The Three-Part Yin

(Identifying the Enemy)
Post 287

I have struggled in the effort to condense this next study into something less than an entire book. This subject is quite important to the entire concept of the age-changing battle we are now entering, but if not extremely careful the details in the study itself will easily derail the comprehension of the actual topic of identifying the enemy. I ask you to be very careful to refrain from an early conclusion before this several part study is finished because of all the deceptive complexities that must be explored before the proper resolution can be comprehended.
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Before we cross that river and go into battle there are a few more things that need to be cleared up to the degree that there is absolutely NO wavering confusion. And as James states, faith is the key to seating these truths that are only then usefully reliable in battle:

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways” James 1:5-8.

The problem with today’s Christianity, in applying this preparation, is their perception of “faith” as if it is faith that saves us contrary to Ephesians 2:8, which without investigation seems to contradict Luke 7:50. The common Christian today believes that this faith is anything that bears the name Jesus in which we “really believe,” and herein lies a fundamental cancer as we enter the battle in the confidence of commanded Strength and Courage:

“Be strong and of good courage…” Joshua 1:6a
“Only be thou strong and very courageous…” Joshua 1:7a

We wrongly suppose that strength and courage are internally sourced utilities called faith that we must drum up in our minds by our wills. But where do strength and courage actually come from? The scriptures again provide the answer:

“The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him” Exodus 15:2 (see also v.13).

So if God is our strength (song and salvation) and our courage (determined preparation and historical precedent), why has God commanded us to be strong and courageous? The reason is because we are supposed to put on our father’s God like a vulnerable man puts on a tested, powerfully protective suit of armor to be an invincible knight:

“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof” Romans 13:14.

“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” Ephesians 6:11.

So we see that it’s not a mater of “really believing” that my favorite T-shirt can protect me, it’s a matter of the historically proven ability of the item itself that makes the difference. In this way we see clearly the flaw in Disney’s suggestion to “Believe” as if the believing itself is the key to success. But being a generation of Christians enthralled with Disney productions we have been beguiled to forget our forefather’s God-- who has proven himself able-- and have become confused by what it actually means to be strong and courageous. We don’t know the historically proven works of God to our fathers and now we just “believe” in Jesus as a magic talisman because of our unproven faith. In essence Jesus has become the name of our magic T-shirt in a battle against real weapons of war. This never turns out well:

“And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits” Leviticus 26:20 (*1).

Following the chain of thought; God is our strength that results in success. But forgetting the reality of just who God actually is and what he has already done-- which knowledge provides courage-- we wrongly focus on our belief in God as the power of our faith. It is our belief that becomes God to us and not actually God himself: “That helmet of salvation is heavy and looks dorky with my stylish jeans, so if I really believe my baseball hat is now my helmet of salvation in faith, then it is... just like my magic T-shirt of righteousness!” (Ephesians 6:11-13).
This is how we Christians make our own gods, and then confidently go into battle in “Jesus Christ Faith” that simply and shockingly fails us.
But somehow we never confuse who God really is when it comes time to cast the blame for failing his promise to us! This is further rebellion as we-- God’s people-- then turn to Pagan God’s to do for us what God failed to do:

“And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them” Deuteronomy 31:16.

I’m trying hard not get you tangled up in the many layers of meaning in this passage; this verse is greatly prophetic with much depth that we will not discuss here. But for our study simply note that this is God speaking to Moses as the first Jesus Type, describing God’s people after Jesus is crucified and physically gone. But where did the Hebrews actually go to be among strangers as prophesied here? After Moses they were led by Joshua, the second-part Jesus Type, into the Promised Land… NOT to be among strangers but to utterly remove the strangers and claim the land as their own (Exodus 3:16-17+23:23-25+28-33). So we see that this prophecy is primarily speaking of a time long into their Hebrew future, with several layers of timeline and people-group applications. In this discussion we are focusing on the primary ancient Hebrew application as it then Types our current Christian application. So back to the question: “When did the Hebrews go to be among the strangers?”

In spite of the fact that by failing to disinherit those of the Promised Land and so “went to be among them,” there can be no doubt that the primary application is regarding their three-phase captivity into Babylon beginning in BC 606-587 (according to the dates of calculation presented in Sir Robert Anderson’s 1894: The Coming Prince). The specific dates or even the specifics of the complex event are irrelevant to this discussion, only the fact that they went, and it was there that their faith was fundamentally perverted to the degree that they would eventually break the covenant itself (this is VERY important but we will not discuss it again for some time).
Now don’t get confused; Their lusting after strange gods was nothing new and happened as rebellion long before they went into captivity-- and in fact while still on the desert journey out of Egypt-- but the fundamental perversion of their faith happened while being among their captors. This is important for reasons we are now discussing by application as we prepare to go into the battle with true Strength and real Courage as opposed to the illusion that we so fully trust-- in genuine faith that doesn’t actually work (Romans 10:3 vs. Philippians 3:9).
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The Corrupted Example Of The Corrupted Jews That Types Our Corruption:
The Jewish example of failure is what we really need to explore in understanding our own modern Christian failure, but the confusion today is already so great that our indoctrinated perceptions of the historical Jews refuses to allow the truth in the example and so hides the failure from being discovered as the actual Type that must be used to comprehend our present situation, which we think we know without it. Today all we Christians know is the simplicity that we are commanded to love the Jews and bless them in order to be blessed:

“And I will bless them that bless thee (Abraham and his nation) and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” Genesis 12:3.

