I should have immediately realized that upon seeing a video that came up in my YT feed regarding the book of Revelation and how we are now living in those days (we’ve actually BEEN living in the “last days” ever since the Day of Pentecost, and specifically are within chapters 1-3 of the book of Revelation), that the Holy Spirit was setting me up once again to write something. So, sort of reluctantly, I went ahead and started to watch the video. I had a bad feeling this was going to be a major “pet peeve” of the Holy Spirit, but wanting to be obedient, and went ahead and started the video.
Within 6 SECONDS of watching that certain video on YT from a pretty well know Catholic content creator, the Holy Spirit winced within me when the guest speaker said, “And it is a really, really big war of Our Lady versus Satan”—what did he just say?? Has he actually READ the book of Revelation?? That was it–THAT is what the Spirit was leading me to write about, because honestly, He has HAD IT with this generation of so-called “Christians” who have removed themselves so far from God’s holy written Word, that the Time of JUDGMENT is SOON at hand. I can feel it in my spirit more and more with each day passing, that the LORD is NOT going to stay silent for much longer.
I did not watch any more of that video; to be honest, I’ve seen so many videos and read so many posts in the last several years that misinterpret the Bible left and right, it is not only reprehensible, but exhausting at this point, to say the least. How these people could even have mother Mary inserted into the book of Revelation as if SHE is the one fighting the devil, his angels, the Anti-Christ, etc. at the end of the age–where do they get this stuff from?? HOW could they insert that into Scripture?? Does mother Mary have ANYTHING to do with the end times, and the return of the Lord Jesus Christ? Read on and you’ll see where we ALL fit in, IF we are HIS children (John 1:12), have acknowledged and accepted Jesus Christ as BOTH our LORD and SAVIOUR, and have been living according to His Word that He gave us, and having the gift of the Holy Spirit living WITHIN each and every one of us (see Jn. 3:3,5,7; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19; 2 Timothy 1:14).
It is JESUS who RETURNS–the LION of the tribe of JUDAH–“Behold He is coming with the clouds, and EVERY EYE will see HIM, even those who pierced HIM, and all the tribes of the earth will wail because of HIM” (Revelation 1:7)–HIM—JESUS!!!
OH my soul–what has become of this generation of those who say with their mouths, “I believe in the LORD GOD and the Lord Jesus Christ”, and YET, do NOT HEED His WORD?? What is to become of you?? HOW do leaders of the Body of Christ fall SO far away from His Written Word, and misconstrue it, twist it, and attempt to rewrite the Bible to suit their own beliefs and interpretations? The Scripture tells us what will happen to those who ADD TO, or DELETE FROM, God’s Holy Word!
And before someone says, “Oh, there are so many Bibles, so many interpretations, etc. –THAT itself, is the work of the evil one, who LOVES to create havoc amongst the faithful, and confuse them–hence why Paul told us that “GOD is NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION” (1 Corinthians 14:33). BUT obviously, it is the work of the rebellious angel HaSatan and all the other rebellious spirits are, who do their best to mock and ridicule God’s Word, and attempt to make it so difficult for a person to read and understand it, that they eventually give up.
HAVE YOU not read in Ephesians 4:4-6, “There is ONE BODY and ONE SPIRIT–just as you were called to the ONE HOPE that belongs to your call–ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM, ONE GOD and FATHER of all, Who is over ALL and THROUGH all and IN all.”
MAN (along with the help of the devil and his angels and those vile demons) may have split the BODY of Christ up thousands of times over with all their supposed “sects” of Christianity–if it can even be called that anymore–but the LORD GOD knows man’s heart–it is WICKED and DECEITFUL above all things” (Jeremiah 17:9)–HENCE the reason why we need to HEED the VOICE of the HOLY SPIRIT, since we live in this age from the days of PENTECOST, when He came down and LIVED IN those who were in the upper room (see Acts 1:12-14). GUESS who else was in that room with the believers that day? Mother MARY as well! SHE received the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT, and at that point, she and the others were FILLED with the HOLY SPIRIT (see Acts 2, specifically verse 4).
BUT–that is the LAST TIME that we hear anything about mother Mary; NO–she is NOT mentioned in Revelation 12. THAT passage speaks of ISRAEL–the 12 TRIBES of ISRAEL, not mother Mary. There COULD be a “double meaning” to parts of that passage, because of the parallels within the woman fleeing from the dragon et al–but the WOMAN with 12 STARS above her head–is NOT mother Mary. The 12 STARS represent the 12 TRIBES of ISRAEL. The Church made that error and has NEVER corrected themselves, along with allowing REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY to run rampant amongst the Body of Christ within the ROMAN part of the Church. The LORD GOD WILL JUDGE THEM on that. He will NOT be silent about that, hence the reason why the Apostle John wrote what he did in Revelation chapters 2 and 3, about the different churches, and whether or not they truly were serving the Lord Jesus as they were called to do. JUDGMENT is COMING, and it does NOT play “favorites” with ANY so-called “denomination”; there were NEVER MEANT to be “denominations” amongst or within the BODY of CHRIST!
The LEADERS of the synagogues, churches, and any other religious (and cultic!) systems will ALL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE to the LORD JESUS CHRIST for what they have done in turning away the faithful FROM the Holy Scriptures, and turning them to “doctrines of devils”, or at the least–their OWN traditions, as the Lord Jesus vehemently reproved the Pharisees and Sadducees for!
Again, mother Mary DID her job; she ANSWERED her calling here, and has been called “BLESSED” because she OBEYED the voice of the LORD GOD.
BUT—and PLEASE UNDERSTAND and ACCEPT THIS with all HUMILITY OF SPIRIT–
We will NOT be seeing mother Mary, because SHE isn’t with the Lord Jesus, until Revelation 19–when ALL of us RETURN with the Lord Jesus comes back with a vengeance —
“Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The One sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he JUDGES and makes WAR. His eyes are like a FLAME of FIRE, and on His head are many diadems, and He has a name written that no one knows but Himself. HE is clothed in a robe dipped in BLOOD, and the name by which HE is called is THE WORD OF GOD (see also Jn. 1:1, 14). And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following Him on white horses. From HIS MOUTH comes a sharp SWORD (because He is the WORD OF GOD) with which to strike down the nations, and HE will rule them with a rod of IRON. HE will tread the winepress of the fury of the WRATH of God the Almighty. On HIS ROBE and on HIS THIGH HE has a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.” (Rev. 19:11-16)
As much as I love my catholic upbringing, and as much as I love mother Mary and her selfless sacrifice (along with Joseph’s) to raise the Son of God in the midst of turbulence, there was (and still is to this very day!) much misunderstanding even amongst family and friends who DID NOT BELIEVE that Mary and Joseph were called to be the parents of the Son of God–the JEWISH Messiah–and it very well could have meant DEATH for mother Mary! Nevertheless, she said, “YES” to the LORD GOD Most High, when the Angel Gabriel visited her with that message of her calling that the LORD chose HER for–to be the mother of GOD Incarnate Himself–Jesus. But–that was IT for Mary–she answered the call, she fought the good fight and did what was asked of her, and that’s it.
Even though many DO believe that she was chosen by the LORD God to carry our Lord and Savior, unfortunately the Church has allowed so much more exaggerations and downright lies to be spread about the mother of our Lord, to the point where some actually DO “worship” her (I am NOT speaking about the reverent veneration or honor given to her because she is the mother of our Lord) to the point of praying TO HER, instead of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! The Church leaders from the pope on down, and every other leader in Christendom will be held RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE for not teaching sound doctrine, and correcting the errors within their sects!!
I wish I was more like mother Mary, and said “Yes” to my calling when I knew the Lord had a path for me to walk many moons ago. It took 30 years of mistakes, heartache, and pain, but I finally got on that Path He chose for me about 10 years ago, and I have not regretted it since! If only I paid more attention to that first chapter of Luke, and realized how we are to be totally SELFLESS when living out our faith walk with the Lord Jesus; I would have saved myself so much pain, tears, trials, and tribulations that I allowed to come into my life through disobedience to the Lord and His Word.
HOWEVER–I cannot sit here and continue to stay silent when my brothers and sisters in the Faith have been taught (as sincere as some of the church leaders and teachers are) the WRONG interpretations of several passages of Scripture throughout the OT and NT. The “Roman Church” has NO AUTHORITY to CHANGE what the ancient authors of Sacred Scripture were trying to convey to us, the readers. WE have to rely on the HOLY SPIRIT —Who is ONE with the Father and the Son, and Who has been here (trying to work!) since the Day of Pentecost (see Acts 2). It is HE who helps us understand what we are reading and studying from Scripture; the problem is, that throughout the past 1500 years or so, some leaders within the Church body have decided what WE, the faithful, are to read and understand, instead of relying on the Holy Spirit and what was originally meant to be interpreted in those Scripture passages. Deuteronomy 4:2 gives a warning from the Most High God to NOT ADD TO, or DELETE FROM Scripture! Revelation 22:18-19 give us the same warning, with the curses upon those who add or delete from God’s Word!
