Adaptation not Evolution

I did not mean to write a blog post on this topic, but as I was driving to work the other day I started thinking about evolution and what would happen if archaeologists in the future looked at our remains and tried to figure out what they find. First, I do not believe in evolution.

There is actually no real proof of evolution. If evolution was really true there would be some fossil evidence of the stages between two evolutionary points and there is no such evidence, the truth is that science is still looking for this evidence and they call it “the missing link”. My opinion is that what scientists claim is evolution is actually adaptation and gene pool selection amongst a closed group. I think that evolution was a guess based on the archeological finds. Let’s see how that can go wrong…

There are three archeologists thousands of years from today:

Archeologist 1- digs in an area that used to be a cemetery, natural events have dispersed the bodies but in one area of this past cemetery the conditions kept the remains safe. The archeologist digs up Peter Dinklage, the little person from Game of Thrones. Now based on these findings, the archeologist claims that people who lived in this area were small.

Archeologist 2- digs in another former cemetery with the same natural dispersion and finds the remains of Shaquille O’Neil. Based on these findings the archeologist claims that the people who lived in this area were giants or very large.

Archeologist 3- Also digs in a former cemetery at Arlington and finds many remains of former soldiers. After hearing about the finds of Archeologist 1 and 2, Archeologist 3 makes a mental leap and says that the remains he has found are the hybrid evolution of the small people and the giants.

 

Now we know that is not true. The Arlington man is an average human, Peter Dinklage and Shaq are also human but on the outside spectrums in height. But it is easy to see how archeologists can come up with these scenarios based on limited evidence.

 

We know that archeologists around the world have dug up many skeletons and have come up with hypotheses about who these people were and their relationship to Homo sapiens. Based on the illustration about the three archeologists let’s take a look at the finds.

Archeologists have found several skeletons that they have classified as different species of man. From Homo erectus, Homo habilis and even Homo neanderthalensis. Most of the finds are located in a specific area, the only species that is worldwide is Home Sapiens. So imagine living in the time after the flood, the world is huge and as families started to grow they spread out and even traveled some distances away from their origin. Now a small group of people who live far from others are going to inbreed, and this will eventually cause mutations as the same gene pool is combining. After a while these people are going to look very different from other people. Think of breeding dogs, you have a Chihuahua and a German Shepherd, both very different but they come from the same original gene pool. If you breed Chihuahuas with Chihuahuas you will get more Chihuahuas, you will never get a German Shepherd.  In this same way, remote groups of people in a closed group that will be breeding among themselves will develop traits that are only going to be found among that group.  Now if an archeologist digs up the remains of this area they are going to find similar remains. These are not a separate species, this is because a closed group only bred among themselves.

Beware the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Not everyone that preaches the gospel is telling you the entire truth. In the Bible we are warned of false prophets and false teachers that are wolves in sheep’s clothing.

¹⁵ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7:15

These people are pretending to be Bible preachers and teachers but in reality they are teaching lies.  Many people believe the lies that they hear…why? The reason is that these false preachers do teach some truth, and when you listen to them you recognize the truth that they are teaching and you believe that they are true preachers. This is where the deception comes in, since they preached something true that you recognized as truth, when they preach something that is not true you are conditioned to believe that it must be true. You may not recognize this untruth that they are teaching you but since they have taught you something that you knew to be true already you may assume that what they are teaching is a verse that you are not as familiar with. Before long this “lie” will become truth to you. It is not hard to deceive people, all you need to do is make sure that 90% of what you teach is true and then slip the lies in the other 10%. Most people will easily believe the lies because of the trust that has been built with the actual true 90%.

How can you tell which teachers are false? Well the first thing that you need to do is make sure that you are reading your Bible and are familiar with it. This way, when you hear someone teach something you will be able to tell whether it is true or not. If you are not familiar with a teaching the best thing to do is to go to your Bible and look it up for yourself. Now, just because a preacher makes a mistake, it does not mean that they are false. They are human and they do make mistakes, but this would be a sign for me to keep a closer ear on what they are teaching. You may also want to speak to your preacher and confront them in love on the mistake they made. If someone is a true Christian, they will be happy to discuss any mistakes that they have made and are willing to be corrected. A false preacher will not answer you and will not allow you to correct him.

