Thread: Zephaniah 2: 3, it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger."
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Zephaniah 2: 3, it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger."
Posted : 18 Sep, 2013 04:58 AM
Zephaniah 2:3: "Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger."
Isaiah 29: 15-18: "Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it."
II Thessalonians 2: 10-11: "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:"
The "day of the Lords anger" is God's judgment, in which he allows sin from the world outside the churches to corrupt those in the churches. Only a few are hid from it. Most have been carried away by it. The fierce anger of the Lord? The complete corruption and moral destruction of society, endless deception, the age of deception getting worse, filth bombarding our senses and the senses of our kids, the destruction of the family. The overthrowing of the Father as representative of God the Father, so that the boys become dysfunctional has already happened..Homosexuality and lesbianism are politically correct. The divorce rate remains high, and the heterosexual relationship has been diminished and does not work for many. Single people join internet dating services because society is so messed up men and women seeking mates do not meet. People's physical health has been compromised, and many have been thrown into the clutches of the medical establishment. Cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis and diabetes, are all prevalent in people over about 50 in the U.S., and sometimes in even younger people. Younger men are becoming impotent, as part of the dysfunction of men in Transformational Marxist society and of widespread health problems. Society and the people in the churches are dumbed down. The dialectic mind characterizes most Americans in the way they think and argue. Their political, corporate, educational and religious leaders are masters in the use of the dialectic, which plays a vital role in bringing down America..
Part of the judgment is God's giving the churches over to their false doctrines and failure to come to the knowledge of the truth. People in the churches have become desensitized to the things of God, people are full of pride, compromising the truth and holiness of God with a counterfeit form of Christianity, a form of Godliness but they never come to the knowledge of the truth, and the end is Death. The fierce anger of the Lord, his wrath poured out without mixture. From Hugh Hefner to HBO, from Mick Jaager to Lady Gaga. Gloria Steinem, to Oprah Winfry, Billy Crystal to gay marriage. In the churches there are John Hagee, Rick Warren, and a huge assortment of dispensationalists - some teaching the standard dispensationalist end time fables - fulfill Matthew 24: 11. The end time deception includes the Sacred Name Theology, Hebrew Roots and Messianic Judaism, which is still Judaism. The day of the Lords fierce anger, those with itching ears getting what they wanted. Revelation 6:17: "For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"
Zephaniah 2: 3, it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger."
Posted : 18 Sep, 2013 06:42 AM
"Part of the judgment is God's giving the churches over to their false doctrines and failure to come to the knowledge of the truth. People in the churches have become desensitized to the things of God, people are full of pride, compromising the truth and holiness of God with a counterfeit form of Christianity, a form of Godliness but they never come to the knowledge of the truth, and the end is Death. "
This is absolutely spot on-- As is the rest of the article. It's not a very popular message but then again the truth never has been too popular. Today's churches promote a paradigm of death. Another part of this delusion is the leadership convincing those that are still inside these buildings that they are in a "good church" while the guys in the one across the street are the "compromised church".
Another example that I will point out is the Seventh Day Adventist cult. Many leaders of this cult have been trained in the use of Neuro Linguistic programming (NLP) extending all the way back to the early 90's. NLP is a professional brain washing and mind control technique. Why would training such as this be necessary?
Jesus told his followers that they WOULD KNOW THE TRUTH. In addition, one mark of the Elect is that they "believe the truth" and another is that they "love the truth". The Elect will worship God in spirit and in truth.
Zephaniah 2: 3, it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger."
Posted : 18 Sep, 2013 04:39 PM
"Heresy is not so much the total denial of the truth as a perversion of it. When the Father of Lies enters the pulpit it is not his custom to flatly deny the fundamental truths of Christianity, rather does he tacitly acknowledge them, and then proceed to give an erroneous interpretation and a false application."--Arthur Pink, ""Another Gospel"
Zephaniah 2: 3, it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger."
Posted : 19 Sep, 2013 03:42 AM
The natural man of I Corinthians 2: 14, who does not receive the things of the Spirit of God - and in II Timothy 3: 4-8 those who have a form of godliness but deny its power, do not come to the knowledge of the truth and resist the truth - wants to be saved in state of the natural man. "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." II Timothy 4: 3
The person in the state of the natural man, who is not born again by the Spirit in Christ and transformed, has itching ears to hear from the false prophets, the preachers, that salvation is easy, and, those who remain in the condition of the natural man think they can be saved in that condition, without having to be born again and changed into a spiritual man, as Paul says in II Corinthians 5: 17, to become a new creature. "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." II Thessalonians 2: 10-12.
The natural man, not born again, thinks he is a spiritual man, and the false prophets do not convince him otherwise. This is part of the strong delusion, and is part of the judgment of God for falling into false doctrines and sin.
Zephaniah 2: 3, it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger."
Posted : 19 Sep, 2013 05:42 AM
Two observations:
1. The Bible says Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he� (Proverbs 29:18). The rising tide of antinomianism in the churches has led to the people perishing in the pews.
2. There has been a rising tide of anti-intellectualism in the churches or one might say a "dumbing down". For intellectual knowledge, the churches have substituted religious experience. This has roots in the "Christian existentialism" of Kierkegaard and that tree is now in full bloom. It is more important that a parishioner be entertained and "feel good" during and after the service than for them to obtain knowledge and understanding.
To point two, you see this in full effect on forums like this as well. Often times, participants are unable to sufficiently advance or defend Biblical argumentation. They are then left with trying to make each other "feel better" about their intellectually stunted positions. If we saw a grown man with the intellectual capacity of a five year old, we would all wonder what type of defect this man was suffering from. Yet, in the whole of "christenDUMB" today we see the overwhelming majority in this state spiritually. Yet, we are told that this isn't a defect so long as their "self esteem" is high.
