Stand Firm on Faith in God :: By Nathele Graham

Let’s go back in time to an age of peace. God created everything and deemed it to be good. If God says it’s good, it’s good. Then there was trouble in Paradise. Instead of following God’s direction, Adam and Eve listened to the whispers of Satan.

“Now the Serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Genesis 3:1).

Because Adam and Eve listened to the serpent, Paradise was lost. Things have been getting worse and worse as people listen to Satan’s voice more and more while rejecting God’s truth. Too many preachers have ignored the fundamentals of Scripture established in Genesis.

The serpent has been whispering his lies for millennia, and mankind hasn’t learned from history. We keep listening to the lies. We need to stand firmly upon God’s truth, not Satan’s lies. In Scripture, the serpent is never referred to as anything good. The Hebrew word translated “serpent” is “nahas” and means a serpent or snake, and quite often in Scripture, Satan is referred to as the dragon. Many pastors have listened to Satan’s whispers and followed the way of the world rather than standing firm on God’s truth. They either see evolution as truth, or else the whole creation account is ignored. Many pastors don’t teach from the Old Testament at all. No wonder Christians have failed to stand firmly on faith in God and His truth and get confused by Satan’s lies.

Is it important to give God the credit for creation? Yes, it is. Even humans want credit for things they’ve done. We get patents on inventions so nobody can steal our glory. When someone writes a song or a book, their talent is copyrighted so nobody can take credit for their works. Yet, people have listened to and believed the lie of evolution, which basically says everything came from nothing. Scripture tells us the truth.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:1-3).

That’s pretty easy to understand. John goes on to tell us about the Word.

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

The Word was Jesus. “Word” is translated from the Greek word “logos,” meaning spoken.

Looking back at Genesis, we read, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).

The Hebrew word “Elohim” is a plural word, translated as a singular word, “God.” In Hebrew, a plural is at least three, which reveals God in three Persons… the Trinity. Jesus (God the Son) was also there.

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light” (Genesis 1:3).

The Holy Spirit was there, too (Genesis 1:2). God spoke all things into being. Do you see how important it is to stand firm on God’s word and believe what He says?

Genesis chapter 1 tells us that God created living creatures, including man, on the sixth day. All living things were created male and female in order to reproduce. Today, there is a great deception happening. Males think they are female, and females think they are males. Sadly, mad scientists have found a way to mock God and mutilate people into being something they are not. With enough hormone shots and enough mutilation of the body, a man can look like a woman, and a woman can look like a man, but that’s only deception and delusion. More Satanic lies. Our public schools are teaching this lie along with the lie of evolution, and Christians don’t seem to care.

The Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the believers in Rome, and he explained the importance of believing the creation account recorded in Genesis.

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them: for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse” (Romans 1:18-20).

Science has proven God’s truth many times but manages to come up with more lies to “prove” former lies. We now know that everything is made up of atoms. They are invisible except when seen through powerful microscopes. Then there’s the pesky problem of DNA, which proves that all things were created after their “kind,” just as Genesis reveals. Evolution didn’t happen.

Scripture reveals the consequences of believing lies.

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” (Romans 1:22-25).

When the truth is mocked, lies will replace truth. God’s truth reveals that He will allow people to choose their own path if they insist. Adam ate the Forbidden fruit even though he knew the consequences. Today, God is allowing humanity to reap the evil of the lies we accept. Evolution is taught as fact, and humanity is becoming more and more corrupt each day. The wickedness and hatred caused by this lie is seen in mass shootings, sacrificing babies and calling it “a woman’s choice,” and deviant sexual practices, which are all the result of Christians not standing firm upon our faith, questioning God’s truth, and allowing Satan’s lies to be accepted.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient” (Romans 1:28).

Other Bible translations translate “convenient” as “not fitting” (NKJV), “things that should never be done” (NLT), “things that are not proper” (NASB), and “should not be done.” (NET). Things are getting worse and worse daily. Now we have people who are convinced they are animals. Schools and society are accommodating their idiocy. People are also under the delusion that they can choose a pronoun to be known as. Maybe a person wants to be “they” or “frog” or “bug.” A male might want to be known as “she” and a female known as “he.” This is all happening openly, and Christians are OK with this craziness. Some professing Christians are a part of the lunacy, but God isn’t OK with our acceptance of such deception.