That should make us all be shaken with reverent fear to the core! God’s Word is NOT to be changed for our benefit, or way of life, or particular belief system that WE may have; we are to HUMBLE OURSELVES before a great and mighty GOD, Who allowed HIS SON to SUFFER and DIE for us all. THAT SON–the LORD JESUS CHRIST–is the ONE Who WILL BE RETURNING, and SOONER than most people THINK–and only IF we are paying ATTENTION to what is going on (and YES, we ARE living now in the “last days”, and the book of Revelation IS going to be revealed more and more as each day passes), AND–IF we are “hearing what the SPIRIT has to say” (see Rev. 2:7, 11; 3:6; 13:9 just for a few examples)–the HOLY SPIRIT will LEAD and GUIDE us into ALL TRUTH (Jn. 16:13) and bring to your remembrance ALL of what the Lord Jesus taught us in His Word (Jn. 14:26)–that is, He WILL do that, IF we do what the Lord Jesus commanded us to do–“IF YOU LOVE ME, YOU WILL KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS” (Jn. 14:15); again, the Lord Jesus tells us in John 14:23, “IF ANYONE LOVES ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORD (He IS, after all, the very literal living WORD OF GOD!), AND MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM, AND WE WILL COME TO HIM AND MAKE OUR HOME WITH HIM.” –HOW did He do that?? THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT!!
IF a person HAS confessed their sins–IF they REPENTED of all their sins, and ACKNOWLEDGED that JESUS ALONE is LORD and SAVIOR (that doesn’t mean mother Mary doesn’t count, or anyone else for that matter–she and the rest of the saints and all the faithful who followed the Lord God Almighty and the Lord Jesus–ALL the OT and NT saints before us–have their place, but ONLY the FATHER, the SON, and the HOLY SPIRIT are to be PRAYED TO, WORSHIPPED, and ADORED!), and they HUMBLED themselves and SURRENDERED ALL to Him–THEN, and ONLY THEN, will the HOLY SPIRIT enter INTO that individual, and take up RESIDENCE in them, hence what the Apostle John was talking about when he said, “…greater is HE that is IN you, than he (Satan, the evil ones) that is in the world (system)” (1 John 4:4).
PLEASE allow the Holy Spirit to TEACH YOU how to correctly interpret Scripture. Mother Mary had her place, and she did an EXCELLENT job, hence the reason why she was called “BLESSED” and that she was “FULL OF GRACE”. There were VERY FEW people from Scripture that eschewed evil–Job and Daniel come to mind; even Noah was said of the LORD GOD to be a righteous man and that “Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD” (Genesis 6:8). These wonderful saints had their place and time within Scripture, but it all led up to THE LORD JESUS–the JEWISH MESSIAH–and the COVENANTS that the LORD GOD made with ISRAEL–those covenants were NEVER BROKEN or ANNULLED.
PLEASE–I am begging you all, beloved–this is what I have been called to do–to INFORM and to WARN, and after not heeding the Master’s Voice for 30 years of my life, I finally SURRENDERED ALL, and have taken up the cross and calling I was to bear, and I do that now with all fervent love and with much reverence to HIS ✡📖✝WORD, like never before. I beg you, beloved, PLEASE HEED the Voice of the HOLY SPIRIT–the RUACH HaKODESH–and allow HIM to correct any and all errors that any and all church leaders–from whatever sect they hail from–and bring you back to the correct BIBLICAL interpretation of Scripture as those authors of ancient Scripture wanted us to understand what they were trying to convey to us as they were writing these precious pages of God’s Word out for us.
IF you read this whole thing, I thank you, and I hope that the LORD God our Father, the LORD Jesus Christ–Who is my LORD, SAVIOUR, MASTER, and KING- and the Holy Spirit, Who is One with the Father and Son–takes you on a journey with Scripture like you have never imagined before. Allow the Holy Spirit to TEACH you as those ancient authors were taught by Him so long ago. May the LORD GOD MOST HIGH bless you on your faith walk with Him. 🙏🩷✡📖✝
We are living in the days that the Lord Jesus told us would come—the time just before the Anti-Christ, who would deceive almost the entire world into believing he is the only person who can save them. And billions of people are now foolish enough to believe in him.
There are many false teachers, prophets, and even clergy out there, leading people astray, making them think that their way is the only right way.
THE ✡️📖✝️BIBLE CLEARLY TELLS US WHO TO BELIEVE AND TRUST IN, and WHO we should take at Their 📖Word—the MOST HIGH GOD, His Son—the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and—do not forget This One—the HOLY SPIRIT!
It is astounding to me how many people who claim to be Christians, but yet, do not trust the Bible enough to seriously read it, study it, and search it from Genesis to Revelation for the answers that they need, nor do they even apply it to their lives.
Why do they do that? Simple— they do not trust in the Lord God enough to take Him at His Word.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the living literal ✡️📖✝️WORD of GOD.
But if a person states that they cannot trust what is written in the pages of the 📖Bible because it was “written by men”— then not only do they not trust the Lord God, but they call him a LIAR. Nor do they trust the Holy Spirit to do what He was called at this time to do!
There are charlatans abounding out there, pretending to be servants of the Most High God, and yet they do not preach from, nor give instruction from His 📖Word. It 😡😤disgusts me what they are doing.
These false teachers, prophets, and clergy will find themselves standing in front of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Day of JUDGEMENT, and will be put into the lake of fire 🔥 🔥 🔥 for leading millions (and possibly billions) astray!
Pray for discernment; pray that the Holy Spirit will lead you and guide you, as it says in God’s 📖Word that He would, and pray for all those in this world they are being led astray to follow false gods, false teachers, prophets, etc.— that the Lord Jesus would either appear to them, and/or that the Holy Spirit will convict their hearts to the point of total surrender to the Father, the Son, AND the Holy Spirit. 🙏❤️✡️📖✝️
Spielberg is an excellent director; always has been. He obviously has a personal interest in the existence of extraterrestrial life, or else why would he spend money and time making yet another movie about extraterrestrial life?
This time, it is about a conspiracy to cover up the truth that the government was hiding all along—that they have proof about the existence of extraterrestrial life, and tried to keep it under wraps for decades.
In the movie, there’s an ongoing chase scene between the main characters who unknowingly are part of the conspiracy—they soon find out what roles they play in the disclosure of the cover up.
Biblically speaking, the truth is—there ARE extraterrestrial beings; in short, the very ANGELS of the Most High God were created in the heavens by Him, hence they are celestial beings, and technically also “extraterrestrial”. The spiritual beings the Lord created all had a meaning and purpose; when it came to the ones we call “angels”, they were meant to be not only messengers, but warriors and guardians of the humans.
Some of them decided to rebel (see Genesis 6:1-4), and went so far as to procreate with human women, thus attempting to start their own race in order to usurp the power and authority of the Most High God. It didn’t end well for them (see 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6).
Purposely going against the supreme authority and power of the LORD God and His Word NEVER ends well; it has only created more chaos, confusion, deception and ultimately, death and destruction to all who reject God, His Son, His ✡️📖✝️Word, and the natural order of things.
“JUST AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man” (Luke 17:26). This verse has MUCH of a more detrimental and destructive meaning to it. The WHO and WHAT that was on the earth in those days of Noah, led to the reason WHY the Lord God had to destroy the Earth in the worldwide flood.
“The LORD saw that the wickedness of mankind was great in the Earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5).
WE ARE NOW HERE in the “Days of Noah”. Do NOT be deceived (Matt. 24:4).
I have spoken much about Fr. Chad Ripperger’s book, “Deliverance Prayers for Use by the Laity”; in the back of his book, there are three appendices, one of which deals with the very lengthy list of vices/sins/spirits that humans have dealt with since the Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden.
SIN is a very real part of the human life, but most ignore it, don’t believe in it, or if they do state they believe in the Triune Godhead of the Holy Scriptures, some still have very real issues in coming to terms with the very real SPIRITUAL REALM that is written throughout the OT and NT.
The word “SIN” occurs in 390 verses in the ESV–104 times alone in the NT; 389 in the KJV. So obviously, the LORD God wants us to realize that there are serious issues regarding SIN/vices/spirits that need to be dealt with.
The reason I am also including the word “spirits” there, is because Fr. Ripperger realizes that it is BECAUSE of such beings, that SIN entered into humanity’s world right from the start, IN the Garden of Eden, where the devil took the form of a SERPENT, and beguiled EVE, and both Adam and Eve then committed sin by NOT taking God at His Word–the word He gave them in Genesis 2:16-17 to NOT take of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It wasn’t just the disobedience that made the LORD God eventually drive them out of the Garden–it was also to protect them from ETERNALLY being CONDEMNED, IF they went and ate from the Tree of LIFE after eating from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge.
