Category: Last Days’ Deception

BIBLICAL GUIDE TO WORSHIP PRINCIPLES
Amos 5:23
Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.
James 4:4.
know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 John 2:15-17.
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.17 And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abides forever.
Exodus 32.17-29 (excerpts)
17 And when Joshua heard THE NOISE OF THE PEOPLE …18 And he said,…THE NOISE OF THEM THAT SING DO I HEAR. …19 And … he saw the calf, AND THE DANCING: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. 26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE? let him come unto me. … 28 And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, even every man …that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

*All quotes from the King James Version (Public Domain)
JAMES & JOHN’S USE OF THE WORD: ‘’WORLD”.
1. The world is a word standing for the worldlings in the kingdom of darkness.
a. This means their songs, their lyrics, limericks, beat, and rhythm
b. This means their instruments not listed in Scripture
c. This means their loud needless amplification of same into the blast of excessive decibels.
d. This means their corrupt means of attracting and winning an audience
e. This means using entertainment dependent on worldly methods, not spiritual ones.
2. The music of the Hebrew worshippers had radically changed (see Amos 5.23 above).
a. Alignment with an idol changes everything in worship’s music and song:
b. The idols are instruments of the world, the dance rhythm/beat & emotion of worldlings;
c. The dress and undress (progressive immodesty) revealing by exposure or slovenliness.
d. Israel wanted to change worship because of doubt and distrust of traditional worship.
e. This change in music led to unseemly behaviour and sinfulness of their dance and nakedness.
f. The same Satanic delusion of Christian worship in a majority of churches causes the Spirit to be grieved and God departs to let the alternate deceiving spirits come in to simulate tee Spirit’s work and this started in the 1950s, continuing apace today using the world’s methods of attracting an audience with the same sensual rhythms used by sensual vocalists in the kingdom of darkness.
g. These churches rarely see even an awakening let alone conversions by illumination because God has left and man has taken over.
h. These churches (the increasing majority) in the ‘falling away’ of the last times (Matthew 24) rely on creation of excitement to unwittingly copy the inimitable atmosphere that the Holy Ghost brings in a small quiet voice (c. Elijah at Mt. Horeb escaping from Jezebel) 1 Kings 19:9-13
God is not loud, He works quietly in a reverent quiet congregation.
The average preacher and song leader seeks to awaken the interest of the audience so it will come back and support their unique sectarian movement, But only God can awaken and no man or minister can simulate. It will not be accomplished by instruments and songs using the rhythms and beats of the world.
Most new churches/missions/movements claiming to be unique fail to discern the invisible body of Christ by their sectarianism. Their uniqueness is quite frankly their misled humanism and pragmatism based on the 19th C fundamental emphasis of selecting special words/phrases or verses to be arbiters of truth to the neglect of the whole counsel of the whole Bible. It is tabooed private interpretation when this is done, making those words or passages superior to the rest of Scripture.
This allows each denomination to create its own hermeneutic or interpretative system of the Bible for its own biblical and doctrinal nuances, twisting the Word of God to its own destruction.
Thus following the humanist 18th C Age of Enlightenment the19th C pragmatist can twist the Scriptures to its own liking as it creates new unique doctrines. This had created over two thousand new breakaway splinter churches. 2 Peter 3:16.
Thus the 2,800 (Barratt 1977) separate church denominations, movements, and sects go each their own way and “every man did that which is right in his own eyes”- to the great detriment of the emaciated ‘body of Christ whose shepherding pastors will rarely feed the sheep (Ezekiel 13 & 34) as do not discern the body of Christ this eclipsed by their own misled uniqueness. For this reason, they are often sick and asleep (1 Corinthians 11) as their pulpits judgmentally advocate their sectarian bent instead of expounding Christ in the whole volume of the Book.
Western Christianity is fractious, judgmental, pragmatic, and thinks it has the right to freely use private interpretation of the Bible, tabooed by the apostles in Peter’s Epistle [ 2 Peter 1:20] and John in his Revelation [Revelation 22:18-19].
The result is that God the Father is very limited on how He can draw the lost to His Son, and He is obstructed by the false hopes of modern-day evangelists/ pastors who preach the gospel of affirmation, sacrament, decision, or tongues as evidence of the Spirit.
In their easy religion’s boast of numbers and statistics, they have in fact raised goats shown how to wear fleece instead of bringing lambs to birth. Assumptions of automated faith are at complete odds with the Scriptures.
Services are dominated by the bombastic stage performers with their flatteries and unctuous winsomeness. They act as gods and God often departs to leave the congregation in Ichabod.
God has called the preacher and missionary to preach Christ by expounding the Word of God through the foolishness of preaching without a private doctrinal agenda being foisted upon adulating pews.
Many get them to speak in unknown tongues never used on the day of Pentecost, rejected by the founder of modern-day Pentecostal at Azusa Street, Los Angeles 1906 as spiritism ending in witchcraft. Paul tabooed it for public assembly meetings. Unknown tongues (jargon aphasia of the pagans) was neither manifest at Caesarea, nor Ephesus or on the Day of Pentecost.
Only the corrupt drunken and gluttonous Corinthian church was it accepted until Paul banned it. 1 Corinthians 14.
I. Behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?…
II. and he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord…
III. and, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind … but the Lord was not in the wind…
IV. and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake…
V. and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire…
VI. and after the fire a still small voice…
behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
 

AWAKENED BELIEVER’S ENLIGHTENMENT.

THE AWAKENED BELIEVER.
1. Reading the Word of God produces moral convictions and these grow until discomforting the reader. Why? “that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.” (Romans 7:11)

2. The moral law and the condemnation it produces in man’s conscience, is meant to bring the believer to the end of himself and distrust his own efforts, and the false hopes of his own faith, and his own religious creed/ sacrament.

3. Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity for saving grace. The eleven disciples were in hiding, except John, after the crucifixion. They were at the end of themselves in mortifying sorrow facing their cowardice, disbelief, and failure.

4. This was the opportunity for the risen Christ to change their worldly sorrow into godly sorrow of repentance. Concomitantly the Lord Jesus converted their double-mindedness into genuine godly faith enabling them to believe as the day star of the Spirit indwelled them.

5. To have an enlightened mind is inadequate to understand the spiritual side of the Bible’s sixty six volumes. It is the most unusual book ever written and one needs something more than an enlightened mind of curiosity and rational reason to understand its message.

6. Though enlightenment produces zealous interest, curiosity, and understanding of the Bible’s characters, history, and moral directives it is unable to give spiritual discernment of Christ’s grace and redemption. Independent reason will prevent the natural mind from fathoming the saga of grace from Genesis to Revelation.

7. Enlightenment is secretly driven by the Father’s magnetic attraction of the believer to His Son in the Scriptures. Though mistaken today for the new birth, it falls far short of one possessing eternal life. He/she needs the illumination of Christ’s regenerating Spirit.

8. Awakening and enlightenment are all part of the Father drawing the believer to His Son. (John 6)

9. The faith of the believer is not enlightened only his mind and doubts of the ambivalent will remain. His own faith it wavers all the time. He needs the gift of true faith by grace. Until then he is like the first twelve disciples to whom Jesus questioned for their lack of faith.

BIBLE REFERENCES.
Preconditions to illumination (conversion).
1. John 6:44. No man can come to me, EXCEPT THE FATHER which hath sent me DRAW HIM:
2. John 6:37. All that the FATHER GIVES ME shall come to me…
3. John 6. 45. Every man therefore that has HEARD, AND HAS LEARNED of the Father, comes unto me.
4. Jeremiah 29:13. And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

REPENTANCE 2 Corinthians 7: 8-10.
1. REPENTANCE is neither automatic nor worldly sorrow (being sorry for yourself). Sorrow of the world works death
2. WORLDLY sorrow is ‘but for a season’. The passing sorrow for one’s own consequences.
3. GODLY SORROW is the gift. You were made sorry after a godly manner. For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation

THE UNCONVERTED APOSTLES UNTIL HIS RESURRECTION.
1. Peter unconverted. Luke 22:32 .I have prayed for you that your faith fail not and when you are converted, strengthen your brethren.
2. Conversion by the washing of the blood purges the conscience. Hebrews 9:14. (Hebrews 10:22)
3. Natural faith cannot bring salvation. James 1:6-7. Natural faith is fickle.
4. Conversion by illumination comes alone by preaching, not water, wine or wafer.
a. 1 Corinthians 1:21. it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

** All scripture quoted from the KJV or King James Version (Public Domain).

AWAKENED BELIEVER’S ENLIGHTENMENT.

FOUR STAGES OF THE BELIEVER’S FAITH. (Part 1)

PART ONE: THE UNAWAKENED BELIEVER.
It is not enough to believe, but there are many believers in the church who have not been awakened. They have never had an encounter with the living Christ’s spirit because they have never sought him with all of their heart. They were happy to have a quick-fix that the church has offered the world since the 19th C. There are varying degrees of belief towards Jesus in the Gospels of the N.T.
Many religious have never heard the call of Christ. They may read the Scriptures and attend Christian worship services. One day listening to the Bible based preacher there comes a personal response of the believer. He/she is suddenly arrested by the challenge to follow Christ and do His bidding. His whole being is awakened into the reality of Christ’s presence and he/she becomes an ardent follower or disciple.
Unawakened souls are not disciples of Christ, merely religious. They may be in the church, but they do not have God’s presence WITH THEM and are not yet His SHEEP.
The unawakened believer has no knowledge of the Scriptures and finds the Bible a mystery which he does not understand.
The unawakened person is classed as a walking dead, or ‘dead man walking’. The unawakened believer needs not to procrastinate too long or the day of grace may pass too soon.
The unawakened person may well have knowledge of creed, confession, and written articles of faith, such as baptism washes away sins.
Awakening does not happen at one’s own behest or the will of the preacher. It is at God’s behest alone. No decision, prayer, water, wine or wafer can compel God to awaken the lost soul, dead in sins and trespasses. The four stages of belief in the New Testament are the unawakened, the awakened, the enlightened, and the illuminated believer.

BIBLE REFERENCES.
John 6:44. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him:
John 6:65 … no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
John 10:16. And other SHEEP I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice.
1 Corinthians 15:34. AWAKE to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Ephesians 5:14… AWAKE you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
Romans 13:11. …it is high time to AWAKE out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
James 2:19. …the devils also believe and tremble.

FOUR STAGES OF THE BELIEVER’S FAITH. (Part 1)

REFORMATION’S NEW TESTAMENT FROM ORIGINAL GREEK.

Reformation’s Published New Testament from Original Greek.
(*Marked editions were the six Reformation New Testaments.)
1. 1400 Islam invades Constantinople (today’s Istanbul) forcing Greek scholars to flee into Europe with their invaluable Greek manuscripts of the New Testament.
2. 1439 Gutenberg invents the printing press.
3. 1450 The printing of Europe’s first book: the Latin Bible of Rome in polyglot format.
4. 1516 The Renaissance Dutch scholar Erasmus prints the Greek New Testament.
5. 1517 Martin Luther begins the Reformation at the University of Wittenberg.
6. 1522: Luther publishes the New Testament in German from Erasmus Greek NT
7. *1526: William Tyndale publishes the first English edition using Erasmus Greek NT
8. 1527: The pope burns and bans Tyndale’s English New Testament (NT)
9. *1535: The Crown (UK) unwittingly publishes Miles Coverdale Bible, (Tyndale NT).
10. *1537: The Crown (UK) unwittingly again prints the tabooed Tyndale N.T. of John Rogers under the pseudonym: Thomas Matthew’s Bible, (includes nine OT books).
11. *1539, The Crown (UK) prints The Great Bible, a Miles Coverdale revised edition of the Thomas Matthew Bible (Tyndale NT reprinted).
12. Changed English monarch (RC) forces Puritan scholars, translators, & publishers to flee to Geneva (Switzerland) as a refuge and safe harbour.
13. *1560, Geneva Bible published. Widely used by Shakespeare & American colonies.
14. *1611: King James Bible, the sixth and last Bible of the Reformation using the Greek New Testament of Erasmus.

