Author: ShapedByTruth

extrabiblical

doctrinal beliefs should be based only on what can be found in scripture without adding to or taking away from it.

in cases where extra-biblical material confirms scripture, great

in cases where extra-biblical sources add additional background details to something established in scripture, good to know, but should be considered as commentary and/or historical background.

anything not directly substantiated in scripture should be relegated to educated speculation.

throw out anything that contradicts scripture

the awakening

“The Awakening” Sculpture is set in the sand on the shores of the Potomac River at National Harbor in Prince George’s County, Maryland. In 2008, the Peterson Companies, the developer of National Harbor, purchased the sculpture and moved it from Hains Point in Washington, DC to its current location. “The Awakening” is a five piece cast iron sculpture depicting the arousing of a bearded giant with a head, hand, outstretched arm, bent knee and foot arranged to suggest that the giant is breaking free from the earth. The sculpture was part of a city-wide public art exhibition in 1980 and was on loan to the National Park Service for almost three decades.

Is this the awakening of the Nephilim and the return of the days of Noah?  The ascendance of Apollyon out of the pit?  The return of Nimrod as the Antichrist?

seed of satan: Nimrod the first false messiah

Judges 2:13: And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth

Nimrod, mighty hunter, ruler of Babel aka: Marduk, Mithra, Gilgamesh, Osiris, Apollo/Apollyon, Dionysis, Ninurta, Baal

Semiramus – mother and wife of Nimrod; aka: Ishtar, Asherah, Anaita, Andromeda, Queen of Heaven with the ancient Phoenicians, was Astarte; Greeks, Hera; Romans, Juno; Trivia, Hecate, Diana, the Egyptian Isis, etc., were all so called; but with the Roman Catholics it is the Virgin Mary (Ester, Easter, Ashteroth, Shekhina, Aphrodite, Venus)

Jeremiah 7,18: The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Tammuz – son of Nimrod and Semiramus, supposed reincarnation of Nimrod; aka: Horus,

Ezekiel 8:14: Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for *Tammuz (babylonian idol).



Why so many names for same legendary figure?

All were gathered together in Babel under rule of Nimrod, all followed the religion of mystery Babylon.

Then came confusion of the languages, so they all had the common experience, but around 70 different words for it – a different word in each language for the same thing…

They all worshiped the same figure, but then had 70 different names for him.  As time went on the different language groups separated geographically and socially and though the religion/mythos had the same root, they diverged over time from generation to generation.

why liberty?

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.

two witnesses

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.