Is Satan Real?  

This is actually a pertinent question in Christian philosophy because it remains somewhat controversial.  The secular world believes the idea of “Satan” constitutes a fake “boogeyman” that Christians made up to excuse their bad behavior and account for the existence of pain and conflict in their theology. Even some Christian theologians dismiss the idea of a personal “Devil”, seeing Satan as more of a general description of evil.  But the Bible makes it clear that there is a sentient, intelligent, and malevolent being in the world, who, along with similar sinister entities, desire our destruction.  In order to overcome them, we need to know who they are and how they operate.

This podcast begins our series on spiritual warfare, which has proven to be the most popular subject matter on the Faith By Reason website.

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Pharoah’s heart was hardened by God so the He could perform the signs and wonders of the 10 Plagues on the Egyptians.  On the surface, this seems unfair.  Did God take away Pharaoh’s free will so that he would be defiant, allowing God to visit more suffering on the Egyptians?  This can’t be true, because we know that God is always and completely right and just.  So what’s the answer?

 The truth is that God did not initiate Pharaoh’s hardened heart. It was a justified REACTION to what Pharoah did to the Israelites!

Also, why did God choose those specific 10 plagues?  Were they just random ordeals to torment the Egyptians, or were they intentional?  The answer comes from understanding and accepting the supernatural worldview.  We explore these ideas in this week’s podcast.

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The Patriarchs – Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, received the blessing and mandate from God that would frame the 4th Dispensation.  With the world now divided into nations after Babel, God created His own nation (Israel) through which the world would interact with Him and His plan.  If the nations blessed Israel, they would be blessed.

This would hopefully lead them to chose to accept the plan of the God who blessed them.  But if they cursed Israel, they nations would be cursed and the Dispensation would fail.  In this week’s podcast, we will examine the Promise/Covenant God gave the forefathers of Israel and also look at the history of the Patriarchs from Abraham to Joseph (which reads like a soap opera…or reality TV), concluding with the Exodus from Egypt.

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Your greatness is a HUGE threat to human governments!  So much so that governments are designed to suppress it.  Greatness comes from uniqueness, and when you operate in your uniqueness, you have the capacity to be great!  And since we are ALL unique, we can all be great!  The problem is that by its nature, the human government can only function if greatness (including your greatness) is limited to the rulers.  So the Mystics do everything in their power to homogenize us (make us all think and act the same), in order to curtail our individual uniqueness.  

The Mystics of Force (rulers) do it through laws.  The Mystics of Spirit (social engineers) do it by using our tendency for comparative thinking (pride) to get is to homogenize ourselves!  They convince us that uniqueness is unfair!  And since we tend to fear that another’s greatness might be more valuable than our own, we do their job for them by peer pressuring others to behave and think in an “acceptable” way!  

The mystics use (or misuse) reactionary terms like Equality, Social Justice, Patriotism, Race, Gender Equality, and even Religion to get us to police each other. The result is monotonous conformity.  But the God of the Bible embraces our uniqueness!  In fact, the ONLY way for God’s Plan to work is if we are ALL great!  God needs your greatness in order for Heaven to be what He wants.  We’ll discuss it in this week’s podcast.

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Governments fail, and will ALWAYS fail, because they all rely on the existence of the impossible in order to function optimally.  That impossibility is perfectly moral human beings!  Human government is man’s attempt to recreate the perfection of Eden without God. But every government and societal theory, institution, entity, or structure; whether secular or religious, can ONLY reach this Edenic facsimile if all of humanity is always and completely righteous and just (which, ironically means that all man’s utopian governmental ideas can only work if all men receive Biblical Salvation!).

Of course, this is not man’s nature (far from it) so governments institute laws and punishments to force subjective morality onto man. And If man fails to live up to this impossible standard of perfect morality (whether by choice or force), the governments fail…only to be replaced by yet another futile government system.  Man will remain caught in this cycle of futility until God sets up His perfect government.  In this week’s podcast, we will examine the origin, nature, and futility of Human Government.

