Category: Last Days’ Deception

WHO IS READY? WHO IS ASLEEP? WHO RELIES ON WILL POWER FOR GRACE?

WHO IS READY? WHO IS ASLEEP? WHO RELIES ON WILL POWER FOR GRACE?
Only by His grace, not our free will, are we kept. ‘For His seed remaineth in him. Every man who hath this hope purifies himself. It is not by our good behaviour, our worship, our prayers, or our works, but alone through His mercy when we are reliant upon it, not our efforts and devotion. Thisx is to understand both our unworthiness and His grace. For we are saved by grace not by our deeds, good behaviour, or our service for God.
John David
KJV Bible Public Domain (biblegateway.com)
1 John 3:3
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Romans 8:24
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:
Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 [
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away…
Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Mark 13:33
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.;
Luke 12:40
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Mark 13:33
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.;
1 John 3:9
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Brother John

WHO IS READY? WHO IS ASLEEP? WHO RELIES ON WILL POWER FOR GRACE?

PUTIN COPIES HITLER’S PEACE WITH UK PM EDEN

US PRESIDENT EMULATES PM EDEN IN 1939 WITH HITLER.
It may seem we are buying time by turning a blind eye to Putin’s transgressions, but we are only emboldening this Soviet autocrat in his plans to destabilize Finland, Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania. Already ignoring his annexation of Crimea and his continuing hostilities in East Ukraine the US President is giving him tacit approval to go ahead.

The world may pay a huge price for this serious misjudgement in Helsinki. Eden was quick to resign, as was the French leader when they discovered to their embarrassment that pretentious platitudes and unctuous flattery was a failure. Will Mr. Trump pay the same price? We think not! His absolute gall in overestimating his mastery of men will make him go on blundering in one faux pas after another. He has forgotten that he is the elected president of a democracy not a pariah state.

His further exposing the Baltic nations to the evil subterfuge of Putin is not only unforgivable, but will in the end may cost millions of lives. Putin is a modern day Stalin and ‘playing’ with Mr. Trump to his own advantage.

It is time for the home electorate to express its own distaste for such arrogant behaviour when it goes to the polls throughout the various states and take away the Republican control of the House and the Senate. The better alternative is for the Republican leaders to remove him before it is too late. What happened this week in Finland borders on insanity by the leader of the free world. He can be rightLy, and constitutionally removed for such treasonous insane behaviour. Otherwise those same leaders of both houses of Congress may well look at the bleak prospect of Democratic control for the next 20 years.
US PRESIDENT EMULATES PM EDEN IN 1939 WITH HITLER.
It may seem we are buying time by turning a blind eye to Putin’s transgressions, but we are only emboldening this Soviet autocrat in his plans to destabilize Finland, Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania. Already ignoring his annexation of Crimea and his continuing hostilities in East Ukraine the US President is giving him tacit approval to go ahead. The world may pay a huge price for this serious misjudgement in Helsinki. Eden was quick to resign, as was the French leader when they discovered to their embarrassment that pretentious platitudes and unctuous flattery was a failure. Will Mr. Trump pay the same price? We think not! His absolute gall in overestimating his mastery of men will make him go on blundering in one faux pas after another. He has forgotten that he is the elected president of a democracy not a pariah state. His further exposing the Baltic nations to the evil subterfuge of Putin is not only unforgiveable, but will in the end may cost millions of lives. Putin is a modern day Stalin and ‘playing’ with Mr. Trump to his own advantage. It is time for the home electorate to express its own distaste for such arrogant behaviour when it goes to the polls throughout the various states and take away the Republican control of the House and the Senate. The better alternative is for the Republican leaders to remove him before it is too late. What happened this week in Finland borders on insanity by the leader of the free world. He can be righty, and constitutionally removed for such treasonous insane behaviour. Otherwise those same leaders of both houses of Congress may well look at the bleak prospect of Democratic control for the next 20 years.
US PRESIDENT EMULATES PM EDEN IN 1939 WITH HITLER.
It may seem we are buying time by turning a blind eye to Putin’s transgressions, but we are only emboldening this Soviet autocrat in his plans to destabilize Finland, Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania. Already ignoring his annexation of Crimea and his continuing hostilities in East Ukraine the US President is giving him tacit approval to go ahead. The world may pay a huge price for this serious misjudgement in Helsinki. Eden was quick to resign, as was the French leader when they discovered to their embarrassment that pretentious platitudes and unctuous flattery was a failure. Will Mr. Trump pay the same price? We think not! His absolute gall in overestimating his mastery of men will make him go on blundering in one faux pas after another. He has forgotten that he is the elected president of a democracy not a pariah state. His further exposing the Baltic nations to the evil subterfuge of Putin is not only unforgiveable, but will in the end may cost millions of lives. Putin is a modern day Stalin and ‘playing’ with Mr. Trump to his own advantage. It is time for the home electorate to express its own distaste for such arrogant behaviour when it goes to the polls throughout the various states and take away the Republican control of the House and the Senate. The better alternative is for the Republican leaders to remove him before it is too late. What happened this week in Finland borders on insanity by the leader of the free world. He can be righty, and constitutionally removed for such treasonous insane behaviour. Otherwise those same leaders of both houses of Congress may well look at the bleak prospect of Democratic control for the next 20 years.

