Preface: Vaccinations and masks....people are going crazy over these common sense attempts to fight the pandemic....why....well one reason is the topic matter of the following post. The capitol building is now a 'literal' temple that needed to be cleansed....thus the January 6 insurrection....and Donald Trump was the good angel sent to do the cleansing. It's almost as if at their command and we put our two forefingers together to form a cross to keep the evil way. At the leading of these people we have become gullible....and credulous...."swept along by the winds" as Jude put it in his epistle....who in it exhorted us to instead...."contend for the faith....that was once for all delivered to the saints."
I posted a week ago on mega-popular Christian author....(Messianic Rabbi)....Jonathan Cahn's methodology in interpreting prophetic scripture....in the process warning Christians that this is not leading you in a direction where you want to go....but there is worse than Jonathan Cahn out there....much worse.There are roughly a half dozen prophesy teachers whose books make it regularly to Barnes & Noble religious section. There are dozens more authors of this nature but only a handful that are popular enough for B&N to carry them....and I read them all.....for that seems to be what I have done for the past four decades....research everything from popular fads to cults.
These authors tend to write blurbs for each other's books....but they are not all alike. In fact I actually recommend at least one.....Mark Biltz....who has written on the blood moons....but it is his....Decoding The Prophet Jeremiah....that I recommend to you....that is if you think that you are able to read....and possibly be able to examine some possibly valuable thoughts....without automatically believing everything that someone writes....including me.
OK....here's the problem. Many of the prophesy teachers get their inspiration from the writings of the occult! You're not going to learn anything from occult sources! There has been.....(it's probably still on)....a midnight to six syndicated radio show.....very popular with the nocturnal minded....and it.....(and this for decades)....ventures into all kinds of occult subjects....keeping people probably on the edge of their seats....and I have heard Christian author/teachers interviewed on this show! This is at best an egregious error in discernment on their part.
Here is my main warning on all of this....stay away from the conspiracy 'experts'....when their writings use occult sources.....and this is very problematic with authors warning of a New World Order....(George Orwell may be interesting to read on a literary level....but he is going to have no truths for us to glean!)....this is not how God works in us! Utilizing this type of 'evidence' can actually lead one to the very dangers that they think they are warning others of! These writings are going to sound oh so compelling....but let me tell you something about compelling....the entire aggregate of these 'awesome conspiracy theories'....even the most fantastically compelling of these popular author's writings....when placed up against anything prophetic in God's Word....is nothing but one giant dung pile. You want excitement? You want compelling? Humble yourself before God and He will open up His Word to you....and it will be like a fresh vein of gold opening up to you....over your entire lifetime. I have forty years testimony to this.....as the only times when God's Word was not astonishing to me....was when I walked on my own....and even then His Word was as a shrill alarm....waking me up before a mortal infection set in.
If you were to pile up every one of these gnostic occult influenced books ever published....and weighed them on an apothecary scale as to their worth....with the smallest book in the Bible....even the smallest chapter....on the other side of the scale....these gnostic sources would be catapulted into outer space....where many of their theories center on anyway! Oh these books indeed provide quick rapturous feelings....as would a drug....but they are also quicksand....that can be identified easily with discernment....if only we would be so vigilant....so that we might avoid the quicker path across....ByPath Meadow.....from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
