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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.”

The 2009 VMAs: The Occult Mega-Ritual

Source By Vigilantcitizen

From unexpected drama to shocking performances, MTVâ??s 2009 Video Music Awards managed once again to raise eyebrows and get people talking. What most people missed, however,  were the occult meanings encoded in the VMAs. The TV event was in fact a large scale occult ceremony, complete with an initiation, a prayer and even a blood sacrifice. Weâ??ll look at the symbolism that appeared during the show.

MTVâ??s Video Music Awards have often incorporated dark and strange acts, containing some occult symbolism. This yearâ??s version, however, outdid itself. The show left most people wondering what was wrong with Kanye West or trying compute the madness of Lady Gagaâ??s performance. The only way to understand the full meaning behind those performances is to look into esoteric teachings. The fact is that the whole awards show took the most common rituals of occult orders and re-enacted them in a show witnessed by the entire world.

This yearâ??s VMAâ??s were very different from other awards shows. They focused on a very limited number of artists (Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga), while ignoring many others who were equally successful. The â??chosenâ? artists became characters in the VMAâ??s ceremony and acted out different ritual dramas. This might sound totally crazy to the average MTV viewer but those acquainted with the practices of occult orders (such as Freemasonry) can decode the references to sacred rituals.  There are numerous types of fraternities and rituals, from the most noble to the most infernal, and they have existed throughout History. The VMAs were decisively inspired by dark, sinister and even Satanic ceremonies.  Letâ??s look at those rituals.

The High Priestessâ?? Words of Wisdom

Madonnaâ??s sermon

Madonna, the music industryâ??s High Priestess, the revered â??elderâ? of MTV, opens the show with a very solemn eulogy for Michael Jackson. She admitted never really knowing or â??connectingâ? with him, but she was still chosen to pay him tribute. Madonna is a well known and publicized adept of the Kaballah, the esoteric school of Judaism which is studied in most occult orders.  Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok explained how she uses (or abuses) Kaballah symbolism in her music:

â??I discovered that Madonnaâ??s famous dabbling with sacred Jewish mysticism has taken an interesting turn. In her latest music video for the theme song of a new James Bond movie, the â??material girlâ? of old is transforming herself into a â??Kabbalah girl.â? Aside from the traditional Madonna blend of music and sensuality, in this video we see Madonna has a Holy Name of G-d tattooed onto her right shoulder. Tattooing, mind you, is a practice forbidden under Torah Law, all the more so abhorred by the Kabbalah. Granted the tattoo may not be real or only temporary but nonetheless, any expression of performing a forbidden act is itself forbidden and inexcusable. Unfortunately, Madonnaâ??s abuse of Kabbalah and traditional Torah Judaism does not stop here.

Later in the video we see Madonna winding leather straps around her left arm in the exact same format and style as holy tefillin are worn by religious Jewish men. Tefillin consist of a small leather box containing scared parchments. These are then strapped to oneâ??s left biceps, and the strap is wound down the left arm and around the hand. Granted Madonna did not go so far as to defame the tefillin boxes themselves. Yet, it is quite clear that the wrapping of the straps around her arm is done in orthodox Torah style. This act of hers is pure sacrilege.â?

-Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok, Madonnaâ??s Kabbalah â?? Not Kosher http://www.koshertorah.com/PDF/madonna%20kabbalah.pdf

Madonnaâ??s tribute focused on the fact that MJ was â??otherworldlyâ? and â??a kingâ? but  she insisted on the fact that he was also a human being. It was wisdom that could only be imparted by the High Priestess.  Members of the audience bowed their heads and meditated on her words. They had a deep Kabbalisitic resonance.  The speech was followed by a video tribute to Jackson, beginning oddly with â??Thrillerâ?? and displaying the face of MJ as a decaying zombie, risen from the dead, on a huge screen. We then hear Priceâ??s verse in the song saying:

â??Darkness falls across the land
The midnite hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize yawls neighbourhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpses shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzy ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller�

It is only fitting that MJâ??s greatest was included in his tribute, but this did seem a rather gruesome way to start a posthumous tribute. Someone, somewhere made some odd choices, but this somehow fitted the â??vibeâ? of the rest of the show.

