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Satan’s World:
 
Pasadena
August 12, 2006
 
 
When people discuss the Middle East, a term that comes quickly to the fore is Monotheism.
It is seen as the home of the three great Monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Yet the term Monotheism was only coined in the English language in the 17th Century.
Henry More in 1660 is reputed to be the first person to use the term in writing in the English language.
So it is a very recent term to describe a feature that many assume to be a foundational part of the Biblical record.
Humanity has a penchant for labeling ideas.
Of course those who study Monotheism have developed their ideas so that today if someone is really discussing the subject the labels are refined so that we have ‘inclusive’ or ‘exclusive’ Monotheism or hard or soft Monotheism.
Writing in the 19th C, the British Prime Minister and social reformer and cleric, Gladstone, recognised that Islam or Mahomet as it was described then was in fact the only true Monotheistic religion.
Over the past decades, people have come to question the ideas of monotheism.
Characteristic of this is a question posed by one NT scholar: Quote ex Paula Fredricksen:
 
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something of a puzzle to explain how a group of Jews, known best of all in antiquity for their absolute insistence on the oneness of God and their refusal to grant worship to any other, should come in the middle of the first century to worship the man Jesus of Nazareth, whom they call the Messiah.
The question becomes even more puzzling when you consider that those Jews who believed in Jesus gave him titles apparently ascribing to him qualities and actions previously reserved for God alone.
(/Bible Review/, December 1992, 14-15.)
Further study has lead some scholars to recognise that Monotheism by any of the various varieties by which it is known  today has no place in Scripture.
So they have created a new term to label the worship that the Eternal required of Israel: Monolatry.
Take idolatry, remove the ID and place mon in front.
The worship of only one God.
As a starting point they take the First Commandment in Exodus 20:
*Exodus 20:1-3 (ESV) \\ 1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
3 “You shall have no other gods before me.*In
stating “thou shalt have no other gods before me” the Eternal recognised that there were other gods, but Israel was only to serve Him.
The other gods are normally seen as idols, the work of the hand of a man.
The Scriptures rail against people who worship such creations.
In Exodus 12:12, the Eternal told Moses and all Israel that He was going to bring judgement against all the gods of Egypt.
So Israel entered into a covenant relationship with the Eternal at Mount Sinai in a world in which other gods existed.
Israel of course disobeyed the first commandment and forgot the Eternal their God.
They worshiped Baal and all the other gods of the heathen nations.
But the translators play a trick on us – condition our minds.
The ‘other gods’, or the ‘gods of Egypt’ are always presented in lower case type whereas in both Hebrew and Greek there never was a difference.
Only upper case characters were used in Scripture.
And to a listener, hearing the word read, no perceptible difference was obvious.
So the translators sought to immediately identified were the true God is addressed as opposed to false gods.
They have done a good job of identifying which is which for us.
But in so doing they help us miss a major point of the first command.
Is there another being we could worship rather than the Eternal?
What we worship is in fact a god!
The Apostle Paul was educated as a devout Pharisee.
Like others of his day, he believed that there was an alternative god who could be worshiped: a being that was so successful at his deception that he had blinded the minds of people so that they couldn’t recognise the true God who should be worshiped (2 Corinthians 4:4).
*/The Light of Christ’s Gospel/*
*Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
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In Ephesians 2 Paul refers to this same individual as being the “prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2).
There is another being out there who seeks our attention and the worship of that being ends in destruction.
The idea of Satan worship is not appealing to most, but he has an unlimited pantheon of gods to distract and keep us from the worship of the true God.
Why should we be aware of this?
Shortly we will be keeping the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement prior to observing the Feast of Tabernacles.
Central to these days is an understanding that there is a ruler of this world who is to be replaced at the return of Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and that being is to be bound for a thousand years and be restrained in a great abyss.
Although we will gladly observe those days, how clearly are we aware that the world in which we live is ruled by this other god?
Case in point.
Let’s return to the Middle East where a war is being waged between Hezbollah and the Israeli’s?
Who is right in this conflict, the army of God or the Israeli’s?
Which really is the army of God?
The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, gave a speech in Los Angeles a week ago in which he outlined the arc of terror.
We, the west are the good guys who should prevail and Tony Blair set out various criteria by which the west could win the battle.
So I ask the question again.
Which really is the army of God?  Either or neither?
Yes Jesus Christ will intervene on the part of the Jews at the very end, but only after they come to “look on him whom they pierced” and accept Him as the Messiah He truly is.
Until then, both sides are waging a war between two elements of the Babylonian system.
Students of Prophecy love to look at the developments in the Middle East and portray the growing Islamic fundamentalism as being a representation of the King of the South.
Often what is overlooked is that the King of South presented in Daniel chapters 10-11 is part of the Babylonian system just as much as the King of the North.
We have warring factions within the Babylonian system which will be destroyed by Jesus Christ at His return.
I’m not saying that the Islamic world is not or could not be the King of the South.
In reality, Islam is the ultimate expression of the Greek philosophical traditions.
Those elements shaped Islam as profoundly as certain ideas of Plato shaped what is called Christianity today.
So Islam is clearly rooted in the Babylonish system of the this world.
There is no good guy in the in the struggle between the powers of this world.
Not even our own country.
At best it could be described as the least worst in a very bad world.
Let’s look at some of the values that exist in this world today that are considered acceptable and see how satanic they really are
The Prophets who were used by the true God as emissaries and mouth pieces conveyed to us the values of God.
They presented what was pleasing or unacceptable to God –literally allowing us to see how God sees the human situation.
Notice what they had to say about this world.
Power: A great place to start.
The world is in a struggle at this time between two rival power blocks.
In reality Hezbollah and the Israelis are at best proxies for those two systems.
How does the world establish power?
By war on various levels.
Society honors conflict.
Look how many great leaders have been warriors or generals.
Toynbee quotation ex War and Civilization, 1950:
“Perpetual peace is a dream–and not a beautiful dream–and war is an integral part of God’s ordering of the Universe.
In war, Man’s noblest virtues come into play: courage and renunciation, fidelity to duty and a readiness for sacrifice that does not stop short of offering up Life itself.
Without war the world would become swamped in materialism.”
We may modify that in part today, but not by much.
Had a look at video games recently?
What about movies?
We await Terminator 4!  The irony is unabashed.
We live in a state that prides itself on its social conscience and we have a Governor whose fame was developed in the portrayal of violence.
How many see the solution to the problems of inner city gangs in the reintroduction of some form of military discipline.
National service, the draft.
The prophets were inspired to write in a world which had a clear view of power.
In the gentile world, the king was divine – he was not able to be questioned.
The prophets repudiated the power of man as an object of adoration:
*Isaiah 10:12 *
*12** Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has performed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, /that He will say,/ “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.”
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*Jeremiah 23:10*
*For the land is full of adulterers; For because of a curse the land mourns.
The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.
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