The Prophetic Telegraph - No.6
THE GODS OF THE
MARKET PLACE
AN EXPOSÉ OF THE
TWO GREAT DELUSIONS OF MODERN TIMES
February 1987
About 3500 years ago a man
by the name of Moses walked the heights of a bare and rocky mountain waiting for
divine revelation. When it came he presented it to the multitudes encamped
below in the form of two stone tablets engraved with ten basic laws for
mankind. Those laws were not only the guidance of God for assemblies of
About 2500 years ago a
young man by the name of Daniel, of noble birth in the royal house of
About 2000 years ago an old
man by the name of John was sent into exile to the Greek
About 90 years ago a man by
the name of Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem (1919) in which he expressed in thinly
veiled terms the way in which these fabulous beasts were doing their work. No
one knows whether he had them in mind as he wrote, but clearly he had a
prophetic eye. The world of his day had just tasted the bitter fruits of a
world war, which itself was part of the schedule of events manipulated by those
dark gods. What Kipling saw most clearly was the extreme importance of those
ten basic laws for mankind, and how they were being eroded by other agencies.
The laws of God in those days were often printed on the front and back pages of
children's copybooks, so that they could constantly read them and learn them.
In modern parlance, these "Gods of the Copybook Headings" (as Kipling entitled his poem) were
the 'good guys', unseen benevolent intelligences acting on behalf of God to
express His character and create a law-abiding community within a Christian
land. But Kipling also saw the nature of the 'bad guys', the "Gods of the
Market Place" as he called them, his "smooth- tongued wizards", those
unseen malevolent intelligences who act on behalf of a corrupt spiritual empire
whose purpose was wholly contained within one word - LAWLESSNESS.
Furthermore he saw that this goal of lawlessness was being advanced in stages
over the years by a pattern depicted by
The purpose of this article
is briefly to analyse the meaning of those things which surround us today, in
terms of these fabulous beasts, these visionary monsters of Daniel's and Johnts
revelations, and to show that society is not just in the hands of politicians
and national and religious leaders, but is being manipulated by outside
intelligences of superior power and cunning. As a result, we the authors,
earnestly ask our readers to weigh these matters most carefully, as they affect
each person in the land, and to appreciate the nature of the TWO GREAT DELUSIONS of these days.
THE
TWO GREAT BEASTS.
In brief, John saw the first beast rise from the sea and the second from the
land. The sea-beast had seven heads and ten horns which were crowned, and names
of blasphemy on its heads. The second beast, the earth-beast, we should today
describe as 'a wolf in sheeps clothing', having the voice of a dragon and
possessing two horns. Finally John saw an image being built which was given
life and made to speak volumes of deceit in a pompous manner.
These two beasts represent
the two great delusions of today. The sea-beast is the DELUSION OF DARWIN, rising from the 'primordial scum'
of the oceans, and the land-beast is the DELUSION OF DOGMA, rising from the corruptions of an
earth-bound church. Together they have made an image which we call the MEDIA, which has a great mouth speaking
deceit on the T.V.
THE
BEAST THAT AROSE FROM THE SEA The sea-beast had seven heads and ten horns, and names of blasphemy on
its heads. The beast itself is the whole complex system of evil, and its seven
heads are progressive spiritual leaders, unseen governors of darkness who in
turn manipulate the minds of men. The blasphemy on their heads speaks of the
evil within their minds. It must be clearly understood that the original Greek
word for blasphemy means 'speaking evil things of God' and is far more deadly
than the mere expletives we so often hear in the mouths of those who know not
God, however objectionable that may be. But what of the ten horns? In the
Bible, horns always signify the actual power, and when they are crowned, as in
this vision, it means that the power is actual and is operating. (In parallel
human terms, we have in this country four 'horns', four political leaders, in
Mrs Thatcher, Mr Kinnock, Mr Steel & Dr Owen, but at the time of writing in
July 1986, only Mrs Thatcher is 'crowned'.) These ten horns are also spiritual
agencies, operating through human beings, and their assignment is to destroy
the ten basic laws or commandments of God. Each agency has one particular law
to destroy, to pervert or distort. These powers have been at work for a very
long time, but we are now at a very crucial stage in their development, which
has been working for the last 200 years.
