Various Revelations (2001 – 2012)

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A War In Heaven

Based on Ezekiel 28:12-15, Isaiah 14:12-15, and Revelation 12:7-12.

A# – power chord on 1st fret
C#5 – power chord on 4th fret

VERSE 1

C                                  D                                   A / D
All was well in Eden, the garden of God

All was well on the holy mount of God
All was well in Heaven among the sons of God
O Lucifer, you were perfect in your ways
Until iniquity was found in thee

RAP BREAK 1 x2

A#–A#–pm–pm–A#/C#5/Em
And there was war in Heaven
The ho–ly angels fought with the dragon
And his demons fought, but they failed
Neither were they found anymore in Heaven

VERSE 2

C                                  D                                   A / D
And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven

Now is come salvation, and strength,
And the kingdom of our God,
And the power of his Christ
For the accuser of our brethren is cast down

RAP BREAK 2 x2

A#–A#–pm–pm–A#/C#5/Em
And-they-overcame by the blood of the Lamb

And by the word of their testimony
But woe to the inhabitants of the earth
For the devil’s come down, having great wrath

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The Anathemas Against Origen – The Fifth Ecumenical Council (Philip Schaff)

Originally from here.

I. If anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls, and shall assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it:  let him be anathema.

II. If anyone shall say that the creation (τὴυ παραγωγὴν) of all reasonable things includes only intelligences (νόας) without bodies and altogether immaterial, having neither number nor name, so that there is unity between them all by identity of substance, force and energy, and by their union with and knowledge of God the Word; but that no longer desiring the sight of God, they gave themselves over to worse things, each one following his own inclinations, and that they have taken bodies more or less subtle, and have received names, for among the heavenly Powers there is a difference of names as there is also a difference of bodies; and thence some became and are called Cherubims, others Seraphims, and Principalities, and Powers, and Dominations, and Thrones, and Angels, and as many other heavenly orders as there may be:  let him be anathema.

III. If anyone shall say that the sun, the moon and the stars are also reasonable beings, and that they have only become what they are because they turned towards evil:  let him be anathema.

IV. If anyone shall say that the reasonable creatures in whom the divine love had grown cold have been hidden in gross bodies such as ours, and have been called men, while those who have attained the lowest degree of wickedness have shared cold and obscure bodies and are become and called demons and evil spirits:  let him be anathema,.

V. If anyone shall say that a psychic (ψυχικὴν) condition has come from an angelic or archangelic state, and moreover that a demoniac and a human condition has come from a psychic condition, and that from a human state they may become again angels and demons, and that each order of heavenly virtues is either all from those below or from those above, or from those above and below:  let him be anathema.

VI. If anyone shall say that there is a twofold race of demons, of which the one includes the souls of men and the other the superior spirits who fell to this, and that of all the number of reasonable beings there is but one which has remained unshaken in the love and contemplation of God, and that that spirit is become Christ and the king of all reasonable beings, and that he has created all the bodies which exist in heaven, on earth, and between heaven and earth; and that the world which has in itself elements more ancient than itself, and which exists by themselves, viz.:  dryness, damp, heat and cold, and the image (ιδέαν) to which it was formed, was so formed, and that the most holy and consubstantial Trinity did not create the world, but that it was created by the working intelligence (Νοῦς δημιρυργός) which is more ancient than the world, and which communicates to it its being:  let him be anathema. – This is similar to the teaching of Derek Prince and Don Basham. They teach that demons are not fallen angels, but the spirits of a pre-Adamic race of Neanderthals or the angel-human hybrid giants of Genesis 6:4.

VII. If anyone shall say that Christ, of whom it is said that he appeared in the form of God, and that he was united before all time with God the Word, and humbled himself in these last days even to humanity, had (according to their expression) pity upon the divers falls which had appeared in the spirits united in the same unity (of which he himself is part), and that to restore them he passed through divers classes, had different bodies and different names, became all to all, an Angel among Angels, a Power among Powers, has clothed himself in the different classes of reasonable beings with a form corresponding to that class, and finally has taken flesh and blood like ours and is become man for men; [if anyone says all this] and does not profess that God the Word humbled himself and became man:  let him be anathema.

VIII. If anyone shall not acknowledge that God the Word, of the same substance with the Father and the Holy Ghost, and who was made flesh and became man, one of the Trinity, is Christ in every sense of the word, but [shall affirm] that he is so only in an inaccurate manner, and because of the abasement (κενώσαντα), as they call it, of the intelligence (νοῦς); if anyone shall affirm that this intelligence united (συνημμένον ) to God the Word, is the Christ in the true sense of the word, while the Logos is only called Christ because of this union with the intelligence, and e converso that the intelligence is only called God because of the Logos:  let him be anathema.

IX. If anyone shall say that it was not the Divine Logos made man by taking an animated body with a ψυχὴ῾ λογικὴ and νοερὰ, that he descended into hell and ascended into heaven, but shall pretend that it is the Νοῦς which has done this, that Νοῦς of which they say (in an impious fashion) he is Christ properly so called, and that he is become so by the knowledge of the Monad:  let him be anathema. – The Monad was the god of Neoplatonism or Plotinus. It is here clearly condemned by the church fathers. Origen was apparently a Christian Neoplatonist. Both the church fathers and the Desert Fathers rejected this teaching as heretical. Its a false mysticism.

