Writer’s comment: I have inserted the definitions of various words in this writing with the Strong’s number included to give a much more penetrating understanding of this commentary. You can check these numbers in Strong’s if you so desire, you can ignore the numbers, you can read the definitions, or you can altogether ignore them. There are many types of people who read these commentaries and articles and I am simply attempting to meet all needs and desires. Also I have inserted other scriptures and comments to strengthen understanding of the Biblical situations. The first example is that at the beginning of this commentary I have used such information concerning how the creation of man occurred and Satan, the Devil’s, preoccupation and reaction to the events. I love people and I am DEEPLY burdened by the Holy Spirit to scripturally help people understand situations and to help people recognize their scriptural possibility of gaining an eternity in heaven with Jesus. Thank You and God Bless you.
WHO IS SATAN, THE DEVIL
INTRODUCTION TO SATAN, THE DEVIL
THE BEGINNING
THINK ABOUT THIS: (Dan. 3:25) “He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt: and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” (Josh. 5:13-15) (V.13) Joshua was leading his army on the way to attack at Jericho when he saw a man standing in front of them with a drawn sword in his hand and Joshua asked; “Art thou for us, or for our adversaries” (V.14) “And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the lord (Strong’s #113: sovereign) am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? (V.15) And the captain (Strong’s #8269: prince, ruler) of the Lord’s (Strong’s #3068: Jehovah, the existing One) host (Strong’s #6635: that which goes forth, war) said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.”
(Matt. 17:1-6) (V.1) “And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart.” (V.2) “And was transfigured (Strong’s #3339: to change into another form, transform, Christ’s appearance was changed and was resplendent with divine brightness on the mount of transfiguration) before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was as white as the light.”
(John 20:19-28) (V.18-20) Jesus showed the disciples his hands and his side to prove He had risen from the dead. (V.24) Thomas, one of the twelve, was not with them. (V.25) The other disciples told Thomas they had seen the Lord. (V.25) “But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print (Strong’s #5179: a stamp or scar) of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.” (V.26) “then came Jesus, the doors (Strong’s #2374: a portal, entrance) being shut (Strong’s #2808: to close, to shut), and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.” (V.27) “Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.” Jesus knew exactly what Thomas had said even though Jesus was not there when Thomas had said it! (V.28) “And Thomas said My Lord (Strong’s #2962: supreme in authority, controller) and my God (Strong’s #2316: the supreme Divinity).” (Col. 1:15-16) (V.15) Jesus is “the image of the invisible God” and (V.16) “all things were created by him and for him:”
I went through these scriptures, definitions and my thoughts so I could correctly explain the creation event and the afterward events because Jesus can transform Himself at any time, in any way He chooses. Before He was born He transformed into His man body at least twice and before He was crucified and translated into heaven He transformed Himself into His glorified self in front of three apostles!
THE POINT MADE HERE IS THAT JESUS CAN APPEAR AS A MAN BEFORE HE WAS EVER BORN AND JESUS CAN APPEAR AS A GOD BEFORE HE WAS EVER ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN!
(Job 38:4-7) (V.4-6) God was describing His creation sequence and (V.7) God said; “When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” This proves the angels were created before the creation of man!
(Gen 1:1-31 esp. V.27) God had created everything by saying “let there be or let it bring forth.” (V.27) “So God created (Strong’s #1254: to form, shape, fashion) man in his own image (Strong’s #6754: resemblance), in the image of God created him, male and female created he them.”
(Gen. 2:7-8) (V.7) “And the Lord God formed (Strong’s #3335: through squeezing into shape as a potter) man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
(Luke 2:13-14) Just like they sang at Jesus’ birth. (Isa. 14:12) “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer (Strong’s #7837: dawn, light bearer), son of the morning!” It is obvious the angels sang together and shouted for joy during God’s creation sequence so the angels had to have been created before God formed Adam out of the dust of the ground. AGAIN: (Gen. 2:7) “And the Lord God formed (Strong’s #3335: to mould into a form; especially as a potter) man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Strong’s #3335: to mould into a form; especially as a potter) indicates fingers were used in the creation of man! One other thing before we start, (Gen. 3:23-24) Time did not start until Adam and Eve were sent out of the garden of Eden; it was minute one of hour one of year one until they had lived all the years of their lives. In timeless Eden it was simply now! There was no awareness of time passing!
Imagine this; In a timeless place you are in a huge football stadium on the top row on the left end seat. Someone starts talking to the person in the left seat on the bottom row. He proceeds to his right and when he is finished he moves up to the second row and starts talking to that row of people, row after row. Hypothetically he talks to each person for 30 minutes. No one knows that because nobody has a watch; what is the point? When he gets to you after talking to all those people you would have no feeling of waiting because you are in now; a timeless place.
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(Gen. 2:6) “But there went up a mist (Strong’s #108 from the same as #181: in the sense of enveloping, a fog, vapor) from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.” The angels, including Lucifer, sang and shouted for joy during the creation of man. Suddenly God started changing into something they had never seen before but they kept on singing and shouting for joy. That something appeared rather drab and ‘it’ knelt in the dirt and started using ‘it’s’ fingers to rake together a long pile of moist dirt. The moist pile of dirt adhered together and started to resemble God in His present ‘it’ (Jesus) form. They sang and shouted for joy as Jesus carefully laid out earthen legs, feet with their earthen toenails, arms, hands with their earthen fingernails, the earthen skin, bones, flesh, interior organs, the earthen brain, the endocrine system, the nervous system, the circulatory system, the interior ears with its eardrum, stirrup, anvil, and hammer hearing bones, the outer ears, the lips that would someday smile, laugh, and curse, the nose, the earthen eyeballs covered by earthen eyelids, the earthen hair, and when it was finished it looked exactly like its Creator. There is no way to guess and no scriptural time it took Jesus to mold the Adam (Strong’s #120: ruddy: from #119: to show blood in the face, turn rosy) body out of the dust of the earth because it was simply now.
After Jesus had finished He rocked back on His heels and looked (2Tim.1:9 then 1Pet. 1:20 keywords in both: “before the foundation of the world”) at the earthen form before him and knew this man’s progeny would break his heart, cause Him to cry, some would say they hated Him, that He would destroy all of them with the great flood except for eight people, that He would scatter them and confound their language in a place called Babel, some of them would even hate Him and torture Him to death, they would rape, fornicate, murder and sometimes torture each other, the vast majority would refuse to accept Him as their Saviour, BUT some of them would love Him with all their hearts because of Who He is and for What He is and have a love relationship with Him and come back to live with Him in His paradise (Rev. 10:6 keywords: “that there should be time no longer”) in timeless! Then the Creator, the master Potter, started slowly, slowly, bending, bending, bending closer and closer until His living face touched the cold earthen face. The breathless, vibrating pregnancy of the throbbing moment caused the angels to go silent, the birds, bugs and all the other created creatures were suddenly silent. There was not a sound as Jesus (Gen. 2:7) “the Lord God made contact and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man (Strong’s #120: a human being, mankind) became a living soul (Strong’s #5315: self, living, with emotions, the breathing substance or being, the inner being of man).”
They were shocked when “it” started making gasping sounds like he was catching its breath, then he started breathing regularly, they heard the faint thump, dathump, whumpathump of his heart that quickly started beating regularly. They were shocked when the ‘it’ (Adam: Strong’s #120: ruddy: from #119: to show blood in the face, turn rosy) started turning pink from the flow of blood in his bodily organs including his skin by arteries from the heart to capillaries in its skin and veins back to the heart. Suddenly the man’s eyes opened and from a few inches apart Creator and created looked into the eternity in each other’s eyes!
This scripture tells us Lucifer, the serpent’s, opinion of himself. (Ezek. 28:13-17) (V.13) God had created Lucifer to be an especially beautiful, musical angel. (V.17) “Thine heart (Strong’s #3820: the feelings, the will, inner being, mind, soul) was lifted up (Strong’s #1361: to be haughty, to be proud) because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted (Strong’s #7843: to destroy, go to ruin) thy wisdom (Strong’s #2451: wisely, skillful, *skill in war*, shrewdness) by reason of thy brightness (Strong’s #3314: beauty, splendor, brightness, shining):”
As you can see angels were created with souls (Rev. 12:7) and with the power of choice just like mankind. Now we can imagine Lucifer’s emotions and thoughts as the creation sequence proceeded.
(Gen. 2:8-9) (V.8) “And the Lord God planted (Strong’s #5193: to plant, fasten, fix, establish) a garden eastward (Strong’s #6924: antiquity, front, that which is before, aforetime) in Eden (Strongs #5731: the first habitat of man after the creation); and there he put the man whom he had formed.” (V.9) “And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge (Strong’s #1847: perception. discernment, understanding) of good (Strong’s #2896: pleasant, agreeable) and evil (Strong’s #7451: bad, disagreeable, malignant, giving pain, unhappiness, misery).”
Lucifer was already fuming because the Lord God had taught Adam a language and He had formed every beast and fowl of the air, gave them life but no soul and brought them to Adam to name them. “I am the great angel He should have let me name them!”
(Ezek. 28:14) “Thou art the anointed (Strong’s #4473 meaning uncertain, then it refers to Hebrew #4886: to rub with oil, to consecrate) cherub (Strong’s #3742: an angelic being as guardian of Eden, as flanking God’s throne) that covereth (Strong’s #5526: fence about, shut in, stop the approach to):”
Lucifer had heard the Lord God say; (Gen. 2:22-25) (V.24) “Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh.” Multiple people! Lucifer did not know the word procreate yet. But he knew and understood Eden would soon be overrun with these people and it was a blow to his pride. Then the Lord God had selected him and stood him before the other angels and anointed him with, to him, a disgusting smear of oil on his beautiful head and declared that he, the mighty, the most beautiful angel, the bringer of light was consecrated to protect these disgusting puny beings from eating of the tree the “knowledge of good and evil”! And he thought; “I’ll show Him who is and always will be the greatest angel!” (Psa. 44:21, Prov. 15:3, Heb. 4:13, 1John 3:20) And God knew the thoughts of Lucifer’s soul!
(Gen. 3:1-24) (V.1) “Now the serpent (Strong’s #5175: a snake: taken from #5172: to hiss, to whisper a magic spell, to prognosticate, enchanter, use enchantment, learn by experience, diligently observe ) was more subtil (Strong’s #6175: shrewd, crafty, sly, sensible) than any beast (Strong’s #2416: living, alive) of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said (Strong’s #559: to say, speak, utter) unto the woman, Yea hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden.” Of course the definition of Strong’s #5172 above was in the future as Lucifer (Satan) observed and learned about human nature but you can see in his activity with Eve the early development of his; “wisdom” (Strong’s #2451: wisely, skillful, *skill in war*, shrewdness) from the sixth paragraph above; AND in his activity with Eve Lucifer was attempting to cause the woman to doubt exactly what God had said. No, the woman in her innocence was not afraid of the serpent; (Gen. 1:30) everything ate plants and she was unaware of evil.
The result of God’s creation of mankind in God’s image in Eden was this: (Gen. 1:1-31 esp. V.2) #1) God-Spirit- life itself-/Creator, (John 4:29-42) #2 Jesus-body/Saviour and (John 14:15-23) #3 Holy Spirit-soul/Comforter. (Col. 2:8-9) (V.8) “Christ:” (V.9) “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” #1 thru #3 above is the US of God! (Col. 1:13-17 ) (V.14) “In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:” (Jesus) (V.15) “Who is the image (Strong’s #1504 taken from #1503: to be like) of the invisible God, the firstborn (Strong’s #4413 taken from #4416: before, beginning, first in time or place) of every creature.” (V.16) “For by him all things were created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.” (Gen. 1:26) “And God said, Let us make man in our image,” God’s spirit, body and soul was the US and mankind, made in God’s image, (1Thess. 5:23) is also spirit, body and soul.
Nearly everyone knows something, be it little, large or mediocre, the Biblical story of the fall of the serpent, Eve and Adam in the garden of Eden so I will not beleaguer the subject here.
(1Chron. 21:1) God changed Lucifer’s name to Satan (O.T. Hebrew: Strong’s #7853-54: adversary, to accuse, the arch enemy of good: N.T. Greek: Strong’s #4566-67: the devil, the accuser) (Isa. 14:12-15) (V.12) “How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer, son of the morning!” Because of Lucifer’s rebellion in Eden by not guarding Adam and Eve he had become God’s adversary through his 5 “I wills” (V.13) For thou hast said in thine heart I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:” (V.14) “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High (Strong’s #5945: the Supreme).”
Lucifer’s agenda is exposed here because he thought he had the power to also be a God!
(1Pet. 5:8) “Be sober (Strong’s #3525: to be calm and collected, to be temperate, dispassionate, circumspect), be vigilant (Strong’s #1127: watch, give strict attention to, be cautious, active); because your adversary (Strong’s #476: archenemy, opponent, enemy) the devil, as (Strong’s #5613: be like) a roaring lion (Strong’s #3023: both Christ and Satan are referred to as a lion, indicating great strength, Satan as a roaring lion and Christ as the lion of the tribe of Judah), walketh about (Strong’s #4043: to make one’s way, progress; to make due use of opportunities), seeking (Strong’s #2212: to seek in order to find) whom he may devour (Strong’s #2666: gulp entire, drown, swallow).”
The historical chapter which is: (Rev. 12:1-17) (V.7) “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought the dragon; and the dragon fought and (V.4 keywords: the third part of the stars) his angels,” (V.8) “And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.” (V.9) “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels” (V.4 keyword: stars) “were cast out with him.”
