Isaiah 53:1-3, 9-11
ESV
Who has believed what
he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been
revealed?
For he grew up before
him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or
majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and
rejected by men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom
men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
And they made his
grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done
no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the will of
the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an
offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall
prolong his days;
the will of the Lord
shall prosper in his hand.
Out of the anguish of
his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall
the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
Who Has Believed?
Do you know what it is like to not be believed? You have
told the truth. There is no deceit in your mouth. But, people don’t believe
you. Instead, they are listening to the liars and the deceivers, to the wolves
in sheep’s clothing who are out to destroy the church. They are listening to
the manipulators, the actors, and the ones who play with people’s emotions, and
who play mind games with people hoping to trip them up with their words.
If you have ever read or watched the “Left Behind” Series, then you will know what I am talking about
when I say the name “Carpathia.” He was a very skilled liar and deceiver who
manipulated many people into believing his lies. And, he was a depiction for us
of what someone projected the antichrist might appear like, and the writer did
a good job at depicting what he is like, too, for he represents Satan, and we
know what he is like.
But, even though the scriptures have painted a good picture
for us, too, of what this antichrist, this beast is like, still so many people,
including many who call themselves Christians, are being duped by these master
manipulators, and they are believing their lies over the word of God.
They don’t see the reality of what is happening in our day
and time with regard to prophecy of scripture being fulfilled, or they choose
to close their eyes to the truth because they don’t want to accept the reality
of the times in which we now live. They want to go on living in a bubble,
believing life will always be as it is now, but it isn’t. It isn’t the same as
it was, and it never will be again.
For, the things that they did to Jesus, they are now doing
to his saints, his holy ones, his bride, his temple. And, if you live in
America, and you don’t see that this is happening yet, then get ready, for it
is coming to America, too. It is already here, but it just is not that visible
yet. But, it soon will be, most assuredly.
World Conquerors
There is something called Agenda 21 that not many people
know about, or that they don’t know the truth about. This is basically the
global blueprint for the takeover of the world (see Rev. 13). It is the
business plan for world domination by the beast New World Order. And, it is
presently being fulfilled. And, the evidence of this is everywhere you look.
Take for instance an article I read about Facebook and Mark
Zuckerberg. What he laid out in his article is Agenda 21, through and through
(1).
What has been in the works for some time now is a drive to
control freedom of speech on the internet, and everywhere, in reality. And, it
looks a lot like what the apostles of the New Testament experienced in their
day. They were charged to not speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
But Peter and John
answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather
than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and
heard.” Acts 4:19-20 ESV
In America, though, it isn’t the name of Jesus that makes
them cringe. It is his true gospel message that he taught, that John the
Baptist taught, and that the NT apostles taught that causes the uproar, because
it confronts people in their sin, it warns of judgment, it calls for repentance
and obedience to Christ and to his word, and it calls for forsaking sinful
lifestyles and for a life of holiness, instead. And, that makes people
uncomfortable.
Unity with Beast
So, the whole object of Agenda 21 is to bring the entire
world under the subjugation of this beast New World Order and its one world
religion. So, in order to do that, they have to get everyone to unify with them
in their goals. And, if they can’t get people to willingly unify with them,
then they will force unity, or they will take you out, plain and simple as
that.
So, they have to demonize Christians and the gospel to prove
their case that it is bad to separate ourselves from other people, and that it is
bad to claim our belief is the only true belief, and it is bad to tell people
they have to change their ways or that the eternal fires of hell is what awaits
them.
And, so they introduced a lot of their goals in the church
some years ago. And, they tried out this whole thing of getting people of
different denominations to unify under one business plan, and one purpose, and
it worked. And, I saw this in person. I saw how all these churches of different
denominations were all following the same business plan for how to grow their
churches, and it was a “Purpose Driven” plan which united them all.
And, I witnessed how, no matter what church you attended,
they gave this “unity” speech to intimidate people into unifying with them and
their man-made goals, and how they demonized anyone who didn’t, and how they
made examples of them to the rest of the church, and how they accused them
falsely of not obeying the word of God because they didn’t unify with the
man-made goals. But, that was a twisting of the Word of God, for it is God we
are to unite with, and the one mind we are to be of is His.
And, they also cheapened God’s grace, altered Jesus’
character, and they diluted the gospel message to make it more appealing to the
flesh, but also more conducive to a one world religion where everyone unites
together and no one gets in anyone else’s “lane,” but they keep their religion
to themselves, and they, instead, all just become “good deed doers” to make
everyone feel comfortable and at ease.
Unity Governments
There is a lot of terminology that is used over and over
again in these news articles which points directly to Agenda 21. And, one of
those phrases is “unity governments.” And, this is all about bringing all the
nations of the world into unity with this beast one world totalitarian regime.
You will hear over and over again that separatism is bad and
that unity is good, that independence is bad, but that collectivism is good.
And, this carries over into our Christian faith, too. For
Jesus told us to come out from the world and to be separate (unlike, different)
from the world. But, they say that is a bad thing, that we all need to come
together as one people with one voice, which is the voice of this beast.
What they want is compromise, compromise of our faith in
Jesus Christ and with the world. We can’t have an impasse between two opposites,
they say. We have to find common ground, which is really not agreed upon by
both parties, but which is one-sided, i.e. the side of the beast. It is
everyone moving into his corner and away from national governments, and away
from independence, and away from freedom of religion.
And, one of their ploys they use is what Satan used, too,
and it is the twisting of scripture to their advantage, taken out of context,
to try to accuse followers of Christ of being disobedient to his Word so that
they can discredit them and thus discredit the gospel, too. And, the Pharisees
did this to Jesus, too, on numerous occasions, because they wanted to take him
out.
God’s Will
But, it was God’s will that Jesus should suffer in this way,
that he would be falsely accused, treated as a common criminal, although he had
done no wrong. It was God’s will that he would be considered a liar, and that
people would not believe his message, and that they would hang him on a cross
to die, even though he was not deserving of this death.
It was God’s will, for through Jesus’ death on that cross we
can now be delivered from our bondage to sin and we can walk in Christ’s
righteousness and holiness. And, it is God’s will that we suffer for the name
of Jesus and for the sake of his gospel, too, and that we be falsely accused
and persecuted, and that some of us be put to death because we refuse to
compromise with this beast New World Order.
For, God is allowing all this for his purposes. He is
allowing wicked and evil men (and women) to go their own way (see Rom. 1) and
to do things that ought not to be done. And, when God gives them over to their
lusts, people will get hurt, and the gospel will suffer ill repute, and liars
and thieves will be honored while the faithful and trustworthy will be treated
as criminals.
But, just as Jesus’ suffering and death meant the salvation
of many lives, our suffering unjustly for the sake of his gospel is also
intended for the furtherance of the gospel message and for the salvation of
many lives who might not have otherwise heard the gospel if we were not
motivated, by our suffering, to proclaim the truth in its fullness and with
great conviction.
So, not all that is bad ends bad. God will use all of this
suffering for his purposes in people’s lives to make them holy, to purify them,
to humble them, to make them to where they will rely on him and not on
themselves, and to prune them and to conform them to his likeness. And, he will
use the persecution of his saints to bring many more people to faith in Jesus
Christ. And, one day Jesus will return for us, and our suffering will all be
over. Amen!
Much
Too High A Price / Jesus Paid It All
Phil
McHugh and Greg Nelson
You paid much too high a price for me,
Your tears, Your blood, the pain –
To have my soul just stirred at times
yet never truly changed.
You deserve a fiery love that won’t
ignore your sacrifice
Because You paid much too high a price.
Monday, April 1, 2019
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