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So let let's pray Lord Jesus again as we open up your word.
We ask through your Holy Spirit help us to understand what you have revealed there So that we may truly
as you have commanded us Love you with all of our heart soul and mind and also love our neighbor as ourself and
concerning our neighbor.
We lift up to you Tony Jennings, we ask that you would be with her as she is on the
way or already at the emergency room.
Pray the physicians would find what is wrong and that they would be able to fix it and that she would be Recovered to health.
We ask this in Jesus name. Amen.
Last week we were working our way through the book of Jeremiah and You'll note just by way of
a recap.
The the.
Those people who had fled the armies of Nebuchadnezzar Had
also, you know, they became refugees they kind of disappeared for a little while.
And after the armies of Nebuchadnezzar had Had gone back to Babylon they had
left a fellow in charge of Judah.
He was the governor there the official governor of the Babylonian Empire and he was put to
death by a Fellow who we can basically describe as kind of like a brigand, you know kind of like a warlord type of
fellow and.
The this left the refugees the the few that remained in Judah that to basically
lose heart.
And they were concerned with their safety so they had enough sense You know
to inquire of Yahweh as to what they should do.
And if you remember again, we summarized it in the lyrics of the song should we stay or should we go right?
Right.
And God said stay and they said you're lying.
God did not say stay and and so they have had it in their heart the entire time
regardless of what Yahweh should say that they were going to head down to Egypt.
And now in chapter 44.
The.
This is kind of like one of those big reveals.
You remember remember watching scooby -doo, right?
And always in again the the paranormal and scooby -doo was the result of somebody
Trying to scare people for their own Purposes of power or money or whatever
and so and so always at the end they would unmask the ghost.
It's mr. Smithers.
No way.
I can't believe that.
So this is gonna be kind of one of those reveals.
Why is it that these?
Refugees of Judah had it so much on their heart.
They had intended to go to Egypt.
Why?
What.
Well now we're gonna find out why.
It's because of mr. Smithers.
So.
Rot roll, okay.
So so we so we continue with Jeremiah 44.
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt now remember they had
drug Jeremiah with them not only are we not staying we're going to Egypt and they drug
Jeremiah with him.
Jeremiah gives a prophecy that God's gonna call for Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuchadnezzar is gonna come and he's gonna sack
Egypt the same way.
He sacked Jerusalem, so the word of the Lord concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt at
Migdol at Taffa tough at tough and Hess at Memphis and in the land of path Ross.
Thus says Yahweh of armies always and again I remind people the Greek Greek the Hebrew word sub
bar.
Means army.
When we think of hosts we think of like somebody in the hospitality industry.
Okay, this is this is a military term.
This is talking about the armies of heaven the God Yahweh of armies the God of Israel.
You have seen all the disaster that I bought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah.
Behold this day.
They are the desolation.
No one dwells in them because of the evil that they committed Provoking me to anger in that they
went to make offerings and to serve other Gods that they knew not neither
they nor you nor your father's yet I persistently sent to you all
my servants the prophets saying Oh Do not do this abomination that I hate
but they did not listen or incline their ear to turn from their evil and
Make no offering to other gods.
Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of
Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem and they became a waste and a desolation as at
this day and Now thus says Yahweh the God of armies the God of
Israel.
Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves to cut off
from you?
Man and woman.
Infant and child from the midst of Judah leaving, you know remnant.
Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands?
Making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live.
So that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth.
All right.
Now always and again it is always a good idea to pay attention When somebody
else is being punished for their wrongdoing.
They will serve as an example.
So if you grew up in a household like I did I had a younger brother.
And if my brother screwed up and he got punished severely.
Guess what?
I would not do the same thing that got my brother in trouble, right?
Okay.
At least don't get caught right right.
I may become I may redouble my efforts at Covering and hiding my
my sin and obfuscation but the idea then is is that God is
pointing to the fact that he is given a definitive.
Theological.
