The Beast System: Part 8

November 17th, 2022

   How does God do things?   First He provides us with the solution, and then He gives us the problem.  We have the solution because The “blood” is on the doorposts” of our lives, and partaking of the [spiritual] food is best likened to receiving and assimilating “The Mind of Christ.”  If we continue to allow ourselves to avoid this level of Love/Agapeō Anointing, and the surrendering and disciplining our minds, we are not going to have much of a home or nation left to defend.

    Is it the “Beast” who remains active here, or the Body of Christ?   The Mind of Christ is focused on Agapeō, Repentance, Faith, Truth, and Divine Wisdom, with real submission to, and Freedom for, The Holy Spirit to flow, guide, and direct.  The Mind of Christ is one which has us “being the neighbor.”  Remember, when the lawyer asked, “Yes, but who is my neighbor?”  Jesus’ response was –  “You are asking the wrong question!”  It’s not a matter of  “who is my neighbor,” but rather “to whom [Father]  can I be the neighbor?”

    It is time to stop being carnal, and keep in mind that it is the LORD God who controls everything – not some religious, legal, political, intellectual, or financial figure.  Don’t “feed the Beast.”  If we are seduced into just focusing upon the “front” people, then we are just “feeding the ‘Beast.’  We’re not dealing with the “front” people, or even the “Beast” or any of its minions, but rather – our main focus is to Love and trust our LORD God ‘Almighty’ who dearly Loves us and will show us through Christ what to say or do. 

    It’s “hand to hand” combat, starting in our own house – against the weakness of our mind and spirit. If we ever intend to protect, serve, and preserve the people we love, this nation, or our way of life, then we must start trusting Agape and moving in Agapeō. What relevance is there in the 2nd Amendment without Christ as our Head?  Are guns and ammo alone going to provide the discipline of mind and spirit we are now spiritually and physically being challenged to develop at this time?  The pagan and religious minds of Jesus day were told to accept Barabbas. (Mt.27:17) Whom are we choosing to lead us today?

   For now, our top priority is for us to spiritually mature and stop being pagan.  Which we can start accomplishing by terminating our participation in carnal and pagan activity, by no longer participating in immoral activities, and by not giving our minds over to any further dependence upon today’s controlling  “Beast System.”  Until we can truly say yes to Jesus our Lord, there is little practical expectation we’ll ever achieve mastery of the insight, principles, and reality being taught to us by The LORD. Stop whining! 

    There is God-denying, and God-defying like The LORD found in Jericho, and Sodom and Gomorrah, and even Nineveh. The obvious difference being that the people of Nineveh were given “sight” to “see” and “hearing” to “hear” in time to turn devastation into national repentance.

    Are we now in the prophesied Gog v. Magog event –  maybe?  And, what does that even mean?  It’s means the LORD’s BeLoved can clearly see Truth is still standing against “the Liar/ Accuser.”  The  LORD is going to render “the Lies” to be burnt to stubble, and that divine fire is starting in us for the purification of “His sanctuary” within the BeLoved. This is why it really matters that we come to terms with the reality of who we are to be in Christ Jesus  –  the Bride and Wife of Christ. This is about a LOVE relationship BeLoved, not just some war between good and evil.

Don’t Be Deceived

November 16th, 2022

Don’t be deceived by the spirits who challenge your peace and walk.

It is written by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 16:

16   One day, as we were going to the house of prayer, we encountered a young slave girl who had an evil spirit of divination, the spirit of Python. She had earned great profits for her owners by being a fortune-teller.

17 She kept following us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Great High God, and they’re telling us how to be saved!”

18 Day after day she continued to do this, until Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit indwelling her, “I command you in the Name of Jesus, the Anointed One, to come out of her, now!” At that very moment, the spirit came out of her!

In the religious context of Greek mythology, she was an “oracle,” a medium who had the spirit of the gods speaking through her to foretell the future. The Python spirit was the epithet of Apollo, known as the Greek god of prophecy. An individual (often a young virgin) who became the oracle of Apollo was known as the Python, or Pythia.