Strangely, even in the most simply applied limited understanding of this promise, the promise is historically discovered to be true as evidenced by the trackable relationship between how America blesses Israel and our seemingly disconnected successes, and likewise between how America curses Israel and our seemingly disconnected failures.
Dividing their land or sending significant armament to The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is a biggie, so watch America’s situation significantly deteriorate if this is not stopped before it is completed…
That’s the simple version of blessing/cursing Israel for no other reason than they are the People of God.

But like the Orthodox Jews wearing those silly boxes on their foreheads and hands as technically commanded, there is a whole lot more to the command than the simple obedience to the letter without having a clue to the real intent (spirit) of the command. It’s the exact same thing with our recent discussion of Sabbaths, Pork, and Christmastrees… as well as circumcision;
Is God really going to punish the Jew for not wearing that silly box? No, just as Christians are not punished for breaking these commands…IF we comprehend and obey the actual point! (Romans 14:2-8). The second-generation Jew got across the Jordan being uncircumcised.

So, to see through the indoctrinated confusion as a result of corrupted perception regarding the historical Jews, we must first use a more recent example, that although has also been corrupted to produce yet another layer of confusion in order to hide the truth from us, we are nonetheless near enough to the history that we can still find our way through the corruption to find the truth.
Are you still with me or did I loose you back there? Simply put; we are going to use the more recent historical corruption of Christianity as and evidential example of the much older corruption of Judaism in order to comprehend the failure of the Jews so that we can comprehend in Type the failure that we are experiencing as a Christian nation.
So without further ado let’s begin:
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"Christianity"; The Most Familiar Yin (Comparable Darkness):
“Why does the world hate Christians?” To the simple Christ follower this is a mystery because Christ is the epitome of Love and Hope and Peace and Patience and Brotherly Kindness (Galatians 5:22-23, II Peter 1:4-8).
“Who wouldn’t want any of that as a neighbor?”
But to the fearful world living with common deception and skepticism as a familiar way of life, they are looking for the underhand with the knife hidden behind the happy presentation;
“What’s the angle? Nobody’s that selfless.”
This fear and skepticism is supported not only by their own deceptive and hateful nature of upbringing, but also by the bloodthirsty history of the Catholic Church that ruled the world from Rome with a “Christian” iron rod. Forget that it made a special glory in burning to death millions of actual Christians (Fox’s Book of Martyrs), the Roman Catholic Church was the “Christian” enemy of “Peaceful” Islam in the Crusades, and that is proof enough that Christianity is evil and must be destroyed as the ultimate blackness of Yin to which Islam is then the white alternative of Yang by default.

Now if we just leave that black-and-white concept of a “duel” Christianity of “Christians” killing Christians, on the surface it speaks huge volumes of reason that can likewise be used to wisely address both Judaism and Islam in the same way, which we will do later. But if we dig deeper into the complexities of the Catholic Church it will startle most Christians to find that most everything the Catholic Church did can be earnestly supported in the Holy Bible as God’s intended purpose for the faith. Now of course we know that is not at all what God had in mind, but by missing the heart of the word, the letter of the word can’t help but be easily misinterpreted and applied fully in a horrific corruption of its actual intent and purpose while remaining confident that it is the written will of God:

“...not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life” II Corinthians 3:6.

“They ("the Jew/Christian") shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you (the Actual Jew/Christian) will think that he doeth God service” John 16:2 (see also: Matthew 10:16-23, Mark 13:9-13).

By the Spiritless application of the letter of the law, the Catholic Church may not have been technically flawed in their use of the minute details, but they will be harshly judged by the spirit of the law for their grave error of total misapplication (Romans 2:12, Matthew 6:23, Luke 11:34-35). I will show this is also applied directly to both Judaism and Islam for likewise missing the whole point of the faith while applying it with great diligence and intensity. In this way the earnest inquirer can see a great distinction between the true faith and the illusion with the same name, and the practitioner with a dark heart cannot see the grave error of their “same” faith, while the uninterested world simply condemns in confidence the whole faith as being dangerously “whacked.”
More recently, until the present Administration, the same historical Catholic illusion of Political “Christianity” in power, was found within the “democratic Christian” Church population of reprobates in a democratically run U.S. Government which was called “Christian.” But although harder to identify from the outside than the former powerful Vatican, the distinction is still as great and the consequences are too. There is simply NOTHING Christian about the Catholic kind of “Christianity” except for a grand illusion of Chicken Whaling under the flag of Christ, and to the whole world, Catholicism IS Christianity… brotherhood with Islam (*2), long history of protecting pedophile sodomite priests (*3), and all.