It is not only preachers that may be false prophets, there is an entire YouTube community of “truthers” that use their channels to point out ways that society is trying to pull you away from God. Many of these channels are very good and helpful in opening your eyes to what is going on around you. But, in a similar way, you need to be careful about what they teach and what they say. Make sure that you take it to the Bible and let it prove the truth of what they are saying. There is one channel in particular that I used to listen to, much of what he said was true, but there were items that I disagreed with biblically. This person claimed that he was a new Christian so was still learning and welcomed correction and conversation. I found out that this was a lie. This person discussed something specific that I knew to be false, I remembered him saying that he welcomed correction and conversation, so I sent him a message and corrected what he had taught with Bible verses to back up my truth. He never responded to my message and as time has gone on, I have heard the same thing from others as well. Then I noticed other Youtubers started distancing themselves from this person and even speaking out against him. I stopped watching this persons videos, but recently I saw a few videos uploaded by this person explaining away some trouble they had gotten into; drinking and partying and being arrested for drug possession. Then this verse came to mind:

¹⁶ You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ²⁰ Therefore by their fruits you will know them. Matthew 7:16-20

From what I am seeing, this person has no good fruit. For all their claims of being a changed person and for someone that has made all these YouTube channels about living a godly life this person really fell fast. If it had been just one mistake, it would be ok. You could chalk it up to being human, everyone makes mistakes, but this person has been doing these things over and over and then asking forgiveness. The truth is the fruit is bad. So when you take everything and put it together the only thing that I can see is that this person is a false teacher that tried to fool many people, but now his true colors are coming out.

• Teaches things that are untrue
• Does not allow correction
• Continues to do things that he did before becoming a Christian
• Being a hypocrite and talking about how he no longer does the things he used to and then being caught doing them
• Having other people that know him well come forth and telling the truth about him

 

Keep in mind that we are close to the end times that Jesus spoke about. Things are only going to get worse and there are more and more false teachers out there trying to fool the masses. Be very careful what you believe, always take it back to the Bible and make sure that it is correct.

¹¹ And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

¹² And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

¹³ But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. Matthew 24:11-14

 

We are seeing more and more false teachers arise and preach a false gospel. They preach what itching ears want to hear, not the truth of the Bible.

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3

Just look at how many people follow false preachers like Joel Osteen, he preaches all about what you can get from God, a prosperity Bible. Osteen would be fine if he was a motivational speaker, but since he claims to be a pastor he is responsible for the people that follow him. There is very little that is biblical that is even preached by Osteen, when he was on the Larry King show he basically denied what the Bible teaches.

⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6

Jesus was pretty clear in this verse, yet when Larry King starts asking Osteen about other religions he would not take a stand on a verse that he says he believes. Osteen will not take a stand on anything that could offend anyone. He avoided every topic that could be controversial. He does not know the Bible and actually gets what little he preaches from it wrong many times. He is not even a real pastor, he never went to seminary, he was just ordained a pastor, and he actually dropped out of college after one semester. His wife made a statement that we do not obey God for God, we do it for ourselves; God is happy when we are happy. When you come to church to worship God, you are not doing it for God; you are doing it for yourself. She is a heretic and a false teacher. The Osteen’s have turned their church into a New Age worship center, they do not teach the Bible, they teach their own twisted version of a bible where God will give you things to make you happy. How many people are the Osteen’s leading to hell with their false gospel? I will be praying that these people open their eyes and see the truth.

Yoga…Just Exercise?

Everywhere you look today, yoga seems to be the exercise of choice. Stores sell yoga clothing and mats and other items for doing yoga; there are books and DVD’s and even schools and classes to teach yoga. TV shows and celebrities talk about doing yoga, it seems to be the “in” thing to do. Experts talk about the health benefits of doing yoga and even churches have yoga programs. Yoga seems harmless…some stretching, maybe some strange poses…but it is supposed to help you to relax…to clear your mind.

What is yoga? It is a physical, mental and spiritual practice or discipline that originated in India. The goal of yoga is liberation, the rising of and expansion of consciousness.The ultimate goal of yoga is moksha; this is the liberation from worldly suffering and samsara (reincarnation cycle) and to an enlightened relationship with a creator.

So yoga combines the physical movements with the attainment of enlightenment. How are they accomplishing this with their movements? Most of the movements, called asanas, are designed to be positions of worship to Hindu gods. Yoga also incorporates pranayama breathing, this attempts to manipulate the life energy, and of course the concept of emptying the mind which guides people into astral travel.

Now the question is, should a Christian do yoga? I think the answer is clearly no. First the movements are forms of worship to other gods, do not lie to yourself and say that you are only doing it for the exercise; you can’t separate the two.

²¹ Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. 1 John 5:21

Second is the breathing that tries to manipulate your life energy, as a Christian, we are under the blood of Jesus, why would you move away from that protection.

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, ² in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. Ephesians 2:2

Third is the emptying of the mind, now that one is obvious, when your mind is empty it is open to any demon to enter; we may not be possessed because of the Holy Spirit but they may be able to oppress us.

² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2

So can you be a Christian and do yoga? the answer is no, as a former yoga teacher, Laurette Willis says no. Her question is, would you call yourself a Christian Hindu or a Christian Buddhist? Even Hindus agree that you can’t separate the spiritual meaning of yoga from Hinduism.