BUT–as a good Father, CONSEQUENCES had to be dealt with. Hence the driving out of the Garden, the SIN that followed mankind right up to the present day, BECAUSE the LORD God demands that we are ALL TESTED to see whether or not we will ABIDE BY Him (Jn. 15:4,6,7,9,16) and, equally important, in HIS WORD (John 8:31).
The LORD God never stopped loving His creation, but He DID give us a CHOICE to either ACCEPT or REJECT Him. While we live and breathe, we have that opportunity to change our minds and live out our lives for Him, even if we did not do so at first. Most people have chosen over the several millennia to NOT accept what the LORD God and His Son has written in His Word; therefore, since there are good consequences for those who accept and believe in Him and His Word, hence then there MUST be a JUDGMENT for those who have refused to accept Him, and That Day SOON approaches.
IF one states that they are a non-believer, then they are already on their way to the Bottomless Pit and eventually, the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20:11-15). Atheists, pagans, Agnostics–basically anyone who refuses to believe in the Word of God (Genesis-Revelation), who also refuses to believe that Jesus Christ is the Savior and soon-to-be JUDGE of the world, are within this category of humans that will be sentenced to eternal death and damnation, which the Bible calls “the second death” (Revelation 2:11; 20:6,14; 21:8). They will NOT escape this, just because they don’t “believe” in it. God’s Word for all these several millennia, hasn’t changed, just because the majority of mankind has decided to walk away from Him, turning to other gods, themselves, lusts and pleasures of this life, etc.
JUDGMENT on the Earth by the Lord Jesus WILL COME (Jude 1:14-15; Rev. chapters 6-18), whether one likes it or not, or “believes” it or not. God’s Word is eternally true (Ps. 119:160; John 17:17). Mankind’s refusal or denial of God and His Word doesn’t mean His eternal Word and judgments will not eventually be carried out.
Illustration by the late Rev. Clarence Larkin
There will be wonderful consequences for those who have committed their lives to Christ, not giving up their faith in Him, AND trusting in the ENTIRE counsel of His Word (Acts 20:27)–they will be ushered into eternity hearing those words they so longed to hear–“WELL DONE, thou good and faithful servant” and will “enter into the Joy of your Lord” (Matthew 25:21,23).
Marriage Supper of the Lamb and His Bride-Revelation 19:7, 9
Those who REFUSE to acknowledge God’s Word and His Son as both Savior and Lord, will hear the awful words, “I never knew you; DEPART from Me, you workers of lawlessness” (Matt. 7:23); “DEPART from Me, you cursed, into the eternal FIRE prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matt. 25:41). Those are awful words to hear from the Son of God, Who suffered and died so that ALL humans could have an opportunity to be SET FREE from any and all DEMONIC influences, when they were living out their lives here on Earth.
There IS hope for such a person, but FIRST and FOREMOST–they must HUMBLE themselves, REPENT of their sins, RENOUNCE any and all dealings with the sinful lifestyle they lived (especially if they were involved in any type of pagan practices–witchcraft, satanism, freemasonry, the various cults like Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Islam, etc.), and WHOLEHEARTEDLY accept the Lord Jesus as BOTH Savior AND LORD of their lives, making a commitment to READ, STUDY, MEDITATE on, and LIVE OUT the life He planned and purposed for that individual, so that they can be blessed by Him, and have eternal LIFE through Him.
They MUST BE set free and delivered of ANY and ALL demonic attachments, infestations, infiltrations, etc.–and that can only happen AFTER they made the Lord Jesus their Savior AND LORD of their lives. THEN the Holy Spirit enters into them (see Jn 3:3,5,7; Acts 2). The Holy Spirit will teach, correct, convict, guide, lead, etc. (see Jn. 14:26; 15:26; 16:13,18) that individual, and will make sure that NO evil spirit will dwell within them any longer, AS LONG AS they allow Him to PURIFY their hearts (Isaiah 52:11; Daniel 12:10; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 9:14; James 4:8).
1 Peter 3 tells us, “WHOEVER desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. BUT the face of the LORD is against those who do EVIL.”
I highly suggest that you get this deliverance prayer book; I cannot sit here and write out the HUNDREDS of sins/vices/evil spirits that plague humanity, but I will give you a few examples from each group (MIND you, some may start out as obvious mental/emotional/physical ailments, but IF LEFT UNCHECKED–can and WILL turn into demonic issues that the devil and his evil spirits can WORSEN in an individual over TIME, right up to their demise!):
Unclean spirits–offensive, compulsiveness, busybody, perverted thinking, scandals; Theft–stealing, greed, materialism, hoarding, etc. Making Excuses for SIN–inability to pray (demons keeping you from praying); worldly cares and lusts, etc. Mental Illnesses–any and all mental and behavioural type of illnesses such as ADD/ADHD, OCD, PTSS, Anxiety Disorders, Mental torments, Compromising, Doubts, Death Wish, Personality disorders, etc. Physical Ailments–Paralysis, Tremors, Night Tremors, Blood Pressure, Sinus/Respiratory, Tumors, Cancers, Insomnia, Fibromyalgia, Allergies, Diabetes, Heart Diseases, etc.
False Religions and Philosophies–Any and all cults (JW/Mormonism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism), Yoga, New Age, Nazism, Freemasonry/Mason Lodges, Eastern Star (for women), any and all secret societies, beliefs in other gods such as Greek/Roman/Babylonian/Assyrian gods/goddesses, etc.
Any and all abandonment of Christian faith; any who are against or have unbelief in the Spiritual Realm; any and all who practice Marxism, Socialism, Fascism, Racism, Liberalism, and any and ALL parts of the OCCULT practices–witchcraft, satanism, pagan worship, Druidism, dealing with Channeling, crystals, Reiki, Mantras, Chakras, familiar spirits, Tarot cards, Angel cards, etc.
Dabbling in those mentioned above, or playing around with Horoscopes, Astrology, Spiritism, Numerology, Seances, praying to the dead, etc.
ANY and all types of spirits that are against marriage, the biological male and female, those who accept the lifestyles that are an abomination to the LORD God as written down in His Word both in the OT and NT; any type of physical mutilation of the body, especially to change the gender, etc.
Physical, mental, emotional, abuse of a person–cursing, putting curses on a person, especially children, Child abuse, neglect, molestation of any kind, human/child trafficking, betrayal of spouse, abandonment, any and all abusive language, mocking or bullying, dominance over the spouse or children in a fearful and unloving way, guilt trips, sarcasm, etc.
THESE should be very obvious, but I’ll add them as well (they are mentioned in the book)–Alcoholism, any and ALL types of Drug use and addiction via smoking, inhaling, needles, etc.; Abortion, any and all types of sexual intercourse outside of marriage/promiscuity/Pornography, sexual addictions, rape, pedophilia, etc. SEXUAL INTERCOURSE is one of the #1 ways besides drug addiction and pagan/cultic/occult/New Age practices that a person receives MANY evil spirits INTO their body and spirits, EVEN IF THEY CLAIM TO BE A CHRISTIAN!
The lie that has circulated for decades about “Christians cannot have evil spirits in them if they belong to Jesus, because the Holy Spirit dwells within them”; they may not be POSSESSED, but they SURE CAN have vexing, infiltrating spirits in their bodies BECAUSE of this VERY LONG list of sinful habits they may have either been exposed to, especially GENERATIONAL CURSES and spirits that have been PASSED DOWN to them–or, sins they have committed themselves, or have been FORCED to commit (such as those who are in false cults, religions, pagan practices such as witchcraft/satanism, etc.).
DO NOT pretend to think that you have not been opened up to any type of demonic stronghold in your life!! WE ALL have been exposed to evil since the day we were born! WE ALL need to REPENT and be CLEANSED of our sins, and be SET FREE from any and all types of demonic infestations, vexations, infiltrations, oppressions, obsessions, etc.
THIS is BUT a SMALL list of what is written in that book. PLEASE take the time out to PRAY and ask the LORD to help you in any or all the areas YOU and your loved ones may be afflicted in. GET this prayer book, and SEEK OUT a Biblical deliverance worker, or better yet, an exorcist (if such issues are very serious) such as Fr. Dan Reehill, Fr. Chad Ripperger, Msgr. Stephen Rossetti; at the least, go to a CHRISTIAN counselor (like from the Biblical Counseling Coalition, for example) who takes the Word of God seriously–ALL of it–and can begin to help you discover what other underlying issues you also may have, besides whatever is the obvious one(s) plaguing you or your loved ones.
I CAN help at the very least, try and determine those issues with certain questionnaires that I have. That is a good start and one of the first steps for those who wish to finally get themselves SET FREE from any and all types of demonic/spiritual attachments.
I pray this has been very helpful to you all. May the LORD God bless you and have you seek the help you need, in order to be SET FREE and DELIVERED, so that YOU can live the life you were always purposed to live in the name of the Lord, Savior, Master, King, and Judge of this World–Jesus Christ.
