he points to the forehead between the eyes), and through that, there is that strong allegiance and commitment, and love and passion, you have to him.”
Suddenly we see a Type of the power in the Mark of the Beast; an anointing into a complete loyalty to the Antichrist that goes beyond human reason:
“And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image…” Revelation 19:20.
“LRA abductees are told that oil can cure them from any disease, and that sacred water can remove all sin.”
And now I understand my long unexplained aversion to these TV preachers who want to send you vials of sacred oil and holy water, and the Mormons wanting to secretly baptize every American living or dead even without knowledge. These trinkets are but talismans of wickedness in the name of God like the Olympic athletes who in superstitious incantations ask for Jesus to help them win (*2). This is the sin of the Hebrews confidently going to war with the Ark of God leading them, as if by the magic of its location they could not be defeated in war like they were without it (I Samuel 4:3).
Their previous defeat had nothing to do with the proximity of the Ark, but the iniquity in their ranks that defied the Ark even while with them. Yet the talisman gave them confidence to blunder forward to their destruction. The LRA goes still further in mingling elements of the true Christian faith with demons through jointly used symbolism:
“With their recruits duly cleansed of sin, the controllers begin to mix white clay with Shay nut Oil” (It is very curious the symbolic use of clay, and remember “waters” easily includes such oils with “other than water” properties).
“And put crosses (of this clay mixture) all over your body; on your back and your forehead, everywhere crosses.” - Kenneth Banya.
“The children are instructed not to wash for three days” (Specifically Three? Hmmm). “Having been made holy the abductees are now ready to hear from the spirits, and when the spirits want to talk, Joseph Kony becomes their mouthpiece” (as the Son of God).
“When the spirits are talking, you will not know what the spirit has said, but there will always be a secretary, That secretary is always appointed by the spirit. So, he will be given the power to write EVERYTHING that the spirit said, and not miss.” - (Former LRA Commander) Air Force Brigadier Kenneth Banya.
Now while many may blow-off this perspective as religious paranoia, the secular Ugandan government and military was useless against the LRA until they fully accepted that this was indeed a demonic war and took up real spiritual arms to fight it temporally.
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Discovering the Talismans of Power:
“Although Kony frequents ritual sites throughout the northern bush, his spiritual umbilical cord is tied to sacred alters at Awere (Hill) and Kilak Hills.”
“Altars, alters have been put up all over the place, where they made a covenant with the gods. The full measure places sites where these things can be found to confirm these a alter; the water spots, the forests, and then on the rocks, and fourthly on the grave yards. Any time you get a pot with drinking tubes in one of the four areas, it is a sign that that is a alter where a covenant was made there.” - national Rev. Julius P. Oyet.
“From time to time the LRA leader Joseph Kony would have to come back and draw power from here. All his commanders would know and say when his power was draining and he has to come back to Awere Hill.”
“He used to come to those place after every six months, to regain his special power.” - Ugandan Military Commander.
“Superstition, idolatry and witchcraft have stood as the ever-present partners of these unspeakable horrors. They continue to do so today.” So while such talismans and incantation are the vehicles through which the children of Satan get their power, we see that such things are not where the children of God get theirs. And now we begin to get a more clear picture of how similar elements have very different uses to the different waters, and how in ignorance the potter’s clay people with good intentions can become unintentional traitors in aiding the opposition by a wrong application.
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Discovering the Origin of Power:
Through investigation and interview we learn of the specific circumstances that resulted in Kony’s demonic rein of terror and death.
Severino Lukoya, a notorious rebel witchdoctor, cult leader and father of Alice Lakwenna, was born with “the accompaniment of mysterious messengers.” He explains it like this:
“A certain messenger came me in the form of a snake, and that messenger snake had twelve horns, and it passed over my mother.”
“As an adult, Lukoya claims to have been possessed by seventy-one spirits and given control of the heavens and the earth,” (they said;) “I am the spirit of God the Father, I am God the Father; I am that spirit,” explains Lukoya.
So is Severino an actual demonic hybrid child? I would suggest by the evidence that he did not die when the spirits left him, that it appears he himself was only mired clay, though deeply mired by the Miry spirits that possessed him.
Let’s allow the possibility that Lukoya’s mother was actually overshadowed by “messengers” at his birth as alleged, and that he was deeply Mired by his many spirits starting at that time, but let’s presume that he is still “fully human” because his actual conception was by his human father and not apparently by the “messengers,” and so he has from birth additional spirits of unearthly waters to his earthly water spirit that gave him life.
Now he, with his additional spirits, bred with Everina Ayaa, a normal woman, and he had a daughter they named Alice. Could the conception of this child be assisted by his spirits to produce an actual hybrid offspring? No, although surely he passed on of his demonic waters along with his DNA. It is just too easy to jump the track and imagine the hand-arching supernatural of vague spiritual alchemy, but demon possession is just that; demon possession. And if we treat these victims as our enemies we fail the grace of God.
In 1985 Alice Alma (Lakwenna) received a calling and went to Cairo to converse with the spirits for a month “under the waters of the Nile” (Exodus 7:19 with a new perspective; wood and stone but not clay). When she returned and completed her initiation her mother says; “She had powers; she was healing people.” And “a year later Alice proclaimed herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwenna or ‘messenger’ (*3). With the support of her father Severino Lukoya, she proceeded to launch the ‘Holy Spirit Movement’; a rag tag band whose fanaticism very nearly overthrew the Ugandan government.” But she was defeated and fled to Kenya.
Her father, having the compatible spirits, then tried to take up her calling but could not, and so he returned to Gulu and established a cult shrine. His wife says;
“I have refused to enter that alter, I don’t even want to know what they are doing inside there. For me I just know that claim of his is demonic, and that is how I have lost all my children. He has brought the demonic spirit in my home and it has finished my children.” (I think it is important to note that while Lukoya had the spirits claiming to be God the Father, his daughter had the spirits claiming to be the Holy Ghost of the Father).
“After the defeat of Leukoya and Lakwenna, the self-proclaimed voices of God the Father and God the Holy Ghost, their spiritual mantel was picked up by twenty-five year old cousin Joseph Kony, claiming to be the Son of God. Kony emerged as the final member of Uganda’s trinity of evil. His vicious gorilla force was called The Lord’s Resistance Army or LRA.”
And “to the LRA’s ascended prophet, bloodshed was not only appropriate it was essential”;
“He also told us that he would kill because the people have sinned, that’s why he killed them” - Former Young Slave Wife.
“And to this day, he believes he is a clean man, and has not done anything wrong.”
Isn’t it eerily remarkable that this Jesus’ (Isa) thirst for bloodshed against “sinners” so accurately reflects that of modern Islam…which itself is a perversion of Jehovah’s scriptures, or that watching the lethargic suffering of the malnourished marching captives is so reminiscent of the Jews in Hitler’s concentration camps. This complex confusion is exactly why Jude declared:
“Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves” Jude 1:9-10.
And this is also why king Hezekiah instructed all the people not to answer a word to the emissary of the Assyrian king who claimed that instead of defending them, God was both unable to help them, and had sent him to destroy them (II Kings 18:17-36). The complexities were just too complex to answer and so a mute faith in God was the right reply (Acts 8:32), though at the time it was not looking favorable:
“It seems God has abandon us, it seems we have done something terrible and that’s why these people are abducting us. I used to think that maybe God has forgotten about us.” - Former Young Slave Wife.
Is this unholy trinity a trio of hybrids? Does it really matter at this point? They did a great job of bringing a Genesis 6:5 Noah’s Day kind of violence to the country of Uganda. This is the kind of violence that will cover the whole earth before God finally destroys it a second time, and this is the kind of violence that Islam claims they must bring before their messiah will return! We all agree there will be violence, but who is the god of the violence? (Luke 17:1).
But if God is going to destroy the earth because of this kind of violence, then what about all the innocent recipients of the violence, why destroy them too?
Ahh! Now that is the sixty-four million dollar question.
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So what did Angelina learn when a guest in her home began to speak Acholi?
“That language started to ring in my ears like music. And then - it was then that I realized I have really forgiven. And it was then that I rose up to (illegible) and reconciliation and forgiveness, Amongst parents even forgiving the very people who abducted our children.”
“And I say Lord, I forgive Kony, I forgive Ortee, I forgive the rebel leaders. I forgive them with all my heart. I forgive all those who have abducted my daughter, I forgive them and I set them free, and Lord I pray that, Open a door where’s no door, that they may come out of the bush, in the name of Jesus’” - Mother of an abducted girl.
“We cried to the Lord, and we covenanted with him, and we said; ‘We are not going to consult another god. We are going to wait upon you, whether we see all the children or not. But we will wait upon you” - Angelina.
“We said; ‘There is no, no body who will rescue them apart from God” - Sarah.
“The character of these Christian families became a shining testimony of God’s grace.”
“And then they had an amazing way of living with the difficulty, they are so strong.”
“Now known as the Concerned Parents Association; an energetic child advocacy network, the families have become a source of mutual strength.”
What happened, not so much by information as by experience, was a genuine active faith of strength that sprang out of deep need (Luke 18:7-9). And since we recently studied the nature of iron strength, we know that it can be strength for good or for evil, depending on the waters of the iron. This is where the information becomes vitally important.
Now that their faith was more than vague religion, they had a real, iron strength of God to battle the real, iron strength of Satan! (Daniel 7:21-22, and chapter 10), and the weapons of their iron were completely different than Kony’s, except to note that both had clay, both had iron, and both had waters, the difference was in the conditions of each element and the sources of the waters that mixed them.
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” II Corinthians 10:3-5.
Have you ever handled a weapon that you are unfamiliar with? It might as well not be a weapon at all! So it is with the weapons described above, because until these become a part of you by diligent and earnest practice, they are just so many useless words in a war against guns and knives!
A sure sign of an unskilled user is a Christian who immediately tries to apply these weapons on the enemy first. While they do have a very real application there, the first application is on the user, where our own imaginations and many high things claim a greater usefulness than the knowledge of God. These weapons are first used to bring those destructive thoughts and imaginations into captivity where they cannot spread their poison of ineffectiveness.
“But what about the innocent?”
Is ignorance of something you should know, a description of innocence? Hardly. Innocence is ignorance of something you should not know, Guilt is ignorance of something that you should know but don’t. It didn’t matter that their parents never taught them, Jesus declared punishment on the ignorant Jews for not knowing the day that he presented himself king in Jerusalem:
“And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! But now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation” Luke 19:41-44.
And only a few decades later Jerusalem was destroyed and the Jews were scattered by the Romans never to return until 1948!
Why was the Judge Jesus Christ Just, in such a horrific Capitol Punishment of the entire people group of ignorant along with the wicked? Because they were obligated to know what they were ignorant of. The religiously faithful to God were not innocent, though they had no idea what they had done wrong. Look to their parents for why. Their error of not knowing was due to an adulterated understanding of the true scriptures that faithfully told them the exact day that the messiah would come:
“Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troubled times” Daniel 9:25.
True; It’s not a very simple calculation, what with the changing of the length of the calendar year from 360 to 365 days, the addition of periodic leap-years, the re-structuring of the whole calendar, and the several close but not quite commandments regarding the temple but not the city…Yet true it is, and obligated they were to know it (*3).
Vague and casual religion, even if it is of the True and Living God, is not sufficient. But in a time of peace that truth is not easily seen; such truth only appears obvious in a conflict with the darkness, and only after a lengthy period of intense suffering while figuring it out. Outside observers are incapable of seeing the truth that is discovered in the suffering.
