THE GREAT PAGANIZATION OF THE NATION OF THE ONE NEW MAN – BODY OF CHRIST

VERSES: Matthew 13:33; Titus 2:12-13; Genesis 6:1-8; 1st Timothy 4:1; 2nd Peter 2

The last two messages entitled “Lucifer’s Rise and Fall in the Light of Redemption” and “Satan’s Kingdom Hierarchy in the Light of Redemption” are a good Segway into this lesson. In those lessons, we talked about the spirit realm and covered the works of the spirit realm; its history, its beginnings and how they morphed into what they are. This week we will look at them in light of where scripture places them in the arena in which we live.

What do you think of this world?

Is your heart tied closely with the affairs of this World, its projects, its ambitions, its amusements, its pleasures? Are you looking to the World for happiness (Christians mistake happiness for fulfillment or for being in God’s will), or looking forward to the working out of your life in the World? This (focusing on your life here) is the very purpose of this World’s corrupting system, unless the Word of Christ lies as its central focus. As stated last week, the ‘World’ system is a dynamic (changing) system specifically designed by satan in order to appeal to mankind and fail him while alive, being then under faith in God’s Word through test and trial. (Satan’s plan/strategy concerning the redeemed has been to thwart God’s people/nation from fulfilling His will. First in ancient times as a man under the Noahtic Covenant, then as a man under the Abrahamic Covenant with the addition of the Mosaic Covenant, then and now under the New Testament of Christ with the Nation of the One New Man). It’s a corrupting system completely in answer and opposition to God’s spoken Word and recorded promise of a future restoration/renewal of God’s designed Theocratic government in this Earth. And that through a Man (Jesus/son of Man), capable of legally and justly taking it back from satan and his subordinate spirits.

Whereas the purpose of God’s Truth in Christ is rather than be influenced by the spirits of this World and be conformed to the World and the lusts thereof… that our hearts and minds should be renewed and occupied with the Truth found in Christ’s Words, and thereby being transformed into overcomers of the World; free then from His future Judgments, and worthy to reign with Him in His coming Kingdom. See Titus 2:12-13… “Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”

We read in Scripture that “the earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof” and that He graciously sends the rain and the sunshine, and gives the increase of the field and the fruits of the earth. The Earth is the Lord’s but the world is Satan’s.  This great truth of Scripture, that Satan, an evil fallen angel spirit, is “the god of this world,” who has myriads of equally evil spirit subordinates, is absolutely necessary insight to grasp for the understanding of the existence of all the evils in the World. That which God has revealed to all the seed of Adam in the World, (whether they choose to see it or not), which answers to their personal temporal state of being, and furthermore for those being redeemed in the World but not of it… it is their essential understanding of purpose for their ongoing diligent guarding of their hearts and minds from the manifold dangers arising while under test and trial while in this World.

This satanically designed ‘World system’ includes both a secular and religious part, that according to Scripture prophecy reach their zenith in the Last Days’ great unveiling of those now unseen ruling forces, then-to-be cast down out of this first heaven, and then to be manifest on the Earth. John, by the Holy Spirit, ties together the World’s present system, then to be laid bare according to His prophetic Words, as having its origin in that Ancient Babel/Babylonian secular and religious system designed over 4000 years ago, then moving forward in time, that system that answers to Israel’s ancient demise culminating 2000 years ago, and then the system that answers to the future Nation of the New Man’s demise, in these Last Days.

This designed appealing religious World system/Babel/Babylonian Whore (that God is calling called us out of), full of the doctrines of fallen angelic spirits and subordinate demon spirits, has made all the pretentious of God’s two redeemed Nations (Israel and the Nation of the One New Man) and the unredeemed religious Nations of the Earth to drink of her cup of religious hypocrisy. It has gone on over these thousands of years, between and after that great catastrophe of Noah’s Day in the Judgments of God and up through the last great Tribulation period catastrophe in the horrific judgments of God predicted by Christ, that which we are little doubt on the brink of. (Jeremiah 51:6-7, Revelation 17:1-5 with 18:1-5)

