LET GOD BE GOD

   When we pray for others, we are trusting in God to do that which we are incapable of doing; and just as we trust in God to know best what is best for us, we should likewise believe that God knows best what is best for others.  For it should not be that our will be done in others, but that His will be done in others.
   Something that can perhaps hinder our prayers is when, after praying to God for others, we want to do something that we think should be done, or say something that we think should be said---when, in fact, we could be part of the problem---especially if we are having a relationship difficulty with other people.  In such case, perhaps we should include ourselves in the very prayer that we are asking God with respect to others:  then stand still and wait, saying and doing nothing, as God works to accomplish His will.
   Waiting is not always easy for humans, however.  We can be impatient, wanting something done quickly.  And if God will work at our pace, we are certain the situation could be fixed, the way we want it to be fixed, in a matter of no time at all--especially if we have identified the problem--or so we think.
    Truthfully, however, the very people we pray for are also connected to many other people, and not just ourselves.
    Knowing this, is it also possible that I am the problem and not them?  Or, perhaps the problem is in both parties, and God must therefore work in two arenas to bring a peace treaty to the table---all in His time.
   For all of these reasons, and for reasons we are unable to see, prayers can go unanswered for days, weeks, months, and even for years.  But this waiting period does not mean that God has forgotten about our prayers.  For God's work to answer prayers is not always easy work, even for Him, because people can be quite difficult:  impatient, stubborn, hard-headed, and, most of all, very proud.
   For people do not always want to change, even for God.
   So then, what do we do? 
   Pray, and move on.  Pray, and live on.  Be what we believe God wants us to be, and be no more.    
   Above all else, we should let God be God, and to pray in accordance to the example that Christ gave to us:
      Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
      Thy kingdom come.
      Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
      Give us this day our daily bread.
      And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
      And leadeth us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
      For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.  Amen.  (Matthew 6: 9-13)
  

BARABBAS

    And on the day when Christ was crucified in Jerusalem, Pontius Pilate stood before the Jews and said to them:
         But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the Passover:  will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
         Then cried they all again, Not this man, but Barabbas.  Now Barabbas was a robber. (John 18: 39-40)

   Barabbas was identified as a robber, a thief, or perhaps an insurrectionist.  Surely he was guilty of more than being a street pickpocket, for he had been scheduled to be put to death by crucifixion. His charge was far more serious than petty theft.      
  There should be no doubt, however, that the Sanhedrin knew Barabbas, for they called him by name.  Perhaps Barabbas was nearby, such as in the waiting room, to appeal his case before Pilate, and perhaps Barabbas just happened to be handy for an exchange.  For his freedom, he was definitely at the right place, at the right time!
   Other than his name, there is little else known about Barabbas.  He simply vanished in the crowd and disappeared as a nameless face.
   Yet, surely his heart was wrenched in knowing that he was set free as well as in knowing that another man died in his place:  a man whom he only knew as Jesus. 
   But isn't this the story of what Jesus is all about?  Dying for the sins of others that we do not die for our own sins?
   Since the day Christ was crucified in Jerusalem, millions of people have been set free because of the death of Christ on a cross.  Like Barabbas, does it appear that many Christians vanish in crowds and disappear as nameless faces?
   Such people as these are faithful in their attendance to their churches.  They come in quietly, sit quietly, and do not draw attention to themselves.  They do not preach, teach, sing in choirs, or write books and songs.  Some do not like to be called upon to stand and pray before people.  They work their jobs, tend to their families, and, in their neighborhoods and communities, neighbors find no fault with them.  They are happy and peaceful people.  But on the Lord's day, they will be found in the Lord's house. 
   After meeting Jesus and knowing that Jesus died in his place, do you think it is possible that Barabbas stopped his bad behavior?
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SALIVATE

   Television is designed and engineered to attract people to pick fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil:  for everything a human mind can desire to watch is in their homes, and available 24/7, from anywhere in the world.
   On television now is The End of Days, which is the sum total of everything that is available on television.  It is not necessarily the way life is for people, but it is a world that is being painted in the minds of people of the way life should be.
    For television is about CHANGE---changing the minds of people without them realizing their minds have been changed.  Changing their minds, changing their viewpoints, opinions, values, and making behaviors more acceptable.  Over time and in slow and subtle ways, people will gradually accept the unacceptable:  that things once forbidden are now current trends; that things that were once old school are now new school.  Off with the old and in with the new, just as a snake sheds his old skin in exchange for new skin.  A new way of walking and a new way of talking.
   Television creates a craving in the minds of people, and the more people salivate, the more they seek satisfaction.  And the more and more they continue to salivate, the more new desires are hatched in their minds.  They will hunger and thirst for more, more, more.  For television time is feeding time.
   Beyond television, there is the fast-food industry that began with the simple philosophy:  create a craving in the mouths of toddlers and they can keep customers for a lifetime.  Knowing this, would it be fair to say that Ronald McDonald has had more influence in the minds of children than Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny?  Buy a box and get a reward, free of charge:  toys!
   Religion and many churches, too, have been operating with the philosophy of fast-food restaurants:  create a craving in the minds of toddlers and there they will remain for a lifetime.  Separate children from adults and their little minds can be programmed by ministers and teachers of self-righteousness while parents are getting adult doses in the main auditorium.  Is it interesting that churches adopted the word "auditorium" in exchange for "sanctuary"? 
   In some churches, however, men and women are not separated, and children are not separated from adults---while they worship the Lord together:  in sanctuaries, and not in auditoriums.
   Meanwhile, the ministers and priests of fast-food establishments release their members at chow time so that can rush to the fast-food diners so they can rush home to turn on their televisions to watch the continuing saga of The End of Days, the sum total of television:  with its regularly-scheduled programs, sporting events, game shows, kids' shows, news shows, and commercials---straight from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 
   God?  Do people really have time for God when they salivate for the things of this world?
      For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables.  (2 Timothy 4: 3-4)
  

SONS OF SATAN

      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 saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.  (Genesis 6: 1-2)

      Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.  And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou?  And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