US PRESIDENT EMULATES PM EDEN IN 1939 WITH HITLER.
It may seem we are buying time by turning a blind eye to Putin’s transgressions, but we are only emboldening this Soviet autocrat in his plans to destabilize Finland, Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania. Already ignoring his annexation of Crimea and his continuing hostilities in East Ukraine the US President is giving him tacit approval to go ahead. The world may pay a huge price for this serious misjudgement in Helsinki. Eden was quick to resign, as was the French leader when they discovered to their embarrassment that pretentious platitudes and unctuous flattery was a failure. Will Mr. Trump pay the same price? We think not! His absolute gall in overestimating his mastery of men will make him go on blundering in one faux pas after another. He has forgotten that he is the elected president of a democracy not a pariah state. His further exposing the Baltic nations to the evil subterfuge of Putin is not only unforgiveable, but will in the end may cost millions of lives. Putin is a modern day Stalin and ‘playing’ with Mr. Trump to his own advantage. It is time for the home electorate to express its own distaste for such arrogant behaviour when it goes to the polls throughout the various states and take away the Republican control of the House and the Senate. The better alternative is for the Republican leaders to remove him before it is too late. What happened this week in Finland borders on insanity by the leader of the free world. He can be righty, and constitutionally removed for such treasonous insane behaviour. Otherwise those same leaders of both houses of Congress may well look at the bleak prospect of Democratic control for the next 20 years.

PUTIN COPIES HITLER’S PEACE WITH UK PM EDEN

ISAIAH: Prologue.

A PROLOGUE:TO THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
The book of the prophet Isaiah is a problem to the first reader without some prefatory comments to orient the reader not used to its unusual style. The difficulties of language and parlance are explained hereunder.
Isaiah’s call to the ministry seems to have been precipitated by his vision in an encounter with God in chapter six when he is anointed with fire and appointed to be the prophet of God in Jerusalem.
Sinful Isaiah is purged, anointed and commissioned to be His spokesman to a rebellious populace, whose ears would be shut to his entreaties. The Lord’s seraphic messenger forewarns him that in the final days of Jerusalem only a tenth of the people would remain after successive attacks invasions, sieges, and wars by Samaria (Israel) ; Egypt; Syria; Assyria, Ammon; Edom (Esau’s descendants); and Babylon.
Isaiah, however, can use ‘Ephraim’ to denote the tribe, territory, or area given by Joshua to the 12 tribes of Israel after crossing Jordan River to first settle the Promised Land of Canaan. It is important for the reader to make these distinctions which the text, syntax, scene and history of the two kingdoms: Israel and Judah, and the events occurring during his lifetime help determine.

DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY THE MODERN READER.
1. The imagery and oblique allusions to the main historical actors of the time;
2. The combined influence of the Hebrew language and the later Septuagint’s Greek manuscripts consulted;
3. The metaphors, metonyms, and pseudonyms without the reader’s historical knowledge from the books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles can be puzzling or even an enigma;

4. The allegories and similes can, at times, be off-putting, because they are based upon the historical scenario of Israel’s surrounding environs;

Considering the above factors the reader may find the text abstract and without much further thought miss the treasures of the prophecies, the promises, their later fulfilment, and glorious description of the end times which are corroborate with other major and minor prophetical books of Scripture end times’ predictions on the second coming of Christ, called the Second Advent.
The book’s historical sequence in prophecy, promise and narration is consistent and cohesive. However, it can be difficult to discern between Isaiah’s own convictions and his direct revelations from God.
Seven centuries before Christ’s birth Jehovah was about to remove the ten rebel idolatrous tribes from the north alluded to under the pseudonyms of Israel, Samaria, or Ephraim. The two apostate but opposing segments of Solomon’s kingdom of David were Judah (& Benjamin) in the south, and the ten confederate rebel tribes of Israel in the north. Despite faithful prophets over multiple decades who had warned them they were both ripe for destruction and captivity by Syria, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, the Medo-Persian usurping empire and the sufferings of increasing civil war between each other.
Isaiah the prophet of Judah, was born at the end of King Uzziah’s reign. He was to serve the Lord as His main spokesman through the last days of Uzziah and the ensuing reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah before his rumoured martyrdom by Manasseh, righteous Hezekiah’s wicked son, whose idolatrous evil acts exceeded Ahaz, his grandfather.

ISAIAH: Prologue.

ISAIAH 1: Explanatory Foreword.

FOREWORD TO ISAIAH ONE.
The prophet’s vision and prophecies encompass all that Jehovah, or JAH’S view of the fallen, but divided State of Israel. More importantly he focuses on the southern kingdom of Judah ( with Benjamin) and its hallowed capital of Jerusalem. God speaks through the mouth and pen of Isaiah to apostate Judah fallen into idolatry, and wicked perversion. Nauseated over the impenitent descendants of Jacob and David he expresses his frustrated fury over the depraved degradation of its citizenry. Particularly is he indignant over the hypocritical false piety and the worship of worship.

However, he in wrath remembers mercy because of his everlasting merciful kindness and restrains his full retribution. Why? Because of the faithful remnant who adamantly refuse to worship the cult of Baal and faithfully adhere to the true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. References: Isaiah 1:9; 18; 25-27; 6:10.

The latter’s name was changed by the angel to Israel and his son Joseph preserved his descendants in Egypt, and 430 years to the day Moses led them in them away to the Promised Land they now occupy. The general description of Judah’s abject immorality is interlaced with the hope of mercy and redemption under the condition of their repentance. The darkness of Jerusalem’s doom hovers like Damocles’ Sword held by a hair’s breadth and it seems that the rank impenitence of the stiff-necked people will bring inevitable judgment. Seeing no hope of that happening the tone of mercy becomes an intermittent, spasmodic recurring theme. . Thus three future events are foreshadowed:

1. the Return of the remnant from seventy years Babylonian captivity led by Ezra and Nehemiah;
2. the arrival of Christ, the prophesied Immanuel, or First Advent’s efficacious blood covenant, (v 18); and
3. the Second Coming of Christ, the Messiah, to reign in Jerusalem: a post apocalyptic event of the end days.

