Showing posts with label The Goddess. Show all posts
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Aug 5, 2014

ISIS Praises John McCain For Helping Them Invade Iraq

We shouldn't be shocked.  We know this small guerilla group must have some massive financial backers, supplying them with the latest weapons, and of course promoting these "radical muslims" with the name of the pagan Egyptian goddess, ISIS.  Perhaps a foreshadowing of the "wickedness" foretold of as arising in "the plain of Shinar", right where the ISIS group first appeared. (Zechariah 5:5-11).  Whoever is behind the group, one thing is certain.  They are slaughtering Christians.

By Theodore Shoebat

The Muslim terrorist group, ISIS, issued a statement attributing their success to the Iraq war, and they had John McCain to thank for it. In the statement they wrote:
…the crusader John McCain came to the Senate floor to rant irritably about the victories the Islamic State was achieving in Iraq. He forgot that he himself participated in the invasion of Iraq that led to the blessed events unfolding today by Allah’s bounty and justice.
It is true, the war in Iraq that was started by Bush led to the enabling ISIS to commit the massacres and violence it is doing now. ISIS knows that Saddam would have not tolerated them, and would have without hesitated cut them to pieces, as his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar would have done.
Iraq does not need democracy, but a fierce dictatorship like Saddam. But thanks to John McCain and his ilk, we have devils like ISIS invading Iraq and butchering Christians, and the jihadists are thanking McCain for their victories and atrocities.

Read this article at - http://shoebat.com/2014/08/02/isis-praises-john-mccain-helping-invade-iraq/

Aug 1, 2014

End of Christianity 'Very Near' in Iraq, Anglican Bishop Warns - Mystery Babylon, ISIS and prophecy

Mystery Babylon continues to drink the blood of the saints, but awaits her soon coming demise...(Revelation 17:5-6, 16)...I do believe that wickedness has been unleashed in the plain of Shinar as prophesied (Zechariah 5:5-11), and that ISIS is a clue, as it's one of the best known names of the goddess Mystery Babylon and her false system of worship.  Christians should be preparing for the great persecution to come (Revelation 7:14)...

By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter

Mosul, Christian (Photo: Reuters)
Families fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul wait at a checkpoint in outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region in June 2014.
The end of Christianity in Iraq could be "very near" according to Canon Andrew White, the vicar of the only Anglican church in Iraq, as Islamic militants continue their attacks of Christians and the central government.
"Things are so desperate, our people are disappearing," White said in an interview with BBC Radio 4 over the weekend. "We have had people massacred, their heads chopped off.

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"Are we seeing the end of Christianity? We are committed come what may, we will keep going to the end, but it looks as though the end could be very near."

ISIS militants had warned Christians in the northern state of Iraq that they need to convert to Islam, pay a tax or be put to death, forcing thousands of them to flee the region. The militants have also been painting the letter "N" for Nasrani, the Arabic word for Christian, in Christian homes in Mosul.
The Islamic extremists have declared an "Islamic state" in the territory of Iraq and Syria, and have vowed to take control of Baghdad.

ISIS killed 31 people in the capital during a suicide bombing last week, which wounded another 58.
White, who was in London at the time of the interview, urged the international community to offer urgent help to the persecuted minority.

"The Christians are in grave danger. There are literally Christians living in the desert and on the street. They have nowhere to go," the vicar said.

He continued: "We do not want Britain to forget us. We – and I'm saying 'we' talking like an Iraqi Christian – have always been with the British because they have already been with us.
"Individual churches, individual Christians in Britain, have been a bigger help than anybody around the world."

Watchdog groups like International Christian Concern have said that up to a million Christians lived in Iraq prior to the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 against the government of dictator Saddam Hussein, but that number has dropped to less than half.

Read the rest of this article at - http://www.christianpost.com/news/end-of-christianity-very-near-in-iraq-anglican-bishop-warns-123926/

Jul 31, 2014

Is the Rise of the ISIS Terrorist Caliphate Fulfillment of the Prophecy of Zechariah 5?

By VL


Zechariah 5:5-11 is a prophecy uttered by Zechariah concerning a future time when a goddess, a divine female would be placed in a basket covered with lead,  This woman, called "wickedness" in verse 8, will be released in the Plain of Shinar, site of Ancient Babylon and modern-day Iraq.  In verse 11 she would have a house built for her and she would be placed upon her base.  Is ISIS a clear sign that the wickedness has been released and her house and base are being built and expanded by this terrorist group?

The terrorist group ISIS or ISIL depending on the news agency reporting certainly didn't name itself.  Unless they aren't actually Muslims.  In the case of the ISIL name, the L stands for Levant, a French name for the Eastern Mediterranean region centered on Israel.  The origin of the word is Latin, a language no self-respecting Muslim would ever use.  For Muslims it's Arabic only.  In the case of ISIS, no real Muslim would use the term because it's the name of the pagan goddess of ancient Egypt.  Muslims believe in only one God, Allah.  You may remember that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, during their brief time in power, considered destroying the Great Pyramid, Sphinx, et al., because they were relics of Egypt's pagan past.

