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Scripture, Post-modernism and Interpretation

poster55375284 I really like this…

Scripture is not meant for private interpretation but it is to over rule them! Sounds kinda scriptural to me…

2Pe 1:20  knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation.

2Ti 2:15  Give diligence to present yourself approved to God, a workman unashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

I remember someone had once said to me that you could interpret the bible individually, meaning privately. But scripture says that you can’t!

Another thing that hit me after reading these verses was that ‘post-modern, relativism’ is made up of personal opinion; what’s true for you isn’t true for me’. When one counters that with what God actually says on any given subject then critique can often be felt as a personal attack. So is it any wonder why people cry out… “you’re intolerant, you are not speaking in love”.

The other point is that tolerance is raised to a higher virtue than truth today. The word tolerance has changed to mean something more than respecting differing opinions, it now means ‘not believing in anything for sure’.

As I have come across people who have embraced certain teachings that are not scriptural I am reminded of these verses:

Eph 4:14-16  that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;  but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ; from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

Charles Spurgeon said:

The glorious charity of the present day is such, that it believes lies to be as good as truth; and lies and truth have met together and kissed each other; and he that telleth truth is called a bigot, and truth has ceased to be honourable in the world! Ah! beloved, we know better than to profess such unlimited, but false charity; the truth is, we know how to "hold fast the form of sounds words," which has been given to us, because in this way we grow. Changeable people cannot grow much.

Joh 8:31  So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
Joh 8:32  and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

Just my thoughts for the day :)

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Calvin L. Smith: Stephen Sizer as Anti-Replacement Theology Champion?

bloketree I just thought I would direct you to a post written by Dr Calvin Smith, a post for all of you who are interested in modern Israel, the Jews and the implications for the Church. In that post he writes about Stephen Sizer, supercessionism and replacement theology which is an ongoing debate within Christendom at the moment. As time goes on — and as Israel and Jerusalem becomes more of a stumbling block in the political world — it will also become a topic that concerns the Church more and more.

Here’s a snippet of the post to whet your appetite…

I note Stephen Sizer will be speaking at Bethlehem Bible College’s Christ at the Checkpoint conference (March 2010), aimed at promoting a reading and reflection upon Scripture from a distinctly Palestinian perspective. The title of Sizer’s paper is "Israel and the Church: Challenging Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Replacement Theology."

Anyway, the notion of Stephen challenging replacement theology appears somewhat incongruous. In the past, several other supercessionists have tried (not very successfully) to distance themselves from the label "replacement theology". You see, ditching punitive supercessionism while holding to variations of either economic or structural supercessionism (see R. Kendall Soulen’s useful book The God of Israel and Christian Theology for definitions of the terminology) doesn’t qualify as having eschewed replacement theology. True, there are technical differences between these variations of supercessionism, nonetheless all mean the same thing semantically and theologically[…]

If you want to weigh in on the debate, I know that Calvin would be all to willing and happy to answer any questions about this ongoing issue regarding The Jews, Modern Israel and the New Supercessionism that we see today.

Please direct any queries and comments to this link: Calvin L. Smith: Stephen Sizer as Anti-Replacement Theology Champion?

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Mikvah the living waters is our Hashem, our hope

Wow… just did some more study on the Mikvah and found this little bit of treasure…

The word mikveh is from the same root as the word for "hope" and has allegorically been used to refer to a hope in Hashem. In the Book of Jeremiah, the word mikveh is used in this sense, with the mikveh’s association with rain and "living water" being given a metaphorical purpose:

O Hashem, the [mikveh] of Israel, all who forsake you will be ashamed … because they have forsaken Hashem, the fountain of living water
Are there any of the worthless idols of the nations, that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, Hashem our G-d, and do we not [nikvah] for you? For you have made all these things. Jeremiah 17:13 and Jeremiah 14:22
Mikveh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hasham, the living water is our God!

And who is the living water???

Joh 4:7  There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

Joh 7:37  And in the last day of the great feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
Joh 7:38  The one believing into Me, as the Scripture said, Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.

That gave me a light bulb moment!

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Baptism by full immersion and the Mikvah connection…

415px-Piero,_battesimo_di_cristo_04 I was just talking to my mum about a family member who had recently been confirmed in the Lutheran Church. And my mum said… I don’t know why some Churches don’t do the full immersion while others do?

