the second oldest story
It is an old story: God blesses those whom God has chosen to know Him. Those whom God has not chosen to know Him are deceived by anti-Christ that the benefits demonstrated in, on and around the unconditionally elect are simply the result of a wise ‘use’ of human ‘free’ will. The non-elect are always being spoken through by anti-Christ to say to real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ as non-creation: “Anything you can do I can do. I have the same mind. I have the same heart.”
The result is a denial of God in His face as those who deny God enjoy His largesse to them for the sake of the elect. The very bald faced lie to God and to real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ is spoken very simply by anti-Christ through the non-elect and the not-yet born again elect soul.
It goes like this: “I know there is really no such thing as new creation in Jesus Christ. I know that God did not create anything and there is no such thing as new creation or a ‘Word of God’ that creates by Speech. I know that there is only one speech in total reality and I am a master of it.
BUT.
You are deceived those things exist.
SO.
I see what that deception does to you. It makes you peaceable and non-violent and prosperous. So I’ll just mimick what you do in order to reap the temporal benefits of your deception. But don’t think for a minute I actually am as deceived as you are.
If you have a wife and kids, I want a wife and kids. If your family is happy, I want my family to be not only happy but the same kind of happy as your family. Whatever you do to make that happen, I’ll just mimic. If you have a republic, I want a Republic. If you have nukes, I want nukes. Whatever you get from “your God”, just be sure and get me one too. Neighbor.
Don’t get me wrong. You are a nice guy. I love you. But you are ignorant and don’t know how to use your blessings properly to secure more “blessings” for yourself. You are too modest. I really know you did it all yourself. You never fooled me–I knew all along it was really just you. Besides, if you don’t give me one each of everything you have, I’ll say you violated your own Christian doctrine and damned yourself. You might not believe me. But your kids will.”
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So the world can only generalize every blessing of God as if God did nothing and try to force all those blessings on others as the de facto definition of civilization minus God; which means that those used of anti-Christ and forcing that generalization will inevitably bring about death and call it wisdom because of its mere association in their own minds with ‘God’ and ‘good’– in a caricature of Christianity they are truly deceived has deceived God in real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ.
The Islamic world wants to mimic western prosperity minus any real Christianity. Even the West wants to mimic the old West minus any real Christianity. The whole world is spoken through by anti-Christ to say “Just strip out the God part, that Jesus Christ part and get to the good emotional gooy center.”
Now the Islamic women want their idealization of what Western women have–minus how they got it.
So it goes.
Heb 13:9,10 Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them . We have an altar of which they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle;
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27