WE CONTINUE ONWARD WITH THE SYNOPTIC VIEW OF THE HIGH POINTS OF THE PAULINE LETTERS, THIS TIME TO THE PHILIPPIANS, THE COLOSSIANS AND THE THESSALONIANS. STICK AROUND HERE! THIS ONE OFFERS BONUS COMMENTARY CONCERNING THE APOSTASY OR THE FALLING AWAY OF THE CHURCH FROM TRUE CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES IN THE LAST DAYS, AND YOU’LL WANT TO READ THAT, SINCE IT IS ACCELERATING RIGHT NOW! THIS AFFECTS THE ENTIRE WORLD SINCE CHRISTIANITY IS THE ONLY SYSTEM OF INNOVATION AND CIVILITY THAT HOLDS THE WORLD IN ITS RELATIVE STATE OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS
PAUL WROTE THIS WITH GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION TO THE CHURCH AT PHILIPPI, ONE OF THE EARLIEST CHURCHES FOUNDED BY PAUL IN EUROPE. HE WROTE TO THEM AFTER THE PASSING OF SEVERAL YEARS OF THEIR FOUNDATION.
PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 1 SYNOPSIS:
THE CONDUCT OF THE SAINTS SHOULD REFLECT THEIR GOSPEL DEVOTION.
PAUL SPEAKS ON HOW ALL THAT HAPPENED TO HIM IN LIFE HAD FURTHERED THE CAUSE OF THE GOSPEL.
PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL TELLS THEM, “FULFILL YOU MY JOY, THAT YOU BE LIKE-MINDED HAVING THE SAME LOVE, BEING OF ONE ACCORD, OF ONE MIND.”
PAUL ALSO REMINDS THEM THAT THE SAINTS MUST WORK OUT THEIR OWN SALVATION IN CHRIST.
PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL SAYS SOMETHING VERY CRYPTIC IN A WARNING —
“BEWARE OF DOGS, BEWARE OF EVIL WORKERS, BEWARE OF THE CONCISION.”
(COMMENTARY: PAUL SPEAKS OF THE APOSTASY OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH THAT WAS ALREADY BEGINNING TO HAPPEN.)
PAUL REMINDS THEM THAT TRUE MINISTERS SET THE EXAMPLE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THE SAINTS TO FOLLOW.
PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL TELLS THEM—
“BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING, BUT IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION, WITH THANKSGIVING, LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN TO GOD”
PAUL TELLS THE SAINTS —
“FINALLY, BRETHREN, WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE TRUE, WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE HONEST, WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE JUST, WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE PURE, WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE LOVELY, WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE OF GOOD REPORT, IF THERE BE ANY VIRTUE, AND IF THERE BE ANY PRAISE, THINK ON THESE THINGS.”
PAUL REMINDS THE SAINTS, “I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENS ME.”
THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS
PAUL WAS VISITED BY EPAPHRAS, THE EVANGELIST OF THE CHURCH AT COLOSSAE WHO REPORTED THAT THE SAINTS WERE FALLING INTO SERIOUS SINS RELATED TO STRICT OBSERVANCE OF EXTERNAL ORDINANCES ALONG WITH AN EXAGGERATED DEVOTION TO ANGELS. THIS IS PAUL’S LETTER TO COLOSSAE.
COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 1 SYNOPSIS:
REDEMPTION OF MEN COMES THROUGH CHRIST.
PAUL TELLS THEM ABOUT CHRIST —
“WHO IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY CREATURE; FOR BY HIM WERE ALL THINGS CREATED, THAT ARE IN HEAVEN, AND THAT ARE IN EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THEY BE THRONES, OR DOMINIONS, OR PRINCIPALITIES, OR POWERS: ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM, AND FOR HIM: AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND BY HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST.”
(COMMENTARY: YES, CHRIST IS THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS IN THIS EARTH!)
COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL WARNS THEM —
“BEWARE LEST ANY MAN SPOIL YOU THROUGH PHILOSOPHY AND VAIN DECEIT, AFTER THE TRADITION OF MEN, AFTER THE RUDIMENTS (BASIC PRINCIPLES) OF THE WORLD, AND NOT AFTER CHRIST.”
