Jerusalem Blade
Puritan Board Professor
Strategies of Seduction: Distraction & Deception (Excerpted from, A Great and Terrible Love, or free digital)
The stuff is so well done, so many genres to appeal to so many tastes, it’ll get a hook in multitudes! Aliens, vampires, heroes, heroines, monsters, fantasy, sci fi, prowess, courage, beauty, raw power, rage, 21st century romance – now on the Big Screen (or smaller screens if you prefer, made for your phones or tablets as well). Books will also do!
Exotic lands, planets, creatures, villains, superb weapons and strength – just sit back and relax, enjoy yourself.
In the meanwhile the invasion of planet earth continues, our extra-dimensional adversaries know how to use those already in their power – the artists, filmmakers and producers, writers, actors and actresses, FX wizards – and your attention is arrested, you are lulled for the hit. You never knew it was happening; you likely never will until you wake up on the other side of death: the horror! You have been taken, you have been had in a horror beyond what you ever thought possible – certainly the movies in whose thrall you were lulled never portrayed this reality! You are dead and you are still awake; you see your body lying there and you aren’t in it, and there are creatures here – besides fellow humans in the same boat you’re in – who are terrors to look at, and their amused malice rippling across the currents of fury welling up in them now that they have you in their hands! Why weren’t you warned of this! Why weren’t you told this was coming? How can it be!
But wait, you were told, it just didn’t strike you as true or real. You just couldn’t be bothered with those jerks who told you you were morally accountable and that there was a God to answer to, and a spirit-world filled with devils and angels. You actually hated those who talked – or even preached in the public places! – of Jesus Christ giving His life to pay for your sins so you could be forgiven them (for the asking!), and of His being raised from the dead so He could be your Savior and Shepherd from the throne of power in the Heavens to watch over you and protect you as you lived your life in the demon-infiltrated world. You hated this kind of talk, and now you see it is true.
Everything was a lie! Everything you believed in, wanted to believe in! And the real heroes and heroines – the ones with genuine power and wisdom – were those you thought fools and jerks: the ones who walked with the God of Heaven and earth, the Creator God, the God who so loved the world that He gave His only Son the Christ to save the perishing – and now you are perished!!!
Although you indeed have a terrible adversary – known as Lucifer the prince of demons – you were your own worst adversary, for you loved this world and its diversions and deceptions more than the truth; and you did know it was the truth, you just hated it, and suppressed the knowledge of it so you could get on with your pleasures, and with being the god of your own life – “to Hell with these preachers and their God!” was in your heart, but now it is you who have awoken in Hell.
Strategy #1 in the arsenal of Hell: Divert the fools from considering the reality they are in; deceive them with delicious and fantastic dreams; keep them lulled until they are dead and in our hands, and we will vent our rage on these vile humans who have usurped our place in the favor of Heaven, who are creatures of the great Enemy on high! Keep them distracted! Never let up!
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The Babylonish Arts and the War on the Saints
The beauty of Babylonian art (2/20/14)
Just saw Man of Steel tonight (I occasionally review the arts of this world). Action-packed, kind of hokey, quite diverting from the high-velocity action going on in reality. Oh? What’s going on “in reality”? You expect to see demonic powers invisibility-cloaked wreaking global havoc? What’s going on varies: in some nations violent fundamentalists’ hearts and minds are inflamed with hatred against the quiet light-bearers, and they ravage them, leaving blood and wailing. In the “white, wise, and wealthy West” it’s different, here (where I also live) it’s the seductive beauty of visual stories that captivate the children of Babylon, stories of love, adventure, battle, heroics – all high-tech decked to arrest attention – and we are drawn in! So many stories! So well done!
Or the music, the arts, books, dance, what heights of culture and technology to enthrall entertainment-refined souls!
And we are blinded to the glory of the living God radiant across all the world, His kindness revealed in the true and living Story of the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth:
Babylonish arts don’t much like to speak of the Son of God bearing “the sins of the whole world” upon Himself (1 John 2:2) – actually taking the punishment for them in our stead – that we might be forgiven, ‘cause this goes against the grain of our independence and pride.