During these last 200 years
the sea-beast has employed a master strategy for the overthrow of law in the
minds of men, and it has been brought about by gradual stages, in rather the
same manner as the theory itself speaks of stages of 'progress'. We are
speaking of the theory of evolution, the theory which Kipling so cleverly wove
into his poem, and which is recorded at the end of this article.
THE
DELUSION OF
The Delusion of Darwin has
permeated the whole world. Throughout the globe there is no country that has
not been poisoned by its false and evil teachings, whether communist or
capitalist. Karl Marx found a glad friend when he read Darwin's works, and
testified in his writings to the way in which communism would use the theory to
bring about the revolutions he planned. Lenin put it into practice in 1917 and
it has remained enthroned there ever since. This is because Darwinism, when
logically accepted, spells atheism and nothing less. Evolution is itself a 'god
of forces', forces which work in matter, which they say and teach
are strong enough to bring about all the life-forms we see around us. But
Daniel was told of this lie 2500 years ago, when the visiting angel said (of
the dark god behind all this) "He will not worship the god of
his fathers, nor any god, but will worship and magnify the god of forces, a god
which hitherto had not been known." Newspapers may tell us
yesterday's news, but the Bible gives accurate assessments of tomorrow's news.
Communism and evolution go hand in hand, but it seems strange that the Western
World should have promoted the theory so strongly. The reason is, however,
clear enough. Mankind does not want to retain God in its knowledge,
as Paul wrote to the Romans of his day, and it is just as true now as it was
then. Hence the evolutionary theory provides men with just the excuse they
desire, to throw away all restraint, and to provide themselves with a shield
against conscience. If God exists, then clearly He demands attention from every
living person, but if it can be proved that we came about by chance, by some
selective process amongst molecules, then our 'consciences' are clear, and we
can 'do as we like'. This is the recipe for eventual anarchy, and it does not
take great academic scholarship to witness just how close we have brought ourselves
to that dreadful end.
But in the Western World
the most curious phenomenon is the way in which Darwinism has not only been
accepted, but also promoted by the churches at large. If evolution spells
atheism, then not only should the churches reject it entirely, but they should
be seen to be countering it at every turn, but no, Darwinism and Christianity
have become strange bed-fellows. In this respect the sea-beast has already done
its work, and has succeeded. But again, we must mention Daniel's words, because
this is exactly what the angel told him would happen. "He will
trample truth underfoot and succeed in all he does, and do it effectively and
with purpose." Christianity has now become corrupt, and is
largely fostering the work of the dark gods whose evil designs are very near to
completion. Darwinism has become the greatest single tool in the hands of man's
enemy. He has used it to promote communism, he has used it to destroy the
conscience, and he has enthroned himself within the church taking the place of
God Himself.
THE
UNDERMINING OF THE TEN BASIC LAWS OF GOD "You shall have no other gods
apart from Me," thundered the Divine Voice upon
"You shall
not commit adultery" no longer means just that. It has now extended its sphere of influence.
Man has not only allowed the law to fall into disuse, but he has fostered the
manufacture of various forms of contraceptives whereby the UNMARRIED can enjoy
the pleasures of sex without the usual fear of pregnancy. This is a
'convenient' method of by-passing the requirements of God's law, and
substituting in its place the ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT, "You shall not
be found out." In such a manner is the law of God made into a
mockery by modern science and technology with its contraceptives and pills.
Furthermore, the minds of men are continually besieged by the apparently benign
teachings of those who foster population control. This aspect when properly understood,
says that God is not the Author of life, but it is just a physical happening
based upon our evolutionary development. The Bible teaches that EVERY HUMAN
BEING has a God-given personality which does not perish at death, and this is
diametrically opposed to all forms of evolutionary dogma.