   The sons of God are fallen angels, just as Satan is also the fallen angel, Lucifer.  They rebelled against God, and God evicted them from heaven.  When they fell from heaven, they fell upon earth, for earth was their target.  Satan knew that the earth is a special place in the universe for God, and to earth these spirit beings came.  They are fierce, they are terrifying, exceedingly strong, and exceedingly intelligent:  with knowledge that far exceeds the knowledge of mankind---capable, too, of knowing and speaking all languages. 
   These spirit beings have the power to transform themselves from the invisible to the visible, and they are also capable of having sex with human women:  through which they reproduced a generation of sons and daughters that would become a perpetual family tree of sons of Satan upon the earth; and to them these spirit beings imparted knowledge that far exceeds the knowledge of normal men who were born unto normal women.
   This union of fallen angels with human women produced an evil bloodline of men, an order of men that would hide in secret societies, beginning in Babylon, where they created a mystery religion.  And this evil bloodline of men still exists upon the earth today, and it is the bloodline of the Illuminati.
   The Illuminati will protect its bloodline from contamination with people whose blood is not part of the sons of Satan, and they will also kill their own kind if they attempt to leave the order.
   Such people have no fear, and, like Satan, they have no fear of God.
   The thirteen families of the Illuminati control the world---along with the brotherhood of other secret societies, including the secret societies within religions.  They are highly intelligent, and therefore they control governments, religion, business, finance, banking, education, military, entertainment, professional sports, television, telephones, movies, music, and the internet.
   To know them, look at their faces.  The leaders do not have natural laughter.  They rarely smile.  Their mission is a mission of darkness, and thus their faces are shadows and their eyes are fixed, as if they are in a trance.  Their objective is not to have fun, yet they want the whole world to have fun and to be entertained---while they meet in their secret places to map their secret plans of evil---which are always disguised as something good for people.
   In Jerusalem just over two thousand years ago, men of religion killed Jesus, and these men of religion were also members of a secret society from the school of Babylon.  Jesus spoke these words about them:
      Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do:  he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:  for he is a liar, and the father of it.  (John 8: 44)
   Thereafter, these men of the religion of Babylon created more religions as they as also created false churches with false ministers and false priests to appear to be ministers and priests of God:  to keep the knowledge of Christ from reaching the minds of people!  They are masters of hypocrisy as they are also masters of deception, for they are of their father, Satan---whom they worship behind closed doors.
   Today, that evil spirit of ancient Babylon is still in this present world; for you see, the religion of Babylon never went away; it never vanished:  it was given a new face with a new identity---disguised as something good and as something holy, but it is the same evil religion.  For in the latter days, Babylon will finally be destroyed by Christ as we are told in the 17th and 18th chapters of the Book of Revelation, which you can read by going to www.bible.com
  

  

WHEN DARKNESS FALLS

      In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.  And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light:  and there was light.  (Genesis 1: 1-3) 

      And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.  And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:  They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days:  but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.  (Exodus 10: 21-23)

   While Jesus was on the cross in Jerusalem, there was darkness for three hours:
      And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.  (Mark 15: 33)

   At a certain time in the future and on a certain day, something spectacular will happen upon the earth:
      Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:  And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.   (Matthew 24: 29-30)

   When darkness falls, evil arises, at which time people live wickedly:  believing that their sins are hidden under the veil of darkness; for darkness is the house of evil.
   Evil is presently consuming the world, nation by nation, and at a future time evil will close its door with people trapped in a world of evil---not knowing, nor believing, that Almighty God will turn on the light and catch them in their evil ways, for man's time upon the earth will be over, after which comes the judgment seat of God, and Christ will preside as Judge.
      And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.  (Revelation 20: 11)
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WHOM SHALL I FEAR?

   At first, Pontius Pilate was an honest man when he faced Jesus, for he said to the Jews, I find no fault in him. 
   Still later, Pilate said, Why, what evil hath he done?
   But not long thereafter, however, Pilate said, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him. 
   Why did Pilate change his mind?  He had the power to set Jesus free, yet he sent the Lord to die on a cross even though, at first, he had spoken in defense of Jesus.
   Like Pilate, many people find no fault with Jesus---at first.  But the more they hear of Jesus, the more they dislike Him; and then, like Pilate, they turn their backs on Him because of something they fear:  at which time, like Pilate, they send Jesus back to the cross.
   What is there about Christ that people fear? 


      The LORD is my light and my salvation:  whom shall I fear?  the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
      When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
      Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear:  though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
      One thing have I desired of the LORD, that I will seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
      For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:  in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me upon a rock.  (Psalm 27: 1-5)

WE ARE ONE

      Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love them.  (I Corinthians 2: 9)

   If God is to be believed, He must be believed by faith, and not by sight. 
   If we believe in God by faith, we can also believe by faith that God knows best what is best for us.
   By the same faith, we can believe that God loves us, even though we do not see Him with our eyes.
   By faith, too, we can believe that Christ died for our sins, and then by faith we can believe He can save us from our sins if we will believe in Him for salvation:  for the name of Jesus means, God is salvation, and the name Emmanuel means, God with us. 
   So then, through Christ, the Lord is the God of my salvation, and Emmanuel, for me personally, is God with me.  Which means that Christ is in me and I am in Him, and together, we are one.  Which now means that Christ and I are bonded.
   Beyond this, we can also believe by faith that all people (as well as myself) who have trusted in Christ for salvation, are also in Him, and Him in us, and together, we are one---and that all of us, together with Christ, have a bonded relationship.
   This bonded relationship of people, through Christ, is the church.  Which means that we, the people of Christ, are the church.  The church, therefore, is a living organism of people, and not an institution, such as the institution of religion. 
   The church of Christ, however, has been confused to mean the churches that have been built as churches of religion, or as institutions.
   When Christ returns to earth, He is returning for His church:  which means He is returning for His people, who believe in Him.  He is returning for the people of His church who have died, and He is also returning for the people of His church who will be living when He returns. 
   By faith, we, the people of the church of Christ, believe that the Lord is coming again, and at that time we will see Him with our eyes as the Lord moves from the invisible to the visible.  And after that, we believe by faith that God knows best what is best for us, and everything thereafter will be beautiful in His sight.
      Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 

HUMAN SLAVES: 2013 A.D.

      My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:  because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:  seeing thou has forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
      As they were increased, so they sinned against me:  therefore will I change their glory into shame.
      They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
      And there shall be, like people, like priest:  and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their doings.
      For they shall eat, and not have enough:  they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase:  because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
      Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.  (Hosea 4: 4-11)

   Men of religion killed Jesus in order to keep the knowledge of Christ hidden from people in order to keep people living in slavery to religion; and even though Christ arose from death and is living now, men of religion have continued to operate throughout the world to keep people from knowing the knowledge of Christ and to keep people living in slavery to religion.
   Look at nations all over the world and what do you see?  Do you not see a multitude of religions dominating and controlling the lives of people?
   People in nations all over the world are living in economic and spiritual poverty because of the power of religion that dominates their minds. 
   People in nations all over the world are living in fear:  the fear their religions impose on them and the fear of their governments.  They are afraid to move, afraid to breathe, as trouble keeps knocking at their doors. 
   People in nations all over the world are not healthy people:  sickness, disease, pestilence, and plagues are continually bringing death to people at early ages. 
   Outlaws and gangsters probe the world to capture people to become slaves of human trafficking, prostitution, pedophilia, pornography, and drugs, for there is no evil under the sun that evil people will not do.
   Look at nations that have rejected God and what do you see? 
   Look at Central America, Latin America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia and what do you see? 
   Look at the power that global religions have over people as if these religions are good for people.  What are people doing under the power of these religions?  How are they living?  What is their hope as their lives continue to get worse instead of getting better?  Their religions continue to want more money and more sacrifices because religion has a thirst for the blood of people.
   Even in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain look at the change that has come over people because of the power of religion.  As Christ has been diminished in these nations, evil has increased.  Look at the rise of the occult with Satanic churches in these nations.
   As the Word of the Lord declares:  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
   Religion is keeping people slaves to religion and the evil power that is disguised in religion is bringing death to people, not freedom. 
   The priests of religions are evil people, for just as men of religion willingly killed Jesus, they are willingly killing people today all over the world.
   Evil swallows nations, and evil is wetting its tongue with the United States. 
   As for Christ, the Word of the Lord declares:
      That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection.... (Philippians 3: 10)
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HEAD HUNTERS