So the names are coming from someone in the west, likely someone in government who feeds the stories to the press.  But why these names?  Why specifically ISIS? 

ISIS is the "Queen of Heaven" and "God-Mother" of the Ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods.  Another more sinister title was "wife of the god of the abyss".  In reality, history shows the true link of this goddess.

Astarte, Isis, Artemis, Diana, Mary, all are simply different names for the same "Queen of Heaven" and "Mother of god".  She will ultimately be revealed as MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND  ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Revelation 17:5)  It would seem she holds another name as well.  Rishah in Hebrew is "wickedness", and is found in Zechariah 5:5-11.  Here she is a spiritual being, taken by two female angels (that's the only place in scripture describing female angels) in a lead covered basket, placed in the "plain of Shinar".  It would seem in the case of this ISIS that someone has gone to great lengths (USA, Saudi Arabia?) to arm and establish this murderous band in the land of ancient Babylon.



So is the terrorist/mercenary group ISIS a symbol that "wickedness" has been released in these last days?  ISIS originated in the plain of Shinar and are beginning to spread out from that base, apparently slaughtering thousands who don't fully co-operate along the way.  For a group that has an estimated size of 3,000 men, they are wreaking incredible havoc across Iraq and now slowly making their way into neighboring countries.  No doubt some very wealthy and connected persons have armed the with the newest and best weapons any terrorist might hope for.  The slaughter of Christians in that region is now fully underway. 




This story isn't complete without mentioning the bizarre Katy Perry which is full of symbols of her as the goddess Isis, as well as the name of the video being "dark horse", hearkening back to the release of the four horsemen which will be unleashed any day now...



We should also know that Isis was associated with magic, actually considered the goddess who had mastered the black arts above all the other gods.  Including the magic of being able to resurrect her dead husband, Osiris.  Speaking of magic, it was good of Christine Legarde , Head of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) or the commercial center of all banking on the planet to tell us earlier this year that 2014 was indeed the "year of magic". 
 


It would appear 2014 is indeed a very important year to the goddess Isis.  If it is truly Isis magic year, it's going to be a very ominous time for the human race.

Jul 18, 2014

Remembering the Future - Secrets of the Black Awakening - Part 5

By Sue Bradley
FEE – FI – FO – FUM
The European continent was apparently not the boundary for barbaric and ruthless overlords. Ancient Albion is the ancestral place name for present day United Kingdom, specifically Great Britain. As early as 322 BC, Albion was associated with Great Britain. Many contemporary toponyms descend from hereditary parentage, and Albion’s roots traverse Gaul, Germany, the Alps, and across the landmasses of Asia Minor to Syria and Lebanon.



If future generations are indeed revelations of a nation’s spiritual heritage, there is none in Western civilization that more accurately reflected than Great Britain. The entire landmass of the British Isles is infused and sealed with the talismans of preternatural rituals and hermetic communion.

The enigma of Stonehenge is second only to the Great Pyramid and has become the modern nest for nearly every foul spirit and dark god. The precision and mystery of the Salisbury monument and its environs have never been fully understood and are likely to continue their mystic pull and the standing stones, circles, earthworks, altars, healing centers and history have drawn millions to the region to experience mystical companionship.

Salisbury plain is host to anomalies too numerous to mention: and the enigmas which have been scrutinized are primarily on the surface. Around and below, the landscape and underworld is perforated with a seething and hidden history. The forces of which so many speak present themselves as hypnotic voices and willing and enthusiastic generations respond with reveling pilgrimages and rituals to the celebrated gods.
In the pastures near Dorset in the southwest United Kingdom, ancient chalk figures provide yet another element to the mystic conundrum of anomalies. The Cerne Abbas Giant is a 180 ft. figure explicitly carved giant wielding a large, knobbed club. The Rude Man or Rude Giant is most certainly a representation of Cernunnos stalking the then forested realms of ancient Britannia.

Cernunnos was not altogether unknown to writers and composers. J.R.R. Tolkien is believed to have used Cernunnos as the archetype for the character, Treebeard, in the Lord of the Rings series:
“Concealed within the deepest grove of ash and yew and holy oak, white clad pagans dance round the blazing fire. Silver bells chime throughout the sylvan kingdom, stirred by a fairy wind. An ovation of hymns travels the midnight breeze, whispering of ancient dreams… And there, in splendor unveiled and radiant, the Horned God Cernunnos is enthroned.”
The Cerne Abbas Giant and his legendary brothers, Gog and Magog, are said to have terrorized the countryside for centuries by raiding livestock and devouring sheep and cattle before refining their tastes to humans, of which, as the tradition continues, numbered to as many as 30 men, women and children a day. There are accounts of as many as 40,000 of these rampaging giants wandering throughout England’s hills.
Other chalk figures include several white horses, the Long Man of Wilmington, as well as a roster of less specific designs. These sites are unquestionably the most popular sites for neo-pagan rituals and celebrations to give homage to the four Earth cycles of the seasons and the progression of birth, life, decline and death.

