Cosmic Conflict

The first words in the Holy Bible are "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth", Genesis 1:1. This is the English translation from the original seven Hebrew words. Belief in this will let all the rest of the Scriptures fall in their proper place. The profound truth of this statement has been studied and examined for thousands of years.

God made the earth a beautiful place to be inhabited and the Angels who were made before the earth, all shouted for joy.

Isa 45:18  For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.

Job 38:4 ¶  Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5  Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6  Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7  When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

So adding the second verse which is part of the initial statement, we have:

Gn1:1 ¶  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

We can see that something must have brought about a perfect earth to become without form and void. As a matter of fact, the word here for "was" could have been translated as "became". Also the word "deep" is the abyss.  In other places in the Bible it is the "pit" or "abyss" that is the place for the fallen angels, or a type of prison. 

What many believe is that there is a gap between verse 1 and 2, where something happened to make the earth without form and void. This is prior to the first day of creation. The Bible supports this, but does not talk about it much in Genesis. What we do see in Gn 3, is that when Satan shows up in the garden with Eve, he is already evil, and comes as a serpent that speaks. We have all been taught that Lucifer became Satan in a rebellion against God. That rebellion started before man, even before the 6 days of creation. That tells us that the war between Satan and God has been going on for a long time, and as we will see is going on now.

Ez 28:1 ¶  The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

2  Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart [is] lifted up, and thou hast said, I [am] a God, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou [art] a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

3  Behold, thou [art] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

4  With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

5  By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

6  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

7  Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

8  They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of [them that are] slain in the midst of the seas.

9  Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I [am] God? but thou [shalt be] a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

10  Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD.

11 ¶  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

12  Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

13  Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

14  Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

15  Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

16  By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

17  Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

18  Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

19  All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt] thou [be] any more.

God here is talking with Ezekiel, about the Prince of Tyre and then about the King of Tyre. The Prince is the human, and the King is the spirit that is behind him. Obviously from the description, the spirit is the Devil. The stones on him were probably similar to those on the breastplate of the Priest in Exodus, however there are only 10 named. 

Isa 14:9  Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10  All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

11  Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

15  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

16  They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and] consider thee, [saying, Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

17  [That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners?

18  All the kings of the nations, [even] all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

19  But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

20  Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

Here as well, God speaks to Isaiah concerning the King of Babylon, which is easily discerned that it is the spirit of Satan who was once Lucifer (light bringer). Who has rebelled against God. Lucifer was a created Cherub, and they have 4 wings as seen by Ezekiel.

Jer 4:19 ¶  My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

20  Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment.

21  How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of the trumpet?

22  For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

23  I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.

24  I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

25  I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

26  I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, [and] by his fierce anger.

As the LORD discusses with Jeremiah about the coming invasion of Judah by Babylon, he sees glimpses of the war with Lucifer when the earth was made "without form and void" and darkness. It is terrible for him and hurts his stomach. In whatever God had given or allowed Lucifer to build and rule over, there were cities. The beings there were not as we are, in the image of God, but were none the less living in in cities. Being as God moves to the earth at the end of Revelation, I would think that the authority for Lucifer to prepare the earth for God was given to him and he was anointed to get the job accomplished. I do not know of another Cherub that was anointed. Somewhere in this process, Lucifer rebelled against God and became the adversary, Satan. Many of the Angels followed him in his rebellion. In Rv 12 it states that one third of the stars fell with him.

So back to Genesis we will continue. I wanted you to know that the war with Satan and God had started before man was on the earth. 

Gn 1:1 ¶  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 ¶  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4  And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5  And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

So, God in the first verse created all. In the second verse the Spirit of God is hovering over the waters that cover the earth. In the third verse God speaks and calls light into being. The Word of God is made flesh in Jn 1:1 which is Jesus. In these first 3 verses is the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. God here is Elohim which is plural. The first word in the Bible is Bareshith which is translated as "In the beginning". The first two letters are bet resh which spells Bar  which is Son. You see Son is the first letters of the Bible and when God called forth light, He called for His Son, the light of the world, Jn 8:12.

God was fashioning the earth again, to make a perfect place for Him to dwell, not alone but surrounded by beauty. Day 2 God created the expanse that separated the waters from below and above and called it Heaven. 

Gn 1:9 ¶  And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.

10  And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.

11  And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12  And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

13  And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 ¶  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15  And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16  And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.

                            

                                                   

17  And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18  And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.

19  And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

God set the stars to also tell us of the Gospel. The Bible calls it the Mazzeroth, which we know as the Zodiac. It in detail and by the star names shows us about Jesus from Mary (Virgo) to Leo (Jesus). The conflict between Satan and God is well written in the stars. (See my blog and Youtube, Gospel in the Stars)

On day 5 all of the fish and fowl were brought forth at God's Word. 

24 ¶  And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25  And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

26 ¶  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27  So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

So God gave Adam the Kingship and dominion over the planet. In chapter 2 of Genesis we see how God formed Eve from Adam's rib, a type of clone if you will. The earth was perfect and God now had companions that were made in His image. Someone for fellowship on this earth. On the 7th day God rested and proclaimed it a day of rest. All of God's work was finished.

Satan at this point was a renegade spirit, he did not have his power or body after the initial rebellion against God. As we saw, he was wiser than Daniel, and he came to Eve and tempted her. As he did not have a body, he possessed a serpent in order to talk with Eve.