The First Catastrophe

“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God (angels that Scripture says left their first estate) saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose (creating hybrid offspring which were later drowned in Noah’s Flood). And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.  There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that (as seen when Joshua came into the Promised Land), when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men (note that this is where much mythology about half men/half spirits being worshipped as gods got its genesis from), and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth (which was a result of these 2 intelligent species of God unnaturally mating), and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually (we are seeing this more and more today). And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” (Those climatic days of Genesis 6:4-7, which speak of the times of the Nephilim (fallen angels and their offspring) on the Earth, again correspond with Revelation 12:9-12.) [Genesis 6:1-7]

NOAH…

Genesis 6:8 continues… But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence (the Earth being filled with violence is another sign of the End-Times, seen in Christ’s Words that “nation/ethnic groups shall rise up against nation/ethnic groups” ). And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” [Genesis 6:9-13] …………“And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died…. Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood…. And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod (meaning ‘rebel’) the mighty hunter (possibly meaning: the pursuer of knowledge) before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, …in the land of Shinar (which was later known as Mesopotamia) ………These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.” [Genesis 9:28-29, 10:1, 8-10, 32]

The Tower of Babel and satan’s design for Earth’s new World system: “Babylonianism”

See Genesis 11:1-11, 26-28… “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another (contrary to the Word of God and initiated by the spirits…), Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name (exalting themselves, as satan did), lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth (God had commanded that they go out and “replenish” the Earth, but they instead formed a confederation and banded together, typical to what they will do in the End-Times in defiance of God). And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do (their imaginations having been corrupted by these spirits). Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth (this being one means by which God slowed down the idolatrous leavening effect of Babel): and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood: And Shem lived after he begot Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters….. And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees” (Ur; a city in Babylonia/Mesopotamia where idol worship was the religion, where Abram’s father Terah was a worshiper of other gods/fallen angel spirits/demon spirits – Joshua 24:2).

“And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. But Sarai was barren; she had no child. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.” [Genesis 11:29-32]

God Calls Abram out of idol worship of other gods/spirits…

“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy — and five years old when he departed out of Haran.” [Genesis 12:1-4]

God made a Covenant with Abraham and His seed/Seed that He would bless the Nations. Ultimately, that blessing being to deliver them out of the darkness and oppression of this World, which is to say from under the authority of satan and his subordinate spirits. That promised seed/Seed of Abraham would manifest first as the Nation of Israel. And so it was that the ‘World’ was to be ‘Israelized’. Satan thus approached Israel with the perspective that they were the Promised seed from the Garden. (Genesis 3:15)

God’s declared ways for redeemed Noah and his seed had been set against the ‘World’s’ ways after the flood in the Covenant with Noah. The World’s corrupting spirits, having been punished and pushed back in the judgments of the Flood, are now in conjunction with Nimrod, being revitalized and further developed in the rebellious city of Babel/Babylon. Babylon became the great ancient capital city of Mesopotamia, being constructed 100 or so years after the Flood of Noah, under the direction of wicked spirits, with its spiritual portal towers reaching into the heaven of this Earth. Its diabolical system was being set to snare all Noah’s blessed seed. Ur/Babylonia being that Nation steeped in all the practices introduced in Babel which lead/led to the worship of other gods/spirits, that would be later outlawed in Yahwehism. Ur being the place out of which God called Abram, the seed of Shem, 300 years or so after Noah’s flood.

So Abraham was set apart by God to raise up a people fit to evangelize the lost in the deceiving darkness of the World system back unto its Creator. They were to be a ‘people’ redeemed by the blood of the lamb; the ‘Nation’ of the first-born of God… who were to be called out of Egypt; that nation of soothsayers, star gazers, necromancers, magicians, worshipers of false gods/demon and angelic spirits.

