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Trumpet W1
If
some of you comrades have no interest in animal-husbandry subjects like inbreeding, please bear with me. I’m
going to show you that inbreeding is more than just another example of the
fallacy of “common knowledge”...we’re going to see how the truth about
inbreeding (“doth not even nature itself teach you”) and the culling that must accompany
inbreeding can be applied to Christianity
in order to help us avoid apostasy. And that will help us realize why the gates of hell want us to think
inbreeding is bad. In retrospect we’ll be able to, once again, marvel at the amazing consistency of God’s creation –
all of His truths really do
complement each other.
I
have made this relatively-minor essay the first in the series of War College
Trumpets because I’m going to build upon and apply some of the things revealed
herein to subsequent trumpets. In this trumpet I’ll also define certain terms
such as “Recessive genes” that will be used later. Let’s begin.
At
Canaan Farm many years ago when Robin and I first decided to get livestock, we
accepted our responsibility as husbandmen by learning about animals and how to
care for them. We selected Horned Dorset sheep, Nubian dairy goats, and Buff Orpington chickens because their traits appealed to us and
suited our intended style of husbandry. In most books on caring for animals, we
were constantly told inbreeding is bad and dangerous – so stay away from it.
Imagine our surprise when we heard from other shepherds in our area about two
elderly shepherds who believed in inbreeding
their sheep. The amazing thing, we were told, was their sheep were in great
demand by other shepherds because the sheep were so consistently flawless and
because inbred sheep have a high concentration of good genes. If that were
true, I asked, why didn’t everybody inbreed? The answer was that those two men
were having some success with their flocks now,
but they were “living dangerously” because at any moment their ewes could start
having lambs with two heads, three eyes, and three legs.
Along
with the fact that the two shepherds were breeding excellent sheep, there were
several factors that helped convince me to research inbreeding:
· The two
inbreeding shepherds were both retired college professors.
· As a Bible
believer I had already learned to be somewhat skeptical of “common knowledge”,
and my continuing studies would eventually result in the quote,
“To run
with the majority during the race of life
is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.”
· Many of
the more successful shepherds were using breeding programs with various names
such as “line breeding” that were really inbreeding with a few
inconsistencies thrown in.
· Adam’s
generations, Noah’s generations, and Abraham’s generations inbred. And most
old-time animal husbandry involved inbreeding because of geographic isolation
and the absence of suitable transport for most poor farmers.
I
didn’t just research inbreeding at the library. I phoned the two retired
professors (who lived hours away in opposite directions) and set up
appointments for Robin and me to visit their farms and discuss inbreeding. They
were amazed and delighted that after all these decades somebody wanted to actually sit down and rationally talk specifics.
Both professors were intelligent, articulate, most knowledgeable, and very
helpful. After fully teaching us that successful breeding (from the standpoint
of genetic consistency) must include proper culling, they warned us to
be careful about what we said around most shepherds because their retorts would
make us no longer respect them as knowledgeable
husbandmen…and if we tried to help them learn, we’d be disappointed by their
slothful reactions and would only convince them we were “inbreeding weirdoes.”
What I learned from my studies and the two visits was fascinating, not merely
because – once again – common knowledge was wrong, but because it turns out the
Lord knew what He was doing when He (beginning with Abraham’s selecting a wife
for his son from among his close relatives) advised the Hebrews to only marry
among themselves and to shun pagans.
Inbreeding
is incest. It is when you find a stud ram you really like and try to develop a
flock that is “made in his image.” You do that by having him breed his sisters
and daughters and granddaughters and great-granddaughters for as long as he
lives. (You could also inbreed by simply “closing your flock” by never bringing
in rams or ewes from other flocks, and by letting your rams and ewes breed each
other randomly. But this random method would take longer to produce results.)
Incest
has gotten a bad reputation for a reason – it tends to force undesirable
genetic characteristics to manifest themselves. For example, let’s say you have
a flock of Horned Dorset sheep and you’ve heard inbreeding will give them crumpled horns and spots of dark wool. Undesirable
traits are produced by “recessive” genes, which are genes that usually don’t
show up, such as crumpled horns in sheep, and perhaps a “history” of diabetes
or heart disease in your family. If you do not
inbreed, the recessive genes will tend
to stay hidden...and you’ll only have a crumpled horn (or heart disease in your
family) show up every second or third generation. That’s right, “outcrossing” (the opposite of inbreeding), which means you
go buy a stud ram every two or three years from some other flock so he won’t be
related to your ewes, will tend to
“mask” the recessive genes...and bad traits usually
won’t show up. But your flock (and your family) will still have those bad
recessive genes in their genetic mix...and in random generations those bad
genes will show up.
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To
review: Outcrossing will tend to avoid having problems with recessive traits like crumpled
horns and heart disease. It does so because outcrossing
tends to favor the good (dominant) genes and subdue the bad (recessive) genes.
But the recessive genes are still there in some sheep and they can be
genetically passed to their offspring...and will randomly show up via crumpled
horns every now and then.
Inbreeding has the opposite effect on recessive genes;
it tends to force the recessive genes to surface. That means initially you’ll
have more lambs born with crumpled horns and dark spots in their wool. What are
you going to do with those sheep with undesirable characteristics? You’re going
to cull them from your flock by
turning them into food or selling them. And the lambs that were born looking
good (no horn or wool problems) might
not have any recessives in their genetic mix – because the inbreeding didn’t
force anything bad to appear...this time. So you’ll use them as breeders, but
you’ll need patience; it’ll take several generations of inbreeding and culling
to expose and eliminate the recessive genes from your flock. When that is
accomplished, no matter which rams and ewes mate, all of their lambs will be
pure; you have eliminated the recessive genes from your flock. As long as your
flock remains closed it will remain genetically pure and have no problems.
But
if you one day go out and purchase a big, good-looking ram from another flock so you can use him as a
stud, all of your inbreeding and culling will go out the window because the new
ram has an unknown genetic mix. For a generation or two you may be pleased. But
one day you may have a lamb with hip dysplasia, or a bad under-bite, or
something else that shows you’ve now got unknown recessives lurking in your
flock. And the only way to eliminate them is to start over by closing your
flock, inbreeding, and culling the undesirables.
Interestingly
enough, animals have their own way of culling – which tends to preserve their
breed traits: It’s called survival of the
fittest (which is considered by evolutionists to be a “proof” that The
Creation never happened). How do animals cull themselves? They kill the recessive genes. For example,
if you buy two dozen mail-order white chicks, the chicken hatchery wants you to
fall in love with and buy more breeds of chickens, so they include in the
perforated shipping box a “bonus” specimen of a different breed – such as a
cute little black chick. When you go out to the barn and check on the chicks,
you’ll sometimes notice that when the black chick walks by the white ones, the whities will peck on the black one simply because he is different from the majority. And one day
you’ll find the black chick lying face down, dead, feathers messed up, and
covered with little specks of blood from the constant barrage of pecks.
Knowledgeable
livestock breeders and Bible believers who have studied to shew themselves
approved unto God will be distinct minorities that are different from the masses. Bible believers can be compared with the
little black chick: the ignorant Christian majority will pick on Bible
believers in little “civilized” ways in an unconscious survival-of-the-fittest
effort to defend their ignorance, and to spread their Recessive genes. The
Bible tells us how to protect ourselves from the fate of those poor picked-on
black chicks…it’s called separation –
stay away from those in the apostate majority.
One
of the shepherd/professors we visited (from whom we bought sheep and bees)
actually went to the Isle of Guernsey in the English Channel to visit dairymen:
In the old days the Guernsey breed of dairy cows originated because the
geographic isolation of the island (difficult to get stud bulls on small boats)
forced the farmers on Guernsey to inbreed. Genetics also explains how Noah,
with relatively few animals aboard his ark, could have populated the globe with
all the different animal breeds we have today: Just a few mongrel dogs, for
example, when turned loose on the earth would have eventually through
inbreeding and geographic culling produced many dog and wolf breeds. (Now you
know why there are so many different breeds of sheep and cows; it’s because of
natural inbreeding due to geographic isolation. Just look up a list of sheep
breeds and notice that many of the
breed names are geographic regions.) Today dog breeders are continually
producing new breeds by using inbreeding and culling to first isolate the kinds
of genes they want and then to purify the breed until the Kennel Clubs are
satisfied with the stability and reliability of the new breed. New strains of
corn (and apples, and everything) are
developed in the same way: Mix some strains that have qualities you like, and
then use inbreeding (manual pollinating) and culling of the results until you
have reliable strains.
That’s
an abbreviated sketch of inbreeding. It doesn’t tell the whole story, but
you’ve got the general idea. Inbreeding is widely understood and used all over
the world. In fact, just about the only people who don’t understand how useful
and helpful inbreeding can be are the
majority!
There
are reasons tradition has given inbreeding a bad reputation:
· The love
of money: It’s cheaper to outcross and sell expensive puppies to people who
want good-looking animals (that may or may not end up with hip dysplasia), and
also to sell cheap puppies to families that don’t know or care if they’re ugly
(that may get hip dysplasia), than it is to take the time to inbreed and cull
in order to develop a truly pure, healthy breed. (Most “purebred” animals today
are not genetically pure.)
· Culling is
thought to be “unfair and cruel” by many lightweights.
· Outcrossing can initially cause “hybrid vigor”: you’ll get larger animals and crops
than normal – so you get to sell more product.
Other
info we learned, including how the show rings at our summer county fairs are
ruining the purity of our “purebred” livestock; about hybrid vs.
open-pollinated crops; what horror the professor learned on the Isle of
Guernsey; what the modern agricultural schools were teaching his son; what the huge
international seed, chemical fertilizer, and chemical crop spray companies are
doing to agriculture; and how the professor’s old-fashioned farm sailed through
a recession even as he watched his modern-farm neighbors go bankrupt was all
fascinating in the context of this discussion...but I’m going to move on and
show how inbreeding and culling apply to the Bible and Christianity.
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We’ve
seen that inbreeding forces recessive genes to manifest themselves more quickly.
I’m going to capitalize Recessive genes
whenever I use the term in reference to God’s people/the church. For example,
incorrect doctrines and evil ideologies can be hidden among church members for
years because Christians do not have the kind of close-knit, intimate,
Bible-based relationships and in-depth discussions and studies that would more
quickly expose church members who are lazy, uncaring, unmotivated, or believe
in doctrines and ideologies that are subversive to Biblical Christianity. These
“Recessive genes” would tend to become apparent if Christians “inbred” by
having verbal doctrinal intercourse
via serious, in-depth, Bible-oriented fellowship.
Since
these “Recessive genes” are bad and harmful to the doctrinal wellbeing of the
church, they need to be eliminated. That’s where culling
comes into play. Culling in the OT eliminated Christians who were
polluting the church with Recessive genes / subversive ideologies. Examples of
culling include God drowning all the leavened Christians with The Flood; King
David executing the young man for harboring a belief in regicide; God executed Hananiah for
creating doubt about the inerrancy of the word of God as spoken by Jeremiah;
the Jews executed any of their own children who hadn’t grown out of their
willfulness and rebelliousness by the age of 16; and the church used stoning to
cull members
guilty of various infractions of the law.
God
also instructed his OT saints to avoid Recessive genes by inbreeding / only
marrying other Hebrews. Another facet of inbreeding/culling is separation/shunning. God told His people
to separate themselves from pagans
and to shun bad Christians and to
utilize church discipline if necessary.
The
proper use of close Christian fellowship (inbreeding) and church discipline
(culling) would have produced good, strong, doctrinally-pure church members
whose Biblical outlook on life repelled
them from carnal Christians and pagans and made them seek the haven of the
company of good Christians.
But,
alas, the majority of OT and NT saints are not good, salty Christians who have
kept our churches doctrinally pure and spiritually strong. Our churches have
become Recessive-gene breeding grounds for born-again, upstanding,
morality-worshipping, tithing, hypocritical Pharisees. In other words, the
slovenly “deadwood” in our churches you might ordinarily point to as the
problem – aren’t...because those
slovenly pewsters aren’t really a doctrinal
threat (but they should be made to get with the program or get out because, as
we say on the farm, they’re taking up
room at the feed rack...room that could be used to feed sheep who want to
grow and become active salts with savor). The true doctrinal
threats in our churches are often the Bible-thumping pillars because they tend
to be leaders who can influence and leaven all but the few true Bible-based
warriors. The reason modern Pharisees survive and thrive is our churches don’t
have enough true warriors (defined as doctrinally-mature Swordbearers)
to start and sustain the kind of daily, between-services, doctrine-based
fellowship and Bible studies and discussions that will eventually expose the
tradition-loving, Bible-hating Pharisees (like Christ did) and cause them to
pack up and git! I hate to keep repeating myself, but for Jesus’ sake I’m going to say it
again: Just like at the First Coming when the very people who were looked up to
as Bible-believing pillars of the church turned out to be the blind who were
leading the ignorant slothful majority of pewsters to hell with them; so too is
that true today.
Another
undeniable truth is a large church isn’t
a sign that it’s a good church: A good and effective army isn’t the one
with a few seasoned veterans and many unmotivated sloths taking up room at
the feed rack; it’s the one with a majority of true warriors and a few
motivated, eager, actively-participating-and-growing recruits.
A
quick comparison of proper livestock management and proper church fellowship:
LIVESTOCK: Use inbreeding to ensure that the flock remains closely
related, thus exposing undesirable traits (recessive genes).
CHURCH: Use separation to ensure close fellowship, thus
exposing undesirable traits and doctrines (“Recessive genes”).
LIVESTOCK: Use culling to eliminate animals with undesirable
recessive genes for the present and future good of the flock.
CHURCH: Use church discipline to eliminate Recessive genes and
enforce proper Biblical doctrine and conduct for the good of the church.
LIVESTOCK: Eventually the flock will be almost free of recessive
(undesirable) genes, and it will therefore breed true to form with only minimal
culling required to keep it that way – and the breed thrives.
CHURCH: Eventually the church will be populated by dedicated
Christians with proper doctrine, which will make it easier to expose and deal
with occasional tares and wolves in sheep’s clothing – and the church survives
the war.
All
of this shows God knows what He’s talking about in the Bible when He advises us
to fellowship with those who are believers and doers of the word, to be
separated from those that walk in darkness, and to not spare the rod of
discipline in the church.
It’s time
to get into the meat of this War College material, starting with Trumpet W2.
Trumpet W2
Lk
14:31 Or what king, going to make war
against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him
that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
Satan
was not foolish enough to go to war unless he had such huge advantages that
convinced him he could win against The Mighty God. You already know from The Age of Reason about the dangerous
instinctive appeal of the evil of equality and its offspring of carnality and
Reason, but the following verses suggest that the doctrine of devils, equality,
is so aggressively potent that it cannot be stopped:
1
Cor 5:6 Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Lk
13:20,21
Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a
woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Mat
16:6,12 Then Jesus said unto them, Take
heed and beware of the leaven...Then understood they how that he bade them not
beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine...
If the Bible is
correct (and we know it is), and the Devil’s leaven will leaven the whole lump, that
can only mean the gates of hell will
prevail over the church...unless... (Note: This verse does not say the Devil will win the war, it says his leaven cannot be
stopped. That fact was crucial when God developed His strategy and tactics.)
In this War College
Trumpet I am going to let Biblical history demonstrate just how serious,
dangerous, difficult, and deadly this war is, which will show why the Lord has been using a strategy
of rearguard action ever since the
beginning.
Rearguard action: The utilization of defensive and/or
delaying tactics, often
involving heavy casualties, by a
retreating army desperately trying to
protect itself
from defeat or annihilation by an overwhelming force.
In the next Trumpet, W3, I’ll use Scripture to describe the
proper tactics given to us by the Lord that are appropriate for a
rearguard action designed to enable the church to endure to the end in spite of
heavy casualties.
Gen 3:22,23 And the LORD
God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and
evil...Therefore the LORD
God sent him forth from the garden of Eden.
In order to win the war, God
issued literal instructions to Adam about the forbidden fruit. In a nutshell
that’s the pattern we need to follow: God is the Authority, He does the
thinking, He tells us what to do, we do it. It could not be simpler.
Satan, in order to prevail, wants
to reverse all of that: We are our own authority (not God), we do our own
thinking (instead of complying with the literal word), and we do what we think
is right (establish by our fruit that we are independent and evil).
When Eve told Satan what God
literally said, Satan attacked her literal interpretation by responding with
theology’s mantra, “Yea, hath God said...”, and then he offered a “better”
interpretation that was more appealing...and Eve accepted it. Satan then
overturned Adam’s authority by getting him to carry out the will of his
servant, which is the democratic process.
To review, right at the beginning
of the war Satan successfully introduced leaven to the lump by:
1.
Using
theology’s Reason to undermine faith in the literal accuracy of the word of
God.
2.
Using
democracy to empower the will of the people.
Gen 6&7 God looked upon the earth, and, behold...all flesh had
corrupted his way...the waters of the flood were upon the earth... And all
flesh died...and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with
him in the ark.
God told His first patriarch,
Adam, to be fruitful and multiply in order to populate the church with
soldiers. By the end of the Day, however, Satan had so leavened God’s church
that only eight people were put aboard the ark. We are not told how God’s people were leavened, but
whatever it was caused God to react with deadly wrath...and He drowned
everybody.
Shepherds know how to cull undesirable sheep in order
to preserve the integrity of the flock, and the Good Shepherd wisely culled all
of the leaven and started over with a new lump/patriarch.
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Gen 17:7,9 I will establish my covenant between me and
thee...to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee...And God said unto
Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou,
and thy seed after thee in their generations.
God told His second patriarch, Noah, to be fruitful and multiply
in order to repopulate the church with soldiers. By the end of the Day,
however, Satan had so leavened the lump of God’s people that He decided to
divide the human race and start all over with a new patriarch. We are not told what leaven made God react so
dramatically by culling both Adam’s and Noah’s generations, but a little later
we’ll get our first clue from what happened to Moses, and another clue from
what happened to Christ.
Rom 11:11-22 Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid:
but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the
Gentiles...if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he
also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them
which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness:
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Jn
15:1,2,6 I am
the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh
away...and cast them into the fire, and they are burned...because of
unbelief they were broken off...
God gave the generations of Abraham, His third patriarch, the
Old Commission to be fruitful and multiply in order to repopulate the new
lump/church with soldiers. He also gave them the written Old Testament.
Some tactics used during this period include:
·
Inbreeding. All informed shepherds know how valuable inbreeding is (see
Trumpet W1) in order to preserve the integrity of the flock. (Doctrinally, I’m
including close Christian fellowship
and separation as part of inbreeding.
(Again, see Trumpet W1.) God advised His Hebrews to only marry among
themselves, to take precautions if they married pagans, and to kill all pagans
who lived close to Israel. This was designed to keep leaven out and to expose
members of the church who had been leavened (with “Recessive genes”).
·
Culling. The death penalty (including the up-close-and-personal
gruesomeness of stoning) was required for a number of transgressions (including
some that were “trivial”) in order to drive home the importance and necessity
of obeying the literal word of God.
On AOR page H2-4 we covered The Grapes of Wrath,
which describes an attempt by God’s people to dethrone Moses and institute a
Christian democracy. An interesting facet of this episode is the fact
that God was so angry He came very close to cutting off His people and starting
over – again – by making Moses the fourth patriarch (a new lump). Could it be
that history repeats itself – especially in the Bible? Could it be that the
generations of both patriarchs, Adam and Noah, who also incurred the wrath of
God, did so because they were leavened by the principles of democracy as
had been done when God’s people turned against Moses? Could it be that the
democratic process that toppled Adam in the garden established a pattern that
has been repeated in every era and to all patriarchs or to their generations?
Possibly, especially if we include the fact that the generations of Abraham had
become so leavened by the time of the First Coming that in a democratic
action Christians forced Pontius Pilate to release Barabbas and crucify the
fourth – and last – patriarch, Christ. And could it be that NT Christians in
a democratic action will elect the Antichrist?
Equality-based democratic action also
incurred God’s deadly wrath during Korah’s uprising
(AOR page H2-5) when He killed 15,000 Christians in an effort to make us zero
in on why He culled them so we might not make the same democratic
mistake. It seems, though, that equality and democracy are such
Naturally-powerful ideologies that, in spite of God’s sudden and dramatic mass cullings, and in spite of all He has put in His Holy Bible
(covered in part in AOR D25, Damnable Heresy), today’s NT church/lump
has swallowed equality and democracy hook, line, and sinker.
We’ve already noted that by modern Christian
standards King Saul’s transgressions (1 Sa 15) made
him a Boy Scout when compared with the multiple major sins committed by King
David. And yet God quickly dumped Saul and retained David. Any sin,
whether it is considered to be major or minor, makes us sinners in need of
forgiveness. Even though both Saul and David were sinners, and even though on
the surface David seemed to be worse, there was obviously something that
made Saul’s sin unforgivable in the Lord’s eyes.
Saul’s confession and request for forgiveness were
rejected because what he had done was subversive. The definition of
subvert may be applied to allegiance to a government, nation,
or sovereign; or it may be applied to a person’s character, values, or faith:
Subvert: To intentionally or unintentionally pervert,
corrupt, or undermine at a foundational level, often covertly.
When Saul rejected the authority of the
literal word of God and yielded to the democratic voice of the people,
he was accepting and unknowingly attempting to spread a type of leaven that
Biblical history, God’s deadly reactions, world history, and modern “Christian”
beliefs reveal to be an especially dangerous and subversive leaven.
Ordinarily we might not pay too much attention to the sin of democracy and its
associated principles, but the fact that God Almighty unerringly reacts with
swift, uncompromising condemnation makes us put democratic principles on the
list of damnable heresies. There is something about democracy that is so
diametrically opposed to Godly order and authority and to the welfare of the
church, and history reveals democracy to be such an appealing and
rapidly-spreading ideology/leaven, that we must accept the fact that God treats
democracy and its principles as subversive leaven, and we must
incorporate that into our discernment/doctrinal thinking.
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David’s sins were fundamentally different
from Saul’s (if we look at them from the perspective of authority)
because David’s sins were not subversive. When David committed adultery,
for example, it wasn’t because he thought adultery was the way life ought to
be. In other words, his sin was never any kind of challenge to God’s will and
way because David knew it was wrong. He was like a child who hopes he can get
away with disobeying his parent, but when caught he confesses and cries and
says he won’t do it again. In David’s case, parental authority and rules
were never questioned or challenged. I say again, David’s transgressions
were not a threat to God’s authority because his sins did not tempt anybody to
think adultery and murder were good and should no longer be sins. But Saul not
only thought trying to change/“improve” God’s literal word, and accepting the
“goodness” of the principles of democracy were good and better than God’s way,
he publicly accepted them and therefore was unwittingly subverting
authority (similar to Martin Luther’s nailing his Ninety-five Theses
to the church door).
While we’re talking about King David, and in case
you think I’m making too much of the subversive nature of theology and
democracy by highlighting the fact that they undermine Biblical/God’s
authority, let’s examine something David did (2 Sam 1 and AOR page
H2-7). David never politically or militarily lifted a finger against King Saul.
When a young man saw Saul commit suicide, he hoped to gain David’s favor by
claiming to have killed Saul himself. Even when David knew the man had not
killed Saul, David had him executed “merely” for
treating the authority-overthrowing concept of regicide as legitimate or
acceptable. I put merely in quotes because you and I have been subverted
into focusing on the man’s lie as if that were his main/only sin. I
think we can agree that when we’re in “Sunday school” we can see why David and
God would execute the man...but in “real life” we probably would not
execute him. That means we have a big problem – subversive leaven. We don’t
understand and appreciate how critically-important and necessary to this war
and to daily life authority is. David didn’t just have a
superficial intellectual acceptance of the importance of authority; it was a
fundamental part of his character. This incident helps reveal how deep
David’s understanding of the Bible (and therefore his
relationship with God) was. David actually understood who and what God is, and
therefore Godly authority all the way down the chain of command was life
and death to him (Rom 13:1,2; Eph 5:22-24; 6:1-7).
