Miles Mathis, Luther, Satan, Heaven

And other things along the way

As any regular reader of mine will know the sole subject of my writings is the gospel of Christ, which invariably includes an exposure of what passes today for the Christian church, but isn’t. The last article I published seemed to deviate slightly from that, but only because its title drew the reader’s attention to a man, the preacher John Metcalfe, whose ministry played a significant part in my calling to Christ. But there was a lot of ‘gospel’ in it nonetheless.

So as this is a Christian blog, and as I suppose anyone who stumbles upon it is likely a professing Christian, the question might be asked, Who is Miles Mathis? (Actually, mention of John Metcalfe would probably elicit a similar query.) Miles Mathis is a writer in America who would probably be referred to as a conspiracy theorist or truther. There are of course many of these today, but his writings are different than your average conspiracy writer in that he tends to approach his subjects ‘from scratch’, rather than just repeat what others have said, which is quite a refreshing way to work. He is therefore able to remind his readers that ‘I am telling you things no-one else is saying’; which is a claim I would be bold enough to make regarding my articles. He has a stated confession of wanting to know the truth, which desire I also share. Also he doesn’t seem to be put off by the fact that his search for truth often issues in a total undermining of his hitherto understanding of what he thought was true, but will nevertheless embrace his newfound discovery.

Likewise I, in my searches, have been seeking a knowledge of the truth; but unlike Miles, it has been specifically the truth of what the doctrine of Christ really is, of what the true church is, of what the Lord Jesus actually meant when he spoke his words; and it has cost me the total overthrowing of all that I was brought up to believe those things were, which has caused me to be separated from just about everything the modern church presents as ‘the gospel of Christ’ in the receiving of it and in the life which follows. I was in ‘Christianity’ for the best part of the first fifty years of my life, and have been totally severed from it – because of the truth. So I can relate to the experience that ‘truth sought and found issues in fundamental change.’

Of course Miles does not claim to be a Christian, and indeed fairly regularly states that he isn’t a Christian, therefore the focus of his investigations is mostly on things which pertain only to this world, especially its history, or what has come down to us as the record of history. He also writes on Art and Physics, but I tend only to read his history papers which are of particular interest to me.

One reason I quite like reading him is that generally speaking he is prepared to think for himself. This is quite rare nowadays. One of my great frustrations with mankind, and especially as we have been created in the image of God and so are unique in his creation, is that man has generally abandoned the use of his amazing faculties of perception, discernment, the ability to think, to reason, and to stop and ask questions when the received way doesn’t make sense: possessing these faculties is, as far as I understand, a big part of what it means to have been created in God’s image. We can think! We can search out answers and the reason of things! We can find out truth! But the vast majority, including most Christians, just won’t do these things.

To a degree I can understand why the average man in the street doesn’t stop and question: his life is mapped out for him by the general narrative of ‘what life is all about’ fed to him from childhood, the education system, the media, the medical profession, ‘experts’, and even from church. He learns early in life to trust these ‘authorities’; and why not? they are all he’s known, having been under their influence from the beginning of his days. So he knows no other way. Also when he turns and views his fellow men believing the same things and walking the same way, then he feels safe in his received perception of life and early learns to ‘go with the flow’ of ‘the course of this world’. Safety in numbers. We’re all in it together. We can’t all be wrong. Which I suppose is understandable. There are exceptions, of course, like Miles Mathis and others who are refusing to conform to the New World Order agenda; and although the numbers of these might be growing, yet, your ‘average Joe’ still makes up a good 80+% of the world’s population, even in this information age.

But when it comes to professed ‘Bible believing Christians’ the refusal to exercise our natural God-given faculties is inexcusable, because the Book reveals our unique place in the creation of God from the beginning. God did indeed create man in his own image; being Himself personally involved in the creation of man: notice from Genesis 1, “Let us make man in our image”, not just the already familiar, and comparatively detached, “Let the earth bring forth… man.” Read again that first chapter to see how everything before the creation of man, from “Let there be light” onwards, occurred ‘merely’ as a result of the command of God, whereas man’s creation involved the LORD God literally forming Adam out of the dust of the ground, and breathing into his nostrils the breath of life, man therefore becoming a living soul. A unique creature among the whole of God’s creation.

Therefore man is uniquely accountable to his Creator for, having been thus created in His image, he ‘knows’ God: that is, he knows God exists, that He is holy, and that there is a judgment to come; this knowledge being innate, it is inbuilt, whether he likes it, believes it or not. The Bible believer has Romans 1 open before him which tells him these things, so that when he seeks to put this knowledge away, ‘does not like to retain God in his knowledge’, he is rendered ‘without excuse’; for when he ‘knew God’ he rebelled against His revealed truth, and held it down in unrighteousness. Yes, in reality many Christians do that. Well, what is perverting the doctrine of Christ, or twisting it to make it conform to ‘our’ favoured slant of interpretation, but ‘holding it down’?

So Christians have no excuse whatsoever for not thinking, not using their God-endowed gifts of reason, perception, etc. They should know of, believe in, and beware of lies, conspiracy, and deception in the world (as well as in the church): that ‘the way of the world’ is not only not God’s way, but is diametrically opposed to God’s way, and they should flee it. Furthermore as ‘the god of this world’ – Satan – is ‘the father of lies’, then it logically follows that the world and its narrative must be full of lies. And as ‘the whole world lieth in wickedness’ then this is further confirmed. So why do Christians so readily and happily engage with the way of the world as though those apostolic statements were not true? Because they don’t believe the testimony of their Book!

The doctrine of Christ commands them not to live in conformity to this world, to the age in which they live, Romans 12:1,2, but they don’t obey it because it is too costly. Jesus, in John 17, made a statement of fact in his prayer to his Father regarding his people that “they are not of the world”, but those words of the Saviour, although ‘believed’, rarely ever cause ‘the believers’ to examine their own desires and walk to see if they are actually among the recipients of that prayer.

Again, as we have brought up the subject of conspiracy theories, we must ask, Don’t these Bible believers have Psalm 2 in their Bibles? I have been aware of conspiracy in high places in this world since about the mid-1990s, which awareness has grown more shocking in the last ten years or so. But almost invariably when I bring the subject up with Christians regarding any part of the conspiracy, the answer is usually, “Oh no, I don’t believe that.” They believe what the world tells them! And if that describes you, then what do these words of the psalmist mean? ‘The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.’ Is that not the very language of conspiracy? And you don’t think that today’s ‘kings’ and ‘rulers’ are not likewise engaged? The psalmist here is exposing the prime characteristic of kings and rulers: this is who they are, how they think, and what animates them: rebellion towards God. You cannot be a king or a ruler – and retain your power – unless that is your mentality. That is what the Bible here teaches. And although Miles will never point you to Psalm 2, he has still well and truly, though inadvertently, confirmed the psalmist’s assertion in his papers.

So the Bible believer has no excuse not to stop and view the way of the world – the general narrative, the news, politics, current and historical events, ‘how life is’ – with anything other than the utmost suspicion. And if he doesn’t or won’t, then he has no love for, nor actual belief of the truth at all. Sorry, but the truth is hard to take. The actual message of Scripture is hard to receive. And one of the many reasons I left ‘Christianity’ is because I found that it has no real belief of the truth at all. Christians right across the broad spectrum of denominations and parties fashion their own truths based on their favoured interpretations of what they think Christ’s teaching is, which always enables them to continue in what their slant emphasises as well as preserve their long held traditions; but in so doing they pervert the truth of scripture, and misrepresent the glorious doctrine of Christ.

Truth

At this point I must define the word ‘truth’ in the context of this article and in relation to my searching. Principally I mean ultimate spiritual truth regarding the things of God and the way of salvation, in all the fulness of what that word means. Having been brought up as a professing Christian, I presumed that I knew the truth: which was belief in God, belief in the Bible, and belief in Jesus – although our understanding of the word ‘belief’ didn’t actually work any fundamental change within. I had said a prayer for forgiveness aged eleven – based on what I was taught verses like John 3:16 meant – and therefore believed that when I died I would go to heaven. But when I was in my early thirties the Lord himself totally exposed that presumption with the lively application into my heart and conscience of his words from Matthew 7:21, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven…” I called Jesus “Lord” but still might not enter the kingdom of heaven at all! That is what he said. And I believed it! That word sunk down and wrought in me to such a degree that it led to an exposure of my actual unbelief and lost state. I have written about this experience in more detail elsewhere.

But the result of this revelation was that I started to cry out to God to “show me the truth, whatever it is!” That truth then has always been first and foremost spiritual truth. The Lord Jesus said, “I am the truth” which is an exclusive and absolute statement. In those words he is binding all knowledge of Truth only to knowing himself. In this sense Truth can be distinguished from that which is merely true. That cry to the Lord which emanated from my deepest need started to be answered straight away and has continued to be answered ever since. This has issued in a truly God-wrought salvation, a love of the truth despite the cost, and of course a growing separation from those things which are not according to Truth, especially from those things which exist in Christ’s name but have not emanated from him. Very costly.

But over time another aspect of truth has also opened up to me, which is truth as it relates to the falsehood of this world. And this is where people like Miles Mathis have come in. He is a writer who exposes certain lies in this world, especially as it relates to the mainstream narrative we are all taught. This is not spiritual truth as such, and so is not directly related to God’s salvation in his Son, but it is truth nonetheless; so in as far as it goes it is of interest to me. This is not to say that I read every article he writes, lots don’t interest me; but those that do are very stimulating. The papers I like the most are those relating to events in the history of Britain, especially in and around Tudor times, and also his various investigations into the event we know as WWII, the ‘official’ narrative of which is crumbling into rubble. Also I like those papers which set out to expose fake events like the JFK and Lincoln assassinations, other fake deaths, fake religious movements (especially those connected in some way to Christendom), the fake space programme (indicating to me, at least, that space itself is fake), and etc. Reading these helps to open up to view the false reality that has been fed to us and, along with his extensive genealogical research of the famous characters involved, from ancient times to the present day, serves further to prove the big conspiracy of the long established ruling families against the rest of us. This in turn helps us to read, and respond to current events which appear increasingly unbelievable and fabricated the more we understand how this system works. I no longer listen to the news media at all. My default position for a long time now has been that it is more or less all lies. And actually that brings a surprising amount of liberty because it means that you are not being constantly bombarded with fear-mongering and the pressure to conform to things which actually make no sense and are designed to be detrimental to those liberties we still have left.

But again, this is all truth pertaining only to this world. But my interest in these things has, in my experience, been born out of my desire for ultimate truth. That people ‘of the world’, like Miles, are also interested in finding the truth about this world, without necessarily being concerned with the ultimate spiritual truth of Christ and his gospel, is obvious by the numbers of non-Christians aware of the conspiracies of the ruling elite. So far, fair enough.