A New Nation was called to that promised land of their forefather, to first dispossess 7 Nations… “Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak! Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.” The deceiving darkness of the World system was driven back for a time because of God’s judgments on those false gods of Egypt. And because of the fearlessness of the Nation of Israel in their belief in God, they wiped out whole armies of Nations sent out against them by the enemy spirits. Satan, unable to deter them by force, determined to infiltrate them with pagan practices (as he later does within the ‘Church’) that would cause God’s judgments to overcome them. The Israelites leaders (deceived by demons’ lies, and unwarranted by God…) made treaties with unbelieving spirit-led and controlled Peoples and Nations, and let them in among them. (Joshua 9:4-27) Later they wanted, and insisted (against the counsel of God) for a king, that they might be like all the other Nations. King Solomon, by listening to pagan women in his harem, was led into his religious hypocrisy that later caused the Nation to be divided. Wherein the far greater part of that Nation sank irretrievably into Idol/demon spirit worship at the hand of their new leaders and King Jeroboam. Until finally, the leavening spirit of false religiosity overcame the remnant ‘Body’ and by all intents and purposes, they were/are all but assimilated into the pagan World by the false gods/spirits.

The Words of Joshua to redeemed Israel in Joshua 24:12-28 were: “And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods (wicked spirits) which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods (wicked spirits) of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God. And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins (as you cannot serve other gods/spirits and serve God too). If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good (redeemed them with a purpose). And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD. And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods (evil spirits/demons) which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel. And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God. So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.”

This is the prophet Elijah’s admonition to a later, once again wavering Israel, who was riding the fence of hypocritical religiosity in trying to serve both God and Baal/demons. “And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye (ride the fence) between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.” (Elijah’s words speak to those within the Church today who have duplicity of heart.)

Israel persisted in their idolatrous affairs with the World’s spirits until the Lord said after 1500 years to the Nation of Israel; “Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come (that God will fulfill His promises to Abraham’s progeny) when ye shall say, Blessed is he (Jesus the Christ) that cometh in the name of the Lord.

THE SPIRITUAL SEED

It was then the spiritual Seed of God through Abraham manifested as Jesus Christ unto the Gentile Nations of the World. Those Nations were thereby to be ‘Christianized’ by His ‘Body’ of believers. And for a while, this new ‘Nation’ (Nation of the One new Man – Matthew 21:43) marched even more fearlessly than Israel… this time directly against the spirit forces of evil, victoriously pulling down strongholds without carnal weapons, willingly suffering death and persecution for their beliefs, and steadily made inroads into paganized cultures, driving back the gods/spirit forces of evil in the Name of Christ. The ‘Nation’ of the One New Man (the ‘Body’ of Christ) founded by God, full of obedient subordinate men and Angels, was prolific in fruitfulness unto Christ in its beginnings, in that everywhere His doctrines were preached and received, it delivered the people from the spirits of paganism. (Acts 19:26, Acts 17:21-32) Satan at first fought ferociously against it with severe persecution and sword, as he at first did against the Nation of Israel before.. but the more he rose up in arms against them, the more loss he accrued as Israel grew. And so with that same strategy that he overcame Israel with, that is to say with stealth amalgamation of the World’s Babylonian religious system’s corruption of Yahwehism, that became also the strategy of his spiritual war against the Nation of the One New Man. And instead of trying to stomp it out and drive it away, he drew it close and began to weaken it from within by increasing doctrinal error (designed by deceiving, seducing, lying spirits) given in small portions to unsuspecting susceptible servants over time within the “Body of Christ”.

Matthew 13:33 says, “Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” Let’s look at the meaning of this verse/parable… “The (battle for the) kingdom of heavens (promised inheritance) is like unto leaven (religious leaders’ hypocrisy and evil teachings that dilute and nullify God’s Word of Truth), which a woman (wicked spirits of religious formalism, rationalistic materialism, and debasing sensualism controlling those religious leaders. The ‘woman’ being the Babylonian whore; Jezebel embodied. – see 1st Kings 16-22) took, and hid in three measures (over time) of meal (the ‘meal’ being the Word of Truth of Christ concerning the heavenly Kingdom and the displacement there of the satanic spirit forces), till the whole (typical of the then present Body of Israel and future Body of Christ) was leavened.” And this religious whore/Babylonian/Jezebel spirit is seen in the following verses… Revelation 2:20… “Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols” (fallen angelic and demon spirits). Jeremiah 51:7… “Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.” See also Revelation 17:5 & 18:3.