Taylor Swiftâ??s Initiation

â??Iâ??mma let you finish!â?

Taylor Swift wins the â??Best Female Videoâ? award and goes up on stage to give her thank yous. Kanye West pops out of nowhere, taking the mic from her hand, and informs her that Beyonce has â??one of the best videos of all timeâ??. This scene has caused much controversy and has earned Kanye the title of â??Douchebag of the yearâ? plus a the honor of being called a â??jackassâ? by the President of the United States. I might shock some people by saying thisâ?¦ but this â??unexpectedâ? event wasâ?¦ STAGED! There I said it. Did you ever watch a crappy reality show and had the gut feeling that the whole thing was scripted? Well, Iâ??ve got an overload of that feeling while watching this scene. None of the people involved (not even Beyonce making her â??I canâ??t believe this is happeningâ? face) are good actors. Furthermore, Iâ??ve been following Kanyeâ??s career since his beginnings and Iâ??ve retained one important fact about him:  the only thing Kanye West cares about, is Kanye West. So if he had to throw a hissy fit about something, it would had been about him not winning. Not Beyonce. Him.

This scene is in fact Taylor Swiftâ??s initiation into what I call â??The Circle of Chosen Artistsâ?. The pupil is humiliated in front of her peers and told that she is not worthy to be on the same stage as Beyonce, the queen of the ceremony.  Almost all groups, fraternities and gangs carry out an initiation process to test the recruitâ??s character, strength and worth. Swiftâ??s ordeal was to have Kanye ruin her first award ever and to be told that she didnâ??t deserve this recognition. The rapper is known for bitching during award shows so he was the perfect candidate to make it all seem â??unexpectedâ?.

The Prayer

â??Who wants to pray to the devil with me?â?

Jack Black comes out dressed as a heavy metal guy on steroids to promote a video game. At one point he asks the audience to put their devil horns in the air and the proceeds to pray to the â??darklord Satanâ?. The whole thing is light-hearted and comical but I donâ??t see any other way a prayer to Satan can be inserted into a primetime show without getting a truckload of complaints from â??concerned parentsâ?. The scene starts off semi-funny but Jack Black finishes off on a more serious note by saying: â??I ask you to grant tonightâ??s nominees with continued success in the music industryâ??. This last phrase actually reveals a dark truth about the entertainment business.

So the net result of this scene is this: everybody threw up their â??devil hornsâ? hand sign, then took each otherâ??s hands and prayed to Satan. This piece of  pre-rehearsed comedy might have been an insignificant skit in another show. But in the context of this one, with its many recreations of occult rituals, the skit takes on a whole other, sinister meaning.Â
The Blood Sacrifice

Lady Gagaâ??s performance was hailed as â??brilliantâ? by many music fans. If you however ask them what it symbolizes,  their expression becomes questioning. Hereâ??s what Gaga said about her performance during an interview at gagadaily.com

â??Do you think it will be one of those defining moments people will remember at the VMAs?â?
â??I know it will. I sort of have this philosophy about things: thereâ??s never a reason to do something unless itâ??s going to be memorable, unless itâ??s going to change things, unless itâ??s going to inspire a movement. With the song and with the performance, I hope to say something very grave about fame and the price of it.â?

â??Something grave? What?â?
â??Youâ??ll have to see.â?

â??What are you going to wear? â??
â??I would say  that the fashion for the performance is a representation of the most stoic and memorable martyrs of fame in history. Itâ??s intended to be an iconic image that represents people. I think after watching the performance and maybe studying it after you watch it on YouTube, youâ??ll see the references and the symbols come through.â?

The setting for the performance is very symbolic. Gaga performs in a temple or maybe an  aristocratic mansion, complete with columns, chandeliers and paintings. Occult rituals, mind control experiments and even human sacrifices have  constantly been rumored to take place in those kinds of settings. One feature I cannot ignore is the presence of two massive pillars beneath an arch.

