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“Oh, the unspeakable greatness of that exchange,—the Sinless One is condemned, and he who is guilty goes free; the Blessing bears the curse, and the cursed is brought into blessing; the Life dies, and the dead live; the Glory is whelmed in darkness, and he who knew nothing but confusion of face is clothed with glory.”

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Saturday, November 27, 2021

A comment on a video

I am completely behind the video by Anna Brees. But I’m sorry to have to say that the good doctor needs a wider worldview. The same group that was behind futurism and the great deception of secret rapture and seven year tribulation, is behind the CDC and the whole pandemic deception. Because if people had read the Bible and known their past 500 year history, so many people would never ever be crying, “I don’t believe in conspiracy theories!” They would understand the strong delusion 2 Thessalonians 2 warned of. “Power and signs and lying wonders, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness”. This emergency is hitting worst the people who wrote off the word of God. Sad to say, they shot themselves in the foot. And the secret rapture deception is not over, in my humble opinion. Because that lie that has been around for 450 years and has been developed along the way. WHY WOULDN’T THE JESUITS USE IT?????? If they could pull off the 9/11 deception, how hard would it be to pull off a secret rapture that is designed so that no one sees it? The public believed a plane crashed in Pennsylvania, but no huge plane wreckage was seen. Same for the Pentagon. In Pennsylvania, just a line in the ground and a 10×15 foot hole in the ground and bits of paper all around the site. And the line in the ground was there back in a decades old U.S. Geological Survey! We are talking about major deception by spiritual wickedness in high places. It’s spiritual because the Jesuits are spiritualists, and very wicked. In my mind, everything after 9/11 must be gauged by deception on the highest degree. This pandemic is just another deception. A secret rapture would be the icing on the top for moving droves of multitudes into the churches that will by that time have united with the Catholic Church. Revelation 17 will become a reality then. People must be awaken to the huge deceptions being used on 7.8 billion people, being led out by the spiritually defunct Protestant America.


What John Nelson Darby Taught About Daniel 9 vs. Prominent Bible Commentators - James Japan (jamesjpn.net)

Dr. Roger Hodkinson Warns of Myocarditis and Infertility from Covid Vaccines - James Japan (jamesjpn.net)

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Kiss the Son and be rehabilitated


The Law of God, the Spirit of truth, are the representatives of God the Father. The buck stops with Him. He is to be feared; for He is no respecter of persons. And similarly, the gospel, “good words and comfortable words” (Zech. 1:13), and the Spirit of all comfort and of all grace are representative of the only begotten Son of God. He is our peace between God and man.


The Law and the gospel represent the Father and the Son, respectively. “Fear God, and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment is come.” And, “Kiss the Son....” Love the Son.


In a strange otherworldly arrangement, the rest of the last scripture shows the Son, not only as adorable, but as almost a despotic narcissist. “Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.” (Psa 2:12). Why should He be that way? Why sound so barbaric, like an ogre who eats his children? And what about, “Fear God, and glorify to Him.” Is God the Father a despotic narcissist, too? Does God eat His children? Sickening heresy!

Of course not, but Satan would love to have the human race believe that! God loves our race so much that He gave us His only begotten Son. And we devoured the Son! But then what is going on with Psalm 2:12??? Were the Israelites sadists who could love a God that threatened them if they didn’t kiss Him? Does God expect the same from us?


Or, was this speaking about King David being the son? Actually, today this interpretation is entertained by many rabbis. But how is “Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little consistent with David’s affection for his people?


My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear [How long before I can appear...] before God? 

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.” (Psa. 42:2-4).


No, David was not a narcissist. And David was not the “Son” of his visions. The Son referred to God’s only Begotten, Jehovah Adonai, the joy of all the worlds and the angelic hosts. The Son was the precious Jehovah Jr., Messiah the Prince, the only Begotten, Prōtotokos “first-born” “first-begotten”, “the beginning of the creation of God”. He was “Michael your Prince”, “Michael ... the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people” (Dan. 11:21;12:1). The Son is our advocating High Priest.


How about God the great Judge? Is He tender and kind? Does He love in kindness? Yes, to all who obey His Law, to all who He views are not a threat to His other beloved creatures! But to those who He detects slipping into spiritual hypothermia and their well-doing slacking off, He slackens His glory upon them and silences His voice in their soul. He instantly interprets their lack of energetic response to His glorious will as rebellion, and immediately sees them as a danger to His beloved kingdom. So He commissions His Son to fix the problematic slacking in their souls. If they don’t heed His warning message or His Son’s, but continue on in increasing slackness, then He increases His withholding of life-giving glory, and His Son sorrowfully drops the slacker a message that he will die in his sins. Such a threatening message comes far in advance of the final death, but it’s a last ditch shock treatment to wake up his conscience and heart, like the powerful medical device, called a defibrillator. According to Wikipedia, “Defibrillation is a treatment for life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias...”


