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Festival of Purim

(Esther 9:24 TLB) Haman (son of Hammedatha the Agagite), the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted to destroy them at the time determined by a throw of the dice;

(Esther 9:24 NLT) Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews, had plotted to crush and destroy them on the date determined by casting lots (the lots were called purim).

Haman, hated the Jews so much that he decided to kill, annihilate and wipe them out. He needed to pick a day to do this, so he rolled some dice, or cast some lots (purim). In the eyes of man, Haman’s selection of a date to wipe out the Jewish people appears to be simply a matter of chance. But when I read Proverbs 16:33, it seemed to me that Haman may not have been in complete control of selecting the date.

(Proverbs 16:33 CEV) We make our own decisions, but the Lord alone determines what happens.

(Proverbs 16:33 TLB) We toss the coin, but it is the Lord who controls its decision.

(Proverbs 16:33 MSG) Make your motions and cast your votes, but God has the final say.

(Proverbs 16:33 NLT) We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how they fall.

This proverb teaches that when we make our decisions, the end result is not simply at act of our decision making. We may, investigate the facts, cast a vote, roll some dice, or toss a coin, but God has the final say in what happens. He may blow upon the dice or coin and cause them to fall when He decides. Even though things appear to be the work of man, or random chance, God is quietly working behind the scenes, determining how things fall, or what happens.

This is one lesson we see in the Book of Esther. God’s name is never mentioned in the entire book, but God appears to be working behind the scenes all the time. Esther, a Jewish woman, just so happens to become Queen in the Persian Kingdom. Her cousin Mordecai, just so happens to hear some men plot to kill the King. One night, when the King cannot fall sleep, he calls someone to read to him. This reading just so happens to mention that Mordecai saved the Kings life. Then Queen Esther just so happens to be able to schedule a dinner for her husband (the King) and Haman, just in time to thwart the plans of Haman.

Be encouraged that even when you cannot see, hear or perceive God’s presence with your five earthly senses, it doesn’t mean that God’s not watching or listening.

(Proverbs 15:3 TLB) The Lord is watching everywhere and keeps His eye on both the evil and the good.

(Proverbs 15:3 MSG) God doesn’t miss a thing – He’s alert to good and evil alike.

Purim begins February 28 at sunset. I encourage you to:

  • Read the Book of Esther this month, and discover wonderful truths about God, who sometimes is cloaked from our earthly eyes, and works behind the scenes.
  • Invite Rabbi Ron to Speak about the Festival of Purim (Book of Esther).
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Religion, Science and the Future of Transhumanism

By Dr. Thomas Horn

 

Recently, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science featured a piece written by Professor S. Jonathon O’Donnell in the Department of Religion and Philosophies at the University of London titled, “Secularizing Demons: Fundamentalist Navigations in Religion and Secularity.”

O’Donnell’s aim? According to the article’s abstract, it was to explore at a deeper level than his peers the “anti-transhumanist apocalypticisms” of our day, the central voice behind which was identified as yours truly—“evangelical conspiracist Thomas Horn [and his] milieu [community gathering place]”

In other words, the University of London professor has determined that I and those who work with me at SkyWatch TV and Defender Publishing are the “leaders of the transhuman resistance” that members of that community had better pay attention to. The peer-reviewed Zygon agreed at least to the point they found reason to promulgate O’Donnell’s thesis.

A title such as this placed upon me and the associates within “my milieu” is, I assure you, not as offensive as it may seem. Quite the contrary, I am encouraged that my line of work in the media has captured the attention of renowned spokespersons of the scientific world—such as those deemed worthy of being featured in Zygon. The very fact that personalities of such high regard and academic acumen are addressing what I’ve concluded throughout my career proves that my work is worth addressing. If I was completely off the mark out in La-la Land, I may still gain attention for being an agitator, but to persons such as O’Donnell, I would simply be considered inconsequential and not worth the precious time it takes for them to write such a detailed response to my convictions. Likewise I am deeply flattered to see how mostly professionally and fairly my stance on the subject was handled, as I nearly expected this to be yet another “hit piece” upon myself and my associates. Most naysayers who have come against our work have formulated little more than a straw man’s argument. It’s clear by their retaliation that they haven’t truly read my work to begin with. They assume—errantly so—that we are just religious men and women who cry “sin” against anything laboratory-created as it doesn’t innately have the hand of God upon it. Such may not have been the case for O’Donnell. Much to my surprise, O’Donnell did not appear to be driven by the sole desire to paint me as a half-witted lunatic like some others have done throughout recent history. For that, I openly offer my gratitude.

There was, however, a few intrinsic flaws in his conclusions about us and our “demonologies” of transhumanism and secularism that we will discuss in this and the next couple magazines.

Why?

Because in 2018 we will: 1) host a conference in Branson, Missouri (this September, more info coming soon) where scientists, artificial intelligence developers, technologists and theologians will gather to inform the public on the ramifications of the soon coming technological singularity; 2) release a book on the subject by members of “The Milieu,” and 3) broadcast a month long Special Investigative SkyWatch TV Report on the hottest issues involving transhumanism and Christianity. This magazine will guide and apprise our readers on the most germane subject matter as things develop in the weeks and months ahead.

But Back to professor O’Donnell and his thesis for the time being.

There is always an inherent fallacy when a personality trained in the scientifically oriented school of “show me proof/evidence” analyzes a stance based on religious conviction, particularly as it relates to eschatological prophecy and ruminations about events that have not yet occurred. It will probably always be this way on this side of eternity, since what we “evangelical conspiracists” see written on the wall regarding the scriptural warnings of God aren’t impartially considered amidst the “proofs” and “evidences” of science. It’s no secret that science recurrently discounts religion, and by extension any conclusion that a religious spokesperson may come to. Though I wouldn’t immediately accuse O’Donnell of it personally, well-learned academics heavily entrenched in the scientific community or its publications quite frequently respond to religious concerns with “intellectual snobbery.” And we’re not guiltless on the religious end either, as many a minister will immediately regard people who place their faith in science with an air of “moral snobbery.” It should not have to be this way, but it is a reality perpetuated just as much or more by the Church than by the secular world as I see it. Religion—especially conventional Christianity—recurrently discounts science, and though I understand why, I think this is an unnecessary tragedy. Many preachers and teachers of the Church today distance themselves from addressing scientific development and discovery (and the more “fringe” the topic, such as transhumanism, the greater the distancing) because the Bible is always the final authority, so “science is irrelevant when it contradicts Scripture,” or so the thought process relates. On the other hand, the world at large (including Christians) considers most aspects of transhumanism (and science in general) to be enormously important to our current, and future, generations, so it matters a great deal. How sad, then, that any minister willing to tackle the “fringe” topics is seen as a conspiracy-theorist whacko (often by the Church as well) instead of the man with the salve that could potentially help heal some of the festering tension between secular and religious people groups.  

In many cases, such as a pastor of a local congregation whose duty is primarily to sharpen the Body of Christ and spread the Good News of our Savior, speaking of transhumanism and its potential travesties might be a distraction from what he or she is personally called and gifted to do. Though, there remains to be a massive deficit of voices on the God-fearing end of the spectrum that choose to stand in opposition to certain aspects of transhumanism and its prospective travesties, and the result of this is a tragedy in itself. When so few spokespeople of the Gospel are willing to address such important issues in the secular sphere: 1) Believers have nobody on their side to tell them why or how these scientific developments are immoral and possibly devastating, and they are therefore misled to support what they don’t know the Bible expressly forbids; 2) nonbelieving agitators against religion have that much more reason to blast the world with the claim that the Church is outdated and irrelevant; and 3) those who may or may not feel convicted to believe in or follow God already (or those who have yet to even consider what they believe) have a scarce few intelligent, educated theological responders to listen to and guide them (most of whom are already squelched by a “conspiracist” label) and therefore have no reason to see Christianity as anything more than an archaic system of beliefs that can’t relate to the modern world they live in.

The more a minister of the Word compares Scripture to science and the convictions and agendas therein, the more Scripture proves itself to be true from the beginning, so really, a minister’s attention toward what is happening in laboratories across the globe today should not be as intimidating as it has become anyway—yet it appears that hardly anyone in the mainstream Church takes this position. Ministers are missing a great opportunity here to reach those who are confused about what Scripture actually says on the subject…

I don’t wish to insinuate that it is every Gospel minister’s responsibility to drop everything and start preaching about the inner-workings of every sinister scientific organization and the impending dooms that may be birthed from them (and as I said prior, this might prove to be a distraction away from many ministers’ personal callings), but it is my goal in this thread of thought to point out that there have been so very few ministers of the Gospel that have stood up to address these issues for all three people groups just mentioned—which covers all three known categories of people in existence (believers, nonbelievers, and those who haven’t decided yet).

I can’t say that I blame anyone. To take the bull by the horns and speak out regarding the concerns of modern science is a risky move, and it places one in a minority position. My opinions and concerns about the incoming “replacement humans” are often disregarded or staunchly opposed by the scientific community (and lay readers who follow it), despite the fact that a great deal of my arguments have been solidly based on what concern-flags the scientific community has raised in the first place. (As for me or my associates being labeled “conspiratists,” a conspiracy is not a conspiracy when there’s proof, and much of my research traces back to the horse’s mouth, so that label largely cancels itself out if we’re all willing to be honest here…) A minister can quote from the same ten science journals in a row and identify the same impending catastrophes as a secular spokesperson on any given day, but between these two voices, by default of his religious distinction, the minister’s warnings may be discarded by the mainstream who believe his conclusions to be born out of a sacred duty that many believers don’t yet fully comprehend, and toward a God that nonbelievers need not heed. He or she has become a part of the minority, much like many of the prophets in the Old Testament when the majority of Israelites were so consumed with pagan revelry that the warnings of God fell to the wayside until it was too late—and seasons of great tribulation followed every time. (In the case of transhumanistic sciences, however, we are not talking about “seasons” of tribulation, but potentially a permanent and unchangeable reality that no petri dish or super-computer on the planet can reverse.)

