God’s Counterweapon — Part 1

God’s plan to counteract satan

Humanity was exposed to the wiles of satan.

His only weapon is mentally influencing the human brain, which includes: lies, torment, perverting the true meanings of Biblical concepts, keeping God’s people from contacting other people, keeping people from reading the Bible, keeping people from assembling with believing people by providing alternate activities, offering people a quest for money, offering people a quest for power, offering people sex opportunities, suggesting people overly use food, alcohol, and drugs, suggesting stealing, suggesting murder, and suggesting suicide.

There are physical weapons that satan uses in this war. They include: all the various governments, all the various businesses, all the various religions, all the various Christian churches, all the various preachers, priests, and especially the use of the Bible.

The sin of Adam and Eve resulted in Mankind being cursed. The curse extends until life on earth is destroyed; and if the curse remained unchallenged until the end of the world, it would have meant eternal damnation for everyone.

The curse on Mankind resulted in God putting a Cherub with a flaming sword at the east entrance of the Garden of Eden. His job was to keep Mankind from re-entering the Garden of Eden and getting to the Tree of Life.

The Tree of Life was the only way Man could obtain eternal life. The result of the curse was knowledge. The knowledge of physical death would lead to spiritual death entering the world.

God’s plan to counteract spiritual death, which comes from satan’s influence of the human brain, went into effect the moment Jesus was born.

When Jesus died the plan was finished.

God’s plan was simple. God sent a special spirit into Jesus to be born a human being on earth. His title is known as the Messiah (The Anointed One or the Christ).

The curse could only be challenged if a human being lived a perfect life and was killed for a crime he did not commit.

Jesus was killed for a crime he did not commit. He was executed for the crime of treason. He was falsely accused for calling himself a king.

Since Jesus lived a perfect life without ever breaking one of Man’s or God’s rules, Jesus defeated the curse.

When Rome executed Jesus on the cross, for a crime he didn’t commit, Jesus’ mission on earth was finished.

Jesus had lived a perfect sinless life from birth to death. Jesus had successfully challenged satan’s victory over Adam and Eve and won.

To be continued…

Animal Sacrifice — Part 2

After Jesus’ Crucifixion

Shortly after Rome murdered the Christ named Jesus, God also moved the Roman Empire to remove the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

This was God’s way of keeping the Jewish people from trampling on God’s Laws concerning the animal sacrifice.

Once the final sacrifice of the Messiah Jesus occurred, the Jewish people would have sinned by killing animals as sacrifices to God. It would have been considered murder by God to kill animals as offerings without the Temple.

The crucifixion of Jesus had concluded the work of the nation of Israel. They had accomplished their mission, as predestined by God, by offering the final sacrifice to God, which was to kill the Lamb of God, who was Jesus.

Therefore, the Temple in Jerusalem would no longer be necessary. In fact, the Temple would become a hindrance to the Jewish people. So God had it destroyed to protect them.

The only time God allowed the Jewish people to kill their animal sacrifices was while the Temple existed in a tent and afterward in a building in Jerusalem.

Once God had King Solomon replace the Temple Tent with the Temple Building, then the Temple could never return to being a tent.

This symbolized the changes that would take place on earth, which included Mankind changing his tent dwelling for permanent buildings called cities.

God would consider an animal sacrifice, after the destruction of the Temple, an act of murder.

This does not include animal sacrifices prior to the existence of Moses, or during the time of Moses, and up to the Temple becoming a permanent building.

It is no wonder God put the Muslim people in charge of the mountain in Jerusalem where the Jewish Temple once stood.

The Jewish Temple can only be built on that specific spot according to God’s Laws. Israel, Jerusalem, and the Jewish Temple were once part of the ancient Roman Empire during the time of Jesus.

Centuries later the Muslim people took possession of that entire area and the exact geographical location of the Temple.

The reason the Roman Crusaders set out to re-conquer Israel was to take control of Jerusalem again, because they needed the site where Jesus was crucified as a foundation of their newly formed church.

