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Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Roseborough. I am your servant in Jesus Christ.

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This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God. Now, a little bit of a note.

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As we draw closer and closer to the imminent return of Christ, by the way, I have no idea when

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Jesus is gonna show up. You know, I always like to say that Jesus is gonna show up on a

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Thursday because no one's expecting him on a Thursday. So, you know, if I had to wager,

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I would pick a Thursday. But I have no idea when he's coming, but I do know what the scriptures teach, and that is that there is a great apostasy that occurs before the return of Christ.

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It's known as the Great Rebellion, the great apostasy against Jesus, and it takes place within the visible church.

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In fact, the Apostle Paul, you'll see this shortly in one of his epistles, 1 Timothy, it says that in the last days people would follow doctrines of demons.

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Now, what does a doctrine of demons look like? Well, I would note that a good place to start would be like the ancient

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Gnostic mystery religions. So, Gnosticism, you know, this takes on many different forms.

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Like from Gnostic initiatic societies, you can find Gnostic mysticism in places like Freemasonry, Hermetic Order of the

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Golden Dawn, you know, initiatic societies like that.

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You can also find it overtly in the New Age, people who teach the importance of reading about, reading the

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Zohar or the Kabbalah, or who worship angels like Metatron and things like this.

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All of that, the ancient mystery religions, the Bible actually specifically says what the origin of those religions is, and it's not a good one.

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It's not a good origin, but we'll cover that. So, we're going to, let me do this.

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Let me, let me whirl up my desktop. This is my homage to William Eggleston.

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It's a weird photo, I know, but yeah, if you know the work of William Eggleston, then you'll know exactly what this is supposed to be, an homage to.

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But let me whirl up my web browser and we're going to be listening to a fellow by the name of Justin Paul Abraham.

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And this is one of the weirdest, weirdest videos

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I have ever seen. And the things he is saying is just, on its surface, just sounds wackerdoodle.

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Like, what is this? But if you know your Gnostic initiatic societies and your

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Gnostic mysticism in their new age, you know exactly what this is. This is from the

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Zohar. This is from Kabbalah. This is not good. This is straight out idolatry.

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So, let's, let's listen in. I don't even know if I can properly give you a warning for, for what it is that you are about to see.

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Bendy straws, duct tape, you know, things like this, tinfoil pyramid hats. These all could probably at least deflect some of the, the, the spiritual gamma radiation that will be coming from this video.

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But yeah, hang on to your hats. Here we go. It's good to see you all.

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Now, I want you to know that that's the actual video. He did this on a and there are a ton of people around the globe who have joined

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Justin Paul Abraham for his teaching on mastery over creation. Let's get into some stuff.

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So, tonight we're doing a massive topic. You're going to get your minds blown at some point because we know so little about this topic and the door's in the floor.

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So, we're going to go lower tonight and we're going to say there's no experts on this call. This, because if there were, we would totally be already doing all this stuff.

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So, we, if there were experts, we'd totally already be doing this. What stuff? The way we engage anything in the spirit is by the, the little dots of God's name,

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Yod, He, Vav, He. Okay. So, yeah, that is

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God's name. That's known as the Tetragrammaton. But what, what do you mean that we do things by the little dots in his name,

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Yod, He, Vav, He? What do you mean by that? Jews have a saying that in the little, there is much.

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When we become small, we have the capacity for a much bigger world. The meek inherit the earth. So, we want to come meek into tonight.

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If we put all the information on this call together, we would still only know a dot. There is so much to know about how animals function, trees function, weather patterns, elemental spirits, the spirits in the seas, the beings in the seas.

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You know, most of the planet is seas. And we've done lots of weather miracles by governing the sea.

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But I never heard Christians talk about governing the seas. They don't talk about these things. And when we try to...

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Why should Christians be talking about governing the seas? You know, if I'm, yeah, when

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I was growing up, what's the best tuna, chicken of the sea? Anyway. So, why should

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I, what do we mean by govern the seas and why aren't Christians talking about governing the seas? Which biblical text can

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I go to in order to learn about the importance of, quote, governing the seas?

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To do a weather miracle in Australia, the Lord took us into the Indian Dipole, which is in the Indian Ocean.

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And it could be positive or negative. And the Lord said, reset it to neutral. So, we did that. So, this guy sounds like, you know, a respectable version of, like,

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Kat Kerr. You know, they went into the Indian Dipole and God told them to reset it.