“LET NO MAN BEGUILE YOU OF YOUR REWARD (THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN) IN A VOLUNTARY HUMILITY AND WORSHIPING OF ANGELS, INTRUDING INTO THOSE THINGS, WHICH HE HAS NOT SEEN, VAINLY PUFFED UP BY HIS FLESHY MIND.”
(COMMENTARY: THERE WAS THIS HUGE FAD THAT RAN FROM THE 80S RIGHT THROUGH 2010 WHERE I RAN INTO COUNTLESS NUMBERS OF PEOPLE (MOSTLY WOMEN) THAT CARRIED ON ABOUT ANGELS, WROTE ANGEL BOOKS, ETC. (WITHOUT RECOGNITION TO GOD OR CHRIST GO FIGURE.) THANK GOODNESS I THINK THAT FAD HAS ENDED FOR THE BETTER PART!
COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS:
THE SAINTS ARE EXHORTED TO BE HOLY AND TO SERVE THE LORD. INSTRUCTIONS FOR FAMILY AND WORK LIFE ARE IN THIS CHAPTER (READ FOR YOURSELF).
COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS:
THE SAINTS EXHORTED TO BE WISE IN ALL THINGS.
THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS
PAUL’S WORK IN THESSALONICA IS DESCRIBED IN ACTS CHAPTER 17.
HE WANTED TO RETURN, BUT WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. HE SENT TIMOTHY IN HIS PLACE.
1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 1 SYNOPSIS:
THE GOSPEL COMES TO MEN BOTH IN WORD AND IN POWER.
1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS:
TRUE MINISTERS OF GOD PREACH IN A HOLY MANNER.
1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS:
MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH EXHORTED TO PERFECT THAT WHICH IS LACKING IN THEIR FAITH.
1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL SPEAKS OF THE COMING RAPTURE OF THE CHRISTIAN SAINTS IN THESE LAST DAYS–
“FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL (MICHAEL) AND WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD: AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST. THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR: AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD. WHEREFORE, COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS.”(COMMENTARY: PEOPLE, MANY OF THE BIBLE SCHOLARS ARE SAYING THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES ARE COMPLETE, MANY MORE OF THEM SAY NEARLY COMPLETE.MY 39 YEARS OF RESEARCH SAYS NEARLY COMPLETE.IN 2017, WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO THE RAPTURE AND THE TRIBULATION PERIOD.)
1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL REMINDS THE SAINTS (THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST’S CHURCH) THAT THEY SHALL KNOW THE SEASON OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
“FOR YOU KNOW PERFECTLY THAT THE DAY OF THE LORD COMES AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT. FOR WHEN THEY (THE ISRAELIS, AND THE WORLD HERALDS) SHALL SAY, PEACE AND SAFETY; THEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMES UPON THEM, AS TRAVAIL UPON A WOMAN WITH CHILD; AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE.
(COMMENTARY: PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SAID THE WORDS “PEACE AND SAFETY” ON CNN IN AS FAR BACK AS 1998. OK THAT IS NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO, HOWEVER 20 YEARS IS BUT A SPIT IN THE BUCKET FOR TIME SINCE WE HAVE BEEN IN THE LAST DAYS SINCE CHRIST’S FIRST ADVENT. WAKE UP PEOPLE!)
BUT YOU, BRETHREN ARE NOT IN DARKNESS, THAT THAT DAY SHOULD OVERTAKE YOU AS A THIEF. YOU ARE ALL CHILDREN OF LIGHT, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DAY: WE ARE NOT OF THE NIGHT, NOR OF DARKNESS. THEREFORE LET US NOT SLEEP, AS DO OTHERS; BUT LET US WATCH AND BE SOBER.
BUT LET US, WHO ARE OF THE DAY, BE SOBER, PUTTING ON THE BREASTPLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE; AND FOR A HELMET, THE HOPE OF SALVATION. FOR GOD HAS NOT APPOINTED US TO WRATH (THE DESTRUCTION TO COME), BUT TO OBTAIN SALVATION BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. WHEREFORE COMFORT YOURSELVES TOGETHER, AND EDIFY ONE ANOTHER.”
“AND BE AT PEACE AMONG YOURSELVES.”