Francisco de Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son
While the wild-eyed image of Francisco de Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son (shown at right), is alarmingly grotesque, it is most likely a somewhat realistic conceptualization of the gruesome and macabre epochs when very real giants and other equally ghastly creatures roamed and clashed. It would be difficult to imagine having a portrait such as this above the fireplace, and yet millions are attracted to the ancient sites, engaging and celebrating the horror, which is now so beautifully displayed and softened.

In a bizarre twist of festivity, each November, the Lord Mayor of the City of London sponsors a parade featuring the two giant statues of Gog and Magog temporarily removed from their sentry positions outside the City’s Guild Hall.

But perhaps the most uncanny ‘monument’ in the British Isles is one, which by appearance is the most sophisticated, but by far the most profound.

ISIS UNVEILED

Thirty five miles northeast of Stonehenge, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at Oxfordshire, the “world’s leading pulsed neutron and muon source” was established as an “international community” for over 2,000 scientists in the fields of physics, geology, engineering and chemistry.

With a facility decidedly designed to resemble Stonehenge, the ISIS laboratory inaugurated in 1995 and with a logo that strongly resembles Stonehenge, is at the forefront of bio-molecular and nano-scale research and production. In the era of cold, hard jargon and rigid differentials, the spiritual inclinations of ISIS are clear:
“ISIS is not an acronym. The name was decided for the opening of the neutron source in 1984 by the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. Prior to this it had been known as SNS, or Spallation Neutron Source.



Isis

As principal goddess of ancient Egypt, ISIS was able to bring the dead back to life. The name was considered appropriate for the new neutron source which inherited many components from previous accelerators in the UK (Nimrod and Nina) and which is located near The River Thames, known locally as The Isis.” – Source, ISIS
A reference to The Thames River recalls the images and perhaps the ritual of the jackal god Anubis, son of Osiris, being ferried between the twin towers of the London Bridge for exhibition in 2007. And Isis, worshipped as the ideal mother and wife, patron of nature and magic, the Lady of beasts and green fields, is the feminine from which all beginnings arose, is believed to have been instrumental in the resurection of her husband, Osiris, restoring his body having gathered and reassembled his parts.
In The Mysteries of Isis: Her Worship and Magick by deTraci Regula:
The march of the Roman Empire took Isis into the heart of the country of Herne, and at least one Celtic plaque appears to depict Cernunnos, who can be considered another aspect of Herne, with the foreign Egyptian dieties.”
The Egyptian Book of the Dead describes the many titles of Isis:
“She who gives birth to heaven and earth,” “Mother of the Gods,” “Lady of the Green Crops,” and “Lady of the Words of Power.”
Evidence of the early dominance of Cernunnos/Herme is documented by the prevalence of place names perforating the geography of Great Britain, and once again, along Latitude 51, there is an undeniably strong connection to the God of the Hunt and his subatomic underworld: the Cerne Abbas Giant, Gog and his brother, Magog, the White Horse of Uffington, Stonehenge and most curiously, the particle physics research facility, ISIS.

Is the United Kingdom, and Europe as a whole, unconsciously assembling a congregation of ancient gods, cloaked as scientific achievement but possessing a power, an elemental power, that was recorded on tablets and in stone and within myths and folklore, but denying the power thereof?

ANGELS AND DEMONS

For many, the acronym, CERN, and the strange world of quantum physics was first introduced through the prequel novel by Dan Brown, Angels and Demons, published in 2000, prior to Brown’s pop-culture hit, The DaVinci Code. Introduced within the novel’s “FACT” summary, is a description of, “the first particles of antimatter.” Identical to physical matter “except that it is composed of particles whose electric charges are opposite to those found in normal matter,” antimatter is described as “the most powerful energy source known to man.”

Speaking of antimatter, Dan Brown continues:
“It releases energy with 100 percent efficiency (nuclear fission is 1.5 percent efficient). Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation, and a droplet could power New York City for a full day.
There is however one catch…
Antimatter is highly unstable. It ignites when it comes in contact with absolutely anything…even air. A single gram of antimatter contains the energy of a 20-kiloton nuclear bomb-the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Until recently antimatter has been created only in very small amounts (a few atoms at a time). But CERN has now broken ground on its new Antiproton Decelerator-an advanced antimatter production facility that promises to create antimatter in much larger quantities.”
Whether the “facts” as presented by Mr. Brown are scientifically accurate or have be enhanced for dramatic effect is moot. There is well recognized apprehension within the scientific community regarding the potential physical consequences of CERN’s ambitions and compelling expressions on the part of social ethicists for its moral prudence.