The English Inquisition saw arrests, torture, imprisonment, and execution of those who dared defy the conflicting powers of Canterbury (Roman), the monarchy, the Holy Roman Empire’s pontiff in Germany, and the pontiff in Rome itself. Even Henry 8th at first pro-Protestant, later banned reading or possessing the Tyndale NT of 1526 and 1534.

As Tyndale was burning on the stake in 1536 he was also strangled to stifle his stentorian prayer’s voice: “That the eyes of the king (UK) be opened.” Within the year came the miraculous Crown publications of the very same contraband New Testament of Tyndale in various formats, under Puritans like Coverdale and Rogers. His prayer had been speedily answered and its impact changed the English speaking world’s culture on both sides of the Atlantic.

The humanist 18th C Age of Enlightenment led to the 19th C replacement of the Erasmus Greek New Testament by Westcott & Hort, the basis for all the so-called new and better translations of the Bible unleashing the covert denigration of the Scriptures’ final authority present today.

Originating in German rationalism it hatched liberal modernism and Higher Bible Criticism. Each of these unholy branches of academia conveniently rejected Reformation scholars, translators, and publishers. In so doing it invented its own hermeneutic of private interpretation, condemned by the New Testament.

This ejection of the Byzantine tradition included the Elzevir Brothers’ Received Text published by Stephanus, (Robert Etienne) the well known French publisher. He also versified the English New Testament of Tyndale to make its twenty-seven books more readable. All of such work was due to the monolithic translating work of Erasmus in 1516, rendering the New Testament for the first time in its original language.

One main influence in the vacuum created by the false scholarship of the 18th C was the re-elevation of the ancient Vatican manuscript: Codex Vaticanus. The second significant portentous change under Roman and pro-Roman liberal scholars of the 19th C was the highlighting of another non-Byzantine manuscript: the Codex Sinaiticus.

It was discovered at Mt. Sinai monastery by Count von Tischendorf in the 1840s. He opined that both Codices were scribed by the same hand around the same period as Emperor Constantine, who founded the Church of Rome. The new emperor with the recruited team of Bishop Eusebius re-translated the 3rd C Old Latin NT and ordered his team to scribe fifty new Latin Bibles from it. Reformed and Puritan scholars later purged five of the added seven sacraments of Constantine in deference to the Greek New Testament’s originality.

Rome’s Counter-Reformation continued denigration of Reformation scholarship against the Erasmus Greek New Testament was the undercurrent, not always visible to the naked eye of the politically correct wings of Christendom today.
THE CONTINUING COUNTER-REFORMATION OF 16th & 17th C VIA ACADEMIA.
• 1568, Bishops Bible more for Roman Catholics, not liked by Queen Elizabeth.
• 1582: Douai-Reims New Testament for Catholics: against Protestants
• 1609-10: Douai-Reims Old Testament for Catholics: against Protestants

REFORMATION’S NEW TESTAMENT FROM ORIGINAL GREEK.

HOW TO START READING YOUR BIBLE.

HOW TO START READING YOUR BIBLE.
SIMPLE KEYS
TO UNDERSTANDING
AND KNOWING YOUR
BIBLE’S CONTENTS
 
HOW TO START READING YOUR BIBLE.
As we are educated to be doubters and skeptics, one way or another, you need to employ the willing suspension of disbelief at the very start and if you have not believed the following tenets enumerated below you must pretend they are true while reading.
1. Read it as if it is the infallible Word of God.
2. Remember in the first chapter of the first of sixty six books: Genesis, these words appear:
a. “God said-God made-God called”
i. God said what you’re reading
ii. God made the patriarchs, prophets & apostles write them.
iii. God called ordinary men to write His Words. Do not treat them as in any other book.
3. Do not analyse it by your own intellect for logic or truthfulness;
4. Do not judge it by your powers of mental reason or of popular philosophy;
5. Read it as God’s Word demonstrating the waywardness of rebellious human nature cursed by sin;
6. Read it noticing the rare men or women that wholeheartedly seek God sincerely without ulterior motive;
7. Read it noticing the futile attempts of men to keep the moral law, vainly worshipping with lip service;
8. Read it and continue the habit even when you do not understand it for God is secretly at work because the Bible says:-:
a. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God:
i. Romans 10: 17.
b. The pre-eternal Christ’s name is the Word, in the triune godhead of the Father, the Word & Spirit:
i. 1st John 5:7; 1st John 1:1; John’s Gospel 1:1.
9. Read it with out help of church or clergy until there arises within your heart a hunger to wholeheartedly be a daily Bible reader.
10. Read it until God’s grace enlightens the eyes of your understanding to fathom Christ’s message to you in both the Old and New Testaments (excepting the uninspired Apocrypha in some Bibles)
11. Read it noticing the principles of the wise reader found in the following Bible references:-
a. Proverbs 3:5-6; 1st Corinthians 2:14; 2nd Timothy 3:16; Romans 1:17; John’s Gospel 1:17.
12. Keep in mind that the minute your mind asserts superior wisdom over your Bible reading you are a fool.
a. Romans 1:22.
13. The reason the mind blindly argues against the credibility of Scripture that the problem is from the heart:
a. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

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MOTTO: “Faith alone- by grace alone- through Scripture alone.”
‘The just shall live by faith,’ not of themselves but of grace.