   Religious leaders are head hunters:  they look for heads to fill with their religious dogmas and doctrines, rites and rituals, and religious law.
   Religion is built in the minds of people:  step by step, brick by brick, layer upon layer until the mind is encased in a brick wall, thus preventing the knowledge of God from entering therein.
   Billions of children upon the earth live in a state of oblivion, for their minds are void of the knowledge of truth, which is the knowledge of God.
   More families of the earth would believe in God if more husbands and fathers believed in God; for children do as the fathers do because children do not know anything else to do.  They are born helpless, and their little minds have no knowledge.  All they know to do is follow the leader, and wherever the leader leads them, they will follow.  Whatever the leader teaches them, that they will learn and do.
   If the children, however, are not being led by their fathers to know God, guess what?  Satan comes along and offers one of his many religions.  Or he will offer them one of his many activities.  For Satan has the cure for idle minds. 
   For this reason, Satan gets to the minds of children, usually by the age of toddlers, which is also the reason religious leaders want children while they are toddlers:  to build religion in their little minds---step by step, and brick by brick.  And thus head hunters are active recruiters:  they recruit adults into their training camps of religion, which also means that they will get their children.  And by getting the children, the head hunters can reproduce their religion in families for generations.
   Only God can break through the brick wall of religious minds by the power of the Holy Spirit.  For no matter how much information people hear or read about the lies of religion, only the Holy Spirit of God can break through their clouds of darkness and convince them that the words Jesus said are true:
      I am the way, the truth, and the life:  no man cometh to the Father but by me. (John 14: 6)
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HISTORICAL FRICTION

   As students of history, could we agree that all empires upon the earth have been organizations of terrorism? 
   Could we also agree that all emperors of all empires have sought to do the will of their god, or to be pleasing to their gods and goddesses?
   Could we further agree that all empires have been political-religious systems?  That the objective of all empires have been the same objective:  to control and dominate the lives of as many people as possible, to bring people under the authority of the emperor, as well as to convert all of their captives to slavery as well as to convert captives to their religions? 
   At the tower of Babel in ancient Babylon, Nimrod was the emperor of his empire, and he was the head of its politics and its religion.  Nimrod was a man to be feared.
   Just as the religious system of ancient Babylon has spread across the earth, so has the political system of ancient Babylon spread across the earth in the form of empires.
   So then, just as the religion of ancient Babylon has been the blueprint of religions all over the earth, so has Nimrod's example been a blueprint that other men would follow as emperors of empires.
   Nimrod was a god-man to the ancient Babylonians, and all emperors are considered to be god-men in their empires upon the earth.
   Knowing this (that empires are organizations of terrorism), what do you suppose the Holy Roman Empire was all about? 
   The people of Rome considered the pope to be a god-man (just like Nimrod) which means that all of the popes, for hundreds of years, were emperors, as the Holy Roman Empire sought to control and dominate the lives of people, the enslave people under Roman's religious dome, and to rid the world of all infidels with murders en masse.  In total, the Holy Roman Empire was from the blueprint of Nimrod's dictatorship in ancient Babylon---and so was Rome's religious blueprint from Nimrod's empire.
   Knowing this, then we should also be able to agree that the Holy Roman Empire was an organization of terrorism. 
   But!  Was there anything holy about the Holy Roman Empire?  Would a holy pope actually order the executions of innocent people?
   The deception of Nimrod still flows through Rome today, as it also flows through the minds of millions of people upon the earth:  that the pope is a god-man, for people continue to bow to him and kiss his ring.
   Why is it so difficult for religious people to believe that men of religion are dirty rotten scoundrels?  For it was men of religion who killed Jesus, and it was men of religious Rome that killed millions of Christians during the era of the Holy Roman Empire.
   As students of history, do we not search for historical facts instead of historical fiction?  Or has the search for truth become historical friction? 
   Or, is there something about truth that causes people to fear?
      Fear not:  for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.  For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.  (Luke 2: 10, 11)
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ENTER THE DRAGON

   God is love, and because God is not in any of man's religions, neither does religion have love; for the only light in religion is provided by either candles or electricity.
   Religion is a work of human architecture, created and designed in the imaginations of men and built by the hands of men, brick by brick.
   Men are also responsible for all of the dogmas and doctrines, rites and rituals, that man has written for himself within his religions.
   The religion at the tower of Babel became the model, or blueprint, of all future religions that would be built upon the earth.  Almighty God was not included in the religion of ancient Babylon, and neither is God included in all of man's religions upon the earth to this day.
   There is an evil spirit that has been upon the earth since the day of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden; and since that time this evil spirit has been operating to present things that appear to be good for people, but it also has the power to present things that appear to be holy.  This evil spirit is Satan, or the serpent in the garden of Eden.
   Until people believe with their hearts that Jesus Christ is resurrected from death, it is doubtful that they will believe that Satan is real.  For this reason, people are incapable of recognizing that evil spirit, for their eyes have been blinded to truth by the devil himself.  People can be taught to accept the resurrection of Christ in their heads, but from their heads to their hearts is a different matter; for Christ can be taught by simple recitation, which is the same as repeat after me, followed by a positive reinforcement, such as a pat on the head, or a piece of candy:  and the only Jesus they have in their heads is an image, or an idol, which they can now believe with their imaginations.
   Even though Satan is the evil spirit, and even though he is invisible, he has the power to transform himself in the physical that allows people to see him with their eyes.  This happened first in the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve.  And thus the purpose of Satan's ministers and priests, operating in religion, is to prepare the world for the second coming of Satan, who will again transform himself in the physical, and people will see him with their eyes, just as Adam and Eve saw him with their eyes in the garden of Eden.   
   People can therefore be taught about Christ in a place we call religion, which is void of both the love and the knowledge of God, by people who want people to know only a little bit about Christ, but not His fullness.  Consequently, people can believe they are religious Christians with only a little bit of information, which is a belief in their heads, but not in their hearts.
   Not only do Satan's ministers and priests operate in religion, but they also work in the arenas of politics, entertainment, business, finance, banking, education, and in militaries to bring the world under his domination and control.  For even in music, Satan's minstrels sing for him in secular and religious musical concerts all over the world.  Satan's music has also been imported in certain Christian churches, where Satan has also planted false prophets:  ministers, priests, and preachers.
   When Satan comes, he will be a beast, or a creature, out of the abyss, which is hell; and for a future time in human history, the Word of the Lord declares:
      And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.  (Revelation 9: 11)
      And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast:  and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him.  (Revelation 13: 4)
   Please remember:  men of religion killed Jesus because Jesus came between men and their religious god, who is Satan.  Ever since that day in Jerusalem, men of religion have been killing Christians because Christians will not stop talking about Christ the Lord.  And men of religion will continue to kill anybody and everybody who get in their way in preparing the way for the coming of Satan.
   Knowing this, a great war is coming upon the earth as Satan's army will kill Christians all over the earth in the greatest slaughter of people that the world has ever known, including the death of Christians in the United States, when all religions of the earth will merge in a one world religion with Satan at the head.  This must happen before Christ returns to earth and defeats Satan.
      And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:  and shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.  And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.  (Matthew 24: 30, 31)
      Even so, come Lord Jesus.  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.  Amen.  (Revelation 21: 20, 21)
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THE SERPENT GOD