Anyway, the conversation led to the Jewish Mikvah. My mum had never heard about it before. So, off to goolge I go and found a little something about the Mikvah. What I found interesting is the fact that the Mikvah was a purification immersion and it is basically a cleansing a defiled person who has been in contact with the dead.

Aren’t we considered dead before we become born again?

Notice that the Mikvah meant that you could not participate in the Holy Temple unless the deadness had been washed away. I thought that was an interesting shadow of the fulfilment in Christian baptism.

 

Main article: Mikvah

Although the term "baptism" is not used to describe the Jewish rituals, the purification rites (or mikvah – ritual immersion) in Jewish laws and tradition have some similarity to baptism, and the two have been linked In the Jewish Bible and other Jewish texts, immersion in water for ritual purification was established for restoration to a condition of "ritual purity" in specific circumstances. For example, Jews who (according to the Law of Moses) became ritually defiled by contact with a corpse had to use the mikvah before being allowed to participate in the Holy Temple. Immersion is required for converts to Judaism as part of their conversion. Immersion in the mikvah represents a change in status in regards to purification, restoration, and qualification for full religious participation in the life of the community, ensuring that the cleansed person will not impose uncleanness on property or its owners Num. 19 and Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Chagigah, p. 12). This change of status by the mikvah could be obtained repeatedly, while Christian baptism is, like circumcision, unique and not repeatable. John the Baptist adopted baptismal immersion as the central sacrament in his messianic movement. Baptism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We are walking corpses until we have been born of the Spirit and Water. Jesus says…

Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God!

Does the above verse actually mean baptised in the Spirit and water baptism?

What do you think?

Oh, and this is interesting…

Joh 7:38  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.

Oh, and this is interesting too…

Some, such as a Zav, however require "living water," such as springs or groundwater wells. Living water has the further advantage of being able to purify even while flowing as opposed to rainwater which must be stationary in order to purify. [source]

The living water was required as it is written Lev 15:13

It just amazes me at how Jewish Jesus was!

Filed under: Christianity, Hebrew, Judaism, Midrash, Religion, Theology, discernment

The fathers role in bringing up the children…

I read this today and I wanted to share it with you…

Raising children to serve God doesn’t happen by itself. Fathers must intentionally engage their children in a long-term, step-by-step plan towards God’s higher purpose.

On the fathering side of the parenting equation, many dads are uncertain and insecure with their role. Because I speak often on the topic of raising kids, I talk with many dads who are knee deep in the task. A shocking number of them (and moms, too) feel ill-equipped to bring up the children God has entrusted to them.

Fathers need to go back and reread Genesis 18:19, one of the foundational texts for being a good dad. “For I have chosen him [Abraham], so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him” (NIV). Engaging Our Children – Answers in Genesis

Filed under: Christianity, Theology

God foreknew and ALSO predestined…

Just reflecting on a few verses after listening to THIS [62 minutes of very interesting stuff].   Saffron planet tackle head-on the big topic of predestination vs free will. Ordinary people with very real concerns discuss the issues debated endlessly by the Calvinists and Arminianists. Does God just have foreknowledge of who’s going to heaven or is it all carved in stone? How do these issues affect our evangelism? Once saved always saved or lose it if you abuse it? Turn on your brains and join us in this lively chat.

Rom 8:28  And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Rom 8:29  For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Eph 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Eph 1:4  even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Eph 1:5  he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
Eph 1:6  to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

Questions that have been brought up:

  1. In regards to predestination does this limit God’s love of all people in the world. In other words does He love only those He has predestined?
  2. Is God’s death from some and not for all?
  3. Can we come up with a balance of God’s sovereignty, God’s love and mercy and God’s foreknowledge… how can we balance that? How do those three strands unite and balance?
  4. Thinking of the Old Testament where God chose Jacob and hated Esau is that salvific predestination or is that choosing servants for God’s earthly purpose?
  5. If people don’t have that blessed assurance of salvation is it because they do not understand if the concept of ‘once saved always saved’ and this is why they are being rocked when it comes to difficult doctrines? If they really know that they ARE a child of God then they would be open to all sorts of stimulus and doctrinal debate without having their faith rocked. So, is ‘once saved always saved’ a doctrinal certainty?
  6. If peoples faith is rocked when debating doctrinal arguments, does this mean that their relationship with God is clothed in uncertainty. If so, does this mean that they may not be saved in the first place?
  7. If we are rocked then perhaps we need to look at our foundations? Hebrews 6 speaks about certain fundamentals that need to be in place:
  8. Heb 6:1  Therefore, leaving behind the elementary teachings about Christ, let us continue to be carried along to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, faith toward God,
    Heb 6:2  instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