HOW TO START READING YOUR BIBLE.

TRUE CONVERSION SERIES:(PART 3)

TRUE CONVERSION SERIES (Part 3).
New England Theology of easy-religion based on the errant Jonathan Edwards’ Freedom of the Will, had progressively captivated America between 1746 and 1846. Edwards, who after the First Great Awakening had waned, renounced the biblical tenets of the Reformation and turned to the modern philosophy of the 18th century liberal Age of Enlightenment.

New-England Theology has had a massive impact upon, both American and global evangelism completely distorting the message of salvation by grace. It radically reversed the Bible’s Protestant Reformation message of ‘FAITH ALONE BY GRACE ALONE’ to ‘GRACE ALONE BY FAITH ALONE’, and it became the behest of the individual’s own faith instead. This false claim by the unbiblical liberals of the Enlightenment declared:

1) HUMANISM’S FREE-WILL OF EASY-RELIGION: Faith is universally resident in all from the time of birth due to an innate enlightened conscience from the image of God placed in Adam from creation.

a. THE BIBLE’S REPLY: This denies that the image of God in Adam was irreparably marred through his fall into sin. That sin was not merely eating fruit from the wrong tree, which had been taboo. Romans 5 is the truth not the church.
b. It was Adam’s free-will choice to reject eternal life for the short term gain of spiritual knowledge. Thus, ever since, humans mistakenly reason that ‘spiritual knowledge’ will give eternal life.
c. Knowledge of the plan of salvation, and the Scriptures can never bring regeneration (conversion) without the ‘gift of Christ’s faith and the hope of eternal life, at the behest of his grace to wholehearted seekers.
d. There is no unconditional immediate endowment of His grace or of eternal life. This divinely implanted faith cannot be compared to weak, unreliable human faith, even at its very best.

2) THE REPLY OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY:
a. William James, the Father of American Psychology falsely claimed in his “Varieties of Religious Experience”, that any action towards God is an act of faith.
3) REBUTTAL:
a. James confused human free-will with the divinely imparted gifts of grace.
4) TODAY’S CHURCHES OF CHRISTENDOM.
a. Most professing Christians and church members are only AWAKENED, at best, and though they might follow God’s presence they have never received the indwelling Christ of eternal life.
5) THE HUMANISM OF LIBERALS, EVANGELICALS, CONSERVATIVES & FUNDAMENTALISTS.
a. Their ministers or evangelists have assured them that believing what they have learned and KNOW of the Scripture and his doctrines of salvation are adequate insurance for eternity and enough to miss hellfire.
6) THE FORGOTTEN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AWAKENING & CONVERSION.
a. There is no denying that some ‘followers’ have been awakened by Christ’s call to ‘follow Him’, and become disciples. However, awakening and its limited enlightenment is not the same as conversion. It was the illumination of the regenerating Spirit of Christ that burned within those at Emmaus (Luke 24). The eyes of the Eleven disciples at Jerusalem were thereafter also opened to understand the Scriptures and the Christ of the Word on the first day Jesus rose from the grave.
7) HUMANISM’S HOAX IN THE CHURCH:
a. The automatic free-will evangelism that pervades the pulpit everywhere declares that all disciples and followers possess God’s grace of redemption from mere voluntary acts of confession, affirmation or a participating sacrament of water, wine, or wafer.
b. All disciples automatically repent and believe if they utter words of prayer and affirm their committed allegiance.
i. COMMENT. With rare exception, these have never known godly sorrow of biblical repentance, let alone having wholeheartedly sought the Lord. They have instead been misled by clergy, rightfully described as Goat-herders pontificating in pulpits of false hope.
8) THE DECEPTION BY THE CREAM OF EVANGELICALS.
a. These same pulpits teach the mere awakened that wholeheartedness (full surrender) is a second decision they need to experience. They alternately call it:
i. Second-Blessing;
ii. Baptism of the Spirit,
iii. Entire-Sanctification.
b. Among the 1500 + new denominations of the 19th century plague of humanistic bibliolatry (coupled with its reactionary pragmatism) the birth of Holiness and Charismatic/Pentecostal movements were conceived which propagated
i. The easy-religion of conversion by free-will of one’s own faith (1st blessing);
ii. The better religion of the deeper life, mistakenly called:
1. The Holy Spirit’s infilling;
2. The Baptism of the Spirit with evidence: ecstatic incoherent utterances;
3. Entire sanctification from inbred sin.
9) THE BIBLE’S REPLY.
a. For the eleven apostles the first blessing (conversion) was by the regenerating Spirit Christ gave at His rising from the tomb on the third day (Luke 24 & John 20). Their second blessing fifty days later was the baptism of fire & Holy Ghost.
b. After Pentecost there was no further need for a gap period between the two blessings. In Acts chapter two the Jews heard the converted apostles preach. They had just been baptized with fire from heaven, and gathered Jews of the Diaspora heard eleven messages each in a different language for the respective foreign visitors. This, Paul says was a sign to unbelievers: the gift of ‘Diverse Tongues’ ( 1st Corinthians 14). The three thousand converts were both regenerated by receiving Christ’s Holy Spirit within them, and were baptized with the fire of the Spirit simultaneously. The 1st blessing had merged with the 2nd blessing in an instant after the Day of Pentecost. This was so when Peter and the apostles preached at Jerusalem; then with Cornelius’ assembly at Caesarea; and finally at Ephesus when Paul preached to twelve of John’s former disciples.
c. Nowhere else in the Book of Acts does the sign manifest at conversion for God works in three’s. He is a triune person.
d. Among gathered foreign worshippers Paul instructed the church at Corinth that the gift of Diverse Tongues was acceptable if proved to be validly understood by a hearer in his own language and interpreted by him into a common language. Otherwise such unknown utterance of language (unknown tongue) was forbidden by Paul at Corinth, where the church had a prevalence of pseudo-Christians living in immorality etc. (1st Corinthians 14)
e. Eradication of inbred sin is an idea posed by 19th C Holiness movements an extension of John Wesley’s doctrine of Perfect Love. Paul makes quite clear in Romans chapters one to seven that this is not possible. (cp: salient of Romans 7) This was confirmed by the apostle John in his epistle of 1st John, and again by Paul in Galatians 5.
10) THE MASS CONVERSIONS FALSELY CLAIMED TODAY.
a. This has all come about since the 18th century humanistic Age of Enlightenment. These ideas are very suitable to mass conversions by automation and rapid growth of religious empires including the current day mega church phenomenon. Thus Jesus Christ’s standard for conversion and discipleship are ignored. Shallow and worldly followers are called Christian converts when they are far from it. The Puritans of the Reformation would turn in their graves.
11) RESULTS IN WORSHIP SERVICES (for goats wearing fleeces)
a. Music, mood, and beat allows the falsity of humanism in the pulpit-stage to be acceptably palatable.
b. Infusing the popular doctrine of easy-religion into non-Roman churches that were once citadels of Protestant Puritanism has enabled exponential growth.
c. Increase in false conversions and the sowing of tares has risen to such an extent that the mega-church phenomena has become the norm.
d. Such converts are, more often than not, just zealous goats taught to wear the garb of a fleece, rather than newborn lambs.
e. In the ever-increasing personality-cult styled church pseudo-prophets and posturing pastors titillate the ears of congregants in the mass euphoria they create by their prepossessing personas and the mastery of crowd control.
f. The pastoral skill of creating heroes makes audiences both addicted and susceptible to itching ears in a feel-good comfort zone where the audience is beguiled, even as Eve in the Garden. The mastery of the feminine pews comes first and the men follow suit. The congregants’ normal sense of discernment is muted, allowing humanist truths to be acceptable and seen as biblical truths by the literalist use of bibliolatry.
g. The notion of unconditional eternal security inures them from the truth.
EVALUATION.
a) Most certainly these type of believers have KNOWN and learned some spiritual knowledge from Scripture, but this falls far short of life everlasting and the indwelling Spirit of the risen Saviour. Many today twist Romans 10.9 coupled with Romans 10.13 teaching goats to affirm with their lips and say that they, therefore, have believed. This is totally wrenched from the context of Romans itself and even the tenth chapter’s import.