Reason for why Jerusalem lays in ruins and why all these people are
dead and Why there's only a minor remnant of people who survived the ordeal.
Most of whom of the survivors are in captivity in Babylon and the refugees that had
remained in Judea.
You'd think that they would have go would have said, you know.
Maybe worshiping a Shira and Molech and all them other deities is not a good idea, you know
but no.
They continued Worshipping false gods and so by doing so
they were overtly saying that the gods of
Egypt were real and that the gods of Egypt were the ones that they were looking to To
protect them as they were refugees in Egypt.
Do the gods of Egypt exist?
Yeah, not on your life.
The whole source given in Scripture for other deities is the demonic
all right, it is the activity of Satan and demons that led to the worship
of Osiris and and Isis and Horus and all the different gods of the
of the Egyptians and here if you remember these deities were all judged by God there were
ten plagues and the gods of Egypt were utterly powerless to prevent
them to bring them to an end or stop them and so none of this makes a lick
of biblical sense and You'll note that the problem here is idolatry
makes you stupid it really legitimately does
we're talking about Really questionable life decisions and now God speaking through the
prophet who they drug with them to Egypt.
Is basically saying what gives?
Have you guys not learned the lesson yet?
Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands making offerings to other gods in the
land of Egypt?
Where you have come to live so that they may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations.
Have you forgotten the evil of your fathers the evil of the kings of Judah the evil of their wives?
Your own evil and the evil of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem and Here it comes.
This is a first.
Really a first.
God here is singling out women.
Because here's what's going on.
Do you remember what the state of the temple was at the time of
Josiah.
They had set up within Solomon's temple they had set up incense altars to but
all.
They had put an ashira in the Holy of Holies.
They were giving God Yahweh a wife.
I Okay, think of it this way.
Pagan religions have a real hard time with with biblical
monotheistic Judaism and then later biblical monotheistic Christianity.
Here's part of the reason why because in the pagan way of thinking and in the Gnostic
way of thinking there has to be gods and goddesses.
You.
Have to have not only the divine Masculine you also have to have the divine
feminine.
Does any of this sound familiar to any of you people?
Okay, the Da Vinci Code was in part based on these concepts.
Which is at the heart of Gnosticism which has its root in the ancient religions of Egypt.
Okay, so who's really?
Really steering everybody wrong here answer.
This is a form of theological feminism pagan theological feminism
and it manifested with them giving Yahweh a wife a Consort.
Okay, and what's really funny?
In fact, hang on a second here.
I'm gonna see if I if I have this.
My Kindle app on this Macintosh behaves badly ever since they switched the code base over to the new Apple
silicon the the folks at Amazon are not good at
Updating this now you can see that my library is chock -full of Gnostic
research.
Okay, don't let that freak you out.
And yeah, that's Heinrich Himmler there.
He was a pagan Gnostic himself.
Let's see here.
I'm just gonna do a search for the word wife.
I want to do it here.
Ah.
Here it is.
Okay, one of my pagan books.
Okay, give me a second while it downloads here.
I have this on my iPad.
Okay, and it crashed.
Give me a second.
I told you it's you know, I've actually written Amazon about this and they
have no intention of fixing anything until Until the the new OS
comes out.
All right, so let me do this.
I'm gonna go to the cover.
Here we go.
When God had a wife.
Okay by Lynn Picnett and Clive Prince by the way Lynn Picnett makes an
appearance in the movie The Da Vinci Code her and her husband and her and her husband Clive and She is
also just a very well -known Gnostic lady.
Okay, and Her thesis is that true
Judaism true Judaism.
Was the Judaism in the temple at the early years of Josiah?
When God had a wife and Her claim is it's it's the meanie
poopyhead patriarchs who who oppressed the divine feminine and
They are the ones who got rid of the divine feminine and that carries over into Christianity today and they say that this is an
absolute religious abomination and aberration and that there
has to be gods and goddesses and so she points to the time of the of the
apostasy of Jeremiah's time and she says that's true Judaism and
Rome and the subsequent generations are suppressing this and they don't want you to know the truth.
