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Demons are angels, just FYI. Demons hate God and want us destroyed right along with them and they don't care how or how many as long as its all eventually.

Angels of the lord do nothing except under direct instruction of the Lord and he is not the author of confusion and whatever they do directly bears witness.

Beings ( assuming real ones) just floating around doing stuff and things for the camera are not conducting business of the Lord.
Demons are not angels.

Demons are spirits of reprobate humans, who are no longer in God's presence, because they are spiritually dead, meaning no longer of God, but of evil.

Angels who followed Satan in his rebellion are locked up in the pit, and cannot do anything on earth, in heaven, or anywhere, until they are unlocked at the sound of the 5th angel. The first woe releases them as promised in Jude. There have been millions of reprobate humans since the Flood, and prior to the Flood. Also the sons of God themselves became reprobate. These are the offspring of those humans created on day six. Adam was a son of God. Those in Christ will be restored back to sons of God. Being a son of God is having the full image of God. The sons of God were physically compatible with the offspring of Adam. Seth was in the image of fallen Adam when he was born. Seth was the line of men. Those created on day six were the line of the sons of God. We do not know if those created on day six rebelled, or just their offspring.

In Job, there were still sons of God in counsel with God. Unless Job lived before Noah and the Flood, then some of the sons of God did not rebel, and were not destroyed in the Flood, just their offspring.

As for angels, they were always referred to as stars, not the sons of God. Job 38:7 distinguishes between angels and humans. Angels were created on day 4, man on day 6. Both were there in the beginning with God. Adam was not the only human created on day 6. There were many, both male and female.

Adam lived for hundreds of years having sons and daughters as well as most of the them would have lived for hundreds of years having sons and daughters. The same with the rest of humanity not in a fallen sin nature state. The point is that joining both groups did not make Adam's offspring perfect, but the perfect nature of the sons of God was being diluted into a sinful nature. The sons of God still had a perfect spirit in constant contact with God. That is why corruptible sin nature was interfering with God's holy communication with these sons of God. Not that the sons of God deliberately rebelled against God. God could no longer directly strive with those spirits mixed with a sin nature.

That is why the coming Millennium is important to God. There will only be humans with incorruptible bodies, and no sin nature and sin will not be present either. Satan will be bound, and no one decieving humanity. Rebellion will not be tolerated. Individuals will die, directly by the Word of God, because sin will not enter, nor can enter, like it did for Cain, Adam, and Eve. There will be no sin nature nor corruptible bodies. Those resurrected at the beginning will never die, but they will have offspring for 1000 years. It will be like the original creation minus immortality or the glorified return of our spirit. The church will not be on earth, because the church was glorified, restored to the full image, at the Second Coming, 5th and 6th Seal. Those living on the earth will be the firstfruits of the Second Coming and the final harvest. The perfect kingdom of God will be on the earth ruled by Jesus Christ Himself. Then the finality of creation will be handed back to God, and current reality will pass away.
 

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I hadn't noticed that you live in Australia so I'm not surprised that you're unfamiliar with my government's covert misadventures. I'm not a historian, but have always been interested in history to the extent that it reveals human nature and tends to repeat itself.

Our government had issued lock down orders early in 2020, but law enforcement was hesitant to enforce them. I don't have a laundry in my house (and I'm retired) so I was out driving into town a few times a week doing laundry and food shopping, yet no one stopped me or questioned why I was out. However nothing much was open except a few businesses deemed essential (like the laundromat. )

Throughout the pandemic our government has used "experts" to warn of the dangers of the virus, but the media outlets have consistently filtered, misinterpreted, or ignored the experts to use fear politically and influence the last presidential election. Unfortunately, our "experts" under government employment were never entirely honest as it could cost them and in some cases take them out of the spotlight. Those of us educated in the sciences recognized that the "experts" were being pressured and disingenuous about the information released through government sources and so began the misinformation war, also politically driven.

In the US we still have a majority of citizens that consider themselves Christian and the signs of the times are making it difficult to maintain the attitude that Christ's return is in some distant future and not imminent.