We have all these movies of immense prowess, wisdom, and courage warding off impossibly great disasters befalling the human race, while, invisibility-cloaked, we are the laughing stock of demons taking us at their will, blinded, ignorant, into an eternity of hell. We just don’t want to hear about repentance – turning from our sins against the Law of God – and embracing the Saviour of humankind, who is bringing all who cleave to Him through the gauntlet of Time and in the age soon to come to dwell upon New Earth where Heaven and God now also dwell with us, and where is no death, suffering, evil, or tears, but glory in new bodies and an alive earth (released from the fetters of death imposed upon it in this age), and the Creator, Jesus the God-man, walking in our midst.
To look upon Him, who flung forth the billions of galaxies, who is the fount of all pleasure and beauty, is to be transported into the heart of the infinite majesty and dignity of His presence . . . . and then to see His love in that stripped-away moment of the heart of God laid bare: for love of us bearing the eternal wrath against our ruinous sins (are we not ruined, is not our earth ruined?) that we would not have to bear them in eternity, for love of us to rescue us from our own wicked hearts, and this evil age. But no, we won’t have it, don’t want to believe it, would rather whittle away our ever-shortening time in love with Babylon and its passing lovely dreams.
Even saints spend more time intoxicated with the wine of whorish Babylon, than the living waters that flow from the Throne of God, alas!
World War Z (3/26/2014)
Picked up the DVD for this a couple of days ago at the library (it’s free to loan). As may be apparent I focus in on the zombie genre, seeing as it is a distorted but related aspect of what is real.
This movie and Will Smith’s, I Am Legend, both draw upon the Armageddon archetype, that is, they are images of the final battle spoken of in numerous places in the Book of Revelation (and well known in the world of spirits, both the evil and the holy), where those who are not children of God in Jesus Christ, are filled with an insane rage to destroy those who are. The idea of global pandemics of virus-like contagion turning normal humans into subhuman promiscuously bloodthirsty monsters bent only on killing those not infected with – and this is an interesting thing – in reality not a virus but a spirit, an infusion of demonic rage accompanied by the thoughts that those possessed of Christ’s eternal life are enemies of humankind deserving to die, and die horribly, cruelly.
Imagine, normal people – possibly even former friends or dear family – now so enraged as to be beyond reasoning with; this is the masterpiece of satanic deception: turning “normal” humans into psychopathic haters of God and of His people. The problem is, “normal” humankind is utterly vulnerable to such satanic “infusion” of malevolence; they have no defense against it, regardless of the bluster with which they deny it, for the satanic powers are beyond the comprehension of those devoid of spiritual life and discernment.
At any rate, when I see the nightstalkers of Legend and the zombies of WWZ, I know that these are mirage images of the time to come. Actually, one can see precursors of this very thing in Muslim or Hindu lands as the fundies among them pursue the Christians with mad frenzy and violent hatred. The difference is that at Armageddon it will be global and the “civilized” West will be as bad or worse than the more primitive varieties of living dead.
But at the moment of destruction, when many have already been killed in this manner, the Lord our Champion shall return with vengeance, and with fire from the fury of His countenance shall devour the ravagers, and He shall call His people back to life, and raise them up into the heavens to be with Him.
The Walking Dead (3/30/2014)
This saga is perhaps the worst, as it draws you in to the macabre stories – a zombie soap! – and you crave more. . . . and more. . . . possessed of seeming relevance in these strange apocalypse-haunted days in which we live. It’s similar in some respects to Cormac McCarthy’s horrific novel, The Road, replete with roving bands of cannibals.
But it’s all just Hollywood hoke geared to those raised on vamps and wolvens and zombies – camera, action, cut, it’s a wrap! and then it’s packaged to sell. It’s all fake to sell you on a story that is not real (big bucks advertising in this), and beneath the human motives are the demonic, to lure you away from thinking on the real living dead, just long enough till you can no longer dig that you are the zombie, that you are without the Water of Life which turns the monsters descended from the death of Adam into the living, the eternally living. Who gives that Living Water? The Gatekeeper to heavenly Zion (that’s its name), and many – multitudes – are deceived into thinking they have a pass to get in the City of Eternal Glory, but when they see Him, and hear His words, “I never knew you, depart from Me you that work iniquity!” they realize they truly have been the living dead while on earth, and now, on the other side, the undying damned.