The leavening of the Kingdom of heavens message has been almost fully accomplished. Spiritual Babylon has infiltrated the ‘Church’ and has assimilated into it. “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy…” [1st Timothy 4:1] We are to come out of Babel’s secular and religious systems or we will partake of the cup of God’s Wrath that will come on all those intertwined within the World’s End-Time Babylonian secular and religious systems.

The sanctifying power of Christ’s “Body” in the beginning was delivered by His sanctified witnesses in selfless obedience to His Un-Leavened Word of Truth regardless of personal cost. Jesus prophesied that false doctrinal leaven of the enemy would overwhelm the Truth of His Word. And in the End-Times, today, 2000 years from the day of His prophecy, His ‘Body,’ once alive and thriving with careful watchful loving obedient servants, would become through hypocritical liars’ works of iniquity and deceitful doctrines (of “hath God really said?” and “thou shalt not surely die”) become cold in love and religiously presumptuous, full of covetousness and dangerously close to perdition in a state of religious corrupt lukewarm darkness.

Read the following Scriptures that describe the state of the Last Days’ Church…Matthew 24:12… “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” Revelation 3:16… “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” And see also the Book of Jude… “Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares (deceived men taking positions among us as leaders), who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. (Christians being comparable to those who were redeemed out of Egypt/the World, who then afterwards fell short.) And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains (in the Abyss) under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example (warning), suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words (looking to manipulate), having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.”

The leaven has finally permeated His Church until it has become doctrinally void of sanctifying Truth in the necessity of Christlikeness for inheritance in His heavenly Kingdom. It has become a den full of seducing, lying demons. (Read 2nd Peter 2… “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell (Hades – in the Abyss), and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever (age-lasting). For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” – Much of 2nd Peter 2 being reminiscent of what we just read in Jude.)

See also Hebrews 10:26-31…“For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”

To those members of His present-day living ‘Body’ with watchful and prayerful hearts, satan’s diabolical design has been easily foreseen by God’s prophetic Word… and by just tracing the steps of the ancient Nation of Israel, the Church/‘Body’ of God in its apostasy. And NOW we can rightly see the root cause of the greater demonization unleashed in the Earth as being the direct result of the rejection of Truth in the redeemed ‘Body’ of Christ, wherever you might find it, throughout the Earth. The “Body” of Christ being amalgamated/assimilated back into the World in its rejecting the Word of Christ’s sanctifying Truth in preference to the appealing religious World’s system, void of sanctifying power and therefore having only that corrupt form of Worldly godliness. (Take the time to read 2nd Timothy 3:1 – 4:4.) This lack of salt and light in Christ’s “Body” also answers to the time of the strong delusion of God now rapidly setting into the Nations of this World, who have long since heard the Word of Truth, and somewhat responded to its redemption gift, but refused the “great salvation”/hope of glory and take pleasure in the unrighteousness of the satanic World system.

God said to His Church Body of Israel… “But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant……. And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things (resist my instructing hand), but will (continue to) walk contrary unto me; Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. (Leviticus 26:14,15,23,24) Therein is found the connection between the Old Testament threat of God in the 7 times worsening of His judgments coming on His calloused lukewarm ‘Body’/Israel in refusal of their great calling after redemption from Egypt into training unto separated holiness. That being the only means by which they might displace the ‘spirit’ forces in the Promised Land; that appointed place from which they might rule with God as God’s theocratic government, forcefully removing and replacing the corrupting spirits from their control over those Nations. Christ’s New Testament exhorting threat and highly instructive eye-opening words are representative of the ongoing appointed war after redemption; that bringing them out of satan’s kingdom/under the control of ‘spirits,’ into His “Body”, the ‘Nation of the One New Man’. This redeemed Nation of God’s Higher calling (higher than Israel’s calling to earthly preeminence) being that of the displacement of the ruling spirit powers in the heaven of this Earth, from which they rule over the Nations of this Earth, with that similar threat of God’s severe judgement on His New Testament redeemed children; being of 7 worse demons taking re-possession of their “House” for not continuing on into sanctification. This being Christ’s typical representative of an individual’s body or any corporate “Body” that He had cleaned and claimed by right of redemption, and afterwards they then persist to “walk contrary” to Him, or to be set apart to become holy, that is to say by making them morally right and acceptable, overcoming witnesses through His Word of Truth.