Paul exercised the power and authority given to him by Jesus Who also gave us that same power and authority.  Note that the girl did speak the Truth about Paul and Silas yet she was interrupting their ministry.

This is the authority Jesus spoke of when He declared in Mark chapter 16:

15  And He said to them, “As you go into all the world, preach openly the wonderful news of the Gospel to the entire human race!

16 Whoever believes the Good News and is baptized will be saved, and whoever does not believe the Good News will be condemned.

17 And these miracle signs will accompany those who believe: They will drive out demons in the power of My Name. They will speak in Tongues.

18 They will be supernaturally protected from snakes and from drinking anything poisonous. And they will lay hands on the sick and heal them.”

Do you see yourself driving out demons yet and healing the sick?  If not, you have yet to reach full maturity.  Perfect Love casts out fear and so we should not be reluctant to cast out demons when confronted by them.  They know who is fearful and who isn’t.  As The Word permeates our soul, Love will remove all reluctance to confront the enemy.  That power and authority will be activated and rise up.  Further, we will be more compassionate to people being plagued by those demons and look to set them free.  Amen!

The Beast System: Part 7

November 16th, 2022

The Choice of the Value and Method of Exchange

   We, as The LORD’s Dearly BeLoved, are now either returning to the divine harmony of the “Garden” frame of mind for our choices – or,  our mind is lost in The Wilderness of temptation somewhere. 

     It could be that the reason The LORD God has selected the ‘financial elitists’ to run this current version of His “Beast” system is because they are among the very few on the planet who “get it” when it comes to the connection between the medium of exchange and the choice of ‘divine Law.’ When we use God’s form of exchange [i.e., silver] we’re saying that we want the “Common Law,” the origin of which in Scripture is the choice of God’s law for the transaction. 

    For us to use the Common Law [i.e., Scripture] is for us to call upon God’s way (The LORD’s essence being found in Agape – 1Jn.4:8)  as our “hedge,” i.e., as our Protection.  Has The LORD set up the financial elitists as the “Beast” Head, controlled by the “Accuser,” as the diversion, because they know exactly what to do?  And, what have they done?  They yanked The LORD’s Common Law right out from under us. How did they do that? – By providing for a dependence upon their “different” medium of exchange. 

    Because of the rebellion, promiscuity, and sexual perversion already existing in the 1960’s, what God released was a ready-made “Beast” along with the removal of “the hedge” over our nation.  Our nation’s reliance upon The LORD’s Love and Laws of Love for our Protection was replaced. [Silver, Bible, & Prayer out!] 

    By means of removing the honest value of “Money” (using honest weights and measures), i.e., the silver coinage and paper backed by Gold from general circulation – “Beast Credit” dependence became our national “Idol/ reliance/ dependency of preference.”         In this way, and there is hardly any other way to look at our new national “lord,”  The LORD put our nation “outside of His protection.” And thus began the releasing of the icon/image government of the Beast with its endless lies and deception.

   We are experiencing the results of this, along with the perversions of unrestrained promiscuity today. They have continued to accelerate ever since they were engaged.  Innocently, or deliberately, ‘We The People’ keep choosing to be deceived and partake of the wrong tree by choosing the voice of deception,  therefore America remains on its journey with the “Beast.” 

    Some have struggled to remain faithful, but vast multitudes are now struggling “in The Wilderness.”  Jesus Himself, shows us the solution to our existing condition.  We must learn to master our own thoughts and actions and give ourselves over to The Mind of Christ.  Since we’ve all been born into a society that hasn’t put this as a priority, we have fewer and fewer examples, other than what we are able to still find in what is left of the true leading of Jesus’ The Holy Spirit as our guide on how to accomplish this.

     So what are we looking at?   Paul simply called this the “renewing of our the mind.” (Rom. 12:2)   How do we restart our mind?  By honestly and genuinely surrendering our mind, its thoughts, and our will to The Mind of Christ.  Repent and be born anew.

