I heard from my estranged husband recently, telling me he found my earlier posts focused on conspiracies more interesting than the “preachy” ones I’ve been writing lately. No surprise there. It’s why he left me for that “sweet young thing” (he’s approaching 70), and why he lives on as the protagonist in everything I’ve published: a successful man conformed to the image of this world, at enmity against God, and buying heavily into the mainstream propaganda.
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. —Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
The vast material published since the Kovid-Exercise-for-Lethal-Injections (KELI), has seen a variety of nettled, ambitious writers drawn out of the woodwork and crawling into the cyber spotlight. Many of these cognitive activists focus their attention on those powerful villains who conspire, and have conspired, to bring this age to a disastrous end, as they build their underground cities and float in their private super-yachts around their private Epsteinesque islands unto themselves, away from the toxic environment they’ve created for us to die in.
Rarely, however, do you find a conspiracy spotter connecting the actions of these men committed to their nefarious agendas to their spiritual roots.
With my love of the King James Bible, laboring twenty+ years within its pages, relying on its own interpretation, comparing Scripture with Scripture, I consider it a privilege on The Stack’s free speech platform (thank you Substack developers!), to make connections from my own (limited) observations of the world… since I began paying attention, to the Textus Receptus, with particular attention to which audience is in the context, within the sixty-six books.
My thanks goes out to all the investigative journalists whose work I stumble upon, who painstakingly research and ruminate over the plethora of information available to us, to bring truth to the surface, but who cannot comfortably go so far as to attach a name to that supreme culprit behind all the evil in the world.
Hey, I’ve got you covered.
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven (think about that last phrase in light of the heliocentric dogma of man).
This warning was issued ~fifteen hundred years before The Word became flesh and dwelt among his own people full of grace and truth. Being in the form of God, (who is a Spirit), Christ thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.
As revealed in Genesis chapter one, there is but one creature in all that God made, that He likened unto Himself: man, having body, soul and spirit. Man is made in the image of God on the earth. Consequently, any replication of anything besides man would be deemed an idol and become an abomination unto Him. Severe warnings were issued and understood in Israel’s national covenant relationship.
The Apostle Paul, in this present age, likened anything that man fixed an inordinate affection to, likewise as a form of idolatry: sports, music, sexual immorality, love of money, self-love -- the usual attractions:
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. — Col 3:5-7
Appears we all have, or had, our conversation in these things. Even our thoughts have betrayed us.
To be clear: man is NOT God, never will be, nor is he THE image of God, but is made in his likeness. We are not equal with God, nor one with the divine or cosmic conscious. We are not divine at all, but full of mischief if left to our own devices. In fact, you can put your trust in the Old Age occultists, as well as the New Age mystics (redundant!) and bow down to the gods of graven images, if you choose to. That door has been open a long time, and many are they that enter in.
At some point in life, though, we all seek to understand what is beyond ourselves; what is the meaning of it all; where did we come from and where are we going? Depending on what company you keep, most replies usually direct you toward a religious or superstitious practice, or into a level of mysticism that may take you years down a dead end path before you wake up and realize it was all a lie, to make you believe in your own divinity.
Be still and know that you are God, the shamans tell us. “OM.” Pray to Mary, she’ll intercede for you to get to heaven. Meditate (always what you lust for); balance the Chakras for a supernatural energy lift; go on that Ayahuasca journey to find yourself; try the Sikh road; or any road for that matter: they all lead to the same end where I, that wily serpent, will greet you.
Only stay away from that Book! Or, if you must peek, try the NIV, ESV, the NASB, the “New” King James Version, or any other copy my servants have meticulously edited and copyrighted. They are remarkably tailored to keep you in my ball game.
But what saith the Book? The Lord Jesus Christ alone… is the very image of God.
As I’ve written afore, the great mystery revealed to the Apostle Paul is that all men have fallen short of that glorious image and can never, by their own merit or manner, gain a foot into the presence of God. God is holy and righteous. None can approach him without his righteousness overshadowing them. God can by no means clear the guilty; but he did provide a solution.
That solution? God sent forth his Son into the world to become sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. And therefore, when standing before his thrown at our approaching judgment, we can say, along with our Apostle Paul: I stand here, not in mine own righteousness, but in the righteousness you graciously made available to all men. I believed you when you declared your Son a propitiation for my sins. Or… what?
“I didn’t know!”
“I didn’t care.”
“I lived a decent life. I didn’t need you.”
“I had so much suffering, where were you?”
“Is it too late?”
But what saith [the Scripture]? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we (Paul and company) preach:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. — Rom 10:8-13
One of the problems in man and why his ego or pride gets him into so much mischief is precisely because he has been made in the image of our Creator. And if you look at it fundamentally, by using our imagination, we as His creatures also desire to create.
The problem lies in the fact that man, since the fall, now knows good and evil. What will he do with that knowledge?
As the story goes, Satan tempted the imagination of God’s like creature with an idea. That by convincing Eve God was withholding vital information from her: “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil,” he could turn innocence into a guilty conscious and bear fruit after his own image. Eve turns around and gives the forbidden fruit to Adam.
Suddenly, their eyes are open, and they find themselves naked. Goodbye purity.
In an attempt to hide their nakedness (disobeying God brought sin into the world), they sewed fig leaves together and made aprons.
From that point on Satan clung to the idea that things made (fruit from a tree) could represent an idea, and could eventually, through his continual efforts and those of his minions, convince mankind to make an image of God’s creation to use in ritual worship to him, eventually inheriting what God created for Himself.