CERN Logo
Established as a provisional council in 1952 by 11 European governments, the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nuclréaie in Geneva, Switzerland, the governing body dissolved shortly thereafter and renamed the organization Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire in 1954. The acronym CERN however, was retained and has been attributed to the insistance of German physicist, Werner Heisenberg: “But the acronym can still be CERN even if the name is not.”

Assuming the validity of the Jung-Pauli causality principle, Werner Heisenberg’s request carries a significant a level of relevance: why would Werner Heisenberg feel so strongly about an acronym, but more importantly, why is it even recorded that he did? Would anyone really notice anyway?

Werner Heisenberg’s association with the openly occult SS and the Third Reich may have been limited but his contributions to high level physics merited observation by the Allies via Operation Alsos, curiously, alsos is Greek for grove. As an extension of the US Manhattan Project, Alsos detained several German physicists for a brief time at Farm Hall, England. Werner Heisenberg returned to Germany and continued his research while actively participating in German as well as the collective European effort of reorganization in the spheres of high energy physics research.

The Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire was incubated and CERN’s efforts in the study of sub-atomic matter became the flagship facility, science’s archetype of the Promised Land, but in search of the Holy Grail. CERN’s website describes its mission and machines:
“Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature.


The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe.”
Science’s assertions of spiritual indifference are betrayed from nearly every direction, and the machines and experiments identified as “Gargantella,” “Atlas,” “Alice,” “Totem,” and “Isolde,” are lightweight transparencies in comparison to the conceptual realities of stated objectives. The current specifications of the LHC are curious as well: it is seven times more powerful than any existing particle accelerator today, Subtle, but a curious similarity to a specific furnace described by Daniel in Babylon.



Large Hadron Collider - CERN

Difficulties of a more familiar nature include difficult to dispute statistics of increased seismic and volcanism, clusters in both of these geologic events appear to be at least indirectly related.

In March, 2005, the Cern Courier released a statement describing the effect that the December, 2004 Sumatran quake and subsequent tsumani:

“During the Christmas break, the hydrostatic level sensors (HLSs) in the ATLAS cavern revealed a new faced of their capabilities. Installed by the CERN survey group to monitor any deformation or movement of the structure on which the detector feet rest, these sensors with submicrometre resolution coupled to the heavy ATLAS mechanical infrastructure took on the function of a seismograph.

The signals recorded by the sensors are shown in the figure, which reveals two perturbations, one on 23 December starting at 15.45 GMT and the other on 26 December at 01.23 GMT. Seeing these unusual readings raised the question of whether they were connected with the earthquake off the Indonesian coast that gave rise to the devastating tsunami.”

BACK TO GENESIS: THE GOD PARTICLE AND LORD OF THE HUNT


The LHC at CERN will replicate the conditions nanoseconds after the Big Bang in the time before the first week of Creation, as recorded in the Book of Genesis. Source: CERN
A Google search of ‘CERN god particle,’ produces a docket of thousands of results from the leading publications of the scientific resources and associations in the world. From a discipline so exceptionally committed to objective detachment, the ambient language reveals either arrogance or ignorance. Responding to the possibility of finding God with the LHC, Dr. Michio Kaku responded, “This is a genesis machine. And yes, it may even let us read the mind of God….”

Scientists, visionaries, luminaries, poets and dreamers have rallied at the possibility of “Recreating the conditions just after the Big Bang”. Others believe that the manipulation of matter at a quantum level is theoretically a manipulation of time, and thus see the LHC as a “Time Machine”. Others still, believe because of possible unprecedented thermal release, the LHC could well become a “Time Bomb.”. There are good scholars on both sides of all of the debates.

Simplistically, the experiment will propel the smallest bits of matter to 99.9% the speed of light. By sending these particles in separate directions through a massive tunnel, exploding, releasing and observing them micro seconds before they form new particles. The hunt for the elusive Higgs-Boson particle. The God Particle. A divine spark. And a very masculine sounding event.

New Age author William Henry is among those who appear to enjoy the chase:
Something incredible is going on. Scientists on the wild edge of high energy physics at labs in Illinois and Geneva are racing to see who will be the first to enter the ‘Burning Bush’ and to de-cloak a fundamental, but elusive, sub atomic particle that is given cosmic or divine proportions by its, some say absurd, moniker, the God Particle (which particular god is unknown – let’s just pray it’s not that jealous one).

“It may be more than synchronistic that that the logo for the God Particle fits perfectly on the Transfiguration image of Jesus.”
– W. Henry
(image source: http://williamhenry.net/dis_trans.jpg )
While Mr. Henry’s philosophy is tragically irreverent, his identification of the “divine spark” and its association with the dynamics of the Transfiguration is an extraordinary comparison. There comes a time when even the most rigid pragmatist, the most resistant of skeptics, and the most impartial observer must entertain the prospect of so many themes converging in such an unusual manner.

It has been noted that the deity Cernunnos/Herne is consistently associated with control of elemental matter and “billions and billions of infinite smallness,” as the Dark God of the Elements and nature. That Cernunnos/Herne is associated with a ‘hunt;’ enormous power and identified as both the Keeper of the Gates of Death and the Guardian of the Underworld (perhaps a portal?) with an apparent appetite for infernal human sacrifice.