  9. If we have a desire in our heart to know God is that God’s predestined grace upon us?
  10. How can someone be a child of God and then turn away? Can we judge a child of God by what they once said and did, or by their perseverance of their faith?

 

Filed under: Christianity, Philosophy & Religion, Theology, discernment

New blog to blogroll – Thanks Carla for the find!

[Hat-tip: Carla, once again from More Books and Things] You go girl!!!

About “Finding Truth in Jesus”

In 2006, I began to realize the church I was attending was quickly transitioning into an emergent church. I suppose that for awhile I ignored the signs, and hoped it wouldn’t get any worse.

The influence continued, and the final “straw that broke the camel’s back” was when the minister started teaching a series on contemplative prayer; which is simply transcendental meditation couched in Christian sounding terminology, but there’s nothing Christian about it.

I went to the minister to express my concern over this teaching, and gave him a copy of A Time Of Departing by Ray Yungen. To make a painfully long story short, I realized it was time to leave this congregation.

During the transition of leaving, I had opportunity to talk with several people about “spiritual formation”, the “emergent church”, and “contemplative prayer”, but I was frustrated with the number of websites I would refer people to for more information on these subjects.

I had wished I had one simple web address to refer people to, where they could get ample information, but also be directed to the vast wealth of data located on other websites. That desire led to the creation of this website.

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The Children Are the Key

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I found this article via facebook which I thought was pretty good. It’s about teaching children biblical truth…

It is in the minds and hearts of our children that the battle will be fought.

[…]Something shocking came to light: that—of those who left the church—if they attended Sunday school regularly as kids, they were actually worse off! That is, they were more likely to become anti-church, more inclined to defend abortion and “gay” marriage, and more likely to believe in evolutionism and millions of years than those who didn’t go to Sunday school regularly!

One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don’t teach how we know the Bible is true, how to defend the faith, and how to answer the sceptical questions of today. The Children Are the Key – Answers in Genesis

The article considers some important points about the importance of teaching children biblical truth from a young age. But what I found even more interesting is that there were comments from a broad range of people on facebook.

One commenter says…

So this is what it is all about: Trust Him with your life. Forget the legalism; let His Spirit guide you!…
And THIS is what we need to teach your children: connect to the spirit as early as possible! Using the bible to separate right from wrong only leads to legalism; let Him guide you!

Can you see a flaw in this statement?

Filed under: Apostasy, Christian Pragmatism, Christianity, Creation & Evolution, Creation/Evolution, New-Age, Philosophy & Religion, Post-modernism, Religion, Theology, discernment

The keys to unlocking the Truth of Scripture

RK1 Renaissance keys OneI have just found an article that gets down to the nuts and bolts of interpreting scripture. With soooo much liberal hermeneutical principles being applied today, this post stands in stark contrast and explains how to understand the scriptures the way they were intended to be understood.

Worth reading if you don’t understand the historical, grammatical hermeneutical method of interpretation.

Our goal should be to understand the text as God and the human writers of Scripture intended. To understand correctly any passage of Scripture, Christians must first ask, “What kind of passage is this?” Unlocking the Truth of Scripture – Answers in Genesis

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Demonology – what does the bible say?

An interesting article about demons and satan…

Demons have always opposed God, His purposes, and His people. In the Old Testament days, demons brought attacks against God’s nation, Israel. Demons also oppose the Church, Christ’s body.

They promote false doctrine and divisions, they produce false teachers and followers, and they incite persecution. No other religion of the world receives such opposition and deadly persecution. Satan and demons hate the Messiah—the Creator who became the Savior—and anyone who follows Him.