Our government has been actively promoting a narrative to our population for over half a century, pretending first that the US was the defender of the free world and then taking on the role of "liberator " of oppressed nations (with useful natural resources.)

As a consequence, the far right has been predisposed to resist any restrictions on freedom and personal liberty, while the far left has been predisposed to believe in their own moral authority as liberators and movers of social change.

I'm convinced that the principle of "divide and conquer " is written into two party political systems as a means of control over the population, but that begs the questions why and by who?

My interest in history and specifically the truth regarding my own nation motivated me to read a lot of books about our hidden history, those things Christians tend not to be proud of and are notably absent from most public school text books. The advocates of critical race theory want our public schools to include education that reveals the darker aspects of our history, but the opponents are violently opposed to the curriculum because it confuses class privilege with race privilege and emphasizes a false narrative based upon a false distinction, that of race.

Biologically, while there are many nations and peoples, many ethnicities, there is only one race. Teaching kids that race is the ultimate cause of social and economic disparity is not only inherently false but can only increase the ethnic divide, a political trick used by Adolf Hitler in his rise to absolute power in Nazi Germany.

Divide and conquer is a very effective means of warfare, and misinformation applied to the principle has been used politically for as long as journalism has existed. You don't hear journalists taking credit for their role in the rise of Adolf Hitler and in the US its anathema to label journalists propagandists because of their self appointed role as arbiters of societal truth, but by the end of the Viet Nam war our military command and civilian leadership understood that whoever controls the narrative, controls public perception of events.

We don't have "state media" in the US to push a single government agenda, but private media ownership also allows partisan political control of the dissemination of "news" and a great deal of content filtering to support false political narratives.

My own perception of Satan's work through government may be inaccurate, my analysis may be flawed, but students of history who place the truth above national pride are always more informed than the general public in their own nation, simply because histories are usually preserved by the victors of war and sanitized to create national pride and unity.

No government wants to be percieved as evil by it's own population, but no government exists outside of the corrupt system of this world except the kingdom of God, and government remains a necessity as long as sin persists in the hearts of men. Self rule is anarchy and democracy is no more than rule by popular consensus.

Sorry for unloading so much personal analysis on you, but the Bible shapes my perception of the world more than the world alters my perception of the Bible and I've learned to trust its veracity, even before I learned to trust its inspiration.
The old white man is responsible for all the evil in USA history chest nut again, is it.
We have that rubbish pushed down on us as well and it started from around 1975 that I remember from school days.
White man is the problem for everything ?
But I was a Christian and I was informed that it was Sin that was the key to all problems regardless of race. now in 2021 such things a Sin are not mentioned or is taboo to bring up because it's not the Politically Correct Bag. as they have a Socialist face on the subject rooted in degenerates perspectives like Cultural Marxism etc etc it makes everyone equal, sounds nice and fair don't it ! but it's actually enslavement under murdering Satanic tyrants. oh they hold out the carrots for all the fools, but once they have no need for the carrots then the fools are on the wrong end of the stick.

The Anti-Christ is anyone who is not truly born again, because they are only Carnal and religious dupes. People who are water baptised are in hope to receive the Holy Spirit and have the ability to repent of their Sins as they have some knowledge of the Holy Spirit but they are not of the Kingdom of God, only the truly born again are in the Kingdom of God and that is when one becomes an Israel- servant of God and then you are sent back into this world among the wolves, but not to fear them for such a one is saved as ones Soul is as one with the Christ Jesus, we are his body the Church in fact.

Jesus said he was not of this world, this is not his kingdom, the Jews should of known that but they were lead astray by the ones in the Vineyard story that proves who we are dealing with.
Now some new age weevil will come out making childish claims of one being an Anti-Semite to even bring the topic up of the Biblical Vineyard story, don't mention who was killing all of Gods Prophets, not to mention that the Prophets were truly worthy Israelite's in fact. oh but we see the Vineyard tenants get all riled up now ! they have their own agenda without God in their lives truly at all, but they do peddle religion full on, it's a mans works religion, just as any atheist has his own religion, but just because one does not believe what one does not want to believe does not cut it at all, as any fools can do that.