On AOR D22-10,11
and D23-7 we compared Hananiah (who told
everybody that Jeremiah’s message from God was not God’s word) to modern
Enlightened Christians (who use layman’s aids to spread the heresy that the
inspired and inerrant word of God does not exist). How did God react to Hananiah? He killed him. How would David have reacted? How
would we have reacted? If we don’t want to be culled we need to
understand why God killed Hananiah so we
might not make the same mistake via today’s popular heresy of Yea-hath-God-said
theology: God killed His servant, Hananiah, for
subverting His authority by “correcting” His word/getting people to doubt His
word. The kind of Yea, hath God said rebellion that God says Hananiah was teaching must be added to the list of subversive
heresies – in spite of the fact that theology’s skepticism about the Bible is
so rampantly-popular today. In Sunday school we can easily see why God treats
it as rebellion and witchcraft: Theology/philosophy is such a
Naturally-powerful ideology that it has not only subverted the necessary
foundation for faith (the Bible), but it has blinded Christians to
theology’s damnable and undeniably-appalling track record, and blinded them to
the fact that they have foolishly emulated Eve by thinking “higher textual
criticism” is “a tree to be desired to make one wise, so they partake of
the fruit thereof, and do eat, and give also to other Christians with them, and
they do eat”...and so the subversive leaven continues to be spread inside the church by modern Hananiahs.
Mt
12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth
not with me scattereth abroad.
Rev
3:15,16,19 I
know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or
hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my
mouth...be zealous therefore, and repent.
Lk
18:8 ...when the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth?
I have been told that I’m “making Christ look like
a loser” by teaching about His rearguard strategy; that “retreating” and
“losing” are distinctions without a difference. I beg to differ: There is a
huge difference. To stand and fight a battle when a retreat is tactically and
strategically more advantageous would be foolish – especially if the cost of
winning the battle caused the war to be lost (a Pyrrhic victory). I grant,
however, that the first Four Days of the war were dismal because it looked like
the Devil could do nothing but win and the Lord could do nothing but retreat
and regroup. But when the New Testament came out on Day Five the Devil suffered
massive setbacks and the Lord’s rearguard action was shown to be brilliant,
masterfully-complex, and preplanned. Part of the brilliance revealed by the NT
was that the OT, which had appeared to be incapable of slowing the Devil’s
advances, was actually a brilliant, highly-effective defensive maneuver. The OT
turned out to be like a left jab that seems to be ineffective...until the
shockingly swift and powerful right cross reveals the left jab to have been a
highly-effective feint or setup. Some of the things that changed and that we
learned when the NT came out:
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·
The
NT revealed that our “vengeful” God is actually loving, merciful, and
forgiving.
·
The
NT plainly revealed the doctrine of expediency. And it shewed
expediency to have been part of the OT, too – something that was understood by
David when he ate the shewbread. (What a great
Christian and ensample David was!)
·
During
the time of the First Coming whenever the theologians tried to justify their
tradition-based doctrines by tripping up the Word of God and exposing Him as
fallible, they failed. The Lord always prevailed by sticking to the literal
word of God – thus becoming an example for us. Did the theologians learn and
repent? No. It appears they were reprobate, incapable of repentance. That’s why
the Lord correctly said they were of their father the devil and were blind
leaders making their pewsters twofold more the children of hell than they were
themselves. They were subverted...just like Hananiah.
·
(Today
whenever theologians have tried to justify their tradition-based doctrines by
claiming to have finally found an error in the AV1611 (and
thereby exposing it as fallible like all the modern versions) they have failed.
The literal words in the KJV always prevailed by proving to be inerrant. Have
theologians learned from the truth and repented? No. It appears they are modern
Hananiahs teaching rebellion by subverting faith in
God’s holy, infallible word.)
·
Satan
thought he could use the OT law (because the law only condemns) to win
the war. After all, he had all good saints in history safely locked up in Abe’s
bosom. And the last nail in the coffin (he thought) was crucifying Christ. But
the condemning nature of the law was a feint, left jab, a sucker punch –
because when Christ died, satisfied the law, and imputed it to His church all
prisoners in Abe’s bosom were released. The death penalty (both the crucifixion
and the OT law) that had seemed to help Satan’s cause, proved to be a
huge setback.
·
Christ
did not restore worldly dominion, so His people are free to concentrate on the
doctrinal wellbeing of the church.
·
God’s
people used to be concentrated within the tiny nation of Israel. Today the
church exists as unleavened individuals and small groups who are scattered all
around the world.
·
All
the previous patriarchs were replaced by The Patriarch, Christ. But Christ was
crucified before He could marry and multiply...so I’ll deal with His patriarchy
in another section.
·
The
Old Commission was replaced by the Great Commission, which I’ll deal with in
another section.
·
The
practice of Inbreeding among God’s people remained, but physical
inbreeding vanished (along with the Old Commission) and therefore the emphasis
today is on doctrinal intercourse via close Bible-oriented, iron-sharpeneth-iron fellowship. More on this later.
·
The
death penalty part of culling vanished and today the emphasis is on church
discipline, separation, and shunning. More later.
During the OT era the church came from the physical loins of
Adam, Noah, and Abraham. I say again, the church grew because those patriarchs
had children.
Christ was crucified before He could physically reproduce. That
was by design: He no longer wants the tactical predictability of physical
reproduction; He gives the new birth to whomsoever He will in whatever corner
of the globe He deems fit for the war.
And since for the first time in history we Christians have no
idea if the Lord will give the new birth to our children or not, He has advised
us to not marry so we can devote more time to the Great Commission in order to
find His sheep so we can fellowship, exhort, and grow.
God got rid of the Old Commission to be fruitful and multiply
because He is now producing Christians whenever and wherever He decides. An
example of this can be seen on Mars Hill:
In Act 17 Paul at first blush (with his cryptic hath made of one blood all
nations of men) seems to be going along with the
modern tradition of trying to convert the heathen by getting them to say the
sinner’s prayer. But then he goes against modern tradition by saying, That they should seek the Lord, if
“haply” they might feel after him, and find him.
Notice Paul is not telling
anybody to “repent” or “make a decision” to “become a Christian.” He says he is
talking to those people who, if
they happen to already feel after Christ are then
spiritually drawn to Christ by doing two things, 1) seek, and then 2) find.
(That goes along with all the Scripture that tells us, “seek, and ye
shall find”; “enter ye in at the strait gate: for...narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that
find it.”) After saying that, Paul walked
away...and was later found
by those who “happened” to not only feel a supernatural attraction for The
Patriarch Who birthed them, but also were not deterred from “seeking” Him by
the thorns and cares of the world.
Act
20:28-31 Take
heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock...to feed the
church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this,
that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing
the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things,
to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch,
and remember, that...I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Heb
11:6 But
without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh
to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder
of them that diligently seek him.
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The only kind of inbreeding we practice today is Bible-oriented
intercourse. Not only does this kind of iron-sharpeneth-iron
fellowship help us learn and grow into the kind of disciplined warriors who
have confidence in each other as true comrades-at-arms, but it also encourages
young and weak Christians to study, toe the line, and grow so they can join the
ranks of those who are doctrinally-mature doers of the word. This intimate
Christian fellowship also forces “Recessive-gene” false doctrine and
slovenliness to surface so they can be appropriately dealt with.
The death-penalty type of culling is gone in this NT era, but we
are still ordered to use separation, shunning, and church discipline. (I’ll
deal with these in Trumpet W3.)
“Pass...in...Review!”
The main points I
attempted to make with this historical overview are:
· The
Devil has been very successful against the church from the very start.
· Two
of Satan’s most effective doctrines, and the two that have elicited the largest
displays of anger from the Lord, are the two that most effectively subvert
His authority: theology and democracy.
· Because
the Devil’s doctrines (his Recessive genes, his subversive leaven) cannot be
stopped, the Lord’s strategy has always been a rearguard action/retreat in order to slow the Devil’s
unstoppable advance.
· The
purpose of the rearguard action is an obvious one – win the war. How do we win
by retreating? We do so by taking up time.
The Devil must prevail against the church, he must leaven the entire lump, within seven Days (seven thousand years). Under each of the patriarchs the
Lord has waited as long as He deemed
necessary before He stepped in, culled His church, and started anew. I say
again: The reason the Lord waited until the church in Noah’s day was completely
leavened except for the eight people He put on the ark is obvious – He knows that’s
the only way His church can endure all the way to the bitter end of the
seven-Day war.
Mat 24:22 except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days
shall be shortened.
The
Lord always waits until the last minute because
He must stall as long as possible in order to make it to the end of the
seventh Day.
· My
last reason for writing this overview of the war is perspective. This overview will help you understand why my next trumpet on New Testament
tactics makes sense, how those
tactics fit into the Lord’s rearguard strategy, and how necessary the tactics are in order to effectively protect ourselves
from the irresistible power and appeal of the subversive leaven that now
permeates the church.
Trumpet W3
“Beware
the leaven of the Pharisees”
Loins girt about with the warfare perspective of Trumpet W2,
including how dangerously-potent the Devil’s subversive leaven of theology and
democracy have been and are, and therefore how appropriate and necessary the
Lord’s strategy of rearguard action has been and is, we turn our attention to
some important and necessary New Testament tactics the modern church tends to
ignore.
Because
history repeats itself, and because we’re in the dark last days, the church as
a whole is apostate. The most telling and glaring evidence of that is the sad
fact that the respectability among Christians of research-based knowledge has displaced the respectability
among Christians of Bible-based belief,
which has caused widespread acceptance of Yea,
hath God said theology and its heretical teaching that God’s inspired,
inerrant Scripture no longer exists
and we have only corrupt Bible manuscripts and corrupt Bible versions. And this
heresy/leaven is so subversive
it causes the amazing, Reason-refuting, inescapable, and miraculous inerrancy of the King James Bible
to have no effect on these apostates (which is why God says these people
are “subverted”).
Being close to the
end, and the fact that the church/lump is so full of leaven, should add to our
sense of urgency...
Heb 10:22-25 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith
without wavering...And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to
good works...exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see
the day approaching.
The urgency of “and so much the more” exists and is given
relevance by the amount of leaven in the
church in the last days...and we don’t want to be among those that fall by
the wayside. In order to introduce the NT tactic of staying away from subverted Christians, I’ll open with these
verses (I’ve underlined some things I want to emphasize):
Mt
10:5-17 Go not
into the way of the Gentiles, and...And into whatsoever [Christian]
city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till
ye go thence. And when ye come into an [Christian] house, salute it. And
if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy,
let your peace return to you. And whosoever [Christian] shall not
receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city,
shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that [Christian]
city. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of [Christian]
wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of
[Christian] men...
Mt
18:15-17 Moreover
if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between
thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if
he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the
mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall
neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an
heathen man and a publican.
1
Cor 5:6-13 Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?...I have written unto you not
to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or
covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard,
or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat...Therefore
put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
2
Cor 6:1,14,17 We then...beseech you...that ye
receive not the grace of God in vain...Be ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with
darkness?...Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing...
2
Tim 3:1-8 This know also, that in the
last days perilous times shall come...Having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof: from such turn away...Ever learning, and never able to
come to the knowledge of the truth...men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning
the faith.
Eph
5:11 And have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
2
Tim 2:24-26 And the servant of the Lord must
not strive; but...In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if
God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...that
they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil...
2
Thes 3:14 And
if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no
company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an
enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
Tit
3:9-11 But avoid...contentions,
and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. A man that
is an heretick after the first and second
admonition reject; Knowing that he that is such is
subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of
himself.
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During the Old Testament this would have included inbreeding –
marrying only fellow Christians/Hebrews. But God no longer gives the new birth
to the offspring of Abraham; His Great Commission has replaced His Old Commission,
which means today we have no idea where on earth some (previous) pagan is going
to wake up with a new, compelling spiritual hunger for Jesus Christ and the
Bible. The fact that in this NT era God isn’t supposed to give the new birth to
the people of this nation or that race or that family makes it more difficult
for the gates of hell to leaven Christians – because they pop up in
unpredictable locations.
When NT Christians, who have been advised by God not to marry,
do so anyway and have families they have put themselves outside the protection
of Scripture. They may be married to a pagan spouse, an Enlightened Christian
spouse, and have pagan kids. And they’ll take those people to church, turn them
into “born-again Christians” via the “sinner’s prayer”, and therefore
contribute to the leaven in the church by having their unsaved family members
(who are therefore 100% carnal...but nice!)
more effectively leaven the church because they’re wearing sheep’s clothing and
are able to avoid being exposed because the “fellowship” in the church focuses
on morality, conservative political and social current events, and other
worldly topics.
Ideally, close, Bible-and-doctrinally-oriented
“inbreeding”/fellowship would – like physical inbreeding – force the Recessive
genes (false doctrine, carnal Reason-and-Enlightenment-based beliefs, lack of
interest in Scripture, not believing the inerrant word of God exists, etc.) to
reveal themselves so the church could help, discipline, or shun the leavened
person. Close fellowship is the best way to find out if church members are
pagans, Enlightened Christians, or lazy Christians. It is, therefore,
essential.
This refers to all methods used to rid the church of leaven, and
it includes teaching, rebuking, church discipline, and shunning. These NT
methods are supposed to be done by us,
and they replace things God did in the OT: The Flood, the division of the human
race, fire from heaven and plagues and the earth swallowing bad Christians,
stoning, and the death of Hananiah. These methods of
culling have always been critically-important parts of the war because they
increase the time it’ll take for the
leaven to infect the whole lump. Legal, NT methods of ridding the church of
leaven must be resurrected because they are essential rearguard tactics.
This is your main
tactic, comrade. The church is so leavened – indeed, subverted – it is
likely you have been unable to find a suitable local congregation. That means
you will not use the first tactic above, fellowship, within a church; instead, you’ll use fellowship to identify the
doctrinal purity or lack thereof of various Christians you meet. And because
you are not part of a congregation the various methods of culling are also
largely inapplicable, inappropriate, and unavailable to you. That means you’ll
have to be like Paul on Mars Hill and in Tit 3:9-11 above – walk away! In our era of apostasy
separation is the most
effective way to avoid subversive leaven. I’ve only listed (above) some of the NT verses on the subject of
getting away and staying away from leaven-carrying-and-spreading Christians.
You need to keep this separation topic in mind when reading the NT.
This is not to say you should not have lunch with a Christian
when you meet one in obedience to the Great Commission’s commandment to feed
God’s sheep. It means you should utilize doctrinal fellowship during that lunch
to find out if he’s leavened or not. If he is, try to help him. For example, if
he uses a modern Bible version you’ll suspect him to be either a young
ignorant-but-eager-to-learn Christian, an older
ignorant-because-he-doesn’t-care Christian, or a subverted Christian. A very
short discussion will allow you to identify him. If appropriate, offer him some
fundamental truths about the existence of the inerrant word of God in order to
see if he reacts with Reason or with faith in God. (Pay attention
to the word faith in the NT; it’s everywhere because it must be an integral part of our walks.) If he reacts like he’s hungry for God’s truth, disciple him.
If he continually ignores the all-important-and-telling issue of inerrancy by cowardly trying to change
the subject to the ERROR manuscripts such as the corrupt Dead Sea Scrolls (which have
done nothing to correct the errors in
the modern versions); or the slanderous
homosexuality of King James and his translation committee; rabbit poop, the
word Easter, the name Lucifer, the fact that some scholars
think a better translation of the word deep
would be “average-sized puddle”;...and other “errors”, patiently try once or
twice – in accordance with your orders in Tit 3:9-11 – to get him to remain
focused on the Scriptural importance and critical relevance of the KJV’s inerrancy. If he dodges the
subject a second time, finish your lunch and politely let him know you do not
fellowship with born-again Christians who do not believe God’s inspired,
inerrant word – as defined by Him,
not by theology – exists in any Bible
on earth. I repeat God’s commandment to you again: walk away and do not
fellowship with him...no matter how nice and “Christian” he is in other
respects.
Whenever people argue with you about the inerrancy of the KJV by
referring to the ERROR manuscripts, or by “preferring” the NKJV, or by saying something
positive about theologians, their reaction is based upon a deeply-fundamental inability to put faith in what God says
about Himself and His word. That lack of faith is all you need to know. It
means either 1) they are not born again and cannot
have Biblical faith, 2) they are too young and/or weak to stand up against
tradition and Reason, or 3) their faith has been subverted. When you and I, for
example, first heard about the KJV’s miraculous inerrancy our reaction was to
“seek”...and the Good Shepherd rewarded our Bible-based reaction by making sure
we “found” His inspired word. I say again, brother, our response was not to balk and bluster and argue
against the existence of God’s inerrant word. Our response was not to talk about manuscripts,
preferences, or theology – none of which
has anything to do with anything God says in His holy word!
Our reaction was not to balk at the
very idea that God Almighty actually did with His word exactly what He said
He’d do. But apostate Christians, because
they do not have that invisible foundation of faith do react in those pig-headed ways; their
unbelief is revealed by their lack of faith-based fruit. And that is how we know it’s time to
stop casting pearls before swine and to politely walk away.
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It is telling and important that you and I, when we first heard
about God’s inspired, inerrant word actually existing, did not react with the
buts and foot-dragging and arguments so prevalent among today’s Christians. It
is noteworthy that we reacted with simple, innocent childlike faith that caused us to diligently seek (Heb 11:6) info that
quickly revealed the startling difference between the inerrant KJV and the
awful errors of all the modern versions. We understood the KJV’s inerrancy was
God’s signature, His proof that He
really has done what He said He’d do – that He is not the inept bungler
theology tries to make Him with all of its Yea,
hath God said subversive faith-destroying leaven. Always keep that fact in
mind, brother: The faith-based way we reacted is the exact opposite of the
unbelief-based way apostate Hananiah Christians
react. Nobody had to argue with us, beat us over the head, or shove anything
down our throats – because as
faith-filled believers we were drawn to the God-glorifying truth
of the uniquely-miraculous inerrancy of His word. (He lives! He lives! Christ Jesus lives today!) That difference is
important; it epitomizes how we can know when to walk away from NT brethren. Do not let the respectability of
theology or the widespread acceptance of error-filled Bible versions lure you
into thinking you’re being a hateful jerk when you walk away from
seemingly-nice Christians. If they are not supernaturally impressed with the
demonstrated fact that God really has preserved His all-important and necessary
word they are subverted.
Obediently walk
away!
The modern church’s doctrinal apostasy has caused it to think
you should “lovingly” continue to fellowship with the unfruitful and
unrepentant works of darkness in the hopes of bringing light to their lives.
But the Bible makes it very clear that you are not to argue, debate, bicker, or
politely discuss anything with them after the first and second
admonition...unless their hunger makes them come find you and confess they can
no longer “kick against the pricks” and want to learn more from you about how
the Scriptural trait of inerrancy
clarifies and simplifies the Bible version issue, makes the ERROR manuscripts irrelevant,
identifies the modern miracle of the true word of God, shows that God is alive
and well, glorifies God, affirms and justifies our faith and belief, and
bolsters our confidence and joy as we earnestly quarantine ourselves from
subversive leaven by obediently declining to fellowship with and steadfastly
refraining to cast our pearls before our beloved brethren who are, apparently,
casualties of war. Faith in God
allows us to believe what He says. Obedience to what He says results in our walking away in order to avoid the invisible subtlety of subversion
that will eventually leaven the whole lump and make us casualties
(except those days were shortened just in the nick of time by God). According
to the Bible we are fighting to preserve the doctrinal purity of a church that
is already populated by disease-carriers
who do not know they’ve been infected by highly-contagious ideology that they
think is right and good and “Christian.” Obediently
avoid them like the frighteningly-infectious plague they are, brother! Let
them that have ears to hear, hear...and the ones that don’t – shun for the church’s sake! The
church cannot endure to the end
unless we warriors obediently utilize God’s clearly-worded and necessary rearguard tactics in order to avoid literal
annihilation.
There is another reason separation from subverted brethren is
important. If we do not obediently separate ourselves we are showing the Lord
that fellowship with apostates is so important to us we’re willing to disobey
Him in order to do it – even though doing so increases our exposure to
infectious leaven He has told us to avoid. In addition to His being offended by
our disobedience and hurt by our demonstrated preference to be with His enemies,
the Lord may withdraw Himself from us
because He so dislikes leaven – such as the harlot-members in 1 Cor 6:15-20. The Lord tells us to come out from among them
so we won’t touch the unclean...because if we obey He blesses us with fruit and
growth and more of His help in the war. But if we hang around apostates He
won’t hang around with us because we offend Him in more ways than we can
understand. Therefore in order for us to be holy vessels the Lord can use for
the good of the church, we must stay clean by obediently shunning apostate
members of His church.
As His selfless soldiers we must not let what we think is right and good cause
His literal, plainly-worded orders to be of none effect: Ours is not to Reason
why, ours is but to [obediently] do and die [to self] in order to hear Him say,
Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
You must obediently carry out your plainly-written orders from
God to use polite-but-firmly-unyielding separation and shunning in order to avoid being contaminated by the carnal appeal and
inexorable spread of “Recessive leaven.” Do not fellowship with infected
Christians. Do not talk, text, or email with them. Do not dine with them. Do
not work out with them. Do not attend “Bible” studies with them. Do not
disobediently go in among them, but rather obediently shake the dust off your
feet and come out from among them. I say again, if you fellowship with NIVers you are giving tacit approval to, and therefore propagating, the worst and most
destructive leaven on earth – Satan’s Yea,
hath God said teaching that subverts the sole foundation of the holy
Christian religion...the existence of the inerrant word of God. No inerrant
Bible means faith will die.
Which doctrines should you put on your list of damnable heresies
that you use as reasons to break fellowship with born-again Christians who are
pleasant people you enjoy being around? You should top your list of subversive
heresies with these two dangerous, highly-contagious heresies:
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1.
PRO-THEOLOGY/ANTI-KJV
ONLY. Study
the Bible version issue in depth, understand the supreme importance of the
KJV’s inerrancy, and how and
why submitting to the KJV as the inspired word of God demonstrates faith,
belief, and humility, and how it glorifies God as truthful and all-mighty. And
examine what is behind theology’s heresy that says we should redefine word of God because God failed to
preserve His inerrant Scripture for us: unbelief, lack of Scriptural faith,
acceptance of Reason, and stubborn, prideful refusal to apply to their
doctrines the KJV’s inerrancy and Hananiah’s
rebellion against God. Over time you’ll understand how Scripturally important
the issue is, and your experiences with modern theologian Hananiah-wannabes
will show you 1) why God simply killed Hananiah, 2)
why the Bible says to avoid subversive
leaven like the plague, and 3) why the Bible uses a shocking word like subverted when talking about saints...and why shunning them is so
critically necessary to the survival of the church. My use of the term
“KJV only” includes taking it literally...which
is but another way of saying God gave us Bible study (2 Tim 2:15), and Satan gave us theology (Gen 3:1). Let me try to
illustrate the unique authority of the KJV:
·
Muslims believe in their doctrine and their
Allah. Their belief is based on faith
in the fallible writings/flawed foundation of the Koran. Verdict: Just another
superstitious religion because their faith and belief are baseless.
·
Non-KJVers
believe in their doctrine and their
Jesus. Their belief is based on faith
in the fallible writings/flawed foundation of the NIV, NWT, BOM, NKJV, NAS, ERROR manuscripts. Verdict: Just
another superstitious religion because their faith and belief are baseless.
·
KJVers believe in their
doctrine and their Jesus. Their belief is based on faith in the inerrancy/sure foundation of the AV1611. Verdict: The
one and only pure religion on earth because it’s the only one whose faith and
belief are wholly based on truth.
2.
PRO-EQUALITY/DEMOCRACY. I often lump equality,
freedom, and other sacred principles of pagan Greek philosophy under democracy because democracy illustrates
how blind and devoted to all of these anti-Bible principles we were before the
Lord opened our eyes to the importance of taking His word literally. Democracy helps bring home the
dangerously-appealing contagion of Reason-based leaven. And it does so better
and more clearly than the KJV issue. I’m not sure why that is, especially since
the inerrancy of the literal KJV is the more important issue. I say that with
confidence not only because over time my Biblical maturity and understanding
showed me how the Scriptures and faith and feeding and doing go together, but
also because the inspired, inerrant word of God is of absolute importance
because it is the only bedrock and source of our faith and confidence in God
and what He says. Acquiring that depth of understanding about the KJV
requires time and a certain amount of growth. But my experiences have also
shown that understanding the unscriptural nature of democracy is fairly easy to
do. I’ve been surprised at how quickly some Christians openly accept democracy
as anti-Bible, perhaps because I had to wrestle with the issue. Another reason
the KJV is the more important issue is we only learn how evil the principles of
democracy are when we accept the literal accuracy and authority of God’s word.