b) Having mental knowledge of the Scripture does not give the seeker the indwelling Spirit of Christ. The vast masses of those in Christendom’s 2,800 Church denominations have never truly been converted by Holy Spirit, but are converts of men. (Matthew 7.)

c) These all presume following Jesus Christ’s presence is eternal life. The best they have is God with them, but that is not the oil they need in their lamps. Five of the ten virgins discovered this to their chagrin. (Parable of the Ten Virgins by Jesus Christ.)

d) God’s presence with them is temporal or temporary while they choose to follow Him in some shape or form. At death, their lamp has no oil, just like the five foolish virgins readying themselves for the Bridegroom’s wedding feast. The oil in the lamp is likened to the Holy Spirit entering within the wholehearted seeker. Only this is everlasting.

e) The oil of the Spirit comes only by faith. This is peculiarly the gift of God and is not related to natural human faith, the falsity popularly taught throughout the church today. Most of the myriad false converts have been misled by the fallacy that their own human faith was wholly adequate. They assure themselves because false prophets and preachers first assure them with their false hopes of salvation and eternal life.

f) The reason they possess faith is from the humanist idea or Christian idealism, built upon positivist psychology.
g) No sacrament replaces that gift of faith, which is ushered in by the grace of the godly sorrow (repentance) of sin and self-righteousness.
h) When faith comes it is accompanied by transforming hope from His incoming Spirit making His abode within the believer.
i) Most church members today have never sought the Lord with all their soul, strength and might. Those few who have done so have never had the patience or even the inclination to seek the gift of faith that precedes conversion and have instead been taught to trust their own faith.
j) Thus they experience the anti-climax of easy-religion’s false hope that eternal life is automatically and unconditionally available to all who will call, confess and profess their own faith.
k) What is that faith? It is merely the knowledge that the ministering preacher has imparted to them by indoctrination.

CAN TRUE CONVERSION BE UNDERSTOOD?
Speaking of true conversion there is no logical or reasonable explanation to that glorious translation of one soul from the kingdom of this world into the kingdom of God’s dear Son. Paul says that the natural man cannot understand it from afar. 1st Corinthians chapters 1 & 2.

TRUE CONVERSION SERIES:(PART 3)

TRUE CONVERSION SERIES (2): False joy.

FOLLOWER’S EXCITEMENT IS SELDOM CONVERT’S JOY.
Of the 2,800 different Church denominations (Barratt 1977)) most of their followers will enjoy in varying measures the excitement of following Him. Judas Iscariot followed Jesus and while he was with Him he saw and did great things. He was a member of one of the six couples Jesus sent to evangelize. Peter also saw and did great things while with Jesus. When Peter was away from Him he soon denied Him. Judas, like Peter, betrayed his Lord and then repented. The Lord told Peter that only when he became converted would he strengthen his brethren. Jesus said that on the day of the harvest when the angels shall gather all to face God, many followers will declare that they have done great things in His name, but he will declare that he never knew them.

GOD’S PRESENCE WITH THE MERE DISCIPLE IS OFTEN TEMPORARY, UNLIKE HIS PERMANENT INDWELLING SPIRIT.
It is no wonder that for the most part the churches are filled with goats taught to wear a fleece. Some have become pilgrims in their devotion, and a small number have been awakened by the preaching of the Word, but vainly think their sudden awareness of God’s presence is eternal life. Yet the temporary sensitivity to God’s omnipresence is a temporal state, not an eternal one. Jesus said that they need His indwelling Spirit. Only regeneration converts disciples, not by affirming biblical knowledge. Thus after Judas Iscariot’s betrayal, He told the remaining eleven disciples they needed conversion by that Holy Spirit, which he gave them after he rose from the dead.