Scripture says if we accept this lie, we are as guilty as the ones participating in it.

“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” (Romans 1:32).

It isn’t being judgmental to stand on God’s word. He has told us that males are males and females are females. He has told us that woman was made for man… not man for man.

Going back to Genesis, we learn that after Adam’s sin, all of creation fell. Adam and Eve had children, and those children had children, and Satan’s goal was to corrupt everything. His lies have led to misinterpretation of God’s truth.

“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose” (Genesis 6:1-2).

Just who were the “sons of God”? Simply put, they are angels. The Hebrew “ben ‘elohim” translated “sons of God” always describes a direct creation of God. Adam was a son of God, and so are angels. In Scripture, angels are always referred to as male, so angels don’t make other angels. The angels who rebelled saw the daughters of men and took them as wives. Christians are a new creation through Christ, and our faith gives us the power to become sons of God (John 1:12). Some like to say that this phrase in the above verse really means the “sons of Seth.” Seth was the son of Adam, not a direct creation of God. If God meant Seth, the Holy Spirit would have inspired the words “ben set” instead of “ben’ elohim.” In order for Satan to stop humanity from being reconciled with God, the fallen angels (sons of God) mated with humans to corrupt the genetic makeup of humanity.

“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:4-5).

This evil is what caused God’s judgment to come upon all of creation. People didn’t stand firm on God’s truth, and judgment had to come in order to save humanity from being corrupted beyond redemption.

There was one man and his family that stood firmly upon God’s truth.

“These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God” (Genesis 6:9).

This doesn’t mean Noah was without sin but that he was genetically untainted. His family had stood firmly upon God’s truth and kept themselves pure. His great-great-grandfather was Enoch.

“And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him” (Genesis 5:24).

This is confirmed in the New Testament.

“By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had his testimony, that he pleased God” (Hebrews 11:5).

This is a “picture” of the Rapture. Enoch walked with God and pleased Him. Faith and obedience pleases God. Enoch was taken by God prior to the judgment of the Flood that destroyed all of God’s creation except life that had not been genetically corrupted. Noah, his wife, his sons, and their wives were all saved. It’s important to stand firm upon God’s truth in faith.

Fathers and mothers, what are you teaching your children? What are you allowing to be taught to them in schools? Grandparents, have you ignored the corruption of your grandchildren? If Christians don’t stand firm upon the absolute truth found in Scripture, children will continue to be confused into thinking their pronoun is “they” or “dog.”

Jesus said the end times will be as it was in the days of Noah.

“But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:37-39).

Before the Flood, people ignored all the evil around them. They just went about their daily routines ignoring the evil of the fallen angels and accepting the evil all around them.

Brothers and sisters, we cannot continue to close our eyes to the Satanic deception around us. We cannot allow our children to be turned against God. Judgment is coming. God never acts without warning.

“And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth” (Genesis 6:13).

God chose Noah for the task of building the ark because Noah was faithful. God had given mankind 120 years to turn from their wickedness (Genesis 6:3). The huge ark that Noah and his sons were building was a testimony of God’s coming judgment. Noah faithfully did what God asked of him. The people around him saw the ark but chose not to repent. Still, Noah did God’s will.

How about you? Do you get frustrated when trying to witness to a loved one or a friend, but they reject your testimony? Do you give up and decide not to do God’s command and share the Gospel?

Just before Jesus ascended into Heaven, He told His disciples to teach all nations.

“And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen” (Matthew 28:18-20).

Today, sharing the Gospel has been weakened. Christians don’t follow the Biblical example of evangelism and share the Gospel. We hide behind gimmicks like shoeboxes and think that’s good enough. People have to hear the Gospel in order to believe it.

God has warned us that the world will once again be judged. This time it will be worse than anything that has ever happened before.

