Pagan Way of the Sun God

Many of today's Church symbols come from the Emperor Constantine when in 325 AD began transforming the pagan way into the new found religion of the Roman Empire.

He started by transforming the pagan temples into Christian Churches. It was to him easier to change the sign above the door saying "Temple of the Sun God" to "Our Holy Church" instead of changing the entire building.

One thing that was in these Pagan temples to the "Sun God" was stained glass windows. These windows were a symbol of the magnificent glory of the sun.

And it caught on with Christianity. Today many Churches love their stained glass windows with their pictures of Jesus and Mary on them. Not ever questioning the building in which they attend worship.

Ten Virgins Explained

Ten Virgins Explained

“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.” ~Matthew 25:1-13

Through my years of being a pew warmer, I have yet heard of anyone ever teaching this parable of the Ten Virgins. Why? Because it's hard to understand and support the doctrines of the Church.

I am positive that the ones who sit in church every Sunday are good and well intentioned people. But good intentions do not get you to heaven. Those who believe “once saved, always saved” or “Just have faith” doctrines will be in for a surprise on judgment day. Those are fine and dandy, but is it really the way? These doctrines are used to keep good intentioned Christians from receiving their full reward.

We all like to believe that we are pure and blameless full of the Holy Spirit in the eyes of the Lord.

The Virgins in scripture represent the pure and the blameless people (church folk) and the oil represents the Holy Spirit.

The wise virgins went on to the marriage and the foolish virgins represent Christians who have “Good Intentions”.

Having good intentions of following the Lord is not the way. You have to include Works along with your faith. As James the brother of Jesus indicates in James 2:24, “Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.”

Paul has trashed the True Church of Jesus Christ with his lies and deception with his bogus doctrines in which the Catholic Church has passed along to control the masses.

If I was to pick between the words of Paul or James, I would pick James because James actually knew Jesus. This fact I know for sure and Paul only claims to have had a vision of Jesus which changes every time it is told.

"You may be well intentioned, but Jesus says in Matthew 7:22-23, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

You may read the word everyday, but do you have understanding?

My Testimony

My Testimony

During High School, I attended a Mormon Church with my best friend one Sunday a month in order to play on their basketball team during the fall. We played every Saturday during the season and I would attend their teen dances on some Friday and Saturday nights when they had them. I also attended Catholic services in order to appease the parents of the girl that I was dating at the time. I was going through the strokes of attending Churches for the wrong reasons.

Soon after High School I joined the Army. I left the MEPS building in Atlanta, Georgia and headed a few miles down I-20 to Anniston, Alabama were I would do basic training at Fort McClellan.

Basic training was a piece of cake for me and since I was in great shape from being active and playing sports outside all my life. I could already pass the Army's PT test. I was a running, sit-up and push-up machine. I was Army hardcore from the get go. Plus I was in ROTC for 3 years in high school and I had the drill and ceremony down pat.

I went in under weight and that meant I could eat in the hamburger line and enjoy some fried fatty foods, unlike those who came in over weight and they had to eat from the salad line.

The hardest part I must say was the restrictions on candy and sweets. Every Sunday after chapel, they would let us walk up to the PX and Luden cough drops were on top of everyone’s list and provided temporary relieve to everyone's sweet tooth.

If we attended Chapel, we would get a chance to leave the barracks and get out of some extra duty. Anything to get a break from polishing brass, shoes, cleaning and waxing the floors. I again attended Chapel on Sunday's for the wrong reason.

My military experience was overall a good one. It put me in historical places at historical times. This is probably were my interest in History comes from. 

After the military, I moved back to my home town and lived again with my mom for a short while. I lived in a mid-sized town. For a High School kid and for young twenty somethings, the only thing to do for entertainment was to cruise the town's main strip. Listening to the radio, cassette tapes and circling around and around on the 5 mile main thoroughfare for hours on end and occasionally stopping at the closed businesses where everyone would loiter.