Why is yoga so popular when it is really about worshiping Hindu gods? What better way for Satan to get you to do something that will damage your relationship with God than by convincing you that yoga is only exercise. So for those of you that are Christians and practicing yoga…stop! And I use the word practicing for a specific reason, whether you intend to or not you are practicing Hinduism by performing the yoga movements.

The Sins of the Father…

Have you ever read a verse in the Bible and you think you understand it, but then at a later date you gain some wisdom and insight into that verse? I have had that happen to me today.

⁷ Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.Exodus 34:7

¹⁸ The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.  Numbers14:18

I believe this passing on of guilt from a father to his children through the generations is not blaming the children for the father’s sin, or punishing them because the father sinned. I believe this may be because of the corruption of the DNA. If a man has sex with a person that he should not, especially in that time period when God warned the Israelites not to intermingle with the other people, his sin of having sex with a woman with corrupt DNA will pass that DNA on to their children. Thus the father’s sin is passed down through the generations.

This did change in Jesus time and because we have access to the cleansing blood of Jesus we can be saved from the corruption. Jesus blood will “cover” the corruption in our blood, kind of like when you get a computer virus and you quarantine it from the rest of your computer. It can no longer affect your computer.

¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

⁵ Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Titus 3:5

Satan’s Attempt to Corrupt Man’s DNA

Satan wants to corrupt God’s creation, not just morally, that is easy to do. He wants to corrupt God’s creation physically. We are all created in God’s image

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  Genesis 1:27

Satan hates this and he and his followers, the fallen angels (demons) have tried to do everything to change this. Before the great flood the fallen angels slept with human women to corrupt their bloodline. This was the beginning of the nephilim.

That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.  Genesis 6:2

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.  Genesis 6:4

The fallen angels and nephilim not only slept with humans but with other species, corrupting the whole earth. God saw the corruption and knew that the only way to get rid of it was to destroy the earth and everything on it.

And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.  Genesis 6:7

Even after the flood there were nephilim as we can see from the occurrences in the Bible when they speak of giants in the land. For instance, when the spies were sent into the land to find out about it most of them returned with stories of giants and how impossible it would be for them to defeat them.

³¹ But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” ³² And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³ There we saw the giants^[d] (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”  Numbers 13:31-33

⁴ And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.  1 Samuel 17:4

Depending on which definition of a cubit that you use, Goliath was between 7-11 feet tall. Goliath also had brothers that were near in height to him. King Og of Bashan was also said to be from the race of giants. His bed measured over 13 feet long and 6 feet wide.

¹¹ For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.  Deuteronomy 3:11

These giants had settled in the land that God promised the Israelites. God ordered the Israelites to destroy all the people in the land. This was not cruelty on God’s part, it was to destroy the remnants of the nephilim before they could corrupt the Israelites bloodline.

Why would Satan want to corrupt God’s creation? After Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, God pronounced judgment on the snake (Satan) and the woman’s seed (which is Jesus). Why is the woman’s seed Jesus? When a woman conceives a child it is because a man has fertilized the woman’s seed so the child is considered the child of both the man and the woman. Jesus was conceived by God on a woman, there was no man needed and therefore the child was the seed of the woman.

¹⁴ And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.  Genesis 3:14-15

Satan is trying to do whatever he can to ruin God’s plan. He tried to corrupt our human DNA so that instead of being in God’s image we would become the seed of Satan. This was in hopes of destroying the prophecy that the woman’s seed would cause Satan to lose the battle.

There is much more information in the Book of Enoch. Enoch was the great-grandfather of Noah. There is a lot of debate on whether the Book of Enoch was inspired or just a historical writing. Jesus and the disciples referred to Enoch’s writings in over 100 passages of the New Testament and the early church used the writings to study from.

In fact the nephilim were doing such a good job of breeding with humans and creating more nephilim that human DNA was almost completely destroyed. Not only did nephilim breed with humans but according to the book of Jasher, mentioned in 2 Samuel, they bred humans with animals and crossed animal species. This may be why we have mythology about mermaids, centaurs and other half-human species and these may be the gods that were worshiped by the Egyptians. The nephilim were evil creatures that participated in cannibalism and murder. They were violent creatures that delighted in chaos.

When God saw the wickedness on the earth and He saw the plan that Satan had to wipe out humanity, God had no choice but to wipe everything and everyone out with the flood. The corruption that is mentioned in the Bible is the corruption of DNA.

¹¹ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

¹² And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.  Genesis 6:11-12

The Bible says that there were giants in those days and after, this could be because on of Noah’s son’s wives had some nephilim DNA.  Considering how far the corruption had spread over the earth it is possible that one of the women had some nephilim DNA in them which would be spread once more over the earth through her offspring. It is thought that it may be Ham’s wife who had the corrupted DNA since the races of giants seem to come from Ham’s line.

