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DETECTING AND DISCERNING EVIDENCES OF END-TIME SPIRITUALISM

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DETECTING AND DISCERNING EVIDENCES OF END-TIME SPIRITUALISM

“If there were no other evidences of the REAL CHARACTER of Spiritualism, it should be ENOUGH for the [discerning] Christian that the [evil] spirits make NO difference between righteousness and sin, and between the noblest and purest of the apostles of Christ and the most corrupt of the servants of Christ.

“By representing the basest of men as [already] in heaven, and highly exalted there, Satan says to the world, ‘No matter how wicked you are, no matter whether you believe or disbelieve God and the Bible, Live as you please, heaven is your home.’

The Spiritualist teachers virtually declare, ‘Everyone that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delighteth in them; or, Who is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:17). Saith the word of God, ‘Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness.’ (Isa. 4:20).

The apostles AS PERSONALIZED by those lying spirits, are made to CONTRADICT what they wrote at the dictation of the Holy Spirit while on earth. They DENY the divine origin of the Bible, and thus rear away the foundation of the Christian’s hope, and PUT OUT the light that REVEALS the way to heaven.

Satan is making the world believe that the Bible is a mere FICTION, or at least a book suited to the INFANCY of the race [old-fashioned; antiquated; outdated] but now to be lightly regarded, or cast aside as obsolete. “And to take place of if the Word of God he holds out SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS.

Here is a CHANNEL WHOLLY UNDER HIS CONTROL, by this means he can make the world believe what he will. The book that is to JUDGE HIM AND HIS FOLLOWERS he puts in the shade, just where he wants it; the Savior of all the world he makes to be no more than a common man.

And as the Roman guard that watched the tomb of Jesus SPREAD THE LYING REPORT which the priests and elders [the religious leaders of the nation] put into their mouths to disprove His resurrection, SO DO the believers in spiritual manifestations TRY to make it appear that there is NOTHING MIRACULOUS in the circumstances in our Savior’s life.

After thus seeking to put Jesus in the BACKGROUND, they call attention to their OWN miracles, declaring that these FAR EXCEED the works of Christ.” – Great Controversy, 1911 ed., p. 557.

Again, if you hear, read, or see any of these assertions and manifestations then know they are parts of Spiritualism of the last days. Protect your minds and hearts with the shield of truth and fight the devil and all evil with “the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God!

But make sure you know how to properly and safely handle the sharp, two-edged sword of God’s word. Don’t cut yourself accidentally! Bless all, NMF

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PRESUMPTUOUS MISHANDLING OF GOD’S WORD PREPARES FOR SPIRITUALISM

July 22, 2020

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PRESUMPTUOUS MISHANDLING OF GOD’S WORD PREPARES FOR SPIRITUALISM

“Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples. . . . And when they say to you, Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter, should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead in behalf of the living? To the law and testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light (of truth) in them.”

Isa. 8:18,19,20, NKJV.

“In the days of Christ the leaders and teachers of Israel [the Jewish nation] were powerless to resist the work of Satan. They were neglecting the ONLY means by which they could have withstood EVIL SPIRITS. It was by the Word of God that Christ overcame the wicked one.”

“The leaders of Israel professed to be the expositors of God’s Word BUT they had studied it only to SUSTAIN their traditions, and enforce their man-made observances. By their interpretations they made it express sentiments that God has NEVER given.”

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Uncontrollable Forces Waiting

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May 29, 2020

Nathaniel Fajardo email: [email protected]

‘Uncontrollable Forces Waiting’

The nation and the whole world is ‘testing the waters.’ In fits and starts, afflicted, inflicted and conflicted America, sharing the same lot with the rest of the edgy, wary and weary world is “testing the waters” to see how quickly and widely it can “open up” and rescue its rapidly-sinking economy—the other pecuniary half of the health pandemic, — without prematurely reactivating a more devastating “second wave” by this fall, as feared by the health scientists.

With sustained physical (more practical than “social”) distancing, using masks (which unsurprisingly has been turned into a “novel” fashion item, or weaponized as political statement), and other aggressive yet so common-sense sanitary and cleansing protocols to mitigate the pandemic, the much-sought after covid-19 test and contact-tracing novel mechanism, is to reveal and hopefully contain and control the spread of infection of this no-longer novel virus, until either a super vaccine, “herd immunity” is acquired on a national scale or a highly improbable permanent “cure” is found.

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How is the ‘House of Jacob is Replenished from the East’?

" Monkey gives honey to Buddha Shakyamuni, India, Bihar, probably Kurkihar, Pala dynasty, c. 1000 AD, black stone - Östasiatiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden. This artwork is old enough so that it is in the public domain." Photo Source: Daderot/Wikimedia Commons

Friday Morning Manna            January 18, 2019

Nathaniel Fajardo                      email: [email protected]

How is the ‘House of Jacob is Replenished from the East’? 

