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â??Then the LORD did exactly what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant, and she gave a son to Abraham in his old age.  It all happened at the time God had said it would.  And Abraham named his son Isaac.  And Sarah declared, “God has brought me laughter!  All who hear about this will laugh with me.â? – Genesis 21:1-3; 6 (NLT)

gods-humorFor years, Iâ??ve subscribed to the belief that God has a sense of humor.  How else would you explain things like the multi-cultural church that now meets in a place that used to house KKK meetings.  Or what about the lady that prayed to find a new jaguar in her driveway?  She found it alright . . . it just drove off after the person in it realized he was at the wrong house! (By the way, these are both true stories.)

Even in the Bible, God shows us His sense of humor.  Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90 years old when God honored a promise He had made 25 years earlier.  Notice that the scriptures did not say that Sarah conceived from the Holy Spirit, like Mary did with Baby Jesus.  So you know what that means!  Abraham took care of his â??husbandly dutiesâ?!  The thought of a 100-year old man and his 90-year old wife going through the motions of procreating is quite laughable!   Even Sarah laughed at the thought of having a child well beyond the normal child-bearing years (see Genesis 18:12).  This promise from God was a manifested in  the form of a son named Isaac.
Many people refuse to see God as having a sense of humor because they view Him as one who keeps a checklist of rights & wrongs committed.  But the notion of God being a compassionate Father who loves on His children is one we need to wholeheartedly embrace.  If you have a God that you cannot have a relationship with, eventually frustration sets in.  Consider this: a believer in the Muslim faith cannot even call his God â??Fatherâ? because itâ??s considered blasphemy!  Thatâ??s no laughing matter.

If God, in His infinite wisdom, would allow us to benefit from laughter, do you think Heâ??d prevent us from having access to it?  Think about this:

On average, children laugh 300 times a day, but adults laugh only 17 times a day.  Laughter decreases blood pressure.  Laughter calms the nervous system.  Laughter strengthens your midsection muscles.  Laughter burns calories.  Laughter is one of the greatest builders of your immune system.  Laughter increases your capacity to fight disease.  Laughter relaxes the body.  Laughter reduces stress.  Laughter elevates your mood.  Laughter improves brain functioning.  Laughter gives you energy.  And last, but definitely not least, laughter makes you feel good!

And if, by chance, you still have doubts about God having a sense of humor, please consider the meaning of Isaacâ??s name (â??He laughsâ?).  Take a wild guess as to who the â??Heâ? is.

“If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.” – Martin Luther

“For You have been a refuge for me, A tower of strength against the enemy.” – Psalm 61:3 (NASB)

Living a life of faith often requires us to leave certain things alone.  When we choose not to, we inevitably self-destruct.  One great biblical example of such can be found in Samson (see Judges 13:1-25 & Judges 16:1-31).

Samson was a Nazirite with great physical strength who had been set apart for God’s service.  His accomplishments included tearing a lion apart with his bare hands (see Judges 14:5-6) and single-handedly destroying a thousand Philistine soldiers with the fresh jawbone of a donkey (see Judges 15:14-16).  But like a man trying to grasp oil with his hands, Samson failed to see that lasting contentment ultimately escapes all who seek it outside of the Lord.  The inner loneliness that so often follows great victory pushed him into the clutches of a Philistine woman named Delilah.  She enticed Samson to reveal the secret of his strength, thus causing him to lose all of his vigor.  Often in the Bible, a person’s name was indicative of an aspect of his/her character.  Delilah literally means “languishing” or “to be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor”.  Samson tasted the sweetness of bitter fruit by languishing with Delilah.

The Psalmist cried, “For You have been  a refuge for me, A tower of strength against the enemy.” David found his answer in God’s presence; Samson never did and it killed him.  The seduction of Delilah appealed so greatly to Samson that he stayed too long, shared too much and lost everything.  The end result of many of our choices may not be obvious enough at first for us to recognize how damaging they’ll be in the long run.   Are you in danger of that happening to you?