The defibrillator is a life-saving tool. God’s powerful resources to wake up our conscience is also His life-saving tool. His Son, who He commissions to minister to the wanderer for his rehabilitation, applies His power to save by speaking truth and grace in loving-kindness and tender mercies. Not grace only lest the slacking one fall into eternal slumber. Not truth only lest the slacking one be stripped of all hope and worth. In either case, if the Son were to approach the situation with only a one-sided work of total grace or total truth, then He would contribute to the loss of a soul and the Father would judge Him a worker of iniquity. This has never happened, and never will happen. “He hath done all things well: He maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.” (Mark 7:37). All that the Father put the Son through from Gethsemane to Golgotha proved the Sons eternal love for man before all the universe, and sealed Him in the perfect upbringing of Adam’s race.


Are we ready for the Son’s perfect rehabilitation? Are we saying, “We will not have this Man reign over us”? The word “rehab” has humbling connotations, for sure. But, despite the humiliating side effects, it means restoration. Does the Son have any takers? Or, is the humiliation a special benefit? Isn’t our humbling beneficial rather than detrimental? The sinner has slipped into selfishness. He has become self-centered, as if the whole kingdom should permit only him to carry on in rebellion against the Law of self-sacrificing love. Were he to continue unstopped by God’s cutting assessment of him, wouldn’t a new controversy spring up in ferocious wrath?


Therefore, the gospel begins with the decimation of our pride.


But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.” (Gal. 3:22). “Now we know that what things soever the Law saith, it saith to them who are under the Law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” (Rom. 3:19). “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. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” (Heb. 4:12,13). And it ends in deep repentance and our uplifting from shame and guilt.


And in perfect peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.


The blessedness of dying in Jesus

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.” (Rev. 14:13).


Often has the question come to my mind, Is this speaking of literal death or death to sin? Now I have some scripture than speak of death to sin and the rest in salvation. We’ll begin with Psalm 116.


Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.” (Psa. 116:15).


This verse is sometimes expressed at a Protestant funeral or memorial service, referring to the dead loved one. But, look at its context. At the introduction, which sets the course of the whole psalm, it speaks, rather, of a spiritual battle going on in the psalmist.


I love the LORD, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications. 

Because He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live. 

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 

Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech Thee, deliver my soul.” (Psa. 116:1-4).


The cause of his crying out to God was for deliverance from the trouble and sorrow in his soul. The psalmist is not praising God from the grave because there is no communication with the dead. This is because in a dead brain there is no spirit or mind. Hence there is no thought process and no conscience. We are made in the image of the Father and Son through a special process of Their creating a brain that can house a reception center for the Spirit of the Father through the Spirit of His Son. That center, in the human frontal lobe, is called our spirit. There the Father’s Spirit, through His Son’s Spirit can mate with ours, and our spirit can mate with the Father’s through His Son’s, the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead.If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, [then] He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.” “I in them, and Thou in Me.” (Rom. 8:11; John 17:23).


The death that the psalmist experienced felt like literal dying and death as he went about his daily duties, but pangs of death were only a simile used to best describe the destitution and depression brought upon his soul by separation from the living God.


I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom Thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from Thy hand.” (Psa. 88:4,5).


This psalm did not intend to be literal, as the simile like” (Vs. 5), gives away. The Hebrews knew that the dead know not anything. See Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6. There is no life, no soul, no spirit, when the body physically expires. The rhetorical answers to the following two texts was an obvious, No.


Wilt Thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise Thee? Selah. 

Shall Thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or Thy faithfulness in destruction? 

Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark? and Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?” (Psa. 88:9-12).


The waters wear the stones: washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and Thou destroyest the hope of man. 

Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. 

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. 

But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.” (Job 14:19-22)


So, the psalmist expresses his joy to the Deliverer from his sorrows and depression and spiritual darkness. He is thankful for the compassion of his God upon his unworthy soul for hastily concluding that because some had lied to him, then the whole world was liars.


I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: 

I said in my haste, All men are liars.” (Psa. 116:10,11).


Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. 

The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and He helped me. 

Return unto Thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with Thee. 

For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 

I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.” (Psa. 116:5-9).


Jesus was merciful and gave power to redirect his thoughts to godliness when He saw the repentance in the psalmist. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord!”


What shall I render unto the LORD for all His benefits toward me? 

I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. 

I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all His people. 

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.” (Psa. 116:12-15).


The death was his new dead disposition toward sinning, which is salvation. Now the bliss of heaven fills him. Freed from the grip of unwanted animosity, and living in the Spirit of righteousness, the psalmist had only the deepest gratitude to his Deliverer from sin and there remained a fervent determination to be faithful to His character in the face of all future temptations.