But this is not the end of
the line. Not only are we being encouraged to commit adultery (Kipling wrote of
the brave new world where we begin by loving our neighbour and end by loving
his wife!), and indulge in promiscuous sex outside marriage, but we are
recently being bombarded with the news that homosexuality is just another
expression of natural urge. Even within nature, we do not find such perversion
as is allowed within the human race. Since 1955 we have shamefully legalised
homosexuality. Years ago such men were called Sodomites by society, and buggers
by common speech, but these days such perverts have graduated through the ranks
of being 'queer' to that of being 'gay'. Here then is a word which cannot any longer
be used by most people, because it has itself been perverted. In the final
analysis, the theory of evolution has promoted this explosion of evil, because
all the restraints of God's law have been removed.
"You shall
not commit murder" is a law which the average man would still uphold. But stop and think
for a moment. With legislation as it is at present, we say in effect, "If
you must commit murder, and if you are unlucky enough to get caught, it will
mean ten years inside." The law of God was such that the murderer
must pay with his own life. But today we worship THIS life so much that we dare
not terminate it at any cost. If only people realised that the murderer who
paid with his life is saved from an even worse plight beyond death they might
not campaign so vigorously against the death penalty, but evolution teaches us
that we have life only in this scene, and therefore we must preserve it as long
as possible for once it has gone it has gone, and there is nothing else. But
this is by no means the only curse today. In recent years we have legalised
mass murder in the tinsel-wrapping of another word, ABORTION.
According to recent information received we are advised that no less than TWENTY
MILLION BABIES are aborted every year, an annual figure which exceeds
the total number of people killed during the second world war. Photographs of
garbage bins showing tiny limbs of babies have been presented to the American
public, and have triggered an outcry in parts, but although horrific we feel
that such evidence should be more widely distributed in order to shock people
out of their sleep. What happens to these bins full of aborted foetuses?
Currently there is a brisk trade in two directions. Lorry loads of them are
reported to be heading towards the major French beauty firms, where
'animal collagens' are in great demand for enlivening the facial
tissues of elderly wrinkled women who have nothing better to think about. But vast
quantities of foetal flesh is fed to the pigs, so that in due course it could
be said that we eat our own offspring in the breakfast bacon. We are sorry if
our manner of speech is offensive to some readers. But if these facts were
properly known and digested, perhaps far more ordinary people would start to
campaign against, not just abortion, but evolution, which is the REAL issue at
the bottom of all these current assaults upon the laws of God.
"You shall
observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy." God gave the Sabbath to man for his
own good, not to tie him down and make him miserable. The word Sabbath means
'rest' in Hebrew, and man deserves a day of rest and recreation one in seven.
Those who have important jobs to do on the Sabbath, of a type that cannot be
commuted to another day, can easily adopt another day of the week for their
rest, and thereby keep the essence of the law of God. But by present opinion
and practice we have thrown this gift of God back in His face, and said in
effect, "I will do just as I please, whenever I want." The god of
commerce, with its twin horns of sport and pleasure, has replaced the God of
gods who asked that man should keep the Sabbath day HOLY, in other words a day
when by relaxation and rest, one might more easily and pleasurably turn to the
contemplation of divine things. But if
"You shall
not steal" may still seem to operate in the law courts of this land as a
well-respected principle, and indeed the man in the street has a general
respect for the law simply because he does not want anyone else to rob him of
his possessions, but when one moves into the higher echelons of society, this
law becomes blurred at the edges. The high street banks ignore the law
altogether. When banks first started they were the 'safe boxes' of men's
wealth, and the bankers would use portions of deposits to make loans to their
clients, at an agreed interest rate. There was nothing intrinsically wrong with
this as long as the process was controlled and not subject to greed. But the
whole set up today is vastly different. The banks have established themselves
in society in such a way that they make loans out of nothing! No money is
withdrawn from their deposits at all! In fact no money is usually seen at all.