“Therefore Thou hast forsaken Thy people, the house of Jacob because they are replenished from the east [‘filled with Eastern ways, N.K.J.V.].” Isaiah 2:6, K.J.V.

“Prophets are subject to prophets” and “no prophecy is of any private interpretation.” (1 Cor. 14: 32; 2 Pet. 1: 20). Thus, following in the line of prophets and their thread of prophecy, E. G. White explains in today’s language what John expressed in prophetic language: “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.” Rev. 16: 13, 14. What are these?

The Three-fold Union of Romanism, Apostate Protestantism and Spiritualism—not Islam

Here’s the early stage of the final threefold union of religion of Revelation 16: “By the decree enforcing the institution of the Papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation [the United States] will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. WhenProtestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp the hands of Spiritualism, when under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous workings of Satan and that the end is near!” – E. G. White,Maranatha, p. 190.

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For what can war but endless war still breed?

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 Biblical Numerology: NUMBER FIVE Part VI

 ‘For what can war but endless war still breed?’

JOHN MILTON, Sonnets: To Lord Fairfax

 

THE NEW TESTAMENT SAYS:

      “Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war.  Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” James 4: 1-4, N.K.J.V. Read 1 John 2: 15-17 also!

What a time to be alive today being a part and participants in what the ancient prophets were mere vicarious participants and spectators of in visions of earth’s frenzied activities in the last days!

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Three Mediums of Communication: Visions, Urim & the Prophets (Continued)

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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE – Part XXXIV “Three Mediums of Communication: Visions, Urim & the Prophets: Lessons for the Nations and the Church(es) Today – Part B”

  “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and Idolatry.” 1 Samuel 15: 11, 23, NKJV.

What is the right faith we must now possess while Christ is closing up His work of atonement in the most holy in heaven simultaneous with the work on earth in preparation for the close of probation, followed immediately by Christ’s glorious second coming?

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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE – Part XXIII WHAT IS THE TRUE INTERPRETATION OF REVELATION 16: 12-16? The Threefold Union in the Battle of Armageddon (Continued)

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November 13, 2015

Nathaniel Fajardo 

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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE – Part XXIII

WHAT IS THE TRUE INTERPRETATION OF REVELATION 16: 12-16? (The Threefold Union in the Battle of Armageddon (Continued) 

As we drive down the highway of divine prophetic chronology, we see all sides along the busy route getting more crowded, cluttered, and raucous with competing and confusing sounds of wars and rumors of wars, lilting swan songs, flashing colored lights of various virtual yet really fantasies, alluring peace-and-safety messages cranked out by religious charlatans, the promise of earthly honor, pomp, and prosperity offered by a thousand and one deceived-turned-deceiver purveyors of error, and encounter all manner of wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing.

And yet all these affirm that we are entering the long-looked-after final stretch of the prophetic journey mapped out by the 2300-day prophecy of Daniel 8: 14. The sudden and strange turn of events in the current political cycle in America (more of this later!), the groaning of our tired, abused old earth and its polluted atmosphere manifested in the so-called natural and man-made (never Satan-caused!) catastrophes  etc., all speaking of the approach of the most momentous time of earth’s history.

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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE – Part XX The Threefold Union in the Coming Final Test

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October 23, 2015

Nathaniel Fajardo

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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE – Part XX

The Threefold Union in the Coming Final Test

EARTH’S FINAL CRISIS is not global warming or climate change, economic meltdown , oil and other energy sources shortage, hunger and poverty, terrorists, nuclear war, cyber war, and wars of every kind such as ethnic cleansing, genocide, water crisis, drought, famine, the blood-splattered drug wars, global human trafficking of modern-day slavery, the current heart-rending migrant crisis allegedly caused by the Syrian conflict, diseases of every grade, deterioration of society’s morals, greed and fraud in the highest places echelons of human endeavor even in the sciences, the academe, the world of sports and entertainment, increasing devastating upheavals of nature in record-breaking storms, cyclones, tornadoes, hailstorms, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc.

The final crisis of eternal consequences coming upon “every nation, kindred, tongue, and people” of the earth (Rev. 14: 6-12) is the prophesied end-timereligious crisis that will begin in the United States, symbolized in Revelation 13 as “the beast with two “lamb-like horns.” This gentle “beast,” however, so unlike in origin, ascent to power, and initial characteristics of the four beasts of prey preceding it, symbolizing the four successive world empires that struggled mightily against the other for world dominion, namely, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, respectively,—will sadly transform into one “speaking like a dragon.” John describes it as becoming the “image of or to the beast.”

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