Your Delilah can be anything that attempts to derail you and deplete you spiritually.  It can be a career you work at around the clock, a bad relationship or a destructive habit.  It’s what you turn to when you need escape.  Don’t be fooled.  Delilah may delight you tonight, but she’ll destroy you tomorrow because there is no right way to do a wrong thing.  Get up while you can and run!  Don’t walk – run to the arms of Jesus before you lose everything!  If you think it can’t happen to you, consider this your warning sign on the road to destruction.

“The more a man was in the Devil’s power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he’s drunk.” – C.S. Lewis

“The LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.” – Psalm 121:8 (NIV)

A mother wakes up during a thunderstorm and hurries to her son’s room after a particularly bright flash of lightning.  She’s convinced he’s going to be terrified.  To her surprise, he’s standing at the window. “I was looking outside” he said, “and you’ll never guess what happened. God took my picture.” This little boy was convinced (and so should we) that God was at work; therefore his world is a perfectly safe place to be.

Ask yourself this question: “What would my life look like if I lived with a heart-deep conviction that because of God’s unchanging character and care, this world is a totally secure place for me to be?”  Your anxiety level would go down.  You’d have the assurance that your life is in the hands of  Almighty God, so you wouldn’t be tormented by your own inadequacy.  You’d be an unhurried person.  You might be busy, but you’d possess inner calmness and outer poise.  You wouldn’t say many of the foolish things you now say because you speak without thinking.  You’d trust God enough to risk obeying Him.  That means you wouldn’t have to hoard.  Worry makes us depend on ourselves.  It robs us of joy and energy.  A person in whom the peace of Christ reigns would be an oasis of sanity in a world of pandemonium.  Can you be that person? Better yet, do you want to be that person?

Such a person does exist.  “The LORD will keep you from all harm.  He will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.” (Psalm 121:7-8).  What else do you need?

“I am warning you ahead of time, dear friends, so that you can watch out and not be carried away by the errors of these wicked people. I don’t want you to lose your own secure footing.”  â?? II Peter 3:17 (NLT)

There’s nothing more dangerous than going forth in the name of the LORD, but in error. That’s why teaching and learning are so important. For the student, it involves discerning truth from error. For the teacher, it involves sound communication. What a student learns becomes ingrained in the heart and soul. Therefore, if information presented is incorrect, the student comes to accept untruth as something valid. Simply put, lies distort truth. And when that happens, it is hard to convince the student otherwise.

In the preceding text, Peter cautions believers to beware of falling victim to the seductive practice of straying from orthodoxy. He also illuminates a very subtle truth: most people that are being deceived are not even aware of it because they never go beyond face value. The “wicked” spoken of here are those unprincipled, double-minded people whose devotion to God is less than total. As a consequence, their attention is divided between God and other things. Those pulled into this web of fraudulence are subject to failing steadfastness & no spiritual balance.

So what’s the remedy against such deceit? How do you know if one’s teaching is on point and someone else’s has missed the mark?  Check out Acts 17:11 – “And the people of Berea were more openâ??minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message. They searched the Scriptures day after day to check up on Paul and Silas, to see if they were really teaching the truth .” (NLT)

The Bereans were open to Paul’s teaching, but not content with simply hearing the message and taking it at face value. They continually (“day after day”) examined the Word and personally sought to investigate and measure the accuracy of Paul’s message against Scripture. Their motive was not to find fault; they were eager to believe truth. In its proper context, the idea conveyed is that these men and women were unbiased and characterized by a willingness to learn and evaluate fairly. They listened to the words of Paul, not with an already made up mind, but with a readiness to let the passage change their thinking if that’s what needed to occur.

There are 2 key aspects we can learn from the Bereans:

1. We must not place absolute trust in the stability of that which can be seen or felt. A savvy communicator can use the Scriptures taken out of context to teach almost anything. Just because it sounds true and it feels right doesn’t mean it lines up with the Bible. The opinions of the Bereans were in no way influenced by Paul’s persuasiveness or their own emotions.

