CHAPTER ONE

                                                             AI---AM WHO I AM?

“One goal of AI (Artificial Intelligence) is to create an ‘other’ in our own image.  That image will necessarily be partial; thus we must determine what it is in ourselves that computers must possess or demonstrate what it is in ourselves that computes must possess or demonstrate to be considered our “mind children.”  The question of what we humans might share with such an other has been examined by Christian theologians through the concept of the image of God, in which, according to Genesis 1, human beings were created.  Is this image that humans share with God related to the image we wish to share with our own creation in AI?”

Are we attempting to create other beings in our own image?  Dan Brown, the author of the best-selling Da Vinci Code, has collaborated with philologist Frieddrich Nietzsche in announcing the death of God, stating that “God cannot survive science…Our need for the exterior God that sits up there and judges us…will diminish and eventually disappear.”

We will embark on a journey throughout this book to look at the schemes and agenda of the enemy, the evil one, to destroy our identity that was given at the beginning of time when God established that we are “created in His image.”  From Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, to Jesus Himself, the devil has attempted to steal who we are by his lies and manipulation.  Let’s look at what the Bible, the Holy Word of God, has to say about our image.

EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK “STOLEN IDENTITY: PLAN OF THE EVIL ONE” 

Stolen Identity: Plan of the Evil One: Marcella Ward: 9781644245118: Amazon.com: Books

 

 

DECEPTION: THE HIDDEN AGENDA OF EVIL

                                              DECEPTION: THE HIDDEN AGENDA OF EVIL

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made.  He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”  The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it , or you will die.’”  “You will certainly not die,” the serpent said to the woman.  “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”  Genesis 3:1-5 NIV

Not only is deception saying something that is not true but doing it for personal gain.  That sounds very familiar now in the area of our culture and politics.  Just like the serpent in the Garden of Eden, deception is packaged in “feel good, emotional rhetoric” that entices the masses to accept lies as truth because the media has become the authority and many accept it as truth because they are blinded by their own ideology or are afraid to speak out.

How can we keep from being deceived?  I believe that we need to seek the truth.  Just because someone says something does not mean that it is true.  Just turn on the “fake news.”  People that deceive others have an agenda.  It appears that power and money are the two high ranking motives that fuel people’s hearts to deceive others.  The problem with deception is that it causes an avalanche of more lies and more deceit until only those blinded by their own deceit will find it very hard to accept the truth.  Also, deception includes what is not said.

When bank tellers are being taught how to detect counterfeit money, they are taught how to recognize the authentic money.  We need to recognize the authenticity of what we see and hear and read.  We need to search for truth.

Jesus very plainly states that one of the biggest signs will be deception in the Last Days before His Second Coming. (Matthew 24:3-4)  We are living in a world where there is deception on steroids!!  Our spiritual eyes need to be opened so that we can discern what is true and what is not.  With our modern technology it is much easier to deceive than in times past.  Also, our technology can change the outcome to suit its purpose or personal agenda.

The Nazis used propaganda to hide political goals and deceive the German and International public.  They led everyone to believe that Germany was a victim of Allied and Jewish aggression so they could hide their true ideological goals and to justify violence against the innocent civilians. (Author(s): Untied States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC; Holocaust Encyclopedia)

During the Nazi Regime, Jews from all parts of German-occupied territories were taken on trains to concentration camps.  This was referred to as “resettlement to the east” by the Nazi regime.  “The victims—including women and children—would be told that they were being hauled to labor camps.  In reality, these were death camps where the largest known genocide in modern human history would unfold.”  (Death trains.: How Jews were deported to Auschwitz, the most infamous Nazi concentration camp TIMES NOW NEWS.COM updated January 28, 2020)

How does this apply to our lives now?  We need to take a stand for the truth in whatever form that it takes.  And we need to seek truth and have discernment so we are not deceived concerning anything we see, read, hear or experience.

Truth is the only antidote that will expose the hidden agenda of evil and stop it in its tracks!

The following are words that I believe I received from the Lord on July 23, 2021:

“The world is topsy-turvy.  What is wrong is right.  What is right is wrong.  I will right the world of all its corruption.  I will right the world of all of its lies and deception.  I will right the earth on its axis to a point of no return.  For the coming events will take a turn to the right.  Do the right thing and righteousness shall be glorified on the earth!”

YOUR BOOKS IN HEAVEN

   

                                                YOUR BOOKS IN HEAVEN

Did you know that God wrote books about you before you were even born?  Did you know that God has a specific plan for your life?

Psalm 139:1-18

You have searched me, Lord,
    and you know me.
² You know when I sit and when I rise;
    you perceive my thoughts from afar.
³ You discern my going out and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.
⁴ Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.
⁵ You hem me in behind and before,
    and you lay your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    too lofty for me to attain.

⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

¹³ For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
    they would outnumber the grains of sand—
    when I awake, I am still with you. NIV

Our future has been written in advance and it is the job of the angels to help us step by step to fulfill our destiny but most believers don’t know how to cooperate with the angels. We have been assigned angels who have read our books.  They help us with our books.  (It’s Supernatural with Sid Roth; special guest, Kevin Zadai. June 14, 2020)

Ask God to reveal His plans for you.  Come into agreement with God’s plans for your life written in your personal books in heaven that the angels read so they can help you fulfill your destiny.