He is always watching. He is always listening. He knows the end from the beginning. He already knows how this is going to end.
But He has allowed FREE WILL for all of us to choose which way we will go— Either surrendering ALL to Him, so that we will be with ❤️Him in ✨🌈eternity, OR— Due to the choices one makes, not surrendering all to Him, and ending up eternally lost.🔥🔥🔥(see Revelation 20:11-15; 21:8)
THE CHOICE HAS ALWAYS BEEN UP TO US—He never wanted to force us to love Him.
But that choice will be made one way or another, and the end will come, whether we believe it or not, or like it or not.
CHOOSE NOW, while there is still time.
The LORD IS in control of all Time. The time for ⚖️JUDGMENT will soon be upon this Earth (see Revelation chapters 6-18).
The warnings will end, and the Judgment will begin.
“Proverbs 30:5a— “Every word of God proves true…” EVERY prophecy WILL be fulfilled (Luke 24:44; Isaiah 55:11).
The TALMUD is considered the more important of the rabbinical writings. It is made up of the Mishna, which are the oral traditions of Judaism, and the Gemara are their commentaries (which were written in the Aramaic, by the way). They are not a good source of historical information of what actually took place, but more of what Robert Stein called “an idealized rendering of how things should have taken place if the later rabbinic understanding of the law had been in force.” (from “Jesus the Messiah: A Survey of the Life of Christ”, published in 1996)
The Talmud actually contains several references to Jesus, or “Yeshu” as His name is in Aramaic.
Several pagan sources (Greek/Roman) such as Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, and Suetonius, to name a few, had referenced the Lord Jesus in their writings. Josephus, who was a Jewish historian, also included quite a few references about Jesus in his books.
But all these references, though helpful to validate that there truly was a person called Jesus of Nazareth (for there are still people walking this earth in the 21st-century that think Jesus was nothing but a mythological person or legendary figure), they are fewer in number and more or less as Stein said, secondary in nature.
First and foremost are always going to be the Christian sources of which is both the Old and New Testaments. The Gospels tell us the most about the Lord Jesus’ life, ministry, death, and resurrection. But though from the books of Acts through Revelation, there isn’t as much information about Jesus, there is enough that the Apostles Paul, Peter, John, and the writer of Hebrews included, that also helps to validate what was written in the accounts of the four Gospel writers.
And then also last, but not least the traditions of, for example, the Roman Catholic Church, their catechism, and any other Orthodox traditional teachings, though they may be helpful, they do not take the place of NOR do they come before, God’s Holy Written Word.
Bottom line-READ, STUDY, and MEDITATE on GOD’s 📖Word FIRST, and let HIM be your final WORD on all matters in this life.
The Lord Jesus called the apostle John to come up into what we consider the “third heaven”, and when he did so, the Spirit of God took him.
The two witnesses (Rev. 11) after they were murdered and laid in the street for three and a half days, just as it happened in Genesis, the breath of LIFE from the Lord God entered them, and they were also called back up into heaven by those words, “Come up here!”
So the words, “Come up here” are not written just once but twice.
And both times the Holy Spirit transports them up into heaven.
Where else in Scripture did that happen?
Acts 1:9-11, when the Lord Jesus was taken up from the disciples into heaven and disappeared in the clouds. The angels that stood by told the disciples that the Lord Jesus would return in the same fashion as they saw Him go into heaven.
I just thought I would share this with you and give you something to think about.
I included the Greek because unfortunately the Aramaic from the Peshitta is not available for me to just copy and paste here. Nevertheless, I added the Greek because that is one of the original languages that the book of Revelation was written in/translated into.
That “loud voice” was also attributed to the Lord Jesus in Matthew 27:46,50; Mark 15:34; Luke 23:46; John 11:43; Revelation 1:10. Revelation 21:5 is not necessarily in “red” as some Bibles portray Jesus’ words, because some believe those are the words of God the Father stating that, since the beginning of verse five says, “And He who was seated on the throne…”
Nevertheless, I think it would be good for everyone to sit back, read these verses, meditate on them, pray about them and have a conversation with the Holy Spirit. Maybe even do your own little Bible study on them.
The bottom line is, we are first and foremost, SPIRIT, then SOUL, then BODY (1Thess. 5:23).
Ecclesiastes 12:7 tells us plainly that the spirit returns to God.
When we each leave this earth, no one knows. Only the LORD knows our final day here. But we do know it will happen One Day.
I just pray that you all-we all-will be ready when it is our Time to be “called up” & stand before the Throne of Lord Jesus at the time of Judgement.
I had to take time out of my very busy school schedule, to address this issue once more.
The Body of Christ (I absolutely HATE and DESPISE the words, “Protestant”, “C” catholic, and any other divisive word that has been made up within the past 600 years or so, to separate and cause more chaos, division and confusion within Christ’s believers!)
WE ARE ALL ONE BODY in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are also (whether you like the CORRECT term or not) one holy “c” catholic (UNIVERSAL) Church = BODY of the living Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. STOP giving in to the devil and doing his work for him, by separating your brothers and sisters IN CHRIST!! DO NOT utilize the above words! The term “catholic” was to mean UNIVERSAL, and nothing more! But the ROMAN part of the Body of Christ desired to “stand out” and think themselves more than any other part of the Body; hence the problem with the “C”. The THOUSANDS of splits within the Body of Christ has been happily used by the devil himself and his minions, the demonic entities, to further split the Body and KEEP them separated, fighting against one another, calling each other names, and of course, creating more chaos and confusion in the Body when regarding what the Word of God states about Israel, the Jewish people, God’s covenants He made with them, Zionism, and whether or not Christians in general should support the state and people of Israel.
It all comes down to whether or not an individual believer dares to TAKE the Word of GOD for what it is, trust Him in what HE stated in His Word about Israel (and every other matter), or—trust in man’s traditions, wrong thinking, and totally ignore what the LORD God said, thereby calling Him a LIAR.
This first part of several articles to help the individual to see and understand that putting their trust in GOD’S WORD should trump EVERYTHING ELSE, is pulled from the “AI” search on whether or not the Catholic Church as a whole, supports the state of Israel, the Jewish people, Zion and Zionism, and if they recognize the BIBLICAL Covenants made by the LORD God in His Word regarding them:
The Catholic Church supports the State of Israel’s right to exist within secure borders alongside a viable Palestinian state, advocating for a two-state solution based on justice and peace, not theological claims. While recognizing Israel diplomatically since 1993, the Church distinguishes the modern state from the biblical covenant, viewing the Church itself as the spiritual “New Israel” and rejecting Christian Zionism’s idea that modern Israel fulfills biblical prophecy. Catholic positions emphasize human rights, interfaith dialogue, and condemning antisemitism, often finding greater kinship with Palestinian Christians.
Key Aspects of the Catholic Stance
Two-State Solution:
The Church officially supports a two-state solution, where a secure Israel lives peacefully with an independent Palestine.
Diplomatic Recognition:
The Holy See established full diplomatic relations with Israel in 1993, recognizing its political reality, not a theological mandate.
Rejection of Christian Zionism:
Catholic theology, rooted in covenant theology, sees the Church as the spiritual fulfillment of Israel, not the modern state, and does not endorse the idea that the modern state fulfills biblical promises.
Support for Human Rights:
The Church advocates for justice, peace, and the protection of all peoples, including Christian minorities in the Holy Land.
Interfaith Dialogue:
There’s a strong emphasis on continuing dialogue with Jewish leaders, combating antisemitism, and fostering mutual understanding.
Distinction between State and People:
The Vatican distinguishes between the secular State of Israel (a political entity) and the Jewish people (God’s chosen people with whom a unique covenant exists).
In Practice
Focus on Principles:
The Church applies principles of justice and peace to the conflict, rather than dictating specific foreign policy, leading to diverse Catholic views.
Emphasis on Peace:
Calls for prayers, pilgrimages, and aid focus on achieving a just and lasting peace for both Israelis and Palestinians, condemning violence and hatred.
FROM “Catholic Answers: Israel and the Church”
Article by Jimmy Akin 2/1/1999
One of the disputes in Protestant circles is over the relationship between Israel and the Church and whether God still has a special purpose for the ethnic people of Israel in his plan of the ages. Two of the chief disputants are the Protestant schools of thought known as “dispensationalism” and “covenant theology.” The former is a relative newcomer on the Protestant scene and was started in the 1830s by an Englishman named John Nelson Darby. A distinctive characteristic of dispensationalism is its insistence that God’s plan of the ages focuses chiefly around the ethnic people of Israel.
With the close of the Church age, many dispensationalists have said they expect God to turn away from dealing with the Gentiles and turn again to dealing primarily with the Jews.This affects dispensationalism’s reading of the book of Revelation as well as much of the rest of biblical prophecy. Dispensationalists see Revelation as a blueprint of future events, chiefly concerning the Jewish people, leading up to a future, earthly reign of Christ known as the Millennium.