SCRIPTURE.

“Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST:”

John 20:19-22

SCRIPTURE.

“And ye shall seek me, and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13
“With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early.” Isaiah 26:9

• It is very easy to seek God with an ulterior motive. E.g. you want to avoid the suffering of hellfire by taking out an eternal assurance policy. This is self-preservation. So you are persuaded to make a decision and join the church. Compare John 6:26.

SCRIPTURE: “The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Psalm 14:2-3/ Psalm 53:2.

• You say you were made in the image of God so you naturally seek God and naturally have enough faith and can understand the plan of salvation the preacher showed you. That’s Christian humanism’s great lie of free-will. Yet the Bible says in Romans chapters 5 and 7, that the human will is neither free nor has any propensity towards God. It does not want God except in the case of self-advantage. God’s image in Adam’s race was marred beyond repair as St. Paul and David the Psalmist pointed out. Until a man is in utter need of grace and ceases to depend on the falsity of his own natural faith he can only become a follower, but never a true convert. Only Christ can open his eyes; only Christ’s Spirit can give true sorrow for sin; only Christ can give hope and accompanying faith; only Jesus can give transforming grace which exceeds anything free-will efforts could accomplish. This alone is conversion and only occurs when you wholeheartedly seek Him. Only the risen Saviour can give you the gift of His Spirit when you truly seek him. Do not trust in the deception of signs so popular today. His inner witness to your heart, mind and spirit is unmistakable but indescribable.

SCRIPTURE “He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself”…”And their eyes were opened, and they knew him”… “And they said one to another, Did not our HEART BURN WITHIN US, while he talked with us by the way, and while HE OPENED TO US the scriptures?”… “And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together”…”Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.”.[ Luke 24:27-33;45]

• SCRIPTURE. “… break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.” [Hosea 10:12]

• SCRIPTURE. “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7:22-24.

Quotations from King James Version of the Holy Bible: Public Domain.
Article by Brother John of bonitabiblemission@gmail.com

TRUE CONVERSION SERIES (2)