O LORD, truly I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thine handmaid: Thou hast loosed my bonds. 

I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. 

I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all His people, 

In the courts of the LORD’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.” (Psa. 116:16-19).


So, from the opening Revelation 14:13 verse, it is evident that the 144,000 will have such a victory over the beast, that God deems the beast to be the source of all abominations that blanket the earth in the end. None cause is imputed to the remnant. As he had done to the imperious whore of the Old Covenant, “that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar” (Matt. 23:35), in the end likewise He says to Babylon, the great whore of the New Covenant:


And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” “And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.(Rev. 17:5; 18:24).


No doubt, in both cases, He is speaking directly to Satan, the vicious, supra-vindictive, scarlet colored dragon.


The 144,000 obtain the victory over the beast, as representatives of all the redeemed from the captive race of Adam. They have laid down their lives for Jesus’ sake and for the sake of an unsaved world. But they could only have done so by Jesus’ help. His invitation continually wafted upon their hearts, “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” (Matt. 11:28,29). Now they give themselves to Him, such as the psalmist did, “O LORD, truly I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thine handmaid: Thou hast loosed my bonds.” (Psa. 116:16). And they follow the Lamb everywhere He leads in the Latter Rain.


The world’s idolatry behind them through the infinite patience of God, they continue to surrender their whole heart to the interceding Son. They are dead to sin; they have given their will to God for Him to do with them as He pleases. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.” And in their determination and new willpower from Jesus, their sins are blotted out and they enjoy the unique experience of being sealed from sin and temptation. They have passed through their own Gethsemane. They can say with Paul,


What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? 

Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection: 

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 

For he that is dead is freed from sin.” (Rom. 6:1-7).


This victory over sin is unlike any other victory since Adam left the garden. But their victory’s precedent was set in the apostolic church as the first bookend of the new dispensation, from which we can take a likeness of the future great tribulation and the time of Jacob’s trouble. Many people today have no faith that their character can naturally be without flaw in God’s sight. But this is what He promises. Through Christs justifying and sanctifying work in them they hear the blessed words from their Father, This is My beloved child, in whom I am well pleased.


And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God…. Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus”; here are they “which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” (Rev. 14:5,12; 12:17).


Contrary to popular fantasy, the 144,000 will not be superhuman Christians who never did anything wrong. That’s not why they will be without blame before God. They will be enabled to stand before God and endure the great tribulation at the end only because of the mercies and patience of God toward their past unfaithfulness. They will arrive at perfect obedience only because of the failures they see in their past. As seen in the Revelation 11 two witnesses who the beast’s voracious locusts made spiritual warfare against during the fifth trumpet and who the beast killed spiritually in the sixth trumpet, their last end is still full of hope because of their forefathers’ and their prophet’s sakes.


And when they shall have finished their [1,260 year] testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit [in 1849] shall make war against them [until 1915], and shall overcome them [by 1999], and kill them. 

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.” (Rev. 11:7-10).


And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.” (Rev. 11:11,12).


The 144,000 ascension to heaven in a cloud is not the second advent of Christ, but their resurrection to new life after being forgiven of their many failures to uphold the standards of Christ’s kingdom. But through all the humiliation from His discipline upon them during the previous first time of trouble, when the atheistic, rebellious world have the upper hand on them because they departed from the God of their pioneer forefathers, they are purified and their allegiance to Jesus is solidified. Like it was in David’s time of external difficulties, their dependence on Jesus, and His law and prophets, churned out a generation that could be worthy of God’s blessings upon them, instead of His curses.


Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in His holy place? 

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 

He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 

This is the generation of them that seek Him, that seek Thy face, O Jacob. Selah.” (Psa. 24:3-6).


The same generation occurred again in the days of the apostles, and because of the same condemnation of God’s Law that resulted in the same loyalty to the Law and prophets.


Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator….  

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 

But before faith came, we were kept under the Law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 

Wherefore the Law was our Schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” (Gal. 3:19,22-24).


The final revival won’t be by the birth of a super race of Adventist Christians. But, the revival will come by the same means that we have seen happen all through the ages after gross departures from the word of God and from the straight testimonies from Jesus—a firm but merciful, disciplining, but divinely permitted, subjugation, a deep humiliation and repentance from God’s remnant, their immediate restoration to divine favor realized by the witness of God’s Spirit, their new love of the Law and the prophets (including the prophet of these last days, Ellen G. White) and their determined sanctification by the combined human-divine union of spirit-Spirit. A remnant previously lacking faith and transgressing the Law, resurrected into a holy priesthood and peculiar generation, and dwelling, as it were, in heaven, is what we saw in our precedent, the apostolic church.