At this point someone might ask, But how do you know that Miles Mathis isn’t himself just another misdirecting conspiracy theorist, like Alex Jones or David Icke, both of whom he has exposed as being of the families? For whereas all three in their own ways expose the great conspiracy of the ruling elite against humanity none of them actually lead you to the ultimate truth of God and his gospel. And that is true, especially so of Icke who is overtly anti-Christian. Yes Miles misdirects the true seeker for absolute truth as much as the others in that he patently does not believe the gospel of Christ, and so never leads you to that source of saving truth. But I don’t read him for gospel truth. Well, Christian, do you read the mainstream media for gospel truth? Miles is more beneficial than the others to someone like me because he inadvertently gets closer – even than the church! – to confirming the testimony of scripture regarding a certain aspect of the way of the world: a rare thing indeed! and because he gives the genuine impression of not writing with a hidden agenda to misdirect as the others do. Jones and Icke just don’t have that ring of independence and originality that Miles does. Neither does he have the surface sensationalism of the other two, especially Jones, which always tends to raise the fear levels. Although often pointed in his writing Miles is, on the whole, more sober than Jones and Icke, and does at least offer an answer to what he thinks we can do in the light of all these lies. Some of his philosophical thoughts on man’s solution for surviving in this world are quite interesting but, again, they are nowhere near the doctrine of Christ. So, in as far as it goes I am prepared to take him as face value.

Luther

Before I come to the main reason for writing this article I want to linger on one of the subjects of his papers: his focussing on the events and characters involved at the time of the Reformation and the birth of Protestantism, in Tudor times! These I have found particularly interesting although at first quite shocking. He proposes that many of the famous men revered by Reformed Christians could have been players in a large scale power struggle between the Southern and Northern arms of the ruling families: the Northern, under the banner of ‘Protestantism’ wresting the balance of power away from the Southern ‘Catholic’ families: ‘abolishing’, aka stealing, Catholic real estate, land, wealth, and, of course, the tithe in the process: so primarily a political, not a spiritual ‘reformation’: you will have to read the papers to get the full picture.

It has been interesting to me because as a child of God who believes the ‘Five Points’ of ‘Calvinism’, to use the term – although I’ve not read Calvin, and I don’t think he even formulated those Points into the famous TULIP – so never Roman Catholic, you might have thought I would have read the reformers, as well as the later puritans, but (Bunyan excepted) I never really have. This is not because I don’t like serious reading, but because any time I have tried to read these men they have just seemed a bit dry to me – doctrinal writings are not always particularly spiritual. The one exception among the reformers being William Tyndale and especially his translation of the New Testament of 1534, a work full of the savour of the knowledge of Christ received into the heart, which even the Authorised Version (KJV), so reliant on Tyndale, misses at times. I have often wondered over the years why I haven’t been led to read these men, but perhaps it is because there is an element of truth to Miles’ claim that most of them, being ‘of the families’, perhaps were employed to ‘salt in’ the ‘doctrinal differences’ into the professing church to divide it; and so the prime reason for their ‘theology’ indeed was not first and foremost spiritual. Well, it is an interesting proposal, and not without possibility given the way these ruling families have worked to gain and keep power over the centuries: nothing is below them – as the main reason for this article will show.

This theory is, of course, much more likely to be true of later schismatics in Christendom like Charles Taze Russell, Joseph Smith, (both Freemasons), Mary Baker Eddy, etc., but deception comes, by definition, much more covertly – think of men like John Wesley, Andrew Fuller, and J. N. Darby – hence our need to “beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep’s clothing.” Perhaps this is why I have never been led to read most of the famous or celebrated Christian writers. Anyway, Miles will invariably lay the blame for the rise of infiltrators at the feet of the governors running everything from the shadows, whereas I would look higher, or lower – into darker shadows – for the first cause, to the great enemy of God himself, Satan, who is the ultimate animator of rebellion towards God and his truth, however it is manifested. But we will come to him presently.

But even in the light of all that I still don’t believe that all those involved at the time of the Reformation were knowing participants of a political power struggle, because I believe there was a genuine work of God happening as well. Take for example the then recent arrival in the West of many Greek manuscripts of the books of the New Testament – brought out of Constantinople ahead of the advancing Turkish armies – which Dutch (Catholic) scholar Desiderius Erasmus formed into a unified Testament, publishing it side by side with an accurate Latin translation of that Greek. Up until then, and for the previous thousand years, the only Bible in use was Jerome’s Latin translation, called the Vulgate. But Erasmus’ Latin was much closer to the original, and scholars were beginning to read it as well as the Greek, so gaining access to the New Testament in its original form; and some, like Luther and Tyndale, were translating it into their native tongues so that the general populace could read it for themselves. Subsequently many lives were being transformed; for what they found in those true texts was an exposure of the false teachings of the Romish Church, and its long standing translation.

One of the main emphases in that corrupt religion – really the ancient pagan Mystery religion veiled behind a ‘Christian’ facade – was works for salvation: various religious observances and performances based on the very subtle doctrine of there being mediators between God and men other than Christ Jesus himself. No, they had the whole church structure with its priests, the Pope, the sacraments and, in heaven, ‘Mary’ and ‘the saints’ to intercede for them. These were all additional intermediaries between the poor sinner and his God. But not in the writings of the New Testament! There they read statements like, ‘There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.’ And they heard Jesus declaring in unique terms, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” These words taught the profound and revolutionary truth (for the times) that no other mediator between you and God was needed, apart from this one Man, the Lord Jesus Christ. And this will always prove to be the destruction of Roman Catholicism.

Compounding this wonderful truth was the doctrine which Luther discovered by revelation in his longing to find peace with God apart from religious, Catholic, works, which had still left him in a state of spiritual darkness: ‘The just shall live by faith.’ Dulled with over-familiarity today as the great easily repeatable foundational doctrine of the Reformation, that word of God came as a shaft of liberating light into Luther’s darkness opening the way to even greater fundamental truths of the gospel: that by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works lest any man should boast. When that light enters the soul all forms of religious works, whether they be found in Catholicism or in lifeless Protestantism, fall to the ground. ‘The Life’ is not entered by works, but by God-given faith.

What can the man of the world, and man in the flesh, comprehend of the miraculous work of God in the soul? Man is naturally dead towards God, totally unaware of his state in relation to the eternal, being bound in and by time. But when the voice of the Son of God sounds within, the dead sinner is awakened, enlivened, and suddenly made aware of the realm of God: that He is, that he speaks, and that he is the truth. This work of God within is called ‘quickening’, it brings to spiritual life; and the effect immediately, and as a growing realisation, is that one has been brought not only from death to life, but from darkness to light, from knowing only the life of time, to dwelling in the life of eternity.

Luther was in bondage to “do this and thou shalt live”, until this glorious liberating truth – God’s truth – that, no, “the just shall live by faith” overturned the hopelessness of the man trying to live under a laborious religion. “Live”! The just live, and live by faith, not works. That life, for so long sought under the incessant demands of the law – which never command faith, by the way – suddenly appeared in the doctrine of the gospel, in the work of God, in the salvation of Christ, yea, in Christ himself who said, “I am the life.” As with his statement regarding truth, the Lord Jesus declares that life, eternal life, is known and experienced only in him. He himself is Life. It is another absolute and exclusive claim which is why, when one is brought to see it and dwell in it, everything begins to become clear and definite. In a world of atheism, deism, agnosticism, blind natural reasoning, vague hopes, or just downright hopelessness and despair, the ability to look at the world, at life, at existence, at eternity, and at all the ‘deep’ questions regarding the reason for it all, and say “I know!” is more than just reforming, it is revelatory, revolutionary, and therefore totally life changing. It is called by the Lord and his apostles “being born again”, not in the Billy Graham manner where regeneration is something you decide to do, or you can cooperate with God in doing, but by a sovereign act of God upon a dead sinner despite himself – no created atmosphere to woo the emotions required.

Remember Lazarus in the tomb? John 11. He was dead wasn’t he? Four days dead, and “stinketh”, so well and truly beyond resuscitation. But he who was “the life” came to the dead man and commanded his resurrection by his word and by his power: ‘and he that was dead came forth’! Had Lazarus asked for it, or even prayed for it? How could he, he was dead! Go down to your local cemetery and see if you can successfully appeal to the desire or ‘free’ will of those lying six feet under. Dead. And that is what you are outside of Christ until or unless he comes and raises you to life. Said Jesus, “The time is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live”, John 5. That is what you are in your natural state, and so that is what you need: life, from him who is the life. Miracle indeed. And this is what I believe happened to Martin Luther and many others at the time of the Reformation. But, of course, Satan hates the work of God and so will always seek to pervert it, which is what we are about to see here.

So whoever Miles claims Luther to have been in his family connections, and regardless of what arose in Germany and the rest of Europe in Luther’s name at the time, is no reason to doubt that the man himself didn’t have a genuine revelation from God. That this was quickly taken out of his hands and used as a political tool by others against the ruling Catholic authority is quite believable. In fact one of Miles’ repeated claims is that when a genuine groundswell of discontent among the people against their governors starts to gain momentum, those governors, to quench it, will insert their children to pose as leaders of the movement, in order to disrupt it from the inside and destroy it: see his paper on Marx, for instance. And I believe that is likely what happened to a large degree in Luther’s time. Luther had revelation from heaven, wrote of it, began to see others’ lives genuinely transformed by it, disquiet against the Catholic church necessarily grew which, now beyond Luther’s control, turned into a political, rebellious, revolting movement, by which the (unregenerate) opportunists had already begun to work, and the rest, as they say, is their record of history.

But where in the doctrine of Christ do we read any encouragement for the nations of the world to become officially ‘Christian’ in their political structure? Nowhere. But ‘Protestant’ nations suddenly sprang up all over Northern Europe! A definite political ruse hidden behind the name of Christ which, at length for many, turned out to be practically no different, as far as liberty of conscience was concerned, to the system which it had replaced. Therefore some of the emerging ‘theologians’ may very well have been ‘in on’ this political tide designed to overthrow the power of Rome, which included uprisings, wars, executions, and other things not taught by Christ; but that still doesn’t mean that the likes of Martin Luther didn’t have a God-wrought conversion experience. Even members of the ruling families can come to the light, you know! And anyway, look at everything which has arisen in the name of Christ in the last two thousand years: do you really think he has owned it all? Never read Matthew 7:21-23? This is yet another reason why I left ‘Christianity’.

