Pure Evil
There is only
one source that I will refer to as pure and good or righteous and that is that
Word of God as it was originally given to holy men of God as they were moved by
the Holy Spirit.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved
by the Holy Ghost. -- II Peter
1: 21
To
help you with this verse, we are going to break it down. The word ‘prophecy’ is referring to
foretelling or forthtelling. Foretelling is saying something that will
happen in the future. Forthtelling is saying something that is available right
now at this present moment. Most of the
Bible is written this way – forthtelling.
The words ‘in old’ can be said or interpreted as
‘at any’. Be careful to understand the
word ‘moved’. This means to be an
inspired by God. These holy men of God
had free will to start or stop writing at any time. The true God never oversteps your free
will. You have decisions to make every
single day whether you are going to adhere to the Word of God or the word of
men. It may seem humorous that I have
said to God many times that I wish I did not have free will. I wished that I ‘had’ to listen to God. Of course, God will not do this since He does
not want us to love Him without a choice.
How can you actually call that love?
Also, as a final point, we can delete the words that are in italics
which are ‘as they were’. Remember,
they were added by the translators and are not a part of the original Word of
God. So if you scratch them out, the
verse still makes perfect sense -- maybe even more so. So let's go back and do a literal translation
of this verse. It is not complicated.
Literal Translation according to usage:
For the prophecy (foretelling or forthtelling) came not at any
time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake,
moved by the Holy Ghost. -- II Peter 1: 21
That prophecy is the only pure thing on the face of
this earth. There are so many problems in this world today and they are
worsening because people are turning to anything but the Word of God. That is why we are experiencing this Corona
virus – because of idolatry. The mind of
the unbeliever is contaminated and they cannot think clearly as a true believer
who walks with God. It has gotten so bad
out in this present world that it even had me question my own sanity at
times. But yet I could not see
conforming to the way people are. They
are rude, insensitive, violent, rebellious, idolatrous and so much more. I wanted to set the foundation here for a
teaching that I promised you a long time ago.
I was reading a different teaching a few days ago and I ran across my
promise to you that I would teach on this subject. So now we know where the Word of God
originates. Its source is the Holy
Spirit and we know that that entity is perfect -- it is pure. That settles it. Anyone want to argue with that? Then argue with God and don't argue with
me. Somebody found my e-mail address
somehow and wanted to discuss issues -- can you imagine, issues about my
website. They specifically mentioned the
teaching “Jesus Christ is not God”. Do
you think they wanted to discuss issues or do you think they wanted to argue
with me? Well, you cannot argue truth,
you can only witness to it. For the
first time in about 15 years, I finally wised up and I simply did not answer
this person. It may take you a while to
understand this, but I did the right thing.
Why or how, I am not at liberty to share with you. But you know that I would not deceive
you. I have spent most of my life
teaching people God's Word and I never asked for a penny in return. I do this for God first and then for His
people – you. Now let me move on to the
second Scripture which will tell you clearly who and what we deal with every
single day. Many of you will not believe
it and that's your free will. But to get
the most out of this teaching, you had better believe the Scripture that I'm
about to share and teach you in detail.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. –
Ephesians 6: 12
Now I need to give you a literal translation of
this verse.
Literal translation according to usage:
For we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world rulers of
the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness from on high. – Ephesians 6: 12
This verse has so much spiritual knowledge in it
that we must take it slow. In the first
place, and I don't mean to scare anybody, when we deal with people who do not
renew their mind to the rightly divided Word of God, they are competing with
people who are influenced by devil spirits.
We also compete with those spirits.
It is always a spiritual competition.
Some people will choose not to believe this, but as you put on more and
more of the Word of God in your mind, you will see that this is true. How?
Because God gives you the ability to look behind the scenes and see what
is really happening. We are in a
spiritual conflict every single day. You
are up against PURE EVIL all of the time.
Oh, you may not see it because the adversary is a master of
deception. In fact, he will make you
believe that his people and his revelation is from the true God. Many times, we can be deceived and God's Word
says so. He says we will be deceived. We will sin.
That's why He wrote I John chapter one so that we can get back in
fellowship. When I first learned this
‘Pure Evil’ concept, I knew it was true and it shook me a bit. But when I began to believe it and apply it,
I saw that it was true by example. If
you stand for the true God, you need to remember that the only friend you
really have is God Almighty. Everyone,
and I mean everyone - these are people that you love - these are people that
are part of your earthly family - these are people that you believe are your
friends. They most likely will turn on
you at some point, for an unknown period of time, and you must be ready by
understanding Ephesians 6: 12.
In summary of this particular verse, it tells you
that these principalities and powers are pure evil. And I want you to notice the part in the
Scripture that says “the world rulers of the darkness of this age”. Well glory hallelujah, do you know who these
people are? They are people just like us
with one major difference. They are not
born of God's Spirit, they are born of the seed of the serpent -- they are born
of the devil and believe me they are out there.
I will give you one most obvious example of one of these people and that
person was Adolf Hitler. There are
people in positions of great power in this world that are born of the seed of
the serpent. The enemy can work in their
mind to direct his spirits where the enemy wants them directed. Pretty freaky, isn’t it? I had a beloved coordinator at one time that
said something that sounded really strange and somewhat ironic, but he was
laughing as he said it. He said thank
God ‘bro’ for the adversary, that we stay in
fellowship. Well that was a strange
thing but I knew the point he was trying to get across. You walk away from the Word of God and the
adversary will destroy your life in ways that you cannot imagine. And why would you walk away anyway? Turn back to the vomit of your old life and
have it for breakfast, I guess. Oh, you
say to yourself: “Hey man, I'm just too
cool to be tricked. I’m like a spiritual
heavy so don't talk this trash to me”.