“NOW WE EXHORT YOU, BRETHREN WARN THEM THAT ARE UNRULY, COMFORT THE FEEBLE-MINDED, SUPPORT THE WEAK, BE PATIENT TOWARD ALL MEN”
“PRAY WITHOUT CEASING. IN EVERY THING GIVE THANKS: FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS CONCERNING YOU.”
“DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS.”
“ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCE OF EVIL. AND THE VERY GOD OF PEACE SANCTIFY YOU WHOLLY; AND I PRAY GOD YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY BE PRESERVED BLAMELESS UNTO THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS
2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 1 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL CONGRATULATES THE CHURCH AT THESSALONICA —
” . . . WE OURSELVES GLORY IN YOU IN THE CHURCHES OF GOD FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND FAITH IN ALL YOUR PERSECUTIONS AND TRIBULATIONS THAT YOU ENDURE.”
PAUL GOES ON TO TELL THEM AT HIS SECOND COMING, JESUS WILL TAKE VENGEANCE UPON THEIR UNGODLY PERSECUTORS.
2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL PREDICTS APOSTASY OF THE CHURCH IS TO PRECEDE THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
(COMMENTARY: THIS APOSTASY BEGAN IN PAUL’S TIME, AND IS CONTINUING IN 2017, BUT HAS BEEN ACCELERATING IN PROFOUND EARNEST SINCE THE MID 90S. A BIG REASON FOR THIS DECLINE IN CHRISTIANITY IS MATERIALISM AND THE GLOBAL PURSUIT OF THE AMERICANIZED WESTERN CULTURE DREAM, WHICH THE INTERNET SPREAD ACROSS THE WORLD FROM THE MID 90S. TOO, IT IS THE CURRENT POPULAR TREND OF METAPHYSICAL SPIRITUALITY/MARKETING OF EASTERN AND VARIOUS INDIGENOUS PAGAN SPIRITUAL SYSTEMS, WICCA, SATANISM, AS WELL THINGS LIKE MEDITATION, HYPNOSIS AND YOGA, ETC.
IN 1990, AFTER TEN YEARS AS AN ELDER IN THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (THE MORMONS, ANOTHER FALSE CHRISTIAN RELIGION), I EXITED AND BECAME INTERESTED RESEARCHER IN METAPHYSICAL CHRISTIANITY. I WAS CHRISTIAN IN MY BASIC BELIEFS, BUT SERIOUSLY ADRIFT WITH MY FIGURATIVE VIEWS AND UNDERSTANDING. IT COULD BE ARGUED THAT I WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE EXPERIENCING A FORM OF APOSTASY. I WOULD DEFEND THAT AT THAT YOUNG AGE OF 30 YEARS I HAD NEVER REALLY COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD THE GOSPEL OR THE BIBLE, EVEN AFTER HAVING BEEN RAISED AROUND IT IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH. SO, I WAS ONE OF THOSE FOLKS LEARNING THE HARD WAY LOL.
AT THE SAME TIME, I BEGAN TO RESEARCH THE SO-CALLED “GOOD RED ROAD” OR “MEDICINE PATH” OF TRADITIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN FUNDAMENTALISM. I THOUGHT I HAD AN ADVANTAGE OVER MANY PEOPLE INVESTIGATING THESE POPULAR, YET SEDUCTIVE SYSTEMS. THIS IMAGINED ADVANTAGE WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A QUANTUM OF NATIVE BLOOD IN MY VEINS, (LOTS OF FAMILY STORIES ABOUT MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS) COUPLED WITH A VAST KNOWLEDGE OF WORLD HISTORY, AND OF COURSE, A FIGURATIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE SCRIPTURES. I COMFORTED MYSELF IN THE FALSE BELIEF THAT ONLY A FOOL ENTERS HARD CRITICAL RESEARCH WITHOUT THE BASICS OF THIS TYPE OF CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE. AT THE TIME I SAW MYSELF AS A SORT OF ULYSSES SAILING AWAY FROM ITHACA ON AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY TO SEARCH FOR THE ULTIMATE GOLDEN FLEECE, THE TRUTH OF OUR EXISTENCE. WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED WAS I SPENT A LOT OF GOLD TO BRING YOU AN UTTERLY AMAZING STORY, AND I FOUND EXACTLY WHAT I HAD NO IDEA WAS WHAT I LOOKED FOR.
