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 bARRELING DOWN THE TRACKS AT US FASTER AND FASTER IT SEEMS.  i'M PRETTY MUCH STUCK WITH WHATEVER i CAN FIND ON yOU tUBE THESE DAYS AS MY SOURCE OF INFORMATION BECAUSE OF MY MACULAR DEGNERATION.  i CAN AT LEAST LISTEN TO THE VICDEOS.  bUT SINCE i CAN'T SEE urlS i CAN'T GET TO OTHER SITES, EVEN OTHER VIDEO SITES, CAN'T GET TO gOODLE OR IF i DO THEN CAN'T READ THE Google pages anyway.  Can't read emails, could write emails but can't send them.  I'm very grateful for the little I can do though.  Although I know You tube censors a lot of the best stuff there's still enough there to be informatiive for the likes of me.  

I would like to be able to research more about AI because it's becoming a real threat in many ways and is surely going to be a big player in the final days when the Antichrist reigns over the planet.  Scary surveillance capacity.  Even to knowing our thoughts, even putting throughts into our heads.  the technology is actually already there.  Amazing to think.  It does what I think of demons doing, and really we might as well treat them as we'd treat demons.  Pray against it all, there's really nothing else we can do.  I keep tring to find ifnormation about protective methods against this stuff and if it's out there it escapes my limited ability to find it.    Drones that look like insectis even like mosquitoes.  AmaZing.  That small and that devious.  that can take pictures and who knows what else.  Devices that transmit voices and weird sounds.  Well, the totalitarian world govenment is going to need to be able to control us all to scceed and it looks like they're going to be able to.

We can always die of course.  And if we know God and know we are saved that's the safecst thing to do.  Let them kill us, that's our escape from all this insanity.  Of course I hope the Rapture really is going to take me before the worst begins, but I stikll worry about others who aren't believers who will have to go tghrough the Tribulation and the Antichrist reign.  Terrifying prospect for them..  Of course I hope they will become believers and be saved but if people have rejected the gospel now it's not very likely they'll accept it then anyway.  

I want to find out more about all this AI stuff if I can so I hope more will turn up on You tube.  But I've been watching some videos about the civil rights movement of the sixties and that's been interesting.  It was done right in those days and it ws pretty successful.  very successful.  It's nice to be reminded of all that and I'm learning a lot too.   I'm glad to see that so much of it was inspired by Christian principles.  Some had a Communist inspiration and I'm sorry about that, especially since that part of it seems to have persisted and grown since then.  All the racist freerment going on now ha a Marxist or Communist inspiration.   Anti=American, utterly destructive of everything good.  Bogus racism, now this insane transgenderism they want everybody to embrace.    But the racist  stuff they focus on these days is mostly false.  

People still think the George Floyd incident was about race.  It wasn't.  In a way it was about police brutality but not by individuals, it was based on policity.  Surely that needs to be changed but it isn't wnat we are led to believe it was.  that's the point.  Does anybody but a few of us who look ofr it get know about Tony Timpa, a white man who was treated exactly the same way George Floyed was treated and also died as a result?  Nope.  I know about it because I listen to nonmainstream sources.  I found it on You tube a couple years ago.  Don't know if it's still there.  The whole story shown from beginning to end.  Police hold him down just as Floyd was held down, couldn't breathe, protested he couldn't brethe, then he died as a result of it.  The George Floyd incident was not a racist incident but peopl still think it was.   Black Lives Matter is also a deception.  It's based on men who were caught in criminal acts, who aggressively threatened the police who came to arrest them and were killed as a result.  these were not victims of racism at all but they made this whole movement out of them as if they were.

Not that there isn't still some reacism is nn the country, but most of it really has been done away with and there's no need to stir it all up again.  I just heard a black man talking about how it's all still alive because he saw how this young black woman was pushed out of a Trump rally.  I don't know of that incident except for 3what he said about it, but my guess is that her being pushed out had absolutely hotiching to do with her balckness but about whatever po.litical action she was engaged in at the time.  But they love to turn trump into a racist despite the fact that he's absolutely not a racist and has a lot of black support.  Not enough black support but that's because of the media black out against the truth.   I remember the story of a blacmk family or or group of blacks who went to a Trump rally and sat down near the flront, then noticed how the news camerman kept turning the camera away from them.  Wouldn't want the publisc to knowhtat Trump has black supporters of course, that would spoil the propaganda campaign against him.  

But theyseem to be winning all their wars against the truth and against the Constitutional framework of america.  I guess bgod is permitting it because we deserve it but it's sade to see it happening.   

Anyway.  I need to find out more about this AI stuff because it's coming closer to home for me.  

The Fallen Soul Cannot Know God

And this is eternal life, that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent.  That's part of Jesus' "high priestly prayer" in John 17.  Eternal life is to know God.  And in that same prayer Jesus says He is the giver of that eternal life to those whom the Father has given Him.  

I keep trying to remember the Westminster Catechism answer to the question, what is the purpose of life, and I can't remember the first part of it.  To love God, to worship God, to know God, I can't remember.   But the second part is "and enjoy Him forever."  

