A DISCOURSE ON

 

GOD’S BIBLICAL MESSAGES TO SOME DARWINISTS, ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, SECULAR PROGRESSIVES AND OTHERS WHO MAY BE FOLLOWERS OF SATAN AND THE ANTICHRIST:

 

BY IVAN ERICKSON

AUTHOR OF “SONG OF THE STORM WINDS”

APRIL 17, 2008

 

 

INTRODUCTION:

 

Dear beloved readers, I greet each of you in the peace, love and grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

 

As most of you are aware – unless you have been off on an extended outer-space expedition for many years in search of the elusive lunarian – there is a vast, ever increasing assault upon the people of all faiths and ethnicities of this earth by an evil force comprised of Satan, Its demons, Satan’s human slaves and the antichrist, and whose primary, but not sole purpose, is to efface the Name of God, His Son, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the words of God’s Holy Bible from the face of this earth!

 

While most of us are aware of the force and the purpose of this evil onslaught, myriads of us are sitting complacently by – in a comatose state of mind  – as we do nothing more than occasionally complaining about our plight; or to simply watch what is transpiring before our very eyes, as if the reality of what we are seeing through our clouded, veiled vision is nothing more than a phantasmagoria, or one of the countless movies, TV shows, or videos that we waste so much of our time on in these days of darkness under the sun. Perhaps too many of us are overly involved in the earthly matters of idols, materialism, consumerism, commercialism and other frivolous pursuits in life in our chases after the wind, to be concerned about those matters that God calls on each of us to be primarily concerned with – those things of the other worldly, the spiritual, those precious things that we must pursue in order to achieve those things of an everlasting life on high, when our sojourn on this earth is over, when we are in this world, never more. And, while myriads of Christian people of our nation and of the world are sitting around in a state of torpor, Satan, Its demons, Its slaves, and the antichrist join together in a chorus of laughter that can be heard all the way to the heavens, because of how easily we are duped and because of how easily we are being defeated.

 

Thus, it is in light of this apathy by many of us Christians of all faiths of the world that I write of these things of which God’s Spirit from the words of His Holy Bible inspire me to quote and to write, as I continue to pray daily and call upon Him to pour forth His Spirit through His Son, Jesus, upon those of you not already in possession of this beloved gift, in order that by obtaining the Spirit and the Truth and the Light of God’s Word, we may together join that Body of Christ that is already out on the battlefields of the world fighting our war for us – that together we may also bring the Gospel to all those whom need to hear it spoken to them. 

 

NOTICE: Some of the concepts, as well as some of the Biblical passages that I have incorporated in this discourse, are a repetition - for the sake of emphasis - of those that I utilized in Essay #1. Again, most of the concepts and text incorporated in this article are copyrighted material from my novel, “Song of the Storm Winds,” and from the Holy Bible, and therefore, as you will note at the end of this discourse, no part of this article may be copied or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, without written permission.

 

PREMISES:

 

Premise Number I: That God, speaking through His prophets, prophesied 60 times and mentioned some 300 times throughout the Old Testament that He was going to send us His Son, a Messiah, a Suffering Servant who would live, suffer and die on the cross for the salvation of all mankind.

 

This being a fact - why do so may people of all faiths and races of the world continue to deny that Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of the One True God Who Lives? Or, deny that Jesus died on the cross for the sins of mankind and for our salvation? The people of the Islam faith sincerely believe that the God of the Christians and the Jews is the same god as Allah! I ask my beloved readers of the Islam faith - as well as the people of all religions who believe that Allah and God are the same entity - the following question: If Allah and the One True God are the same, why would God prophesy and tell us throughout the Old Testament of the coming of His Son, Jesus Christ, the Messiah, 360 times, only to deny Him at a later time through Mohammed? If it were God who denied His Son, He would not be the One True God Who Lives, for God does not lie! Thus, the God of the Jews and the Christians has proved for all generations, nations and people, that He is the One True God Who Lives, by prophesying and mentioning the Messiah 360 times throughout the Old Testament. 

