CAIN & THE FIRST FAMILY OF EVIL

   There are two types of knowledge:
      1) the knowledge of God;
      2) the knowledge of Satan.
   Consider the knowledge of Cain, the first-born son of Adam and Eve.
   Cain was different. 
   Cain was odd.
   Cain never liked his parents.
   After his younger brother, Abel, was born, Cain never liked him.
   Cain never liked going to church (or worship services) with his parents, nor with his kid brother tagging along.
   Cain never liked the commandments of God, nor did he like to hear his father preach about the ways of God.
   Cain never liked to watch his brother learn the commandments of God, nor to see Abel's obedience to his mother and father.
   Cain believed that he was no longer his father's favorite son, nor the apple of his mother's eyes, and Cain never liked that.
   Cain resented the attention Abel was getting from his parents because of Abel's acceptance of God's commandments, nor for the fact that God accepted Abel's offering while rejecting his own.
   Cain was jealous, Cain was envious, and, most of all, Cain was proud:  for Cain had become a god in his own mind.
   Instead of accepting the knowledge of God, Cain freely received the knowledge of Satan:  and to Satan's will Cain presented himself.
   Therefore being filled with the rage of Satan, Cain arose and murdered his brother by beating him to death, spilling his blood all over the ground.
                          All we, like Cain, have gone astray.
   Like Cain, all of us are capable of receiving the knowledge of God.
   Like Cain, all of us are capable of receiving the knowledge of Satan.
   By rejecting God, however, not only did Cain reject the knowledge of God, but he also rejected the love of God, the forgiveness of God, and the salvation of God for his sin. 
   Consequently, Cain's family became just as evil, for he taught his children to be like himself.  And from the going forth of Cain from Eden, his descendants committed all sorts of sexual perversions and abominations, throughout their generations and across a timespan of a thousand years, until the flood of Noah, at which time Cain's generations died in the flood of water.
   Therefore, Cain's legacy is remembered as the father of the First Family of Evil, for there was no evil that he and his descendants would not do, nor invent to do, for each generation was more evil than the generation before it.  They had no guilt, they had no shame, and they had no conscience. 
   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)
   Moreover, it must be noted that Cain not only rejected the knowledge of God, but, in so doing, he also rejected the love of God:  for without the love of God it is impossible for people to truly love others.
   Obviously, Cain had no love for others, including no love for his own children throughout their generations until the flood came and swept them away.
   Obviously, too, not only was Cain willing to accept hell as his reward for his rebellion against God, he was also willing to take his children with him to that place of eternal damnation and punishment.
   Like Cain, all of us are capable of making the choice that Cain made for himself and for his family.
   Knowing this, perhaps we should pause and ask the question:
                    What are you going to do about God today?
   Or, are we going to agree with the words of the Bible?
      "Let hear the conclusion of the whole matter:  Fear God, and keep his commandments:  for this is the whole duty of man.  For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." (Ecclesiastes 12: 13-14)
     
  
  
  

