In my sophomore science class many years ago, the teacher, a lady who made some of her own clothing, told of an amusing but embarrassing incident that happened to her. She had the habit of simply temporarily basting a sleeve to her dress that was in the making, then she would come back later and fully attach it.

She once forgot to do that to one sleeve, and later while wearing the dress to school, she saw a loose thread hanging there. She absently pulled on it and was surprised and embarrassed when the whole sleeve fell off!

In the current and very popular Killing series of books by Bill O’Reilly and his researcher and co-author, Martin Dugard, every story seems to have a loose thread hanging there in plain sight but purposely not “pulled” on to see what would open up. Every one hints of a shadowy, secretive purpose being worked out behind the scenes.

Even in the Killing Jesus account, O’Reilly purposely avoided the spiritual or religious implications and only recounted the historical narrative. Had he “pulled the loose thread” in each one of those accounts, would he have found a common thread connecting all of them?

I submit that he would have, and it goes back to the Tower of Babel and the bold declaration in their actions that they were going to be independent of God and His authority. They were going to control the world. Subtly, their declaration was simply, “There are more ways to heaven than the one way God has presented.”

The history of money tells us of the development of the banking system as the use of negotiable warehouse receipts evolved into central banks and eventually, a worldwide interlocking bank system with the Federal Reserve System in America having a glaring prominence. In the early 1800s the Rothschild regime had obtained such control of the system that one of them said, “Give me control of a nation’s money supply and I will not care what its laws are.”

Would the pulling of those loose threads have started the researcher, and the reader, on a “follow the money trail” to the citadel of power and control that now intends to rule the world with a New World Order and a one world government—controlled by those who are the globalist elite? [1]

Is the curtain being lifted on a drama that is to unfold shortly, as we see the open intentions for control of the coming presidential election? One prime example of the collusion of power and control in the upper reaches of our political system is this: In the sixty years I have been watching how things play out year after year, I do not recall there ever being a reduction or even a hold on the national debt limit.

It always has been raised to allow for more debt to accumulate, whether Democrats or Republicans are in the majority role. The nation has continually been on a slippery slope that slides us into more and more of a socialistic-welfare state. That is the identifying characteristic of a new world order that rules with a one world government—a ruling elite class with a subjective, submissive and dependent population.

The flip side of the story, the unveiling of the real truth, began when on the cross Jesus cried out those last words:

“Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit,” then breathed His last (Luke 23:45):

“Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split…” (Matthew 27:51).

The veil in the temple was separating the Holy of Holies from the public and only the high priest could enter that place once a year, but not without blood. Now, the curtain had been pulled back, torn from top to bottom, and the sacred place of God’s presence was His habitation no more. A truth had been revealed to mankind.

The presence of God was taking up a different place of habitation. It was to be the human body, the human spirit where He would join and dwell therein: “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16). That would take place at Pentecost, as reported in Acts 2.

It was a new era that had opened up. That temple was no longer the dwelling place of God and was destined to be destroyed before the century would end. (Preterists do not realize that that temple had no sacred place to be desecrated any longer, and Titus and his men only wanted the gold.)

According to Romans 11:25, God was to set aside, in part, the Jewish people, to scatter them among the nations, until the times of the Gentiles—this new era—is fulfilled.

In Old Testament times God spoke to believers through His prophets, as He said in Amos 3:7:

“Surely the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants, the prophets.”

In this age, He tells us this:

“God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things”(Hebrews 1:1-2).

Jesus clarified the manner in which this would operate with His promise of the Comforter who would come after His departure, thus giving us the New Testament parallel to the quote from Amos above:

“However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come” (John 16:13, underscores for emphasis).

A seemingly loose thread, thought so by more than a few, is what Jesus claimed in John 14:6, that He “is the way, the truth and the life, no one can come to the father but through Him.” So people pull that thread, thinking there must be some other way, there must be something that is not yet revealed. Let’s see what comes up when we pull that thread:

God spoke to Moses from the burning bush, “Tell them I AM sent you” (Exodus 3:14). Jesus said to the questioning skeptical: “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58).

The request Philip asked of Jesus was, “Lord, show us the Father and it will be sufficient for us,” and Jesus answered, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father” (John 14:8-9).

Peter was fully convinced, knowing he had been forgiven and had been dramatically trans- formed, and made this declaration: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name [Jesus Christ] under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

Paul, having spent three years in the Arabian desert, apparently just he and the Lord who had revealed Himself to him on the road to Damascus that time (Acts 9), wrote this to Timothy:

“For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there isone God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time” (1 Timothy 2:3-6).