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Really? Did the millibars fall too? And within a few days, rains came in Australia. We broke the drought and we broke a six -year cycle of weather.

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So, he's claiming that he's the one responsible for breaking the drought in Australia.

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By going into the ocean. We went into the ocean to do it. Who'd even thought of such things? They don't teach you this in Sunday church.

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That you can go in the ocean and sit in the throne called the Indian Dipole and change the weather pattern. Sit in the throne called the

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Indian Dipole. They don't teach this in church, Sunday church. Right. You know why?

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Because it's not in the Bible. For Australia. But these are the things God wants to teach us. Really, God wants to teach us this.

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Then why isn't it in the scriptures? He wants to talk about stuff that's totally outside of the normal church service.

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But I believe there's a time coming where we'll move from church services to being the ecclesia. We're going to move from church services to being the ecclesia.

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You see, God didn't call the ecclesia, you know, to do church services and stuff. What is this?

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I believe Adam and Eve could govern the whole earth themselves. And I think all creation's groaning for us to grow bigger.

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Now, I was on a call this week and I was explaining to them that if you leave earth and this looks smaller and you realize there's nothing that's too difficult.

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We can govern economics. We can govern space. We can govern time. We can really do dynamic changes in the earth.

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We can govern space and time. Well, get on with it. Start governing it.

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This is the age where the ecclesia have to learn to do it. So we need to learn how to do it. Why?

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Because Justin said so. We have to learn to be the ecclesia. We are ecclesia means means called out.

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So ec means out, ec. Kaleo means to call.

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Kaleo, the other word means to have a voice and a name. No, no, no. No, it means to call.

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You are called out to have a voice and a name and to function as a government. You are the government of God.

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So when you hear prophets saying there's going to be an earthquake in America, I heard that recently, and America is going to split in half, or you hear people prophesy these things, that is actually an invitation to govern it.

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So let me see if I have this straight. Patricia King has made a false prophecy, and when she makes that false prophecy, that's an invitation from God to come in and govern it.

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Where is he getting this? Because none of this is in the Bible. Either the guy's looney tunes or he's tapped into something really, really evil.

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I already know what God's thoughts are. He says, you know the thoughts I think towards you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.

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Satan came to kill, steal, destroy. I came, John 10 said, that you might enjoy life, life in abundance until it overflows.

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So when we get away... No, I came that you might have life and life to the full. The question is, what does that mean?

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From Zion, that something's going down. That doesn't mean we prophesy it and wait for it to happen. Pete LaRue Demonic cackle,

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I think there. Yeah, I mean, again, options here are getting really low.

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He's clearly not a sound biblical exegete, like nothing close to it.

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So, either he's a really, really, really interesting liar, you know, he knows what he's saying is just bogus and he's lying.

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He's not all there, you know? Or he's demonically influenced, or maybe some combination thereof.

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But, wow. Pete LaRue So, we're meant to learn to govern what we've heard from heaven.

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Really? Where in scripture does it say I need to learn how to govern what we've heard from heaven? Pete LaRue Whenever I hear something from heaven, like about an economy or a storm, and the

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Lord clicks it on my radar, or about a person or a war or something, I know that's the Lord saying, come and join the conversation with me.

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How do you know that? There's no biblical text that says any of this nonsense. Come and engage the saints.

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Come and engage the angels. Let's govern together. Come and engage the angels and let's govern together.

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It says no biblical text anywhere. We're learning to do it. I've actually got hundreds of court cases that we've won in the spirit.

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You've won hundreds of court cases in the spirit? You must be like a spiritual award -winning, you know, spiritual attorney type.

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Again, where in scripture does it say about filing lawsuits in the courts of heaven? Nowhere.

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All sorts of issues. But imagine all of us learning to engage like this. Pete LaRue Imagine. Just imagine.

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Wow. This is like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, part two.

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Animals are waiting for it. I mean... Pete LaRue Animals are waiting for what? Adam was given the government of the seas.

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Who knows how to govern fish? Pete LaRue They don't do prophecy schools on governing fish, do they?

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Adam LaRue And no prophecy school is worth anything. It's all simony.

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Or sharks or jellyfish or the deep. But this is the stuff God wants to talk about because he's...

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Really? If God wanted to talk about that, why isn't it in the Bible? Given us the deep. He's given us the birds of the air.

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He's given us the forest and ecosystem of the world. So far, so good?

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No. What you're saying is complete Looney Tunes nonsense. Nothing like this is taught in the scriptures anywhere.