Credit is allowed by the stroke of a pen, a ledger entry, and cheques are
honoured by the bank up to the limit of the loan. For this service the bank
charges a lot of interest. But the interest the bank receives is all stolen
money, because it is levied on a vacuum. The bank does not touch its deposits
in order to give the service to its clients. Hence the bank still receives
interest on its own deposits, whilst at the same time receiving interest on the
fraudulent loan! If people realised what was going on, they would all be
rushing into the banking business, and issuing cheque books and loans!!!! The
fact that the high street banks get away with this theft is based solely upon
their lengthy establishment and assumed integrity. Here then is legalised theft
wrapped up in a very respectable guise. And it is the avowed, and not all that
secret, policy of the high street banks to encourage EVERY HOUSEHOLD IN BRITAIN
to obtain loans, and thereby place themselves in debt. The reason now seems
obvious. The more fraudulent loans they give, the more fraudulent interest they
gain, and the end of the process is absolute power. As Amschel Rothschild once
said to his sons, "Let me issue the money and I care not who makes
the laws." Today his family seem to own about half the world! If
theft can be legalised in the higher reaches of society in this gross manner,
how can the man in the street be expected to remain honest in his lifestyle?
"You shall
not bear false witness" has always been enshrined in the law courts by
the oft-repeated oath, "I promise to tell the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth." It would seem therefore that
society holds truth in high esteem. But today we have a system whereby truth is
washed away progressively by a very cunning technique. And this technique is
the style of all the media without exception. On the surface they appear to be
reporting factually, and if enquiry is made, this is usually found to be true.
But there are methods by which the selective reporting of information puts a
slant on the facts which insidiously injects erroneous judgment into the minds
of readers, listeners, and viewers. It is done by careful editing, nuances of
voice and expression, continual repetition of data etc., until the real truth
is lost behind a cloud of falsehood. Many an individual has found this to be
true after being interviewed by reporters, only to find that he has no
subsequent means of redress afterwards.
Each item of sensitive news
is presented in such a way that the desired angle is placed before the public.
And as to the content of news bulletins, only those items which rank highest in
the crime/disaster/tension/death/struggle/famine/sport, complex are given
time-slots. In this way the public can be kept on a permanently low ebb, and
expect relatively little from life, and continue their constant round of
grumbling/complaining/bitterness/hatred, against the nebulous 'they' who are
responsible for it all. Please believe us when we say that there is a great
deal happening in the world which, if reported honestly, fully, and positively
would begin to give people hope once again, and make them realise that we are
living, not in a very terrible age, but in one where there is great hope and much
to look forward to. But there are forces at work which do not WANT people to be
positive, they do not WANT people to have hope, and most important of all, they
do not WANT people to know and trust the God of our fathers. These are the
faceless authorities who constantly monitor the input and output of news items,
and decide what 'diet' to give the public. It is an organised campaign which
has reached the stage where so much power is in their hands that none of us can
do anything about it. If you doubt our word, please write to Mrs Mary
Whitehouse, or read her autobiography, and you will soon be left in no doubt.
How right the angel was when he told Daniel that this dark god will cast
truth to the ground and stamp it underfoot. However, within a few
sentences we find that his end comes suddenly and dramatically, and we believe
that that event is just round the corner. This whole saga has almost run its
course. We are a lot further through the sequence than most people realise.