Okay, and so she points to that a Shearer inside the Holy of Holies at the time of King
Josiah When Jeremiah was prophesying and say that's that that's the
truth.
It's what follows that's the lie.
That's how Gnostics operate.
Okay, you should read this.
It's just loads of fun.
And by fun, I mean not okay.
So you'll note here God now is talking to the refugees of Judah in
Egypt and he's Singling out and this is you'll note that God
normally operates via patriarchy he rebukes the husbands the fathers, but now
he's rebuking the women and There's a reason for it.
Let me back up have you forgotten the evil of your fathers the evil of the kings of Judah
the evil of their wives.
That's almost what the the emphasis this would have and also your own evil and the evil of your why of
your wives.
Which they committed in the land of Judah in the streets of Jerusalem.
They have not humbled themselves even to this day.
Nor have they feared.
Nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.
Therefore it thus says Yahweh of armies the God of Israel behold I will set my face
against you for harm to cut off all of Judah.
I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live
and they shall be Consumed in the land of Egypt.
They shall fall by the sword and by famine they shall be Consumed
from the least to the greatest.
They shall die by the sword and by famine and they shall become an oath a horror a
curse a taunt.
I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt as I have punished Jerusalem.
With the sword with the famine with pestilence so that none of the remnant of Judah Who have
come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return?
To the land of Judah to which they desire to return to dwell there for they shall not
return except for some.
Fugitives.
The vast majority of the refugees are going to die and It's gonna be
horrific.
Then all the men who knew that their wives had made offerings to
other gods and All the women who stood by a great
assembly and all the people who lived in path for us in the land of Egypt answered Jeremiah
and what they should have answered is We're sorry We repent ask God to
forgive us, right?
But watch.
Here's what they say as for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh
We will not listen to you.
Right, doesn't that sound like a woman talking?
Yeah.
We're not gonna listen to you.
We will do everything that we have vowed make offerings to the Queen of Heaven.
Gag me with a spoon.
Come on serious.
So so who's who's talking here?
Who's making these offerings to the Queen of Heaven?
It's it's these women.
You'll note that that if we take a look at kind of the pattern of
the apostasy of Jeremiah's time which the Prophet Zephaniah makes the definitive
connection that the Apostasy of Jeremiah's time is the foreshadow of
the apostasy that precedes the return of Christ.
Okay, and the great apostasy that Paul prophesies of in 2nd Thessalonians 2
Zephaniah makes the connection between the two so we have a biblical anchor.
You'll note follow the pattern Homosexuality rise of perversion along those
lines and you have an overt theological feminism and an
overt unrelenting impenitent worship of the Divine Feminine.
When confronted they say Nick.
No way, we're gonna not listen to you, right?
What's what's the big rise right now in our day and age?
Homosexuality.
And Down with the patriarchy you patriarchy.
Bad bad bad.
We need to embrace the Divine Feminine.
Yeah, that's that's that's part of it, too.
And and I would remind you hang on a second here of this particular fun ELCA congregation
Liturgy of the Divine Feminine at her church, San Francisco.
This is an ELCA congregation in good standing.
You are absolutely correct, where were the men, you know where the men were they were acting like women.
Okay, let me just be blunt about that.
Yeah, that's right, okay.
Uh -huh.
Yeah, you'll know you're right.
You're absolutely correct.
You'll know what the increased obsession of sex that humanity the distinction between male and female.
Disappear.
Okay, and here's another fun thing that I learned just this past week in my research into Gnosticism,
which has been fun.
That there is within the Rosicrucian form of Gnosticism there is
a belief and a so -called prophecy that as humanity evolves
Humanity would become overtly androgynous.
That's part of the Rosicrucian Gnostic cult.
Okay, very fascinating stuff.
Yes, Ian.
They're what?