But then again they led the people astray and then God kicked them out of the Vineyard, oh don't go their or out comes the Anti-Semite police peddling foolish deceptive dribble. Now their were a hand full of true Israelites that believed in Jesus was the Christ and they got the message when Jesus Christ went to Heaven and it was they who became the first Christians. and as any true Christian knows no one comes to the Father but through his only begotten Son.
 
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I believe the Book of Enoch which is not included in some Bibles talks about this idea where fallen angels have sex with daughters of men.
 
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The old white man is responsible for all the evil in USA history chest nut again, is it.
We have that rubbish pushed down on us as well and it started from around 1975 that I remember from school days.
White man is the problem for everything ?
But I was a Christian and I was informed that it was Sin that was the key to all problems regardless of race. now in 2021 such things a Sin are not mentioned or is taboo to bring up because it's not the Politically Correct Bag. as they have a Socialist face on the subject rooted in degenerates perspectives like Cultural Marxism etc etc it makes everyone equal, sounds nice and fair don't it ! but it's actually enslavement under murdering Satanic tyrants. oh they hold out the carrots for all the fools, but once they have no need for the carrots then the fools are on the wrong end of the stick.

The Anti-Christ is anyone who is not truly born again, because they are only Carnal and religious dupes. People who are water baptised are in hope to receive the Holy Spirit and have the ability to repent of their Sins as they have some knowledge of the Holy Spirit but they are not of the Kingdom of God, only the truly born again are in the Kingdom of God and that is when one becomes an Israel- servant of God and then you are sent back into this world among the wolves, but not to fear them for such a one is saved as ones Soul is as one with the Christ Jesus, we are his body the Church in fact.

Jesus said he was not of this world, this is not his kingdom, the Jews should of known that but they were lead astray by the ones in the Vineyard story that proves who we are dealing with.
Now some new age weevil will come out making childish claims of one being an Anti-Semite to even bring the topic up of the Biblical Vineyard story, don't mention who was killing all of Gods Prophets, not to mention that the Prophets were truly worthy Israelite's in fact. oh but we see the Vineyard tenants get all riled up now ! they have their own agenda without God in their lives truly at all, but they do peddle religion full on, it's a mans works religion, just as any atheist has his own religion, but just because one does not believe what one does not want to believe does not cut it at all, as any fools can do that.

But then again they led the people astray and then God kicked them out of the Vineyard, oh don't go their or out comes the Anti-Semite police peddling foolish deceptive dribble. Now their were a hand full of true Israelites that believed in Jesus was the Christ and they got the message when Jesus Christ went to Heaven and it was they who became the first Christians. and as any true Christian knows no one comes to the Father but through his only begotten Son.
I don't know if CBS news is streamed anywhere overseas, but it's one of our oldest syndicated networks and currently streams live and on demand over most of the United States. They're currently streaming a commercial round the clock that declares that the best news tells you "why." The same commercial has a feminist talking about gender inequity and goes on to say "it's even written into the bible." The same commercial quotes someone saying that the Christian right doesn't fight for everyone's religious freedom, just their own.

Our entertainment media has been portraying Christianity as the source of societal evils in movies and TV shows for a long time now, so long that I can't remember when it started.
This is all the build up to the world's grand finale, but with the Lord there's always room for repentance, so I can't be dogmatic about things that haven't happened yet. The Lord did spare Nineveh for a while, so all we can really do is observe the days as witnesses of His grace.

My apologies to the survivalists and escapist, but just surviving was never the mission and calling of Christ, so it isn't ours either. Pick up your cross because the kingdom is on the other side of Golgotha.
 

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I believe the Book of Enoch which is not included in some Bibles talks about this idea where fallen angels have sex with daughters of men.
I've read some of it and think that you might be correct, but it isn't part of the cannon of scripture. That means it isn't considered inspired. The Apocrypha can tell us about the thinking of the times when they were written and sometimes provide historical information but the visions and supernatural elements could be no more than popular fables, entertainment that promotes popular belief and teaches moral lessons. Scripture must agree with itself to be considered inspired by God and that relationship falls apart in apocryphal writings to the extent we understand scripture and sound doctrine (but the writers of the epistles may have seen things a bit differently in that they quoted Enoch.)
Genesis is more authoritative as part of the canon of scripture, but we don't know with certainty who "the sons of God" refers to beyond Adam and Jesus. I would think that the Hebrews would've understood the reference but you rarely hear the Hebrew perspective on scripture because Israel, as a nation, didn't recognize the day of their visitation. God showed up in person and most never realized it or accepted it.
 