God had planted a garden in Eden, and there placed Adam and Eve. It was perfect, and they could freely eat of every tree in the garden. One tree was God's and off limits; the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or of blessing and calamity. 

Gn 3:1 ¶  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?

2  And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3  But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

6 ¶  And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7  And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

8  And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

9 ¶  And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [art] thou?

10  And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself.

11 ¶  And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

12  And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13  And the LORD God said unto the woman, What [is] this [that] thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14 ¶  And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (the first prophecy of the coming Messiah)

16 ¶  Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17 ¶  And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;

18  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.

It was important to understand the Cosmic Conflict that we started at the beginning. Because of Adam's disobedience to God and obedience to Satan, he lost his place of dominion over the earth. Satan became the god of this world. Even so, Adam had been given the Priesthood which was passed on to the time of Messiah. (See the Gospel of the Old Ones, blog and Youtube)

By treachery and deception, Satan had taken Adam's dominion, this was his counter strike against God for making the earth which was under his control, formless and void.

God took animals and made sacrifice for Adam and Eve's sin and then took the skins and made them clothes before banning them from the garden and the tree of life by Cherubim with flaming swords.

Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters. The first two sons were Cain and Abel. Satan worked on Cain and had him to kill his brother to eliminate both from being the promised Messiah. (However, the line of Christ the Messiah came through Seth, the 3rd son.)

Satan's next move in this Cosmic Conflict was to corrupt the seed of man so that Messiah could not come. The plan was to corrupt mankind by genetically mixing the genes of fallen angels with those of mankind. 

Satan lost his original body, so now he uses whatever to take form in the physical world. We saw that he possessed a serpent to speak with Eve. In Job he was the leviathan, a fire breathing dragon. Dragons are still worshiped in parts of the world today. Some Bible scholars think that Lucifer had the reptiles under his authority a savarian (lizard like).

About 1500 years after Adam, Satan implemented this plan. Genesis 6 tells us that that the "sons of God" took wives and had children who became giants (Nephilim Hebrew). Enoch 1: 6-10 DSS tells us these fallen angels were led by a demon called Semjaza who let 200 fallen to Mt Hermon where they took an oath to continue with the pursuit of women and would do so even though they would be punished. Mt. Hermon means the "place of the oath". 

Mt. Hermon is a beautiful mountain that is bordered by Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. Interesting is that the North end of the mountain has coordinates of 33.33 N 33.33E. 

These fallen angels must have used a portal from Heaven to come to this spot. That portal was still there because Jesus took Peter, James, and John up there on the feast of Tabernacles and was transfigured into a future time when He would be the ruler of all. Moses and Elijah came and were with him. They spoke to Him of the will of God and of Jesus' mission as Messiah, for they represented the Law and the Prophets, but God spoke that Jesus was His Beloved Son and to hear him. Mt 17, Mk9, and Lk 9. 

Angels were not meant to procreate. There is a set number, and there are no female angels mentioned in scripture. In order for the fallen angels to be able to take women and have children, they had to possess a willing male and use his body. The children were called "mighty men, men of renown" this is Gibor in Hebrew. The Bible and Enoch describe how the angelic technology was given to people of the earth: enchantments, pharmacy with plants, metallurgy, weapons, jewelry, face make up, astrology, sun and moon, musical instruments, farming, and ranching.  Many Prophetic Scholars today believe that construction of megalithic structures was also evidence of angelic technology.

Gn 6:1 ¶  And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2  That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

3 ¶  And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

4 ¶  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.

5  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.

6 ¶  And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7  And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8 ¶  But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

9  These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.

We see that the Bible specifically states that Noah's generations were perfect. Most all of the world had been corrupted genetically by the fallen and terrorized by them and their hybrid offspring, the giants. 

In Enoch 1:Ch7 the fallen took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots and made them acquainted with plants. 2 And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: 3 Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, 4 the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. 5 And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. 6 Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

Enoch 1:Ch9 And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. 2 And they said one to another: The earth made without inhabitant cries the voice of their crying up to the gates of heaven. 3 And no to you the holy ones of heaven, the should of men make their suit, saying, Bring our cause before the Most High...   Which they did so. Ch10 The Most High Holy and Great One, sends the deluge and has His Angels bind the fallen "watchers" into prisons to await judgement that will put them eventually in the lake of fire. Also in vs 16 is the "Plant of Righteousness" introduced that will bring peace and goodness to the earth. (Jesus) who in Ch 11 brings blessings from Heaven to earth.

The angels that sinned put in prison (the lowest abyss) until the judgement is in the Bible in 1 Pet 3:18-20, 2 Pet 2:4-5, and Jude 6-7.

In Gn 6 God tells Noah to build the Ark, a huge 3 deck ship that is 300 cubits long (525'),  50 cubits wide (87.5'), and 30 cubits high  (52.5'). God picked the animals to come to Noah to continue the land animal kingdom on the earth. As we read in Enoch, even the animals were corrupted by the fallen. Noah was instructed to gather food for his family and all the animals and bring it into the Ark. This is a modern copy.

Here is what the Ark looks like today in Noah's Ark Park in Turkey after 4344 years in the mountains of Ararat.