(Rev. 12:1-17 esp. V.9) That old serpent identifies Satan as the one who deceived Eve and Adam in the garden of Eden. (V.1-2) Is when the virgin Mary has given birth to Jesus. (V.4-5) The devil was planning to kill Jesus (V.5) “the man child who was to rule all nations”) (1Cor 2:7-8) (V.8) keywords: “Which none of the princes of this world knew” The devil, his other angels and the Romans thought Jesus was going to go to physical war and create a super Israel like in ancient times under King David and they crucified Jesus and killed Him to prevent that from happening; see→ (Luke 22:3-6 then Luke 23:3-24 then John 8:44).
(Rev. 12:1-17 esp. V.6 then V.12-16) It is revealed that Israel was scattered by the Roman sword, fire and fury: The Prophecy→(Isa. 14:12-29) (V.29) keyword: “Palestina” defined: Strong’s #6429: the west coast of the land of Canaan). (Joel 3:4) keyword: “Palestine”) AND (historical sources) after the Romans had torn down the temple, hauled the stones away and salted the ground and killed more than a million Jews they scattered the remainder of the rebellious Jews among the Roman controlled provinces as slaves and they hated the rebellious Jews so badly they erased the name Israel from the Roman maps and renamed the land Palestine just as had been prophesied by the above Prophets! (Rev. 12:17) keyword: “dragon” Then Satan finally realized the true mission of Jesus #1) “And the dragon was wroth (Strong’s #3710: to provoke or enrage, to arouse to anger) with the woman, (Israel who had given birth to Jesus) and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God,” ←(the diaspora) #2) and have the testimony of Jesus Christ (the church).” Please, please read→(Eph. 2:11-16) (V.12 keywords: “commonwealth of Israel”) “and have the testimony of Jesus Christ”← from above: That is you, me and all born again Christians! That is the whole purpose of this commentary because we need to know and understand the greatest enemy of Christians because he is making war on us to destroy us!
(Ezek. 28:13-17) (V.1-11) These verses describe the physical king of the physical kingdom of Tyrus (Strong’s #6865: A Phoenician city on the Mediterranean Coast) but then God changes the scripture to describe the spiritual king of Tyrus. (V.12) “Son of man, take up a lamentation (Strong’s #7015: dirge, elegy) upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom (Strong’s #2451: wisely, *skill in war*, shrewdness), and perfect (Strong’s #3632: entirely, all) in beauty”.” (V.13) “Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious (Strong’s #3368: valuable, prized, rare) stone was thy covering, the sardis, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship (Strong’s #4399: occupation, work, business) of thy tabrets (Strong’s #8596: timbrel, tambourine) and thy pipes (Strong’s #5345: groove, socket, hole, cavity, settings) This definition sounds like an instrument or a musical ability which fits the description of Lucifer’s ability to make beautiful music just like the “tabrets” in the same sentence. was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.” (V.14) “Thou art the anointed (Strong’s #4473: meaning uncertain referred to #4486: to smear, rub with oil, consecrate) cherub that covereth (Strong’s #5226: to hedge about, protecter, stop the approach to); and I have set (Strong’s #5414: put) thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.”
(Ezek. 28:13-17) (V.15) “Thou wast perfect (Strong’s #8549: complete, whole, entire, sound) in thy ways from the day that thou wast created. Till iniquity (Strong’s #5766: wickedness, injustice, unrighteousness, wrong) was found (Strong’s #4672: appear, to find, attain to) in thee.” (V.16) “By the multitude of thy merchandise (Strong’s #7404: traffic, from #7402 trade as peddled) they have filled the midst of thee with violence (Strong’s #2555: wrong, cruelty, injustice), and thou hast sinned (Strong’s #2398: miss the way, go wrong, forfeit): therefore I will cast thee as profane (Strong’s #2490: defile, pollute, desecrate, begin) out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy (Strong’s #6: perish, vanish, go astray) thee, O covering (Strong’s #5526: fence about, to block, stop the approach to) cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.” (V.17) “Thine heart (Strong’s #3820: mind, will, understanding, soul) was lifted up (Strong’s #1361: to be high, be exalted) because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted (Strong’s #7843: to destroy, go to ruin, decay) thy wisdom (Strong’s #2451: wisely, skillful, *skill in war*, shrewdness) by reason of thy brightness (Strong’s #3314: splendor, shining): I will cast thee to the ground (Strong’s #776: earth), I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold (Strong’s #7200: to see, look at, inspect, perceive) thee.”
(Ezek. 28:13-17) (V.17) This is the prophesy of Lucifer’s expulsion from heaven in (Rev. 12:7-9 esp. V9) and then (Rev. 20:1-3 then 7-10) people would see him as he is.
Can you imagine Lucifer’s thoughts at the creation when he was anointed to protect Adam and Eve from eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; “I am the great angel, the shining one, and God rubs that disgusting oil on my beautiful head and God expects me to protect this puny man and woman from disobeying God, BAH!”
Satan was an especially beautiful angel (Ezek. 28:12-17) with a special anointing to do the assigned job to protect Adam and Eve from disobeying God (Gen. 3:1-7) but he rebelled against God’s orders, sweetly tempted Eve (Gen.2:17) so they would disobey God and die. He has the same plan for you, me, and all mankind! Satan is proud, rebellious and willful!
I did not mention the definitions of the holy mountain and its stones of fire in (Ezek. 28:12-17) (V.14) because no man can describe the beauty and glory in the magnificence of heaven. All man can do is what the Strong’s #’s said; Ezek. 28:14: 1) #6944: holy: sacredness: 2) #2022: mountain: hill, mountain: 3) #68: a stone, large or small: 4) #784: fire: fire, flames: “Those Strong’s definitions sounded ridiculous to me so;→ (1Cor. 2:9) “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart (Strong’s #2588: the thought or feelings, mind, soul) of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” →now, what do you think?”
(Gen. 1:26 & 2:7) Satan’s pride had caused his jealousy because God had given special attention to this man (Adam) He had formed (Strong’s #3335: to mold as a potter) out of the dust of the earth in His own image, God had given Adam the breath of life (Gen. 2:8-25) and then God had started a companionship, friendship relationship with Adam whom He had formed. Satan is proud, jealous, wise and he teaches!
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(Eph. 6:10-12) (V.10) “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might (Strong’s #2479: ability, force, strength),”
(V.11) “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able stand against the wiles (Strong’s #3180: traveling over, lie in wait, cunning arts, deceit, craft, trickery) of the devil.”
(V.12) “For we wrestle (Strong’s #3823: the Christian’s struggle with the power of evil) not against flesh and blood, but against principalities (Strong’s #746: origin, the person or thing that commences a thing, the first person or thing in a series, the leader), against powers (Strong’s #1849: in the sense of ability, force, capacity, superhuman, token of control, delegated influence ← this was taken from the very top because the list under that is as long as my hand and wrist if you wish to see for yourself), against the rulers (Strong’s #2888: a world-ruler, an epithet of Satan, lord of the world, prince of this age, the devil and his demons: epithet is defined by Merriam-webster.com: a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in the place of the name of a person or thing, a disparaging or abusive word or phrase: Examples: a comedian does something silly and says; “The devil made me do it!” Or a cartoon character; Elmer Fudd or Buggs Bunny etc. swats or tricks the devil and defeats him) of the darkness (Strong’s #4655: obscurity, of ignorance things respecting divine things and human duties, and the accompanying ungodliness and immorality, together with their consequent misery in hell) of this world, against spiritual (Strong’s #4152: relating to the human spirit, or rational soul) wickedness (Strong’s #4189: depravity, iniquity, malice, evil purposes and desires) in high (Strong’s book #2032: a leader) places.”
The above scriptures are from the New Testament. SO: Do you know how to recognize the devil? Do you know how to resist him and fight him? Of course not! I hope and pray you will know after you read the rest of this commentary. You will be shocked and amazed!
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I had written the below information for the introduction at the beginning of the commentary but in the middle of the night I kept hearing the thoughts “The introduction should be an INTRODUCTION TO SATAN, THE DEVIL; NOT YOU!” So; I got up and did that by moving some paragraphs around and back and forth and I felt peace when I went back to bed. You are correct; it was the Holy Spirit talking to me in my thoughts.
Information: I use the KJV Holy Bible and the KJV Strong’s concordance. If you wish access to this you can buy at Strong’s Concordance book at a bookstore. It is divided into Hebrew and Greek sections with the definition numbers beside the word to be defined in the back of the book which are also listed Hebrew then Greek definitions that correspond with those numbers OR: You can access the Strong’s Concordance on the internet at https://godrules.net/library/kjvstrongs/kjvstrongs which gives the definitions of words in the KJV Bible and you can put the name/type of your Bible in the place of my KJV in the website address. It is a delightful concordance to use. Wherever you go on this site you can always scroll to the bottom and click to GO TO NEXT CHAPTER or click on the KJV INDEX & SEARCH which will list every book in the KJV Bible with the chapters listed below each one and you can find the book and then click on the chapter you desire to investigate. I keep it minimized in two or three places on my computer for quick access.
ALSO: If you wish to know how I chose the KJV Holy Bible please read the article About the Writer to the left of the commentary titles. AND: You will also laugh at how I made a complete fool of myself in church in the mid-day service and the misery I suffered at my home before I finally asked God to save me; Mister Ignorant, Stubborn, Stupid, Hard Headed Hillbilly! You might even be amazed at what my proud, tough as nails, vocally against the Church, refused to hear anything about Jesus or the Bible, hillbilly Daddy did to me at my baptism. His favorite statement in any company was; “If that buncha hypocrites ar agoin’ to church I ain’t gotta worry in the world!” If so please click on the commentary The Holy Spirit & You, scroll the menu to the article The Holy Spirit is Truth (Part 2): Jesus, My Daddy and Me. Hint; I did not realize there at my beginning as a Christian what Daddy did to me at my baptism was the first salvo from his side in a twenty-one year physical/spiritual war for my Daddy’s soul.
I think you will also be amazed at how this website came about by what God did to me. Mommy’s foot was across my throat; “Git that diploma er else!” to put a high school, almost failed English 2, so I took English 3 & 4 in summer school where if you show up every day, be polite, and try hard you will not fail. So I took all the easy courses I could. I had no computer skills. I had one of those old early flip phones and I was satisfied with my ‘conquest of the electronic world.’ My wife had to teach me how to use a computer and she still regularly gets me out of the electronic dead ends I ignorantly corral myself into. God, through the Holy Spirit, is the Author of this website and I am merely the writer, Mr. Nobody from the Middle of Nowhere, KY! AND also the astonishing thing God did with this website the first four years it was online. Yes; I’m trying to entice you to read them, it won’t take very long.
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TO KNOW SATAN’S PERSONALITY
Personal experience: Far into the night a few weeks before God burdened and later inspired me to start writing about exposing the devil my wife was asleep in our bedroom, I was studying in the living room, nature called, I went down the hall to the guest bedroom and used the bathroom there. I came out of the bathroom, crossed the bedroom and was ready to step into the hall that leads back to the living room and I was suddenly assailed by a most horrible sense of pure, dark, oily, powerful, malignant hatred and unadulterated evil right there beside me. I was instantly terrified and I was nearly overcome with a strange weakness, helplessness and fear.
I have never felt such dark, powerful, vitriolic, straining, eager, evil hatred directed toward me and I knew it was Satan as he truly is. Humanity with all its evil, lust, murder, torture, butchery and hatred does not know the meaning of the endlessness of eternal, pure, unbelievably cruel, evil hatred unless they have individually felt what I felt come at me that night.
The mixture of Satan’s dark, unbelievable evil and his eager hatred of me was straining to unleash itself upon me and destroy me in some more than awful fashion; not to just kill me and leave me a corpse in my own home but to torture, mangle, strangle and tear at my body and my soul, ME, to tortured shreds with an awful ferocity that would last forever.
He did not want to just kill me and be done with it. He wanted to, and was determined to, make me suffer endlessly. In combat I have endured the fear of incoming projectiles that would tear bloody holes through me or blow me apart but this terror went infinitely further than that. I was so scared I was frozen motionless in the timelessness of the absolute horror of total terror.
I am so sorry I do not have the words to cause you to feel the threat, horror and terror I experienced that night. My skin crawled and my hair stood on end because I was so close to Satan and he terrified me beyond measure. I, a man grown, was helpless as a tiny bird, a sparrow, serpent charmed! The unimaginable reality of the engulfing essence of Satan’s living, darkening, overwhelming magnitude of total malice, total hatred and total evil almost engulfed me in the horrifying quicksand of his dreadful personality. Satan is the Devil.
It was instant, I was there, I was trapped, there was no way out and I instinctively started screaming over and over; “Jesus, Jesus, oh God help me!” It was endless as I stiffly, cringing, clumsily, so painfully slowly tried to get away from that awful darkness by struggling to escape up the hall toward the living room. If I could have run I would have but I was so afraid my body felt almost paralyzed and I could only drag myself along; “Jesus, Jesus, oh God help me!” I finally made it to the couch and huddled there like a wounded animal shivering in horror and begging for help.
The presence of pure evil abated as Jesus drove Satan away but it was weeks before I felt comfortable going back down that hall in the night because I dreaded the possibility the experience would repeat itself. Since then I have never gone down that hall day or night, not even once, without thinking about what happened.
With my whole heart I wish all the lukewarm Christians, backslid Christians, idolaters, atheists, devil worshippers and sinners in the whole world would be exposed to the reality of Satan, the Devil, I felt that night. When they realized who is truly waiting for them, I know there would be a worldwide boom of church construction and they would flee in droves to Jesus and the salvation He offers.