    If there is no change in our conduct as a nation, there’ll be no change in God’s proceeding to put this “Beast” system of total financial slavery and self- obsession to an end.  To change our thinking and conduct, we’ll have to change our perspective, i.e., “change our minds.” Exactly what Paul and Peter were telling the Dearly BeLoved in their time.

Protected By HIS Glory

November 15th, 2022

The Glory of GOD corrects everything.

In these times, it is crucial for us to focus on full and complete maturity in Christ.Jesus.

Moses experienced FATHER’S Glory as he was in the cleft of the rock when FATHER’S  Glory passed by him.

Moses wrote by THE SPIRIT in Exodus chapter 33:

17   So the LORD said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”

18 And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”

19 Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the Name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”

20 But He said, “You cannot see My Face; for no man shall see Me, and live.”

21 And the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.

22 So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My Hand while I pass by.

23 Then I will take away My Hand, and you shall see My Back; but My Face shall not be seen.”  NKJV

After Moses experienced the Glory of THE LORD, he then makes new tablets of The Commandments.

In chapter 34:

5  Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name of the LORD.

6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and Truth,

These are the Words Moses heard directly from FATHER and Moses placed his trust in those Words as he led the children of Israel.

Moses wrote Psalm 91 by THE SPIRIT from his experience in the cleft:

1  When you sit enthroned under the shadow of Shaddai, you are hidden in the strength of God Most High.

2 He’s the hope that holds me and the Stronghold to shelter me, the only God for me, and my great confidence.

3 He will rescue you from every hidden trap of the enemy, and He will protect you from false accusation and any deadly curse.

4 His massive arms are wrapped around you, protecting you. You can run under His covering of majesty and hide. His arms of faithfulness are a shield keeping you from harm.

5 You will never worry about an attack of demonic forces at night nor have to fear a spirit of darkness coming against you.

6 Don’t fear a thing! Whether by night or by day, demonic danger will not trouble you, nor will the powers of evil launched against you.

7 Even in a time of disaster, with thousands and thousands being killed, you will remain unscathed and unharmed.

8 you will be a spectator as the wicked perish in judgment, for they will be paid back for what they have done!

9-10 When we live our lives within the shadow of God Most High, our secret hiding place, we will always be shielded from harm. How then could evil prevail against us or disease infect us?

11 God sends angels with special orders to protect you wherever you go, defending you from all harm.

12 If you walk into a trap, they’ll be there for you and keep you from stumbling.

13 You’ll even walk unharmed among the fiercest powers of darkness, trampling every one of them beneath your feet!

14 For here is what the Lord has spoken to me: “Because you have delighted in Me as My great Lover, I will greatly protect you. I will set you in a high place, safe and secure before My Face.

15 I will answer your cry for help every time you pray, and you will find and feel My Presence even in your time of pressure and trouble. I will be your glorious hero and give you a feast.

16 You will be satisfied with a full life and with all that I do for you. For you will enjoy the fullness of My Salvation (Yeshua, Jesus)!”

If is vital that we glorify Our Heavenly Father on a daily basis.  Psalm 91 is an excellent Psalm to quote daily for HIS protection as we navigate through the challenges ahead.

This is also why we put the audio topic “Glorify GOD” at the top of the list in our RENEW app available to you.

The Beast System: Part 6

November 15th, 2022

   Is “Passover,” a relevant example in this context?

    It’s not just about us stopping being so  pagan; it’s about stopping being pagan, period,  all of it, not just part.  It happens that ‘Passover’ is an ideal backdrop in which to picture both our problem [namely our defiance against God] and the solution, namely our turning to The LORD’s way of seeing and doing things. 