Shall we pull Peter’s thread one more time? He really speaks emphatically on this, making it very worthwhile to read it again and especially that they are some of the very last words from his heart: “knowing that shortly I mustput off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my decease.

“For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory:

‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’ And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain” (2 Peter 1:14-18).

(He refers to the Mount of Transfiguration, recorded in Matthew 17:1-3 and other places.)

The remaining question, then, is this: Do these threads lead us to deceit and despair, or even devilish rituals and morally degenerate activities? No, they do not, but they lead us to what has traditionally been identified as the “scarlet thread” from Genesis to Revelation—which tell of blood sacrifices that foreshadow that one sacrifice: God sent to die in our place, for our sins. Bring me “anyone but Jesus” and let’s see if he has nail holes in his hands.

The pull-cords on the curtains of the world stage are being slowly drawn, and we will see undercurrent secrets often hinted at but never fully revealed. People who live two lives, one public and one that is devilish and private, are going to be shamefully exposed before Godand the world. Paul writes of it this way:

“Some men’s sins are clearly evident, preceding them to judgment, but those of some men follow later. Likewise, the good works of some are clearly evident, and those that are otherwise cannot be hidden” (1 Timothy 5:24-25).

The hidden, deceptive goal of the New World Order is a thread many have pulled and have embraced what they found, yet Jesus has said, “I am the way” and “Enter by the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it” (Matthew 7:13).

Endnotes

[1] NWO – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkNH1bVg3HA

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It is quite unique how truths of the Bible crush promoters of false doctrines when the whole counsel of God is laid out from the Scriptures with common sense and simplicity. It has been long held that the Bible is its own best commentary, and that rings true because the author does not contradict Himself, nor forgets what He has said elsewhere.

Taking for granted that what the “early church fathers” figured out as truth may well be the most detrimental assumption possible, unless those early church fathers are those who were the first hand witnesses who walked and talked with Jesus in person.

Building a theology on a pre-conceived idea of how it ought to be from Man’s point of view borrows from the philosophy of Cain, who decided that he had a more practical way of sacrificing to God than did Abel.

In searching out Bible truth one must never let the integrity of God’s character become less than at the very highest level. That He can never lie, nor change or repent from a promise He has made, that He already knows the end from the beginning of mankind’s existence, that He is the Creator of all things—these are fixed and certain and infallible in His nature.

There is a strong intensity in man to try to override God’s strategy because their way seems to make more sense. Such was the case when Jesus began to disclose the plan that He was to be taken captive and killed, as told in Matthew 16:21-23.

Peter took Him aside to reassure Him that they would not let that happen to Him. But Jesus, looking Peter straight in the eye, says, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

Earlier in that chapter it was evident that “flesh and blood” cannot identify with the things of God unless the Spirit of God discloses them to man. Some seem to hear the sounds of that “other voice” and strike off on a tangent of their own making, such as did L. Ron Hubbard, a writer of science fiction and western novels who invented the religion of Scientology, or even Joseph Smith or Mohammed, as well as Jim Jones who led his “koolaid” drinking followers to their deaths in Guyana some years ago.

Within the boundaries of Bible context, however, are some who seem to gather their robes about themselves in smug certainty that they have all the truth on their side of an issue that is contrary to the whole counsel of God. One of such definition is the subtle but much embraced “replacement theology” theory.

Because Jews rejected Jesus, they say, God has turned away from His promises to Israel and given them to the church. Mainly it is that promise to restore them to the land of Palestine that was given to Abraham and his physical descendants. Physical land was promised to physical people and forever.

First of all, it makes God out to be a liar and changeable in His character. Secondly, it is evidently not so, for who is it who is in the land of Palestine now, established as a sovereign state—Israel, by a decree of all the nations?

Thirdly, if God actually did reject them in favor of the Church, why is the Church not there in that land and in control, and why is the Church—those who believe in that theory—maintaining that the land should be in the hands of the Palestinians, not the Church?

The promise of God and His reasoning is stated multiple times in the words of the prophets. Ezekiel 36:23-24 is one such context:

“‘And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord,’ says the Lord God, ‘When I am hallowed in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.’”

