A RELIGION CONTAMINATED LOVE FOR GOD

CLARITY & SOBRIETY

In heaven there is nothing to fight over and by keeping this truth in mind one detaches his or her mind from illusion and stays clear of any delusion that follows.

Before one can win a war on earth one needs to prepare a strategy. That preparation needs time, and being quite aware of any spies, those plans must be kept in secret. In heaven there is no time and no darkness where everyone’s secrets are illuminated by God’s truth in one instant.

Is your heavenly logic still functioning; or are you drifting away? Please discipline your mind for as we go further you will need that discipline in order to be reformed. 

When fierce battles ensue they take up much energy, valor, fury, hate and ferocity, not to mention killing and dying while butchering an enemy.

In heaven nothing dies, no oppositions, nothing to prevail against.

Now, we come to an intelligent question: where is the rebellion of the supposed covering cherub Lucifer in this scenario? How could he plot in the timeless sphere? How could he hide his alleged plot from the Omniscient God and where from did he get that evil notion? Where did the pride (of this present earthly life) come from? Scripture clearly shows the fact that pride did not originate in heaven, but rather in the world of matter.

[1 John 2:16] For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

So, this Lucifer must be then a man, even a king. Well, let’s see for a moment what the context speaks of:

[Isaiah 14:11‘Your pomp and the music of your harps have been brought down to Sheol; maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you and worms are your covering.’

Excuse me; do warms eat up angels in Sheol, which is a physical grave? If angels do not even burn in the visible fire why should they lie in a grave and be eaten by maggots? 

[Judges 13:20] For it came about when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground.

Hey, hey. The angel just went up in fire unharmed. What’s going on? Think and think again my dear friend. Our illusions must lead to disillusionment before we can embrace the bright light of God’s Truth; only then we can be reformed. And once we are reformed we will grow spiritually, ecstatically and gloriously.

[Isaiah 14:16] Is this the MAN, who made the earth tremble?

Wait a moment… this Lucifer is a man? Why would anyone mess with the God given logic of the prophet Isaiah? We quote Isaiah and make up things, which he did not say nor meant. Why should this illusion even secretly reside in our minds making our brains to shrink even more? (Don’t get offended by my sarcasm, but first I pointed the finger at myself and I do thank God for it. I invite you to do the same so that the holy liberty might loosen you up.) Where are the lovers of truth these days?  

 [Isaiah 14:19] But you have been cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch, clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit like a trampled corpse.

Not only this man was first buried in a tomb, but also because he was so hated his corpse was disgraced and ejected from his own tomb. And it seems that this king was covered with the slain in a mass grave.

When it suits our ego we use metaphors and when not we read the same passages literally just to support the wobbly doctrines we have created, or inherited from our predecessors. No matter how much we want to escape responsibility by blaming someone else, we still have to deal with the God given gift of intelligence. 

I kindly ask you to put down your pride and any self-importance. If God created all things then He is the absolute Boss, isn’t He? Perhaps you do not like it, but that’s beside the point, for our importance in God’s eyes is meaningless. That is the reason why I speak about self-nullification, frankly and directly. The time we waste on our “phony sensitivities” results in beating around the bush; and boredom to both the hearer as well as you the reader. Lengthy excuses, dancing and prancing around our put-on sensitivities brings nothing new; it only impedes not only our intellectual progress, but also and above all, the spiritual.

Either our theology is wrong or our belief in the Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent God is awry. The mind seducing theology of Lucifer’s supposed fall and that of his own subordinate one-third of angels is a complete nonsense.

Angels cannot be numbered. So, by using one-third as a number one must know the two-thirds. But there is no place that mentions the number of God’s angels. “Myriads” is no number; it is something limitless (Daniel 7:8; Hebrews 12:22; Revelations 5:11). But a question still remains. Do you want to seek the truth, dig the truth, and uncover the treasures of God?

WORKS OF ILLUSION IN THE BIBLE

The works of illusion, which the Bible shows us, can compete with the Truth, but only to a certain point and then they fade. Illusion deludes many into believing that what they carry is true, but only the propagators of illusion know very well that what they project are nothing but tricks.

The Egyptian magicians imitated Moses’s signs until all their imitations stopped working and they acknowledged it by saying, “This is the finger of God” (Exodus 8:19). They said that God is true, the Truth; and anything that came down to us from His realm is true.   

Illusion works only within the permissible will of God and even as a test for the righteous. The Truth is about to swallow illusion.

[Exodus 7:12] For each one (magician) threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

Since it was a work of illusion Aaron’s serpent did not swell up like a stuffed anaconda. The only thing we can observe is that God also used illusion in the works of Moses and Aaron. But that does not mean that both were evil, but rather obedient to God’s word not fully knowing yet what He was up to. Step by step until they saw what God was really after. Obedience in small steps prepares you for big steps. These were just signs and not miracles of healing. Again, they were only signs. These signs continued for a while until the Truth prevailed.