I can certainly relate to this—not because I equate myself with an Old Testament prophet, but because I have attempted to raise awareness of irreversible dangers transhumanism poses to the human race that God designed and have watched as, over the years, many have ignored the warnings I believe God persuaded me to put out there. How exciting and flattering, then, that my warnings have been heeded by a man in O’Donnell’s position who finds it necessary to concentrate upon and attend to the research I’ve compiled regarding the relationship between today’s “Promethean faith” (transhumanistic ideals of “playing God” by redesigning His creation; more clarification on this later) and the clear-cut commands of God against some of these practices as addressed in the Word—even as early as Genesis.

Thus, starting in the next edition of SkyWatch Magazine I’ll begin a series of articles to address everything from the nearness of technological singularity to the ethics Christians and conservative philosophers will need to deal with… and sooner than most imagine.

 

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How to avoid being overworked and feeling overwhelmed.”

Poor leaders find themselves running out of time while their direct reports lack motivation and are running out of productive work.  Great leadership is not about your personal production but your team’s production, especially when you are not around.
Delegation and deferring are two of your most important strengths as a leader. Doing them well is a must for providing effective leadership and significant success.  Great leaders spend less time “doing” and invest most of their time planning, organizing resources and coaching their team to do the “doing.”
There is a major difference between delegating and deferring.  Delegating means you still own some responsibility for the results, deferring means you give the task away without any further responsibility.  Great leaders use both and know when and how to use them.
Some warning signs you need to improve your delegating skills:
1. Your in-box is always full with work only YOU can do.
2. Delegated assignments are often incomplete and deadlines missed.
3. Direct reports feel they lack authority, resources and empowerment.
4. You constantly second guess your team members’ decisions.
5. Team morale is low, turnover rates rising and people lack motivation.
6. You frequently intervene in work you previously delegated or deferred.
7. Team members feel unprepared and are not taking full responsibility.
Tips for delegating effectively:
1. Recognize and affirm the capabilities of your team for their assignments.
2. Focus on results, not how tasks should be accomplished.
3. Use delegation to develop the skills of your team members and position them for advancement.
4. Always delegate or defer to the lowest level possible.
5. Explain assignments clearly and provide necessary resources.
6. Provide consistent feedback, emotional support during tough times and celebrate all wins, big or small.
7. Defer more, give away responsibility for results and avoid the comebacks.
Overworked and overwhelmed leaders are leaders who failed to learn how to delegate and defer effectively.
As a result your best people leave you because they are bored, you hold back the development of your good people and your average team members are burned up, or burned out because of trying to do it all.
How are you feeling as you start a new week?
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Why Jerusalem is the Capital!

In December, President Trump declared, “Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people.” This statement made Jerusalem Headline News once again. On December 6, one CNN Headline read, “Trump’s Jerusalem decision promises upheaval.” Hand it to CNN News to predict the future. This declaration about Jerusalem rattled, upset, unnerved and disturbed people all over the world. Why is this so?

People, including Christians are asking questions about Jerusalem once again. As a result, I’ve been researching the Scriptures to see what God says about Jerusalem. I have already compiled 22 pages of notes in a Word Document. I’m contacting leaders to see if they’d like me to speak about Jerusalem right now. Let me give you a little taste of what I’ve found.

(Genesis 12:1) The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

God told Abram to pack his bags and move since He wanted to give Abram a new home as a gift.

(Genesis 12:6-7, chapter 15) In these verses God lists some of the land He is giving to Israel.

(Genesis 17:8) The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”

God specifically told Abram what land He was giving him, and He told Abram that his new homeland was an everlasting possession. The lease would never expire; it would belong to Abram’s descendants forever.

In Leviticus 26 God told the Jewish people that when they sin, God would scatter them around the world. But He also said that their removal from the land would only be temporary, brief and short-lived. They may suffer, but they will never be completely destroyed. God promised that He would never break His covenant with Israel. And God specifically brought up the land of Israel when promising to restore them.

More than 2,600 years ago Ezekiel prophesied (in Ezekiel 26) about the physical and spiritual rebirth of Israel. God promised to bring the Jewish people back to the exact same land He gave their ancestors. He used the words, “your own land.” In the Living Bible it says, “For I will bring you back home again to the land of Israel.”

Other nations cannot take the land of Israel, and tell the Jewish people they’ll recommend a good realtor who’ll help them find another place to live. The land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people and it is their eternal home. The physical rebirth of Israel took place on May 14, 1948. Then in 1967 Israel regained control of Jerusalem from Jordan. As expected, God kept His promise to the people of Israel.

When people disobey God they will be punished. They can be harmed and hurt. Haman, Hitler and hordes of horrible people have hurt Israel, but God will never allow anyone to completely destroy Israel, or keep their land forever. A few times in the Bible God says He will remember (or remind Himself of) His covenant with Israel. He also says He will remember the land. Possessing the land of Israel is part of God’s Covenant with the Jewish people. The people and the land are inseparable!

God’s message of the restoration of Israel is not limited to the book of Ezekiel. God also told Jeremiah, Isaiah, Zechariah and Paul the same thing. The Bible is filled with promises from God that He would bring the Jewish people back to the land He gave our ancestors. The land He gave our ancestors, includes Jerusalem. God also promised to spiritually restore the Jewish people as well.

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Pastors and Workplace Ministers, Now Hear Me! Thus says the Lord!

This is a local message written by one of our ministry partners in Florida. Its message is worldwide in meaning. Pastors and business owners need to link arms and listen to each other. Great wisdom can be shared and learned, he who has ears hear! Paul

A MESSAGE TO THE “BODY OF CHRIST”

To all Christians who are working in the marketplace I ask these questions –

Whom are you aligned with? Real Christians or unbelievers?

What Marketplace Group do you meet with regularly for encouragement and inspiration?

Are you a blessing to other Christians in the marketplace by doing business with them? By praying for them? By recommending them? Do you even know what the family next to you in church does for a living?

We are so divided, it is a JOKE! The people of the world, the unbelievers and the unchurched laugh at us. Then we fight on FB about doctrines we disagree on & sometimes ignore the doctrines where we agree! And the unbelievers only remember the ridiculous disagreements & arguments we have with each other. Unity of the believer? Listen to what Jesus prayed for – John 17:20-21 – 20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will[e] believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. It’s very clear. Is it possible that the world may not believe that God the Father sent Jesus? Surely the unity of the believer is not that important? Father help us!!

We call ourselves marketplace ministers but, do you pray for your customers? And I don’t just mean when you are alone in your car, but when you are with them, to bless and minister to them? Or are you ashamed of your faith, afraid to speak the truth? Or are you afraid God won’t answer your prayers and you will be embarrassed? Have you lost your “first love”? Where is your “Holy Boldness”?

God help us, the Body of Christ, the “Church”. We have allowed unbelievers to take over “Our” culture, our cities, our counties, our state, our nation, our schools, our justice system, our courts, our seats of government, federal, state & local agencies on every level and we say “ How evil everything has become”.

“I wish God would just Beam me up”!

We are standing here at the beginning of what “I believe” is the greatest opportunity in our lives to see a real turnaround in our culture. And we can be a part of it — not if we are “Beamed Up” but if we are “Beaming” from ear to ear with the awesome things God is doing in our midst!

It’s time to bring the Body of Christ together in every way possible. We have left it up to the Pastors and they are trying; but it’s not just up to them.

We see many of our brothers and sisters working in the marketplace that we feel should be aligned with and connecting with us but just haven’t for their own reasons. Maybe they are looking for groups that provide many business leads for them so they can grow their own businesses. I understand that, but don’t join with them to the exclusion of your brothers & sisters in Christ.

I must tell you, there is nothing better than to help others meet their goals by praying for them, encouraging them, doing business with them and seeing the result —SUCCESS! And who better to do that for than another Christian!

Let’s face it, if you help a nonbeliever become financially successful, what Kingdom would they be supporting. They are either supporting the Kingdom of God or a different Kingdom, maybe even the Kingdom of darkness. Is that what you want? “Will they be praying for the customers you refer to them? You think? Will they be sharing the gospel with anyone? Will they be praying for the sick to be healed?

Let’s be real. That is not going to happen.

Some would say, well I don’t want to discriminate. I want to give my leads and my business to unbelievers as much as believers. Really? That’s NOT scriptural! God says in Galatians 6:9 -11 ; And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. “Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.” What part of “especially” do we not understand? We can still do good to all, but prefer our brothers & sisters in Christ. Or you can just consider that verse a suggestion?

Find a Christian business networking group that you can be part of if you want to be part of that unity. If you don’t know of a good group full of Bible believing, tithing believers who are members of part of a fellowship that they are accountable to and support regularly then check us out.

At Integrity Business Referrals, we are doing the little bit we can to create unity in the Body. Our group consists of business people, ministry leaders and pastors coming together from over 30 churches to help each other in every way possible to

“BRING IN THE HARVEST” MONEY AND SOULS!! We are in unity so that the world will know that the Father sent Jesus!

Call us. IBR – 863-521-3360. Go to our website www.IBR77.com , see us on FB – Integrity Business Referrals or come to one of our meetings. Find out the benefits of unity of the believer in the marketplace & get really connected to what God is doing in our midst!

2018 – ALL NEW BEGINNINGS! GOD IS ON THE MOVE!