Many say to Him (panic coursing through them), “I believe, I even talk to You, and keep Your commands!” and He says, “You did not keep them, for I said to join yourselves to My people, and hear My words explained by My servants that you might receive My Spirit through them and have life, but you would not, and like a coal out of the fire, you grew cold and died, and the fire you thought you had, was not of Me.”
The evil of Babylon’s arts is this, that they lure souls into these quicksands of fantasy attraction, one after another after another – it adds up to years! – and all their “lives” they are distracted from the Book of Life, in which dwells the Spirit of Life, and from whom issues the Waters of Life which flow from the throne situated in a realm not of this world, though it shall come down upon the earth after the resurrection, and eternal life shall commence with the great feast, the holy party, the marriage supper of the Lamb, where the glory and the power of the Son of God, where the love He bears to all who love Him and stay true to Him even unto death, flows through His Bride, and the glory of His presence they live in henceforth is as the air of Heaven they breathe, now in new bodies which have no death, or weakness, or disease, or sin, but power and majesty and joy as the daughters and sons of God the royal Father, and Jesus the elder Brother and King of New Earth.
The Babylonish arts tend to illusions and death, distracting the soul away from the necessary consciousness of God and Christ, which is needful to resist the intoxicating wine of the great whore, Babylon the murderer of saints, and of the people of earth who follow her.
There is a fearsome thing written, that will apply to our days not very far off:
But those who have their hearts set upon the God of life have these promises:
The days are coming which will be dark; yet many will say, “No, this is light, not darkness!” and confusion will reign in many lands, and the children of God will find themselves outlaws as the Shadow of Mordor (a figure for the shadow of Satanic influence) blights the earth.
There are so many souls who, trusting in their own wisdom and goodness, disdain those who seek the straight and narrow path Jesus, Messiah of Israel, said must be traveled to arrive at Celestial City: join His people, take His word to heart, receive the prophetic comfort and counsel of the gathered saints.
The day shall come, when either He returns or we die and enter eternity before that, that shall be a day of unspeakable horror (for the deceptions of many are profound – the apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:11 calls them “strong delusions”), or unspeakable delight and gladness. So many are careless, even silly with their so-called “faith”, and will be shocked beyond repair to find their hopes of Heaven dashed, and the undying damned of Hell, along with the devil and his foul spirits, their eternal companions in the fiery displeasure of the Almighty.
Yet Heaven’s floodgates of mercy are still flung wide open, and the forgiveness and love toward all who seek Christ Jesus are mighty to save, even as He says, “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37), and “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).
Why should I not speak plainly? For the days are evil, and quickly growing worse.
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In my focusing on the horror / fantasy / sci fi genres, I do not mean to imply that the more aesthetic arts may not also be Babylonish, i.e., that they do not divert the attention, and the heart, away from God, and to man and his culture instead.
As a man on a houseboat going down the river of time about to go over the falls at river’s end (death) into an eternity of pain, anguish, and horror, spending his days looking at the paintings on his walls, or luxuriating in the music filling his house, to what end is this art? A little joy and beauty when all Hell is about to engulf him in its unceasing horror?
Seeing as this is the case with the overwhelming majority, those few who think on these things – things the prophets of the ages have pleaded and cried about in love for the perishing – would do well to ensure the salvation of their souls and not assume all is well. (This is called “false assurance of salvation”.)
When I have views on the things of God, and the things of eternity, I submit them for peer review among pastors, elders, and the wise of Messiah’s people, to see if they are sound enough to withstand careful scrutiny and examination, by those whose judgment is informed by God’s word.
You who think you are Heaven-bound, who think you are acceptable to God in what you consider your discipleship to Christ, will you not seek out His people to see if you are considered sound and healthy in your spiritual lives by older saints likewise on the pilgrimage to Glory-land? I mean, find a Bible-believing church with a godly pastor and people, and see if you fit in; and if not, what you need to change to fit in. This ain’t no joke, friends, for you never can tell when death will spring upon your path, or the paths of those you hold precious and dear, and take you or them away from the world of this life.
[Cont.]
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The stuff is so well done, so many genres to appeal to so many tastes, it’ll get a hook in multitudes! Aliens, vampires, heroes, heroines, monsters, fantasy, sci fi, prowess, courage, beauty, raw power, rage, 21st century romance – now on the Big Screen (or smaller screens if you prefer, made for your phones or tablets as well). Books will also do!