But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, 

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Eph. 2:4-6).


Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in [glory]: 

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son: 

In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.” (Col. 1:12-14).


Forgiveness of their former, ugly unfaithfulness and sitting in heavenly places with their Saviour is why we see the 144,000 standing in the heavenly sanctuary with the Lamb of God.


And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with Him an hundred forty and four thousand, having His Father’s name written in their foreheads. 

And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: 

And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.” (Rev. 14:1-3).


That first scene of the 144,000 comes before the great tribulation, and the next chapter shows them after that tribulation, singing an even newer song that no man can sing. Their first song was in preparation for the great time of trouble, such as never was, and their last song will be after that great tribulation.


And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. 

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints. 

Who shall not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? for Thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before Thee; for Thy judgments are made manifest.” (Rev. 15:2-4).


In a magnificent picture of the most perfected new birth born out of the greatest pangs ever experienced by humankind, we see nothing more than the pangs of death known by the psalmist.


I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: 

I said in my haste, All men are liars.” (Psa. 116:10,11).


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; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” (Eph. 2:1-3).


But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, 

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) ” (Eph. 2:4,5).


Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. 

The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and He helped me. 

Return unto Thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with Thee. 

For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 

I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.” (Psa. 116:5-9).

Saturday, November 20, 2021

The Mithra-Universal Church connection





When I compare Mithra to the Catholic Jesus I am only going by what history has documented. When I pass on the truth that when Sol Invictus  ("The Invincible Sun") became the new Savior of the world, and it was a political move to unite Christianity and the official pagan religion, I am only repeating what I have learned from books. When I say that the Trinity of Mithraism  became the Trinity of Christianity, it is all documented. When I realized that Mithra the god of the invincible Roman armies made the apostatized apostolic church a persecuting counselor to the state, I must blow the trumpet on that new revelation because history is being repeated, even as we speak--not an ancient-archaic Christianity-pagan Mithraic alliance, but a post-modern Protestant-Catholic Evangelical alliance. In light of this rising universal power of human sacrifices and militaristic throw-back to Mithraism, doesn't  Revelation 13:4 sound like a military hoorah? "And they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" (Rev. 13:4). The Eucharist of the Catholic Mass then, the food and drink offering--not to Messiah the Son of God but to Mithra the Sun god--is the root of perpetuating the persecution by the old Roman Papacy. Anyone who joins in with its Nazi-like fervor of patriotism and praise will receive the mark of the beast.


When I speak of the Catholic system, I am not speaking of  the Catholic people. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. I have many kind Catholic friends. They are reverent and desirous to please God and have His Spirit. But, in order to be faithful with the word of God, I must follow its exposure of the Catholic system, which is neither Christian nor its practices biblical. Of it Daniel heard, 


"He shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." (Dan. 7:25).


And,

 

"It waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. 

Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. 

And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered." (Dan. 8:10-12).


And Paul wrote,


"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day [of Christ's return] shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 

And now ye know what withholdeth ['holds back'] that he might be revealed in his time. 

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth ['holds back', Imperial Rome] will let ['hold back'], until he be taken out of the way." (2Thess. 2:3-7).


Much of this information and more can be found in The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop as an online PDF at www.ldolphin.org/PDFs/The_Two_Babylons-Alexander_Hislop.pdf. The informative article below is copied from Mithraism and the Catholic Church! (hope-of-israel.org)




Mithraism and the Catholic Church



"Christianity didn't conquer Mithraic Paganism. Mithraism blended in, and CHANGED NAMES."


Due to the efficient and extensive Roman road system, their quasi-Persian religion -- called Mithraism -- was spread over vast distances from Rome. During the time of the Emperor Constantine the newly arriving Nazarene faith was fused together with Mithraism to form one universal or Catholic religion. The ancient Nimrod-oriented customs of Mithraism were readily adapted because they were already socially-accepted, and soon YEHOVAH's truth was merged into a smoke-screen of pagan customs that have come down to us today under the guise of the Roman Catholic Church.

Understanding Emperor Constantine, Mithraism and the fertile Pagan background environment of the Roman Catholic Church will help explain many beliefs and practices seen today. Mithraism is about the worship of the sun -- which was titled Mithras Solis Invictus (Mithras, the unconquered sun). The "mysteries" of this religion were revealed ONLY to the initiates, who were predominantly soldiers of the Roman army. They spread this religion all over the civilized world by way of the good Roman roads. Mithraism was THE PRIMARY RELIGION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE FROM 222 B.C. THROUGH THE 4th-CENTURY A.D. It was the chief rival of Christianity, which history shows COMPROMISED radically in order to convert pagans into believers.