 

As Christians should be aware, the entire Old Testament is God’s testimonial of the continuous revelation of Himself, of His plan of redemption for all mankind, and that this redemption would only be possible in Jesus Christ, His Son, a Messiah, who was to come for the atonement of sins and salvation for all mankind, through Jesus’ death and Resurrection. The Old Testament, as you know, was also inspired by God’s Word to instruct and teach mankind, and to establish His Laws and His Commandments through Moses and His prophets. Until the coming of Christ, there would be no Resurrection and salvation for mankind. This was manifested when God did not allow Moses to enter the Promised Land along with the rest of His people – the Promised Land, of course, representing Paradise, or heaven. Prior to the coming of Christ and His Resurrection, the poor souls were confined to Purgatory after death. There is a very deep mystery regarding the purpose of God’s Laws. Do you know that God gave His Commandments to mankind for the specific purpose that because of His Laws, sin would increase in the world when people did not adhere to His Laws – for without His Laws, there could be no increase in sin! The following attests to this:

 

Romans 5:20, 21:

 

“The law entered in so that transgression might increase but, where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through justification for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” i

 

There are four of the most prominent prophesies of God regarding the coming of His Son in the “Suffering Servant” Oracles in the Book of Isaiah – the same Son that myriads of the Darwinists, Atheists, Agnostics, some secularists and other followers of Satan and the antichrist deny. God spoke through Isaiah and His other prophets in order to instruct and show all people for all generations to come that He was the One True God Who Lives; He told us that He is the One True God, because He is the only God capable of prophesying infallibly those things to come. He spoke through His prophets also, to instruct the people of all generations of the future coming of his Only Begotten Son, a Messiah, a Suffering Servant who would die on the cross to bring death to sin and for the salvation of all mankind. God spoke through His prophets regarding the future coming of His Son because He knows all things, and He thus knew that there would be those myriads of people in future generations that would deny both He and His Son.

 

 I will now quote here for you from the fourth Suffering Servant Oracle, composed in the eighth century, B. C. It is from chapter 53, verses 1-12:

 

“Who would believe what we have

                                                                                                         heard?

To whom has the arm of the LORD

                                                                                                         been revealed?

He grew up like a sapling before him,

like a shoot from the parched earth;

There was in him no stately bearing to

make us look at him,

nor appearance that would attract us

                                                                                                            to him.

He was spurned and avoided by men,

a man of suffering, accustomed to in-

                                                                                                             firmity,

One of those from whom men hide their

                                                                                                             faces,

spurned, and we held him in no

                                                                                                             esteem.

 

Yet it was our infirmities that he bore,

our sufferings that he endured,

While we thought of him as stricken,

as one smitten by God and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our offenses,

crushed for our sins,

Upon him was the chastisement that

makes us whole,

by his stripes we were healed.

We had all gone astray like sheep,

each following his own way;

But the LORD laid upon him

the guilt of us all.

 

Though he was harshly treated, he

                                                                                                               submitted

and opened not his mouth;

Like a lamb led to the slaughter

or a sheep before the shearers,

he was silent and opened not his

                                                                                                                mouth.

Oppressed and condemned, he was

                                                                                                                taken away,

and who would have thought any

more of his destiny?

When he was cut off from the land of

                                                                                                             the living,

and smitten for the sin of his people,

A grave was assigned him among the

                                                                                                             wicked

and a burial place with evildoers,

Though he had done no wrong

nor spoken any falsehood.

[But the LORD was pleased

to crush him in infirmity.]

 

If he gives his life as an offering for sin,

he shall see his descendants in a long

                                                                                                                   life,

and the will of the LORD shall be

accomplished through him.

Because of his affliction

he shall see the light in fullness of

days;

Through his suffering, my servant shall

                                                                                                                     justify many,

and their guilt he shall bear.

Therefore I will give him his portion

among the great,

and he shall divide the spoils with the

                                                                                                               mighty,

Because he surrendered himself to

                                                                                                               death

and was counted among the wicked;

And he shall take away the sins of

                                                                                                               many,

and win pardon for their offenses.”ii

 

The following quotations also show us that God had told us many times beforehand of the future coming of His Beloved Son, Jesus, in order that those with eyes to see with and ears to hear with might put their faith in Him and believe and be saved:

 

Isaiah 7:10-14:

 

“Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz: Ask for a sign from the LORD, your God; let it be as deep as the nether world, or high as the sky! But Ahaz answered, “I will not ask! I will not tempt the LORD!” Then he said: Listen, O house of David! Is it not enough for you to weary men, must you also weary my God? Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.” iii

