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THE MATTER OF THE MINGLING

Part VII

The book of Acts documents the ongoing effort to mingle the seed of men – which would have to include those who rejected the Spirit of God, and sought to mingle their supposed Flesh and Blood standing as earthly Jews – with the sons of God who were born again in Jesus Christ.

"They that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children…That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God" (Romans 8:9; 9:7, 8).

Predictably, as the Jews had enjoyed the status of chosen by God for centuries, when the LORD turned everything upside down, and redefined Israel as those who are born again in the Spirit through the unmerited favor found in the New Covenant, the Jewish leaders quickly understood the Gospel threatened their very existence as the chosen people. The former Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus (later renamed Paul), was the learned man elected by God to explain how circumcision (which was the physical sign of being chosen by God) was now worth nothing, because anyone could enter in to fellowship with God through Christ's sacrifice for sins. As a result of this pivotal role, the Apostle Paul was the target of a unique hostility focused on him by the Christ rejecting Jews.

"There lie in wait for him of them more that forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him" (Acts 23:21).

Once the door of salvation was opened to the Gentiles, Christianity spread like wildfire. Further, as the Gentiles were far more in number than the Jews, it quickly became apparent the Jewish power would be unable to stop it. Simultaneously, many educated Jewish priests found the story of JESUS appealing – and the largest defections from the priesthood came from the Pharisees. This was because their partners in the ruling council known as the Sanhedrin -- the sect of the Sadducees -- never believed in Spiritual things such as angels, or even the resurrection.

"For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirits: but the Pharisees confess both" (Acts 23:8).

In previous written efforts, we've shown the drive to actually murder the Christians in the early days largely arose from the Sadducees, as evidenced by the affinity of the chief priest who is identified in the book of Acts of the Apostles. When Saul of Tarsus became radicalized and determined to prosecute the Christians to the death, he broke with His mentor Gamaliel the Pharisee (who urged restraint), and instead went to the chief Sadduccee for authority to destroy the believers.

"And I persecuted this way unto the death [and] made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison" (Acts 22:4; 8:3).

After Saul is confronted by the LORD (and becomes the Christian leader known as Paul) on the Damascus road (Acts 9:3), he spreads the Gospel to the Gentiles in accord with the leading of the Holy Spirit. In this extreme role reversal, he moves from the chief opponent of the Gospel, to its foremost advocate. Subsequently, it becomes evident the LORD brought Paul into the Kingdom to oppose the many Pharisees who had half-heartedly come to Christ, even as they attempted to mingle the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the faith of the Pharisees.

"But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise [the Gentile believers] and to command them to keep the law of Moses…therefore Paul and Barnabus had no small dissension and disputation with them" (Acts 15:5, 2).

The attempt to mingle the Old Testament requirements for salvation, with the Spiritual freedom inherent in the New Testament, is part of an on ongoing effort to leaven the Gospel – and it is a process that has occurred over and over again for the last two millennia. Further, the corrosive effort to mingle the Spirit found in the regenerated sons of God with the flesh and blood standing found in the seed of men, has taken many different forms over the years. This is why the prediction in Daniel is open ended, in that it addresses the Spiritual impulse which consistently seeks to blend the Spirit of God in redeemed men and women, with the spirit found in flesh and blood – the seed of men – and this process has been Sequentially Recapitulated for the last two thousand years.

"And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, [the double minded] shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay" (Daniel 2:43).

Thus, the collision between the Spirit found in the Sons of God – in the previous example the Holy Ghost who led Paul, Barnabas, Peter, and the others – against the Jerusalem based Pharisaical believers who sought to steer the Gospel to a place where their flesh and blood based authority would be increased, is not a genetically driven Jewish versus Gentile equation. In fact, at least some of the Pharisees which sought to impose the restrictions of the letter of the law on the Gentiles (through conformity to circumcision) were likely renewed through the Holy Spirit moving in Paul's opposition to their error ridden efforts.

This means the attempt at mingling the Spirit of God with the spirit found in "the seed of men" may be found in various vessels throughout the age. The example of the Jewish legalizers occurred early on because the Gospel was delivered "to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile" (Romans 2:10).

After the vehement rejection of the Gospel by "the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience" (Ephesians 2:2), and the wholesale destruction of those "children" (a subtle reference to the Jews who rejected Christ up to 70 AD), the mingling shifted to Gentile vessels.

As the Roman Empire continued its slow decline due to the influence of the Fallen Ones manifested in heathen religious traditions, the Spirit of God invaded the dark domain of the devils, and the collision between Life and Death continued. For instance, when Paul brings the Gospel to Ephesus, he is opposed by Gentiles who conducted a lucrative trade in the manufacture of idols of the goddess Diana. The Scriptural text is rich in detail for, because of the craftsmen who generated wealth and political influence through the temple of Diana, we learn that this Gentile religion was prevalent throughout the entire continent of Asia. We also learn that Christianity was overtaking the idolatrous religion of the goddess.

"Our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth…Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands" (Acts 19:27, 26).

As the Hellenized Roman society grappled with the rapidly growing faith, and the Gospel spread across Asia and into Europe, the Jewish opposition diminished due to a lack of the political power they once enjoyed. Gradually, the doctrinal development in early Christian assemblies absorbed elements found in ancient heathen religion – and the mingling continued. For example, when Paul and Barnabas preached in the Greek region of Lycaonia, they performed a miraculous healing of a cripple – and even though the disciples explained the Gospel, the people were so impressed the priest of the planetary religion of Jupiter sought to sacrifice to them as angels.