"Do not
covet"
has gradually been replaced by "Make sure that you keep up with
the proverbial Joneses". Modern advertising, promoted by the
banking empire, is a cleverly devised and cunningly presented device for
encouraging people to covet what they cannot afford, do not need, and should
not be wanting. Magazines, newspapers, and television abound with glitter, and
mail-order catalogues are saturated with items to lure people into parting with
their meagre resources. The result is that temptation is rife, and the
population at large does nothing to protest at the evil because unconsciously
they know that it is yet another snowball that has grown too large to stop on
its catastrophic downhill run to economic ruin for all. Once again we have to
say that covert intelligences are at work behind the scenes, and they know
exactly where they are going, and what they are driving at, and it is YOUR
destruction. They have no heart for mankind. They treat us human beings as
though we were so much cattle, made only to be slaughtered for their feasts of
evil. We wish that this language was hyperbolic, but sadly it is the
unvarnished truth. Working for these spiritual dark gods there are groups of
power-hungry humans who are so blind that they cannot see that they themselves
are being manipulated in the same way that they manipulate human society. But a
day will soon be here when God will judge and condemn the whole system, and we
desire that enough warning be given to the inhabitants of this land before the
crash comes, so that as and when possible, individuals may quit the gaudy
plastic scene of artificiality and return to common sense, peace with God, and
law-abiding family life.
"Honour
your father and mother" has almost died a natural death at the hands of
philosophers and psychologists. The names of Rousseau, Freud, Jung, and Spock
come to mind. Within the family circle in the 20th century there has been no
greater force of evil than that of the writings of Dr. Spock, whose advice on
the bringing up of children has led to an almost total breakdown in
relationships. No wonder that the Old Testament prophet Malachi, in his last
prophetic words, said, "In the last days God will send Elijah
before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes, and he will incline the
hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to the children, lest
another curse be let loose upon the earth." Has there been
any time like the present when Elijah is sorely needed? And when he comes, will
he and his message be recognised? And if it is recognised, will families revert
to reverence and true filial discipline once again? The evil of which we speak
has of course travelled far and wide outside the home, because that which
starts in the family setting ends up in society, and is responsible for many
social evils. Men are often seen to be emasculated, women often un-feminine and
offensively dominant, and their children more and more unruly. Teaching in
schools has never been more like the law of the jungle. The author of these
lines has himself suffered in this direction as a teacher, and has tasted the
wretchedness of a nervous breakdown as a result of it. Only last week
legislation was passed banning the use of corporal punishment in British
schools, and very soon we shall be brought to our knees in civil anarchy. Long
before caning was banned children used to look upon it as an act of
revenge/classroom warfare/hatred/viciousness, because they had not been brought
up in the home to know the true meaning of punishment in its positive and
health-giving capacity. But discipline in the home is a well tried and wholly
satisfactory Biblical principle advocated by God Himself for the good of
children and society at large. In throwing it out of the window because
In summary so far, we must
state again that the theory of evolution has made all this terror and
uselessness possible in a way which would never have been achieved by any other
means. It was a master stroke of the dark gods. With the coming of almost
universal T.V., the world has been reduced to a global village, and few are
free of the evil influences that emanate from the great cities of the world.
Darwinism releases man from guilt. God's ten basic laws produce a sense of
guilt whenever we break them. Man hardly even knows what they are any more. But
we must return to sanity, and start to use our brains again. Man differs
markedly from the animals in so many ways, but one of the most telling is seen
in the realm of CONSCIENCE. Laws make lively consciences; Darwinism destroys
consciences.
We have examined seven of
the basic 1aws, and these are the ones which may best be called the HORIZONTAL
LAWS, because they deal with man's relationship to man. But the first
three of these ten laws are VERTICAL LAWS, because they deal
wholly with our relationship with God. These must now be examined. They have
been kept distinct from the other seven because their destruction was assigned
to the dark gods who belong to the second beast, the land-beast.