Gn7:10  And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11 ¶  In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12  And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 ¶  In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

14  They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

15  And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.

16  And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.: (year 1656 from Adam)

17 ¶  And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

18  And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

19  And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered.

20  Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

21 ¶  And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

22  All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.

Thus God killed all the giants that were the children of angels and women and all the corrupted humans, and corrupted animals. The fallen angels were all put into prison in the abyss. Satan's plan was squelched. 

The Ark landed after being on the global sea for 1 year and landed on the feast of Firstfruits, the same day that Jesus rose from the dead 2376 years later. God works outside of time and space and knows the beginning from the end. 

Isa 46:9  Remember the former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else; [I am] God, and [there is] none like me,

10  Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

As you can see so far, the conflict between God and Satan is real, affects all of us. Satan does not play by the rules. God made the rules and is bound by them. If you understand the conflict that is going on at all times, you will better understand what is the truth of the things happening around you.

Isa 40:4  Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

5  And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].

6  The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field:

7  The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.

8  The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Noah was the 5th Melchizedek Priest, King, and Prophet. He would rule the earth as God told him the basic laws for mankind who would follow God and not the devil. (See my programs The Gospel of the Old Ones, Blogspot and Youtube)

Gn 8:20 ¶  And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21  And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22  While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Gn 9:1 ¶  And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

2  And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

3  Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

4  But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

5  And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

6  Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

7  And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

8 ¶  And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

9  And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

10  And with every living creature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

11  And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

12 ¶  And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations:

13  I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14  And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

15  And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16  And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth.

17  And God said unto Noah, This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.

Before the flood, it never rained, only a heavy dew. Gn 2:5-6. So, when the waters of heaven fell and the fountains of the deep opened to flood the earth, the weather became as it is now, thus the rainbow to remind us and God of His covenant with man.

Satan continued to look for any opportunity to once again attack, for if the Messiah comes as God promised, there would be no chance of winning this war, for that would be God in man that could reverse the dominion that he had stolen from Adam. 

There are dispensations of the time of man in the Bible. The time for Adam's dominion is 6000 years. Man was created on the 6th day. One day is as 1000 years, 2 Pet 3:8. Adam to Abraham was 2000, Abraham to Jesus was 2000, and Jesus to the present has been 2000. The 7th day will be the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ on the earth. (Rev 20) We are very close to that 6000 year mark. Prophecies of the Bible are happening very rapidly and there are not that many left to fulfill.

As you read through the Bible you will see several attacks by Satan and how God responds. This study does not cover all of the cosmic conflicts, but focuses on the major ones. 

Gn 9:18 ¶  And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham [is] the father of Canaan.

19  These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

20  And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

21  And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

22  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

23  And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

24 ¶  And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

25  And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

26  And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

27  God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Every thing in the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit. Notice how in verse 18 and 22 it says that "Ham is the father of Canaan". Why is Noah so upset and curses his grandson over Ham seeing his nakedness?

It is because Ham allowed one of the fallen to come into him and had incestual rape of his mother of which Canaan was the result.

Lev 18:8  The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it [is] thy father’s nakedness.

Grain, wine, and oil are the blessings that were furnished by God for us to use in festivals and worship. (See my programs on Grain, Wine, and Oil). To make wine from planting the vine to harvest and drinking wine takes 3 years according to wineries of today. Unlike religion's teaching that Noah just planted the grapes and got intoxicated, the truth of the matter needs to be researched and revealed to you. Jesus' first miracle recorded was to make wine from water for a wedding in Cana, when they had ran out. This was good wine, over 120 gallons. Noah was designating a feast to the Lord, that was a forerunner of Firstfruits a celebration of life. Noah and his wife, Naamah, both drank of the wine, and no doubt all of his children. Naamah is the daughter of Enoch, Jasher 5:15 and was no doubt attractive. One of the fallen moved in Ham to have sex with his mother, while his father Noah was asleep and unable to protect her. "And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father" this is a statement that Ham had sex with his mother. Satan had made his next attack after the flood.  

From Canaan the son of Ham with his mother came a whole race of giants, the hybrid offspring of the fallen angels and earth women.

Gn 10:15 ¶  And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

16  And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

17  And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

18  And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

Jubilees 10:

1. And in the third week of this jubilee the unclean demons began to lead astray the children of the sons of Noah, and to make to err and destroy them.
2. And the sons of Noah came to Noah their father, and they told him concerning the demons which were leading astray and blinding and slaying his sons' sons.
3. And he prayed before the Lord his God, and said:

   'God of the spirits of all flesh, who hast shown mercy unto me
   And hast saved me and my sons from the waters of the flood,
   And hast not caused me to perish as Thou didst the sons of perdition;

   For Thy grace has been great towards me,
   And great has been Thy mercy to my soul;

   Let Thy grace be lift up upon my sons,
   And let not wicked spirits rule over them
   Lest they should destroy them from the earth.