To Abraham God said, "I am thy exceeding great reward."  In the 42nd Psalm David writes, "As the deer paneteth for the water, so my souil longer after Thee.  You are all my heart's desire and I long to worship thee.  I think that second line is how the song from that psalm goes on, but the psalm itself says somjething else.  I can go listen to it and I may be wrong.  But the idea iclear, the soul longs after God Himself and takes pleasure in worshiping HIm.

That's the message of all these quotes.  Knowing God, loving God, longing after God, that is the hieghtt of the Christian life.

A Q Tozer wrote about this in his book The Pursuit of God, where he laments the fact that Christians are often kept on the level of doctrine when doctrine should be pointing us to the adoration of God Himself.  I think that is true.  We get stuck on justification by faith, forgiveness of sins, even maybe to some extent sanctification or growth in holiness and the Christian life, although that is less emphasized than the principles of salvation.  The point is that a hunger after God Himself is the purpose of it all and yet that is often neglected, and as Tozer laments, even prevented by the way doctrine is emphasized.

But my point in writing all this is to contrast this Christian goal of knowing and loving God with the kinds of teachings we get from the New Age and Easter religious practices, those Near Death experiences and so on.  God get mentioned in all that but certainly not ever as the supreme object of human longing.  And of course the ideas of why and what God is are very vague.

Although I could recognize the essentially demonic nature of most of those experiences even before I knew of Watchman Nee's writings on these things, Nee's perspective does bring it all into focus in a very ueful way for whickh I am very grateful.  For one thing he makes it possible to see that some of it isn't demonic in its essence but comes from powers originally possessed by Adam before the Fall, hu;man powers.  Although they are easily exploited by demons they are not demonic in themsevles    However, the Fall buried them in the flesh as he thinks of it, and made them far less ac

cessible to us than they were to Adam and Eve.   He

\Sorry, I can tell I'm garbling some of itthis.  I'll try to straighten it out as I go.  

Nee says that Satan is very interested in releasing the latent powers we all possess from their entgrapment in the flesh so that he can use them to counterfeit true spirituality.  When I the stories of near death experiences, so many of which are so similiar in their claims to be spiritual experiences, I have to conclude that Nee got it right.    The people who have these  experiences are falln human beings, unregenerate, which means not born again as Christians are.  It tgakes regeneration or being born again to hav any contact with God at all.  The spirit is what died first at the Fall, the spirit that had been in communication with God.  The soul which formerly had been able to know both God and the life of the senses or the flesh, now only could communication with the world of sense.  It had become fleshly.  God says in Genesis six, I tghink, that He will no longer strive with manhkind because he is but flesh.    Adam lost the ability to communicate with God and we all inherit that inability.  It's pretty obvious isn't it?  

All people are discovering with all these experiences of The Other Side, and paranormal powers, is the world of the soul which is now confined to the The idea of God remains but it's a pretty shadowy vague idea.  We need the revelation of the Bible, God's own word to us, because we do not have the capacity in ourselvdes to discover God.    But we can have all these spiritualistic type experiences and mistake them for true spirituality and even think we've encounterered heaven or the true God.  Or in some cases think we've discovered that thesere really isn't a God of the sort we know from the Bible.  Epxpeirnce trumps it all.  Out goes the bible which is the only way we could ever really know the truth about God and instead we rely on all thse demonically influenced experiences to tel;lll us what reality is all about.    N ojudmgnet they tell us, unconditional love they tell us, nothing to fear about death they tell us, we just get to go "home" where everything is light and love and beautiful fields of flowers and the like.  

realm and has no contact with the true spirituality which is of God.  \\\\\

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The ONLY way to know God at all is through the death of Christ.  Through believing that His death paid for our sins.  That's the Open Sesame to the regeneration of the spirit that reconnects us with God, undoes the Fall.  That means that all the religious practices of other religions can relate only to the world of the flesh, the soul as clothed in the flesh, and demonic or spirit realms.  Buddhism doesn't recognize God at all, which is quite in keeping with the reality that the spirit that could know Him is dead in them as it is in all of fallen humanity.  Practices of meditation and other disciplines of the nonCHristian religions may succeed in releasing the soul powers, or siddhis, from imprisonment in the flesh, and create the belief that the spiritual has been awakened, which it is onlyh the soul powers that have been awakenened to imitate and counterfiet spirituality.  Even if God is somewhere in the the picture he is not knowable in the personal way He wants to be known and has made possible through His word and in no other way.

Nee mentions in his book that F B Meyer had written about the great increase in spiritism in the late nineteenth century.  Christian Science for instance.  But there were many more.  I think  of Madame Balavatsky and the Theosophy movement.  Meyher recognized these as spiritual counterfiets.  Nee classifies it all as manifestations of the powers of the soul that had been released in various individuals, those powers that had been possessed by Adam and Eve and more or less disappeared after the Fall.  Again, after the Fall they would now be subject to the flesh or the physical world, since the spirit had died by which humanity could have known God.  Now subject ot the flesh alone they were prey to the satanic hosts that sought to use them to deceieve people into acceptring them as the heights of spirituality.