2. We must labor daily to increase in our knowledge of Christ. Until you know Christ authentically, you will always run the risk of being duped into accepting a counterfeit faith. The Bereans model the appropriate response we should have when the Word of God goes forth. They were familiar with God because they regularly spent time interacting with Him through His Word.

When was the last time you went beyond face value to make sure you weren’t being misled?

“The purpose of education is to reduce the seduction of eloquence.” â?? Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

I once heard someone say for Christians living on this earth this is as close as we will ever get to being in Hell and for unbelievers living on earth this is as close as they will ever get to heaven. I just feel so bad for people who won’t accept Jesus Christ into their life as their personal Lord and Savior. I was thinking the other day about the people who are in hell now begging for another chance. Just one more chance. one more drop of water. one more oppurtunity to go to church and live righteously before God. They can never come back…everyone already went to the funeral and God already made his final judgement on their lives and soul. So I am alive and obviously you are too because you’re reading this right now. But, what can we do to help many more avoid facing that home of death, torment, and painful agony for eternity? The unbeleivers now dont listen because they say there are too many religions and they refuse to commit, others say Christians are dumb and we are hypocrites and Jesus was just a regular man and no one is in heaven but when I hear these opinions of people and see their rebelious attitude I start to worry about the ones who already died in their sins without the covering of Jesus Christ and are now wishing they had a second chance. Everytime I witness to rapper’s about Jesus they say “I already beleive in God…which is a lie because their lifestyle is not following God …the book of Titus 1:16 is goona be said to so many people in judgement day it should be the theme of judgement day…because people claim to know God but refuse to obey by the showing of their lifestyle. Its CRAZY. But overall, lets keep them all in prayer and hope they find Jesus Christ before their time is up on this earth.

“Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil.” â?? Proverbs 4:27 (NLT)

Nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important to your future than personal integrity.  Webster defines it in one word – honesty!  And you can only hide your lack of it for so long.  Eventually like a faulty foundation in a storm, the cracks widen, the roof caves in, and everything you’ve worked for is gone.

“Getting away with it” can actually be worse than getting caught because it encourages you to believe that you can continue operating in two different worlds: reality & fantasy.  Listen to the words of the prophet Jeremiah: “Like a bird that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. Sooner or later they will lose their riches and, at the end of their lives, will become poor old fools.” (Jeremiah 17:11).

Please don’t be misled into  thinking that you can do whatever you want in small things and be okay as long as you have no major lapses.  It’s your first lie that makes you a liar.  And whether you steal one dollar or one million dollars, you’re still a thief.  Phillips Brooks says, “Character is made in the small moments of our lives.” Integrity always puts character over personal gain, people over things, service over power, principle over convenience, and the long view over the immediate.

Every time you break a moral principle, it becomes more difficult to act with integrity.  Everything you’ve done in the past, including the things you’ve neglected to do, comes to a head when you’re under pressure.  That’s why developing and maintaining integrity requires constant vigilance and discipline. John Weston says, “Live by the following rule; don’t do anything you wouldn’t feel comfortable reading about in tomorrow’s newspaper.”

Jay-Zâ??s clothing line â??Rocawearâ? has incorporated obvious occult symbols in its designs. Some are so blatantly Masonic that he probably couldnâ??t get away with it if he wasnâ??t effectively implicated with them. In interviews, Jay-Z has said to be actively involved in the choices of designs of his clothing line. Here are some examples:

All-Seeing Eye in Triangle

The logo above is designed to look like the Eye of Horus below.

Kanye wearing a shirt with the head of Baphomet

Prodigyâ??s Crusade

Rapper Prodigy from the mythical group Mobb Deep has occasionally denounced Jay-Zâ??s affiliation with the Illuminati in the last years. Hereâ??s an URB article on the subject.

Prodigyâ??s ainâ??t down with that crap

Like he does in his monthly blog on Vibe.com, the incarcerated Prodigy recently spewed more of his conspiracy theories via a handwritten letter to URB. This time, he reveals the moment his eyes were opened to the sham he calls â??the government, religions, politics, the Federal Reserve, and I.R.S.â? According to P, in 1996, after reading a book by Dr. Malichi Z. York titled Leviathan 666, he was moved so much, he cried, and that was his â??moment of clarity.â?