⁶ And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

⁷ And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

⁸ And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

¹¹ Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

¹² And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

¹³ And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

¹⁴ And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

¹⁵ And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,

¹⁶ And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

¹⁷ And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

¹⁸ And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.  Genesis 10:6-20

Satan has not given up on his plan to corrupt our DNA. It may be that there are people who have some corrupted DNA from this line. This may be why most people sin so freely and murder without care. Serial killers could be those people who have a higher than normal genetic map to the nephilim.

If there are people with corrupt DNA and God destroyed all life at the flood because of the corruption, how can we be saved? God knew the plan of Satan and He knew that the corruption would return, which is why he told the Israelites to destroy the people who carried the corruption in their genes. All the giants that we hear about in the Bible were destroyed by the Israelites. It could be that the main thread of DNA corruption was destroyed but some genes were still passed on throughout the ages. The corrupt DNA is not as strong or dominant as it was before the flood but I believe that the genes may be recessive. I believe that God may have sent Jesus to die so that we may be cleansed, not only from sin but from corruption.

⁸ He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8

² 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:

³ 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.

⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

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

When we accept Jesus gift of eternal life we are made pure, the corruption is removed, just as sin is gone. It is also believed that the Antichrist will come from this corrupt line of DNA, basically he will be Satan’s seed that will stand against Jesus, the seed of the woman. 

Satan has not given up on corrupting the bloodline. His first plan was defeated when God sent the flood. Jesus was born of a pure bloodline which was in line with the prophecy of Satan’s destruction. Satan is determined to win the war against Jesus, but he will ultimately lose. He will not give up without a fight and he wants to take as many people as he can with him.

To understand the methods that Satan is using to pull man away from following God and turning man to follow Satan, you need to look at things from Satan’s point of view. What is the best way to corrupt people and to start them on the path of questioning God and following their own paths? Start when they are children. See my post on Idol Worship for more on that. The next step is electronics, there is a huge push for people to get “chipped” now. This would mean getting a microchip implanted in your body. For me, this is too close to the mark of the beast spoken of in Revelation.

¹⁶ And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

¹⁷ And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

¹⁸ Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.  Revelation 13:16-18

Do I know for sure that a microchip will be the Mark of the Beast? No, but I do not want any microchips in my skin. Since the verse does specify “in their right hand, or in their foreheads” it does make sense that it will be something implantable, like a microchip. Anyone that has the Mark of the Beast is doomed to death, there is no changing your mind once you have received it. In ancient times when a servant chooses to serve his master even after his time is up, he is branded.

4“If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.5“But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,’ 6then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.…  Exodus 21:4-6

Once a slave bears that mark, they are forever a slave. The mark is a mark of ownership, just as when you choose to take the Mark of the Beast, you are giving ownership of yourself to Satan.

What other ways is Satan trying to get you to follow him? The movies and TV are promoting all kinds of Superheroes. When you see all the amazing things they can do you wish you had those kind of powers too. Now what if there was some kind of                   bio-mechanics that you could have added to your body, similar to plastic surgery except instead of changing your features you would be adding mechanical features to yourself. You could be just like a superhero, part human and part machine…..do you get it….you would no longer be fully human. You would now be a corrupted being. This is only an example of the many ways that Satan is working on to corrupt humanity both morally and physically. In the Bible, Jesus tells his disciples that when he returns the earth will be as corrupt as it was before the flood.

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.  Matthew 24:37

Be wary of the schemes of Satan, he is crafty and is always looking for a subtle way to corrupt you.

What Idols are You Worshiping?

We know that there are many false religions and cults in the world. Worshiping anyone or anything other than God is idolatry. Today we see so many people who worship false gods, whether it is a celebrity or a sports team, or anything that takes the place of God in your life.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 2 Timothy 4:3

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 1 Timothy 4:1-2

Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Romans 1:22-23

Today I want to speak about celebrity worship. Many people are so in love with celebrities that they will follow along and blindly do whatever the celebrity does. Look at Miley Cyrus, she was a Disney girl who was looked up to by an entire generation of little girls who loved Hannah Montana, her character on the show. At first she seemed like a wholesome young girl who made a good role model for young girls to look up to. Parents did not worry about their little girls trying to be like Miley. Then Miley got older and you started seeing her posting pictures of herself wearing panties and very little else. Then there was a huge change in Miley, she threw off the good girl image that she had while she was Hannah Montana and became a “bad girl”. As anyone that has seen the 2013 MTV video music awards where Miley twerked against Robin Thicke while she was wearing barely anything, she is no longer the good role model that she was in her youth. In an interview with W Magazine she claimed that she loved “smoking weed” and loved being stoned. Now do you think that once she changed from her innocent Disney girl to the “bad girl” that her fans left her? The unfortunate answer is no. Her many fans still support her and follow in her footsteps, they want to be just like her. So we see that Miley has corrupted an entire generation of little girls that have loved her since they were young. This process is not just limited to Miley, it happens to all the good little Disney kids. They all start out young and innocent and parents allow their children to watch them because they are good role models, then when they get older they change and all the children that have followed them since their youth now follow them into their “bad boy/bad girl” lives.