Within the churches today the charismatic movement is probably the best example of how the deception has persisted even in our midst.  The spiritual gifts of the early Church are claimed by the charismatics, and the penecostals, to have persisted throughout history, but when the expresseions of these gifts today are examined they pretty clearly demonstratae that they are not the same spiritual gifts that were practiced in the early Church.  They are sounterfiets and byu Nee's lights most likely those latent soul powers, soulish and fleshly, not spiritual.  The supposed prophetic gift is pretty clearly simply psychic power where it is at all real.  The tongues are not the languages epxressed in the early Church but some kind of imitation of language.  App[arently some healins are possible through the soul too, something that doesn't reach to the level of the miraculous healings of God.  We are easily deceived into accepting unuusual paranormal phenomona has coming from God, that wseems to be what has happened in the case of the supposed continuation of the spiritual gifts.

I would like to think that this sort of information could help people free themsevles from such deceptions, but of course only believing in Christi's death for our sins and consequent regeneration of the spirit that died at the Fall could really save anybody.

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Prostrate before Thy throne to lie, and gaze and gaze on Thee.    The Levis had no inheritance in the land when the Israelites took possession of Canaan, but God said that He was to be their portion and that made them richer than all the rest of them.  

This mindset couldn't be more unlike that of the soulish or fleshly sort of spirituality which isn't technically speaking spirituality at all.  The soulish mindset cultivates the things of the soul itself, experiences, growth in knowledge or whatever, it is self-focused, or if focused outside itself at all focused toward learning how to be kind to others.  A nice enough of objective but still a matter of developm,ent of the soul, fulfillment of the sul.  Certainly there are elements of that in the Christian life but ultimately they are in the service of seeking and finding God, loving God above all else.    And we are to deny ourselves, die to self, rid ourselves of attachments to this world in order to find God.Take up our cross, the instrument of our death.  We are to die in order to find.  He who would save his life will lose it but whoever would lose it for My sake will find it.  The route to God is the giving up of everything that is contraary to God, everything at takes His place in our hearts, our idols.    It's not about fulfillming the self our soul at all.  But much of the New agey typie of spiritualitiy seems to be entirely about that fulfillment.  Far from self-abnegation it's about self-fulfillment.

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But of course all they have to do is arrogantly claim that Jesus didn't mean what He's always been taken to mean, but rather He meant something more in keeping with their own demonic doctrines.  So for instance when He said I am the way, the truth and the life, Nobody comes to the Father but by me, they say oh but he didn't mean we are to follow Him personally or that He was the ONLY way, He just meant He's one example for us to follow and we all can be what He was. 

I'd laugh but it hurts too much

I Suppose It's Futility to Make any Comment at all about This Fake Spirituality

He got started on his spiritual path when he was quite young, he said, he didn't believe what the churches taught, he said.  Somehow they never answered the questions Where did we come from, why are we here and where are we going?  

Really?  How odd.  Of course I don't know what "churches" he is talking about but surely it is fair to assume he means some pretty standard Christian churches, in which the Bible is taught as inerrant, and in that case the answer is given quite clearly to all those questions.  We descended from Adam and Eve, we are here to come to know God, and we are going either to Heaven or Hell in the end.   Seems pretty clear that it isn't that he didn't find any wanswers but that he didn't like the answers he got from the churches.  As he went on to pursue various other

I'm talking about another interview on Next Level Soul.  Hans something or other, Wilhelm?  I couldn't quite make it out.  Apparently my ears aren't a lot better than my eyes.     religions and occultic practices he apparently liked their answers better.

He doesn't like Christianity at all, and he keeps talking as if his own preferences amount to the truth rather than just his own preferences.  And I suppose he sounds credible to all those people out there who nothing whatever about Christianity.

 And yet what else can I do?  It's futile both because they who are persuaded of all that nhonsense don't have the faculty to hear what's wrong with it, not being regenerated but mere fallen human beings, and becuase my own spiritual faculty is not in the best shape so that I fail all the time to convey what I want to convey.  

Try anyway.   

Of course it is all of grace.  We can only believe and know God's word because He has regenerated us, because we are born again.  In our fallen state the Bible is nonsense to the reader and hearer.  When they discover the powers of the soul, which Watchman Nee has brought to my attention, they now have an answer to the Bible's incomprehensibility to them.  they mistake the soul powers for the spiritual powers that commjunicate with God.   They can't communicate with God but the demons who do communicate with our soul powers can easily ;create a false impression and call it God and convince the unwary fallen mind.  

They don't find the biblical revelation of who we are and where we came from and why we are here to be convincing.  One life?  But then some have it good and many have it bad and how is that fair, how does that show a loving GOd?  For mself it was only when I discovered the biblical understanding of who we are and where we came from and why we are here that I finally knew there is a real reasonable and meanfinful answer to all those questions.  Original sin was a reveleat ion to  me because it answered the question of why this life is so full of ugliness, or disease and death, of wars and hostilities and so on.  It makes no sense if you think this life is just normal life.