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Pete LaRue Yeah. You're starting to feel a bit more like a nature mystic already. A nature mystic?

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A what? No. Okay. If you're starting to feel a bit stretched, let the stretching happen.

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Because my goal is to stretch you so that you don't fit back into the small size. You're a little bit bigger each time. And you dream bigger.

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Don't see this as a list of doo -doos. Adam LaRue Yeah. This is a bunch of doo -doos for sure. Pete LaRue This is not a doo -doo list.

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This is... Adam LaRue Oh, yeah. This is nothing but doo -doos. Pete LaRue ...an invitation into perichoresis, which is the trinity dancing and playing with wisdom.

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Adam LaRue Perichoresis. The trinity dancing with Sophia.

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Wisdom. That... Hang on a second here. You smell that?

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Yeah, that's sulfur. That's pagan Gnosticism right there. What have you been reading?

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Pete LaRue You've been invited to learn the dance of the oceans. You've been invited to learn the dance of the trees. And I've got lots of stories of trees responding, oceans responding, loads of them, loads of them.

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So I'm going to do more sessions on this. This is session one. And today I'm going to put a theological basis for where we're going.

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But I just want to read a quote that I posted on Facebook today. Adam LaRue Yeah, go ahead. Pete LaRue Isaiah saw, lions will live together with lambs.

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People will live extra long lives. Adam LaRue Right.

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The lion will lay down with the lamb. Pete LaRue Snakes will no longer harm us. Adam LaRue Right. When is that, by the way?

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All right, let's do a little bit of work. In fact, let me show you this. So I didn't pull this text up yet.

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So what we're going to do is I'll show you that if you're looking for a biblical text, and you don't have a good

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Bible software. So I use Accordance when I'm teaching. And I use Logos when

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I'm reading and preparing. So I have both. But Accordance Bible is the stuff that I use. But let's say that you didn't have that.

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So what we're going to do is we're going to go to Google. And when I'm doing a

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Bible search, you'll find Google is a really good way to search for biblical texts if you can't remember where they're at.

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So we're going to type in the word Bible. And we're going to look for, specifically, I want to look for a lion lay down with the lamb.

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All right. So that's what he quoted, but he didn't give me a text. So the lion lays down with the lamb,

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Isaiah 11. Okay, let's take a look at Isaiah 11 then in here.

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And I'll pull this up and we will go to Isaiah 11, the righteous reign of the branch.

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Okay, let's see. Alright, so there shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, a branch from its roots shall bear fruit.

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Stump of Jesse, that's talking about Jesus, right? And the spirit of Yahweh shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, spirit of counsel and might, spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahweh.

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His delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh and he shall not judge by what his eyes see or decide disputes by what his ears hear.

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But with righteousness he shall judge the poor and decide with equity for the meek of the earth.

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Judgment day, right? The meek shall inherit the earth. He shall strike the earth with a rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

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Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, faithfulness the belt of his loins. This is describing

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Christ's return in judgment on the day when Jesus comes again to judge the living and the dead, okay?

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Then after Christ does that, after the day of judgment, the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the lion and the fatted calf together and a little child shall lead them.

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The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together. The lion shall eat straw like the ox, the nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

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They shall not hurt or destroy and all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh as the waters cover the sea.

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This portion of Isaiah references Jesus's return, his judgment, and then in the aftermath when

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Jesus creates a new heavens and a new earth. In the new earth, the food chain as we know it, gone, okay?

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Gone. And you know, and Isaiah picks up on these themes several times in his prophecy.

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And I'm trying to think what would be the year of the Lord's favor. Nah, that's not really what I'm looking for.

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But let's see here, 64, 65. Ah, here it is.

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Isaiah 65. Check this out. For behold, God says, I create new heavens and a new earth and the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind, but be glad and rejoice forever in that which

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I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, her people to be a gladness. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people.

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No more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping, the cry of distress. No more shall there be in an infant who lives but a few days or an old man who doesn't fill out his days.

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Yeah, they shall build houses and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit.

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They shall not plant and another eat. For like the days of a tree shall be the days of my people. My chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

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They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of Yahweh and their descendants with them.

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Before they call, I will answer while they are yet speaking. I will hear the wolf and the lamb shall graze together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox and dust shall be the serpent's food.

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They shall not hurt or destroy in all of my holy mountains says Yahweh. Beautiful picture, prophetic picture of the new earth.

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And that's what we have in Isaiah 11, a picture of the new earth after the judgment of Christ.