And because many Christians readily accept democracy as evil, and
because I’ve never known any theology-oriented modern-version-espousing
Christians to repent by applying the
KJV’s inerrancy in order to identify it as God’s inspired word, I
believe the anti-KJV leaven to be much more subversive, dangerous, and possibly
permanent/fatal than equality and
democracy. So, even though I am definitely and correctly adding
equality/democracy to the list because of how dangerously appealing it is, and
how subversive it is to authority, and how God has reacted to it with deadly
violence, I want to be clear that it’s not even close to being number one on
the list.
My published list ends there; you add to your list on your own.
Yes, there are other doctrines on my list, such as denying the divinity of
Christ, and believing in evolution over Creation, over which I’d break fellowship
with Christians. But only the KJV has
the authority to teach those truths (and the acceptability of using the
name Lucifer and the word Easter, and the existence of the gap,
the Deep, unicorns, devils, the lake of fire, etc.) because only the KJV
exhibits God’s unique signature of inerrancy.
Theology’s futile attempts to use the known corruption of the ERROR manuscripts to justify
doctrines such as Christ is not divine, the Deep does not exist, etc., is an
ipso facto demonstration of spiritual blindness. And to refer to Dante’s use of
the name Lucifer, or to the Latin
Vulgate’s use, or to refer to any other ERROR manuscripts (including the Textus Receptus) while
cowardly ignoring the authority of the wording in the inerrant KJV
is an astonishing demonstration of just
how subversive Lucifer’s leaven is. Walk away!
Sins such as murder and adultery are not subversive, so you do
not have to break fellowship with any repentant King Davids
you may encounter. You may consider other doctrines as damnable heresies and
add them to your list, such as that in modern cults that say incomprehensible
gibberish is Biblical tongues. I avoid gibberish-talkers not because I think pretending and lying about Almighty God are particularly subversive, but because
those are people of low character whose consciences seem to have been seared as
with a hot iron.
Speaking of cults, beware of Christians who are also “patriots”
who claim the American Constitution and/or the Declaration of Independence are
divinely inspired. Technically, such Christians are not a cult because they
aren’t religions – they are merely individuals. But because of what the Bible
says about Reason and its offspring (democracy, theology, etc.), believing
those governmental documents to be sacred and divinely inspired elevates them to a status superior to the
Bible because they exalt and “Christianize” philosophy and contradict and
nullify/override everything the Bible says.
Accepting and defending the inspiration and inerrancy of the
King James Bible is not merely “important”, it is necessary. Christians who think it’s just “important” are
the ones who think the KJV is just “better” than the other versions. They need
to evaluate all that the KJV’s unique inerrancy
means. Its inerrancy establishes it as God’s preserved, inspired truth...which in turn establishes the
KJV’s unique and supreme authority...and
those two are absolutely necessary if
the church is to resist the subversion that is turning Christianity into just
another religion. Tolerating Christians who insist on using modern corrupt
versions is helping to spread theology’s heresy that God’s word no longer
exists, which subverts 1) faith, which is the foundation of everything in
Christianity, 2) the Bible as the way God communicates with us, 3) the
doctrinal authority of the Bible, and 4) the necessity of Bible study.
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I could go on but I think I’ve made my point (repeatedly).
Trumpet W2 showed this war is so stacked in the Devil’s favor that he cannot be
stopped – his leaven is inexorable. But his leaven can be slowed.
That’s why the Lord has used mass cullings and
started over with fresh lumps. There will be another new beginning at the
Second Coming. But in order for the church – you and me, brother – to survive
until then without being leavened we must
take the Lord’s NT tactics seriously. I think the fact that the Lord is using
rearguard tactics is itself sobering and frightening, but when you add to it how
quickly and completely the
generations of the various patriarchs were leavened, it takes scary to new
levels because it makes it look like the majority
of born-again saints in the church have always
become casualties. And the NT tactics of retreat/walk away/shun/don’t stand and
argue...run/don’t even eat
with them all stress the fact that our job as NT vessels is not to live
and strive among them hoping to make them better, it’s to come out and stay away in order to preserve our doctrinal
purity so we don’t become disease-carriers, too.
Rev 18:4 Come out of her, my people...that ye
receive not of her plagues.
Trumpet W4
The
vast majority of Christians who believe in the heresy of evolution have never
seriously researched the evolution vs. creation issue, which reveals them to be
appallingly stupid. Yes, I deliberately used the word stupid rather than ignorant
for a reason. Their near-zero level of knowledge does qualify them as ignorant, but that ignorance is dwarfed by
their stupidity...because any Christian who has an appointment to stand before
the Lord at Judgment and has “decided” – without
looking into it! – to reject what God says
and replace it with an unproven theory that is not only rife with major
problems and contradictions, but was dreamed up by carnal unbelievers is a very
stupid person and a subverted Christian.
But
what, you ask, made them accept
evolution if they never even read anything about it? Their descent into
apostasy was caused by the foundational bedrock of Christianity crumbling away
beneath them: their belief in the existence of the inspired word of God was
undermined by the widespread acceptance of a plethora of modern versions that –
in spite of the fact that they are all
full of errors – were exalted and touted by theologians as “more accurate”
and “more reliable” than the inerrant
King James Bible. That’s why, when you ask Christians how they selected their
Bible version they’ll tell you it was because they prefer to sing “My country,
this is about you” rather than “My country, ‘tis of thee”; or a friend
recommended it; or they liked the maps; or any number of mindless trivialities.
Not a single one of them even mentions the
author of the Bible, God, or the one distinguishing trait of His holy word, inerrancy!
We
King Jamesers are Bible believers. People who use the
NIV, NAS, etc., are not Bible believers
– they are Bible “correctors” (or, as
they like to call themselves, “garbage-can Christians”). I put correctors in quotes because in over 150
years of “correcting” the KJV theologians have only accomplished two things:
1. They’ve
turned out so many corrupt versions (e.g. NIV, NKJV, NAS, RSV, ESV, NLT, CEV,
the FUV, and AOV) that most born-again Christians today do not believe inerrancy exists in any Bible
version on earth. That has caused most churches, mega churches, and
denominations to go down the tubes.
2. They’ve
“validated” and given “respectability” to such a wide range of possible
meanings to the dead-language words in old corrupt manuscripts that scores, if
not hundreds, of cults have popped up – all basing their “doctrines” on one of
the above versions as occasionally modified by one or more layman’s aids. And
guess what? All other churches, mega
churches, and denominations do the exact same thing!
Why
do modern-version-using Christians call themselves “garbage-can Christians”? Because they are blind. They don’t actually use the terms
“garbage-can versions”, “garbage-can Christians”, and “dumpster-diving
Christians”, but those terms actually do come from one of their own arguments:
Theologians
cannot deny the embarrassing fact that every modern version they’ve produced is
full of errors. Neither can they deny the embarrassing fact that all of the old
Greek and Hebrew manuscripts (including the much-ballyhooed-but-useless
Dead Sea scrolls) are full of errors. And theologians cannot deny the
embarrassing fact that they’ve been proven wrong every time they’ve claimed to
do what no one had ever managed to do before – find an error in the KJV. In an
attempt to side-track Christians from those revealing, undeniable facts
theologians invented an argument that would (they incorrectly thought) justify
the use of their error-filled modern versions. Their brain-dead argument says:
“It is perfectly OK for us to use the ERROR manuscripts and the error-filled modern versions, and it is
perfectly OK for us to refer to them as ‘God’s word’...because they contain – somewhere among all
the leaven – God’s inspired truth. After all, even garbage cans contain – somewhere among all the trash – food.
Therefore we think Christians can
find good meals in the ‘garbage cans’ we’ve published and recommend.”
Dumpster-diving
Christians are well aware of the above theology-defending argument that likens
modern versions to garbage cans...and they frequently use it themselves. In
other words, the terms “garbage-can Christians” and “garbage-can versions”
originated from theology’s own words when attempting to defend and promote its
corrupt fruit. There are three problems with theology’s logical-sounding
argument:
1. Nothing in that argument is based
on or agrees with anything God
says in His holy word. In fact, that typical argument contradicts everything God says about His word. I say again,
nowhere does God ever liken His Holy Bible to a garbage can that – if we scrounge around in the filth long enough –
we’ll find the unleavened word He has preserved for us.
2. If
theologians are correct and their “garbage-can versions” (as they label them)
are in fact “better, more-reliable meals” than the KJV, and are therefore
healthier for Christianity, why hasn’t Christianity gotten better in the last
hundred years? The fact is, ever since theology started recommending that its
garbage-can versions
replace the inerrant KJV, and ever since theology started telling
KJVers to use Yea,
hath God said layman’s aids to “correct” God’s word, Christianity has
fragmented and apostatized into churches and cults filled with pagans and
subverted Christians who do not have the faith to believe God’s word (as He defines it) actually exists. I
say again, comrades: come out from among subverted Christians and touch not
their unclean garbage-can versions.
3. Even if
theologians are correct and their garbage-can versions do “contain” (mixed in
with all the trash) the actual words God preserved for us, it’s still up to us to decide which words we think are trash and which are
truth: Self is firmly on the
throne, which is why so many theologians and layman’s-aid-toting preachers and
pewsters “agree to disagree” about the words they “prefer” – which completely
destroys the authority of God’s word,
undermines faith, breeds false
doctrine and rebellion, and defrauds
the church...which is fornication
and blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.
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But
don’t you KJVers start patting yourselves on the
back. Part of the reason theology and its corrupt Bible versions have succeeded
in destroying faith in the existence of God’s word is too many ignorant,
half-assed KJVers main “knowledge” consists of their
denomination’s party-line pro-KJV rhetoric. These semi-KJVers
fellowship with NIVers because they all agree to let
each other spout off about their pet doctrines – because none of them cares
enough about anything to study, understand, and then stand for the inerrant KJV and stand
against the spreading subversion of theology’s modern versions.
There
are only two ways to defend God’s Authorized Bible. And, not surprisingly, both
of them glorify and exalt Him – not man. The first is inerrancy, and the second is obedience.
There
is no other foundation for doctrinal Christianity, and there is no other
foundation for our faith, hope, belief, and confidence
during our daily walks and struggles than the Bible. (I
downsized the foundation of our faith to illustrate how important (not!) God’s word is to most Christians.)
The still small voice of the Bible has been obscured by the cacophony of modern
stupid distractions such as theology, morality, tradition, Reason, democracy,
politics, science, social issues, the pursuit of money, materialism, and Self. That’s one of the reasons the Bible says in 1
Thessalonians 4:11
study to be quiet
Ever
since the mid-to-late 1700s when Christians first began to publicly rejoice and
acknowledge the unique inerrancy of the KJV, unbelieving theologians (yes, the two words are redundant) have
targeted it with the same aggressive, faithless hatred with which Hananiah attacked Jeremiah. But no matter how many hundreds
of “errors” they and scientists and historians and archeologists loudly and
confidently claimed to have found in God’s Book, and no matter how many
born-again Christians were subverted by those false claims, the Authorized 1611
King James Bible miraculously (but very quietly) distinguished itself as the
only book or manuscript on earth with God’s mark,
or signature, or fingerprints by which His faithful sheep have known His voice – inerrancy!
I
say again with pride and awe and humble thanksgiving: God’s preserved, inspired,
holy Book that He exalts above His name (Ps 138:2) did something miraculous:
With absolutely no help from man’s knowledge and research and scholarship it
proved itself to be uniquely inerrant.
That is important because inerrancy
is the only trait by which we may identify and distinguish God’s Book
from all the pretenders recommended
by modern, loudmouthed, and obnoxiously-irritating-but-petty born-again Hananiahs. I said
petty but I could have said impotent or cowardly – they all apply.
(I’m
sure you can identify with the righteous anger, indignation, and contempt that
are probably oozing from my words, comrade, because you have had to put up with
the same tired tactics from these well-intentioned-but-blindly-faithless
unbelieving brothers and sisters whose own impotent frustration when they’re
around Bible believers quickly manifests itself when they realize nothing they say or do can move
the faithful off of the solid rock of inerrancy.
But this parenthetical insert exists because I do not want you to get the idea
that I stand toe-to-toe with these subverted apostates screaming and
intellectually slugging it out. No. As you already should know from the Bible,
and may remember from the previous Trumpet, W3, the NT tells us our enemies are
they of our own house; they are apostate born-again Christians attempting to
spread their subversive Yea, hath God
said leaven. We are commanded not to condemn them, but we are told to know
them by their faithless fruits, forgive them, love them, and pray for them
because one day they may turn out to be prodigal sons who repent, seek-and-find
us (Act 17:27,33,34), and thank us for our Scripture-based love, reproof,
correction, and instruction in righteousness that they might repent and be
perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works (2
Tim 3:13-17). After one or two admonitions if they have demonstrated no
faith-based hungering and thirsting for the manna and milk of God’s word, I
politely break fellowship with them – as I am commanded to do (Tit 3:10).
I do not, either because I like them
and want to help them, or because I’m angry and so full of pride I want to
out-argue them, stay and discuss, bicker, or reason with them from the
Scriptures. To do so would be disobediently rejecting the wisdom and inerrancy
of God’s literal NT commandments. And I have sinned that way: I’ve gotten so
wrapped up in the debate and how clearly-brilliant my Scriptural arguments were
that I’ve still been at it after 30 admonitions! And none of them worked! (Of course, that’s beside the point: had
the 5th admonition worked, I’d still have been a rebellious sinner.)
If they are not KJVers and demonstrate their
blindness and their lack of faith by being unmoved by the miraculous inerrancy of the KJV, politely walk away! If they lack the basic,
fundamental necessity – faith,
they will be unable see and truly believe anything, which is why we are
supposed to walk away.
You
will find all modern Yea, hath God said Hananiahs
will use the same tired and cowardly tactics. Let me summarize some of their
responses when they try to equivocate with Bible believers:
·
When you point out that the man of true Biblical faith accepts
God’s definition of His word as inerrant
they’ll stupidly ask, “Where does the Bible say the KJV is inspired and
inerrant?” You reply, “I could give you a basic ‘here a little, and there
a little’ Bible lesson about what God says about His word and how to recognize
it, but I’m not going to let you change the subject from the 400-year proven inerrancy of the KJV: Have you
managed to do what no man has ever done – find an error in the KJV?”
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·
When he runs from that question by saying, “Yeah,
but what about the Dead Sea Scrolls? The King James translators only had a
fraction of the old manuscripts we have today, so how can the KJV be better
than the modern versions?” You should not waste your breath telling him
no recently-found manuscripts, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, have corrected any of the errors in the modern versions.
I say that because he already knows that!
He doesn’t really want to discuss the crappy Dead Sea Scrolls; he is merely
using the same tactic that low-life, lying gibberishers
use: he’ll keep throwing different things at you in an effort to find one to which
you do not have an answer and therefore rocks you back on your heels. Then
he’ll get all smug and act as if your
not knowing about the Dead Sea Scrolls somehow means he’s right about...well,
about something. Therefore, comrade,
don’t waste your breath about the Scrolls – repeat the Bible believers left
jab: “I could give you a basic lesson about the subject you just
tried to introduce, but that subject is trivial, irrelevant, and unhelpful when
trying to identify God’s word. The only thing that has relevance to the
Bible version debate is inerrancy,
so please don’t try to change the subject from the 400-year proven inerrancy of the KJV: Have you
managed to do what no man has ever done – find an error in the KJV?” (By the
way, there is no right cross: because these are enemies of our own house –
subverted Christians: we are commanded to shun them by lovingly walking away.)
·
When he replies by saying, “Yeah, but there’s not a single
old manuscript we’ve found so far that justifies the KJV’s saying Elhanan killed
Goliath’s brother! The reading in the KJV doesn’t exist; the translators made
it up, which is why they put it in italics!” You could reply by pointing out
that he’s not only trying to change the subject (again!) from the KJV’s
inerrancy, but he’s trying to get you to treat old corrupt manuscripts – which
disqualifies them from being the word of God – as if they are somehow more
authoritative than the miraculously-inerrant KJV. But if you were to say, “Hey,
buddy, try to stay focused on the subject of the KJV’s inerrancy instead of
shooting yourself in the foot and making yourself look brain-dead by pointing
out that we have a CORRUPT MANUSCRIPT that says Elhanan killed Goliath
on the one hand, and we have the INERRANT KJV that says Elhanan killed Goliath’s
brother on the other hand...and you
have chosen to go with the corrupt one!!! Do you have any idea how
idiotic and faithless you’re going to look when you stand at Judgment before
The Mighty God who exalts His holy word even above His name? I say again, pal,
the issue you’re supposed to discuss is the fact that no proven errors have ever been found in the KJV. And lots of proven errors exist in
the old manuscripts and the modern versions translated from them. So, as God’s
faithful children who are told to know them by their fruit, do we use the
inerrant KJV as the standard by which everything is judged, or do we decide to
go with known corruption by trying to
somehow use those leavened tomes to make the unleavened KJV look bad? Choose
you this day whom ye will serve, but as for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord in accordance with His inerrant word.”
·
He’ll probably respond (using words less obvious than I’ve
selected) by saying: “No, no! I’m not
claiming the ERROR manuscripts or the modern versions that come from them are
inspired and inerrant, I’m just saying scholars have agreed to use the corrupt
manuscripts to denigrate the KJV because the KJV must have come from – and therefore must be judged by
– the ERROR
manuscripts; because if the KJV did not come from man-made ERROR manuscripts it must have come from...well, it’s just not Reasonable to
think God made the inerrant KJV pop into existence, or that He would inspire
fallible sinners like the KJV translators to produce His inerrant word.” You now
know by his own testimony that he is subverted.
He does not believe God has preserved His inerrant word for us. He thinks,
therefore, that we should – without God’s permission/authority – redefine Holy Bible as “nothing
but a corrupt translation”. As you and I walk away from that subverted apostate brother, we’ll shake our
heads and discuss the amazing fact that he was, like a wolf confronted with a
brightly-burning torch, afraid, unable, and unwilling to do anything but slink
away from the topic of the KJV’s inerrancy; he always changed the subject by trying to treat the very manuscripts
he knows are rotten to the core as some
kind of corrupt “authority”...and then pointing out that when the
KJV says Elhanan killed Goliath’s brother, that reading in the KJV is different
from the one in all the manuscripts we’ve found so far. Therefore, he makes
this “logical” conclusion:
o
The KJV is not the same
as, and is therefore different from the ERROR ms/modern versions...
o
Therefore the KJV is the
same as the ERROR ms/modern
versions – corrupt!
While we’re on the subject of inerrancy, let
me deal with some “errors” and show why they are not errors. If theologians say
rabbit “cud” and “unicorns” are proof that the KJV has errors, I’ll quietly nod
my head and admit I’ve never seen a rabbit chew its cud and I’ve never seen a
unicorn – but I’ve never seen heaven or hell, either...and I’m going to stick
with thus saith
the Lord. If they tell me believing in unicorns makes me look like an
idiot, I’ll respond with something like, “Hey, guys, I’m just a chump like you;
doing the best I can with whatever smarts God has given me. And since you and
everybody else have failed to find any provable errors in the KJV, and since
the KJV’s unique inerrancy makes it the
issue – not rabbit cud and unicorns – stop wasting everyone’s time talking
about things that are not provable and either show me one provable error in the
KJV, or admit the KJV’s inerrancy makes it the only manuscript on earth that
fits God’s definition of His living word.”
They have never been able to stand up and face
that brightly-burning torch. And that inescapable and embarrassing fact really wounds their pride. So they
attempt to change the subject by saying history has no evidence that Cain and
Able ever existed; astronomers have no evidence that the sun ever went
backwards; and one of the “accepted” definitions of the ancient Hebrew word deep is actually “a puddle small enough
that a man can step over it.” Yes, they know by now that we aren’t impressed by
their unscriptural rejection of the Bible and their illogical logic. For
example, they use this “logic”:
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·
The Greek in the corrupt
ERROR ms
says black.
·
The KJV says white, therefore
the KJV has an error.
You already
recognize this “black and white” example uses the same flawed, contradictory
“logic” as the earlier “not the same as” argument, but let’s show more ways
they’ve gone wrong:
· Based on
the “a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit” wisdom from God, the good
fruit of the inerrant KJV did not come from the corrupt ERROR ms. You do not get inerrancy from corruption.
· Another
piece of evidence that the KJV did not come from the ERROR ms is the fact that it has a number of readings that do not
appear in any of those ms...or any ms on earth. In
spite of that fact, theologians still like to claim the KJV was translated from those ms...but those ms themselves have shown theology’s claim to be
nothing but the wishful thinking of
blind men whose claim that the word of God doesn’t exist has always been
refuted by the miraculously-inerrant torch of the AV1611.
· The Bible
says God’s word is inerrant. The KJV has successfully withstood all of
theology’s attempts to prove it has errors. It is therefore, to the best of our
knowledge, the only inerrant Bible ms on earth, which makes it, to the
man of Biblical faith, the inspired word of God. And that shows why theologians
haven’t been able to prove the KJV came from any of the corrupt ms – it didn’t, it came from God!
· And that
brings us back to the issue of inerrancy: In order to prove the KJV did not
come from God, theologians will have to find a provable error in it. And since
nobody can prove a negative, trying to prove unicorns never existed is
impossible. And trying to prove the KJV really did come from manuscript X and
therefore its reading should say black
has also proven to be a dead end for theologians because there is no proof that
the KJV came from any known ms on earth, including any in the so-called Textus Receptus family. And
that’s always the cycle of events when “discussing” the existence of God’s word
with issue-dodging wolves in sheep’s clothing.
The
position of Bible-believing Christians is really very simple: because of our
faith in God we actually base our
thinking on what the Bible says.
We begin by believing the inspired word of God has been preserved for
our use today. Therefore, looking around at all available ms in order to see if
any manifests itself as divine by its fruit of inerrancy, the KJV is the
only one that qualifies in every respect.
And
the position of Bible-rejecting Christians is also very simple: because of
their self-reliant dependency on Reason, research, and knowledge they don’t
begin by believing anything;
they wait to see where the evidence leads them. And even though trying to know
them by their roots by tracing Bible translations all the way back to
the original autographs has huge gaps and abruptly ends 1,500 years too soon,
based on the known corruption of every Bible ms they’ve managed to
find...except one, they’ve
illogically chosen to ignore that miraculous exception, to illogically exalt
the ERROR ms, and to illogically use them to
illogically conclude the preserved, inspired, inerrant word of God does not
exist...even though the inerrant KJV is
right under their incredibly-long noses! In other words, in spite of the
fact that all versions of the Bible say God’s preserved, inerrant word does exist, and in spite of the fact
that the inerrant KJV is proof that God did exactly what He said He’d do,
subverted apostates ignore all of
that and claim the ERROR ms prove
God is either a liar or an incredibly inept bungler. And even though they will
not ever come out and word it as plainly as I have, we know that is exactly
what they think about God and His word because
of their fruits: They refuse to live by thus saith the Lord...as proven in AOR.
In
sum, inerrancy is the main way
to promote, exalt, and defend the King James Bible. When it comes to the Bible
version issue and finding the true word of God, inerrancy is not only the
issue, it is the only issue.
Never, ever leave God
Almighty’s signature trademark of inerrancy
out of any discussion with anybody about the amazing truth of His wonderful,
inspired, written, living, literal word.