One Friday I had been riding the county back roads with a friend on a motorcycle without my helmet. It was a beautiful spring day, not a cloud in the sky. That night when the cruise strip was the busiest, I was going to go back through town one last time before I headed  home to see who was there.

Heading in from the county back into the city limits, I came to the first red light and decided to put my helmet on, just in case law enforcement seen me.  

The next intersection was the beginning of the cruise strip where everyone would do a U-Turn and continue cruising. How would I know this is where God would try to wake me up.

As I approached this intersection, halfway from the red light, I noticed it turned green. I was the only traffic approaching from the previous block. I gave the motorcycle a little more gas and got at a cruising speed of around 45 miles per hour. 

A young kid was approaching my direction and decided to turn to his left, he didn't see me and we met head on in the middle of my lane. I hit him dead center and my motorcycle acted as a catapult and launched me over 5 lanes of traffic onto a side walk in front of a Church. 

I landed on my back and everything happened very quickly. I got up without hesitation and there was a small pick-up truck right beside me with 3 in front and a couple of High School kids in back.. They said, “Get in! Get in! We'll take you to the emergency room!”. I got in all dazed and confused from what just happened. They drove me the 5 or so blocks to the hospital. 

As I was there some people who witnessed the wreck came to see how I was doing and when word got out among the cruise strip, some of my friends and some strangers came to check on me.

The Police showed up to take a police report of the accident. They were amazed that I was uninjured. One brought my helmet in for me to see and the back of it was crushed like an egg shell that had been dropped on a concrete floor.

For the guy who hit me, he didn't fare so well his car looked like he had hit a telephone pole and he had hit his face to the wind shield of his car and required stitches from between his eyes to just below his left cheek. I had won that fight. 

For days that is all people talked about and I really didn't give the Church that I landed in front of a second thought. I knew a few friends from my childhood who attended there, but I thought that Church was for just little rich kids. But the memory of the accident stayed with me until I got married and started having children of my own. 

Within a few months of that accident, I met my wife. We had four children. 

God started talking to me! 

When my youngest daughter was a toddler around the age of three, she would play in her room. She would often run into the living room or the bedroom where my wife or myself would be and be all excited about the “Bird Man”. She would say the “Bird Man! The Bird Man!”, all excited and pointing to her room. We would go and check her room and never saw anything and passed it off as the vivid imagination of a child and really never gave a second thought about it.

Her room she shared with her brother at the time and had a bunk bed, TV, Book shelf and a toy box. One evening while everyone was gathered in the bedroom and sitting on the bottom bunk watching some kids show on TV. My daughter got all excited and started pointing to the top bunk screaming, “The Bird Man! The Bird Man!” No one else seen The Bird Man except for her. But at that moment I thought, “This must be her guardian angel”. How else would a toddler describe an Angel. A man with wings.

My daughter does not remember that time but it's something that I remember like it was yesterday and probably will never forget.

When the time came to put our children in kindergarten, I didn't forget the Church were I had landed and enrolled them there. My wife and I along with our children started to attend services on Sunday's and Wednesday’s. After a short while I accepted The Christ Jesus and was Baptized.

A few weeks after my Baptism, I was getting ready for bed, my wife had already fallen asleep. As I was getting into bed, I had a vision of Christ Jesus. I was fixated on His face and His garment was the most amazing white and through my peripheral vision I saw Angels swirling all around. As I was looking at His face, He placed His right hand out and I put my right hand into His and immediately went back to be fixated on His face. I did not notice any of His wounds.

As I was holding His right hand, He began to speak. But not with His mouth. He told me, “Whatever happens, Everything is going to be alright”. Then as fast as He appeared, He was gone again.

Immediately after it had happened, I tried to wake my wife and tell her my experience and she would not wake, she would grumble and moan as to leave me alone I'm asleep. I tried to put meaning to it. Was it real? What did He mean? Why me? Should I tell someone? Am I crazy? 

After a few weeks I decided to tell someone in my Church. The first person gave me a crazy look. The second was my Pastor's wife and she thought it was amazing. But deep down I thought she thought I was crazy too. So, I went years without telling anyone.