THE
LAND-BEAST, AND THE DELUSION OF DOGMA. The land-beast is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
It claims to be religious, and to represent the true God, but in reality it is just
another presentation of the first beast, dressed up in acceptable guise, to
fool those who go to church but do not know or study their Bibles. Quite the
majority of Christendom today has fallen under the spell of this beast, and
quite the last thing we recommend to the man-in-the-street is to go to church
to find an answer to the problems presented in this paper. Many may be
surprised to read this, knowing that we advocate a return to faith in God, but
unhappily we cannot ask our readers to go back to church. Rather do we advocate
that they read their Bibles at home, and pray to God, even if they have never
done so before, asking for enlightenment and wisdom to know what to do. All
over the land there are Bibles, old Bibles, new Bibles, unwanted dusty Bibles
sitting on shelves in spare rooms, just waiting to be read again. Would to God
that they were dusted down, opened and read again. We ourselves have been
Christians for many years, nearly 40 in fact, but just for the records, we are
not members of any particular church or denomination, neither are we Jehovah's
Witnesses, Mormons, or members of any other sect. Our faith is in the great
redemptive work of Jesus Christ at
The false-lamb was seen to
have two horns. And the church at large today has two horns, the Roman Catholic
and the multi-fragmented Protestant. In the world they are of almost equal
size. The leaders of this religious complex express their Dogma through the
Media-mouth, the T.V., and are encouraged to do so because they do not
interfere with the progress of the sea-beast and its work, in fact we are told
that the land-beast speaks with the voice of a dragon. And in recent days the
voice of this dragon has been heard loud and clear across this land in the
mouth of the pompous swelling profanities of Dr. David Jenkins, Bishop of
Durham. First he denied the virgin birth, then the resurrection, and more
recently he has advocated the closure of all church schools, and last Sunday he
preached in the York Minster saying that the New Testament is quite unreliable
if we were looking for hard facts, and only useful as a compendium of religious
opinions of two millennia back. People seem to think that the church has
suddenly gone mad, but this is not the case. There is nothing sudden about it
at all. It has been gradually losing its way and destroying its own foundations
for over a century, perhaps even longer. The Jenkins phenomenon is only new
inasmuch as the man has a loud mouth, is fond of his own theories, and likes to
gain publicity. Pollsters have ascertained that well over 50% of the Bishops in
the Anglican Church think the same way as Jenkins. Only a church that has lost
nearly all of its sense of purpose would be willing to tolerate such evil in
the mouths of its top-echelon professors. But the work of the dragon has now
reached such an advanced stage that he knows he can let all this filth loose
without fear of losing his key men. Other churches have their own particular
brand of faithlessness, even if it isn't quite the same as that of Jenkins.
Why does the land-beast get
away with so much these days? Daniel was told the answer 2500 years ago. He was
shown a time when 'lawbreakers would come to the full'
and this would trigger the release of dark gods who would be on the look-out
for 'those who break the covenant' (i.e. the ten basic
laws), and thus 'he will enter on the fattest places of the province
and sweep all away like a flood because he will gain power through the
multitude of transgressions, casting truth to the ground and trampling it
underfoot.' In other words, we of the 'church' are more
responsible than anyone else for the present state of affairs. Let all those
who read these words, and who consider themselves Christians, and attend a
place of worship each Sunday, realise the import of what has just been said.
The prophet Daniel gave clear and incontrovertible evidence that the people of
God would, in the last days, depart radically from true faith, and in doing so
they would trigger off the most terrible work of Satanic forces ever to be
unleashed upon this planet. And God will hold us all responsible for what has
happened. You who read this paper, and we who write it, are all alike under
judgment at this very moment in time because of the miserable state this land
is in. And unless we repent as a people and a nation there can be no healing.
Modern prophets have spoken
of dread diseases that are soon to come upon the land (perhaps AIDS is one of
them) and other punishments from God for the way in which we have turned our
backs on Him this century. One spoke of God giving us rulers who would take the
country almost to the point of utter ruin. Are we not almost at that point now?