    In the original event, God had Israel put the blood of the lamb around the door.  The destroyer did  still move through the land.  The LORD saw to it that death did “passed over” those with the lamb’s blood evident over them.  However, the destroyer did take the first born of the people of the nation, and even the animals [sustenance] of those without the blood/LOVE of the Passover Lamb over them. The relevancy involving all this for us today becomes huge BeLoved. And it’s not just about ‘obedience’ – it also involves what they ate/partook of.   ‘As you do this [as our bodies are broken like unleavened bread] remember My unleavened brokenness for you.’                                    (Ex.12:18-20, Lk.22:19 & 12:4, 1Co.11:23&24)

   The war we are in now literally involves “terrorism” carried out by the minions of those at the helm of the Beast’s One World government agenda. It seems like pretty inconceivable odds as we realize we are up against The LORD God’s appointed “Beast” system.  As we consider just one small faction of Elitists against the whole of the rest of the world, it just doesn’t seem like a fair fight. However, if we are going to understand which way this is going to go – we need to understand who it is  that is picking a fight with God’s Beast bringing judgment against the rebellious.  Whom is it who makes up all those who are in rebellion?

    Are we coming into a time of ‘Passover’ where the Beast cause, which The LORD controls, will see death Passing Over America?  Is God “cleaning house,” as it were?  The perception we get from Ez. 9 is that The LORD starts this cleansing in His sanctuary/ temple, which for us today means ‘The Body of His Christ.’  This is just one more good reason why it really matters we identify correctly as to who is who in Scripture.

     One of the more dramatic descriptions of God’s “cleaning house” is found in Ez. 5:12 where one third die by plague/disease  or are consumed by famine, one third will fall by the sword,  and one third will be scattered to every wind, and The LORD will unsheathe a sword behind them.  This is not a statement about just those outside of Israel – but of the judgment on Israel, itself.  The Passover “season,” as described in Ez. 9, isn’t a pass over Israel but a pass through Israel.  No one escapes the judgment. It’s not just Egypt getting clobbered in this scenario, but rather it is also Israel getting walloped.  “Mystery Babylon” isn’t all that difficult to identify if we take a moment to think about it.

    As a nation, how will all Americans have a clear mission for survival when all of their rebellion is under attack by God, Himself?  God, Himself, has provided the answer:   “The Lamb’s” blood on our “doorposts” and the bread in our mouths. – -Being The Body of Christ  – and Having The Mind of Christ.

   What was it in Jesus’ mind that He mastered fully?    It was not some “external,” “all powerful,” floatie-thing He was engaging in.  Jesus was wrestling with Himself about what to do with what He was realizing He had and what He was.  How did He master this challenge?  With the full acceptance of the thoughts, words, and actions He received from His “LORD Father.”  He mastered the temptations of His own inner thoughts by keeping the superiority of The Father’s divine perspective above His own ideas and standards. Whether in a beautiful Garden, or in the wilderness, Jesus knew to always choose The Father’s way first.

End of End Times?

November 14th, 2022

Are we at the end of end times?

Jesus spoke the following Words which WILL come to pass.  Read each verse carefully and then consider all that is going on around us.

Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 24:

3 Later, when they arrived at the Mount of Olives, his disciples came privately to where He was sitting and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what supernatural sign should we expect to signal Your coming and the completion of this age?”

4  Jesus answered, “At that time deception will run rampant. So beware that you are not fooled!

5 For many will appear on the scene claiming My authority or saying about themselves, ‘I am God’s Anointed,’ and they will lead many astray.

6 “You will hear of wars nearby and revolutions on every side, with more rumors of wars to come. Don’t panic or give in to your fears, for the breaking apart of the world’s systems is destined to happen. But it won’t yet be the end; it will still be unfolding.

7 “Nations will go to war against each other and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be terrible earthquakes—seismic events of epic proportion, horrible epidemics and famines in place after place.

8 This is how the first contractions and birth pains of the new age will begin!”

9  “You can expect to be persecuted, even killed; for you will be hated by all the nations because of Your Love for Me.

10 Then many will stop following Me and fall away, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

11 And many lying prophets will arise, deceiving multitudes and leading them away from the path of Truth.

12 There will be such an increase of sin and lawlessness that those whose hearts once burned with passion for God and others will grow cold.

13 But keep your hope to the end and you will experience Life and deliverance.

14 “Yet through it all, this joyful assurance of the realm of Heaven’s kingdom will be proclaimed all over the world, providing every nation with a demonstration of the Reality of God. And after this the end of this age will arrive.”