The doctrines, feast dates, rituals, accouterments, and organizational structure of Mithraism have SCARCELY changed at all since that time. The religion of Mithraism itself was the result of a MERGER of the astrology of the Chaldean priests of Marduk (Baal) with the Indo-Iranian priests of Mithras. The sun-idol Mithras, is mentioned in the sacred writings of both cults -- the Avesta and the Vedas. The sun-idol is called "THE LORD" in both. The Hindu Krishna is called "THE LORD," as you will recall the syncretistic lyrics in the song, My Sweet Lord by George Harrison of the Beatles, where vocalists chant hare Krishna interchangeably with hallelu Yah. All the while the song BLENDS the concepts under the impersonal, indefinite and vague title, Lord.

By the 4th-century A.D., the sect of Judaism called the N'TZARIM no longer existed openly, and Gnostic clones of it had sprung up and began to compete with Mithraism for dominance. One historian said, "The entire European continent and New World would be Mithraic today if Christianity hadn't come along." Other historians have put it another way: "Christianity didn't conquer Mithraic Paganism. Mithraism blended in, and CHANGED NAMES."

Mithraic Doctrine

1) The center of the Mithraic sun-cult was at ROME.

2) The leader of the ritual service was titled PATER, Latin for father -- inherited by the priesthood of Catholicism (against Matthew 23:9), and they wore CRUXES as amulets, with costumes of black, having NEHRU collars, originating from the Indo-Iranian roots.

3) There was a PATER-PATRATUS over the paters -- a papa or POPE.

4) The hierarchy initiates below pater were called BROTHERS.

5) The cult was for MEN ONLY.

6) The cult had the Trinity: MITHRAS, RASHNU and VOHU MANAH -- 3 "persons," but yet "one."

7) SUN-DAY was kept hallowed in honor of Mithras -- the sun -- called Mithras Solis Invictus. This has produced our popular name for the first day of the week, Sunday. The pattern of resting on Sun-day comes to us directly through what is called the BLUE LAWS, enforced first throughout the Roman Empire then through the western traditions into our New World. The edict was initiated by Constantine I, forbidding officials, artisans or merchants from engaging in any work on the SUN-DAY, to give honor to the sun, MITHRAS.

8) There were 5 levels within the hierarchy.

9) DECEMBER 25 was observed as MITHRAS' BIRTHDAY, called "Natalis Invictus" -- the rebirth of the winter sun, unconquered.

10) Initiates had to undergo a ritual sprinkling (affusion, which involved being under a bull, or Taurus which, being cut to death, allowed the initiate to become saturated with blood. The custom of bloody BULLFIGHTS seen in Spain harken back to this cult. (The custom of performing Christian "baptisms" in the spring at Easter-time will take on greater meaning as we learn the following information).

11) Special value was attributed to the moral virtues of religion, truthfulness, purity and generosity.

12) Mithraists would enter "paradise" (a Persian word itself, also called Eleusian FieldsNirvana and Nether World) by the THREE STEPS:

(a) The Good Thought.
(b) The Good Word.
(c) The Good Deed.

13) The cult supported the DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS (including Emperor worship).

14) The PATER (father) stood at one end of an oblong room, performing mysterious blood rituals. There was an indoor altar at his end on which a victim (Latin, "host") was SACRIFICED. They had a sun-shaped wafer disc like the Egyptians, and the assembly knelt, sat and stood in unison.

Jerome and the Great Word Shift

It was during this time of the clash -- when Christianity and Mithraism MERGED -- that Jerome translated the Greek writings of the New Testament into Latin (391-403). His real name was Eusebius Heirymonius Sophronius. He took the Greek word STAUROS (beam, stake, pole) and carried it over to the Latin word CRUX. This was an important SHIFT in the meaning of the original word. The Hebrew term was "NAS" -- used for the word "POLE" that the serpent was lifted up on. To a Mithraist the CRUX had a significant religious meaning. It could be represented as an "X" or a vertical line crossed horizontally. In the spring, when the Mithraists sacrificed a Taurus (bull), the sun was CROSSING the celestial equator and was in the zodiac sign of the Taurus. ("Zodiac" actually means animal figures, related to the word "zoo"). These rabid Pagans allegorized or interpreted this as the sun (Mithras) OVERCOMING THE BULL and crossing the celestial equator -- so the cross was their most cherished religious symbol.

In one of its Babylonian forms, it was a tilted crux with an arrow point at the high end, representing Nimrod standing on the tower shooting his hunter arrow at the skies. It was a bow and arrow. He may have even done this, shooting at the constellation Taurus. This is the link with the "Golden Calf." We still call the center of an archery target "the bull's eye." The sign of the cross was a Pagan sign of overcoming. The Babylonian constellation Orion the Hunter (Archer) represents Nimrod of Babylon.

