Pray Without Ceasing
 "But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye
have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves
know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a
thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and
safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them,
as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not
escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that
day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the
children of light, and the children of the day: we are not
of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not
sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be
drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are
of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith
and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For
God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain
salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us,
that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live
together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves
together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which
labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and
admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love
for their work's sake. And be at peace among
yourselves.
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are
unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the
weak, be patient toward all men. See that none
render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that
which is good, both among yourselves, and to all
men. Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In
every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in
Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit.
Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast
that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of
evil. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly;
and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also
will do it. Brethren, pray for us. Greet all the brethren
with an holy kiss. I charge you by the Lord that this
epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. The grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen."
I Thessalonians Chapter 5
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
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every day to be in prayer, and to devote that time in
prayer each day of the week. With everyone joining in
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wrought 24 hours each day.
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Turning the World Upside Down - Part II
"Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and
maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and
scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it shall
be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the
servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with
her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as
with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker
of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. The land
shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the
LORD hath spoken this word. The earth mourneth
and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth
away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, changed
the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant."
Isaiah 24:1-5
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When a Man Becomes a Woman
When tempting Jesus with all of the kingdoms of the
world, Satan stated,"And the
devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and
the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to
whomsoever I will I give it." (Luke 4:6)
The phrase "delivered unto me" literally means
betrayed into the hands of or to deliver up
treacherously. Notice that Jesus does not dispute
whether this was the case.
When did this treacherous betrayal happen? In the
Garden of Eden. God had given Adam authority over
creation, and when he chose to obey Eve instead of
the dictates of God, he relinquished that authority to
Eve. Knowing that Eve could not lawfully hold this
authority, Satan was able to usurp worldly dominion
and get a stronghold in the soul of mankind.
The Scriptures define the "upright" position of
mankind as having Christ as the head of the man, the
man as the head of the woman, and the children in
obedience (Colossians 3:18-20, I Corinthians 11:3,
Ephesians 5:22-23 and 6:1-3). If there is ANY
resistance to this in your soul, know that it originates
from the fallen nature of man. The inverted soul
does not want to know or submit to God and by nature
will rebel against what God has ordained. This is why
the old man has to be crucified in order for the life of
Christ to be present in man.
Too much time is spent decrying the things of the Lord
and trying to water down His Word so that it is
compatible with the politically correct madness of the
world. This upright order is not because the woman is
a lesser person or because the man is superior. It is
because God is a Patriarch, a Father. In His wisdom
and loving kindness, He created a world that would
make knowing Him natural for us because we are
made in His image and set-up in an order that reflects
who He is. (For more on this, see here)
In recent history, entire social movements have been
launched with the purpose of eradicating this order
from society. Under a guise of "equal rights" people
have sought to make women independent of men.
From the bra-burning mentality of the 70's to the
Cheetah Girls of the millennium, the prevailing theme
is that women do not need men and can be happier
on their own (or at the very least calling their own
shots). Similarly, the "rights" of children have also
been championed over the parental rights and
responsibilities for raising the child. It has become
increasingly more important to give precedence to the
autonomy of the child rather than respecting the
supervisory role of the parent.
Not surprisingly, the Scriptures specifically addresses
this upside down positioning of mankind:
"For Jerusalem is ruined, and
Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their
doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes
of his glory. The shew of their countenance doth
witness against them; and they declare their sin
as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul!
for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Say ye to
the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they
shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked!
it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall
be given him. As for my people, children are their
oppressors, and women rule over them. O my
people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and
destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:8-12
Instead of proper authority and children in obedience
you have unlawful authority and children out of control.
This is the essence of the upside kingdom: what was
created as male is inwardly female; what was created
as female is inwardly male; and the resulting
confusion leaves the children without proper
moorings.
Please note first and foremost that this order of
mankind is described as a curse by God. Not
because women and children are somehow less
human than or inferior to men, but because the roles
of mankind (which were established so that we might
know God) have been inverted. Perverting this
reflection of who God is leaves man with a twisted
image of God. God's objective in this is so that we
might know Him and be reconciled unto Him. He has
established the patriarchal order of the family not to
oppress women or children, but to
impress upon all who He is so that we can
relate to Him. Those who challenge these roles are
not being led by noble intent to liberate the masses,
but are influenced by an age-old, serpentine desire to
reject God as Lord. Satan knows that he can continue
to operate in his false worldly dominion only as long
as unlawful authority is in operation in the
earth.
"Woe unto them that seek deep
to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works
are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who
knoweth us? Surely your turning of things upside
down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for
shall the work say of him that made it, He made me
not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it,
He had no understanding?" Isaiah 29:15-16
It is man who has turned things upside down in his
own arrogance by purporting that he can define what
is acceptable to God. It is foolishness to assume that
the created can dictate to the Creator or that we can
question why He has created thusly. He is the potter
and we are the clay. However, with an inverted soul,
man can only see himself because he is cut off from
the Spirit of God. Reality is then not defined by the
dictates of God but by what "I" believe, "I" feel, "I"
desire, "I" know... In this state, man becomes the
epitome of what Satan is: selfish.
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At the Center of Self is a Sodomite
One key descriptor that sums up Satan's character is
selfishness. He thinks only of himself and places
himself above all others. "For God so loved the world that
He gave..." (John 3:16)
Love gives of one's self for the benefit of others;
selfishness takes from others for the gratifying of
one's self. God is self-less and sacrifices Himself
for man (and calls for us to do the same), while Satan
sacrifices man for himself.
The inverted soul is by nature a sodomite because it
is focused on itself only. Not able to hear from God
because the spirit of man is held captive by the soul,
such persons are only able to receive input from the
soulish, demonic realm. Just as a woman operating
in false authority allows the devil to set-up a
stronghold in the natural, the soul operating in false
authority allows Satan to set-up a stronghold in the
spiritual.