During the Millennium, they believe, Israel will be restored as a nation, will return to offering animal sacrifices (in commemoration of Christ’s death on the cross), and will be the most favored nation on earth, with Jesus physically ruling in its capitol. In dispensational thought, the Jews may also have a special status in the eternal order that follows the Millennium.
Covenant theology is much more in line with what traditional Protestant views have been. It tends to be amillennial, viewing the Millennium as the present reign of Christ in heaven and, through the Church, on earth. This is the historic Protestant view, in contrast to dispensationalism’s pre-millennial (future earthly reign of Christ) stance.
Covenant theology thus does not take Revelation as a checklist of future events but as a prophecy of events occurring at the beginning of or all through Church history. Consequently it does not see Revelation as a record of God’s future dealings with the Jewish people. When dealing with apparently unfulfilled prophecies that speak expressly of Israel—such as those in many of the Old Testament prophets—covenant theologians tend to apply them to the Church, arguing that the Church is the spiritual Israel. This “transfer” of prophecies from ethnic Israel to the Church does not go over well with dispensationalists.
If we may speak of the two systems in their unqualified forms, dispensationalism asserts that God still has future plans for the Jewish people and deduces that the Church is not spiritual Israel; covenant theology asserts that the Church is spiritual Israel and deduces that God has no future plans for the Jews different than his plans for any other people.
Both systems cite Scripture for the major premises of their arguments, and the verses they cite seem successful in showing these points. The problem is not with the Scripture passages cited by the two groups but with the conclusions they draw from them. It is the constraints of the two systems that keep their adherents from recognizing that the inferences they make do not follow.
The Catholic Church is able to acknowledge the truth that is found in both positions. Along with the dispensationalists the Church acknowledges that God does still have plans for the Jews as a unique people (Catechism of the Catholic Church 674). Paul clearly indicates this in his writings, especially in Romans 9–11, where he indicates God continues to fulfill his promises about the Jewish people by preserving a remnant of Jewish believers in Christ (11:1–5). This indicates a special place for Israel, for no other people has a promise that there will always be a believing remnant. God also has future plans for the Jewish people: One day the Jewish people as a nation will return to Christ, and this will be one of the signs of the Second Coming and the resurrection of the dead (11:12, 15).
On the other hand, along with covenant theologians, Catholics acknowledge that the Church is spiritual Israel or, in Catholic parlance, the “new Israel” (cf. CCC 877). This too is indicated in Paul’s writings: In Romans 9:6 he says that “not all who are of Israel are Israel.” This indicates the existence of two Israels. One—”all who are of Israel”—indicates the ethnic people, not all of whom believe in Jesus. The other Israel, the context reveals, does not include those who have rejected the Messiah. This new Israel, founded by Messiah, exists in spiritual continuity with the Old Testament saints and so counts as a “spiritual Israel.” It includes Gentiles who believe in the Messiah and so through baptism are spiritually circumcised (Col. 2:11–12) and are reckoned as spiritual Jews (Rom. 2:26–29).
In his letter to the Ephesians Paul is even more explicit about the Gentiles’ spiritual inclusion when he states that “you Gentiles in the flesh . . . were [once] separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel . . . But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near . . . So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints” (2:11–13, 19).
Thus the Catholic Church, not being constrained by the new theological systems of dispensationalism and covenant theology, is able to avoid the extremes of both while it acknowledges the truths both contain—as it has since before either was invented.
JEANNETTE’S notes:
So the Catholic Church, though partially recognizing the importance of having a relationship with the Jewish people and the state of Israel, still remains mostly within the “Replacement Theology” groups, who refuse to recognize and adhere to the BIBLICAL stance of what the LORD GOD Himself said about His people, whom HE chose, and made COVENANTS with, that will NEVER be broken.
NO Christian sect will EVER replace Israel! It is a clear tactic of the enemy-Satan—and many Christians have fallen for his tactic to make Israel an enemy of the Church, thereby calling the LORD God a LIAR when refusing to believe what He has written and commanded in His Word regarding Israel.
A QUICK word search of “Zion” brings up 163 occurrences in the ESV; 153 in the KJV; and 165 for the CSB. Bottom line, there are MANY passages within the OT and NT that utilize the word, “Zion” in Scripture. I think that makes it important enough for a person to READ and STUDY, before they decide to speak out against something they obviously know nothing about.
BTW—the word “Israel” occurs 2, 295 TIMES in the entire Bible (ESV). Now some of those ARE going to refer to Jacob, whose name was CHANGED to “Israel”—if THAT isn’t a MAJOR CLUE to the reader, that the LORD GOD chose a certain group of individuals (mind you, there were NOT SINLESS!) to have an INHERITANCE with them, and allow the MESSIAH to come through THEIR LINE—I don’t know what else to tell you all, or how to explain it to you, that THIS IS the MOST HIGH GOD’S decision, to CHOOSE these people, to work IN and THROUGH them, to bring about SALVATION to the ENTIRE WORLD; as the Apostle Paul stated, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the POWER of GOD for SALVATION to EVERYONE who believes, TO THE JEW FIRST and also to the Greek (Gentiles)” (Romans 1:16).
I know it is difficult for some, ESPECIALLY for my “C” catholic brothers and sisters, to imagine that something that the hierarchy of the Church taught us, could be “wrong”. We were taught that at any time someone or some group other than the Catholic Church speaks or believes opposite of what was handed down to us in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it would be considered “heresy”.
I think that the LORD God has allowed enough shocking and disappointing reports to be exposed by the CC over the past couple of decades, to let us realize that THESE MEN are HUMAN, they SIN, they are NOT “infallible”. EVERY member of the hierarchy (which is not even BIBLICAL, mind you—Scripture only spoke of priests, pastors, deacons, deaconesses, and BISHOPS—nothing more) WILL BE JUDGED by the Lord Jesus Christ on how THEY handled their congregation of sheep that they were to TEND to, preach and teach.
ALL of us as INDIVIDUAL believers in the LORD JESUS Christ, with GOD the Father, and the Holy Spirit WITHIN the person—being made “born again” by REPENTING of their sins, ACCEPTING the Lord Jesus into their lives, and ASKING for the HOLY SPIRIT to DWELL within them (see John 3:3,5,7; 14:26; 15:26; 16:13), in order to instruct and correct them, HUMBLE them when necessary (esp. when they must change their way of thinking!), etc. THAT way, then the individual believer will spiritually grow and mature into the man or woman of Christ the LORD God destined them to become. We are to be “temples of the Holy Spirit” because HE as the THIRD PERSON of the TRIUNE GODHEAD, dwells in EACH and every true believer, both JEW and GENTILE (1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19; Eph. 2:21-22).
Here are now some articles/blog posts from GotQuestions.org, that I have spoken about and shared some information from several times before:
FROM GOTQUESTIONS.ORG:What is Zionism/Christian Zionism?
Zionism, simply a political movement at its inception, has today become more of an ideology than anything else. Zionism is an international movement for the return of the Jewish people to Zion, the land of Israel, while exercising the right to retain authority of government over the state of Israel, which was promised to them in the Hebrew Scriptures. The roots for Zionism lie in Genesis chapters 12 and 15, in which God makes a covenant with Abraham promising him that his descendants would inherit the land between Egypt and the Euphrates River.
Due to the fact that Zionism was begun as a politically motivated movement, there exists among secular Gentiles and non-religious Jews a line of thought stating that the religious background of the Jewish people had nothing to do with Zionism. It is argued that Zionism was instead a reaction of the Jewish people to worldwide persecution during World Wars I and II. No nation would take them in, so they were forced to create their own nation, the land of their ancestry being the most opportune place.
Regardless, the Zionist movement, begun in the late 1890s, found fulfillment in 1948 when Israel was officially recognized as a state and granted sovereignty as a nation by the United Nations. This is when, technically, the political Zionist movement ended and the ideology of Zionism began, and as such, has become a much-debated topic. Some would say that Zionism has become a motivation for racism, or a reaction against anti-Semitism. Others believe that Zionism as it currently exists is merely Jewish patriotism.
Associated with Jewish Zionism is Christian Zionism. Christian Zionism is simply Gentile support of Jewish Zionism as based on the promises to Israel found in the Bible, passages such as Jeremiah 32 and Ezekiel 34. Christian Zionists are primarily evangelical and give support in any way possible to the Jewish state of Israel. The return of the Jews to the Promised Land is the fulfillment of prophecy and is seen, especially by dispensationalists, as a sign that the world has entered the end times.
Question: “Should Christians support the nation of Israel?”
Answer: Christians should definitely support the nation of Israel. We must remember that Israel, the nation, is special to God. We read in Deuteronomy 7:6-8 these words: “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.”
God’s eternal purpose is to bless the world through Israel. Already He has done so in measure, for “salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22), but the fullness of future blessing is indicated in the wondrous promise of Isaiah 27:6: “In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.”