The fact is that the Lord Jesus didn’t come to form a new religion called Christianity, and those of the world who look at the likes of the Roman Catholic church and its history, and judge Christ and his teachings as the source of all the abominations committed by that church, are being deceived and are unfairly blackwashing the true doctrine of Christ. Just read the New Testament for yourself, with no preconceived notions of what you think it contains, and see if you can find anything which resembles the world’s understanding of Christ and his message. You will be surprised. Yes, the modern church, especially the ‘thoroughly Bible-based’ ones – be they ‘reformed’, Calvinistic, or not – uses a lot of the same words and phrases found in Christ’s teaching, but that does not mean they understand and use them according to his original meanings. When Jesus spoke he knew what he meant by his words, and it will be those meanings which will rise up to judge the actual unbelievers on that Day, regardless of what they thought they’d meant, and of how sincerely they’d lived in the light of that understanding. Get to know Christ’s own meaning! Which meaning you can only get by revelation from heaven. Everything short of that will prove misleading and deceptive. Anyway, Miles’ papers on the Reformation period have proved thought provoking for me, at least; and I do like to have my thoughts provoked.

Sons of Abraham?

One point Miles repeatedly makes regarding these ruling families is that the vast majority of them are Jews or crypto-Jews: that is, hidden Jews; many of them having the characteristic long or hooked nose. But I don’t believe they are lineal descendants of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the twelve tribes of Israel. I think they may like to identify as such, adopting Hebrew names, following Talmudic writings (rather than the Torah) as their own, because they believe themselves to be ‘the chosen race’ whose ‘God-given right’ it is to rule and lord it over the rest of us, whom they call the Goyim – see the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion for a good insight to this mentality; but these ruling families and their blood lines more likely go back to the pagan, godless, ‘Gentile’ ruling lines of the Caesars, Pharaohs and Nimrod rather than to the altogether more godly Abraham, who lived humbly by faith, remember.

One thing that has alerted me to this possibility is that Miles tells us that when tracing their genealogies you should always look to the female – matrilineal – lines because those are the more important, and is where they like to hide (crypto) their real generation. So if you look at Martin Luther, for instance, you will find that his mother was a Lindemann, and her mother was a Ziegler, both apparently Jewish names. This is generally how it works.* But if that is the case, then they are not descended from the Biblical Jews, because their important – emphasised – lines of generation were through the father.

*[Although the question never asked is: Where did these women get their ‘Jewish’ maiden names from? Their fathers, of course!]

All you have to do is look at the lines of the Lord Jesus – a Jew – as recorded in Matthew 1 and Luke 3: the former being Joseph’s line, and the latter Mary’s; but notice again that they are lists of males. [Although Jesus wasn’t immediately related by blood to Joseph, nevertheless Joseph, like Mary, was a direct descendant of David.] So from the very first chapter of the New Testament we have the testimony that it is the patrilineal – hence Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – not the matrilineal lines of Jesus’ generation which are the important, recorded, ones; which is totally opposite to these ruling elite ‘Jews’. Go back to Genesis chapters 11, 10 (‘…the sons of…’), and 5 to see that it is a record through the fathers which, as Luke records, goes all the way back to Adam. Compare also the opening chapters of 1 Chronicles. And as if to emphasise this fact we do get some women mentioned in Jesus’ genealogy, most notably Rahab and Ruth; but neither of these were Israelites. Rahab was from Jericho, an accursed Canaanite city soon to be destroyed, and Ruth was a Moabitess, so not Jews. That is one reason, at least, why I think we are dealing not with crypto- but pseudo-Jews in the ruling families.

Of course the subject of who ‘the children of Abraham’ are in the new covenant age occupies a fundamental place in the doctrine of Christ, which the testimony of scripture makes perfectly clear. It is a gospel verity that they which are of faith – the faith of Christ, not they which are of blood lineage only, are the true children of Abraham: at least, as far as God is concerned. Being ‘in Christ’ there is no longer Jew nor Gentile, for all are one in Christ Jesus. Remember that ‘Jews’ didn’t exist when God appeared to (the pagan) Abraham in Ur of the Chaldees, in Mesopotamia, and when later He promised him that He would make of him a great nation. And so as Abraham hearkened unto the voice of the LORD, which means he believed it, we read the great revelation of what it means – even to this day – to be a child of Abraham: ‘And Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness’. Galatians 3.

Again, whereas the rite of circumcision was to be a token of the covenant God made with Abraham and his (male) descendants after the flesh, it was always faith in the heart which was the sign of true spiritual circumcision: ‘For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is [merely] outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and [true] circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.’ Romans 2. And what a dagger in the heart is that last phrase to all who love to glory now in the flesh!

So what! if someone today could trace their blood line back to Abraham; still counted the carnal aspects of the promises to the patriarch and his seed after the flesh as applying to them; or believes the unscriptural idea that his seed is ‘a chosen people’ to lord it over the rest of us; if they have no regeneration: are not a new creation in Christ Jesus? Again the doctrine is clear: ‘For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.’ Galatians 6. There are the true ‘Jews’ today: the true Israel of God: those who are regenerated, born again by the Spirit of God, who are in Christ Jesus and walk by faith: who are characterised by being not of the world, by having no love for the spirit and mentality of this age, who count any gain they receive in this world as only temporal, and who instead look for an inheritance in the world to come which (unlike earthly inheritances) is incorruptible, undefiled, unfading, being eternal in the heavens. And as to the rest? The carnal? The faithless? The worldly-minded? The usurpers? The pretenders? Those with no love for, or obedience of the gospel of Christ? Jesus himself answers: “Ye are of your father the devil”, John 8.

Satan and Satanism

Which leads us at last to the main reason I am writing this article. And that is because Miles generally dismisses too readily the subject of Satan and things related. Perhaps it is because the existence of Satan cannot be proved scientifically, and he for the most part does like to keep to ‘rational’ explanations. It also may be because he simply doesn’t believe, or want to believe, that Satan actually exists. In his paper on C.S. Lewis (page 12) he says, ‘If there is a Satan…’ which sounds quite close to unbelief, or at least doubt; although the sentence does continue, ‘If there is a Satan, his first tool… is lying.’ Well, yes! As saith the scripture! (see above). But in his paper on Karl Marx (page 23) he says of the ruling elite, ‘They are bad people because they are addicted to lying and cheating and stealing, but that doesn’t make them Satanists.’ So Satan’s first tool is lying, but those ‘addicted’ to lying aren’t necessarily influenced by or followers of Satan – which would make them Satanists. We will see below that that cannot be true.

Before we continue we must define the word ‘satan’. It is an Hebrew verb which means ‘to accuse’, ‘to be an adversary’, ‘to attack’. This is why we hear ‘a loud voice in heaven’ refer to him as “the accuser of our brethren”, Revelation 12:9,10. So in its noun form it becomes ‘an accuser’, ‘an adversary’, as found in a court of law. This is immediately seen in the first two chapters of the Book of Job, which see. Therefore Satan is not a proper name at all, it is a characteristic of a person. This adversary is a real person, a fallen angel, so a spirit, but he has no given name. This is true also of the word ‘devil’. The word in the Greek is ‘diabolos’ meaning ‘to cast through’, as in ‘to cast accusation, or false witness across (a court room) against’ someone: witness that old serpent’s accusation against the commandment of God in the ear of Eve in the Garden of Eden not to eat of the fruit: “Ye shall not surely die!” contradicting God’s assured statement, “Thou shalt surely die.” Again, in his temptation in the wilderness the Lord Jesus was repeatedly assailed by this adversary with the words, “If thou be the Son of God…” In like manner many ‘false witnesses’ appeared at the trial of Jesus, and, especially, mockers at the foot of the cross with the same words: “If thou be the Son of God…!” I wonder who was stirring them up? Oh, there is unbelief and hatred in that diabolical “If”.

When the subject of Satanism comes up in Miles’ papers – which he usually only mentions in passing – his main reason for dismissing it is because he says that Satanism is being used as a front, and therefore misdirection, by Intelligence and their agents like, for instance, Alistair Crowley and Anton LaVey, therefore hiding the deeper project which is being enacted. And that may be true to a degree. But what he doesn’t seem to realise is that that is classic misdirection by Satan himself. Yes, Satanism can be used as misdirection, but that is no proof that 1) Satan doesn’t exist, 2) there aren’t Satanists nonetheless, 3) people don’t worship and do sacrifice to Satan, and that 4) many of the ruling elite aren’t among them.

Miles often points out how dreadful these people look (those in the public eye, anyway), and to someone like me I just see on their faces the strain of total bondage to a malign god who has promised them the world as long as they continue to worship and do sacrifice to him. They may be at the top of the pyramid using their enormous wealth and power to keep us all in wage slavery, debt, etc. utilising lies, fear, and self-policing peer pressure to keep us conforming to their agenda, but the reality is that they are far from free themselves. Look at them! Service of Satan does not bring liberty, peace, contentment, sound sleep. They must continue to fall under the incessant demands of their god, who necessarily demands more and more sacrifice, the eviller the better. It is called being in hopeless bondage and servitude. And because Satan is that “Liar, and the father of lies” (Jesus’ description), then his promise to his slaves – that in gaining the whole world they will “be as gods” – is a lie. Which reminds me of those words the Lord Jesus said, which Miles actually quoted in one of his papers, “What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” What? Nothing, of course. Satanists who believe his lies gain nothing in the end; the veil of lies is removed the second after death, and then where are they? In hell. Miles says he believes in reincarnation, but the doctrine of Christ reveals nothing of the sort. ‘It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.’ “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” That is God’s absolute truth.

In Luke 16 the Lord Jesus told the account of a rich man – rich in love for the here and now, and a poor man – poor in spirit – called Lazarus. Both lived and both died, the one event common to all men. Of the rich man Jesus said that he was buried, “and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments”. No ambiguity there from Him who is “the truth”. So no reincarnation, no ‘second chance’, no purgatory. You may say you don’t believe in hell, or can’t accept it, like I once couldn’t. But what of that? Truth doesn’t need the approbation of fallen man to validate it. Absolute truth stands sure and immutable whether anyone believes it or not.

Again on page 23 of his paper on Marx Miles says that in using Satanism as a cover they use ‘the 666 signal and the horn sign and all that. But I don’t believe they are actually Satanists.’ Yes, and a football supporter who goes around wearing a Manchester United shirt doesn’t support Manchester United. The use of satanic symbols is surely intended to convey the message that they, at least, are happy to be associated with Satan. I admit that this may not be the case with your average air-headed teenager who just likes to copy the actions of their celebrity idols, but we’re not talking about teenagers, we’re talking about the ruling elite and their extended family members, a lot of whom are found in the entertainment and sporting industries. I think it would be quite naïve to think that they don’t know what these symbols mean, and that many of them don’t knowingly ‘serve’ Satan in some way.