NOTE: It is now about 2 months since I finished that article, not this one, and a certain thought has been nagging me about the above. My wife was asleep in our main bedroom with its open door just a few feet away. We have 2 dogs in the house and they too were just around the corner in a room with its door open. I did not rouse any of them during this episode so I have concluded when I was screaming; “Jesus, Jesus, oh God help me!” they were soundless screams due to my absolute terror because none of them were awakened!
Also I wondered why God let that event happen. At first, I thought God had told Satan, the devil, he could have me and then told Satan He had changed his mind. BUT that reason would have meant God had lied and I abandoned that thought immediately! (Num 23:19, Titus 2:1 & John 14:6) God does not lie! Based on (Job. 1:8-12) my second thought was that God had told Satan He was going to inspire me to write and expose Satan for who he is and did Satan think he could frighten me out of writing that article. At least I had enough sense to call on God and Jesus for help! END OF NOTE.
(Eph. 6:10-12) AGAIN
(Eph. 6:10-12) (V.10) “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might (Strong’s #2479: ability, force, strength),”
(V.11) “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able stand against the wiles (Strong’s #3180: traveling over, lie in wait, cunning arts, deceit, craft trickery) of the devil.”
(V.12) “For we wrestle (Strong’s #3823: the Christian’s struggle with the power of evil) not against flesh and blood, but against principalities (Strong’s #746: origin, the person or thing that commences a thing, the first person or thing in a series, the leader), against powers (Strong’s #1849: in the sense of ability, force, capacity, superhuman, token of control, delegated influence ← this was taken from the very top because the list under that is as long as my hand and wrist if you wish to see for yourself), against the rulers (Strong’s #2888: a world-ruler, an epithet of Satan, lord of the world, prince of this age, the devil and his demons) of the darkness (Strong’s #4655: obscurity, of ignorance things respecting divine things and human duties, and the accompanying ungodliness and immorality, together with their consequent misery in hell) of this world, against spiritual (Strong’s #4152: relating to the human spirit, or rational soul) wickedness (Strong’s #4189: depravity, iniquity, malice, evil purposes and desires) in high (Strong’s book #2032: a leader) places.”
Please read (Eph. 6:10-12) and its definitions again! Then go ahead and read all of (Eph. 6:10-18 esp. V.13-18). Have you ever heard a complete sermon or a series of sermons dedicated to→ (Eph. 6:10-18 esp. V.13-18)? Do you perform what is instructed in these scriptures? If so or if not how many Christians do you know who also perform what these scriptures instruct us to do? In Reality; Have you ever heard a Holy Spirit blessed and directed preaching sermon or teaching service dedicated to (Eph. 6:10-18 esp. V.13-18)? Personally I do not think it could be appropriately covered in one service because of the depth and importance of the information. Should a Christian even be concerned about Satan, the devil, because “THE DEVIL IS A DEFEATED FOE!!” is all I have ever heard said in church concerning Satan, the devil!”
BUT
The apostle Peter did not think so because (2Tim. 3:16) by the inspiration of God Peter wrote (1Pet. 5:8) “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” (Luke 22:31-32 then 52-62) Because of his personal experience that Satan had caused him to be emotionally so afraid that he denied even knowing Jesus three times (Mark 14:71) and at his third denial of knowing Jesus; “But he began to curse and to swear, saying I know not this man of whom ye speak”!
(Job 1:1-22) (V.1-5) Tells us Job was from the land of Uz (Strong’s #5780: gives lineage and is an Edomite) (Gen. 25:25 gives Esau’s lineage & Gen. 36:8-19) (V.8 keywords: “Thus dwelt Esau in Mount Seir: Esau is Edom” (V.15-18) the dukes are named. (V.19) “These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes” because Esau had married 2 daughters of (Gen. 16:1-12 & 17:19-21) Ishmael who was Abraham’s illegitimate son by Hagar, his wife’s slave. Maps show that Edom is centered in Mount Seir and is located just south of what would become Israel. Esau’s father and mother were Isaac and Rebecca, his grandparents were Sarah and Abraham and his great grandfather was Terah; ask the Wikipedia for the family tree of Esau. The point of all this is that Job might have lived after Israel became a nation when they crossed the Jordan River, (internet info: in 1406 BC), into the land of Canaan because of his religious practices and the fact that God was dealing with him as His servant. Job is not named on the Biblical timeline. Internet info. of when Job lived:? The times are so wild you might as well shoot a shotgun at the timelines from the Patriarchs to Moses; because it is scattered all over the place by different professional guessers.
(Job 1:1-22) (V.1-5) Tells us Job was a perfect and upright man who feared God and eschewed evil. He had seven sons and three daughters. He was a rich man and was the greatest man in the east. Job offered burnt offerings to sanctify his children because it may be that they have sinned in their hearts. (V.5) “Thus did Job continually.” (V.6) “There came a day when the sons (Strong’s #1121: angels) of God came to present themselves before God and Satan (Strong’s #7854: the arch-enemy of good, superhuman adversary) came also among them.” (V.7) “The Lord said unto Satan, Whence camest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it.” (Rev. 12:9) Obviously Satan had already been cast out into the earth and his angels with him. It is also obvious that, at times, all the angels are required to present themselves to God and give a report of their activities. (Prov. 15:3) Obviously this conceals from the angels the fact that; “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.”
(Job 1:1-22) God challenged/provoked Satan when He said; (V.6) “Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth (Strong’s #3373: morally reverent, afraid) God, and escheweth (Strong’s #5493: to turn aside, depart) evil?” Satan also challenged/provoked the Lord when he said; (V.9) “Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?” (Strong’s #2600: freely, for nothing, without cause)?” (V.10) “Hast not thou made an hedge (Strong’s #7753: to shut in for protection or restraint) about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance (Strong’s #4735: cattle, livestock, a purchasable domestic animal) is increased in the land.” (V.11) “But put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.” (V.12) “And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.” Satan inspired people attacked Job’s holdings and Satan guided weather tore down Job’s oldest son’s house!
Please tell Job “THE DEVIL IS A DEFEATED FOE!!” (Job 1:3 then V.14-17) while you share Job’s grief that he was now a pauper (Job 1:4 then V.18-19) while you cry and crawl through the wreckage of his eldest son’s house with Job while you help him drag the horror stricken final expressions of the dirty, broken, crushed, bloody, horribly wounded bodies of his seven sons and three daughters while you help him dig the graves and bury his crushed, dirty, burst, caked with dried blood, darlings while you and Job have to take frequent rest breaks (Job 1:16-17) because there are no servants left alive to help because, obviously but not written, ‘as you or I would have done’, the one servant left alive ran away from that place of death and destruction because he feared he would be the next one to be killed.
(Job 2:1-13) (V.1) “Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present (Strong’s #3320: to place, set, stand, set or station, oneself, present oneself) themselves before the Lord and Satan (Strong’s #7854: the arch-enemy of good, adversary, one who withstands, superhuman adversary) came also among them to present himself before the Lord.” I cannot help but wonder if God stationed Satan to be the last spoken to so he would be humiliated! (V.2) “And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it.” I cannot help but wonder if paraphrased Satan was saying; “Aww I was just piddling around on the earth because the Lord don’t know what is going on.” (Isa. 14:12-14 & Ezek. 28:12-17) And I cannot help but wonder if Lucifer was thinking (Ezek.28:14-15) “When I take my throne as a God I’ll show you my power and you will be dazzled because of my beauty!”
(Job 2:1-7) (V.3) “And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered (Strong’s #3820: inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding, soul) my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect (Strong’s #8535: morally pious, gentle, undefiled, complete) and upright (Strong’s #3477: just, correct) man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? And still he holdeth fast (Strong’s #2388: prevail, be strong, be courageous) his integrity (Strong’s #8538: innocence) although thou movest me against him, to destroy him without cause.” (V.4) “And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.” (V.5) “But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.” (V.6) “And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold he is in thine hand; but save his life.” (V.7) “So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.”
Please tell Job “THE DEVIL IS A DEFEATED FOE!!” while you sit with Job in the garbage pit in his misery helping him scrape “the sore (Strong’s #7451: bad, unpleasant, evil, giving pain, unhappiness, misery) boils (Strong’s #7822: to burn, inflammation, eruption) from the sole (Strong’s #3709: palm, bottom) of his feet unto his crown (Strong’s #6936: top of the head)” (Job 2:9) while Job’s wife takes Satan’s side and states; “Dost thou still retain (Strong’s #2388: be strong, courageous, firm, resolute) thine integrity (Strong’s #8538: innocence)? curse God and die.” while Job fought back with (Job. 2:10) “Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh.” (Job 2:13 thru 3:26 esp. V.1-3) while Job curses being born (Job 4:1-8 esp. V.7-8) while Job’s three friends accuse Job of iniquity and wickedness that caused all of Job’s afflictions. Oh! Don’t forget to tell Job “THE DEVIL IS A DEFEATED FOE!!”
Do you understand the point I am making? Yes, (Job 2:10) I know That “In all this Job did not sin with his lips.” (Job 37:14) That God said; “O Job stand still, and consider the wonderous works of God.” (Job 38:3) That God told Job; “Gird up thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.” That judgment was obviously coming to Job because he had not acted like a man. (Job 38:4-41 thru 39:30) That God describes more of his creative power. (Job 40:15-24) (V.23) keyword: “Jordan:” defined: Strong’s #3383: the Jordan River from its beginning in Lebanon through the Sea of Galilee along the border of Israel to empty into the Dead Sea) That God is somehow changing the scripture to possibly pinpoint a creature or a person that for some reason pinpoints the Jordan River. Does that signify Israel? (Job 40:1) That God is still talking to Job in→ (Job 41:1-34) God is asking Job: (V.1) That “Canst thou draw out leviathan (Strong’s #3882: a serpent, the crocodile or some other large sea monster, figuratively the constellation of the dragon, a symbol of Babylon) with a hook?”
(Job 41:1-34) (V.3-6) That this serpent can speak, That this serpent can make a covenant with mankind and That mankind can have a relationship with this serpent. (V.11-12) That only God has the power to control and judge this dragon that is a serpent! (V.24-29) That physical weapons cannot harm this creature who is a person. SO, he must be a spiritual person. (V.34) “That He beholdeth (Strong’s #7200: to see, look at, inspect, perceive) all high (Strong’s #1364: exalted, proud, haughty) things: That he is a king (Strong’s #4428: royal) over all the children (Strong’s #1121: plural- male and female, sons of injustice for unrighteous men or sons of God for angels) of pride” (Strong’s #7830: to strut, haughtiness, ***lion***, pride). See lion marked with three stars *** in fifth paragraph below!
(Job 42:1-17) (V.1-6) That Job saw himself as God saw him and That Job said; (V.6) “Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” (V.7-9) That God condemned Job’s three friends who had unjustly accused Job of iniquity and That the only way they could escape God’s judgment upon them was That they take sacrifices to Job for burnt offerings and That Job would pray for them. That is what Job did and (V.10) That “And the Lord turned the captivity (Strong’s #7622: exile, prisoner) of Job, when he prayed for his friends:” in (V.11) That Job had grown in his prayer life from his selfish prayers only for his own family to understanding That other people, even those who had persecuted him, needed his prayers. That all of Job’s brethren, sisters and all his acquaintances ate with Job and (V.11) “they bemoaned him, (Strong’s #5110: shake head with grief and sympathy, to console) and comforted (Strong’s #5162: to be sorry in a favorable sense, to be moved to pity) him.”(V.11) That they all gave Job money and earrings of gold. (V.12-17) That Job had twice as much as he had before Satan had temporarily destroyed all that Job was in his community, all that Job owned and all that Job loved.
But there is a question; (Job 42:10 & 13) (V.10) God gave Job twice as much as he had before (V.13) so why did Job not have fourteen sons and six daughters instead of the same number, seven sons and three daughters, he had before the tragedy struck them down? The answer is in (Luke 16:22 keyword: “comforted”). Because they were alive and well in Abraham’s Bosom where they were comforted and were waiting for their reunion with Job where the angels had taken them to live in peace and safety. If you do not believe that please read the one-article commentary Is God Fair located on this website and then you will understand and you will believe. (V.16-17) That even though Job lived a good long life and saw four generations of his sons and their progeny, in reality, life is short when compared to eternity.
The message of Job, in our now, to the Church, you, me and all Christians, is; “Hang on to our integrity (Rev. 2:8-10) until death and our God will give us a crown (Strong’s #4735: metaphor for the eternal blessedness which will be given as a prize to the genuine servants of God and Christ) of life (Strong’s #2222: the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate).”
The mention of Is God Fair caused me to think of this scripture (John 12:32) Jesus said; “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” We know that Jesus was lifted up three times, #1) lifted up on the cross, #2) lifted up out of His grave #3) and lifted up into heaven. Three, the Biblical number of completion. SO: What about all the tribal people who lived and died in their tribes before Jesus was even born or before the church came into existence or before the church finally got to their tribe. Were they just castaways into hell because they were unfortunately born in the wrong time? What about the second man on the cross? The church had not yet been organized but Jesus said; “Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.” How could that have happened? Is God Fair?? Of course both of us, you and I, know God is fair but how did He do it? Yes, I’m trying to entice you to read it!