   Satan is the Serpent God of man's religion, the same serpent that appeared to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden; and there the serpent revealed to them that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil looked so good and wonderful to their eyes that Adam and Eve could not resist.
   Therefore, religion is from the mind of Satan and not from the mind of Almighty God; and by the same power of deception that the serpent exercised in the garden of Eden, he exercises also through men in creating a system that looks so good and wonderful to the eyes of people that they cannot resist its fragrance.  And by this power of deception, people believe that ministers and priests of religion are holy men, even as ministers of Almighty God!
   Consequently, just as Adam and Eve picked from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, people also pick from the tree of religion, even to this very day in the year 2013.
   So then, we should be able to see that religion is another version of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
   Men of religion killed Jesus in Jerusalem because Christ is the enemy of man's religion.  They rose up against Christ in defense of religion, or in defense of the god of religion, who is Satan, which is why Jesus called them, children of the devil.
   Satan, then, is the Serpent God of man's religion.
   Here is the evidence that religion is evil and its ministers and priests are also evil:
      For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.  (2 Corinthians 11: 13-15)
   As a result of this power of deception from Satan, the devil deceives the minds of people not to believe that Satan is a real being; and by them not believing that Satan is real, neither will they believe in evil because evil is also hidden from their eyes by Satan's power.  People will, however, address the behaviors of people as being either good or bad behaviors, but they will not believe that something as simple as lies is evil, but rather misbehaving, or bad habits.
   Until people are saved by the power of the blood of Jesus Christ, they will not believe that Satan is real, nor will they see evil in the behaviors of people---other than misbehaving, bad habits, or by the people in prisons.
   The Serpent God is worshipped by the ministers and priests of man's religions---behind closed doors and in secret places---away from public view; and their public religion is simply the store where they work their day jobs and to earn their wages:  from the offerings and tithes of the members of their congregations.
   The ministers and priests of the Serpent God have the power of witchcraft, and they are casting spells on the minds of the people within their congregations, in religions as well as in false churches, thus bringing people under the mind control of Satan, who blinds their minds from receiving the truth of Christ Jesus the Lord, as well as from receiving the truth from the Word of the Lord, which is the holy Bible---even within Christian religions.

CHARADES

   Creating a world empire is not as difficult to accomplish as people may think, especially if the plan is a simple, three-point outline:

   1.  keep the knowledge of God hidden from people;
   2.  keep the knowledge of Christ hidden from people;
   3.  keep the Word of the Lord hidden from people.

   Evidence clearly shows that when these three goals are met, people will believe just about anything they are told because truth has been omitted.  With truth omitted, people do not know that truth is not there; therefore, they will believe that whatever they are told is truth---when they are, in fact, believing lies that are masqueraded as truth, which is deception.
   There are no people on earth more qualified to produce a global scam than the deceivers of religion and politics, for they have been practicing their craft for thousands of years.
   When people believe they are free, they will continue to live as if they are free even though they have been captured by their government:  because the government needs workers in the field to produce revenue through taxation for the leaders of the government.
   Likewise, when people believe they are free to worship, they will continue to worship freely even though they have been captured by their religion.
   To hear that a person's minister or priest is a liar is not exactly the words a religious person enjoys hearing---especially when the person has trusted his minister in baptism, or in the baptism of his babies; for this trust is for a place called heaven.  After all, doesn't the minister or priest look trustworthy?  He is, after all, wearing his uniform of the day, and his words sound like he knows exactly what he's talking about.
   "sounds like" and "looks like" are key words in a game called Charades. 
  Doesn't religion look like a place that is holy?  Doesn't a priest look like and sound like a holy person?
   Likewise, do not politicians do their best to look like and sound like trustworthy individuals?
   So if people have the freedom to work and earn wages, buy homes and buy things, they will be happy people---as long as they continue to believe that they are free.
   Likewise, if people have the freedom to worship without persecution, they will be happy people---as long as they continue to believe that they are safe and secure in their religion.
   World empires throughout human history have been systems of religion and politics.  This system has never changed because this system has a history of great success. And the only difference in world empires is their names---with a few modifications here and there and from time to time.
   Likewise, the only difference in man's religions is the names---with a few modifications in dogmas and doctrines, rites and rituals.  If all the names can be merged as one name, then all of the religions can come together as one, which can produce a global brotherhood of believers as a single unit; for all of them have similarities that look like and sound like they naturally belong together.  Isn't there a song called We Are The World (?)
   All world empires have always been without the knowledge of God, without the knowledge of Christ, and without the knowledge of the Word of the Lord. 
   World empires are a combination of politics and religion, and politics and religion have always been systems without the knowledge of God, without the knowledge of Christ, and without the knowledge of the Word of the Lord.
   Charades is the sum total of religion and politics:  a clever and deadly manipulation of the minds of people.
       But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.  (2 Corinthians 4: 3, 4)

ROBOT SOLDIERS

   Even when Jesus was on the cross, He said: 
      Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. (Luke 23: 34)

   We know for a fact that the men who killed Jesus were men of religion, as well as men of politics, for these were the people who wanted Jesus to die: for no other group of people wanted Jesus dead, neither in Jerusalem, nor in Rome.  For it is doubtful that even Caesar had ever heard of a preacher from Nazareth. 
   It was these men who captured Jesus, gave Him a mock trial, but then---because they were unable to reach a unanimous decision to convict Jesus under religious law---they took Jesus to Pontius Pilate with a political charge that Jesus was against Caesar.  That did it, and Pilate issued the order for the execution of Christ. 
   It was these men who killed Jesus because they KNEW that Jesus is the Son of God.  This was their purpose in killing Jesus because they believed that by killing Jesus they would end the power of God upon the earth and that men would have total control of people---or a World Empire!
   There was another group of men in this story, and their story is often overlooked.  These were the men who actually administered death to Christ.  These men were the Roman soldiers. 
   The Roman soldiers who killed Jesus were just doing their jobs.  Killing people was their profession.  They were highly trained and highly skilled in the art of producing excruciating pain in people when they either tied them or nailed them to crosses. 
   The Roman soldiers who killed Jesus were like robots. They were like machines.  After killing a person, they went for another one.  From daylight till dark, all they did was kill people.  They went to their garrisons to eat and sleep, only to arise tomorrow and kill again.  They had no heart for people, for their consciences had been seared as with a hot iron. 
   Like all Romans, the Roman soldiers were pagans.  To them, Caesar was god.  And though they worshipped all Roman deities, Caesar was their Big Daddy:  their political god as well as their religious god.
   At another time and at another place, however, Jesus said,
      Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.  (Mark 12: 17)
  The Roman soldiers rendered to Caesar the body of Christ.
   Beneath the cross of Christ that day in Jerusalem was a Roman centurion, who said something that was strange for a Roman soldier to say: 
      Truly this was the Son of God.
   Amid all the chaos and confusion that Golgotha produced, one man came to believe the truth that Christ is Messiah!
   My father was a Baptist minister for thirty-five years, and toward the end of his life he said that if all of his preaching helped just one person to believe in Christ, then all of his preaching was worth it all.
  