Who we are is God's creation for the purpose of creating a people after His own heart, a people who reflect His own being and share in His plans.  That's our purpose, that's why we are here, but there are many who won't join in this purpose but be led off into all sorts of weird fables and ultimately end up in Hell.  

The Most Christianistic Deception Yet

Randy Something, Kay?  Interviewed at a table full of gigglin women about his NDE which made a Christian of him, where he claims to have been cheek to cheek with Jesus.  The talk at the table was all very Christian sounding, abourt prayer and loving the Lorfd and all that.  Jesus loves you very much.  All that.    Forgiveness of sins and all that.  Nothing about His death on the cross though, but I suppose they could have found a way to work that in too if they'd wanted.  Something about a battle between a group of angels and another group of fallen angels.  That was at the beginning.  This man claimed to know the Bible which he'd read after years of being an atheist tring to disprove Christianity.  But the way we are saved was not mentioned.  Again, I suspect they could have found a way to counterfeit that too.  Perhaps.  But in this one they didn't.  Maybe it's in his book.

These counterfeit heaven experiences can get pretty sophisticated.  This one is just about terrifying in its willingness to sound Christian while managing to avoid the cross as well as add in a New Agey message about learning not to judge yourself.  Jesus tells us we must deny ourselves and take up oiur cross.  Doesn't that imply that we ARE to judge ourselves?  Now that central Christian message never shows up[ in these things, not even in this one.  But again, perhaps it's got a representation of some kind of bogus sort in his book.

And of course "heaven" is as usual depicted as a beautiful landscape with colors not seen on Earth.  There is of course no hint of this idea of heaven in the Bible.  Heaven is the throne room of God in the Bible, and the New Jerusalem is a city, not a landscape.  But I guess a landscape appeals to people.

What what what.  I wasn't looking for this stuff but it keeps showing up while I'm looking for other things.  Maybe if I get it written out it will benefit someone.  I tried to copy the URL for this one but I kdon't know if I succeeded.  I'm always flying blind these days, literally.  I THINK it might have said "copy" but I don't know.  Guess I'll find out when I post this.

 //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKNNdnGBbtY

Holy and Unholy Angels, NDEs and Other Last Days Deceptions

People often encounter what they believe to be family members who died before them and other people as well as various spirit entities in their near death experiences.  Going by the Bible, the only trustworthy guide to all these things, since it tells us that there is only one life and then the judgment and that people go to either a place of punishement or to Paradise after death, we knoww that the "people" in those experiences mustg be impersonations, and since the teachings given in these experiences always contradict the Bible we also know those are demonic spirits or fallen angels who are doing the impersonating.

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I just heard one in which the NDE traveler encountered a being she identified as the Archangle Michael.  He appeared a few times to her and gave her messages over the years.  How do I knoqw thaat was not the Archangel Michael>  Because in the Bible we only hear of him once and it is the Archangel Gabriel who mentions him as the defender of the nation of Israel.  Gabriel has been sent to explain a vision to the prophet Daniel and says he had been detained b6y a barttle overt the nation of Persia as I recall.  I hope I don't have theis wrong but it is simomething lie that.  

The pint is that the archangels are tghe highest angels and they have imporetant roles in the redemptive histgory of the Bible, Gabriel who brought understanding to the prophet Daniel and then brought the news to the father of John the Baptist out his son to be, and to Mary who was to be the mother of the Messiah promised from all the way back in Eden and aounced from time to timje throughougut the Old Testament.  These high angels do not appear to ordinary people who have mnothing to do with the great plan of redemption.   And I might add, Gabriel would not have talked with Mohammed in the cave because that "angel" contradicted his work in the Bible.  He would not be party to the formation of a new religion said to supersede the Bible and he would not serve an idea of Jesus as a mere prophet when in the Bible he announced Him as the Messiah who was the Son of God, the only begotten SWon of God.   It'

s elementary, but you need to know a little about the Bible and of course wyou have to believe it.  

Another popular idea these days in connection with all this psychic phenomena is the idea that we all have past lives, that we keep coming back into one life after another.  It's a form of the idea of reincarnation but of course it is nothing like the classical idea of reincarnation which is all about the kind of life whyou had leived  in a moral sense ieven if they moightg not use the term moral, which determines what sort of life you will have next which could be to return as a lower animal if you didn't deserve to come back as a human being.  Of course a Christian rejects all such ideas but the idea that we choose to come back as a human being in order to learn this or that lesson of lifek which is the current popular idea, fits no religion at all, it's all made up to appeal to totday's mentality.  No judgment eve, no sin, you are just learning this or that lesson of life, something nmindnumbingly pedestrian usually, oh you need to learn patiences for instance.  You need to overcome a phobia.    