“In the beginning, in the south, we would not pay much attention, because they say; ‘we suffered so much because of them soldiers from the North’, now their own children are killing them, It’s not our business.”
“For a long time people were saying; ‘Oh, those Acholis are finishing themselves.”
“At a time when spiritual guidance was needed the most, even Uganda’s churches lost their courage, and their voices”:
“Even believers no longer believed God’s power could help in this situation. It was like their minds were bewitched.”
“The church has not been very active, unfortunately. This explains why this problem has taken this long.”
What a Mirror-of-Reflection to see such a reality directly reflecting our own powerless American Christian faith looking back at us as we blankly observe the dark storm approaching our own shores...And for the world to likewise see the same powerless Christian faith on a global scale against rising Islam!
“The protracted nature of the conflict has brought devastating consequences:”
“There is a whole generation that does not know peace. People born, and they are twenty years old, even going to twenty-five years, who were babies when it all started, they don’t know peace. They don’t know who they are. They don’t know why things happen this way. Some of them do not even know God, they have grown up in fear and superstition.”
“More than 1.6 million people; 85% of Northern Uganda’s entire population have been displaced. Most now live in squalid make-shift settlements known as; ‘Internally Displaced Peoples Camps.’”
It is impossible not to see the repeating pattern of Hitler’s internal Concentration camps or the internal Islamic peoples camps called Palestinian refugees rejected from among their own nations. The cyclic nature of history is screaming for us to recognize the repeating pattern and learn how to address it properly to defend the defenseless even if they are the very ones doing the destruction.
And then there is the permanent social destruction, born of the war, that continues to grow even after the war is passed. It becomes another nearly unwinnable war of its own because the ignorantly damaged do not see their failed part in their original circumstances of victimization and so turn to the self-destructive vices of hopeless purposelessness in the aftermath.
This is not a conventional war, and we will not win it with conventional means:
So now, “IF there really is a God, why does he allow all the suffering?”
It’s not his job to stop it; it is the job of his Church to stop it with his Unique “Iron-like Power” of Christ’s Love that he has made available to us.
But because the Church won’t take up that battle and use it, America is about to fall to the Northern Ugandan horrors with a uniquely American presentation. And the suffering will be protracted because the Church of the Savior Jesus Christ has been bewitched to think that God’s power cannot be applied in such a situation. God has not abandon us; we have abandon God!
Buy the DVD and own the suffering in order to comprehend the solution even before it is fully experienced, they have shown us the way at a very great cost! America does not need to fall if Christ’s Church would repent to receive God’s Power and enter the war as saints with intent to win it in the nature of Christ!
“My People are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings” Hosea 4:6-9.
In their national scale revival type meetings of preparation to enter this war to win, the “innocent” “Christians” in mass would run to the front, emptying their pockets of all their familiar witchcraft paraphernalia onto the stage as they turned to Jesus for real.
One minister reports; “I mean, I could SEE that they came back to their senses, like something has been torn- like there was a blanket of darkness that was torn apart and suddenly they could see.”
Until then, the innocent were not as innocent as imagined. Of a truth, God was Just in his early destruction of these “innocents” but in reality the destruction was in their own weakness of faith against the great evil.
“And THOUSANDS came, Thousands upon thousands of people came from different parts of the North to listen to the gospel”.
“Thousands of people gave their lives to the Lord”.
And “coincidentally” the tide of the physical war immediately turned at the same time, to the point that the President of Uganda and his top military leaders took council with evangelist Rev. Oyet, and through the resulting education and the understanding of the government leadership, the government was spiritually united with the general Church of Jesus Christ in a singular advance against Satan’s forces.
“When you find a leadership that understands the sovereignty of God, and begins to turn to God for the solutions of the things they can't solve, then you get this very strategic partnership between Church and State… It’s not State running Church or Church to run State; it’s the bringing together of the spiritual and the physical to work together for a common cause.”
And in this unified coalition of Church and State they went out to these sacred sites and reclaimed them by destroying the alter elements and praying Christ’s redemption over them (*5).
“Colossians 1:20 says that through his blood he chose to redeem all things, we usually think of it as just salvation but it’s more than that; the blood of Jesus redeems land as well.”
“The power bases had been destroyed and the witchcraft activities had been cut off, and I knew this man is going to loose power.”
“As prayer went on Kony himself began to communicate to his commanders that the spirits have left him.”
“And then he said, I have to tell you today that now the spirit have left. They will not come back” - (Former LRA Commander) Air Force Brigadier Kenneth Banya.
“From that day effectively we began to ambush those people and get them and crush them” - Uganda military leader.
“After years of seeming invincibility, Kony’s magic had finally worn off.”
“He had to flee back into Sudan.”
But as scripture abundantly shows, even in victory there are further dangers lurking to draw you back in, which must be avoided by faith. Buy the DVD and study it for campaign strategies against the Devil, both nationally and personally, their very current experience of the 2004 victory follows the detail of ancient scripture amazingly. Now their faith is no longer vague, it is who they are: the personal children of the Living God! (*6).
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(*1) An Unconventional War DVD: (http://www.explorationfilms.com/An_Unconventional_War.php).
(*2) Post 256 On The Olympics (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/08/on-olympics.html).
(*3) Believe What They Say?
Not to side track the narrative of Uganda but today there are many American ministers come in the name of Christ, the Father, and/or the Holy Spirit, who perform miraculous healings to validate their claims. But are they then certainly of God or could they be imposters of the Devil? As wisely evidenced by the mother in this comment; the answer is in the fruit, but sometimes that fruit takes a while to present…especially when you are not familiar with qualified fruit inspection practices (Matthew 7:16-20, Ezekiel 34:27-28, I Corinthians 6:2-3, 5:11-13). Curious; Mohammad is also called Messenger.
As the light began to dawn, a new perspective comes to bear on people in governmental positions of power:
“I don’t believe this war is political.”
In reply to their claim to be of God; “Whatever they have been doing is actually, according to the teaching of the scriptures, really directly serving the powers of darkness.”
“They, they are, they are powers through witchcraft” - Col. Nathan Mugisha, Commander, 4th Division, UPDF.
“They claim to be in the light but are in darkness. “ - Capt. James Serunjogi, Ugandan People’s Defence Forces.
“The LRA war is a psychological war; they use fear, they instill in these children fear, a lot of fear“ - Denis Oruk Former Administrator of Word Vision Gulu.
While blinded by a perceptional division between the temporal and the spiritual, the source of the power cannot be comprehended and therefore cannot be conquered because it is powered where you consider impossible.
This perceptional division is the singular intent of American Movies and TV as we watch things presented in a very real image, that don’t affect our reality. The effectiveness of this perceptional-division-training is shown in our every day lives as we practice sin in iniquity while believing that we are spiritually guiltless. We have disconnected the one from the other as being in two different worlds. Faith has been segregated to the enteratainment of our imaginations, which though enjoyable and comforting, has no place in reality.
(*4) Who has that kind of time?
Do you balk against the obvious amount of time it would take to learn these things of the scriptures? Sadly, that is just more clear sign that you really don’t have a clue as to what God meant when he said;
“Blessed is the man…(whose) delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doeth he meditate day and night” Psalm 1:1-2.
Or;
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee” Psalm 119:11.
Or;
“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.
Our founding fathers understood this truth and this is why they established government funded schools where the word of God could be learned through the skill of reading and then hours put in at school studying the scriptures.
Kony has no problem devoting his life to his god, and Islam the same with theirs, but you? “Who has time?” Are you ready for the bloodbath of the “innocent,” with leaders (parents) that don’t know what went wrong or how to solve it? Perhaps you will find the time then, at a very high cost to learn it.
(*5) Church and State?
Can you now see the specifically demonic power here in America that has patiently and methodically indoctrinated the people to abandon their own Church-and-State coalition that was carefully entwined and then protected by our founders at the birth of this nation? (*5b). The powers of darkness were powerless against this land until they succeeded in getting us in beguilement to cast up a wall of separation between them, and then convinced us that at all costs they should never be allowed to rejoin.
America has successfully stripped herself of her only rescue!
(*5b) Religion In Government Post 050 through 054 (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2010/01/part-1-of-4-religion-in-government.html).
(*6) Support Information:
Rocket Stoves (http://aiduganda.home.comcast.net/~aiduganda/).
Rachele Rehabilitation Center, Lira, Uganda, 2005. Abalo Joyce, Lacor Hospital, Gulu, Uganda, 2006 UPDF Escort, Acholibur IDP Camp, Uganda, 2005 St (Sadly The Rachele Rehabilitation Center closed in 2006).
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The Violence of Peace
Post 271
“…And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many…” Daniel 8:25a.
Even a child can easily describe the stark difference between violence and peace; these two natures are polar opposites with opposing effects. These opposing natures are at perpetual war with one another like light and darkness, good and evil, or black and white. So why in Daniel 2:40-43 did God choose iron and clay to represent the division portion of the Daniel 7 fourth Diverse Beast? The reason is because this kingdom is a division of dark and darker; there is no real light in it to contend with the darkness (Matthew 6:23), but in their lively contention you could’t convince them of that.
God divided the light from the darkness back in Genesis 1:4, which makes us confident that Black and White cannot occupy the same space at the same time or Evil cannot exist where Good dwells… but since we saw that the separated waters mingled afterwards, can light and darkness mingle too? John 1:4-5 tells us that while life as light can actually shine in the darkness the darkness cannot comprehend it, but strangely II Corinthians 4:6 tells us that God made the light to shine out of the darkness, and Psalm 139:12 even supports this strange notion. So what are we to do in the confusion? I John 2:8 provides a new commandment regarding a sure separation within ourselves regardless of the complications around us. The sure separation from the darkness is in Jesus Christ the true light carried within us. Light shining out of the darkness.
Violence can indeed abide with peace, and peace combined with another element can produce violence, much as iron law and the people’s democracy can unite to produce either good or evil. The Republic of America and the Republic of China have historically shown the vast differences of application with essentially the same basic elements, which we now know that the mysterious difference is in the waters of different natures, somewhat like sea water and fresh are both waters but distinctly different eco systems.
Continuing our investigation of “What is peace?” allow me to provide an example of the confusion that already exists deeply in America on this topic. Please note: I am not allowing the witch to preach for me, but rather showing you that she is indeed a witch promoting a Christain message:
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The Good Witch:
Since it’s the Halloween season here in America the TV is inundated with the familiar Halloween themed programs. But unlike my childhood’s horror movies, slasher movies, and dark occult movies like The Exorcist, today’s Halloween TV has another presentation. Today we have an emotionally alluring Halloween; like Harry Potter, vampire romances, and beautifully feminine witches like Cassandra Nightingale with nothing but goodness in her heart, presented in The Good Witch, a Hallmark Channel presentation (*1).
This is a delightfully family orientated movie with virtually nothing objectionable even to the most discriminating- with the exception of perhaps a few kisses by adults and one very “feminine” gown.
In this movie, good is good and bad is bad, and Cassandra always stands on the side of good against the evil and always in a wonderfully unifying resolution to the good of everyone, even the local prude who stands against her for her “dark ways.”
Throughout the film, beginning with the very title, beautiful, graceful, and kind Cassandra, the new resident of a sleepy little town, is revealed with all the obvious signs of practicing the dark arts of witchcraft, but in a way that allows doubt to the truth of what you see. The things and events you observe could be just unusual coincidence, but the “oddity” is just too coincidental to ignore, and by it, we are confident that we are supposed to know she is a witch. In this way the viewer is allowed the option to “see” an honest to goodness witch, or just an innocent woman who “sees” life a little different than you or I.