But to complicate the complexities, the Catholic Church puts on a forced show of struggling with condemning these heinous sins while accepting the sinning priests, condemning terrorism while pacting with Islam, etc., and thereby justifies the “Christianity” of itself by its democratically understood “love of Christ” to mean tolerance, and thereby succeeding in completely ejecting the “contending” Christians from globally accepted “Christianity.” In otherwords; the Roman Catholic Church has never stopped “killing” Christians, they just do it now in an indirect way through the Peace of tolerance as Judge, in direct disobedience to the Commands of God while using his very words to do it!:

“Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;” Matthew 5:43.

Since Christians are adamant that sodomiting pedophiles not be priests in God’s house according to God’s law (Leviticus 18:22, Deuteronomy 23:17, Romans 1:27= I Timothy 3:1-13, Titus 1:7-14), Christians are seen as judgmental and unloving and therefore they must be condemned as socially dangerous-- ignoring the fact that such condemnation is itself the judgmental attitude presumably being condemned in the Christian who simply strives to obey the spirit of Gods word: “Do not sin”! (I John 3:6-10). This is simply a single example of the many complex complexities of a faith so fully corrupted that the true faith is long lost to the masses in the wake of the great whaling ship now bearing that name, plowing ahead with its own complexities to solve as it flamboyantly departs the harbor in grandeur to hunt for public safety a ridiculously insignificant and dangerous prey… the chicken.
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Judaism; The Other Yin (Comparable Darkness):
By understanding the two “kinds” of Christianity, with each version itself struggling with hypocrisy within its ranks-- where the most obvious version is always abominably hypocritical at its core-- we can glean new concepts regarding Judaism:
“Why does the world so persistently hate these people?”
If you are a common Jew the perception is about the long unspeakable suffering and the refusal to yet be allowed equal nation status; “Surely the historical oppressions of Iran, or Pakistan, or North Korea, or Cambodia, or most African Countries, or any number of other nations, is greater than anything the Jews might have done to deserve such long term hatred among the nations.”
But in a paranoid world of common guilt, the world is looking for someone to blame; a Yin to validate their Yang. And the little guy is most easily kicked as the fall-guy. But there is a far darker reason that parallels the powerful “Christian” Catholic Church of hateful oppression. We find that greater darkness embodied in the 22 volume Babylonian Talmud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud)(http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm) of Orthodox Judaism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism).

Like the Catholic Church that so successfully replaced true Christianity that the world sees Christianity as that abomination, so Judaism has much longer been adulterated into a similar vial whore. If you think Islam goes to extremes to defend their prophet Mohammad just look through the history of Judaism regarding their Talmud and its Orthodox Rabbis; every criticism of them is historically seen as anti-Semitic and therefore violently rejected outright as dangerous hate-speech against “the Jews” and needful of immediate suppression to defend the faith. This paranoid self-defense protects the crazed perspective of “Judaism” from any reasonable evaluation that might reveal some flaws in an honest effort to help bring it back into reality of God’s intent. Between the Paganized Jew and the Orthodox Jew, are the much fewer Reformed and Conservative Jews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative _Judaism), and among them are some who hold to the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) rather than the Talmud (in essence the exposition of the Tanakh). The world knows very little or nothing about these who actually try to keep the original faith-- albeit without the temple and sacrifices-- among the many more who support Orthodox “Judaism,” which is the Great Adulteress of all manner of abominations through the Babylonian Talmud (BT), (see Judaism’s Strange Gods - by Michael Hoffman, for a plethora of shocking details of unspeakable depravity). Every wickedness done to the Jew by the Muslim in faith, is already exampled in faith by the Orthodox “Jew” to those not of their faith (*4). The Babylonian Talmud is of the house of Satan himself, but bearing God’s name among God’s people, in the complexity of enhancing the understanding of the real thing (the Tanakh), it masquerades as the Faith of God till in confusion we don’t even know it should be distinguished from the real thing so long ago buried and forgotten in the ruins of their old culture destroyed by God for its transgressions as exampled in the days of king Josiah (II Chronicles 34:15,18-21).