A MAN WITHOUT GOD

   A man without God is no greater than a child without God, for a man without God will believe in the same myths and fairytales that he teaches his children to believe; for a man without God becomes a preacher of unrighteousness, beginning within his own family:  while his children, not knowing the difference between truth and lies, will follow the lies of their fathers to their graves while believing that they are believing truth.
  Without the knowledge of God, there is no knowledge of God in the minds of people.  Their minds are therefore ignorant of God, and the walls of their minds are blank, in respect to God, for no words of God have never been spoken in their ears, nor written in their hearts, and they remain as nomads of darkness:  for the only light they have known is the light of the sun, the light of the moon, and the light of the stars of the heavens.
      "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
        and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
        and how shall they hear without a preacher?" (Romans 10: 14)
   Without the knowledge of God, however, people will live their lives as if they are gods in their own minds, and they will believe according to their own sets of commandments:  writing their own laws as they journey through life---while teaching their children to do the same.
   Without the knowledge of God, the minds of adults remain as the minds of young children:  for even young children like those things they see with their eyes and hear with their ears.  So do many adults!  For they are gullible and easily influenced to believe by the simple persuasion of pleasant voices, especially if they believe they will be rewarded, or if their lives will be enhanced.  They live within their own set of commandments, and, if they incorporate any new teaching, they write amendments to their own constitutions while rejecting none of their previous entries, or endorsements.  Thus these changes are approved by themselves because of their self-ordained divinity.
   Without the knowledge of God, it is easier for people to believe in a person who is made in our own likeness, in the image of ourselves, which is a man; and if this man appears to be not from this world, but heavenly in nature---because of his saintly apparel, such as a priest's garments of flowing robes in shimmering white, and other garments of exotic colors from his celestial wardrobe---they will believe that he is surely a god among them, for his words sound like honeycomb falling from the heavens above.  For his very appearance looks god-like to them.
   Evil is always presented as something good and wonderful to people without the knowledge of God.  While not knowing that they lack the knowledge of God, they are easily persuaded by beautiful women, handsome men, as well as by distinguished gentlemen and ladies, highly educated and wealthy, and especially by those whom are considered to be from royal bloodlines, such as princes, kings, and queens, and even a godly line of kingdom priests:  to whom they incline their ears to the doctrines of these ministers and priests, for these are the upper crust of the world as gods dwelling among us even though their bodies are made from the same substance of our bodies, composed by flesh and bone, and born of women of the earth, who live and die, and are buried in the earth---for these, too, are made in our own image, in the likeness of men, just like you and me.  The only difference, however, is that these kingdom priests are believed to be born of human goddesses (virgins, no less!) which return to their goddess-like state after death, and whom are continually worshipped---generation, after generation, after generation---just like their male gods are continually worshipped.
   As such, people without the knowledge of God will not believe that God created the heavens and the earth, nor that He created all things living upon the earth, including the creation of humans.  Such information is nonsense to their ears, or alien to their understanding, for they have the spiritual minds of young children.  For they will believe they are being lied to by people with the knowledge of God, and that God is no more than a myth or a fairytale.  Just as they have tricked their own children to believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, they have also been tricked by Satan to believe that God does not exist, but also tricked to believe that the Bible is no more than a collection of myth and fairytales!  Therefore, the trick is on them, which they do not know nor recognize, because their minds have been baptized in the deception of Satan.  Consequently, their minds are void of the knowledge of God. 
   Knowing, then, that carnal minds are void of the knowledge of God, they are also void of the love of God because of their rejection of the Son of God, Christ Jesus our Lord.  Rather than believing in God through Christ and thereby becoming recipients of God's eternal love, they will believe in anything and everything that is not of God to stand their ground in unbelief.
      "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  He that believeth on him is not condemned:  but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." (John 3: 16-18)

