Baal-peor -- Been Trying to Open Portals Lately -- probably a bad idea.
Baal-peor, lord of the opening, how about lord of the portals?
I can think of a lot of synonyms for opening - gate, door, portal. If you remember my first post the worship of this baal was licentious in nature. If you need a definition for licentious according to Webster it is as follows,
Lord of the opening, how is that manifesting in current church trends or should I say ministry trends? Right along with the craze for angels is a craze to locate and open portals. Supposedly, these portals are pathways to God.
I have heard of a ministry that sent a team to Stonehenge at the same time that the pagans were gathering there for annual pagan rituals. It was purportedly for reclaiming God's territory. Often these ministries are sending teams to these supposed "portals" at the time of pagan high days, the equinoxes and the solstices. Sedona is supposed to be another of these portals. No matter how hard I have looked I cannot find instructions in the bible for hanging out with pagans and taking over portals.
I am able to find this information though, man tried to build a tower whose top was in the heavens (Genesis 11) and I guess we could say mankind was trying to open a gate or build a portal. But God put an end to that little endeavor known as the Tower of Babel by confusing language and scattering mankind. I can easily take away from this account that God doesn't want humans initiating programs out of their assigned realm of existence since the fall.
Another example is Jacob and his encounter with the stairway to heaven (Genesis 28). God opened this vision to Jacob. Jacob wasn't trying to open a portal -- he was running for his life and trying to get some sleep. And what about Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 19), did Moses say, "Okay God, I've got the portal open, you can come on down now." No, God gave Moses the go ahead to come to the top of the mountain.
If you want to understand the complications involved with coming in contact with God, just read the last chapters of Exodus starting in Chapter 20 with the 10 commandments through Leviticus to understand the intricacy of the preparations it took for the priest to come into the Holy of Holies. For the people to interact with God through the priest. All these things were extremely detailed following exacting rules. Violation of these rules led to judgment and could lead to death. God is not to be toyed with.
How are we to have a relationship with the most high God? There is only one portal I know of to access God. It is through His son, Jesus Christ. John 14:5-6 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?" 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
Well that is pretty clear cut. Jesus didn't say open a portal and find me. Nor do I recall him saying, "Okay here are all the portals in the world I really need for you to go and open them and take them back from those pagans.""I'll be waiting." Jesus Christ accomplished everything we need on the Cross of Calvary.
A study of Matthew 7 is a really good idea. And please do not let people jump on you about the first of Matthew 7 where it says "Judge not, that you be not judged." You had better be judging yourself with a righteous judgment and also those you are following, judging their words and their fruit by what the scriptures say. Nowhere in the bible does it tell you to blindly follow man. Jesus is constantly warning of false christ, false prophets, false teachers. To detect whether something is true or false requires investigation. Then a final judgment to the merits of the evidence whether it is true or false. No one can go through their Christian life without constantly considering their actions and in turn they must consider the actions of others. This current outcry in the body of Christ "Don't Judge, Dont' Judge," is ridiculous at the very least and shows ignorance of the scriptures in abundance.
This passage is speaking of the Berean Jews in the synagogue of Berea.
One of the definitions for judgment according to Webster is "power of comparing and deciding; understanding. If we are NOT comparing, deciding, understanding whether what we are being told is biblical, then we are actually in violation of the Word of God.
Why do Christians consistently check their brains at the door? Why do Christians go around laying on the graves of the likes of Katherine Kulhman and John G. Lake trying to absorb their power and mantles? If those people were from God then the source of the miracles they performed is from God - it's not laying around in a coffin 6 feet under waiting to be absorbed by their replacement. I know that when the dead man was thrown on Elisha's bones (2 Kings 13:21) he came back to life but someone far greater than Elisha is here, JESUS CHRIST.
Body of Christ it is time for each of us to start judging ourselves in light of God's word. Then we had better start judging the message we are receiving from the leadership we are following. It is time to lay aside all silliness and blind faith.
WAKE UP! Jesus is about to make His appearance.
I can think of a lot of synonyms for opening - gate, door, portal. If you remember my first post the worship of this baal was licentious in nature. If you need a definition for licentious according to Webster it is as follows,
licentious 1. disregarding accepted rules and standards 2. morally unrestrained, esp. in sexual activity; lascivious.I believe the first is the more correct regarding current trends in the "body of Christ," but the second is also becoming more and more common. So, technically, disregarding the accepted rules and standards usually finds a sexual breakdown right behind or co-occurring.