It was the basis of their plans for the future of the Roman Empire.

The Romans needed a war cry to rally European armies. So they invented the Holy Grail, which of course theoretically was in the hands of the Arabs in Jerusalem.

The Roman Crusaders waged war seven times during four crusades, over a period of four centuries, against the Muslim people in Israel.

The Roman Crusades ended in a stalemate with the Muslim people still in possession of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, where the Jewish Temple once proudly stood.

Hence, God influenced the brains of the Muslim people to build their temple on the exact spot where the Jewish Temple once existed.

The Muslim temple is a Mosque called the Dome of the Rock. This was God’s way of insuring the Jewish people could never offend Him by renewing their animal sacrifice in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

The decision concerning where the animal sacrifices would be done was solely God’s decision and not Man’s decision.

Since there has been no new commandment concerning the sacrifice of animals, and the Temple in Jerusalem is gone, then the animal sacrifice had to be suspended.

The little known fact is, God’s last commandment was to kill the Temple itself, which was the body of Jesus, the Christ.

Once Jesus was crucified, there was no other reason for anyone to perform an animal sacrifice. The Jews ceased all animal sacrifices, but many Christian sects continued animal sacrifices.

Voodoo is one such Christian sect that continues to perform animal sacrifices today.

Animal Sacrifice — Part 1

The Redemption Plan- Animal Sacrifice

God’s plan included a sacrifice. The original word used for sacrifice was “victim”. God allowed sinful Mankind to use a victim, an innocent animal, to take the blame and punishment for his sins. The original victim was a baby lamb.

Abel offered a lamb for his sins as instructed, but Cain refused to be obedient and offered vegetation. The reason vegetation wasn’t an acceptable sacrifice for sin is that no blood was shed.

God’s rules demand a person’s blood be shed for being disobedient to God. This is the reason God brings war, plague, catastrophe, and death, upon people, families, and nations.

A Man‘s child is his blood. In the Bible, we see God punish King David for the sins of adultery and murder by killing his newborn baby.

Abel was Adam’s son. Therefore, God punished Adam and Eve for their sin by using Cain to kill Abel. Since God is justified in killing Abel, this doesn’t excuse Cain for committing murder.

God’s law demands payment for sin. The payment for sin is both physical and spiritual death of the sinner. This is the essence of Jesus’ sacrifice for us on the cross. Since God is merciful, He allowed Jesus to become the victim instead of us.

Jesus physically died in place of us as the substitute payment for our sins. Since human beings sin they spiritually die and deserve to physically die to pay for those sins.

When the innocent human being named Jesus died on the cross, for a sin he did not commit, his physical death became the final sacrifice. This is why Jesus is called the Passover Lamb, which is the sacrificial Lamb.

Jesus physically died so human beings wouldn’t have to spiritually or physically die to pay for their sins.

Since God is merciful, shortly after Adam and Eve committed their first sin, the Bible subtly shows us the Lord teaching them the necessity of an animal sacrifice. Immediately after the sin, the Lord provided them with the skins of animals.

An animal must be killed to take its skin. Hence, we see the Lord teach Adam about the animal sacrifice. The Lord God introduced the animal sacrifice to Adam, which allowed him to shift payment for their sin onto the innocent animal.

Prior to the Cross, the animal sacrifice was a ritual that only postponed the spiritual death of a person’s personal spirit until Jesus died, which is what they deserved.

We see Abel sacrificing a lamb to God. This proves Adam taught the ritual to his sons, Cain and Abel, but this ritual didn’t stop God from requiring the blood of Abel, or the physical death of Abel, as payment for Adam’s sin.

The animal sacrifice became a requirement of the Lord after the first sin was committed. It wasn’t a request.

The Lord required Adam to teach his sons that each person had to perform this ritual of an animal sacrifice for the forgiveness of his sins once a year.

