Sunday, November 10, 2013

The coming strong delusion and the perversion of Scripture

 
In Matthew 24 Jesus warns that just prior to His return there would be a proliferation of false prophets.

Mathew 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Mathew 24:23-27 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

There is a lot of talk lately about aliens and extraterrestrials that are coming back to earth to basically take over the world. There is even a group that is teaching that the leader of the aliens is Yahweh God who is returning to Earth to save theworld from the Illuminati. The idea that the creator of heaven and earth could be an extraterretiral who lives on a planet name Nibiru and is coming to save the true believers is remarkable. I am writing to warn my brothers and sisters in Christ to be very apprehensive about what you hear. Jesus Himself warned us that there shall arise false Christs that will show great miracles insomuch that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. This is saying that some of the things we are getting ready to witness will be so compelling, that we might get very close to being deceived. Just prior to the return of Christ, it is in God’s plan to lose Satan and his fallen angels from the bottomless pit in order to allow them to go out into the world to deceive the unsaved, as declared in 2 Thessalonians 2.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-6 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing 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 that he might be revealed in his time.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

There are so many different conspiracy theories out there it is mind boggling. Some things I do believe are very evident, and are not mythical theories; that there is an extremely rich and powerful elite group called the Illuminati that does exist and whose main agenda is to kill innocent people and take control of the world. It is a fact that they control the world banks; it is a fact that the top Illuminati family is named Rothschild who is worth about 300 trillion dollars; it is a fact that the Illuminati destroyed the 2 World Trade Towers as well as a third building on 9/11 called building number 7. You can also see that many celebrities are joining forces with the Illuminati as they are all coming out their closets, so to speak, and flaunting their allegiance with this powerful Satanic force. These Satanists even teach that Lucifer is the creator of the world and that the God of the Bible is evil because He did not want humanity to eat from the tree of knowledge. These Satanic groups have completely twisted the truths of the Bible and are convincing many people to follow in their perverted ways.

Another very popular movement right now is teaching that the Anunnaki created mankind. These teachings have been influenced by several books including those written by a man name Zecharia Sitchin, who spent 30 years studying ancient writings carved into stones believed to be 6,000 years old. These stone carvings contain Mesopotamian iconography and symbols that he taught himself to interpret. According to Sitchin’s interpretation of these carvings, the Sumerian culture was attributed to an extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki that came from a planet named Nibiru. These beings are said to have genetically manipulated mankind for the purpose of creating slaves to mine gold for them because their planet’s gold supplies were being depleted. According to Sitchin, Nibiru (whose name was replaced with MARDUK in original legends by the Babylonian ruler of the same name in an attempt to co-opt the creation for himself) collided catastrophically with another planet named Tiamat, and that this collision supposedly formed the planet Earth, the asteroid belt, and the comets around us. According to Sitchin, Nibiru (also called "the twelfth planet" or “planet X”) was the home of a technologically advanced human-like extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki in Sumerian myth, who Sitchin states are called the Nephilim in Genesis. He wrote that they evolved after Nibiru entered the solar system and first arrived on Earth probably 450,000 years ago, looking for minerals, especially gold, which they found and mined in Africa. Sitchin states that these "gods" were the rank-and-file workers of the colonial expedition to Earth from planet Nibiru. Sitchin wrote that Enki suggested that to relieve the Anunnaki, who had mutinied over their dissatisfaction with their working conditions, that primitive workers (Homo sapiens) be created by genetic engineering as slaves to replace them in the gold mines by crossing extraterrestrial genes with those of Homo erectus. According to Sitchin, ancient inscriptions report that the human civilization in Sumer, Mesopotamia, was set up under the guidance of these "gods", and human kingship was inaugurated to provide intermediaries between mankind and the Anunnaki. Sitchin believes that fallout from nuclear weapons, used during a war between factions of the extraterrestrials, is the "evil wind" described in the Lament for Ur that destroyed Ur around 2000 BC and Sitchin believes that his research coincides with many biblical texts, and that biblical texts come originally from Sumerian writings.

Do you see how Sitchin has taken these ancient writings and placed the writings of the Bible in a lesser light? And sadly, there is also no Savior in these writings because they are ancient writings, indicating the possibility that Sitchin himself went to his grave without a Savior. There are many of these ancient writings that people are incorporating with the teachings of the Bible, and their favorite motto seems to be: "Everything in the Bible is true, but not all truth is in the Bible"; chanting this motto as they reinvent their twisted teachings of Creation.

Another popular teaching is that Lucifer is the father of Cain. They get this teaching from Genesis 3 that talks about Lucifer’s seed. They teach that Lucifer had sexual intercourse with Eve and impregnated her with his seed, producing Cain as Lucifer’s first human seed.