SO
(1Pet. 5:8) “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring ***lion*** walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” I have never heard a complete preached sermon or a teaching concerning (2Cor 11:13-15) either! (1Pet. 5:8) Satan, the devil, is the greatest enemy of the church and individual Christians BUT: preachers and teachers do not understand Satan’s work in churches→ (2Cor 11:13-15) (V.13) “For such are false apostles (Strong’s #5570: one who falsely claims to be an ambassador for Christ), deceitful (Strong’s #1386: guileful) workers (Strong’s book #2040: toiler, figuratively a teacher from #2041: toil as an effort or occupation by implication an act, deed), transforming themselves (Strong’s #3345: to transfigure or disguise, to change the figure of, to transform) into the apostles (Strong’s #652: a delegate, messenger, one sent forth with orders) of Christ (Strong’s #5547: the Messiah).” (V.14) “And no marvel (Strong’s #2298: wonderful, marvelous, worthy of pious admiration); for Satan (Strong’s #4567: adversary, one who opposes another in purpose or act, the prince of evil spirits) himself is transformed (Strong’s #3345: to change the figure of) into an angel (Strong’s #32: one who is sent, a messenger from God) of light (Strong’s #5457: to shine or make manifest).”
(V.15) “Therefore it is no great thing (Strong’s #3173: of the external form or sensible appearance of things) if his (Strong’s #846: himself, herself, themselves, itself) ministers (Strong’s #1249: one who executes the commands of another especially of a master, a servant attendant, minister) also be transformed (Strong’s #3345: to change the figure of) as the ministers of righteousness (Strong’s #1343: equity of character or act, in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, the condition acceptable to God); whose (Strong’s #3739: who, which, what, that) end (Strong’s #5056: termination, the limit at which a thing ceases to be, always of the end of some act or state) shall be according (Strong’s #2596: frequently denotes opposition, distribution, or intensity, down from, through out, toward, along) to their works (Strong’s book #2041: toil as an effort or occupation, by implication an act, deed, doing labor).”
NOW
In the Old Testament: (Lev. 18:22) “If a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination (Strong’s #8441: morally disgusting, an abhorrence: abhorrence is defined: a feeling of repulsion, disgusted loathing).” AND in the New Testament: (Col. 3:5-6) (V.5) “Mortify (Strong’s #3499 to make dead) therefore your members (Strong’s #3196: limb, a member of the human body) which are upon the earth; fornication (defined: Strong’s #4202: illicit sexual intercourse, adultery, sexual immorality, homosexuality, intercourse with animals etc.), uncleanness (Strong’s #167: physical, in a moral sense the impurity of lustful, luxurious, profligate living, of impure motives), inordinate affection (Strong’s #3806: whatever befalls one, whether it be sad or joyous), evil concupiscence (Strong’s #1939: desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust), and covetousness (Strong’s #4124: greedy desire to have more, avarice) which is idolatry (Strong’s #1495: the worship of false gods).” (V.6) “For which things’ sake (Strong’s #3739: who, which, what, that) the wrath (Strong’s #3709: violent passion, anger, ire or justifiable abhorrence, by implication punishment) of God cometh on the children of disobedience (Strong’s #543: disbelief, rebellious, obstinate opposition to the divine will.”
NOW: Ask Wikipedia for a list of worldwide churches that state homosexuality is an acceptable Christian lifestyle to God. Read the definitions of the above scriptures again and you will see how successful Satan and his demons have been in seducing the churches into accepting homosexuality, an abomination, as an acceptable Christian lifestyle to God. Read the commentary Homosexuality on this website for a complete discussion concerning Satan’s part.
BECAUSE
(2Cor 4:4) “In whom (Strong’s #3739: who, which, what, that) the god (Strong’s #2316: a god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities) of this world (Strong’s #165: period of time, age) hath blinded (Strong’s #5186: figuratively to obscure, in the NT metaphorically to blunt the mental discernment) the minds (Strong’s #3540: purpose, the intellect, disposition, a mental perception, thought) of them which believe not (Strong’s #571: disbelieving, without Christian faith, especially a heathen, incredible thing, infidel, unfaithful, faithless, not to be trusted), lest (Strong’s #1519: into, unto, to, towards, for, among) the light (Strong’s #5462: the act of enlightening, illumination) of the glorious (Strong’s #1391: from #1380: glory, dignity, honor, praise, worship, then #1391: opinion, judgment, view) gospel (Strong’s book #2098: the same as #2097: to announce good news, evangelize, to declare, bring, show glad tidings) of Christ (Strong’s #5547: anointed, the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus: epithet is defined by Merriam-webster.com: a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in the place of the name of a person or thing, a disparaging or abusive word or phrase: who is the image (Strong’s #1504 taken from #1503: to be like) of God (Strong’s #2316: the supreme Divinity), should shine (Strong’s #826: to beam upon, irradiate, to be bright) unto them (Strong’s #846: himself, herself, themselves, itself, he, she, it).”
Example of the epithet about Jesus being the only Saviour provided by God: see the internet news article: Christmas Massacre: 160 People Killed by Jihadists in Strong Christian Community: In the article is stated; “About 160 Christians were killed and 500 were wounded in 20 named villages, in three counties in Nigeria that actually started on Saturday night and continued on Christmas Day as radical Islamic terrorists struck in several predominately Christian villages – killing men women and children, the largest number of those murdered were women, children and the elderly – all those who could not run fast enough to get away and destroying hundreds of homes that left hundreds homeless.” That event was the result of an epithet of Jesus, as the Messiah because Islam accepts Jesus as a prophet but not the Messiah, the Son of God.
ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTMAS MASSACRE IN NIGERIA
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(Koran 3:59- Quaranic Arabic Corpus: translator Yusuf Ali) “The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam; he created him from dust, then said to him: Be. And he was.”
(Koran 3:118 Quaranic Arabic Corpus translator Mosin Kahn) “O you who believe! Take not as (your) Bitanah (advisors, consultants, protectors, helpers, friends, etc.) those outside your religion (pagans, Jews, Christians, and hypocrites) since they will do their best to corrupt you. They wish to harm you severely. Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, but what their breasts conceal is far worse. Indeed We have made plain to you the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses) if you understand.”
(Koran 4:171- Quaranic Arabic Corpus: translator Mohsin Khan) “Oh people of the scripture (Jews and Christians)! Do not exceed the limits of your religion, nor say of Allah but of the truth. The Messiah ‘Iesa (Jesus) the son of Maryam (Mary), was no more than a Messenger of Allah and His Word, (“Be” – and he was) which He bestowed on Maryam (Mary) and a spirit (Ruh) created by him; so believe in Allah and His Messengers. Say not: Three (trinity) Cease! (it is) better for you. For Allah is (the only) One llah (God), Glory be to Him (Far Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allah is AllSufficient as a Disposer of affairs.”
(Koran 3:31-Quaranic Arabic Corpus: translator Mohsin Khan:) “Say (O Muhammad SAW to mankind): “If you (really) love Allah then follow me (i.e. accept Islamic Monotheism, follow the Quran and the Sunnah), Allah will love you and forgive you of your sins. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
Writer’s comment: #1) Love Allah first, #2) accept Islamic Monotheism, #3) do works, #4) then Allah will love you! Islam’s Allah is the exact opposite of my God.
(John 3:16) “For God so loved the world (Strong’s #2889: the world including its inhabitants) that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish (Strong’s #622: to destroy) but have everlasting (Strong’s #166: without beginning and end) life.” (Strong’s #2222: the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate). (1John 4:8 & 16) Both of these verses state “God is love.” (Eph. 1:12-13) (V.12) “That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.” (V.13) “In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation (Strong’s #4991: deliverance, preservation): in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed (Strong’s #4972: for security from Satan) with the holy Spirit (Strong’s #4151: the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit) of promise,” READ→(Rom. 8:6-17) (V.17) “The Spirit (Strong’s #4151: the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit) itself beareth witness (Strong’s #4828: corroborate by evidence) with our spirit (Strong’s #4151: the human rational soul), that we are the children (Strong’s #5043: offspring) of God.”
Christians have a; I know it happened because God tells us it is real when He comes to live within us, with our soul; salvation. End of writer’s comment.
KORAN continued:
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(Koran 4:157- Quaranic Arabic Corpus: translator Mohsin Khan) “And because of their saying (in boast), “We killed Messiah ‘Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), the messenger of Allah,” but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but the resemblance of ‘Iesa (Jesus) was put over another man (and they killed that man), and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They no (certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely; they killed him not ‘Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary).”
(Koran 8:12 Quaranic Arabic Corpus: translator Shakir) “When your Lord revealed to his angels: I am with you therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.”
SEE: https:///wwwchristiantoday.com/article/obama,islam and several websites from other sources. Maybe some world leaders should read these and other Koranic statements before they make misinformed statements like this. “ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF PEACE!”
ALSO: see the internet article “Islamic Crusades vs. Christian Crusades Who should own the “Kingdom of Heaven”? by James M Arlandson
Now you see the reality of the cause of the Christmas massacre that took place in Nigeria. If you wish to read more translations of the Koran please see the commentary Hell, Covenant, Judaism, Christianity and Islam located on this website and read Articles 10 thru 15. ALSO: It is a fact from their literature That Muhammad was illiterate and quoted what a spirit told him in a cave where Muhammad went to fast and pray and his wife and other people wrote verbatim what Muhammad told them. It is also a fact that the spirit which spoke to Muhammad did not identify himself. That fact worried Muhammad and he told his wife and uncle about it. Some days later his uncle who had trade and friendship relationships with Christians and Jews told Muhammad that the spirit must have been ‘Gabriel’, Jibreel in Islam, a messenger angel according to the Christians and Jews. And that is what Muhammad told them to write in the Koran. Do you believe it was Gabriel, Jibreel in Arabic, or the evil spirit exposed in this commentary?
Bold text to show importance:→ In my KJV Holy Bible: Do you know that the words Satan or Satan’s are used 35 times in the NT and 18 times in the OT? Do you know the word devil or devils are used 111 times in the NT the glorious gospel of Christ? And they reveal the who, what, where, why, when, how, and with what Satan, the devil, operates.
SO: #1) Has the Satan, the devil, blinded the minds of our preachers, pastors and teachers to the importance of preaching and teaching messages of warning concerning Satan, the devil, the (Eph. 6:11-12 & 1Pet. 5:8) the greatest enemy of the church? OR: #2) Are they afraid to preach and teach messages concerning Satan, the devil that they might give Satan a false fame OR do they simply believe what they say; “THE DEVIL IS A DEFEATED FOE!!”
JUST REMEMBER: (1John 4:18) “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath *torment*. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” AND all the scriptures used in this article were written by prophets, apostles and preachers!
Their *torment* is in declining membership, churches closing their doors forever and fewer people desiring to become preachers and teachers. Please, please, please click on the Home page and scroll about ¾ of the way down the article and read the highlighted article titled; THE CHURCH IN AMERICA: STATISTICS and you will see, feel and understand their *torment*! I cannot help but wonder and question if what you have read in THE CHURCH IN AMERICA: STATISTICS would have been any different if preachers and teachers would have preached and taught messages concerning the who, what, where, why, when, how, and with what Satan, the devil, operates AND have preached, taught, and stressed (Eph. 6:10-18) in its entirety every six months to their congregations! What do you think about that? OR Has Satan, the devil, also blinded you? OR (Rev. 3:14-17 esp. V.16 keyword: “*lukewarm*”) Are you one of those *lukewarm* Christians who just do not care enough to deal with it? (2Thess. 2:1-12 esp. V.3 keywords: “except there come a falling away first”) Would so many have fallen away if the information in this commentary had been taught?
Just remember→ (Rev. 3:14-17 esp. V.16) (V.16) “So then because thou art *lukewarm* (Strong’s #5513: tepid, metaphor for a soul fluctuating between a torpor and a fervor of love), and neither cold nor hot, I will spue (Strong’s #1692: to vomit, to throw up) thee out of my mouth (Strong’s #4750: body part, thoughts of a man’s soul).” Do you really think Jesus is going to puke/vomit these lukewarm souls up in heaven to stink there? (Rev. 3:18-22) In case you do think these lukewarm people will go to heaven why do you think (Rev. 3:18-20) Jesus gave you, me, all of us Christians these scriptures in the same chapter and verses showing all of us how to overcome the lukewarm attitude and go to heaven (V.20) “Behold I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him,” (V.21) “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” I will bet that after you read this commentary Jesus is already knocking on the door of your soul if you are *lukewarm*!
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(1Chron. 21:1 keyword: “Satan”) God had changed Lucifer’s name to Satan (O.T. Hebrew: Strong’s #7853-54: adversary, to accuse, the arch enemy of good: N.T. Greek: Strong’s #4566-67: the devil, the accuser) due to Lucifer’s rebellion in Eden by not guarding Adam and Eve (Isa. 14:12-15) because Lucifer, Satan, had become God’s adversary through his 5 “I wills” (V.13) “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north.” (V.14) “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” (1Pet. 5:8) “Be sober (Strong’s #3525: to be calm and collected, to be temperate, dispassionate, circumspect), be vigilant (Strong’s #1127: watch, give strict attention to, be cautious, active); because your adversary (Strong’s #476: archenemy, opponent, enemy) the devil, as (Strong’s #5613: be like) a roaring lion (Strong’s #3023: both Christ and Satan are referred to as a lion, indicating great strength, Satan as a roaring lion and Christ as the lion of the tribe of Judah), walketh about (Strong’s #4043: to make one’s way, progress; to make due use of opportunities), seeking (Strong’s #2212: to seek in order to find) whom he may devour (Strong’s #2666: gulp entire, drown, swallow).” THINK ABOUT IT AND READ THE SCRIPTURES GIVEN BELOW!