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what scripture says this?
It is putting many Scriptures together.

Shall I ask you which Scripture claims angels are demons?

1 Kings 22 gives us a glimpse into the workings of spirits in God's presence. Spirits not designated as angels. Angels come and appear in physical form. Spirits enter one's thoughts and take over one's ability to act on one's own ability. Carefully read what is going on. Then compare that to what is given about demons. Demons cannot be in the presence of God. Demons certainly know God and fear God. Demons enters people's minds and take over.

Romans 1:20-32

"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up (became reprobate, without the ability to choose) to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up (reprobate) unto vile affections:

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."

When Adam disobeyed God, Adam died that second. Immediately he went from an incorruptible body to a corruptible body, and he lost the robe of white, Revelation 6:11. Immediately Adam and Eve knew they were naked. God took away their spirit. They lost connection with God. God then banned them from His presence in the Garden of Eden. So the spirit of man remains with God, and is pure. Those invisible things that should make us in the complete image of God.

Spirits are pure, until the soul they belong to becomes reprobate.

"Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."

The spirit, now a demon knows the judgment of God, but the soul on earth seems oblivious to God's judgment. Some souls do not even want to know God. Not even those who have become reprobate. Many souls are moral or self righteous seeing no need for a God at all. But there is a point of rejection, that sends many souls into the point of no return. This is the basis for Romans 1. At conception the Holy Spirit is given to all humans in place of their spirit, who takes up a place in God's presence per 1 Kings 22. The Holy Spirit is given as credit for a few reasons.

We are "dead" to our spirit. No connection or communication, but the spirit retains all that we do on earth, and at the point of being reprobate, the Holy Spirit is removed, choice, free will is removed, and the spirit has turned into a demon and has to flee, and as a spirit seeks out a human mind to take over. Another reason is that the Holy Spirit now has to teach us about God, and guide us via the Word of God. Our spirit knows the truth, but our soul without our spirit is bound to only do sin from conception on. The Holy Spirit does for us what our own spirit cannot do for us. But becoming reprobate is the total rejection of our soul to the Holy Spirit.

Is there redemption after reprobation? Do we have control over our spirit? Does our spirit desire to remain with God? Why is there a disconnect between soul and spirit? Was Seth in the image of God or Adam? Genesis 5:3

"And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:"
 

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what scripture says this?
None, but I'm guessing this idea is based upon Jesus' rebukes against His accusers as sons of Satan, and our fallen nature at enmity with God. It makes the assumption that fallen angels are not the same entities as demons. I'm not sure what the demons are supposed to be in that theology. I suppose that I missed the movie.
Hey, if you can make up a rapture doctrine by cherry picking unrelated scripture, you can make up just about anything else.
 

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Check out Genesis in proper context and do some detailed root word study.
No need to study, spiritual Angel's dont maintain human sperm, nor do they give in marriage or procreate with humans

The Nephilim is (Greek Mythology)
 
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Shall I ask you which Scripture claims angels are demons?

Its a traditional cultural inference

The word daimionion and its root (G1142) basically mean "inferior diety" ( lesser god in proper context) which is the class angels come from ( who are also higher than us)

We can argue what specific kind of angel but Scripture doesn't go into that much detail
 
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Its a traditional cultural inference

The word daimionion and its root (G1142) basically mean "inferior diety" ( lesser god in proper context) which is the class angels come from ( who are also higher than us)

We can argue what specific kind of angel but Scripture doesn't go into that much detail
Angels have no diety at all. They are not God like. The word angel just means messenger. So no cultural inference. Just human imagination run amuck. Satan is only a messenger who wants to replace God.

Genesis 1:14

"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:"

That is the extent and purpose for the angels. Angels have been used to deliver messages from God, and they have been used for military purposes, after God's creation led by Satan rebelled in part against God.