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But Justin here is, watch what he does with this. And even children will govern creation.

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This is Papa's big change. It's here and it's coming. The next 150 years are going to be beyond anything we've seen in history.

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The next 150 years where children are going to govern animals. No, Christ comes first.

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Read all of Isaiah 11, please. A totally different type of world order emerges. A world based on harmony, union, and love.

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A world where the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, which is his goodness, covers the earth like waters on the seas, saturating everything, everywhere.

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That is my end time prophecy for you guys, okay? And it's false because it contradicts what the scripture says.

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You are looking for an end time prophecy? I just gave you one. It's from Isaiah. No, yeah, that's not talking about things going down in the next 150 years.

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That's talking about after Jesus returns. Now, when I was taken to heaven in 2010 to meet Enoch. So he was taken to heaven in 2010.

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Let me back this up because I want you to hear the details. Everything, everywhere. That is my end time prophecy for you guys, okay?

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If you are looking for an end time prophecy, I just gave you one. It's from Isaiah. Now, when I was taken to heaven in 2010 to meet

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Enoch, Enoch said to me, and he showed me that Isaiah's scroll is open before the Lord. So you met with Enoch?

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He said this. This is roughly what he said. He said, all of heaven is conspiring to fulfill

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Isaiah's scroll. Really? God's going to fulfill it.

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God is the one who fulfills his words. In Isaiah's scroll are massive keys for this generation. And I just read some of it.

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The line will lie down with a lamb. And all these beautiful verses need to be fulfilled. Yeah, there we go again with that demonic laugh.

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It's like the devil is just mocking people who are watching this. Okay. So I'm just going to do some slides now for a minute, and I hope you guys are tracking with me so far.

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All good? What you're saying isn't biblical. Good creation in us. So Rach, you'll have to tell me if this works.

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Can you see that, honey? Yeah, that's it. We can see it. Beautiful. I love this picture. What a beautiful...

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Animals are so cool. Let's just get whacked off that dolphin right now.

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A lot of glory on that dolphin. So there's a lot of glory on the dolphin. You know,

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God created all of this beautiful life and it's all connected. So this is what I want to talk about is our role with it.

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Okay. So we know that the Trinity... That doesn't look new age at all, does it?

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...have always been happy in themselves. Now, theologians call this perichoresis, the great dance. That's what mystics call it.

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And I want to read a quote from Baxter Kruger. It says, Before time dawned and space was called to be, before the heavens were stretched out and filled with a sea of stars, before the earth was summoned and filled with people and life and endless beauty, before there was anything, there was the

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Father, Son, and Spirit and the great dance. So theologians say that the big bang...

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There may be many big bangs, by the way. I think they partied too hard and probably created lots of big bangs. That's what some...

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God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit partied too hard? What? ...physicists believe now in multi -universe theory.

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Out of their joy and their overflowing life, they created... They created... Can you still see it, honey?

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Here we go. So... Yeah, Beresheet. So the Bible starts with Beresheet.

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Wonderful word. Say that, guys. Beresheet. Beresheet. What about...

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I spelt it wrong on that slide. I wouldn't say it like that. I could get you in trouble. Beresheet. In the beginning.

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So the universe starts with in. It starts with Beth, which is the second letter, B. It starts with B because God is

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Aleph and God created the house, and it means house. All right. Note what he's doing here.

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He's now trying to pour into the Hebrew alphabet mystical encoded secret messages.

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And so Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Beth is the second letter.

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And so he's trying to create a mystical meaning due to the fact that the

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Bible doesn't begin with a word that begins with the word Aleph, a letter Aleph, but it begins with the word Beth.

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In. Beth. Beresheet. It means house. It's really beautiful. No... So inside of God, Yahweh, creation was formed.

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Now what the Jews teach is that God had to withdraw some of his glory to allow space for creation.

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Where do they teach that? Kabbalah? Zohar?

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Where do they teach that? They call this the great contraction, because basically if God hadn't contracted some of his nature, there would be no creation because he filled everything.

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So Yahweh started to create space within himself. This is why Paul says, in him we live, in him we move, in him we have our being.

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And this is also why anybody that says God isn't in Hades, God isn't in Sheol, is not teaching correct theology, because everything's in him, everything's sustained by him, he fills it all.

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Okay, so far so good, Rach, can you see that? Yep, I see it, it's all good. Beautiful. Now there may be more than one creation.

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My friend Nancy Cohen believes there's been six creations and we're forming the seventh, which is completion. Ian Clayton believes we're entering into the third creation.