What is ‘the mark of the beast’? Being a ‘mark’ it is an imprint, as in an aspect of a person’s character or lifestyle which those with the mark possess, and which enables them to identify with the person whose mark it is. As we have seen, one of the prime characteristics of Satan is rebellion towards God, actual conscious rebellion. It is the love of darkness, evil actions, deception, lies, etc. But it can also be manifest in the ready use of symbols associated with Satan, the beast. For instance, here in the UK you can get a personalised registration plate for your car, and it has been noticeable in the last few years how many 666s you see on them. Everyone knows that 666 is the number of the beast, even if they may not know it comes from the Bible (Revelation 13, and following); so it is safe to assume that those who choose that number for their cars are stating that they are quite willing to identify either with Satan himself, or at least with something of his known character.

And then what about the all-seeing eye, the eye of Horus, or rather the eye of Satan, which the Freemasons love; which is found on the back of the American dollar bill atop the pyramid; and which is constantly being flashed by entertainment celebrities (covering one eye with the hand)? It is a well known maxim among the esoterics that “Symbols conceal, and symbols reveal”: revealed to the ‘initiates’ only. Well, these are among the signs of adherence to Satan in plain sight: but most don’t see them! Satanism is real alright, way beyond being a mere tool for misdirecting away from the latest Intel project.

Miles further writes: ‘They have found a way to look at themselves in the mirror without getting sick, despite having achieved all they think they have achieved by lying and cheating. This makes them bad but it does not make them Satanists.’ Well it proves they are bad, certainly, but it proves also that they are blind! If you can (figuratively speaking) ‘look at yourself in the mirror’ in your evil state and not ‘see’ a malign influence behind you, stirring you up to rebellion against God and his law, then you are blind, deceived; and that makes you a servant of Satan.

Next he says, ‘Satanism would qualify as a sort of religion, and these people are deeply and profoundly irreligious. You can be sure they aren’t praying to any gods or demons of any stripe, since that would require them to admit to a world beyond their shallow world of money and economics and vulgar displays of faux-power.’ But that doesn’t follow at all because of the deceiving nature of Satan and his service. They are blind to the truth; they are even deceived into believing that Satan doesn’t exist even while they serve him and believe his lies! How so? Well, remember that many of these people, being high members of the likes of Freemasonry, the Illuminati, Skull and Bones, and other dark secret societies, profess to be on a journey ‘towards the light’; and who do they believe the bearer of that light to be? Lucifer, as they call him. But isn’t Lucifer just Satan by another name? “Oh no, no”, they reply. Deceived, you see. See Isaiah 14:12-17, 2 Corinthian 11:14. So they do believe in a world beyond this world, for Lucifer is a god from a spiritual realm, whom they petition, give sacrifice, and worship. But in their service to him they are being lied to by one whose main tenets of ‘faith’ are “Satan don’t exist” (which proves their ignorance), “this world is all there is”, and “you can be gods here”; so they need not worry about what happens to them when they die. But they are serving the father of lies! “Day of Judgment!” “Heaven and Hell?” “Hahahahaha! This time state is all there is! So live accordingly!” But, said Jesus, “Woe unto you that laugh now! ye shall mourn and weep.”

Therefore it is just plain presumption to say that ‘You can be sure they aren’t praying to any gods or demons.’ Neither Miles nor anyone else can prove that they are not. Unbelief can persuade you into thinking they are not, but unbelief isn’t proof.

As to the thought that the ‘deeply irreligious’ could not be engaged in a religion called Satanism has already proved to be false, simply by remembering again what Satan’s nature is. People can be deeply religious in their following of lies and deception, can’t they? What is living a life totally devoted to evil means (the end justifies the means?) to gain absolute power (and godhood), and being devoted to every means imaginable to conspire against ‘the LORD and his anointed’, but a religious life? Satanism is a deceitful lifestyle: it animates the person: therefore it is a religion. All religions, even humanism, have a ‘belief system’ which causes their adherents to live in a certain way; and again the core beliefs of Satanism, which are surely designed to unleash unrestrained rebellion, are, “Yea, hath God said? … Ye shall not surely die! … Ye shall be as gods.” Genesis 3. Same old, same old, all the way back to the beginning of time.

Next in his paper on Marx Miles says, ‘If they were successfully calling up gods – good or bad – we would see them with powers they do not appear to have. If they had magical powers, they wouldn’t need to subsist on these vulgar con jobs. It is unlikely the gods would stoop to lying right to our stupid faces, since that lacks all subtlety and refinement.’ But who says that calling upon gods necessarily means you have ‘magical powers’? For myself, calling on the true and living God has never furnished me with magical powers, neither do I ever expect to have them or want them because he doesn’t ever promise them. But anyway, why would the ruling elite need magical powers from Satan when they are already employing his primary ‘gifts’ of lying, deceiving, and manipulation on a worldwide scale? They have got where they are by conspiring, stealing, killing, destroying; and they retain their power by lying, more stealing, sustaining a continuous feardemic, and by remaining loyal in service to their god: so no magic required.

Notice also here that while calling ‘gods’ good or bad, Miles is, in effect, including God in with devils. Here is a revelation of his unbelief in the true and living God as revealed in holy scripture. Although not calling himself an atheist – he actually writes against atheism – he evidently does not believe in the LORD God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth and of man in His image, and coming judge of all the earth. No, he believes Nature is the overriding force in the ‘universe’, and often fears the ruling elite with Her ‘judgments’ on them for their wicked ways. In this he is admitting, in effect, that Nature is God, though still an impersonal deity. But it is the fear of the LORD, not nature, which is the beginning of wisdom. Yes, the phrase ‘you reap what you sow’ can be seen to some degree as a ‘law of nature’, but to threaten people with the fear of that law taking revenge pales into nothing compared with the absolute certainty of the revelation of the wrath of God, the wrath of the Lamb, to come upon sin and rebellion on the day of judgment. Seeking to be delivered from that ‘wrath to come’ should be the one concern in life of these ruling elite, of Miles, and of every one else too. But it seems that neither he, nor many others today believe in that Day, or that wrath to come. And yet unbelief itself will appear on that Day! where its rebellion against the truth of God and his gospel will be exposed to the pure holy light of the judgment of Christ! And then where will it be?

[And here is something interesting which I have just seen. I was reading the last (No. 24 in my edition) of the Protocols mentioned earlier, and came across this: ‘…all the spirit of laws which have been unshakably established by nature herself for the regulation of the relations of humanity.’ So it turns out that both Miles and these ruling ‘elders’ believe in the same authority of Nature! and yet they both appeal to the power of this god in completely different ways: one by saying that it is the ultimate Reason they rule, and the other by saying that She will judge those rulers for their evil ways! Just like millions of people world-wide who name ‘God’ as the author of their various religions, and multitudes of ‘Christians’ who use the doctrine of God to justify their innumerably diverse dogmas which they all say are found in his Book! So everyone is formulating and practising their own religion based on their favoured beliefs regarding ‘deity’. Therefore en masse, as one, humanity stands and cries: “We will believe in any god, as long as it’s not the true and living God.” Typical. Just typical.]

As well as his belief in Nature Miles also refers to ‘the gods or Muses’ which he believes lead, or influence him from time to time*: but what if those gods or Muses are demons leading him? Then that would make him a Satanist, wouldn’t it? Sorry folks, but we are all influenced by and serve someone or other, whether we know it, believe it or not.**

*[I remember hearing David Icke say something similar; but he didn’t name or even care who the ‘entities’ were who were revealing things to him. Not a very safe state to be in.]

**[By the way; the Greek word ‘atheos’ means literally ‘without God’. All those ‘without God’ and therefore ‘without Christ’ (Ephesians 2) are ‘atheists’, whether they say they believe in God, gods, Muses, or any other Influence.]

So by now we can see why it is highly likely that the gods would ‘stoop to lying right to our stupid faces’; for we being naturally stupefied in his deception, Satan doesn’t always need to employ ‘subtilty and refinement’, does he? Again, the common phrase employed in conspiracy circles, “hidden in plain sight” proves that. (As an every day example of this, just look at the increasingly degenerate general appearance of humanity today with its tattoos and body piercings: subtle and refined? And while you’re at it, read the last few verses of Romans 1: not much subtilty and refinement there.) No, Satan doesn’t care what we believe in this life, or about eternity, as long as it isn’t the truth of Christ and his gospel received by revelation.

An Unconvincing Conclusion

In the light of all this we can now see why a recurring conclusion Miles gives to the whys and wherefores of the ruling elite’s motives is unconvincing. To the question, Why is the ruling elite running this latest project, be it a war, a pandemic, or a 9/11 (not to mention the ongoing fake space program)? Invariably he answers, ‘To drink deep into the nations’ treasuries yet again.’ That always seems to be his ultimate reason. But the ruling elite – being multi-squillionaires – already have all the wealth they could ever need: hey, they can create money out of nothing for fun! Yes, they still may not be satisfied with the thought that a modicum of wealth is still sloshing around amongst us 99% which they’d like to get their hands on too: as Miles said in one place, ‘they want us living on a concrete slab, eating chemical squares, and working twelve hours a day to pay for the privilege’ (or words to that effect); but simply to gain more wealth cannot be the ultimate reason for their malign schemes. It must be something more. And we now know what that ‘something more’ is.

They are servants, slaves of Satan. We have already seen the testimony of Psalm 2. These ruling elite hate God, hate his Christ, and hate his people, as does their father the devil. But this hatred is not passive, enmity is not passive, it issues in active service; and a major part of that service, as an act of worship, is sacrifice. This is why they are bound to continue their evil projects, because they are sacrifices to their evil god. How many times do we hear that the ruling elite are ‘poisoning our food, our water, our skies, our medication, our children’ (which they are), and therefore are slowly trying to kill us!And this being intentional then we can certainly view it as the performing of a sacrifice. They are in the process of sacrificing us to their god! It is a must do way beyond just amassing more wealth. [It is also a sign of madness on their part, for even they are not immune from the effects of their own poisoning. Only following Christ gives a person ‘a sound mind’.]

Do you ever notice that when soldiers die in war they are often referred to as having given “the ultimate sacrifice”? Who coined that phrase?! Of course it is always presented to us as them sacrificing themselves for their country, or for freedom, in the latest ‘just war’; but when I hear that phrase I always think, “Yes, but who really is sacrificing who to whom?” As well as being used to further the ruling elite’s power, wealth and control – the usual practical reason for wars, uprisings and interventions (ever noticed how much death and destruction is wrought by Peace Keeping Forces?) – those poor souls are being offered as blood sacrifices by the elite to their god Satan. In fact do you know what word means ‘whole burnt offering’? Holocaust. All wars instigated by the ruling elite as sacrifices to Satan are holocausts. The same goes for abortion and euthanasia, assisted dying and assisted suicide*. This is not to charge the victims of these evils with being complicit in the sacrifice – they are being lied to and deceived in their often fragile states – no, it is the Satan-driven elite who instruct their puppets in the parliaments to pass the laws which make the killing legal; their serfs in the media to report it as ‘progress’, ‘liberty of choice’, or even ‘humanitarian'(!); and those in the medical profession (the willing ones, anyway) to carry out the ‘procedures’. And you cannot prove that that isn’t true.