Fast forward twenty-five hundred years, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth (a face, mind you, not a sphere), and bare fair daughters, that the sons of God looked on these gorgeous gals and took them as wives. Ergo: giants were born.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that (the “latest” old world order recently destroyed), when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. — Gen 6:4-5
So God destroys the earth with a flood… on a rotating ball flying through infinite space. Hmm, I couldn’t find a Google image to show how that would work. Oh well, the famous occultists Copernicus and Galileo would enlighten us in another three millennium. Until then, we’ll just have to go with: face of the whole earth, face of the deep, face of the world in the earth, face of the waters, face of the ground, with every reference to the earth He created. He saves Noah and his family, plus pairs of animals. You know the story.
Shortly after, probably to avoid being drowned again, the descendants of Noah begin building a city with a very tall tower, being unified both in their language and their speech. I suppose they all had the same mind: to overthrow God and deify man. Oh how novel are the agendas of The Science™ in our own age.
So these original Masons take brick and morter and say,
Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And the LORD came down to see the city and the
obelisktower, which the children of men builded.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. — Gen 11:4-6 (I suppose the use of “is” may refer to the “one people.”)
God says, let’s not only scatter them abroad upon the face of the whole earth, but let’s confound their language so they can’t understand each other. He did. And they left off building the city and tower.
Logically, those speaking the same language would find each other and locate their own lands to live apart in, develop their own cultures, eventually building their own separate nations. Abraham is then called out by God and given staggering promises, which he believes, and it’s accounted to him for righteousness.
From then on, we have the Biblical narration of the developing nation of Israel and their history, led by the Creator Himself (LORD, Jehovah), bringing to pass his will and purpose upon the earth, overtly and covertly.
The principalities and powers in heavenly places were watching. They knew of the prophecies written and spoken by men given of God, and paid close attention to the ones about that unique prophet who would come on the scene in the land promised to the children of Israel forever. Something about bruising the Serpent’s head, whose heel he would bruise? No worries, he would be killed just like the others.
Meantime, Satan was busy and satisfied with the surrounding heathen nations. They obligingly made graven images of the likeness of moving creatures and worshiped the sun, moon and stars, referring to them by whatever names they were given in their own cultures. Basically, variations on the trio of creation, according to the myths he promulgated: Osiris, Isis and Horus. Human sacrifice was, and is, a very important part of this.
They built grande, ornate temples with vaulted, meticulously carved, domed ceilings (for the giants), magnificent palaces, luxurious cities and gardens: architectural feats which confound the university trained archeologist and astonish the casual tourist who haven’t a clue how this was done and why we can’t build like this today. Maybe we lost the technology for building beautiful, geometric planned structures and sites, and flying airships that dock on tower spires, like we lost the technology for returning to the moon. Hmm, now where did we lose them? Not in the Vatican vast underground tunnels. Not in the sealed off libraries of Scottish Rite temples. Not in the secret chambers of the palatial homes of the black nobility, or in the phallus’s of monuments in front of our very eyes. It must have simply disappeared in the ruins (and stolen patents) of yesteryear. Don’t think too hard about it.
The powers that hold this world in darkness can return to their “golden age.” And they can make the switch from darkness to another appearance of “enlightenment” or “reawakening.” It will be cut short. That prophet did arrive on the scene 2,000 years ago. He was killed like all the other prophets who spoke the truth, only in a most horrific manner, which he suffered for you and me. Three days later… yeah, you’ve heard it: Death could not hold him in the grave because he was without sin. He took yours and mine and left them in the pit of hell where they belong, then arose with the glory and brilliance, brighter than the noon day sun! And he’s waiting at this moment at the right hand of God the Father, at the throne in Heaven, till that appointed time (no man knoweth the day nor the hour) when he takes us who believe, home… and all hell breaks loose on earth: God’s wrath on a rebellious, wicked world will certainly feel like it.
Don’t be left here to experience that final judgement on man. There’s a vocation we are being prepared for in heavenly places that includes God’s purpose to bring about the remaining prophecies concerning Israel’s inheritance and kingdom on earth: believing Israel who wait for him, not the unbelieving imposters in the land today, working to fulfill the mystery of iniquity.
You may conceive of any scenario you wish for this earth and the future, but if it doesn’t include the plans in That Book, you will find yourself on the wrong side of eternity.
To those who have put their trust in the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe:
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. — 2 Cor 5:1-8
We are in need of no images. Just the written word and his Spirit within us. It’s all we require to operate in the work of faith, to know and labor in the love of Christ, and to rest in the patience of hope (see 1 Thess 1:3).
Finally, in this I am confident:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, no depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Rom 8:35-39
My hope and prayer is for not only my family and friends to believe and trust Christ, but that anyone reading this post will decide this day to call on the name of the Lord, and be saved. I’ll see you in Glory as we reign with Christ and live, eventually, in a just, peaceful and beautiful world without end.
Amen! That we can exhibit, transmit and disseminate the truth, love, compassion, mercy and hope we have in Jesus to those round about us....to stand for righteousness and peace, not all of the other flavors of feigned devotion to erstwhile frauds posing as gods...that we can with all confidence and belief intact, honor the name and completed work of Christ and be vessels of honor and grace to a dying world so taken with the evil one in his many forms. That we can discern and navigate successfully these days of uncertainty and doubt -- of evil (seemingly) unchecked so rampant in our world and (having done all) stand firm in the salvation, sanctification and eventual glorification gifted to us via our faith in the ONE who has done all for those who will apprehend and abide in Him.