The cross symbols of many different Pagan cults from around the world is what scholars call "the symbol of the sun, par excellence." The words we have inherited from Jerome's Latin translation include crosscrucifixion and crosier. So "cross" is a Latinism.



See also MITHRA FALSE CHRIST SUN | starmonkiesbigpic's Blog (wordpress.com)



Much of this information and more can be found in The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop as an online PDF at www.ldolphin.org/PDFs/The_Two_Babylons-Alexander_Hislop.pdf. The informative article below is copied from Mithraism and the Catholic Church! (hope-of-israel.org)

A fire from within


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9CKmegMIC0 [Trees burning on the inside have been a common occurrence in the burned out areas of northern California.]


Tree Burns From Inside Out (msn.com) [At second 0.13 of video the narrator mentioned that there was no storms (as in lightning storms) that day. This tree burned in Australia where gigantic wildfires burned vast outback bush territories.]



Two recently retired firefighter captains went into the Paradise fire burned out area to look around. Many things they saw didn’t make sense compared to their in-depth knowledge of what wild fires do, to trees, the houses, to cars, to other man-made things, etc. Below are links to an interview they made of their experiences during that investigation. They had done many investigation reports for their fire units during the previous 30 years fighting fires and they came away from the aftermath of the recent spree of “wildfires” reporting many anomalies.


part 1 paradise fires--massive “event” expert testimony retired fire captains

part 2 paradise fires--massive “event” expert testimony retired fire captains

part 3 paradise fires--massive “event” expert testimony retired fire captains


One of the anomalies was the way mobile homes in a burned out mobile home park all ended up with every homes’ walls laying on top of the burned object inside. They could conclude only that the homes were burned from the inside out, leaving the walls to be the last burned. Another anomaly was at one of the mobile homes that had a carport and a car parked under the carport. The home was flattened with only the skin of the walls left, and the car under the carport was completely incinerated, but the carport was barely touched by fire. Their minds still assuming a natural fire sweeping through the park, how in the world could the car under the carport be the typical incineration everywhere seen in these new, super-heated fires, yet the carport not be affected by the superheat? It made no sense. Then as they continued to look at the strange picture before them they noticed the legs of the carport were passing through the concrete pad below it and into the ground. They realized that the carport was grounded, but the car and the mobile home were not, since the car was sitting on the concrete pad and the home was sitting on cement blocks. Whatever the source of the heat was, it didn’t come from a typical wildfire.


Another anomaly was trees, many trees were burned from the inside, while their bark and epidermis were still intact and unburned. Trees that naturally grow in small groups of four or five, were splayed outward on the ground, unburned and leaves still green.


Another anomaly that explains the splayed out trees was eerie-looking holes in the soil where the roots of larger trees had been, and the large trees laying on the ground because there was nothing to hold the trees vertical. They could see the perfect formation of tree root systems, with not even ashes of the roots remaining. This explains why the smaller group trees were laying outward from their original positions.


The missing root anomaly can also explain the trees that burned from the inside. Evidently some high voltage source from above drew its voltage from the ground incinerating everything combustible that had the highest conductibility (water content), i.e. the roots first, and then the hearts of the trees. All these anomalies give poor reasons for the Jesuit owned media to consistently call the northern California desolations of the past few years wildfires. If only the media were of the people, by the people, for the people, rather than of the Vatican and for the aims of the papacy. The interview gives other anomalies, but for this post I want to focus on, as an object lesson, the aspect of fire burning from the inside out.


A fire from the inside is how God described what He would do to Satan.


Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.” (Eze. 28:18).


as the wildfire trees were subject to a power from above, so will Satan and his hosts be subject to something from God that will burn up everything resistant to His justice and mercy.


The third angel’s message speaks to this.


The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.” (Rev. 14:10,11).


What is this wrath of God that burns with fire and brimstone? It will be the powerful presence of a holy God of love making Himself known to the hearts of unholy, self-serving, rebellious murderers of God’s holy children. Like the angel that stopped Balaam and put him prostrate and submissive on the ground, God, by His long-distance inner Spirit, will break through all the delusions of the last days, and will appear in the consciences of the wicked. They will be stopped in their tracks when they see He Son appearing from the sky on a small black cloud.


So, the burning will happen to the human hosts of multitudes, nations, and tongues of the earth. In their total unbelief that there is an avenging God, the truth will cause a sudden angst in the minds of the deluded peoples. They would never allow God’s convictions in their conscience to redirect their destinations of hell. So they were increasingly brought under the devil’s insinuating sway until the great temptation took them in a complete and total delusion. Now they must be thwarted in their satanic scheme to rid the world of the goodly saints of the most High. A holy nation, a peculiar people, who were better than they, who showed up the wicked for all their unrighteousness, and exposed the deceptions of Satan by voice and internet, and in conversation and behavior.