Satan and demons have not faded from the scene. They continue their evil activity. Their activity is more blatant in some places than others, but their presence is still experienced worldwide. The Bible warns that their activity will reach new heights in the future. The pinnacle of satanic activity will be embodied in Antichrist and his program (2 Thessalonians 2:9).

Read the rest at – Demons on a Leash – Answers in Genesis

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Saffronplanet.net

I found this site via Moriel

Saffron Planet is a simple concept. It is just a group of ordinary folk, four Christian families and their friends, who wish to know more about God, His word and His dealings with the world. They meet up on Sunday afternoons and chat around a dining table on a variety of topics. These chats are edited and broadcast as podcasts on www.SaffronPlanet.net for all who wish to share in our journey.

Saffron Planet are the Maltz, Werth, Jeffery and Hill families, spanning two generations and fifty years. Within these families are teachers, authors, broadcasters, musicians, media professionals, housewives and schoolkids, representing a wide range of experiences and aspirations but united in their desire to see true Biblical Christianity taught and practiced in our nation. Who are we? | Saffronplanet.net

It looks like an interesting site.

Note:

Please remember to use discernment with all sites.

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The Fourth Kind

Author Gary Bates went a saw a movie called “The Fourth Kind” which is a documentary/drama about alien abduction. He has been one of few Christians that has extensively researched this topic. He has written a review about this movie which is worth a read as it clearly explains that there is something spiritual happening to people which he does not deny.

But are these encounters aliens from another world or are they something far more sinister?

The portrayal of the scarred Tyler is harrowing, though. Although this may be a fictional account, the reality of such seriously damaged people is only too evident to those involved in abduction research. It is the real evidence of altered and broken lives that is only too recognizable as the fruit of the evil one using such deceptive and destructive practices to spite His Creator and turn the very subjects that God loves away from Him. Sadly, this fact is lost on secular researchers. Amazingly, the last scene with Tyler is extremely revealing. Her interviewer asks, “You said they claim to be God” (one entity was recorded saying these words in the movie). Tyler responds and says, “No, they

A grand illusion

People are not being abducted by aliens.
Nor have advanced extraterrestrial races evolved on other planets.
Nor has God created such races of extraterrestrials. However, many people are having real experiences at the hands of deceptive fallen angels and demons. These entities are creating an elaborate charade that undergirds (and is undergirded by) the theory of evolution which also undermines God’s rightful place as King of the universe. The experience can be real, but the charade is not. As some well-known Christian commentators also noted:

“… how credible is it to think that literally thousands of extraterrestrials would fly millions or billions of light-years simply to teach New Age philosophy, deny Christianity, and support the occult. . . . Why would they consistently lie about things which we know are true, and why would they purposefully deceive their contacts?”

One thing he writes and something that I totally agree with, is that the Church should have answers for these people who have been so traumatised by their experiences with these deceptive beings.

He writes…

This area of spiritual warfare should be “bread and butter” for the church. It grieves me that many leaders do not know how to reach, and are not even willing to try and understand what is happening to, these people. A loving church that could embrace and explain this phenomenon will have people turning up at its door for answers. Unfortunately, most experiencers that I have met have felt shunned by the church. Instead, they seek the assistance of those in the UFO community who, sadly, will only reinforce the lie that they are being visited by highly evolved benevolent beings from another planet.

A must read article called The Fourth Kind!

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Five very important matters of faith…

The Five Basic Doctrines:

1. The Trinity: God is one "What" and three "Whos" with each "Who" possessing all the attributes of Deity and personality.
2. The Person of Jesus Christ: Jesus is 100% God and 100% man for all eternity.
3. The Second Coming: Jesus Christ is coming bodily to earth to rule and judge.
4. Salvation: It is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
5. The Scripture: It is entirely inerrant and sufficient for all Christian life.

The major religions of the world all deny all of these major doctrines. Sadly, there are those within Christendom that are denying these fundamental truths.

To find out why these five things are extremely important read this PDF file written by Sandy Simpson.

Anyway, here is a poll for you to do…

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2012 – It could be in the numbers!