The Bible is God's word.  He gave it to us because on our own, in our fallen nature bequeathed to us by our original fatgher Adam, we have no chance at all of ever figuring anything out.  At the Fall, when Adam and Eve rebelled against God, they lost many of their former powers.  The spirit in them that had comunicated with God died immediately so all tgheir offspring no long have the ability to communicate with God.  We are all born as pretty much nothing but fleshly creatures, our souls communicating only through our physical senses, knowing things in the phyiscal world as well as things in the demonic realms oif we are opened up to that, but we have no ability whatever to know God.  That ability is restored to us when we believe in the death of Christ as paying for our sins.   Redeemed by His blood, crucified on the cross with Him.  When we be3lieve tghat we are saved by His death then we are born again, our spirit comes back to life and we can acommunicate with God.  Without the new birth we cannot knoww God.  All these bpeople who are having these NDEs are unregenerate people, fallen people whose souls powers have been awakened by one means or another, but the spirit that communicates with God is dead in them.   So the demons are free to give them all sorts of preposterous lies that contradict God's word and they are dazzled by the powers of the demons into accepting it all as true.  

Sometimes people think they are serving God because of some impersonation of God by a spirit entity or demon and that particular kind of deception makes me particularly sad for some reason.  All deceived people are sad but for some reason it bothers me more when people are deceived into thinking they are serving God andI know it's a demon feeding them lies.   All of them need to be saved but I find myself praying particularly for those under that kind of deception.

How I would love it if anything I write here might be the means to save evenone person from this sort of demomnic abuse.  Please Lord?

Added later:  I have to suppose that the fallen angels can also create that unconditional love feeling almost all the NDEW people experience, also that sense that they know what others are feeling when they have their Life review and see bad and good things they did to others.   telepathic communication is something I think we will experience in the afterlife amont many other restored powers, and I suppose the demons also have such powers.  But it's all a supposing at this point.   

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Couple days later:  One guy hears the voice of "Christ" although he says any name wouild do, another prays to"heavenly Father" but not in the name of Christ and has a lot of New Agey ideas along with it.  The one who hears from "Christ" has been reading A Course in Miracles.   

But their context is Christianish and therefore a more subtle form of deception perhaps than some of the others.  One of them has a Catholic background.  In factr a lot of these people who have NDEs come from a Catholic background, it would be interesting to know the percentage overall of those with that kind of background.  Here and there someone with an evangelical background can be supposed to have simply a very nominal experience of it so the doctrines that would keep them from being deceived aren't available to them.  Catholics often don't get those doctrines at all anyway so they are probably more vulnerable to begin with.

So easy for the demonic spirits to take advange of people who have no real kowledge of the truth of the Bible.  

They think they are in touch with "the divine" when it is only a coulish counterfeit, to refer back to Watchman Nee's way of putting it all together.  If you aren't born again you don't have the reborn spirit with which to contact the divine, or God Himself, you are once born only and it is your soul not your spirit that is contacting whatever it is contacting.  Nee says you can have your soul powers awakened or released by something that suppresses the body or flesh, which in a lot of these cases is some kind of injuuiry or medical trauma.  That may be why is b ringing all this about.  Buddishists and Hindus and others may release this power through intensive meditation and thaot sort of thing.  But it is only soul power, it is not divine power, it can only connect you with the demonic realms, not with God or the divine realm.  Demons know a lot and can wow people with their wisdom but they certainlyu are not divine.

Soul power is the arena of witchcraft, as well as telepathy and  cclarivoyhance and that sort of thing.  ASome miracles also come with this power.  Unusual knowledge can come with it.  But it is from the fallen nature, the sin nature in this fallen world, and is therefor forbidden to a Christian and shouldn't be practiced by anywone.  It's very likely going to become the basis of the Antichrist religion of the last days, which are fast approaching.   People with these exprieriences and powers are lulled into a false sense of security.  Only the true Christ can save us, but these experineces make people feel safe when in fact it is all just going to plunge them into Hell after this life.  Diabolical deception.

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s not that doctrine is an end in itself, that's for sure, but the point is that if you don't have right doctrine whatever experiences you are are not going to be trustworthy.  And besides, even when you do have right doctrine you shouldn't be too ready to trust your experiences.   In this life we are to walk by faith, faith in the revelation of the word of God.  Faith in the god there revealed, faith in Christ and his death on the cross.  We do not walk by sight in this world but by faith, that's the only safe way./

But again, we're talking faith based on right doctrine.

NDEs and Other End Times Decpeionts

 Keep coming back to this.  There's a podcast at You Tube run by a guy called Alex, haven't caught his last name, podcast titled Next Level SOUL.  I've watched dozens of NDE accounts there and some other interviews on related matters.  Research into psychic phenomena for instance, people who have had various kinds of experiences they call spiritual, involving spirit beings for instance.  

I seem to be giving myself an education in the mentality of the fallen world these days.  And   It's with a much more intense understanding of what the fallen world means that I'm doing it too, since about a year ago I had some experiences that brought home to me in vivid intensivty what Hell is and what the fallen world is.  Of course as a Christian I already believed in the reality of both but these encounters with my own sin nauture made them far more real than before.  I shudder to think of anyone going to Hell now in a way I didn't before.  And this world has simply not felt normal to me since then, it's felt like an alien place from which I will be hal[[ to be freed.  

The world feels normal to most people, we think of it as our home, even Christians do for the most part, because we're so used to it.   But nonChristians haven't a clue that it's not norml at all.   Atheists who like to debate Christians blame the evils of this world on God because they assume this is the world He created.  Even Christians don't have a clear idea that it's not at all the world He Creatured.  