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“Developing Leaders versus gathering Followers”

According to the American Society of Training and Development, U.S.A. companies and organizations, profit and nonprofit, spend more than $170 Billion annually on leadership-based curriculum and training.
“Training” is the number one reason leadership development fails.
You don’t train leaders, you develop leaders. You train animals who have very little, if any, reasoning power.  When you treat people, especially your future leaders, like animals and try to train them rather than develop them as independent thinkers, your leadership development grinds to a halt.
Training presumes the need for indoctrination on systems, processes and techniques assuming all of that is “doing things the right way.” These things have value, but they have little to do with leadership development. It’s more like management training than leadership development.
Training workshops are too often by the book, one dimensional, one directional and one size fits all. This describes an authoritarian process that imposes static and usually outdated information, but does little to develop leaders who can create a compelling future, build a passionate team and find a way to win without a manual.
Most over-priced training workshops are presented by an untested and inexperienced professional presenter using a monologue and rarely goes off script. Scripts contain good training information, but battle-tested veterans are still your best bet for developing future leaders. It’s called “Follow the leader,” not follow the book.
Worst of all, this training usually occurs in a classroom driven by someone else’s “best practices,” not the needs of your future leaders. You cannot develop a leader in a classroom, seminar or workshop. Those venues are for dispensing information and then testing to see if the participants understand that generic information.
Leaders are developed under live fire. Leaders need good information, however, if you want to know if they really understand it, see how they do when the bullets are flying. There’s an old parable that says, “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach him how to fish and he eats for a lifetime.”
The same is true for leadership. Develop a leader for a generation and that generation thrives. Develop leaders in every generation and that organization thrives for many generations to come.
Never let your desire to “grow” your organization distract you from your main purpose, developing new leaders. Leaders that create a new path forward, not managers attracting followers who only make the current ruts deeper. Sustainable growth always outlasts explosive growth.
“Praised be the Lord, who has allowed me to see a successor on my throne today.” 1 Kings 1:47
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The Tower of Babel: Abode of the Gods

The Tower of Babel: Abode of the Gods

 

Not all the holy mountains in the history of the world are natural, formed by the shifting of tectonic plates or the sudden, catastrophic opening of “the fountains of the great deep.” The Tower of Babel was one such artificial mountain. Babel was humanity’s attempt to force its way back into the divine council.

At Babel, mankind tried to storm the castle of God.

For generations, well-meaning Bible teachers have presented the story of Babel as an object lesson on the dangers of pride. Those foolish people were so arrogant they thought they could build a tower high enough to reach heaven!

With all due respect to those teachers, that’s an insult to the intelligence of our ancestors, if you think about it. And it’s a disservice to people in church who want to know why Yahweh was so offended by this project. Really? God is that insecure?

Look, if big egos were enough to bring God to Earth, He’d never leave.

Babel was not a matter of God taking down some people who’d gotten too big for their britches. The clue to the sin of Babel is in the name.

Remember, the Hebrew prophets loved to play with language. We often find words in the Bible that sound like the original but make a statement—for example, Beelzebub (“lord of the flies”) instead of Beelzebul (“Ba`al the prince”), or Ish-bosheth (“man of a shameful thing”) instead of Ishbaal (“man of Ba`al”). Likewise, the original Akkadian words bāb ilu, which means “gate of god” or “gate of the gods,” is replaced in the Bible with Babel, which is based on the Hebrew word meaning “confusion.”

Now, there’s a bit of misinformation that must be corrected about the Tower of Babel: Babel was not in Babylon.

It’s an easy mistake to make. The names sound alike, and Babylon is easily the most famous city of the ancient world. It’s also got a bad reputation, especially to Jews and Christians. Babylon, under the megalomaniacal king Nebuchadnezzar, sacked the Temple in Jerusalem and carried off the hardware for temple service. It makes sense to assume that a building project so offensive that God personally intervened must have been built at Babylon.

But there’s a problem with linking Babylon to the Tower of Babel: Babylon didn’t exist when the tower was built. It didn’t even become a city until about a thousand years after the tower incident, and even then it was an unimportant village for about another 500 years.

Traditions and sources outside the Bible identify the builder of the tower as the shadowy figure named Nimrod. Our best guess is he lived sometime between 3500 and 3100 B.C., a period of history called the Uruk Expansion. This tracks with what little the Bible tells us about Nimrod. In Genesis 10:10, we read “the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.”

The land of Shinar is Sumer and Erech is Uruk. Uruk was so important to human history that Nimrod’s homeland is still called Uruk, five thousand years later! We just spell it differently—Iraq.

Accad was the capital city of the Akkadians, which still hasn’t been found, but was somewhere between Babylon and ancient Assyria. Babylon itself was northwest of Uruk, roughly three hundred miles from the Persian Gulf in what is today central Iraq. But it wasn’t founded until around 2300 B.C., at least 700 years after Nimrod, and it wasn’t Babylon as we think about it until the old Babylonian empire emerged in the early part of the 2ndmillennium B.C.

So where should we look for the Tower of Babel?

The oldest and largest ziggurat in Mesopotamia was at Eridu, the first city built in Mesopotamia. Scholars put its founding at around 5400 B.C. In recent years, scholars have learned that the name Babylon was interchangeable with other city names, including Eridu. So “Babylon” didn’t always refer to the city of Babylon in ancient texts.

Artist’s conception of how the never-completed ziggurat at Eridu might have looked

 

 

 

Eridu never dominated the political situation in Sumer after the reigns of its first two kings, Alulim and Alalgar. But as the home city of Enki, god of fresh water, wisdom, and magic, Eridu was so important to Mesopotamian culture that more than three thousand years after Alalgar, Hammurabi the Great was crowned not in Babylon, but in Eridu—even though it had ceased to be a city about three hundred years earlier.

Even as late as the time of Nebuchadnezzar, 1,100 years after Hammurabi, the kings of Babylon still sometimes called themselves LUGAL.NUNki—King of Eridu.

Why? What was the deal with Eridu?

Archaeologists have uncovered eighteen levels of the temple to Enki at Eridu. The oldest levels of the E-abzu, a small structure less than ten feet square, date to the founding of the city. And consider that the spot remained sacred to Enki long after the city was deserted around 2000 B.C. The temple remained in use until the 5th century B.C., nearly five thousand years after the first crude altar was built to accept offerings of fish to Enki, the god of the subterranean aquifer, the abzu.

Now, this is where we tell you that abzu (ab = water + zu = deep) is very likely where we get our English word “abyss.” And the name Enki is a compound word. En is Sumerian for “lord,” and ki is the word for “earth.” Thus, Enki, god of the abzu, was “lord of the earth.”

Do you remember Jesus calling someone “the ruler of this world”?  Or Paul referring to “the god of this world”?  Who were they talking about?

Yeah. Satan.

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Here’s another piece to our puzzle:  Nimrod was of the second generation after the flood. His father was Cush, son of Ham, son of Noah. In Sumerian history, the second king of Uruk after the flood was named Enmerkar, son of Mesh-ki-ang-gasher.

Now, get this:  An epic poem from about 2000 B.C. called Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta preserves the basic details of the Tower of Babel story, including the confusion of language among the people of Sumer.

We don’t know exactly where Aratta was, but guesses range from northern Iran to Armenia. (Which would be interesting. Not only is Armenia located near the center of an ancient kingdom called Urartu, which may be a cognate for Aratta, it’s where Noah landed his boat—the mountains of Ararat. So it’s possible Nimrod/Enmerkar was trying to intimidate the people—his cousins, basically—who settled near where his great-grandfather landed the ark. But we just don’t know.)  Wherever it was, Enmerkar muscled this neighboring kingdom to compel them to send building materials for a couple of projects near and dear to his heart.

Besides building a fabulous temple for Inanna, the goddess of, well, prostitutes, Enmerkar/Nimrod also wanted to expand and upgrade Enki’s abzu—the abyss.

“Let the people of Aratta bring down for me the mountain stones from their mountain, build the great shrine for me, erect the great abode for me, make the great abode, the abode of the gods, famous for me, make my me prosper in Kulaba, make the abzu grow for me like a holy mountain, make Eridug (Eridu) gleam for me like the mountain range, cause the abzu shrine to shine forth for me like the silver in the lode. When in the abzu I utter praise, when I bring the me from Eridug, when, in lordship, I am adorned with the crown like a purified shrine, when I place on my head the holy crown in Unug Kulaba, then may the …… of the great shrine bring me into the jipar, and may the …… of the jipar bring me into the great shrine. May the people marvel admiringly, and may Utu (the sun god) witness it in joy.”1 (Emphasis added)

 

That’s the issue Yahweh had with it right there. This tower project wasn’t about hubris or pride; it was to build the “abode of the gods” right on top of the abzu.

Could Nimrod have succeeded? Ask yourself: Why did Yahweh find it necessary to personally put a stop to it? A lot of magnificent pagan temples were built in the ancient world, many of them copying the pyramid-like shape of the ziggurats, from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica. Why did God stop this one?

We can only speculate, of course, but God had a good reason or we wouldn’t have a record of it in the Bible. Calling Babel a sin of pride is easy, but it drains the story of its spiritual and supernatural context.

In the view of this author, the evidence is compelling. It’s time to correct the history we’ve been taught since Sunday School:  Babel was not at Babylon, it was at Eridu. The tower was the temple of the god Enki, Lord of the Earth, the god of the abyss. Its purpose was to create an artificial mount of assembly, the abode of the gods, to which humans had access.

That was something that Yahweh could not allow.

1 Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Fluckiger-Hawker, E, Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G. Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.3#), retrieved 12/17/16.

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Prayer is a MUST for Godly Leadership – part 1

There are many principles and keys to successful Christian leadership but most are not as vital as prayer. Prayer is one of the most powerful communication tools given to man to use to commune with our heavenly father. Do not burden yourself by attempting to pray as good or as fluent as some of your ministerial colleagues or spiritual mentors. Simply ask the Holy Spirit to help you pray as best as you can. The ever wise Holy Spirit will teach you Psalm 32:8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye”, and will divinely connect you with those who will help sharpen and perfect YOUR praying style. Diligently learn from those God has brought into your life, but learn as led by the Holy Spirit. When I attempted to pray as some of the prayer warriors I respected, I did not connect with the Lord as I expected. When I trusted the Holy Spirit to help me pray based on what He and others taught me, then I truly felt the power of God as I prayed. This is the best type of praying leader you should desire to be, the one God has ordained you to become.

Jesus Christ, our Lord and best example of how to obey God prayed while he was on earth. Jesus prayed for himself in John 17:1-2 “Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.” Jesus also prayed for his disciples as shown in John 17:9-10 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them”.  One of my deepest desires is for every pastor and ministry leader to be able to prayer this prayer as often as needed. This particular prayer emphasizes the accountability we have to God for those given to us, but more importantly clarifies that we are simply custodians for these truly belong to God our father. Finally Jesus prayed for all believers in John 17:20-21 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me”.