Making signs is not difficult. But no illusionist can really channel divine healing power and change the molecular structure in people. That has been shown already. Nonetheless, those that God chose—and only in obedience to Him—can perform divine healing and the molecular structures in a body do change also. A deformity changes into normality. Death departs and life comes in. Illusionists cannot do this; and that is the power of God. I have seen it happening on many occasions.   

DELUDING INFLUENCE

The Egyptians were deluded into believing that they are invincible. They thought that their glory is eternal. Surely, God gave them power, but they had exchanged it for self-adoration. Pharaohs demanded worship, which is only due to the Almighty; and Egypt’s population was enslaved to this illusion. Egypt’s civilization was only tolerated to a certain point until its cup of pomp and self-worship was full. Those Pharaohs-gods who created and skillfully used this illusion died exactly the same way their slaves did. Their golden boats were unusable on the imagined sea and their ‘own’ gold was pilfered. Eventually God’s hand was forced and He sent the spirit of delusion upon them.

Today, the mystique of the great past attracts great excitement, which we leave when we find another excitement. From one higher heartbeat rate to another… and yet another and then… comes the grave where it all stops.   

[2 Thessalonians 2:11-12] For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

That deluding influence resides in all of us, but it can remain locked up and one can throw the key away, however many wallow in it and still play with the key, opening and closing and opening again. 

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth (John 4:22-24).

It is not on this or that mountain, not in this church, synagogue, mosque, Buddhist or that Hindu temple; no longer places, but in your body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning (John 15:26-27).

But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come (John 16:13).  

When Jesus challenged me regarding the last reformation, and showed me how the pure love for God the Father has been compromised; I was appalled. He showed me even those (elect) and chosen ones. Due to circumstances in which they found themselves they had to compromise that pure love just to make it. Fund raising, missionary support, donations and the religious gorgon that goes with it make up the religious environment in which the pure flame of love is dimmed and often dwindles down to only a spark.

Hypocrisy thrives where positions, status and influence matter. In a religious environment where money plays an enormous role, where buildings, staff, salaries and many operational costs often tilt the odds in the direction of love for these things; the pure love for our Heavenly Father becomes secondary and fading. Short of saying, “lying;” short of saying, “deception;” and short of saying, “love of money” I say that often our love becomes contaminated.

It is so much more convenient to have an excuse, and a scapegoat just to cover up things; rather than be completely honest and truthful - to oneself and to others before the all-seeing God. It is much more convenient to love theology rather than the living God our Maker. Indeed He made us and the entire heaven rejoices over one that repents and returns to the Father and to the first love.

The love of many has not only grown cold, but it has been hijacked by religion and thus has been contaminated. This happens gradually as we must juggle priorities in life. Our insecurities dictate behavior, which often is to preserve the flesh first; hence our knowledge of, and our love for God gets buried under a stack of bills and obligations.

Letters sent to supporters have to be tweaked and charged with almost begging and with pitiful appeals because the insecurity is so unbearable. Instead of removing the blind spots and giving understanding, we transmit those blind spots over to the people; we create insecurities and then brood together in the same cesspool we have created. On the way to Emmaus Jesus opened His disciples understanding; He removed many blind spots and had explained to them scriptures.

We have contaminated our love with false priorities in life; hence we can’t teach people faith, confidence and trust in the Living God, but rather in the conditioned by religion god. Religious obligations become our priorities thus we have shoved the pure love for our Father into an unused drawer, which eventually hardly ever gets opened; where spiders weave their cobwebbed nests.

Like flies we get caught in the cobwebs of religion. These webs are standard of operations, the norm. A denominational church structure must be maintained, funds must be raised, missionaries supported,  religious façade maintained and in this jungle of “responsibilities” the pure love for our God the Father gets lost. It's time to return to our Father and to the pure love for Him.

Do we have grounds; reasons for repentance, the full return to our Father the Maker of mankind? Aren’t we His agents, His ambassadors on this planet?

And He will be the stability of your times, a wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is his treasure. Behold, their brave men cry in the streets, the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly (Isaiah 33:6-7).

Due to this confusion—regarding God’s absolute sovereignty over all of His creation—many seem disoriented and perturbed, for they have not lost their lives; and have not exchanged them yet for new lives. Anything new is not known or well established, it's so new that one must know the Giver of that new life and trust Him. But too many still hold on to the old life as if a most prized possession.

Someone must show you the way and woo you back to the Almighty Father of Lights, your Creator who watches over you.

Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows (Luke 12:6-7).