Exotic lands, planets, creatures, villains, superb weapons and strength – just sit back and relax, enjoy yourself.
In the meanwhile the invasion of planet earth continues, our extra-dimensional adversaries know how to use those already in their power – the artists, filmmakers and producers, writers, actors and actresses, FX wizards – and your attention is arrested, you are lulled for the hit. You never knew it was happening; you likely never will until you wake up on the other side of death: the horror! You have been taken, you have been had in a horror beyond what you ever thought possible – certainly the movies in whose thrall you were lulled never portrayed this reality! You are dead and you are still awake; you see your body lying there and you aren’t in it, and there are creatures here – besides fellow humans in the same boat you’re in – who are terrors to look at, and their amused malice rippling across the currents of fury welling up in them now that they have you in their hands! Why weren’t you warned of this! Why weren’t you told this was coming? How can it be!
But wait, you were told, it just didn’t strike you as true or real. You just couldn’t be bothered with those jerks who told you you were morally accountable and that there was a God to answer to, and a spirit-world filled with devils and angels. You actually hated those who talked – or even preached in the public places! – of Jesus Christ giving His life to pay for your sins so you could be forgiven them (for the asking!), and of His being raised from the dead so He could be your Savior and Shepherd from the throne of power in the Heavens to watch over you and protect you as you lived your life in the demon-infiltrated world. You hated this kind of talk, and now you see it is true.
Everything was a lie! Everything you believed in, wanted to believe in! And the real heroes and heroines – the ones with genuine power and wisdom – were those you thought fools and jerks: the ones who walked with the God of Heaven and earth, the Creator God, the God who so loved the world that He gave His only Son the Christ to save the perishing – and now you are perished!!!
Although you indeed have a terrible adversary – known as Lucifer the prince of demons – you were your own worst adversary, for you loved this world and its diversions and deceptions more than the truth; and you did know it was the truth, you just hated it, and suppressed the knowledge of it so you could get on with your pleasures, and with being the god of your own life – “to Hell with these preachers and their God!” was in your heart, but now it is you who have awoken in Hell.
Strategy #1 in the arsenal of Hell: Divert the fools from considering the reality they are in; deceive them with delicious and fantastic dreams; keep them lulled until they are dead and in our hands, and we will vent our rage on these vile humans who have usurped our place in the favor of Heaven, who are creatures of the great Enemy on high! Keep them distracted! Never let up!
______☆______
The Babylonish Arts and the War on the Saints
The beauty of Babylonian art (2/20/14)
Just saw Man of Steel tonight (I occasionally review the arts of this world). Action-packed, kind of hokey, quite diverting from the high-velocity action going on in reality. Oh? What’s going on “in reality”? You expect to see demonic powers invisibility-cloaked wreaking global havoc? What’s going on varies: in some nations violent fundamentalists’ hearts and minds are inflamed with hatred against the quiet light-bearers, and they ravage them, leaving blood and wailing. In the “white, wise, and wealthy West” it’s different, here (where I also live) it’s the seductive beauty of visual stories that captivate the children of Babylon, stories of love, adventure, battle, heroics – all high-tech decked to arrest attention – and we are drawn in! So many stories! So well done!
Or the music, the arts, books, dance, what heights of culture and technology to enthrall entertainment-refined souls!
And we are blinded to the glory of the living God radiant across all the world, His kindness revealed in the true and living Story of the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth:
In the cross of Christ I glory,
Tow’ring o’er the wrecks of time;
All the light of sacred story
Gathers ‘round its head sublime
Tow’ring o’er the wrecks of time;
All the light of sacred story
Gathers ‘round its head sublime
Babylonish arts don’t much like to speak of the Son of God bearing “the sins of the whole world” upon Himself (1 John 2:2) – actually taking the punishment for them in our stead – that we might be forgiven, ‘cause this goes against the grain of our independence and pride.