Well, nobody can nobody nobody should expect that feminist artists should actually have any kind
of precision or good Practice when it comes to the brushstrokes and their compositions.
I'm just saying Right.
Okay, so.
Yeah, yeah, the men are totally permitting this they're standing by their wives who are in
flagrant feminist rebellion against Yahweh.
They're hiding under their skirts.
Yeah, there we go.
Okay, it's it's it's absolutely fascinating.
So I would note pay attention.
This is the same Pattern we're seeing happening in our lives.
I kid you not if somebody had told me 30 years ago 30 years ago
when I was studying apologetics and theology at Concordia University, Irvine that in 30
years There would be Churches embracing the divine feminine overtly and
still be in good standing within the denomination.
I would say you are out of your mind.
Okay that they would be ordaining Practicing homosexuals.
In fact, I think protest you did something just a couple of days ago.
Hang on a second here protest.
Yeah, I don't go there very often.
Test you calm.
I want to show you this because if this doesn't kind of Elca pastor tells pro -choice
congregants your church stands with you.
Your rage is holy.
Rage against the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Okay, just work this out.
And by the way, okay back in the day Infanticide was
very much practiced by the ancient Jews in the sacrifice of their children
to Molech all.
Right, they didn't have the Scientific medical instruments to perform abortions.
So they just wait until the child was born and then offer the child to Molech.
Right, it's the same thing and the same motivation and this Obsession with
I want to have sex on my terms and I don't want to have any consequences.
Whatsoever, but you're right Marilyn the obsession with sex is where this really comes from.
So coming back as for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh.
We will we will do everything that we have vowed make offerings to the Queen of Heaven and pour
out drink offerings to her as we did both we and our fathers our kings and our officials in the cities of
Judah and In the streets of Jerusalem for then we had plenty of food and we prospered and we saw no
disaster
right.
Forget so basically they've closed off their ears to the actual words of God.
God has definitively spoken.
I Prophet Jeremiah has a thousand batting record right now, by the way, I should let everybody know I'm in deep
mourning.
The Dodgers were eliminated from the National League playoffs by the San Diego Padres.
I'm Thinking about imprecatory Psalms, but not sure how I'm gonna get through this day.
Today should be a day of lament.
That's I'm wearing black.
So Alas
that's how baseball goes anyway.
But all of that being said you're gonna note here.
This is just absolute defiant.
Obstinately defiant and God has spoken and said you had this
disaster come on you because of your idolatry and you're going to die.
Because of this in Egypt and they're having none of it.
How dare you Tell us to repent.
How dare you tell us to stop making offerings to the Queen of Heaven, right?
Since we left off making offerings to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her.
We have lacked everything and we have been consumed by the sword and by famine.
They refused to hear God's words.
So the women said when we made offerings to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her.
It was without was it without our husband's approval that we made cakes for her bearing
her image and poured out drink offerings to her.
The husbands were fully aware of this.
So now mr. Withers has been unveiled.
I should I'd say ms. Withers, right.
And We see what was really going on.
Tell us Jeremiah.
Should we stay or should we go?
You know, we will do whatever Yahweh tells us to do.
Yahweh says stay.
You are a liar.
We're going to Egypt and we're taking you with us, right?
It's it's it's nuts.
And Why is it because the women the whole time with the full knowledge of their
husbands were?
Worshipping the so -called Queen of Heaven.
Yeah, right.
And This is what we are seeing on the rise In our day
right now.
This stuff is raging out of control.
So then Jeremiah said to all the people men and women all the people who had given him in this
answer as.
For the offerings that you have offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.
You and your fathers your kings and your officials and the people of the land.
Did not Yahweh remember them?
Did it not come into his mind.
Yahweh could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed.
Therefore your land has become a desolation a waste a curse without inhabitant
as it is to this day is it it is.
Because you made offerings and because you sinned against Yahweh and did not obey his voice
the voice of Yahweh or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies that this disaster
has happened to you as at this day.