Brothers and sisters, we must believe God’s word and stand firm on our faith. Noah lived out his faith. He worked on the ark for 120 years, and who was saved? Only 8 people entered the ark, but Noah never stopped believing God. His life was a testimony, but the people around him chose not to believe. They all perished in the judgment. Each of us who claim to be followers of Christ must live our life as a testimony of His love.

“But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:15-16).

That word “conversation” needs to be understood. It comes from the Greek word “anastrophe” and means much more than the way we talk to each other. It means our “manner of life, conduct, behavior, deportment.” So, watch the words you choose to use, but also conform your life to Jesus’ example. Live so that the people around you can see your faith. Don’t base your attitude on the actions of others, but base it on Christ.

If you have truly accepted Christ’s sacrifice as the redemption for your sin, then stand firm on that faith. Don’t compromise by being confused by Satan’s lies.

God bless you all,

Nathele Graham

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A Doctrine of Demons :: By The Gospelist

It is an interesting fact that civilization and recorded history only date back about 6,000 years. Not coincidentally, this is the amount of time that the Bible covers.

According to evolutionists, people were hunter-gatherers for about a million years before civilization arose, and then suddenly, someone stood up and said, ‘let’s invent the wheel.’ All the great ideas seemed to have happened over the last 6,000 years, while nothing worth mentioning happened prior to that time. Even most non-Christian historians adhere to this fact.

Even more interesting is that non-Christian historians claim that, while we were hunting and gathering for those million years, we were also evolving from monkeys (they could not explain why there are still monkeys), but, suddenly, some of the monkeys, for some unknown reason, started to look like men and developed a higher level of cognitive function than the other monkeys.

Apparently, the DNA of monkeys began to change right around the time that God created Adam and Eve. What an interesting coincidence.

These are the things that our ‘greatest minds’ would have us believe. If I did not know any better, I would think we were being played.

God informed us that the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, but it is hard to imagine that people can actually believe this nonsense. The people promoting this drivel should have been placed in a rubber room, not living in ivory towers and educating our children at taxpayer expense.

Sumer is considered to be the first ancient civilization to have existed on the earth. This is due to its remarkable innovations in language, government, architecture, farming, textiles, and all other manifestations of an advanced culture. It is currently thought to have been founded sometime around 4000 B.C. as the ‘hunter-gatherers,’ who completed their evolution from monkeys, began to populate the area.

These people congregated in the area of Mesopotamia at a time that the Bible claims Adam and Eve were created. This gathering of newly evolved people also appears to have occurred in the same location where the Bible indicates the creation of Adam and Eve occurred. What a remarkable coincidence.

According to most archeologists, nothing of note really started to happen until about 3200 B.C. Not surprisingly, this, too, is within the biblical timeline.

The oldest recordings of the Sumerian language appeared in the archeological records around 3100 B.C. It is believed that the Sumerians created the first form of writing, called cuneiform, and some of these writings exist to this day.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest piece of literature in recorded history. It was written in cuneiform and tells the tale of a great worldwide flood that was global in scope. According to the Bible timeline, the flood in Genesis occurred around 2300 B.C. The adventures of Gilgamesh are thought to have occurred after the flood around 2100 B.C. Another remarkable coincidence. It seems a pattern is developing here.

It is possible that the earliest tablet containing this story occurred around 2000 B.C., but the earliest full telling of this story occurred around 650 B.C. Moses is thought to have written the biblical flood account around 1445 B.C.

It is possible that the Sumerians recorded this story before Moses. However, it is clear that one is written from a pagan perspective, which believed in many gods, as opposed to the biblical perspective in which the writer believed in a single God. In any event, even a superficial reading of both stories shows that neither author relied on the other in the telling of this story.

The best explanation is that this story was told according to each author’s interpretation of an actual historical event. The coincidences in support of the biblical timeline just keep piling up.

When we look at the legal code, the oldest written laws are found in the Code of Er-Nammu and date back to about 2400 B.C. This begs the question of why it took so long for humanity to develop a legal code. We are led to believe that we were hunting and gathering while evolving from monkeys over a one-million-year period. Suddenly, and without warning, someone stands up and demands a legal code by which to live. All this, of course, occurs within the biblical timeline.