In January of 2018, FATHER gave me the title of my 3rd book.  I have been waiting for HIS “go-ahead” to complete the book and at the beginning of this month, He directed me to finish it.  This weekend I finished the writing and it is now being edited and will be reviewed before Servias publishes it.  As always, the timing is appropriate.

The following interview gives much detail about the above passage:

The Beast System: Part 5

November 14th, 2022

   Then we have the four forms of Divine Judgment, which are:  (a) War, which American’s have been in for 250 years.  (b) Famine, which includes today’s real and fabricated shortages, the non-existence of the necessary healthful food our bodies need to keep us from physical and mental depravity, and the spiritual deprivation for competent Scriptural teaching and the Holy Spirit’s leading and guidance. (c)Pestilence  (Disease & Plague), which, while fabricated and inflicted in the present day, is one of the tell-tale confirmations of Divine Judgment [even when it, and the presentation of it, is manufactured by the imaginations of the “Beast’s” minions, and presented as a Hollywood production on the global stage], and  (d) “Beast” systems.        And, all of this begs the question:  Why?

   Thus, the next point:  Why the lies – they confirm the “Beast,” which confirms divine judgment and the intent that we be devoured and destroyed?  Because – we as a nation have gone pagan!  We are in a “rebellion” against The LORD God which we don’t even recognize (‘have eyes but cannot see; have ears but cannot hear’). Today’s Americans have been raised by the systems of this world to be spiritually weak and emotively carnal. 

    Though this may be a hard word to hear, the BeLoved today were born into a world of rebellion that started centuries before they even got over to this continent [which was around 1607].  How do we know?  Because ‘we’ have been “at war” against where we came from, then with the indigenous Indians, and even against ourselves, for the entire time we’ve been here.  In other words,  ‘We The People’ didn’t escape the problem;  instead, we brought the problem with us.  “War” – which is a form of Divine Judgment;  it’s never been anything else.  War and Conflicts  are the things that happen when religious and carnal people meet  other  religious and carnal people. 

    Nations committed to war, or any other form of paganism, will seek to eliminate others who don’t agree with them for the duration of such paganism.  As one reflects on the documented history of war, they can see this very plainly.  May The LORD Father cure our blindness as to why He’s subjected those in this nation to ‘war’ – against the “Beast. “ (Rev.17:6 -19:9)

                    The  Beast and the Beast’s Image

    Those BeLoved who gathered in Rome, whom Paul wrote to and lived with, were facing a situation not that different from ours today.  People were under a “Beast system” namely Caesar’s Rome, and they were feeling it but good.  So to address this in this context, the “Beast and its system” of Rome was embodied in the current Caesar in power and his Image/government.

    Biblically and historically, a “Beast” is a king with an “Image”/ government,  raised up by God to be an iron rod of correction in His hand. The Beast of Rome was used to tear Jerusalem to the ground after the Babylonian Talmudic Sanhedrin had totally corrupted it, and they then topped it off when they saw to the crucifixion of Jesus there.

    This put an end to an old ‘structure.’ But another growing structure called ‘Christianism from Antioch’ would later multiply and divide, and find a new home in Rome around 320 AD. There it would be nurtured

by the Roman Beast and grow into the controlling world power it has become to this day.                   

      Is there a solution for America today?   

     If the responsibility falls on The Dearly BeLoved  for doing things The LORD God’s way, then it does matter that we respond properly.  After all,  The BeLoved of The LORD are supposed to be an example for the whole of civilization – are we not?   Some think carrying that responsibility that far – is going too far.  But that is exactly where The LORD placed it in the past.  He picked Abram and dubbed him Abraham for a very good reason.  He picked Jacob (supplanter) and dubbed him ‘Israel’ (who prevails with God) for a very good reason.  It matters that we get this BeLoved. The Light of The LORD’s beloved shown through into Goshen – while darkness covered the entirety of Egypt. This being a very interesting example. 