Isaiah 1:
Isaiah’s visionary insight into the corruption of Judah & Jerusalem.
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

24 Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

*[Extract of Holy Scripture KJV from biblegateway.com Public Domain]

FOOTNOTES:
Samaria: describes the region occupied by ten of the twelve tribes of Israel. Confusing to the reader can be the three names used to describe them: Israel, Ephraim, and Samaria. Samaria is the region (between Judea and Galilee), occupied by the rebel ten tribes that had ceded from the kingdom of Israel after Solomon’s death leaving a split kingdom of Israel in the north and Judah in the south with neighbouring Benjamin. The two books of Kings and the other two books of Chronicles describe the constant conflicts and incessant civil wars between the north and the south. Samaria is also the name of the city.

Foreword, Chapter Heading, Chapter Sub-Headings, and Footnotes by John David.
Bible Chapter is from the King James Version (Public Domain, ex biblegateway.com)

ISAIAH 1: Explanatory Foreword.

ISAIAH 4: Explanatory Foreword.

FOREWORD TO ISAIAH 4.
Verses 1-4 speak of the judgment that came particularly under Ahaz and then Manasseh, who passed the point of no return. But the rest of the chapter envisions the post apocalypse period when, with the Second Coming of Christ he will reign in Zion. This is an intermittent theme throughout the book in which the reader continually gets six glimpses of Jerusalem, one in present real time of Isaiah’s writing, and six time periods of the future.

Isaiah’s divine insight into the future often sees both the godly remnant and God’s wrathful purge of past nations which have opposed the Semite descendants of Jacob over the centuries. E.g.: he envisions the remnant that would remain with Jeremiah after the final siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar the Babylonian king. (Cp. 2 Chronicles 36:17-21) In wrath upon the dissolute city of Zion Yahweh preserves some of the faithful as he did in the time of Noah and the Flood. Zion, its city and temple were shallow shells without the righteous. Thus, even during his vengeance against the wicked he preserves a tenth of Judah maintaining the Messianic BRANCH by his promise to David.

Six glimpses of Jerusalem describing Judah’s capital are not necessarily in any chronological sequence and there can be more than one time frame in a given chapter. This together with the array of unknown geographical references can be quite distracting from the main theme of each segment.

The six glimpses of Jerusalem given by Isaiah in the sixty six chapters of his book are:-

1. The present at the time of writing under one of the four kings: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Josephus thinks Isaiah was martyred in King Manasseh’s reign, the fifth but most evil of all Judah’s monarchs.
2. Immediately after the city’s sacking by Babylon.
3. Seventy years later when Cyrus allows the return of the captives to the city.
4. Jerusalem hundreds of years later with the First Advent: Christ’s birth.
5. Jerusalem in the modern day ingathering of the Diaspora in 19th-20th C
6. Jerusalem after the apocalyptic judgment of the nations at the Second Coming of Christ.

(KJV: Public Domain https://www.biblegateway.com/)

Isaiah 4
Isaiah predicts high war casualties will deplete the male generation.

1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
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FOOTNOTE
Isaiah 4:1. Under King Ahaz and then Hezekiah’s son Manasseh their evils led to a significant imbalance of the two genders. Abductions by foreign powers, including the raids of the northern Kingdom on Jerusalem, and massive casualties in battle were responsible for the inevitable reduction of the male population. Thus ‘seven women shall take hold of one man’, reflects Jerusalem’s dilemma envisioned by the prophet, if not witnessed in real time.

ISAIAH 4: Explanatory Foreword.

ISAIAH 3: Explanatory Foreword

FOREWORD TO ISAIAH THREE (by John David) –
Isaiah predicts the imminent destruction of Jerusalem & Judah.
Isaiah describes in his discerning vision a Jerusalem abandoned to wickedness and corruption with Judah’s governors acting with the folly of a child’s behavior. Law and order is imploding with immorality. Abject women rule in pomp and pride, consumed with the vanities of fashion.

Men have willingly abandoned their male lechery lusting instead for one another. Sodomy is prolific and the other gender have painted themselves like Jezebel in the vanity of attracting their own kind. On the other hand, the remnant of remaining god-fearing disciples of Yahweh are oppressed and persecuted for their peculiar faith by the apostate descendants of David.

