Building on the Foundation

  When God delivered the Israelites from bondage in Egypt, He didn’t take them straight to the Promised Land. They weren’t ready. So first He brought them through the wilderness to Mt. Sinai and gave them His laws. He charged them, saying, “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Ex. 19:5-6). There at Mt. Sinai, God and Israel entered into a covenant. The Israelites said, “All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient” (Ex. 24:7). But Israel still wasn’t yet ready to enter the Promised Land. God knew His people needed more preparation, more instruction, and more testing to see if they truly would walk in His ways and obey His commandments. The journey to the Promised Land wasn’t over; it was just beginning. Though the Israelite s ’ subsequent rebellions would prolong the journey many years lo...

  In recent blog posts, we’ve analyzed the mystery of lawlessness mentioned in 2 Thessalonians. The mystery of lawlessness describes human attempts to change or abolish God’s appointed times and laws. It describes a counterfeit gospel — the one preached by mainstream Christianity! As we’ve seen, mainstream Christianity is the spiritual descendant of pagan Israel and Samaria . It pays lip service to God the Father and Jesus Christ, but teaches men to disobey God’s Word. And, as we’ve also seen, it mixes paganism with God’s truth. At the end of this age, the mystery of lawlessness culminates with a man that the apostle Paul described as the “man of sin,” “son of perdition,” and “lawless one” (2 Thes. 2:3, 8). A man “who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thes. 2:4). A man elsewhere called the Beast or the Antichrist. This Antichrist, and the system he represents...

  WARNING: Contains extreme violence. May not be appropriate for children. Parental discretion is advised. To tell this story, it’s necessary to include the violent and disturbing parts. This is a story of Satanic worship and how Satan tricked modern society into adopting it. The mainstream Christian world has not shunned it, but has actually helped to spread it! How did this come to be? And why? Our story begins in the land of Canaan nearly 3,500 years ago. The people of Canaan had plummeted to such depths of depravity and wickedness that God commanded His people, the Israelites, to destroy them all — men, women, children, everyone polluted by that society. Like the Aztecs of later infamy, who ripped the hearts out of live human beings and offered those still-beating hearts to the sun god, the Canaanites slaughtered human beings in sacrifice to their gods. Not just any human beings, either, but young children in particular. The Worship of Molech and Baal Among other deities, the C...