And while her obvious occult practices are left to wonder under a very thin mask of un-confession, her pure and good heart and her ability to intelligently produce perfectly timed favorable results to the benefit of the community are unquestionable. This woman is a wonderful asset to this town and everyone could learn a-thing-or-two from her about kindness and understanding.
Now add to this complexity the local know-it-all busybody prude with a mean heart that takes a disliking to Cassandra and determines to drive her from town as a witch.
She gets a significant portion of the town to rise up against Cassandra and her shop of “odd trinkets,” but even in trying hard to describe it like the movie presents it, I cannot present the innocent perspective that the movie artfully provides, and because of it I cannot accurately present the dilemma, so allow me to just declare it:
In the wonderfully family movie, Cassandra is the innocent and the dumpy prude is the narrow-minded “Christian” disruption to the peace of the town. In a great extension of kindness, which is her normal nature, Cassandra befriends the obnoxious woman and eventually wins her heart of friendship and brings peace to the town. The movie succeeds in completely disarming your clear recognition that this woman is truly a full blown witch and allures you to side with her completely as the innocent, like was done for the beast in “Beauty and the Beast” and the dumpy prude is as Gaston, who sees the evil for what it is; evil.
As hard as it is for today’s American Christian to condemn the Beast, it’s that much harder to condemn a beautifully soft natured woman with a wonderful personality of kindness, who just happens to practice witchcraft.
SO, in real life; here on the streets of America, who is going to be the obnoxious prude and drive the witch from town? And if we do, what a black mark of “Hate Speech” we would get! (*2). And now tell me Christian American, how do you think we should implement the following scripture?
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18.
“Oh that’s easy” you say, “We are not under the law but under grace.”
Fair enough.
So dear Christian, what do you do if your wife regularly sleeps with the priest? Is that OK too because we are not under the law? Let’s read the context in which the above easily rejected verse is found:
“Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death” Exodus 22:19.
“Woe, OK, that is bad” you reply, “but instead of Capital Punishment let’s just put them in rehabilitation.”
Fair enough.
But will you also put the witch in rehabilitation, or are we going to “massage” that away too? Read the next verse of the context:
“He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed” Exodus 22:20.
Oh, now that is just barbaric! right?
But why do you suppose God put these three widely divers ordinances together in a single context under Capitol Punishment? If we look, we see that we have a very great difference of reaction between them, from; “Each to his own,” to “That’s nasty!” to “Don’t be ridiculous!” But man did not make the laws; these are God’s opinion on things.
You see God doesn’t play emotional games and his laws are not suggestions. There are REASONS why he gave us these laws, and like Cassandra using her magic to do good, your corrupted goodness of peace in disobeying God brings confusion that eventually brings the un-solvable violence of Noah’s day as the context continues:
“And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword: and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless” Exodus 22:24.
“BUT!” I hear you shout, “Are you really recommending a return to the barbaric Witch Burning of early America?”
Of course not.
That event was perhaps handled by wicked men and the results were quite possibly the deaths of many innocents along with a few guilty…perhaps (*3).
But while you struggled with my actual meaning of Post 266 “It’s About To Snow,” because I seemed to tell long time Christians to quit your job in order to find God, Jesus was far more radical than I:
“Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire” Matthew 18:8.
Does Jesus really want a bunch of self-mangled people in wheelchairs roaming his streets of gold? Of course not. What he was actually saying is to urgently figure out how to keep your hands and feet from being an offence!
Now here is the really had part to swallow; BECAUSE we can’t seem to figure out how to stop our own members from bringing offense, our only choice is to amputate them to end the offense. But BECAUSE we can’t bring ourselves to do that either, God himself is sending the Muslims to do that job for us!
Do you suppose because wicked men will handle this job, many innocents will again be killed along with the guilty, as supposed in the Witch-Burning?
NOW, if God is sending the limb-hacking Muslims in real life, how much of a metaphor do you think Jesus’ statement was? How much of a metaphor do think my job quitting instruction was? Don’t get out your knife first; get out your Bible! But if you just can’t find the time, then get out your knife! It’s THAT serious. Is America’s great unemployment rate God’s divine aid to cut off our jobs so that we will have the time to find him? Does that sound too radically religious to believe?
“But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption…which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam…who loved the wages of unrighteousness;” II Peter 2:12-15.
Like Uzzah before the falling Ark (II Samuel 6:6-7, I Chronicles 13:9-10), America has already moved beyond a right answer; Touch it and die, or let it fall and live without the Ark. This is the quandary of November 6th 2012 (*4).
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“And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy (7922) also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand…and by peace shall destroy many” Daniel 8:24-25.
Policy 7922 sekel; from 7919; intelligence; by implication success:-- discretion, knowledge, policy, prudence, sense, understanding, wisdom, wise.
7919 sakal; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence intelligent:-- consider, expert, instruct, prosper, (deal) prudent (-ly), (give) skill (-ful), have good success, teach, (have, make to) understand (-ing), wisdom, (be, behave self, consider, make) wise (-ly), guide wittingly.
Circumspect: Careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences: prudent. - Merriam-Webster electronic dictionary app.
Example: “The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is a cooperative federation of 16 separate United States government agencies that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and national security of the United States. Member organizations of the IC include intelligence agencies [CIA], military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_intelligence_community#Members).
While describing the Antichrist and by degree, the many leaders before him, this also perfectly describes Cassandra in her circumspect use of magic to make it desirable in her town and thereby raise a whole generation of socially accepted witches, which God will destroy by the third party hand of this Beast who will then make a public statement condemning the brutal act.
The power of this Beast is the power of Miry Iron; it is the Waters from above the firmament; it is the “They” of his clay. His power is the supernatural combined with the human law. It is the iron and the clay. The problem is that the democratic clay will not allow the iron to destroy the witch for some time, and so she rides on the back of the Beast for a while (Revelation 17:3).
Now although the translation “wonderfully” seems an unfortunate use to describe a thing so grand it is possibly miraculous, it is not a poor choice of words. It is a very accurate translation of his kind of destruction through peace, just as Cassandra brought witchcraft to the town by her wonder-full charming and beneficial presentation.
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Something to Compare Against:
America has already so confused her light into darkness that she cannot now see that the Yin and the Yang, which she borrowed from the Orient religions, are both darkness in the same circle:
“But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” Matthew 6:23.
The mental perception of light is now a conditioned evaluation of comparison with the “obvious” darkness in the same circle, and in so doing, the confident proclamation is that; “I am obviously the white side,” while God casts the whole Yin-and-Yang circle-of-darkness into the fire as the abomination of a strange god.
Evil is easily seen as evil against the clean. So the evil needs a greater evil to be compared against and so accepted as the clean by comparison. This is the fundamental rule in all TV and movie presentations of evil. It makes you, the third party participant, determine the goodness of the two sides in a provided conflict; one is evil and therefore the other is good. How good is it? That doesn’t matter to the carefully crafted presentation and so is not evaluated in the setting; it’s just a lot better than the evil and so it is good by default.
In “The Good Witch” Cassandra plays the part of an outside Problem-Solver between contending locals. In a primary case; between a young bully and his victim, the bully is obviously the “evil” and his victim is obviously the “good.” But now the super wise Cassandra is able to devise a creative environment where evil can be won over to the good and all turns out even better than a compromise; Cassandra’s magical policy has won the day!
NOW, by comparison between the “good” victim and the “super wise” Cassandra, which is the good and which is the evil, so to speak? Obviously Cassandra’s magical ways are far “gooder” than the failures of the good victim.
What we have just seen is the demonic supernatural Miry Clay take a superior place above contending humanity of Potter’s Clay and Morter. Instead of casting out the witch as instructed, humanity now is grateful to the witch for her supernaturally wise help that brings peace to contending humanity.
The one that was “put in her place” is the only one in town who saw the witch for what she was; a witch, but in her own corrupted nature of Morter she is like “the pot calling the kettle black.” And now we have a new “evil” against which everyone in the town can be compared. The victim, the bully, and the witch can all compare themselves against the prude and see themselves as a unified global community of good against the evil Christian...whom they want to join them in peace, but she will have none of it! Suddenly the witch is the tolerant one offering peace, but only if the Christian will quit contending with her practices of witchcraft. Destruction by Peace.
Harry Potter (*5) would not be acceptable unless there was a greater evil presentation against which his goodness could be compared. Any “Muggle” that stands against witchcraft is just such a usable comparison, and so we see the perfect “set up” as Harry’s Muggle parents are not even nice people. These films are not entertainment; they are indoctrination of the Devil against the scriptures themselves. Peruse the Muggle link and compare it to the scripture’s important separation between waters/spirits. It is startling!
But; do you really think I will convince any Christian Harry Potter lovers?
“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away” II Timothy 3:4-5.
I constantly marvel at the detailed accuracy of scripture: this is not a simple list of generics; it is very specific:
Traitors from God are ones who are his people but have subversively changed loyalties to give aid to the enemy, example; Christians who love and defend Harry Potter so that he is allowed to infiltrate without opposition.
Highminded are those who stand on elevated ground of illusion, above the clear instruction of scripture. These people use self-rationalization to explain why their views are morally better than God’s, (see Romans 11:20-21 to make it directly personal).
Highminded 5187 tuphoo; from a derivative of 5188; to envelop with smoke, i.e. (figuratively) to inflate with self-conceit:-- high-minded, be lifted up with pride, be proud.
Lovers of pleasures is not the problem here, it’s loving pleasures more than God. God says don’t love Harry Potter, but because you are already drawn in, how do you un-love what you love? But the more important question is; How do you want to when you don’t want to? Like a drug addict, this is a difficult problem, which is why God already said; don’t even become familiar in the first place. Just DON’T. But they do. In fact the encouragement to our kids in a positive light is to “Just Do It!” In otherwords; “To hell with the consequences!”
These “good Christian” people cannot see themselves as guilty because they are busy comparing themselves with the far more guilty and so see themselves as clean (II Corinthians 10:12). It is to these blind and guilty Christians that the law of God has been provided, but their dirty-grace faith is a solid protection against that law that brings conviction and so repentance is never found.
This is the setting in which America now approaches their Presidential vote of November 6th. And while I didn’t personally know a single person who confessed they would vote for Clinton a second time, I know a lot that are proud to declare they will vote for Obama again. The darkness is growing rapidly.
But that is not the Mystery.
The mystery is that I, along with many concerned Christians, will vote for Romney.
“So, Why is that a mystery?” you ask.
Because it’s very easy to see that Obama and his Muslim loyalty is a Type of the Antichrist destruction of God’s people, but it’s far more mysterious to see that Romney is a Type of their captivity in Babylon. The mystery is why would God’s people choose Babylon? One is destruction by violence; the other is destruction by peace. But peace rides the violence like the Harlot rides the Beast. The harlot needs the Beast as a basis of evil from which to proclaim her goodness for public acceptance. So knowing this, how can I choose the Harlot? I will expound on this in a following post.
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(*1) Not A Recommendation:
Please do not imagine I have provided these titles as recommendations for you and your family to watch, I am simply revealing the truth behind the programs you already let your family watch in ignorance and are therefore completely defenseless against their demonic indoctrinations.
The Good Witch - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Witch).
(*2) Hate Speech Legislation:
The following is excerpted from a WND report;
“The federal “Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009,” signed into law by President Obama, enhances penalties for “hate crimes” deemed to be motivated by “actual or perceived sexual orientation” of a victim…
AFLC said it has filed a petition to the high court asking for the review.