Healthy heterogeneity has been exchanged for homogeneous iniquity pervading the city and its environs. The righteous remnant are seen as a threat because of their peculiarities. One wonders what Isaiah would say to any modern day city in his preaching if he were alive today.

Isaiah 3 https://www.biblegateway.com/ public domain.
CHAPTER THREE.
1 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

13 The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,

22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

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ISAIAH 3: Explanatory Foreword

ISAIAH 2: Foreword

Isaiah’s future hope: the 1st & 2nd coming of Christ.
Having described Jerusalem’s decadence and its self-inflicted woes, God’s voice through Isaiah his mouthpiece, calls Jerusalem a wayward woman. Albeit, the prophet sees Jerusalem through the eyes of the distant future. He encompasses both the First Advent and the Second Coming of Christ (the Second Advent) to planet Earth. Prior to the second advent he foresees the apocalyptic judgment of Earth by a wrathful God acting in vengeance for its endemic wickedness and rejection of his entreaties offering merciful forgiveness to genuine penitents. Whether from prophets, apostles, evangelists or saints the resistance was impenetrable.

Immanuel, Christ would first come as a Lamb, and then return at the end of the age as King of Kings to rule and reign with a rod of iron from Zion. The millennial reign of Jesus Christ would be from Jerusalem where he is due to return on the Mount of Olives, from which he ascended not Galilee as the 4th C amended Matthew 26; 28; Mark 14; & 16 purport. As Luke, John, and Acts declare: His passion, resurrection, and ascension was not from Galilee’s unnamed mountain, but Jerusalem near Bethany on the Mt. Olivet. The major prophets and the minor prophets agree with John and Luke that the second advent return of Immanuel will be to Jerusalem. Importantly and precisely Zechariah 14 correlates with Luke where (in Acts 1) before the apostles the angel heralds the eventual returning descent of Christ to the very same Mount of Olives. This made the apostles of Christ beholden to proclaim that same message as harbingers of the Second Coming.
John David
KJV Scripture Chapter Isaiah 2: public Domain see:
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ISAIAH 2: Explanatory Foreword

The Message of Apostate Christendom in the Last Days.

THE GREAT DECEPTION OF THE LAST DAYS (see Matthew 24 warnings by Jesus)
1. Easy religion = those preachers and churches that evangelise to get the most people responding to their message by eliminating genuine repentance (gift of godly sorrow)
a. Jesus spoke of them in John 10 as thieves and hirelings that do this
b. It is popular today to preach how easy it is to receive Christ, but this error is unbiblical and both Jeremiah and Jesus said that it is not enough to want heaven after death. It is not enough to want to miss hellfire after death. It is not enough to seek the Lord by attending church and/or reading the Bible, saying prayers, or being baptized in water. The prophets and Jesus demand:-
i. wholeheartedness, seeking the Lord with all of one’s heart
ii. that one admits his lack of faith and need of divine faith as His gift
iii. that one admits his heart is deceitful and wickedly self-righteous
iv. that one admits his inability to have faith or grace and that he went astray from the womb under the curse of Adam’s sin passed on through his forbears
v. that one admits, when he is religious, that this is a self justifying motive and not the so-called inner desire to seek the Lord by the promptings of conscience (which is also fallen and corrupted by sin). Paul calls the conscience “evil”.
vi. That one admits that he is made in the image of the earthy (i.e. Adam’s image, not God’s image as he was originally created in his innocence).
“The easy religion offering unconditional acceptance into the Kingdom by SELF FAITH and automated repentance is justified by the moral majority who twist Romans 10:9 away from its context and bibliolatrously venerate it (& verse 13). Then the clergy of easy-religion use them to interpret all other Scriptures. This illogical hermeneutic becomes the arbiter of all New Testament truth and acts as a blocking filter to disallow both the effects of the curse and its legacy of ORIGINAL SIN to deny man’s utter dependence upon the endowment of grace to repent and believe the Gospel.”

http://bonitabiblemission.worthyofpraise.org/beware-hirelings…-sheeps-clothing/

EVANGELISM AWRY

EVANGELISM AWRY.
The hidden humanism of the evangelical churches promotes the easy religion of do-it-yourself salvation. Much of this is achieved by twisting
1. God said it.
2. I said it.
3. I have therefore believed it.
4. I have automatically got it (irrevocable eternal life).