X. If anyone shall say that after the resurrection the body of the Lord was ethereal, having the form of a sphere, and that such shall be the bodies of all after the resurrection; and that after the Lord himself shall have rejected his true body and after the others who rise shall have rejected theirs, the nature of their bodies shall be annihilated:  let him be anathema.

XI. If anyone shall say that the future judgment signifies the destruction of the body and that the end of the story will be an immaterial ψύσις, and that thereafter there will no longer be any matter, but only spirit νοῦς):  let him be anathema. – Origen believed in annihilationism, which is hereby rejected as a heresy.

XII. If anyone shall say that the heavenly Powers and all men and the Devil and evil spirits are united with the Word of God in all respects, as the Νοῦς which is by them called Christ and which is in the form of God, and which humbled itself as they say; and [if anyone shall say] that the Kingdom of Christ shall have an end:  let him be anathema.

XIII. If anyone shall say that Christ [i.e., the Νοῦς] is in no wise different from other reasonable beings, neither substantially nor by wisdom nor by his power and might over all things but that all will be placed at the right hand of God, as well as he that is called by them Christ [the Νοῦς], as also they were in the feigned pre-existence of all things:  let him be anathema.

XIV. If anyone shall say that all reasonable beings will one day be united in one, when the hypostases as well as the numbers and the bodies shall have disappeared, and that the knowledge of the world to come will carry with it the ruin of the worlds, and the rejection of bodies as also the abolition of [all] names, and that there shall be finally an identity of the γνῶσις and of the hypostasis; moreover, that in this pretended apocatastasis, spirits only will continue to exist, as it was in the feigned pre-existence:  let him be anathema. – A type of Hindu universalism wherein all souls and things will be united into one World Soul. Totally unbiblical and ridiculous.

XV. If anyone shall say that the life of the spirits (νοῶν) shall be like to the life which was in the beginning while as yet the spirits had not come down or fallen, so that the end and the beginning shall be alike, and that the end shall be the true measure of the beginning:  let him be anathema.

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Fear The Lord

Based on Psalm 34.

VERSE 1

Em                                                            A#
I sought the Lord and He answered me
Em                                             A#    G
And delivered me from my fears
Em                                              A#
Looking unto the life-giving tree
Em                                               A#     G
Standing strong through my years

CHORUS – x2

Em                F#-F# / Em
Fear the Lord you saints
Em                             F#-F# / Em
Those who fear Him lack nothing

VERSE 2

Em                                                 A#
The righteous cry out and He hears
Em                                             A#    G
But He’s against all who do evil
Em                                            A#
He can see their repulsive jeers
Em                                                  A#     G
Slaying the wicked; righteous retrieval

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Faith: Internalizing the Scriptures

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Principles of Healing and Deliverance

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Review of John MacArthur’s “The Charismatics” (1978)

John MacArthur equates the Assemblies of God with the Mormons and other experiential cults; and he ignores the connection between Pentecostal worship, the presence of God, and speaking in tongues.

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As The Spirit Wills – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Taken from ch. 9 of The Baptism and Gifts of the Spirit.

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I Died And Went Straight To Hell! – Joe Hadwin

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What Is Friendship? – St. Augustine

Originally from here.

“It’s hard to laugh when you are by yourself.” – Confessions

“So that a human being might not be alone, a system of friendship was created. Friendship begins with one’s spouse and children, and from there moves on to strangers. But considering the fact that we all have the same father (Adam) and the same mother (Eve) who will be a stranger? Every human being is neighbor to every other human being. Ask nature: Is this man unknown? He’s still human. Is this woman an enemy? She’s still human. Is this man a foe? He is still a human being. Is this woman a friend? Let her remain a friend. Is this man an enemy? Let him become a friend.” – Sermon

“Pangs of longing which tear me apart because those who are fastened to me by the bond of the strongest and sweetest friendship are not here physically present to me.” – Letter to Novatus
 
“The consolation of other friends did the most to repair the damage and give me strength after the death of my friend. The interchange between us captured my mind: conversation and joking, doing favors for each other, reading together good books, being foolish and being serious together, disagreeing without hatred almost as though I was debating with myself, sometimes falling into disagreement but thereby remembering on how many things we agreed, teaching and learning from each other, waiting impatiently for the absent to return and rejoicing when they did. These and so many other like signs coming from the hearts of friends are shown through their eyes and mouths and speech and a thousand little gestures. All of these expressions of friendship brought our hearts together like bundled kindling, making one out of many.” – Confessions

“What is there to console us in this human society so full of errors and trials except the truth and mutual love of true and good friends.” – Confessions
 
 “He truly loves a friend who loves God in the friend, either because God is actually present in the friend or in order that God may be so present. This is true love. If we love another for another reason, we hate them more than we love them.” – Sermon
 

 “A person must be a friend of truth before they can be a friend of a human being.”

 “How confused it all is! One who seems to be my enemy turns out to be my friend and those whom we thought our good friends in fact are our worst enemies.” – Sermon
 
“True friendship can harbor no suspicion; a friend must speak to his friend as freely as to his second self.”
 

“Wherefore, my well beloved and most amiable brother, by the friendship which unites us, and by our faith in the divine law itself, I would warn you never to link yourself in friendship with those shadows of the realm of darkness, and to break off without delay whatever friendship may have been begun between you and them.”

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