When opinions become doctrine, bad precedent turns error into law and injustice.
Continuing: the Greek word for heresies is hairesis, meaning preference and choice; from the word airo, meaning lift up and take away, and figuratively to keep the mind in suspense, and a ship weighing anchor and sailing away. These definitions are all the effects of opinions that have no basis in fact, creations of imagination and preference, which then become law. These delusions, (the final condition of confusion’s work, erroneous (preference based) opinions become precedent,) are when the truth becomes the villain and seeking justice the crime.
Bad precedent allowed slavery to continue, just as it now allows the killing of unborn humans. In each is exhibited how preference will go to any lengths to normalize its opinion and the ensuing injustice, no matter how barbaric and unlawful it’s reality. These are the same dehumanization that produced the Holocaust and the many more millions killed by all the communist regimes of the twentieth century. It’s the same spirit at work now in our nation; raised up through a degenerate mass media and opinion based education with a communist worldview. We see it in many of our young, who without God, lacking a healthy conscience or the ability to critically think, who on command are now being deployed against those who uphold foundational truths and God as the only anchors of reality and just law.
Those who study along here know I often quote from a 2008 article in the American Thinker, by Linda Kimball, in which she prophesies of the coming of these days. She documents the historical course of our fundament transformation into Materialist Communism: evidenced in the intentional effects we now see in the ever-worsening delusions and chaos. Here following I will again paste excerpts from her article, “The Materialist Faith of Communism, Socialism, and Liberalism.” The first passage tells of the demons embodies in the ideology, (now emerging from its deceptive hiding place in the name “progressivism” to again be called communism.) The second paragraph defines materialism and its inevitable and intended ends.
“This demon is embodied in ‘enlightened’ Liberals and the West’s transnational ‘elite,’ both of which are deeply infected by materialistic Communism (Cultural Marxism) and the delusion that the true enemy of America is always on the Right. Having rejected God and the religious heritage of our civilization, they embrace instead a new order of beliefs of which Communism and Socialism are logical expressions. A new world order is what they seek, but in order that it can emerge, the existing culture must be completely destroyed.”
“Materialist faith, or scientific materialism, has virtually displaced America’s founding Judeo-Christian worldview with the result that materialism is now the operative assumption for much of our government, culture, politics, and law. Materialist operatives now control every public institution in the United States. According to the inner logic of materialist faith, “we the people” are nothing but socially-constructed atomized robots which can presumably be deconstructed and melted into an atomized mass. Toward both this goal and to raise up an army of street thugs who will destroy our culture, materialist change-agents use our education system to subvert and convert the minds of our youth. Should they succeed in thoroughly corrupting them and in turning their hearts to hate, this generation of children may become the next Khmer Rouge, who at Pol Pot’s order murdered nearly two-million people, including their own families.”
Kimball closes her article by quoting from a speech delivered by President Calvin Coolidge on 5 July 1926, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In her final sentence, she warns against continuing on this same path (a warning we have failed to heed), which she likened to ending in a similar manner to the swine in whom the LORD cast the demons, who then by their own choice ran over the Gadarene Cliff and drowned themselves. Here are her closing words.
“As early as 1926, President Calvin Coolidge was aware of and deeply concerned by the insidious spread scientific materialism in America. As he knew, Americans are free only because of the Judeo-Christian foundation laid by the country’s founders. In a speech he delivered in Philadelphia, July 5, 1926 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Coolidge tried to call American’s back to their Judeo-Christian heritage. He told Americans that the Declaration’s principles of liberty arise from man’s God-given inalienable rights. And these are found, said Coolidge, “in the texts, the sermons, and the writings of the early colonial clergy…” The clergy preached equality “because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.” Sanctity of life, the right to self-defense, and all the rest of our individual liberties were justified “by the text that we are all created in the divine image, all partakers of the divine spirit.” God’s children therefore, have no “superiors;” there are no modern-day “divine rights kings” who possess “any right to rule…over them.” Americans are free to choose their own leaders.
“The Declaration, continued Coolidge, is “a great spiritual document.” Its principles are not material but spiritual. “Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man—these are not elements we can see and touch. They are ideals (whose) source and roots (are) in religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world.”
“President Coolidge cautioned Americans that, “unless the faith of the Americans in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we abandon the cause.”
“Coolidge ended his speech with a stark warning, “We must not sink into a pagan materialism…” (Back Fired, William Federer, pp. 269-271)
“Yet, believing they are “enlightened” and “scientific,” maddened Liberals and Transnational “elites” are leading America over the Gadarene Cliff.”
Here are the links to the full text of Kimball article and the Coolidge speech:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/02/the_materialist_faith_of_commu.html
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/speech-on-the-occasion-of-the-one-hundred-and-fiftieth-anniversary-of-the-declaration-of-independence/
Friends, these people begin with opinions that are in fact failed ideas of the past. Coolidge says of communits’ claims that these ideas are “progressive,” that they are not progress at all, but rather a return to ideas that are more primitive. He calls the ideas in the Declaration “final,” meaning they cannot be improved.
