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And the faithful were not the only ones privy to the prophecy. Even from the earliest of ages, the heavenly principalities and powers used the Seed of the Serpent to hunt down the Chosen Ones in each generation to try to kill them. Enoch, Noah, Abraham and others were protected by Yahweh from this murderous plan. The oracles of the pagan diviner Balaam and others foretold a divine star coming from the line of Jacob, a kingly scepter from Is..
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Uriel thought flies a most disgusting creature and quite apropos for demonic entities. This was only beginning. She fell to the ground in convulsions. Jesus said, "That is one of you. There are six more. Come out of her, foul spirits." A piercing, shrieking howl bellowed from deep within her and echoed throughout the cave. Uriel winced at the high pitch. He had sensitive ears. Another demon left her. Jesus reached over and placed her robe b..
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Just smell that. It's heavenly." Jesus's senses came alive with the sweet warm smell of freshly baked bread. His stomach cried out ferociously. Belial's words were sing song seductive. "Well, look what we have here. I believe it is exactly the stone ground wheat bread your own mother, that blessed Virgin, used to bake for you." Jesus was still on his knees. He looked over to see a loaf of steaming hot bread, fresh from the oven, sitting on ..
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Prove now you are worthy of your Scriptural claims. If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you,' and 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.' Or are you not God's new Melchizedek?" His sarcasm carried particular venom when he mocked Jesus's phrase, "it is written." Jesus swallowed and replied, "On the other hand, it is also written, ..
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When Elohim sent the Deluge as punishment for mankind's wickedness on the earth, part of that evil was this miscegenation of unholy human angelic hybrids. With those waters, archangels came from heaven and imprisoned many of the Watchers in the earth to await their final judgment. Seventy of the Watchers remained free.
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Warned by Gabriel, the Magi never returned to Herod and Jesus's parents escaped to Egypt until after Herod died. By the time Herod, that son of a serpent, murdered all the young male children of Bethlehem, Jesus was already gone. Jesus knew that Herodian mass murder was a mere portent of the battle he had in his future. And this monster before him was the heavenly architect of his earthly opposition. Jesus swayed in his stance. He reached d..
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Jesus was standing on the high place of the stronghold of supernatural evil next to the Prince of the Power of the Air. Belial swiped his hand and the clouds appeared to part, enabling Jesus the ability to see all the known world below and their cities of men. Belial's contempt melted into a seductive whisper in Jesus's ear. "Do you see all these kingdoms and their glory? They have been delivered to me, and I give them to whom I will."
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How deliciously ironic that something so apparently beneficial to the mind as education could be twisted into a tool of power to lull young minds into thoughtless adherence.
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the toledoth or genealogy, 'These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. The sons of Ham were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.' Now by careful exegesis of the tablet text, I noticed that there was an unusual repetitive reference to 'Ham, the father of Canaan.' Hermeneutics, or the art of textual interpretation, would tell us that such repetition points toward an unusual identity..
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In your blood runs the future of a people who have the power to change the world. I am the god you will need to help you be able to do so." "B-but I am cursed of Elohim," said Canaan, "to be a slave to the sons of Noah." Ishtar bent down and whispered with a hiss, "When I am done with you, you will rule over the sons of Noah! And Elohim will choke on his curse as you choked on this food."
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The heavenly principalities and powers cannot touch you. But the earthly humans over which we rule can." Though they had no authority to touch Yahweh's anointed, they might do so through their human vessels. Jesus trembled with the weight of responsibility that now overwhelmed him. But the pain was lessened when he heard the familiar sound of his favorite angel echo in his mind. Jesus, be strong and courageous. "Jesus, be strong and courage..
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Mikael, the largest and best groomed of the three, was the guardian prince of Israel, and tended to be protective of his ward. He offered a wineskin to Jesus, who took it and gulped with gratitude. After a moment of silence, Jesus wiped his beard of the wine and said, "You need a better sense of humor, Gabriel." Gabriel pouted with frustration at being ganged up on. Uriel, his perpetual nemesis was one thing. But being teased by the Master ..
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understood the larger picture they were all participating in. Jesus was binding the principalities and powers over the land, and his next target was at Caesarea Philippi.
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Twenty-five miles to the south, the Sea of Galilee and its surrounding cities of Capernaum, Bethsaida and Tiberius were all within reasonable distance for common travel and economic activity. Caesarea Philippi was a multicultural nexus of ethnicity as well, with a thoroughly mixed population of Semites, Greeks and Romans from all over the empire.
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He saw them as a mob, carried away by their own bloodlust, and just as easily manipulated by their rulers as their entertainers. A crowd of otherwise intelligent or moderate individuals, could become a hive of unthinking insects, hornets incited by a wave of the hand or the proclamation of a meaningless slogan.
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Far be it from you, Lord. This shall never happen to you. Do not the Scriptures say Messiah will reign at the right hand of Yahweh until he has made his enemies your footstool?" Jesus turned angry toward him. "Get behind me, Accuser. You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man." Jesus strode away, leaving Peter in shock, crestfallen. A moment before, Jesus had given him the key..