The
second way to defend the KJV is to obediently reprove/instruct them one
or two times (according to the situation and their attitude using some
variation of the above blue text) and then (if they have not reacted positively
to the existence of the inerrant word of the living God) walk away and
politely-but-firmly shun them by letting them know the NT commands you to have
no fellowship with Christians who are subverted...and the biggest heresy you
know of is attempting to undermine the one and only foundation of
Christianity’s faith and doctrine by rejecting the inerrancy of God’s word. And
since God is truth, He views the
modern versions as abominations because of the falsehoods in them and because
those corrupt versions are Yea, hath God
said weapons that are subverting faith in Him and His word. Therefore, tell
people who stubbornly cling to Bible versions they know are corrupt that you are one of those who obediently
submits to and glorifies God by fellowshipping not just with KJVers, but with KJVers whose fruit demonstrates their active,
growing relationship with the living Word of God via His living word.
I’ve
already covered this NT tactic of shunning subverted Christians in Trumpet W3,
so here I’m going to cover some of the reasons behind that tactic of
separation.
It
turns out the word of God discerns and identifies believers and unbelievers:
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Heb
4:12 For the
word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.
The above
verse starts out saying it is talking about the living (“quick”) word (which rules out corrupt Bible versions), and
it goes on to say it ignores the carnal old-man body by going straight to the
soul and spirit in order to discern the true intentions of our hearts. That
is why Paul walked away on Mars Hill;
that is why God commands us to do the same when we find ourselves in the
presence of a subverted apostate: The living word of God is the real evangelist (not us), and if
Christians we witness to properly love the Lord, they will seek Him by hungrily gravitating toward His KJV. And no
thorns and snares they encounter along the way will stop them because the Good
Shepherd has ways to Husband His
young devoted wives in order to ensure they find Him via the strait
gate.
That
means we need to stop using tradition’s method of evangelizing (“Go use clever
words and emotions if possible, and beat ‘em over the
head if necessary...but get ‘em into the church!); and begin obediently using
God’s method (like Paul did on Mars Hill): Plant the Seed of the living
word...and then based on their reaction either continue feeding His hungry sheep or walk
away. Notice that method is basically the same as how we’re told to deal
with subverted Christians (such as non-KJVers):
Admonish them once or twice (plant the Seed of the living KJV)...and then based
on their reaction either continue feeding
His hungry sheep or walk away.
In
this NT era we’ve confused God’s job and our job.
God’s job is to use
the Holy Spirit and His living word to motivate and guide His faithful sheep
who hear His voice. He’ll make sure the Seed of His word bears fruit in the
hearts of those who love Him enough and are servant enough to do His
word. The Lord can use people and events and His still small voice to train up
His children in the way in which they should go. Notice the following Scripture
says the same thing: Christianity isn’t based on being persuaded by people, it’s about being persuaded by the Bible:
Lk
16:27-31 Then
he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest
send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may
testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They
have [the Bible] Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from
the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not
[the Bible] Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded [by
anyone], though one rose from the dead.
Heb 4:2 ... but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Our job depends
on whom we’re with:
1. Motivated
Christians: Plant the Seed. Then, based on their good reaction, fellowship with
and disciple them.
2. Apostate
Christians: Plant the Seed one or two times. Then, based on their (usual)
reaction, walk away and have
nothing to do with them.
3. Unknown
people: Plant the Seed. Then, based on their reaction, feed or walk.
Do
not think our job is to convince/force
Christians that the inerrant word of God exists in the KJV. We don’t want to
risk the welfare of the church by possibly dragging subverted Christians into
our midst. Our job is to show them the difference between the word of God and
the word of translators and then step back and let the word of God discern the
thoughts and intents of their hearts. If they are faithful, humble believers
who are seeking the Truth they will have the same Christ-honoring reaction you
and I had – they will simply jettison the modern versions and go with the KJV.
But if they “choose” a version that makes Christ a liar and His Book corrupt,
they do so because the word choose
involves Self…and they want Self to remain on the throne. For you and me there was no “choice” to make: we merely
accepted and submitted to what God has obviously provided for us.
Our
job is to go through life bearing precious seed...and then be on the lookout to
see if we need to feed or to walk. The arm of flesh has failed us,
and we need to get back to depending on the Lord to do His job of working in
people’s hearts. And we need to keep in mind why He orders us to walk away and shun apostates: The Devil’s
subversive leaven is so attractive and so powerful it cannot be stopped, and
our job is to stay away from
it and pray and fast and be doers of the word in order that we may grow strong
and resist being infected by the plague spreading throughout the church and the
world around us.
If
that means stop attending your church, do it. If that means your
only Christian fellowship is with the Lord via His Book, or with one or two
others, sobeit.
Heb 11
...they were strangers and pilgrims on the
earth...they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly...Choosing
rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures
of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt...They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted,
were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins;
being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they
wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of
the earth.
I
say again in case you haven’t gotten it yet: The Devil is no longer using swords to slay us; he’s using ideology
to subvert us. That does not mean
just because you know the Enlightened principles of theology
and democracy are evil, and it doesn’t mean just because you know the KJV is
the word of God you can disobey the Bible and go in/stay in among them and
touch the unclean thing and not be leavened by it. No, soldier; your job is to
obey our King whether you like and understand His orders or not.
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The
issue in the Bible is neither God nor the existence of God. The issue is
authority. We learn about authority from the word of God. People
who get their “beliefs” from sources other than the inerrant literal word of
God have all kinds of different gods they call “Jesus.” That’s why the
real Jesus Christ exalts His word
(not garbage cans) above His name (Ps
138:2); He and His living word are indistinguishable and inseparable, which is
why His Book says the same things about the Word of God as it does about the
word of God. Therefore, the key to true Christianity is not “the Lord
Jesus Christ” (because there are many false Christs
among us); the key to true Christianity is that which He exalts above His name
– His Authorized 1611 King James/Jacob (Ps 24:6) Bible – because there is only one inerrant Bible manuscript on earth
with the authority to describe and reveal the true Christ. That
inerrant Bible is His inspired Sword, and its inerrancy is its own
proof that the KJV is the inspired word of God with His authority behind it, which is absolute authority – and to deny that is to subvert His authority
and rebel against Him. The KJV’s inerrancy also emphasizes the importance of
interpreting it literally, which will lead us in the paths of righteousness and
rightly-divided doctrine for His name’s sake. And that miraculously-unique
inerrancy gives us the confidence to admonish our brethren who are
unintentionally undermining faith in God and the Christian religion by using
corrupt Bible versions.
The
paragraph above is a fairly good summation of W2, W3, and this trumpet. It
shows why I said in W3 that the subversive leaven of equality/democracy was nowhere
near as harmful as Christian Enemy Number One: Yea, hath God said pro-theology/anti-KJV only:
“So, even though I am definitely and correctly adding
equality/democracy to the list because of how dangerously appealing it is, and
how subversive it is to authority, and how God has reacted to it with deadly
violence, I want to be clear that it’s not even close to being number one on
the list.”
And the
paragraph not only shows why the heresy of theology/anti-KJV is number one on
the list of subversive leaven, but it shows why Christian fellowship should not
be around “Jesus Christ” (which one?), it should be around the inerrant KJV
(which reveals the one true Christ,
is its own proof that the word of God
exists and the KJV is that word, has
the authority to teach doctrine, and
is exalted by Christ above His name).
The bedrock of our faith, therefore, is not “the Bible” (which one?); it
is the miraculous AV1611, which, against all odds and against all Logic and
theological Reason is a unique original
because it is the only manuscript on earth with God’s signature trademark on it
– inerrancy.
In
sum, our defense of the KJV is not like the baseless, blind allegiance Mormons
have to their BOM, and JWs have to their NWT. Our use of the KJV isn’t like the
modern Christian churches that use modern Bible versions because they “prefer”
them. And our promotion of the KJV isn’t like the idiotic “Logic” theologians
use when recommending their favorite modern versions: “I think this version more faithfully preserves the corruption
of the ERROR manuscripts than do the other modern versions recommended by
many other theologians and scholars.” Our stand is on the KJV for one
reason and one reason only – its inerrancy.
Trumpet W5
I
often stress that success in this war requires being a doer of the word. But
being a doer requires knowing the
word so you know what to do, and young Christians may not have mastered the
Bible yet. So, in an effort to help new Christians get started I’ll go over
some of the things I’ve done over the decades in order to protect myself from
distractions, temptations, my deceitful heart, slovenly Christians, etc.
When
the Lord gave me spirit life I suddenly had a hunger: I wanted to know about
Him. The first thing I did was read my Bible version (RSV) from cover to cover.
I didn’t study it; I just wanted to know what it said...and didn’t say. I did it so I’d have a complete foundation; I
didn’t want to begin building before I’d read the whole Bible because I thought
that might be putting the cart before the horse. I also read a couple of books
about Christianity and the historical reliability of the Bible.
I
was a Roman Catholic, so I naturally began attending Catholic nighttime “Bible”
studies. I was shocked to find out I already knew more about the Bible than the
nuns who taught the classes. I was disgusted by the “nothing-is-definite,
what’s-your-opinion?” view of the Bible. Any questions I asked produced mushy,
frustrating non-answers. Over time this built up until one night as my wife and
I were walking out of the church after another “Bible study”, I realized I was
almost trembling with some weird feeling that the Roman Catholic Church was
evil. I have no idea what it was. I’d never experienced anything like it before
or since. It may have been merely a reaction of intense dislike for the
mentally undisciplined amateurish floundering of the Bible study, but my
revulsion was directed at the RCC as an institution – not just at the Bible
classes. I said to my wife, “I don’t know why, but we’re never coming back to
the Catholic Church.”
A
few days later some independent fundamental Baptists knocked on my door, and I
ended up joining their church and being baptized because it was a “Bible
believing, Bible preaching, Bible teaching church.” I was hungry, I was looking
for food, and I couldn’t get enough.
I
had so many questions that I kept a little spiral notebook and pen in my shirt
pocket so I could keep track of them. During sermons when the preacher said
things, out came the notebook and questions were written down. I researched
everything. I went to the library, bought and borrowed books, began studying
issues in depth such as creation vs. evolution, and the Bible version issue. I
was there for all events every time the doors of my church or other affiliated
churches in the region opened. I even helped my church picket a local drive-in
theater for showing X-rated movies. I went to Christian seminars in big cities.
I went on an archeological dig with a creationist Christian who turned out to
be a fraud. The pastor was so delighted to have a young, eager Christian on his
hands that he began a “pastor-to-people hour” every Wednesday before the
evening service. He’d answer written questions that were passed up to him.
Well, I didn’t know Christianity wasn’t all open and above-board; I thought it
was OK to ask questions about anything. The week before, the pastor had shocked
and offended some pewsters by calling on an older woman during a church service
to lead the church in prayer. She did, but she was visibly upset because she
and a number of the older Christians thought women were supposed to remain
silent in church. Out came my spiral notebook, I researched the issue, and
submitted a question about it during pastor-to-people hour. I honestly thought
there might be something in the Bible I’d missed and the preacher would teach
us about the topic. Wrong! He
crumpled up my question, addressed another one, and terminated pastor-to-people
sessions. That was one of my earliest lessons that modern Christianity is not
open and above board, does some things that are un- and anti-scriptural, and
cannot defend itself against what the
Bible says.
Two
of the most important things I did during my short (less than two years) stay
in the church were to master the Bible version issue and gain a wealth of
knowledge and experience about modern Christianity – good and bad. The most
important thing was not going out and buying a KJV, the most important
thing was mastering the Bible version issue. Lots of lousy Christians use the
KJV and say it’s the inspired and inerrant word of God. But I wanted to know if
they were Scripturally correct or not. Once I understood
the Bible version issue, it was thrilling to know the inspired word of God
actually exists today. I was also amazed to see that God has preserved it in
such a way that faithless Christians can’t see that it exists, but to faithful
believers it’s as simple as letting the literal written word of God point out
that we find His word by its fruit of inerrancy.
I realized I now had a sure foundation upon which to build, and as long as I
stuck with what the Bible said, I was sticking with Almighty God Himself.
My
wife and I got rid of our TV because we realized it was an unnecessary
distraction and time-waster: we needed to master the Bible, and that was our
top priority. We were learning rapidly, and that milk and meat was satisfying
my need to feed. Unfortunately, other Christians in our church felt a different
need – the need to ridicule us for getting rid of our TV. Our pastor even made
sarcastic remarks about us from the
pulpit! The pastor was increasingly uncomfortable in my presence because of
his pastor-to-people embarrassment, his dread whenever he saw me pull out my
spiral notebook during sermons, and a number of things I found out that were
going on in church. I was vaguely uneasy about all of this because it didn’t
seem to be the way Christians were supposed to be. One day while doing
volunteer work at the church I asked the preacher a question during a casual
conversation. I said people always said we were supposed to “grow spiritually”, but I’d never heard anyone teach how
we achieve growth, so could he teach us about it someday during Sunday school
or during a sermon? He didn’t say anything. But that Sunday he delivered a
red-faced, screaming sermon about how the pastor is God’s man and nobody tells him what to preach!
Well, I can be kind of slow sometimes, but I realized he was wasting everybody
else’s Sunday simply because he was afraid to say something to me man to man.
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The
next most helpful thing in that Baptist church was the experience I gained. The
Lord allowed me to see, do, and learn an awful lot about modern Christianity. I
eventually had to leave because my open, honest, and idealistic belief that
Christianity was supposed to be in accordance with the Bible was causing me to
be disappointed, disgusted, and offended by what I learned about “reality.” By
the time we quit attending that church a short time later, I had learned three
things. 1) I needed to master the Bible because I had more questions than
modern Christianity had answers. 2) With the inspired word of God as my
textbook and the Comforter as my tutor I had all the tools I needed. 3) Modern
Christianity was in very bad shape, so I needed to protect myself from leaven
and isolate myself from irritants.
We
moved to a farm out in the middle of nowhere. This was physical separation.
This was my creating an environment for myself that allowed me to dedicate
myself to the kind of intensive study I felt driven to do so I could expeditiously master the Bible.
Now
I’ll go over some of the daily-routine things that have helped me and have
become part of my life. And I’ll make some recommendations I think you should
follow in order to protect yourself from well-intentioned mistakes. In no
special order:
· Boot camp.
As a beginning Christian you should be smart enough to know how ignorant – and
therefore vulnerable – you are. You
should have a disciplined “boot camp” mentality by putting your energy into
studying and learning...while deliberately avoiding confrontations and disputes
with other Christians. I say again, for all you know I may turn out to be a
nutcase and you may be glad later you didn’t go around spouting off at the
mouth before you found that out. Children should be seen and not heard, so
spend your time studying instead of running your mouth. Suggestions:
o
Insert a sheet of paper into AOR at every doctrinal chapter, or
get a loose-leaf notebook with section dividers labeled with doctrines and
topics. Study AOR completely, carefully, twice. Look up all of the Scripture
and do any side-studies that may interest you. Take notes,
write word definitions, results of word studies in a concordance, Scripture
references, reminders, thoughts, questions, and anything else that might help
you.
o
Even if you’ve already read the trumpets, now that you have AOR
under your belt, read them again with the Lord slowly and thoughtfully.
Christianity is largely cerebral
(there’s the rub!) because learning correct doctrine takes time and experience...and
those experiences must be Scripturally evaluated
in order to make corrections and adjustments along the way. Add to your notes
as you see fit.
o
Putting AOR and the trumpets aside, study the Bible all the way through twice. Keep in mind the
doctrines and other things you were taught by the well-intentioned but fallible yours truly so you can build
upon the things you confirm and discard the things you can’t. Pay close
attention to the exact words God put in His Book. Add to your notes as you see
fit. Study dutifully as an obedient soldier
should; patiently because when we sit
at the Lord’s feet He has His own perfect timing for things; expectantly because the Holy Spirit will answer your prayers for knowledge,
growth, understanding, and wisdom; and thanksgiving
because...well, because of everything,
brother – as you will understand and appreciate more and more as time goes
by. Your organized studies will help your learning, and your confidence will
grow. And your organized notes can be very helpful over the years when you want
to refresh your memory about something, or when you want to share some stuff
with other Bible believers.
o
During boot camp (which may take two years, more or less), you
may elect to continue going to your church if you attend one. You may elect to
continue fellowshipping with other Christians you know. And you may decide to
continue friendships with pagans. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, that’s a
lot better than shoving your throttles up into full afterburner and going to
war with people over some of the stuff you’ve learned. You will probably
benefit from some gentle discussions
with Christians about some issues you care about. For example, you may want to
discuss the KJV’s inerrancy and other Bible version issues with people in order
to see for yourself how they react and what they say. But I say again, be very
careful to make your first two years meditatively, academically, and quietly cerebral; do not try to become an action hero who goes out and tries to “improve”
Christianity by kicking ass. Keep your mouth shut, your eyes and ears open, and
carefully evaluate some of the Scriptural wisdom of the rearguard tactics
discussed in these trumpets.
o
When you finish boot camp you’ll find that not much will change.
Boot camp is merely the beginning of a Bible-based relationship with the Lord
Jesus Christ, and that will never
end. The direction of your life will depend on what gates and trials the Lord
puts before you, and how you respond to them will depend on how mature and pure
your inner sanctum (the Lord, His Book, and you) is. For example, if fear or
lust or pride get the better of you at times, respond like David did by honestly
repenting, learning, and making sure you’ll never repeat that sin. The fact is, the road to becoming a mature Christian warrior is no
different from the road walked by mature Christian warriors: Daily Bible study,
constant fellowship with the Lord, and using your inner sanctum to evaluate any
and every situation in your life. That’s all I’m doing right now: I’m trying to
serve and glorify God and edify my fellow servants in accordance with His
Instruction Manual. As we mature our daily routine of tending to the Lord
remains the same. But as we learn, falter, repent, grow...and mature our decisions get better and our
service more selfless. And eventually we realize we’ve increasingly developed a
burden to help our comrades, so we begin ministering to the needs of the
church.
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o
“Action addicts” and “learning junkies”: Eph
2:1-3: And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according
to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh
in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in
times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
and of the mind... (1 Thes 4:11): And that ye study to be quiet, and to do
your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; Because you learned a lot in a
short time by studying AOR, you may now experience “learning withdrawal”. The mental stimulation, the
excitement of learning as you went through AOR the first few times may
cause you to now – as boring day after boring day rolls by – feel restless. Some people are action
addicts, and they wrongly crave the excitement of constantly debating doctrine
by going in among apostate Christians. Some people are learning junkies, and
they hope to duplicate the high they had when studying AOR, so they begin
looking for more knowledge. I can’t say learning is bad...but be careful not to
get sidetracked by trivialities in the “ever learning” rut, and be careful not
to put well-intentioned Christian authors like me between you and the Lord and
His Book. Concentrate on your
relationship with the Lord (day after week after month after year after decade
of daily time with Him during Bible study/reading, and 24/7 with Him in your
inner sanctum) so He can shape you
into the kind of vessel He wants you to be. Train yourself to quietly and
patiently and faithfully sit at His feet via endless sessions in His Book
accompanied by confessions, thanksgivings, questions, praise, word studies, note-taking, essay writing, etc. That is exactly
what His Book tells you to do...and it really does work, and it really is worth
it. One way to read study to be quiet is: “If
you spend your time studying the Bible, it will keep you in life’s slow lane away
from the constant time-wasting barrage of worldly distractions that appeal to the
desires of the flesh and of the mind.” Looking back I wish I’d avoided
some of the distractions along the way that I now realize were nothing but well-intentioned trivial wastes of time.
I was spiritually young and ignorant and had no big brother to disciple me, so
with this ministry I’m trying to be an help who is
meet for you. Bottom line: It may sound trite, but only what’s done with and
for the Lord is satisfying in the long run.
· “Practice
daily with the guns.” You are training for spiritual warfare. The Bible is your
weapon. Read and/or study it every day. Without fail. It is your daily bread.
You need it. Just do it. It is an extremely important part of your relationship
with the Lord. It gives Him opportunities to increase your knowledge,
understanding, and strength. Do not let Him and yourself down: read the Bible
every single day for the rest of your life. If a day ever comes when you decide
to skip your Bible reading, you must first commune with the Lord and let Him
know what it is on your agenda that is so important that you won’t have time
for His Book today. Yes, some days your reading will be boring. But some days
your reading will unexpectedly turn into a feast, and you may spend many hours
feeding. Even if you don’t feel motivated to read, do it anyway out of a sense
of duty. The Lord will note your unflagging dedication and your obedience, and
He will reward you.
· “Pick out the
biggest and commence firing!” The best way to master the Bible (after you’ve
read it straight through a couple of times) is to master specific doctrines one
by one. Pick the big ones, the important ones, and the ones that most interest
you first. Take notes. Write down things as you run across them that you want
to look into someday. As you go through the Bible make side lists of “here a
little, and there a little” verses that deal with various topics so you can
group them by subject and therefore easily find them later. Use a concordance
to do word studies and find verses. Make lists of helpful verses. (Study habits
like these made it a lot quicker when I wrote AOR to know which verses to reference.)
· Come out
of the closet. When having normal everyday conversations with people, saved or
not, I encourage you to mention the Bible or the Lord. Don’t force it. Let it
be a natural reference having to do with whatever you’re talking about. It can
be something as simple as, “Well, we know we all go back through Noah”; or “The
Lord hasn’t given us any rain in quite a while”; or “I happen to know about
that because I’m a Bible believer”; or it may be something more in-depth
depending on the circumstances. As your Bible knowledge and Christian
experiences that result from being a doer of the word increase, you’ll be
amazed at how many times Biblical stuff comes to mind. By speaking up you’ll
learn there’s nothing and nobody to be afraid of. And sometimes you may be
delighted that you’ve just met a fellow Bible believer.
· If
lukewarm Christians or pagans think you’re a wild-eyed, drooling fanatic,
you’ll gradually learn it doesn’t matter
and you don’t care! And if somebody
ever says something derogatory about you or Christianity or the Bible (they
usually say nothing), you’ll quickly realize they’re not a threat: they’re
lightweight airheads firing blanks...and they probably already know that and
therefore have no desire to match wits with a Swordbearing
front-line Christian warrior. But if they actually do get all emotional and
attack Bible believers and the word of God do
not stick around and cast your pearls before swine – walk away. If you’ll resist those urges to stay and argue
and defend yourself and the Bible, and if you’ll
subdue self by obediently walking
away you’ll realize later that what they
think really doesn’t matter and you
really don’t care.
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· Be
increasingly picky with your social life (it’ll automatically happen as you
mature and walk more closely with the Lord). Be polite and casually friendly
with everybody, but don’t fellowship with pagans who can’t resist badmouthing
Christians, and don’t fellowship with Christians who aren’t interested in the
inerrant Bible. Make your socializing routinely include the Bible. If that causes
you to end up with no friends, it’s only because they’ve turned out to be the
kind of people you do not want to be around. People are dangerous because peer
pressure is a powerful force. Be very careful with people; they can be very bad
for you. This is not to say you won’t maintain good relationships with job
bosses and fellow employees – you will, and you should. But do not get your
back up when they say the kinds of stupid, carnal, Enlightened
stuff they typically say. Remember, some dogs bark a lot. It’s a nuisance, but
it’s not a big deal. It isn’t your job to shut them up, your job is to “study
to be quiet” by coming out from among them so you can be in a Biblical
environment of peaceful green pastures and still waters. Be disciplined; be in control of yourself at all times and
in all environments, and the peace of God, which passeth
all understanding, shall be with you.
· If you
have a pagan spouse and children, or if you have a pagan girlfriend, or if your
parents and brothers and sisters are unsaved you may find that it can sometimes
be easier getting along with pagans than with tradition-bound loudmouthed
opinionated Christians. If that is so, and your unsaved loved ones – like your
loyal and beloved pet dog – want to be around you (1 Cor
7:13) and are content with your being a Bible believer you do not have to avoid
them; it is perfectly OK to have pagans in your life and to love them – as long
as they cheerfully accept you as a Bible believer.