I believe the powerful presence of God in the soul was referred to in a statement from Early Writings, page 54.


I asked Jesus if His Father had a form like Himself. He said He had, but I could not behold it, for said He, ‘If you should once behold the glory of His person, you would cease to exist.’”


From this statement I also believe that, as the Father’s provision, the Son represents the mercy of the divine government. Christ represents grace, being the cause of grace from the Father. And the Father represents the justice of the divine government, pure justice toward rebellion and anyone who insists on being so imbued with the spirit of Satan that they can never disavow themselves from sin and must be destroyed by the Judge of the universe when He destroys sin and Satan.


Therefore, the glory of Christ is the mercy of God, and the glory of God is His justice. Until now, since the dawn of sin in the human race, the justice of God has been held partially at bay. His only begotten, infinitely beloved Son has fulfilled His purpose to love us and take the wrath of God against sin that has been such an affront to His perfection.


And Gethsemane and Golgotha ratified the provision of the Son’s justification of sinners humbled by God’s partial wrath upon them through the merciful ministry of His beloved, faithful Son, and repentant by the mercy of God through His gracious Spirit given to them. Thus their sanctification and redemption could be effected. And this gospel would need to go to the populations and peoples to have its blessed humbling and its reconciled Spirit of blessing.


In the end, when time is up, when iniquity is come to the full and the finale of the song of Moses concludes in Deuteronomy 32:43, then the finale of the gospel preaching will take place in a grand display of the goodness of God in the third angel’s message in fourth angel power. Blinding light will make one last attempt to enter the hearts of billions, but will be resisted with almost superhuman strength. Complete and utter darkness will then preside over the deluded minds of the world, and the great extermination of truth and its promoters will begin in the forewarned greatest time of trouble as never was nor ever will be.


But, Jesus will live among the endangered specie of children who are connected to Him by faith, and He will make them more precious to His perfect Father than the golden wedge of Ophir. Many saints prior to this will have glorified God in their martyrdom, but they will not die. They sleep, but they don’t die. And as for the final company that will endure the time of Jacob’s trouble, not a hair of their head will perish. They will be alive and remain to see Jesus return in power and great glory.


That powerful glory will enter the hearts of the murderers and thieves and fornicators and liers and Sunday keepers (and worshipers of the Trinity beast), and will destroy them. In a greatest fulfillment of the third angel’s message to that time,


The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.” (Rev. 14:10,11).


And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 

That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. 

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army….

And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.” (Rev. 19:17-19,21).


But God the great Judge holds no one accountable for the light they have not been shown and the truth that they have not been convinced of. “Sin is not imputed when there is no law.” (Rom. 5:13). In a demonstration of powerful light and truth at the sight of Jesus greater than that experienced by the ignorant military leaders and masses will be experienced by all who inspired the multitudes and peoples—the satanic, blood-stained, “Mother of abominations in the earth”, Jesuit Vatican. Upon all the children of the evil one will come the guilt and condemnation of “the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.” (Matt. 23:35,36).


By piercing His beloved saints, they have pierced the Son of God who loved them and gave Himself for them. “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.” (Rev. 1:7).


And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone”, “and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” (Rev. 19:20; 20:10).


For a thousand years of interment on earth’s desolated “bottomless pit”, as in a military tribunal, Satan and his hosts will be incarcerated while awaiting their arraignment and sentencing. “Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.” (Isa. 14:20). Verily the demons will live in a dark dungeon, bound on earth with no one to tempt or deceive, to inhabit and torment.


I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 

I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. 

I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. 

For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. 

For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.” (Jer. 4:23-28).


The holy angels and the redeemed of earth will break forth in a song that no persecutor can sing.


That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 

The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 

He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.” (Isa.14:4-7).


The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.” (Isa. 24:20-22).


After the books have been examined and the thousand years are expired, the whole government of God will come to earth for sinners’ and demons’ arraignment and sentencing. Then will occur the greatest of all burning from the inside out. The second resurrection brings up all the guilty, “Gog and Magog”, tens of billions, “to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.  And they went up on the breadth of the earth,” (Rev. 20:8,9) (cursed is he who takes part in it upon who the second death will have horrific power). This is not the battle of Armageddon. That battle occurred before Christ second advent. This battle is similar, but only to prove beyond all doubt that the decisions made for the lost majority of Adam’s race were correct in their judgment of character. The angelic hosts already knew the secrets and details of the wicked. Its the redeemed of humanity that needed the millennium to have tears wiped away and the truth of their lost loved ones revealed in all its odiousness. By then they will hate sin with a perfect hatred, having overcome the beast and its image in all of its many forms and nations throughout the ages. While they fought the good fight of overcoming the indulgence of self, the wicked refused to fight self. They laughed it off in celebration after celebration. The laughed at the Law of God, God’s representative. The laughed at God to His face. This the redeemed cannot deny or accept. God was right in His destruction of the living and His desertion of the dead, at His Son’s second advent. God is good all the time. Like His only Begotten, He doeth all things well.