The coincidences just keep coming.

We can continue on with religious structures such as Ziggurats, reading, writing, arithmetic, and every other form of civilization. What we will find repeatedly is that every important innovation falls within the biblical timeline of 6,000 years.

Since the biblical timeline matches reality, we can now move to philosophy, which is another innovation that occurs within the biblical timeline. We have no record that anyone was philosophizing while they were still evolving from monkeys.

We know that it is scientifically and philosophically impossible for:

  1. Life to spring forth spontaneously, or accidentally, from lifeless matter.
  2. Order to arise spontaneously, or accidentally, out of chaos.

These two truths effectively eliminate evolution as a viable science and instead place it squarely in the category of pseudo-science. Life requires a God to originate it; there is no other legitimate explanation for its existence.

There is also no way through observation or experimentation to make a monkey evolve into a man, or vice versa. Each creature has its own genetic code that it stubbornly follows, with minor errors, that cause it to be what it was created to be.

We as Christians know that God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

According to the evolutionists, there is no God. All there was in the beginning was an accidental ‘Big Bang’ that accidentally created life and then accidentally created order. This assertion is the same as putting all the components of a Timex watch into a bucket and shaking it until it forms a working Timex watch. This fact leads us to wonder how many billions of years it would take for that to accidentally happen.

Evolutionists assert that there is no God who loves us. Since there is no God, we have no standard to show us the true meaning of love. That leaves each of us with the unenviable task of defining love for ourselves with no guidance whatsoever. Since none of us can define love, this virtue cannot exist when God is rejected.

Since, according to evolutionists, there is no love, there is certainly no need for a God to send his only Son to die for us. There is no such thing as sin under this theory. Under evolution, the Gospel is as irrelevant as love.

What we believe is then rendered irrelevant. You can follow your own beliefs until someone with greater power tells you to believe in something else. Politically, a nation that believes in evolution is most likely to exist under a totalitarian government. Our personal beliefs are irrelevant under a tyrannical regime. If we live under an autocracy that promotes the myth of evolution, freedom of conscience no longer exists.

Finally, under evolution, there is no sense in worrying about eternal life. When you die, your body becomes worm food, and your life is forgotten. It is as if you never existed.

Evolution sure is a cheerful pseudo-science. It looks more like a doctrine of demons posing as a science. Not coincidentally, it contains all the assertions that a demonic creature might promote.

It is not by accident that the theory of evolution is promoted by those who believe in totalitarianism. There is no love, truth, or righteousness in a society that adheres to this sham of a theory. The only thing that is real is blind obedience to the State and whatever ‘truth’ it is promoting on a particular day. This is exactly what we see in nations like China and North Korea. It is also what we are seeing from our current leadership and its media lapdogs.

If any of this sounds Satanic, that is only because it is. Evil people desire those over whom they rule to believe that their lives are meaningless. Such people are pliable, easy to control, and even easier to dispose of. Once the idea of God is introduced into society, it is not long before that pesky yearning for freedom rears its ugly head. Therefore, all tyrants attempt to remove all vestiges of the biblical God from society.

Also, many people are drawn to autocrats because they have no faith, or have abandoned their faith, and desire to follow a powerful leader who will assuage their consciences. Such leaders lead them into false ideologies that they can turn to in order to deal with the guilt and shame of their immoral and sinful lives. They can live in any manner they choose just so long as they can have ‘faith’ in a false ideology promoted by the tyrant.

It is for this reason that Paul warned us about the terrible state of the human condition of the end times:

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths” (II Timothy 4:3-4).

Evolution is most certainly a myth that many people have wandered off into. It can be very appealing to those who are living a Godless lifestyle and cannot deal with the resulting pangs of conscience. This is why so many people are passionately drawn to other myths such as climate change, transgenderism, and the race cult.

Regarding climate change, those who put their faith in it do not have to worry about a righteous God who will not be mocked by their sin and faithlessness. In the cult of climate change, it is not our sin that is the problem but rather our freedom and prosperity that is causing human suffering. It is much easier to make sacrifices of our conveniences than it is to repent of the sins that have enslaved us.