A few years ago I started thihnking of the physical world as a wreck left from the Flood.  People so often say this world shows God's creative wordk and His love of Beauty.  What a beautiful world.  I have to admit that I've never thought of it as beautiful and I'm sure I'm far from tp[ical in this.  People would no doubt be very offended at the idea.  Maybe it's because I grew up on a desert that I see it as so much piled up dirt, tumbled down boulders, dry lumpy mounds called mountains.  Anywhere the bare planet shows through I think it unbeautfiul, and began to see it as wrecked by the Flood when I was working on the evolution issues.  TGrees and green things add a beauty that covers up the ugliness though.  I find beauty in those things, in living things.  And perhaps oddly in some of the works of humanity.  Humanity adds a lot of our own ugliness to the planet but there is alwao beauttiful architecture here and there, charming cities, especially in Europe, etc.  

But the fallennness of the world i s only hinted at in those physical things, it's most clearly shown in the human sin nature and in the diseases and sufferings and death and every other kind of evil we experience.  God created none of that.  That is all the result of the Fall, of our rebellion against God.  NonChristian humanity hasn't a chred of an iota of a clue to any of that, and of course pooh pooh any such notions.

I shouldn't say God created none of that since of course nothing can happen without God, and I hope I don't confuse things too much by making this correction.  All the evils of this fallen world are the result of the violation of His law and His nature so i nthat sense He created it all.  The point is only that it is the consequence of human rebellion against God even though even that couldn't happen unless he willed it.  And it all has to follow laws, laws that are built into the fabric of reality because it's all a reflection of the very nature of God Himself.

So hthe atheists can't understand the reality of all this, and this current crop of people who are into near death experiences and other manifestations of what they think of as spirituality can't get it either.  Mediums who communicate with spirits,k who are really demons, must be because that's the only spirits besides angels I find in the Bible.  I guiess there could be other kinds but they would all be fallen creatures in rebellion against God as demons are no matter what.  God's angels aren't going to communicate with humanity execept to assist us toward life in Christ.  And the spritc rcreatures these NDEDEs and other cpiritist phenomena demonstrate a=re far from any such intention, in fact they are pretty clearly determined to do their best to undermine everyhthing CHristian.

People on these shows, like Alex's podcast and the George Noory radio show Coast to Coast, so cherrfully discuss all these demonic phenomina as if it were all a wonderful spiritual advancement of th ehuman race and something to be promotoed, so blind are they to its reality.  Since the Bible is the only source of knowledge of its reality that I know of, there doesn't seem to be much hope of dissuading them.  They've already decided, on bethe basis of what these demonic spirits tell them, thjat the Bible is just one of many old attempts to teach us about the spirit world that is no longer to be taken too seriously unless of course we let the demons interpret it for us.

Oh not demons, they have no idea these are demons they are talking to and taking counsel from, they are "spirit gudes" and the like.  Or "Ascended Masters" an so on.  Superior beings who have only the best intentions forhumanity.  Scary deception.    Scary deception.  

I know I'm making some errors, quit a few I'm afraid, I can feel my fingers misbehaving, I just hope it isn't too bad.

Services for he Blind is ordering me some gadgets that may help with all this but I won't know for a couple of months if they will make a big difference or not.

Besides all the people who believe the spirits and the feelings in their near death experiences, there are these researchers swho thing that the psychic powers and other paranormal powers they believe they can show to exist in some of us are good things.   I was very happy to discover Watchman Nee's book on the Latent Powers of the Soul because I think that is what expelains all these things and they are not good things for humanity to try to develop.   I think Nee must be right thaty they are the remnants of powers god originally gave Adam and Eve that they lost at the Fall.  Well tghey didn't cpopoletely lose them.  As Nee thinks of it, the Fall brought about the dath of the human  spirit which was the faculty which communicated with God.  Well that's pretty general theology, not just Nee's idea.  Our spirit died, or at least was damanged.  It's hard to know what really happened of course, but ever sinc3e the Fall we no longer have a sense of the presence of God as our original parrents did.  That's why atheism is the defautlt menatlity of fallen humanity.  Even if we retain some belief in God it's not with any real sense of His presence.  So materialism reigns.  Modern man thinks it's all a physical universe we live in.  Evolution says we came up from a physical chemical origin and our consciousness is all a rather odd epiphenomenon dependent on that physical substreate we are in reality according to them.  And since the physical world is all fallen humanity can apprehend with any certainty such ideas rule.  