I offer these 3 examples in John 17 to highlight the importance of praying for ourselves John 17:1-5, praying for those God has ordained us to lead, John 17:6-19 and also praying for those whom will believe in Jesus in John 17:20-26. This is one of the best examples of God’s expectation of prayer from his servant leaders. Take the time to read study and meditate on John 17 for Jesus provides profound guidelines for mastering the essentials of prayer for these 3 categories of his children which are most important to our mission on earth.

I have seen the biggest results in my life when I pray according to God’s mission for me and those he has called me to lead. Let’s be clear, God is certainly concerned about our personal welfare, such as health and family success and balance. He is also highly interested in us praying for his will in our lives and the lives he has mandated us to lead. I trust you will experience the glory of God as you use John 17 to pray for yourself, your disciples and those who will believe in our Lord and Savior.

Shalom and Glory to you.

Join us next time for part 2 which explores the root reasons for prayer in our current challenging environment.

 

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Christ Celebrated Chanukah

Christ celebrated Chanukah so you can too!

(John 10:22-23 NIV) Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Yeshua was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.

The word “dedication” in Hebrew is Chanukah so Yeshua was at the Temple during the Festival of Chanukah. Every year during this festival we celebrate the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple. In 2 Corinthians 6:16 Paul tells us we are the temples of God since God’s Spirit lives in people who belong to Yeshua. Because of this, it will spiritually benefit us to celebrate the Festival of Dedication (or Chanukah) and rededicate our temples to God.

חֲנֻכָּה (SEC # 2598) – Chanukah

It comes from (חָנַך) chanak: to train up, dedicate (SEC # 2596)

make experienced, submissive, etc. (as one does a horse by a rope in its mouth)

Dedication involves submission. When people want to keep a horse under their control, so it does what they want it to do, a rope is used to control it. Being under the control of its rider, the horse can be dedicated to doing exactly what its owner wants.

For people to be dedicated to God we need to live the same way as the horse. We need to be directed and under the control of Yeshua our Lord, Owner and Master.

The Hebrew word חָנַך is the Hebrew word Solomon used in Proverbs 22.

(Proverbs 22:6) Train up (חֲנֹךְ) a child in the way he should go

(Proverbs 22:6 GNT) Teach children how they should live

(Proverbs 22:6 TLB) Teach a child to choose the right path

(Proverbs 22:6 MSG) Point your kids in the right direction

To dedicate our temples to God we need to be pointed in the right direction so we can choose the right path and live as our Lord calls us to live.

I trust you are beginning to see how celebrating Chanukah can be a spiritual blessing to you. Chanukah begins December 12 at sunset, and ends December 20 at sunset. I encourage to learn more about Chanukah and if you desire I am available to visit your congregation, Bible study, or group of friends to lead a Chanukah celebration.

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Are You a “GODLY EXAMPLE in LEADERSHIP”?

 

A Godly example for others is NOT AN OPTION in ministry, however many times we show anything other than a Godly impact on lives that are watching our every move.

Sometimes it is so easy to laugh at another’s sick joke, or criticize a man or woman of God because they do things differently than we do or we might complain often of our ailments or problems with our children and family. Are we the example that will enhance their lives or are we like the blind leading the blind?

What we may be showing others is “Don’t follow me, I’m lost too.”

What about ego? Are we always bragging, building ourselves up as we crave for attention?

Serve from Godly motives, not to feel good about yourself….or to be praised, accepted, or in control.

“May each of us look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.”

Philippians 2:4 ESV

Are we always considerate of others?

Do we strive to be on time….?

Do we answer phone calls and text promptly?

Do we answer messages with a pleasant message other than a yes or no?

The power of our example of the way we live either has a negative or positive influence on others.

“Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.”

Romans 12:10 ESV

What about sharing our interest in movies, TV or other media outlets? Do we show interest in TV shows that are knowingly secular, violent, witchcraft, promoting sexual perversion and other worldly interests or is it our ultimate goal to help others become imitators of Christ so not to open our eyes, mind and spirit to these evil pursuit’s ?

“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”

Galatians 6:9 ESV

Do we show and live by example, that our spouse is our best friend (after Jesus Christ) .and that he or she comes before anyone in our congregation or otherwise?

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.”

Colossians 3:23-24 ESV

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“Living like the Gate is Open” 5 Keys to unlock your unlimited potential-Part I

Exceptional leaders want to reach their ultimate potential in life and in relationships. It is not about the desire to do this but the knowledge of “How to” that can get in the way. During the next two months in the All Pro Pastors newsletter, I want to provide 5 keys that will help you as a Pastor unlock your and your congregation’s unlimited potential and enable you to “Live like someone left the gate open.”

Before I give you the keys, let me provide for you the picture of the “open gate” statement from earlier. My dog Missy has been with our family since December 2006. As our first dog for the family, we learned a lot of lessons on feeding, providing, and most importantly, protecting. We realized that a gate/fence was a very important piece of that last equation. When I let Missy out to do her business, I would sometimes forget to check to make sure the gate was closed. As you can guess, there were many, many times of running through the neighborhood to capture a run-a-way dog. I have learned also early to train her to come with treats. Food can be a great motivator in life. So what does the statement “Live like someone left the gate open” mean for us today? When Missy would “escape” she made the most of the situation and fully engaged in all that she could do, especially the areas with a lot of mud. What would happen if we fully engaged in life the same way- with an excitement and joy for the moments (just minus the mud). I believe we would be able to tap into the areas of our greatest potential. For this month, let’s consider some 2 of the 5 keys that help unlock our gate!

Key One: Learn to Adapt

The first key to unlock your gate of unlimited potential is the ability to adapt to the environment God has placed you in. This not only involves your sight (eyes) but your vision (heart). Sight sees what is in front of you and vision sees what is beyond you. It is all revolves around our attitude. I like the poem, “Two men looked through prison bars. One saw mud, the other saw stars. It is about perspective.” The question is, “Do you have your sights set on the stars or a muddy mentality?” The Apostle Paul reminds us in Philippians 4:11, “… for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” (KJV) There are a few items to consider in how to adapt to your current situation. In your new environment, remember that there are now new opportunities to explore and new rules to understand. With each move, my dog Missy would take advantage of the new backyard while learning what she could and could not do. With each move, the backyard would grow and she was able to stretch her legs. Let me explain the “new rules” portion of this key.

Since my wife and I have moved 19 times over the last 29 years of marriage and military, there are some valuable rules we have learned and lived. One of the most important is what to hold on to and what to let go of. We know that if it has been in a box for four years and we have never opened it, we probably do not need it. I will look in to make sure it isn’t anything I really need but we let it go. This is not only important with possessions, it is also true with people (not that you had them in a box). I have shared this statement with many of my Soldiers and young people, “Show me your friends and I will show you your future.” In adapting to a new environment, relationships with others may and will change. It is like taking a train with friends. At different stops, other friends will come on the train while others will get off. You want these older friends to stay but they have come to the end of that particular journey with you. You have a choice. Do you get off the train and stay where they are or do you stay on your train and keep moving forward toward the destination God is calling your heart to? It is hard to let go but there are times when those new friends around us are there to help us get to one of the many stops that lead to our ultimate destination. As you consider the first key of Adapting, consider this phrase given to me by my father when I was sixteen, “If you always do what you have always done, you will always be what you always have been.” This means that you need to learn from your past to help you grow in the potential of the present which leads us to the second key.

Key Two: Learn your Capabilities and Limitations

The second key to unlock the gate of your potential is found in discovering your capabilities and your limitations. The other day, I read a question that made me stop and think. “What is the enemy of great?” Is it challenges? It is overwhelming obstacles? No. It is simply settling for “good”. Good is the enemy of great. How many of you got up this morning and said, “I can’t wait to be average today!” If you are reading these words, chances are you are not one of the millions that believe and demonstrate this mentality. When you use this second key, you unlock a desire to move from ordinary to extraordinary. It is a step from the mundane to the majestic. It is becoming a king when others simply see a shepherd boy (1 Samuel 16).

It is more then just knowing what you can’t or should not do. It is about captivating on the energy building strength of what you are the best at doing. Let me explain the greatness in knowing your limitations. My biggest struggle in life is that I think I can do more than I physically can do. In a matter of speaking (or writing as the case may be), my mind writes a check that my body does not want to pay. It will pay it but is usually costs me more in the end. How can a fence be a good picture to visually help in this area of growth? Many years ago, there was a study done regarding fences around playgrounds, The children in the recreational areas that did not have fences generally stayed close to the swings, slides and the merry-go-rounds (yep that dates the study). The playgrounds that had fences, however, had kids all the way to the fence, some even climbing on it. What do you think they learned? What they learned was that children were hesitant to go out to the farthermost boundary of the playground because they did not have a structured feeling of security. The areas with the fences facilitated kids moving out and pushing the limits. Where do you think greatest grows? Does greatness grow in the safe gray area of hesitancy or in the trail blazing spirit of standing on the edge? Fences protect your capabilities to allow you to do as much as you can within the limits of your talent and strength. You can either do 10 things well or you can go 5 things with excellence. It is your choice. As that second key in turning in the lock, it teaches us to face our fears and failures head-on. As I have told many of my Soldiers and Law Enforcement Officers, “When you fall on the ground, pick something up when you get back up. That way it is not a wasted trip.” Let me ask you this question. When is failure final? Failure is final when you decide to stop trying. Small steps forward are always better than sitting still and sulking or coasting backwards and complaining. Yet, I do understand a time when it seems like it is impossible to stand back up because the floor feels better than the beating. What is that point called? It is our natural saturation point. Do you remember the time you spent in chemistry class testing a liquid to find out its saturation point? Although I never had the patience, it was the difference of a small dropper of a certain chemical and the liquid in the beaker. Drop by drop went the chemical into the beaker of clear liquid until, “PRESTO“, it changed from clear to blue. How does this relate to us? We all have a saturation point. It depends on the situation, the stresses, or the trial but like the chemical, drop by drop it falls into the pool of our heart and eventually impacts and overwhelms. So what do we do? In the Chemistry class, we would record the number of drops it took for the particular chemical to saturate the liquid. In our life, we can begin to feel the saturation point coming by our bodies, our minds, and our hearts becoming “burdened and heavy laden” (Matt. 11:28). If we know this, we now have the opportunity to do something about it. What do you think it is? If a liquid is saturated by a chemical, you can reverse the process by adding more of the liquid to overwhelm the foreign substance. In our life, we can add the “liquid of life” (John 4:14) into our heart to help us fight the saturated situations. What are at least three things that can pour into our heart that help us heal from the “blue turning” times? Three simple, yet profound items that can help us turn back to our original state before the crisis is family, friends, and faith. They help to re-establish a homeostasis type of healing that helps us move forward and begin a new normal. Issues in life will change our attitudes, our perspectives, and posture for a time but the length of that time is up to you.