4. But do Thou bless me and my sons, that we may increase and Multiply and replenish the earth.
5. And Thou knowest how Thy Watchers, the fathers of these spirits, acted in my day: and as for these spirits which are living, imprison them and hold them fast in the place of condemnation, and let them not bring destruction on the sons of thy servant, my God; for these are malignant, and created in order to destroy.
6. And let them not rule over the spirits of the living; for Thou alone canst exercise dominion over them. And let them not have power over the sons of the righteous from henceforth and for evermore.'
7. And the Lord our God bade us to bind all.
8. And the chief of the spirits, Mastêmâ, came and said: 'Lord, Creator, let some of them remain before me, and let them harken to my voice, and do all that I shall say unto them; for if some of them are not left to me, I shall not be able to execute the power of my will on the sons of men; for these are for corruption and leading astray before my judgment, for great is the wickedness of the sons of men.'
9. And He said: Let the tenth part of them remain before him, and let nine parts descend into the place of condemnation.'

Out of Ham also came Cush who was the father of Nimrod.

Gn10:6 ¶  And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

7  And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

8  And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

9  He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

10  And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Jasher 7:23 And Cush the son of Ham, the son of Noah, took a wife in those days in his old age, and she bare a son, and they called his name Nimrod, saying, At that time the sons of men again began to rebel and transgress against God, and the child grew up, and his father loved him exceedingly, for he was the son of his old age.

24 And the garments of skin which God made for Adam and his wife, when they went out of the garden, were given to Cush.

25 For after the death of Adam and his wife, the garments were given to Enoch, the son of Jared, and when Enoch was taken up to God, he gave them to Methuselah, his son.

26 And at the death of Methuselah, Noah took them and brought them to the ark, and they were with him until he went out of the ark.

27 And in their going out, Ham stole those garments from Noah his father, and he took them and hid them from his brothers.

28 And when Ham begat his first born Cush, he gave him the garments in secret, and they were with Cush many days.

29 And Cush also concealed them from his sons and brothers, and when Cush had begotten Nimrod, he gave him those garments through his love for him, and Nimrod grew up, and when he was twenty years old he put on those garments.

30 And Nimrod became strong when he put on the garments, and God gave him might and strength, and he was a mighty hunter in the earth, yea, he was a mighty hunter in the field, and he hunted the animals and he built altars, and he offered upon them the animals before the Lord.

Nimrod means "to rebel" and he was conceived as part of the evil that entered into Ham. He built the tower of Babel and by his sorcery became a  mighty man, gibor, which is also how the giants (nephilim) are described.  The tower was not only to escape another flood, but to open a gateway or portal to allow more of the fallen angels or watchers to come to earth.

God lets Zechariah see into the spirit realm and watch as evil is delivered to Shinar. In Zec 5 there is wickedness bound up in a ephah basket covered in lead, then two women with stork wings carry the evil off to Shinar. These are not angels, storks are unclean, and these are women. Babylon is in the center of Shinar. As we will see, that evil is still there.

Abraham defeated 5 Kings that attacked Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the plain. He rescued all the people they had stolen as well as the goods, including his nephew, Lot. Nimrod was leading those attacking Kings from Shinar and went by the title Amraphel, Gn 14. Noah had prophesied about this from a dream given to him by God that the olive tree would fight against the evil empire. Abraham is the father of Israel and his covenant with God allowed God to legally send His only Son to save mankind when he obeyed in the sacrifice of Isaac, Abraham's only son. 

Abraham's grandson, Jacob ended up taking his whole family to Egypt where his son Joseph was 2nd in command. The Israelites were there in Goshen for 450 years and multiplied to about 2,500,000 people. Satan's next assault was to put them in slavery for the last 200 years. God's response was to send them a deliverer, Moses. With great miracles of God, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt to the edge of the Promised Land, Exodus.

This assault of the giant hybrids continued on through the times of Moses: Ex 17, Nu 14; Joshua fought them his whole life, but did not destroy them completely; Judges 3, 6, and 7 we still see them; Saul fought with them in 1 Sam 14, 15; David killed Goliath and his men fought his and killed his brothers in 1 Sam 17. 

According to Scripture (Gn 36:24) there were Yamim who were also around after the flood. These could have been produced by genetic tampering and not necessarily by the cross of fallen angels and women by possession of men, (Ken Johnson Prophecy watchers Biblefacts.org) In Jasher 36 we read that these terrible animals were like a man from the waist down and like a bear or monkey from the waist up.

They had tails that came from between their shoulders with which they could kill a man. This was a warning to stay away from this area.

David kills Goliath who had 4 brothers who were killed by David's men later.

                                                     

The Amalekites that attacked Israel in Rephidim also had giants recorded from Exodus to 1 Chronicles.

So finally, Israel defeated the giants. However They never did defeat their pagan neighbors. Balaam the sorcerer who Balak called on to curse Israel, could never do it, because of their faith in God, Num 22. However he told Balak if he would inter marry with Israel, their gods would take over and they would be defeated. And that is just what happened. All of Israel's turning from God involved sexual sins taken from the pagan religions around them. The groves, and ashorath all go back to Babylon and Shinar. 

When David became the 3rd King of Israel after Saul and his son, Israel was united and strong. David passed this Kingdom on to his son, Solomon, which was the pinnacle of Israel's grandeur of old time. Under Solomon's son Rehoboam, the nation was split in two; Israel on North and Judah on South. David's seed ruled in Judah with the tribes of Joseph and Benjamin. Israel had the other tribes. Because of both turning away from God (Jehovah) they were taken captive; Israel was taken by Assyria in 721 BC and Judah was taken by Babylon in 586 BC. Both nations were pagan, and it seemed like this Satanic attack had been successful to stop Israel as a nation and possibly the Messiah.