Excuse me, and Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women here knows he the women are included.
This is again.
This stands out among all the writings of the prophets.
This is unique.
Because usually God speaks only to the men and that's all that's necessary.
But with the rise of the divine feminine and the worship of the Queen of Heaven.
These women had put themselves on an equal standing with their own husbands.
And so God's talking to them and judging them straight out.
Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women hear the word of Yahweh all the youth of Judah we're in the land of Egypt
thus as Yahweh of armies the God of Israel you and your wives have declared with your mouths
and Have fulfilled it with your own hands saying we will surely perform our vows.
That we have made to make offerings to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.
Now a little bit of a note here.
This is not a throwaway line.
We will perform our vows.
One of the unique features of Gnostic paganism are these
Gnostic initiatic ceremonies and rites and in those Gnostic initiation
Rites the people who are going through them and performing them.
They they basically make all kinds of vows and oaths.
All right, that is a standard feature of Gnosticism.
Vows of secrecy of silence that if you reveal any of these secrets.
You'll have your you have your throat slit and your heart ripped out of your chest and things like this.
Okay by talking in this way, you'll know most pagan religions.
You would think don't require These types of things but these women are
invoking the vows that they took in their Gnostic initiation ceremonies.
We will surely Perform our vows that we have made to make
offerings to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.
Then confirm your vows.
Perform them.
Therefore hear the word of Yahweh all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt.
Behold, I've sworn by my great name says Yahweh that my name shall no more be
invoked by the mouth of any man in Judah in all of the land of Egypt.
Saying as Yahweh Elohim lives behold I am watching over them for
disaster not for good and note the contradistinction then God
talking to these Impenitent worshipers of the so -called Queen of Heaven.
He uses the exact opposite language that God gave to the people of Judah who were in
captivity.
And in fact, let me pull that up here.
I'm going to duplicate this and go to that much twisted passage of Scripture from
Jeremiah 29.
Okay, where God says?
These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles to the
priests of The prophets and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
This was after King Jeconiah and the Queen Mother and the eunuchs the officials the Judah and Jerusalem the craftsmen and
the metal workers had departed from Jerusalem.
The letter was sent by the hand of Alasa the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah whom Zedekiah The king of
Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
It said thus says Yahweh of armies the God of Israel to all the exiles whom I have
sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Build houses and Live in them plant gardens eat their produce.
Take wives and have sons and daughters.
Take wives for your sons.
Give your daughters in marriage that they may bear sons and daughters multiply their do not decrease.
Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile.
Pray for Yahweh on its behalf.
For in its welfare you will find your welfare.
For thus says Yahweh of armies the God of Israel do not let the prophets and your diviners Who are among you
deceive you do not listen to the dreams that they dream.
It's a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name.
I did not send them declares Yahweh for thus is Yahweh when 70 years are completed for Babylon.
I will visit you.
I will fulfill to you My promise and I will bring you back to this place for I know the plans I have for you
declares Yahweh plans for your welfare.
Not for evil to give you a future and a hope.
Note that what God is now saying to the refugees in Egypt who are
worshiping the So -called Queen of Heaven.
I am watching over them for disaster not for good.
All the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword
and by famine until there is an end of them and You'll note this is one
of the sad realities of apostasy.
Is that.
Sometimes the only way to get rid of the cancer is to cut the
whole thing out and.
This was necessary because in getting rid of this idolatry
God was preserving the line of the Messiah.
It's brutal, but who's in the wrong.
Here is Yahweh in the wrong.
Not at all.
The people who are in the wrong are the ones embracing this stubborn stiff -necked
delusional belief in the divine feminine and Worshipping the so -called Queen of Heaven.
Those who escaped the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number and.
The remnant of Judah who came to the land of Egypt to live shall know whose word will stand
mine or theirs.
So basically they said we had plenty when we were when we worshipped the Queen of Heaven and made
offerings to her and.