Mythology also portrays Cernunnos/Herne as being conspicuously proud of his virility and procreative abilities as the “lusty god,” and has been directly associated with Isis, the Egyptian feminine representative of many similar characteristics and Cernunnos/Herne is easily traceable through linguistic, mythologic and ancestral migratory records from Syria, Lebanon and Mount Hermon, the site of the descent of the fallen Watchers, the progenitors of the demi-gods and giant races, the Nephilim, Anakim and other participants in the tale of two seeds.

Biblical records of the Transfiguration seem to involve a glimpse into another time, and that the Transfiguration accounts do record a supernatural light and transformation…a ‘manipulation’ of sorts of time, energy and matter, and Cernunnos is also associated with the consumption of time.



The Transfiguration by Raphael

THE TRANSFIGURATION: “A SHOT ACROSS THE COSMIC BOW”

The site of the Transfiguration is not specifically disclosed within the Biblical text. Beyond the immediate context however, and with an understanding of the infinitely broader significance and purpose, it can be ascertained. And it comes as an indisputable, unambiguous and astonishing ‘proclamation.’

From The Myth Book by Michael S..Heiser:
Jesus, the Place of the Serpent, and the Mountain of God
There is perhaps no more dramatic confrontation of the powers of darkness in the gospels than the Transfiguration…
…This mountain [Hermon], then, was identified by the biblical writers as a place that belonged exclusively to God – and no other. That the sons of God made their pact there according to Enoch is a strong irony, since they were violating their rightful estate and choosing to interfere with the world of men. Jesus was staking rightful claim to this place at the Transfiguration (essentially, bringing the glory down to that mountain, as at Sinai years earlier). It was a shot across the cosmic bow.”
Jesus would have been hard-pressed to find a more striking location at which to choose to reveal his glory, to show both the three disciples who he really was, and to blaze the news to the powers of darkness that the embodied, incarnate Yahweh was taking back what was His—starting with the cosmic mountain in the territory of the serpent. Yahweh had long ago declared that this region was really his property (Psalm 68:15-16 – “O mountain of God, Mount Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, Mount Bashan! Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode; yea, where Yahweh will dwell forever?”). The fulfillment of that prophecy had begun. The powers of darkness were being evicted. Eminent domain had been declared.
At the entrance to the CERN facility in Meyrin, Switzerland, is a gift from the Government of India.


Shiva dances for CERN
“I have in the past shared a word of the Lord: “As men got into this realm, the invisible would become visible and the very things that have been hidden from the sight of man for their safety would come into the realm of man for his destruction.” — Steven Quayle

In a recent radio dialogue presented by author and radio host, Steve Quayle and publisher and author, Tom Horn, the spiritual and occult aspects of the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva Switzerland were examined.
TH: [The] dedication to Shiva indicates there is a spiritual dynamic to CERN and that is what is extraordinary.
[but] …even if we’re just reading into the metaphorical, the dance of Shiva that destroys at the atomic level and then rebuilds from this level is intriguing given that this is the religious metaphor encoded into this statue.”
SQ: I believe they do know what they are bringing forth and they expect Lucifer, the Lightbearer to have his entrance to the planet. These are not people who don’t know what they’re doing: these people know exactly what they are doing. Essentially giving him the stairway from heaven into our dimension.



Shiva

THE BABYLON DECLARATION

“And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” Genesis 11:6

With the potential for a holocaust of ancient and quantum proportions, exceeding the fiery furnaces of Babylon, the altars of Molech, the infernos of Dante, the “whole sacrifices” of the Third Reich, the atomic and the nuclear, is the All Devouring, Keeper of the Gates of Death, Dark God of the Elements, Cernunnos preparing to assemble his gluttonous hoards for their final and prophesied assault?

If the explanation for the presence of dark deities and giants lies within the pages of Scripture, the antidote must surely as well. Alan Redpath has suggested that what the book of Ephesians provides in concept, the book of Joshua provides in practice. The same weapons used against the giants in the land by Joshua are available for our use, and given the spiritual climate in which we live, a refresher study might be wise.
But will CERN be the key of Revelation 9:11?

The closing note on the “FACT” page of Dan Brown’s is ponderous but incomplete:
“One question looms: Will this highly volatile substance save the world, or will it be used to create the most deadly weapon ever made.”
One could posit an “Alternative Three” :

Is it possible that this substance, antimatter, is not really in the control of the probing scientific intellects whose hands have collectively constructed a hewn altar for the purpose of the scientific deification of mankind? And is there evidence that Cernunnos has danced on the pages of United States history? We’ll explore that possiblity next time.