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Yahweh says to my Lord Adonai: "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool." Yahweh sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies! Yahweh is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses. A Psalm of David"
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Gestas asked Simon, "The demon in that girl you exorcised, how did it know our hearts?" Simon said, "The power of demons lies in the sins of mankind. Unconfessed or unatoned sin is the weapon that a spirit uses against its host and its enemies." The implication was obvious to each of the brothers. They needed atonement. Demas thought, Why do I need atonement? Rome is the evil that has raped our land, enslaved our people, and stolen everythi..
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It was a universal notion in their world since primordial days that the heavens were connected to the earth. The saying went, "As above, so below." From Baal-Hermon, to Babylon, to Assyria, to Israel, temples were cosmic mountains that connected the heavens above with the earth and underworld below. As Asaph, the Israelite psalmist wrote, "He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever." The earth..
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Simon continued, "At Babel, the seventy nations were given as an inheritance to the seventy Sons of God who rebelled. These were the gods of the nations. Messiah has come to reclaim their inheritance as Yahweh's own. As he binds the spiritual powers, he makes way for the kingdom of heaven to grow like a mustard seed on the earth. It starts the tiniest of seeds, but grows to become the biggest tree in the garden. When sin is bound on earth, ..
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The twenty foot statue loomed over them. Jesus saw his goat-like hairy legs with hooves, and his muscular human torso covered with the fine scales of a serpentine Shining One. Along with Semjaza, he had led the original rebellion of the Sons of God from heaven. Though he was bound in Tartarus, his powers were still felt throughout history, in the worship given him by foolish idolaters seeking power. The wilderness was called "the wilderness..
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series of torches surrounded the curved opening of a large pit, the opening of the Abyss. The high priestess from earlier stood on the opposite side of the pit, before an entourage of twelve nymphs, all seductively alluring in translucent gowns and jewelry. The priestess wore a headdress of gems on her raven black hair. Her purple robe, made from the finest of Phoenician silks, flowed behind her like a spirit. Her eyes were large, deep brow..
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The angels heard a noise and turned. Behind them stood two eight foot tall gods, Ba'al and Pan. The warriors moved to shield Jesus, who remained kneeling beside the quivering Ob. Ba'al carried his mace, and Pan, a dagger in each hand. Ba'al said, "We meet again, godlickers." Uriel quipped, "But no running like a chicken this time, Lord Lettucehead." Ba'al was the god of storm and vegetation. The insult was Uriel's witty way of getting under..
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Uriel, Gabriel, Remiel, Saraqael and Raguel faced the gods. Ba'al gave a war cry and launched into the three angels nearest him with furious swinging. They blocked with their weapons. But he was strong, very strong. He pushed them off balance. Behind them, The Ob vomited a stream of black bile. The third entity left her. She became drenched in sweat as if being roasted in flames. Another scream pierced everyone's ears, as the fourth left ..
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Uriel faltered at the noise. He was off guard. Ba'al's mace hit him broadside in the head, crushing his skull and launching him to the side in a heap. Angels could not die, they were heavenly flesh, that healed supernaturally. But even heavenly flesh could feel pain and be temporarily impaired. Uriel was out of commission for the moment. "Big mistake, god of broccoli," yelled Gabriel. "Nobody hurts my little buddy without paying my price!" ..
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The Ob now flopped around like a piranha out of water gasping for life as another spirit was exorcised. A howl announced the sixth entity to leave her. Jesus continued praying on his knees. Pan saw an opening. He ran from the two angels on him, crossed behind the two fighting Ba'al. As he ran past, he slashed the backs of those angels. Gabriel dropped to his hands and knees. The blow stunned Remiel. Ba'al's mace pummeled Remiel into the g..
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escaped captivity in pursuit of revenge, only to be supernaturally redeemed by the god he had hated. And all of it was so that Yahweh could use him in a single important event to capture an enemy of God. Of all the glory and fame that Eleazar had sought for in his life, it was all a pile of steaming excrement compared to the surpassing value of meeting Jesus and being used for this single event of spiritual significance. He considered it an..
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The Ob opened her eyes with shock. She sat up, pulled her robe to cover herself more, as if she was a modest woman. She was herself again. The woman looked into Jesus's eyes and she knew everything. She knew that he knew everything about her. She knew he was her savior, and that he had cast out seven demons from her. She began to cry and crawled over to him to kiss his feet. His hands stopped her and pulled her face up to his level. "What i..
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Gaia," said Jesus. A huge tree stood in the middle of the valley, hundreds of feet in diameter and stretching into the sky high above them. The ground around it was dry, cracked, and without life. Everything was dead. The tree appeared to be drawing the very life out of the soil, transforming it into the desert of death like the encroaching desert in the east. Mary knew that Pan was hiding somewhere in the tangled knot of roots along with a..
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Lilith, the guardian mistress of Mother Earth, had enchanted all her followers with the story that she was the original wife of Adam, spurned by her abusive, controlling husband because of her independence, forced to flee his oppressive domination to protect her two hellions, Lili and Lilitu. That patriarchal dictator Adam then took a second wife, Eve, who was deluded into accepting her subordinate position as barefoot slave and breeder. Fr..