To condense a very large historical study topic; the Babylonian Talmud is the Rabbi’s exposition on the Hebrew bible. And because there is now no temple or sacrifice, the explanations of the Talmud is actually seen as superior to the “obviously flawed” Tanakh that requires a sacrifice for salvation which is no longer possible (without God’s prophesied Christ as THE sacrifice, which they flatly refuse as an option). The additional complexity is that more recently in history Jerusalem and the temple were again destroyed in 70 AD and at this time the Orthodox “Jews” publicly mourned the “obvious failure” of the word of God and so turned even more earnestly to the ancient Judaic works that were drummed up in the Babylonian Captivity of 587 BC while among the strangers and their gods. Not having a Jewish temple in which to sacrifice for the cleansing of their sins they plowed ahead with their Godless interpretation of God’s word and couldn’t help but apply a “Babylonian slant” to their Judaism which thereby fulfilled Deuteronomy 31:16 shown above, resulting in this end:

“…and will forsake (5800) me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.”

Forsaking God. That’s not your typical rebellion against God-- which he can correct with discipline-- No, it’s a relinquishment of what you held… even while thinking to still belong by retaining the name; “God’s People” (Jeremiah 2:10-13). This is folly.

Forsake 5800 ‘azab; a primitive root; to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.: -- commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, X surely.

That verbal work of Jewish Rabbis-- while in captivity for their corruption of the faith-- re-wrote the very intent of the scriptures by manipulating the exquisite details word-by-word without God’s Spirit of intent. The results are accurately exampled by the silly boxes and dorky spit curls with religiously warn, and often uselessly tiny, hats (I Corinthians 11:4) that supposedly gets them into God’s good graces by diligent works while their heart is as black as the sides of the bottomless pit, successfully ejecting from the faith all those who actually hunger to know God through the truth of his inspired word. Do you suppose I am a bit harsh and judgmental? I am simply expressing the thoughts in the words of Jesus himself:

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves” Matthew 23:15.

“Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit (see Jude 1:12).
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh” Matthew 12:33-34.

“Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?...” Matthew 23:33+

But to make sure the complexities are good and complex, the Talmud alone is not good enough to pervert the Tanakh beyond recovery; we need even more compounding layers to ensure the actual word of God is left so far behind in perversion that it will never be recovered as the Jewish faith!
And so we see that although the Babylonian Talmud, verbally compiled ironically by iniquitous priests in captivity for their Romans 1:18 unrighteous handling of God’s word, it was finally written into the document it is today by a long chain of later “professionals” who studied it as superior to God’s actual Holy Word. In this long chain of generations are complexities unsurpassed… (until this next age now rising). In the pages of Judaism’s Strange Gods Michael Hoffman does a great job of briefly outlining this long chain as each addition plays against/and with the previous interpretations of the Babylonian Talmud to result in such a quagmire of documents upon documents, which must all be studied, that no one could possibly sort it out to reach God’s intent.

The Mishnah, the Tosefta, the Gemara, the Zohar, all are complex additions and re-interpretations of the works before them as they each try to explain and perfect the Talmud in ever greater detail like the myriad of laws produced every year by each new Congress of the United States as they try to “perfect” the previous works of the Congresses before them in complete forsaking of the original 4 page Constitution. And then in addition the Judicial system of Judges goes about re-interpreting the intent of those laws and interpretations until nobody has a clue what the writers of those additions actually had in mind, let alone the founder’s original laws. In otherwords; the Babylonian Talmud is a living document that can only be correctly interpreted by the Catholic-Priest type Rabbis, which take all those inter-woven layers of older works and add their own agendas while claiming “nearly” divine authority through interpretation.

The Rabbinic Eras (first two centuries AD), the Amoraic Era (300-600AD), the Geonic Era (600-1000AD), the Commentaries of Rashi on the Chumash (1040-1105AD), the Mishneh Torah of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), The Tur (1250-1328), The Shulchan Aruch (1488-1575), The Bach (1561-1640), The Taz (1586-1667), The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (1804-1886), the Aruch HaShulchan (1829-1888), and the The Mishneh Berurah (1838-1933), all are works that cannot and do not abrogate the previous works, but simply complex them even more - (compiled and further condensed from Judaism’s Strange Gods p.62-71).

Please allow a single example of the details:
The “Aruch HaShulchan. Compiled by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829-1888).
In Aruch HaShulchan, Epstein cites the source of each law as found in the Talmud and Maimonides, and states the halakhic decision as found in the Shulchan Aruch with the glosses of Rema. When he deems it necessary, he also cites the precedents of other Rishonim (pre-1550 authorities), and especially Acharonim (later authorities). Epstein considers the glosses of the Rema on Rabbi Joseph Karo at great lengths. The Aruch HaShulchan follows the structure of the Tur and the Shulchan Aruch: a division into four large parts, subdivided into parallel chapters (simanim). These are further subdivided into paragraphs (se’ifim). In his work, Rabbi Epstein tends to take a lenient view (lekula), but decidedly without compromising in any form the power and jurisdiction of the rabbis. Aruch HaShulchan is often quoted alongside the Mishnah Berurah. The Aruch HaShulchan refers in number of its sections to the Mishnah Berurah. The Aruch HaShulchan has a wider scope than the Mishnah Berurah.” - Michael Hoffman Judaism’s Strange Gods p.66-67.