 

Psalms 2:4-11:

 

“The one enthroned in heaven laughs; / the Lord derides them, / Then speaks to them in anger, / terrifies them in wrath: / “I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.” / I will proclaim the decree of the LORD, / who said to me, “You are my son; / today I am your father. / Only ask it of me, / and I will make your inheritance the nations, / your possession the ends of the earth. / With an iron rod you shall shepherd them, / like a clay pot you will shatter them.” / And now, kings, give heed; / take warning, rulers on earth. / Serve the LORD with fear; / with trembling bow down in homage, / Lest God be angry and you perish from the way / in a sudden blaze of anger. / Happy are all who take refuge in God!” / iv

 

Premise Number II: New Testament Scripture regarding Jesus Christ as the Son of God - that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and that no one can come to the Father except through Him. Refusal of many to believe in Him:

 

John 11:25-27:

 

“Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.”v

 

John 12:37-43:

 

“Although he had performed so many signs in their presence they did not believe in him, in order that the word which Isaiah the prophet spoke might be fulfilled:

 

“’Lord, who has believed our preaching, / to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed?’” /

 

“For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said:

 

“’He has blinded their eyes / and hardened their heart, / so that they might not see with their eyes / and understand with their heart and be converted, / and I would heal them.’” /

 

“Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke about him.

 

“Nevertheless, many, even among the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not acknowledge it openly in order not to be expelled from the synagogue. For they preferred human praise to the glory of God.”vi

 

John 12:48-50:

 

“’Whoever rejects me and does not accept my words has something to judge him: the word that I spoke, it will condemn him on the last day, because I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So what I say, I say as the Father told me.’”vii 

 

John 14:5-7:

 

“Thomas said to him, ‘Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.’”viii

 

John 15:20-25:

 

“Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me also hates my Father. If I had not done works among them that no one else ever did, they would not have sin; but as it is, they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause’”ix 

 

John 17:5:

 

“’Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began.’”x 

 

Those whom speak or write falsely state that Jesus was not the Only Begotten Son of God, that He was merely a “prophet,” or only a “good person.” The words of Truth and Light again verified that He was God’s Son in the above phrase, “’… a glory I had with you before the world began.’”

 

Premise Number III: Jesus was crucified on the cross; He died to bring death to sin, atonement for sins, salvation, and everlasting life for all those who will but have faith and believe in He and His Father, and do the Fathers will; He was Resurrected that we too may one day be Resurrected in Him:

 

John 19:23, 24:

 

“When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier. They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down. So they said to one another, ‘Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be,’ in order that the passage of scripture might be fulfilled [that says]:

 

“They divided my garments among them, / and for my vesture they cast lots.’ /

This is what the soldiers did.”xi

 

John 19:33-37:

 

“But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out. An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true; he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may [come to] believe. For this happened so that the scripture passage might be fulfilled:

 

‘Not a bone of it will be broken.’ /

 

And again another passage says: /

 

“They will look upon him whom they have pierced.” /xii

 

John 20:26-29:

 

“Now a week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe.’ Thomas answered and said to him, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.’”xiii

 

Acts 2:29-36:

 

“My brothers, one can confidently say to you about the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his tomb is in our midst to this day. But since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne, he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that neither was he abandoned to the netherworld nor did his flesh see corruption. God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses. Exalted at the right hand of God, he received the promise of the holy Spirit from the Father and poured it forth, as you [both] see and hear. For David did not go up into heaven, but he himself said:

 

‘The Lord said to my Lord, / “‘Sit at my right hand / until I make your enemies your footstool.’”” /

 

“Therefore let the whole house of Israel know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Messiah, this Jesus whom you crucified.”xiv

 

Acts 3:22-24:

 

“For Moses Said:

‘A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you / from among your own kinsmen; / to him you shall listen in all that he may say to you. / Everyone who does not listen to that prophet / will be cut off from the people.’