REMEMBER O LORD THE USA

REMEMBER O LORD THE USA FOR ITS PAST HELP OF YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL.
Despite its present rampant humanism reigning in Christendom as truth and salvation by Easy-Religionist evangelism; despite its appalling daily gun violence killing its citrizens at a rate of 300,000 a decade; despite its anti-Semitism rearing again its ugly head, even now in Congress; despite its many Deistic Constitution, rights and Amendments: O my God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ we beg of you to have MERCY.
1. Have not your promises and penalties by just judgment been justly kept? HAVE MERCY!
2. Are not your EXCEEDING, GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES been given to us? HAVE MERCY!
3. When we have cried to you, have you not IN WRATH REMEMBERED MERCY?
4. Remember O Lord in the past how USA helped your people Israel!
a. In 1948 when she stood alone amid invading nations to be an independent state.
b. In 1956 to survive multi nation invasion for six days in June.
c. In 1973 when again invaded how Uncle Sam came to its plight.
d. In how Uncle Sam arranged the largest ever air-armada to repatriate stranded Jews.
e. And more recently how Uncle Sam provided the iron dome protection zone.
f. Then also remember president Trump’s move of its embassy to Jerusalem.
5. In its present battle wherein the forces of light are besieged by the forces of darkness and the ‘enemy within’, we beg of you to have mercy and remember the prayers of foregone saints interceding for America: Jonathan Edwards; George Whitefield; David Brainard; Charles Finney etcetera. Have not you collected their prayers as incense in thy bottles of heaven? We beseech you to pour out those answers upon the earth. Especially now amid the battle for its democracy against the vastly wicked DEEP STATE working to undermine and destroy the votes and the voting results, we beseech you TO HAVE MERCY.
6. For the sake of the prayers of the godfearing, the upright, the godly, and the remnant of saints who have been regenerated by your Spiit, and not merely by doctrinaire persuaders.
REMEMBER O LORD THE USA FOR ITS PAST HELP OF YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL.
Despite its present rampant humanism reigning in Christendom as truth and salvation by Easy-Religionist evangelism; despite its appalling daily gun violence killing its citrizens at a rate of 300,000 a decade; despite its anti-Semitism rearing again its ugly head, even now in Congress; despite its many Deistic Constitution, rights and Amendments: O my God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ we beg of you to have MERCY.
1. Have not your promises and penalties by just judgment been justly kept? HAVE MERCY!
2. Are not your EXCEEDING, GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES been given to us? HAVE MERCY!
3. When we have cried to you, have you not IN WRATH REMEMBERED MERCY?
4. Remember O Lord in the past how USA helped your people Israel!
a. In 1948 when she stood alone amid invading nations to be an independent state.
b. In 1956 to survive multi nation invasion for six days in June.
c. In 1973 when again invaded how Uncle Sam came to its plight.
d. In how Uncle Sam arranged the largest ever air-armada to repatriate stranded Jews.
e. And more recently how Uncle Sam provided the iron dome protection zone.
f. Then also remember president Trump’s move of its embassy to Jerusalem.
5. In its present battle wherein the forces of light are besieged by the forces of darkness and the ‘enemy within’, we beg of you to have mercy and remember the prayers of foregone saints interceding for America: Jonathan Edwards; George Whitefield; David Brainard; Charles Finney etcetera. Have not you collected their prayers as incense in thy bottles of heaven? We beseech you to pour out those answers upon the earth. Especially now amid the battle for its democracy against the vastly wicked DEEP STATE working to undermine and destroy the votes and the voting results, we beseech you TO HAVE MERCY.
6. For the sake of the prayers of the godfearing, the upright, the godly, and the remnant of saints who have been regenerated by your Spiit, and not merely by doctrinaire persuaders.
REMEMBER O LORD THE USA FOR ITS PAST HELP OF YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL.
Despite its present rampant humanism reigning in Christendom as truth and salvation by Easy-Religionist evangelism; despite its appalling daily gun violence killing its citrizens at a rate of 300,000 a decade; despite its anti-Semitism rearing again its ugly head, even now in Congress; despite its many Deistic Constitution, rights and Amendments: O my God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ we beg of you to have MERCY.
1. Have not your promises and penalties by just judgment been justly kept? HAVE MERCY!
2. Are not your EXCEEDING, GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES been given to us? HAVE MERCY!
3. When we have cried to you, have you not IN WRATH REMEMBERED MERCY?
4. Remember O Lord in the past how USA helped your people Israel!
a. In 1948 when she stood alone amid invading nations to be an independent state.
b. In 1956 to survive multi nation invasion for six days in June.
c. In 1973 when again invaded how Uncle Sam came to its plight.
d. In how Uncle Sam arranged the largest ever air-armada to repatriate stranded Jews.
e. And more recently how Uncle Sam provided the iron dome protection zone.
f. Then also remember president Trump’s move of its embassy to Jerusalem.
5. In its present battle wherein the forces of light are besieged by the forces of darkness and the ‘enemy within’, we beg of you to have mercy and remember the prayers of foregone saints interceding for America: Jonathan Edwards; George Whitefield; David Brainard; Charles Finney etcetera. Have not you collected their prayers as incense in thy bottles of heaven? We beseech you to pour out those answers upon the earth. Especially now amid the battle for its democracy against the vastly wicked DEEP STATE working to undermine and destroy the votes and the voting results, we beseech you TO HAVE MERCY.
6. For the sake of the prayers of the godfearing, the upright, the godly, and the remnant of saints who have been regenerated by your Spiit, and not merely by doctrinaire persuaders.
REMEMBER O LORD THE USA FOR ITS PAST HELP OF YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL.
Despite its present rampant humanism reigning in Christendom as truth and salvation by Easy-Religionist evangelism; despite its appalling daily gun violence killing its citrizens at a rate of 300,000 a decade; despite its anti-Semitism rearing again its ugly head, even now in Congress; despite its many Deistic Constitution, rights and Amendments: O my God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ we beg of you to have MERCY.
1. Have not your promises and penalties by just judgment been justly kept? HAVE MERCY!
2. Are not your EXCEEDING, GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES been given to us? HAVE MERCY!
3. When we have cried to you, have you not IN WRATH REMEMBERED MERCY?
4. Remember O Lord in the past how USA helped your people Israel!
a. In 1948 when she stood alone amid invading nations to be an independent state.
b. In 1956 to survive multi nation invasion for six days in June.
c. In 1973 when again invaded how Uncle Sam came to its plight.
d. In how Uncle Sam arranged the largest ever air-armada to repatriate stranded Jews.
e. And more recently how Uncle Sam provided the iron dome protection zone.
f. Then also remember president Trump’s move of its embassy to Jerusalem.
5. In its present battle wherein the forces of light are besieged by the forces of darkness and the ‘enemy within’, we beg of you to have mercy and remember the prayers of foregone saints interceding for America: Jonathan Edwards; George Whitefield; David Brainard; Charles Finney etcetera. Have not you collected their prayers as incense in thy bottles of heaven? We beseech you to pour out those answers upon the earth. Especially now amid the battle for its democracy against the vastly wicked DEEP STATE working to undermine and destroy the votes and the voting results, we beseech you TO HAVE MERCY.
6. For the sake of the prayers of the godfearing, the upright, the godly, and the remnant of saints who have been regenerated by your Spiit, and not merely by doctrinaire persuaders.

THE PILGRIM’S DOWNCAST PERIOD

THE PILGRIM’S DOWNCAST PERIOD OF DESPAIR
who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us…… a merciful and faithful high priest…to make reconciliation for the sins of (His sheep) the people(saints)… Wherefore, holy brethren…consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus… a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God…an high priest … touched with the feeling of our infirmities…in all points tempted like as (us)we…Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest… became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners… he did once, when he offered up himself…an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens… which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh… an high priest over the house of God…Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith… sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed…without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)…
Romans 8:34Hebrews 3:1; (Hebrews 4:14); Hebrews 4:15;
Hebrews 5:1; Hebrews 5:5; Hebrews 6:20; Hebrews 7:26; Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 8:1; Hebrews 10:19-23;
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THE PILGRIM’S DOWNCAST PERIOD

FOREWORD TO ISAIAH 10

It is evident from Jeremiah’s prophecies in this chapter that the fierce monster from the North: Assyria will be the tool of God’s wrath against Egypt, Syria, Samaria, and Galilee. God’s tool of affliction, but present ally of Judah, would later turn against Jerusalem as punishment for its impenitent idolatry.
Assyria had just come to the aid of Judah to protect Jerusalem and Judah’s borders against the confederated forces of Syria’s King Rezin and Samaria’s King Pekah.

Assyria’s presence was in response to the Ahaz’s distrust of Jehovah, (vs.12) and her military might would first vanquish Egypt, Syria, Samaria, and Galilee before marching on its one-time ally Judah.

However, the Chaldeans from Mesopotamia’s Babylonia (vss.13-16) would sack Nineveh and the Assyrian empire would be hamstrung and crippled. The doom of Nineveh was predicted by the prophet Nahum some 150 years after Jonah brought it to repentance.
Chapter ten’s two difficult passages (Jeremiah 10:17-19; & 10:28-34) were written to confuse Isaiah’s enemies, including those in the royal court. They should not deter the reader comprehending the unique accuracy, manifest in the annals of ancient history. Then too, the glorious prophesied promises of the return of the captives from Babylon, and the gathering of the Diaspora, first under the Greek Alexander the Great, and then in the modern era their 19th and 20th century global migration to Palestine.