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A PREP TALK

   People are capable of achieving great things, and perhaps they are more capable than they believe.
   God wants to accomplish some great things through people, but people must be willing to let Christ in their lives.
   What is your life, and what is it worth?  Are you to merely live, die, vanish, and be no more?  Do you think your life is simply an accident, or a coincidence?  And when you die perhaps only a few people will miss you when you are gone? 
   Is there no more to life than this life? 
   What is the goal you have for your life?  What do you want to accomplish?  And how do you want to be remembered?
   Is it your name that is important for others to know and to remember?
   Entertainers seek that:  to make a name for themselves and to be noticed by others wherever they go.  They like the attention, they like the spotlight, and they like to talk about themselves.  While they are young, entertainers get all of that; but as they grow older and show signs of aging, their luster fades and their popularity diminishes.
   Now what?  Now they are no longer in the spotlight, no longer the center of attention, and their faces gradually disappear from invitations and performances.  In time, their names will be forgotten by the people who once stood and applauded while they were performing. 
   Have you ever thought that God has a purpose for your life?  That God, Creator of the universe, would want to accomplish a goal that He has for you through you?
   Please remember, you are important to God!  No matter where you are at this moment, and no matter about your name or your family tree, you are important to God. 
   To God, it doesn't matter if your family has wealth, and it does not matter to Him if you consider yourself to be of middle class, lower class, or no class, you are important to God.  God is not that concerned about your educational level, or how many shirts you have in your wardrobe.  Maybe you own one pair of shoes.  Maybe your socks have holes in the toes.  Maybe you sleep on a floor.  The color of your skin, however, is important to God because He designed your skin for you.  So do not let your skin be an issue.  Neither should you be concerned about your age, for believers of Christ are internally youthful while other people feel old.
   For you see, God knows you even now.  He knows your height, your weight, your likes and dislikes.  God also knows the things you enjoy and the things that you do not like.  God knows your interests. 
   God also knows the talents He created in you.  Those talents are there now, waiting to be opened, and waiting to come out of you.  But you must be willing to totally trust in Him, and to abandon yourself in His leadership by faith, thereby believing the future that He has planned for you.
   Be not afraid, for God will not lead you do accomplish a task for Him that you are not capable of doing.  He will work with you and not against you.
   And by the way.  Do you know that God loves you?  Many people do not know that God loves them.  But if you will let God in your life, and trust in Him, He will show you the goal He has for you to accomplish.  He will not harm you, nor hurt you; and He will never ask you to do anything that He is not willing to do. 
   Above all else, what you do for Christ is all about Him, and not about yourself, which you will see more clearly as your journey with Him begins.  So pray and God will energize you with energy from above.
      For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.  Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.  And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.  (Jeremiah 29: 11-13)
  

Romans 8

   There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
   For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
   For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
   That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
   For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
   Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:  for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
   So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
   But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.  Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
   And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
   But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
   Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
   For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:  but if through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
   For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
   For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
   The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
   And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
   For I reckon that the suffering of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
   For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
   For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope;
   Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
   For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
   And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
   For we are saved by hope:  but hope that is seen is not hope:  for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
   But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
   Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:  for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:  but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
   And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
   And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
   For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.
   Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified:  and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
   What shall we then say to these things?  If God be for us, who can be against us?
   He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
   Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?  It is God that justifieth.
   Who is he that condemneth?  It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
   Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
   As is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 
   Nay, in all things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
   For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
   Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  
  
  
  
  
  
 

MEN OF RELIGION

   Men of religion killed Jesus.  They mocked Him, they tried to beat Him to death, and then they crucified Him. 
   Men of religion knew that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God.  In their minds, they knew that Christ is Messiah, the Light of the world, and they believed that if they could kill Him, the Light would be extinguished. 
   What shall we say, then, about religion? 
   Religion is an evil invention of man, and man's religion originated in the worship of Satan.
   Satan, therefore, has an army of ministers and priests, working for him.  They are being rewarded for their obedience to the devil by the money that is in the world.
   Religion is the wealthiest institution on the face of the earth, and men of religion own more buildings and real estate than most governments of nations across the earth.
   Religion takes money from people while deceiving people to believe they are getting something in return for their financial investments in a future that will not be there for them when they die.
   Religion is therefore the evidence that The love of money is the root of all evil. (I Timothy 6: 10)
   While people starve and suffer, men of religion prosper, hoarding the money for themselves.
   Men of religion are willing for people to die while taking the money out of their cold hands before burying their dead bodies.
   People have been deceived to believe that they can pay men of religion for their salvation as well as pay for a place called heaven.  People will surrender their personal fortunes to men of religion as well as the deeds to their properties as insurance for their journey to a place called heaven.
   And after men of religion killed Jesus, they went on a killing spree to rid the world of believers of Christ across all provinces of the Roman Empire for hundreds of years.  This unholy massacre included any and all persons who believed in Christ, worshipped Christ, breathed the Lord's name, or possessed a single piece of paper of a Biblical manuscript---while proclaiming to be doing service to God!  Jesus warned that this would happen:
      They shall put you out of the synagogues:  yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.  And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, or me.  (John 16: 2-3)
   Christ, therefore, is the enemy of the men of religion because the men of religion are ministers and priests of Satan---while masquerading themselves as ministers and priests of God.