*[By the way, I strongly disagree with ‘population control’ in any form, except the preaching of the true gospel which would, at least, encourage restraint and therefore many ‘unwanted pregnancies’. This world is not overcrowded: cities are overcrowded, but there is still a huge amount of habitable land (even in this ‘tiny island’ of Britain) which could be used to relieve over-population of urban areas. The fact is that the ruling elite have stolen the land and ‘enclosed’ it for themselves and their cronies (think country estates, etc.), or they have impoverished whole nations worldwide in perpetual debt so that the traditional way of life, ‘living off the land’, no longer sustains a basic living even for hard working country folk who want no more than to provide the simple necessities for themselves and their families, that most are necessarily pushed into urban sprawl. But this goes against God’s original purpose for man, to live in a garden and not a city. Look at the origin of city building in Genesis 4: Cain, after having killed his brother, went out from the presence of the LORD and, in his continued rebellion against God, he built a city instead of continuing to be ‘a tiller of the ground’. Do you get it? We were created out of the dust of the ground, and therefore ‘rural’ is our natural habitat; and the further man is herded away from those surroundings the worse his situation becomes, and the more his discontent in life grows. But I intend to pursue that line of thought another time.]

Surely this is why what generally used to be referred to as either unnatural or downright evil is now much more mainstream, open, accepted, promoted and defended. The Book of Revelation declares that the whole world is wandering after the beast! which is why those in power and wealth use that power and wealth to make this existence for their fellow humans increasingly miserable, instead of making it a more peaceable and just experience; and is why their surfs continue to accept it as ‘normal’ life. And this evil is ratcheted up year by year and decade after decade in ever desperate ways because the ultimate instigator, Satan, knows he has but a short time left to vent his hatred towards God on this earth and in this time state, before his final doom is sealed in the bottomless pit for ever. Remember Jesus’ “the lake of fire prepared for the devil and his angels”? They know what’s coming to them for their rebellion; they rage against it, and desire to take as many of God’s creatures down with them as they can. And that includes you if you don’t believe it.

Again, Satan is a god, which is why he demands continual sacrifice. It is the same the world over where demons manifest themselves as gods. Study the history of any tribe or people from Africa to Western Europe, from the Eastern Continents to the Americas, and to the far flung isles of the oceans, and you will find ‘pagan’ worship often accompanied by blood sacrifice. They’re still at it today! In many places of the world being a sheep, a chicken, a goat, will more or less guarantee you’ll get your throat slit as part of some act of appeasement to a god. And you think that never mutates into human sacrifice? If you are a Bible believer you need to open your eyes.

Blood Sacrifice to Devils in Scripture

(Sorry, this is proving a dark subject, and pretty hard to write.)

So let us look at this contention that Satan demands and receives sacrifice, and that the same is testified to in scripture. In one of his articles Miles mentions Bohemian Grove, the exclusive retreat of the ruling elite somewhere in California where a lot of perverted activities occur, and where there is a giant statue of the ancient god Molech, to whom they apparently perform, or at least enact, child sacrifice: I think it is referred to as The Cremation of Care. Though Miles says be believes the former things happen, he doesn’t believe the latter does. But if you believe the testimony of scripture you will not dismiss the thought of child sacrifice so easily.

We will begin with a statement of the psalmist in Psalm 106; which psalm contains a catalogue of the rebellion of the children of Israel against the LORD their God. In verses 36-38 we read: ‘And they served idols: which were a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.’ In case you missed it, that is blood sacrifice of children to devils. Notice also the word ‘snare’. This testimony is a reminder of that which is recorded at the end of Deuteronomy 12 where we read that the heathen, whom the LORD was going to cast out before his people when they entered the promised land, were already doing those things which were an abomination to the LORD, including burning their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. But God commanded his people not to do these things: Leviticus 18:21, “And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech…” Yes Molech is an ancient god and the representation of a devil! There is no new thing under the Californian sun!

Later in Jeremiah 32 the LORD is giving reason why the Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar were going to destroy Jerusalem with fire and take the people into captivity: “For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands… they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.” Did you see how such abominations as child sacrifice never come into the mind of the true and living God? (How often do we say in immediate self-defence, “I never even thought it!”) But it is not so with Satan who would usurp that godhood: he takes sacrifice and perverts it in the most abominable way to cause his followers to sacrifice their own children! Now, is that an act of worship born out of liberty or bondage? That is why I said earlier that today’s ruling elite who do, no doubt, still offer child (as well as adult) sacrifice to their diabolical god – and not only at the Bohemian Grove – are in hopeless bondage themselves, despite all their wealth and power. Envy them not; they are poor lost souls whose end is destruction.

Someone might say here, But that is all Old Testament, millennia ago; surely no-one in the New Testament age believes that is remotely applicable today! Well the Apostle Paul says plainly that in sacrificing to idols ‘the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God’, 1 Corinthians 10:20. And he was writing in the present tense. And the Spirit of God gives us a testimony by Stephen in Acts 7 of the disciples’ belief in these sacrifices of old: “And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets [quoting Amos specifically], O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan [Chiun], figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.” So the New Testament, and therefore the doctrine of Christ, does testify to the validity of these things. [Actually, I’ve just noticed the NT spelling of Molech there is Moloch*: I wonder if the godless H.G. Wells in his book The Time Machine got the name Morlock from there, as well as the name Eloi from one of Jesus’ cries from the cross? I wouldn’t be surprised, as Satan is always seeking to pervert the testimony of God and his Son.]

*[And interestingly, Moloch – with an ‘o’ – isn’t highlighted by my laptop’s inbuilt spell-checker: it’s a word they know!]

But, again, someone might say that this is all reference to the people sacrificing to Molech and not the ruling class, which has been the subject of my argument here. Well, look at 1 Kings 11 and Solomon the king. Here was a man who was loved of the LORD and who, upon being raised up to sit on the throne of David his father, had humbled himself before the LORD his God, and had asked for wisdom to rule the people, which was granted – and is why you have heard of ‘the wisdom of Solomon’. But when his kingdom was established he erred: ‘But king Solomon loved many strange [foreign] women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtaroth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom [Molech] the abomination of the Ammonites… and Solomon built an high place… for Molech… And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.’ And we already know what sacrifice to Molech entailed. So God at length divided Solomon’s kingdom, but did recover him at the end: hence his old age confession, which we know as the Book of Ecclesiastes. [Notice there how David, being a man after God’s own heart, was a rare exception among kings.]

But of course after Solomon there arose a long line of kings of Israel and Judah; a few of whom were godly, doing ‘that which was right in the eyes of the LORD’; but many of them were evil, leading the people away from the true and living God to build groves(!), high places and worship idols, with all the abominations those things entailed; see the reigns of Ahab, Ahaz and Manasseh, for instance.

Nevertheless as God is unchanging and his commandments are the same; and Satan too is unchanging and his hatred and rebellion is the same; so the nature of kings and rulers is the same, and they still do the same things, abiding in the rebellion of their fathers. So I would say that it is very reasonable to believe, according to the testimony of God’s holy scriptures, that the service and worship of Satan among the ruling elite is still happening even in this ‘enlightened’ age. But seeing that Miles doesn’t really believe it, so doesn’t expose it, explains a major reason why, I believe, he is able to keep writing.

What do I mean by that? Well, in one of the earliest papers of his I read, although I can’t remember which one it was, he asked this question which might have been in the minds of some of his readers: How is it that he can expose the workings of the ruling elite in almost every field that influences our lives today, and remain untouched by them? Why don’t they send a hitman from Intel and just silence him? The same question might be asked of the likes of Alex Jones and David Icke, of course: but as they are of the families and have a definite agenda to sow misdirection among the truths that they do broadcast, then they are not really enemies of the ruling elite. But Miles being genuinely independent and unconnected to the top of the pyramid, even though he has a regular readership of over a million by now, is still no real threat to them. He hasn’t the power actually to muster an army of truthers and literally march on the ruling elite and overthrow them. And they know that. Although he may be an annoyance to them yet they don’t need to kill him or silence him because a disparate million individuals isn’t going to overturn their purposes. So they just leave him alone.*

*[Actually, in his paper entitled The Restoration, which is quite stirring, he does call for a concerted uprising against the governors, even stating that the worst of them should be put to death, which they should. See also pages 5-7 of his paper on the State of the Union Address which I’ve just been reading.]

Yes, he can expose their doings all he likes; can trace their family connections, even through all the misdirection, fudging and scrubbing on the genealogical sites, all he likes, but because their power is so all pervasive there is no way he can foment that type of world revolution. (And anyway, ‘who can make war with the beast’?) But if he, with the platform of his sizeable following, and with his admittedly growing influence, in that pages of Wikipedia have either been deleted or re-written because of some of his papers, if he started researching and exposing their actual Satanism in the light of the testimony of God’s holy scriptures, they would soon, I believe – as stirred up by their malign god himself – turn on him and he would likely ‘disappear’; because Satan does hate having his person and work brought to light.

Although I have no following – my known regular readers can be counted on the fingers of one hand (excluding the thumb) – I know that every time I expose the work of Satan, especially in the deception he has wrought in the church which professes the name of Christ, and in the declaration of the glorious truths of the gospel of Christ which are his defeat, I get sorely oppressed in my spirit. No, this creature who can be manifest as an angel of light in the church, and as an oh so reasonable character in the doctrine of the world: at times so smoothly whispering in the ear that Satanism is only a fabricated cover for the ‘real’ evil in the world – the scheming of those power hungry bankers – this creature is mostly benign, and our grown up post-Christian humanity should once and for all close that old Book with it’s ancient myths of gods and devils, and should embrace fully its own matured sense of reason: after all, “Hath God said? … Ye shall not surely die! … Ye shall be as gods!” Diversion, you see? Misdirection. Yes, and he animates every one who is outside of Christ in this world with those lies, be they ruling elite, educated, truther, unregenerate Christian, or your bog-standard Joe Bloggs.

[Someone might say here, But Alex Jones has exposed the Satanism of the ruling elite, and he hasn’t been done away. The reason for that, apart from being an insider himself, is that he likewise doesn’t expose Satan in the light of the gospel of Christ, which is what I am doing here. Researchers can expose darkness and the works of darkness all they like, but it’s only when the light of Christ and his truth received by revelation is the means for exposing that darkness does Satan then rage. For you do realise that The Lord Jesus Christ is himself the true light: the light of the world! And those that follow him no longer walk in darkness but abide in the light, for in him they have the light of life! Praise be HIS holy name! (I just had to release that sentence of Glory there!)]

Is Satan alive and working today? What saith the scripture? Writing to the saints of God in Christ at Ephesus, the apostle Paul wrote: ‘And you hath [God] quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among whom we all had our conversation [manner of life] in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.’