Musicians have always been a popular choice for worship. All you need to do is look at any teenagers wall to see all the band posters and pictures and articles about their favorite bands and musicians. I remember having my walls covered with pictures that I tore out of the teen magazines when I was young. The problem comes when you step over the line from liking a band or musician to worshiping them. It does not help when the band/musician asks for and expects the worship. Look at Kanye West and Jay-Z, they have stepped over the line of entertainer and think that they are gods. Kanye admits that he sold his soul to the devil in one of his songs, and insists on being called Yeezus. He is elevating himself to the level of Jesus and thinks that he is worthy of being worshiped. Jay-Z has done the same, he calls himself Jay-hova, he also thinks that he is a god and deserves to be worshiped. These men, and they are just men no matter what they think, are satanic tools who think they are gods. One day they will stand before God and fall down on their knees and worship the one and only GOD.

¹⁰ You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister^[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. ¹¹ It is written:

“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
    every tongue will acknowledge God.’”  Romans 14:10-11

Now this last instance that I will bring up is the creepiest to me. A group of people in Georgia have founded a church based on worshiping Beyonce, it is called the Church of Bey and they even have a “Beyble”.  They think that she is a goddess that walks among us that was sent to spread love, peace and joy. They do not think that she is the Creator, but that she sits among the throne of Gods. They have received many donations and are trying to build a Temple to honor Beyonce and want her to come speak to their congregation.  Beyonce has not made any comments about this but other small congregations have started cropping up in other states, Canada and the UK.  They even have a little flyer that asks if you have accepted Beyonce as your lord and savior! This is a throwback to mother goddess worship from the past, and similar to the building of temples for different gods and goddesses in Ancient Greece and Rome.  This is a flesh and blood woman, why would any person think that she is worthy to be worshiped. This is what our society has come down to, open idol worship.

I am praying for this country and for those that have been deceived by these false idols.

Prophecy of the Popes

First off, let me say that I am not Catholic and believe many of the practices of the Catholic Church are heretical. I just found these prophecies to be interesting.

St. Malachy, a 12th century Irish monk received a vision while he was in Rome. The vision was about all the Popes that were to come up until the last Pope. Each succeeding Pope was described in a one sentence phrase describing them. He prophesied that there would be 112 more Popes from the time that he received the vision in 1139.

Amazingly, the prophesies have all come true, even when the conclave, knowing the prophecy for the coming Pope tried to make an effort to choose someone who it would not apply to. I will list a few of the Popes that fulfilled Malachy’s prophecy, you can research the rest if you are interested in learning more.

To thwart these prophecies, during the election of the 111th Pope, they specifically chose someone who could not meet the prophecy. The prophecy stated that he would be the ‘Glory of the Olive’. Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI was elected Pope, there seemed to be nothing about him that would meet the prophecy, but the name he chose, Benedict after Benedict of Nursia, who was the founder of the Benedictine Order. In the Benedictine Order, the Olivetans are one of the branches, so they did not get around that prophecy after all.

There is a line between the Glory of the Olive and the final Pope, there is debate whether the line may mean there will be other Popes between this one and the last or whether it is all part of the last Pope’s description. The line says ‘In the final Persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit.’  Then the final prophecy is listed, ‘Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations, and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge will judge his people. The End.’  Now the current Pope is called Pope Francis, neither his birth name nor his chosen name is in any way related to Peter, but many say that each Pope is the Peter. Many say that he is not Roman since he was born in Argentina, but his family is originally Italian, so if you twist the prophecy you can make a case for Pope Francis fitting the prophecy.

I have seen a lot of people saying that the Pope is the Antichrist or the False Prophet, I don’t think that he is, but he definitely has been speaking heresy and has been furthering the One World Religion goals. From the things that he has said, it makes me wonder if he ever read the Bible. The Pope declared that atheists will go to heaven, the Bible clearly states that believing in Jesus is the ONLY way to heaven.

⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.  John 14:6

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. John 3:36

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.  Matthew 10:32-33

The Pope also proclaimed that fish to man evolution is an acceptable teaching and that God is not powerful enough to create the earth in a literal seven days. BLASPHEMY!

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  Genesis 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  John 1:1-3

He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. Psalm 147-4-5

During a mass the Pope said that Jesus is not in the spirit and that he is just a man who prays for us.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,  Hebrews 1:3

Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”  Matthew 26:64

Where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.  Hebrews 6:20

This  Pope also proclaimed that it is dangerous for anyone to have a personal relationship with Jesus. Now I don’t know about you, but my Jesus came to earth and was crucified for my sins so that I could have a personal relationship with him. The Pope does not want anyone to have a personal relationship because then they will realize that they do not need him to intercede for them. Christ is our intercessor! We are to go directly to him for everything.