Jun 20, 2014

Blood on the Altar - The Coming War of Christian vs. Christian - Part 10

by Larry Spargimino


PART 10 - THE WHORE AND THE EMERGENT "CHURCH"

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In Scripture, the war on true Christianity is fueled by a revived and ancient whore drunk on the blood of Martyrs. Is her spirit percolating within an "Emergent Church"?
“Babylon” is a word, place, and name that occurs very frequently in Scripture. In the book of Revelation, one out of every ten verses concerns an entity identified as “Babylon.” Two entire chapters—Revelation chapters 17 and 18—are devoted to Babylon. However, while the word is a high-frequency one, the exact identification is somewhat challenging. Mark Hitchcock gives seven clues that can help identify Babylon: 
                                                                                                                                                                    
Babylon is a literal city (Rev. 17:18).
Babylon is a city of worldwide importance and influence, probably the capital city of the Antichrist (Rev. 17:15, 18).
Babylon and the Beast (the Antichrist) are very closely connected with one another. The woman (Babylon) is pictured riding on the Beast (Rev. 17:3–5, 7).
Babylon is the center of false religion (Rev. 17:4–5; 18:1–2).
Babylon is the center of world commerce (Rev. 18:9–19).
Babylon persecutes the Lord’s people (Rev. 17:6; 18:20, 24).
Babylon will be destroyed suddenly and completely at the end of the Tribulation, never to rise again (Rev. 18:8–10, 21–24).[i]
Even among premillennialists, there is disagreement as to the precise meaning of “Babylon” in Revelation 17: 
                                                                                                                                                                    
Some see it simply as an illustration of something that is evil and diabolical, while others understand “Babylon” to be a literal restoration of an ancient city. Some Dispensationalists believe that “Mystery Babylon” is a reference to a false religious system that has been around for centuries but has become particularly evident through certain religions and religious practices.[ii] 
                                                                                                                                                                    
The religious system established at the original site of Babylon by its founder and first king, Nimrod, is the source of Babylonian religion and philosophy. With the scattering resulting from the Babel event, this religion was carried into every corner of the earth. This is why every nonbiblical religious system—and we see it today in the hodgepodge of designer religions that are proliferating the American religious scene—is pantheistic, polytheistic, astrological, and universal. Nimrod himself was a violent man. Some of the major religious movements are violent and are take-over religions desirous of taking over the planet. 
                                                                                                                                                                    
This woman of Revelation 17 “was arrayed in purple and scarlet color , and bedecked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication” (v. 4). Spiritual whoredom is associated with a defection from the truth, a willful act of embracing “other lovers.”
We notice that the woman is drunk—not with alcohol, but with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus (Rev. 17:6). These are the followers of Jesus who have died for their faith and commitment to Christ as Lord. Here we have a religious prostitute making martyrs. Sexual immorality and apostasy are linked in the Bible—the former often symbolizes the latter (Rev. 2:20–23; Ezek.16:15–43). Babylon’s suggestive beauty is irresistible. 
                                                                                                                                                                    
Her fornication has been universal and pervasive, not local or regional: “The inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication” (Rev. 17:2). She is “the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters” (Rev. 17:1), the “waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues” (v. 15). This “harlot,” or whore, is an entity that transcends geopolitical as well as cultural, ethnic, and linguistic divisions. This suggests that the whore is more than a single person or even a single expression of religion that is against God. Only a universal false religion seems to fit the description. This is the woman who rides the Beast (Rev. 17:3). 
                                                                                                                                                                    
This great whore sits on seven hills or mountains (Rev. 17:9). Mountains are often emblematic of whole kingdoms (cf. Ps. 68:15; Dan. 2:35; Amos 4:1, 6: 1; Obad. 8–21). This all seems to describe more than one local area and is better seen as representing the universal spread of false religion. Historically, many expositors have argued that Vatican City is “that great city, which reigneth over the king s of the earth” (Rev. 17:18). Vatican City is certainly not reigning over the kings of the earth at present, nor does there seem to be much to indicate that it, in its particular denominational identification, will do so at a future time.
The language is highly fluid. In Revelation 17:3, the word “city” doesn’t necessarily mean one municipality in a limited area. Walid Shoebat cogently argues that most prophecy writers think out of a Western/European mindset, and writes: 
                                                                                                                                                                    
Bear in mind that the above verse is in Greek, and a “city” in the Bible doesn’t always denote a single place. For instance, today the nation of Israel is called Medinat Yesrael in Hebrew. In Aramaic or Arabic, the word Medinat is “a city.” In the ancient context, for example in Jeremiah, Gilead actually speaks of all of Judah as one city. The same is true for “house,” which is not a single house but all the people of Judah. “For thus says the Lord unto the king’s house of Judah; thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.” Judah itself will be a wilderness like cities devoid of their people (Jer. 22:6).[iii] 
                                                                                                                                                                    
This seductive temptress is given an enigmatic name: “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS” (Rev. 17:5). “Babylon is probably the place from which all false religious beliefs had their beginning. From Babylon stemmed a religious rebellion that has blinded people everywhere, so that they are in opposition to the true God. Thus Babylon is a place, but it is much more.”[iv] 
                                                                                                                                                                    