So you see, to deny the existence and working of Satan – here called ‘the prince of the power of the air’ – in the present day, and in all who walk contrary to the gospel, is to deny a fundamental aspect of the doctrine of Christ, and although you may have a professed desire to ‘know the truth’ then ultimately you know nothing. You may attain to great understanding, knowledge and worldly wisdom, as judged by the standards of the age, but the wisdom of this world has always been foolishness with God, and in the end is just vanity. The only real knowledge which is good for time and eternity is the knowledge of God in Christ, through his one sacrifice upon the cross for sinners, and his rising again from the dead; which, when that work is applied within, is also called being made wise unto salvation.

The Need

And so we come to the one glorious sacrifice which is approved of God, for he made it! And to the need for that sacrifice. Oh yes, God has ordained sacrifice (which is why Satan so perverts it and demands it for himself as though he were God), but His sacrifice issues in salvation and liberty, not hellish bondage.

In a world where sin is now so open, promoted, celebrated, and even made into an issue where you can be arrested or at least openly ostracised if you speak against it, we have lost the realisation that sin is actually highly offensive to God. Sin is rebellion against his Person, his Nature, and his Law. And it is foolish, to say the least. Why? Because of what we have already seen: we, as having been created in the image of God, and therefore knowing God, should make it our sole desire in life to seek to know him savingly in his Son, to know his will, and how we can serve him in accordance with that will.

As we’ve already witnessed king Solomon go astray but restored, then hear what he wrote at the very end of his life to a young man who was seeking the truth and reason of existence: Ecclesiastes, the last verses: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” Our sole desire equates to ‘the whole of man’. This is what man is all about. You want to know the meaning of life? Fear God your Creator, and keep his commandments. That’s the answer.

You may have noticed that I removed the word ‘duty’ in that quote of Solomon’s: ‘the whole duty of man’. This is because that word is not found in the original, the translators inserted it supposedly to make sense of the sentence which is why it is in italics in the Bible. But the insertion is not needed, ‘the whole of man’ being perfectly understandable. Actually inserting the word duty subtly changes the meaning, doesn’t it? If it is merely your duty then that speaks of labour and, perhaps, of grudging ‘dutiful’ obedience. But ‘the whole of man’ speaks of an all encompassing absolute necessity, of something not only above everything else but demanding of the sole concentration and application of the whole of man: of the heart, the mind, the soul, and the strength. Therefore a better inserted italicised word, if one were needed, would have been ‘purpose’: The whole purpose of man. So if you are looking for purpose in life, here it is.

Again, the word ‘duty’ evokes works, religious performances, and eventually Pharisaism. If you think you are performing your duty, and begin to observe those who are not performing theirs, then it isn’t going to be long before those infamous words will well up in your heart, and maybe even escape your lips: “God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are.” Self righteousness, pride, a judgmental spirit: the very essence of Pharisaism, of legalistic religion. No, the word duty finds no place in Solomon’s wise counsel.

So what is the New Testament testimony? In the last denomination of which I was a member, we had an ‘article of faith’ which addressed this issue as a counter to those of another denomination who believed in what they called ‘duty repentance’ and ‘duty faith’. The trouble is that although our denomination opposed those unscriptural ideas, they never really presented what the New Testament did say. It is one thing to contend against false doctrine, but you also have to counter it with the true. So if a verse like Solomon’s here was addressed, they would – while still retaining the inserted duty – shuffle round it by saying what they believed it didn’t mean, according to our beliefs, while still failing to say what it did mean, because they didn’t really have a clear answer themselves.

But the gospel does have a clear answer; and it is found in the word ‘should’. The whole of man indicates a should. What is life all about? What is my purpose for being here? You should seek the Lord. You should turn from idols. That is what you should do. Don’t try to make a theological tenet of it – inventing unscriptural phrases like ‘man’s responsibility’ – so you can insert it into your Confessions or Articles of Religion, just read what scripture says to ‘all men every where’ and preach it (and obey it!).

There is the Apostle Paul in Athens, Acts 17, the then centre of ‘the wisdom of this world’, home of the great Greek philosophers, the humanistic, rational, thinkers. And on this occasion he is actually addressing such: ‘certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics.’ They had asked him to expound his beliefs which they had found strange, if not mildly amusing: “He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods” because he had been preaching Jesus and the resurrection (not reincarnation). And was Paul, with the doctrine of Christ received by revelation, intimidated by these great and wise? No. He knew their foolishness and conveyed to them the commandment of their Creator.

After reintroducing them to their long buried knowledge of the true and living God – remember this knowledge is innate, Romans 1 – he continues how that God “hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain of your poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

“Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. And the times of this ignorance God [lit.] overlooked; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.”

All men every where should seek him to find him. They are commanded by God (not the preacher) to repent: to turn from their rebellion against their Creator to feel after him and find him, and that, in the light of the coming day of judgment, which should be reason enough. And this is exactly as Solomon had said all those centuries before: Fear God and keep his commandments because judgment is coming. A mere duty? Infinitely more. An absolute necessity. This is what you should do.

But this was not an isolated word from Paul, as if he was in the habit of tailoring his message depending on whom he was addressing. Go back to Acts 14 and to his encounter with the men at Lystra who, although being less ‘sophisticated’ between their ears than the men at Athens, still, like the philosophers, worshipped, served and sacrificed to false gods. As they were about to sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas, whom they thought were Mercury and Jupiter come down as men – because of the miraculous healing of the impotent man – Paul, horrified, ‘scarce restrained’ them by saying: “Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea…” Should. There it is again. And, yes, sacrificing to false gods is vanity. Well, didn’t Solomon of old (through experience) say that all was vanity? Wise man.

So this is the whole of man. You should turn from your idols, and turn from vanity; you should seek your Creator to find him; for God commands you to repent, because the day of judgment is certain. Now you may not believe that. You may not believe in God your Creator, nor believe in the day of judgment, and therefore may refuse to repent. But that doesn’t nullify the commandment of God to you, neither does it cancel the day of judgment. There is necessity here. Notice Solomon’s “for”, as in, “for God shall bring every work into judgment”; and Paul’s “because”, as in, “because God hath appointed a day…” Your unbelief and continued rebellion against God and his commandment makes no difference to the certainty of judgment; you will appear on that Day whether you believe it now or not. This is why we can view the commandment of God not in a negative “Thou shalt not” light, but as a gracious warning to you to consider the state of your soul in the light of the imminence of eternity.

Don’t you care for your own soul? Do you think it is wise for you, whom God calls “dust”, to think that you know more than your Creator, and will actually argue against, disbelieve, or ignore Him? That’s madness, isn’t it? He is eternal, has always been – is the great I AM – is all powerful, all knowing, all wise. Meanwhile you are of time, blind, ignorant, foolish. He is holy, pure, righteous; you are the opposite in every way. As saith the truth: ‘There is none righteous, no, not one.’ ‘There is none that doeth good, no, not one’, not according to God’s definition of those words.

If you have an inkling that these things are true, or if you verily know them despite your natural desire not to believe them, and if you realise that indeed you haven’t ever really cared about what your Creator has commanded you, that He, as God, has the absolute right to command you to repent, then turn and seek him nonetheless. Although you are a sinner and may begin to feel the righteousness of the judgment which awaits you for your rebellion, you can still seek him for a remedy to your growing danger. You should, really.

But how will you find that remedy? God will lead you to it, he will teach you the way to find it. The remedy is the sacrifice of his Son. In the Old Testament God ordained sacrifices for the children of Israel to give when they sinned. These were animal sacrifices, not the sacrifices of their children. And they were blood sacrifices to remind the people how offensive sin is to God: the blood of the innocent had to be shed. But these all pointed as a type to the one perfect sacrifice which was to come. When the Lord Jesus gave his life a ransom for many upon the cross, he not only died but his blood was shed in the process. The life of the flesh is in the blood, and so his life was ‘poured out’ as an acceptable sacrifice to God for the sins of his people. But not only did the blood wash away the guilt of sins, it was also the death of the body of Christ – the broken body – which was the sacrifice for sin.

This is an essential part of the doctrine of Christ seldom preached today. What you must realise, and what the sacrifice of Christ shows, is that there is a difference between sin and sins. Sin is the state you are born in, and in which you continue to dwell unless regenerated by God, while sins are those acts of rebellion which emanate from that state. Both of these separate you from God, a fact that the self-righteous Pharisee always forgets, as he constantly judges others because of their sins, while himself remaining totally ignorant of his own nature. But God will teach you the difference between the two in your experience, as he shines his pure light of truth into your very nature, as well as onto the deeds which spring from that nature. And he will show you the remedy, for both are found in the Person and sacrifice of his Son.

Consider carefully (each in their own context) the following statements found in scripture regarding Christ in relation to either sin or sins:

Hebrews 9:26, ‘But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.’

2 Corinthians 5:21, ‘For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.’

Romans 6:23, ‘For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’

John 1:29, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.’

1 John 1:7, ‘…and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.’

Matthew 1:21, ‘And thou shalt call his name JESUS: for shall save his people from their sins.’

Hebrews 10:12, ‘But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God.’

1 Peter 2:24, ‘Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.’

Galatians 1:4, ‘Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.’

So in those few verses, as in many others, you can see something of the effectualness and all sufficiency of the death of Christ upon the cross, as well as the shedding of his blood, to put away and cover both sin and sins. And God will lead all his people not only to feel their need of this one sacrifice, but to cause them to seek the application of it with all their hearts, and at length will give them faith to believe it as having been accomplished for them. Once again – and do ponder every phrase here, in its context: ‘How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God’, Hebrews 9:14. Isn’t that what you desire?

This is something of how God brings his people to a knowledge of salvation in his Son.

Too Heavenly Minded?

So I want to begin to draw this article to a conclusion by answering something Miles said in his paper entitled The Matrix Deconstructed. On page five he is speaking of virtual reality which is being used to keep people’s eyes off actual reality. Then he says that ‘the idea of heaven has been used for centuries to keep people’s eyes off the real action…’ If they could have their gaze kept on the afterlife where they believe everything will be put right, then they would tend ‘to overlook unfairness and corruption in this life.’ That is the gist of what he is saying. He expounds his idea in a greater context which you can read there for yourself if you wish.

So the charge is, as far as I understand, similar to a phrase I used to hear as a youngster at church: “We mustn’t be so heavenly minded that we are no earthly good.” Somehow in my young mind I perceived an insincerity behind the quoting of those words, especially as those saying them (often with a ‘knowing’ tone of voice) usually gave very little impression of being ‘heavenly minded’ themselves: a typical ploy of Christians to make themselves sound holy when they were as worldly as the world was. It’s called hypocrisy.

