Showing posts with label book of life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book of life. Show all posts

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Angels and Demons Part 6

Greetings,

                This week we are going to pick up where we left off and explore the issue of hybrid creatures. First of all, does the Bible speak of hybrid creatures? Did things like Centaurs and Nagas exist? Could they exist today? Let’s begin our conversation around the satyr. A satyr according to mythology was a human/goat hybrid. Does the Bible acknowledge their existence? Absolutely!

                “But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.” (Isaiah 13:21)

                The most common rebuttal I get when I point this verse out to skeptics is that their version of the Bible translates this word as shaggy goat. Could it be that the translators of the King James Version were just being sloppy?

                “But desert creatures will lie down there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there.” (Isaiah 13:21 NASB)

Let’s take a closer look shall we? The Hebrew word translated satyr in Isaiah 13:21 is the word sa’iyr. According to definition given by Strong’s Concordance this word can mean a devil, a goat, a kid, hairy, rough, or satyr. So how do we distinguish what meaning is actually being implied here? To answer this question we will look at two seemingly unrelated scriptures.

“And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.” (Leviticus 17:7)

“And he [Rehoboam, son of Solomon] ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.” (2 Chronicles 11:15)

So what do these verses have to do with our topic? Everything! Notice that I have bolded the word “devils” in both passages. The Hebrew word translated devils in these passages is—you guessed it—sa’yir! Trying to argue that sacrifices were being made to “shaggy goats” is about as ridiculous as pouring coffee into a coke bottle and arguing that the drink is actually coke. The context and interpretation is obviously speaking to more than an animal that produces milk and cheese. God literally rebuked the Israelites for making sacrifices to satyrs after He delivered them from Egypt. The Israelites actually whored themselves after these creatures. Moreover, Rehoboam moved to reinstitute this type of sacrifice and worship. The hybrids were real because the Bible says so—plain and simple.

Moreover, we must understand that the Bible reveals to us that these hybrids were inherently evil. It straightforwardly associates these creatures with a demonic nature in the original language and word use. This is our biblical premise for moving further into this study. The Bible supports the concept of hybrids, and it helps us to understand that when they occur, their nature is demonic. It can be deduced by simple logic that like nephilim, when hybrid creatures die, their spirits also join the spirit realm as demons. They are not treated like human spirits, and they are certainly not angels.

It is true that the Bible does not make reference to every mythological creature referenced by various mythologies. However, by simply understanding that the Bible speaks about the existence of hybrids, it makes room for the possibility that any and all of the so-called mythological creatures of other cultures may have existed at one time. This leaves us at a veritable Pandora’s Box. How do hybrid creatures come about and what is the agenda behind their creation?

In the book of Revelation we find that during the fifth trumpet judgment, bizarre creatures are being loosed from a place called the pit. I hinted at this earlier this year but the pit actually resides in another dimension. It’s is not something you will encounter while driving to your local grocery store. The king over this place is a fallen angel named Abaddon. It is from this passage that we can begin to gain a better understanding regarding hybrid creatures.

“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power…And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. (Revelation 9:1-3, 7-11)

When we go into the original language it is confirmed that the entire description of these creatures is anatomical. Even the breastplates that this passage describes are an anatomical feature of these abominations. They are very much physical in nature and they are described as part human, part horse, part scorpion, and part lion with something else mixed in there to cause them to grow wings. What do you call a living organism that appears like this? It is a hybrid. When we take into account that their king is a fallen angel we also glean that the agenda to create hybrid creatures is something that originates with fallen angels. This allows fallen angels to expand the army of darkness. When hybrid creatures die, their spirits are then subjugated and still used to further the satanic agenda.

Although these particular hybrids of Revelation 9 are specifically reserved for release at the fifth trumpet, the agenda for hybrids has never been limited to the last days. Hybrids clearly existed in the Old Testament and with thousands of years to refine their technologies, what do you think Satan and his minions are up to today? They are tinkering with all kinds of possibilities in order to create their own army. Why don’t we see them today? Much of the work being done to this end has taken place in the heavenly places (or other dimensions) where fallen angels are located. Some things do seem to take place on earth, usually as part of black projects in underground bases, but to this end I will leave you to do your own research.

In any case, this is why the Bible discusses a population in the last days that was never written into the book of life. When we understand how the book of life works, our conclusion can only be that this is a non-human population.

It is not just angels working on this kind of thing, but humans are involved now as well. Just this past summer a news article was released reporting that 150 human animal hybrids were grown in UK labs. As a matter of fact, one woman actually testifies to being used as a ‘psychic’ in order to astral project into the bodies of hybrid creatures (being grown in underground bases as part of black projects) and assess their thoughts and feelings (note that she is not Christian if you choose to listen to her story).

The conclusion of the matter is that all of these problems are our responsibility as God’s people in the earth. We will be confronted with all of these forms of evil, and we will be called to continue to establish the victory of Jesus Christ in spite of them. The only reason any of this would scare a Christian is if that person’s view of God is too small. If you’re scared, it’s time to change your perspective on just how powerful God is. Not only does God have solutions to all of these problems, He has chosen you to be a part of the army that He will use to confront them. Even if you don’t want to, it is my assessment that the day will come when you won’t have a choice. You will fall away, stand for Jesus, or hide behind someone that thinks like me. When everything I have discussed over the past several weeks has manifested, the eschatological season for the following verse will have been established. I will stand firm and do great exploits for God. What about you?