A GOD COMPLEX

    If I yield myself to a man of the earth, his mind will become my mind, his thoughts will become my thoughts, his ways will become my ways, and his conscience will become my conscience:  for that man, to me, has become my god.  I will covenant with him to do his will, to believe as he believes, to go where he says to go, to do as he says to do, and even to kill if he says to kill:  for that man, to me, is my god.
      "The thing that hath been is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be:  and there is no new thing under the sun."
                                             (Ecclesiastes 1: 9)
   Having a god complex is nothing new under the sun.  We are born with it, but it is also a masterful work of psychological reinforcement in the minds of people by the power that abides in darkness; for as people reject God, they will believe in just about anything and everything under the sun, especially if their minds remain as the minds of young children. 
   Just as easily as young children can be taught to believe in Santa Claus, they can also be taught to believe that a man of the earth is a god.  If that dogma gets to their minds while they are young, they will embrace it and cling to it all the days of their lives:  for that dogma, even though it is a lie, will be believed as truth because young children do not know the difference between truth and lies.  They are simply believing as they have been taught to believe, which is usually by the will of their parents since parents teach their children those things that they believe are truth, which can be a classical case of the blind leading the blind, because the parents have been blinded from the truth that is in Christ Jesus.
   The builders of empires throughout human history have been the works of evil men, self-consumed by this god complex.  Taking for themselves the thrones of governments and the thrones of religions, not only have they exalted themselves to be worshipped as gods, all of them have been men of war.   
   As haters of God, they are also haters of people because humans are created in the image of God.   
   Therefore, their diabolical objectives have all been the same, from one empire to the next, which is to kill people from the face of the earth as unwanted pests within their kingdoms because we, being made in God's image, have been the hunted of evil men for thousands of years.  Even now we are the hunted because the leaders of the world today are just as evil as the men who occupied their thrones before them.
   It is not our fault that evil men choose to be evil.  But what happens to people when they, in fact, submit themselves to these devilish creatures, when they bow to them as gods upon the earth?  And what happens to the children of parents when they have converted to men as gods?  Their children become like them---doing the will of their parents, but also doing the will of their human gods!  This is how entire families become haters of God, for they have submitted their souls as well as the souls of their own children by believing that they will be rewarded for their obedience to these evil men, whom they believe hold the keys to heaven and hell.
   The first creature to exhibit this god complex was, of course, Satan, which is described in the Bible:
      "For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:  I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."     (Isaiah 14: 13-14)
   As humans, we are born with this god complex, which is easily seen and demonstrated in the lives of toddlers.  When they do not get their way, or get what they want, what do they do?  They get angry.  They stomp their feet.  They cry.  If this behavior goes uncorrected, the toddler will become a living terror as he grows older, for he is saying:  "I will!"  "I will!"  "I will!"
   Since we are born on earth and not in Heaven, all of us are born with this "I will!" characteristic, as demonstrated by the facts of our own behavior:
   ---I will to be the boss so I can be bossy;
   ---I will to be the boss of my home and my family;
   ---I will to be the chairperson of the parent-teacher association, or the sports committee;
   ---I will to be seen first, seated first, and served first;
   ---I will to sit on the boards of directors of banks, clubs, and civic organizations;
   ---I will to believe in my religion instead of believing in God;
   ---I will to confess my sins to a human priest instead of confessing my sins to God.
   The Bible clearly says, however,
      "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3: 23)
   But not me, right?  Why, surely I am not a sinner for my human god assured me that he forgave me!  So this Bible talk does not apply to the "I will" in me, for I have been granted a passageway to Heaven according to the dictates of men.  After all, we're going to the same place even though we arrive by different ways.  Right?
   Not so fast!
   As long as we exhibit this childlike "I will" behavior of the god complex, be assured that salvation through Christ will never be possible, no matter how long or how many times we try to find forgiveness of sin, in anything and everything, that is not of God.  For it is written:
      "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.  Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." (James 4: 6-7)
  
    