The declaration that “salvation is from the Jews” suggests our immeasurable debt to Israel. All that we have worth having has come to us through the Jews. Our Bible is a Jewish book, and our Savior is a Jewish Savior. Let us never forget to pray for God’s chosen people. It is true that Israel is currently in rebellion against God because of their rejection of Christ. The nation is a secular, unbelieving (as to the claims of Scripture and their Messiah, Jesus Christ) nation, but “at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace” (Romans 11:5). Some Jews are being saved and are becoming members of the body of Christ through faith in their Messiah.
Jews are, biblically speaking, the “chosen people of God” and dearly loved by Him. Another reason for Christians to support the nation of Israel is the Abrahamic Covenant. We read of God’s promise in Genesis 12:2-3, “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (see also Genesis 27:29; Numbers 24:9).
From the biblical declarations of God’s love and care for His chosen people, the nation of Israel, and from the history of nations being destroyed because of their evil dealings with God’s chosen people, the Jews, Christian believers should give support to the chosen people of God. This is not to say that we necessarily support the methods they use in their relationships with the Arab nations. The Bible warned that conflict would always characterize the relations between the descendants of Isaac and Ishmael. Sadly, this conflict will continue until Jesus comes back to judge the nations and sets up His 1,000-year reign of peace on earth. We must look at the “big picture” with a biblical worldview. While we do not have to support everything Israel does as a nation, we most definitely should support Israel’s right to exist. God will fulfill His promises and covenants with Israel. God still has a plan for Israel. Woe to anyone who seeks to defeat that plan; “whoever curses you I will curse” (Genesis 12:3).
Question: “What is Zion? What is Mount Zion? What is the biblical meaning of Zion?”
Answer: Psalm 87:2–3 says, “The Lord loves the gates of Zion / more than all the other dwellings of Jacob. / Glorious things are said of you, / city of God.” According to this verse, Zion is synonymous with city of God, and it is a place that God loves. Zion is Jerusalem. Mount Zion is the high hill on which David built a citadel. It is on the southeast side of the city.
The word Zion occurs over 150 times in the Bible. It essentially means “fortification” and has the idea of being “raised up” as a “monument.” Zion is described both as the city of David and the city of God. As the Bible progresses, the word Zion expands in scope and takes on an additional, spiritual meaning.
The first mention of Zion in the Bible is 2 Samuel 5:7: “David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.” Zion was originally an ancient Jebusite fortress in the city of Jerusalem. After David’s conquest of the fortress, Jerusalem became a possession of Israel. The royal palace was built there, and Zion/Jerusalem became the seat of power in Israel’s kingdom..
When Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem, the meaning of Zion expanded further to include the temple area (Psalm 2:6; 48:2, 11–12; 132:13). This is the meaning found in the prophecy of Jeremiah 31:6, “Come, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.” In the Old Testament Zion is used as a name for the city of Jerusalem (Isaiah 40:9), the land of Judah (Jeremiah 31:12), and the nation of Israel as a whole (Zechariah 9:13).
The word Zion is also used in a theological or spiritual sense in Scripture. In the Old Testament Zion refers figuratively to Israel as the people of God (Isaiah 60:14). In the New Testament, Zion refers to God’s spiritual kingdom. We have not come to Mount Sinai, says the apostle, but “to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem” (Hebrews 12:22). Peter, quoting Isaiah 28:16, refers to Christ as the Cornerstone of Zion: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame” (1 Peter 2:6).
Mount Zion as a geographical area is currently the center of much dispute. The Bible is clear that, one day, Zion will be the sole possession of the Lord Jesus, and Zion—the nation and the city—will be restored. “Awake, awake, / Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion; / Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments, / O Jerusalem, the holy city; / For the uncircumcised and the unclean / Will no longer come into you” (Isaiah 52:1). And “the children of your oppressors will come bowing before you; / all who despise you will bow down at your feet / and will call you the City of the LORD, / Zion of the Holy One of Israel” (Isaiah 60:14).
Who are the true Israelites? Blog post By S. Michael Houdmann
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how many different theories there are regarding what happened to the lost tribes of Israel. There are many different groups who claim to be the true descendants of the biblical Israelites.
British-Israelism (also known as Anglo-Israelism) claims that the ancient Israelites migrated to England and other parts of Europe. As a result, the people of England and the United States are the true Israelites.
Groups such as the “Gathering of Christ” claim that African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders are the true Israelites.
There are also groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India which claim to be the true descendants of the Israelites. There is even a Japanese Israelism which claims some of the lost tribes migrated all the way to Japan.
Why do all these groups want to be recognized as the true Israelites? Simple. The Bible says that the people of Israel are God’s chosen nation (Genesis 12:1-3; Deuteronomy 7:7-9). Who, then, wouldn’t want to be a part of God’s chosen people?
I am going to propose a shocking theory here. Maybe, just maybe, the Israelis of today are the true descendants of the ancient Israelites.
Biblically speaking, the supposed “lost tribes” were never truly lost. 2 Kings 17:18 states that Israel was deported to Assyria in 722 BC. Second Chronicles 15:9 records people from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon settling in Judah long before the Assyrian invasion, however. Scripture also indicates that some of the people of the northern ten tribes remained in the land. Second Chronicles 35:18 mentions many Israelites celebrating the Passover with Judah around 90 years after Israel was deported to Assyria. When Judah was deported to Babylon in 586 BC, the Israelites who were living in Judah would have been included in the deportation. Regarding the deportees, Assyria and Babylon were in the same region. Deportees from Israel and Judah would likely have sought each other out and attempted to reunite culturally. Then, when King Cyrus gave the “Jews” the freedom to return to the land of Israel, the returnees would have been a mix of people from Israel and Judah. The title “Jew” resulted from the tribe of “Judah” being dominant.
But, since then, we have 2,500 years of history. There are Jews in most parts of the world today. Ashkenazi Jews (Jews who migrated to parts of Europe and intermarried to varying degrees with Europeans) are the dominant Jewish people group today. But this does not deny them true Israelite heritage. The Jews currently residing in Israel are not counterfeit Jews. Many/most of them are true biological descendants of the people from ancient Judah and Israel. There is no biblical, genealogical, historical, or genetic reason to deny that most modern Israelis are truly the descendants of the ancient Israelites.
Further, from God’s perspective, He knows precisely who are the inheritors of the promises He made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants. Since God’s promises to Israel are especially focused on the land of Israel, it would make sense for God to be calling His people back to the land He promised them. The end times revolve, largely, around the people of Israel being in the land of Israel. God will call 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel to be His witnesses (Revelation 7:4). God does not need genealogical records to know the people He has chosen.
At the same time, in this current dispensation, our relationship with God does not depend on being a member of His chosen nation (Ephesians 2:11-16). Jews and Gentiles all have equal access to the salvation that is provided through Jesus Christ (Romans 1:16). In the body of Christ, we are one in Christ (Galatians 3:28).
So sorry to burst your bubble Anglo-Israelites, Black Israelites, and whoever-else-says-we-are-the-true-Israelites. God keeps excellent records. God knows who His people are. And the identity of His chosen nation is not a secret or a mystery to Him.
S. Michael Houdmann
Question: “Are Israel and the church the same thing? Does God still have a plan for Israel?”
Answer: This topic is one of the more controversial in the Church today, and it has significant implications regarding the way we interpret Scripture, especially concerning the end times. More importantly, it has great significance in that it affects the way we understand the very nature and character of God Himself.
Romans 11:16-36 records the illustration of the olive tree. This passage speaks of Israel the (“natural” branches) being broken off from the olive tree, and the Church (“wild” branches or shoots) being grafted into the olive tree. Since Israel is referred to as branches, as well as the Church, it stands to reason that neither group is the “whole tree,” so to speak; rather, the whole tree represents God’s workings with mankind as a whole. Therefore, God’s program with Israel and God’s program with the Church are part of the outworking of His purpose among men in general. Of course, this is not intended to mean that either program is of little significance. As many commentators have noted, more space is given in the Bible regarding God’s programs with Israel and with the Church than any of God’s other dealings!
In Genesis 12, God promised Abraham that he would be the father of a great nation (the Jews), the Jews would possess a land, that nation would be blessed above all other nations, and all other nations would be blessed from Israel. So, from the beginning God revealed that Israel would be His chosen people on the earth, but that His blessing would not be limited to them exclusively. Galatians 3:14 identifies the nature of the blessing to come to all the other nations: “That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” All the nations of the world were blessed by Israel, through whom the Savior of the world came.
God’s plan of redemption is built upon the finished work of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David and Abraham. But Christ’s death on the cross is sufficient for the sins of the entire world, not just the Jews! Galatians 3:6-8 states, “Consider Abraham: ‘He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’ Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: ‘All nations will be blessed through you.’” Finally, Galatians 3:29 says, “If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” In other words, in Christ, believers are counted righteous by faith in the same way that Abraham was (Galatians 3:6-8). If we are in Christ, then we are partakers of the blessing of Israel and all nations in the redemptive work of Christ. Believers become the spiritual descendants of Abraham. Believers do not become physical Jews, but they may enjoy the same type of blessings and privileges as the Jews.