This was a thought provoking post written about 2012. Give it  a read and see what you think about the numerology in it…

"2012 TEOTWAWKI". (TEOTWAWKI is an acronym for "The End of The World As We Know It.")
The column was focused on secular prophecy’s confluence on the year 2012. The Mayan calendar ends on December 24, 2012 with the destruction of mankind on the earth.
Nostradamus pictures the end of the world sometime in the first part of the 21st century, as does the Catholic seer, St Malachy.
The Great Pyramid of Cheops contains a staircase that is said to be equal to the number of years before the end of the world. It runs out of steps at the year 2012.
I don’t give extra-Biblical prophecy much credibility — but I don’t totally discount it, either. Here is why. God is omniscient, (all-knowing) whereas Satan is just a really smart created being with a plan.

In a sense, God is the Author of two Great Books — the Bible, and the Book of Creation in which we are all characters. It is in the reading of these two Books that one sees that continuity of character and style unique to God.
God’s creation is ‘by the numbers’ and those numbers are as precise and necessary to the Big Picture as are the words used to describe it. The universe operates according to precise mathematical rules.
Look at the sublime precision of chemistry, for example.. All the elements combine in very precise mathematical ways to produce their various compounds. Each of the elements are recorded on a valance chart — the precise number and weight of each atom can be counted and measured.
Every plant has a precise number of leaves or petals, arranged in a precise order. Every living thing has a certain number of chromosomes in its cellular structure according to its design. Man has twenty-three paired chromosomes. A dog has thirty-nine. An ape has twenty-four.
God uses numbers to illustrate truths — and just as often to conceal them until the appointed time. Take the number One. "Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is One God." [source]

The article explains biblical numerology and and it will be in the year 2012 that the earths population will reach seven billion people…

Then we come to the number seven. The number seven is representative in Scripture of spiritual perfection.

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Aliens are spiritual in nature…

My last post was about the possibility of Alien Disclosure from President Obama. Now, I prefaced that post with a caution to be discerning which I hope you will do.

Listening further to the interview between Art Bell and Dr. Stephen Greer, Greer spoke about what you should do if you come across a close encounter of the third kind. He said that you should not panic, meditate and centre yourself into a non-locality consciousness and what he means by that is that you can learn how to centre your consciousness into a universal constant. I bet that sounds familiar to those of you who have been researching the emerging church movement??? He goes on to say that you must to this to invite them to come over and open up a spirit of dialogue!

You can listen to that interview HERE. He goes on to say that if you are skilled in this you can remote view the occupants of the UFO.

So… yep, this is a spiritual thing. He then goes on to say that you can purchase materials on his website that will help you learn how to get into this deep meditative state so that you can invite these Aliens in and have what  he calls an CE5 encounter; a close encounter of the fifth kind.

"HIDDEN TRUTH" BOOK and CD

The amazing autobiography of Steven M. Greer, MD – "Hidden Truth – Forbidden Knowledge". In one of the most astounding and moving true stories ever told, Dr. Greer relates his own personal experiences with Extraterrestrial peoples and the unfolding of cosmic awareness since his childhood. From his sighting of a UFO at an early age, to his amazing near-death experience at age 17, to his unraveling of the secret cabal running the illegal transnational energy and UFO-related projects, to his meetings with a CIA Director, US Senators, heads of state and royalty – you will be moved, shocked and enlightened as you read through this memoir. Read more.
Order the book and CD separately. The CD includes the following Guided Meditations from the book:

  • Structure of the Universe – 31 minutes
  • Contacting ET Beings and a Meditation and Prayer for Earth

The Disclosure Project – Shopping

He also has a CD set called Cosmic Consciousness – A course in advance mantra meditation. Just check out “The Disclosure Project – Shopping” link above.

Now… with all the centering prayer and meditation that is going on in the Church and with the UFOlogists doing the same thing and trying to connect with a something that is inter-dimensional, does this not concern you??? Think about how the whole environmental crusaders would be willing to listen to possible answers that help this planet clean up. Are we being primed to accept something that is super-spiritual in nature? Has the bible spoke about this? I believe the bible has. And what is says is that there will be a strong delusion sent by God Himself…

2Th 2:9  The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
2Th 2:10  and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
2Th 2:11  Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,

Why is this sent?

Because they don’t love the truth that would save them!

What is that truth?