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,  Hebrews 3:1

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 1 Timothy 2:5

“Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. “For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.” Matthew 18:19-20

So not only is this Pope denying the divinity of Jesus, he is twisting the Bible and going against its teachings. This man may not be the Antichrist or the False Prophet of Revelation, but he is certainly an antichrist! For those that are Catholic, take a look at what the Bible really says, stop following this man, and yes, he is only a man who is evil and making up his own doctrine that does not agree with what the Bible teaches. I will be praying that your eyes are opened and that you come out of that false religion.

Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?

Haven’t you all heard people ask this question? Many people say that they don’t want to believe in a God that lets such bad things happen. When a disaster happens or a loved one dies, when people see horrible things happening on the news they always say that a loving God would never let things like that happen. The truth is that God is a loving God and He is not the cause of all the bad things that happen on the earth.

How can this be? Isn’t God supposed to be all powerful? Yes, He is, but there is a reason that He lets bad things happen and does not step in and stop them. When God created the earth it was perfect, there was no sin in it, then He created man. Man was sinless and lived in a perfect earth until Satan, as the serpent manipulated man to eat of the forbidden fruit. When God first created Adam He gave him dominion over the world and all that was in it.

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

²⁷ So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

²⁸ God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number;fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

²⁹ Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ³⁰ And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.  Genesis 1:26-29

When man disobeyed God and ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil dominion passed from man to Satan. By bringing sin into the world man gave his dominion to Satan. How do we know that Satan has dominion? When Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness before the beginning of his ministry, Satan offered Jesus the kingdoms of the world if Jesus would bow down and worship him. If Satan did not have dominion over the world, he would not have been able to make that offer to Jesus and Jesus would have told Satan that he did not have the authority to offer it. Since Jesus did not correct Satan we can see that Satan did have the right to offer what he has dominion over.

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted^[a] by the devil. ² After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. ³ The temptercame to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

⁴ Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’^[b]”

⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. ⁶ “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:

“‘He will command his angels concerning you,
    and they will lift you up in their hands,
    so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’^[c]”

⁷ Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’^[d]”

⁸ Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. ⁹ “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

¹⁰ Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’^[e]”

¹¹ Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.  Matthew 4:1-11

Jesus was sent to the earth to rescue us from sin. The only way for man to have atonement for sin was by the shedding of blood. In the Old Testament of the Bible there was a system of animal sacrifice set up for atonement. Sacrifices had to be given at prescribed times and the priests would intercede with God for your forgiveness by the shedding of the animal blood. This had to be done continually since an animal’s blood could never give you permanent forgiveness. That is why God sent Jesus to die for man’s sins, only by the blood of God in the flesh could our sins be permanently forgiven. Some people wonder why Jesus came as a baby and did not just come down as God in the flesh, God needed the world to see that it was possible to live a sinless life. It is also easier to live a life following God when you have an example to follow. Jesus grew up and lived a life just like we all do, we just need to walk in his footsteps.

The world we live in is a sinful world. Sickness, disasters, evil deeds and people, these are all possible because Satan has dominion of this world. So the answer is that God does not let bad things happen, they happen because of the evil that is in the world. After the rapture God will once more make His presence known in the world, during the Tribulation period God will rain down judgments on the world like in the Old Testament. These judgments are being sent down for a purpose, they are a final call to the Jewish people to remind them of who God is and to draw them back to Him. No one on the earth will be an atheist during this time, it will be too obvious that God is sending judgments down on the earth.

Don’t use the excuse that a loving God would not let bad things happen. God is a just God and He loved us all so much that He sent His son to die so that we could live. He is not responsible for the sickness and all the bad things that happen on the earth. Trust Jesus for your salvation, He loves you so much that He died for you.

The Harbingers

Harbinger: anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign (dictionary.com)

“The bricks have fallen down,
But we will rebuild with hewn stones;
The sycamores are cut down,
But we will replace them with cedars.”

Isaiah 9:10

 

Looking back on biblical history we can see the effect disobedience had to the Israelites. In Deuteronomy 28 God tells Israel that if they obey the commands that He has given to them, God will bless them. 

⁹ The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. ¹⁰ Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. ¹¹ The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.                Deuteronomy 28:9-11

If the Israelites turned away from God and disobeyed His commands they would be cursed. 

⁵⁸ If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— ⁵⁹ the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. ⁶⁰ He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. ⁶¹ The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. ⁶² You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. ⁶³ Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.                      Deuteronomy 28:58-63

God had infinite patience with Israel and gave them many chances to turn back from their disobedience and follow Him. Israel ignored the prophets that warned them again and again to return to God. Finally God sent harbingers Israel as a final warning, but in their arrogance, Israel ignored the warnings. 

