Volume 3, Issue 5
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Volume 3, Issue 5
Volume 3, Issue 5 March 5, 2011 God is fine with sex; it’s religion He can’t stand G od is quite able to say what really bugs Him, and He does it in Proverbs 6:16-19: These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination to Him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief, a false witness who speaks lies, and he who sows discord among brothers. He forgot to write: “Pole dancers.” Hmm. Must have been an oversight. Spare her Kill him Millions of Christians slated to die. FOUR ANGELS ASSIGNED TO KILL DEVOTEES OF FOUR MAJOR RELIGIONS DURING TRIBULATION I n last week’s Crack O’ Dawn Report, I said I’d almost rather take my kid to a strip club than to an orthodox Christian church. (http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L60jrVB9K8.) My reasoning was: The orthodox Christian church promotes doctrines that are so satanic, gruesome, spiritually damaging, and ultimately dismissive of God (Paul calls these “doctrines of demons,” 1 Timothy 4:1—the foremost of which are eternal torment, human free will, and the Trinity), that any evil associated with the sight of a naked female body (I cannot think of any; God created the naked, female body), would pale in comparison. The fact that the comments on YouTube devolved into a discussion of strip clubs tells me how few people there are who fully grasp the blackness of religion. And then this: On Facebook someone commented, concerning last weekend’s video: “I see no value whatsoever in bashing organized religion.” Really? God Himself is going to destroy it and supervise the wholesale killing of its adherents (evidence of which will be presented on page 2), so there must be at least some value in bashing it today. He has done it before Of course, what is missing from this list is anything to do with sex. And what is present are things often associated with organized religion. E.W. Bullinger noted that: The history of Genesis 3 is intended to teach teach us the fact that Satan’s sphere of activiactivities is in the religious sphere. sphere. We are not to look for Satan’s activities today in the police courts, but in the pulpit. No wonder Jesus hung out with publicans and pole dancers. To cleanse the Earth of evil, God has historically killed large groups of people. A few millennia ago, He killed everyone in the world except eight people, drowning them in a flood. When Israel came out of Egypt, the Amalekites cruelly hassled them. In 1 Samuel 15:2-3, therefore, God ordered Samuel to … … go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. I keep telling people that this era of grace had a beginning, and it will have an end. Many refuse to believe it; this era is all they have known. They are like the scoffers of 2 Peter 3:3-4, who think SHEM: ONE OF EIGHT SURVIVORS that just because things have gone along swimmingly during the course of their amazingly long lifetimes of fifty years or so, that things will continue to do so. Have these people never heard of the Tribulation? Jesus called it the “great affliction,” and said concerning it: For then shall be great affliction, such as has not occurred from the beginning of the world till now; neither under any circumstances may be occurring. And, except those days were discounted, no flesh at all would be saved. —Matt. 24:21-22 Those who believe this happened in 70 A.D., when Titus sacked Jerusalem, cannot explain how one third of the Earth burned up then (Rev. 8:7), or how one third of humankind was killed (Rev. 9:15), or how the 1,000 years of peace passed without historical notice (Rev. 20:6), or how, since the year 1070 A.D., we have been living on the New Earth (Rev. 21:1), wherein there is no more death (Rev. 21:4), or doom (Rev. 22:3). If this is the New Earth, I want a refund. Even Paul joins in the chorus Even the apostle Paul—he of the gospel of the grace of God—speaks of a time when God will deal out vengeance upon those who have ignored his gospel: Continued on pg. 2 Volume 3, Issue 5 Page 2 Continued from pg. 1 It is just of God to repay affliction to those afflicting you, and to you who are being afflicted, ease, with us, at the unveiling of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful messengers, in flaming fire, dealing out vengeance to those who are not acquainted with God and those who are not obeying the evangel of our Lord Jesus Christ—who shall incur the justice of eonian extermination from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of His strength. —2 Thess. 1:6-9 This will happen during the Tribulation, after the body of Christ has been snatched away (1 Thess. 