A man’s animal sacrifice also covered all the children and female members of his family. Since God considered them the man’s possessions, then they are simply an extension of that man.

The animal sacrifice made the animal an innocent victim who took the place of the originally intended victim. This was a temporary system that would continue as a ritual until the permanent victim or permanent sacrifice of Jesus would be offered to God over 4,000 years later.

When Jesus is born, and grows, he realizes through the Scriptures that his destiny is to become the final permanent sacrifice for all Mankind. The temporary sacrifice could not stop being practiced until the true sacrifice was killed; when the true sacrifice was killed, then the temporary sacrifice would have to stop.

The ritual would have to be removed and no longer allowed to be practiced once the final sacrifice was offered. This is the reason God had the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem destroyed, and allowed the Arabs to build their Mosque (Islamic temple) in its place on the exact spot.

God used the Romans to destroy the Jewish Temple, and the Arabs to keep the Jews from ever practicing the temporary animal sacrifice again. The performance of an animal sacrifice would be committing sin after the Jewish Temple was destroyed, showing God’s love for the Jewish people.

The temporary sacrifice was only a temporary payment. A man had to offer his animal sacrifice every year. This ritual protected the man and his family for a period of one year. It covered the sins committed by a man during the year immediately following the last ritual performed.

If a person was obedient to God and died in between rituals, he slept after physical death and did not become a demon. He slept to await the final sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.

When the final sacrifice was accomplished by Jesus, all the obedient children of God, prior to Jesus, received the same benefit as people who believed Jesus after the cross. They would be included in the resurrection of the dead, and brought back to life on the new earth after the Final Judgment.

The permanent sacrifice was Jesus, the Lamb of God. He was the final victim. The effects of Jesus’ offering himself as a victim for the entire human race extended all the way back to Adam, and forward to the end of our world. It applied to anyone, and applies to everyone, who believed in, or believes in, God or His Son Jesus.

Belief in God is having faith in God’s word, which is using the Bible to replace the evil information a person has contained in their brain about God and Jesus.

Belief in God or Jesus is not the same as believing they exist; which unfortunately is what most people are guilty of believing. Everyone believes there is a God, but only a few people have the faith to apply the written Word of God (the Bible) to their lives, no matter what it costs them.

To be continued…

Death — Part 3

The Destruction of the earth

 The Destruction of the earth is a fact. It cannot be stalled or stopped.

Once Adam and Eve set the human race on the road to destruction, the countdown began; it is called ‘Time’.  This is why God designed an escape plan for human beings called Salvation, which simply means to be saved.

Jesus told us that God’s escape plan is similar to Noah and his family being saved from the flood that destroyed the ancient world. Many historical Biblical accounts point to this fact.

The story of Noah is the greatest example of being saved while alive in this world.

In Matthew Chapter 24, Jesus used Noah’s story to teach us how we can be saved from the next destruction of the world.

Do not confuse the destruction of the world with the end of the world. They are two very different events.

The destruction of the world refers to the destruction of civilization. The end of the world refers to the end of life on earth.

The destruction of our planet earth will never happen. It is a myth. The important thing to focus upon is the time limit or the countdown to World War III, when civilization will disappear forever.

The appointed time limiting Mankind’s existence on the earth is 7,000 years. The countdown started when Adam and Eve committed the first sin. That was 6,061 years ago.

God gave the human race 6,000 years to get it right. They didn’t get it right, and the 6,000 years is over.

Now we have entered the last thousand year period and we’re getting close to the end, but it is still far away for those reading this book.

The end of the world is too far away for people to be interested in it. Nevertheless, the end of the world comes for everyone when they physically die; that’s the end of the world for them!

The end of the world

The end of the world is not a frightening thing in itself, because it only means the second part of your life has ended.

The end of the world makes no difference to a person who dies today because their world came to an end today, but the Judgment will make a difference to every dead person.