     This ‘being a Light shining’ is easy to say, but hard to put into service. – – – We who Love The LORD today must earnestly repent and stop our own activities of carnality and paganism. The rest of the world is paying the price for their own versions of paganism – and what examples have we given them to respect?  We are supposed to be the living examples of the BeLoved Body of Christ, are we not?  We who truly Love The LORD need to be walking  IN CHRIST.  And the sooner we start moving as such – the sooner The LORD God will either fire His “Beast” and its Image system of government here in America; Or, the sooner and harder The LORD’s hammer of justice and judgment will take place, and this nation will become what? On its current course it is destined to become – devastated.

    In our repentance, let’s pray for the repentance of the people of this nation before the LORD’s judgment ensues.

The Beast System: Part 4

November 13th, 2022

     God first put their ancestors into bondage in Egypt, and once that period had run its course [some 430 years later],  God took them out of Egypt under His mighty hand. 

    Please note in here that,  yes,  the “Beasts” always get what’s coming to them.  They always do.   The problem, then, isn’t justice, but rather why God raises them up, at all, in the first place.  Think about it, are we here in America right back into the same problem?   If we weren’t our own worst enemy,  if there weren’t, in all reality, three fingers pointing right back at us, then there wouldn’t be a “Beast” for us to have to deal with today in the first place.

    Further study will find that each “Beast” throughout Scriptural history has been commissioned by God, to devour and to destroy the rebellious.  We see this plainly in Jer. 5, here The LORD is telling those in the Southern Kingdom that their day of Bondage is about to arrive, and it will follow the horrific events of devouring and destroying.  Thus, flipped around to the Beast’s point of view,  what a Beast needs for perpetual survival is a perpetual condition of rebellion against God –  then and only then does a “Beast” remain in control.

    Key at this juncture is to understand that those who are being rendered subject to this “Beast” have already been indicted, tried, and found Guilty of being in rebellion.  Why are we being thrown under the ‘One World’s’ Socialist bus?  For all the very same reasons that the Southern Kingdom was thrown under the bus, which are the very same reasons why God threw the Northern Kingdom under the bus, as well.

  The greatest sin a nation can commit is turning to other gods. And just as prophesied would happen, we in America turn to “government” (The Image of the Beast) which is depicted as “the Image” shown to Daniel. For our sustenance and protection we have turned away from God.   As a nation, we don’t look to The LORD God to provide for us – but rather to “government.”     

             (Homage to the Image/government !)

    The “Beast” has gone to considerable trouble to produce that exact line of thought, word, and practice, and there is a reason for this.  America’s “Beast Government” expects to outsmart God.  What this may mean is that the “Beast” isn’t quite self-aware, yet.  Some expect those within the Beast, and their government lackeys, know full good and well that their wealth has been provided by the Plan of God so they will accomplish their purpose(s), but that is probably giving them more credit than is due – – yet. 

     If the “Beast” truly were  self-aware, it would make sense if they stopped writhing, because in their awareness they would already know that all their centuries of planning is coming to naught.  But since we’re seeing all of the exertion on their part, it means this “Beast” may have reached its most dangerous “state of mind”- clinical insanity – hence the pathological, psychopathic intent to commit worldwide genocide [enter drugs, starvation, abortion, pandemics, etc.].

    Part of what this “Beast” and its minions planned for was a world-wide system which they would control.  What they clearly don’t understand is that such form of global, “perpetual Judgment” is something which The LORD God never intended.

   To review the past four points we have this:  (1) We are being lied to about everything.  Pick a topic.  (2) We’re being lied to, because that’s how “Beast” systems operate.  (3) Thus, we’re dealing with a “Beast” system.  (4) America as a nation has apparently been Indicted, Tried, and Convicted of being rebellious against God. 

The Beast System: Part 3

November 12th, 2022

       [This next part is the statement of “Judgment,” followed by more Indictment.]

  14 Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty says: “Because the people have spoken these words, I will make My words in your [Jeremiah’s] mouth a fire and these people [the Southern Kingdom, i.e.], Judah, Benjamin, the renegades from the Northern Kingdom, and the Levites assigned to the Southern Kingdom the wood it consumes. 15 People of Israel,” declares the LORD, “I am bringing a distant nation against you – an ancient and enduring nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you do not understand.          16 Their quivers are like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors. 17 They will devour  your harvests and food, will devour your sons and daughters;  they will devour your flocks and herds, devour your vines and fig trees.  With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust. 18 Yet even in those days, declares the LORD, I will not ‘destroy’ you completely.