â??I was crying for all of humanity, but mostly for my black people â??cause I then realized it was all a sham,â? Prodigy writes in his letter to URB. â??The government, religions, politics, the Federal Reserve, the I.R.S., and everything that we believe and live by is a joke.â? Even worse, the rapper says that many popular rappers are aware of these society secrets, but choose not to speak on it for fear of not being accepted by corporate America. One, in particular, is Jay-Z.

Occult Secrets of Jay Z, Kanye & Nas

â??J.Z. knows the truth, but he chose sides with evil in order  to be accepted in the corporate world. J.Z. conceals the truth from the black community and the world, and promotes the lifestyle of the beast instead,â? he wrote. Prodigy says that Jay grew up grew up in Dr. Yorkâ??s â??Nuwabianâ? community in Brooklyn as a kid, and is â??awareâ? of these evils â?? rogue government, elitists running the country, etc.

Because of Jayâ??z refusal to speak on the topics Prodigy has been doing so since his incarceration, he will make it a point to wage war against him.
â??J.Z is a God damn lie. I have so much fire in my heart that I will relentlessly attack J.Z, Illuminati, and any-every other evil that exists until my lights are put out,â? P writes. â??This negativity I speak of is an actual living entity that uses us as food. We must sever ties with it in order to see things for what they really are. This negative energy is created and harnessed by the Illuminati secret government and they will make you spread this energy without you even knowing it. But people like J.Z. are very well aware. He was schooled by Dr. York,â? he continued.

Real talk.

To Conclude

So, the least we can say is that Jay-Z has â??affinitiesâ? with occultism and secret societies. â??Run This Townâ? only adds to the suspicions surrounding him due to the symbolism and philosophy displayed in the video. In light of those facts, some questions arise: has Jay-Z sided with the elite to succeed in the corporate world? Is he used to promote NWO agenda? Or is this an act to fuel rumors and to add a little â??mystiqueâ? around his persona? Maybe itâ??s all of the above. Maybe heâ??s doing this to get people like me writing and to generate buzz around his latest album. If this article has promoted Jay-Z, so be it.  At least people will know what the the hell theyâ??re saluting when theyâ??re throwing up that Roc sign.

Jay-Zâ??s latest video called â??Run This Townâ? (featuring Rihanna and Kanye West) contains occult symbolism relating to secret societies. It has been long rumored that Jay-Z is part of some sort of occult order (probably Freemasonry) due to the hints slipped in his songs and his imagery. â?Run This Townâ? certainly adds fuel to the fire. Weâ??ll look at the symbolism in this song and in his clothing line, Rocawear.

Iâ??m pretty sure Jay-Z does it on purpose and that he appreciates the attention it gets him. He has been steadily displaying occult symbolism in his songs, videos and in the designs of his Rocawear clothing line. The Brooklyn rapper has lately been associating himself through telling hints to Freemasonry, Illuminati and other orders. Is he now initiated in one of those Brotherhoods and eager to show it off? Why does he appear in other videos containing occult meanings (see Rihannaâ??s â??Umbrellaâ? or Beyonceâ??s â??Crazy in Loveâ?)?

The video to â??Run This Townâ? was directed by Anthony Mandler, who also did  Rihannaâ??s â??Disturbiaâ? video. In another of my articles, I explain how this video is a metaphor for evil possession. The least we can say is that Mandler certainly knows how to insert dark symbolism into a video.

â??Do What Thou Wiltâ?

Before we get into the video, a couple of things need to be explained in order to understand Jay-Zâ??s mindset and where he gets his ideas from. The symbols that will be discussed in this article canâ??t be coincidences or a collection of random items. Jay-Z draws his inspiration from specific sources and associates with like-minded people (director Anthony Mandler) to integrate those ideas. A telling example can be found in the second trailer video for â??Run This Townâ?. We see Jay-Z explaining the concept of the video while wearing a black hoodie bearing the saying â??Do What Thou Wiltâ?.