SEEKERS OF EVIL

   As discussed yesterday in KEEPERS OF SECRETS, we should be able to see by the demonstrations of their own behaviors, that the leaders of the world are SEEKERS OF EVIL. 
   Jesus said, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."  (Matthew 7: 15)
   How else, then, are we to evaluate the "fruit" of their labor (the labor of the leaders of the world) when we look at the results of their decisions? 
   As supervisors, how should we judge the leaders of the world in their annual performance reviews if they worked for us as company employees?
   As supervisors, do we determine that they need more training?  Do we give them a raise in wages?  Or do we terminate their employment?  Are we better off with them, or would we be better off without them?
   Consider the evidence in the things we see them doing, but also consider the evidence in the things they do not do:
   The leaders of the world have the power to end terrorism, yet terrorism continues to grow and prosper.
   They have the power to end starvation worldwide, yet they do nothing.
   People continue to suffer from sickness and diseases, yet the leaders of the world do nothing---even though they have the power to provide medicines and medical treatment facilities worldwide.
   They also have the power to enable nations to build companies and corporations that would provide employment for citizens worldwide, which would also enable the people to build hospitals and institutions of education, yet the leaders of the world do nothing to encourage them, nor to teach them the knowledge that would help them to help themselves and thereby become self-sufficient. 
   As industrialized nations continue to grow and prosper, however, undeveloped nations continue to be undeveloped.
   We could go on and on with a presentation of many ways that prosperous and progressive nations could help other nations to grow and prosper, which should reveal to us that the leaders of world are not truly interested in sharing knowledge or the wealth of wealthy nations:  it is as if the world's elite are purposely restraining undeveloped nations from attaining greatness and thereby keeping them as dirt beneath their feet, or as mere subjects and slaves, to a royal class of individuals, whose one and only goal is to rule the world.
   Human history tells us that this is true, for the leaders of all world empires have always been led by angry and ruthless people in order to control and dominate as many people as possible, which is why all of them have always been dictators. 
   This fact should tell us that world leaders today are no different than world leaders of yesteryear, for their behaviors are exactly the same.  As Jesus said, they appear in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 
   Sheep's clothing can also be viewed as fancy suits and priestly garments. 
   As such, when they are not in public view, they are behind the curtain in secret ceremonies of worship at the feet of Satan, for it is to him that they pledge their allegiance!
   Going further, not only are they content to watch people suffer from malnutrition and starvation, from sicknesses and diseases, watching people die is not only something that thrills them, but killing people is their duty!  For they know that it is the blood of people that satisfies their god!
   Therefore, because world leaders worship Satan, they are the instigators and inventors of all things evil; for their minds constantly dwell in the house of evil, and evil, therefore, is their natural habitat.
   Do you see this truth today? 
   World leaders do not want peace because they want war:  for they know that wars kill people:  which is why they continually manufacture and distribute weapons of war worldwide! 
   Instead of closing the door of terrorism, they throw out the welcome mat on the doorsteps of nations worldwide!
   They want people to die.
   This story today is not difficult to see, nor to understand.  Watch the leaders of the world as they appear on television, on radio, or on the internet.  Listen to the words they speak.  Then watch them as they disappear from the face of cameras and microphones.  Where do they go?  What do they do?
   They never tell us.


  


 

KEEPERS OF SECRETS

   We are engaged in a great war and we are the witnesses of this war that is being conducted by men in secrecy from behind the curtain.  They do not want us to know they are there, but they are there.  They do not want us to know their names or their faces, but they are there.
    This war is being demonstrated in front of our eyes in the arenas of prostitution, pornography, pedophilia, drug and alcohol addictions, domestic abuse, rape, hatred, violence, racism, terrorism, murder---fueled in the theaters of politics and religion, filmed by Hollywood, and reinforced by Satanic music and dazzling light shows.
    This war is the oldest war in human history, for it is the war that is against God, against Christ, and against the Bible; therefore, this war is a spiritual war, but it is clearly a physical war that is designed to kill humans, to destroy peace and freedom, and to erase everything good that people have made on the face of the earth. 
   While men are actively talking about peace and peace treaties, the war rages on. 
   While men persistently rattle and rant about global warming, climate change, and gun control, the war rages on.
   While men constantly babble about social inequality, unequal wages, sexual orientations, and opportunites that are not fair for all people, the war rages on. 
   The United Nations continues to gather in New York City and nothing changes.
   Politicians of the United States continue to gather in Washington, D.C. and nothing changes.
   The European Union continues to meet in Brussels and nothing changes.
   Pope Francis continues to go here, go there, and go everywhere, and nothing changes.
   Meanwhile, no war has been launched against prostitution, pornography, or pedophilia.  No war has been launched against drug traffickers or the traffickers of women and children for prostitution and sexual abuse. No war has been launched against rape, hatred, or racism.  Neither has a war been launched against terrorism.
   The most powerful people in the world have the power to stop evil from advancing; but instead of doing something to stop snakes from multiplying, they do nothing.  For if the leaders of the world truly believed in God and His righteousness, they would say so.  Instead, their words are void of the knowledge of God.  They have economic summits and conferences about climate change, global warming, and gun control, but they do nothing about global terrorism, the number one threat to freedom worldwide.  All of them admit that this is true, yet they do nothing.
      "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field, which the LORD God had made." (Genesis 3: 1)
   The most powerful people in the world are like the serpent in the Garden of Eden.  Dressed in fancy suits and priestly garments, they never tell us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  They are masters of deception, cunning and sly.  They speak with split tongues. They want us to trust in them, yet their faces are turned away from evil.  Like Satan, they have no fear of God.  They have no fear of the people they govern and no fear of public opinion. 
   The war against God that Satan launched in the Garden of Eden continues today in the minds and hearts of the most powerful people in the world, the leaders of governments and religion.
   The war against Christ that Satan launched with the crucifixion of the Lord in Jerusalem continues today in the minds and hearts of the leaders of governments and religion. 
   For this is that spiritual war that is being conducted from the Devil behind the curtain through the minds and hearts of the most powerful people in the world, which we are seeing with our eyes in the pain and suffering of people across the face of the earth.  And every day we are watching this war on television. 
   Obviously, there will be no peace on earth---not until Christ returns. 
   Please remember that Christ is not a religion, nor an image of a god, and neither is He an idol made by human hands. 
   The leaders of the world, on the other hand, have been keepers of secrets throughout human history.  So we should not be surprised to learn that the behaviors of the leaders of the world today are cut from the same cloth of evil for thousands of years.  For they never tell us about the results of their economic summits, the findings they conclude concerning global warming and climate change, nor the outlines of their private thoughts about terrorism.  While they appear to be kind and noble, truthful and honest, are they?   