4:15-17), and the era of the nations has been completed (Romans 11:25). The Christian religion remains Paul clearly explains in the above passage who will remain on Earth to suffer vengeance after this era has passed. Note two groups: 1) Those who are not acquainted with God 2) Those who are not obeying the evangel of our Lord Jesus Christ Those who are not acquainted with God are run-of-the mill worldly people such as Bill Maher. Those who are not obeying the evangel of our Lord Jesus Christ (that is, Paul’s specific evangel), are those who are acquainted with God (they are distinguished from those who aren’t), but who fail to obey Paul’s gospel—people such as Billy Graham. The Greek word translated “obey” here is hupakouo. It is a two-part Greek word whose elements are UNDER-HEAR. The definition of “obey” is, “to hear and to heed.” Christians may hear, but they do not heed Paul’s gospel. This gospel states that Jesus Christ died for sins; Christians, on the other hand, believe that sinners will be eternally tormented for their sins. Paul’s gospel is about Christ dying for sins; Christians discount this sacrifice, believing instead that the forgiveness of sins requires the proper exercise of human free will. Concerning the days of the coming tribulation, A.E. Knoch writes in The Unveiling of Jesus Christ: Before this time the members of the body of Christ will have been received up into glory. But that event will by no means be the end of Christendom. (Page 290) With the body of Christ gone, the world’s largest religion remains on Earth. Before God inaugurates His 1,000-year kingdom, He purges Earth of the two scourges long plaguing humanity: human politics and human religion. This is where the death of Christians comes in. Demon worship to be wiped from Earth T he book of Revelation is divided into two sections: the Throne Section (4:1-11:18) and the Temple Section (11:1920:15). The Throne Section deals with the political supremacy of the earth, and the Temple Section with religious supremacy. Remember that, in the Millennium, Israel is to be both kings (political) and priests (religious). Thus, the kingdoms and religions of this present world must be destroyed. This happens in the book of Revelation. As A.E. Knoch writes on page 264 of The Unveiling of Jesus Christ: Man’s misrule will have come to a crisis where it is no longer tolerable to God or man. Severe, decisive measures are, in reality, a mercy. There can be no millennium without them. Severe as the inflictions are, they fend the earth from a far worse fate. They remove the cause of its corruption. They cleanse and renew it for the righteous reign of the Son of Mankind. of giving God the glory which is His due. The religious organizations of the world are the most prolific breeding places of sin. The most malignant demons of all infect Christianity, as this religion is the nearest imitation of truth. The destruction of human religion entails the death of its adherents. For this, God has preIn the Throne Section, the seven pared four messengers (angels), seals (Rev. 5:1-5) restore now bound at the river EuphraEarth’s political sovereignty to tes. They will supervise the killGod. In the Temple Section, the ing of approximately 1.25 bilseven trumpet judgments (Rev. lion people (see page 3). 8:2), eradicate all four demonic religions (see sidebar at right.) A.E. Knoch: Comparatively few of mankind do not worship demons under some form or another. The mass of mankind bow down to demons instead REVELATION: CHRISTIANITY IS JUST ANOTHER RELIGION The four beasts of Daniel, chapter 7, are religions, not political alignments. Behold, four winds of the heavens are rushing forth to the vast sea, and four monstrous animals are coming up from the sea … The eastern animal is a lioness … and behold, another animal, like a she-bear ... and behold, another animal, as a leopardess … and behold, a fourth animal, terrifying and awful, and exuberantly mighty; she has monstrous iron teeth, devouring and pulverizing and stamping upon the remainder with her feet. —Daniel 7:2-7 Christianity Islam Buddhism Hinduism Almost every commentator makes these four animals of Daniel 7 a repetition of the four kingdoms of Daniel 2. This is impossible. The four kingdoms of Daniel 2 are sequential, whereas the animals of Daniel 7 are contemporaneous. The translation of the Hebrew qdm as “eastern,” rather than the usual “first,” (as in, “the eastern beast”) sheds much light. The detailed descriptions of these four monstrous animals (which we shall save for another time) correspond perfectly to the four major religions of Earth. Not coincidentally, the four religions are described by Daniel in the order in which they occupy the planet, that is, from east to west. The easternmost religion is Buddhism (East Asia), the next is Hinduism (India and environs), the next is Islam (the Arab world), and the westernmost monstrous animal is Christianity (Europe and the Americas). Christianity