"And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius…Then the priest of Jupiter…would have done sacrifice with the people" (Acts 14:12, 13).

In 312 AD, the Roman emperor Constantine, recognizing the power of the Gospel over men's lives, claimed a Christian conversion, and sought to use Christianity to grow his military power. As membership in the church became socially acceptable, the priesthood became a viable career option. Religious leaders, seeking to expand the faith, imported various characteristics from the star god religions of the Greeks, Persians, and Romans. They saw how the heathen religions particularly adored female deities, so in a tactic which is reminiscent of a modern brand management campaign, the elevation of Mary was undertaken. Eventually, even statues of the Egyptian mother goddess known as Isis (nurturing her supposedly divine son Horus), were simply renamed Mary and Jesus.

As the idols of the goddess Diana had long since disappeared, the huge religious movement "Christianized" the use of idols – instead calling them icons. Roman art legitimatized the idolatry by repositioning the statues as saints. Ancient Hindu prayer beads became rosary beads, infants who were in no position to choose to be baptized were "sprinkled" (in an abominable procedure that could be dubbed baptism lite), and the apostasy galloped across the centuries. Even the ancient practice of cutting down an evergreen tree to commemorate the death of the Babylonian sun god Tammuz (coinciding with the winter solstice), was imported as a ritual celebrating the birth of Christ. By the 17^th century AD, the practice of importing rival traditions had become so common an English word for this process – syncretism – was coined, and applied to the church. More accurately, the King James Bible has always used the word mingled.

The Roman Catholic Church ruled behind the thrones of European royalty for centuries, even providing the religious figure who performed the coronation of their kings. After the Romans, Catholic Spain sought out the new world, seeking to expand the dominion of the church in the new world; but many devout Europeans had become disgusted with the brazen political ambitions of the Romanists, and the resulting protesters – called Protestants, eventually acquired power in England. The British king Henry VIII, futilely seeking a male heir from his infertile Spanish Catholic wife, broke with Rome because the Pope would not annul his marriage so he could remarry a Protestant who promised him a son.

Ironically, the king was willing to upset centuries of religious tradition in a tawdry effort to produce a son – and his desire to reproduce via the "seed of men" – was the primary motivation for English independence from the papacy. In the absence of a male heir, Henry's daughter Elizabeth I rallied the political power of England through opposition to the invasion of England by the Spanish Armada, which sought to return England to the sway of the Catholic Church – and Protestant England rose to power through the huge naval victory.

"Four great beasts came up from the sea…the first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings" (Daniel 7:3, 4).

After Queen Elizabeth's rein, many devout British Christians brought about a movement called the Fifth Monarchy which – focusing on the very passages we're probing  in Daniel 2 which speak of the arrival of the Kingdom of God – erroneously asserted that England was to follow the Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman monarchies with a Fifth Monarchy manifesting the LORD's reign. These 17^th century Christians sought to mingle political power with their Spiritual zeal, in order to inaugurate what they believed was the soon to arrive flesh and blood version of the Kingdom of God. In the ensuing political turmoil, thousands lost their lives.

Once the colonial period had matured, the crown of Russia became the first state to adopt the communist system developed by Karl Marx – a German Jew who was descended from a long line of Jewish rabbis. Baptized a Lutheran at the age of 6, Marx came to believe that embracing the "the seed of men" and human government as "God," would solve man's problems. His heretical teachings mark him as the architect of one of the most destructive systems of all time.

"And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on [the left] side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh" (Daniel 7:5).

The Marxists sought to spread communism to Germany, but the backlash morphed into a nationalism which embraced religion instead of replacing it with government. The resulting Third Reich of Germany featured a twisted version of the cross, heavily leavened with political theory ("the seed of men"), and this unholy mixture resulted in a malevolent militarism that devastated the lives of tens of millions. One analyst of the unprecedented mingling of Christianity with the ways of human government wrote "Seduced by the Satanic majesty of The Fuhrer, church leaders throughout Germany allowed the Swastika a prominent place alongside the Christian cross in their sanctuaries" (Hitler's Cross, Irwin W Lutzer).

"After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard…the beast also had four heads; and dominion was given to it" (Daniel 7:6).

After the four generals of the Allies closed in on the Nazis, and occupied Germany at the close of World War II (manifesting the four heads under the quadripartite agreement), the "dreadful and terrible" (Daniel 7:7) English speaking American beast rose to global power. As the post war USA embraced the mingled worldview of the Marxists through the absorption of Communist educators in the public school system via the so-called Frankfort School intellectuals, America simultaneously imported the mingled worldview of the Nazis into the intelligence community under a CIA program called Project Paperclip. 

"And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard [Germany], and his feet were as the feet of a bear [Russia], and his mouth as the mouth of a lion [England]."

As World War II and the fascist holocaust fueled the drive for ethnic Jews to return to their ancient homeland, "Christian" America was the first world power to recognize the new state of Israel – a nation founded on human endeavor by "the seed of men" in 1948 – even as what was left of the battered and bruised Spiritual body of Christ sought to mingle themselves with the seed of men – the Christ rejecting state of Israel.

-- James Lloyd

To Be Continued

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