What Satan has failed to see in all of history is that he cannot win against God. The created cannot overcome the creator no matter how much they try. The King of the Universe is all powerful, all knowing, and knows the end from the beginning. Satan causes many people pain and death, but he is already defeated by the Words and intent of God. God's word always does what He intends, Lk 1:37, Isa 55:11.

God had promised David that his throne would last forever:

2 Sam 7:13  He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

14  I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

15  But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took [it] from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

16  And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

17  According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

Yet the last of the line of David, Jehoiakim and Coniah (Jehoiachin) was cursed by God because of his evil doings and God said none of his seed would ever sit on the throne of David, Jer 22.

With Israel and Judah taken captive and the curse on the line of David, Satan thought that he had stopped the coming of Messiah, and Israel would not be a nation anymore.

Daniel was one of the captives taken to Babylon. He and his friends were examined and kept alive to serve Babylon in the school of the magicians because of their wisdom for God was with them, Dn 1. He was probably about 18. The King of Babylon was Nebuchadnezzar. He had a dream that troubled him and called for all of his magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and Chaldeans to show and interpret the dream (circa 584 BC), Dn 2. They told the King to tell them his dream and they would interpret, but the King could not remember. They could not tell him the dream, much less the interpretation. The King ordered them all to be killed, including Daniel. Daniel told the Captain of the guard that if they would give him time, his God would reveal to him the dream. That night after prayer with his 3 friends,  a vision came to Daniel and they took him before the king. Daniel praised God and approached the powerful King with high respect and plead for the lives of the all the wise men. He told the King that God knew all secrets and revealed to Nebuchadnezzar that he dreamed of a statue with a gold head, arms and chest of silver, belly and thighs of brass, legs of iron, and feet of iron and clay. Then a stone cut without hands smote the statue in the feet and broke the statue to bits that blew away in the wind. Then the stone grew to a great mountain and filled the earth.

In Dn2 and 8 we see the interpretation: all of the metal parts of the statue were kingdoms with Nebuchadnezzar the head of gold, and after would come Medio-Persia, the chest and arms of silver, Greece the belly and thighs of brass, and Rome the legs of iron. About the feet of iron and clay:

Dn 2:43  And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

44  And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, [but] it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

45  Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream [is] certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

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Nebuchadnezzar fell down at Daniel's feet and worshiped him. He said that Daniel's God was the God of gods and he made Daniel the head over all the wise men of Babylon, Dn 2:46-49. 

When Noah had his vision (circa 2340 BC) and wrote it down in his testament (in the Dead Sea Scrolls), he saw while sleeping at the Firstfruits incident, 8 world empires all as metal pyramids. Trees as the nations of the world, and a fig tree as the coming Israel. All of the empires would somehow oppress Israel, and the nations of the earth. The reason that Nebuchadnezzar was not shown the first 2 is that they had already transpired. 

The first was stones/lead which was ancient Babylon and Nimrod was the king. Next was Egypt which was clay/aluminum. The next world empire metal pyramids correspond with what God revealed to Daniel: gold- Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, silver- Medes and Persians- copper (brass is copper/zinc) Alexander's Greece, iron- Rome, the only difference is the last 2 which Noah saw lead- Babylon revived, and clay the land of the crescent moon. On Daniel's statue they were combined in the feet, but he said iron and clay.

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In the book of Gad the Seer he sees a vision of the two empires of the end times. Gad was a Prophet at the time of David, and his book is part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. 

In the book of Gad the Seer circa 1000 BC (who was a Holy man in the time of King David) he sees a vision of the future and the Golden Gate of Jerusalem representing God’s kingdom. Two cows are approaching the city representing Israel and Judah. Leading the two cows are a donkey and a camel, unclean animals which are leading them astray. There is a great earthquake and the lamb blows the donkey and camel to the moon. Above Jerusalem is God as the sun with a Lamb slain from the foundation of the world on His shoulders. Above the city on the other side is a crescent moon representing the kingdom of God on the earth. The moon is supposed to be full representing the reflection of God who is the sun. With the crescent moon is the donkey and camel that have diminished the light of God. Gad also sees that the Lamb comes to earth to redeem man to God and returns to God, yet stays here. The Lamb destroys the camel and the donkey grinds them to powder and they blow away. Then the Lamb establishes His Kingdom on the earth.

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The camel represents an end time anti-Semitic religion whose symbol is the crescent moon which is also an ancient Babylon symbol. The donkey represents another end time anti-Semitic religion who is headquartered in Chittim or Edom which became Rome. They will not be stable together, but very powerful in the last world empire.

We will discuss these visions and prophecies some more later in this series.

Back to Daniel 10; Daniel has been the Chancellor to several Kings and he reads in Jeremiah that the captivity of Israel/Judah was over in 70 years. Daniel earnestly prayed to God about it for 3 weeks in mourning and partial fasting. Daniel had been in Babylon for 45 years when Cyrus gave the decree to let the Jews rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple. He had to be about 63. 25 more years was a long time. Then Daniel was visited by the Tigris river.

Dn 10:5  Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins [were] girded with fine gold of Uphaz:

6  His body also [was] like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

7  And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.

8  Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.

9  Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.

10 ¶  And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and [upon] the palms of my hands.