· Develop a
24-7-365 relationship with the Lord. Talk with Him about everything. Think
about His word and about matters Christian. Thank Him for times when a
cloudbank, or fall leaves, or falling snow, or a cool breeze that billows your
sweat-soaked shirt out from your back, etc., make you have one of those timeless
moments that stick with you forever. If you’re carrying a bucket of gravel up
to the barn and you stumble and spill it in the deep lush grass by the spring,
and you feel your fatigue spilling over into senseless anger...fast (as in not eating) from your impatience. Tell
the Lord you’re tired, you hate little detailed penny-ante work, but you’re
going to get down on your hands and knees and pick the gravel, one by one, out
of the grass and refill the bucket. And you’re doing it for Him because you want
it to symbolize the kind of servant you want to be for Him: patient, humble,
disciplined, and happy to do whatever task no matter how distasteful you may
think it is. Just be with Him. You’ll find out He’s good to be with.
· Pray. Ask
Him to help you love Him, serve Him, learn His word, and be more patient.
Everything. Prayer is just a more specific talk with Him – as opposed to the
constant communing with Him every day such as above when picking up gravel. Be
careful when you pray not to be selfish. Pray for the church. Be strong: admit
to times when you fret or falter, but tell Him you’ll never quit on Him. Be
honest and humble in your prayers. Don’t BS Him with “Christian rhetoric”
because He’s way ahead of you and
will not be fooled or pleased. Use your prayer time to honestly and objectively
review how you’ve been performing. Thank Him for growth, and ask for more.
Don’t be afraid to talk honestly about the possibility that He may want you to
suffer horribly one day – like Job. Yes, you’re afraid to bring up stuff like
that because you don’t want to give Him any ideas. But He doesn’t work that
way. Your prayers should be part of your relationship, and your relationship is
a journey whose objective is your becoming the kind of
faithful servant He delights in and can count on for anything...forever.
Quick example: As a young Christian I wanted to know what tongues
is. So I Naturally and carnally conferred with flesh and blood by asking
preachers and reading books about it – and all of them danced around without
properly pointing to Bible verses that actually described miraculous tongues. Finally one day, frustrated and at my
wits’ end, as a last resort (!)
I took it to the Lord in prayer: 1 Cor 14:34,35 Let your women keep silence in the
churches...And if they will learn any thing, let
them ask their husbands at home. I knelt at a chair in
my living room, confessed my lack of faith, told the Lord I couldn’t find the
answer, and asked Him to help me. And then I waited. Ps
27:14 Wait, I say, on the LORD. A few days later
while studying the subject in the Bible (again), the Lord opened my eyes to the
fact that His truth is revealed by paying close attention to what His literal word actually says...as well as what it doesn’t say.
By opening my eyes to the necessity of taking Him literally at His word, the
Lord taught me about tongues...and about how to avoid being blinded by
tradition from then on.
· In addition
to paying attention to the exact words God put in His Book, keep in mind cause and effect when studying
the Bible. Many people incorrectly treat the Bible as if it’s merely a
collection of “Sunday-school stories” whose inconsistencies with Enlightened doctrines should be ignored. But the Bible is
100% true, and it talks about real people in real situations.
Keeping that in mind as you study will help you pay attention to cause and effect. For example:
o
God really did get so
upset that He killed Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram when they tried to “reform” Moses and his
brother. Why? And God really did get so upset with King Saul
that He rejected him as king for “merely” heeding the voice of the people. Why? When using cause and effect to
figure out why, you’ll find the events have something in common, authority: Korah
wanted to overthrow Moses’ autocratic authority and create a democratic
government; and Saul wanted to surrender his autocratic authority by creating a
de facto democracy. By treating these
and other events in the Bible as real we find they were caused by threats to
the absolute authority of single-headed rule, which resulted in God’s seemingly
over-the-top anger. Upon examination you’ll realize the literal word
makes it look like God wants His people to submit to their rulers no matter what those rulers say! You’ll
find that to be interesting, and will tuck it away in your mind to see what
else you might come across in the Bible (such as Mt 23:1-3 and 1 Pet 2:13-18)
that supports this idea that is so offensive to modern “Christianity” and
society. You’ll add the above Scripture to your Bible study notes under a
growing section called “authority” or “government”. After you’ve carefully,
patiently gone through the Bible a few times and verified your doctrinal lists
are complete, you’ll be forced into deciding if you’re going to live by the
traditions of men or if you’re going to live by Thus saith the Lord.
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o
God really did get so
upset that He killed Hananiah when he used Satan’s Yea, hath God said theological
skepticism to undermine the authority of the word of God. That, too, is added
to study notes concerning theology, faith, belief, the truth of every word of
God, the subject of inerrancy and how
it requires taking the Bible
literally, the topic of rebellion/witchcraft (as applied to Saul in 1 Sam
15:22,23 and to Hananiah in Jer
28:16; 29:32), and other topics that bear on the Bible version issue in order
to see if believing Bible study by taking God’s inerrant King James
Bible literally will result in seeing more of God’s truth as revealed,
supported, and verified by the wonderful Comforting
consistency of the Bible.
o
Cause and effect also help us eventually build upon our
framework of increasingly-correct doctrine (which makes us jettison tradition’s
incorrect doctrines) in order to better and more clearly understand how and why, at a fundamental level,
theology, modern Bible versions, layman’s aids, etc. are subversive:
they undermine faith in God and His word by attacking the inspiration, literal
inerrancy, reliability, and authority
of the Holy Bible, which makes Christians think believing Bible study is
folly because God’s word no longer exists. And our growing understanding makes
us increasingly aware of the fact that Satan has successfully used theology as
a Trojan horse to bring Reason into the church. And then we look at
cause and effect again: How has this happened and why are most Christians so
unaware of all of this? The answer: It’s because our tactics have not been Biblical; instead of letting
modern dumpster-diving Christians know they are subverted, and instead shunning
them because the Bible literally says to come out from among them by walking away, we have continued to
fellowship with them...which allowed them to remain unaware that we believe
them to be apostates who lack the
foundational faith to believe God’s word exists, and are therefore blind to the
meaning of the miraculously-unique inerrancy of the KJV. I say again, instead
of politely and lovingly shunning the
Hananiahs in our midst, we have befriended/defrauded them!
· Get up
early. If you get up early you’ll always have time to read and study the Bible
– because the rest of the world will be asleep and therefore won’t interrupt
you. I got up today at 0430 in order to write this trumpet. Sometimes I get up earlier, sometimes I don’t get up until 0600. But the Bible
is always the first thing I do every day. A good side benefit of getting up
early is it’ll help you become more disciplined.
· Cultivate the soil
of your heart and humble your soul with fasting. Do things that will eliminate
distractions and temptations. Establish habits and routines that are good for
you. Just make up your mind and do them. They may seem like big deals at first,
but when you do them you’ll realize how screwed up we are by not having a
deeper understanding of the “all is vanity” in Ecclesiastes. When you fast, ask
the Lord to help you translate the fasting into the kind of dedicated
discipline that will help you avoid temptations, be a faithful doer, and endure
trials. No, you don’t really understand how
“cultivating” things like fasting positively impact our hearts and souls any
more than I do. But do ‘em anyway, soldier, because
they’re in our Weapons Manual and we believe
He’s looking for warriors who promptly carry out His orders – whether we
understand everything about them or not. Faith
is the victory.
· Get your
life and your household under control. Don’t be enslaved by debt, be an expert
who’s known for dependability at work, and rule well your own house.
· More on study to be quiet (1 Th
4:11): Make sure you have times when you are surrounded by peaceful
order and quiet. So many people these days spend their days in noisy chaotic
hustle and bustle. They’ve got the TV always on as “background noise”, or the
radio, or some modern music device, and they often can’t hear you because
they’ve got ear buds in their ears. They also have so many activities, hobbies,
and pastimes that they simply have no time to sit in a quiet place and just let
their minds rest. I routinely sit quietly and let my mind wander: daily tasks,
worries, memories, people, Scripture, Christianity, and – always – my
relationship with the Lord. It is not unusual for good things to “occur to me”
during these quiet times. I often attribute those thoughts to the still small
voice of the Comforter, which is also common during Bible study and
Bible-oriented discussions with Christians. That suggests these “study to be
quiet” sessions can be fruitful parts of our daily walks. My main point: The
busy, chaotic, noise-filled lives so many people seem to have these days may be
harmful if we don’t deliberately take the time to “study to be quiet” in order
to mull things over with the Lord so His still small voice has an opportunity
to shepherd those with ears that hear.
· Make
“disciplined” your middle name. Do not allow or tolerate laziness,
slovenliness, or procrastinating in your life. Reading the Bible every day,
getting up early, and fasting are good ways to make self-discipline part of
your character. Be on time and in other ways be dependable. Stand up straight,
tuck in your shirttail, pull up your pants, comb your hair, don’t drag your
feet, look people in the eye, be honest and truthful. Look like the
squared-away, elite Christian soldier you are or are in training to be. Be
proud of your Christian character, and live and walk
and talk in such a way that you can stand unashamed and unafraid before a
mirror, your comrades, and your enemies – like Christ did before Pontius
Pilate. I say again, be disciplined.
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· Be strong.
You’ll need to be strong if you’re going to be a doer. The best way to be a
doer is to address your fears. Are
you afraid to turn down your neighbor’s dinner invitation because he and his
wife are low-life scumbags and you’ve been afraid to openly be a Bible believer
around them? Get off your butt and go tell him. It doesn’t matter if you’re
humble with him and confess that you feel bad about the kind of Christian
you’ve been and are in the process of repenting, or if you curtly decline his
invitation and don’t care if his feelings are hurt or not. Your personality isn’t important; getting
your life in order so you can quickly grow into a strong and dependable warrior
is. The best way to grow
stronger is be a doer of the word.
· There are
things in the Bible that I won’t mention to you. They aren’t big enough deals
for me to preach them. But they have become part of my relationship with the Lord. In a way they’re personal; they’re
things I came across in His Book that I made part of my life because I think my
Husband appreciates them and I want
to please Him. I could open the Bible and show you why I do them, but I won’t.
I want you to develop your own relationship with Him based on whatever things
in the Bible impress themselves upon you. Don’t be
afraid to develop your relationship.
Don’t be afraid to be different from me.
· Fear is a
big impediment to Christian growth. And many Christians increase their fear and
timidity by trying to conform to some “image” of what a Christian should be.
The way they dress, their vocabulary, their tone of voice, and their
personalities are all calculated to project that mythical “Christian image.”
But they end up being insecure and shallow because they know they’re phonies
putting on a pious act. Don’t get sucked into that trap, brother. If you’ll
take the above actions to heart in order to preserve and protect your
environment so you can avoid or overcome the temptations, pitfalls, and trials
that are part of our Christian walks, you’ll grow rapidly. Humility will help. Be yourself. Let your daily relationship
with Christ shape you. Have the personality and the character He gives
you via the experiences and trials and temptations He deems fit to put into
your life. Being yourself will help you during those
times when standing alone on Scripture becomes necessary. And it will become necessary. How will being
yourself help? Because being a humble, submissively-obedient, no-BS Bible
believer every day in every way will gradually become more and more entrenched
into your character, into who you are. And therefore
when temptations and fears try to get you to stray, the selfless love for
the Lord that is the foundation of
your Christian character and that grew every time you served Him, will keep
you in line. I say again: Being the kind of Christian I’ve described above will
quietly result in your relationship with – and love for – the Lord to deepen.
And as you mature you’ll be able to see that love manifest itself...well, in so
many ways I can’t even begin to list
them.
You
are a child of God Almighty in a weed- and leaven-infested, pitfall-filled,
dangerous war. Your job is to mature and bear fruit. Part of your job includes
taking the above steps to protect your flanks and cover your six so your little
environment can be a fertile, weed-free, peaceful
garden of Eden where you won’t have to spend all your
time and energy fighting barbs and arrows. If you don’t successfully get
through training/childhood you’ll never be a good combat soldier/adult. So take
your training seriously and help it be fruitful by
doing the above steps. One day you’ll be glad you did.
Trumpet W6
Much of this essay is conjecture,
therefore I’m not dogmatic about it. But even though the Bible does not come
right out and say some of this stuff, it does fit with and explain much of
Scripture. And because this narrative helps us get a glimpse at how desperate
this war is, I want it to make you think about how important you and your
submissive obedience to the literal word of God are to the welfare of the
church. I’m going to draw upon the info covered in earlier trumpets in order to
paint a broad picture of the war and why certain things happened. This topic
goes along with the fact that the Lord knew a rearguard action was the only way
the church could endure to the end and win the war, and it not only gives a
possible explanation to some perplexing wording in the Bible, but the
explanation – because it makes sense – is but another indication that we are to
use a literal interpretation of the Bible.
Since you take the Bible literally and realize
the Lord carefully selected each word, have you ever wondered why the Lord
chose a specific “three
measures of meal” rather than a more general “a measure” or something similar,
and how it might apply to both the KOG and the KOH?
Lk
13:20,21
Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a
woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was
leavened.
Mt 13:33
Another
parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is
like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal,
till the whole was leavened.
In my narrative I’m also going to draw upon
some of the stranger things in the following verses:
Gen 6:2-4 That the sons of God saw the daughters
of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which
they chose...There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,
when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty
men which were of old, men of renown.
1
Jn 3:12 Not as Cain, who was
of that wicked one...
Gen
19:1-7 And
there came two angels to Sodom at even...and Lot seeing them rose up to meet
them...And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your
servant’s house, and tarry all night...But before they lay down, the men of the
city, even the men of Sodom...called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are
the men which came in to thee this night? bring
them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot...said, I pray you, brethren,
do not so wickedly.
Jn
8:41,44,47 Ye
do the deeds of your father...Ye are of your father the devil...He
that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear
them not, because ye are not of God.
Mt
13:24-40 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is
likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his
field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat,
and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit,
then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said
unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from
whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy
hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and
gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather
up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let
both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say
to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares,
and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn...He
answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good
seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children
of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The
enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest
is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares
are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
Mt 10:16,17 Behold, I send
you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise
as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men...
Mt
7:15,16 ...which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but
inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Jn
2:24,25 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew
all men, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he
knew what was in man.
Lk
18:8 ...when the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth?
Mt
24:22 And
except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be
saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Let’s
begin.
What if the Devil really did consummate his
union with Eve (as we discussed in AOR),
and thereby introduced some kind of “fallen seed” to the physical genetic mix
of the human race that makes or tends to make us more receptive to ideology that
is pro-theology and anti-God/authority? Would that mean the Lord meant it
literally when He told the evil Pharisees they were “of their father the
devil”? Could the Bible be referring to the Devil’s “recessive genes” in Cain
when it says Cain was “of that wicked one”? And could more “wicked seed” have
been added to our human gene pools when the devils took human wives?
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Obviously there are other ways to explain
“recessive genes” and “leaven” and “of your father the devil.” For example,
those things could simply mean “doctrinally corrupt”, or “subverted with
Reason, theology, equality, democracy, etc.”, or they could be referring to
some unmentioned spiritual corruption. That gives us four possible
explanations...but I’m going to explore only one of them – a physical genetic
“recessive gene” implanted in Eve by the Devil. The Bible does make it clear,
after all, that somehow the physical
kingdom of heaven and the spiritual kingdom of God can and do interact
with and affect each other.
Why did Cain go bad?
Did he inherit that recessive gene from his parents? Is that why he received a
“mark”? We don’t know, the Bible doesn’t say. But we do know some form of evil leaven
quickly spread until all of the first patriarch’s generations were corrupted,
which caused God, for the good of the church, to step in and use the Flood to
cull everybody.
God then told the second patriarch, Noah to be
fruitful and multiply. The generations of Noah were also quickly leavened,
causing God to step in and divide the human race into saints and ain’ts.
God gave the third patriarch, Abraham, the Old
Commission to be fruitful and multiply. And via Moses He also began giving
Abraham’s generations the Old Testament. In order to protect His people from
the corrupting recessive genes that infected so many of Noah’s generations, God
told Abe to inbreed. That would not only prevent His people from bringing more
recessive genes into Israel via infected pagans, but the recessives already
there would be exposed by inbreeding and close fellowship. That’s one reason
God gave His people the death penalty – it would cut off recessive genes. And
that’s why God told parents to carefully watch their children: If any of them
weren’t bearing proper fruit by the time they were 16 those
recessive-gene-carrying children were to be executed to prevent them from
spreading that leaven via ideology and physical reproduction.
And that’s why God had His people annihilate
so many pagans who lived near Israel; He was eradicating recessive genes that
could infect his people.
When Christ showed up He pointed out that some
of the Pharisees (and therefore others among the Hebrews) had inherited this
recessive gene and therefore could not heed the word of God and be good
Christians. In fact, so many Christians of Abraham’s generations had been
infected by their parent’s marrying pagans and by not culling among themselves
properly that the Lord saw it was necessary for the good of the church and the
war to cull His leavened people and start over with the New Testament and with
Himself as the fourth – and True – Patriarch.
Did you catch it? The generations of the first
three physical patriarchs were
so completely leavened they
had to be cut off. That’s where the
“three” measures of meal came from. And they had the leaven initially
introduced to them by a “woman” – Eve.
When the Fourth Patriarch looked around at the
whole world He saw that there were not enough people left who weren’t infected
with recessive genes. That meant He could not win the war if He selected
somebody new to be a physical patriarch. If He did that His new church would –
because you cannot tell people are “of the Devil” by looking at them – actually
hurt itself if it tried to use the Old Commission by marrying people who had a
much higher chance of carrying the Devil’s genes. That meant the Lord had to not only get rid of the Old
Commission’s mandate to have children, He had to – for the good of the longevity
of the church – advise His NT saints to not marry anybody, “Christian” or pagan, because the odds were they
were carrying recessive genes. That would prevent His NT saints from
unintentionally populating their churches with the invisible genes of that Wicked
One. That’s why God told us not to
marry and have kids – there are way too many infected people and way too few
uninfected people on earth to safely marry anybody
and physically reproduce.
We cannot tell who these infected people are,
but they’re everywhere. We are sheep among wolves...and many of the wolves are
in our churches wearing sheep’s clothing. That means the Devil’s recessive
genes pollute human beings in such a way that the Lord either cannot give them
the new birth or if He does those tainted saints are more prone to subversive
ideologies. And infected people do not know they’re infected: That’s why many
of today’s “Christian” tares/children of the Devil are just as enthusiastic
about “Christianity” and “Bible” study as are Muslims
about their religion.
But the Lord does know who’s infected and
who’s not. That’s why He took over as Patriarch – He will select individuals anywhere on earth who are “clean” and give them the new birth. And
if His people live in accordance with the Bible they probably won’t get married. And that obedience to
the Bible helps the church because it avoids the high probability that we’re going to marry pagans (no matter how
many times they said the sinner’s prayer, made a profession of faith, or were
baptized) and unknowingly add modern
Pharisees to the church who will further subvert it.
This underscores how absolutely necessary it
is for us to obediently implement the Lord’s NT warfare tactics of inbreeding (close doctrine-oriented
fellowship) in order to expose infected people by their fruit; culling (church discipline, rebuking,
shunning); and separation (using the
Great Commission’s mandate to use the word to find and feed God’s sheep...and
have no fellowship with pagans and subverted Christians). And this also highlights
the fact that these tactics must
be used if the Lord’s strategy of rearguard action is to succeed. I say again,
brother, obedience on our part
is essential if the church is to endure to the end. In fact, even the very elect among us will not make it if the Lord
doesn’t step in (like He did with the Flood, the Division, and the NT) and
“shorten” the last days...because the leaven cannot be stopped.
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Is there Biblical precedence for the Lord
giving the new birth to anybody He chooses around the world? Yes. He apparently
gave the new birth to a number of Gentiles in Nineveh. And then – foreshadowing
the NT’s Great Commission – He sent Jonah there to preach the gospel to “feed
my sheep.” And if the “wise men” are any indication, the seed of the word Jonah
planted in Nineveh accomplished God’s will and produced faithful saints who
played an important role in Jerusalem and Bethlehem at the First Coming.
Other born-again Gentiles in the Bible such as
Lot, the Roman centurion, and the Syrophenician
woman indicate that the True Patriarch always knew one day He’d have to open
the gospel to the whole world in order to find enough unleavened people who
could stand in the gaps.
Just before the Second Coming the Lord will
step in and “shorten those days” in order to rescue the few remaining faithful
from being leavened. And at that point the whole population of the earth will
be so polluted with the Devil’s recessive genes that the Lord will be unable to
find enough saints to carry on the war during the final thousand years. But He
has already planned for that...which is why He is going to resurrect His faithful from earlier in history whose obediently-submissive
lives enabled them to “keep the Sabbath.”
The Devil will be locked up for most of those
thousand years. How that might affect the spread of his recessive genes is
irrelevant because our job of submissive obedience will remain the same. It
seems likely, however, that Reason, carnality, Yea, hath God said theology, equality, freedom, and democracy will
still bring some of us down, and those leavened saints will rally around Satan
when he is released.
The final cleansing, the final culling, the
Final Solution will be by fire. At that point we’ll have no more leaven,
recessive genes, or equality to worry about.
But that’s more than a thousand years away,
and if we’re going to safely endure to the end we’re going to have to get
serious about the deadly contagion of whatever kinds of leaven are out there.
In practice it does not matter if this narrative is pretty close to the truth
or if the only leaven out there is equality and doctrinal related – because 1)
it’s still highly contagious and deadly, 2) the only way to identify it
is to be Bible-expert enough to correctly “know them by their fruits”, and 3)
be submissively obedient enough to walk
away.
This is a huge, involved, and deep subject.
And it requires some Biblical maturity because it takes some things in nature
and compares them with some seemingly-strange things in Scripture...so we can
marvel at the apparent consistency of it all. As you well know, I believe we
should take the Bible literally. Yes, there are
valid figurative applications for some of the above verses. But those
figurative applications, unlike the literal applications, haven’t even come
close to explaining and tying a number of things in Scripture together. As a
result most of those verses are swept under the rug by today’s churches. I
think that’s a mistake. Even if we don’t accept the above as a proper
application of the literal word of God, we should still profit from it by
talking with the Lord about how this war may be a lot more involved and may be going a lot worse than we
thought. And then we need to gird our loins because the Tribulation is coming,
and some of the things that happen then are going to be weirder than the
above...because this war really does involve both spiritual and physical
beings.
We are
at war! And it doesn’t look to me
like it’s going very well.
Let them that have ears that hear, hear.
Trumpet W7
Mk 7:13
Making the word of God of none
effect through your tradition,
Heb 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached,
as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not
being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Ac
15: 24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that
certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your
souls...
2 Tim 2:14,17 ...charging them before the Lord that they strive
not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
And their word will eat as doth a canker...
The
above verses illustrate something important about the word of God: It can be
made unprofitable and of none effect because it is not a magic, all-powerful
fix. With that in mind, I’m going to talk about one facet of the battle of
words that has me worried.
The
Lord has chosen to communicate with us through His written and spoken word
(Bible reading/study and preaching/fellowshipping around the word). Words are
important because they go into our brains and combine to gradually form and
instill the invisible building blocks of character (who we are, beliefs,
doctrine, faith, etc).
When
we hear or read carnal words of
the world, those evil words are evaluated in our brains, compared with what
we’ve learned from the Bible, and rejected. In other words, the word-evaluation
process that goes on inside our brains is an important defense against the
onslaughts of the world. But “progress” in our modern society is helping the
Devil use subtlety to subvert us.
The
Appalachian Mountain region of the United States was home to the classic
“hillbillies.” These men and women tended to reject change from the “outside
world”, and therefore remained the way they’d always been. When they were hired
by local employers their managers found it was difficult to change
them...because they didn’t go to Shakespearean plays. (Bear with me.)
Before
Queen Elizabeth’s reign in England, public plays had religious themes in
order to help reinforce proper Christian ways of thinking and living. But Queen
Elizabeth wanted to secularize society by introducing people to the new Enlightened ways of thought. So, among other things, she
allowed the content of plays to become carnal, to be
about secular human feelings of right and wrong and love and fairness and
justice. In other words, even back then, intellectuals understood that there
were a number of tools with which society could be programmed, manipulated,
propagandized, and brainwashed. Social results of the secular plays weren’t
very impressive, but every little bit “helped.”
The
Appalachian hillbillies could not be re-programmed by plays because plays
weren’t available. But when the radio came along it was believed it would
modernize hillbillies by entering their homes and minds. However, the
effectiveness of the radio at reprogramming people was found to be – like plays
– minimal.