The case contends that the “hate crimes” law violates the plaintiffs’ civil rights, since it opens Christians to becoming the target of federal investigations, grand juries and even criminal charges just for opposing or publicly criticizing the homosexual lifestyle and “gay” activism.
The petition points out that all 50 states already have laws punishing violence, and that, as Attorney General Eric Holder himself has admitted, there is no evidence that “hate crimes” go unpunished at the state level. In 2008, of the 1.38 million violent crimes reported, only 243 dealt with the victim’s sexual orientation.
The Hate Crimes Act was dubbed by its critics the “Pedophile Protection Act” after an amendment to explicitly prohibit pedophiles from being protected by the act was defeated by majority Democrats. During congressional debate, supporters argued that all “philias,” or alternative sexual lifestyles, should be protected…
The pastors explained that as Christian leaders with a duty to teach God’s Word on moral issues such as homosexuality, they have “willfully” and actively engaged in expressive conduct regarding the morality of homosexuality – conduct that could subject them to investigation and prosecution under the Hate Crimes Act, which does not limit its prohibitions to physical acts of violence, AFLC said.
But judges to date have said such a threat of investigation, prosecution and jail time doesn’t mean that the pastors have grounds to pursue a challenge…
Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in October 2009 after Democrats strategically attached it to a “must-pass” $680 billion defense-appropriations bill.
The law cracks down on any actions that could be linked to criticism of homosexuality or even the “perception” of homosexuality. As Congress debated it, there were assurances it would not be used to restrict free speech.
Obama boasted about the “hate crimes” bill when he signed it into law.
“After more than a decade, we’ve passed inclusive hate-crimes legislation to help protect our citizens from violence based on what they look like, who they love, how they pray or who they are,” he said.
The bill signed by Obama was opposed by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which called it a “menace” to civil liberties. The commission argued the law allows federal authorities to bring charges against individuals even if they’ve already been cleared in a state court.” - (http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/potential-10-year-terms-for-bias-challenged-by-pastors/).
By peace, the Mortor son of Satan that occupies the highest office in America has enacted legislation of destruction against those that would stand on the commands of God in defense of this nation against God’s wrath.
If Sodomy and Child molestation are to be protected not only against prohibiting the act but against even the suggestion that it is reprehensible, then what abominations could possibly be seen as reproachable? Surely not witchcraft. But what do you expect a Jehovahless leader to do when so-called Christians filled with hate are accused of beating to death a sodomite? The government is simply trying to solve a complex problem of sin while mired in iniquity themselves. And so is the Church today.
(*3) Witch Burning of Salem Massachusetts:
It is quite troubling that after 320 years have passed, we seem willing to proclaim that we know the truth of the events. I am certainly not suggesting the women were all in fact witches rightly put to death, but neither can I confirm that innocent women were murdered in a religious paranoia. The fact is we just don’t know, but we nonetheless sure like to use that one-year event as a standard to proclaim “never again, at any cost.”
Is this reaction not a more sure form of anti-religious paranoia than the event of so long ago was religiously hysterical? Consider this telling brief statement in the article that obviously stands against the horrible events of a presumed hysterical religious people:
“Witchcraft was then used by peasants, who invoked particular charms for farming and agriculture. Over time, the idea of white magic transformed into dark magic and became associated with demons and evil spirits.” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials).
This statement is hauntingly familiar with the recent troubles of Uganda described in An Unconventional War (http://yourservantinchristministries.org/?p=360). Will their children one day, 300 years from now, describe their very real solution as hateful witch burning? Most probably.
So why am I against obeying the scriptural law to Capitally punish all witches? Because we are no longer righteous before God to do that job. First we must purify our own hearts and actions before God, and become his clean and holy people, and then we will have clear wisdom in how to deal with people dabbling in ignorance vs. those that are committed to witchcraft. This self-cleansing from sin was the secret of Uganda’s success when no previous effort could prevail.
Remember post 256 On The Olympics? I showed that this same “white magic,” today called superstition, is prevalent not only in the pagan culture but in the Christian church as well. It is indeed time for a very real and serious purging, but the knife must fall on our own limbs first! (Matthew 7:3-5, I Peter 4:17).
(*4) All Bad Options:
See also a similar “no good answer” quandary of II Samuel 24:13-15 and notice the comparable 3 months option without God’s presence, as we saw in II Samuel 6:11-12. David chose the option that was most directly handled by God alone but the price was still very high, the punishment must be paid. Uzzah had no such option in his two-party choice of either/or. And neither do we; Like whoever put the Ark on the cart, the powers that be have already set us up to fail.
(*5) Harry Potter:
“harry (v.)
O.E. hergian "make war, lay waste, ravage, plunder," the word used in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" for what the Vikings did to England, from P.Gmc. verb *harohan (cf. O.Fris. urheria "lay waste, ravage, plunder," O.N. herja "to make a raid, to plunder," O.S., O.H.G. herion, Ger. verheeren "to destroy, lay waste, devastate"), from *harjaz "an armed force" (cf. O.E. here, O.N. herr "crowd, great number; army, troop," O.S., O.Fris. heri, Du. heir, O.H.G. har, Ger. Heer "host, army," Goth. harjis), from PIE root *koro- "war" (cf. Lith. karas "war, quarrel," karias "host, army;" O.C.S. kara "strife;" M.Ir. cuire "troop;" O.Pers. kara "host, people, army;" Gk. koiranos "ruler, leader, commander"). Weakened sense of "worry, goad, harass" is from c.1400. Related: Harried; harrying. Harry
masc. proper name, a familiar form of Henry. Weekley takes the overwhelming number of Harris and Harrison surnames as evidence that "Harry," not "Henry," was the M.E. pronunciation of Henry. Also cf. Harriet, English equivalent of Fr. Henriette, fem. dim. of Henri. Nautical slang Harriet Lane "preserved meat" (1896) refers to a famous murder victim whose killer allegedly chopped up her body.” - (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=harry).
Thank you Tonis Anton for the information, this was just too good to leave as as unattached link.
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“…And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many…” Daniel 8:25a.
Even a child can easily describe the stark difference between violence and peace; these two natures are polar opposites with opposing effects. These opposing natures are at perpetual war with one another like light and darkness, good and evil, or black and white. So why in Daniel 2:40-43 did God choose iron and clay to represent the division portion of the Daniel 7 fourth Diverse Beast? The reason is because this kingdom is a division of dark and darker; there is no real light in it to contend with the darkness (Matthew 6:23), but in their lively contention you could’t convince them of that.
God divided the light from the darkness back in Genesis 1:4, which makes us confident that Black and White cannot occupy the same space at the same time or Evil cannot exist where Good dwells… but since we saw that the separated waters mingled afterwards, can light and darkness mingle too? John 1:4-5 tells us that while life as light can actually shine in the darkness the darkness cannot comprehend it, but strangely II Corinthians 4:6 tells us that God made the light to shine out of the darkness, and Psalm 139:12 even supports this strange notion. So what are we to do in the confusion? I John 2:8 provides a new commandment regarding a sure separation within ourselves regardless of the complications around us. The sure separation from the darkness is in Jesus Christ the true light carried within us. Light shining out of the darkness.
Violence can indeed abide with peace, and peace combined with another element can produce violence, much as iron law and the people’s democracy can unite to produce either good or evil. The Republic of America and the Republic of China have historically shown the vast differences of application with essentially the same basic elements, which we now know that the mysterious difference is in the waters of different natures, somewhat like sea water and fresh are both waters but distinctly different eco systems.
Continuing our investigation of “What is peace?” allow me to provide an example of the confusion that already exists deeply in America on this topic. Please note: I am not allowing the witch to preach for me, but rather showing you that she is indeed a witch promoting a Christain message:
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The Good Witch:
Since it’s the Halloween season here in America the TV is inundated with the familiar Halloween themed programs. But unlike my childhood’s horror movies, slasher movies, and dark occult movies like The Exorcist, today’s Halloween TV has another presentation. Today we have an emotionally alluring Halloween; like Harry Potter, vampire romances, and beautifully feminine witches like Cassandra Nightingale with nothing but goodness in her heart, presented in The Good Witch, a Hallmark Channel presentation (*1).
This is a delightfully family orientated movie with virtually nothing objectionable even to the most discriminating- with the exception of perhaps a few kisses by adults and one very “feminine” gown.
In this movie, good is good and bad is bad, and Cassandra always stands on the side of good against the evil and always in a wonderfully unifying resolution to the good of everyone, even the local prude who stands against her for her “dark ways.”
Throughout the film, beginning with the very title, beautiful, graceful, and kind Cassandra, the new resident of a sleepy little town, is revealed with all the obvious signs of practicing the dark arts of witchcraft, but in a way that allows doubt to the truth of what you see. The things and events you observe could be just unusual coincidence, but the “oddity” is just too coincidental to ignore, and by it, we are confident that we are supposed to know she is a witch. In this way the viewer is allowed the option to “see” an honest to goodness witch, or just an innocent woman who “sees” life a little different than you or I.
And while her obvious occult practices are left to wonder under a very thin mask of un-confession, her pure and good heart and her ability to intelligently produce perfectly timed favorable results to the benefit of the community are unquestionable. This woman is a wonderful asset to this town and everyone could learn a-thing-or-two from her about kindness and understanding.
Now add to this complexity the local know-it-all busybody prude with a mean heart that takes a disliking to Cassandra and determines to drive her from town as a witch.
She gets a significant portion of the town to rise up against Cassandra and her shop of “odd trinkets,” but even in trying hard to describe it like the movie presents it, I cannot present the innocent perspective that the movie artfully provides, and because of it I cannot accurately present the dilemma, so allow me to just declare it:
In the wonderfully family movie, Cassandra is the innocent and the dumpy prude is the narrow-minded “Christian” disruption to the peace of the town. In a great extension of kindness, which is her normal nature, Cassandra befriends the obnoxious woman and eventually wins her heart of friendship and brings peace to the town. The movie succeeds in completely disarming your clear recognition that this woman is truly a full blown witch and allures you to side with her completely as the innocent, like was done for the beast in “Beauty and the Beast” and the dumpy prude is as Gaston, who sees the evil for what it is; evil.
As hard as it is for today’s American Christian to condemn the Beast, it’s that much harder to condemn a beautifully soft natured woman with a wonderful personality of kindness, who just happens to practice witchcraft.
SO, in real life; here on the streets of America, who is going to be the obnoxious prude and drive the witch from town? And if we do, what a black mark of “Hate Speech” we would get! (*2). And now tell me Christian American, how do you think we should implement the following scripture?
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18.
“Oh that’s easy” you say, “We are not under the law but under grace.”
Fair enough.
So dear Christian, what do you do if your wife regularly sleeps with the priest? Is that OK too because we are not under the law? Let’s read the context in which the above easily rejected verse is found:
“Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death” Exodus 22:19.
“Woe, OK, that is bad” you reply, “but instead of Capital Punishment let’s just put them in rehabilitation.”
Fair enough.
But will you also put the witch in rehabilitation, or are we going to “massage” that away too? Read the next verse of the context:
“He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed” Exodus 22:20.
Oh, now that is just barbaric! right?
But why do you suppose God put these three widely divers ordinances together in a single context under Capitol Punishment? If we look, we see that we have a very great difference of reaction between them, from; “Each to his own,” to “That’s nasty!” to “Don’t be ridiculous!” But man did not make the laws; these are God’s opinion on things.
You see God doesn’t play emotional games and his laws are not suggestions. There are REASONS why he gave us these laws, and like Cassandra using her magic to do good, your corrupted goodness of peace in disobeying God brings confusion that eventually brings the un-solvable violence of Noah’s day as the context continues:
“And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword: and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless” Exodus 22:24.