That's the result of the Fall itself, that physicality is all we can really apprehend.  Our spirit died or became somehow unfunctional and we no longer have access to God.  I am with those who interpret the Bible to reveal that we are a tripartite being, body, couls and spirit, the soul being tghe human personality that originally had access both to God and to the world through our physical senses, but at teh Fall lost the access to God and became the tool of the flesh as it is called, the flesh which communicates with te physical world.  As Nee puts it together, humanity in our fallen state can communicate with the demonic world but not with God, and we still retain some scattered expressions of what he calles soul power, or the powers originally possessed by Adam and Eve that sincew the Fall have beomce buried in the flesh and inaccessible to most peop;le.  Some here and there have such powers and there are practices that have been developed by many religions and occultic disciplines to develop those sould powers.  Medictation is one of the methods used to develop the powers of the sould.  The idea is to subdue the flesh or the blody and sllow the soul powers to come out.  Some people who meditate a great deal have succeeded in releasing the soul powers and made contact with demon spirits and acquired telephathic abilities, psychic powers, clairvoyance or remote viewing allnd all that.  Nee says that this is Satan's aim, to devlelop our soul powers in order to counterfiet the true spirituality of communicateion with God which was lost at the Fall and deceive humanity into accepting the counterfeit in place of communication with God.  Since the Fall we have no ability whatever to apprehend God because our spirit is dead but the soul powers can mimic such spirfituality wenough to deceive us poor blinded creatureures.

Whren we believe in Christ's saacrifice on the cross to paty for our sins we are born again and that means our dead spirit omes back to life, is "quickened" in the word of the King Hames, we are regenerated and now again ahve the ability to communicate with God although we have to grow into it and will not fully powssess it in this life.  But this is the ONLY way any human beings have access to God in this fallwn world.  It all comes through faith in Christ whosse death on the cross payid for our complete restoration to our ori9ginal created state and even better than that.   Without that faith humanity continues to stumble along blind to it all, mistaking the physical world for all there is or mistaking those soul powers for spiritualitiey.  What is going on in NDEs is some kind of demonic deception intended to keep people from seeking the salvation of Christ.  tehy teach a word of religion of good works, deny the reality of judgment for sin, deny sin altogether expcet for the ins of unkindness to our fellow man and that sort of thing, and people are buying it.  It'sxz really horrifying to think of it.

Later thoughts:

I crings, I shudder, over the stories these peop,ple tell of their experiences on "the other side."  That is of course because I know the Bible is the truth about all of it and they are falling for the lies the bible warns against.  Experience is powerfully compelling of course, so much easier to go with something you've actually experienced than with revelation you get from a book.  You've got spirit beings talking to you, telling you what seem to be profound truths or at least that's how they want you to take them, and the Bible jsn't  as nice to you as they are either.

Jesus says, according to the Bible, "I am the way , the truth and the life, NOBODY COMES TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME.   At least some of these people have heard this, what do they do with it?  Some aren't looking for God anyway, or they assume God is there somewhere but he isn't the focus of their experience.  But others do have God in mind and think he is the object of their search or their experience but they think they've already found him through the experience itself.  Some think they've heard his voice, even telling them what to do with their livews, and they want to obey that foice.  Sad it is to realize that voice is really a demonic spirit impersonating God and that pleasing that spirit thinking you are pleasing God is going to have a terrifying outcome.  Cringe and shudder.  

How do they dismiss what jesus said?  He didn't really say it?  The Bible lied about it?   

And Alex among others has this idea that Jesus went to India where he learned all the miracle stuff and I guess some of his teachings?  Have they ever read the Bible?  Really read it?   Jesus is so perfectly the fulfillment of the Old Testament, so completely the Messianic goal of all of it, so Jewish, so Old gtestament, so NOT Hindu in any conceivable sense.  What ARE they thinking?  

Mediums, channelers who are just mediums.  These are condemned in the Bible because they are demonic and lead people away from the Creator God and ultimately to Hell.  How did so many get themselves decieved into this in our day?  

This is all suposed to be so "advanced," so enlightened, so superior to mere religion and certainlyh to the Bible.  Which is of course the idea the demons temselvselves want to convey.  Doctrines of demons.  Multiplicitous versions of doctrines of demons in these fake spiritualities.   The fake spiritualitiy of the fallen human nature, the fallen nature in which the spirit that originally communicated with God is dead because of the original sin of Adam and Eve.  As Watchman Nee wrote, the whole point of releasing the soul power that m,masquerades as spirituality is to counterfiet that spirituality and deceive people into thinking they are in touch with the highest power in the universe, when in reality they are blind to that power who is God because they don't have the spiritual faculty to apprehend Him.  They are accepting the masquerades and impersonations and posturings of fallen spirits.  Cringe and shudder.

Jesus Christ has all power over these demonic spirits, howeer, so if anybody does get an inkling that perhaps they are being misled, they can turn to Jesus and be saved from all of it.  Call on His Name, that Name is powerful and demons have o obey commands from Him and made rightly in His Name.  

First get saved, that is what mades it right to call on His Name although perhaps there are exceptions He might make.  Getting saved howeverf means believing that He died on the cross to pay for your sins and to believe tghat would mean learning something about the gospel that identifies Him as the Messiah promised throughtout the Old TGestmanet.  He is God incarnate, God the Son.  Read one of the gospel accounts at least, or all four of them.  Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.  God so loved the world that He gave His only egotten son that whosoever believes on Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  Believe it and be saved and be rescued from this demonic bondage.