Climate change is a lot like Lent. The main difference is that the ‘fasting’ is imposed on you by a totalitarian government, and it lasts a lifetime, not just 40 days. The people of North Korea can teach us a thing or two about ‘fasting.’

A good autocratic government understands this aspect of human nature and will gladly exploit its faithlessness for wealth and power. In the process, it leaves the people that it imposes it upon in destitution.

The new sex cult that champions homosexuality, gay marriage, and transgenderism fits in perfectly with the moral relativism of evolution. No longer are we perverts who are violating God’s law regarding sexuality; we are now evolving away from the old sexuality and becoming something even greater.

Apparently, becoming like Buffalo Bill in ‘Silence of the Lambs’ is not something that should horrify us. It is now our new ideal for sexuality. We are reaching for a greater form of consciousness rather than sinners who need to repent.

The race cult is similar to the cult of sexual perversion. Just as there is no such thing as a ‘transgender’ in reality, there is also no such thing as someone who is a different ‘race.’ We are called the human race for a reason. These ‘social constructs’ are tools for the demonic to use to ruin the reputations of people of faith or those who dare to exhibit common sense.

Under any of these ideologies, there is no such thing as love, truth, or righteousness. These ideologies are myths that were created to empower evil over good. As we have seen in this nation, they can be used most effectively to enslave a Godless and faithless population.

Proponents of these cultlike ideologies are supremely self-righteous even though they live in opposition to the holy prophets and the commandments of the Lord. The sad thing is that many of them are ‘churchgoers,’ but the church they go to is of the Laodicean variety. The Laodicean Church has rejected the Gospel, or has attempted to alter it so that its doctrines fall in line with the narratives of the Globalists.

We can learn a great deal about the doctrines of the Laodicean church and why it is so well respected among the heathen in the last days. The apostle Peter provides some greater detail of the doctrines of the dominant church in the end times. He writes:

This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days [of the church age] with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

“They will say, ‘Where is the promise of his [Christ’s] coming? For ever since the fathers [of the faith] fell asleep [passed away], all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation. For they [who are dead in their sins] deliberately [of their own free will] overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water [there was no ‘Big Bang’] by the word of God [God created the heavens and the earth], and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged [by the flood of Noah] with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire [but not by climate change], being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly [as described in the Book of Revelation]” (II Peter 3:1-7).

(I have employed the exegetical method above of “Allowing God’s Word to Speak for Itself” rather than the overintellectualized method of the various forms of ‘Systematic Theology.’ The plain reading of Scripture, while taking a few reasonable liberties, is much more illuminating.)

We know that the dominant church at the end of the church age is represented as the church of Laodicea. The Laodiceans will surely be the ones who pose the question “Where is the promise of his coming?” to the faithful. It is easy to see why Jesus was outside of this church, patiently waiting for them to open the door, of their own free will, and come to repentance.

Instead, the Laodiceans cling to one false doctrine after another, taking comfort in their wealth rather than the faith that was offered to them. Those among them who believe in evolution, climate change, transgenderism, or engage in false accusations of ‘racism’ are indeed wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

Fortunately, we are informed that God’s patience has its limits, and the representatives of the church of Laodicea in the modern age quickly puts an end to it. Peter continues:

“But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day [this fact should not be overlooked when considering the creation of the heavens and earth]. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness [by our standards] but is patient toward you [God draws us in patiently], not wishing that any should perish [even though God is Sovereign], but that all should reach repentance [of their own free will]. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief [at the rapture], and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved [Revelation 21:1], and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed [at the Great White Throne Judgment when the faithless are cast into the Lake of Fire]” (II Peter 3:8-10).

The church of Laodicea is a corpse. Those who are faithful would all be better off if its congregations would simply bury it and find a new religion. Its rotting carcass stinks to high heaven.

We are called to patiently endure the stench of its representatives until the Lord retrieves us. It is highly unlikely this ‘church’ is going to open the door to the Lord. So, hold your nose; we are almost there.

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