“BUT!” I hear you shout, “Are you really recommending a return to the barbaric Witch Burning of early America?”
Of course not.
That event was perhaps handled by wicked men and the results were quite possibly the deaths of many innocents along with a few guilty…perhaps (*3).
But while you struggled with my actual meaning of Post 266 “It’s About To Snow,” because I seemed to tell long time Christians to quit your job in order to find God, Jesus was far more radical than I:
“Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire” Matthew 18:8.
Does Jesus really want a bunch of self-mangled people in wheelchairs roaming his streets of gold? Of course not. What he was actually saying is to urgently figure out how to keep your hands and feet from being an offence!
Now here is the really had part to swallow; BECAUSE we can’t seem to figure out how to stop our own members from bringing offense, our only choice is to amputate them to end the offense. But BECAUSE we can’t bring ourselves to do that either, God himself is sending the Muslims to do that job for us!
Do you suppose because wicked men will handle this job, many innocents will again be killed along with the guilty, as supposed in the Witch-Burning?
NOW, if God is sending the limb-hacking Muslims in real life, how much of a metaphor do you think Jesus’ statement was? How much of a metaphor do think my job quitting instruction was? Don’t get out your knife first; get out your Bible! But if you just can’t find the time, then get out your knife! It’s THAT serious. Is America’s great unemployment rate God’s divine aid to cut off our jobs so that we will have the time to find him? Does that sound too radically religious to believe?
“But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption…which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam…who loved the wages of unrighteousness;” II Peter 2:12-15.
Like Uzzah before the falling Ark (II Samuel 6:6-7, I Chronicles 13:9-10), America has already moved beyond a right answer; Touch it and die, or let it fall and live without the Ark. This is the quandary of November 6th 2012 (*4).
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“And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy (7922) also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand…and by peace shall destroy many” Daniel 8:24-25.
Policy 7922 sekel; from 7919; intelligence; by implication success:-- discretion, knowledge, policy, prudence, sense, understanding, wisdom, wise.
7919 sakal; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence intelligent:-- consider, expert, instruct, prosper, (deal) prudent (-ly), (give) skill (-ful), have good success, teach, (have, make to) understand (-ing), wisdom, (be, behave self, consider, make) wise (-ly), guide wittingly.
Circumspect: Careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences: prudent. - Merriam-Webster electronic dictionary app.
Example: “The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is a cooperative federation of 16 separate United States government agencies that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and national security of the United States. Member organizations of the IC include intelligence agencies [CIA], military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_intelligence_community#Members).
While describing the Antichrist and by degree, the many leaders before him, this also perfectly describes Cassandra in her circumspect use of magic to make it desirable in her town and thereby raise a whole generation of socially accepted witches, which God will destroy by the third party hand of this Beast who will then make a public statement condemning the brutal act.
The power of this Beast is the power of Miry Iron; it is the Waters from above the firmament; it is the “They” of his clay. His power is the supernatural combined with the human law. It is the iron and the clay. The problem is that the democratic clay will not allow the iron to destroy the witch for some time, and so she rides on the back of the Beast for a while (Revelation 17:3).
Now although the translation “wonderfully” seems an unfortunate use to describe a thing so grand it is possibly miraculous, it is not a poor choice of words. It is a very accurate translation of his kind of destruction through peace, just as Cassandra brought witchcraft to the town by her wonder-full charming and beneficial presentation.
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Something to Compare Against:
America has already so confused her light into darkness that she cannot now see that the Yin and the Yang, which she borrowed from the Orient religions, are both darkness in the same circle:
“But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” Matthew 6:23.
The mental perception of light is now a conditioned evaluation of comparison with the “obvious” darkness in the same circle, and in so doing, the confident proclamation is that; “I am obviously the white side,” while God casts the whole Yin-and-Yang circle-of-darkness into the fire as the abomination of a strange god.
Evil is easily seen as evil against the clean. So the evil needs a greater evil to be compared against and so accepted as the clean by comparison. This is the fundamental rule in all TV and movie presentations of evil. It makes you, the third party participant, determine the goodness of the two sides in a provided conflict; one is evil and therefore the other is good. How good is it? That doesn’t matter to the carefully crafted presentation and so is not evaluated in the setting; it’s just a lot better than the evil and so it is good by default.
In “The Good Witch” Cassandra plays the part of an outside Problem-Solver between contending locals. In a primary case; between a young bully and his victim, the bully is obviously the “evil” and his victim is obviously the “good.” But now the super wise Cassandra is able to devise a creative environment where evil can be won over to the good and all turns out even better than a compromise; Cassandra’s magical policy has won the day!
NOW, by comparison between the “good” victim and the “super wise” Cassandra, which is the good and which is the evil, so to speak? Obviously Cassandra’s magical ways are far “gooder” than the failures of the good victim.
What we have just seen is the demonic supernatural Miry Clay take a superior place above contending humanity of Potter’s Clay and Morter. Instead of casting out the witch as instructed, humanity now is grateful to the witch for her supernaturally wise help that brings peace to contending humanity.
The one that was “put in her place” is the only one in town who saw the witch for what she was; a witch, but in her own corrupted nature of Morter she is like “the pot calling the kettle black.” And now we have a new “evil” against which everyone in the town can be compared. The victim, the bully, and the witch can all compare themselves against the prude and see themselves as a unified global community of good against the evil Christian...whom they want to join them in peace, but she will have none of it! Suddenly the witch is the tolerant one offering peace, but only if the Christian will quit contending with her practices of witchcraft. Destruction by Peace.
Harry Potter (*5) would not be acceptable unless there was a greater evil presentation against which his goodness could be compared. Any “Muggle” that stands against witchcraft is just such a usable comparison, and so we see the perfect “set up” as Harry’s Muggle parents are not even nice people. These films are not entertainment; they are indoctrination of the Devil against the scriptures themselves. Peruse the Muggle link and compare it to the scripture’s important separation between waters/spirits. It is startling!
But; do you really think I will convince any Christian Harry Potter lovers?
“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away” II Timothy 3:4-5.
I constantly marvel at the detailed accuracy of scripture: this is not a simple list of generics; it is very specific:
Traitors from God are ones who are his people but have subversively changed loyalties to give aid to the enemy, example; Christians who love and defend Harry Potter so that he is allowed to infiltrate without opposition.
Highminded are those who stand on elevated ground of illusion, above the clear instruction of scripture. These people use self-rationalization to explain why their views are morally better than God’s, (see Romans 11:20-21 to make it directly personal).
Highminded 5187 tuphoo; from a derivative of 5188; to envelop with smoke, i.e. (figuratively) to inflate with self-conceit:-- high-minded, be lifted up with pride, be proud.
Lovers of pleasures is not the problem here, it’s loving pleasures more than God. God says don’t love Harry Potter, but because you are already drawn in, how do you un-love what you love? But the more important question is; How do you want to when you don’t want to? Like a drug addict, this is a difficult problem, which is why God already said; don’t even become familiar in the first place. Just DON’T. But they do. In fact the encouragement to our kids in a positive light is to “Just Do It!” In otherwords; “To hell with the consequences!”
These “good Christian” people cannot see themselves as guilty because they are busy comparing themselves with the far more guilty and so see themselves as clean (II Corinthians 10:12). It is to these blind and guilty Christians that the law of God has been provided, but their dirty-grace faith is a solid protection against that law that brings conviction and so repentance is never found.
This is the setting in which America now approaches their Presidential vote of November 6th. And while I didn’t personally know a single person who confessed they would vote for Clinton a second time, I know a lot that are proud to declare they will vote for Obama again. The darkness is growing rapidly.
But that is not the Mystery.
The mystery is that I, along with many concerned Christians, will vote for Romney.
“So, Why is that a mystery?” you ask.
Because it’s very easy to see that Obama and his Muslim loyalty is a Type of the Antichrist destruction of God’s people, but it’s far more mysterious to see that Romney is a Type of their captivity in Babylon. The mystery is why would God’s people choose Babylon? One is destruction by violence; the other is destruction by peace. But peace rides the violence like the Harlot rides the Beast. The harlot needs the Beast as a basis of evil from which to proclaim her goodness for public acceptance. So knowing this, how can I choose the Harlot? I will expound on this in a following post.
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(*1) Not A Recommendation:
Please do not imagine I have provided these titles as recommendations for you and your family to watch, I am simply revealing the truth behind the programs you already let your family watch in ignorance and are therefore completely defenseless against their demonic indoctrinations.
The Good Witch - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Witch).
(*2) Hate Speech Legislation:
The following is excerpted from a WND report;
“The federal “Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009,” signed into law by President Obama, enhances penalties for “hate crimes” deemed to be motivated by “actual or perceived sexual orientation” of a victim…
AFLC said it has filed a petition to the high court asking for the review.
The case contends that the “hate crimes” law violates the plaintiffs’ civil rights, since it opens Christians to becoming the target of federal investigations, grand juries and even criminal charges just for opposing or publicly criticizing the homosexual lifestyle and “gay” activism.
The petition points out that all 50 states already have laws punishing violence, and that, as Attorney General Eric Holder himself has admitted, there is no evidence that “hate crimes” go unpunished at the state level. In 2008, of the 1.38 million violent crimes reported, only 243 dealt with the victim’s sexual orientation.
The Hate Crimes Act was dubbed by its critics the “Pedophile Protection Act” after an amendment to explicitly prohibit pedophiles from being protected by the act was defeated by majority Democrats. During congressional debate, supporters argued that all “philias,” or alternative sexual lifestyles, should be protected…
The pastors explained that as Christian leaders with a duty to teach God’s Word on moral issues such as homosexuality, they have “willfully” and actively engaged in expressive conduct regarding the morality of homosexuality – conduct that could subject them to investigation and prosecution under the Hate Crimes Act, which does not limit its prohibitions to physical acts of violence, AFLC said.
But judges to date have said such a threat of investigation, prosecution and jail time doesn’t mean that the pastors have grounds to pursue a challenge…
Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in October 2009 after Democrats strategically attached it to a “must-pass” $680 billion defense-appropriations bill.
The law cracks down on any actions that could be linked to criticism of homosexuality or even the “perception” of homosexuality. As Congress debated it, there were assurances it would not be used to restrict free speech.
Obama boasted about the “hate crimes” bill when he signed it into law.
“After more than a decade, we’ve passed inclusive hate-crimes legislation to help protect our citizens from violence based on what they look like, who they love, how they pray or who they are,” he said.
The bill signed by Obama was opposed by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which called it a “menace” to civil liberties. The commission argued the law allows federal authorities to bring charges against individuals even if they’ve already been cleared in a state court.” - (http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/potential-10-year-terms-for-bias-challenged-by-pastors/).
By peace, the Mortor son of Satan that occupies the highest office in America has enacted legislation of destruction against those that would stand on the commands of God in defense of this nation against God’s wrath.
If Sodomy and Child molestation are to be protected not only against prohibiting the act but against even the suggestion that it is reprehensible, then what abominations could possibly be seen as reproachable? Surely not witchcraft. But what do you expect a Jehovahless leader to do when so-called Christians filled with hate are accused of beating to death a sodomite? The government is simply trying to solve a complex problem of sin while mired in iniquity themselves. And so is the Church today.
(*3) Witch Burning of Salem Massachusetts:
It is quite troubling that after 320 years have passed, we seem willing to proclaim that we know the truth of the events. I am certainly not suggesting the women were all in fact witches rightly put to death, but neither can I confirm that innocent women were murdered in a religious paranoia. The fact is we just don’t know, but we nonetheless sure like to use that one-year event as a standard to proclaim “never again, at any cost.”