Jesus said: in Luke 11:20-23… “But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. When a strong man (satan) armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him (Christ in redemption power), and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. He that is (redeemed but) not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not (in the Truth of His Word) with me scattereth” (in their religious hypocrisy).

AGAIN….

When a strong man (the strong one in Greek referring to Satan… by his subordinate spirits) armed keepeth/guardeth his palace (‘palace’ meaning on either the larger scale; his entire kingdom, or a smaller corporate Body, or the body and soul of a man), his goods (his spiritual wicked purposes) are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him (Jesus/His Truth bearer in His name and spirit), and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor (in which he assailed and overcome and holds captive; the reciprocal of the armor of Christ; lies, unrighteousness, fear, unbelief, darkness and the word and power of satan) wherein he trusted, and divideth his (satan’s) spoils (that which was a part of his kingdom, has been cut off by the gift of redemption, and has been taken from him and claimed as the Lord’s). He (the now redeemed spoil) who is not with me (as a matter of willing and yielded ongoing perfecting/maturing service – 2nd Corinthians 7:1) is against me’ and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.”

What this most assuredly means is that we, as redeemed Christians must be (from our renewed minds, instructed in the Lord’s Words unto maturing thoughts, words, and deeds) daily activated in this great conflict with the spirit forces (demons and fallen angel spirits). And if we refuse and continue to “walk contrary”, we are inevitably used as an instrument against the purposes of Christ in the Earth. If we are not gatherers, then we are scatterers. For we are then not only disqualified from the heavenly Kingdom inheritance as poor servants, but culpable in the disqualifying of souls from the Kingdom inheritance in Christ… all of which we will stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ. Christ did not leave any middle ground that we might walk in.

Matthew 12:43-45 says, “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.” Here is the breaking down of those verses with commentary: “When the unclean spirit (referring to all idolatrous worship and heathen impurity demon spirits) is gone (removed or driven) out of a man (his soul and body), he (that dispossessed spirit) walketh through dry places (being ‘disembodied’, that spirit must roam the Earth), seeking rest (first to enter into any receptive human being); and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. And when he cometh, he findeth it (that redeemed soul and body) swept and garnished (by the mind and will being changed by a partial moral awakening, but having now settled into a passive and mostly pretentious religious emptiness, void of any power… denying Christ His rightful place, the hedge of protection afforded under the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus and being kept by the power of God, is finally discovered to have come down… in that the host, be it an individual or community of people… see 1st Corinthians 10:1-22…)… then goeth he (the unclean spirit), and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter in (with hardly any resistance as the conscience is calloused from sensitivity to the Truth), and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first” (not as it relates to the redeemed individual’s eternal life gift, but from any extricating from those unclean spirits’ control, that now have a stranglehold on the soul through the flesh {sensual body and carnal mind}. That judgment while alive that invariably results in a further judgement at the Judgment Seat of Christ and the sure loss of that person’s (or corporate Body’s) high calling unto the glorious inheritance reward of a redeemed person who could have been an overcomer in the High Calling of the fallen nature within, the World’s pleasures, and satan/demons).

The call today is “come out of her (the emasculated ‘Body’ full of spirits) my people”… where today you most assuredly will find the religious pretentious Body of Christ closely aligned with the World system. A corporate ‘Body’ that once stood on the Earth in the light of Christ’s full salvation, but today refuses all light of sanctification. It now being exponentially filled with Doctrines of demons who hold captive its members, by the power of “seducing spirits” that give the redeemed a false sense of security while living a careless life; by the power of its “unclean spirits” that give the redeemed license to sensual sins. And by the power of its “lying spirits” that question God’s Written Word… “Hath God said? ….Ye shall not surely die!”

“And what concord hath Christ with Belial/satan? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols/spirits? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” [2nd Corinthians 6:15-18] It is a quotation from Isaiah 52:11… “Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her…” that is, Babylon.

“And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness if God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.” [2nd Timothy 2:24]

May we not come out of Egypt only to get taken into Babylon.