Yes, we are all responsible for the trouble, and the church must wake up to the
fact. God has even SHOWN His displeasure with Dr Jenkins by sending a mighty
thunderbolt out of a clear sky to destroy the Minster roof at York, but only a
few have accepted the sign and acted on it. There is also some reference to his
own home being burned down by similar activity, but it is getting increasingly
difficult to obtain accurate data. No doubt the authorities are trying to cover
everything up, rebuild the roof of the Minster, and try to forget the whole
unfortunate thing. A similar event occurred on Christmas Eve in 1974, when the
town of
It is quite a popular
publishing venture these days to write books on these monsters of prophecy, in
Daniel and Revelation, and they all abound with theories as to the identity of
the beasts. Some speak of the Roman Catholic church, others of Communism, and
yet others of Zionism, Islam, and the Common Market or the Club of Rome. But
where each of them fail is that this end-time effect is wholly global in its
scope, and affecting every man on earth. To be told that the beast or the
antichrist is a particular group is only to deflect responsibility on to
someone else's shoulders, and thereby the beast laughs because there is no
power generated to destroy him. But the words of Daniel quoted earlier show
conclusively that the beast's power comes ONLY as a result of wholesale
apostasy or defection from the truth. When this is understood, then it becomes
the bounden duty of each man to return to the 'Gods of the Copybook
Headings' before they return with terror and slaughter.
The land-beast came up
after the sea-beast. Likewise the apostasy of the church has followed hard on
the heels of the rise of Darwinism, and at all times is coupled to it. Today,
if congregations heard the gospel preached in the power and accuracy of the
early disciples of Christ, they would ask the preacher to be removed. This is
because the nature of the gospel has been lost. Men have a form of faith, but
they deny the power of it. Let us see how this applies to the first three
commandments, or basic laws of the Mosaic code.
"You shall
have no other gods apart from Me." But modern church-life advocates that men should,
as Christians, be encouraged to have good educations, be good sportsmen, have
fine homes with all mod-cons, possess a variety of electronic marvels for their
leisure, and own at least one car, and take expensive annual holidays abroad,
especially those which take in the 'Holy Land' to help salve the conscience.
All this may be summed up by the words 'materialism' and 'hedonism'
and what are these but another gods, to replace the gods of earlier
times which were carved from wood and stone? The Bible sums up this type of
activity by such statements as "Lovers of pleasure rather than
lovers of God", and "The love of money is the
root of all evil."
"You shall
not carve any images of gods." Clearly it is not wrong intrinsically to own a
car, or a washing machine, or a house and garden. But the manner in which each
of us TREAT these modern conveniences is certainly in question here. Some men
worship their cars, others worship their homes and their gardens. Whereas once
they would beautify them by DIY, now they pay others to do it for them. In this
way God is robbed of the affection that He so clearly deserves.
"You shall
not take the name of the Lord in vain." We have already mentioned the
meaning of blasphemy, and we have seen that those who speak evil of God only
thereby increase the power of the dark gods. When so few people believe in God,
and in Jesus Christ, these days it is amazing how many of them constantly have
their Names in their mouths as expletives. But each time the Name of the Lord
is taken in vain, so the negative influence is at work. But the work of men
like Jenkins creates far greater power for the enemy. He tells us to stop
believing in those things our forefathers were willing to die for, and
frequently did.
The three dark gods who
manipulate the minds of men towards the breaking of these three great vertical
laws receive the worship that rightly belongs only to God. They live off the
energy of disobedience, corrupting those who disobey, until they destroy them.
This is the nature of spiritual giants of darkness. But in more recent years
there has been another in the dark heavenly regions who was jealous of these
three, and himself grew to significance, and although a small and most despised
being to begin with, yet quietly and almost unnoticed insinuated himself into
the domain of these three, growing in power all the time, until he literally
uprooted them. And at this juncture in time he sits in God's temple, the body
of God's true people, and parades divine nature. He takes of the things of God
and passes them on to mankind, tainted, spoiled, and defiled whilst he basks in
the power he enjoys. But this will not be for long, for his end is near. There
are those on earth right now who have rumbled him, and are prepared to die in
the cause of bringing him down. God knows, and although He has chosen to remain
silent, a moment of sudden and devastating intervention is imminent, and will
take all mankind by surprise. When this moment arrives the massive and filthy
kingdom of darkness will fall like a great space-craft soaring upwards but
which suddenly explodes and to the horror and perplexity of all who watch, will
plunge earthwards into the sea, and will never rise again. Man will bewail that
great catastrophe, as he sees all his materialistic aspirations for the future
die a sudden death. Truly the 'gods of the copybook headings will have
returned'.