“And such as violate the covenant he shall pervert and seduce with flatteries, but the people who know their God shall prove themselves strong and shall stand firm and do exploits [for God].” (Daniel 11:32 AMP)

Saturday, November 5, 2011

The Book of Life

11/5/11
Greetings,
                After ten months of teaching on the purpose of unity in the body of Christ, my prayer is that the importance of this message is coming alive in you. My passion for unity does not only stem from the fact that it is beneficial. It also comes because I understand that it will be absolutely necessary. The fact of the matter is that very difficult times are coming. Not just economically difficult times, but times during which things will happen that will bend the imagination. In order to stand until the end, unity will not be an option, it will be a requirement.

                One of the most difficult things for me to explain to people is that right now Satan is in the process of building an army. “Sure,” one might say, “he’s building an army of evil and corrupt people like he’s always done.” This is not the end of the matter.

                Satan wants to build an army of subservient slaves that will conform to his every whim and comprise not only his end-time army, but his entire last day empire. Satan has it in mind to make humanity obsolete by introducing society to a new class of beings. These beings will have no choice but to bow the knee to Satan and submit to his beast (antichrist). They will not be human, but they will have intelligence and consciousness nonetheless. Sound like science fiction?

                In order to properly understand this clear prophecy of Scripture we will begin with a passage from the book of Revelation:


“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him (the beast/antichrist), whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” (Revelation 13:8)


In the last days the beast will receive power, a throne and great authority from Satan (Revelation 13:2). As a result he will be worshipped as a god. Here is the interesting part. It is written that all will worship him whose names are not written in the book of life. This may not seem like anything important at first glance. Why should it? Isn’t it simply pointing out that anyone who doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ will worship the beast?
We must understand how the book of life works in order to truly understand the ramifications of this passage. It is difficult for people to comprehend that Satan is currently in the process of engineering the population described in this passage. However, without telling you how he is doing it (because of limited space), I will concern myself with proving to you why this passage speaks of that activity.

According to the Bible we learn that God knows us before we are formed in our mother’s womb (Jeremiah 1:5). This is because God forms our soul and spirit in the lowest parts of the earth before joining it to our body in our mother’s womb. The Bible clearly explains this in the following passage. It is from this same passage that we learn that the creation and conception of every human born is recorded in God’s book, along with all the days of our lives. This is the book of Life.

“I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if embroidered with various colors] in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery]. Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them.” (Psalm 139:14-16 AMP, brackets in original)


                It is absolutely essential that we understand that every person born is initially written into the Lamb’s book of life. This is why it is not the will of God that any should perish but that all should come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). With that said, a word study on the book of life will reveal three populations.

1.       Those that are written into the book of life (Philippians 4:3, Revelation 3:5, 21:27)
2.       Those that are blotted out of the book of life (Exodus 32:33, Psalm 69:28, Revelation 22:19)
3.       Those that are never written into the book of life (Revelation 13:8, 17:8)

In the Bible there is not a single passage that makes mention of names being un-blotted in the book of life. This means that the only time a name gets blotted out of the book of life is when there remains no ability for a person to receive the salvation of Jesus Christ. For most, this point will come at death. Until we die, there is provision for our salvation and this is upheld by the presence of our name in the book of life.

Now we will address the group that is never written into the book of life. As we discussed, if a person is human they are formed by God and knit to their body in the womb. At this time they are written into the book of life. The only way a person won’t be written into the book of life is if they are not human. If someone is never written into this book there is no provision for their salvation.

The population that is never written into the book of life will have no provision for salvation because they will not be human. This is the only way they can fulfill the requirement of “never” being written into the book of life. This makes reference to a new class of beings that will be released into the earth specifically to comprise large portions of the antichrist’s kingdom. This makes sense when we realize that this population only shows up during the antichrist’s rule (Revelation 13:8, 17:8). All of those not qualified as “human” will worship the beast. This is the emphasis of Revelation 13:8. Satan is in the process of creating the population of non-human entities that fit this bill because prophecy must be fulfilled.

This is a major reason why the Bible says that as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man (Matthew 24:37). The days of Noah were characterized by the sin and lawlessness that resulted when the world was introduced to a new population. This population was half-human and half-angel. They were called the Nephilim.


“When people had spread all over the world, and daughters were being born, some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked. Then the Lord said, I will not allow people to live forever; they are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than 120 years. In those days, and even later, there were giants [nephilim] on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.” (Genesis 6:1-4 GNT)


How will a divided, scattered, weak church deal with the reality of these types of circumstances? Yet in spite of these things the Bible says that the people that know their God shall be strong and do exploits (Daniel 11:32)! In order to stand against such remarkable circumstances unity will not be an option. It is imperative that we begin to work towards the destiny God has appointed for His people now.


Discussion

1.       Is the need for unity in the body of Christ becoming real to you?
2.       What are the three categories formed by the book of life?
3.       What is the emphasis of Revelation 13:8?
4.       What happened in the days of Noah?
5.       Considering what the Bible tells us will come, can unity remain optional?