FREE CHOICE

   Free choice is not something new.
   In the garden of Eden, God gave Adam and Eve free choice:  the freedom to make a choice of their own freewill.  And with their free choice, what did they do?  They chose to eat from the tree that God had warned them not to touch.  But they did it anyway!
   In so doing, Adam and Eve opened a floodgate of evil that not only contaminated themselves and their children, but evil that has contaminated the entire human race, even to this day.
   If we will stand up and look back across the ages of human history to Adam and Eve, what do we see?  We see a trail of evil that has been in man ever since that day, and the evidence is the behavior of people killing and destroying the lives of people because of the free choice that God has given to people..  It is therefore difficult to see all the good things that many people have accomplished because evil has overshadowed all of the good works of many people.
   When we look across the earth now, what do we see?  We see the evidence of that same trail of evil, with people killing and destroying the lives of people, because of the free choice that God has given to people.
   It is difficult to find a peaceful place upon the earth today.  It is also difficult to find peaceful people.  Evil, even now, is in every family, every community, every town, city, state, and nation across the earth.
   In a passage of the Bible known as the Lord's Prayer, Jesus said, deliver us from evil. 
   Because of Christ, God gives us another option within the free choice He has given to us.  We can choose Christ and be delivered from evil, or we can reject His mercy and grace and remain in evil.
   As Christians, we have accepted Christ for our deliverance from evil; and even though we remain within this evil world, this does not mean that we will not touch evil things.  We must choose each day, and even by each moment, not to explore the world of evil and go back to a life of evil ways.
   When people, however, dabble with evil, they will bring evil upon themselves and upon their children, just like Adam and Eve did in the garden of evil.  We should therefore listen to God and do not touch evil, nor explore it just a little bit.
   Again, we are warned by the Word of the Lord:
      Abstain from all appearance of evil.  (I Thessalonians 5: 22)

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

   Devoutly religious people think in their religion.
   For more than forty years in my life, I had a religious mind; and my religious mind was just as good as the religious mind of any other religious person.
   When I met Jesus Christ, however, I lost my religion; and when I lost my religion and was freed from the shackles of religion, I no longer thought in a religious mind.
   Words are powerful; words are strong.  And we live by the power of words in our minds.  From whence do those words come?  And which words do we believe are true?
   Words of religion control and dominate the mind of a religious person, for the words of religion in the minds of people can compel them to live in fear---the fear of losing their religion; for if they lose their religion, what will they do?  Their trust or faith is in their religion, and without it they can feel hopeless and helpless, mixed with the fear of losing their salvation as well as losing their passage to heaven; and without heaven, all is lost.  For everything they have learned about the future, beyond death, is in the words of their religion.
   At the same time, people can also accept the idea of Christ---as long as they can keep their religion; but if Christ and religion are mixed in their minds, beginning at the age of toddlers, they do not know the difference: they do not know, nor do they believe, that Christ is separate from religion.  To them,  Christ and religion are one.
   Knowing Christ without religion is difficult for religious Christians to believe.  For if they believe they are Christians now, why do they need to accept Christ as their Savior?  They believe that their sins have been forgiven by a priest, so what can Christ do that is different from the pardon they have received from their priest?  Especially if Christ is already within their religion? 
   Religious Christians, therefore, believe that other people, who call themselves Christians, need their Christian religion:  that it is their religion that has saved them, and Christ is not necessary for salvation.
   In summary, this is the evidence that Christianity, as a religion, has tricked people to believe that a Christian religion is the important matter, and that other people, claiming to be born again Christians, are infidels:  that born again Christians are trying to persuade religious Christians to surrender their Christian religion. 
   Satan wants the minds of religious Christians to remain in a state of confusion, and, therefore, to remain faithful to their religion. Shoo born again Christians away, do not talk about Christ with them, and do not go to their churches because they believe that born again Christians are trying to trick them (when they have already been tricked) which is a case of double jeopardy:  that they cannot be saved twice since they have been saved by their religion.
   The mind of a religious Christian does not contain the knowledge of God, for all the people have is the knowledge of religion. 
   So then, what kind of mind should a Christian have?  By embracing the Word of the Lord, our minds become more like the mind of the Lord.
      Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:  And being made in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.  Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name that is above every name.  (Philippines 2: 5-9)

THE EXCHANGE STATION

   World religions are inventions from the imaginations of men and built in the minds of people.  Each religion includes a tower to heaven, such as the tower of Babel, the tower of Egypt, tower of Greece, tower of Rome, tower of Mecca, tower of Salt Lake City, tower of India, and towers in other places and in other nations.  Each tower has holy men in charge of the elevators to take people to the penthouse when they die.  And what is the cost of admission? 
   Jesus said, For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?  (Mark 8: 36-37)
   What will people give in order to believe that they will get to heaven in a way that is not the way of Christ?
   What about the small sacrifices of their own children?
   In ancient Babylon, babies were willing offered by adults to be burned to ashes on the altar of the sun god---after their little bodies had been washed by water by pagan priests.  And over the past four thousand years, infant baptism has been accepted by religion as a method to cleanse their sins, which will gain the approval of their gods.
   At the Ganges River in India, women throw their babies in the river to appease their gods.
   Human history is covered with the blood of babies and young children, used as sacrificial offerings to the gods of the religions of man.
   People will also sell their children, girls as well as boys, in the world of pedophilia, prostitution and pornography.  They will also allow adults to have sex with their children in exchange for drugs, and sell or trade their children to become slaves in human trafficking.
   Religion is the greatest method of mind control that man has ever invented!  Under mind control, people lose their minds, lose all common sense, after which they have no love, not even love for their own children!  They would rather see their own children burn on an altar than to offer their own bodies. 
   In religion, people go crazy.  They go insane.  Children become expendable, a commodity, with an exchange rate in an underground market for human sacrifices.  Which is why religion does not want parents to practice birth control, but to have many babies.  More babies means more sacrifices.
  Like Jesus said, What shall a man give in EXCHANGE for his own soul?
  Therefore, people are willing to get on the elevator of a tower of religion, for a ride to heaven, leaving their children at The Exchange Station.

KISS THE RING

    The Mafia is nothing new upon the earth.  It is a system of evil men, operating in secrecy, for several thousand years.  They control drugs, prostitution, pornography, human trafficking, pedophilia, and politics across the earth.  They also control religion. 
   Religion, in fact, is modeled after a Mafia family.  The Don of a Mafia family is called the godfather, and the leader of religion is called the high priest, who is the boss of a crime syndicate within a crime syndicate.
   Members of a Mafia family bow and kiss the ring of the Don, and people of religion bow and kiss the ring of the high priest.
   The people in a Mafia family do not get out alive:  because they know too much.
   The people of corrupted religion do not get out alive:  because they know too much.
   People who decide to leave these organizations are considered to be traitors, and they are worthy of death.
   Beneath the visible world that we see is an invisible world, which is an underground, secret religion, which is the religious world of secret societies, which is the worship of Satan.  Thus, religion is above ground as well as underground. 
   The men who killed Jesus were members of a secret society, and thus the killing of Jesus was a contract execution, for the price of thirty pieces of silver.
   Jesus exposed the evil that is in the hearts of men, and Jesus also exposed the evil of the religion of the men who killed Him.
   Jesus interrupted the evil scheme that evil men were doing:  controlling and dominating the lives of people with their corrupted politics and corrupted religion.
   Religion is a masquerade that appears to be something good as well as to appear as something holy; and its ministers and priests masquerade as gods, deceiving people to believe that they have the power to forgive sins---when only Christ has the power to forgive sins.  But if people choose to kiss the ring, they have turned their backs against Christ.
   The purpose of religion, in fact, is to capture people and to control them all the days of their lives; and when they die, they become human sacrifices for Satan.
   If you want to go to heaven, come out of religion and come to Christ.  But do it quickly, for God gives us a warning in the Revelation of John the Apostle:
      Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.  (Revelation 18: 4)
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KEYS OF KNOWLEDGE

