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Darwin and Evolution in the Judgment Hour
William Diehl
Satan is very religious. True, he deceives some with the pleasures of worldliness and atheism but his best and most deceptive lies are his "religious" lies. He was a liar and a Serpent from the beginning so it is very natural that he loves to take the Word of God and make it seem to teach something it does not. Peter warns us about these false apostles who turn the truth of God into a lie.
2 Peter 3:15-18 ... the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable WREST, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen
Isn't it amazing that the apostle that God used so mightily to take the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to all the world in the first century of the Christian era, should have his epistles so misused not only in our day but in the apostolic era as well!!
Paul was constantly having to wage an ongoing battle against false teachers. Nearly every epistle Paul wrote was directed towards the defeat of these false teachers and yet we see the sad disregard of Paul's warnings in the near total strangle-hold that the false prophet of the Man of Sin has upon Christendom.
The "Image to the Beast" which we see today gaining strength in the Ecumenical Movement is to be found in the teachings of the early Judiasing Gnostic Christians. These men trailed behind Paul in all his travels, teaching wherever there were Christian communities.
They denied Paul's teaching that Christ suffered bodily upon the cross of Calvary and they denied that He made a complete vicarious atonement for our sins. They taught that we are justified and accepted before God by keeping the Law, i.e. the ceremonial laws and the moral laws—perfectly.
To these false teachers, our Lord was a perfect, sinless "angel" man who showed us how to be saved by striving to live a sinless life in obeying all of the Law, just as Jesus obeyed the Law. When we obey the Law perfectly, observing all of the moral laws, all of the ceremonial feasts, the fast days (see Romans 14), the washings of purification, the sabbaths, the sacrifices, the tithings, and the dietary restrictions, then God will accept us by our having fulfilled all of the demands of the Law for righteousness.
Secret rites of purification took the initiate from baptism up the ladder of the deeper "knowledge" of the "mysteries" of coming to perfect oneness with God and God-likeness. Ritual washings, prayer vigils, self humiliation, and calling on the great ascended "Masters" of the universe, of which Christ was merely one of many, to drive out all "fleshly" or "material" desires and sin.
Paul foresaw that these Judaeisers would take over the Church after his death:
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked (Wicked One) be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thes 2:3-12
This prophecy met its fulfillment in the gradual development of the Papal pseudo-Christian system of salvation by man's works as seen in the "sacrifice of the mass" and works of penance to lessen the pains of purgatory in the hereafter. In this system we see the keeping of a multitude of holy days devoted to prayer to a certain saint for each particular day; holy (day) seasons; holy water; holy candles; holy wafers (the "real" presence); holy intercessors (the perfected saints and the perfected Virgin); holy priests; holy sacraments; holy chants; holy signs of the cross; and holy sanctuaries (cathedrals which imitate the ancient Hebrew tabernacle with the holy place, the most holy place, the alter, the censor filled with incense, the candles, the shew bread, the choirs, and a high priest offfering the sacrifice). All of this is described as the "abomination that makes desolate" by the prophet Daniel and as "another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb" by St. John in Revelation.
Daniel 7:25-26 And he (the little horn) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. 26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
Daniel 8:9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. 10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. 11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. 12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Daniel 11:21-45 21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in PEACEABLY, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. 22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. 23 And after the league made with him he shall work DECEITFULLY: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people. 24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time...28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant;... and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. 31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. 32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. 33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. 34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. 35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed. 36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. 37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. 38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
The papal Man of Sin urges the religious world to disregard the true Gospel of the completed and once and for all sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ for the sins of the world. The true gospel urges all repentant sinners to come in faith only to Jesus and to trust in the Sinless One who continually offers to cover our sins with His own perfect righteousness (the daily, see Dan 11:31). Our true Mediator is in heaven standing for the people of God. The incense of His righteousness is added to the imperfect prayers, praise, and good works of even the weakest of God's people so that those who trust in His atoning life and death are accepted before the holiness of God, perfect in Him and for His sake. There is perfect holiness only in Heaven. Christ's holiness fills all heaven and we are complete in Him.
The so-called holy places, and holy things on Earth are "abominations that make desolate" because they take the hope of the repentant sinner off of Jesus' perfect holiness in heaven and cause the sinner to look to man's holiness and man's holy things and a counterfeit Priesthood to reconcile us to God. Thus this system becomes the pseudo or anti-Christ—the Image of a Man with the eyes of a Man and the sinful heart of a Man and the number of a Man, 666, the pseudo-Vicar of the Son of God, Vicarivs Felii Dei, hiding behind a false disguise of pseudo holiness and claiming to speak for God while actually speaking for the Serpent with all deceit and guile of pretended purity.
But God will not always tolerate the proud boasts of the Apostate One who rides upon the Beast. "He shall come to his end and none shall help him". The judgement shall sit and his dominion will be taken away. The "tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him". A mighty heaven blessed gospel message attended by one mighty final outpouring of the true Holy Spirit in "latter rain" power shall declare the sins of Babylon to all the listening world. The Christian churches and all of the religions of the world who have united within the Ecumenical Movement will be told of the inroads of spiritualism that have filled the churches and the world with every foul and unclean spirit. This spiritualism is a false "charismatic" spirit which Satan breaths upon all who bow down to pay obeisance to the union of the papacy, apostate Protestantism and Pentecostalism. Satan will convince those who imbibe in this spirit that they are sinless and holy. By acknowledging a false unscriptural Sunday Sabbath, Satan and his demons will infill with his spirit all who worship the Beast or receive his mark or the number of his name.
But the final loud proclamation of the true Gospel and outpouring of the true Holy Spirit will interrupt and unmask the deceiver who thinks he can change the Everlasting Covenant and cast God's holy Law to the ground by making void the 4th commandment.
The Sabbath commandment proclaims God as the Creator of heaven and earth and all living things. The Sabbath commandment rips away the mask of Darwinian evolutionary perfectionism and exposes it as a whited sepulcher full of dead men's bones. The False Prophet seeks to deny the blood of the Lamb and count it as an unholy thing, but the last Gospel message to the world will give the final proclamation of mercy for all involved in the Babylonish union to "come out of her" and come unto the wedding supper of the Lamb who has redeemed us unto God by His precious blood.
As the blood upon the door posts protected all the people of God on the first Passover night so long ago, so in the final moments of Earth's history God will justify all the repentant ones who look to the One who was declared guilty for them so that they might be declared innocent in Him. There is none too sinful or too degraded who cannot look to Calvary and receive the verdict of innocence and acquittal before our Judge and Advocate and merciful High Priest who presents us faultless before the throne of grace.
"Much more then having been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him...through whom we have now received the reconciliation."
Those who heed God's call and will come out of Babylon will reject Satan's claim to be able to change God's Law and will trust in the blood of Christ alone to justify them. These will receive seal of God, the infilling of God's Holy Spirit to prepare them to pass through the great tribulation time of the seven last plagues which are poured out upon the unrepentant worshippers of the Beast and his Image.
As Noah and his family were preserved safely in the ark during the visitation of God's wrath upon the antediluvian world, so God's people will dwell in the shadow of His protective watchcare. They will have been sealed in the Lamb's book of life and will see Him come in the clouds of heaven. Looking up they will rejoice in the glory of God and say,
"Lo, this is our God, we have waited for Him and He will save us."
God has blinded the eyes of the wise but revealed His wisdom unto babes.
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