Now, this does not contradict or nullify the revelation given in the Old Testament. God’s promises in the Old Testament are still valid, and God’s relationship with Israel as a chosen people points to the work of Christ as a Redeemer of the whole world. The Mosaic Law is still mandatory for all Jews who have not yet accepted Christ as their Messiah. Jesus did what they could not do—fulfill the Law in all its details (Matthew 5:17). As New Testament believers, we are no longer under the curse of the Law (Galatians 3:13), because Christ has taken that curse upon Himself on the cross. The Law served two purposes: to reveal sin and mankind’s inability (on his own merit) to do anything about it, and to point us to Christ, who fulfills the Law. His death on the cross completely satisfies God’s righteous requirement of perfection.
God’s unconditional promises are not invalidated by the unfaithfulness of man. Nothing we do is ever a surprise to God, and He does not need to adjust His plans according to the way we behave. No, God is sovereign over all things—past, present and future—and what He has foreordained for both Israel and the Church will come to pass, regardless of circumstances. Romans 3:3-4 explains that Israel’s unbelief would not nullify His promises concerning them: “What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness? Not at all! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: ‘So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.’”
Promises made to Israel are still going to be kept in the future. We can be sure that all God has said is true and will take place, because of His character and consistency. The Church does not replace Israel and should not expect a symbolic fulfillment of the promises of the Old Covenant. As one reads Scripture, it is necessary to keep Israel and the Church separate.
JEANNETTE’S Final Note:
I have sincerely attempted once again to help you understand the importance of allowing the HOLY SPIRIT to be FIRST and FOREMOST, your teacher and guide (see 1 John 2:27). The Holy Spirit IS the LORD GOD Most High dwelling WITHIN each and every true believer.
BUT—there are reasons WHY the Apostle Paul made sure to tell his readers “And do not GRIEVE the Holy Spirit of God, by Whom were SEALED for the Day of Redemption” (Ephesians 4:30). Because Paul knew full well that us humans fight constantly with our flesh, to rebel against hearing the TRUTH—yes, even while we consider ourselves “Christians” and believers of God. That is because MOST believers either do not bother to LISTEN to the Holy Spirit when He is speaking to them (they do not RECOGNIZE His VOICE!), or they DO hear him, and refuse to CHANGE what has been taught to them by their respective church sects; OR—and this is the worst part—DO NOT TAKE GOD AT HIS WORD. Either an individual learns to be HUMBLE, and REPENT of their wrong thinking and ways, and any teachings that they have learned, and become WILLING to “hear what the SPIRIT has to say” (Matthew 11:15; Mark 4:23; Revelation 2:7; 13:9; 22:17)—OR, face the just and righteous judgment of the Lord Jesus Christ for not believing in HIS Word, when the Scriptures PLAINLY stated that HE—the Lord Jesus Christ IS the literal LIVING Word of God.
Bottom line—either an individual learns to HUMBLE themselves, and TAKE the Word of God seriously (take Him at HIS WORD) AND in its BIBLICAL context, allowing the Holy Spirit to teach, correct, chastise, etc. on EVERYTHING that Scriptures have taught us –even when it goes against their church’s traditions, in order to RESPECT and ADHERE to His Word, so we as individuals do NOT end up calling God a liar by not trusting what He has commanded to be written in the WHOLE counsel of God (Acts 20:27), even on topics regarding ISRAEL and the Jewish people, or—face His Judgment by His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Period.
ONE book I can suggest for you to read (I have it but have not read it yet myself, but I totally respect and recommend almost anything from Amir Tsarfati), is The Israel Decree, by Amir Tsarfati. It’s only 116 pages long—a quick read, but definitely is meant to help the believers in Christ to further understand “God’s unbreakable Covenant with His People and Their Land”.
There will come a Day in mankind’s history that there will be no more opportunities to either accept or reject the Lord Jesus as both Lord and Savior of the Universe.
That Day is fast approaching, and no one knows when it will happen. But it WILL.
The FACT that it is WRITTEN in God’s ✡️📖✝️Holy Word should be enough for a person to thoroughly examine themselves, and see what f they would be able to “Enter into the joy of the Lord” (Matthew 25:21) on That Day.
That is a personal decision that every single human being must make.
Evil is showing itself to us boldly these days; that’s because the devil and the evil spirits know their Time here is short.
Those evil ones KNOW and BELIEVE what Jesus said in His 📖Word to s TRUE—He WILL RETURN, and once His Judgment begins here on Earth, Satan’s days of deceiving humanity will be OVER. Tragically, most humans DON’T believe.
But whoever was deceived into thinking that God and His Word were FALSE, will learn all too well that they were WRONG.
Scripture warns us what will happen to those who rejected the Word of Christ (Revelation 20:11-15).
PLEASE take the time out NOW to seek the Lord Jesus, Who IS the living Word of God (John 1:1,14), do the research, ask the questions, and find and discern the TRUTH from the lies.
I am more than willing to help anyone in their faith journey. DM me and I will help you from all that I have learned in my faith walk with the Lord and the whole counsel of His ✡️📖✝️Word (Acts 20:27).
🙏📖“SEEK the LORD while He may be found, CALL upon Him while He is near” (Isaiah 55:6).
🙏📖“You will seek Me and find Me, WHEN you SEEK ME with all your heart” ( Jeremiah 29:13).
THIS here is an addiction chart from Association of Biblical Counselors, part of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, of which I am a member.
Courtesy of A.B.C.
THIS addiction chart is for ANY type of addiction a person may have; it starts with the pride/lust for whatever it is that the person thinks they must have. Following the path of decline in the chart, unfortunately picking up more demonic strongholds along the way (because in REALITY, that IS what they all are, no matter HOW they got there, or WHO let them “in” to that individual), the person not only becomes weaker and more susceptible to becoming a prisoner of the addiction, in the end, there is ALWAYS remorse, guilt, and could lead to destruction/death of that individual, IF they do NOT recognize their need for DELIVERANCE of those addictive strongholds.
IN THIS NEW YEAR, I wanted to start putting posts up 1-2 a month (on my professional FB page and/or blog page), or as many as the Holy Spirit leads me to, about the many different ways humans allow themselves to have strongholds, and the several enticing paths that the enemy of our souls deceptively lead humans down, to become CAPTIVES of those strongholds, making them feel like there is no way out.
Those strongholds come into a person FIRST through the THOUGHTS in their minds–the FIERY DARTS (Eph. 6:16, KJV) that Satan and the demonic entities entice a person with. Those “fiery darts” most of the time are something of an “Achille’s heel” to a person, whether it be alcohol, drugs, sex, pornography, gluttony, etc.
The evil ones KNOW us better than we know ourselves. They have been here for several MILLENNIA, watching, observing, “taking notes”, and knowing just how to STRIKE at their “opponent”–the human being, BECAUSE we are made in the image of the Most High God (Genesis 1:26-27).
BUT FIRST, I must address a very GRAVE and serious issue that I have come to realize within the Body of Christ, when it comes to the written ✡️📖✝️Word of God.
It’s one thing for a human being that has no desire to believe or heed the Word of God. They automatically deny everything about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit when that individual aligns themselves with any other god/cult/false religion that exists in this demonically infested world we live in.
The LORD God, since the days of Genesis and the Garden of Eden, HAS ALLOWED us human beings to CHOOSE whether or not we will give allegiance to HIM and His Word, or, to follow our own fleshly desires, and continue on the path of destruction, which unfortunately leads to what is called the eternal “second death” in the Lake of 🔥Fire (see Revelation 20:11-15).
THE ONLY WAY to escape that, is to ACKNOWLEDGE and REPENT of one’s sins, ACCEPT the LORD JESUS CHRIST as BOTH Savior AND LORD of their lives, and–very important–seek to be DELIVERED and SET FREE from any and all spiritual strongholds and bondages that have been in their lives, keeping them from living the purposeful life in Christ, that the LORD God destined for each and every human being.
EACH and every person MUST be tested, just like Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden. The LORD God Elohim ALLOWED that serpent–(HaSatan/Lucifer/the devil–see Isaiah 14:12-14, Ezekiel 28:13-16; Rev. 12:9) to TEMPT Earth’s first human beings. What was now being disguised as a Serpent to Adam and Eve became rebellious in his service and ministry to the LORD God (he WAS an anointed Guardian Cherub of the rank of the supernatural entities called Cherubim in the Kingdom of Heaven)
I know that even many Christians cannot wrap their heads around the BIBLICAL FACT that the LORD God HAS ALLOWED the evil ones SUCH as HaSatan, to “roam about, seeking whom they may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). It is not only to TEST us, but to also see where our ALLEGIANCE lies–whether it be with the Most High God and taking Him at His Word, OR–aligning oneself to one or more of the gods of this world, that the LORD God told us in His commandments to “have no other gods before/besides Me” (Ex. 20:3); nor are we to have made any pagan carved images of those gods, and then pray and worship them (Ex. 20:4-5) instead of the Most High God. The LORD was very plain in His speech throughout the Old and New Testaments, that NO OTHER GODS were to come before HIM and usurp His authority in any way.