BECAUSE I WAS UNATTACHED AND SINGLE, NOTHING IN MY WAY, WITH THE NECESSARY RESOURCES AVAILABLE, I WAS ABLE TO TRAVEL EXTENSIVELY (THROUGHOUT THE U.S.) TO ATTEND WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, AND SEMINARS FEATURING THE SO-CALLED BEST OF THE BEST NATIVE AMERICAN, AND THEN ALTERNATELY METAPHYSICAL TEACHERS. I READ MANY OF THE POPULAR SO-CALLED SCHOLARLY ESOTERIC BOOKS OF THAT PERIOD TO COMPLEMENT MY FIELD RESEARCH.
EARLY ON I FOUND THAT DOING INTELLECTUAL RESEARCH IN METAPHYSICS WAS NOT ENOUGH TO PROVE ITS VALIDITY OR INVALIDITY. I CAUTIOUSLY TOOK MY CAMERAS, TAPE RECORDERS, NARROW INTELLECTUALISM AND BECAME A WILLING PARTICIPANT IN A STRANGE NEW WORLD. FOR ABOUT A YEAR I FELT LIKE I WAS ONTO SOMETHING BIG (SOME GREAT ESOTERIC DISCOVERY) UNTIL I BECAME DEMONICALLY OPPRESSED (MAJOR SPIRITUAL-WARFARE I WAS UNPREPARED FOR) THROUGH THE NATIVE AMERICAN RITUALS AND STUDIES. I ALMOST LOST MY LIFE.
I BACKED OFF THE WHOLE METAPHYSICAL/ INDIAN INVESTIGATIONS FOR ABOUT A YEAR IN LIFE RECOVERY. THEN MY CURIOSITY WON AND I RETURNED FULL FORCE WITH FIRE IN MY EYES INTO THE NATIVE WORLD WITH THE PREDOMINANT GOAL OF FACING THE MYSTERY OF WHY I HAD ALMOST BEEN KILLED IN THE FIRST PLACE. MY OTHER GOAL OF FINDING THE ULTIMATE TRUTH OF EXISTENCE REMAINED INTACT AS WELL. THE MEDICINE PEOPLE WARNED ME TO LEAVE THE CAMERAS AND TAPE RECORDERS AT HOME. THEY TOLD ME I WAS (AS THEY PUT IT),”PISSING OFF THE SPIRITS”. FROM THEN ON I WOULD TAKE ONLY MY JOURNAL INTO THE RESERVATIONS AND FIELD. THIS RESEARCH LASTED UNTIL ABOUT DECEMBER OF 1998, WHEN THE ENTIRE PICTURE BECAME COMPLETE.
PART OF WHAT I DISCOVERED WAS THAT MANY OF THESE AMERICAN INDIAN TEACHERS ARE JUST HUMANS, ORIGINALLY DUPED BY CRAFTY ARGUMENTS FROM THEIR ANCESTORS, SOME TRAINING TAKEN FROM PROGENITORS, OR SOME FIELD TRAINING. SOME OF THESE “MEDICINE” PEOPLE HAVE A HISTORY WITH A FORMER TEACHER WHOM HAD A FEW MAGIC TRICKS (OR A LOT) IN THEIR BAGS. IN THEIR PERSONAL PROFILES, MANY OF THESE TEACHERS ARE REBELLIOUS SOULS HAVING EXPERIENCED ONE FORM OF ABUSE OR ANOTHER (FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, CATHOLIC CHURCH, PRISON, FOSTER HOMES, OR A DYSFUNCTIONAL UPBRINGING), WHICH EITHER TURNED THEM FROM THE ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD, OR IN MANY CASES, MADE SURE THEY NEVER FOUND HIM. IT IS A SAD SITUATION. MANY OF THESE TEACHERS (BOTH INDIAN AND METAPHYSICAL ALIKE) SEEK TO REINVENT THE CHRISTIAN GOD (WITH NO REAL AUTHORITY) TO PACIFY AND JUSTIFY THEIR FEARS (AND SOMETIMES CRIMES) THAT THEY DO NOT WISH TO FACE HEAD ON. THEY HAVE PLENTY OF COMPANY IN THIS DYSFUNCTIONAL WORLD. BY BIBLICAL STANDARDS (WHICH IS AN AUTHORITATIVE LITMUS)THEY ARE IDOLATORS, AND THE SAD THING IS THAT MOST OF THEM DON’T EVEN REALIZE IT. THEY ARE CAUGHT UP IN THE PSEUDO INTELLECTUAL SEDUCTIONS OF OUR LAST DAYS. THEY IMAGINE, LIKE SO MANY, THAT THERE LIFE IS THERE OWN SANS GOD. THEY HAVE A NEED TO FEEL EMPOWERED, SOPHISTICATED AND TRENDY. IT ALSO A CHANCE FOR MONEY AND RECOGNITION FOR A DAMAGED EGO, SINCE MANY DUPED AMERICANS PAY BIG BUCKS FOR THIS PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT MADNESS.