Is this reaction not a more sure form of anti-religious paranoia than the event of so long ago was religiously hysterical? Consider this telling brief statement in the article that obviously stands against the horrible events of a presumed hysterical religious people:
“Witchcraft was then used by peasants, who invoked particular charms for farming and agriculture. Over time, the idea of white magic transformed into dark magic and became associated with demons and evil spirits.” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials).
This statement is hauntingly familiar with the recent troubles of Uganda described in An Unconventional War (http://yourservantinchristministries.org/?p=360). Will their children one day, 300 years from now, describe their very real solution as hateful witch burning? Most probably.
So why am I against obeying the scriptural law to Capitally punish all witches? Because we are no longer righteous before God to do that job. First we must purify our own hearts and actions before God, and become his clean and holy people, and then we will have clear wisdom in how to deal with people dabbling in ignorance vs. those that are committed to witchcraft. This self-cleansing from sin was the secret of Uganda’s success when no previous effort could prevail.
Remember post 256 On The Olympics? I showed that this same “white magic,” today called superstition, is prevalent not only in the pagan culture but in the Christian church as well. It is indeed time for a very real and serious purging, but the knife must fall on our own limbs first! (Matthew 7:3-5, I Peter 4:17).
(*4) All Bad Options:
See also a similar “no good answer” quandary of II Samuel 24:13-15 and notice the comparable 3 months option without God’s presence, as we saw in II Samuel 6:11-12. David chose the option that was most directly handled by God alone but the price was still very high, the punishment must be paid. Uzzah had no such option in his two-party choice of either/or. And neither do we; Like whoever put the Ark on the cart, the powers that be have already set us up to fail.
(*5) Harry Potter:
“harry (v.)
O.E. hergian "make war, lay waste, ravage, plunder," the word used in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" for what the Vikings did to England, from P.Gmc. verb *harohan (cf. O.Fris. urheria "lay waste, ravage, plunder," O.N. herja "to make a raid, to plunder," O.S., O.H.G. herion, Ger. verheeren "to destroy, lay waste, devastate"), from *harjaz "an armed force" (cf. O.E. here, O.N. herr "crowd, great number; army, troop," O.S., O.Fris. heri, Du. heir, O.H.G. har, Ger. Heer "host, army," Goth. harjis), from PIE root *koro- "war" (cf. Lith. karas "war, quarrel," karias "host, army;" O.C.S. kara "strife;" M.Ir. cuire "troop;" O.Pers. kara "host, people, army;" Gk. koiranos "ruler, leader, commander"). Weakened sense of "worry, goad, harass" is from c.1400. Related: Harried; harrying. Harry
masc. proper name, a familiar form of Henry. Weekley takes the overwhelming number of Harris and Harrison surnames as evidence that "Harry," not "Henry," was the M.E. pronunciation of Henry. Also cf. Harriet, English equivalent of Fr. Henriette, fem. dim. of Henri. Nautical slang Harriet Lane "preserved meat" (1896) refers to a famous murder victim whose killer allegedly chopped up her body.” - (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=harry).
Thank you Tonis Anton for the information, this was just too good to leave as as unattached link.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
The Ministering Damsel
Post 270
“…And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many…” Daniel 8:25a.
For many years this wording has been a curious mystery to me; “How does the most evil man the planet has ever seen, destroy many by peace?” Is peace destructive? If so, then;
What is peace?
We are about to embark on a series of studies that are so earthshakingly dark and confusing that I seriously hesitate to begin writing it down. Where do you stand when the entire earth is quaking under your feet? When what has always been unquestionably solid rock suddenly turns to giant liquefied walls of earth like the waves of a hurricane sea (Isaiah 57:20-21). How do you save an entire ship, or even a single life, when it is caught in the middle of The typhoon of Perfect Storm proportions?
What I am about to show in detail is so hopeless I don’t want to be the guy to tell it. And the hopelessness of it is not the worst part.
The fingers of the multiple cells in this perfect storm are many and complex, and the complexity of what I have already been showing in scripture is provided to us as a cipher pattern so that we can actually grasp how to interpret this storm in an effort to avoid it, not weather it.
Seasoned fishermen on the Grand Banks have long seen great storms and to refrain from boldly plowing the seas every time a storm is reported would be to fail their jobs as cowards. These seamen are a hearty sort that need an iron nature so strong they can ply their work in the face of pending disaster as a regular thing. But a Perfect Storm is a horse of a different color, such as Zechariah 6:7 + 1:8 = Speckled (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/03/more-horses.html)(*1);
Bravery is irrelevant in such a storm, and in fact bravery simply morphs into the actions of a fool. Same act, Same display of nature, but Different actual nature because intelligent calculation has been removed from the equation.
Bravery is carefully calculating the odds against experience and ability then moving ahead with skill against the acceptable risk, while foolish is moving ahead in blindness without the calculation.
Skill and ability, nor bravery, have any part in the calculation of a perfect storm. The bravest men harbor their ships and take the time off from work. The fool plows ahead to weather the storm in the illusion of bravery, and loudly mocks the calculating brave as a coward. The lines and complexities of when which is which are really quite entangled. But it is not at all confusing to the one doing his own calculations using his well seasoned knowledge of his skills and abilities (Revelation 16:15, Luke 21:34-36, II Peter 3:10-14).
How easy it would be to simply say; “we will all be killed by a nuclear bomb”; we could easily grasp that singular concept and accept it as a specific target to defend against or prepare for the inevitable end while we ponder about what day it will come. But this is not to be. Our great destruction is to be far more complex, and the first fingers of it have already begun to build.
I really don’t want to be the weather guy, I would much rather be writing the Isaiah 58:6-14 “Grace sequel” to my first book as promised, but I have volunteered for this mission of God and so have been given a clear understanding of how this Perfect Storm plays out. And the storm is building faster than I can write it with clarity. There are already many ships too far out to sea to recover, even if they turned back to shore right now. But there are still many others that can yet be saved if they would but turn back now.
While my efforts are earnestly calling these back, the facts are that those now returning because of the looming storm will be saved while those still plowing ahead will not hear any more warnings, they have already made up their minds to ignore them and are committed to “hell or high water”.
What I am now writing is the blow by blow pre-history of the storm for the later generations to read. The reason that it is a pre-historical account (even if only a few days ahead of the events) is a justification of God, that he did not wish it, and provided a sufficient warning to avoid it:
“Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets” Amos 3:7.
But obviously, with my English language translation and self-described uncertainty of “theories”, “proposals” and “submissions” of interpretation, I don’t qualify as a prophet do I?
Except God has already made a contingency for this "less than a prophet":
“For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken” Isaiah 28:11-13.
If that does not perfectly describe my work, tell me what this passage would describe better?! God has not provided new prophecy; he has sent men like me to explain it through the laborious effort of our frail humanity, not in Hebrew or Greek or even Aramaic but in a different language, and the tongue in which I speak is not to farmers and ranchers by analogy, but to an age of science:
“Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is...(America). Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves…Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD…when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it…and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report (let alone to experience it)” Isaiah 18:14-19.
My soul is vexed simply to report it’s dark complexity even before it actually happens.
By the very complex nature of the destruction, I find myself standing against many ministers that I truly love and respect as men. The last thing I wish to do is point a bony finger directly at these fellow ministers and cry out; “WRONG!” but by the very nature of this destruction and the description of it, this will be the sad result. So be it, Even though because they are all somebodies and I am a nobody, my “interpretation” will be utterly rejected and mocked as “Doom-and-Gloom”.
But I have not put my life on hold and taken up this work for the sake of saving the world from destruction; I am doing this work as a testimony against humanity to validate God in the destruction. The reason this work is so important is because of the complex nature of the destruction:
“For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many” Matthew 24:5.
Hitler deceived a lot of people in the name of God, and by it destroyed many; with complex corruption he actually came in the name of the Christ through Evolutionary progress masked as God’s will (http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Hitler.cfm). I provide this antichristian article as evidence of the great confusion that must be dissected to the ultimate degree and thereby separate the waters from the waters. Otherwise these waters will be accused of being those waters because obviously waters are waters right? (Isaiah 5:19-20, Jeremiah 4:22, 13:10).
Up until now, those deceivers who have come in the name of Christ have been easily spotted charlatans, fooling only the simple. But the scriptures show a terrifying prophecy of imitators that are so close to the real presentation that it will be nearly impossible to distinguish between them and the truth:
“For there shall be false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before (it happens)” Matthew 24:24.
Hitler’s “Christian deception” may have worked on the pagan author of the above linked website but there is not a true Christian alive or dead that would allow that Hitler properly applied the scriptures. The deception still to come is far more sophisticated than that, to the point that even earnest Christians will be deceived, and only those very intimate with God will see the deception. So what hope is there for explaining it to the linked website author who can’t see it in the simple version?
Rick Warren’s “Purpose Driven” Apostasy is simply another degree of this early deception, but it is already deceiving many Christians while it makes poison waters of the pure waters of Christianity itself. I have no qualms about exposing Mr. Warren as a child of hell; he is not a fellow minister though he claims to be. His form of apostasy is still too distant from the real truth that other than deceiving the foolish he is no threat to the faith.
But there are those now standing among us that are the first of the wonderful prophet impostors and as much as it pains me to so publicly “turn on them” in my exposure of the error, I must not hold back from the exposure and let the individuals fall into whichever camp they belong. Please, please understand that I mean no animosity or personal attack on men who have sacrificed so much in a completely honest and honorable intent for good; I know the diligence to which they have labored to do their honorable work, BUT…their work is not of God and so the result will be the ruin of deception.
So let’s begin with the basics:
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The Ministering Damsel:
“And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel…met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying (3132):” Acts 16:16.
Soothsaying 3132 manteuomai; from a derivative of 3105 (meaning a prophet, as supposed to rave through inspiration); to divine, i.e. utter spells (under pretense of foretelling:-- by soothsaying.
3105 mainomai; middle voice from a primary mao (to long for; through the idea of insensate craving); to rave as a “maniac”:-- be beside self (mad).
“The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation” Acts 16:17.
So we see that this helpful and insightful girl was earnestly confirming that the Jesus Christ these men were preaching was the true way, and these ministers were sent by God to show that way.
Now how are you going to argue that this is not a good thing? Who among us would tell this eagerly helpful girl that she could not minister? Clearly what she was saying was completely of God, right? According to I John 4:2 her spirit must be confirmed a spirit of God;
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world” I John 4:1-3.
Properly following the caution that there are many false prophets, they tried the girl’s spirit by having a “get to know you” conversation and she eagerly confessed her confirmation that God sent these men to preach God’s salvation to the people. And since the salvation they preached was Jesus Christ, clearly her spirit was confessing by agreement that Jesus Christ came in the flesh to save mankind, right?
Now don’t go all religiously pious on me because you “know the right answer”; figure this out as if it was happening in your church today:
You and a few men from your church go on a week-long street ministry to a town several hours from home, and after a morning of preaching you take a break for lunch with a following planned prayer circle to refresh your spirits for the afternoon work.
As you head to the hotel conference room to pray, this spunky seventeen year old girl with a bubbly personality introduces herself to you guys and so you strike up a short conversation in which she expresses excitement for the work you are doing in her town. You ask her about herself and she tells you that she works for a local small time magician as a fortuneteller but she really doesn’t like it, even though she is actually really good at it, she just needs the money for college.