How many of the (John 3:1-8 esp. V.5 the prophesy of the born again event, Acts 2:1-41 the first born again event and Rom. 6-17 the continuing of the born again event 2Cor. 5:17-21 & Eph. 1:10-14 then 2:4-22 & 1Pet. 2:9-12 the process of the born again event) truly born again (John 14:15 thru 15:1-15 & Eph. 6:13-18 esp. V.17-18) living Word of God obeying, Holy Spirit filled (2Tim. 3:1-7 then V.16, 2Pet. 3:18) growing in grace Christians are there in the estimated 8 billion people in the world today? Yes, I know Wikipedia internet information gives an estimated number of Christians in the world today. But, I also know, according to scripture, some of the people who say they are Christians will not be welcomed into heaven.
(2Cor. 11:13-15) (V.13) “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. (V.14) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. (V.15) Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers (Strong’s #1249: one who executes the commands of another) of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” Obviously Satan instructs these false apostles what to preach and teach!
READ THESE and note the capitalized W→(John 1:1-17 esp. V.1-4 & 14, 1John 1:1 thru 2:2 esp. 1:1-4 keyword in all three: “Word” (Strong’s #3056: something said, the thought, reasoning, motive, the Divine Expression i.e. Christ: internet definition of i.e.: it stands for the Latin words id est which are defined: that is to say or in other words or that is- to say the same thing another way) SO: JESUS IS THE LIVING WORD OF GOD! (2Tim. 3:16) “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine (Strong’s #1319: instruction, learning, teaching), for reproof (Strong’s #1650: proof, conviction, evidence), for correction (Strong’s #1882: straightening up again, rectification, reformation, correction), for instruction (Strong’s #3809: education, training, disciplinary correction, chastisement) in righteousness (Strong’s # 1343: equity of character or act, the condition acceptable to God, state of him who is as he ought to be, justification):” IF YOU DENY THE WORD OF GOD YOU HAVE DENIED JESUS!
(Rev. 12:9) “And the great dragon (Strong’s #1404-1405: to fascinate, to capture, to grasp, to entrap, to take) was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:” (2Cor. 11:3) “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled (Strong’s #1818: to seduce wholly and to deceive)” Eve through his subtility, (Strong’s #3834: adroit trickery, sophistry, cunning, craftiness, sophistry defined by Oxford languages dictionary is: the use of fallacious arguments with the intention of deceiving. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ defines sophisticated: to use sophistry, to cause to be less natural, to corrupt or pervert. So your minds (Strong’s #3540: perception, the intellect, thought, purpose, disposition) should be corrupted (Strong’s #5351: to shrivel, wither, spoil, ruin) from the simplicity (Strong’s #572: singleness, sincerity, mental honesty) that is in Christ.” #1) That old serpent stated above identifies Satan as Lucifer in Eden. #2) (2Cor. 1:1) Paul was writing to the church of God which is at Corinth. #3) Basically the devil lies, seduces, perverts and corrupts church members any way possible!
(Matt. 4:1-3) (V.1) “to be tempted of the devil” (Strong’s #1228: a traducer, slanderous, false accuser, metaphorically applied to a man who, by opposing the cause of God, may be said to act the part of the devil or to side with him). A traducer speaks falsely, maliciously, to lead. (V.3) “And when the tempter (Strong’s #3985: tester, scrutinize, entice, examine). came;” Satan is our adversary, a tempter (tester), a false accuser, a slanderer, speaks maliciously and he leads!
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(Isa. 14:29 keyword: “serpent’s”: Strong’s book # 5172: to hiss, to whisper, #1) to prognosticate, #2) is an enchanter, #3) and uses incantation.
COMPLETE INTERNET DEFINITIONS: #1) To prognosticate is defined: to diligently observe and learn by experience and to predict by using present indications as a guide. #2) To enchant is defined: to cast under a spell, bewitch, to attract and delight completely. #3) An incantation is defined: verbal charms spoken, chanted or sung designed to produce a particular emotional effect.
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Satan fascinates, grasps, entraps, takes, whispers into man’s thoughts, diligently observes, learns by experience, predicts by using present indicators such as a person’s thoughts, actions, reactions and emotions as a guide, casts under a spell, bewitches, attracts and delights completely, inspires people by verbal charms spoken, chanted or sung which is designed to produce a particular effect, THINK! Rap, Jazz, Pop, Rock, C&W and etc. AND the music in other languages, which enhances the mood (emotions) for one to commit sin. He inspires sorcery, magic and witchcraft. through his (Ezek. 28:17) keyword: “wisdom” (Strong’s #2451 from #2449 *skill in war*, to be wise, to teach, shrewdness) “and his brightness” (Strong’s #3314: splendor).
Satan, in his *skill in war* against mankind, has had almost 6,000 Biblical years to observe mankind and learn about us and he can accurately predict what we think and how we will act because basic mankind has not changed. (1Cor. 12:1-31) (V.31) states that we Christians are supposed to “covet earnestly (Strong’s #2206: to burn with zeal) the best (Strong’s #2909: more useful, serviceable, advantageous) gifts” and (1Cor. 12:10) “discerning (Strong’s #1253: judging) of the spirits” is one of those gifts. HOW ARE WE GOING TO SURVIVE AS A CHRISTIAN IF WE (Eph. 6:11-12 & 1Pet. 5:8) DO NOT EVEN PERCEIVE OUR GREATEST ENEMY? READ (Prov. 6:16-19 esp. V.19, Rom. 16:17-18, 1Cor. 1:10-13, Titus 3:9-11, 2John 1:9-11) AND LOOK HOW SATAN, THE DEVIL, HAS FRAGMENTED THE CHURCH INTO DENOMINATIONS, EACH ONE WITH ITS OWN TEACHING OF HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN! (2Thess. 2:3) “for that day shall not come except there come a falling away (Strong’s #646: defection from truth, apostasy) first,” THE FALLING AWAY IS ALREADY WELL UNDER WAY! SEE THE HOME PAGE ON THIS WEBSITE, ABOUT 3/4 OF THE WAY DOWN THE ARTICLE AND READ THE INFORMATION UNDER THE SUB-TITLE THE CHURCH IN AMERICA: STATISTICS:
I just had a terrible thought! Jesus said: (Matt. 12:30-32) (V.30) “He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.” (V.31) “Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy (Strong’s #988: slander, detraction, *speech injurious to another’s good name,* impious and reproachful speech injurious to divine majesty) against the Holy Ghost (Strong’s #4151: the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son) shall not be forgiven unto men.” (V.32) “And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, Definition repeated for emphasis:→(Strong’s #4151: the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son) it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world or in the world to come.”
The terrible thought I had was; the way denominations talk about each other (part of the definition of blasphemy: *speech injurious to another’s good name,* and will not associate with them in fellowship, love, and brotherhood. Examples; I have heard many people speak critically against Jimmy Swaggart and his ministry because he sinned and admitted he had sinned to his national audience on air (his TV ministry). This underlining below is different than the other scriptures to make a point!
(1John 1:7-10) (V.7) “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (V.8) “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and *the truth is not in us.*” This means every Christian even the apostles and the Bible writers! (V.9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (V.10) *“If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not us.”* ALL OF YOU CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE NOT SINNED PLEASE STAND UP AND WAVE SO WE CAN SEE YOU BECAUSE *THE TRUTH IS NOT IN YOU* AND (Rev. 21:8) “all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” If Jimmy Swaggart is presently led and empowered by the Holy Spirit; definition of blasphemy→(Strong’s #988: slander, detraction, *speech injurious to another’s good name,* impious and reproachful speech injurious to divine majesty) you might well have committed Blasphemy. That is between God and you.
Another example; (1John 1:7) “But if *we* walk in the light, as he is in the light *we* have fellowship one with another,” BUT: What about the Mennonite denomination? The Mennonite society is for practical purposes a closed society. They allow some of their members a very limited use of the internet. They have their own schools, their own printing press, they do not involve themselves with America’s wars, government function, etc. They do not fellowship with other Christian denominations. They will not call us Brethren nor tell us that they love us. I cannot help but wonder if they somehow violate their own scripture (1John 1:7) given above, OR WORSE, do they think we, Holy Spirit saved and Holy Spirit led, are wrong and are not Christians? Do they commit blasphemy? I don’t know and I will not judge them! BUT; that subject is between God and them.
God said this: (1John 3:14) “We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.”
I recently had some business dealings with a Mennonite who owned a guttering business. Yes, they have business dealings to obtain money from ‘the others’. That is what the Mennonites call Christians who are of other Christian denominations. I had given him a copy of the menu article, The Hat located in the menu article Chosen Vessels (Part 1) about ¾ of the way down the article under the sub-title THE HAT (cover for you Marines) on The Holy Spirit & You commentary. On the next visit he calmly told me the article could be used to attract some people to start attending church as well as drive some people away from starting to attend church. His expression was triumphant and his eyes held a strange heat of victory; that made me think of a sort of “I guess I put him in his place!” You can read the article about the “Hat” on this website if you so desire and you can decide if the Holy Spirit was in the design of the Hat and the writing then also in the results that article has produced. But do not judge him because that situation is between God and that Mennonite!
If I live until Sept. 19, 2024, I will have been a Christian 48 years and there is only one Mennonite, Nathan, who eventually became my friend. If you wish to read about the growth of our relationship see the commentary Sin in Church the menu article Growth as a Christian: The Survival Principal (Part 6) about 1/3 of the way down the article to the paragraph below the paragraph that contains the word programmed. He was a teacher in their church and as our relationship and understanding of God’s Word grew you will then see *the ridiculous reason they took his teaching position away and banished him from their community!* The whole story will surely shock you! Please, please read it because it is a window into the ‘Mennonite faith’. It all makes me wonder how much influence, if any, the Holy Spirit AND/OR Satan, the devil, had in the entire event?
Read 7th paragraph above→ (Matt. 12:30-32) (V.32) Whatever you do as a Christian do not commit blasphemy (Strong’s #988: slander, detraction, *speech injurious to another’s good name*, impious and reproachful speech injurious to divine majesty) against the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit) because it will not be forgiven.
(Luke 4:2 keyword: “devil”: Strong’s #1228: a traducer, slanderous, false accuser, metaphorically applied to a man who, by opposing the cause of God, may be said to act the part of the devil or to side with him). (Ezek. 28:13-17) (V.17) “Satan was “lifted up” (Strong’s #1361: haughty, to be proud) and it had sprung from Lucifer’s pride in his beauty, wisdom (Strong’s #2451 *skill in war*, to be wise, to teach, shrewdness) and his brightness (Strong’s #3314: splendor).” Satan’s *SKILL IN WAR*: is shown by this example below.
(Luke 4:1-14) (V.1) “Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,” (V.2) “Being forty days tempted (Strong’s #3985: to test, endeavor, scrutinize, entice, to try whether a thing can be done) of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.” (V.3) “And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.” (V.4) “And Jesus answered him saying, “It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.” #1)Satan had attacked Jesus’ physical need when He was at His physical weakness! (V.5) “And the devil, taking him up into a high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.”
(Luke 4:1-14) (V.6) “And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.” Read (2Cor. 4:4 keywords: “the god of this world:” then Rev. 12:9 keywords: “Satan, which deceiveth the whole world”) Can you imagine the piles of gold and precious jewels, the vast armies, weapons, the harems of rulers in all their vulgarity, prostitution, the evil, the crime, drug addiction, financial riches from selling illicit drugs, the murder and on and on that he showed Jesus? Satan could have given it because he is the god of this world! (V.7) “If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.” (V.8) “And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” #2) Satan had attacked Jesus’ emotions to see if Jesus had pride, lust, or desired control!
(Rev. 1:3) “Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.” How many Christians worship things that please god self; their sport, social club, politics, house, property, riches/greed, job, social position, a business, house, property, social position, political beliefs, children, race car, just showing up in church once in a while when there’s nothing else to do, devotion to social media instead of reading the Bible and praying, or some man, woman, a sports star, a movie star, and on, and on, and on into infinity of human nature; and do not whole heartedly serve the Lord thy God, and from above paragraph: “and him only shalt thou serve”?
(Psalm 91) This scripture is for a trusting and faithful person who affirms his status as safe and sound even during a time of calamity and distress. If you do not believe it click on the commentary The Holy Spirit & You and scroll the menu to the two part article I Have Experienced Christian Physical Death on this website and read that.
(Luke 4:9-13) (V.9) “And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:”
(V.10) “For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:” (V.11) “And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.”
(Psa. 91:11-12)← It is written in my KJV Bible: (V.11) “For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.” (V.12) “They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.”
BUT: Satan had quoted it wrong to trick Jesus. In (Luke 4:10) Satan left out in all thy ways and in (Luke 4:11) Satan had added at any time and placed in their hands in a different place. If you compare them closely you will see that the three misquotes which, for effect, would change the scripture from a trust in God by a faithful person to a challenge and thus tempt God.