11  And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.

12  Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.

13  But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

14  Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision [is] for [many] days.

This Angel of God is not named, however in a previous chapter Gabriel came. Regardless, the point here is that Daniel was a very important man in God's business and Satan had withstood this Angel by the demons led by the prince of Persia for 21 days. Michael the Prince of the Armies of God had to come and fight these demons under the prince to let the Angel through to Daniel. 

These spiritual wars are going on 24/7 all around us. We need to be aware of these things, for all spiritual things affect the physical.

When Ezra and Nehemiah went to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple, it took till 516 BC. There were about 50,000 Jews that went back to Jerusalem. The rest stayed in Babylon. They had been accustomed to Babylon ways, like their ancestors who had become accustomed to Egypt. It is truly easy to be led into the ways of the world, for that is where Satan's dominion is.

There is 400 years of silence in the Bible from Malachi to Matthew. During this time there were devout scribes who kept the Messianic beliefs and separated from the Pharisees and Sadducees who not only fought with one another, but corrupted the Holy writings with traditions. These Holy scribes were in part descendents of the Zadok Priests from the time of David. They preserved the ancient writings, including all of the Old Testament scriptures and many other books as well. These were the Essenes, who moved from Jerusalem to Qumran by the Dead Sea. The writings they preserved were not found until the 1940's-50's in the caves at Qumran. These are the Dead Sea Scrolls buried circa 200 BC.

These writings prove that the OT scriptures we have today are correct and many other books that also support the OT truths. Also that the ancient faithful remnant believed in Messiah; that He would come, He would die for us to save mankind from sin, He would rise from the dead, then ascend to Heaven, from which He would return for His believers before the great time of Jacob's trouble... the tribulation. Then the Messiah would set up His Kingdom on earth which was forever.

The Pharisees had corrupted the truth of the Grace given only by the Messiah. They taught that He would be like a great general that would defeat Rome and give the nation back to Israel. The Sadducees did not believe in the supernatural or the afterlife. They and the Pharisees fought all the time.  Satan was confident that his work had crippled the coming of God's Messiah.   

As the centuries past on, the time for the coming of the Messiah drew near. People were excited in all camps that believed in Jehovah. Wise men from the East, that were part of the School of Magicians that David had presided over for so many years, had seen the Star of the Messiah (Jesus, Imanuel) and started the journey to the land of Israel to worship the King of the Jews, Mt 2.

 

Hidden from the world, and the eyes of Satan, God had chosen a young woman who was pure of heart, that loved Jehovah, and was raised to worship and obey God and His Word, to be the mother of His only begotten Son. This would be the Messiah, Saviour of the world. 

Lk 1:26 ¶  And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

27  To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name [was] Mary.

28  And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, [thou that art] highly favoured, the Lord [is] with thee: blessed [art] thou among women.

29  And when she saw [him], she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

30  And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

31  And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.

32  He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

33  And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

34  Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

35  And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

36  And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

37  For with God nothing shall be impossible.

38  And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

The moment the Holy Spirit entered Mary, she was cleansed of all sin, and conceived Jesus by the Divine Word. This is the "Seed of the Woman" (Gn 3:15). Joseph's genealogy is recorded in Matthew, but it is from the line of the Kings which the last one Jehoiachin had a curse that no one from his line would sit on the throne. So Mary's line recorded here in Luke also descends from King David, but through his son Nathan, who was not in the line of Kings. The Bible says her father was Heli. The mother was not named. Isn't God wonderful that no matter what His Word is always so? The enemy of God had no idea. Mary was 17, and Joseph was 40.

Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist, was another miracle child that was conceived in the old age of Elizabeth and Zachariah, Mary's aunt and Uncle. As the scriptures in Luke tell us, Elizabeth was 6 months along when Mary conceived. 

The Essene Priests prophesied that the Messiah would be born to what calculates to 2 BC on the Feast of Trumpets and would die for our sins in 32 AD on the Feast of Passover. Which is the time that those events happened. The Messiah; God in the flesh, Immanuel, King of the Jews, God's only means of Salvation, Jesus of Nazareth was born in a humble stables and wrapped in swaddling cloths that were for the baby sacrificial lambs. The announcement by the Heavenly Host was made to the shepherds in the area. The Angels of God surrounded the area. 

Satan was not aware of the Messiah Jesus' birth until the Wise Men approached King Herod and told him about His Star in the sky, and that the King of the Jews had been born, Mt 2. Satan moved on Herod to destroy the Child by killing all the male children up to 2 years old in Bethlehem, the prophesied place of Jesus' birth. God had already sent an Angel to Jacob to flee to Egypt and so Jesus escaped this attack. The Magi financed the trip.

 

After Herod died, the Royal Family moved back to Nazareth as directed by God. 

Apparently, Satan lost track of Jesus and assumed that He had been killed by the attack in Bethlehem. The next attack came right after Jesus was Baptized by John. 