Aleister Crowley: Reformer of the O.T.O. whose motto was â??Do what Thou Wiltâ?. He also enjoyed being called â?The wickedest man in the worldâ?.

â??Do What Thou Wiltâ? is the official dictum of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) and of its reformer, occultist Aleister Crowley. The O.T.O. is a hermetic order modeled after Freemasonry and German Illuminism and teaches its initiates the secrets of the Mysteries, gnosticism, sex magick, Kaballah and other occult sciences. Contrarily to Freemasonry, the O.T.O. is however based on the â??Law of Thelemaâ? which main precept is â??Do What Thou Wilt be the whole of the Lawâ??. Although this saying was interpreted in different ways, most agree that it refers to the dismissal of conventional moral and ethical rules in order to find oneâ??s â??True Willâ?. In other words, the usual guidelines by which good and evil are determined have to be blurred and forgotten to obtain the true path to illumination. Crowley explains this notion rather clearly here:

â??There are no â??standards of Rightâ?. Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with â??moral principleâ?; there is no such thingâ?
–Crowley, Aleister. The Old and New Commentaries to Liber AL, II,28.

Although not officially considered â??satanicâ?, the O.T.O. does fully embrace the Luciferian doctrine (see Crowleyâ??s poem â??Hymn to Lucifer) and its high level members are referred to as â??Most Illuminated and Most Puissant Baphometâ?. Baphomet is of course the horned androgynous idol of Western Occultism.

Poster in honor of Crowley. Notice â??Do What Thou Wiltâ? and Baphomet

Is Jay-Z part of the O.T.O. or does he just like that shirt? Donâ??t know. We will however see that he is  very educated in the field of occult symbolism and that he enjoys hinting people that he associates with the Brotherhood. Hereâ??s the video.

â??Run This Townâ? Analysis

So this is the video at face value: Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West are performing in front of an angry mob, which is apparently out to overthrow the current order of things and thus â??Run This Townâ?. The aesthetics of the video are reminiscent of movements led by rebel factions in third world African or Latino countries . When one listens closely to the lyrics however, something seems to be â?offâ?. Jay-Z and Kanye are mainly rapping about how rich and famous they are and are describing bourgeoisie luxuries such as Maison Martin Margiela clothes, bottles of Riesling  and Maybach cars. This isnâ??t exactly the type of speech Che Guevara would give. Despite the looks, the artists arenâ??t quite revolutionary, they can even be considered pro-establishment. Is this a political rebellion or could it be philosophical/spiritual? The visuals of the video hint a second, occult meaning to the song.

At the beginning of the video, a man hands a lit torch to Rihanna who holds it up in the air. This symbolic gesture sums up perfectly the concept of the video.

Rihanna handed a lit torch

Anybody vaguely familiar with occultism can easily associate the symbol of the lit torch held high to Lucifer a.k.a. the Light Bearer. Most occult orders secretly acknowledge Lucifer as being the savior of humanity, the fallen angel who liberated men from the oppression of the biblical God (Jehovah, Yahweh). These orders (the main one being Freemasonry) have been working for centuries towards the overthrow of the rule of organized religions to usher in a new age or a â??New Orderâ?.  At the philosophical center of this order:  the Luciferian Doctrine, where men are free to become gods by their own means. The Torch of Illumination is the ultimate symbol of this philosophy and can be found in  many instances (see Statue of Liberty, a gift from French Freemasons). The goal of the Illuminist has been put in plain in simple words: they are dedicated to the â??coming forth of the conquering lightâ??. â??Run This Townâ? visually represents this aim in a clear way for the initiates yet concealed for the profane.

Consequently, the video contains a second level of interpretation: â??Run This Townâ? is an announcement of the coming of a New World Order, lead by secret (Luciferian) societies. Rihannaâ??s ominous intro explains how it is going down.