And
then television was invented. (Fasten your seatbelt, brother.)
The
appeal and success of television was phenomenal. Even among the hillbillies TV
antennas began sprouting from the old busses, trailers, and cabins they lived
in. And with dramatic speed hillbillies conformed to the modern world. They
bought toothpaste (“You’ll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your
teeth with Pepsodent!”); got haircuts and bought hair
tonic (“Brylcreme: She’ll love to run her fingers
through your hair.”); saw the girls flocking around the guy with a sea bag over
his shoulder, so they shaved and bought Old
Spice or Burma Shave; etc. They
saw the beautiful people on TV and wanted to look like them, talk like them,
and have the things they had.
In
the 1950s Walt Disney revolutionized TV and marketing with its TV series (and
then movies) about Davy Crockett. Stores were suddenly inundated with consumers
clamoring for coonskin caps and other Crockett items. It was impossible for
Disney and the stores to keep up with demand – everything sold out as soon as
it went onto the shelves. (Today marketing schools still study the phenomenal
demand for consumer goods the Crockett series created.)
In
1960 Richard Nixon and underdog John Kennedy debated on TV during the
presidential campaign. Kennedy had a fresh shave and wore clothing that looked
better with the stage backdrop than those worn by Nixon. Kennedy won the debate
and election because he looked better on TV than Nixon.
Sociologists
were intrigued by the fact that hillbillies’ resistance to social change was
penetrated by TV – but not radio; they were intrigued by the avalanche of sales
created by the Crockett TV shows; and they were intrigued by the Kennedy TV
debate success based on appearance
rather than content.
They
found out that when people read (books) or hear (radio) words,
their brains deal primarily with words; our brains must process/analyze
the words in order for us to understand their meaning. During that process
pre-existing belief and value systems are involved in the analysis...which
allows people to filter out and reject content that conflicts with their
beliefs. Something similar happens in real life (plays): our natural aloofness
from strangers makes us tend to be more critical of what they say. But when
people see and hear something on TV, the “on-guard effect” of real life
is relaxed, which allows other powerful subliminal forces to dilute, bypass, or
nullify the brain’s value system filters. The meaning and evaluation of words
takes a back seat to gut reactions based
mostly on what is seen, somewhat on tone of voice, and little on the actual meaning of the spoken
words. That’s why TV did to hillbillies what radio had failed to do. That’s why
people suddenly became brainwashed zombies who had to rush out and buy coonskin caps, and Air Jordan
sneakers, and old yeller dogs, and bikinis, etc: They didn’t decide to do those things; they were socially programmed to do them.
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When
information got out about visual images having the ability to subconsciously
program people, conspiracy theorists came out of the woodwork: Drive-in
theaters were accused of brainwashing people into buying food and drink by
inserting single-frame pictures of beverages and food into the movies; liquor
ads were thought to insert naked-women shapes into the photo patterns of ice
cubes in drinks in order to make men like the advertized brand of booze. But
that’s not how TV and movies affect people. They do so with content and appearances: The husband and father is
made to look like and act like a brutish, heavy-handed thug. The wife and
daughter are nice-looking people who fearfully cower in the presence of the
dad. And when he beats the daughter it is for dumb reasons and it is brutally
mean...and we instinctively – little by little – side with the no-spanking
crowd because of our Natural affinity for what we think is right and good.
Let
me word that differently: When we read
about how brutally mean God was to huge numbers of men, women, and children
in His Old Testament, we tend to give Him the benefit of the doubt. But when we
see a similar scenario in a
movie, we tend to blame the brute no matter how Scriptural his actions may be.
TV and movies tend to brainwash us because our eyes tend to feed our gut reactions, which then tends to
overpower/bypass our normal ability to intellectually analyze the words and
principles involved. This process is more pronounced in people who tend to be
more emotional (usually women, but
men are becoming more like women these days), and in people whose value systems
aren’t yet fully developed (usually children and teens, but adults are becoming
more like kids these days), and in people with poor reading skills.
This
process of bypassing value systems even in many adults is made clear when,
after the movie, people are asked to judge what they saw. And when the scenes
are played back so the dialog
can be analyzed, these adults are often surprised not just that they reverse
their judgments, but that they had no
idea what the dialog actually said and meant during the movie!
Because
we are all affected by our fallen, carnal natures, we instinctively identify
with and like resisting authorities in movies – especially when the actor is
told to pretend to be a brutish dad. This instinctive resistance to authority
is why all young children automatically
backtalk and sass their parents (TV or no TV). But spanking has always (in the
past) taught children to subdue their carnal instincts and respect authority.
Therefore, early TV black-and-white shows reflected societal values, such as Father Knows Best and The Ozzie and Harriet Show. Today’s TV
shows reflect how authority has been reduced to the point that it is actually
despised, which symbolizes how people treat God: Either there is no father on
the show (symbolizing atheists) or he is a brute (people think God is harshly
unfair) or the dad is a humorous bumbler manipulated by his wife and kids
(representing the “loving God” of modern apostate Christianity).
This
change in society was hastened when transistor radios and music records
leavened children right under their parents’ noses. The themes of rebellion
against authority, premarital sex, and illegal drugs instinctively appealed to
immature children and hormone-driven teens whose inner value systems hadn’t yet
matured and therefore couldn’t effectively and completely filter out that
musical propaganda with its catchy beat and rhyme. In 1962, for example, a hit
song, He’s A
Rebel, reached #1 on the charts. Some lyrics:
See the way he walks down the street
;
Watch the way he shuffles his feet
.
My, he holds his head up high
When he goes walking by, he’s my guy.
He’s a rebel and he’ll never ever be any
good.
He’s a rebel ‘cause he never ever does what
he should.
But just because he doesn’t do what
everybody else does,
That’s no reason why I can’t give him all
my love.
Forty-two
years later, in 2004, that brainwashing bullshit was ranked #263 on a list of
the 500 greatest songs of all time.
Oh,
how things have changed. Today you can’t find a TV show in which the kids treat
their parents (and therefore God) with anything but sullen, disrespectful
contempt. That filth goes straight into who
our children are by bypassing their still-developing value filters,
and it makes them think submissive obedience isn’t “cool.” Today you can’t find
a show that isn’t about messed-up, rebellious, promiscuous kids, drug addicts,
alcoholics, homos, criminals, etc. The bad guys are so popular today that not
only have they become huge hero-stars in movies, but there are even shows in
which the main characters are married parent/mafia bosses...or school
teacher/parents who are lying, murdering, low-life manufacturers of illegal
drugs.
Young
people today grew up with all of those influences easily bypassing their almost
non-existent value filters. And because their moronic parents learned from – nowhere authoritative! – that the spanking commanded by God in His Bible is “cruel
and wrong”, young people never had respect for authority (including God
Almighty) become part of their inner makeup. Etc., etc., etc. Therefore, young
people today look, and dress, and mark their bodies in such ways that they look
like airheaded ghoul-wannabes. The bottom line: Society is gone, brother. And
it isn’t going to get better.
I
have realized over the decades that people used to “do what they were supposed to.” For example, people
went to church because they were supposed to. People disciplined/spanked their
kids because they were supposed to. Kids treated adults in general and
authorities in particular with respect because they were supposed to. Today
“supposed to” has vanished. Why did it exist more when I was young than it does
now? That’s easy: authority existed
and was respected back then. But as authority has been subverted, “supposed to” has crumbled away because without
authority chaos reigns. I say
again, “supposed to” gets its supposed from authority.
The gates of hell haven’t just been subverting Christians – everybody is being liberated from
authoritarianism in society; we’re free to do what we want, which is
covetousness. “Supposed to” is gone, and it isn’t coming back.
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Another
facet of modern society that somewhat
hinders Christians’ ability to effectively study the Bible is the fact that in
recent decades reading skills have diminished greatly. I say somewhat because the Holy Spirit still
helps sincere Christians when they study His word. But because many Christians
are poor readers and have poor reading comprehension they are less inclined to
study the Bible. Today if people with poor reading comprehension do read, they
usually read for entertainment rather than to learn. The U.S. Army years ago
even had to hire comic book publishers to draw comic-book tank manuals because
our modern American soldiers can no longer read and comprehend arms manuals.
Also,
Christians with poor reading comprehension who need and should spend more time in the word are likely to hurt
themselves by spending less time in
the Bible, and more time being
“entertained” by TV and the Internet.
As
noted above, the word of God is not magic, and it can be and is made of none
effect every day in many ways in the lives of many Christians. There is a war going on. There are casualties in war. If Christians
don’t wake up they will fall by the wayside. They need to cull some of their
activities and begin reading and studying the Bible every day. But most Christians can’t do that! And even
if they could, studying and mastering the Bible is just the preparation for the mandatory second
part – being a doer of the Bible. The test of our Christianity, our duty
as Christian soldiers, isn’t
to learn the Bible – it’s to do the Bible.
As
the above info (that only scratches the surface) shows, modern spiritual
warfare has gotten sophisticated. Today there are high-tech ways the world can
penetrate our defenses and turn us into carnal, conservative, church-going,
morality-worshipping casualties.
Serious Christians need to do whatever things are necessary (such as control
their environment) in order to make the Bible their life, their world, and
their reality. If they don’t, the word of God will remain of none effect in
their lives.
If
you think I’ve been too biased in presenting the above info, read this: It is a
compilation of quotes from a long, well-written, in-depth treatise on the
mechanics of how pictures can bypass and
subvert our value systems without our conscious awareness/participation:
“Words (spoken, heard, written, and read) require
conscious, deliberate analytical thought. But pictures (of all kinds) have the
ability to cause perceptions that are
seldom the result of conscious, deliberate thought; these perceptions simply happen, and are the unsolicited result
of prolonged or repeated exposure to pictures that are depicted in certain
ways. It is not what is depicted that
gives pictures the power to influence our perceptions of the world, but how they are depicted. In fact, pictures
have the capability to
·
enlist or erode
loyalties,
·
reinforce or undermine
our values,
·
and strengthen, create, or even destroy
existing beliefs, convictions, and attitudes.
“These picture-induced perceptions work by lingering on the
periphery of attention where they quietly prey on our belief systems by
nibbling away at and eventually seducing the senses without ever having been subjected to direct attention and critical
thought. That is how and why the subliminal illocutionary [Remember this word (I had to look it
up in the dictionary);
I’ll use it again
in other trumpets.]
impact and effect of pictures – even those which depict radically different values from those
currently held by the viewers – can cause gradual revolutionary changes: they
do so stealthily, implicitly, and without the conscious participation of the
audience. These are usually not deliberate attempts at subversion on the part
of the picture creators; they are often merely unconscious side-effects or
manifestations of their own existing belief systems. In other words, the
subversive effects of pictures aren’t the result of malicious or deliberate
acts on the part of the picture
creators, they merely happen because
they subconsciously come from who they
are.”
History
shows it has always been fairly easy to program Christians into doing the exact
opposite of Scripture. For example,
because the issue in this War is authority...not
right and wrong, God’s people used to
believe the Lord requires us to submit to all authority, even froward authority. The Bible has always
been very clear about that:
1 Pet 2:18
Servants, be
subject to your masters with all fear;
not
only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
They
had also been taught that even “minor” displays of rebellion
such as clamoring is a sin:
Eph 4:31
Let all
bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and
evil speaking,
be put away from you, with all malice:
But
British Christians in the American colonies before the American Revolution,
based partly on Paul Revere’s engraving of Sam Adam’s incorrect depiction of
the “Boston Massacre”, decided to reject 1 Pet 2:18 and Eph 4:31 by rising up
against their own government that they’d been told was froward, and they began
clamoring for a revolution. Why did they ignore their Bible-based values?
Largely because of a picture (and a Tea Party and a brain-dead essay
called Common Sense)! In fact, if you
do some research, you’ll find that Paul Revere’s highly-inaccurate engraving is
today admired as the most successful piece of propaganda in American history.
That picture “validated” Sam Adams’ “news account” and helped bypass Christian
value filters and convince God’s people it was now OK to ignore certain things
He plainly says in His holy and inerrant word and to make clamoring against and
rebelling against froward governments a modern “Christian” tradition that has
made parts of the Bible of none effect. That’s why you’ve never heard a single sermon telling you clamoring and
rebelling against evil governments is a sin against God. ( ! I say again, !! ) And that’s why when you read those verses (and
others like them) those commandments of
God have absolutely no impact!
Tradition/brainwashing/peer pressure are extremely effective weapons
against holy Scripture – to see living proof you have only to look in a mirror:
Are you looking at someone who used to not only believe in the “sacred” principles of democracy but also thought they were Scriptural?
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Visual
images, particularly TV and movies, have the ability to reprogram people...as
is summarized here:
TV and movies, by utilizing appealing and unappealing clothing,
facial expressions, body language, music, dialog, tone of voice, etc., and by
scripting situations in order to make audiences like and accept or dislike and
reject things, can actually bypass
the analytical thought processes by which our brains normally analyze words in
order to understand their meaning and see if those words agree with or offend the
value systems we’ve built up over time via parental upbringing, church sermons,
Bible study, etc. In other words, TV and movies have the ability to make us
“emote” – to have gut-level reactions that are based on a combination of
emotions, visual and auditory inputs (auditory does not include words, it refers primarily to music,
tone of voice (aggressive, pleasant, screaming, pleading), crying, laughing,
etc.) that produce responses inside of us in areas of our minds that are past
(beyond) our mental value-system filters. In this way visual images can be used
to quickly program/influence us without having to intellectually prove or
disprove anything by interacting with our value-system filters.
And
then there’s this quote about current trends in delivering information using TV
and the Internet:
Video
and graphics are replacing the printed and spoken word in news and advertising
because the printed word is no longer the best, the most efficient, or the most
effective way to get your message across in this world where so much
information is coming at us. Graphics and video convey more information more
quickly and more convincingly.
Knowing
the above info and the info in Trumpet W9, and taking into consideration the
decreasing level of literacy in society, religions today have decided these
image-based brainwashing techniques should be used to teach religion and
values. To this end they have begun utilizing movies with religious themes and
flash-card-like still pictures with storylines. They do not have malicious
intentions. They are merely reacting to a number of facts:
· Many
people today are almost functionally illiterate: they have a hard time comprehending both written and spoken
words, and have difficulty trying to pay attention even to short sermons.
· Using
words to teach takes time because of the above bullet and because words
(written and spoken) must first be interpreted, analyzed, understood, and
evaluated before they are accepted and incorporated into our value
systems.
· Time is
money. And the love of money is the...
· Using
visual images is quick and efficient: In short order we can have lots of people
(even functional illiterates) in our pews who are social and religious activists
clamoring against the government and demanding a return to traditional
morality.
Having
read AOR you know why clamoring makes the last bullet bad. But
I’m going to show why I think the bullet-4 technique
is also bad.
The
Lord is the Word of God. His holy Book is the word of God. He has ordered us to
read, study, learn, eat, meditate on, obey, do, and live the Bible. And He has
told us to use His word, in both written and spoken form, to teach others.
Armed with what you’ve read above and in the previous trumpet, you now
understand that the preceding sentences in this paragraph involve intellectual
interacting with the value filters in our brains – rather than gut-level emoting. Let me show you why that may
not only be important, but crucial,
and necessary. Carefully read this
Scripture. It is the apostle trying to earnestly convince us (almost pleading)
that he actually, really and truly did see and hear with his own eyes and ears
the amazing things that are written in the New Testament. I have added
underlining as emphasis, but I want you to slowly and carefully read the
Scripture and add your own vocal intensity and emphasis as if John is speaking
directly to you and he thinks or suspects that you may be a little bit
skeptical about some of the amazing things about the Lord in the Bible. It may
help if you mentally insert the emphatic word, really, before each underlined word:
1 Jn 1:1-5
That which was from the
beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,
which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the
Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it,
and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the
Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen and
heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have
fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father,
and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we
unto you, that your joy may be full. This then is the message which we
have heard of him, and declare unto you...
When
the Bible says word it is referring
to both written and spoken Scripture. But when the Bible capitalizes Word it is referring to the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself. Notice how similar the first few verses in 1 John 1 above and
John 1 below are:
Jn 1:1-14 In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and
without him was not any thing made that was made. In
him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it
not...He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew
him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as
received him, to them gave he power to become the
sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not
of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And
the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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(They
are wonderful verses. And powerful. Amen.) Now I want
you to think about the interesting wording in 1 John 1:1. John says they actually saw Christ the Word
with their eyes (as in reading the Bible); they actually heard Christ the Word
with their ears, and they actually “handled” Christ the Word with their hands.
John is saying those three things convinced them that all the stuff in the
Bible is true. Could it be that our Creator and Saviour calls Himself the “Word of God”, and calls His Book the “word of
God” for a reason? Could it be partly because He wants us to
get to know Him like His apostles did – by “handling” Him?
Jn
20:27-31 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy
finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into
my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said
unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas,
because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that
have not seen, and yet have believed. And many other signs truly did
Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not
written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life
through his name.
And
could “handling” Him include eating His flesh and drinking His blood, which are
actually learning and doing the words in the Bible? Of course it could. Now,
you’ve already learned some of this in AOR
chapter D9, How To
Grow, but I’m going to bring in this modern stuff about using TV and movies
to bypass our brain’s value-analyzing filters.
Let’s
say two guys, Mutt and Jeff, get saved. Mutt is a wannabe Christian (as defined in Trumpet B8), and Jeff is an idealistic Christian (B8). Neither of
them is well-educated; their reading and verbal comprehension is limited, which
curtails much of the intellectual stimulation they could ordinarily have via
reading. Therefore they forego intellectual stimulation by turning to TV,
movies, and the Internet so they can “emote” on a gut level. But now that they
are saved and want to serve the Lord they look for a church. They end up in a
mega church because it has a new program that uses big, full-color story cards
and Christian films to teach them “doctrine” and how “good” Christians should
live. Very quickly our two heroes stop “cussing”, get haircuts, tithe, buy
jackets and ties, wear patriotic lapel pins, begin attending all kinds of
“Christian activities”, become social and political activists, etc.
Mutt
is happier’n a pig in puke. But Jeff isn’t content;
he’s...well, he’s hungry. But he has
no idea how to explain his discontent or what he wants. And he has no idea the
Holy Spirit also tried to make Mutt discontent – but for various reasons Mutt
ignored the still small voice, returned to his vomit, and says to his fellow
pewsters, “Stay in the picture, bra!”
To
make a long road to real Christian growth short, Jeff does the right
thing by either 1) studying the Bible (because in spite of his poor reading
skills he finds that somehow he’s finding the peace that passeth
all understanding – he’s being fed);
or, 2) he joins a good Bible-preaching, Bible-teaching church (for the same
reason); or, 3) he begins fellowshipping and studying the Bible with a couple
of other idealistic Christians (for
the same reason). He goes on to master the Bible and become a lifelong doer of
the word who says to his fellow pewsters, “Stay
in the word, brother!”
Jeff
responded to the subtle promptings of the Holy Spirit because he loved the Lord
more than he loved self. Could it be that the Lord wanted Jeff (and us) to –
like the apostles – get to know Him personally by “handling” the word of life?
Could it be that by reading and hearing the words
in God’s Book, we are somehow in our brains’ intellectual value-analyzing
centers not only getting to know the Lord but also incorporating Him (eating
His flesh/bread/manna and drinking His blood/milk/water) into who we are so we
gain the strength to endure to the end no matter what trials and tribulations
we may suffer along the way? Yes, because we already know that by doing the written word we are actually
following Christ Himself.
Could
it be that, because the image-and-emotion-based brainwashing programs used by
modern churches bypass that vital “word-handling” process, those programs
actually make us nothing but clean-living followers of self/men who lack the
spiritual strength to endure to the end?
Could
it be that God designed His word to be a two-edged sword that He uses to reveal
the thoughts and intents of our hearts? Could it be that carnal Christians like
Mutt prefer churches with emotional soap-opera sermons because their god is their
belly and emotion-based feel-good sermons feed their self-oriented flesh; but
good Christians like Jeff prefer Scripture-based sermons because they feed the
spiritual new man rather than the flesh of the old man?
I
think so, brother. I think there are good reasons our Creator chose to hide
Himself from insincere Christians behind words
they don’t/can’t quite get. But with sincere
Christians who feed on His
written words He not only
reveals Himself, but somehow when those Christians interact with and do His word they are getting hands-on experience that gives them the same passionate
confidence John has in the Scriptures above.
And
that’s why when the Lord’s prayer says, “Give us this
day our daily bread”, it isn’t really referring to physical food – because that would contradict the Scriptures that
tell us to spend some days fasting from physical food. I say again, we are never told to fast from the mental and
spiritual fellowship we have when we feed on the word/Word of God. If we lazily
and disobediently try to get to know the “picture of God” rather than the “word
of God”, we are not feeding, fellowshipping, or growing.
Trumpet W8
“A man’s
foes shall be they of his own household” (Mt 10:36)
God’s
people lost the very first battle in the Bible. It was fought over the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, and the battle is important not just because it
is among a number of other “firsts” in the Bible, but because it is an
epitomized blueprint of the War: It shows what God wants us to do, and it shows
how Satan tries to “help” us serve God.
God’s weapon
is His literal word. Properly using His Sword requires submissive obedience to
what it literally says. God literally said, Don’t eat the forbidden fruit. No theological analysis was required; it
was a no-brainer for Adam and Eve: Don’t
eat the fruit!
Satan
isn’t an idiot; he knows the Lord’s literal, inerrant weapon isn’t mighty just
because it exists, it is mighty because of what the
Holy Spirit does behind the scenes when believers faithfully do what the Bible says. The problem Satan faced was
the fact that God is our arm
of strength, and He doesn’t require much of His people: all they had to do was
exactly what He said – a duty that merely required submissive obedience, not
brains. Again, that simple obedience
was important not because of the action in and of itself, but because it would
cause/allow the Holy Spirit to become involved. That was what Satan had to prevent. Hmm, how could Satan
defeat the church without letting the majority of Christians know what was
happening? Being obvious by asking Christians to oppose God wouldn’t work
because even carnal Christians aren’t that
stupid, so Satan had to come up with a way to make the Sword of the Lord – His
inerrant literal word, which is the only weapon the church has – of no effect.
The Sword of the Lord is the one and only “gate” by which Christians can access
God’s help. But that gate is strait and narrow
because it is only opened if:
1. Christians
have what Eve didn’t – enough faith
to believe the literal Thus saith the Lord, and
2. do what Eve didn’t – do exactly what God said...as if He really is God Almighty, and we really are His humble, faithful servants
who live not by bread alone, but by every
word of God.
Faith
is the victory! So all Satan had to do was undermine faith and belief in the
literal truth of God’s word while making
it look like theology was helping the church, thus making
well-intentioned Christians think theology was their friend because its tools were helping them serve and please God by
figuring out what He really meant to
say...instead of obeying what He literally said.
That’s why
Satan invented theology. He wants well-intentioned leavened Christians to
subvert the church from within by convincing other well-intentioned Christians
that theology is not only their friend, it’s a much-needed ally because it’ll
help them figure out “what God really meant”. It’s as simple as that. Theology
could not exist and would have
no purpose if Christians had the faith to believe what God said about His word.
If faith and belief in God and His word are present, they allow the Holy Spirit
to make His Sword efficacious.
Therefore, in the garden Satan needed to convince Christians that using their
God-given brains was the true key to success – not simple obedience.
Eve could
not refute Satan’s Reason-based theology: Knowing what things were good and
what things were bad really did seem like a good way to please God by being
smart enough to do “good” (rather than being faithful enough to simply do what
He says). Satan’s theology took advantage of a simply-worded Bible verse
about good and evil that seemed puzzling: Even today most theologians,
preachers, and pewsters have no idea why
God would consider it bad to have a knowledge of good and evil. So theology
convinced Eve to find a deeper, better meaning behind God’s words. But theology
failed mankind; God really did mean what He literally
said, so the Lord had to accept defeat by kicking Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden.