Of course Jesus understood because He is THE LIVING WORD OF GOD! (Luke 4:9-13) (V.12) “And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” (V.13) “And when the devil had ended all temptation, he departed from him for a season (Strong’s#2540: opportunity, convenient, due season, short while).” See below:
(Luke 4:9-13) V.13 again) “And when the devil had ended all temptation, he departed from him for a season.” (Strong’s #2540 opportunity, convenient, due season, short while). (the prophesy: Isa. 52:14 keywords: “his visage was marred more than any man”→ thru 53:1-12 esp. V.3, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 10-12). Can you even imagine what Satan said to Jesus while Jesus endured two savage beatings (Matt. 26:56-67) by the Jewish temple guard at the high priests command and (John 19:2-3) then the Roman soldiers in the Roman prelate, Pilate’s, command, while Jesus was being scourged with the nine lashes of the Roman scourge (historical source: with bits of metal and tiny shards of bone woven into the nine lashes to cut the skin and flesh), while the crown of thorns was sarcastically jammed upon Jesus’ head by the Roman soldiers, while Jesus was nailed to the cross and, while they lifted the cross high, while the cross was dropped into the hole and hit the bottom of the hole with an abrupt stop, while and Jesus’ full weight hit the nails, while an awful expression of shattering agony distorted Jesus’ already marred more than any man’s features, while (2Cor. 5:21) “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” while sinless Jesus became the disgusting, horrid epitome of our sins, mine, yours, and all people. while *****sinless Jesus paid our sin debt we could not pay so He could, without any cost to us, give us salvation through the born again salvation event (Rom. 3:21-22) and be given God’s righteousness that we did not deserve and the Holy Spirit brought to our souls a FULL PARDON SIGNED IN THE BLOOD OF THE SON OF GOD, “NO CHARGE PAID IN FULL”!***** (5 stars: the Biblical number of grace!)
See the commentary The Holy Spirit & You, the menu article The Holy Spirit and Grace on this website and you will be shocked. All I have ever heard in church is; “Now brethren; grace is the unmerited favor of God!” That is true but, in reality, grace is so much more than that saying; you will discover that in the article The Holy Spirit and Grace that grace actually has three definitions. I will bet you do not know how each individual who ever lived is different from all other people; even identical twins. I will also bet you will be surprised that you do not even completely know yourself. ←Both these answers and many more are revealed in the first SELF article. There are several true stories in the commentary The Holy Spirit & You, in which I have participated that will amaze you such as the article #6 When Is Holy Spirit Time which contains the true story of a large, muscular, athletic, angry man who came to fight my congregation and ‘straighten us out’. Another Where is the Holy Spirit: The Light (Part 2) is about a young woman’s spiritual, back to the wall, blood and guts war against death and hell to save her Daddy’s life and his soul. Do you understand how both male and female are both made in the image of God. See the article #1 Who is The Holy Spirit to biblically understand how they are. I will make you this promise; If you will read every article in the menu of The Holy Spirit & You commentary at your speed, one a day, every two days, two a week, whatever suits you, with prayer and a hungry heart (soul) you will be closer to God than you are now!
From (Ezek. 28:17) above: “wisdom” (Strong’s #2451 *skill in war,* to be wise, to teach, shrewdness)” You can and will bet your life Satan will tempt you the same way he did Jesus and he will be back again, again and again. If you don’t believe Satan, the devil’s, *skill in war* check out the various denominations; look at the differences between the Mormon, Jehovah’s Witness, Mennonite, Baptist, Assembly of God, Methodist and Catholic churches; and on and on and on. And the great number of various beliefs, the variety of available Bibles, the variety of the interpretations of God’s word, the churches that say; “Well, that part of the Bible don’t apply to us!” Ask Wikipedia for a list of Christian denominations and you will see some of the differences in their beliefs, even those denominations who are divided among themselves such as the Methodists, and etc.
THE KEY TO YOU
(1Cor. 7:1-40) The whole chapter is how Christians are to react to each other, (V.1-7) especially in marriage, in their daily lives with other Christians, in their daily lives with people who are not Christians, and with their relationship with God. BUT a strange thing is said in (1Cor. 7:5) “Defraud ye (Strong’s #650: rob, despoil, from #575: to deprive, keep back by fraud) not one the other, except it be with consent (Strong’s #4859: harmonious, accordant, agreeing) for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and come together again, that Satan tempt (Strong’s #3985: to try whether a thing can be done, from #3984: endeavor, scrutinize, entice, discipline, examine, prove) you not for your incontinency (Strong’s #192: want of self-control, intemperance, from #193: want of self-restraint, excess).” Obviously this has to do with the relationship of a husband and wife. I CANNOT HELP BUT WONDER HOW MANY CHRISTIANS DO NOT FAST AND PRAY? OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE PREY FOR SATAN TO DECEIVE INTO SIN AND THEY NEVER KNOW IT IS HAPPENING. ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE?
(2Tim. 3:16-17) (V.16) “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable (Strong’s #5624: profitable: from a form of #3786: advantageous) for doctrine (Strong’s #1319: teaching, instruction), for reproof (Strong’s #1650: a proof, that by which a thing is proved or tested), for correction (Strong’s #1882: restoration to an upright or right state, a straightening up again), for instruction (Strong’s #3809: from #3811: education or training, by implication disciplinary correction, chastisement,) in righteousness (Strong’s #1343: the state of him who is as he ought to be, the condition acceptable to God):” (V.17) “that the man (Strong’s #444: a human being, whether male or female) of God may be perfect (Strong’s #739: fitted, complete), thoroughly furnished (Strong’s #1822: to complete, finish) unto all good (Strong’s #18: of good nature, pleasant, agreeable, joyful) works (Strong’s book #2041: toil as an effort or occupation, by implication an act, deed).” I CANNOT HELP BUT WONDER HOW MANY CHRISTIANS REALLY STUDY THE BIBLE IN DEPTH TO LEARN TO BE A STRONGER, BETTER CHRISTIAN. SO MANY TIMES I HEAR; “I GET ALL OF THE BIBLE INSTRUCTION I NEED FROM MY PREACHER ON SUNDAY!” AS IS SHOWN ABOVE;→ WHAT IF YOUR PREACHER IS ONE OF THOSE WHO WORK FOR THE DEVIL OR IS BLINDED BY THE DEVIL? JESUS IS THE LIVING WORD OF GOD, IF YOU IGNORE THE WORD OF GOD YOU HAVE IGNORED JESUS! HAS SATAN, THE DEVIL, BLINDED YOU AND IS TELLING YOU THAT; “EVERYTHING IS OK BETWEEN GOD AND YOU?” ARE YOU A LUKEWARM CHRISTIAN? ARE YOU A CARNAL MINDED CHRISTIAN? ←God’s word concerning carnal minded Christians is addressed in the two paragraphs below this one! ARE YOU CARNAL AND IN DESPERATE SPIRITUAL TROUBLE AND DON’T EVEN KNOW IT BECAUSE YOU DO NOT STUDY YOUR BIBLE AND DO NOT KNOW (John 1:1 & 16 keyword in both: Word & 1John 1:1 keywords: Word of life) and do not have a personal relationship with JESUS, THE LIVING WORD OF GOD, IF YOU IGNORE THE WORD OF GOD YOU HAVE IGNORED JESUS? GOD COMMANDS THIS;→ (2Tim. 2:15) “Study (Strong’s #4704: make haste, to exert one’s self, endeavor, give diligence) to show thyself approved (Strong’s #1384: acceptable) unto God.” (Prov. 12:15) “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.”
From the above paragraph: (2Tim. 2:15) “Study (Strong’s #4704: make haste, to exert one’s self, endeavor, give diligence) to show thyself approved (Strong’s #1384: acceptable) unto God.” These words are underlined to show emphasis because the devil inspires lies concerning God’s word when people refuse to study the scriptures: → I have had people tell me that; “these words were only (2Tim. 1:1-18 esp. V.1-5 then V.13-18) (V.1-5) to his good friend Timothy who had experienced salvation through the apostle Paul’s preaching and was thus Paul’s spiritual son”→sentence continued below:” (2Tim. 1:15 and 2:16-18 esp. V.18 *keywords:* “and overthrow (Strong’s #396: overturn, destroy, to subvert: subvert is defined: to undermine the power and authority of an established system or institution) the faith of some”) ←“AND Paul was worried that Timothy would be influenced by false teaching and lose his salvation!” THAT IS THE DEVIL’S LIE TO THESE PEOPLE AS IS PROVEN BELOW!
(2Tim. 2:2 & 24-26 esp. V.26 *keywords:* “that they may recover themselves out of the snare (Strong’s #3803: trap, noose, figuratively a trick or stratagem: stratagem is defined: a plan or scheme to outwit an opponent or achieve an end) of the devil, who are taken captive (Strong’s #2221: to take alive) by him at his will Strong’s #2307: what one wishes or has determined shall be done).” (2Tim. 2:2 *keywords:* “commit thou (Strong’s #3908: from #3844: & #5087: to present truth) to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.” It is obvious Paul told Timothy to teach these faithful men the truth of Paul’s word (2Tim. 3:16 keyword: inspiration) so they would be able to teach the truth of Paul’s inspired word of God. Then (2Tim. 2:24 *keyword in both:* “teach”) BECAUSE: Paul was telling Timothy what to “teach” AND (2Tim. 4:1-5 esp. V.2 *keywords:* “Preach the word” & 5 *keyword:* “evangelist” Strong’s book #2099: a preacher of the gospel) Paul was telling Timothy what to “preach”.
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BUT GOD SAID; (1Cor. 3:1-3) “And I brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual (Strong’s #4152: non-carnal), but as unto carnal (Strong’s #4559: unregenerate), even as unto babes (Strong’s #3516: figuratively a simple-minded person, an immature Christian) in Christ.” (V.2) “I have fed you with milk (Strong’s #1051: a metaphor for less difficult Christian truths), and not with meat (intended meaning: in-depth Biblical teaching): hitherto ye were not able to bear it neither yet now are ye able.” (V.3) “For ye are yet carnal (Strong’s #4559: unregenerate) for whereas there is among you envying (Strong’s #2205: zeal, jealousy, malice, indignation), and strife (Strong’s #2054: quarrel, wrangling, contention, debate, variance), and divisions (Strong’s #1370: disunion, dissension, sedition), are ye not carnal (Strong’s #4559: unregenerate), and walk as men (Strong’s #444: a human being, whether male or female)?”
BECAUSE GOD SAID; (Rom. 8:6-7) (V.6) “For to be carnally minded (Strong’s #5427: mental inclination thoughts and purposes) is death (Strong’s #2288: death of the body with the implied future misery in hell); but to be spiritually (Strong’s #4151: Christ’s spirit, the Holy Spirit) minded is life and peace.” (V.7) “Because the carnal mind is enmity (Strong’s #2189: hostility, a reason for opposition) against (Strong’s #1519: unto, towards) God: for it is not subject (Strong’s #5293: to arrange under, to subordinate, obey, to submit to one’s control, to yield to one’s admonition or advise) to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” The result of carnality up until a person dies is future misery in hell as you will see in the next paragraph!
(Acts 13:8-10) (V.9) “Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set eyes on him,” (V.10) “And said, O full of all subtility (Strong’s #1388: craft, deceit, guile) and mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to *pervert* (Strong’s #1294: to distort, misinterpret, morally corrupt, perverse, turn away) the right ways of the Lord?)” (Gal. 1:6-7) (V.6) “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:” (V7) “Which is not another, but there be some who trouble you, and would pervert (Strong’s #1294: distort, misinterpret, morally corrupt, perverse, turn away) the gospel (Strong’s book #2098: a good message, taken from #2097: to announce good news, to declare, bring, show, preach glad tidings) of Christ.” After reading (Gal. 1:6-7) please read (Gal. 1:8-12).
People *pervert* God’s Holy Word so they can do just as they wish but the fact remains (Heb. 13:8) they cannot pervert God (2Cor. 5:10) nor change His judgment! Surely you can see the devil’s work here because it is the same as the devil said to Eve; (Gen. 3:4-5) paraphrased: “You’re smart; go ahead and eat the forbidden fruit; God didn’t mean that you will really die, ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil!”
AGAIN: (John 8:22 & 31 keyword: “Jews”) (John 8:44) Jesus described the devil when He accused these Jews; “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not of the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
(Matt. 15:1-11) (V.1) “Then came to Jesus scribes (Strong’s #1122: a man learned in the Mosaic Law and in the sacred writings, an interpreter, teacher. Scribes examined the more difficult and subtle questions of the law, added to the Mosaic Law decisions of various kinds thought to elucidate its meaning and scope, and did this *to the detriment of the religion.* Since the advice of men skilled in the law was needed in the examination in the causes and the solution of difficult questions, they were enrolled in the Sanhedrin; and are mentioned in connection with the priests and elders of the people.) and Pharisees, (Strong’s #5330: In addition to the O.T. books the Pharisees recognized in oral tradition a standard of belief and life. They sought for distinction and praise by outward observance of external rites and by outward forms of piety, and such as ceremonial washings, fastings, prayers, and alms giving, and comparatively negligent of genuine piety, they prided themselves on their fancied good works) which were of Jerusalem, saying, (Matt. 15:2) “Why do thy disciples transgress the traditions (Strong’s #3862: The Jewish traditionary law, giving up, giving over) of the elders (Strong’s #4245: a senior, especially an Israelite member of the Sanhedrin)? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.”