But this started me thinking. As one who does believe in heaven myself – after all, it is the dwelling-place of God – and so is looking forward with every fibre of my being to being released, either through death or the Lord’s return, from this wretched world system – like Lot in Sodom I am well and truly vexed here – how much does that belief cause me to ‘overlook unfairness and corruption in this life’? Am I guilty as charged?

It actually does raise an important question of seeking the right ‘balance’ – for want of a better word – in the way we live here as God’s children. The Lord Jesus stated in his prayer for his people that although they are “in the world” they are not “of the world”. As we are not to be ‘taken out of the world’, presumably in some sort of monastic sense, how then are we to walk that fine line, that narrow way, between the two? Among some Christians there arises a legalistic attitude which sets a series of (not too costly) “Thou shalt nots” regarding what they perceive worldliness or improper engagement with the world to be, and so long as they don’t ‘do’ those things then they can assure themselves that they are not “of the world”, and therefore think they are indeed found among those for whom Jesus prayed.

But invariably amongst them you will find people who don’t seem to blink at getting into debt for advantage in all the ways the world encourages nowadays; or getting the best education for their children so they can have better prospects in (this) life; or investing in pension plans and nest eggs to secure ‘peace of mind’ in old age, etc.; in other words, in thinking like the world thinks, doing what the world does and, as we have seen, believing the world’s narrative as broadcast across the media. But that ‘conversation’ is no good, is not the way of ‘the obedience of faith’, and betrays a ready conformity to the world, and so doesn’t answer to the doctrine of Christ on this matter.

It is also worth remembering in relation to this that the doctrine of Christ is not just against conformity to the world, but is ‘love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.’ So the commandment addresses the state of the heart, the inward affections. A person can present an outward ‘holy’ deportment, being apparently very ‘unworldly’, while still possessing within a raging love, desire, and lust for the world which they must, to a degree, hide, issuing in a very frustrating life. The way of hypocrisy is fraught with disquietude. So the right way is not easy to come into; it takes a lot of seeking and praying to be led aright.

The reality is that it is hard and costly to follow Christ in this world. After all he does describe it as ‘taking up a cross’ to follow him, of ‘dying to self’, as being ‘crucified to the world’. Nevertheless, and herein lies the tension, we are still in the world and, although we have been ‘crucified with Christ’, we remain in the body, in which we still have to live here twenty four hours a day for the rest of our lives. What is more we have been given senses which produce pleasant feelings: release endorphins. The word ‘sensual’ has nowadays been demeaned to apply only to ‘base’ feelings, but our senses – including the before mentioned gifts of perception and discernment – which are amazing creations, as well as our other inbuilt faculties like imagination, creativity, a sense of humour, and even a fascination with the unusual – all things not necessarily encouraged in certain shades of the Christian religion – are all still God-given, and the exercise of them in their place is not wrong.

What I am trying to say is that although we are God’s children we must not forget that we are still human beings. This is another fact that the self-righteous Pharisee totally forgets. It is not sinful to exercise our natural faculties for pleasurable reasons. God would not have created us with natural gifts, or with the ability to feel things in a stimulating way, or to ‘have our interest peaked’ with something unusual, if they were, in and of themselves, sinful. The abuse of these gifts for ‘fleshly’ ends; or the over-pandering of them at the expense of forgetting the imminence of Christ’s return to end time and judge the world in righteousness, is what can be classed as sinful and worldly.

Let me illustrate this by relating something of my own situation. I have a natural love of good music (as obviously David the harpist did), and can get profoundly moved to the depths of my (human) being by certain combinations of dots on the stave. To be honest, in this shallow world, and amongst shallow and fallen Christianity – and this is a sad confession and particularly condemning to the latter with whom I can now find no fellowship – I feel to have more in common with, and certainly prefer the company of composers like Elgar and Schubert because their music so often speaks from their humanity to mine. I am attracted to being in the company of people who think deeply, and feel deeply, and who are not afraid or ashamed to express those thoughts and feelings; and when I hear these composers ‘speak’ I so often understand how they felt. Others might feel the same way regarding poets or artists. It is not easy to express your inmost feelings, and it is certainly not encouraged today, but we are still human beings, seeking to find reason to life, and even those who are not obviously God’s people experience deep and profound things, and when they seek to express them, then I’m interested to hear them, because I think they are of value, because we each are of value.

Again, I no longer believe in engaging in politics, petitioning the so-called ‘defender of the faith’, or badgering my MP for ‘change’, because the teaching of Christ is that I am no longer of this world. That does mean something, you know. I now petition the King of heaven who is over all, God blessed for ever more. I need to petition him to teach me how I should live in this world. Having become a ‘stranger and pilgrim’ in this time state because of his work in me, I no longer feel at home here as I once did. Yes, at one time I was fully engaged in politics, I used to vote UKIP in the early days and did vote to leave the EU, because I believe in independent nation states – which is, by the way, what God created by his confusing of the tongues at Babel, Genesis 11. But all that was before I realised the full extent of the fraud democracy is.

People of the world cannot understand what it feels like to have the life of God within and still be incarcerated in this time state against your will, which is why it really does throw up the dilemma of how engaged we should be with the present age. Do I overlook unfairness and corruption in this life? How can I when I experience it almost every time I have to engage with the world in either an official, business, or moral capacity. Actually I can say that the more I have discovered of the corruption of this world system the more I have started talking to others about it. What else can I do? To speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen is an honest principal to live by.

And here another aspect of seeking to find this ‘balance’ appears. Earlier in this article I slipped in a phrase (in brackets) which could have be construed as encouraging of a careless fatalism: ‘Who can make war with the beast?’ But the stark fact of the matter is that Revelation 20 tells us that the god of this world has been let loose to do his worst in the short time he has left. And as this period of time at the very end of the world has been foretold, so it must come to pass. The first effect of his letting loose is that he deceives the nations. Every serious conspiracy annalist, whether they are Christian or not, will concur that the world today is under a huge state of deception: it is why they are trying to ‘wake people up’. And although I have latterly come to realise that the deception spoken of in Revelation is not quite the same as is exposed by the conspiracy community (which difference I won’t go into now), I have come to realise an innate flaw in their message, a sort of sick joke, a lie even, lying unnoticed in the shadows but perhaps perceived in the back of the mind, which, with most, isn’t deliberately intended but which has nonetheless become a subtle part of the message.

And that is that on the one hand we are being told that the ruling elite control everything; they have all the wealth and power in the world whereby they own and run the governments, have all the oversight of the media industry, of the education system, including the record of history; of the financial system, the medical profession and pharmaceutical industry, and of all pro-sports and the multi-faceted entertainment industry: Miles often reminds us that Hollywood is just another branch of Intel. Every piece of information we are given from whatever source regarding what is happening in the world, of how we should engage in the world, and what is the expected mentality we should possess to enable us to ‘live’ in this time state, is managed by these elite – who, remember, serve the father of lies. That is one half of the conspiracy message. And I agree with it; I believe that is what’s happening.

But then we are told that if we can get enough people informed about this great conspiracy against us, then we can rise up en masse and overthrow it. Say what?! Excuse me!! Did I miss something? Do you see it? Pray tell how are we supposed to overthrow an all pervasive system? By what means? The whole system is against us, and is increasingly designed to hamper free speech, and free distribution of ‘revolutionary’ communication – especially online – which might enable some organised rebellion to occur. So that two-pronged message is in fact a very malign tease.

But that is all on a worldly level, which is why it is largely a deception. For over and above it is this spiritual truth: that out-and-out deception and growing concentrated rebellion against God and hatred of his people must appear in the very last times. The world system is referred to in Revelation as the beast system; and who indeed can make war with the beast? So again, should this just cause that fatalistic shrugging of the shoulders from the people of God (for those who actually see it happening) which will issue in the charge that we are indeed ‘so heavenly minded to be no earthly good’; that we indeed have a valid excuse for ‘overlooking unfairness and corruption in this life’? No, it shouldn’t.

I feel the dilemma intensely, and have struggled over many years to find a satisfactory and responsible answer to it. And what I have come to is as I began to say above. I take every opportunity to talk to people about the deceptive way of the world, whether they be professing Christians or not. And although I do not believe in armed uprisings to overthrow governments or the existing order – and anyway Miles has shown that the famous Revolutions of the past, notably the American, the French, and the Russian, were mostly staged and didn’t occur in the way we have been told, nor for the reasons given by ‘historians’ – I do, as Miles has encouraged, refuse to conform to the controlling agenda which the ruling elite are rolling out. He often says things like, ‘Don’t vote for their puppet-politicians, don’t buy their ‘must have’ merchandise, don’t take their medication, don’t watch their programming, don’t eat their poisoned food, don’t be taken in by their controlled sports, don’t fall for their advertising, don’t ingest their media, and don’t be beguiled by the ‘alternative’ media because much of it is controlled opposition’. And I would add, Continue to use cash! Stay as anonymous in ‘transactions’ as long as you can. That is the only revolution that might have some impact, and maybe slow down the advancement of their ‘new world order’. In other words, starve the wretches of their control, influence and income by not conforming to their multi-faceted agenda. It comes to it when a man of the world is preaching something approaching ‘be not conformed to this world’! Oh church, church, church, where art thou?

At this point someone might say, “But Paul in Romans 13:1 tells us to be subject to the higher powers, for the powers that be are ordained of God.” Yes, and invariably you will find that the people quoting those words to counter what I’ve just been arguing are usually worldly minded themselves; are far from obeying 12:1,2, and so are actually seeking to justify their continued conformity by selective quoting of scripture. Anyway, the context of 13:1 is the following verses which tell us that the God-ordained powers being referred to by Paul are those which ‘are not a terror to good works, but to the evil’, verse 3. Then listen to verse four: ‘For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.’ Now if you think that is a description of today’s rulers – the ruling elite behind their glove-puppets in the parliaments – then you are very ignorant of – blind to – the way this world is being run. How can they be ‘a terror to the evil’; and when are they ever going to exercise wrath upon those that ‘do evil’, when they themselves are evil and worship Satan? You try living today according to ‘good’, that is, according to what is right, moral, decent, fair, just, and even common sense, in other words, just plain old fashioned, and see where it gets you. Do you think these powers that (shouldn’t) be will defend you? Or have they been working for generations to overturn everything that is ‘good’ and promote and uphold anything which is evil? Read again those last few verses of Romans 1: they’re in your Bible, and they’re a commentary of today.

So none of these evil rulers have been appointed of God, at least not according to the purpose He appoints powers as described by Paul in Romans 13. These robbers have in fact stolen this world, and just about all its natural resources – trying to overturn Psalm 24 – to make it their own, and so – as we’ve already seen – have robbed man of his God-given right to dwell here in natural surroundings unmolested by unscrupulous usurpers. What do you think ‘Empire’ was all about: making the world a better place? For whom? And if you don’t understand or believe a word of what I’ve just said then perhaps you should set yourself the task of investigation phrases like ‘the new world order’, ‘tax is theft’, and of trying to find out what, or who, ‘The Crown’ really is (clue: it’s not the royal family), as well as immersing yourself in Revelation chapters 17 and 18 (at least) at the same time; and see if light begins to dawn. What you find won’t be pretty, and will cause you to experience something like ‘an earthquake in the soul’, at it did me.