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And who are these people? Were there books in the Bible? They're not. The Lord's shown me two creations, so I do believe we're entering...

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I don't believe a word of that. That resonates for me. This is what that circle looks like.

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It's a multi -dimensional world. This is actually an image done by scientists of the theory of there being multiple levels of dimensions of existence, wheels within wheels.

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We exist within wheels within wheels, and all of it's on an atomic quantum level, multi -dimensional.

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Another way of imagining it is like this, that the Lord made pockets of universes, or what we'd call heavenly places.

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So he made the garden of Eden. Where are you getting this? Because this ain't in the scripture. He made the throne, he made

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Mount Zion, he made above the heavens, he made the universe, he made planets, stars, galaxies, systems. And there are multiple levels of dimensions that exist, all interfacing.

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And all of it is connected to us. All of it is connected to our government. So God created this from being happy.

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To read Baxter again, God is essentially and eternally very happy. Who's Baxter? Which book of the

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Bible did he write? The Father, Son, and Spirit live in conversation, in fellowship, a free flow in togetherness and sharing and delight.

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A great dance of shared life that is full and rich and passionate. This is just teeming with Gnostic buzzwords.

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Creative and good and beautiful. So what did the Lord say when he created it? He said, this is good. So the creation is good.

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So we have to come from the perspective that it's really, really good. Now, the word bait or the letter bait, which starts

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Bereshit, it means in, family, or house. So God always wanted family.

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God always wanted a house. Atalo mavinavrit.

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You don't know Hebrew, dude. You do not understand it at all. Okay. So using the word, the letter bait, and then saying that it means house or family or in.

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Bait means in. Beth means house. Okay. Totally different.

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That's a word. God always wanted us to be in. We're always in. We've always been in. You're not rightly handling the

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Hebrew here. You're taking a single letter and pouring meaning into it that is not found in any of the words of the

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Bible, sir. Every being is in him, living in him, moving in him. Now, what's interesting about the letter bait here, if you can look at that picture, see that one side is not finished.

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Now, what the Jews teach on this is that God designed the universe unfinished because it's our role to bring completion.

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This is called Tikkun olam, where we heal creation and we build this additional wall. So God created it unfinished with a desire for inclusion.

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So the goal of the Trinity is inclusion, that you're included in finishing what he has started co -revealing, co -creating.

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I'm a creature. I don't create. So all these stars and galaxies were created in a way that needs sons.

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It needs government. It needs love because it's all about play. It's a dance. It's for joy. It's not a dark story.

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It's a beautiful story. Okay. Now, how was Earth created? Earth was not created according to Jewish mysticism in the same way.

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According to what? Told you he's been imbibing on Kabbalah. That's where he got this from.

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As the other planets. The other planets that we know of were created by God speaking. So God spoke, let there be light.

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Let there be this. Let there be that. But the Earth came from the face of the deep. And the face of the deep, according to Hebrews, is not water.

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It's the same word as the spirit searches the abyss of God. So the Earth was formed, get this, from the mysteries of Yahweh.

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The deep that the spirit was hovering over was not an earthy water planet. It was actually the mysteries of Yahweh's heart.

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Okay. Now, let's take a look at Genesis 1. In the beginning,

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God created the heavens and the Earth. The Earth was without form and void.

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And darkness was over the face of the Tohom, over the deep. And the Ruach Elohim was hovering over the face of the

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Mayim. The waters. The text says that.

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What is he getting on about? This is really weird stuff. But we already know where it's coming from.

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Jewish mysticism. This is Kabbalah. Out of the mysteries of his heart, he pulled forth the Earth and created the

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Earth. Then from the Earth, which is the mysteries of God revealed, is the gate of heaven, a multidimensional world.

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He created Alephdam, which means God's blood. So our role in creation is very, very important.

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We are the nexus point or connection point between the invisible God, Ein Sov, and the created world.

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So we are Jacob's ladder, the bridge of worlds. So we're made by... No, Jesus is Jacob's ladder. By all the realms.

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We're made in all the realms. So we have the breath of Yahweh. We're the only beings that Genesis says God made with his breath.

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But we're also made from the Earth. So we have a relationship connected to the mysteries of God and this planet. That's why

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God wants heaven on Earth. Mysteries of God. This guy's a full Gnostic. So our

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DNA, according to Jewish thinking, is made up of all the universe. Now, this is matched by science.