 

America is following in the footsteps of Israel. America is the only other nation that was founded on biblical principles, as a Christian nation, and as long as we continued on that path, God blessed America. We were blessed more than any nation on earth, America was the leader of the free world. For most of our history we considered ourselves a Christian nation, and our leaders stood for those principles. As time has gone on we have started removing God from every aspect of our lives; from school, government, public institutions and public places. Anything Christian is mocked and abhorred. Is it any wonder that the blessings that America once had are leaving us. We have received the same harbingers of warning that Israel received, and we have chosen to ignore them and have arrogantly claimed that we will triumph under our own power. 

 

God sent nine harbingers to Israel and America. In the next section, I will relate the harbingers that Israel received to the ones that we received. There is no way that this can be coincidence, the events line up in an eerie similarity. Only God’s hand on these events could make them so similar. 

 

 

“The bricks have fallen down,
But we will rebuild with hewn stones;
The sycamores are cut down,
But we will replace them with cedars.”

Isaiah 9:10

 

THE HARBINGERS

 

The first harbinger is the breach. God had protected Israel throughout her history. Many times He had saved her from incredible odds, but now He removes the hedge of protection from Israel and she is attacked by the Assyrians in 732 B.C.  

The United States has been the military superpower of the world. We are far superior to any other nation in the world. God has removed our hedge of protection and our breach came on September 11, 2001. For the first time, we were attacked catastrophically within our borders. 

 

The second harbinger is the terrorist. Assyria were the terrorists of their day, they had the art of terror at its highest level. They were one of the most feared nations because they would kill their enemies in horrific ways. The Assyrians are actually the ancestors of Al Queda, the terrorists that breached our walls. The Assyrians spoke a language called Akkadian, the language is extinct but it developed over time into Arabic, the language spoken by Al Queda. So the two terrorists groups spoke a similar language while performing the same acts of terrorism. 

 

The third harbinger is the fallen bricks. After the Assyrians attacked Israel there was a lot of damage to buildings and walls. Many piles of fallen bricks were all around Israel. The fallen bricks are a foreshadowing of the nation’s future collapse. I don’t need to remind you of the destruction caused by the falling towers. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

 

The fourth harbinger is the tower. After the Assyrians attacked Israel, they vowed to rebuild even better and stronger than before. They did not repent and turn back to God, instead they proclaimed their defiance to God. They proclaimed that they would rebuild with hewn stone, a much stronger alternative than the mud and straw bricks that they had used previously. Hewn stone could also be built higher.

After September 11th it seemed that every leader was making proclamations of rebuilding. There was a lot of talk about building a freedom tower in the place of the twin towers, as a symbol of our defiance. We were talking about being defiant to our enemies, but we were really being defiant to God.

 

The fifth harbinger is the Gazit stone, or the hewn stone. This kind of stone is usually quarried out of mountain rock. After it was carved out of the mountain, it would be smoothed and shaped into a building block. The stone must then be transported to the site of the fallen bricks to be a part of the prophecy. Israel had stone hewn out of the mountains and brought back to begin their rebuilding. Now you are probably thinking that we don’t build with granite, but with steel; but we did have a cornerstone of granite cut out of the Adirondack mountains and we called it the Freedom stone. 

http://archive.longislandpress.com/2010/09/10/freedom-stone-ceremony-honors-non-uniform-911-responders/

 

The sixth harbinger is the Sycamore. When the Assyrians attacked Israel many of the sycamore trees were cut down and destroyed. The sycamore in that time was the ficus sycamorus, also known as the fig mulberry tree, a common tree all over Israel’s lowlands. The uprooted sycamore trees are a foreshadowing of the uprooting of a kingdom. Now you are wondering what this tree could have to do with America, there are not a lot of trees in downtown Manhattan. As the north tower collapsed, it sent debris flying through the air. At the far northern corner of ground zero the debris struck down a sycamore tree. 

http://neddybee.blogspot.com/2011/09/miracle-of-sycamore-at-ground-zero.html

 

The seventh harbinger is the Erez tree, or cedar. The sycamore was a common tree, not considered very strong. In their proclamation, Israel planned to replace the common sycamore trees with very strong cedar trees. Erez is usually translated as cedar, but it is really more of a conifer tree, a pinacea tree. Pinacea trees include cedars, spruce, pine and fir trees. The sycamore that had fallen at ground zero is removed and put on display as a symbol of the calamity. Now a new tree would need to replace the fallen sycamore. Instead of replacing it with another sycamore it is replaced with a pinacea tree, picea albies. 

http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/news/articles/lighting-ground-zeros-tree-of-hope

 

The eighth harbinger is the utterance. The utterance is the proclamation of the vow in the capital city. The nation’s leaders had to make the proclamation and speak the act of defiance. In Israel, the leaders made the proclamation of Isaiah 9:10 in Samaria, the capital city. Did this utterance take place in America? Yes it did. In 2004, John Edwards speech in front of the Congressional black caucus was built entirely on the vow of Isaiah 9:10. 