So, Satan sees God’s home descending from heaven to his desolated dungeon. He knows the scriptures. He jumps at one more opportunity to deceive. Massive earthquakes shake the earth and awaken the wicked. The graves open and the second resurrection takes place. Suddenly the great Deceiver has a ready made army of conscienceless thugs. The more ingenious the more wicked, but all are on his side; all are 100% loyal to his kingdom of darkness. They make the weapons they learned during their small probationary time of three-score years and ten.


Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.” (Isa. 14:9).


But, before the fires of Judgment Day fall, each soul must know its rebellion in all of its grossness, the part it played in the attempt to impeach the holy God, to pull Him from His rightful throne and try Him for treason in a kangaroo court. The King has had to allow His aggressor-competitor to reveal his platform. Despite his best efforts to show that obedience to the Law of the reigning kingdom is impossible to accomplish, the reigning Lord has encouraged obedience according to all accepted methods within the bounds of right and love. The holy and upright King of Moseses and Samuels and Davids has won the battle for His rightful kingdom, upending all that His vile aggressor king of Dathans and Hophnis and Absaloms had done imperceptibly outside the bounds of right and love. He had even deceived the holy angels until the King sent His Prince to save all who would receive Him. During the crucifixion of the precious Son the aggressor-competitor ripped the mask off his own face. At the cross he showed himself to be a monstrous dragon and a ravenous beast. He lost his cause, and the King won His back again. And all the world worked for the aggressor-enemy by their love of idolatry, rather than love to their holy Father. Satan could point to them and make the claim, “See, O great King, even the human race wants nothing to do with the Law of your kingdom.”


The redeemed often met together. They spoke to one another of their King. They thought constantly upon His ways and works. To them came the discernment that would exonerate their King, and His exaltation during the great controversy would mean their exaltation after the great controversy. To them the eternal truth was realized that only perfect obedience to God’s will could permit the kingdom of heaven to continue on for eternity future, as it had for eternity past. They came to know: “Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.” (Isa. 26:10). Allowing their loved ones into eternity would allow for another rebellion to take place, which, in their minds, would be an inconceivably disastrous mistake. So they must cast the first stone by casting their votes against their lost loved ones.


The rebel souls are mustered; anxiety runs rampantly throughout the ranks. Like a lightning storm passing directly overhead, God thunders His accusations and he or she is petrified. Regardless of each individual’s previous temporal status, power, or prestige, it matters nothing. Despite his/her morality or religious attainments in the previous life, the great God’s thunderous convictions kill all self-defense.


Naked and open before Him with whom they have to do, as it were suspended above the earth, without time or space or anything that could distract their attention upon the military arraignment by the great Judge, each little god has no higher authority to appeal for rescue and knows its complete helplessness and hopelessness. At the thunder, organs break down, nerves electrify, tissue atrophies. Yet, his/her nature, as a god of their own making, within still fends off the glory of the infinite God. God is only holy, and the arraigned god is fully unholy. God’s holiness only heightens the sinful god’s unconscious spiritual forces to fight it. The helpless convict, good or bad, never received a love of the truth and now the god nature acts to resist holiness, which the more he or she resists the more they are fighting against God. The closer God draws for a last embrace, His Spirit uniting with the fallen spirit, the more anger and hate arises in the spirit and the less that person can be subject to the love of God. The longer the resistance, the more of the fallen willpower to win the battle against the high and mighty Tyrant. The fallen soul perfectly imitates the Wicked one. And fallen nature’s resistance creates a spiritual conflagration within, burning from the inside out.


As it lastly will be with Satan, so with each of his children, God’s last attempt to embrace His lost sons and daughters brings “forth a fire from the midst of [them], it shall devour [them], and I will bring [them] to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold [them].” (Eze. 28:18).


He or she is slain in the spirit by the plasma of God’s loving-kindness and tender mercies. Afterward, His lightning glory consumes that body, nevermore for that wicked soul to exist. All of each battle took only minutes to unfold. Minute after minute divine thunder pounds and shortly afterward divine lightning flashes. Some individuals require more than a minute for arraignment. The leaders require many minutes. Demons require many days. And the ringleader himself


Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.


And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 

And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 

And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. 

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 

And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. 

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.” (Isa. 24:22-27).


He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe... in that day.(2Thess. 1:10).