(Matt. 15:1-11) (V.3) “But he answered and said unto them, why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition (Strongs #3862: The Jewish traditionary law, giving up, giving over)? (V.4-6) Jesus explains what He means and in the last part of (V.6) Jesus states; “Thus ye have made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.” (V.7) “Ye hypocrites (Strongs #5273: from #5271: an actor under an assumed character (stage player), well did Esaias (Strong’s #2268: Hebrew for Isaiah) prophesy of you saying (V.8) This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.<-(Isiah 29:11-16 the prophesy of the Pharisee’s ignoring the God given Jewish law and forming their own law by using the written opinions of: from above paragraph: an interpreter, teacher. Scribes examined the more difficult and subtle questions of the law, added to the Mosaic Law decisions of various kinds thought to elucidate its meaning and scope, and did this *to the detriment of the religion.* and esp. (Isaiah 29:11) “the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed” then (Isaiah 29:13) the exact words of the prophesy that Jesus had used above in (Matt. 15:8) (Matt.15:9) “But in vain (Strong’s #3155: unsuccessful search, to no purpose, fruitlessly) do they worship me, teaching for doctrines (Strong’s #1319: teaching, instruction) the commandments (Strong’s #1778: religious precepts) of men.”
THEREFORE
(Acts 5:12-33) (V.11-16) The apostles had preached and performed many miracles and (V.14) “And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both men and women.” People from the cities around Jerusalem heard what the apostles were doing and brought their sick and the demon possessed to the apostles for healing. (V.17) “Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with them, which were of the Sadducees and were filled with indignation,” (V.18) “And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.” (V.19) “But an angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,” (V.20) “Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.” That is what the apostles did and the high priest discovered what they were doing when he sent to have them brought to him, the other priests, the council and all the senate of the children of Israel. (V.25) “Then came one and told them, saying, behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.” (V.26) “Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.” The common people loved the apostles because they were kind and performed great miracles of healing and casting out of devils from people and they would have stoned the temple guard if the apostles had resisted the guards! (V.27) “And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,” (V.28) “Saying, did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”
(Acts 5:12-33) (V.29) “Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, we ought to obey God rather than men.” (V.30) “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.” (V.31) “Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.” (V.32) “And we are his witnesses as of these things; and so is the Holy Ghost (Strong’s #4151: the Holy Spirit), whom God hath given to them that obey him.” (V.33) “When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took council to slay them.”
BUT: (Acts 5:34-39) (V.34) “Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law (Strong’s #3547: a teacher and interpreter of the law among the Jews), had in reputation (Strong’s #5093: of great price, precious, held in honor, esteemed, especially dear) among all the people, and commanded (Strong’s #2753: to order) to put the apostles forth (Strong’s #1854: without, out of doors) a little space (Strong’s #1024: a short distance);” I cannot help but wonder if the rest of the Pharisees were out in the public places showing their phony piety *to the detriment of the religion.*? See the highlighted paragraph starting with (Matt. 15:1-11) (V.1) the fourth paragraph above this one.
(Acts 5:34-39) (V.35) “And said unto them, ye men of Israel take heed (Strong’s #4337: to bring to, bring near) to yourselves what ye intend (Strong’s #3195: to be on the point of doing or suffering something) to do as touching these men (Strong’s #1909: upon, at, by, before).” (V.36) “For before these days rose up Theudas (Strong’s #2333: an insurgent), boasting himself to be somebody (Strong’s #5100: a certain one); to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves (Strong’s #4337: to glue to): who was slain (Strong’s #337: to take away violently); and all, as many as obeyed him (Strong’s #3982: persuade), were scattered (Strong’s #1262: to dissolve utterly), and brought to nought (Strong’s #3762: nothing).” (V.37) “After this man rose up (Strong’s #450: to cause to raise up) Judas of Galilee in the days of taxing (Strong’s #868: instigate to revolt) and drew away much people after him: he also perished (Strong’s #622: to destroy); and all even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed (Strong’s #1287: to scatter abroad).” (V.38) “And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone (Strong’s #1439: to allow, permit): for if this council or this work be of men, it will come to naught (Strong’s #2647: to dissolve, disunite):” (V.39) “But if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply be found even to fight against God.”
BUT: The apostle Paul stated; (Acts 26:5) “The Pharisees had a reputation as being “the most straitest (Strong’s #196: exact, careful, strictest, the most precise and rigorous in interpreting The Mosaic law, and observing even the more minute precepts of the law and tradition) sect of our religion.” Paul who had stated (Acts 26:5 above) had the priceless training to be a Pharisee (Acts 22:3) learning at the feet of Gamaliel in Jerusalem. Jewish history records that Gamaliel owned a Jewish school of learning in Jerusalem. Obviously Gamaliel understood all the prophesies given in the highlighted paragraphs below and had quite possibly have even studied the book of Job (Job 19:25-27) (V.25) “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:” and he knew a Redeemer was on the way from God. AND THAT IS WHY GAMALIEL MADE THE DEFENSE HE DID TO PROTECT THE APOSTLES WHEN THE OTHER JEWS DID NOT UNDERSTAND OR MAYBE HAD NEVER EVEN READ THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHESIES! Obviously Paul also understood all the prophesies because he had been taught by Gamaliel but he did not believe the fledgling church was what was prophesied and he persecuted it (Acts 9:1-18 please read it) until he met Jesus on the road to Damascus. When Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, started inspiring Paul to write so many books that comprise the New Testament just think about how many times Paul referred to the prophesies!
(Isa. 9:6 the prophesy) “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (Isa. 52:14 thru 53:1-12 the prophesy) (V.14) That “His visage was so marred more than any man which was the results of awful beatings bestowed upon Jesus by the Jewish temple guard and the Roman soldiers. (V.3) That He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him: he was despised, and we esteemed him not” That “He was despised, and we esteemed him not.” (V.5) That “But he was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our piece was upon him; and by his stripes we are healed.” (V.6) That “and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (V.7) That “he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,” (V.8) That “he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.” (V.12) That “he was numbered with the transgressors; and That he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.”
Two stars indicate prophesy and one star indicates fulfillment. (Psa. 22:1-18** written by David) (V.1**) “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Matt. 27:46*) “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (V.7**) “All that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head,” (Matt. 27:39*) “And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads.” (Matt.27:41*) “Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders,” (V.8**) “He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him:” (Matt. 27:43*) “He trusted in God; let him deliver him now,” (V.9-17**) Tells us that His destiny was from His mother’s womb and a comparison of how being crucified felt.
(Psa. 22:18**) “They part my garments among them, and cast lots for my vesture.” (Matt. 19:23*) “Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.” (Matt. 19:24*) “Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be:” (Isa. 54:1-17**) (V.3**) “thy seed shall inherit the gentiles,” (V.10**) “neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.” (Read Eph. 2:11-19*) (V.11*) “Gentiles in the flesh,” (V.12*) “being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world:” (V.13*) “But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.” (V.19*) “Now ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints and of the household of God:”
I asked the Jewish Virtual Library what Jesus had meant in (Matt. 23:23-33) when He spoken of the Pharisees? And basically #1) “There is the Torah which is the first five books of the Bible given by God that separated the Jewish people from all other people and established their type of worship and how the accoutrements of worship in the temple were to be constructed. #2) (Matt. 15:1-11) (V.1) “Then came to Jesus scribes (Strong’s #1122: a man learned in the Mosaic Law and in the sacred writings, an interpreter, teacher. Scribes examined the more difficult and subtle questions of the law, added to the Mosaic Law decisions of various kinds thought to elucidate its meaning and scope, and did this *to the detriment of the religion.* Since the advice of men skilled in the law was needed in the examination in the causes and the solution of difficult questions, they were enrolled in the Sanhedrin; and are mentioned in connection with the priests and elders of the people.) and Pharisees,” (Strong’s #5330: In addition to the O.T. books the Pharisees recognized in oral tradition a standard of belief and life. They sought for distinction and praise by outward observance of external rites and by outward forms of piety, and such as ceremonial washings, fastings, prayers, and alms giving, and comparatively negligent of genuine piety, they prided themselves on their fancied good works). Over time Jewish teachers, scribes, Sanhedrin, priests, elders, sages, scholars, and rabbis wrote articles giving their opinions of the more difficult parts of the Torah to understand which was ******to the detriment of the religion.****** Over time the great number of articles were collected and formed into the book named the Talmud. ****** The writings had not been collected into a book in Jesus’ time but part of the writings had been written by the above mentioned religious authors and were being accepted and followed by the Pharisees and many other Jews.****** (Rev. 13:18) “Here is wisdom, Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast (Strong’s #2342: a brutal, bestial man, savage, ferocious): for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six (Strong’s #5516: 666).” 666 is the number of the beast which is commonly called the antichrist and that is why the above statements have six stars. Satan and their own pride had led the Jewish teachers, scribes, Sanhedrin, priests, elders, sages, scholars, and rabbis to, for effect, almost destroy God’s true Word in the Torah.
The Jews had not understood: (Isa. 9:6) “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (Isa. 52:14 thru 53:1-12) They had not understood the whole purpose of Jesus nor had they understood (Psa. 22:1-18 written by David) the exact words Jesus said on the cross, how it felt to be crucified (V.18) “They part my garments among them, and cast lots for my vesture.” The Jews had not understood: (Isa. 54:1-17) (V.3) the gentiles (V.10) would have a share of their covenant (Read Eph. 2:8-22) in that the Christians are part of the commonwealth of Israel (V.5 ) brought about by their Redeemer. There are many other prophesies concerning the coming of Jesus in the O.T.
(2Cor. 4:4) “In whom the god of this world, hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” Satan hates mankind and wants to kill mankind (John 8:44) because Jesus said; “He was a murderer from the beginning”! When Lucifer/Satan had called God a liar and caused Eve and Adam to murder themselves. (Heb. 2:9-14) (V.9) “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that by the grace of God should taste death for every man. (Strong’s #3956: individually, any, everyone, all).” Then Jesus clarifies what He said in (V.9) by what He said in (V.11) “For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,” CHRISTIANS DO NOT DIE LIKE OTHER PEOPLE!!!←explained in the paragraph below. (V.14) “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he (Jesus from V.9) also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil (Strong’s #1228: Satan);”
If you wish to see the reality of (Heb. 2:9 & 11) please click on the commentary The Holy Spirit & You and read the two-part article I Have Experienced Christian Physical Death located in the menu. Yes, there were the Biblically required two witnesses; one an EMT and the other a mortician. I ask you this question based on (1Cor. 15:55) “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”; if you had suffered the awful sting (Strong’s #2759: a sting, as that of bees, scorpions, locusts. Since animals wound by their sting and even cause death, Paul attributes death, personified as a sting, i.e. a deadly weapon) of death like Jesus did when He felt the endlessness of the sting of death as every nerve, muscle, organ, eyeballs, skin, bones shrieked in the awful endlessness of death. Then you went on to heaven like Jesus did, and then you came back to earth like Jesus did, and you had the power like Jesus did to prevent the sting of death you would surely prevent the sting of death for those whom you loved (your brothers and sisters, family) you would not let them feel the sting of death, would you?
BUT: (Rev. 20:10-15) (V.10) the devil, the beast-antichrist and the false prophet have already been cast into the lake of fire. (V.11-13) the resurrection of all people who have ever lived. (V.15) “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” Only those who are saved through the born again salvation event will have their names written in the book of life and they will not be thrown into the lake of fire. #1) (Psa. 31:3 & John 3:1-8) Jesus gave the prophesy of the born again salvation event. #2) (1Pet. 1:19-25) The mechanism of the born again salvation event. #3) (Acts 2:1-4) The first event of the born again salvation experience on the apostles. #4) (Acts 2:14-47 esp. V.41) The second born again salvation event on about three thousand souls at once. #5) If you wish to read about this writer’s personal born again salvation experience please read the article About the Writer located beside the Home title on this website.
If you have an unsaved (lost) friend or relative Please, Please, Please make them a copy of the one article The Breath of Life commentary AND in the Sin in Church commentary menu the article Backsliding: The Failure Principal which tells the context of how Jesus desires to build a personal relationship with an individual after the salvation event and on over in the article is revealed that Christians will sin, even the apostles, and how Jesus performs in the High Court of heaven from His throne of grace to forgive them of their sins. I have handed them out everywhere I go for several years and hundreds of people have been saved and some of those Christians who have quit going to church have returned to God/church. I know it is true because they have told me so; one said the Breath of Life article had caused her and 5 more people in her family to start going to church and gotten saved; another man said he and 3 more people in his family had read both the articles Breath of Life and Backsliding: The Failure Principal they had started going to church and had gotten saved and on and on and on with many other people. Do not dare to give me any credit! God does it all! I am simply Mr. Nobody from the middle of Nowhere, KY. God, through the Holy Spirit, inspired, revealed and directed the writing of this website and He, through the Holy Spirit, drew and touched those people who were saved.
Satan, in his ***skill in his war*** against mankind, has had almost 6,000 Biblical years to observe mankind and learn about us and he can accurately predict what we think because basic mankind has not changed. Have you ever thought about invisible Satan or one of his invisible demons watching your every move and calculating the best way to entice you into destroying yourself so you will not accept the born again salvation event? OR: If you are a born again Christian do you realize invisible Satan or one of his invisible demons is watching your every move and calculating your weaknesses (Matt. 13:18-23 the prophesy, Heb. 6:4-6, 2Pet. 1:1-15 esp. V.9-10, Rev. 3:14-17 then 18-22 God’s word telling the reality of losing your salvation) so the devil can spiritually destroy you as a Christian. While Satan or one of his demons are watching you they know what and with who you are spending so much of your precious time on your personal communication devices, they know what you are attracted to on your TV programs and in your ‘spare time’ activities. If you are a Christian they will vastly encourage those activities so you will not read that ‘boring old Holy Bible’; “I hear all the Bible stuff I need from my preacher when I go to church on Sunday!” Really? What if he is wrong about a few things? Did he ever scripturally warn you about the devil and his demons? Does he say Christians will go to heaven regardless of sin? Does he say God accepts homosexuality as a Christian lifestyle? In this commentary you have already read God’s answer to the last three questions.