History
has shown Eve to be a type of well-intentioned-but-subverted modern Christians
whose respect for theology has caused them to reject faith in God and His
inerrant literal word by trying to figure out what He “really meant to say”.
And history has shown Adam to be a type of half-assed KJVers
whose tolerance for theology and modern Bible versions has allowed a huge
percentage of Christians to be completely unaware that a single Book (the KJV)
and its adherents (Bible believers) are under a relentless assault by
Enlightened theologians and modern-version-using Christians. KJVers should make it loud and clear that the ERROR
manuscripts and the versions that come from them are dangerously subversive and those who use them will not enjoy the
fellowship of Bible believers. Walk away.
I say
again in case I haven’t made it obvious enough: Well-intentioned KJVers have, via their silence and their willingness to
tolerate and fellowship with born-again brothers who use modern versions and/or
layman’s aids, created a subversive “peace, peace, when there is no peace”.
That peace has allowed many of our brethren to not even know God’s household is
divided into two groups:
· The larger
group does not believe God’s inerrant word exists in any Bible version or
manuscript on earth, and therefore relies on Reason and research via theology
to establish doctrines and to determine how we should live and serve God.
· The
smaller group accepts the miraculous and unique inerrancy of the AV1611 as God’s proof that He really has
preserved His word for us, and KJVers therefore rely
on faith and the Holy Spirit via Bible study in order to make the
literal word of God our sole authority in all matters of faith and practice.
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All
Christians need to know that the term Bible
believer is synonymous with KJVer; they need to know all Bible believers reject theology as evil and subversive; they
need to know all Bible believers live by every literal word of God; and all
Christians also need to know Bible believers do not fellowship with non-KJVers or with those who espouse theology and use layman’s
aids. KJVers are
always nice to their subverted
brethren, and are always ready, willing, and able to help them understand the
reasons the Bible version controversy exists, but Bible believers will not go
in among them and fellowship with unclean dumpster divers.
Way too many Christians have no idea
that the Bible version controversy exists or what the issues are. They don’t
know “the original autographs” don’t exist, they don’t know
modern-version-using preachers have redefined
God’s word because they reject the existence of God’s word as the Lord defines
it, they don’t know why their layman’s-aid-using brethren are pompous fools,
and they don’t know that when theologians are asked what theology (as opposed
to Bible study) has revealed that has
actually helped Christianity they babble and sputter and can only come up with
inconsequential trivialities. If KJVers would make it
very clear that theology and Bible study are at enmity with each
other more of our brethren will want to look into the issue and many – like we
were – will be drawn to the Light. A couple of examples:
A
48-year-old Baptist pastor with a wife and daughter was looking online for
graphics he might use. As a KJVer he found some
wallpapers he liked at TheSwordbearer.org At first he didn’t pay attention to
the doctrinal stuff because he told me he thought it’d be the same stuff he was
already preaching. But my pro-Bible-study / anti-theology stand made him wonder
what could possibly be wrong with theology...and he began to read some of the
online chapters, was drawn to the Light, and then studied The AOR. Once he understood the Reason-based nature
of theology and how it undermines faith, he carefully used Bible study
to examine his doctrinal beliefs...and like the Bereans
in Act 17:10,11 faithfully based his doctrines on Thus saith the
Lord rather than on what his denomination had taught him. The point: His
stumbling across someone who is clearly opposed to theology helped him.
He had never heard anybody do that
before and had therefore erroneously thought theology was a good part of
Christianity.
Second
example: Many Christians who visit TheSwordbearer.org are intrigued by the
undeniable fact that the Bible version controversy (Is the Bible the inspired,
inerrant word of God...or is it “just a translation”?) always
focuses on the KJV and never
on other versions. Others are surprised to learn that the modern versions say
Elhanan killed Goliath. Others are curious about why those stupid rabbits are
all over the web site. Others are surprised to learn that all modern
Bible versions are full of errors – they had previously (like you and I did)
ignorantly assumed all Bible versions are inerrant and pretty much the same.
These brothers and sisters are often surprised, delighted, encouraged, and
strengthened when they understand the doctrinal significance and importance of
the KJV’s unique inerrancy.
Why are so many Christians as ignorant
as you and I were about the two very-different groups in Christianity? Because they didn’t need to decide which
group they should join! They thought we were all Christians and all Bible
versions were OK to use. They thought KJVers were a
just little too biased and narrow-minded, just like they knew there are
Christian groups that espouse various issues that they tend to grouse about
every now and then. But the existence of the inerrant literal word of God is
not a trivial issue: The miraculous inerrancy of the literal words is what sets
the KJV apart, gives it its unique authority, and proves God is not the inept
bungler that theologians claim He is. If there were other ways to get to know
God and learn how to please Him the Bible version issue would lose its
importance. But there isn’t any other source of God’s truth than His holy
Bible, and that fact gives the KJV-against-the-world issue the utmost
importance. I say again, the only way we know God’s word really does exist, and
the only way we know the KJV is His word, is the fact that only the KJV is
inerrant.
Christians need to know an important
division exists in Christianity over the existence of the word of God. The fact
that the few who are already aware of the division and think it exists merely
because KJVers are but one of many hobby-horse groups
in our midst is sad testimony to the fact that Satan’s tactics have been so
effective that even KJVers
have begun treating theology and modern versions and layman’s aids with
respectful tolerance! That has got to stop, brother! Our born-again
brethren who lack the faith in God to believe His word exists today – as proven
by the KJV’s inerrancy – must be politely shunned. If KJVers
would do those things, naively-ignorant Christians (like you and I were) will
quickly become aware that “an elitist group of fanatics” thinks God’s inspired
and inerrant word still exists. And they will (like you and I did) wonder what’s wrong with thinking God’s word
exists? And many will (like you and I did) “seek”...and the Good Shepherd – always true to His literal
word – will make sure they find.
Some of them will turn away and depend on theology; but some who have ears that
hear the Good Shepherd’s voice will glorify God by embracing faith-based Bible
study and will mature into always ready, willing, and able Bible believers.
In order
for Satan to win the war all he has to do is get the church to not submit to the literal word of
God. The very first battle the church lost to Satan was in Genesis when he
undermined the literal truth of the word by inventing Greek/theological
skepticism: Yea, hath God said?
I wasn’t
specific enough when I said earlier that theologians can only babble and
sputter about inconsequential trivialities when asked how theology (as opposed
to Bible study) has actually helped
Christianity. That statement also applies to modern version users, and to
anybody who lacks the Christ-honoring faith to actually believe Bible study. You have completed The Swordbearer
Bible study and have therefore seen how the amazing literal words in God’s
inerrant Bible reveal God’s truths and doctrines and show how apostate
Christianity has become. But Christians who reject the existence of God’s word
(by redefining it as “corrupt translation”)
are blind and ignorant. Therefore they Naturally will
applaud the following radical changes theology has made to Christianity
and society:
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1. Theology
caused many Christians to think old manuscripts that are so corrupt they don’t
even agree with each other should be accepted (even in the absence of any
authoritative decree) as some weird kind of “final authority”. I say weird
because what the manuscripts actually say
can and is overruled and rewritten to agree with what modern Christians think.
2. Modern
corrupt Bible versions that are known
to be the fallible words of man are blasphemously called “God’s word.”
3. Modern
Bible versions are so bad that even ignorant, airheaded lightweight Christians
think they can quickly and easily make “improvements” to them by casually
consulting a layman’s aid.
4. The three
points above collectively establish the shocking-but-undeniable fact that
theology has created such uncertainty that the real “final authority” in modern
Christianity isn’t old manuscripts, or theologians, or modern “better, more
accurate” Bible versions – it’s Self!
This point is supported by the fact that outrageous Bible versions like the Queen James Version and the Inclusive (egalitarian) Version are all produced by theologians who have been relatively conservative when
using the humanistic tools of theology to bring about change. (In support of
that statement I refer you to point 6, which contains – in the eyes of God and
all unEnlightened Bible believers – changes wrought
to Christianity and society that are far more subversive than these
outrageous-but-laughable attempts to legitimize homosexuality and bestiality. I
say again, the actual impact of the Queen
James Version and the actual harm it does to Christianity will pale in
comparison to the widespread subversion caused by “respectable” versions like
the NIV, NAS, and ESV.)
5. Another
fruit from the evil tree of theology is the plethora of modern cults: They all use the humanistic tools of
theology to justify their existence!
6. The items
on the following incomplete list will also be touted by theologians and
Enlightened Christians as examples of how theology has introduced “beneficial
changes” to Christianity and society: equality, Reason, democracy, capitalism,
freedom, etc., etc.
The sad
fact is theology has made theologians so faithless, carnal, and blind that none
of them had any idea that Satan, by using the exact same tactics he used
on Eve, deceived all of them into being modern exact copies of Eve by
swallowing the exact same lie that evil is really good and good is
really evil. And based upon that evil foundation, theology subverted the
doctrine of authority and replaced it with “right and wrong”.
The list
of evils in the above point 6 should be enough to convince you why we must not be at peace with or tolerate
theology, theologians, the ERROR manuscripts, modern Bible
versions, or layman’s aids: They have subverted modern Christians to the
horrible extent that those blind souls will agree with, preach, and defend to
their deaths most of the above cancers that have been and are killing Biblical
Christianity by using Yea, hath God said
to subvert faith in Thus saith the Lord.
Theology
and its tools have done nothing
but defraud the church. That is fornication, and it is blasphemy against the
Holy Ghost. We are at war, and
the church is being damned from within because our foes are they of our own
house. Subverted brethren and their evil tools must be shunned so ignorant Christians (like we were) who have some faith left will see that the issue
of the existence/non-existence of God’s word has divided God’s house against
itself...and then they can look into the issues (like you and I did) and find
out about the miraculous and unique inerrancy of the KJV so the Good Shepherd
can lead those with ears that hear His voice out of darkness into the Light of
His word. I say again, if they have not yet been subverted they will respond to
God’s beacon of Truth just like you and I did.
We can
only win the War if the Lord fights for us. And He will not do so if we do not have enough faith in His omnipotence to
glorify and trust Him by humbly submitting to His literal words – whether we
fully understand them or not. When Satan said Yea, hath God said, he was not (on the surface) trying to get Eve
to disobey and displease God, he was attempting to appeal to her Reason in
order to help her come up with a “better, more accurate” translation that was
closer to what God actually meant to say – but didn’t. Modern subverted
Christians and theologians have learned nothing
from the first battle our church lost in the garden of
Eden...and therefore history is repeating itself.
In these
dark last days of the New Testament era God has ordered us not to go in among them and fellowship: After the first and second
admonition, walk away!
Trumpet W9
In
this trumpet and in the next two, W10 and W11, I’m going to emphasize the
commonly-known fact that we cannot win this war unless the Lord fights for us.
We already know the Bible is His Sword, and we already know we are to be doers
of His word, but I want to emphasize why
our being doers of His word is so critically important: Being doers of the word is a prerequisite to the Holy Spirit’s
involvement. The Holy Spirit’s part in the war is often misunderstood and
misrepresented today, but it’s really pretty simple: He/They (the Trinity, our
plural God) will do His part if
we will do our part.
The
Holy Spirit uses His literal words in His Sword to shepherd us. That is an
important fact, so I’ll take a minute to show how Charismatics and other
gibberish-talkers try to
get you away from taking God literally
at His word. As you read I want you to think about how common it is for people
today to profane God’s Holy Bible by
treating it as if it were merely the word of fallible man, and they do so
without realizing they are committing fornication
and blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
by subverting both the word of God and faith, which happen to be
the two absolute necessities for Christianity itself and for fighting the good
fight. Here are some quick examples of things gibberish-talkers (and
others who focus on the Holy Spirit) like to preach. (The following is gleaned
from their web pages...emphasis is mine.)
The Scriptures and how to study them: As
the woman pastor of this church I accept the Scriptures as the revealed,
inspired Word of God, and as the all sufficient and infallible rule of faith,
conduct, and practice as long as what it says is not contray
[sic] to
reason. The King James version of the Bible will
be the one we use just simply because it has been my companion for many years.
The King James version goes back to the early copies
and closely coincides with the manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
There are many ways to studt the Bible but our
fundamental endeavor will be to try to understand the spiritual message
because God is a Spirit, and those that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit
[sic (we must
be careful with words)] (Jn 4:24) and in Truth. It is so easy to look at the
literal word of God, but because that often ignores reason and love we must
look beyond the literal to the spiritual message of Truth taught by the
Holy Spirit Himself.
The Evidences of Salvation and
the Baptism in the Holy Ghost: The inward evidence to the
believer of his/her salvation is the direct witness of The Spirit (Rom
8:16). All Believers are to ardently expect and earnestly seek the Baptism in
the Holy Ghost. This wonderful experience is distinct from and subsequent
to the experience of the new birth (Acts 2:38; 10:44-46; 11:14-16;
15:7-9.) This Baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit is evidenced by the
initial physical sign of speaking with other tounges [sic] as the
Spirit gives utterance, and by the subsequent manifestation of spiritual
power.
Does the Bible really say women shouldn’t preach? No!
The real meaning of the Bible will only be clear if we allow The Holy
Spirit to work in us! Let The Spirit of God guide you as you think about the
fact that the Bible mentions women prophets several times! (Ex 15:20; Jud 4:4;
2 Kin 22:14; Luk 2:36-38; Acts 21:8-9; Acts2:17-18).
The New Testament’s literal restrictions on women preachers, pastors, and
congregants don’t apply to any New Testament women today because Scripture
plainly says
“there is neither male nor
female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal
3:28), and “there is no respect of
persons with God” (Rom
2:11). Keep this equality of all believers in mind and let The Holy
Spirit lovingly teach you that the literal meaning of 1 Tim 2:11-14 is misleading: “Let
the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to
teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first
formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was
in the transgression.”
Also
open your heart to The Holy Ghost and be freed from 1
Cor 14:34,35: “Let your
women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak;
but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any
thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women
to speak in the church.”
Many
preachers have been misled by the literal meaning of those verses, but the love
and power you get from the anointing of the Holy Ghost will override
what those verses say by letting the anointing guide you in accordance
with
1 John 2:27:
“But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you:
but as the same anointing teacheth you of all
things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye
shall abide in him.”
I find the
above to be so appallingly un- and anti-Scriptural, faithless, and destructive
of faith and the Bible and Christianity that I normally wouldn’t pay it much
attention. But because most Christians agree with the above view of God’s words
(which in turn leads to a variety of false doctrines) I’ll use the above as an
example of how careful we must be about doctrine. In other words, if we don’t
find out the doctrinal beliefs of fellow Christians (and “Christians”) we
cannot know if they need to be helped or avoided. Let’s compare the above false
– indeed, subversive – teachings
about the Bible and the Holy Spirit with what God actually says about
the Holy Ghost and about how and when He ministers to us when we do take Him literally at His
word.
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The Bible
is often vague about the Holy Ghost. Combine that with the sad fact that many
people do not believe the Bible and therefore do not accept what it actually
says when they try to formulate doctrine, and you’ll realize why so many
churches teach so many different things about the Holy Spirit and how to be
baptized in Him. Let’s examine some verses.
Ac 19:2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said
unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there
be any Holy Ghost.
The above
verse and many similar verses make people think some ceremony (such as physical
baptism) or special “blessing” will give them the Holy Ghost. But these verses
never actually say anything specific. Most people agree the Holy Spirit
did certain things such as little flames sitting on the heads of Christians and
miraculous tongues in order to show early NT Christians that God really had
ended the OT era, and that Christians who would now be widely scattered around
the world instead of bunched in one nation like Israel, would not be alone;
the Comforter would shepherd those who remained faithful to the word of
God.
Act 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these
things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to
them that obey him.
God gives the
Holy Ghost to obedient Christians. But is there any specific act of obedience we need to do to get the
Holy Ghost?
1 Cor 6:19,20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your
own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Cor 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand,
that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth
Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but
by the Holy Ghost.
The above
verses appear to be talking about Christians who have done nothing but
faithfully try to submit to the word of God...and are therefore indwelt by the
Comforter. But is there something
we’re supposed to do to initially get the Holy Ghost to indwell and empower us?
2 Cor 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with
you all. Amen.
“The communion of the Holy Ghost.” Hmm, we commune
with each other around the word of God. But so far the Scriptures
aren’t telling us how and when the
Holy Spirit comes to us. But that changes in John chapter 14. I’ll put the bulk
of Jn 14 here so you can reference it when I make
comments about it:
Jn 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye
should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have
seen him.
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9 Jesus saith
unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet
hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me
hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
10 Believest
thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the
words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11 Believe me that I am in
the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12 Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and
greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall
ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If ye shall ask any
thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If ye love me, keep my
commandments.
16 And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit
of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth
him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he
dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you
comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and
the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I
live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall
know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21 He that hath my
commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me
shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to
him.
22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou
wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
23 Jesus answered and said
unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and
my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with
him.
24
He that loveth me not keepeth
not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which
sent me.
25 These things have I
spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which
is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you
all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said
unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you,
my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth,
give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.
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· Verses 7-11 above in Jn 14 deal with two members of the Trinity.
· Verses 15 & 16
begin to provide the info we’re looking for. If we do the specific action of
keeping His commandments, the Father will give us the Comforter. And
once we get the Comforter, He may (not shall) abide with us forever. The word may suggests that under certain
unmentioned circumstances the Holy Spirit may leave us. We’ll keep that thought
in mind as we proceed, and then in the next trumpet look at blasphemy against
the Holy Ghost – which is fornication.
· V.17 appears to be
using the same type of “Trinity language” as the earlier verses above, but this
time it says the disciples already know the Holy Spirit because He is already dwelling with
them (in the person of Christ) and shall be in them (in the person of
the Holy Ghost).
· V.18 confirms that
Christ in the above verse was saying He and the Comforter are members of the
Trinity. And applying everything this chapter literally says about the Trinity
(such as, “he that hath seen me hath seen the Father”, and the Comforter will come/I will
come/the Father and I will come, etc.) we see that because the three
persons of the Trinity are all one, and because those three are involved
with the word of God, we begin to see how all-important He/They consider
His/Their word.
· V.21 says those who
keep the word of God are those who love Him. And then after the
colon Christ says He will manifest Himself to those who “love Him”
(which was defined before the colon as those
who keep His commandments).
· In v.22 Judas (not
Iscariot), drawing on Christ’s earlier statements that “the world” wouldn’t see
or know Him, asks how Christ will
manifest Himself to His people but not to the world. This was Christ’s chance
to explain that the way He/the Holy Ghost would manifest His arrival/presence
would be to make His people dance around, roll on the floor, and start speaking
gibberish. But He didn’t say that; He said He’d do it in a different way, and
that way was so subtle and non-dramatic that Charismatics and Judas (not
Iscariot) missed it!
· In v.23 Christ “answered”
Judas’ question by patiently repeating
a third time what He’d said earlier twice.
That means Judas already had the answer
and missed it! Christ’s answer to Judas’ question consists of three
pieces of info: 1) those who love Him 2) are those who keep His words
3) which results in the Lord manifesting Himself to them. Verify that by
comparing this verse, 23, with a careful reading of verses 15-21. The salient
points being:
1. In verses 15 & 16
He says the first time: love me, keep commandments/word, Comforter
comes/manifests.
2. In verse 21 He says the
second time: love me, keep commandments/word, we come/manifest.
· V.24 says Christians
who aren’t doers of His written words do not
love Him.
· V.26 says the
Comforter/Holy Ghost will help us remember the word and teach us the word.
Notice in this verse that “all things” is defined as “whatsoever I have said.”
This is consistent with His Great Commission in Mt 28 and Mk 16: The “all
things” in Mt 28:20 is defined as “whatsoever I have commanded you.” And Mt
28’s teach all things is shown to be
synonymous with preach the gospel
when compared with Mk 16:15. And then when we keep in mind the Comforter’s job
description (ministering the word of God to doers of the word) in Jn 14 above, we can see in Mt 28:20 Christ’s “I am with you
alway” shows He and the Comforter are one.
Jn 14 is important because it tells us when we get the Holy Ghost: It happens when we are proper doers of the Bible (see also Ac 5:32). Jn 14 also points out that the Holy Ghost’s job is not
to help us ignore/revise what the
word of God literally says (as
gibberish-talkers and layman’s-aid-toting
theologians claim), His job is to bring to our remembrance what the Bible
says.
But now
let’s look at what Jn 15:26 says:
Jn
15:26 But when the
Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he
shall testify of me:
Jn 15:26 is important because it puts the info we learn in Jn 14 and other places into proper perspective. By that I
mean it tells us to focus on Christ. The verse specifically mentions God
the Holy Ghost and God the Father...and then tells us not to focus on them because both the Comforter and the
Father want us to zero in on Christ.
That message is supplemented by Luke 9:
Lk
9:33-36 And it came to pass, as they
departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here:
and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and
one for Elias: not knowing what he said. While he thus spake,
there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into
the cloud. And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This
is my beloved Son: hear him. And when the voice was past, Jesus was
found alone...
As a brief
aside: You can easily recognize various cults by whom they glorify. The
Bible tells us to focus on Christ, but many cults don’t do that:
· Gibberish-talkers
ironically contradict the Holy Ghost by emphasizing the Holy Ghost. I say
ironic because the Bible makes it clear that the Holy Ghost’s job is to
emphasize Christ. Gibberish-talkers also
undermine the importance of the actual words in the Bible by promoting their
foolish nonsensical tongue trilling.
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· Jehovah’s
Witnesses ironically contradict Jehovah by emphasizing Jehovah. I say ironic
because Jehovah tells us to zero in on Christ
alone.
· Catholics
don’t zero in on anybody: not wanting to leave any bases uncovered they exalt
Jesus, Mary, Joseph...and more saints than you can shake a stick at – including
some who never existed like “Saint Christopher”. In fact, Muslims in Southeast
Asia recently won a court case against the Vatican because Rome was trying to
gain converts by advertizing that Catholics also worship Allah.
· Mormons
say Jesus is not God.
· Many
Christian denominations, mega-churches, and cults also do not worship Jesus;
they worship “Jesus”. The true Jesus of the Bible warns us that there would be
many false Christs among us. How can that be? Modern
Christians who do not know the true word of God is available think all we have
is corrupt manuscripts and corrupt Bible versions. Therefore they carnally,
logically, and Reasonably use theology’s “ever
learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” to invent
erroneous doctrines and beliefs that result in the many different “Christs” of today.
The
physical act of baptism in water is a ceremonial act of obedience that
symbolizes the legalities of our being reckoned to have died with/in Christ.
His death is the sacrificial atonement for our sins. Then we symbolically rise
from the water/grave to walk in newness of our spirit life by learning the
Bible and obediently applying it to our lives. Physical baptism is a one-time
ceremonial and symbolic act.
Once we
begin faithfully submitting to the Bible by being doers of the word and not
hearers only, the Holy Spirit begins His work of Husbanding us in order to
teach and train us to be obedient wives He can actually depend upon to
faithfully serve Him anytime, anywhere, and no matter what He wants of us (e.g.
Job). In other words, the real
baptism of/in the Holy Spirit is an ongoing growth process (see Rom 6) during
which our Parent / Guardian / Comforter lovingly trains us to be soldiers He
can count on to fight the good fight. I say again, as good as physical baptism
is (the ceremonial act of obedience), it is just a
prelude to the real and important lifelong baptism when the Lord trains us to
make Rom 6 part of who we are. (Training is required, not just teaching, because Rom 7 is a reality for
all of us.)
If you
think about the big picture you’ll understand how important and how (relatively) trivial our lifelong acts of submissive obedience are:
· As
important as physical water baptism is as a symbolic beginning, it pales in
comparison with the ongoing process of becoming a mature and confidently-obedient
servant of Christ. Now I’ll reword that in order to make clear this paragraphs
opening sentence:
· As
important and necessary as our lifelong doing the word is, what we do
pales in comparison with what the Holy Spirit does behind the scenes in relation
to those acts of submissive obedience. That in no way means we can slack off;
our acts of obedience are part of our growing love for the Lord, and they are
physical prerequisites to His spiritual involvement in the war.