is destined to “pulverize” the other religions. Thus, the coming one-world government will be a vast Christian state. A.E. Knoch: There are only four great religions in the world. For each there is a messenger of destruction being prepared. The doom of each has been decreed, and only awaits the destined moment. Page 3 Rants & Stuff The Apostle Paul says we should not murmur (Philippians 2:14). Therefore, I shall rant. Believe Paul’s gospel before it’s too late . I t is not too late to believe the gos- harboring demons. Those in the religion pel of Paul. But someday, it will would never in a million years believe that be. they are worshipping a caricature of Christ, inspired by satanic powers. Lo! Now is a most acceptable era! Lo! Now is a day of salvation! —2 Cor. 6:2 To keep Christians distracted from the evil in their midst, Satan has them busy fighting Christianity is the most dangerous things like pornography, homosexuality, and religion on earth because it is the realcohol. These are Satan-inspired distractions. ligion so near the truth, yet so far Fighting “the evil, sinful world” makes Chrisaway from it. It uses the name, “Jesus tians so self-righteous that they cannot hope Christ,” and the phrase, “crucified for to see the most brutal evil of all flourishing in our sins,” while at the same time detheir midst: A WEAK GOD AND A FAILED nying both, replacing the death of SAVIOR. The world rightly laughs at the Christ with free will, and making eter“God” of Christianity. The true god of Chrisnal torment—rather than the cross— tianity is Satan. the price for sin. Reader, believe in the death of Jesus Christ Christianity is quite unaware that it is The 200 million cavalry are supernatural beings. “THE HORSES ARE REAL; THE RIDERS ARE REAL.” A s I write, there are four spirit beings bound at the river Euphrates in Iraq, awaiting their hour upon Earth’s stage. It is their divinely inspired task to release and supervise 200 million supernatural horsemen, whose duty it will be to kill one third of humankind: And I hear one voice out of the horns of the golden altar: “Loose the four messengers who have been bound at the great Euphrates river.” And the four messengers were loosed, who have been made ready for the hour and the day and the month and the year, that they may be killing a third of humankind. And the number of the troops of cavalry was two hundred millions—I heard their number. And thus I perceived the horses in the vision, and those who are sitting on them, having fiery and amethystine and sulphurous cuirasses; and the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions, and out of their mouths are issuing fire and fumes and sulphur. By these three calamities the third of hu- for your sins. To do this, you must unhand the demonic teachings of free will, eternal torment, and the Trinity. Free will substitutes human decision for the cross; the Trinity denies the literal death of Jesus Christ; eternal torment drives normal people (Calvinists are not normal) into free will. The present era of grace will end. All are saved eventually, but not all live for the upcoming two eons. Embrace Paul today; it is a matter of eonian life and eonian death. mankind were killed: by the fire, and the fumes and the sulphur, which is issuing out of their mouths. For the license of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they are injuring. —Rev. and the riders are real. But these are no ordinary horses. These are supernatural animals, with supernatural riders atop them, the likes of which no one has ever seen or imagined. 9:13-19 The sixth trumpet details the destruction of the four great world religions. These can have no place in the kingdom of God and of Christ. The whole conflict is essentially superhuman, though men are the pawns on the board. Behind human religions are the demons whom they deify. Against them are the four messengers and their horrible horsemen. Demonism is given its death stroke, though it is not done away until the seventh trumpet sounds and the last woe works havoc with the hosts of unrepentant humanity. A.E. Knoch: Heretofore, there have only been two kinds of explanations of this cavalry. The “smart” explanation is that the entire book of Revelation is figurative. Just what exactly “the great River Euphrates,” for example—an actual river—is figurative for, is anyone’s guess. Then there is the stupid explanation, the Christian one, which makes this a 200 million-man Chinese army—it is just that God has an “off” way of describing a Chinese army. The truth is far more frightening: The horses are real, Receive Paul now. Editor: Rebecca E. Tonn Copyright © 2011 by Martin Zender. All rights reserved. Published bi-weekly by Starke & Hartmann, Inc. P.O. Box 6473 Canton, OH 44706 www.martinzender.com www.starkehartmann.com