A NATION IN PERIL

   Look at the faces of President Obama and all the politicians in Washington, D.C.  Not one of them is stunned, nor outraged, about the terrorist attack in California last week.  Instead, they are going about their daily affairs as business as usual:  they go to their jobs, shuffle some papers, chat with each other and with the news media, make appearances on radio and television talk shows, then they collect their paychecks at the end of the week and go to their homes.
   With leadership such as this, the United States is a nation in peril.  The enemy is inside the gates and the leaders turn their faces.
   But the United States is not alone in this state of apathy, this state of indifference, and this state of little concern about the rise of terrorism worldwide:  for the faces of world leaders, in the palaces of governments and in religions, tell the same story:  they are neither stunned, nor outraged, at the rise of violence across the earth.  They go about their daily affairs as business as usual:  they go to their jobs, shuffle some papers, chat with each other and with the news media, then collect their paychecks at the end of the week and go to their homes. 
   Relax, they tell us.
   There is nothing to worry about.
   Relax. 
   Go to the movies.
   Go about your daily affairs as usual.
   Collect a paycheck at the end of the week and go shopping. 
   Watch another football game. 
   Eat, drink, and be merry.
   Why, surely, our leaders know best that which is best for us.  Right?
   Meanwhile, the war on terrorism is not a war at all; for terrorists are gaining ground every day while the leaders of the world play war games on computer apps and make telephone calls.
   Take another look at the faces of the world's leaders.  From the United States, to Rome, to Europe, to Russia and China, and to the uttermost parts of the earth. Take another look at their faces.  Look at their eyes. 
   They have no concern for freedom. 
   They have no heart for the bloodshed of innocent people. 
   They have no natural affection and no love for others. 
   Not one of them has faith in God:  no, not one. 
   Not one of them speaks for God:  no, not one.
   Meanwhile, freedom worldwide is vanishing before our eyes.  Little by little and day by day the enemy continues to murder and butcher people everywhere---while the leaders of the world do nothing.
   The United States is surely a nation in peril.  But not only is this nation in trouble, for every nation upon the earth is a nation in peril. 
   Our only hope for freedom must be in God.  But if people do not want God's help, then God will leave people alone:  for God will not go where God is not welcome.
      "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." (Joshua 24: 15)