Say this prayer:  Lord open up my books in Heaven.  Reveal your plans for me.  Please commission the angels to read my books and assist me in fulfilling my destiny here on earth.  I surrender my life to You and Your plans for my life and I ask You, Holy Spirit, to be my counselor and helper in order for me to do God’s will so that I can hear the Lord say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”  Amen

Watch the following video and listen to Kevin Zadai explain about our books in Heaven.

https://youtu.be/YqGWOLGyeh4

 

THERE IS A FAMINE IN THE LAND

                                                THERE IS A FAMINE IN THE LAND

 

Amos 8:11-12 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it. NIV

Pastor Greg Young stated that there is a famine in the land for the Word of God.  He also said that only 17% of people who say they are Christians have a Biblical world view.  What is a Biblical world view? 

1. God is the Creator of the world and rules this universe! (Genesis 1:1)

2. The Bible is God’s Word for mankind and is completely accurate including matters of life and its origin. (2 Timothy 3:16)

3. Because of God and His Word, absolute moral truth exists! (Psalms 102:25–27; Malachi 3:6)

4. Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God and He lived a sinless life, died for our sins, was buried, and rose again from the grave three days later! (1 Corinthians 15:3–4; 1 John 4:9–10)

5. Satan is a real being (not symbolic) and seeks to defeat God’s plan for man! (1 Peter 5:8)

6. Salvation is obtained solely by individual faith in Christ’s work on the Cross and cannot be earned! (Ephesians 2:8–9) (What Is a Biblical Worldview? Looking at the World from God's Viewpoint By Dr. Mike Norris | January 06, 2011)

How many churches still preach from the Word of God?  Has Christianity been hijacked by the culture into becoming “cultural Christianity?”  Is the Church supposed to frame the culture or has the culture framed the Church?  It appears to me that some, not all, Church organizations have become woke and, because of pressure from the culture, have compromised the teachings of the Bible in order to accommodate the voices out there that seem to be screaming louder.

Do you remember the acronym—B.I.B.L.E.---Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth?

It’s really about living in the Kingdom of God.  As believers, we live in the world but we are not a part of the world or the world system.  We are citizens of heaven and as such we perceive life in another dimension.  We are subjects of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.  Jesus is our example of how to live in the world but not be a part of it.

John 18:36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” NIV

I John 4:5-6 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood. NIV

I John 5:19  We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. NIV

Between 10% and 13% of Christians read the Bible on a regular basis.  Imagine if a medical doctor, an architect or engineer said that they only study, 10-13% of their curriculum on a regular basis.  Would you trust that doctor or architect who only kept up with a small portion of his studies?

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written based on Biblical principles.  Society wants to solve problems that can only be solved by these principles.  We need to elect God’s Holy Word back into the culture because solving problems, such as the rise in crime, is only going to be solved by an Awakening, a Revival to change people’s hearts and then many societal problems will be solved but only by the Hand of Almighty God!!  So Church, rise up!!   

Is there a famine in the land?  It appears to me that there is and it is not from lack of food but from the lack of the Word of God which is the food from heaven to sustain us, nurture us and guide us to become the children of God living in His Kingdom---The Kingdom of God.  So let us truly hunger for the Word of God so that we may be filled to overflowing!!

FEAR OF THE LORD

                                                       FEAR OF THE LORD

Psalm 11:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.  NIV

Psalm 112:1 Praise the Lord. Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands. NIV

Proverbs 14:27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death. NIV

Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the Lord leads to life; then one rests content, untouched by trouble. NIV

Isaiah 33:6 He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure. NIV

Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11 NIV)

Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.  With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.

 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?  Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened.  Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.

 About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.  Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”

“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”

 Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”

 At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.

Ananias and Sapphira, it appears, had no fear of the Lord.  They lied about the money.  They did not fear but “Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.”

I believe that what is greatly lacking in the church of today is “the fear of the Lord.”  Yes there are people and churches that do have this reverence but overall, I believe that this is not a focus in the church. 

Should we be afraid of God or should we fear Him?  “When the Bible refers to the “fear of the Lord,” it means having a deep respect, reverence and awe for God’s power and authority. Rather than causing someone to be afraid of God, a proper “fear of the Lord” leads one to love Him.”   (“What Does Fear of The Lord Mean?” Mike Bennett)

 Many times there are churches or gatherings where it is more about entertainment and not about reverence.  If we are going to be entertained, then it becomes more about ourselves than God.  If we are seeking God’s presence, then we need to come before Him with humility and give Him the glory that He is due.

Yes, God calls us His friend but unless we have respect and reverence, we are truly not acknowledging Him as King of Kings and Lord of Lords!!  As believers, we are sons and daughters of God so we should be in awe of Him Who created all things, including us!  He is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and more than can be counted.  The following are 15 attributes of God to meditate on.

1. God Is Infinite – He is Self-Existing, Without Origin

2. God Is Immutable – He Never Changes

3. God Is Self-Sufficient – He Has No Needs

 4. God is Omnipotent – He Is All Powerful

5. God Is Omniscient – He Is All-Knowing

6. God Is Omnipresent – He Is Always Everywhere

7. God Is Wise – He Is Full of Perfect, Unchanging Wisdom

8. God Is Faithful – He Is Infinitely, Unchangingly True

9. God Is Good – He Is Infinitely, Unchangingly Kind and Full of Good Will

10. God Is Just – He Is Infinitely, Unchangeably Right and Perfect in All He Does

11. God Is Merciful – He is Infinitely, Unchangeably Compassionate and Kind

12. God Is Gracious – God Is Infinitely Inclined to Spare the Guilty

13. God Is Loving – God Infinitely, Unchangingly Loves Us

14. God Is Holy – He is Infinitely, Unchangingly Perfect

15. God Is Glorious – He is Infinitely Beautiful and Great

“15 Amazing Attributes of God: What They Mean and Why They Matter”

Compiled & Edited by BST & Crosswalk Staff August 17, 2019

 Our God is an awesome God!!