This is he humanistic psychology of New England Theology that pervades America and much of the global outreach in the third world after one hundred years of the Golden Age of Evangelism. Refined as faith by William James, the Father of American Psychology, in his Varieties of Religious Experiences in the 1850’s. This plague of easy religion that wet global in the 1948 B.G. Crusades is a complete distortion of the Reformation’s message of grace.

This easy religion offering unconditional acceptance into the Kingdom by SELF FAITH and automated repentance is justified by the moral majority who twist Romans 10:9 away from its context and bibliolatrously venerate it (& verse 13). Then the clergy of easy-religion use them to interpret all other Scriptures. This illogical hermeneutic becomes the arbiter of all New Testament truth and acts as a blocking filter to disallow both the effects of the curse and its legacy of ORIGINAL SIN to deny man’s utter dependence upon the endowment of grace to repent and believe the Gospel.
If the heart of man is as wicked and deceitful as the Psalmist, the Prophets and Jesus maintained, then only grace will enable ‘saving-faith’ unto regeneration, called the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH.
Only grace can turn worldly sorrow into godly sorrow (repentance).
Only grace can cause the wanton heart to seek the Lord wholeheartedly.
Only grace can awaken the deadened soul to hear the CALL OF CHRIST TO FOLLOW HIM.
Only grace will thereafter cause the awakened soul to HEAR AND LEARN OF THE FATHER.
Only grace can bring a person to face his/her failed and fallen SELF.
Only grace can show the awakened his sin and his RESURRECTED SAVIOUR.
Only grace can instil and infuse the HOPE OF REDEMPTION by opening the eyes of the awakened to Christ in the Scriptures, and INSTANTANEOUSLY regenerate him and translate him from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of HIS dear Son.
Grace has received a bad name from Christendom’s moral majority. Indoctrinators of sectarianism, especially right-wing evangelicals conveniently see only black or white: viz: Calvinism or Arminianism.
Today this allows them to dispense with ORIGINAL SIN, the weakened state of human faculties from sin and the disabled, dysfunctional conscience that universally leads men to WORSHIP SOMETHING OR SOMEONE rather than Christ. Some unwittingly end up worshipping worship itself in a form mystical mesmerisation, which can hold hypnotic sway over the indulging group. This especially takes place where expectation of signs prevail and physical aberrant behaviour is accepted without question.
Even religious worship is merely an expression of a natural universal inborn desire of humanity to worship ‘THEY KNOW NOT WHAT. whether they are born into a Christian or pagan culture. The apostle Paul saw this at Mars Hill, in Athens. It can be regularly observed in among agnostics, so-called atheists, and various religions including spiritism and animism. Worshipping the god of REASON is nonetheless a religion. This includes the sophists spawned by Thomas Aquinas etc.
Eve was brought into Eden’s paradise in a state of innocence (not righteousness) but she, unlike Adam, unwittingly worshipped a paranormal spirit incarnate in the Serpent. She led Adam to succumb to her worshipful desire for KNOWLEDGE of the gods. Part of the curse endemic to mankind, is the NATURAL BENT TO WORSHIP which when indulged will smooth the dying pillow of the indulger, thus placating any fears about life’s temporariness.
America turned away from the message of its Puritan Fathers when the lapsed evangelist Jonathan Edwards in 1746 wrote ‘The Freedom of the Will. He had not only rejected the Puritan Fathers, but re-echoed the humanism of Origen, Pelagius, and Jacob Arminius. What was their root problem that led them into Christian humanism? They rejected both the Genesis account and the Romans 5 description of hereditary original sin and were deluded by Rome’s notion of Adam’s original righteousness. The logical extension of this main error is to misunderstand the image of God in human creation, and then innately arm all humans with the faculty of preserved freewill and an active light of conscience. Implied in this heresy is the notion of a universal residual vestige of inner faith enabling receptivity to God’s overtures.
1. Adam was crated in a state of innocence from which he and Eve fell when they rejected God’s offer of grace through the tree of life by grasping for paranormal knowledge from the Tree of Knowledge.
2. Adam was made in the tripartite image of God with a body-soul-spirit. As such he was unique to the animal kingdom with his reflective capacity to confer with himself, internalize, rationalize and cogitate accordingly beyond mere instinct. Of the trinity God the Father; God the WORD; and God’s Spirit self reflection is manifest in the Scriptures in Genesis and In the Gospel of John etc.
3. God created Adam with a definitive difference. He gave him a LIVING SOUL unique among the animal kingdom.
4. When Adam and Eve fell from their state of innocence their souls ceased to live. From the deadening effect of the fall into ORIGINAL SIN decay and degeneration had begun. The conscience had been seared and cauterized. Where once its light was God centred, it now self righteously became self centred in its link to the corrupted power of FREEWILL. Where once at the beginning of creation it reflected and echoed the voice of God, now it merely became evil in its duplicity, reflecting self-interest and self centredness. This is why the apostle Paul called the conscience ‘evil’.
John 1:9, truly declares the truth that the inner light of Christ’s indwelling is the only light which lights up the recipients of the Gospel throughout the world. Without it the impenetrable darkness of sin’s deadening effect is thus described in the ensuing verses 10 etc. That caused both the world and ‘His own’ to ignore or reject Him (the LIGHT).
Instead of the Puritan Reformation return to biblical faith through grace, we have come the full circle and made access to divine grace through human faith (that Jesus, the apostles and the prophets said we lack in the sceptical human heart of unbelief.)