Lord of the opening, how is that manifesting in current church trends or should I say ministry trends? Right along with the craze for angels is a craze to locate and open portals. Supposedly, these portals are pathways to God.
I have heard of a ministry that sent a team to Stonehenge at the same time that the pagans were gathering there for annual pagan rituals. It was purportedly for reclaiming God's territory. Often these ministries are sending teams to these supposed "portals" at the time of pagan high days, the equinoxes and the solstices. Sedona is supposed to be another of these portals. No matter how hard I have looked I cannot find instructions in the bible for hanging out with pagans and taking over portals.
I am able to find this information though, man tried to build a tower whose top was in the heavens (Genesis 11) and I guess we could say mankind was trying to open a gate or build a portal. But God put an end to that little endeavor known as the Tower of Babel by confusing language and scattering mankind. I can easily take away from this account that God doesn't want humans initiating programs out of their assigned realm of existence since the fall.
Another example is Jacob and his encounter with the stairway to heaven (Genesis 28). God opened this vision to Jacob. Jacob wasn't trying to open a portal -- he was running for his life and trying to get some sleep. And what about Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 19), did Moses say, "Okay God, I've got the portal open, you can come on down now." No, God gave Moses the go ahead to come to the top of the mountain.
If you want to understand the complications involved with coming in contact with God, just read the last chapters of Exodus starting in Chapter 20 with the 10 commandments through Leviticus to understand the intricacy of the preparations it took for the priest to come into the Holy of Holies. For the people to interact with God through the priest. All these things were extremely detailed following exacting rules. Violation of these rules led to judgment and could lead to death. God is not to be toyed with.
How are we to have a relationship with the most high God? There is only one portal I know of to access God. It is through His son, Jesus Christ. John 14:5-6 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?" 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
Well that is pretty clear cut. Jesus didn't say open a portal and find me. Nor do I recall him saying, "Okay here are all the portals in the world I really need for you to go and open them and take them back from those pagans.""I'll be waiting." Jesus Christ accomplished everything we need on the Cross of Calvary.
A study of Matthew 7 is a really good idea. And please do not let people jump on you about the first of Matthew 7 where it says "Judge not, that you be not judged." You had better be judging yourself with a righteous judgment and also those you are following, judging their words and their fruit by what the scriptures say. Nowhere in the bible does it tell you to blindly follow man. Jesus is constantly warning of false christ, false prophets, false teachers. To detect whether something is true or false requires investigation. Then a final judgment to the merits of the evidence whether it is true or false. No one can go through their Christian life without constantly considering their actions and in turn they must consider the actions of others. This current outcry in the body of Christ "Don't Judge, Dont' Judge," is ridiculous at the very least and shows ignorance of the scriptures in abundance.
I Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good. I John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. I Corinthians 14:29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. Matthew 24:4-5 And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 "For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many."and further in the same chapter at verse 11 Jesus continuing says,
"Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many."And finally in
Acts 17:11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so."
This passage is speaking of the Berean Jews in the synagogue of Berea.
One of the definitions for judgment according to Webster is "power of comparing and deciding; understanding. If we are NOT comparing, deciding, understanding whether what we are being told is biblical, then we are actually in violation of the Word of God.
Why do Christians consistently check their brains at the door? Why do Christians go around laying on the graves of the likes of Katherine Kulhman and John G. Lake trying to absorb their power and mantles? If those people were from God then the source of the miracles they performed is from God - it's not laying around in a coffin 6 feet under waiting to be absorbed by their replacement. I know that when the dead man was thrown on Elisha's bones (2 Kings 13:21) he came back to life but someone far greater than Elisha is here, JESUS CHRIST.
Body of Christ it is time for each of us to start judging ourselves in light of God's word. Then we had better start judging the message we are receiving from the leadership we are following. It is time to lay aside all silliness and blind faith.
WAKE UP! Jesus is about to make His appearance.
Jude 3-4 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.There is that word again, licentious, remember what it means - disregarding accepted rules and standards. Sounds about where we are in the church today.
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