So we are going to continue to do so and fulfill our vows to the Queen of Heaven because then we will prosper
and so God says.
Challenge accepted.
And let's see whose word stands.
Jeremiah's or you.
Feminist pagans.
Whose word stood?
Jeremiah's did right.
This shall be the sign to declares Yahweh.
I Will punish you in this place in order that you may know that my words were surely
stand against you for harm.
Thus says Yahweh behold I will give Pharaoh Hafra the king of Egypt into the hand of
his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life as I gave Zedekiah the king of
Judah into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon who was his enemy and sought his life
and.
Wouldn't you know?
Nebuchadnezzar attacked Egypt and Pharaoh Hafra.
Perished.
Just like God said this is
sobering stuff, right.
It's the parallels to today that really stand
out.
I mean from the theology the rank
Paganism that has leered its head within the so -called visible church,
right?
The overt Hatred of biblical patriarchy.
The overt hatred of the pastoral office in the men whom God calls to that office.
The overt abdication of the role and responsibilities of men Who
cowardly kowtow to the brow beatings of these feminists who demand to be given
the same authority as men.
This does not end. Well.
Message to Baruch.
Changing gears up a little bit here.
Maybe I should check questions because this was a this was kind of a dark thing.
But again, the parallels to today are are stunning.
I need to go this way.
No.
Hold on.
There we go.
All right, I Saw somebody became mentioned about the Catholics refer to the Queen of
Heaven.
We'll talk about that.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, Stephen Elliot.
Do you have a note from your doctor?
Is that what I'm looking for here?
It says I have a good excuse for missing class yesterday I took my grandparents and my mom on a day trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway
to see the fall foliage.
That is a worthy endeavor.
I will only give you an excused absence if you took good photos, okay.
Sorry, we're gonna go by my standards of what makes a good photo.
Yeah, no, no, no, I'm the law Josh is the gospel.
Okay, so the Jennings said the hardest find they're doing tests on lungs it may be another blood clot.
Okay, good.
That's still not good.
But okay, we'll keep continue to keep her in our prayers.
Okay, unbelievable agreed.
Okay, so this complaining sound of the Israelites when they left Egypt.
It is interesting that the false Mary of the Roman Church is called the Queen of Heaven to this day in
some Eastern Orthodox Churches, this is Lily writing and Lily knows Eastern Orthodoxy from the inside.
The women actually cook special foods for her and bring them to church in her honor still.
No, no, this is this.
So let's talk about this for a second.
Okay, you we we Lutherans and others in Protestant
denominations accuse Rome of worshiping Mary.
No, no, no, no, we don't worship her but you do we don't pray to her.
But you do right?
So here's the issue.
Where did this?
Really come from?
Okay, and I have a working hypothesis we will just put this into the category of
working historical hypothesis because the rise of Mary all a
tree, which is what I think a good name for this is also happens to run
parallel to when Gnosticism became overtly illegal and
dangerous to practice.
Okay, and the best way I can put it in reading many Gnostics some ancient some
modern I can say unequivocally.
That Gnosticism never went away and they bear a huge grudge against what they
refer to as the pristine Christian Church who oppressed
and persecuted them into hiding.
Okay, if you were to read the book written by Erin Aeus Erin Aeus who was the
disciple of Polycarp and Polycarp who was discipled by the Apostle John.
Okay, Erin Aeus wrote a very long Book, it's actually multiple books
and the name of it is called Contra heresies.
And it I kid you not it is the only.
Existing.
Document from antiquity that catalogues the belief and overarching
metanarratives of the Gnostics particularly the Valentinian Gnostics and
Gnostics to this day hate that fact.
Okay, and it's the work of Erin Aeus that really really helped bring to a
head the the Gnostics among the Christian Church and they put them out as
heretics and they really were not able to mount any kind of defense the way the
Aryans did and Instead those who were not found out pretty much
operated in secret in plain sight for two.
Millennia.
