Month: July 2013

Why do we need liberty?

Why should we expect something that is a contradictory to 6000 years of recorded history.

When you look back through history, you see the rise and fall of one slave empire after another.  Individual liberty has consistently been a short-lived aberration to the norm.

We get the government we deserve

Proverbs 28:2a For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof

Mankind has a fallen nature and is unable to rule himself.

Left to themselves, the general public sinks lower and lower into depravity and requires a stronger and stronger central authority to maintain order.

The result is a corrupt government, due to any government of men by men will become as corrupt as the men that run it.

It is not only that power corrupts, but also that power attracts corrupt men.  The greater the power, the more corrupt those who covet it.

Our lack of moral character and lack of willingness to govern ourselves has resulted in the loss of freedom in exchange for ‘security’.

Squandered

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams

We have been given a unique opportunity in that we can freely and openly practice and express our faith, and raise up the next generation to be stronger in faith than any previous.

Instead, we have squandered the opportunity.  Each generation becomes more morally depraved than the one before it.

And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures 
Luke 24:45

Zech 4:2-14

And he said to me, “What do you see?”

So I said, “I am looking, and there is a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps.  Two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left.”
       
Then I answered and said to him, “What are these two olive trees; at the right of the lampstand and at its left?”

And I further answered and said to him, “What are these two olive branches that drip into the receptacles of the two gold pipes from which the golden oil drains?”

Then he answered me and said, “Do you not know what these are?”

And I said, “No, my lord.”

So he said, “These are the two anointed ones, who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth.”

Rev 11:3-12 (after 6th Trumpet, before 7th)

And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth. 

And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner.  These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.

When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit (Rev 9, 5th Trumpet) will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves. And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

Now after the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.

familiar spirits are demons

also known as…

imaginary friend/playmate
spirit guides
spirit animal
ascended masters
telepathic communications
aliens/extraterrestrials
the voice within
angels
reiki master
ancestors
the dead / ghosts
channeled entities

Leviticus 19:31 – Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.

Leviticus 20:27 – A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.

Leviticus 20:6 – And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Isaiah 8:19 – And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

Isaiah 19:3 – And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

2 Chronicles 33:6 – And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 23:24 – Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 21:6 – And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.

Deuteronomy 18:10 – There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

Galatians 5:20 – Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Only King Og of Bashan remained from the remnants of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed was made of iron. It’s in Rabbah of the Ammonites, isn’t it? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide.”
Deut 3:11

 in some ancient Arabic documents, the Great Wall of China is called the Ramparts of Gog and Magog

sharing presupposes respect for one another’s property

we need to be careful when trying to assign motives as to the “why” God / Jesus / The Holy Spirit does something.

while it might be fine and fun to ponder what various persons in the Bible might have been thinking in various circumstances, we must not do that when it comes to God.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 55:8

so, unless God tells us in scripture the “why” He has done or is doing something, we should refrain from speculation