John was the leader of the School of the Prophets from the Essene community (DSS). This order had been maintained since Moses. John was the one prophesied in Malachi and Luke:

Lk 1:13  But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

14  And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

15  For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.

16  And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.

17  And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Jesus went to John to be baptised for He knew that John was the legal one to baptise Him into the final and everlasting Order of Melchizedek of which Jesus was the 10th, Ps 110:4 (See my blog and Youtube Gospel of the Old Ones) 

It is recorded in the 3 synoptic gospels that when John baptized Jesus in the Jordan River that the Heaven was open and God spoke, "This is My Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." One other time it is recorded that God spoke in this manner on the top of Mt. Hermon, Mt 17. God proclaimed that Jesus was His Beloved Son at the lowest place on earth, and the highest mountain in Israel.

Satan was informed by his demon scouts and went to tempt Jesus the same way he did with Eve. 

That would be by lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. 

Mt 3:17  And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

1 ¶  Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

2  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

3  And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

5  Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

6  And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in [their] hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

7  Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

8  Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

9  And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

10  Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

11  Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

Here we see that Satan, now that he knows who Jesus is, confronts him personally. Jesus stands on God's Word and knows the confidence of God speaking to Him and wins this confrontation. 

Another attack came when Satan got John the Baptist imprisoned, and reluctantly beheaded. Jesus responded to this by healing all the sick in a huge crowd and miraculously feeding them.

Mt 14:11  And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought [it] to her mother.

12  And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.

13 ¶  When Jesus heard [of it], he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard [thereof], they followed him on foot out of the cities.

14  And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.

15  And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.

16  But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.

17  And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. 

(5 is Hey or Grace and 2 is Bet or house. House of Grace multiplied the food)

18  He said, Bring them hither to me.

19  And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to [his] disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

20  And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

21  And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

Jesus encountered many demons during His ministry, and they knew who He was. In Mark 4 (also Lk 8) we see Jesus calming the storm on the Sea of Galilee and saving his apostles and immediately at the other side of the lake. His apostles were amazed. 

Mk 5:1 ¶  And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

2  And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

3  Who had [his] dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

4  Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any [man] tame him.

5  And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

6  But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,

7  And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

8  For he said unto him, Come out of the man, [thou] unclean spirit.

9  And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many.

10  And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

11  Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

12  And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

13  And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.

14  And they that fed the swine fled, and told [it] in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.

15  And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

16  And they that saw [it] told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and [also] concerning the swine.

17  And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.

18  And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.

19  Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.

Jesus taught for 3 1/2 years and accomplished what God had given Him to do. The people were ready for the Messiah, but the Jewish religion was not. The Pharisees had corrupted the purpose of Messiah, in their traditions they had Messiah coming as a general who would defeat Rome and establish the nation of Israel again. They were blinded to the Grace of God, Mt 15:12-14, Jn 8:42-45.

Satan worked on the leaders of Judaism and they accused and arrested Jesus falsely. At midnight they accused Jesus and convicted Him of blasphemy without a quorum of the Sanhedrin. They went to the Governor Pilate and got the death penalty sentence for Jesus. So they crucified Jesus.

Jesus prayed for those who killed him and said, "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what the do." There were two thieves crucified with Jesus, on on the right and left. One was railing on Jesus that if He was the Son of God to save them all. The other said to the first that Jesus was innocent, but they deserved this. He then asked Jesus to remember him when He came into His Kingdom, calling Him Lord. Jesus answered, "Today, you will be with Me in Paradise", Luke 23.

Jesus was the Lamb of God since the foundation of the world. He became a man to be brutally killed in our place. In Him was our healing, provision, prosperity, and forgiveness of sin. Satan thought by killing the Messiah, he would win, but he killed the only human who was 100% without sin, innocent. This was the greatest blow to Satan's dark side. 

1Cor 2:6 ¶  Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

8  Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

When Jesus rose from the dead He had taken the keys to death and hell (hades), Rev 1:18.

He also took all the OT Saints that believed in Messiah to Heaven with Him, Mt 27:52.

And so the age of Grace began with Jesus being raised from the dead and ascending into heaven. Now men could walk in His righteousness as a gift. The age of Grace began with Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Ghost, Ac 2, and will end with the Rapture of the Church.

After the defeat that Satan took at Jesus' resurrection, it took a few hundred years for him to learn that he had to attack the gospel, and infiltrate the religions to prevent the masses from receiving God's salvation by Grace. In the time of the dark ages, many true Christians had been tortured and killed because they were accused of witchcraft for actual miracles that were not approved by the Church. Islam became a powerful religion that was anti semitic and and was only works and judgement orientated. The Ottoman empire had conquered all of the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. Germany was some of the last remnants of the Roman Empire and was involved in WWI. After that the Ottoman Empire lost its power. Germany came back to power in WWII and killed 6,000,000 Jews. Japan was Germany's ally and worshiped their Emperor as well as the dragon. The allies defeated those evil regimes, at great cost. The Gospel has been proclaimed and is being proclaimed; and now one third of the world claims to be Christian.

In all of this God had not forgotten His promises to bring Israel back to their land as a nation, 1 Sam 11, Jer 33, Ez 37. Israel was made a nation again after 2500 years with none. They became a nation in one day as prophesied in Isa 66 on May 14, 1948. They have been attacked several times since, but have become stronger and larger. Truly Israel coming home and being a powerful and blessed nation today is one of the most significant fulfilled prophecies. 

                                                                    Tel Aviv- Israel

We know from prophetic scriptures that many of the things have happened in our history, and are happening now. Jesus warned us of these things becoming more frequent and severe, Mt 24, Lk 17.