We have all these movies of immense prowess, wisdom, and courage warding off impossibly great disasters befalling the human race, while, invisibility-cloaked, we are the laughing stock of demons taking us at their will, blinded, ignorant, into an eternity of hell. We just don’t want to hear about repentance – turning from our sins against the Law of God – and embracing the Saviour of humankind, who is bringing all who cleave to Him through the gauntlet of Time and in the age soon to come to dwell upon New Earth where Heaven and God now also dwell with us, and where is no death, suffering, evil, or tears, but glory in new bodies and an alive earth (released from the fetters of death imposed upon it in this age), and the Creator, Jesus the God-man, walking in our midst.
To look upon Him, who flung forth the billions of galaxies, who is the fount of all pleasure and beauty, is to be transported into the heart of the infinite majesty and dignity of His presence . . . . and then to see His love in that stripped-away moment of the heart of God laid bare: for love of us bearing the eternal wrath against our ruinous sins (are we not ruined, is not our earth ruined?) that we would not have to bear them in eternity, for love of us to rescue us from our own wicked hearts, and this evil age. But no, we won’t have it, don’t want to believe it, would rather whittle away our ever-shortening time in love with Babylon and its passing lovely dreams.
Even saints spend more time intoxicated with the wine of whorish Babylon, than the living waters that flow from the Throne of God, alas!
World War Z (3/26/2014)
Picked up the DVD for this a couple of days ago at the library (it’s free to loan). As may be apparent I focus in on the zombie genre, seeing as it is a distorted but related aspect of what is real.
This movie and Will Smith’s, I Am Legend, both draw upon the Armageddon archetype, that is, they are images of the final battle spoken of in numerous places in the Book of Revelation (and well known in the world of spirits, both the evil and the holy), where those who are not children of God in Jesus Christ, are filled with an insane rage to destroy those who are. The idea of global pandemics of virus-like contagion turning normal humans into subhuman promiscuously bloodthirsty monsters bent only on killing those not infected with – and this is an interesting thing – in reality not a virus but a spirit, an infusion of demonic rage accompanied by the thoughts that those possessed of Christ’s eternal life are enemies of humankind deserving to die, and die horribly, cruelly.
Imagine, normal people – possibly even former friends or dear family – now so enraged as to be beyond reasoning with; this is the masterpiece of satanic deception: turning “normal” humans into psychopathic haters of God and of His people. The problem is, “normal” humankind is utterly vulnerable to such satanic “infusion” of malevolence; they have no defense against it, regardless of the bluster with which they deny it, for the satanic powers are beyond the comprehension of those devoid of spiritual life and discernment.
At any rate, when I see the nightstalkers of Legend and the zombies of WWZ, I know that these are mirage images of the time to come. Actually, one can see precursors of this very thing in Muslim or Hindu lands as the fundies among them pursue the Christians with mad frenzy and violent hatred. The difference is that at Armageddon it will be global and the “civilized” West will be as bad or worse than the more primitive varieties of living dead.
But at the moment of destruction, when many have already been killed in this manner, the Lord our Champion shall return with vengeance, and with fire from the fury of His countenance shall devour the ravagers, and He shall call His people back to life, and raise them up into the heavens to be with Him.
Revelation 11:7, 11, 12
And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. . . And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
Revelation 20:7-9 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Revelation 20:7-9 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
The Walking Dead (3/30/2014)
This saga is perhaps the worst, as it draws you in to the macabre stories – a zombie soap! – and you crave more. . . . and more. . . . possessed of seeming relevance in these strange apocalypse-haunted days in which we live. It’s similar in some respects to Cormac McCarthy’s horrific novel, The Road, replete with roving bands of cannibals.
But it’s all just Hollywood hoke geared to those raised on vamps and wolvens and zombies – camera, action, cut, it’s a wrap! and then it’s packaged to sell. It’s all fake to sell you on a story that is not real (big bucks advertising in this), and beneath the human motives are the demonic, to lure you away from thinking on the real living dead, just long enough till you can no longer dig that you are the zombie, that you are without the Water of Life which turns the monsters descended from the death of Adam into the living, the eternally living. Who gives that Living Water? The Gatekeeper to heavenly Zion (that’s its name), and many – multitudes – are deceived into thinking they have a pass to get in the City of Eternal Glory, but when they see Him, and hear His words, “I never knew you, depart from Me you that work iniquity!” they realize they truly have been the living dead while on earth, and now, on the other side, the undying damned.