Read this→: (Matt. 12:30-32 esp. V.31 keywords: “but blasphemy (Strong’s #988: slander, detraction, speech injurious to another’s good name, impious and reproachful speech injurious to divine majesty) against the Holy Ghost (Strong’s #4151: the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit) shall not be forgiven unto men”) Whatever you do as a Christian do not commit blasphemy against the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit) because it will not be forgiven. Click on the commentary The Holy Spirit & You on this website and scroll the menu to the article The Holy Spirit Can Be Blasphemed and read that. You will be amazed because it contains the true, hair raising story about one of the best friends I have ever had who got trapped into the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
SATANIC RELIGIONS
(Prov 12:15) “THE WAY OF A FOOL IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES: BUT HE THAT HARKENETH UNTO COUNCIL IS WISE.”
IDOLATRY: (Psa. 115:4-8) (V.4) “Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.” (V.5) “They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:” (V.6) “They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:” (V.7) “They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.” (V.8) “They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.”
#1) Humanism is a system of thought attaching prime importance to the potential value and goodness of humans, it emphasizes common human needs and seeks solely rational ways of solving human problems. *Philosophy* is the study of the nature of knowledge, reality and existence. Secular humanism is the belief that humanity is capable of morality and self-fulfillment without God. For effect they worship god Self (1John 4:8 & 16) instead of the “God who is love”, living love, perfect love, eternal love, (John 12:32 & Rev. 21:3-7 esp. V.4) who draws people toward God so they can accept salvation, commonly called getting saved, and come to live with Him in an eternal paradise of perfect love!
(Col. 2:8) “Beware lest any man spoil you through *philosophy* (Strong’s #5385: love of wisdom) and vain (Strong’s #2756: empty, void of truth) deceit (Strong’s #539: delusion), after the tradition (Strong’s #3862: giving up, giving over) of men, after the *rudiments* (Strong’s #4747: any first thing, from which the others belonging to some series or composite whole take their rise, an element, first principal) of the world and not after Christ.” The definition of the word *rudiments* screams ‘evolution’ from some tiny bits of protoplasm that accidently gathers together in a seaside pool, that is accidently heated to exactly the right temperature, and an exact stroke of lightening hit the pool with exactly the correct voltage, and the tiny bit of slime was ignited to life, crawled out of the water, somehow made it through the wet sand, then bone dry sand to the nearest tree, squiggled up the tree and “YIPEEE” snails and their kind came down one branch, deer and their kind came down another branch, ELEPHANTS AND THEIR KIND CAME DOWN A VERY, VERY LARGE, STRONG BRANCH, bacteria, protozoa and their kind came slowly down another branch, OR the cats OR the canids OR: monkeys and their kind came down another branch etc. etc. etc. etc. Oh Boy! Yipeeee! Yahooo! “Great, great, great, great Granny was a Gorilla!” = total nonsense!
#2) (Koran 4:171- Quaranic Arabic Corpus: translator Mohsin Khan) “Oh people of the scripture (Jews and Christians)! Do not exceed the limits of your religion, nor say of Allah but of the truth. The Messiah ‘Iesa (Jesus) the son of Maryam (Mary), was no more than a Messenger of Allah and His Word, (“Be” – and he was) which He bestowed on Maryam (Mary) and a spirit (Ruh) created by him; so believe in Allah and His Messengers. Say not: Three (trinity) Cease! (it is) better for you. For Allah is (the only) One llah (God), Glory be to Him (Far Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allah is AllSufficient as a Disposer of affairs.”
It is a fact from their literature That Muhammad was illiterate and quoted what a spirit told him in a cave where Muhammad went to fast and pray and his wife and other people wrote verbatim what Muhammad told them because he could not read or write. It is also a fact that the spirit which spoke to Muhammad did not identify himself. That fact worried Muhammad and he told his wife and uncle about it. Some days later his uncle who had trade and friendship relationships with Christians and Jews told Muhammad that the spirit must have been ‘Gabriel’, Jibreel in Islam, a messenger angel according to the Christians and Jews. And Muhammad had them write in the Koran that Gabriel, Jibreel, was the messenger spirit that brought him his revelations. Do you believe it was Gabriel, Jibreel in Islam, or the evil spirit, Satan, in this commentary that brought Muhammad his revelations that excluded Jesus as the Son of God, our Saviour, and accept Him as only a messenger?
(Koran 3:31-Quaranic Arabic Corpus: translator Mohsin Khan:) “Say (O Muhammad SAW to mankind): “If you (really) love Allah then follow me (i.e. accept Islamic Monotheism, follow the Quran and the Sunnah), Allah will love you and forgive you of your sins. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
Love Allah first then Allah will love you? (1John 4:8 & 16) “God is love” in both verses. I prefer the God that is love, perfect love, forever love. The God that loved me enough draw me toward Him so I could accept the reality of salvation. The God that loved me and shed His blood so it would cleanse me of my sins. When my life is over I get to go to heaven, a place of pure love and stay forever with my God who is pure love, perfect love, forever love.
ALSO: Be sure and ask Wikipedia to see pictures of the Black Stone set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudia Arabia and read how Muslims venerate that stone and other objects. Ask www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary for the definition of venerate. Love Allah first then Allah will love you quoted by an unknown spirit bolstered by works is what they worship.
#3) Chinese Folk religion is not an organized, unified system of beliefs and practices. It has no leadership, headquarters, founder, or denominations. It is called a religion but it is a complex interaction (mixture) of philosophical traditions, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, which are all based on the philosophical writings of various sages.
The practices vary from locale to locale depending upon whatever mixture of disciplines their particular teacher, past or present day, teaches. Part believe polytheism (many gods) and part believe everything, including selves, is part of god. The collective “us” is god. Humanism through philosophy bolstered by works is what they worship.
#4) Confucianism is a philosophical teaching, sometimes called a religion, which is actually a type of humanism based on the teachings of Confucius, a Chinese sage born in 551 BC, who was a notable student of poetry and history and taught moral meaning based on the past; “Study the past if you would divine the future.” The oldest and most enduring Confucian ritual practice is ancestor worship. Ancestor worship has been adopted into nearly every religious tradition in China.
His teaching deeply influenced mysticism, social and political life in Eastern Asia. It is more about finding peace and harmony here on earth among their fellow men with very little concern about what comes after life is finished on earth.
Confucians typically do not hold beliefs about the individual salvation or damnation of persons beyond this life. They cultivate devoted, respectful, affectionate and loving reverence to their ancestors and harmonious relations in society. Humanism through philosophy bolstered by works is what they worship.
#5) Buddhism is a religion based on the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama who lived in 500 BC in what is now Nepal and northern India. Gautama claimed an enlightening experience in which he was awakened (awakened is called Bodhi in the Sanskrit language and Buddha in English). After his awakening (Bodhi- Buddha) Gautama taught that believing in gods was not useful.
Buddhism teaches a philosophy that through an eightfold path based on four noble truths in endless layers of teachings on the nature of existence, self, life, suffering and death the individual can realize truth for himself in which one reaches an ever higher plane of existence until perfection is reached.
It teaches that man, through meticulous study, can reach a purer state of perfection until he is perfect. Images of Buddha play a large part in their worship. Humanism through philosophy bolstered by works is what they worship.
#6) Hinduism does not have a “founder” that came up with some new system of thought or revolutionary ideas of philosophy or religious ideas. Archaeology has discovered ancient relics that show a type of Hinduism that worshipped the occult, pagan god Pashupati (shiva linga, the Hindu god now known as Shiva) that has existed for centuries.
Be sure and see the images of Shiva on the internet, especially the serpent. Hinduism embraces a wide spectrum of philosophers who developed new systems as the centuries passed and that accommodation mindset embraces new philosophical systems even today. Hinduism is basically comprised of 6 religions with 33 divines that, when analyzed, represent the basics of the earth; fire, water, air, sun and etc. which are essential to life on earth. Above those 33 gods are 3 gods named brahma, viShNu and rudra. These 36 gods represent multiple perspectives of the individual Hindu’s idea of god. Basically its adherents are left to use their own discretion to find their own suitable path through the teaching/writing of whatever philosopher or philosophers they choose to follow.
The basic concept of Hinduism is reincarnation and karma. Reincarnation is the Hindu belief that at death a person is born into another existence such as human, bird, plant, animal, or just whatever thing has earthly life and sometimes even as one of the 33 divines. Karma leaves the body with the soul and is an account of the deeds that particular soul has done in its past lives. As the soul progresses from life to life it suffers the effects of its bad deeds and enjoys the fruits of its good deeds.
Hindus conceive of a formless, nameless, faceless, soulless, unknown, supreme god like this quote from Tiruvacakam; “Let us hail the god, who does not have a name or a form or anything like that, by singing thousands of its names.” Hinduism places much importance on symbols from the mark on the forehead to the idol representation of their deities. The Hindu concept of a single god is so abstract they use the idols to represent whatever deity they worship. When a soul has finally performed enough good deeds to cancel out the bad deeds the reincarnation cycle is broken and the soul enters a state of liberation. Humanism through philosophy bolstered by works is what they worship.
It is obvious the 6 religions given above focus on self perfecting self through philosophy by performing certain works. They each have constructed their own list of rituals and their own list of behaviors that will earn them (you owe me) whatever paradise they believe in. But God said; (Col. 2:8) “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
REMEMBER THIS: (2Cor. 11:14-15) (V.14) “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light (to make manifest, an illuminator).” (V.15) “Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” SO: The ministers of these six religions transformed themselves into ministers of righteousness by their philosophies, their writings and their teaching! Satan, the fallen angel of light, is the spirit worship leader of religions who do not accept Jesus as their Saviour and that He is the Son of God.
ALSO
As you have already seen Satan has deceived many of the church denominations into saying that God accepts homosexuality as a legitimate Christian lifestyle. AND; you have seen that Satan has diluted *** to the detriment of the religion *** the actual use of the Talmud (written opinions of scribes, scholars, rabbis, etc.) instead of the Torah (God’s actual word in the first 5 books of our Bible). SO; I asked the internet if there are denominations in Judaism in America? The answer I received from the internet was “Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist!” And it also said this: “Jewish denominations, also sometimes referred to as streams, movements or branches, are the principal categories of religious affiliation among American Jews. The denominations are mainly distinguished from one another on the basis of their philosophical approaches to Jewish tradition, and their degree of their fidelity to and interpretation of Jewish tradition, and their degree of fidelity to and interpretation of traditional Jewish law. AND; now they are starting to call themselves ‘just Jewish’ to avoid criticism.
(Rev. 12:9) Satan deceives the whole world, he has the power to make falsehood (lies) appear to be an illumination of truth and through that Satan, the devil, inspires men to found false religions (Eph. 6:11 keywords: “wiles of the devil” and V.12 keywords: “spiritual wickedness”) and he is the unholy spirit that guides them
(Deut. 4:28) “And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.” (Deut. 27:15) “Cursed (Strong’s #8441: something disgusting, an abhorrence) be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination (Strong’s #8441: something disgusting, an abhorrence) to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen (Strong’s #543: faithfulness, truly, so be it).”
BUT
(John 5:24-29) (V.24) “Verily, verily, (Strong’s # 281: at the beginning of a discourse, truly, truly) I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.” (V.25) “Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.” (V.26) “For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.” (V.27) “And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.” (V.28) “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,” (V.29) “And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”
When you think about it, we are all dead because we live in a limited lifespan thus death lives within us. I have asked many people; “Have you ever had those little fleeting pictures of yourself dead?” and so far all of them have said “yes.” Having experienced that myself I understand what it means and I always tell them that “God gives us that ability so we will know there is the eternal, living, inward man, the soul, that is looking at the temporary, dying, outward man, the body, so we can understand we have this lifetime to obtain the born again salvation experience described in the fourth and then the third paragraphs above the sub-title SATANIC RELIGIONS.
*****If you wish to experience the reality of the salvation event please, please read the one article commentary Breath of Life on this website. And God knew we would all sin, even the apostles, so Jesus sits on a throne of grace where we can go in time of need so please, please click on the commentary Sin in Church scroll the menu to the article Backsliding: The Failure Principal because it tells how Jesus desires to build a personal relationship with a person after they are saved AND on over in the article it tells how the high court of heaven operates. Then it tells about hypocrites in church. If you are a backslid Christian and have quit going to church this article Backsliding: The Failure Principal will tell you how to come back to Jesus and His church. I know they work because lots and lots of people have told me they have gotten saved and others came back from backsliding. ***** (five stars, five is the Biblical number of grace).
(Gen. 3:6-24) Eve and Adam chose death instead of life and chose a cursed world instead of a paradise! WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE? (Rev. 20:10-15) Accept salvation through Jesus, ***have your name written in the book of life and obtain ETERNAL LIFE in heaven with Jesus*** OR follow Satan’s ways (Rev. 20:3 then 14-15) (V.3*) “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone—-***and shall tormented day and night for ever and ever,***” (V.14) “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.” (V.15) “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” and obtain ETERNAL DEATH, forever in the agony of the sting of death there in the boiling lake of fire to be tormented by Satan, the devil, and his demons but you cannot get the dying finished so you can escape because (V.3*) ***you are living in the sting of death day and night for ever and ever***? (3 stars: three the Biblical number of completion).
THAT IS GOD’S WORD AND IT WILL HAPPEN!
AGAIN: I love you. With all my soul I pray you will accept Jesus’ freely offered salvation. Thank You and God Bless you.