Turning Hearts

2000-2-13 23:24:00

I do not have time to fully comment on Sterling's post as it would take a whole book. In fact I have written a book on the subject of antichrist already and it is included in my first 100+ posts to the Keys list. I notice that no critics have carefully examined my earlier writings on the antichrist or even attempted to refute them.

When Sterling attempts to refute me with scripture I notice he throws out numerous large quotations with little examination of their actual content whereas I do examine their content very carefully. For instance he throws out Mormon prophecies that deal with the Mormons and links them to Bible prophecies that do not deal with the Mormons.

The first paragraph in his post is a very deceptive distortion of my views:
"The more we get into this thing with J.J. saying Hitler was the fulfillment of the prophesied anti-Christ and saying that another is not coming for he has already come, the more I realize that herein lies a humongous difference between where J.J. is coming from and what I believe through painstaking research, experience, and following God's direction in my life's path."

Sterling, I have never said that another antichrist will not come. I have said that if the freedom loving people of the world do their part, an antichrist like Hitler will not succeed in dominating the world as we approach the new age. On the other hand, if enough people desire this potential antichrist, and fear and dread is spread abroad, then it is entirely possible that we will manifest that which we conjure up as is warned by Malachi the prophet:

"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." (Mal 4:5-6)

I know the Mormons use this as a genealogy scripture, but the meaning is much more far reaching than that. To really understand the meaning, one must examine the key word here which is the mistranslated "curse." The word comes from CHEREM which literally means "utter destruction" or "extermination." It is translated as "utter destruction" in I Sam 15:20. It is derived from, and very similar in meaning to, CHARAM.

Here are some verses where this word is used:

Jer 50:26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly (CHARAM): let nothing of her be left.

Exodus 22:20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed (CHARAM).

Numbers 21:2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy (CHARAM) their cities.
Numbers 21:3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed (CHARAM) them and their cities and he called the name of the place Hormah.

We are thus told that the entire earth is in danger of having all life "utterly destroyed" unless we "turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers." The first question is what is meant by the children turning their hearts to their fathers? This means that we should study the history of our fathers or those who came before us, not only from the scriptures but from all possible accurate historical records.

Why?

History repeats itself if we do not learn the lessons of our fathers. This is one reason why the study of the rise of Nazi Germany and Hitler are so important. If we understand what happened there we can prevent another antichrist from coming to the surface. A Hitler in this age would be much more dangerous than one previously because we now have the power to destroy human existence as we know it. Thus one key to preventing the "utter destruction" of the earth is to learn from the mistakes of our fathers.

From a scriptural viewpoint we must also learn of the promises of God to the fathers, and the most prominent of them all is the promise of the gathering of Israel, or the gathering of those who have the Holy Spirit within them.

The second key to preventing the destruction of the world, as we know it, is to turn the "heart of the fathers to the children." What does this mean? We are the children of the fathers past, but we are the fathers (and of course mothers) of all future generations. Unless we, as a human race, cease having our hearts merely centered on our little selves, and enlarge our capacity to reach out to our children of future generations; and seek to make the world a better place for them, these future children may not even be born because of the destruction we could bring upon ourselves.

Too many Bible believers have withdrawn their responsibility to make the world better for our children. Instead they sit around waiting for God to destroy the world and wind up being of no use to God or man in the process. This type of cop-out is exactly what Malachi warned us of. Instead of sitting back and waiting for God to do it, our hearts must reach across time, and sense our personal responsibility to rising generations.

If we sense this what will we do? We will seek to bring peace on earth through the free will of man. We will seek the mutual elimination of weapons of mass destruction. We will seek to cease polluting the earth and being an enemy to nature. We will seek to love our neighbor as ourselves. We will seek to love children yet unborn as ourselves.

Malachi does not seal our doom. Instead be gives us the solution, the way of escape from a great peril. "Learn the lessons of history and leave the world a better place than we found it."

We are on the cusp of a new era and have learned some things and do have enough people on the earth with enough light to make a difference. If good men do nothing but wait for doom, we are indeed doomed; but if good people follow the highest they know, and seek guidance of the Holy Spirit, then salvation will be ours, and I teach this salvation without apology.