After you reach your conference room door you say your goodbyes and go in to pray. Then as you get back on your street corner and resume preaching, this girl walks through the back of the crowd as a self-appointed advertiser, proclaiming;
“These men are the ministers of the most high God and are showing us the way of salvation”
and every now and then she catches your eye and gives you a quick two-thumbs-up grin as you, and she, continue to minister; She is an unexpected enthusiastic team player.
After evening falls and the crowd and the girl go home, your team sits at a restaurant for supper where someone brings up the unusual girl and her actions. Obviously by the conversation it struck everyone as a bit odd, but hey, the Lord works in mysterious ways, right?
OK, NOW you get the reality of the event the apostles faced. What do you do beyond quietly hoping that she doesn’t come back tomorrow, Right? But you feel a bit guilty for not wanting her; “Why don’t you want her?” you think to yourself, “Is she saying anything wrong that you can point out? No. It’s just odd. It’s, uncomfortably odd”.
But she does come back the next day.
“And she did this many days.
But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour” Acts 16:18.
So how did Paul know this was a demonic spirit and not a spirit from God to support their ministry? Do you suppose any of his group challenged him for discouraging her faith? I mean Paul seemed to violate the very scripture that clearly and plainly determines if it is of God or not!
“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.
So now what just happened to that rock solid one-verse-theology that you can safely camp on in confidence? Is the scripture wrong or is it Paul that was wrong? It’s obviously one or the other, so tell me; Which is it?
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Like Oil and Water, No, More Like Iron and Clay:
Darwin was a Christian. But Darwin altered his faith in the Word of God and chose instead the limited reasoning mind of finite man that seemed to suggest the scriptures were wrong. Only a “Darwin” proclaims the scriptures wrong based on his arguing suppositions of the circumstances, Yet there is something in his contention that now needs to be answered (I Peter 3:15-16):
Like Darwin’s problem, the answer to our present discussion is found in the complexity itself, though most people simply conclude that, “complexity means a cover-up to error” and so refuse to even hear the argument; “The truth is either simple or it’s not true”.
But for those who are willing to give the argument an honest hearing, Let’s start with the information that her spirit was referred to as “he” while the damsel was identified as “her”:
“…come out of her. And he came out the same hour.”
It’s obvious by the fact that she didn’t die when the spirit (water) was cast out of her, that this spirit was additional to the one mixed with her dust to make potter’s clay. By this distinctive division between the girl and the additional spirit in her, we can see that verse 17 tells us it was the girl who was supporting the apostles work while it was the spirit of divination that gave her insight into who they were and so motivated her to a twisted spiritual support that actually spiritually undermined their ministry. So how can we justify warning her not to preach Jesus Christ? We find the answer in her proclamation:
“…These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation” Acts 16:17.
Like Simon of Acts 8:9-23, this girl is promoting something that she herself has not experienced but her demon spirit of divination gives her personal insight that convinces her that she has; so although she means well, she is a false witness; by the very definition of “witness” she is telling a lie even though the information is true.
Many, many Christians will promote the work of great men of God because they are convinced in their hearts and spirits and minds that the information is true, but if they are not preaching from personal experience of that truth, whatever they proclaim is actually a false witness and therefore a destructive lie. This grieves the men of God because the mindframe of that conduct keeps these false witnesses in the illusion that they are already a party to what they are proclaiming is the truth. By her own declaration this girl was one of those sinners to whom the apostles were preaching, but by mis-orderly joining the ministry before salvation, she could not be saved because by her participation of agreement she thought she already was.
So what are her listeners supposed to conclude from a sinner supporting and preaching the gospel of salvation without being saved?
This is the complex deception that comes through the many possessed of demons that come in Jesus’ name declaring that he is in fact the Son of God; which is an allowable interpretation of:
“For many shall come in my name, saying, (that) I (Jesus) am Christ; and shall deceive many (with their confusion that comes attached to their truthful proclamation)” Matthew 24:5.
I know that this seems like a manipulation of interpretation, but consider that while the girl willingly confessed the truth of the apostle’s message, apparently nobody directly asked the spirit in her. And if they had, the spirit would have said, “No, Jesus did not come in the flesh”, though he didn’t mind the girl saying so because he could use it.
What the girl ends up with is a schizophrenic soul of miry and potter’s spirits (James 1:6-7).
Tom Horn, author of “Apollyon Rising 2012” might not be the damsel, but he sure has not followed the Apostle Paul’s example in scripture; instead he has brought the girl up onto the stage and asked her to preach for Jesus!
“But why was Paul grieved while Mr. Horn is excited?” This question should seriously haunt all Christians until it is fully answered.
The problem is that my simplistic answer regarding identifying the damsel’s spirit, sounds like a “slight of hand” to answer a flaw in scripture. But there are lots of other verses and historical records to show that spirits are picked up and lost quite frequently; Potter’s spirits seem to be hard to acquire and fall off on their own without regular and careful maintenance (Ephesians 4:30), while Miry spirits seem to jump on by themselves and cling hard until removed with force of Power (Matthew 17:19-21). Identifying which is of God and which is of Satan is a discernment that all Christians should gain by intimacy with the Holy Spirit of God, though obviously, by special gifting, some Christians will have a keener ability than others;
“For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom. To another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit…to another the discerning of spirits…” I Corinthians 12:8-11.
This post is just a warm up in recognizing the complexity as we learn to identify the spirits within the people we meet as well as the earnest ministers of Christ that come in his name but bring destructive deception in Jesus’ name.
Oh, by the way, notice the part of Acts 16:16 that I left out;
“And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:” Acts 16:16.
I left the underlined part out of the presentation because this is an "after the fact" bit of info provided by the inerrant scripture, that unless given as insight by the Holy Ghost, you just wouldn’t know in your evaluation.
So now, how important is supernatural insight into the spirits of Christian ministers?
Only as important as proper evaluation of their message.
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*1 SuperStorm Sandy:
As we watch the current news of SuperStorm Sandy attacking the shores of America’s Eastern coastlands, the over-dramatization of the media has labeled this a “Perfect Storm”. The problem this creates is still more deception because it gives us the wrong idea that we can in fact weather any storm; “See? We weathered Sandy”.
If we analyze the meaning and application of this post against SuperStorm Sandy as a Perfect Storm, we will come up with a “we can weather this too” conclusion. But Sandy is far from a Perfect Storm; she is only a SuperStorm with perhaps perfect aim, like a perfectly aimed 9.9 earthquake is to a perfectly aimed 12.0.
If you look at a vast variety of dictionaries you will find a wide spectrum of defined meanings, but the single factor that remains consistent among them all is a significant combination of circumstances that result in a very rare excessively disastrous effect (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/perfect+storm).
The term was actually invented by a writer in 1936, and while that bit of information seems to have dropped from all but a rare definition, that writer would be the original source for what makes up a perfect storm.
In short; it takes multiple weather cells, each a significant storm on their own, combined in a perfect meteorological and circumstantial conjunction to produce the worst possible results.
See the 1991 Unnamed Storm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Perfect_Storm) against the 1938 New England Hurricane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_New_England_hurricane) as a conceptual idea.
And don’t forget, this Post’s analogy is that the sea is where the hopeless destruction takes place and land is where you can flee from it by moving further inland in bad weather (Jeremiah 51:6, I Corinthians 10:14, I Corinthians 6:18). Scripturally, the Land and Sea are foundationally different by their very compositions and natures.
Land=Law=Iron, Sea=Democracy=Humanity.
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“…And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many…” Daniel 8:25a.
For many years this wording has been a curious mystery to me; “How does the most evil man the planet has ever seen, destroy many by peace?” Is peace destructive? If so, then;
What is peace?
We are about to embark on a series of studies that are so earthshakingly dark and confusing that I seriously hesitate to begin writing it down. Where do you stand when the entire earth is quaking under your feet? When what has always been unquestionably solid rock suddenly turns to giant liquefied walls of earth like the waves of a hurricane sea (Isaiah 57:20-21). How do you save an entire ship, or even a single life, when it is caught in the middle of The typhoon of Perfect Storm proportions?
What I am about to show in detail is so hopeless I don’t want to be the guy to tell it. And the hopelessness of it is not the worst part.
The fingers of the multiple cells in this perfect storm are many and complex, and the complexity of what I have already been showing in scripture is provided to us as a cipher pattern so that we can actually grasp how to interpret this storm in an effort to avoid it, not weather it.
Seasoned fishermen on the Grand Banks have long seen great storms and to refrain from boldly plowing the seas every time a storm is reported would be to fail their jobs as cowards. These seamen are a hearty sort that need an iron nature so strong they can ply their work in the face of pending disaster as a regular thing. But a Perfect Storm is a horse of a different color, such as Zechariah 6:7 + 1:8 = Speckled (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/03/more-horses.html)(*1);
Bravery is irrelevant in such a storm, and in fact bravery simply morphs into the actions of a fool. Same act, Same display of nature, but Different actual nature because intelligent calculation has been removed from the equation.
Bravery is carefully calculating the odds against experience and ability then moving ahead with skill against the acceptable risk, while foolish is moving ahead in blindness without the calculation.
Skill and ability, nor bravery, have any part in the calculation of a perfect storm. The bravest men harbor their ships and take the time off from work. The fool plows ahead to weather the storm in the illusion of bravery, and loudly mocks the calculating brave as a coward. The lines and complexities of when which is which are really quite entangled. But it is not at all confusing to the one doing his own calculations using his well seasoned knowledge of his skills and abilities (Revelation 16:15, Luke 21:34-36, II Peter 3:10-14).
How easy it would be to simply say; “we will all be killed by a nuclear bomb”; we could easily grasp that singular concept and accept it as a specific target to defend against or prepare for the inevitable end while we ponder about what day it will come. But this is not to be. Our great destruction is to be far more complex, and the first fingers of it have already begun to build.
I really don’t want to be the weather guy, I would much rather be writing the Isaiah 58:6-14 “Grace sequel” to my first book as promised, but I have volunteered for this mission of God and so have been given a clear understanding of how this Perfect Storm plays out. And the storm is building faster than I can write it with clarity. There are already many ships too far out to sea to recover, even if they turned back to shore right now. But there are still many others that can yet be saved if they would but turn back now.
While my efforts are earnestly calling these back, the facts are that those now returning because of the looming storm will be saved while those still plowing ahead will not hear any more warnings, they have already made up their minds to ignore them and are committed to “hell or high water”.
What I am now writing is the blow by blow pre-history of the storm for the later generations to read. The reason that it is a pre-historical account (even if only a few days ahead of the events) is a justification of God, that he did not wish it, and provided a sufficient warning to avoid it:
“Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets” Amos 3:7.
But obviously, with my English language translation and self-described uncertainty of “theories”, “proposals” and “submissions” of interpretation, I don’t qualify as a prophet do I?
Except God has already made a contingency for this "less than a prophet":
“For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken” Isaiah 28:11-13.
If that does not perfectly describe my work, tell me what this passage would describe better?! God has not provided new prophecy; he has sent men like me to explain it through the laborious effort of our frail humanity, not in Hebrew or Greek or even Aramaic but in a different language, and the tongue in which I speak is not to farmers and ranchers by analogy, but to an age of science:
“Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is...(America). Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves…Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD…when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it…and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report (let alone to experience it)” Isaiah 18:14-19.
My soul is vexed simply to report it’s dark complexity even before it actually happens.