     [Who is doing the devouring and destroying?  Who??   Right.   God, Almighty, via the agency of the “Beast” system He has specifically “commissioned” to do this work of carrying out His Judgment.             Then, there is more about the Indictment.]

   19 And when the people ask, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?’ you will tell them,  ‘As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.’  20 Announce this to the descendants of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:  21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people,  who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:

  22 Should you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. Should you not tremble in My presence?  I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it. 23 But these people have stubborn, willful, and rebellious minds;  they have turned aside and gone away.          24 They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’ 

  25 Your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good.  26 “Among  My people  are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.  27 Like cages full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; they have become rich and powerful 28and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not seek justice. They do not promote the case of the fatherless; they do not defend the just cause of the poor. 29 Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this? 30 “A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land:   31 The prophets prophesy lies, the  pastors  rule by their own authority, and My people love it this way.  But what will you do in the end? ” 

         What is it, exactly, that The LORD God has to avenge?  Generations and generations earlier, the ancestors of the people then under Judgment [under Babylon], had agreed, at the base of Mt. Horeb  [a/k/a Mt. Sinai, and a/k/a Gebal Mousa, the Mountain of Moses], to abide by the Laws and Commandments of God, as presented to them by Moses.  God went to considerable trouble to prove Himself  over His chosen to the then “Beast” system leadership, namely Pharaoh [and today like all those who think and act like they are gods – as “clerical -heads” over  their people,  their  word being the “final” word]. 

The Beast System: Part 2

November 11th, 2022

   What do we think the meaning of the “Beast” is?        ….We find in Daniel’s accounts of Nebuchadnezzar some of the best confirmation of the meaning of the ‘Beast.’  Nebuchadnezzar had taken credit for what God had done, so God turned him into a “beast.”  It is an interesting study for us to go through and find some of the relevant references of “judgment” and work through the meanings of the grouped concepts. 

    In Ez. 14, we find the discussion of the four main components of God’s selected forms of ‘judgment.’    In  v. 21, we fine one of the clearest summary statements of  the Four Great Judgments:  War,   Famine,   Pestilence/Disease,  and “Beasts.”            

     It is through the study of these four concepts, presented by differing terms in various places,  in conjunction with the description of Nebuchadnezzar’s condition during his time of Divine Judgment,  that we can come to understand that   –  a “Beast” is a king   or authority/power  raised up by The LORD God to be an iron rod of correction in His hand.

Why does God allow the raising up of “Beast” systems?   ….A “Beast” system exists for the direct and specific purpose of carrying out God’s Judgment(s).  What is the cause for such judgment?    There is principally one example:  God’s Indictment of the Southern Kingdom in this context [i.e., the context of why they’re being turned over to a “Beast”] is mixed in with the statements of “Judgment” found in Jeremiah Chapter 5.  This first part is mostly Indictment:

    “1 Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares.  If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.  2 Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ still they are swearing falsely.

    3 LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth?  You struck them, but they felt no pain; You crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.  4 I thought, These are only the poor;  they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God.  5 So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God.  But with one accord they also had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds.  6 Therefore  a lion [God, via a “Beast” system] from the forest will attack them;  – –   a wolf [God, via a “Beast” system] from the desert will ravage them;  – – a leopard  [God, via a “Beast” system] will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces any who venture out.  For their [God’s people] rebellion is great and their backslidings  many.

 7 Why should I forgive you [My people]? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.  (Rev.17:5)  8 They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man’s wife.  9 Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?  10 Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not destroy them completely.  Strip off her branches, for these [passive] people do not belong to the LORD.” 

  11 “The people of Israel and the people of Judah [all who call themselves My people] have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.12 “They have lied about the LORD; they said,  “He will do nothing!  No harm will come to us;  we will never see sword or famine.  13 The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be done to them.”