Feeling it coming in the air,
hear the screams from everywhere,
Iâ??m addicted to thrill,
Its a dangerous love affair,
Canâ??t be scared when it goes down,
got a problem tell me now,
Only thing thatâ??s on my mind is who gon run this town tonight,
who gon run this town tonite

Guess Rihanna canâ??t make this clearer for you

Rihannaâ??s lyrics are announcing an imminent change that might terrify or enrage some people (â??hear the screams from everywhereâ??). The torches hint to a new spiritual and philosophical era where Lucifer is king. She is â??addicted to the thrillâ? of being on the dark side and she knows that dealing with it is a â??dangerous love affairâ??. But regardless of all of this, it all comes down to control, hence â??Only thing thatâ??s on my mind is who gon run this town tonightâ??.

Then Jay-Z comes along and announces the coming of â??Roc Nationâ? (Roc being a diminutive of Rocafella, the name of his record label, which is based on the elite family Rockefeller).

We are, yeah, I said it, we are
This is Roc Nation, pledge your allegiance
Get yâ??all fatigues on, all black everything
Black cards, black cars, all black everything
And our girls are blackbirds, riding with they Dillingers
I get more in-depth if you boys really real enough
This is La Familia, Iâ??ll explain later
But for now, let me get back to this paper
Iâ??m a couple bands down and Iâ??m tryna get back
I gave Doug a grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
Yeah, Iâ??m talking five comma six zeroes dot zero ?
Back to running circles â??round niggas, now we squared up

Jay-Z is asking you to â??Pledge your allegianceâ? to the new ruler and to wear black everything to honor him. Jayâ??s lyrics contain hints to Freemasonry who are hidden in the double meaning of some lines. â??I gave Doug a gripâ? means he gave Doug a stack of money but the double meaning to that line would refer to the Masonsâ?? secret handshakes which are called â??gripsâ?. And who is Doug? Might be Doug Morris. The last line of his first verse is â??Back to running circlesâ?? round niggas, now we squared upâ??. Aside from its obvious meaning, it also refers to the important Masonic concept of â??squaring the circleâ?, which is way too deep to explain here (â??I get more in-depth if you boys really real enoughâ??). In the second verse, Jay-Z says â?Itâ??s the return of thee godâ??, which refers to the Luciferian belief of men being gods. This term is often used in NY slang and originates from the fact that many rappers were Five-Percenters,  a philosophy based on the belief that all men are gods.   Further in the song Jay-Z says: â??Iâ??m in Maison, ugh, Martin Margielaâ? which is a upper-end fashion store. English speaking people usually pronounce the french word â?maisonâ?Â to sound like â?mayzaunâ?. Jay-Z however says it to sound like â??masonâ? as in â??Freemasonâ?. There is an obvious double-meaning here meant to catch the ear of the listener. He basically says â??Iâ??m in Masonâ? to make people say â??huh did he really say that?â? as â??Iâ??m a Freemasonâ? but he then continues by saying â??ugh, Martin Margielaâ??. The little pause after he says those words accentuate the effect. Then Rihanna comes back with the chorus.

Lifeâ??s a game but itâ??s not fair
I break the rules so I donâ??t care
So I keep doing my own thing
Walking tall against the rain
Victoryâ??s within the mile
Almost there, donâ??t give up now
Only thing thatâ??s on my mind
Is who gonâ?? run this town tonight

She says that the game of life is corrupted but she still succeeds because she â??breaks the rulesâ?. In other words, she ignores the boundaries between good and evil to achieve her goals. This might remind you of the saying â??Do What Thou Wiltâ? of the Ordo Templi Orientis described above. Those lines refer to her as a person and also to the Order as a whole, who is prepared to commit the most horrible acts to reach its goals. â??Victoryâ??s within the mileâ? means that the realization of the New World Order is at its final stages and that the Illuminati-sponsored revolution is about to happen.

Rihanna throwing Rocafella sign which is the left eye inside a triangle

So â??Run This Townâ? contains obvious hints leading towards Luciferian philosophy and occult orders. The fire of Luciferâ??s torch esoterically represents divine knowledge and wisdom brought to men. Fire in this video is however a destructive force. What type of knowledge are we giving these rebellious people, who represent the masses of fans?

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