   People possess the key that will unlock their minds to receiving the knowledge of God, but as long as people refuse to turn the key, the knowledge of God will not enter therein.
   Could it be true, however, that many people have surrendered their keys to the masters of their religion?  Therefore their religion controls and dominates their minds, and they are not free to make independent decisions of what to do about Jesus, who is called the Christ.
   Could it also be true that religious Christians are not free to make independent decisions about Christ because they have surrendered their keys to their religious masters and they are under the control and domination of their religion? 
   People can have the knowledge of Christ in their minds, but because they refuse to acknowledge Him as the Savior, Christ is not in their hearts. 
   For this reason, religious Christians are unable to speak for Christ because Christ is a stranger to them; for they have never met Christ personally:  they have simply heard about Him.  Which means that there relationship is with their Christian religion and not with Christ.  Therefore they can talk about their Christian religion, but they cannot talk about Christ because their trust for salvation is in their Christian religion and not in Christ.
   Religion is the greatest system of deception that man has ever invented, for it is designed to keep people from knowing the knowledge of God.  And because religion is against God, religion is evil.
   Religious Christianity is also designed to keep people from knowing the knowledge of God, for it deceives people to believe that they are Christians simply because they belong to a Christian religion.
   To be honest, all religions are paganism, for all religions are against God.
   Religious Christianity is also paganism, for it contains elements of paganism from ancient Rome, ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, and ancient Babylon---mixed and blended together with Christ---and presented as a beautiful cake, which is only Devil's Food.  But Christ will not allow His holiness to be mixed and blended with man's evil religion.
   Who, then, controls the key that unlocks your mind to receiving the knowledge of God?  Is the key in your hands, or have you surrendered your key to someone else?  If the latter is true, then your mind is under the control and domination of other people, and you are not free to make an independent decision of what to do about Jesus, who is called the Christ.
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A DEAD ZONE

  
   Religion and politics are evil twins.  They are the two most powerful institutions on the face of the earth, and together they have been killing people for thousands of years.
   The men who killed Jesus were members of religion and politics.
   So then, why did men of religion and politics want Jesus to die?
   Religion is designed and engineered as a brick wall to prevent people from knowing the knowledge of God as well as from knowing the knowledge of Christ, who is Messiah; therefore, Christ stood above and between man's religion and God, so Jesus had to die.
   Thus, religion is a system that blinds the minds of people by the power of deception to believe that the god or gods of religion is all people need to know.
   Even Pontius Pilate said of Christ:  I find no fault in him (John 19: 4)  And again, Why, what evil hath he done? (Matthew 27: 23)
   As for the men who killed Jesus, the Lord said of them:  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do:  he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:  for he is a liar, and the father of it.  (John 8: 44) 
   There is no stopping the carnage of people from the men in religion and politics, for they are of their father the devil.
      But if our gospel be hid:  it is hid to them that are lost:  in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, let the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.  For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.  (2 Corinthians 4: 3-5)
   Therefore, the whole world has been blinded by the power of deception that reigns in religion, and the minds of people are spiritually incarcerated as prisoners from receiving access to the knowledge of God and for the salvation of their souls through Christ our Lord. 
   Consequently, people of religion are in a dead zone, for religion is from the mind of Satan, which means that religion is evil, but disguised to be something good as well as something holy.
    For when men believe they have the power to forgive sin, people will bow at their feet as gods, which means that Christ is not necessary for salvation, even in religious Christianity, where Jesus is treated as no more than a ceramic doll at Christmas, or as a corpse on a cross at Easter, because the resurrection of Jesus is not in their hearts because Jesus is still dead in their minds in the dead zone of religion.
   Be sure and know that religion is a dead zone from the mind of Satan, and the men who killed Jesus received their order to crucify the Lord from Satan:  for Satan wanted Jesus dead, and the men of religion had the same desire as their father the devil.
   Be sure and know, however, that Christ is the only way out of religion:
      Neither is there salvation in any other: 
         for there is none other name
      under heaven
         given among men,
      whereby we must be saved.  (Acts 4: 12)
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STORIES UNTOLD

      Be still and know that I am God:
         I will be exalted among the heathen,
        I will be exalted in the earth.  (Psalm 46: 10)

   God's ways are silent ways.
   If noise has your attention, God is not in the noise.
   If loud music excites your emotions, God is not in the music.
   If God is not in the message, God is not the message.
   It was a silent night when Jesus was born in Bethlehem. 
   Years later, Jesus was arrested in the silence of the early morning darkness; and for the next several hours, His trial was conducted in the silence of the early morning darkness. 
   And by the time most of the citizens of Jerusalem were breaking for lunch, Jesus was on a cross, bleeding and dying, and His crucifixion was a surprise for many people.
   When Jesus arose from the tomb, there was no noise and the earth did not shake. 
   His ascension back to heaven was also as silent as His arrival in Bethlehem.
   While Jesus lived on earth, the only people who made noise were those wanting to kill Him.
   The world's history books do not record the journeys of the apostles and disciples of Christ; neither does world history mention the cries and screams of millions of murdered Christians over the past two thousand years.  Most of their stories remain untold.
   History books in the United States do not mention the influence of Christian women in America over the past one hundred years.  Most of their stories remain untold.
   Neither do American history books mention the establishment of pioneer churches by pioneer preachers for more than two hundred years.  Most of their stories remain untold.
   God's ways are silent ways. 
   But there will come a day, however, when people will hear from God in a loud and noisy way; for the return of Christ will be a noisy event as God will no longer be silent.
      Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him; and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.  Even so, Amen.  (Revelation 1: 7)
  

WORDS WITHOUT PICTURES

      Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  (Hebrews 11: 1)

   The Bible has no pictures, yet the Bible is believed by more people than any book ever written.
   There are no pictures of Christ, yet Christ is believed by more people than any person in the history of the world.
   Faith is not religion, and religion is not faith.
   God is not religion, and religion is not God.
   People, therefore, can have their faith in God, or they can have their faith in religion; but they cannot have their faith in both.  Trying to mix God with religion is like trying to mix oil with water.
   Is it truthful to say that many people will only believe in the things that they can see with their eyes, or touch with their hands, for they will not believe in things invisible?  Their faith, then, is in the things they can see, such as things on television, or things inside buildings, such as idols and images.
   Evil is also invisible, and the evidence is in the evil deeds that people do.
   Though evil is invisible, people will not deny its existence.
   But to believe in God, who is invisible, is not easy for people to believe.  And though we have a written record of God in the Bible, would more people believe if the Bible had His picture? 
   No!  For then they would worship His image, and God would be no more than an idol.
   Pagans require images and idols, things they can see with their eyes, or touch with their hands; but God requires faith:  the faith to believe in Him though we do not see Him with our eyes, nor can we touch Him with our hands.
   If the Bible is to be believed, it must be believed by faith.
   If Christ is to be believed, He must be believed by faith.
   God abides in heaven, not in a building made with human hands.  Religion, therefore, cannot contain nor control Almighty God. 
   Salvation is of Christ, and religion cannot dispense salvation to people in small doses. 
   The Bible is a book of faith and not a storybook with pictures.
   The Bible is a book of words and the words have no pictures.
   The words of the Bible are living words, for they are of God and they will never disappear.  His words are better understood when read in the present tense.  Read the Word of God and you will also hear the voice of God speaking those words to you.
   And when God speaks, no pictures are needed.
  