But even Christians have allowed those demonic entities to fool them in one way or another, and deceive them into not only acknowledging, but some have even served AND worshipped, those demonic entities that parade around as gods TO THIS DAY. As absurd as it sounds, we see it happening all around us–many so-called faith leaders have done EXACTLY what the OT prophets, the Lord Jesus, the apostles John, Paul, and Peter warned us that they would do in the coming last days–depart from the true Faith, and be turned to idols, false teachers (2 Cor. 11:13; 2 Peter 2:1), false Christs (Matt. 24:24), false prophets (Matt. 7:15; 24:11; Mk. 13;22), and false gods (Jer. 14:22; 18:15; Zech. 10:2), leading them to their eternal death and destruction (Rev. 20:10-15).
WE ARE to TEST these spirits (1 John 4:1-3), to see whether they are true or false! It’s obvious that MANY human beings have to their eternal detriment, NOT tested those spirits, and have aligned themselves with such false teachers, prophets, gods, etc.
WE ARE LIVING in the days that 2 Timothy spoke about when it comes to having to preach the word when it is NOT welcomed in the increasingly demonic and fleshly-ruled world system we live in–“For the TIME is coming (and IS NOW HERE!) when people will NOT endure sound (spiritually healthy) teaching, but HAVING ITCHING EARS they will accumulate to themselves teachers (false teachers!) to SUIT THEIR OWN passions, TURNING AWAY from listening to the TRUTH (of God’s Word!) and wander off into MYTHS (lies of the devil)” (see 2 Tim. 4:1-5 for the entire passage in context).
Even church leaders from all the different splintered sects try and either dismiss God’s ✡️📖✝️written Word, ignoring what He has said, or worse yet, break the commandment written in Deuteronomy 4:2–“You shall NOT add to the word that I command you, NOR take from it, that you may KEEP the commandments of the LORD your God that I COMMAND YOU.”
In other words, DON’T PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO BELIEVE IN THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD’S WRITTEN ✡️📖✝️WORD (see Acts 20:27).
I would also like to add here, the warning given by the Apostle John in Revelation 18-19, which solidifies and backs up Deuteronomy 4:2–(I obviously added the emojis for effect):
(v18)”I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: ✨if anyone adds ✨to them, God will add to him the 💥plagues 💥described in this book, (v19) and if ✨anyone takes away ✨from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will 💥take away 💥his share in the Tree of Life and in the Holy City, which are described in this 📖book.”
The blatant disrespect for God’s Word, and the rebellious ways I have seen and heard some so-called “Christian” churches in the 21st century handle God’s Word (truly most of them are the Laodicean churches mentioned in Revelation 3:14-19!)–it is only BY the LORD Jesus’ blood that HE shed on the Cross for us ALL, that keeps certain individual church leaders ALIVE, allowing them to WAKE UP the next day, in order to REPENT before God’s mercy ENDS for them!!
Those rabbinical and church leaders seem to forget (and I won’t put all those biblical verses here–you can look it up for yourselves) just HOW MUCH they are going to be held RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE for NOT heeding the Word of God themselves, AND also, for not TEACHING and PREACHING the whole counsel of God to their congregations! As the Lord Jesus Himself said, “Everyone to whom MUCH was given, of him MUCH MORE will be required…” (Luke 12:48).
Those servants of God who dared to preach and teach His Word, YET, who instead of led MILLIONS (and for those false teachers/prophets/cult leaders–BILLIONS) to their eternal death, BECAUSE they refused to HUMBLY ADHERE TO and PREACH the whole counsel of God, THEIR ETERNAL DESTINATION will be the LAKE 🔥of 🔥FIRE, UNLESS THEY REPENT.
I am making this a LONG post THIS time on purpose, in order take the time out to make you, the reader, realize HOW SERIOUS it is to take God’s Word AS TRUTH, especially if you call yourself a “Christian”. This will stay on my page, and I will also add it to my blog page (see my bio for link), so others can see and read it, in order to go back and reference all the Scriptural verses as I present many more posts that deal with all types of demonic doorways, infiltrations, infestations into people’s lives, vexations, obsessions, oppressions, and sometimes even possessions (that can only be dealt with the person being exorcised and delivered by professional exorcists and deliverance workers by that point).
The Holy Spirit is the one SINCE the time of PENTECOST (Acts 2), to DWELL IN and work THROUGH every person who TRULY has “called upon the name of the LORD to be saved” (Joel 2:32; Acts 2:21). It is HE, the same SPIRIT, Who works IN and through ME (see Act 2:38)–and every other true servant of the Most High God, BECAUSE that is the GIFT we all receive when we become true children of God. He SPEAKS to all those WILLING to HEAR what He has to say (see such verses as Eze. 3:27; Matt. 11:15; Mk. 4:23; Rev. 2:7, 11; 3:6; 13:9).
The Holy Spirit, Who is GOD in the THIRD PERSON of the TRIUNE GODHEAD, is responsible for CONVICTING (see Jn. 16:8), teaching, correcting, chastising, comforting, encouraging, emboldening, etc. (see Jn. 14:16-17, 26; 15:26-27; 16:13) each and every CHILD of GOD that confesses Jesus as Lord (see Jn. 3:3, 5, 7; Jn. 1:12).
WE who confess to be children of the Most High God and our Lord Jesus Christ–our bodies become HIS TEMPLE (see 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 6:19; Eph. 2:21) that the LIVING SPIRIT of GOD dwells in.
HOPEFULLY now you will realize how serious it is to not only call yourself a Christian, but more importantly, to BELIEVE and ACCEPT (even though we do NOT understand ALL that God says and does in His Word and in our daily faith walk with Him–we cannot possibly understand it all–see Isaiah 55:8-9) the WHOLE COUNSEL of His Word, TRUSTING that in time, the Spirit (if you give Him the opportunity TO speak to you) WILL teach and explain these things to you, that you do not comprehend in God’s Word.
IN ORDER for a person to completely be SET FREE and DELIVERED from any and all mental (because it always starts with those fiery darts!), emotional, physical, and obviously SPIRITUAL demonic bondages, a person MUST HUMBLE THEMSELVES, forsake ANY and ALL other false belief systems/pagan practices/gods, etc. –EVEN the false or exaggerated traditions that have transpired in certain Christian churches/circles, etc.–REPENT of our sins (see Romans 3:10,20, 23; 6:23) CONFESS those sins (Rom. 10:9-10), calling upon the name of the LORD to be saved (Rom. 10:13), and ALLOW the LORD God through the HOLY SPIRIT to CLEANSE you from your sins (see 1 John 1:9) through CONFESSION of them, WASH you in the WATER of God’s Word (see Eph. 5:26), rid you of all those evil, demonic strongholds that have been keeping you deaf, dumb, and blind to God’s truth in His Word.
ONCE you truly do that, you WILL be a child of God; you WILL have “put off the works of darkness and (have) put on the armor of light (Rom. 13:12), and MOST importantly, having the HOLY SPIRIT of God IN you, to work THROUGH you, you would have then “…put on the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and make no provision for the FLESH, to gratify its desires” (Rom. 13:14) in you any longer!!
ONCE an individual has “put on” and IN themselves, the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord of their lives, they THEN will receive the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh–the HOLY SPIRIT to DWELL IN them (and ONLY then, will they receive Him–that is how you know WHO truly is a child of the King–by the spiritual CHANGES that happen in their lives!). That person WILL allow their spirit, soul (mind, will, intellect), AND body (see 1 Thessalonians 5:23 to see that we ARE made up OF PRIMARILY, spirit, THEN soul, THEN our fleshly COVERING–NOT the opposite way like the demonic world makes humans think it is!) to come under the RULE of the HOLY SPIRIT, Who is ONE with the FATHER and the SON.
EPHESIANS 4:4-6 spell it out for us as well how we are to be ONE with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, AND HIS WORD–that CANNOT be left out–(after all, does John 1:1,14 tell us plainly that CHRIST IS THE literal and living WORD OF GOD?) –and I’ll end the post with this passage, and interject within the passage as well:
“There is ONE BODY and ONE SPIRIT (any other spirit that exists in a person’s body is a DEMONIC SPIRIT)–just as you were CALLED to the ONE HOPE (JESUS) that belongs to your call– ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM, ONE GOD and Father of ALL, Who is over all, and THROUGH all, and IN ALL (of His children).”
Walking in the Dark with Faith 