The corruption of
Christianity has been the main goal of this vast dark complex of evil in the
heavens. It has worked so well. Christians have without thinking being willing
to accept Darwin instead of God, while at the same time imagining that they are
still worshipping God. But their worship has all the time been siphoned off and
'enjoyed' by the other side. Man has read the gospel, and partly understood it,
but has been beguiled by these giants into thinking that he can have the pure
things of Jesus Christ and mix them with the 'good things' of the luxurious
materialistic world. But God hates a mixture, and in Revelation tells John that
He will 'spew them out of His mouth'. The absolute
force of that statement leaves one aghast. "I would that you
were hot or cold, but because you are lukewarm (i.e. a mixture of the two) I
will spew you out of my mouth." True Christians the world
over, who have rejected the gold and the glitter of the false christs are
forever being misunderstood, excommunicated, dis-fellowshipped, rejected,
persecuted, tortured, and killed, depending on where they live. For 2000 years
it has been this way. It has not changed.
But the 'gods of
the copybook headings' are still thundering out their laws, and one of
them says, "The wages of sin is death." And
another says, "It is given to man once to die and after that
the judgment." But the media-mouth has removed the fear of
these things, and promised us a good time here while we live if only we follow
their guidance.
These days thousands of
people are being resuscitated by courtesy of modern science and medicine. And
these people who have, for a few seconds, or minutes, been 'on the
other side' come back to this world with strange tales of passing
through a dark tunnel and emerging into a very bright realm, where they met
various beings, some of whom they recognised from their earthly sojourn, and
others who were clearly the true inhabitants of the heavenly regions. Some even
say that they saw angels and a few speak about amazing conversations they had
with Jesus Himself. But the fact that the world over, people of all
persuasions, all religions, all manner of backgrounds, are finding tolerably
the same type of experiences 'after death' should shake us all
into the cold sober truth that no matter how we may laugh it all off whilst we
are here, whilst we are fit and healthy and enjoying life to the full, a day
comes when it all has to be accounted for, when we are stripped of all our
glitter, when we are parted from all our wealth, and when we are left with
nothing but a panoramic picture of our life, set out before us to review
dispassionately, and over which we shall weep with shame as we see the utter
wastage of time and opportunity, chasing the dragons of darkness for their
sport and our destruction. Our lives were given to us by God, not to dissipate
upon ourselves and our love of pleasure, but to spend reverently for God's
pleasure. As the prayer book says, "The whole purpose of man is to
know God and to enjoy Him for ever." The Bible tells us with
great clarity how this may come about for each and every individual.
THE GODS OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS.
RUDYARD KIPLING. (1919)
As I pass through my incarnations in every age
and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of
the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them
flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I
notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us.
They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire
would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision,
and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we
followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. THEY never
altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the
Gods of the Market Place;
But they always caught up with our progress,
and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its ice-field,
or the lights had gone out in
With the Hopes that our world is built on they
were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied
that she was even Dutch.
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they
denied that a Pig had Wings.
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who
promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming,
They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that
the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed they sold us and delivered
us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said:
"Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were
promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and
ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men
lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said:
"The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised
abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective
Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was
nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said:
"If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their
smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and
began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and
Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up
to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the
birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social
Progress began:-
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow
returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes
wobbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the
brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man
must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire
will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror
and slaughter return!