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When Genesis says, let us make man in our image, the Jews teach that our image is all of the universe put a piece of itself in us.

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No, he keeps going to Jewish mystics. Now, here's where we're going to do a little bit of biblical work here.

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And we've got to do it because when we talk about the ancient mystery religion, of which

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Kabbalah is like part of. So think of it this way.

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Kabbalah is Jewish Gnostic mysticism. And this goes along with the

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Zohar. And this is all connected all the way back to the ancient Egyptian mystery religions.

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This is where Gnosticism comes from. And the idea here is that they have secret knowledge, and they have an esoteric interpretation of the scriptures.

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And that's what we've been listening to, a flat out esoteric interpretation of the scriptures. And that esoteric interpretation actually contradicts the words themselves of scripture.

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We've noted that. But we're going to note something here. In 1 Timothy chapter 4, the

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Apostle Paul says, now the Spirit, this is the Holy Spirit, expressly says that in the latter times, some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons.

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We're there. We're there. Because if you're teaching Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism in the context of teaching

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Christians or discipling Christians, this is the doctrines of demons. Now, if you really want to kind of boil it all down, think of, if you were to think of like the ancient religions of the world, you know, the worship of Baal, Asherah, Molech.

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This is also going to include Osiris and Isis and Horus and Persephone and Demeter.

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The mysteries of Demeter are also in play here. They're all kind of interconnected. In the ancient pagan world, all of these mystery religions revolved around fertility.

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Initiatic mysteries that had to do with death and coming back to life and things like this, not in the resurrection of Jesus kind of way, but in the kind of way where, you know, where the earth dies in fall and it goes dormant in the winter and then rises from the dead in spring and talking about fertility and things like this.

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And always at the core of these Gnostic mystery religions is a belief that you can be reunited with deity.

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In fact, you are a deity. You know, it's all about this latent deity that you have in you that's underdeveloped and that others are trying to keep you from achieving.

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Scripture explains where those religions come from. First Corinthians chapter 10 says this,

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Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry, which is what this is. I speak as to sensible people.

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Judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?

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It is. The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? It is. So, because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

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Now, consider the people of Israel and not those who eat the sacrifices, participants in the altar. So, what do

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I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything or that an idol is anything?

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No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice, they offer to demons and not to God.

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Mm -hmm. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the

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Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the

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Lord and the table of demons. Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy?

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Are we stronger than him? Yeah. So, the source of all the ancient religions, all the pagan religions and today's esoteric mystery religions, including

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Kabbalah and the Zohar and things like this, it's demons. Yeah. And so, in fact, even the

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Old Testament makes this clear. Deuteronomy 32, starting verse 15, says this, but, Jeshurun grew fat and kicked.

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You grew fat, stout and sleek. And then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the rock of his salvation.

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They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations. They provoked him to anger.

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They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.

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You were unmindful of the rock that bore you, and you forgot the truth, the

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God who gave you birth. Even in Deuteronomy 32, we see that what pagans sacrificed to their idols, in fact, the demonic is what was behind it.

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Psalm 106 says it this way, starting in verse 34, they did not destroy the peoples as Yahweh commanded them.

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Talking about the children of Israel coming into the promised land, not following through on getting rid of the pagans.

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They mixed with the nations and learned to do so as they did. They served their idols, which became a snare for them.

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They sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons. Yeah. So, you don't want to get involved in any of this stuff.

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And when you hear somebody like Justin, like we've been hearing going on about Jewish mysticism and stuff like that, flee, flee.

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Colossians 2 says, see to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world.

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This is what we're talking about here. And not according to Christ. Then in verse 20, it goes on to say, if with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why is if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations?

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Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch, referring to things that all perish as they are used, according to human precepts and teachings.

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These indeed have the appearance of wisdom and promoting self -made religion, asceticism, the severity of the body, but they're of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

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Mm -hmm. So yeah, you don't want to get caught up in this stuff. Everything that this guy is going on about is absolutely forbidden in scripture.

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And this Gnostic paganism, this Gnostic mysticism that he's promoting, this is all what the ancient world was into.

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And God said that its source was the demonic. So we can see then in Paul's prophecy in 1

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Thessalonians 4, 1, that in the last days, people will be talking, would be, would abandon the truth and teach doctrines of demons.

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This is a prime example of it. Aside from being loony tunes, its source is actually the demonic.

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And until next time, may God richly bless you in the grace and mercy won by Jesus Christ and his vicarious death on the cross for all of your sins.