The last area of knowing your limitations and capabilities is to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. Once we get settled in the easy chair of life, the longer we stay in the prone posture of self-preservation, the harder it is to get up and get going again. If I am unwilling to be stretched in my life, I will never be able to grow into the leader I am skilled to be. Think of it this way, “Comfort leads to complacency which leads to apathy which leads to atrophy.” Comfort may be great on a cruise (just not in a hurricane) but it has no place on a battleship. If you have ever toured a battleship, you will realize that the sleeping quarters, dining facility, and work stations are not designed for relaxation but for mission readiness. Everyone has a job and everyone needs to do their job. What is your primary job here on the battleship of life? When I am comfortable with being uncomfortable, I begin to learn the areas of my responsibility the best way possible. I seek to know more. I ask more questions. I take the necessary steps to do more so I can become more. Sadly, most people try to act as if they need no help or already know all the details of their jobs. They do not last long in their positions because they would rather preserve their false persona of perfection rather than the reality of their learning.

Next month, we will continue to unpack the last three keys to unlock your unlimited potential. Until then, remember that your limitation is your imagination. With you as a child of the King, make your plans BIG.

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The Days of Noah “Part I”

If you haven’t read our first two articles, I do recommend reading them before you push through with this one.  For this entire series, we are using the cipher that Jesus gave us for the “end times” in Luke 21.   “When you see these things happen, then stand up, and lift up your heads because your redemption draws near.”  We are called to know our Bibles and we are called to know what is happening in the world. When these two things converge, then we know that the return of Jesus is near.  Thus far we have shown that we are living in the days where:

  • Gentiles no longer tread down Jerusalem.  Luke 21
  • Jerusalem has become a “burdensome stone” for the whole world.  Zechariah 12:3
  • Persecution of Christians is at unprecedented levels in modern times and they are being beheaded just as Revelations describes. Revelations 20:4
  • There is a dramatic increase in pagan and occultic activity just like Jannes and Jambres. 2 Timothy 3:1-9.
  • There are more false Christ’s, false religions, false gospels and false prophets than ever before. Matt 7:15, Matt 24:24, Ezekiel 13:9, Jeremiah 23:16, Luke 6:26, Matthew 16:11-12, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, Acts 20:28-30, 2 Peter 3:14-18, 2 Peter 1:12-21, Titus 1:6-16, 2 Peter 2 & Matthew 23:1-29
  • There is a great falling away happening in the church.  Specifically the church has become politically correct rather than Biblically correct. When it comes to sin, Christians are no different than the rest of the world. See the last article and Revelations 3.
  • The Days of Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah are once again in full swing. Luke 17:28

The Days of Noah

The “Days of Noah” are clearly linked by Jesus to His ultimate return. In Matt 24:37-39 it says, “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark.”  NKJV

To start with, this article is going to be controversial because we will be talking about an era of human history that we know very little about because the Bible does not actually say that much about it. Not only that, but we are going to be bringing up one of the most controversial chapters in the Bible, which is Genesis the 6th chapter. Before I begin, I want to say that whatever you believe about Genesis the 6th chapter, it probably doesn’t matter unless it was actually happening again. If Genesis 6 is happening again, then the proof is in the pudding.  So for this study we are going to work backward. We are going to focus on what is happening in the world right now and you are going to find that there are some strange new creatures that are being created. Then we will reference the Bible to see if something similar can be found in its pages.

Trans-humanism

Trans-humanism is the technology of changing and blending human DNA to create a bigger, better, stronger and a longer living human being.  What most people do not know is that modern technology has just ripped a hole in the fabric of humanity! Genetic engineering is currently used even within our food supply chain. They think that what they are now able to accomplish is something that has have never achieved before, which is to conquer death and our frail, human limitations. In no uncertain terms, the development of Trans-humanism changes everything. In order to accomplish this feat, they are changing DNA by blending human, animal and plant DNA together.  They also have the technology to write completely new DNA and to create completely new life forms and in a speedy fashion.  Let me be clear, if God does not intervene soon, none of His creations will be left.  When I first heard of Trans-humanism, I didn’t believe it was even remotely possible, but unfortunately I was wrong.  That we, as children of God, would knowingly proceed forward with irreparably changing humanity it is beyond my comprehension, but that is exactly what this new field of science is doing.   They are able to write, rewrite, copy and paste DNA at high speeds with profound affects.  To understand just how this is possible, we need to learn a little more about DNA.  In it’s simplest form, DNA is just like the letters of the alphabet because it can be used as a language or a code to store sophisticated information. DNA is a storage system that literally forms the “book of life.” (Psalms 139:16) Unfortunately, like any storage system, the information can become corrupted and when this happens the image of God and His temple are corrupted.

There are many debates about the Bible and it’s meanings, but there is no doubt that God himself wrote the message of DNA.  This message, though in a fallen state, still bears the resemblance of God Himself.  The goal of Trans-humanism is no less than to change the image and the reality of what mankind is, because they view mankind as weak and fatally flawed. If you think mankind’s ultimate problem in the world today is death, then scientists think they are on the verge of solving that problem as well. In 2015, one of the front covers of Time magazine stated “2045 – The Year Man Becomes Immortal.”  In the article, they believe the secret to life everlasting is simply replacing parts that they can grow themselves. Scientists in the field have already coined the term for this new version of man and they call them humans 2.0. The problem is humans 3.0 and 4.0 will be coming out very shortly. The idea of blending humans, animals and plants together, as well as writing their own code for brand new life forms, clearly threatens to destroy the world, as we know it. To go along with this new breed of men, they are already talking about a new level of racism that will come with it. This new form of racism will be between those who are modified versus those who are not.

In an effort to try and catch you up on what is really possible, just look at some of the following headlines.

    • 12 bizarre examples of genetic engineering – Web-spinning goats – Glow-in-the-dark cats – Venomous cabbage, Fast-growing salmon, Banana vaccines, Less-flatulent cows, Genetically modified trees, Medicinal eggs – Strange new Creatures and Chimeras
    • The $100 Genome: Implications for the DOD – 2010 – The first draft sequences of the human genome were published a decade ago at a cost of $300M, now you can accomplish this for less than $100. Recommendation:  The DOD should immediately plunge into genetic engineering (create super soldiers). Waiting even two years to initiate this process may place them unrecoverable behind in the race for personal genomics information and applications.  Translation? Enhanced human beings or super soldiers are the new arms race!
    • The Hybrid Age – Tom Horn & Chuck Missler – Trans-humanism promises to redefine what it means to be human. Tran-humanism supports this vision, as does a flourishing list of U.S. military advisors, bioethicists, law professors, and academics, which intend the use of genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic biology (Grins technologies) as tools that will radically redesign our minds, our memories, our physiology, our offspring, and even perhaps as Joel Garreau, in his bestselling book Radical Evolution, claims—our very souls.
    • COMES THE ÜBERMENSCHEN – Hitler’s vision of the superior race is coming true. The former chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics, Dr. Leon Kass warned:  Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic “enhancement,” for wholesale redesign. In leading laboratories, academic and industrial, new creators are confidently amassing their powers and quietly honing their skills, while on the street their evangelists [Tran humanists] are zealously prophesying a post human future. For anyone who cares about preserving our humanity, the time has come for paying attention.
    • INTACT GENETIC MATERIAL EXTRACTED FROM AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUMMY – By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr. – Published: April 16, 1985
    • SCIENTISTS RESURRECT EXTINCT FROG That Gives Birth Through Its Mouth – March 19th, 2013
    • First human head transplant could happen in two years – 25 February 2015 by Helen Thomson.
    • Citizen Cyborg:  Why Democratic Societies Must Respond To The Redesigned Human Of The Future
    • The end of extinction? – Mail Online Magazine – By SARAH GRIFFITHS – 9/3/2013

 

 

    • DARPA’s Next Generation Of Super Zombie Soldiers – Published by Sam Hason on 8/31/ 2015

 

  • In 30 Years People Won’t Have Sex to Make Babies, Stanford Professor Says
  • National Geographic – The Next Human.

 

    • Trans-humanist Seeks Eternal Life With Blood of Youth Rather Than Blood of Christ.

 

  • Brave New World: Scientists Bring About ‘Baby Farming’ and The Recreation of The Nephilim.
  • Human beings can now be edited … but we may not like the results.
  • Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice.
  • Government to lift moratorium on cross-species, ‘chimera’ research
  • Resurrection Technology Is Here
  • British scientists granted permission to genetically modify human embryos

 

Well, you might be saying that it will take years for this to happen, but the truth is that if a controversial military or scientific report is made public, especially when it has measures of national security involved, then the report is probably 10-20 years behind what is actually happening. Once a genetically modified human is released, it only takes 3-4 generations for this change to affect all of humanity. This is why we are told in Leviticus 19:19 that we are not to mix species and this is why Trans-humanism changes everything. What do you mean?  When they inserted quail DNA into a chicken, the chicken moved its head like a quail and made sounds like a quail.  These are complex memory and behavior patterns. The chicken literally isn’t a chicken anymore! If we do this to humans, we won’t be human anymore either, at least the humans that God created.  The ramification of taking the technologies of Trans-humanism any farther is that they could literally destroy the world, as we know it.  Not only that, but we are playing God.  Think about all of the new creatures they will be creating.  Think about how many failures they will have killed before they get one that is adaptively significant. Experimenting on beings that are partly human and killing them as we see fit sounds more like the Devil than any god I have heard. But the genie cannot be put back in the bottle because $100 is all it takes to sequence someone’s DNA.  Sure science is doing all of this in the name of curing disease, but really it is to change who and what we are as a species.  Mankind sees themselves as imperfect and fragile and in need of a fix and science is now in a position to give it them.  They see this as just the next phase of their evolution, but this may be the same forbidden fruit that was in the Garden of Eden.

If the Bible says that we are not to change the words of the Bible (Rev 22:18&19, Deut 4:2 & 12:32) because this is blasphemy, then how can we consider changing the words that God Himself wrote in the “book of life.” DNA is “the instruction book for life” and the literal “words that define His image,” but like any information system, DNA can contain the truth or it can contain lies.  The Bible says that the truth will set us free and that lies will enslave us.  The most troubling aspects of Trans-Humanism are that we are changing the image that God created. Furthermore, we are changing our DNA to where it is different than Adam and even more importantly, different than Jesus. If our bodies really are the “temple of the Holy Spirit,” then changing one jot or tittle of the temple plan defiles God’s temple. A perfect God cannot inhabit an imperfect temple.  If mankind were created in the image of God, then changing our DNA would change that image.  If Satan is the god of this world and everywhere he looks all he sees are little images of his arch enemy, then don’t you think it might be his #1 goal to change that?  Clearly, Satan would want to change mankind to be in his own image instead. If demonic possession is real, then a demonic spirit can inhabit a human body. This parallels the Holy Spirit, which can also inhabit a human body making it God’s temple. Is it possible that changing the human body could also cause it to become the temple of Satan? These are scary implications and honestly, just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ramifications of what this new technology of Trans-humanism is doing to our faith.

So the question becomes, does the Bible talk about Trans humanism or genetic manipulation?  Well the Bible says, “what has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9)  I believe that this is the case here because Trans-humanism is eerily similar to several passages talked about in the Bible.  Remember, if species are left alone, then everything reproduces after its own kind.  So we are looking for something that did not follow this pattern. The first clue to this mystery happens to be in the very first prophecy in the Bible, which is found in Genesis the 3rd chapter. I call this chapter “The War of the Seeds”, but you could also call this “The DNA Wars.” Why would I say that? Consider this statement because it was the first thing that God said to Satan and Adam after the fall of mankind. “And I will put enmity between you (Satan) and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head (referring to the Messiah), and you will strike his heel.” What is exciting about this chapter is that it is a prophecy of the coming of Jesus and how He would free us by destroying Satan.  But there are some curious things in this passage as well like, what does the Bible mean by seed?  As we know today, the most important of seed is the genetic component, which is DNA.  If there is a war of the seeds then this could be a DNA war. When did this DNA war happen?  Is it happening right now?  How can Satan have seed or offspring and when did he have this seed the Bible refers to or is this just figurative?  Is seed or DNA one of the actual chess pieces that will be used as this cosmic war comes to an end?  Why is the seed or DNA so important?  While we may not know all the answers to all of these questions, I do believe that we will be able to answer most of these questions during this study.

If we look for the seed of Satan, there is really only one candidate found in the entire Bible.  There is really only one new creature that did not come after its kind. Moreover, this creature was similar to humans, but they were created outside of the 6 days of creation, which means God did not create them. This sole candidate is the Nephilim described in Genesis the 6th chapter and elsewhere.  Does the idea of the Nephilim fulfill this verse? How can Satan have seed unless the Biblical account of Gen 6 is true?

Mingling Seed and Tampering with DNA.

In Daniels vision of the statue with the “head of gold,” which is found in chapter 2 verses 43, he mentions that the Final Kingdom before the return of the Messiah would also be the only kingdom that was divided. It was partly iron and partly clay “in that they mingled themselves with the seed of men and the two would not cleave together.”  The only other time that the Bible really mentions the idea of mingled seed is in Genesis the 6th chapter, which also happens to be the days of Noah.  I believe that what this verse is telling us is that in the last kingdom it will be divided because there will be two types of people in this kingdom. Some will have un-mingled seed and some will have mingled seed and been genetically modified. This last kingdom that will rule the earth before Christ’s return perfectly parallels the last kingdom of Revelations that is described as a “Beast.” Just like the Divided Kingdom, the Beast Kingdom will have two types of people.  There are those who have received the mark of the Beast and those who refuse this mark.  Maybe this is not a coincidence.  Maybe the people who take the mark of the Beast are the very one’s who have tampered with their DNA. Can it also be a coincidence that this technology exists today?  How about the fact that Trans-humanism is literally blending mankind with the beasts of the earth? Is this also a coincidence? Maybe this mark is not just a mark, but also a genetic marker that has components of a “beast.”

The Last Divided Kingdom of Daniel and the Beast of Revelations Connection

Last Kingdom Revelations Daniel 2
Saved Unmarked Non-mingled seed
Unsaved Marked Mingled Seed

Class Warfare & Racism Like Never Before!

One of the major ramifications of Trans-humanism is that it would create a new form of racism. This will happen because there is a huge divide between those who are enhanced and those who are not enhanced. This divide will not just be ethnic and racial, but also in abilities and longevity.  Humans 1.0 will simply not be able to compete with humans 2.0. To deal with this issue, the US Government has already paid Case Law School millions of dollars to modify our constitution to include rights for these new modified human beings.

Genesis 6 – Fallen Angels – Why Did God Really Destroy The Earth With A Flood?

If we are living in an age where humanity is being re-written through DNA tampering, then this meets the Bible’s description of the idea of mingled seed described in Daniels divided kingdom.  The question is, does the Bible talk about mingling of seed anywhere else.  Has there ever been some type of DNA tampering that has happened before?  If so, that would clearly explain why & how Satan could have seed or offspring. Searching for these two ideas leads us to what the Bible calls, The Days of Noah.” There is only one thing that happened in the Days of Noah that seems to be completely unique, and that is the strange story found in Genesis the 6th chapter.

  • Genesis 6:2 – “The sons of God (benei/1121 & Elohim/430) saw the daughters of Adam, that they were good in the broadest sense (for what?). And they took women (802/not wives) from all those that they chose…   4- The Nephilim (a new creature – 5303) were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the benei Elohim (Sons of God) came in to the daughters of Adam, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men (1368 – Powerful Ones) of old (5769 – existed from ancient times), the men of name/renown/legend (OT:8034 – a definite and conspicuous position).

There are many issues that we need to address here, so let’s look at some of the key words and see who we are talking about and what they did?  The Strongs’s word definitions are as follows:

  • OT: 1121 ben (bane); from OT:1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., [like OT:1, OT:251, etc.]):
  • OT:430 ‘elohiym (el-o-heem’); plural of OT:433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God (in the plural thus, especially with the article); occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:
  • OT:802 ‘ishshah (ish-shaw’); feminine of OT:376 or OT:582; irregular plural, nashiym (naw-sheem’); a woman (used in the same wide sense as OT:582):

Before we break down exactly whom the perpetrator of this event was and what resulted from it, I want to address one of the first questions that most everyone has.  Typically this is some version of what I might hear. “You mean to tell me that you believe that fallen angels married human women that resulted in children that were giants.”  “How can angels have sex with human women?” The first thing I like to point out to people is that the text doesn’t actually say that this is what happened.  What the text says is that the “Sons of God” took women in the general sense. They did not marry them as suggested in several translations.  The text does not say that they had sex with them either.  They certainly did not have a wedding and a honeymoon either.  It just says that they took them. Obviously, the idea of being abducted is actually a more accurate description of what happened.  However, this introduces an entirely new connotation that I am not ready to make yet.  What I am saying is that women were taken and when they were returned they were pregnant.  If you look at the technology that is available today, it is easy to do the same thing.  All you have to do is take a DNA swab from someone and you can have a baby with him or her.  We are also implanting foreign fetuses into wombs around the world and delivering babies that have no common DNA with their mother.  I hope this reality pops a bubble inside your brain revealing to us that what God can do through the power of His word, Satan may seek to accomplish through technology.  Without the knowledge that this could be accomplished through technology, we too may have translated this passage just the way that it was.  The obvious truth here is that how can Satan or his fallen angels are less advanced with regard to technology than we are?  If the unseen world really is on a higher level than we are, than how could they not be capable of this?  Once we rid ourselves of our connotations of what this passage does not say, then I believe we can move forward and take an honest look at what is being communicated here. So just who are the perpetrators here?

Who Are The “Sons of God”? The 3 Views

  • Some in Orthodox Judaism say they were the religious nobles.
  • Some say this is when the Godly sons of Seth married the evil daughters of Cain.
  • Fallen Angels?

Religious Nobles?

There is nothing that hints in scripture that would lead us to believe these are nobles or magistrates. How does religious nobles marrying the bad daughters of men get YHVH mad enough to destroy the world? How do giants come from such a marriage?

Sons of Seth Theory

The problem is that YHVH said that only Noah and his sons were righteous and they were the only ones on the ark. Seth didn’t make it, so how did the Nephilim occur after the flood? How can Seth’s sons be godly and marry the bad daughters of Cain at the same time? If the issue was mixed marriages, then the problem should have been confined between Seth’s sons and their wives. How do superhuman giants come from such a marriage?  Historically, Seth’s sons aren’t good. Josephus says about Seth’s sons, “but in the process of time they were perverted, and forsook the practices of their forefathers; and did neither pay those honor to God which were appointed them, nor had they any concern to do justice towards men.”

The “Sons of God” (Benei Elohim) Is Used Five Other Times In The Old Testament

  • Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.  (The heavenly hosts we gathered)
  • Job2: 1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,
  • Job 38:6 whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof; 7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
  • “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons/children of the living God.‘ (Hosea 1:10)  Refers to the future of God’s people.

In the Old Testament all of these instances where the term “Sons of God” has been used, it always refers to angels except for one of them. The one reference that doesn’t exactly match the idea of referring to an angel actually refers to what the future of those humans who trust in God shall be, which is a “Child of God.”  I will explore this connection between the similarities of humans and angels in just a minute, but for now let’s move on.  

“Sons of God” In The New Testament

  • Believers are called “sons of God” in a spiritual sense because they are “born again” of YHVH.
  • Adam is also called a “Son of God” because his origination was from God, but his descendants were called sons of Adam.

In the entire Bible, only angels, the messiah, Adam and in the future “born again” or resurrected believers are called the “Sons of God”. This is also how these verses have been interpreted historically.  Historian Philo of Alexandria, who was a deeply religious man in the first century, wrote a brief treatise about this subject, called “Concerning the Giants.” Based on the Greek version of the Bible, he renders it as “Angels of God.” Josephus also records, “For the tradition is that these men did what resembled the acts of those men the Grecians called giants – aka Titans.” Josephus also added that Noah remonstrated with these offspring of the angels for their villainy.

What Is The Biggest Issue Here?  

The issue is what was created by fallen angels was so drastically different than the rest of mankind! These differences clearly produced something that was not after it’s own kind and so the question of genetic modification clearly comes into play. Not only does the size, strength and, longevity come into question, but how can someone have six fingers and toes and not be genetically modified?

  • Genesis 6:4- The Nephilim (5303) were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the benei Elohim came in to the daughters of Adam, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men (1368 – they were Powerful Ones) of old (5769 – which existed from ancient times), the men of name/renown (OT:8034 – definite and conspicuous position).

Looking at the key words in this passage here is what comes out:

  • OT:5303 –  nephiyl (nef-eel’); or nephil (nef-eel’); from OT:5307; properly, “fallen ones”, a feller, i.e. a bully or tyrant:  Greek Septuagint = Giants, Titans
  • OT:5307 naphal (naw-fal’); a primitive root; to fall away, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative): desert, be cast down.
  • OT:1368 gibbowr (ghib-bore’); intensive from the same as OT:1397; powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant: KJV – champion, chief, excel, giant, man, mighty (man, one), strong (man), valiant man.
  • OT:5769 `owlam (o-lawm’) from OT:5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity;  repeated or recurrent action or state, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always: KJV – always, ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, [n-]) ever (-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+without end). Compare OT:5331, OT:5703.

Historically, the Septuagint, which is older than the Masoretic text, translates the word “mighty men” or “gibbowr” as giants.  The Septuagint provides a clear historical context for how giants and the Nephilim have been interpreted in antiquity.  More importantly, the Greek word that they use to translate this is the word “Titans.” The Greek mythology surrounding the Titans also parallels the Genesis 6 account. The “Titans” were the half-breed offspring of the gods. They were created when the gods came down and had sexual relations with human women.  This scenario is what created the offspring that are still legendary for their abilities to this day.  These Titans rebelled against the gods and were put into Tartarus, which is an underground prison that is actually mentioned by the apostle Peter. Looking to find the Nephilim throughout the rest of the Bible is a bit of a goose chase.  Some of this is because, while the stories remain the same for future generations, the names change quite frequently because of the confounding of language that occured at the “Tower of Babel.” These are a list of some other possible names that seem to trace back to the lineage of the Nephilim.

Nephilim Are Also Called:

  • Rephaim – is used to comprehend all the gigantic races of the Canaanite
  • Anakim – race of Giants – Num 13:33 – descendants of the Nephilim
  • Emim – the proud deserters, terrors, race of giants Gen 14:5
  • Zuzim – the evil ones. Gen 14:5
  • Zamzummims – evil plotters, Deut 2:20
  • Zophim – watchers, descended angels Num 23

Just like it says in Genesis 6, there would be Nephilim in those days and also after the flood.  The most famous giant after the flood is Goliath who was killed by King David.  The other major place where giants dominate the story line is when the children of Israel refused to enter into the Promised Land. Clearly, the Bible gives many examples of how the people that lived there were called giants.  How big were they?  They were big enough that even after all the miracles that God performed getting them out of Egypt and through the desert, Israel was still too scared to enter the Promised Land because of these giants.  Maybe this wasn’t just because they were just a bunch of weak-minded people. Maybe it was because giants were real and they were “powerful ones.” To conquer a giant you need to be a spiritual giant.  If you consider that Genesis 3 speaks of a literal war between two genetically different kinds of people, then this would explain why the children of Israel were commanded to wipe out every man, woman and child when they encountered one of these groups. This genocide is also why many atheists have abandoned the God of the Bible as un-loving and evil God.  This also explains why Israel was not allowed to mix or marry the other people groups in Canaan for the same reason. Scoffing at the giants or simply misunderstanding the true reasons for these commands may still be the basis for how racism has crept into church even to this day.

Genesis 6 Explains The Flood

Whatever happened in Genesis the 6th chapter, it was probably the biggest reason that YHVH destroyed the world with a flood. It is also difficult to believe that “eating and drinking” was the real reason why God destroyed the earth with a flood.  Certainly a genetic perversion of the messianic line could have thwarted the plan of salvation for all of humanity. So, a flood makes perfect sense because you cannot rewrite DNA once the seed has been mingled. Just like any amount of leaven added to a loaf of bread, it leavens the whole lump.  Partially corrupt DNA corrupts the whole organism.  So why did God choose Noah?  The Bible says, “He was perfect in his generations.” Generations could literally be translated as genes.  Noah had a perfect genetic connection to the first Adam. Why did God destroy the earth? “All flesh had become corrupt.”  

  • Genesis 6:9-12  – This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations (genes). Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.  NKJV

In order for someone to be perfect in his generations, they would have to have some form of pure genetic connection to what God intended mankind to be. Noah’s DNA can also be traced directly back to Adam, who was perfect prior to the fall of mankind.  The idea that the flesh could literally become corrupt is difficult to imagine unless the DNA had also become corrupt or tampered with.  The fact that this applied to all flesh may mean that the same thing was being done to the animals. I do find it interesting that God specifically called certain animals to the ark.  Tampering with animal DNA creating many forms of hybrid or mixed of species is also recorded in the Apocryphal book of Jasher, chapter 4. The Bible even speaks of some of these hybrid animals such as a satyr as if they were real.

Before we move on, there is an obvious parallel between the modern notion of Atlantis and the Days of Noah. The ancient city of Atlantis, which was supposedly advanced beyond what man has accomplished today, was also destroyed in a flood. This also parallels the story of the Titans and how they were punished and imprisoned around this time.  Is there really a group of people that are looking to go back to the “Days of Noah and Atlantis?  The esoteric and occult bodies that helped found America commonly referred to America as the “New Atlantis.” The complete lack of our ability to construct these ancient megalithic structures even to this day, with the Great Pyramid being the best example, can only lead someone to one conclusion. There must have been an ancient society that was more technologically advanced than we are.  No, you heard me right! Not only can we not build the pyramid today, but also the idea that someone built the pyramid with copper tools is ludicrous. This also destroys the gist of evolution theories as well, because just after the cave man emerges from the caves, he builds a brand new Mercedes, only to go back to the Stone Age.

Nephilim After The Flood

  • Num 13:33 – And there we saw the giants (Nephilim), the sons of Anak, which come from the giants (Nephilim); and we were in or own sight as grass hoppers, and so we were in their sight.
  • Goliath – Goliath had 4 other brothers: 2 Sam 21:16-22 and 1 Chron 20:4-8.
  • Goliath’s brother had a spearhead that weighed 7 pounds and one had 6 fingers and 6 toes.
  • Deut 3:11 – The Giant King  – “For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit. NKJV This means Og’s bed was 15-17 feet long.

Rephaim

In the Bible two uses of this term are discernible. The first is as a tribe or nation  (e.g., Gen. 14:5; 15:20; Deut. 2:11) or referring to a people distinguished by their enormous stature. Especially singled out are Og king of Bashan (Deut. 3:11) and the powerful adversaries of David’s heroes (II Sam. 21:16, 18, 20). The biblical authors trace their designation to an apparently human eponym/name giver Rapha (h) (e.g., II Sam. 21:16, 18, 20;I Chron. 20:8). The Bible’s emphasis on the size and might of the Rephaim is responsible for the Septuagint’s renderings gig antes and titans (titans). The fact that they were called Rephaim also seems to indicate that they had an ability to heal that was extra-ordinary.

rapha’ – OT:7497 (raw-faw’); or raphah (raw-faw’); from OT:7495 in the sense of invigorating; a giant:  KJV – giant, Rapha, Rephaim (-s). See also OT:1051.

rapha’ – OT:7495 rapha’ (raw-faw’); or raphah (raw-faw’); a primitive root; properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure: KJV – cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, thoroughly, make whole. See OT:7503.  

Ancient Jewish Writings

“The wicked emperor Hadrian, who conquered Jerusalem, boasted, ‘I have conquered Jerusalem with great power.’ Rabbi Johanan ben Zakkai said to him, ‘Do not boast. Had it not been the will of heaven, you would not have conquered it.’  Rabbi Johanan then took Hadrian into a cave and showed him the bodies of the Amorites, whose bodies were buried there. One of them measured eighteen cubits (approx. 30 feet) in height.  He said, ‘When we were deserving, such men were defeated by us, but now, because of our sins, you have defeated us.’”  Quoted Judaism p155-156, N.Y. 1962.

Occult Tradition

The occult tradition holds that both now and then that a Nephalim spirit can incarnate in human form.

Angels In General

  • Appear in human form:  Sodom & Gomorrah, resurrection & ascension, spoke, took men by the hand and ate meals with them.
  • Capable of Direct physical contact:  i.e. – Passover in Egypt, killed 185,000 Syrians
  • According to Jesus, Angels don’t marry in heaven.  However, Gen 6 does not say that they did marry the women or that Fallen Angles obey this Godly mandate not to have relations with human women.
  • Fallen Angels can be worshipped:  Acts 7:41-42     And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 42 Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven (i.e.- fallen ones), NKJV

Fallen Angels

  • Jude 1:5-7 – But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain/first estate, but left their own abode/habitation/Oiketerion, (i.e.- fallen angels) He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness (the Abyss a prison of darkness) for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. NKJV

This passage gives us several direct connections that we need to make.  The first is that there is a direct comparison of what the disobedient angels did and what Sodom did in that they both ‘”went after strange flesh.”  This seems to be a clear reference to something that happened after the disobedient angels were kicked out of heaven because there is no strange flesh in heaven.  This verse is also a reason that many believe that what was happening in Sodom may have been similar to Genesis 6. Still, Sodom does have a clear reputation for sexual immorality and this is certainly similar to the Genesis 6 account as well.  Furthermore, as we will see in a minute, there was an additional punishment that was given to these disobedient angels because of the magnitude of their sin. These fallen angels were put in a prison of darkness that the Bible later refers to as the Abyss and Peter refers to in the Greek as Tartarus, which we will look at shortly. (2 Peter 2:4)

The other connection that I want us to make is that what these disobedient angels in heaven left is exactly the same thing that we as Christians hope to one day be blessed with.  Why do we say that? The issue is the word translated “habitation or clothing” because it is the same word found in 2 Corinthians 5:1-8.