“The mother of harlots” is not simply the source, but the size, of the influence of this enigmatic entity. Shoebat writes that “mother” means “the biggest” or “the greatest.” “Remember Saddam Hussein’s comments in the days leading up to [the] first Gulf War? He declared that the U.S. and Iraq were about to engage in ‘the mother of all battles.’ Of course, in typical megalomaniacal game-talk, he also declared that America was about to experience ‘the mother of all defeats.’”[v] 
                                                                                                                                                                    
This monstrous and filthy entity is “the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.” “Abominations” (bdelugma) refers to something, or someone, that is vile and detestable, that defiles and corrupts, such as “the abomination [bdelugma] of desolation” (Matt. 24:15). It is so vile that it contaminates the Temple and renders it unfit for worship. It is something nauseating to God because of its moral and spiritual filthiness. It is this “mother” from whose womb comes spiritual filthiness that has led to the death of God’s faithful servants. 
                                                                                                                                                                    
The picture being drawn in Revelation 17 is not a picture of an entity with no faith or religious belief that persecutes God’s true children; rather, it is a picture of an entity with the wrong faith that causes grief. It’s the faith of apostates. 
                                                                                                                                                                    
Some have identified the whore of Babylon as the Roman Catholic Church, because the woman sits on seven hills, identified in ancient times as the city of Rome. It is this writer’s view that much more is involved in this picture. Verse 10 proceeds to explain that the seven hills represent seven kingdoms, five of which have fallen, one that is, and one that is to come. This whore is a world system dominated by the Antichrist. At one time in the future, this whore will have control over these kings, but at some point prior to Armageddon they will turn on her and destroy her (Rev. 17:16). 
                                                                                                                                                                    
While it is always precarious to make specific designations and give specific explanations, there are various movements today within the pale of “Christendom” that are having a greater and greater resemblance to the harlot church of Revelation chapter 17.
 
The Whore & The Emergent Church
 
Worldview impacts and intersects with one’s understanding regarding the nature and definition of truth. Much of the error and confusion being taught by those in the emergent movement is due to their embracing—wittingly or unwittingly—the Hegelian dialectic. Under this thinking, truth is never final or complete, nor can it be articulated rationally. Truth is evolving. There is the thesis—an idea that is less than perfect. This leads to opposition, refinement, and restatement, known as the antithesis. As a result of this conflict in point of view and the resultant tension, the tension screams for resolution. This resolution is achieved by reaching a higher level of truth, a synthesis of the thesis and antithesis.[vi] 
                                                                                                                                                                    
In this scheme of things, truth can never reach finality. There is always some new antithesis leading to a greater refinement of truth. For emergents, they are not quite sure what to make of homosexuality, or how to think about it. Brian McLaren, in an article published on the web for Christianity Today titled “Brian McLaren on the Homosexual Question: Finding a Pastoral Response,” writes: 
                                                                                                                                                                    
Frankly, many of us don’t know what we should think about homosexuality. We’ve heard all sides but no position has yet won our confidence so that we can say “it seems good to the Holy Spirit and us.” That alienates us from both the liberals and conservatives who seem to know exactly what we should think. Even if we are convinced that all homosexual behavior is always sinful, we still want to treat gay and lesbian people with more dignity, gentleness, and respect than our colleagues do. If we think that there may actually be a legitimate context for some homosexual relationships, we know that the biblical arguments are nuanced and multilayered, and the pastoral ramifications are staggeringly complex. We aren’t sure if or where lines are to be drawn, nor do we know how to enforce with fairness whatever lines are drawn.[vii] 
                                                                                                                                                                    
John MacArthur perceptively analyzes thoughts such as these, especially as it intersects with the modern gay rights movement. The following is from a transcript of an interview between John MacArthur and Phil Johnson. 
                                                                                                                                                                    
One of the big issues is homosexuality in the Emerging Church. They don’t want to take a position on homosexuality. The Bible is not vague or obscure or oblique about homosexuality. It couldn’t be more clear. A homosexual will not inherit the Kingdom of God…that’s pretty clear. Homosexuality in Romans chapter 1 is a perversion that is manifested when it happens in a culture, begins to dominate a culture, an evidence of divine wrath and divine judgment. So the Bible is clear. They don’t want that clarity. They want to run from the light. Scripture is light, it is not darkness, but they like the darkness because their deeds are evil…this is just another way to set the Bible aside.[viii]
This tentativeness on McLaren’s part can be traced to his view of Scripture and uncertainty as to its inspiration in the classical sense of being the inspired Word of God. He is even uncomfortable with the Bible’s masculine pronouns for God: 
                                                                                                                                                                    
This is as good a place as any to apologize for my use of masculine pronouns for God in the previous sentence. You’ll notice that wherever I can, I avoid the use of masculine pronouns for God because they can give the false impression to many people today that the Christian God is a male deity.[ix] 
                                                                                                                                                                    