Genesis 3:15 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.

If you go to Genesis 4 you can clearly see that Cain was conceived by the union between Adam and Eve, yet these blind delusional teachers fail to consider this verse and people are blindly following their teachings.

Genesis 4:1-2 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said; I have gotten a man from the LORD. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Another dangerous false doctrine that has gained overwhelming acceptance among Christian denominations is the teaching of a 1000-year reign of Christ on earth prior to the Universal Judgment. This teaching is known as chiliasm, from the Greek word, chiliasmos, meaning "a thousand years". Chiliastic views in antiquity were spread chiefly among heretics and the Second Ecumenical Council of 381 AD condemned the heretic Apollinarius for this doctrine. To put a stop to further attempts at introducing this teaching, the Fathers of the Council inserted into the Creed the words about Christ: "His Kingdom shall have no end." In other words, when Christ's reign begins there will be no interruptions in His eternal Kingdom, but in more recent times, chiliastic views were resurrected in some Protestant sects and have become a mainstream Christian doctrine. The danger behind this teaching is that it serves to take away all fear of God and the imminent arival of Judgment Day, which is the day of God’s wrath upon billions of unsaved souls. According to this teaching, anyone who is not raptured when Christ returns will still be able to enjoy his life on earth with Christ ruling from Jerusalem for 1000 years, and so where is the great worry if Christ is going to be ruling the world? This doctrine was derived from a passage in Rev 20.

Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Because this passage is describing the souls of people who have been beheaded for the witness of Jesus, it is very clearly describing disembodied souls since it is physically impossible for an earthly body to remain alive after it has been beheaded. The Bible very clearly teaches over and over again, that Christ will come on the last day, such as Christ’s teaching that the wheat and the tares are to grow together until they are separated at the end of the world (Matthew 13); and in John 6, Jesus declares FOUR times in one chapter to further drive the point that the rapture will occur on the last day; yet for some unforeseen reason, millions upon millions of people who are not studying the Bible carefully are blindly accepting false teachings.

John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing , but should raise it up again at the last day.

John 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

One can see that these strange but popular "Christian" doctrines, such as Lucifer being the father Cain, and Yahweh God being an extraterrestrial alien living on planet X, show the perversion of the human mind and its desire to ignore and twist the truths of the Bible. Another perversion of Scripture is the currently popular and widely accepted teaching regarding the mark of the beast. This doctrine is derived from a passage in Revelation 13 and teaches that every man, woman, and child in the world will have an electronic chip implanted into their hand during the final tribulation. Here is my argument: in order to believe a doctrine that an electronic chip is going to be implanted into every single person living in the world, you first have to believe what Rev 13:15 states.

Revelation 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

The absurd concept that everyone in the world will be implanted with a chip or else be executed is widely accepted by millions of modern day and educated Christians. My interpretation of this passage is in agreement with what my Bible teacher Harold Camping taught: that the mark of the best is a spiritual mark. I believe that the entire book of Revelation is written in parabolic language and is the only way to understand that book. When Revelation 13 teaches that a dragon with 2 horns like a lamb is speaking like a dragon, it is saying that the beast is a being that comes looking like Christ, (2 horns like a lamb, as Christ is the lamb of God), and speaks like a dragon, signifying that the words coming out of its mouth are words of the devil, as the the dragon is the Devil and Satan.

Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

In Conclussion
As we get closer and closer to the return of Christ, these false teachings are going to continue to draw people further from the truth, but all of it is part of God's will as the separation between the wheat and the tares becomes more defined. Those that are being deceived by every wind of doctrine will become thoroughly ensnared by Satan. Those expecting that God will soon manifest Himself on the Earth to heal them and save them from evil, when they see the false prophets coming forth performing great miracles, they will believe they are benevolent beings with their best interest at heart, when in actuality they are wolves in sheep's clothing, ministers of Satan transformed as the ministers of righteousness (2 Corinthians 11:15). The Bible warns that the son of perdition will set himself up in a position of being worshiped and he will declare that he is God, but most people will not be able to discern between the truth of God and the lies of Satan. This deception of the masses has been going on for thousands of years, but will peak to epic proportions, ensnaring billions of souls.

To my brothers and sisters in Christ, I want to end this message by urging everyone to continue to be on guard and to test what you hear with what the Word of God says. When I find myself wrongly interpreting certain things, I ask God to forgive me and correct me and reveal the truth of His Word to me, and I believe that He answers my fervent prayers. We are approaching extremely perilous times as Scriptures declares.

Matthew 4:15-22 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand); then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened .