If the Lord is God, Follow Him. Not the World or Man

Everyday each of us in someway, serve or fall prey to the Kingdom of Darkness, and its minions.

Elijah's words should speak to all who claim The Eternal Word, Jesus Christ, as Lord and Savior:

And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.

1 Kings 18:21 (ESV)

 
There are only two kingdoms: the Kingdom of Heaven, and the kingdom of darkness.

• The Battle is actually, Jerusalem vs Babylon....
• The natural man knows not the things of God.

Whether "Christianity", or Islam, or Hindu, or Judaism...or...you fill in the blank... it does not matter... 
 If you are not following the Word of the Kingdom God and instead cling to the evils of the kingdom of darkness, you can and will be deceived and be capable of committing radical atrocities such as those which have been attributed to "Christianity" in ages past, and those of recent history, even today.

This should be a wake up call to those who are in Babylon, and really are not be applicable to a person who knows The Truth... 
The Truth is The Word of God. That Word of God became flesh so that all would be capable of being with Him for all Eternity. That is the meat of the message.

Those who actually know this, and believe this, do not commit the heinous crimes of genocide, mass murder, hate killings or the like.

We can reflect on the events of the middle ages and see it as just secular world history which includes atrocities attributed to those who believed they were following the True God, but only thought so because they were told by those who had exclusive access to the Bible. Those "in the know" taught their followers what they wanted them to know, and indoctrinated them into the thinking that what the "universal church" taught, with its traditions and echelons of piety... was actually the divine truth.

The Papacy claims to be the Vicar of Christ and infallible. There is only One who is Holy and Infallible.

 "Vicar" means, "instead, or in place of". The title "Vicar of Christ" implies that the Pope wields all the powers rightly attributed to The Almighty.... 

This obviously, is false doctrine.

Homework for all is to figure it out, study, and determine which kingdom those so called "Christians" were a part of, whether they knew it or not.

Rome dispatched its legions not only against the Muslims, but the Christian's as well.
When its dominance over all people was being threatened, then the stage had been set for the horrific events in history such as the crusades, the counter-reformation and the various inquisitions.

We would all be well advised to note that in our present age, nothing has changed. The deception is still alive and well today, and this is as it should be. 

Even more events of horror will come, as the pangs of birth get stronger and in tighter intervals, until we reach the final consummation of His Plan.:

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” ⁴ And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. ⁵ For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ⁶ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. ⁷ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. ⁸ All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. 

Matt 24:3-8 (ESV)

CERN, Stephen Hawking, Shiva Nataraja, Psalm 19 and The Eternal

       

 photo credit: Giovanni Chierico

Fact is stranger then fiction, or so the saying goes...

With CERN firing up the Hadron Collider this year in March, the facility and the nuclear physics research in progress there have been brought to the forefront of many scientifically inquisitive people.

Many opinions, assumptions, thoughts, and occultic motivations have been outlined for all to take in and digest...

The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) had been shutdown to implement system upgrades after issues in 2008 caused it to fail. It was later turned back up at a reduced efficiency. This latest shutdown after the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, had been commenced to implement hardware upgrades which would allow increased loads on the system. Not being a nuclear physicist, I have no clue as to the procedure, processes or experiments, but you can investigate them for yourself at the CERN website or get a third party view of the LHC turn up from IEEE Spectrum.

Here is a brief synopsis from the IEEE Spectrum website, outlining the initial issues:

The LHC got off to an inauspicious start, and that bad beginning explains some upgrades. In September 2008 during a final commissioning phase, and before the accelerator reached its planned maximum energy of 14 teraelectron volts, one of the more than 10,000 interconnections for wires supplying power to the superconducting magnets of the LHC failed, causing an arc that melted through a helium line and damaged a several-hundred-meter stretch of the system. After a year of repairs, the LHC started up and eventually reached a reduced collision energy of 7 TeV.

What caught my attention was my wife's discovery of the statue of a Hindu god which is at the CERN facility.

A short explanation of how the statue came to CERN is below, an excerpt from a post at http://www.fritjofcapra.net/shivas-cosmic-dance-at-cern/

On June 18, 2004, an unusual new landmark was unveiled at CERN, the European Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva — a 2m tall statue of the Indian deity Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of Dance. The statue, symbolizing Shiva’s cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center’s long association with India.

The post above describes the god as "Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of Dance". When my wife investigated this name, she was awed in disbelief as she read the definition and characteristic of this Hindu deity:

1. Nataraja "நடராசர்" "నటరాజు" "ನಟರಾಜ" "नटराज" or Kooththan"கூத்தன்: , (Hindustani: [nət̪əˈraːdʒə], The Lord (or King) of Dance), is a depiction of the Hindu God Shiva as the cosmic dancer who performs his divine dance to destroy a weary universe and make preparations for the god Brahma to start the process of creation.

2. Nataraja - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nataraja
   

   Wikipedia 

The first question which comes to mind is why CERN would accept this gift from the Indian government, when it is identified with "The Destroyer", whose mission is tear the universe asunder and allow through its destruction, the re-creation of the universe?

Isn't the first created universe good enough?

It makes you wonder if all the Saturn watching, Illuminati stalking, conspiracy talking folks out there are really on to something. But, then again, you don't have to be one of these occultic watching types to feel moved to ask why?

Why are the scientists at CERN planning on pushing the limits, without regard to the potential consequences.

World renown Theoretical Physicist, Dr. Stephen Hawking has stated, in so many words, that the scientists at CERN are playing with fire, and we all could get burned!

Here is some information concerning research work completed by Dr. Hawking, from his website:

Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. These results indicated that it was necessary to unify General Relativity with Quantum Theory, the other great Scientific development of the first half of the 20th Century. One consequence of such a unification that he discovered was that black holes should not be completely black, but rather should emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear. Another conjecture is that the universe has no edge or boundary in imaginary time. This would imply that the way the universe began was completely determined by the laws of science.

  He has been very public with his opinion that the LHC experiments have the potential to "destroy the universe". Please reference the full article at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746727/Maybe-shouldn-t-looking-quite-hard-God-particle-destroy-universe-warns-Stephen-Hawking.html - an excerpt of which is below:

The elusive 'God particle' discovered by scientists in 2012 has the potential to destroy the universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned.

At very high energy levels, the Higgs boson could cause space and time suddenly collapse - and 'we wouldn't see it coming', the former Cambridge professor of mathematics says.

The God particle, which gives shape and size to everything that exists, could cause a 'catastrophic vacuum delay' if scientists were to put it under extreme stress. 

 Our focus here is very high level, and I mean THE MOST HIGH level.

Praise God, The Eternal Creator First and Last, that we need not worry for the destruction of the universe outside of His Perfect Will. All is to be within what He allows. His will be done.

The Creator of All looks upon us and proclaims, as was penned by Solomon in Ecclesiastes, "vanity of vanities, all is vanity":

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again. All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 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. Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already in the ages before us. There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.
(Ecc 1:2-11 ESV)

The Eternal, Alpha and Omega looks upon us all, seeing natural mans quest for answers to questions concerning the origins of creation, the beginning of all things. His Word contains the answers to these and are plainly given to us, yet our eyes are blind, and our ears, plugged.

When did the scientists of the world finally discover that the sun traverses the whole universe, tugging the Solar system with it?

"Actual Sunset" by Jessie Eastland - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Our sun (Sol), completes a circuit about the universe, from one end to the another and back...

Psalm 19, penned by King David and given by The Eternal, states the obvious Revelation of God as exhibited in His Creation. The LORD relays to us the mystery of the suns journey through the universe:

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.
(Psa 19:1-6 ESV)

Depression, the Lost, and the Believing Christian

I believe our current spiritual state; our walk with the Lord, and how we view our own actions contribute to our feelings of depression and lack of self-worth.

Our conscience brings us guilty feelings for the things we have done, and depression results if we have self-guilt.

Jesus Christ came to free us from all of our guilt, and the depression question is most definitely a salvation question. By taking upon Himself the penalty for our transgressions, He has also removed the "guilty verdict" which would have condemned us.

John 8:36
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Also:

 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.

 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;  and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.

Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us. 

1 John 3:17-24

Christ tells us to come and follow Him, and by following Him, we work to please Him, by doing what He commands us to. This is abiding in Him. And if we abide in Him, He will abide in us, and bless us with life more abundant.

Jesus said  "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser" in John 15:1

He continues:

John 15:5-8 (ESV), 
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

All fall short of God's Glory, as each of us have the stain of sin-guilt upon us. Not until we accept the gift which has been given to us by the Eternal, First and Last, will we be cleansed of all guilt and corruptions, which eat at us as a result of our sinful choices. In His Sacrifice we are cleansed of all unrighteousness, and the guilt can no longer have power over us, as sin no longer has power. It is gone.

It is not magic, it is a settled, judged state in which we stand, once we accept Christ's blood as payment and believe on the Son, and the One who sent Him. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Now, being in Christ Jesus we "abide in the True Vine, and do His Will. We strive to please God, instead of our own selfish desires. We labor in the power of His Holy Spirit to produce abundant fruit for His Kingdom, and stand fast against the attacks and temptations of Satan and his minions.

The battle is not against flesh and blood. Welcome to the War!

Ephesians 6:12
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He is The Eternal Word, The Almighty God.

Isaiah 44:6
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel
    and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
“I am the first and I am the last;
    besides me there is no god.

One's spiritual well-being and the state of our soul should be the first thing we consider when we are dealing with depression as a result of our life's choices, which lead to life's circumstances.

A Muslim Questions the Alpha and Omega

I was recently asked by a Muslim whether Jesus would use the Greek words "Alpha" and "Omega" when He was speaking to the Jews. My response was basically "how about First and Last in Hebrew?

The only uses of the word Alpha that I am aware of is in the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ reveals to the Apostle John, a Jew, that He is the Alpha and Omega.

As the answer here is obvious, I approached the question from the standpoint that the Eternal had already told the Jews He was Alpha and Omega by declaring in Isaiah He is the First and Last. I believe these references to be powerful testaments to the Eternal Nature of Our Savior, Jesus.

The question posed to me is below, and it is followed by my response.

- Lou


QUESTION FROM MUSLIM ON GOOGLE+
Yesterday 11:22 PM

+BlueMan Lou Alpha and omega was a greeks words, did Jesus Christ spoke greeks to the jews his followers because he was sent only to the house of isreal.

'God' getting circumcise ?? At least you know why I call Christians PAGAN !
'God' became man, circumcise, ate and drank .!? Lol .

MY REPLY:

First and the Last works well too... You can find that in the Hebrew... in Isaiah... If you can't get along with the Greek in Revelation....

Isaiah 41:4
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.

Isaiah 44:6
Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

Isaiah 48:12
Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

Revelation 1:11
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

You see, those who deny Jesus Christ are denying God Almighty. The Word clearly tells those who have ears to hear, that they are One in the same ("I and My Father are One" - John 10:30)


The Holy Scripture is the Word of God, and the Word was in the beginning with God. The Eternal God is The Word...

John 1:1-3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

And Immanuel / Jesus, was born a man: The Eternal Almighty became a lowly man, and became flesh....

John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

And in becoming flesh, he became a man, and for a little while, became a little lower then the angels. We are told this by the Word of God, in both Hebrew and Greek:

Psalm 8:5
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Hebrews 2:7
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:

Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.?