Many say to Him (panic coursing through them), “I believe, I even talk to You, and keep Your commands!” and He says, “You did not keep them, for I said to join yourselves to My people, and hear My words explained by My servants that you might receive My Spirit through them and have life, but you would not, and like a coal out of the fire, you grew cold and died, and the fire you thought you had, was not of Me.”
The evil of Babylon’s arts is this, that they lure souls into these quicksands of fantasy attraction, one after another after another – it adds up to years! – and all their “lives” they are distracted from the Book of Life, in which dwells the Spirit of Life, and from whom issues the Waters of Life which flow from the throne situated in a realm not of this world, though it shall come down upon the earth after the resurrection, and eternal life shall commence with the great feast, the holy party, the marriage supper of the Lamb, where the glory and the power of the Son of God, where the love He bears to all who love Him and stay true to Him even unto death, flows through His Bride, and the glory of His presence they live in henceforth is as the air of Heaven they breathe, now in new bodies which have no death, or weakness, or disease, or sin, but power and majesty and joy as the daughters and sons of God the royal Father, and Jesus the elder Brother and King of New Earth.
The Babylonish arts tend to illusions and death, distracting the soul away from the necessary consciousness of God and Christ, which is needful to resist the intoxicating wine of the great whore, Babylon the murderer of saints, and of the people of earth who follow her.
There is a fearsome thing written, that will apply to our days not very far off:
Amos 8:11, 12
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
But those who have their hearts set upon the God of life have these promises:
Psalm 33:18, 19
Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Psalm 37:18, 19 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psalm 37:18, 19 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
The days are coming which will be dark; yet many will say, “No, this is light, not darkness!” and confusion will reign in many lands, and the children of God will find themselves outlaws as the Shadow of Mordor (a figure for the shadow of Satanic influence) blights the earth.
Malachi 3:16-17
Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
There are so many souls who, trusting in their own wisdom and goodness, disdain those who seek the straight and narrow path Jesus, Messiah of Israel, said must be traveled to arrive at Celestial City: join His people, take His word to heart, receive the prophetic comfort and counsel of the gathered saints.
The day shall come, when either He returns or we die and enter eternity before that, that shall be a day of unspeakable horror (for the deceptions of many are profound – the apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:11 calls them “strong delusions”), or unspeakable delight and gladness. So many are careless, even silly with their so-called “faith”, and will be shocked beyond repair to find their hopes of Heaven dashed, and the undying damned of Hell, along with the devil and his foul spirits, their eternal companions in the fiery displeasure of the Almighty.
Yet Heaven’s floodgates of mercy are still flung wide open, and the forgiveness and love toward all who seek Christ Jesus are mighty to save, even as He says, “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37), and “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).
Why should I not speak plainly? For the days are evil, and quickly growing worse.
____
In my focusing on the horror / fantasy / sci fi genres, I do not mean to imply that the more aesthetic arts may not also be Babylonish, i.e., that they do not divert the attention, and the heart, away from God, and to man and his culture instead.
As a man on a houseboat going down the river of time about to go over the falls at river’s end (death) into an eternity of pain, anguish, and horror, spending his days looking at the paintings on his walls, or luxuriating in the music filling his house, to what end is this art? A little joy and beauty when all Hell is about to engulf him in its unceasing horror?
Seeing as this is the case with the overwhelming majority, those few who think on these things – things the prophets of the ages have pleaded and cried about in love for the perishing – would do well to ensure the salvation of their souls and not assume all is well. (This is called “false assurance of salvation”.)
When I have views on the things of God, and the things of eternity, I submit them for peer review among pastors, elders, and the wise of Messiah’s people, to see if they are sound enough to withstand careful scrutiny and examination, by those whose judgment is informed by God’s word.
You who think you are Heaven-bound, who think you are acceptable to God in what you consider your discipleship to Christ, will you not seek out His people to see if you are considered sound and healthy in your spiritual lives by older saints likewise on the pilgrimage to Glory-land? I mean, find a Bible-believing church with a godly pastor and people, and see if you fit in; and if not, what you need to change to fit in. This ain’t no joke, friends, for you never can tell when death will spring upon your path, or the paths of those you hold precious and dear, and take you or them away from the world of this life.
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
(Jesus, in Luke 6:46)
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 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. (Jesus, in Matthew 7:21-23)
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 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. (Jesus, in Matthew 7:21-23)
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