TODAY, THE ONLY THING LEFT OF MY YEARS OF NATIVE RESEARCH ARE SOME VIVID MEMORIES, SOME AMAZING PHOTOS, SOME REMARKABLE LEARNING, AND A FANTASTIC BOOK WILD WILLFUL HEART, WHICH YOU NEED TO READ YESTERDAY.
THOSE OF YOU THAT THINK (OR HAVE FRIENDS AND RELATIVES WHICH MIGHT ACTUALLY BELIEVE) NEW AGE/ METAPHYSICAL/ INDIGENOUS TEACHERS HAVE SOMETHING TO TEACH YOU FROM A SPIRITUAL STANDPOINT ARE WASTING TIME, ENERGY, AND PUTTING YOUR LIVES (AND YOUR FAMILIES LIVES) IN DANGER.
THE TRUTH IS THAT THE NATIVE AMERICAN HARD CORE FUNDAMENTALIST TEACHERS THAT ARE WILLING TO TEACH WHITES, OR OTHER RACES THEIR “SACRED” SPIRITUALITY ARE GENERALLY CONSIDERED TO BE TURNCOATS AND TRAITORS AMONG THEIR PEOPLE. MANY NATIVE TEACHERS WHO BREAK RANKS TO TEACH WHITES OR OTHER RACES THEIR MYSTICAL SECRETS ARE OFTEN THREATENED, WARNED OFF, OR SOMETIMES KILLED FOR SUCH ACTIVITIES. YOU SEE, MANY RESERVATION NATIVES HAVE LITTLE LOVE FOR WHITES OR ANYONE ELSE. THE VERY SAME LACK OF LOVE OR CONCERN GOES DOUBLE FOR MOST NON -NATIVE METAPHYSICAL ORGANIZATIONS, FOR THEM IT IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY. UNDERSTAND THESE EXAMPLES I CITE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE MANY TYPES OF END TIMES APOSTASY THE APOSTLE PAUL SPOKE OF. )
WE RETURN TO PAUL~
THE APOSTLE PAUL TAUGHT ~
“LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS: FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION (SATAN). WHO OPPOSES AND EXALTS HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD, OR THAT IS WORSHIPED; SO THAT HE AS GOD SITS IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD.
(COMMENTARY: THIS FALSE “GOD” IS THE COMING ANTICHRIST ACTING IN THE PLACE OF THE REAL GOD).
“AND NOW YOU KNOW WHAT IS RESTRAINING (THE SPIRITUAL RESTRAINER), THAT HE MAY BE REVEALED IN HIS OWN TIME. FOR THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY DOES ALREADY WORK; ONLY HE WHO NOW RESTRAINS WILL DO SO UNTIL HE IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY.”
(COMMENTARY: MANY BIBLE SCHOLARS AND PROPHECY MINISTERS KNOW THE RESTRAINER AS MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, THE LEAD ANGEL THAT BINDS SATAN FROM DESTROYING THE EARTH, UNTIL THE TIME WHEN MICHAEL STANDS ASIDE FOR THE ANTICHRIST TO RECEIVE THE SPIRIT OF SATAN.)
“AND THEN THE LAWLESS ONE (THE ANTICHRIST) WILL BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD WILL CONSUME WITH THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH AND DESTROY WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING.”
EVEN HIM (THE ANTICHRIST) WHOSE COMING IS AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH ALL POWER AND SIGNS AND LYING WONDERS, AND WITH ALL DECIEVABLENESS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN THEM THAT PERISH (THE PEOPLE OF EARTH THAT BUY INTO THE SUPERHUMAN QUALITIES OF THE ANTICHRIST, MARVEL COMIC FANS BEWARE) : BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE OF TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED“.