Moreover, all the prophets who spoke, from Samuel and those afterwards, also announced these days.”xv

 

Acts 5:29-32:

 

“But Peter and the apostles said in reply, ‘We must obey God rather than men. The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior to grant Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins. We are witnesses of these things, as is the holy Spirit that God has given to those who obey him.’”xvi

 

Acts 7:51-53:

 

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always oppose the holy Spirit; you are just like your ancestors. Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become. You received the law as transmitted by angels, but you did not observe it.”xvii

 

Acts 10:34-38:

“Then Peter proceeded to speak and said, ‘In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him. You know the word [that] he sent to the Israelites as he proclaimed peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all, what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.’”xviii

 

Acts 13:32, 33:

 

“We ourselves are proclaiming this good news to you that what God promised our ancestors he has brought to fulfillment for us, [their] children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my son; this day I have begotten you.’”xix

 

Acts 13:37-39:

 

“But the one whom God raised up did not see corruption. You must know, my brothers, that through him forgiveness of sins is being proclaimed to you, [and] in regard to everything from which you could not be justified under the law of Moses, in him every believer is justified.”xx

 

Acts 13:48, 49:

 

“The Gentiles were delighted when they heard this and glorified the word of the Lord. All who were destined for eternal life came to believe, and the word of the Lord continued to spread through the whole region.”xxi

 

Acts 16:14:

 

“One of them, a women named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth, from the city of Thyatira, a worshiper of God, listened, and the Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what Paul was saying.”xxii

 

Romans 3:21-26:

 

“But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, though testified to by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction; all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God. They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as an expiation, through faith, by his blood, to prove his righteousness because of the forgiveness of sins previously committed, through the forbearance of God – to prove his righteousness in the present time, that he might be righteous and justify the one who has faith in Jesus.”xxiii

 

Romans 8:9-11:

 

“But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness. If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit that dwells in you.”xxiv

 

Premise Number IV: Mystery regarding why some people open their hearts and minds to receive the Truth and the Light of God’s Word, and of the salvation available to them through Jesus Christ; and why the hearts of others – such as some of the Darwinists, some secularists, agnostics and atheists and other slaves of Satan and the antichrist – remain obdurate, while their minds are veiled from the Truth and the Light of God’s Word and of the salvation available to us all only through Jesus Christ, and are thereby continuously led further and further into the darkness of the abyss by the power of Satan and the antichrist:

 

1 Corinthians 1:18-25:

 

“The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:

 

‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, / and the learning of the learned I will set aside.’ 

 

Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish? For since in the wisdom of God the world did not come to know God through wisdom, it was the will of God through the foolishness of the proclamation to save those who have faith. For Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.”xxv

 

1 Corinthians 2:6-16:

 

“Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away. Rather, we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory, and which none of the rulers of this age knew for, if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written:

 

‘What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, / and what has not entered the human heart, / what God has prepared for those who love him,’ / this God has revealed to us through the Spirit.

 

For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God. Among human beings, who knows what pertains to a person except the spirit of the person that is within? Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the things freely given us by God. And we speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, describing spiritual realities in spiritual terms.

 

Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually. The spiritual person, however, can judge everything but is not subject to judgment by anyone.

 

For, ‘who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.”xxvi

 

2 Corinthians 4:1-7:

 

“Therefore, since we have this ministry through the mercy shown us, we are not discouraged. Rather, we have renounced shameful, hidden things; not acting deceitfully or falsifying the word of God, but by the open declaration of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. And even though our gospel is veiled, it is veiled for those who are perishing, in whose case the God of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they may not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For we do not preach ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for the sake of Jesus. For God who said, “’Let light shine out of darkness,’” has shown in our hearts to bring to light the knowledge of the glory of God on the face of [Jesus] Christ.

 

But we hold this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.”xxvii

 

Premise Number V: The mystery deepens, as “Deep calls unto Deep.” I expound on and write in depth in “Song of the Storm Winds” of the two powerful forces that are prevalent throughout the world – the Spiritual, good forces of the Holy Trinity and their angels, saints and other loved ones; and the evil forces of Satan, the antichrist, and Satan’s demons and human slaves. Both the Good and the Evil forces are vying mightily day and night without ceasing for the souls of all mankind. If one is tuned in to the frequency in which Satan and the antichrist and the false prophets are spewing forth their lies, that person is drawn further and further away from God’s Light into the darkness of the abyss - by listening to and obeying Satan’s lies and deceit. Conversely, those whom tune in to the Truth and the Light of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, have faith and believe. Thus, those who try to do God’s will, always, are drawn, as if by a lodestar, closer and closer to the Truth and the Light:

 

2 Corinthians 11:4:

 

“For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough.”xxviii

 

2 Corinthians 11:13,14:

 

“For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, who masquerade as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.”xxix

 

Galatians 1:6-9:

“I am amazed that you are so quickly forsaking the one who called you by [the] grace [of Christ] for a different gospel (not that there is another). But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach [to you] a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed! As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed!”xxx

 

Galatians 1:11, 12:

 

“Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin. For I did not receive it from a human being, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ.”xxxi

 

Ephesians 6:10-12:

 

“Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power. Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.”xxxii

 

2 John 7-9:

 

“Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh; such is the deceitful one and the antichrist. Look to yourselves that you do not lose what we worked for but may receive a full recompense. Anyone who is so “progressive” as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God; whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him in your house or even greet him; for whoever greets him shares in his evil works.”xxxiii

 

I wonder if the Lord was also describing the secular “progressives” of these current times in this verse? – The term is certainly apropos.

 

Premise Number VI: In “Song of the Storm Winds,” I delved even further into the depths of the Holy Bibles’ mysteries surrounding the forces of good and evil by using some of the below Biblical quotations to establish the premise that all of mankind are guided by either the Spirit of God or by the evil spirit of Satan and the antichrist. This is especially true in one’s acceptance or rejection of Jesus Christ as the Son of God. All people of course have a body and soul. All people also have a spirit within them that guides them in all things, as long as they remain a servant or a slave of that particular spirit. Those whom do God’s will and who keep His commandments and Laws and who put their faith, hope, love and trust in the Father and in Jesus Christ, have God’s Spirit within and outside of themselves. Those whom have fallen deeper and deeper into sin, who do not keep God’s Commandments and Laws, who do not put their faith, hope, or love in the Father and the Son, and whom deny the Father and the Son, have the Spirit of God taken from them. At this time, Satan and Its demons spirits enter these poor bodies and they soon are completely under their evil Conditioning, Compulsion and Control, and they become what I have termed, “slaves of Satan.” These sinners then have Satan’s evil spirit within them, and It is enabled to control them more easily than one controls his PC, or his TV with his remote. The compulsive evil thoughts, words and hideous acts that we see exhibited by so many people in the world today, are the resultant shoots of the rhizomes of Satan’s spirit residing within them. Their hatred for God, His Words, Jesus, and righteousness drives them ever onward through life, as rabid dogs running blindly to their own terrible, destructive ends. These poor souls actually believe that the evil thoughts within them – their plots to commit evil acts, and their denial of the Truth and the Light of God, Jesus, and God’s words of the Holy Bible – are actually their own thoughts and ideas. Little do they know that these all come directly from Satan and the antichrist, are telepathically transmitted into their minds and hearts, and that they are under the Conditioning, Compulsion and Control of Satan – they are powerless to break the chains that bind them – they are ensnared in the veil of lies and deceit of Satan and the antichrist.

 

God has told us repeatedly that only through His Son, Jesus Christ, are these poor sinners able to break free from Satan’s bonds and his veil of lies and deceit, that they may repent, confess their sins, ask God for forgiveness and forgive others, do penance, change, pray, do good deeds, read the Holy Bible, that they one day may have the Spirit of God return to them as the first sunrise over the Garden of Eden – for only in the Blood of Jesus Christ can they be saved from the second death in the pool of fire in hell. Satan does not want us to believe in the Father and the Son, or to put our faith in the salvific power of Jesus, because Satan knows that only in Jesus Christ can we be saved. This is the very reason why Satan and the antichrist have fought so ardently throughout the history of mankind to attempt to veil us from the Truth and Light of Jesus Christ. This is why Satan has poisoned the minds of billions of people throughout the world – including the one billion plus Islam brothers and sisters – in order that they will not believe that Jesus is the only Begotten Son of God – again because this evil one knows that Jesus is our only means of salvation.

 

You may have noted that I stated above that Satan and the antichrist have fought throughout the history of mankind to attempt to keep us from knowing of the Truth and the Light of Jesus Christ. I have explained my premises for this fact in my novel.  