SPIRITUALLY BLIND

   People tell people about the people they know, but people do not tell others about people they do not know.
   People tell people about Christ when they know Christ; but for people who do not know Christ, they have nothing to tell about Him.
   What can people say about a stranger, a person they have never met?
   Nothing.
   When Jesus is a stranger to people, what can they say about Jesus?
   Nothing.
   For people must know Jesus in order to tell others about Him.
   Until people meet Christ for the first time, they will never know the power of deception that reigns in this world, for this is impossible for them to know because they are spiritually blind.
   For religious people, they have adjusted their physical eyes to see in artificial light, such as light that is powered by generators, but their spiritual eyes are closed; and their worship is of the things they can see with their physical eyes, or with their imaginations.  For only Christ can open their spiritual eyes.  Once they open their eyes to Christ, however, their religion will disappear.
   Even so, there are many people in churches who cannot tell others about Christ because they are religious Christians---claiming Christianity as a religion, but not claiming Christ as their Savior.  These, too, are people who are spiritually blind, especially by those who claim a church as a family tradition, and therefore they claim Christianity as a family religion.
   People can also claim a Christian church as a brand name, and their allegiance is to their brand name and not to Christ.  The evidence of this is when people say "I'm a Catholic", "I'm a Baptist", or "I am of the Whatever" persuasion because they have found comfort and security in wearing the brand:  in the same way that people find comfort and security in brand name clothes, brand name cars, and designer shoes and purses.  The bigger the name, the bigger the brand, and people are proud because of their big name church with a big name preacher, minister, or priest.  But where is Christ in the brand?  Christ is not there because Christ is a stranger.
   And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, every nation under heaven was represented by people who had gathered outside the house when the Holy Spirit fell on the apostles of Christ; and for the first time in their lives, all of those people heard the wonderful works of God in their own languages.  And for the first time in their lives, their spiritual eyes were opened and they were no longer spiritually blind.
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FROM SATAN'S KITCHEN

   Evil abides in secrecy, and people hide the secret things they do because they do not want others to know their deeds.  For if their deeds were truthful, there would be no reason to keep their deeds hidden.
   Secret societies are evil because members do not want the public to know the secret things they do; neither do people of secret societies want people to know about their secret religion.
   Evil is not public information. 
   Evil operates through a web of deception by evil people who take on the appearance of trustworthy individuals.
   Evil is always a masquerade of truth.
   The icing on a cake makes the cake look good, and evil, with icing on it, takes on the appearance of something that will be good for people---when the cake is nothing but devil's food.
   Evil is devil's food, straight from Satan's kitchen, and all dressed up by the Chef of Evil to appear as something delightful to consume.
   The bigger the lie the better the dressing, which makes it easier for lies to be believed as truth.
   Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were invented and sent forth from Satan's kitchen as delightful characters in order to distract the minds of people from knowing the truth of Christ. 
   Evil hides in darkness where it is not easily seen, and evil seduces people to enter the darkness to get a better look.  And when people enter darkness to investigate, the door behind them closes, and the evil will consume them.
   Religion is also an evil under the sun because religion keeps the minds of people as toddlers all the days of their lives.  Religion does not want people to grow up and become adults.  Religion does not want people to think for themselves.  Instead, religion wants people to depend and to rely on their religion and to remain its prisoners all the days of their lives.  Religion wants people to keep their faith in their religion instead of placing their faith in Almighty God.
   When the sun goes down, evil arises because evil abides and thrives in darkness.
   If the deeds of people are not evil, why are the lights off?
   Thus saith the Lord:
      For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.  Then shall ye call upon me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.  And I will be found of you, saith the LORD:  (Jeremiah 29: 11-13)
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SKETCH ARTISTS

   There are no pictures, portraits, drawings, sketches, or statues of the face of Christ because, if there were, people would worship an image of the Lord instead of believing in Christ by faith.
   Pagans need an image, or an idol, that they can see with their eyes, but not Christians.
   When people of religion die, the god of their religion will not be there to meet them because their god is only an image in their minds. 
   When people of religion die, neither is heaven there because heaven is also an image created in their minds.
   Religion is therefore a trick---a work of deception---to turn the eyes of people away from Almighty God and to focus their attention on the invention of religion:  with all of its gods and goddesses, dogmas and doctrines, rites and rituals, which are also productions from the imaginations of evil men.
   Consequently, any image of the face of Christ that is seen today is only the work of sketch artists from their own imaginations.
      Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11: 1)

TURTLE PEOPLE

  Turtle People are those who are constantly and continuously involved in their pet projects. 
  Their interpersonal skills are at ground zero because their projects is the place where they have found as a place to hide from facing other people.
   Do they enjoy their projects?  Are they good at what they do?
   Of course!  Because their projects is all they do.  Their projects do not disagree with them, and they have comfort in knowing that this is the place where they feel important as well as the place where they are in total control and away from people.
   Away from their projects, however, Turtle People are uncomfortable, for they feel naked and vulnerable in the presence of people.  They are at center stage, all alone, and the spotlight is on them.
   Turtle People will marry a spouse who will either "father" them or "mother" them because they are incapable of making adult decisions.  They will never discuss their feelings, their viewpoints, their opinions, for they have surrendered their authority to their spouse who speaks for them.
   Emotionally, Turtle People are still as young children, for they have never matured.  Internally, they live like a child, they think like a child, and their minds are mechanical or robotic; for they do not think for themselves.  Instead, they rely on their spouses to think for them as well as to make decisions.  For as a child, they are not supposed to think, nor to make decisions, in the presence of adults.
   In marriage, the adult spouse becomes both the mother as well as the father to their children because the Turtle is not capable of making simple decisions for children because he doesn't want to do that; for he would rather have his head stuck in one of his projects.
   The favorite characters of Turtle People include Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, or comical characters, or animated programs for children.
   Turtle People do not perform well in team sports because they do not consider themselves to be part of a team.  Their interpersonal skills have never developed to the adult level because of their self-imposed isolation and insulation in their pet projects.  As a team member, they feel naked and vulnerable because they are now expected to contribute to the team effort while they are playing as an individual:  which is playing like a child, who is hanging out with adults.
   In summary, the relationship of Turtle People is with their projects and not with people, perhaps caused from a traumatic experience as a child:  and in a child's mind they are locked, even as they live in an adult body.
   As Christians, how are we supposed to deal with Turtle People?
   This is a difficult question and the answer is perhaps just as difficult.
   The only solution I can offer is to treat them with love, pray for them, and let God do that which I am incapable of doing, for Turtle People have a difficult time of putting away childish things.
      When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child:  but when I became a man, I put away childish things.  (I Corinthians 13: 11)