The Bible does not, and cannot, give us an exhaustive knowledge of God. However, while the Bible does not tell us everything that God knows, what the Bible does tell us is accurate, even in its limitations. McLaren could very well criticize the Greek New Testament on the grounds that it makes God sound like a Greek-speaking deity. 
                                                                                                                                                                    
Because the emergent view of truth is dialectical, we can agree with MacArthur that emergent theology teaches a “doctrine of Christian postmodernism.” The movement is: 
                                                                                                                                                                    
…an amorphous sort of loose-knit association of churches that have decided that there is value, there is even virtue, in uncertainty about Scripture. The bottom line in the movement is they believe that we aren’t even suppose [sic] to understand precisely what the Bible means.… It’s an attack on the clarity of Scripture and they elevate themselves as if this is some noble reality…it’s amorphous because there’s a mish-mash of approaches to this and a mish-mash of styles and things like that. But they have embraced this mystery as if it’s true spirituality. And so, it becomes celebration of mystery, a celebration of ignorance, a celebration that we can’t really know.[x] 
                                                                                                                                                                    
This “celebration of mystery” leads the emerging church into medieval, contemplative spirituality. 
                                                                                                                                                                    
They want more mystery. So they go back to medieval Catholicism and they light a bunch of candles. You know, really it smells like orthodox, Greek orthodoxy, Russian orthodoxy kind of approach, milling people. I’ve been in a Russian Orthodox Church that there’s no center, there’s no focal point, there’s no pulpit, there’s no platform. There are these guys, they swing these censors and smoke and stuff rises and these really weird smells and they just…they walk in a little parade.… And then people mill over here and they will and then these guys walk around. This goes on for like a half an hour and they’re making these weird chants.[xi] 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
What The Whore Is Telling The Emergent Church About "The Atonement"
Emergent theology takes exception to the “violent view” of the atonement. The idea that God must satisfy divine justice in order to forgive sin is barbaric. It makes God look like a monster, because, they say, God cannot forgive without inflicting pain on someone, either on His Son, Jesus Christ, or the impenitent sinner. Emergents critique the traditional view of the atonement because it presents God as the “greatest existential threat to humanity.” 
                                                                                                                                                                        
Penal substitution, the traditional view, presents Christ as the substitutionary sin bearer. It makes God look like a petty, spoiled tyrant and turns many off to Christianity. Emergents don’t like the idea that Jesus had to be “beat up” so that people could go to heaven. 
                                                                                                                                                                        
Yet, Isaiah 53:5 is violent: “But he was WOUNDED for OUR transgressions, he was BRUISED for OUR iniquities” (emphasis added). Because of the Christian’s mystical union with Christ, Jesus Christ fulfills the demands of justice not for an unrelated third party, but for those identified with Him. He is our vicarious substitute. Revelation 5 reveals that a new song will be sung lauding the worthiness and glory of Christ, “for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God BY THY BLOOD out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation” (v. 9, emphasis added). 
                                                                                                                                                                        
The traditionalist will point out that the argument that it is unjust to punish an innocent bystander involuntarily for someone else’s sin is refuted by Scripture. Jesus Himself said that He was offering Himself to voluntarily die on the cross for the sins of the world: “Greater love hath no man that this, that a man lay down his life FOR his friends” (John 15:13, emphasis added). 
                                                                                                                                                                        
The traditional, substitutionary view is illustrated by the ritual that took place on the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16). Two goats were used on that day. One was slaughtered—that signifies and illustrates propitiation. The other was released to wander in the wilderness—that is expiation. Propitiation indicates that God is justly angry over our sins. How could He not be? Propitiation requires death—but it is the death of a substitute. “For he hath made him, who knew no sin, to be sin FOR US, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2 Cor. 5:21, emphasis added). 
                                                                                                                                                                        
But, as readers of the new book Blood On The Altar will learn, not only is the traditional view of the atonement rejected, but so is the return of Christ. 
                                                                                                                                                                        
TO BE CONTINUED...

[i] Mark Hitchcock, The End: A Complete Overview of Bible Prophecy and the End of Days (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2012) 361–362.
[ii] Mal Couch, Gen. Ed., Dictionary of Premillennial Theology, “Babylon” (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1996) 61.
[iii] Walid Shoebat, God’s War on Terror. Islam, Prophecy and the Bible (US: Top Executive Media, 2010) 292.
[iv] Mal Couch, Gen. Ed., A Bible Handbook to Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2001) 279.
[v] Shoebat, 409.
[vi] Www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?tag=let-us-reason-ministries.
[vii] January 23, 2006, www.christianitytoday.com/parse/2006/january/brian-
mclaren-on-homosexual-question-finding-pastoral.html.
[viii] John MacArthur, as interviewed by Phil Johnson, “What’s So Dangerous about the Emerging Church?” Grace to You, 2006, www.gty.org/resources/sermons/GTY107.
[ix] Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004) 74.
[x] MacArthur.