But our
understanding of this topic cannot be complete if we don’t include faith in the big picture: “Matt Seven”
(our AOR character from Mt 7) did all of the above Scriptural works...to no avail! The missing ingredient was
proper faith. Why do I say “proper”
faith? Because although faith
and belief are essential to
Christianity and to fighting the good fight, they are difficult to understand.
For example, the Bible says faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Ro 10:17). Matt
Seven and many other OT saints heard the word preached many times, and if Ro 10:17 had said “and hearing
the word of God” you’d think they’d gain faith. But they didn’t gain faith,
which makes us ponder God’s use of the word “by”. The
reason Matt Seven didn’t grow in faith is because somehow he didn’t have
faith/belief:
Heb 4:2 For
unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached
did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Therefore,
when today’s Christians who do not by faith believe what God has said about His
word, that lack of “proper” faith makes the mighty Sword of the Lord of no
effect because faith and works and belief
are synonyms (AOR p.H1-2) and
are prerequisites to the Holy Spirit’s behind-the-scenes involvement.
I think “by the word of God” above
means the Holy Ghost uses the amazing, inspired, inerrant word of God to
discern if the hearer has “proper” faith or not...which is similar to what this
verse says is done by the word of God:
Heb 4:12 For
the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Keeping in
mind that water in the Bible is
associated with the Holy Ghost, look at these verses that are interesting
because they not only also say “by the word of God”, but they seem to go along with
what I’ve been saying about our lifelong baptism/immersion in the
word/water/Comforter as He leads us into maturity:
Eph
5:23,25-27 ...Christ
is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of
the body...Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might
sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he
might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or
any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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Having the big picture in mind
about how this war is properly fought, we see that, as important and necessary
as our acts of obedience are, they are but the tip of the iceberg; what the
Lord then does is how the war will be won. We are pawns on a spiritual
chessboard. The Lord cannot force us to move; He puts gates/“circumstances”
before us in order to direct our paths. If we truly do use His word as a lamp
unto our feet and a light unto our path to go through the right gates He’ll use
those gates to maneuver us to victory. That doesn’t mean He won’t need to
sacrifice a pawn every now and then for the good of the war and church, but
ours is not to question why, ours is but to do and die to self daily in order
to press toward the mark for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:14).
The reason
we want to receive the Holy Ghost is so we can learn and grow and become better
vessels for His use. All three members of the Trinity are involved in
delivering and ministering the word to us. And they come to us and feed us and
guide us when They discern that we are
properly-faithful doers of the word. The Lord is our arm of strength...but only if we faithfully and obediently use
His Sword. We cannot be good soldiers if we aren’t good servant-wives, and we
shall lose the war if the Lord doesn’t fight for us. His only weapon is His
inspired, inerrant Sword, but the Sword of the Lord is ineffective if He isn’t wielding it. Therefore
the true value of our being faithful Swordbearers who
glorify Him by humbly doing His word is
in making His Sword available to Him so He can use it behind
the scenes as He sees fit. Our doing
is what makes the word of God efficacious in this war because that’s when the
Lord fights for us: Our doing the word triggers His involvement, and His involvement is what wins the war.
Ex 14:13,14 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD,
which he will shew to you to day:
for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall
see them again no more for ever. The LORD
shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
2 Chr
32:7,8 Be
strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor
for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us
than with him: With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD
our God to help us, and to fight our battles.
Ps 20:6,7 Now know I that the LORD
saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy
heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. Some trust in
chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD
our God.
Stand up,
stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross.
Lift high His royal
banner, it must not suffer loss.
Stand up, stand up for
Jesus, stand in His strength alone;
The arm of flesh will
fail you; ye dare not trust your own.
Trumpet W10
In the
previous trumpet we used the context of receiving the Holy Ghost to examine the
importance and necessity of God’s involvement in our lives and development. In
this trumpet we’ll continue examining God’s involvement in the war, but we’ll
do so in the context of losing the Holy Ghost. And just as we saw in the
previous trumpet, and just as in life and in the war everything always revolves around the word of God.
We’ve seen
that all three members of the Trinity are involved in ministering to faithful
believers who are doers of the word, which underscores the importance of the
word. The following verses show that the Trinity also uses the words in the
Bible to judge those who were not
faithful doers:
John
12:48-50 He that rejecteth
me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same
shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of myself; but the
Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I
should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I
speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Use the
below verses to think about why the
word of God can be such a powerful mentor, parent, shepherd, friend, and
comforter, and think about why we’ll be victorious in this war if we
internalize God’s words by making them part of who we are: God will arrange “circumstances” or “gates” in our lives that,
assuming we deal with them Scripturally, will lead us along paths of
righteousness for His name’s sake:
2 Pet 1:8,10-12 For if these things be in you, and abound,
they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in
the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ...Wherefore the rather, brethren, give
diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things,
ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these
things...
Now read the below Eph 3 prayer as an addendum to
the above verses, and consider this paraphrase: “May you doers of God’s word be
strengthened by the Holy Spirit’s word-centered ministry so your faith and love
mature, and you grow into the kind of comprehension
(synonym: know, as in “I never
knew you” in Mt 7 and in Trumpet
Bravo 10) all mature saints acquire about how hugely glorious, fulfilling, and
satisfying (above all we ask or think!!)
it is to walk with the Lord.” The vague reference to
vast behind-the-scenes spiritual stuff that is part of this war helps us see
how necessary it is for us to draw upon the Holy Spirit’s “power that worketh in us” by faithfully using
the literal tactics in His Weapons Manual.
Eph 3:14-21 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is
named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be
strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell
in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be
able to comprehend with all saints
what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory
in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
The above
verses build upon 1 Cor 2, which says God hides His glorious truths behind the spiritual veil of
the literal written word of God (as contrasted with the well-intentioned words
of theologians). The mysteries behind that veil are only revealed by the power
of God when the Holy Ghost ministers to us via His word – not the word
of theologians who err by substituting worldly wisdom for faith:
1 Cor 2:1,4-7,11-13 And
I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency
of speech or of wisdom...And my speech and my preaching was not with
enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of
power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power
of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom
of this world...But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the
hidden wisdom...But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit:
for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep
things of God...For what man knoweth the things of a
man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so
the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of
God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is
of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual.
These
verses give us a glimpse at why the Bible says things like the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal, the Lord is our arm of
strength, and the word of God is our Sword: We only win the war if the Lord
fights for us. And, because of the rules of war He and Satan agreed to, He must fight in strict accordance with the
Bible – which means He cannot do the
above sets of verses unless we are
strict doers of His word, which includes His orders about when to retreat. This war is all about the Lord
and His word; you and I are mere foot soldiers, servants, whose job is
extremely simple to understand: do what
He says – no matter what we think.
The battle in the garden of Eden showed us that God
wants us to be humble servants who
faithfully and submissively do what He says, and Satan wants us to be “good Christian heads” who rely on man’s
wisdom to decide what God really
wants:
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True Bible
believers are humble, submissive housewives who, if they will learn
anything, ask their Husband to reveal it.
Bible
“correctors” are liberated, independent, equal, rebellious shrews who rely
on Self by consulting flesh and blood if they want to
learn anything.
Bible
believers are armed with the faith-based Sword of the Lord and are
therefore shepherded by the behind-the-scenes power of the Holy Spirit’s
ministry.
Theologians rely on
dumpster-diving research, which means they are not only unarmed, they are
contributing to the widespread disarming of the church and are keeping God out
of the war. They do not have God’s Sword; indeed, they don’t think it exists.
Therefore they are not faithful Swordbearers: There
is no faith-and-belief-based submissive obedience to God’s word, so
their works are not delivering the
Lord’s Sword to Him to use in the war. That means they are preventing both the
church and the Lord from properly fighting the good fight because the one and
only weapon in this war is the Sword of the Lord.
Now
I’ll illustrate why faith, belief, truth, and doing are so important and
necessary to our being proper Swordbearers whose
works deliver the Sword of the Lord to Him so He can use it in this war:
NIV, NASV, etc: 2 Sam 21:19
...and Elhanan...killed Goliath...
NIV, NASV, etc: John 11:35 Jesus wept.
NIV, NASV, etc. Jn 5:4
[Blank, or it has brackets, parentheses, footnotes, or asterisks
that say it shouldn’t exist.]
Apostate
Trojan-horse Christians want to destroy your Biblical faith and replace it with
Greek Reason because they think God’s word (as He defines it) doesn’t exist.
Here’s what happens when they read, preach, do, and live their lives in
accordance with their modern versions:
· When they
read 2 Sam 21:19 they don’t believe it because they think it’s wrong, and that
error proves it’s not God’s word. When they read Jn
11:35 they think it’s fairly accurate, but they do not think it’s
God’s word because they read something somewhere that claimed it really should
say “wept bitterly”. When they see Jn 5:4 it doesn’t
bother them because nothing is God’s
word. They don’t preach 2 Sam 21:19 because they don’t believe it. They preach Jn 11:35 because they think it’s fairly accurate, but they
don’t believe it’s God’s inspired, infallible word –
and that unbelief renders all verses
in modern versions (including factually-correct verses) of none effect.
· When they
refer to their modern version as “God’s word”, “Holy Bible”, “Scripture”, etc.,
they are being two-faced equivocators. That is not honest, it is not Godly, it
is not Christian, and it suggests something in their character makeup is
Pharisaical.
· When they
tell you no Bible version on earth is God’s word because they all contain
errors, and you reply that the KJV has no errors, they will reply that 2 Sam
21:19 in the AV1611 is an error because the reading doesn’t agree with the
“authoritative reading” in what they refer to as the “Word of God” / “the
original autographs” / the ERROR manuscripts! They are being
hypocrites because, first, they know the “originals” don’t exist. And second,
even though they just told you the Elhanan error in the NIV proves it isn’t
God’s word, they do not hesitate to ignore the exact same
Elhanan-killed-Goliath error in the ERROR
manuscripts and hypocritically treat those corrupt manuscripts as the
authoritative word of God that should be used to “correct” the errors in the
KJV and all other Bible versions!
· When you
refer to their correct statement that the Elhanan error in the modern versions
proves they are not God’s word, and then ask theologians how they can use the
“correcting authority” of the ERROR manuscripts in 2 Sam 21:19 to
correct the 2 Sam 21:19 error in the modern versions, they will start
sputtering. So you try to make your question clear by asking, “Since the
Elhanan error in the modern versions disqualifies them as the authoritative
word of God, why doesn’t the exact same error in the ERROR
manuscripts disqualify them as the authoritative word of God? In other words,
how can one ‘Elhanan killed Goliath’ error correct another ‘Elhanan killed
Goliath’ error?”
· Now that
you have used logic to pin them down, theologians will be forced into losing
face and admitting they are hypocrites when they refer to the ERROR
manuscripts as “God’s word” and use them as “correcting authorities” that
“prove” the correct reading in
the KJV is incorrect! You may
be so shocked and appalled by their deceitfulness, hypocrisy, evasiveness,
inconsistency, and illogical betrayal of the very Reason they claim to live by
that you’ll spend time in the Bible researching and thinking about faith,
belief, eyes and ears that see and hear, and how many times those things are
connected by doing the word of God to
the behind-the-scenes ministry of the Holy Ghost that you’ll come away – as I
have – realizing there is a lot more to faith, belief, hearing, and the truth,
spiritual power, and necessity of the
word of God as He defines it
than modern Christians think.
· When you
pin them down and they’re forced into admitting the ERROR
manuscripts are not God’s word, they
will admit they do not think God’s word exists as He defines it. When you review their above contradictory,
evasive, unscriptural, hypocritical, deceitfulness in order to show them they
have chosen to live in darkness and cynicism they will eventually say something
like, “It’s not our fault! It’s God’s
fault; He’s the one whose word no longer exists because He’s the
one who failed to preserve it! We theologians are trying to cover for Him by 1) making ignorant Christians think the word of God exists, and 2) by making informed Christians think it honors and
glorifies God to revise and downgrade the definition of His word to ‘word of
man’, ‘corrupt translation’, ‘corrupt-but-authoritative old scraps of
manuscripts’, and ‘scraps of food picked out of garbage cans’.”
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Some thinking points:
1. The inerrancy of the word of God is how we
know which Bible version is of God (apply Jer 28:9). This
(the true word of God) is the necessary starting point and foundation for
Christianity...
2. ...because it
engenders and feeds and increases that all-important ingredient, faith (see Heb 4:2), which in
turn...
3. ...gives us eyes that
see and ears that hear as the Holy Spirit does His job of helping the seed of
the word grow and bring forth fruit/maturity in our relationship with the
Lord...
4. ...by allowing us to
build a Scripturally-correct framework of doctrine that allows us to recognize
and get to know and serve (through ever-faithfully doing the word) the
true God (Jer 9:24).
5. The Hananiahs among us who promote theology and error-filled
modern Bible versions are spreading the subversive leaven that God’s word (point 1) no longer exists; which destroys faith (point 2); which makes the
word of God / the work of the Holy Ghost (point 3) of none effect;
which allows well-intentioned-but-false theology-based doctrine to create false
Christs (point 4).
Now we can better understand why Hananiah’s
blasphemy/rebellion/witchcraft against the word-promoting work of the Holy
Ghost was not forgiven by God.
Over
time as your Biblical understanding broadens and deepens you’ll arrive at the
point where you understand how devastatingly subversive theology is to faith,
belief, the word of God, and Christianity. You’ll also see that theology helps
the Devil because inside many Christians when the seed of the word of God is
sown and heard, it may immediately spring up, but then thorns grow up and choke
the word and the word becometh unfruitful and no
longer efficacious because the behind-the-scenes work of the Comforter stops. This theological
subversion is so effective it has defeated millions of Christians today, which
illustrates why God killed Hananiah and why He orders
us to walk away after the first and
second admonition.
Fornication
is the only sin that justifies divorce. Fornication is defrauding the church.
And fornication is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost / the son of God
(not the son of man). Because the Holy Ghost / son of God
minister to faithful doers of His words, any Christian who
profanes/speaks against the words of God is fornicating/defrauding the
church and blaspheming the Holy Ghost / the Word of God.
Why
is speaking against the Holy Ghost blasphemy...but speaking against the Son of man
(not God) isn’t? In order for blasphemy to be worse when it’s against
the Comforter than when it’s against the Lord Jesus Christ there has to be some kind of difference between the two.
We know from Jn 14 and other places that Christ and
the Holy Spirit are the same because they are God/part of the Triune Godhead.
And that makes us zero in on God’s
literal wording, the Son of man.
The mortal Christ came to be despised and rejected and sacrificed. But
the divine Christ is the same as the Holy Spirit, and we learn in the
Bible that the Holy Spirit’s job is to exalt the word of God in order to feed,
instruct, exhort, rebuke, correct, and guide us in such a way that we emphasize
the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour, Husband, Shepherd, and God. Why does the Comforter exalt, teach, and
bring the words of God to our
remembrance? Because in order to discern
the real Christ from all the false Christs
that are so prevalent in today’s apostate “Christianity” we must go by “Thus
saith the Lord.” That’s why God exalts His word (which reveals the true Christ) above
His name (which teaches us nothing): His word is the church’s only weapon...but
only if our faith and works trigger His participation. The literal
words allow us to learn correct doctrine, bolster our faith, and know and serve
the true Saviour, which is absolutely essential to winning the war. And that is why “speaking against”
the Holy Ghost is blaspheming the “word of God” (not the Word of God” –
see Titus 2 below). And that
helps us begin to glimpse the big picture behind why God killed Hananiah for blaspheming,
for teaching rebellion, which is witchcraft
against God (Jer 28:15,16)
by undermining the Holy Ghost’s work of exalting the word by using Yea hath God said theology to destroy faith
by casting doubt on the existence and inerrancy of the literal word of God.
Mt 12:31,32 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin
and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy
Ghost [whose ministry is to use the word to glorify God in the
name of the Word/son of God/Christ Jesus]
shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man
[the mortal
Christ, not the divine Christ/the Word], it
shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh
against the Holy Ghost [whose ministry is to use the word to glorify
God in the name of the Word/son of God/Christ Jesus],
it shall not be forgiven him, neither in
this world, neither in the world to come. [The mortal
Christ (son of man) came to be abused, crucified, and then go back to
heaven; therefore blaspheming Him is forgivable. However, blaspheming the immortal
members of the Trinity (such as the son of God) will not be forgiven
because their purpose is to minister the word of God to us...and the word is
absolutely critical and necessary to the war because it is our only weapon.]
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1 Tim 1:12,13 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath
enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; Who
was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained
mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
Heb 8:4-8 For it is impossible for those who
were once enlightened [and therefore no longer ignorant],
and have tasted of the heavenly gift
[of the word],
and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost
[by doing the word],
And have tasted the good word of God
[God’s Scripture is always involved; note it says good, not garbage], and the powers
[behind-the-scenes
spiritual activity] of the world to come, If they
shall fall away [from the good word of God after having tasted it /
partaken of the Holy Spirit’s ministry], to
renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God
[which makes the sin
unforgivable blasphemy] afresh, and put him
[the word-ministering Trinity] to an open shame. For the
earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon
it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it
is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that
which beareth thorns and briers
[after
receiving the good word of God] is rejected,
and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned
[and this divorce
is only permissible for the sin of fornication / blasphemy
against He who ministers the word to us].
Heb 10:28,29 He that despised Moses’
[written word]
law died without mercy
[because their sin
was fornication / blasphemy / speaking against the Sword of God]
under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer
punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God
[not man],
and hath counted the blood of the
[new written word]
covenant, wherewith he was sanctified
[partaker of the Holy
Ghost via the word],
an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
[Whose job is the word.]
Fornication
is defrauding the church. Attacking the validity of God’s word undermines faith
and thereby blocks the ministry of the Holy Spirit, which is both fornication
and blaspheming the Son of God (not man). We and the Lord must fight the war in accordance with
the rules/words in God’s Book. Even when Matt Seven was a “doer” of the true
word of God his works were actually “iniquity” because those
well-intentioned works were not complete
or whole because they did not contain
the p.H1-2 synonyms such as faith, belief, and true love. But surely Matt thought he loved the Lord!
Yes, but his love did not contain the H1-2 synonyms, which meant God’s words
were thorn-choked and no longer internalized parts of who he was (as described
in Trump W11); those good words of God moved back out to his “periphery”, which
made their use nothing but tinkling cymbals and lip service (1 Cor 13:1-3). That weakened his inner word-based framework
that filters out verbal and written words that are contrary to Bible-based
beliefs, which (as we move into modern times), combined with the harmful illocutionary impact (Trump W7) of the
constant barrage of images in today’s electronic media, and rendered Matt
vulnerable to leaven on both flanks. God’s word must be internalized so
it can be the “whole package of synonyms” so the Lord can fight for us and not
only preserve His words in our hearts but also cause them to bear fruit an hundredfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. Beware of modern dumpster-diving Hananiahs
who are undermining faith and belief in the literal character-building
fruit-producing inerrant literal words God gave us. There is no greater sin
than undermining faith in God and His word.
Now I’m
going to cherry-pick some info from Titus chapter 2, so you may wish to consult
the full chapter to see if I’m wresting Scripture or if I’m applying the
Scriptures in a way that conforms to the Scriptures above. My point is to show
that it is not wresting Scripture to say Christians who subvert faith in God’s
word are, in fact, blaspheming the Holy Ghost / fornicating / defrauding the
church by committing a crime more heinous than that of the Pharisees when they
nailed our Lord to the cross.
Titus 2:1 But
speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
[Sound doctrine is
based on the word of God (v.5), and teaching and doing correct
Bible-based doctrine is “adorning” God’s doctrine (vv.3,10).]
2 That the
aged men be...sound in faith... [In addition to the
inerrant word of God being absolutely necessary in order to formulate correct
doctrines, Christians absolutely need Biblical faith; without faith nothing is efficacious because God isn’t
pleased, isn’t glorified, and doesn’t work behind the scenes for us.]
3 The aged women likewise, that they be...teachers
of good things; [It is not good to teach things that are bad, that undermine
faith, that say God’s inerrant word doesn’t exist, and it’s not good for
doctrines to be formulated in accordance with theology and society’s latest
revisions to morality, scientific “findings”, and Reason-and-equality-based
good intentions.]
5 ...that the word of
God be not blasphemed.
[Actions, teachings,
and doctrines not in
accordance with / not based on
the literal written words of God are blasphemy against the word of God,
which undermines the authority of God Who gave us His word so we could
properly bear His Sword (by doing) so
He can fight for us behind the scenes. This series of events – 1) pleasing God with
faith in the word, and 2) then pleasing Him by doing His word with synonyms,
combine to 3) trigger His active involvement – lets us see why Hananiah’s blasphemy against the Holy Ghost when he used Yea, hath God said theology to undermine
faith in the literal truth and reliability of God’s word caused the Lord to
kill him: faith and doing can move
mountains in the war because they get the Lord involved, and without
Him the war is lost.
7 ...in doctrine shewing uncorruptness...
[Uncorrupt doctrine is
based on the inerrant word of God. Today’s corrupt doctrines are based on
theology’s garbage-can versions and layman’s aids.]
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...that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
[God does not say
“most things”, He says all things,
and ignoring that fact is suicidal...as Hananiah
found out the hard way. When modern Christians say God’s inerrant word no
longer exists and therefore we must scrounge around in garbage cans looking for
scraps of the bread of His word they are
adorning nothing; they are blaspheming
God and His word, and they are committing fornication by defrauding
the church.
15 These
things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise
thee.
If anybody
disagrees with the above and says theology’s anti-KJV crusade isn’t
fornication, isn’t blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, isn’t resulting in false
doctrines, isn’t undermining faith, and isn’t helping Satan prevail against the
church, you probably ought to issue a first and second admonition and –
depending on his answers – walk away,
for he is subverted:
1. First
admonition: “Knowing the foundational necessity of faith and the word
of God, what sins do you think are more harmful to Christianity than the
sin of claiming God’s word – as He defines it – no longer exists? After all,
sins like murder, homosexuality, and adultery are never going to subvert the
church because they’ll always be sins.
Your answer, sir?”
2. Second admonition:
“I see you carry the NASV. When you went shopping for a Bible you had to choose
between the KJV and the NASV. Knowing that over the last several hundred years
the KJV is the only Bible version or manuscript on earth whose inerrancy has caused a significant
portion of born-again Christians to accept that inerrancy as God’s Scriptural
proof that the KJV is His inspired word, and knowing that nobody has ever claimed the NASV to be God’s
inspired word, and knowing that everybody
knows the NASV is full of errors...what
possessed you to eschew the KJV and get the NASV?!”
Closing
note: In general, I think I’m preaching to the choir about the Bible version
issue. And therefore I worry about belaboring the point and repeating myself
too many times. However, many KJVers don’t hear this
stuff and don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it. The result is they don’t
really understand this topic’s
breadth and depth and multi-faceted importance. For example, some of the facets
include:
· The meaning of the KJV’s inerrancy.
· The
reality and necessity of faith, works, and the other synonyms in conjunction
with the true word of God.
· The word
of God is our only doctrinal source and foundation.
· The word of
God is the only weapon the Lord and we Bible believers have in this war.
· The real
power behind God’s Sword is – not surprisingly – God.
· Yea, hath God said theology
really has been one of the Devil’s main Reason-based tactics since the garden of Eden.
· The reason
theology’s pro-ERROR ms /
anti-KJV Yea, hath God said arguments
are so hypocritical and contradictory is simple: theology is based on false assumptions and outright blasphemous
lies because its foundation is human
Reason; whereas Bible believers’ pro-Bible-study stance is based on the fact of inerrancy and faith in our mighty Saviour.
· In addition to eroding faith and belief, all facets of theology undermine authority: God didn’t do what He said He’d do, His word isn’t as reliable as we once thought, therefore we can’t take Him literally at His word and must figure out what He might have meant to say. That caused doctrine to no longer be written in stone because the words in the Bible can no longer be taken literally, and therefore doctrine changes in accordance with what we think. With the authority of the Bible subverted, which is our only source of doctrine and the church’s only foundation, Christianity is set adrift and morphs into just another humanistic religion. And with the authority of the Bible subverted, which is our