It is not for those disobedient people that He has done it, but for His own holy name’s sake, that the nations might know that God is one who keeps His promises. His word is good. But what of those who are calling God a liar by their “replacement” theory? I abhor the thought that my fellow human beings, academically intelligent as they may be, could also be so thoughtlessly lacking in common sense!

That is a strong statement, but I say it without apology. When Jesus confronted the “knowledgeable” religious leaders of that day, He did not allow their “leaven” equal status with the truths He expounded. Such was His challenge in John 5:39-40:

“You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.”

Jude, also, in his short epistle, uses a strong word to admonish us when he says we are to “contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.” The word, “contend,” is not a passive, compromising term, and in these days of multiplying false prophets and teachers who deviate from the Word of God, it is imperative that the faith, that body of truth called the Word of God, which was once delivered to the earliest of the saints, be fully disclosed.

There are other tangents of theology that make the Scriptures practically meaningless. What those who believe that the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation were fulfilled in the first century or earlier are so deceptive that the devil could well be sitting back , laughing with glee.

They tell me that the devil was chained in the bottomless pit when Jesus was crucified. That position has to be taken, apparently, because they also believe that the millennium also began back then or when Jerusalem was destroyed in A.D. 70.

It may be that they take the quote from Hebrews 2:14-15, but that passage does not tell us that the devil is bound in any way:

“Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”

The apostle Peter, who wrote his first epistle about AD 60, spoke of the devil as alive and well and operating with great exuberance, as he wrote in 1 Peter 5:

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

Now this was Peter’s understanding about thirty years after the crucifixion of Jesus. Someone is promoting a false doctrine about Satan being bound in the bottomless pit, and I do not believe it is Peter. In a chronological flow of events, the chaining of the devil in the bottomless pit for the duration of the thousand years happens after Christ’s coming to the earth at the end of the seven years of tribulation.

The thing that would bring the devil great glee is that he would not be blamed for all the evil that is being expressed on the earth at this time. If it is so, as those folks believe, that Jesus is ruling the earth during “this millennium” from His throne in heaven, then who is to blame?

Or more directly, if Jesus is ruling “with a rod of iron” in the millennium, as the Bible says He will, how effective is He against the current evilness? Now we have reached the point of blasphemy in regard to those beliefs.

When a person operates on a base of lies and deception, truth and reality will invariably box him in. Here is another place where truth and reality quietly slam the door on an out-of-place event that is so placed to support a false claim that prophetic events all came to pass in the first century.

When Daniel spoke of the coming “abomination of desolation” regarding the invasion of the holy place by a usurper, it was future. When Antiochus Epiphanes slaughtered a pig in the holy place in the second century BC, it was not a fulfilling, for Jesus also spoke of it as a future event in Matthew 24:15-16:

“Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.”

Daniel pinpoints this invasion of the holy place by the Antichrist in the middle of that week of the covenant that is confirmed. At this time in the year 2016 no covenant has been confirmed for seven years, so it is still a future event.

However, the promoters of the first century theology maintain that the holy place was desecrated when the city of Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed in AD 70. But there is a problem they did not think of when developing that theology.

When on the cross Jesus said, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit’”and breathed His last, Matthew reports that the veil in the temple was torn apart, from top to bottom, as an earthquake rocked the city. “Torn from top to bottom,” apparently by the hand of God to open   up the holy place to the whole world!

That place was no longer sanctified, set apart where only the high priest could go only once a year and not without a blood offering. So where did God go? In three days and nights Jesus rose from the tomb and was among the disciples forty days. Then ten days later came Pentecost and the miracle of the Holy Spirit coming to indwell the believers!

The Lord God had found a new holy of hollies, the spirit of the believer. Paul writes this, in 1 Corinthians 6:17, “But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him,” and follows it with this in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20:

“Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who isin you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

So what is this telling us about that first century theology? It is totally empty and meaningless, for God was not in the temple at AD 70. He had vacated that holy place decades before, and Titus and his army were intent on getting the gold from between the stones of the temple, just as Jesus had said they would.

He had told the disciples that not one stone would remain upon another at a coming time of destruction (Matthew 24:1-2). Truly that desecration of the holy place will occur in the rebuilt temple half-way through the seven years of tribulation when the then Satan-indwelt Antichrist becomes the eighth head of the beast, then personified in that one who is headed to perdition (Revelation 17:10-11).

And so it is that the Word of God is its own best commentary and the whole counsel of God leaves no loose ends with which deceivers can be deceptive. Thank you, Lord, for Your Holy Word!