It should be our mission as a nation, as we did with slavery, to seek out bad precedents (opinion and preference) that are opposite these founding ideas, and right their wrongs. Coolidge reminds us, our better ideas, based on our Judeo-Christian foundation, are what have caused our prosperity and our achievements. These did not create our ideas, and in fact, claiming the reverse is true is itself part of the materialists’ requisite opinions (wrongly saying environment does and should create foundation ideas, when in fact foundational ideas create environments).
Here are Coolidge’s closing words: “The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped.”
Now, the advice we have heard and have followed, and which we will continue to hear from all the fake news media false prophets and TV preachers, will be the opposite of what I have just written and with much longsuffering advised. Remember, theirs are the same opinions that produced the ongoing decline: corrupt trees only able to bring forth the same corrupt fruit.
The Greek word hairesis is used 9 times, four times rendered “heresy” or “heresies” and the other five times translated “sect.” It tells of the ideas, the opinions and the preferences around which groups or parties are formed. It is inevitable that people will join in community with those who have like ideas. I tell you now, all these groups become corrupted as errors are introduced and adopted, and ALL are now corrupt. When Paul tells of the mystery of when we will join with the LORD, and when all will be changed (as discussed in the prior post), he is speaking in this context.
Peter says in 1 Peter 1 that we have not followed cunningly devised fable, but rather the word of God, as the LORD spoke through holy men He moved by His Holy Spirit. Before this he speaks of the coming of the LORD, in power on this same mountain of transfiguration, when he heard the voice of God from heaven (out of the rightly divided word). That voice is the LORD showing His approval, the proof He is the one speaking.
Peter goes in chapter 2 to say there were false prophets among these holy men, just as there will be false teachers among us. He says they are those who “privily” have brought in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD who bought them. The word here rendered “privily bring in” is the Greek word is pareisago, which is only used his one time, from three Greek words meaning led (ago) into (eis) separation (para). The word translated damnable is apoleia, the same word translated “perdition” in telling of the only son(s) who perishes. It is the word rendered “destruction” in the same verse, “pernicious” in the following verse, and “damnation” in the one after.
2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable [apoleia] heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [apoleia] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia] slumbers not.
The LORD has set the trap for these men and it is their heresies, their words, 1 Corinthians 11:19 saying, “For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”
John uses the word apoleia twice in Revelation, in Revelation 17:8 & 11, which points to these men, whose works are of false prophesy (speaking for God when God hasn’t sent them or said anything to them – and are thereby found to be reprobates, without validation). The chapter tells of the identity (id entity) of the unfaithful woman and the beast that carries her, who has seven heads (rules in all the churches) and ten horns (and has power over the civil government). We know these meanings from our studies in previous posts. She comes out of the never-ending falling away from God (the bottomless pit) and goes into perdition (apoleia). We know from the LORD’s words in John 17:12 there is only one who perishes, those united in this same spirit of confusion and disobedience, which John later in Revelation 17 reveals as MYSTERY BABYLON, the unfaithful woman (God’s unfaithful people), and the idols (abomination) of the earth. Their confusion is now ended in the LORD sending His word.
Revelation 17
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto you the judgment of the great whore that sit upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon [confusion] The Great, The Mother Of Harlots [the unfaithful] And Abominations [the idols that have caused the total desolation] Of The Earth.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which has the seven heads [leads the churches] and ten horns [(confusion and disobedience) the power in and over the civil governments].
8 The beast that you sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit [the endless fall away from God], and go into perdition [apoleia]: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains [all the churches], on which the woman sits.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition [the final church under the power of confusion and total disobedience to God].
12 And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings [the same power at work in civil governments], which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind [the single son that perishes – the spirit that now works in and through the children of disobedience], and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is LORD of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he said unto me, The waters which you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten horns [civil governments] which you saw upon the beast, these shall hate the whore [God’s unfaithful people], and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God has put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled [until they are totally desolated by their abominations].
18 And the woman which you saw is that great city [Babylon –confusion], which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Peter uses the word apoleia twice in 2 Peter 3 to define these men, the same false teachers he speaks of in the prior chapter. In verse 3:7 it is to tell us their destruction is by the word of God kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and “perdition” of ungodly men. In verse 16 it tells us exactly to whom this perdition comes, as these men wrestle with the word of God, to their “destruction.” It is what is referred to when Peter says in verse 17 not to be “led away” with the error (the heresies) of the wicked, (because it’s what leads those who follow them into perdition.) This day is the scripture fulfilled before our eyes, as Daniel 12:10 says, none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.
2 Peter 3
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [their corrupted ideas] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia].
17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Hebrews 6 tells of the perfecting of those who inherit the promise of God, verse 18 telling of the refuge of those who lay hold on this hope set before us. Verse 19 says this hope is our anchor, both sure and steadfast, and is our entering into what is behind the veil. “Where the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.”
Hebrews 6
1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes oft upon it, and brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God:
8 But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have shewed toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
12 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,
14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men truly swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil;
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Hebrews 7
1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually.
Psalms 110
1 The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies.
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.
4 The LORD has sworn [the oath and the promise], and will not repent, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The LORD at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way [the word of God – the waters stored up and reserved unto fire again the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men]: therefore shall he lift up the head.
Matthew 12
34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.
38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you.
39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah:
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew 7
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
21 Not every one that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