And that is only one description in the above long list of interconnected works!

And that is only one description in the above long list of interconnected works! As you can see even without all the additional details, the complexity of Orthodox “Judaism” is extremely complex and this allows the Rabbis to claim that only they and their lifelong devotion to the study can rightly interpret God’s intent, and anyone who dares to argue with them is to be treated with the utmost severity as an ignorant heretic dangerous to the faith. Does that remind you of anything Catholic? or perhaps Muslim? It is identical! “Death to the unbeliever in the name of God!” and that includes internal variations.
But being careful to be open and honest for the purpose of a genuine evaluation, this seems to appear close to my own claims that to actually know God (I John 2:13a) it takes a devoted life that many Christians are simply not willing to choose. Yet the difference, the very important difference, is that I am not claiming exclusive interpretation that you must follow from an unending list of new interpretations that claim they too were inspired, all which make irrelevant the original. In fact I am trying very hard to get you to grow your own relationship with God through the three stages of maturity (I John 2:14-21: children, youth, and then fathers), and after you learn to recognize the nature of God’s voice in His word (even perhaps through exploring my work as you mature), He will then speak His heart to you too, via a voice recognized by the familiarity (John 10:4) of his singular Word.
But like the Jews, like the Muslims, like the Catholics; people claiming to be Christians would rather just blindly follow a leader rather than do the difficult work of actually learning to follow God himself, and we end up with a Calvinism vs. Armenianism/Democrat vs. Republican kind of fighting one against the other in the Palestinian "love-rocket" kind of way against their brothers as mutual sons of Abraham (Mark 3:25, Matthew 12:25). An exposition is NEVER to supersede or replace God’s word as the Talmud has superseded the Tanakh (*5).

So if the majority of religious Jews are Orthodox, and if the authority of the Jewish faith is in agreement, then is Judaism the great darkness that their Muslim neighbors think they see? And just how blessed will we be to blanketly side with a people who have rejected Jehovah’s actual faith originated through Abraham and the Type sacrifice of his son, but utterly lost along the way through a misapplication of the Law of Moses by so many levels of bastardization?
This is a very tough question, and even tougher to answer intellectually. But what we do know clearly is that God actually stands actively against such an organization of corruption (Deuteronomy 4:1-3) and everyone within its reach suffers the effects, innocent or not (Numbers 25:1-3)-- though the innocent don’t get destroyed with the wicked when the judgment of God comes (Deuteronomy 4:4, Numbers 25:11). But don’t forget the thirty six that fell in Ai because of Achan’s sin (Joshua 7:5); obviously there are complexities in the spiritual realm just like there are in the physical; “simple” rarely explains everything in a single sentence though it can provide a general concept that “usually” explains “most” cases.
Generally, the reason for the general suffering is because the people collectively desire the “social authority” as a replacement to the work of personal faith that God requires (just as "Christians" do today). In the time of Christ the Jewish people actually wanted Jesus, not as Messiah but as king, to defend them against the cruel Romans (Luke 19:11) that disrupted their “we’re God’s people” lifestyle of independence. But in the same spirit of following that they offered Christ, they let their “ordained leaders” led them out of their weak personal faith in Jesus, and in willing ignorance they turned their teeth on him crying “Crucify Him!” Such weak faith is incapable of standing on its own feet among social err… even when Christ is the Rock on which they stand! Any wind of doctrine will blow them over (Ephesians 4:14), but it’s a good-looking faith as long as the skies are calm… like they have been in America for more than a full generation now.
But the wind is about to blow like it has never blown before! And the trees are about to fall like timber before the shockwave of Mt. St. Helens (*6). The obvious darkness in the failures of the Jewish and Christian faiths is the Yin that Islam will use to compare its Yang of light to the world in the effort to sell their brand of darkness, which although violent, is far less appearing hypocritically flawed. (To be continued).
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(*1) The Cursed Earth; Malachi 4:6.
This topic is worth an entire study (PLEASE read Deuteronomy 28:15-68) but the Lord has shown me that my work is not supposed to be a 22-Book Exposition on the scriptures to keep you from searching it out yourself with God. My work is only supposed to be a clear warning against neglecting God and His Book, and a guided example for wetting the appetite to encourage you to hunger after God himself and learn how to hear from his Spirit the secrets he wants to share with you personally.
So along those lines let me simply suggest that the earth was blessed in the glory of the Church Age, when America was organized under the authority and submission to Jesus Christ, and blessed the world’s nations as a byproduct. But that age is at its end and the result is a new reality where good does not always prevail, right does not always have the might, and instead of a natural blessing, even Christians will find the very cosmos seeming to fight against them in their everyday life because the earth is cursed. This is because the Authority and Power of God has again been relinquished to the Devil on an international scale by the American Christians, who were divinely given that Authority to Govern by law but chose to let it slip, i.e. forsake.