Let me tell you, you're going to be in for a surprise. I am teaching God's Word for about 45 years
now and many times I get this thought that I should give it a rest. I think the website is just too big and it's
time to quit. I'll just lay back and
make myself a nice wine cooler and watch some television. You know.
I did all I could for God. I just
can't do anymore. Why, what a bunch of
crock that is. Do you know how many
times that thought has permeated my thinking lately? You think you can't be tricked. Take a look at all that I have done -- you
don't know the half of it. And still at
times that pure evil tricks me into thinking and doing things that are contrary
to God's Will. It's really something. It's really something that I just can't
explain it to anybody. You stand on the
Word and you do what you do best for God and you never stop. I told you before that the enemy defeats
himself. He's played this trick on me so
many times that he just can't do it any longer.
I will teach the Word of God until I take my last breath or until Jesus
Christ returns. The pure evil of the
devil can be very strong only if you let it be.
If we can only stay humble all of the time, we would reap great benefits. But remember also, that if we sin, and then
get back in fellowship, those benefits return.
When I saw the promises that I made to my readers while doing this
teaching, I said to myself, am I really doing the right thing? Should I be backing off? Should I go on vacation? Let’s take a look at Romans.
And the
God of peace shall bruise [crush] Satan under your
feet shortly [quickly]. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you. Amen. – Romans 16: 20
Now if you don’t understand how God truly works,
you’re going to run into some problems. Now
what does I John 1: 5 say? C’mon, look
it up.
If God is all light, then how can He crush
anyone? Satan crushes himself because
the laws of God also apply to him. Are
you getting it? The adversary or Satan
is harming God’s people whenever he can when they are out of fellowship. So what happens? God’s laws kick in such as the law of giving
equals receiving and the wrong that Satan does comes back to him. It’s a law and it cannot be broken or altered
in any way. It works with a mathematical
exactness and scientific precision every time – no exceptions at any time!
It can be said the following way: God ALLOWS the adversary to be crushed and He
ALLOWS it to happen quickly. But the
adversary brings it on himself.
Now, can you even
begin to imagine all the wrong the adversary has done since the beginning of
time? There is absolutely no chance –
NONE WHATSOEVER, for a reconciliation to be possible. The adversary then, rightly addressed, has
put himself in the category or
classification of PURE EVIL. His chances of survival in the future are
like a snowball in hell in July. Everything
about the adversary is PURE EVIL --unadulterated and possessing no admixture –
only contamination and corruption – stealing, killing, and destroying. (See John 10: 10a)
Until the return of Jesus Christ, the adversary
very much emanates a certain movie character – if you can call it that. This will help simplify things with an
analogy almost everyone can relate to.
The Terminator was a robot programmed to do only one
thing – kill a certain person. And it
had great powers, didn’t it? No matter
what, that machine was going to push towards its goal. After it was blown up and even crushed in a
machine, IT STILL TRIED TO ESCAPE TO KILL THIS PERSON. Tell me you’re not familiar with the movie.
Now simply try to relate this Terminator machine to
the adversary. Their overall purpose was
basically exactly the same, only the adversary is after every person on earth
and he also has an army of devil spirits to help him. If you don’t know that the Christ in you is
GREATER than this power, you’re in for a very tough time to make an enormous
understatement. I can only hope that
this example will help people of all ages to understand the PURE EVIL of the
enemy and that you need to avoid and ignore him whenever possible.
This pure evil that presently runs this world (see I Corinthians 4: 4) is a master of trickiness and
deception. He lures people, deceives
people, whispers sweet destruction in their ears and provokes men to violence.
I want to touch on the latter for you men out
there. Someone called my uncle a ‘dirty ginny’ once in a parking lot. My uncle walked over to him and blasted him
one time in the face. It cost MY UNCLE
about $800 for that punch. This was
about 50 years ago.
A great man who had much experience in this subject
finally learned something and shared the following with me -- so very
important. God had grace on me.
Violence is the epitome of danger. You can be crippled, sued and spend your time
reading a lot – IN JAIL!!………….. JUST TO MENTION A FEW NEGATIVES. Here was the advice:
“The smart man walks away – but it’s a tough pill
to swallow.”
Man, it’s tough.
I did it once and glory hallelujah, my wife was proud of me. That person seems embarrassed and doesn’t
come near me and I avoided a possible horrendous situation with disastrous
implications. How wrong you can be when
you think you are right. There’s no
profit in violence and the whole situation was provoked by:
PURE EVIL
The word specifically says we are not to be
brawlers. Self-defense is a totally
different concept.
I stressed mainly three Scriptures, but the point
was made. You avoid the adversary, his
methods and devices and his people. Stay
in fellowship and the devil can’t touch you.
He can’t touch you.
Three verses and the number three in the Bible
represents ‘completeness’. You are
completely, completely, absolutely complete in Him. (See Colossians 2: 10) Let me close with the literal of that verse
for you:
Literal translation according to usage:
And ye are completely, completely,
absolutely complete in him, which is the head of all principality and
power: -- Colossians 2: 10
Are we complete?
So we cannot be lacking anything.
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