I would also, of course, encourage you to investigate the enormous truth regarding the flat earth, which will lead to the exposure of just about every lie going: it really is that fundamental. The trouble there is that the internet seems now to have been almost totally purged of good readily available FE content, compared even to three or four years ago. Try a search on the phrase ‘flat earth truth’ and see what comes up: it seems like the results there are now being managed by George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth. Also, keep clear of The Flat Earth Society: no serious flatearther believes they’re there to do anything other than to send any genuine seekers straight back to NASA’s CGI World.

And by the way, if you’re a Bible believer, you need to realise that Genesis 1 is a geocentric, not a heliocentric document. If you don’t believe in evolution then you cannot believe in the spinning ball, for both exist only as part of the Big Bang, billions of years, sun formed before earth, gravity holding it all together scenario. But God created the earth before the sun! Anyway, read Genesis 1 for yourself and look out for an inclosed creation under a solid firmament without any hint of ‘outer space’, and discover the testimony to worldwide ‘sea level’, etc. But I have written about all that elsewhere.

But back to the charge under consideration. When I was in Christianity I was trained always to look for opportunities “to speak a word for the Lord” to any ‘unsaved’ person I met. If they were having problems or were in trouble I was told that “the gospel is the answer” and that we should tell them about the love of God. But, again, I perceived that there was a cop-out being enacted, for that attitude singularly failed to see the person to whom you were supposed to ‘witness’ as a human being who, in that moment, might just need you to listen to them or help them. But when I meet people now who are just trying to find their way through life amidst all the stresses and strains common to all, I try and show some understanding and, if I know it, point them to a possible solution to their current need. If they are ill I will try and encourage them to keep away from medication and make sure they feed their bodies with as much ‘real’ food as they can. I’ll point them to the site of chiropractor and healthy living promoter John Bergman in America. If they are overweight or suffering from an auto-immune condition I’ll encourage them to come off wheat for a month and see what happens (easier said than done!), and will tell them about cardiologist Dr. William Davis and his book Wheat Belly. If they are wound up by the latest fear campaign on the media I will tell them it’s likely all lies and, if Miles has written a paper on it, I’ll tell them to go and read it! True. Go and look at my twitter page. If they are suffering the after effects of the latest jab I no longer say, “Shouldn’t have taken it!” but will encourage them not to go to the doctor but to seek out their local natural healthcare shop where they might find someone with knowledge, perhaps through the taking of natural vitamins and minerals in a concentrated form, of how they might be able to counter the damage. And if they are struggling with spiritual questions and the meaning of life, I’ll seek to understand where they are in their search, try to lead them on from there and ultimately will encourage them to go and read God’s holy scriptures and, ignoring what ‘Christianity’ says they mean, see what they find. Do people listen and take the advice? Not very often. Sometimes. So I don’t think I can be charged with overlooking the state of the world because I’m ‘heavenly minded’.

But my greatest engagement with the corruption of this world, and is something I certainly don’t overlook, is to write and speak against the dreadful misrepresentation of the gospel of Christ in the churches. I write, and write, and write against it, or rather, I seek to declare the truth of the gospel which itself exposes it. I do care about men’s souls, but I care for the honour of Christ more, and never write to judge people but to point them to the truth so that they might not be deceived or remain in corruption any longer. Do they listen? I’ve found nothing to be so hard in this life as the stubborn heart of the proud religious professor. “As long as we are “the Lord’s” everything will be all right. Don’t talk to me about truth, especially if it exposes my actual unbelief or hypocrisy. Our church is sound, thoroughly Bible-based, there is no way we can be deceived.” But try taking that mentality to the Great White Throne and see what happens. I’ve had that mentality myself, and have suffered the dry dead stupefied state of my presumptuous spirit within me. Until Matthew 7:21-23 came.

Again, Jesus didn’t come to form a new religion, call it Christianity, and to make his followers religious. He came to save his people from their sins, deliver them from the wrath to come, separate them unto himself to learn his doctrine over-against the doctrine of this world, to give them his mind, thereby cleansing them from the mentality of this age, and to prepare them for increasing tribulation before his coming again and the day of judgment, so that they will not be ashamed before him at his coming, and will assuredly be found on his right hand at the last. And he came to make them humble and submissive to his liberating will. Don’t you realise that one of your greatest enemies in this life is your own will? Following “what I want” often leads to discontent, selfishness (obviously), trouble, loss, and the overlooking of others’ needs. Likewise, “what I think” is invariably wrong, ignorant, mistaken, foolish; and as our thoughts often lead to decisions and actions, we invariably “get it wrong again.”

No, we actually have no natural spiritual wisdom: we cannot see beyond the current moment, cannot manipulate ‘providence’ for our benefit, which is why we need ‘the mind of Christ’. We need to be sensitive to, and submissive to his leading; we need to hear his voice and to fall under it when he speaks; and if he is silent we need patience to wait upon him until he does speak, instead of taking things into our own hands. And we must seek continual grace, and indeed work hard, to throw off Pharisaism. Don’t you realise that the Lord Jesus saved his angriest words for the self-righteous hypocrites? Play-acting in the name of Christ is abominable; presumption in his name is abominable; the Lord does stand for the honour of his name and truth, and is against those who don’t. Likewise those whom he has regenerated and called unto himself, who have received his truth by revelation in experience, and have had their lives transformed by it; they too love his truth and seek to uphold the honour of his name.

Some Christians like to believe that the greatest curse God could put on a nation is to leave it to pass godless and immoral laws. But I contend that the greatest curse on a nation is unregenerate men in pulpits, who don’t preach the truth by revelation of Jesus Christ, and who therefore don’t actually glorify Christ, or feed his sheep: and in Britain, at least, there are legions of them. Yes they might ‘feed’ their dead congregations with their slant on what they call ‘the gospel’, who sit there continually refusing to obey the Lord’s command of Matthew 7:15; but what use will that be when they arrive on the left hand on that Day: like priest like people? Ever heard of the blind leading the blind? I know it’s true, for I have suffered under their barren ‘word only’ preaching and have been called out from among them, fleeing them like the plague.

I love the Lord Jesus, and his things, see Philippians 2:21, and I hate every corruption of his truth. It is no longer ‘politically correct’ in the churches – not ‘loving’ – to think as David thought, or feel as David felt, as he expressed in Psalm 139:19-22, but I have been brought by long hard experience to understand how he felt, and why God didn’t rebuke him for saying it: “Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore ye bloody men. For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? And am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.” They were David’s enemies because they were his God’s enemies. David wasn’t grieved because they spoke against him wickedly, but against his God. And ‘grieved’ is a deeply felt emotion. And the hatred was ‘perfect’; after all God himself, who is holy, ‘hatest all workers of iniquity’, Psalm 5:5. Oh yes, ‘the sweet psalmist of Israel’ wasn’t only “green pastures and still waters”, you know. And neither is Almighty God a benign mild-mannered retiring deity in the sky, careless about sin and ‘naughtiness’ (a very strong scriptural word, actually); no, he is ‘angry with the wicked every day’, and is the person who uses such words as ‘abomination’, and ‘wrath’, and ‘damnation’: our God remains a consuming fire; it is still a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

It’s about time ‘Christians’ put away their worldly toys, their smug presumption, their “It’ll never happen to me” attitude, and get on their knees in their closets and start pouring over their Book to discover how they have been deceived by their own hearts, by the world and its god, and by those false prophets in their pulpits.

So, no, I don’t overlook. But what does it avail me? Well, a clear conscience before God and man for a start, which is a very precious thing to have! But also you won’t be surprised to hear that I have lost just about all of my ‘friends’ from within Christianity. But it’s the true gospel of Christ delivered by revelation which ‘loses friends’; so despite the pain of separation and near isolation, “I am pure from the blood of all men”, Acts 20:17-27.

If we have had any truth of God revealed to us, we must stay true to the light we have received, despite the cost. I have been taught through long experience not to trust my own heart, nor simply to rest on what I presently know, for there is always more growth in the truth of Christ to experience, and there is great tribulation to prepare for before this time state runs its course. Revelation 20 verses eight and nine are well and truly under way, and God’s people must be prepared for what is to come, and to look to the Lord continually to keep us till the end.

And meanwhile? Be not conformed to this world in its mentality. We are not called to separate ourselves totally – again, “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world”, John 17 – but to be salt and light in the world, always being ready to give an account, if asked, of the hope that is in us; not be Pharisaical, and definitely not religious, but compassionate rather than judgmental to our fellow men and women in their lost state, in whatever position in life we find them.

Thus saith the gospel of Christ.

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Well, I hope this article has been of interest, enlightening, or of help to someone. And if it has been, perhaps you’ll let me know.

Actually it hasn’t been an easy or comfortable article to write, and to be honest I hope I don’t have to write anything like it again. But I have been compelled to write it. Having man as the prime focus, not to mention the enemy of our souls himself, is unsettling to the spirit within; but to contend earnestly for the faith one must of necessity contend against that which is not of the faith. There are a lot of preachers today, in this ‘inclusive’ age, who just focus on what they think are the ‘positive’ aspects of the gospel: salvation, love, liberty, the promises, fellowship, etc. but those things, although essential elements of the doctrine of Christ, do not constitute the whole. Salvation from what? From the power and enmity of whom? What about the warnings of the gospel? The necessary opening up of the nature of deception, presumption, hypocrisy, and of the nature and character of Satan? Are they to be sidestepped or downplayed? Apparently so. But not if you come and read my articles.

I am too aware – sometimes at great cost to my own comfort and peace of mind – of the ready propensity of my own heart to deceive me; of the absolute desire of the enemy to disrupt the work of God in me; and of the corruption of the world to seduce and overwhelm me. But I must be true to what I believe the Lord has taught me; even if it all seems to fall on stony ground, it is still Christ’s truth, and that is all that matters. Yes, in that parable the seed is the word of God, and the sower is actually Christ himself – at least, that is what Matthew’s account seems to indicate – and much of the sowing does indeed fall on unfruitful ground. So is that the Lord just being careless? And is the ‘waste’ of that seed his fault? No, he will be absolutely justified in all his doings on the day of judgment. All the culpability for being fruitless hearers on that day will be laid at the feet of those hearers. Then make sure, ‘give diligence’ now in this lifetime, that you are not among them. He has warned you beforehand.

Please visit my other blog for recent articles on Matthew 24, and gospel preacher John Metcalfe.

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