(COMMENTARY): UNDERSTAND, GOD KNOWS WHICH ONES OF US HAVE ‘NO ACTUAL LOVE OF TRUTH’ AND WHICH ONES OF US ARE IN REALITY— WICKED.
“AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SHALL SEND THEM (THE UNRIGHTEOUS) STRONG DELUSION, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE A LIE: THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.”
(COMMENTARY: I KNOW THE BEGINNING OF THIS STRONG DELUSION IS THE RISE OF WITCHCRAFT, MATERIALISM, INTELLECTUALISM AND FAR EASTERN RELIGIONS/NATIVE FUNDAMENTALISM/THE METAPHYSICAL MOVEMENT IN OUR WORLD. SO WATCH OUT PEOPLE! GOD IS TURNING MANY REPROBATE MINDS OVER TO THE DEVIL BECAUSE HE KNOWS THESE PEOPLE ARE NO GOOD! )
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY WE HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION WHOM WE SHALL FOLLOW TODAY, IF WE DO NOT EMBRACE THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, GOD WILL SEND US A DELUSION FOR BEING A REPROBATE PERSON! DON’T FOLLOW THE MODERN MASS CULTURE INTO HELL, DROP THE SCALES FROM YOUR EYES AND EMBRACE THE LOVING MAJESTY OF YOUR CREATOR, EVEN JESUS CHRIST. WHEN THE TRIBULATION APPROACHES YOU WILL BE RAPTURED AWAY IN A TWINKLING OF AN EYE, WITH ALL THE PEOPLE THAT KNOW GOODNESS.
OTHERWISE, MAKE NO MISTAKE, YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF A TARGET FOR PURIFICATION IN THE FLESH DURING THAT SAME TRIBULATION PERIOD.
UNDERSTAND THAT ALL OF THESE REFERENCES CONCERNING THE ANTICHRIST ARE ABOUT TO COME TO PASS IN OUR WORLD! )
2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS:
PAUL REMINDS THE SAINTS —
” . . . THE LORD IS FAITHFUL, WHO SHALL ESTABLISH YOU, AND KEEP YOU FROM EVIL.”
“NOW WE COMMAND YOU, BRETHREN, IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THAT YOU WITHDRAW YOURSELVES FROM EVERY BROTHER THAT WALKS DISORDERLY, AND NOT AFTER THE TRADITION WHICH HE RECEIVED OF US.”
PAUL ALSO PREACHES THE GOSPEL OF WORK IN THIS CHAPTER—
“…THIS WE COMMANDED YOU, THAT IF ANY WOULD NOT WORK, NEITHER SHOULD HE EAT. FOR WE HEAR THERE ARE SOME WHICH WALK AMONG YOU DISORDERLY, WORKING NOT AT ALL, BUT ARE BUSYBODIES. NOW THEM THAT ARE SUCH WE COMMAND AND EXHORT BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THAT WITH QUIETNESS THEY WORK, AND EAT THEIR OWN BREAD. BUT YOU, BRETHREN, BE NOT WEARY IN WELL DOING. AND IF ANY MAN OBEY NOT OUR WORD BY THIS EPISTLE, NOTE THAT MAN, AND HAVE NO COMPANY WITH HIM, THAT HE MAY BE ASHAMED. YET COUNT HIM NOT AS AN ENEMY, BUT ADMONISH HIM AS A BROTHER.”
(COMMENTARY: IN 2017, AMERICA IS NOW LOADED WITH STONE COLD STUMBLE BUMS THAT THINK THE WORLD OWES THEM A LIVING. IN MY TOWN ALONE I COULD TAKE YOU ON A TOUR WHERE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE FILLED WITH LOSER REPROBATE MEN THAT DO NOT WORK, RECIEVE SOME KIND OF GOVERNMENT CHECK, LIVE OFF THEIR WIVES/ENABLERS, AND ARE BUSYBODIES IN THE STREETS. THEY ARE NOT OUR ENEMIES, BUT OUR BROKEN BROTHERS LIVING IN OPEN SHAME. SADLY, THIS IS NOW A BIG PART OF THE REALITY OF LIFE IN AMERICA!)
NEXT . . . THE FIRST AND SECOND EPISTLES OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO TIMOTHY