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The leaders of organized religions are people I call “Mystics”.  They stared at Babel, and have spread to every corner of the world, amassing power and influence by guarding access to their secrets.  In the secular world, they exist in secret societies that influence governments.  Or as members or hereditary priesthood and “royal bloodlines” that consolidate and hoard power from the people. 

But they are also found in “Christian” churches! So how do “Christian” mystics amass power and influence when we all have access to the Word of God?  They claim that the information God has revealed to man is incomplete!  There is a secret treasure trove of juicy knowledge that God has only given to his super special elite followers.  And of course, God made them the holy, anointed guardians of this knowledge.  So if you want to know the real, honest-to-goodness, full and complete truth of God, you must submit to their authority and only believe what they say about God! 

We will discuss the origin of the Mystics in this week’s podcast.

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The Mother of Harlots is the title given to the original false religion which started at Babel (Babylon), and gave birth to all the false religions around the world.  But in a denotative sense, the physical Mother of Harlots was the Queen of Babel – the mother/wife of Nimrod, known as Semiramis.

Through her deceit, manipulation, deception, and lust for power, she created the first organized spiritual opposition to God’s plan (religion), but corrupting the Gospel narrative, and inserting herself and her family in the place of the Holy Trinity!  When God judged Babel and scattered the population, each group took a version of that first organized religion and adapted it to their, resulting in the various ancient religions.

Who was Semiramis, and how did she create organized religion?  We’ll talk about it on this week’s podcast.

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Are all religions the same?  Many people think so.  And it’s almost understandable when you look at the fact that most religions share the same themes of “god(s)”, creation narratives, the fall and redemption of man, supernatural intervention, and apocalyptic judgment.  Some of them even feature a “virgin birth”, and the death of a “god” in order to save mankind.  Furthermore, many of these various religious texts predate the Bible by hundreds of years.  So is the Bible just a collection of older religious beliefs complied by the ancient Jews as many secularists believe?
Absolutely not!  The Bible is unique in many ways that we’ve discussed previously.  Furthermore, God’s plan was known by men LONG before any other religion was established.  In fact, I would argue that all other religions are corruptions of God’s plan.
Where and how did God first reveal his plan to mankind?  We’ll explore that question on this week’s podcast.

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The Tower of Babel was not built because the post-Flood generation thought that God “lived in the sky” and if they make a structure tall enough, they could reach Him.  Granted, that idea is the orthodox viewpoint, but if you have the supernatural worldview that we talked about during the last podcast, you understand that there is much more going on here. Bab-El literally means “gateway to God”.  And that is exactly what the people of this dispensation were actually trying to do – build a doorway to the spiritual world where God dwells.  But the most remarkable part is that if He hadn’t intervened, God said that they would have been successful!!
What was the Tower of Babel?  Who is the remarkable character named Nimrod who commissioned its building?  And where did the various races and nationalities come from?  We will examine those questions in this week’s podcast.

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Having a Supernatural Worldview is vital to understanding many of the more challenging and difficult passages in the Bible.  If you do not embrace a supernatural worldview, you will miss out on much of the richness of the scriptures and you will never fully understand the Bible.  The supernatural worldview is:
1.  The understanding that there exists an unseen spiritual world alongside our own, inhabited by intelligent and powerful entities (God and Angels) who interact with our physical world.
2.   AND the acknowledgment that this spiritual world should be taken into account in EVERY part of the Biblical narrative, as well as our daily lives.
Most Christians do ok with the first part, but completely reject, ignore, or disregard the second part.  In this podcast, I give 8 examples of Biblical narratives that can be seen in a completely different ways based on whether or not you have the supernatural worldview.  I also address some of the more extreme reactions to my last podcast, and why Faith By Reason may not be the right ministry for you if you are religious…

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