EVANGELISM AWRY

BIBLICAL FAITH & REPENTANCE LOST SINCE 19th C.

BIBLICAL REPENTANCE & FAITH LOST IN THE 19th C.
Hebrews 6:1b. “not laying again the foundation of repentance”
“not laying again the foundation of…faith”.
PLAGUE OF AMERICAN NEW ENGLAND THEOLOGY’S LEGACY.
1) The 19th C emergence of new genre evangelism and its sensational new type of preacher quickly introduced a new type of repentance which was said to be merely a ‘change of mind’.

a. It bypassed biblical sorrowful anguish brought by the Spirit through the prayers of the saints
b. It made the godly sorrow Paul wrote of in 2 Corinthians 7 something quickly attained in a moment
c. It conveniently suited the automated mass conversions of Billy Sunday and D. L. Moody
d. Though the preaching took Bible texts it added the psychology of New England’s easy-religion
e. It inadvertently expounded the ‘easy-faith’ concepts of William James, the Father of U.S. Psychology.
f. It violated Paul’s warning, not to lay again an alternative foundation to repentance or faith.
g. However, it appealed to the masses and the media and was mislabelled ‘revival’.
h. It overlooked the difference between awakening and conversion presuming both were the same.
i. The disciples were first awakened by the call to ‘follow,’ but only converted when Jesus resurrected.
j. In the preceding 40 months Jesus said they had little or no faith and did not understand his gospel.
k. Though Jesus gave them his powerful name to use in healing of others they remained sceptics.
l. As awakened and zealous followers who had the Spirit with them they needed the Spirit within them.
m. Like the Exodus Jews who followed the presence of God with them they had no faith as sceptics.
n. Only Joshua and Caleb of 600 thousand soldiers had a different spirit: God’s Holy Spirit.
o. Repentance is not just a change of mind but a gift to wholehearted, earnest seekers like Joshua
p. St. John 20 and Luke 24 tells how the risen Christ turned sorrow into godly repentance and faith
q. The Eleven then had more than ideology, knowledge, or the mere ‘willing suspension of disbelief’.