Love of the truth — not merely love of truth, but love of THE truth (and of, Jesus who is the Truth, in opposition to Satan’s “lie,” 2Th 2:9, 2Th 2:11; Joh 8:42-44), can save (Eph 4:21). We are required not merely to assent to, but to love the truth (Psa 119:97).

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In The Days: Current news events in the light of biblical prophecy » Official disclosure of extraterrestrial life is imminent

nephilim2 Ok…I said I was going to have a break, but I did happen across a post on one of my favourite blogs “More Books and Things” that needed to be brought to light. Please use discernment in regards to this topic. Remember that we should have our eyes fixed only on Jesus and His Word.

I have blogged about Aliens and the possibility of disclosure this year HERE. And you can find my other posts regarding this fascinating topic HERE. From these posts you will learn that there is a massive push for governments and other NGOs to disclose what they know about “Aliens” and “Advanced Technology”!

The following quote is from a Christian site that looks at current political events in light of biblical prophecy and I guess we will just have to wait and see if anything at all comes from this…

Obama’s September 24, 2009 chairing of the UN Security Council meeting on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, signaled his emerging leadership role in tackling major global issues such as nuclear weapons. The Nobel Peace Prize was an important step in giving global legitimacy to President Obama in making an extraterrestrial disclosure announcement. Obama is therefore poised to play a prominent role in the increased global governance that will be necessary after an extraterrestrial disclosure announcement. The timing would most likely coincide sometime soon after his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on December 10, 2009 in Oslo, Norway.

There have been various sources that have revealed deliberations are underway to make an announcement concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life by the end of 2009. These include, Dr Pete Peterson, a whistleblower who has recently emerged revealing high level discussions have taken place concerning announcing the existence of extraterrestrial life. In a Project Camelot interview, Dr Peterson revealed that “Obama is planning to disclose the reality of ET contact by the end of the year; and that most, but not all, of the ET visitors are friendly.”
Another source is David Wilcock, a prominent researcher of emerging scientific paradigms. Wilcock has been told by additional independent sources that extraterrestrial disclosure will take place by the end of 2009. He furthermore claimed in a Coast to Coast AM radio interview that “a 2-hour international TV special has already been booked that will introduce an alien species, similar to humans, to the world.”

In addition, popular NASA and space researcher, Richard Hoagland, has publicly come forward to reveal that the October 9, LCROSS ‘bombing’ mission of the moon, discovered an ancient base at the moon’s South Pole.

In The Days: Current news events in the light of biblical prophecy » Official disclosure of extraterrestrial life is imminent

Interestingly, the whole energy crisis is part and parcel of this whole disclosure plan. Meetings are taking place concerning the continuation of burning fossil fuels and how this is destroying our earth. In these meetings they speak about extra-terrestrial technologies that would put a stop to all of that. Dr. Stephen Greer has started a website called orionproject.org and this website seeks to bring scientists together to talk about environmental and social crisis concerns…

The Orion Project is an organization created to transform the current energy, environmental and social crisis into a world of sustainability and Enlightened Abundance.

Technological progress in the areas of advanced physics and electromagnetic systems, if appropriately supported, will enable humanity to live on the Earth with a minimal footprint with genuine long-term sustainability.

For over 100 years, these advanced concepts in energy generation have either been ignored or actively suppressed due to the power of fossil-fuel based economic and industrial interests. [source]

Listen to this youtube where Dr Stephen Greer speaks about the possible coming disclosure and the economic reasoning why it has happened yet. He also speaks about the current global energy crisis and how advanced technology from these “aliens” may just help save the world from itself.

For more youtube on this see HERE.

Advanced technology from unusual sources has happened before. In the days of Noah the sons of God visited and pro-created with the daughters of man. They produced the Nephilim.

Gen 6:4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

Notice that it says that the Nephilim were on the earth during the days of Noah and also after that.

These Nephilim/Watchers according to the book of Enoch also gave rise to great technical advancement on the earth before the great flood. This time was of a “Great Awakening” for humanity.