Man was created to be conscious of God and what He
desires, but the inverted soul (fallen man) is only
concerned with what he wants. This is why the full
manifestation of the sodomite nature is seen in
homosexuality. Homosexuality is an act of
self-love. Because man is so in love with himself,
he can only desire that which is just like himself. So
women only desire other women; and men only
desire other men.
Every inverted soul is a sodomite; homosexuality is
merely the culmination of that nature. Satan takes
man on a journey into degradation which starts with a
rejection of God's order for creation. Let's break down
Romans Chapter 1:18-28 which describes Satan's
plan for mankind:
"For the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness; because that which may be known
of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it
unto them. For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his
eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without
excuse:"
What may be known of God has been made manifest
in us. We are created in His image and as a reflection
of His God-head. There is no excuse for man not
knowing who God is because He has established
creation in a way that would accomplish just that
(impart to us the understanding of who He is).
"Because that, when they
knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were
thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and
their foolish heart was darkened. Professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools, and
changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an
image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and
fourfooted beasts, and creeping things."
Although the nature of God is obvious in His created
work, sinful man challenges God's representation of
Himself. Man makes himself the arbiter of who
God is and creates a perverted image of God to justify
the upside down kingdom his rebellion has
established.
"Wherefore God also gave
them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own
hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between
themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshipped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen."
The next step in Satan's plan is an introduction to
sexual sin. Any sex outside of the boundaries that
God has ordained IS sin. This includes,
masturbation, fornication, oral sex (even between
heterosexuals), anal sex, etc. If you have participated
in any of these acts, you WERE on the road to
becoming a homosexual - and still are if you have not
repented and turned to the Lord in those areas.
Sodomy is not just an act performed by homosexuals.
Sodomy is defined as: 1). anal or oral copulation with
a member of the opposite sex; 2). copulation with a
member of the same sex. Engaging in oral or anal sex
with a member of the opposite sex is sodomy. Once
you have engaged in acts of sodomy, you become a
full candidate for homosexuality. It is merely the next
step of your digression into the sodomite nature.
Sex, as designed by God, is a self-less act. This is
completely contrary to worldly thinking where
sex is something for "me". It is to be an expression of
love and giving to be shared with one's spouse (I
Corinthians 7:3-5). This is how the marriage bed is
kept in honor (Hebrews 13:4). Yet every act of sexual
sin is an attempt at self-gratification. Fornication has
been so romanticized in our society, that it is uniformly
presented as the natural expression of love between
people. In truth, fornication is an act of hatred. If you
loved someone, you would not engage in activities
that alienate them from God and damn their souls to
Hell just to satisfy your own lust. When you love
someone you want to esteem them, not degrade them
by having them perform acts only a dog would do. In
each instance of sexual sin, someone is driven by a
need to satisfy their own desires at the expense of
others. It is a manifestation of the selfish sodomite
nature.
This is why God accuses man of worshipping and
serving the creature more than the Creator in the
above text. Who is the creature being worshipped?
Yourself! You ignore the dictates of God and destroy
others for your own selfish fulfillment.
"For this cause God gave
them up unto vile affections: for even their women did
change the natural use into that which is against
nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural
use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward
another; men with men working that which is
unseemly, and receiving in themselves that
recompence of their error which was meet. And even
as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those
things which are not convenient;"
Here we see the full effect of reprobation: blatant
homosexuality. God calls these desires "vile
affections." Please note that it is God who gives man
over to these vile affections. For this cause -
the cause that man continues to worship himself in
sexual sin - that God gives man over to the full
manifestation of that selfish, sodomite nature.
Don't think that you can just choose how far in sin you
will go. You may start off choosing sin, but sooner or
later, sin is going to choose you. You may start off
experimenting, but soon you become the experiment.
Without the grace and mercy of God to restrain the sin
nature, sin will take you over. When God removes that
restraint, you will do things you never thought you
would do. Ask anyone who has ever had an addiction.
No one ever starts out in sin thinking that it will bind
them, but that is the genius of Satan's plan. You start
off thinking that you are in control, but with each step
into sin, Satan places more of himself in you - often
undetectable by you until it is too late. Eventually, you
become
so demonized that he no longer needs your complicity
to engage in sin. Even when you no longer want to,
you are driven to feed the appetites of the unclean
spirits that have made you their home.
So many times people share their regrets of, "I never
thought I would..." or "I always said that I would
never..." Let me tell you, sin will take you places you
never wanted to go. Sin is not an inanimate act, it is a
nature with lusts that cannot be appeased. You aren't
just dabbling in a little fun; you are being taken
purposefully on a journey down a road to
reprobation. What you might see as momentary and
lightweight is really the unfolding of Satan's strategic
plan to make of you what he is: a sodomite. You may
not see how Satan is directing your path, but that
doesn't mean your destination is any less sure
outside of intervention by Jesus Christ alone.
In the next issue of the Omega Times, we will look at
how Satan's plan of sodomite domination is unfolding
around us today as well as examining the one hope
we have for breaking the sodomite curse off of our
own individual lives. In the end, there will be those
with inverted souls and those who are upright; those
who are sodomites and those who are saints. We
must each examine ourselves to see if we be in the
faith. We don't know this by looking at the external, but
by conducting an internal dissection of our souls
before the Lord. Cry out before Him and ask that He
search your inward parts with the light of His Spirit so
that you may truly be set free. This is the time to be on
our faces before God so that we might stand during
these pressing times. As we enter into days of
greater persecution and visible hatred of the Gospel of
Christ, we cannot afford to have anything in us which
might cause us to buckle.
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