The Final Judgment of the human race comes after the end of life on earth, which is why everyone is put into one of two spiritual places after physical death:

1) Hell is where people’s spirits are held as demons after physical death. Demons are not allowed to rest until the Final Judgment of all demons. Hell, after physical death, is a spiritual holding pen.

2) Heaven is where dead people’s spirits, who are God’s children, are allowed to sleep, until the earth is rebuilt into a paradise to accept newly resurrected life.

The spiritual holding pen known as Hell is where a person is sent after physical death destroys their human body. Knowledge of it should be critical to every person.

There are only two places in the spiritual world: Heaven and Hell.  Everyone will be sent to one of these two places before the Final Judgment decides the eternal place demons will reside forever.

Therefore, the last 7,000 years, known to us as ‘Time’ are the central focal point of Biblical writings and prophecy.

Death — Part 2

Death

The Bible talks about 3 types of death:

1) Spiritual death occurs to living human beings if they allow demons to master their lives rather than God’s Word through the Bible.

Originally, human beings only had to follow their instincts. Instinct is the original set of instructions God gave to all creatures.

When human beings rebelled against their instincts, it resulted in spiritual death. The result of human rebellion was God considered the person’s personal spirit dead.

Adam and Eve were created with living spirits.

When Eve disobeyed God it resulted in her personal living spirit dying. This does not mean her spirit died, but that her personal spirit was considered evil by God.

God instituted the animal sacrifice to revive Adam and Eve’s dead spirits. This resulted in their personal spirits being resurrected back to life, or becoming living spirits once again.

If they continued being obedient to God, then their personal spirits remained alive.  If they did not continue to be obedient to God, like Cain, then their personal spirits would die again.

Therefore, it is spiritual death that is most important in the Bible, because it is the thing that has to be defeated by us while we are alive; or else we become the victims of its result: which is the first death.

Anyone who physically dies in a state of sin suffers the first death and will be sent to a spiritual hell to be tormented by becoming a demon until the Final Judgment.

2) Physical death is the first death. It is something everyone born must experience, but the experience is not the same for everyone.

Physical death occurs when God the Father decides it is your time to end life on earth. The procedure is simple. God leaves your human body and it stops functioning!

No one can hide from death, since God lives inside all of us and knows exactly where you are at all times. A person cannot escape physical death; no, not even the Rapture will help you avoid physical death.

It is the fear of death that causes Christians to embrace the false doctrine known as the Rapture, which is a lying doctrine.

Physical death is the driving force behind believing in Jesus, because believing in Jesus depends completely upon believing in the resurrection of the physically dead.

Without physical death, the resurrection of the dead loses all its power and becomes a useless doctrine.

John the Apostle told us that a person must stay exactly within the boundaries of Jesus’ doctrine, and Jesus’ doctrine of the resurrection of the dead opposes the Rapture.

The Rapture promises people they will escape physical death by being disintegrated, and their spirit will supposedly meet the Lord Jesus in the air after their human body is vaporized.

True believers experience falling asleep at the moment physical death occurs, while people who believe a lie never sleep after physical death occurs. They report directly to a spiritual hell to suffer for their unbelief.

3) The second death comes after physical death and after being in spiritual hell as a demon. Not all demons will be condemned to the second death.

The second death is the result of blaspheming the Holy Spirit while alive on earth, or while being a demon in spiritual hell. It is the result of the Final Judgment, which comes immediately after all life on earth is extinct.

When a blasphemer of the Holy Spirit physically dies, he or she will be sent to spiritual hell to await the Final Judgment. Then God will judge the person and condemn him or her to eternal damnation in the Outer Darkness forever.

Any living person can be forgiven for their sins by simply making a conscious decision to believe God by believing what is written in the Bible. Then that person must diligently try to apply what they read to their life.

When physical death takes a person who is trying to apply God’s Word to their life, the second death will not be their fate. Demons who have not blasphemed the Holy Spirit while alive on earth or in spiritual hell, will be resurrected back to life on earth at the Final Judgment.

To be continued…