We began this section with a root test by asking if the Church was separate or a part of Israel. Hopefully, you will now be able to recognize the weeds of Mystery Babylon and its entanglement in our root system that has encouraged the evolution of a Gentile-centric worldview.
My effort has been to challenge the Gentile-centric worldview in Christendom because through the last two millennia we have evolved away from the graciousness of God inviting Gentiles as adopted sons and daughters, joint heirs, equal citizens into the Commonwealth of Israel, His One Echad Family, and evolved into a completely separate Gentile-centric church.
Furthermore, what needs to be seen and contested is the hijacking by replacement strategy on behalf of the enemy to undermine our solidarity with Israel through history and especially during the end-times. So by using the principle of origins, we began by understanding first God’s model of Echad (the Hebrew word for One), that He is One (Echad), His Bride (Jew & Gentile) is One (Echad) Body, and He will bring all things into the revelation of His Oneness (Echad). We reviewed God’s deep desire to bring us into mutual relationship with Him.
Hopefully, we now have an understanding of our good and godly desires as our original design and the full permission given to advance by them in the offense to overcome temptation, just as Jesus did. We learned the fundamental alternative choice to God is the idolatry of self – to be our own source, separate from Him as our Source.
We took time to understand who our enemy is, what he wants from us and his strategies to get it. We outlined his strategy to hijack by replacement using his doctrine of deception either by direct apostasy or partial assimilation. We mapped his pattern through world history, Israel’s history and through the Age of the Gentiles.
We learned that Mystery Babylon is Satan’s inversion of God’s model of Echad – a complete copycat and counterfeit version of God’s order. Mystery Babylon will be the end-time embodiment of Satan’s final religious and governmental system. It is the accrued momentum of the mystery of lawlessness or iniquity through earth’s history, finding full expression in the end-times before the Great Day of the Lord.
We learned about its global agenda through Universalism, its hijacking by replacement of the concept of good and goodwill and its gross presumption to deify of human love and goodness. We learned how Mystery Babylon is particularly structured for enforcement by the UN as a religious, governmental and educational global guide.
We went on to see the stealth advanced influence that the Emergent Church and Universalism has had on the Western Church. We can now recognize the lingo of the goodwill agenda being proclaimed within our churches underneath the concepts of Christianity.
And lastly, we looked at the ugly of Replacement Theology - and the subtle erosion of our support and allegiance to the prophetic re-establishment of national Israel and her final redemption in these end-times.
There is a line in a movie that comes to mind where a king and his kingdom is about to be attacked and is considering whether to engage in battle or go hide in hopes of keeping his people safe from war. In a gathered council, another king says, “War is upon you, whether you would choose it or not.” That is a great metaphor for the hour we are facing -- war is upon us, whether we would choose it or not!
So now what? The first thing is to be aware! Be aware for yourself, your community and by all means, for your children! Teach the difference between the true Gospel and the purported goodwill agenda of Universalism. Be able yourself to discern the difference as well as articulate and teach your children how to know the difference.
I was very impressed with a friend of mine who made a sporting game for her children to find the lie in media, entertainment and advertisements. She taught them the truth and made it a proactive game to call out what is not truth. Her little guys are clever fellas who know the truth and know how to call out the lie – they’re equipped with eyes wide open, not to drink this Age of Apostasy's Kool-Aid!
War is upon us and we cannot afford the safety of denial in hopes of avoiding conflict. We are the contrast to evil and if we choose not to be that contrast, then evil will devour that which we endear.
As Winston Churchill once said, “You have enemies, good, that means you stood for something.”
Let's take a step forward in the next section to have a basic understanding of the Book of Revelation, and see if we can't recognize our role in this last hour!