Here is a link to the speech. John Edwards Speech.

 

The ninth harbinger is the prophecy. This harbinger is also verbal, but it is not about what is, but what is to come; a prophecy. The proclamation by Israel in Isaiah 9:10 is both a vow and a prophecy. On September 12, 2001, the day after the attacks Tom Daschle, the senate majority leader gave a speech. In the speech he quotes Isaiah 9:10, in doing so, he joined together America and 9/11 with the prophecy in Isaiah. In effect, he prophesied judgment on America. Tom Daschle’s speech.

 

 

As you see how the events in America have mirrored those of Israel, you can see that America has been warned and we have stood in defiance of God’s warnings. We are seeing the results of that defiance now with our failing economy and the disasters that have come upon this country since that date. 

 

If you want to find out more go and check out the book The Harbinger, by Jonathan Cahn.

 

John 3:16

One of the best known verses in the Bible is John 3:16. We see it everywhere, people holding signs with John 3:16 on them in pictures, Tim Tebow has it written on his eyeblack, it is on bags and shirts and bumper stickers; it is the ultimate symbol for being a Christian.

I wonder if anyone really thinks about what it means anymore. Let’s take a look at the verse:

For God so Loved the World

That He Gave His Only Son,

That Whoever Believes in Him Shall Not Perish

But Have Everlasting Life

Let’s start with the background. God created a perfect world and then created man to have authority over it.

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Genesis 1:26

Man was only given one rule, that he may not eat from one tree. This was a test of obedience and love, but man failed.

¹⁵ The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. ¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; ¹⁷ but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:15-17

With this act of disobedience man gave the authority he had over the earth and all things in it to Satan. When people say, “why did God let this happen?” The answer is simple, we gave authority to Satan. We had free will and we chose to hand the dominion of the earth to Satan. God does not cause disasters or evil things to happen, but He does not interfere with our free will. God wants us to love and worship Him by choice, not because we are forced to which is why He does not interfere with the choices we make; good or bad.

Then God chose Abraham to be the Father of a new people, a people dedicated to God. Abraham made a covenant with God. God would bless Abraham and he would be the father of many nations. As we see in the Bible, God keeps His promise to Abraham and his descendants become the Israelites. One of Abraham’s descendants is Moses. Now to Moses God gives the ten commandments and lays out the system of sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin. Blood must be shed for sin to be forgiven. This is a precursor to Jesus sacrifice in the New Testament.

Up until the time of Jesus the Jewish people lived under the law. The law required sacrifice of animals at different times for forgiveness of sin. You can read about all the different sacrifice requirements in the book of Leviticus. If you are wondering why the Jews don’t continue the system of animal sacrifice today it is because according to the Torah sacrifices were only allowed to be made in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. The Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. Once the Antichrist comes to power, he will rebuild the Temple and the sacrifices will resume for a time. This will continue until the Antichrist comes into the Temple and declares himself God.

Now we get to the verse. God loved all of us, not just the Jewish people. Very few gentiles would become Jews and follow the system of law. God needed a sacrifice that would be for all people and would do away with the system of law. God became a man and was born as the poorest of the poor. Jesus endured all that we as human beings endure during our lives. He was hungry, thirsty, cold, tired, alone; everything that you imagine a human would experience. During His lifetime, He focused on telling as many people as He could reach about God and His love for all people. He knew that He was sent to earth for one purpose, to die.  When He was crucified He took all the sins of everyone on himself as a one time sacrifice. He died so we could live! There is only one thing that we need to do, believe in Him and accept the gift that He died to give us, eternal life.

There is more to this verse, everyone always stops at the one verse 3:16. I want to talk about more than that part of the verse. Here is the continuation:

¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. John 3:17-18

 

Now we see the reason that God sent Jesus into the world. Not to condemn the world, but to save it. Jesus is our only hope. We cannot get into heaven based on the good deeds that we do. If we are judged according to how “good” we are then we would be doomed. No one on their own can be good enough to get to heaven. All we need to do is accept the gift that Jesus is giving to us through grace. 

Whoever believes in Jesus and accepts this gift of life, their sins are washed away. The slate is wiped clean. The opposite side of this gift is the rejection of it…anyone that does not believe in Jesus is rejecting the gift of salvation that He died to give you. It does not matter how good you are, you have committed the unpardonable sin by rejecting Jesus. 

I pray that you reach out and take that FREE gift that Jesus wants to give you. It costs you nothing and it will change your life. God loves you so much that He sent His son to die so that you do not have to…why would you not take the gift He is offering to you….