 

Do I therefore believe that all Islams and other non-believers in Christ are “slaves of Satan”? Of course not! I love all people of all faiths and ethnicities whom God loves! He states emphatically that Christ died for all mankind. Only those immersed completely in the power of Satan, under his Compulsion and Control, and who are committing acts such as murder and terrorism and other deadly sins, are slaves of Satan. However, I believe that those whom deny God, or His Son Jesus, or God’s Word, are under the power of the antichrist  – which is in the form of communism, secularism, atheism, Darwinism or any other form of denial of the Truth and the Light – and that they will continue to be drawn closer and closer to the black hole of enslavement by Satan, if they do not repent, change, and seek and find faith, hope, love and trust in Jesus and do God’s will, always.

 

I believe that all those of all faiths, religions, races and ethnicities whom God loves have the chance to be judged worthy by Jesus at the Last Judgment – that all have the chance for atonement of sins, salvation, and everlasting life through Jesus Christ, and through the power of God. The Holy Bible attests in the New Testament that there is only one sin in the entire Bible for which there is no forgiveness. I judge no person – I will leave all Judgment in the hands of He whom God has appointed as Judge – Jesus Christ. Therefore, in the case of judging anyone who has fallen away from the Truth and Light of Christianity, and who denies God and His Son, I would say that we all must leave Judgment up to Jesus, “Judge not lest you be judged.” I believe faithfully that all mankind whom God loves, and who repent from a life of sin – even if they have fallen away from the church – are able to receive forgiveness, atonement, salvation and everlasting life in heaven, if they would only repent of their sins, change, believe in and have faith in the Father and the Son, be Baptized, and keep God’s Commandments and Laws from that time on. All of us are allowed the chance to repent of our sins and return to God and His Son. It is those whom, as the Bible states, have repented and returned to God and who have been given His Spirit, have become enlightened to the Truth and the Light, and who thereafter fall back into their former life of sin and disbelief – or those whom have heard the words of Truth and Light and have denied them to the end – who will be judged accordingly at the last Judgment – but I would say that even these poor souls I will leave in the hands of Christ’s Judgment.

 

Much of the following was included in Discourse #1. I will now repeat these Passages for emphases, beloved reader, in order that each of you in turn may teach others these Truths:

 

1 John 2:18-23:

 

“Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number. But you have the anointing that comes from the holy one, and you all have knowledge. I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth. Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the antichrist. No one who denies the Son has the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.”xxxiv

 

1 John 4:1-6:

 

“Beloved, do not trust every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they belong to God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can know the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ come in the flesh belongs to God, and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus does not belong to God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that, as you heard, is to come, but in fact is already in the world. You belong to God, children, and you have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They belong to the world; accordingly, their teaching belongs to the world, and the world listens to them. We belong to God, and anyone who knows God listens to us, while anyone who does not belong to God refuses to hear us. This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.”xxxv 

 

1 John 5:1-13:

 

“Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God, and everyone who loves the father loves [also] the one begotten by him. In this way we know that we love the children of God when we love God and obey his commandments. For the love of God is this, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith. Who [indeed] is the victor over the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

 

“This is the one who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water alone, but by water and blood. The Spirit is the one that testifies, and the Spirit is truth. So there are three that testify, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are of one accord. If we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is surely greater. Now the testimony of God is this, that he has testified on behalf of his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar by not believing the testimony God has given about his Son. And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever possesses the Son has life; whoever does not possess the Son of God does not have life.

 

“I write these things to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.”xxxvi

 

Premise Number VII: “Song of the Storm Winds.” The main theme running through and interwoven throughout my entire book is devoted to showing the reader that God is angry in these times with myriads of people of all nations and religions of the world because of the approaching fullness of sin, and that He is both warning and punishing countless numbers of us through His powerful “Storm Winds,” in order that we may repent of our sins, change, turn away from sin, that the Spirit of God poured forth from His Son may inspire the masses to seek the only Truth and Light in existence – that of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. These storm winds are all the Acts of God – such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, tsunamis, wars, pestilence, plagues, fires, floods, etc. – that God is pouring forth upon us in these times.