Decor of Gagaâ??s performance. Notice the two pillars and the arch above

They are unmistakable Masonic symbols, as depicted on this lithograph:

This obvious reference to Freemasonry hints to the occult and ritualistic aspect of Gagaâ??s performance. Masons are known to carry out ritual dramas in their lodges;  live re-enactments of allegorical stories. Gagaâ??s performance symbolizes her rise to fame and the sacrifice she had to make in order to succeed.

When the bloody Gaga is lifted into the air, an eerie light comes out from between the pillars and the dancers lift their arms in the air in praise. Many ancient religions carried out ritual sacrifices to please the gods. Blood sacrifices have also been viewed by black magicians as the ultimate way to collect spiritual energy. The final scene of the performance conveys the presence of this mysterious â??forceâ? after a sacrifice.

Rising star

Right after her performance, Gaga appears dressed all in red, with her face completely covered in red. She is basically a walking, talking blood sacrifice. It represents the aftermath of fame, the hellish life that follows the sacrifice, the selling of the soul for success in the music industry.

â??This if for God and the gaysâ?

Pinkâ??s Masonic Initiation

There is no way a Mason could watch this performance without recalling his initiation into the First Degree. Hereâ??s a description by Mark Stavish:

â??The candidate for initiation is stripped of all material possessions and dressed in a strange and peculiar garb (â?¦). This includes a blindfold and a length of rope called a cable tow.â?

He continues

â??The blindfold used represents secrecy, darkness and ignorance as well as trust. The candidate is led into the lodge room for initiation but is not able to see what is happening. He is bound about the waist and arm with the cable tow.â?
-Mark Stavish, Freemasonry: Rituals, Symbols and History of the Secret Society

The initiate is blindfolded and attached to a cord with the left breast and left leg exposed

Pink is blindfolded and bound with ropes. Her costume exposes her left breast, as is the case with Masonic initiates. Instead of having her left leg exposed, Pinkâ??s costume bears a diamond pattern which is very reminiscent of the floors in Masonic lodges.

Eastern Star Lodge

Pinkâ??s performance was a dizzying display of acrobatics which undoubtedly left her (and the viewers) totally disoriented. This is also a feature of Freemasonryâ??s First Degree initiation:

â??He is then blindfolded and a cord in the form of a noose is passed round his neck. At this point the novice is entering the marginal stage, associated with ordeals; he cannot see, his sense of direction has been confused and he has been dressed like a victim for execution.â?
-J.S. La Fontaine, Initiation â?? Ritual Drama and secret knowledge across the world

Pinkâ??s performance was yet another blatant reference to ritual dramas in occult orders.

Taylor Swiftâ??s Acceptance into the Order

â??Can we try this again now?â?

After Swiftâ??s public humiliation, Beyonce, the queen of the ceremony, calls her up on stage to let her â??have her momentâ?. She appears from backstage (as if awaiting her cue) in a red dress which is  strikingly similar to Beyonceâ??s. A reader of this site has noticed that, at the moment the two singers hug, a strange phrase appears on the screen behind them saying â??RDFO IL 40 PRO DEL ATOâ?. I have no idea what that means, but it was there. If you solve this enigma, be sure to post it in the comments. **Editorâ??s note** Pretty sure it means â??Ilford Delta Pro filmâ?.

Is this a computer glitch or a coded message?

Taylor Swift being called on stage represents the fact that she has now been  accepted as an equal to Beyonce and has become one of the â??chosen onesâ?. The matching dresses also convey this sense of belonging to a new group. She has â??passed the testâ? â?? the ordeal of being humiliated â?? and she can now reap the rewards of being an insider.

In Conclusion

Award ceremonies like the VMAs define and crystallize the pop culture of an era. They consecrate the chosen artists while leaving the others dwelling in the shadows of anonymity. As shown above, the whole show was heavily permeated with occult symbolism, primarily focusing on the â??initiationâ? aspect of it. Why is MTV exposing young people (who know nothing about occultism) to such rituals? Is there a subliminal effect on the viewers? Are we educating the new generation to accept these symbols as part of popular culture? There is definitely a second layer of interpretation in many of MTVâ??s products. To decode the symbols is to understand the inner-workings of the entertainment industry.

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