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What have I done? What have I become? I am a monster." "Mary," whispered Jesus, "you are forgiven." A wave of peace came over her like nothing she had ever felt before. In the cave, she had experienced release. But now she felt the tendrils of healing gently digging deeper into her, like a new tree planting its roots into her heart, the true Tree of Life. But there was so much darkness in her. It was as if her soul was stuck in deep sludge...
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All twelve of the disciples began casting out demons from those near them, in the power and authority of Jesus. The crowds moved away in fright. The celebration had been interrupted. The crowd ran away in droves. Hundreds of them. They seemed frightened to death by what they saw. Simon knew where they were running to: Pan's cave on the outskirts of the city. He knelt beside a young girl on the ground spitting up foam and speaking what sound..
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Jesus looked outside the city just to the east where a cliff was visible, rising up a couple hundred feet in the air. It was the destination of the fleeing demoniacs: the sacred grotto of Pan. Jesus turned to the disciples and said, "Men, it is time to storm the Gates of Hades."
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What we recommend is a contest." "Of Champions?" asked Achish. "Yes," said Goliath. "If you assemble your forces for war, we will call out their mightiest champion to engage in single combat with our mightiest champion to resolve the conflict without massive loss of soldiers." It was a common stratagem from their Aegean origins. But it was also known and practiced among Mesopotamian and Canaanite cultures as well. So the Israelites were fam..
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Achish of Gath did not have one champion to face this cowardly messiah king, wherever he was hiding. He had six. Six times the odds in his favor. "I will take your advice," said Achish. "I will prepare for battle. Where do you think would be the optimum location for your victory? Somewhere to aid our invasion of Israelite territories." Goliath said, "The Valley of the Terebinth, fifteen miles southwest of Bethlehem." The Valley of the Tereb..
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Arisha noticed that all the greenery and trees were dying the more they walked on. They finally arrived at a large clearing of a hidden valley. But it was desert like, bounded by the foothills of the mountains on one side and the dry rocky bluffs on the other. It seemed strange to Arisha. It seemed like a little pocket of dry desert death in the midst of an otherwise lively area. She stopped, stunned by the sight before her.
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A huge tree, hundreds of feet around had grown up into the clouds high above her. Its roots at the ground level were serpentine, twisted around like a tangled pile of, well, the only thing she could think of was snakes. She wondered if the mushrooms were distorting her vision, but she was not sure. She was surprised that she had not seen this tree from a distance and wondered why it was the only living thing in this little valley of deadnes..
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A beautiful woman approached them with two young daughters by her side, about the same age as Arisha. She was stunning to Arisha. If Izbaxl's music tranquilized her fears, this woman's raven black hair, sensuous movement and penetrating eyes sedated her soul. Her voice expressed motherly assurance. "Welcome, Izbaxl. I see you have brought someone new to the goddess. A maiden. Sedated." How did this phantom-like beauty know anything about me..
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Edna more willingly believed in Elohim's beneficence. When the river had returned to its natural southward current, she wondered how many other miracles they would take for granted with such lack of gratitude. The provision of food to fill their bellies? More salvation from the enemy's mace? The devoted love of a man with a woman? The conception of a new human life? The birth of a child? It seemed everything kept pointing back to Methuselah..
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Then Methuselah embraced Havah. She whispered to him, "Methuselah, you shall outlive us all." That struck him as a bit odd, out of place. Maybe she had lost some of her wits in her old age."
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he had visited his distant kin, Noah. There, he had been told of the Creator Elohim, and his vindictive judgment on mankind that was the origin of the Great Flood. Nimrod rejected this despotic deity and his capricious obsession for controlling things from on high. How dare this supposed Creator make mankind and the angels, and then demand sniveling toe-licking slavery. Against this monolithic tyranny stood the pantheon of gods, who watched..
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The archangels were well acquainted with the Mother Earth Goddess and her protective parasites. Her evil was ancient. Before the Flood, she had resided in the land now called Arabia. It had been a vast fertile continent in antediluvian days. But Gaia sucked the soul out of the environment and turned it into a lifeless desert. She had the ability to manifest herself between heaven and earth, unseen by mortal eyes from a distance behind a vei..
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A deep sorrow came over Mary for all the child sacrifices she presided over at the base of this monstrosity. The deaths of the innocent gave Gaia life and sustenance, and enslaved women to the illusion of empowerment. The goddess feasted on the flesh and blood of the offering of their wombs. They believed that somehow they were helping their community and saving Mother Earth in giving up their offspring. And every human offered up was absor..
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Tohu wabohu. Formless and void. The desert of Azazel was the haunt of jackals, the habitation of siyyim and iyyim demons, Lilith the night hag and her serpent Ningishzida. Here the night creatures howled, the centaurs dwelt, and the satyr goat demons danced upon the ruins of desolation. Chaos and disorder. But it was not night, it was day. The demons seemed held at bay, their whisperings carried only by the winds.
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