“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s suffering; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy” I Peter 4:12-13.

What’s done is done, don’t beat yourself up over your part in bringing this on (other than repent), or don’t spend any time defending that you had no part in it (which simply reveals ignorant pride). It is what it is by national choice and now it’s ours to live out individually. Don’t fret, but instead rejoice by a new focus of perspective: Like giving top military weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood; the giants just got a whole lot bigger! But it’s still our job to cross and enter this war with the same expectation that Yeshua will prevail in his classically unorthodox way, it’s going to be nothing like what we have already seen!
In Leviticus 26:20 It’s not like “their” godless trees will not produce but “your” trees will because you are a Christian, this is a regional thing at best and a national thing more likely, with international consequences until it becomes global, but either way the message is clear that the curse is a universal thing as a result of God’s people failing their job; even faithful Daniel went as a captive into Babylon with the rest of his people that caused the fall. OWN IT for the glory of God, but be careful to justify God in the new undesirable circumstances by understanding that this is our own doing! “If there really is a loving God why would he allow all the suffering in the world?” If you don’t have an answer now, what will you say when things get a whole lot worse?

(*2) Catholic/Islamic Coalition:
“ROME - Proof has emerged for the first time of a Catholic-Muslim pact to forge a common strategy to combat the United Nations plan on population and development. There had been considerable comment about the coincidence of views of the Vatican and many Islamic countries in opposing much of the UN document, especially its provisions concerning abortion and artificial means of birth control.
New evidence shows that this 'Holy Alliance' was carefully co-ordinated, and may signal a new global alliance of the traditional religious authorities to confront what they see as the main dangers facing society today: secularism, consumerism, and the focus on the individual at the expense of the collective.
A three-page document in Arabic secured by La Repubblica (the Independent's sister paper in Italy) records the agreement reached at a meeting on 8 June between senior Vatican officials, including two monsignors, and the representatives of three leading pan-Islamic groups.
The signatories were Mgr Mounghed el Hashim of the office of the Vatican Secretary of State; Mgr Carrascosa Coso Andrez, a diplomat in charge of relations with foreign states; and Father Thomas Michel, head of the Islamic section of the Papal Council for interfaith dialogue. Their co-signatories were Monsef Klibi, of the Islamic Conference Organisation; Abdullah Abdel Shakour of the World Islamic League; and Mohamed al-Bar of the World Islamic Conference.
The three Muslim representatives were invited by the Holy See to the Vatican to discuss the most controversial points of the UN document. They looked at questions of the sanctity of human life, the role of the family and sexual licence. In their common statement they said that they 'opposed the individualistic approach towards life' which pervaded the UN document, to the detriment of family life and the health of society as a whole.” - "The Independent" Thursday September 8, 1994 (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-polulation-conference-vatican-and-islamic-clerics-made-holy-pact-on-abortion-interfaith-alliance-forged-in-rome-to-fight-un-strategy-for-termination-and-birth-control-1447440.html).

(*3) Pedophile Case Leads To Civil Lawsuit Against Roman Catholic Church:
“An onslaught of sexual abuse cases continue to tarnish the once pristine name of the Roman Catholic Church. Subsequently, leading society to become more aware of the great struggle and pain that has resulted from the incidents of sexual abuse of minors by the Catholic clergy. August 31, 2011 witnessed a Rancho Cucamonga court room sentence Reverend Alejandro Jose Castillo to one year in jail for molesting a 12-year-old boy in Ontario. Furthermore, the victim has recently filed a civil lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino for knowingly subjecting him to a pedophile. The prosecution of Reverend Castillo is just one of many recent clergy sexual abuse cases that suggest church officials may have knowingly placed children in the custody of repeat sex offenders…Unfortunately, Castillo’s conviction is just one of many clergy sexual abuse cases. An influx of documents have surfaced that detail the accounts of church officials knowingly placing boys in the custody of pedophiles. Furthermore, one of Castillo’s alleged victims has officially filed a civil lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino for knowingly placing him in the custody of a priest who had already confessed to committing lewd and lascivious acts with children. The lawsuit, naming the Rev. Alejandro Jose Castillo, was announced last Thursday at a news conference in front of the Our Lady of Guadalupe school in Ontario…” - "The Senators Firm" (http://www.thesenatorsfirm.com/pedophile-case-leads-to-civil-lawsuit-against-roman-catholic-church).