Another Christian author has come to the same conclusion that these ‘Aliens’ are demonic forces, the same forces found in Genesis 6…

UFOs are real, they’re just not from outer space. So says Chuck Missler in his informative book, Alien Encounters: The Secret Behind the UFO Phenomenon. Missler is convinced that the alleged aliens publicized these days are demonic forces, and equates them convincingly with the angels that co-habited with women in Genesis 6. Stay with me for these few paragraphs and see if your curiosity isn’t piqued just a bit. Granted, there are many details we don’t know about the pre-flood days, but in my opinion, Missler’s hypothesis fills in a lot of gaps (Matt. 24:37). Read more at – A Deception of Cosmic Proportions

Anyway, much more could be said about these ‘Watchers’ also known as the ‘Nephilim’ and to the secular world they are known as ‘Aliens’. In fact, they go by many different names depending of the culture. Just googling “Ancient Astronauts” “Star gods” “Anunnaki” will bring up a wealth of information about these ancient visitors. In fact, almost every ancient culture shares the same kind of story about “Star gods” coming down and creating mankind! This is called “Panspermia”.

The book of Genesis says that we are created in the image of God – a monotheistic God! But it does go on to talk about the sons of God coming down and copulating with the daughters of men!

Filed under: Aliens, Angel Worship, Audio & Video, Christianity, Creation & Evolution, Creation/Evolution, Globalism, Gnosticism, Nephilim, New World Order, New-Age, News, Occult, Philosophy & Religion, Political, Prophecy, Religion, The Strange, The Watchers, Theology, UFOs, discernment, mysticism

God was manifest in the flesh…

1Ti 3:16  And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

If God became flesh, incarnation, that implies that we have more than one person involved in the Godhead. God was received up into glory. That’s Jesus!

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God has blood???

Act 20:28  Then take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God which He purchased through His own blood.

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Who should we bow down to – God or Jesus, or are they one…

Isa 45:22  Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
Isa 45:23  I have sworn by Myself, the Word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

Php 2:9  Because of this also God highly exalted Him and gave Him a name above every name,
Php 2:10  that at the name of Jesus "every knee should bow," of heavenly ones, and earthly ones, and ones under the earth,
Php 2:11  and "every tongue should confess" that Jesus Christ is "Lord," to the glory of God the Father. Isa. 45:23

Filed under: Christianity, Hebrew, Judaism, Midrash, Philosophy & Religion, Religion, Theology, discernment

Word – Logos…

This is good. It is a study about The Deity of Christ by David Hocking. I found it at Blue Letter Bible Institute Library, which has very good teachings on a number of biblical themes.

I am currently studying the Word and who that Word actually is. During my research I have found this pdf file to be most useful and clearly biblical. You may want to check it out too…

 

The Deity of Christ – Session 5 Christology – David Hocking 12

First of all, John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word.” Now the word for “word” is logos in Greek. Now logos is a common English word referring to the study of something. Archaeology has logos in the end. Christology, has logos in the end—the study of Christ. So that little logos or “-ology” on the end of English words, is referring to the study of something. In ancient times the logos was a revelation. That is, a display, a putting on display, expressing it so that we can see it. That is very interesting because when John wrote, he certainly wrote with the cultural background of those words that he used.

When he said, “In the beginning was the logos.” They would not immediately think of Jesus because they would be thinking of God. “In the beginning was when God started revealing.” That is the way Barashesh, or Genesis, begins. “In the beginning God created.” And that was a revelation of the glory of God.

Psalm 19:1 says, “The heavens declare or reveal the glory of God.”

So when you read in the beginning was the Word, was the revelation, everyone would go, “Oh yes, yes. You mean the creation. That revealed the nature and power of God.” But now here is what else it says: “And the logos was with God.” Now at that point, you would have to stop and think about what was just said. Actually it is the word pros in Greek—the word meaning “toward.” It can tend to mean “face to face.” What we have here is a statement of equality. Now the person hearing this would have heard, “In the beginning was the revelation of God.” Then they would have heard the next statement, “And this revelation was facing God.” It was in equality with God. Now, that would be impossible for the Jewish mind to apprehend and comprehend, because the created is never to be identified with the Creator. If the first phrase refers to the revelation of the universe, which reveals who God is (which it certainly could), then the second statement therefore, could not make any sense because you cannot have the revelation of that universe on an equal basis with the one who created it. In fact, that is the root of all idolatry. In Romans 1 it says that man worships the creature rather than the Creator. Let me put it another way. God is never to be identified with that which He created.

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