  • For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation (Oiketerion), which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality might be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.  
  • Oiketerion – NT:3613 (oy-kay-tay’-ree-on); neuter of a presumed derivative of NT:3611 (equivalent to NT:3612); a residence (literally or figuratively):

The take away here is that the same heavenly body / Oiketerion that some of the fallen angels gave up is the same heavenly body we will receive from God when we are resurrected.  This explains the idea of a ghost or demonic spirit.  It is likely that there are disembodied fallen angels, who are also called demons, running around looking for those whom they can communicate with and or later inhabit or possess? Once you understand that these disobedient angels lost their heavenly bodies, and then you can understand how there may be a great many evil spirits (AKA- fallen disembodied angels) seeking to find something or someone to inhabit or devour.  Maybe it is very uncomfortable to be disembodied.  More importantly, without a body there may be no way for them to express themselves or interact with the world that they find themselves trapped in.

Just as a side note, the term inaugurate, which is the name of the ceremony performed in order to make them our president, is in keeping with the occultic tradition of a human being becoming inhabited by a spirit or god in order to rule over a kingdom.  For example, Egyptians did not believe that their Pharaohs were God, they believed that they were simply the vessel that was inhabited by their god.  Interestingly enough inaugurate literally means to bore into or install or possess, which links this ancient idea to what we do here in America.  What is even more interesting it that the same alchemical arrangement where this ancient ceremony was held in Egypt is exactly the same alchemical arrangement found in Washington, D.C? For more information on this idea see our study on “Mystery Babylon” or read Tom Horns’ book “Zenith 2016.”

Tartarus & The Abyss

  • 2 Peter 2: 4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell (Tartarus), putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 If he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 

So as I promised, here is a passage that ties many of our subject matters together.  Again, we have a situation where the angels have sinned and because of the uniqueness of what they did, they were punished severely and completely imprisoned. The timing of this event happened in the “Days of Noah.” Peter uses the Greek term Tartarus, which is a term used for a dark place of woe, a pit or an underground prison of darkness in the unseen world.  Tartarus is clearly linked to the mythology surrounding the Titans as we have already covered.  The Titans were part heavenly and part earthly because they were the offspring of the god’s breeding with mortal women.  Does any of this sound familiar? The word Titan also equals 666. In Greek, Titans means ‘gray, whitish, or chalky gray.  In fact, the story of giants appearing on earth as a result of “gods” (fallen angels) intermingling with humans and animals is retold in the history of every major civilization of the ancient world. At one time in American theaters, I counted 4 movies that had the son of some other god saving mankind.  Don’t you think that this is exactly what Satan would want? Could these “myths” from cultures such as Egypt and Greece been a crude reference to their knowledge of an earlier time when so-called gods, demigods & “heroes” actually walked the earth, giving birth to giants and men of legend and renown?

Quotes from Josephus Concerning Giants 

  • “This notion, that the fallen angels were, in some sense, the fathers of the old giants, was the constant opinion of antiquity. The Sons of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants (titans).”
  • “These kings had laid waste all Syria, and overthrown the offspring of the giants. And when they were come over against Sodom . . .”  “They told them also, that they found at Hebron the posterity of the giants. Accordingly these spies, who had seen the land of Canaan, when they perceived that all these difficulties were greater there than they had met with since they came out of Egypt, they were affrighted at them themselves, and endeavored to affright the multitude also.”
  • “For which reason they removed their camp to Hebron; and when they had taken it, they slew all the inhabitants. There were till then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenances so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising to the sight, and terrible to the hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men. Now they gave this city to the Levites as an extraordinary reward. . “

Giants In America

The truth is that there is a lot of proof for giants right here in America.  There are many accounts of them even in Native American culture. One of the most famous ones is by the Native American Pawnee tribe in the autobiography of the famous Buffalo Bill.

  • The North American Native Americans believed that the first race of human beings were giants. In the autobiography of William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Cody writes that while camping on the South Platte, a member of the Pawnee came into the camp with what the army surgeon pronounced to be a giant thigh bone of a human being. When Cody asked about where such a bone might have come from, the Pawnee replied …that long ago a race of giants had lived in the area. This race of men had been three times larger than normal men and able to out-run a buffalo and even carry it in one hand.

Another definitive resource about giants in America is the book by Fritz Zimmerman called “The Encyclopedia of Ancient Giants In North America.” I also like the book, “Ancient Giants In America” by Richard Dewhurst.

The Big Cover Up

There is no doubt that when we think about Giants being on the earth, we have to ask ourselves where are they?  How could someone cover this up if they really were out there?  The books I have mentioned will help you to understand this, but there is also a documentary movie called, “A Race Of Giants” that covers this exact question.  Yes, legends speak of Giants that once walked the earth. In America alone there have been over 1,500 newspaper articles that specifically address the existence of 3,781 skeletons of a race of giants who were somewhere between 7-12 feet tall. Tape measures just haven’t changed that much in the past few hundred years, so where did the evidence go? Did the Smithsonian Institution cover it up? Obviously, they aren’t going to tell us.

We Can’t Excavate These Sites

Why can’t we find some new ones? It turns out that between the government, the universities and the Smithsonian, they control all of the information and access to the dig sites where these skeletons were found. Only their archaeologists are allowed to go to the different sites, much less excavate to see what is there. L.A. Marzulli documents this in his book, “On The Trail of the Nephalim 1 & 2.” There are pictures that show giants with six fingers, just like the Bible records that Goliath’s brothers had.  L.A. has also documented that the elongated skulls of South America are not human because the do not have human DNA.  See some of the later parts of the “Watcher” series movies after video 9.

Noah Preached, But No One Repented

As we move on from talking about giants and the “Days of Noah,” one more thing occurred to me.  Have you ever asked yourself how Noah preached for 120 years to humanity before the flood and yet no one ever repented or got onboard?  This is an interesting idea because Jesus says that His sheep know His voice and follow Him.  How could Noah preach for 120 years and yet no one heard the call of God to repent?  This would make him the world’s most un-successful preacher. Maybe the reason that no one got saved from the flood except those who were born to Noah was because there was something that was only present in the genes of Noah’s family that made them part of God’s family and God’s sheep.  Maybe the reason for why those who take the “Mark of the Beast” cannot be saved is for the same reason. These are legitimate questions, but here is where I want to go from here.  

How Can Fallen Angles Have Offspring?

Once you get past your own preconceived ideas about Genesis 6, the obvious truth here is that with the technology of today, I could have a baby with you and never touch you with anything but a swab. All I need is a little bit of your DNA and we can blend you with anything. If we have this technology today, how can we assume that we are more advanced than Satan?  Most people aren’t willing to say that they are smarter than Satan, but that is what you are doing if you don’t think that Satan is not more technologically advanced than we are. Of course, God doesn’t need technology, but Satan does in order to pull off many key parts of what will happen in the “last days.”  Many of these “Beast” technologies we are going to uncover in one of our future articles.  I believe that after we cover these emerging technologies and how they will help Satan accomplish his goals, one must consider the real possibility that Satan is actually the one behind their development.  Satanically inspired technology will be necessary in order to pull off not just the world’s greatest deception, but also to control all the people of the world.

Question: How Were There Nephilim After The Flood?

There are several possibilities.

  • The same way they happened the first time in Genesis 6.
  • Maybe, the wives of Noah’s sons were not pure.
  • Nimrod was born one thing and he began to be something else – a giborum, a giant, Nephilim? Genesis 10:8

Recombinant DNA & Viruses?

While changing the human race through breeding is an obvious choice for Satan, the real question is how can someone be born one thing and still become another?  The story of Nimrod in the Bible gives an example that somehow this actually appears to happen.  This along with repeating what happened in Genesis 6 is probably the most likely explanation as to how there were Nephilim after the flood. Today we would most likely say that this kind of change could take place through what is called recombinant DNA. Recombinant DNA is formed in the laboratory by bringing together genetic material from multiple sources to create something new.  This is possible because DNA molecules all share the same chemical structure in all of God’s creatures. They only differ in their sequence. CRISPR is another tool that edits DNA and is already being used to wipe out undesirable traits in humans, but can easily be used to produce designer humans.  A virus may be what scientists actually use to deliver this payload of foreign DNA to every cell in someone’s body.  Without going into detail, I have heard it said that evolution can be debunked based on the existence of viruses alone because there is no evolutionary method that can explain their development. I am not the first one to ask ponder exactly why viruses were created and for what purpose.

The Race of Giants Explain

  • The real reason the Flood was necessary.
  • The Existence of the Nephilim.
  • Many of the Extreme Judgments of God.
  • Why the children of Israel were so scared to go into the Promised Land.
  • Why Israel in some instances was ordered to kill every last man woman and child of certain races.
  • The Nephilim was also why they were not supposed to marry from people from any of the other tribes in the Promised Land.
  • How and why racism can be wrongly interpreted in the Bible.

The Trail Doesn’t End There

While I believe that I have made a strong case that Trans-humanism has happened back in the “Days of Noah”, I do not believe that the trail of evidence ends there.  What if I scrap the analogies of the mingling of seed described in Genesis 3 & 6, and the “Divided Kingdom” of Daniel 2 or the presence of giants throughout much of the Bible? What if we just look at what the religion of Trans-humanism is saying and see how it’s message compares to what the Bible says? The following are some of the direct contradictions of Trans-humanism with the message of the Bible.

TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!

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