Los Angeles Catholic officials shielded pedophile priests: report
“(Reuters) - Two Catholic Church officials in California plotted to conceal child molestation by priests from law enforcement as late as 1987, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday, citing newly released internal Church records.
The records show that Los Angeles Archbishop Roger Mahony, who is now retired, and his top adviser on child sex abuse cases, Monsignor Thomas Curry, worked with other Church officials in 1987 to send priests accused of abuse out of state to avoid prosecution, the newspaper said…The sex abuse scandal has rocked the Catholic Church in the United States, costing it billions of dollars in settlements and driving prominent dioceses into bankruptcy.
The scandal erupted in the United States in 1992 with a series of sex abuse cases uncovered in the Archdiocese of Boston that helped encourage other victims of abuse to come forward.” - "Chicago Tribune" (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-01-21/news/sns-rt-us-usa-church-abusebre90l06d-20130121_1_internal-church-records-priests-abuse-cases).

(*4a) Jews and Christians are apes and pigs
Qu’ran Suras: 7:166, 2:65, and 5:60:
“But when even after this they [the Jews] disdainfully persisted in that from which they were forbidden, We said to them, "Become apes—despised and disgraced!"” Sura 7:166 (Maududi).
“And you know well the story of those [Jews] among you who broke Sabbath. We said to them: "Be apes—despised and hated by all." 66 “Thus We made their end a warning to the people of their time and succeeding generation, and an admonition for God-fearing people.” Sura 2:65 (Maududi).
“Then say: "Should I inform you [People of the Book (; i.e. Jews and Christians respectively)] of those, who will have even worse recompense from Allah than the transgressors? They are those whom Allah has cursed; who have been under His wrath; some of whom were turned into apes and swine; who worshipped taghut [the devil or idols]; those are the people who are in a far worse plight and who have turned farthest away from the Right Way." Sura 5:60 (Maududi).

“O Muslims, the Jews are treacherous and deceitful people over whom lies the curse and anger of Allah. They permitted what Allah forbade, with the lamest of excuses; therefore, He cursed them and turned them into apes and pigs. Allah sentenced them to humiliation anywhere they might be ...” - Sheikh Muhammad Al-Saleh Al-‘Athimein in a sermon at the Great Mosque in Al-‘Unayza, Arabia: - (http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1049.htm).

“At the Sheikh Ijlin Mosque in Gaza, Sheikh Ibrahim Mudeiris, employee in the Religious Affairs Ministry in the Palestinian Authority, uses the Battle of Badr (AD 624) as a rallying cry for his fellow jihadists to fight the Jews, who are the descendants of apes and pigs.
Then came the great battle of Badr, where the Muslims grew stronger. This brought the third stage of dealing with the Jewish existence in Al-Madina. “We have tolerated you for a long time - you offspring of apes and pigs! We have tolerated you for a long time.”” - (http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1089.htm).

These excerpts from a very worthwhile read of fair explanation by James M. Arlandson: “Did Allah transform Jews into apes and pigs?” (http://answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/jew_apes.htm).

(*4b) Gentiles are like donkeys and they exist only to serve Jews:
“Goyim (non-Jews) were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world - only to serve the People of Israel…With gentiles, it will be like any person - they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant… That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.” - Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, senior Sephardic posek and head of the Shas Council of Torah Sages. Sermon on the laws regarding non-Jews. Source: “Yosef: Gentiles exist only to serve Jews,” Jerusalem Post, October 18, 2010. [Just one example of many in Michael Hoffman’s work of exposure].

The grave danger in such a detailed examination is that by addressing the serious flaws in the subverted faith of the Jews and Christians it appears as if we are condemning the true Jews and Christians and thereby commending the Muslim faith by osmosis. But don’t forget that it was indeed God himself who sent both the Assyrian and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to conquer God’s own people for their iniquities. And although fully Pagan and never claimed by God to be a Jew, God nonetheless used Nebuchadnezzar’s own choices to do God’s violent will upon God’s people (Jeremiah 25:9). In effect the Pagan Babylonians were more righteous than the Jews! Today, the Muslims, though worshiping Satan himself under the name of Allah, are nonetheless more righteous than the Christians... because they actually believe in the god of their faith, shown through their works of obedience. God has more mercy upon these than his own willful people… though they will pay a heavy price for the pleasure they take in abusing God’s rebellious children:

“And I (God) am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased (with my people) but they helped forward the affliction” Zechariah 1:15.