Now those in the image of God, created on the 6th day are a totally different creation from the angels, and we know less about then, than we do the angels. And they were created to carry the divinity/image of God on the earth. Genesis 1:26-28

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

Mankind are your troublemakers of the divine kind, not angels.
 

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Angels have no diety at all. They are not God like. The word angel just means messenger. So no cultural inference. Just human imagination run amuck. Satan is only a messenger who wants to replace God.

Study more. "Angels" are of a higher order ( "messenger" is only ONE version of the definition of angel- not the ONLY)
 
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Study more. "Angels" are of a higher order ( "messenger" is only ONE version of the definition of angel- not the ONLY)
Trees are also created to last thousands of years, a "higher order". What does angels having more responsibility than trees, who are more responsible than humans who have a way shorter life span? You did not define your "higher order" of why creation exists as pointed out in God's Word. Angels are not divine, nor ever will be.

I have read man's imagination on the topic. Can you prove Satan is not behind these imaginations? Who wants to be God? Who wants humans to believe an angel can be God? Who wants humans to "dwell" on some divine pecking order, that would propel them to the top spot?

God is outside of creation, and no part of creation will ever be outside of the bounds of said creation.
 

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Trees are also created to last thousands of years, a "higher order". What does angels having more responsibility than trees, who are more responsible than humans who have a way shorter life span? You did not define your "higher order" of why creation exists as pointed out in God's Word. Angels are not divine, nor ever will be.

Scripture doesn't "define" it so neither can I other than they are above the physical laws of the lower part of creation.

Depends on how you define "divine" because angels are "gods" in the sense that they are above and not subject to the laws of physics in this universe and a few other qualifiers.

I have read man's imagination on the topic. Can you prove Satan is not behind these imaginations? Who wants to be God? Who wants humans to believe an angel can be God? Who wants humans to "dwell" on some divine pecking order, that would propel them to the top spot?

Ultimately he is behind them but the "principalities of evil and powers of darkness ( his other fallen angels) are assisting.
 

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Scripture doesn't "define" it so neither can I other than they are above the physical laws of the lower part of creation.

Depends on how you define "divine" because angels are "gods" in the sense that they are above and not subject to the laws of physics in this universe and a few other qualifiers.



Ultimately he is behind them but the "principalities of evil and powers of darkness ( his other fallen angels) are assisting.
This creation includes angels and sons of God as distinct creations. One rules in the firmament. The other on earth.

Humans are the offspring of Adam, a fallen son of God, not a fallen angel.

Satan's angels have been locked in the pit from the moment they rebelled. They will only be let out at the 5th Trumpet.
 

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I hadn't noticed that you live in Australia so I'm not surprised that you're unfamiliar with my government's covert misadventures. I'm not a historian, but have always been interested in history to the extent that it reveals human nature and tends to repeat itself.

Our government had issued lock down orders early in 2020, but law enforcement was hesitant to enforce them. I don't have a laundry in my house (and I'm retired) so I was out driving into town a few times a week doing laundry and food shopping, yet no one stopped me or questioned why I was out. However nothing much was open except a few businesses deemed essential (like the laundromat. )

Throughout the pandemic our government has used "experts" to warn of the dangers of the virus, but the media outlets have consistently filtered, misinterpreted, or ignored the experts to use fear politically and influence the last presidential election. Unfortunately, our "experts" under government employment were never entirely honest as it could cost them and in some cases take them out of the spotlight. Those of us educated in the sciences recognized that the "experts" were being pressured and disingenuous about the information released through government sources and so began the misinformation war, also politically driven.

In the US we still have a majority of citizens that consider themselves Christian and the signs of the times are making it difficult to maintain the attitude that Christ's return is in some distant future and not imminent.

Our government has been actively promoting a narrative to our population for over half a century, pretending first that the US was the defender of the free world and then taking on the role of "liberator " of oppressed nations (with useful natural resources.)

As a consequence, the far right has been predisposed to resist any restrictions on freedom and personal liberty, while the far left has been predisposed to believe in their own moral authority as liberators and movers of social change.