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Oh people people people.  I just heard part of another Next Le el podcast.  A medium who strongly believes that the people she wants to contact on the other side are really those actual people bewcause they have knowledge that only those people could have about their lives and their families and so on.  Oh don't they know that demons can have such knowledge about the people they are impersonating?  Just a huge deception and it's so sad to see human9ity bamboozled by demons, even fallen humanity who are still in their sins.  Oh Lord save save save many of these poor deceived people.  Please please please.  

The Bible says there is only one life and then the judgment.  People do not make contact with anyone in this life, they are held until the day of judgment, all a medium can ever contactg is a demonic impersonalition.  The only exception I've ever heard of was the appearance of the actual porphet samuel up from the dead when King Saul asked the medium or witch of Endor to contact him.  She was surprisedthat the real Samuel appeared, she knew she was a medium for demonic spirits.  But today's mediums or some of them anyway are deceived too and think they are contacting the real people.  Poh poor fallen humanity, what a bunch of sad dupes we are until Christ rescues us

The emphsis is on proving that this life isn't the end and that may partly explain the gullibility about the identity of the people on the other side.  Clearly, ndes and all this other soul power stuff demonstrate that there's a lot more going on than the physicalist materialist mindset assumes, but the fact that the spiritual world is full of evil deceitful beings just never crosses anybody's mind.  You have to be a Christ9ian to believe that perhaps.  Or maybe some other religions have an inkling of it, I don't know, even though they have no ability to apprehend God as we do.  Perhaps at least they spend enough time amont the demons to know that there is a lot of malevolence and deceit.  But in the West, no, we're a bunch of gullible babies until Christ enlightens us.

Surely it is all so clearly incrfeasing in our time we can take it as a sign of Jesus' soon return, preceded by the rapture of the Church if the pre tr9ib s cenario is right, follo9wed by the seven year tribulation period.  It's close, very close.  

The enormous incrase in fake spirituality is certainly preparation for the end times global religion of the Antichrist.  I ache for my beloved human race.

Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Sam Harris carry on about religion

 Drives me nuts.  Peterson and Murray have some appreciation for the historical role of Christianity in shaping the West butg they are nevertheless atheists whose thoughts are not informed by anything Christians actually believe based on the Bible.  And then there is Sam Haris and all he can ever think about is religion as the cause of wars and violence.  

Harris lumps together Christianity and Islam which is already maddening.  And of course he thinks Catholicism is Christianity.  Well so does most of the world think that, unfortunately.  despite the Protestant Reformationb.  But they'll blame the wars after the Reformation on Christianity too.  Sigh.    Peterson and Murray try to bring tghe focus back to the good that has been done in the name of Christianity or as a restul foof Christian doctrines, and they don't seem to be willing to include Islam in the mix.  

Peterson likes Jung and Nietsche and I can't stand either of them.   But I guess that's neither here nor there, so move on.  Jung had a demon spirit guide and that's enough for me to discredit the man.  Bug anyway.

The CHristian worldview is what is needed here but they wouldn't condsider that to be fair play would they.  By the Christian worldview I ean the Protestant worldview which grew from the recognition of the reformers that the Pope is the Antichrist and that Catholicism is full of papgan superstitions that have nothihjg whatever to do with Christianity, although it does confuse people by maintaining the gospel narrative here and there in their services.

The Inquisition was an attack on Christianity, it was not an expression of Christianity.  True Christian believers who apposed the Roman behemoth were murdered by the INquisition fifty milli8on over a six hundred year period according to David Plaisted who spent some time calculating it out.  Catholicism is not Christianity and yet that's what the wolrd thinks is Christianity, it is THE primary enemy of Christianity, complete with fake Christ in the Pope who is also the usurper of the role of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

Snd Islam is a satanic inventionb.  The absurd idea that it's an "Abrahamic religion" is nevertheless held by the same people who think Catholicism is Christianity.  So to Harris Jihad and the Inquisition both come from the same religious mentality.  Groan.

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MNo way to get Peterson or Murray or Harris to recogjize such things though.  That I know of.  They aren't interested in what true Christianity teaches anyway.  Peterson is much more interested in what Jung says aboutr CHristianity than what Christianity says.  He's much more interetsed in imagining weired motives for the wsriting of the Bible than in knowing how it really came about.  Too unbelievable for him I guess.  

But I do witsh somebody would get Harris to see that jihad and the insuiqistion have nothing whatever to do with Christianity

Later  Was able to use the Read aloud function so I know a lot of the above is gobbledygook no doubt because one or both of my hands got repositioned.  Now I wonder what I said there.  Something about the history of catholicism I think, especially about the evil Jesuits, how that used to be well known, comments by John Adams becing aan example.   And hey Harris, that couldnj't have been the angel Gabriel who talked to Mohammed in the cave because he contradicted everything he said in the Bible.  And I'm not sure what you would expect of a text written by an omniscient mind since you think there is no evidence of anyt such thing in the case of the Bible.  But then you don't have the Holy Spirit so you can't rread it correctly anyway.   And why don't you all know the simple fact that only the bible was ever claimed to be inspired by God, that the Koran claim is just an egocentricd lie.  Good grief.  Learn a little histolry at least.  But now I've gone far off what4ever that goarbled writing was saying.    I hope this isn't garbled too.