In this way we begin to comprehend our very complex reality as a scripted play, where each actor plays his part with his own “style” that either pleases the director (God) or offends him.
Now note in the above Suras, the interesting specifics of the Qur’an’s additional words “and swine” when referring to the generic people of the book, which includes Christians, while the earlier single use of “apes” alone was used to describe Jews without the Christians. In this way we can see an undeclared distinction that seems to apply with greater depth than an arbitrary selection of a few animal types to describe God’s displeasure. Jews as apes and apes as lesser-evolved beings, describes the Muslims as having an evolved faith beyond the pre-historic faith of the Jews. Christians as swine and swine as the scriptural representation of hypocrisy, describes the Muslims as having a true faith compared to the hypocritical faith of Christians who have abandon everything of the faith but the “free ticket to heaven” and love to consume pork (a “you-are-what-you-eat” kind of thing). This mockery of Christ, I showed described in Post 250 “Beauty and the Beast” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/06/beauty-and-beast_12.html).
Dear Christian, do not be startled to discover that Satan now has the power to prophesy and use truth in his subversion of God’s seat (Ezekiel 28:3 speaking of Satan), which has been his game all along: (“Hath God Said?”). Just DON’T get caught up in the investigation of his material just because it may contain truth, it is VERY corrosive! Much more on this as we continue.

(*5) The Danger of Exposition:
My growing fear for Christianity is the now familiar fall to this danger shown in the long complex work of the Talmud. Today in the genuine effort to help Christians understand God’s word, we have a whole long complex list appearing quite similar to that of the Rabbis:

• The 23 volume “Pulpit Commentary” - Edited by Josheph Exell and H.D.M. Spence,
• The 29 volume “MacArthur New Testament Commentary”,
• The 20 volume “Holman Old Testament Commentary”,
• The 6 volume “Matthew Henry’s” Commentary on the whole bible,
• The 13 volume “Expositor’s Bible Commentary - Revised” featuring the work of 56 contributors,
• The 14 Volume “Church Dogmatics” by Karl Barth,
• Etc., etc.,
• The many “versions” of the bible with intent to make it easier to understand,
• And the countless books that attempt that purpose with less than divine claims.

I am not criticizing these works individually as they can and often do provide great aid to the growing Christian, but somewhere along the way we just might find ourselves with the “Christian Talmud” that supersedes the Bible because “nobody can understand it without such helps” and with them we don’t even need the Spirit of God to explain it! In fact we don’t even need the word of God anymore. I see signs of this already today as some very respected prophetic expositors now hold their former works on “Revived Rome” as at the inspired level held for the Talmud. This is folly.
My warning is that if we are a people that use these helps to understand God’s word, never trying it ourselves, it is because we are not full of the Holy Ghost and therefore in great danger of not even being Christians!
Are you young in the faith as a little child? Use the helps by all means. But never forget that the goal is to become a father (mature believer teaching others) who knows God both experientially and historically, and that you are, even now as a child, more equipped toward that ability than you think!

“I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning.
I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one.
I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father” I John 2:13.

Although the reason seems to be nearly identical for the little children as for the mature fathers, we see in the later details of v.15-17 that John goes into great instruction for the young men regarding their overcoming that is merely noted in this passage, and so we also see that John likewise goes into great detail of instruction for the little children in v.18-29. In that instruction we are surprised to learn that even as little children we have reason and cause to know the father already, maybe not as from the beginning, but we know him!

“But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth” I John 2:20-21.

So if children know the truth, why is John bothering to write instruction to them? It’s because they are little children! They need intelectual instruction.
But what John is saying in his instruction is that they already have the God provided ability to know truth from the lie in what they hear, if they will just use it. And his instruction uses that ability to confirm his needed instruction of warning:

“Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us” I John 2:18-19.

Did you hear that? The many antichrists were not wild fringe groups of bald guys in orange jumpsuits; No, the antichrists originated from within the Church! “They went out from us.”
John is explaining to the new Christians how to tell the good guys from the bad guys when the bad guys use our own words and doctrines and mutual history! Rick Warren and his “Purpose Driven Church” is just such an antichrist. Pay attention to God’s Holy Ghost unction that resides in your spirit if you are a true Christian. You don’t need to be 40 years into the faith with a monk-like devotion of study to make this discernment! But you do need to be devoted to God and constantly learning.
Remember, all three levels of maturity crossed the Jordan; the fathers, the young men, and the little children. And while the little children might not have fought and overcome like the young men, they had an unction of the Holy Ghost and were used by God in a variety of ways; perhaps providing protection through prayer, or provoking the right military thought by asking the right question at the right time in the innocent “wisdom of a child”, or identifying a double agent within the stuff at the rear of camp because he just “seemed off,” or even as seemingly insignificant as to bringing water and bread to those who needed it to sustain them in the fight (prayer and finances). To God, nobody is insignificant or useless; it’s just that some are more useful than others because they have prepared themselves in the Lord. Although quite useful, it may be a bit embarrassing to be a healthy strapping young man… who can do nothing but “point at the enemy” because you neglected your preparation:

“Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon (the foundation of Christ: v.11), he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire” I Corinthians 3:13-15.

While the work done is obviously important, the foundation upon which the work is built is, by far, more important, as we will see in the next Posts.

(*6) Mt. St. Helens (http://www.fs.usda.gov/mountsthelens):
“At 8:32 Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted and blew down or scorched 230 square miles of forest…”
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