q. i. They were not told how to say a prayer
q. ii. They were not told how to believe
q. iii. They were not told ‘how to be sure they knew they were on their way to heaven’.
q. iv. As followers, not yet Christians, they had learned that their own faith and willpower had failed.
q. v. They had learned that their own knowledge of the Scriptures had failed
q. vi. They had learned that their own zealous profession of lips had failed
q. vii. They had learned that their own faith and willpower had failed
q. viii. They had learned that their own knowledge and ‘change of mind’ was a fickle failure.
q. ix. They had learned that they did not know how to pray without a different spirit.
q. x. They had learned that their own loyalty was turned to cowardice and denial in a moment.

DOWN THROUGH CHURCH HISTORY until 19th C masquerade by new easy-automatic evangelism, counsellors of seeking respondents always made room for the Spirit to do his peculiar work of conversion, or regeneration, in the lives of seekers. This was so until the wane of the 2nd Great Awakening on both sides of the Atlantic, which had started in 1825 and had been ushered in by a spreading spirit of prayer.

Counselling assurance was not given because a sinner’s prayer was offered. The evangelist/preacher/soul-winner waited for the Lord Jesus to work and convert sorrow into repentance; despair into hope; doubt into faith; and self-condemnation into joyful assurance. They knew that the Lord needed no help to do His peculiar work of grace and regardless of church denomination the inevitable outcome was the result.

Where there is a spirit of prayer and the seeker is wholehearted the inevitable outcomes always occur. They are described in Luke 24; John 20; Acts, and the New Testament Epistles. Awakening is the beginning of the journey, not the end, which only occurs with the illuminating of the awakened into newness of life.

This cannot be simulated by mechanical ideology and persuasive approaches of psychology in which men and women take it upon themselves to convert souls by the methods of easy-religion that has dominated evangelism for over a hundred and fifty years.

Even indoctrinating select verses of Scripture to justify this simulated evangelism produces, for the most part, false converts who are both inured against true evangelism and become its resisting until death, only to discover that they are part of the five foolish virgins whose borrowed oil had been inadequate for meeting the Bridegroom (Christ). When finally they had realized their mistake and were willing to pay the price for their own oil it was too late and they were shut out of the kingdom.

SCRIPTURE: What Jesus said to those followers who presumed that God’s presence with them was enough for eternal life.
• Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. 7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
(Matthew 25: 1-12)

• When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Luke 13:25-27

• 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. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
(Matthew 7:22-24)

Scvriptures quoted are from King James Version which is Public domain. (Not quoted from the Authorised KJB)
https://www.biblegateway.com/

Biblical knowledge cannot give eternal life anymore than affirmation, lip confession, and the water of the baptism.

CONCLUSION.
“One thing we have learned from history is that we do not learn from history”. Most of the best church members are taught to choose only Scriptures which agree with the preacher’s belief. By pragmatism one scripture is said to supersede another scripture. This is not willing amnesia but bibliolatrous twisting of whatever scripture they want to believe that suits their own false version of Christianity. This is “Ichabod” or the curse of apostasy, making the status quo of Christendom confident of their insight when in fact they are blind and deaf to God’s entreaties from the whole of the Scriptures No part of the New Testament supersedes another part, nor do they contradict one the other if contextual place, time, audience, speaker, background and antinomy is duly considered. Popular literalistic bibliolatry of the right wing moral majority and the hundreds upon hundreds of fringe sects which follow suit conveniently block their ears to the whole counsel of God in the New Testament and exploit that which suits them in their reactionary pragmatic wresting of Scripture to their own destruction.

Popular mass easy-evangelism of the globe for two hundred years has smoothed the dying pillow of the lost with its false hopes, condemned by Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Jesus:-

Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. Luke 11:35

BIBLICAL FAITH & REPENTANCE LOST SINCE 19th C.