Okay, and it's during this time when the Christian the pristine Christian Church
as the Gnostics call it with the pristine Christian Church was persecuting the Gnostics that you had the
emergence of a document.
That purported that Mary was a perpetual version virgin, right?
This is the pseudo gospel of James.
Is this the and it was.
It was determined by the church at this time at that time that that was a forgery.
It was not written by James at all and that the history in it is not real.
But here's the thing that then becomes the seedbed for.
Where the Gnostics embedded themselves within the visible church?
It's in their over pious opinions and feel Theologizing as it relates to the Virgin
Mary and her perpetual virginity and her immaculate conception and things like this, right?
That that that's where real Gnosticism is because in the Gnostic worldview and this
is the important bit there is an unrevealed deity and
that deity has Emanations from it to us
and those Emanations become known as Demi urges.
And the Demi urges or these little Demi gods if you've ever heard the term Demi gods.
Always appear in binary sets of male and female Demi urges or male and
female deities.
Okay, and so in that in their the Gnostic way of believing it is
Imperative that you have a divine feminine and the Gnostics that embedded
themselves within the Catholic Church did so with the open
worshiping of Mary as a proxy for the divine feminine
and what's interesting when you read of all people.
Muhammad and.
Muhammad and his Experience in dealing with Christians at his time.
What are we talking.
Six seventh century, right?
He believed that Christians worshipped father son and
Virgin Mary and Christian theologians go.
Well, he had to be mistaken.
He wasn't.
He was bumping up against this because where then did Gnosticism kind of
hide out.
Originally answer in the Arabian wilderness in the Arab Peninsula in places like
this.
That's where the Gnostics actually went to and there the so -called Christians
Were worshiping overtly father son and Virgin Mary Virgin Mary being the proxy
for the divine feminine.
When you put the pieces together, it actually makes a lot of sense.
But they moved out of the Arabian Peninsula and re -embedded themselves within the visible Church
during the Middle Ages and Especially, you know this this divine feminine worship also
was in part brought back into Europe through the Templars and through the Mystics like
Bonaventure and others keep that in mind.
Yes.
So Luther is after all of this.
Okay, and Luther still kind of had vestiges of this kind of hanging on.
You know that he that he had to kind of work through so on the one hand Luther He
recognized that Mary was not somebody that you should pray to and he overtly taught that he still
Struggled with the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary.
All right, that's still visible in his writings.
But the idea then is is that all of these things that went so then when you see
then in the Eastern Orthodox Church Lily who grew up in Eastern Orthodoxy
Says in some Eastern Orthodox churches knows she didn't say all.
That's the important bit here is that some Churches don't go down
this path and others are basically like a sleeper cell for it.
Okay in some Eastern Orthodox churches the women actually cook special foods for the Queen for
Mary whom they call the Queen of Heaven and They bring them to church in her honor.
I'm going to note something Lily.
That is the Identical practice described in the book of Jeremiah of these
women who make cakes for the Queen of Heaven.
There is no Difference except they're using Mary as a
proxy for their divine feminine.
No, it's not a pious opinion.
It's not fine.
So I know I sound like a wingnut when I talk like this.
But that that's kind of the thing when you when you really imbibe hard on like primary Gnostic sources.
You realize that it's the Gnostics who were the first conspiracy of people.
Okay, because they had to come up with an explanation as to why they were outlawed why they had to live in
secrecy.
Why they couldn't practice their beliefs out in the open.
Okay, and it's because of the evil Pope.
It's because of the evil Patriarchy it's because of you know.
And so they came up with this this this whole narrative and you get a glimpse of that narrative in the Da Vinci Code.
Okay, when you get T bring talking about the history of Christianity after the death of Christ and
Up to the time of Constantine.
Listen to that that that narrative that T bring speaks in the Da Vinci Code during that part
of the movie that is lifted straight out of Gnostic sources.
Straight out of it and notice.
I did not say.
Masonic I.
Said Gnostic and there's a difference.
And if you really want to get a better feel for this.
