This week we’ll continue with our review of chapter 9 in Isaiah Decoded – Ascending the Ladder to Heaven. Last week we summarized Isaiah’s ladder to heaven using Israel’s Tabernacle as a template. This week, we’ll use our last few posts to consider Endtime events and how to properly respond to them. When we look at current events and how they relate with Isaiah, we see an upheaval in the status quo in the world and here in America. This contrived crisis and chaos is meant to destabilize us and instill in us a sense of uncertainty, confusion, and fear. Fear is a powerful emotion that can get us to do things that we normally wouldn’t do. The perpetrator’s end-game of these crises and chaos is to usher in their version of order from chaos. Isaiah Predicts Endtime Confusion and Chaos One of the aspects of Isaiah's Endtime scenario is that the World and especially America will experience a period of confusion and chaos. A lot of this confusion and chaos originates with both political and religious leadership. Isaiah predicts that religious leader will create confusion by serving "all tables are filled with vomit; no spot is without excrement" for doctrines - Isaiah 28:8. He also predicts that political leadership especially here in America will create confusion and chaos. "The ministers of Zoan are utter fools; the wisest of Pharaoh’s advisers give absurd counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, We ourselves are as wise as the first rulers? Where are your wise men indeed? Let them please tell you, if they can discern it, what Jehovah of Hosts has in mind for Egypt! The ministers of Zoan have been foolish, the officials of Noph deluded; the heads of state have led Egypt astray. Jehovah has permeated them with a spirit of confusion; they have misled Egypt in all that it does, causing it to stagger like a drunkard into his vomit. And there shall be nothing the Egyptians can do about it, neither head nor tail, palm top or reed." - Isaiah 19:11-15 One thing that we have to remember is that Yehovah is using these wicked leaders intentionally to create this confusion and chaos as part of His judgment and as a motivation to repent. The Chaos-Crisis -Fear-Social Control Circuit An important concept to understand by those who foment chaos and confusion is their employ of emotional manipulation. This emotional manipulation begins with the creation of chaos, chaos leads to crisis, crisis takes us to uncertainty, uncertainty takes us to vulnerability, vulnerability takes us to fear, which then takes us to social control where we surrender rights for security. Thus, those who promote crises and chaos have as their end-game social control.
Our Current Situation Many of us can see what is happening to the world and in America. In America, our culture - built on the foundation of biblical liberty under a covenant with God - is being assaulted from multiple fronts. From gender and identity confusion, an invasion of unassimilated immigrants, media confusion and propaganda, and the massive corruption of government spending, we are a nation in a battle for the soul of America. Consider this short video from CBN. Fear and Social Control The end-game of these perpetrators of crises and chaos is to create enough fear in us so we will surrender our rights and give them power to do what they want - making us serfs and slaves. Here is a good video on the relationship between fear and social control. Responding to Endtime Crises and Chaos Many believers have misinterpreted scripture promoting a "pre-tribulation rapture" as their salvation from the calamity of Endtime events. What they don't understand is that God will prove those who are committed to Him down to their core. We have already discuss Yehovah's three Endtime tests of the righteous. Idolaters/Idolatry - Materialism and Sensual Gratification False Brethern - Ostracism by Ecclesiastical Authorities The King of Assyria/Babylon - A Political Dictatorship - P. 151 When we consider how to respond to these Endtime tests and chaos, three primary aspects immerge. First, don't get sucked into the media and political circus. It is a huge distraction. Certainly, study the issues, evaluate the candidates past performance, and then make your choice. In the end, if the stakes are high enough, they will be taken out by the opposition like John F. Kennedy. Also know that God wants to bring Humanity to it's knees and repent. Second, repent and return to God's Law. The law God gave to Israel is the only law system that we have that promises temporal salvation - Deu 28,30. An excellent resource for beginners are the teachings of Rabbi Steven Berkson. You can find his teachings on the MTOI website. Select the image below. Third, expand your knowledge of the Gospel by understanding Isaiah's Ladder to Heaven that we have presented in this blog. Please note that I will be compiling the posts in this blog into a pdf file for download that may be printed.
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