I'm convinced that the principle of "divide and conquer " is written into two party political systems as a means of control over the population, but that begs the questions why and by who?

My interest in history and specifically the truth regarding my own nation motivated me to read a lot of books about our hidden history, those things Christians tend not to be proud of and are notably absent from most public school text books. The advocates of critical race theory want our public schools to include education that reveals the darker aspects of our history, but the opponents are violently opposed to the curriculum because it confuses class privilege with race privilege and emphasizes a false narrative based upon a false distinction, that of race.

Biologically, while there are many nations and peoples, many ethnicities, there is only one race. Teaching kids that race is the ultimate cause of social and economic disparity is not only inherently false but can only increase the ethnic divide, a political trick used by Adolf Hitler in his rise to absolute power in Nazi Germany.

Divide and conquer is a very effective means of warfare, and misinformation applied to the principle has been used politically for as long as journalism has existed. You don't hear journalists taking credit for their role in the rise of Adolf Hitler and in the US its anathema to label journalists propagandists because of their self appointed role as arbiters of societal truth, but by the end of the Viet Nam war our military command and civilian leadership understood that whoever controls the narrative, controls public perception of events.

We don't have "state media" in the US to push a single government agenda, but private media ownership also allows partisan political control of the dissemination of "news" and a great deal of content filtering to support false political narratives.

My own perception of Satan's work through government may be inaccurate, my analysis may be flawed, but students of history who place the truth above national pride are always more informed than the general public in their own nation, simply because histories are usually preserved by the victors of war and sanitized to create national pride and unity.

No government wants to be percieved as evil by it's own population, but no government exists outside of the corrupt system of this world except the kingdom of God, and government remains a necessity as long as sin persists in the hearts of men. Self rule is anarchy and democracy is no more than rule by popular consensus.

Sorry for unloading so much personal analysis on you, but the Bible shapes my perception of the world more than the world alters my perception of the Bible and I've learned to trust its veracity, even before I learned to trust its inspiration.

Here in Australia our political system works a little differently, and thus, how us Aussies respond to the pollies are a little different as well. At the beginning of the pandemic most of AU sat and watched Victoria as they struggled the worst and went through insane lockdown after lockdown…crazy loss of freedoms. The Premier of Vic is a left leaning dude…Australia gave him the nick name “Dictator Dan”. Appropriately, we all thought. And laughed, because as a general rule, the rest of us didn’t live under such bozos.
Cue Delta.
Most of us who had watched this thing spread through the rest of the world already had a fairly solid grasp on the fact that once it got going, it wasn’t going to be stopped. And yet when it landed in NSW, they decided they could ‘beat it’ like they had the first wave, by locking us all down. Sure, why not try, right? In Sydney anyway, where it was, for a week or two.
3 months later….anyone with eyeballs and a brain could see it wasn’t working. And instead of abandoning the tactic, the Premier decided in a spasm of panic that to get really tough on it, she’d lock down the rest of the state!
Didn’t help, of course, it continued to spread across Sydney and has now breached into the rest of the state. As it has in other states…but still they persist with the loss of freedoms.
Every day we see and hear of incredible things that make us wonder if this is still our Country. Police gone mad, freedoms stripped away. And worse…people either accepting it all like sheeple…or doing the worst possible thing, in terms of stupidity and pointlessness in order to fight back.

I look at places like Afghanistan and I know we live in bliss. I am thankful for it. I look at the outright racism and intolerance of some and wonder how some people can just…hate…so much. I look at the so very blatant bias of the media, the gullibility of the masses…and while I cannot know for sure if we are nearing Christ’s return….I surely hope for it. The world….seethes, does it not? With violence, with lies, with corruption, with sickness, with agendas. It makes one weary and long for an age where the ‘yoke’ of Christ is everlasting.
 

An Apologetic Sheepdog

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his creation includes angels and sons of God as distinct creations. One rules in the firmament. The other on earth.

Humans are the offspring of Adam, a fallen son of God, not a fallen angel.

Satan's angels have been locked in the pit from the moment they rebelled. They will only be let out at the 5th Trumpet.

you need some serious in depth study and learning
 
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