In Mark 13 these events are described as "birth pangs" which start small and infrequent and become intense and very close together.

Prophecies fulfilled since Jesus Resurrection: 

• Pentecost, the beginning of the Christian Church with the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, Acts 2.
• Destruction of the Temple by Rome 70 AD. Jews slaughtered and dispersed, Mt 24:2.
• The rise of the Roman Catholic Church, the white horse, Rv 6
• The rise of communism, the red horse Rv 6
• The famines over the earth, the black horse, with rich protected by wealth, yet God protects His own (grain, wine, oil) Rv 6
• The rise of the Islam and the land of the crescent moon, Book of Gad the seer, The pale (green) horse of Rev 6.
• Babylon influence on the world, ancient goddess worship, horoscopes and astrology, other ways to supposed salvation other than through Jesus, God's Son by His Grace.
• One third of grass burned up, WWI in Europe, Rev 8.
• One third of the ships destroyed, WWII, Rev 8.
• Waters polluted by wormwood, Chernobyl Russia, Fukushima Japan, Rev 8.
• Great burning mountain into sea, nuclear tests, Japan bombed, Rev 8, end plague Zec 14: 12.
• One third of the sea turned to blood, Rev 8. (red tide)
• Rivers turn to blood, Rev 8, Russia Dalkykan River 2016-23, Iskitima River 2020.
• Israel becomes a nation in one day, May 14, 1948, Isa 66.
• Virgo crowned (Mary) and child delivered (Jupiter), and taken to Heaven (Jesus), dragon (Hydra) attacks seed. The dragon cast out of Heaven with all of his angels to the earth, sign one time 9-23-17, Rev12. (See my programs Signs in the Heavens)
• Last Tetrad of Blood Moons on the Lord's Feast days for 500 years 2015, Joel and other Prophets.
• Precious Gems in Israel, Shefa Gems, Isa 54:11-12
• World wide pestilence, swine flu 1912, Covid 19 2020, Mt 24, Lk 17, Mk 13.
• Great earthquakes, tidal waves, severe weather, Mt 24, Lk 17, Mk 13.
• Euphrates River dried up preparing the way for the kings of the East with 200,000,000 soldiers, 2023, River dry, China's army is that large, Rev 9-16.
• Springs of fresh water into Dead Sea, Ez 47:8-9, Zec 14:8, Ein Gedi on West, 1971 and Springs on East in 2023.
• Jesus warning that before His return it would be as in the days of Noah, Mt 24:37-.  Genetic mutations, cloning, UFOs abductions/pregnancies all confirmed by USA government and Pentagon.
• Great persecution of Jews and Christians, never higher than today, Jn 15:19-20

Many religious people try to put all of Revelation into the 7 year tribulation period. I do not believe that. The book is not really chronological, and history has proved that much has already happened. Jesus said that "the time is at hand,"Rev 1:3, and that "I come quickly," Rev 22:20.

 

Prophecies yet to be fulfilled:

• Russia, Iran, Turkey, and other countries will attack Israel "for a spoil" and God will defeat them in Ezekiel 38-39.
• Rapture of the Church, Jn 14:3, 1 Thess 4, 1 Cor 15, Mt 24, Jn 11:25-26.
• 7 year tribulation, Dan 8-9, Rev 10
• Mid-tribulation rapture of 144,000 Jews and their converts before the Great Tribulation (last 3.5 years), Rv 14:1-7
• One world religion, Rev 13, The world church headquarters has been ordained and established by the efforts of Pope Francis in the Arab Emirates with a church, synagoge, and mosque in Abu Dhabi, this is the beginning of one world religion, 2022-23.
• One world government, feet of iron/clay,  Rev 13, Dan 2, Book of Gad, Book of Noah.
• Jesus second coming, Armageddon, Rev 16-20.
• 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ on earth, Satan in the abyss then released, Rev 20, Isa 11.
• Great White Throne judgement, satan in the lake of fire  Rev 20.
• New Jerusalem, God moves Heaven to earth, Rev 20-22, OT Prophets.

All of these prophecies of the future could happen very rapidly in the near future and we could be in the 1000 reign of Christ in less than 10 years. The time of man's dominion on the earth is 6000 years, and that time is very close. There are several problems with our calendars aligning with God's. I won't go into that but it is one reason Jesus said, "No man knows the day or the hour." But, we will know the times and season, 1 Thess 5. 

Satan and his evil horde have been quarantined to the earth since 9/23/2017. His strategy is not to win anymore, but disrupt the Kingdom of God as much as he can, rob souls away from God, genetically alter humans so they will not be human. Not that he cannot be a problem or do a lot of damage, but the war was won when Jesus Christ rose from the dead as King of the Universe. The only way for you to defeat Satan is to be Born Again, and wear the full armor of God (Eph 6), confess the blood of Jesus over your life and family, believe and confess God's promises concerning health, prosperity, and protection. Use the Name of Jesus in the power intended for us as ambassadors for the King and thus Kings and Priests, Rev 1:6.

Before the New Jerusalem flies to earth, Satan will be thrown into the lake of fire. The Anti-Christ and False Prophet are put there first after the Great White Throne Judgement.

Jesus told us: Jn 16:33  These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. 

May the LORD keep you and bless you in Jesus or Lord until He comes for us. Amen

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