 

There are countless people throughout the world today who are rationalizing to themselves, and to anyone else foolish enough to listen, that God is a good God, a kind and gentle and loving Father, and they therefore conclude that He has nothing to do with the catastrophic events that are so prevalent in the world today. I of course believe that God is just, kind, good, and loving. However, I also know that God speaks only the Truth! God has promised throughout His entire Bible – especially in the Old Testament – that He will punish us if we do not obey Him, and that He will give us good things and be with us in all things if we know, love, and obey Him, and believe and put our faith in He and His Son. He punished and chastised His own people, the Israelites, countless times throughout their history in the Old Testament, in order to teach them, to correct them, and to lead them on the path to the Truth and the Light. He also continued to tell us that He was doing thus, not only for His people at that time, but for the sake of teaching all mankind of all future generations. Thus the Israelites and others in the Old Testament times – including the sinners of Sodom and Gomorrah and the people at the time of the Great Flood and the worshipers of idols – serve as examples for all mankind of all generations of what will happen to all individuals, cities, communities and nations of the world who do not obey God’s Laws and Commandments. The only reason that God has not sent His fires down upon nations, such as the USA, to obliterate us, is because He is patient, He loves us, and is therefore giving us time to repent and turn back to Him. At the same time, he continues to chastise, punish and warn us through His storm winds that His patience is wearing thin! For His storm winds will not diminish – they will only continue to increase exponentially in frequency and magnitude, until countless people of all faiths and ethnicities repent, seek and find Him, believe in He and Jesus, and serve Him with our whole hearts, minds, bodies and spirits – with our total beings, and love our neighbors as ourselves!

 

This same truth holds fast in the case of those who say that because God is a kind, loving and gentle Father, they need not worry about the Last Judgment. To these I ask; if there were no hell, would God have sent us His only Begotten Son to die on the cross for our Resurrection, salvation, atonement of sins, and everlasting life in heaven? Do we attempt to make God a liar by disbelieving what He has promised the sinners of the world, who do not listen to His words written in the Holy Bible, and abide by them? Do these same poor, lost souls sincerely believe that those who do not repent in time to be saved during their lives will not be Judged accordingly at the Last Judgment; and that many of these will not suffer the second death in the pool of fire in hell? Do they not deny God’s Word as well as He and His Son?

 

Others emphatically aver that the Coming of Jesus Christ and His death and Resurrection brought forth a New Covenant, and that they therefore believe that the Old Testament promises and Laws of God regarding His punishments and chastisement for our sins is no longer valid. To these I reply by simply asking them to come out of their torpor and to take a long, careful look at those catastrophic events that are taking place in the world today! After those of them who possess the will to do what I have asked have appraised the plight of the world around us in an honest light, I then ask them; do you still believe that God is not punishing all sinners? That He will not continue to do so until we repent, en masse? God’s Commandments, prophecies and promises are for all generations – past, present and those to come, until the end of the ages and forever more, you see! Even then, some of these same people will state: “The increasing fury, power, magnitude and frequency of the weather and other natural phenomena can be explained by meteorologists and other scientists as the resultant rhizomes of the current dissipation of the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect; or as normal, reoccurring cyclical and other natural events that have taken place since time primeval. To these I simply ask: “Has anyone ever conducted a study of the correlation of the cycles of tumultuous weather and other natural catastrophic phenomena based on the cycles of sinfulness of the people in the nations of the world throughout the history of mankind?

 

CONCLUSION:

 

I will conclude with the following two quotations from the Bible, both verses of which can be found written intermittently throughout “Song of the Storm Winds,” as reoccurring themes. As most of you know, the Holy Catholic Bible is the only Bible in existence that includes the Book of Sirach. Personally, I believe that this Book is extremely apropos to these current times:

 

Sirach 39:28-31:

 

“There are storm winds created to punish, / which in their fury can dislodge mountains; /

When destruction must be, they hurl all their force / and appease the anger of their Maker. / In his treasury also, kept for the proper time, / are fire and hail, famine, disease, / Ravenous beasts, scorpions, vipers, / and the avenging sword to exterminate the wicked; / In doing his bidding they rejoice, / in their assignments they disobey not his command.” /xxxvii

 

Sirach 15:14-17:

 

“When God, in the beginning, created man, / he made him subject to his own free choice.

/ If you choose you can keep the commandments; / it is loyalty to do his will. / There are set before you fire and water; / to whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand. / Before man are life and death, / whichever he chooses shall be given him.” / 

 

END

 

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