By the very complex nature of the destruction, I find myself standing against many ministers that I truly love and respect as men. The last thing I wish to do is point a bony finger directly at these fellow ministers and cry out; “WRONG!” but by the very nature of this destruction and the description of it, this will be the sad result. So be it, Even though because they are all somebodies and I am a nobody, my “interpretation” will be utterly rejected and mocked as “Doom-and-Gloom”.
But I have not put my life on hold and taken up this work for the sake of saving the world from destruction; I am doing this work as a testimony against humanity to validate God in the destruction. The reason this work is so important is because of the complex nature of the destruction:
“For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many” Matthew 24:5.
Hitler deceived a lot of people in the name of God, and by it destroyed many; with complex corruption he actually came in the name of the Christ through Evolutionary progress masked as God’s will (http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Hitler.cfm). I provide this antichristian article as evidence of the great confusion that must be dissected to the ultimate degree and thereby separate the waters from the waters. Otherwise these waters will be accused of being those waters because obviously waters are waters right? (Isaiah 5:19-20, Jeremiah 4:22, 13:10).
Up until now, those deceivers who have come in the name of Christ have been easily spotted charlatans, fooling only the simple. But the scriptures show a terrifying prophecy of imitators that are so close to the real presentation that it will be nearly impossible to distinguish between them and the truth:
“For there shall be false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before (it happens)” Matthew 24:24.
Hitler’s “Christian deception” may have worked on the pagan author of the above linked website but there is not a true Christian alive or dead that would allow that Hitler properly applied the scriptures. The deception still to come is far more sophisticated than that, to the point that even earnest Christians will be deceived, and only those very intimate with God will see the deception. So what hope is there for explaining it to the linked website author who can’t see it in the simple version?
Rick Warren’s “Purpose Driven” Apostasy is simply another degree of this early deception, but it is already deceiving many Christians while it makes poison waters of the pure waters of Christianity itself. I have no qualms about exposing Mr. Warren as a child of hell; he is not a fellow minister though he claims to be. His form of apostasy is still too distant from the real truth that other than deceiving the foolish he is no threat to the faith.
But there are those now standing among us that are the first of the wonderful prophet impostors and as much as it pains me to so publicly “turn on them” in my exposure of the error, I must not hold back from the exposure and let the individuals fall into whichever camp they belong. Please, please understand that I mean no animosity or personal attack on men who have sacrificed so much in a completely honest and honorable intent for good; I know the diligence to which they have labored to do their honorable work, BUT…their work is not of God and so the result will be the ruin of deception.
So let’s begin with the basics:
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The Ministering Damsel:
“And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel…met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying (3132):” Acts 16:16.
Soothsaying 3132 manteuomai; from a derivative of 3105 (meaning a prophet, as supposed to rave through inspiration); to divine, i.e. utter spells (under pretense of foretelling:-- by soothsaying.
3105 mainomai; middle voice from a primary mao (to long for; through the idea of insensate craving); to rave as a “maniac”:-- be beside self (mad).
“The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation” Acts 16:17.
So we see that this helpful and insightful girl was earnestly confirming that the Jesus Christ these men were preaching was the true way, and these ministers were sent by God to show that way.
Now how are you going to argue that this is not a good thing? Who among us would tell this eagerly helpful girl that she could not minister? Clearly what she was saying was completely of God, right? According to I John 4:2 her spirit must be confirmed a spirit of God;
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world” I John 4:1-3.
Properly following the caution that there are many false prophets, they tried the girl’s spirit by having a “get to know you” conversation and she eagerly confessed her confirmation that God sent these men to preach God’s salvation to the people. And since the salvation they preached was Jesus Christ, clearly her spirit was confessing by agreement that Jesus Christ came in the flesh to save mankind, right?
Now don’t go all religiously pious on me because you “know the right answer”; figure this out as if it was happening in your church today:
You and a few men from your church go on a week-long street ministry to a town several hours from home, and after a morning of preaching you take a break for lunch with a following planned prayer circle to refresh your spirits for the afternoon work.
As you head to the hotel conference room to pray, this spunky seventeen year old girl with a bubbly personality introduces herself to you guys and so you strike up a short conversation in which she expresses excitement for the work you are doing in her town. You ask her about herself and she tells you that she works for a local small time magician as a fortuneteller but she really doesn’t like it, even though she is actually really good at it, she just needs the money for college.
After you reach your conference room door you say your goodbyes and go in to pray. Then as you get back on your street corner and resume preaching, this girl walks through the back of the crowd as a self-appointed advertiser, proclaiming;
“These men are the ministers of the most high God and are showing us the way of salvation”
and every now and then she catches your eye and gives you a quick two-thumbs-up grin as you, and she, continue to minister; She is an unexpected enthusiastic team player.
After evening falls and the crowd and the girl go home, your team sits at a restaurant for supper where someone brings up the unusual girl and her actions. Obviously by the conversation it struck everyone as a bit odd, but hey, the Lord works in mysterious ways, right?
OK, NOW you get the reality of the event the apostles faced. What do you do beyond quietly hoping that she doesn’t come back tomorrow, Right? But you feel a bit guilty for not wanting her; “Why don’t you want her?” you think to yourself, “Is she saying anything wrong that you can point out? No. It’s just odd. It’s, uncomfortably odd”.
But she does come back the next day.
“And she did this many days.
But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour” Acts 16:18.
So how did Paul know this was a demonic spirit and not a spirit from God to support their ministry? Do you suppose any of his group challenged him for discouraging her faith? I mean Paul seemed to violate the very scripture that clearly and plainly determines if it is of God or not!
“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.
So now what just happened to that rock solid one-verse-theology that you can safely camp on in confidence? Is the scripture wrong or is it Paul that was wrong? It’s obviously one or the other, so tell me; Which is it?
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Like Oil and Water, No, More Like Iron and Clay:
Darwin was a Christian. But Darwin altered his faith in the Word of God and chose instead the limited reasoning mind of finite man that seemed to suggest the scriptures were wrong. Only a “Darwin” proclaims the scriptures wrong based on his arguing suppositions of the circumstances, Yet there is something in his contention that now needs to be answered (I Peter 3:15-16):
Like Darwin’s problem, the answer to our present discussion is found in the complexity itself, though most people simply conclude that, “complexity means a cover-up to error” and so refuse to even hear the argument; “The truth is either simple or it’s not true”.
But for those who are willing to give the argument an honest hearing, Let’s start with the information that her spirit was referred to as “he” while the damsel was identified as “her”:
“…come out of her. And he came out the same hour.”
It’s obvious by the fact that she didn’t die when the spirit (water) was cast out of her, that this spirit was additional to the one mixed with her dust to make potter’s clay. By this distinctive division between the girl and the additional spirit in her, we can see that verse 17 tells us it was the girl who was supporting the apostles work while it was the spirit of divination that gave her insight into who they were and so motivated her to a twisted spiritual support that actually spiritually undermined their ministry. So how can we justify warning her not to preach Jesus Christ? We find the answer in her proclamation:
“…These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation” Acts 16:17.
Like Simon of Acts 8:9-23, this girl is promoting something that she herself has not experienced but her demon spirit of divination gives her personal insight that convinces her that she has; so although she means well, she is a false witness; by the very definition of “witness” she is telling a lie even though the information is true.
Many, many Christians will promote the work of great men of God because they are convinced in their hearts and spirits and minds that the information is true, but if they are not preaching from personal experience of that truth, whatever they proclaim is actually a false witness and therefore a destructive lie. This grieves the men of God because the mindframe of that conduct keeps these false witnesses in the illusion that they are already a party to what they are proclaiming is the truth. By her own declaration this girl was one of those sinners to whom the apostles were preaching, but by mis-orderly joining the ministry before salvation, she could not be saved because by her participation of agreement she thought she already was.
So what are her listeners supposed to conclude from a sinner supporting and preaching the gospel of salvation without being saved?
This is the complex deception that comes through the many possessed of demons that come in Jesus’ name declaring that he is in fact the Son of God; which is an allowable interpretation of:
“For many shall come in my name, saying, (that) I (Jesus) am Christ; and shall deceive many (with their confusion that comes attached to their truthful proclamation)” Matthew 24:5.
I know that this seems like a manipulation of interpretation, but consider that while the girl willingly confessed the truth of the apostle’s message, apparently nobody directly asked the spirit in her. And if they had, the spirit would have said, “No, Jesus did not come in the flesh”, though he didn’t mind the girl saying so because he could use it.
What the girl ends up with is a schizophrenic soul of miry and potter’s spirits (James 1:6-7).
Tom Horn, author of “Apollyon Rising 2012” might not be the damsel, but he sure has not followed the Apostle Paul’s example in scripture; instead he has brought the girl up onto the stage and asked her to preach for Jesus!
“But why was Paul grieved while Mr. Horn is excited?” This question should seriously haunt all Christians until it is fully answered.
The problem is that my simplistic answer regarding identifying the damsel’s spirit, sounds like a “slight of hand” to answer a flaw in scripture. But there are lots of other verses and historical records to show that spirits are picked up and lost quite frequently; Potter’s spirits seem to be hard to acquire and fall off on their own without regular and careful maintenance (Ephesians 4:30), while Miry spirits seem to jump on by themselves and cling hard until removed with force of Power (Matthew 17:19-21). Identifying which is of God and which is of Satan is a discernment that all Christians should gain by intimacy with the Holy Spirit of God, though obviously, by special gifting, some Christians will have a keener ability than others;
“For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom. To another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit…to another the discerning of spirits…” I Corinthians 12:8-11.
This post is just a warm up in recognizing the complexity as we learn to identify the spirits within the people we meet as well as the earnest ministers of Christ that come in his name but bring destructive deception in Jesus’ name.
Oh, by the way, notice the part of Acts 16:16 that I left out;
“And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:” Acts 16:16.
I left the underlined part out of the presentation because this is an "after the fact" bit of info provided by the inerrant scripture, that unless given as insight by the Holy Ghost, you just wouldn’t know in your evaluation.
So now, how important is supernatural insight into the spirits of Christian ministers?
Only as important as proper evaluation of their message.
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*1 SuperStorm Sandy:
As we watch the current news of SuperStorm Sandy attacking the shores of America’s Eastern coastlands, the over-dramatization of the media has labeled this a “Perfect Storm”. The problem this creates is still more deception because it gives us the wrong idea that we can in fact weather any storm; “See? We weathered Sandy”.
If we analyze the meaning and application of this post against SuperStorm Sandy as a Perfect Storm, we will come up with a “we can weather this too” conclusion. But Sandy is far from a Perfect Storm; she is only a SuperStorm with perhaps perfect aim, like a perfectly aimed 9.9 earthquake is to a perfectly aimed 12.0.
If you look at a vast variety of dictionaries you will find a wide spectrum of defined meanings, but the single factor that remains consistent among them all is a significant combination of circumstances that result in a very rare excessively disastrous effect (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/perfect+storm).
The term was actually invented by a writer in 1936, and while that bit of information seems to have dropped from all but a rare definition, that writer would be the original source for what makes up a perfect storm.
In short; it takes multiple weather cells, each a significant storm on their own, combined in a perfect meteorological and circumstantial conjunction to produce the worst possible results.
See the 1991 Unnamed Storm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Perfect_Storm) against the 1938 New England Hurricane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_New_England_hurricane) as a conceptual idea.
And don’t forget, this Post’s analogy is that the sea is where the hopeless destruction takes place and land is where you can flee from it by moving further inland in bad weather (Jeremiah 51:6, I Corinthians 10:14, I Corinthians 6:18). Scripturally, the Land and Sea are foundationally different by their very compositions and natures.
Land=Law=Iron, Sea=Democracy=Humanity.
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