For really what this worldview is about.
Let me give you another book this one written by.
A mason.
Secret here we go this let's see.
Secret doctrine of the Rosicrucians.
Fantastic book, but the one that is a little bit more encompassing is this one.
That the the secret teaching of all the ages by Manly P. Hall.
Okay, that's the book that kind of lays out all the different Gnostic threads and their meta narratives.
It almost reads like a dictionary of Gnostic groups, which would include the Freemasons but
he is.
He was a he was a Freemason at the time.
He wrote this 33rd degree.
Interesting stuff, but the Rosicrucians are the ones that are most notable in their
overt Gnosticism within Europe after the Crusades.
Okay, so just keep that in mind.
So all of this Mariola tree is in reality my working hypothesis.
Just straight -out old -school feminist Gnosticism.
The worship of the divine feminine.
Okay, so that that's that's again.
That's my working hypothesis and I stand by it.
I can provide bibliography if you like, okay.
Catholics refer to Mary as the Queen of Heaven.
Yes, they do.
So does William Tapley.
Guys, remember William Tapley doom and gloom.
Coming soon.
Anyway, William Tapley has like gone off the Mariola tree band.
He's like.
Every day he does a live stream on YouTube, you know do offering prayers to the Virgin Mary
and it's he's not as fun As he used to be but oh, well, okay, you know, it is what it is.
Yeah, the Roman Catholics a reminder.
October 19th.
Pagan statue.
Haka mom is.
Brought into the Vatican and approved by the Pope.
Thank you John for letting me know about that.
I'm gonna end up googling this I know and I'm just I'm gonna regret googling it.
Sometimes to get rid of all the rats you have to burn down the barn.
You're not wrong.
So much for winning 111 games.
Daniel, okay, I see what you did there.
Yeah, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits, okay.
Yeah, I remember a long time ago.
Someone's saying that the Roman Catholics adopted the idols like Imanja Isis etc to help
people convert to Christianity.
I would note that's not really true.
Okay, that that's that's that's a false narrative to try to explain
How this this Mariola tree came into into Catholicism in such an overt way.
And that almost sounds identical to one particular Gnostic narrative that I read
a few months ago.
That's but that's not literally how this worked.
The better way to put it is that Gnostics always operate in secret and there's they're the ones who smuggled these
things into Christianity.
All right, and they've been hiding in plain sight for two millennia.
Let's read the message to Baruch.
Shall we?
The word that Jeremiah the Prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah.
When he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah the king of Judah.
Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel.
To you Oh Baruch.
You said woe is me for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain.
I am weary with my groaning and I find no rest.
Thus shall you say to him thus says Yahweh behold what I have built.
I am breaking down what I have planted.
I am plucking up.
That is the whole land and do you seek great things for
yourself?
Seek them not for behold.
I am bringing disaster upon all flesh declares Yahweh.
But I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.
So Baruch here is was basically complaining, you know that you know, he's he's seeing
sorrow and pain and experiencing all of these things and God is basically giving the context.
Listen what I planted.
I'm plucking up what I'm building.
I'm destroying but I'll save you.
Okay, you'll have your life as a life of war.
Baruch goes into captivity in Babylon.
That's his fate and so kind of interesting that he gets singled out for an actual epistle.
But now the next section of Jeremiah is one where I don't think I should
start it until next week.
Because if you look at how the outline works for the following chapters.
You're gonna have God speaking judgment against Egypt against Syria against the Babylon against the Persians
against the Chaldeans and again.
And so you'll note then this kind of gets into kind of a bigger theme and that is
is that although God is exacting judgment through Nebuchadnezzar and
the Babylonians by no means are the Babylonians clean as the wind driven
snow.
Okay far far from it and God is going to judge them the same way he
judged Judah.
But in order to do this justice, we cannot jump into this section of the study until
next time.
So, all right, this is where we're gonna leave off and Lord willing.
We will see you all next week.