1. The power of Babylon that will break the kingdom of Assyria: vs. 23-27;
2. The return of the scattered Diaspora back to Palestine
a. Under Cyrus the Persian within two decades of Nebuchadnezzar’s decease;
b. Under Alexander the Great, the empire that superseded the Chaldean empire of Babylon;
c. In the modern era Jewry would:
i. return to the Land in the early 19th C (1817-1917);
ii. increasingly flow into Palestine after UK General Allenby retook Jerusalem from Islamic Turk control (1917-1944);
iii. migrate in even greater numbers after Israel’s 1948 Independence by sea and air from Eastern and Western Europe;
iv. in the largest Jewish air migration of Jews in history, return to Israel by a U.S. air armada which had gathered exiles, outcasts and endangered Jewish refugees from anti-Semitic territories of the globe.

BRIEF HISTORICAL SUMMATION.
1. ABRAHAM. Call of Abram from Ur of the Chaldees.
2. JACOB. (Israel) The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (renames the latter grandson into ‘Israel’) preserves Abram’s seed by sending Jacob’s son Joseph to Egypt.
3. THE EXODUS. 430 years later the Exodus of the Hebrews occurs.
4. JOSHUA ENTERS PALESTINE. 40 years later Israel’s people enter Palestine.
5. POST SOLOMON PERIOD Israel splits into two kingdoms. 1380 years after Joshua crossed Jordan Israel and its two kingdoms end in captivity.
6. THE PERSIANS TAKE BABYLON. After Cyrus the Persian frees the captives a remnant return to Palestine under Ezra & Nehemiah to rebuild.
7. GREEK EMPIRE supersedes Persia. Alexander the Great preserved the almost destroyed Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures by translating them into the Koine Greek Septuagint (LXX). Thus the kind Persian and Greek empires superseded Babylonia, but preceded the antagonistic Roman Empire.

7 a. ROMAN EMPIRE. For 450 years it persecuted the Jews so intensely that it became a burnt earth policy. The burning of the world renowned Alexandria Manuscript Library by Julius Caesar was an example. Under Roman Palestine 15,000 were commonly crucified each year.

8. ROMAN EMPEROR CONSTANTINE. Early in the 4thC AD the new emperor Constantine arranged with Rome an Edict of Toleration towards the Jews and Christians. But the new Church of Rome was no friend to the Jew or the regenerated believer in Christ born again of His Spirit.
9. THE DARK AGES: 300-800 AD. The dark ages that followed the sacking of Rome by Goths and Huns showed little more tolerance to the Jews than to the Romans.

10. THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE: 800-1800. Thus in 800 AD Pope Leo ordained Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor for the new Franco-German Holy Roman Empire. It lasted a thousand years, until 1800, though it was weakened by the Reformation of 1517.

This Germanic reign of Roman religious power from Europe discriminated against Jews throughout its vast global empire. Jewish historians attest to the continued, but devastating disenfranchisement, quarantine, ghettos, and mass deportation of the whole Jewish populace from cities and their region or country.

11. DIASPORA RETURN STARTS. (1817 to 1917) At the end of a thousand year blot on the annals of history a few Jews of Europe began to migrate from Europe to Palestine, despite its Muslim rulers. This was concurrent with USA’s ‘Golden Age of Evangelism’. From 1817 to 1917 the first trickle had steadily increased to a stream. God sparked a flame among the scattered Jews that grew into a bright light 150 years later, with the creation of the State of Israel. This fulfilled the prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the minor prophets of the Old Testament.

12. UK ARMY CAPTURE JERUSALEM. 1917-1944. British General Allenby freed Jerusalem from the Islamic rule of the Turks in December 1917 and in the ensuing twenty seven years the stream broadened to a steady flow of returning Jews to Palestine.

13. BRITISH BETRAYAL. (1945-1948) Despite the new British (Labour) Government’s betrayal of post war Jewry from sudden new anti-Semitic hostility in Westminster the Jews of Palestine turned to fight for their Land, not only with Arab Muslim saboteurs, but also with British hostile troops. Their onetime ally and saviour became an enemy. But to fulfil God’s prophetic predictions the Jews survived hostilities and achieved national independence against all odds.

In spite of Britain abstaining in New York and an intransigent Washington, President Truman worked behind the scenes to outsmart the U.S. State Department and the United Kingdom by working directly with Jerusalem and the United Nations. By God’s grace Truman worked a modern miracle and Palestine became the prophesied State of Israel.

In May 1948 the UN voted to accept the new State of Israel into its fraternity as a valid, fully fledged, sovereign Nation State.

DIFFICULT PASSAGES IN ISAIAH 10.
These are purposely interwoven by the prophet to confuse his godless enemies within the palace and the priesthood. The indirect vagueness is typical of the prophet’s writings early in the book.
1. Isaiah 10:17-19 in which the simile of trees is likened to the coming Assyrian conquering princes.
2. Isaiah 10:28-34 filled with a poetic topographical complexity.
3. Isaiah 10:20-22 describes the godly remnant inclosing the Diaspora return from Babylon etc. as described above.
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* Foreword, Footnotes, Chapter Heading and Sub Headings by John David.

Isaiah 10. King James Version of the Bible (Public Domain).
Isaiah predicts Jerusalem’s destruction & survival of a holy remnant.
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26 And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

FOOTNOTES.
Isaiah 10:5. Assyria is the ‘rod of God’s anger and indignation’ against all twelve apostate tribes, (ten in the North & two in the South) including Levi, the 13th tribe, not given a territory, but dispersed among the cities. Only a remnant of Jewry, called the tenth, will turn to God in repentance and faith after the Babylonian captivity. They will abandon idolatry; return to temple worship and restore Sabbath observance.

FOREWORD TO ISAIAH 10