I think of the experience with Christ Jesus every day of my life since then. I've often wondered if it was a trick of the mind. But the experience was all too real.

Before the experience I had trouble understanding the Bible and after my experience, when I read the Bible it seemed to come alive. I went on to teach Childrens Sunday School mostly older elementary kids from the grades 4th -6th. I wanted to teach that age because I wanted to know about the Bible and that was the perfect opportunity to learn and teach from the over flow.

But believe it not, that's not the end of God's hand in my life. When my wife and I lived in Georgia and her family lived in Alabama about 3 hours away. As every year, the week before Christmas, Her family would have their Christmas party.

As they do every year, they would gather all the children and some of the females would read the story about the Birth of Jesus, while the men gather and talked about work, hunting and other things guys talk about. (This particular year I was unable to attend because I worked nights and weekends). 

Soon as the Story of Jesus' Birth had gotten over with, the tornado sirens went off. They gathered everyone into the basement. They did not know that they were in the tornado's path.

I was in Georgia and had no idea what was going on until I got a call from My sister-in-law who said, “Everyone is O'kay!”. I said, “What happened?”. She said, “We were in a tornado!”. She seemed frantic and out of breath.  

As everything became more clearer, the tornado had destroyed the house behind them and momentarily lifted as it past over the house with around thirty to forty members of the family and set down again and destroyed the house across the street. 

It overwhelmed me and I began to cry and gave thanks to God for protecting my family. 

Coincidence? I do not think so.

Benjaminite Wolf Prophecy

Benjaminite Wolf Prophecy

Let's follow the prophecy of the Benjamin Wolf.

1. Genesis 49:1 “And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days:
2. Genesis 49:27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at night he shall divide the spoil.”

Jacob calls all of His sons which are the twelve tribes of Israel. In Genesis 49:8-12, Jacob tells his prophecies about the coming of our Lord Jesus when he is talking to his son Judah. From the tribe of Judah in which Jesus came. A total of five verses he spoke. He reserves just one verse to his son Benjamin in Genesis 49:27 and he did not have anything good to say about Benjamin and his descendants.

Destruction follow Benjamin and his sons every where they went. Starting with the birth of Benjamin, his mother Rachel died while giving birth to him in Genesis 35:18.

In Judges 20, the tribe of Benjamin raped and killed women while fighting against the other Israelite tribes. They immediately became outcast among their own people.

The Tribe of Benjamin was almost wiped out at the Battle of Gibeath and in Judges 21, the other eleven Israelite Tribes would not allow their daughters to marry anyone from the Tribe of Benjamin. The remaining tribes allowed the remnant of the Benjamin Tribe to marry foreign women of the surrounding towns who had lost their husbands as punishment. The tribe of Benjamin was allowed to continue through inter racial marriages.

Jacob in Genesis 49:27 says that the Tribe of Benjamin was like a ravenous wolf and in the morning that he shall devour his prey and at night he would divide the spoil.

 Paul is the man that Jacobs prophesy is about. In the morning Saul of Tarsus kills his prey (Christians). Acts 7:58-59 “and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” and at night he would divided the spoil. As Saul becomes Paul he divides God's people.

1. Paul says in Romans 11:1 “I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2. Philippians 3:5 “Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

Jesus warns us several times about this ravenous wolf. In Matthew 7:15 Jesus says, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”

Let's see how the false apostle Paul divides the spoils at night (night meaning the later part of his life).

We will start with the words of a True Prophet who passes the test of a prophet with flying colors, Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 22:26-31 “Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God."

Seeing vanity is an easy one, Paul mentions me, myself and I, more than any other in the Bible. With 175 times in 1st Corinthians, 103 times in 2nd Corinthians, in the short book of Galatians an outstanding 69 times.

What does Paul teach? Did he butcher the law in his teachings, when Jesus says that the law stands until heaven and earth pass away in Matthew 5:17-19, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

Paul says in Galatians 2:16, “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”

 Paul also says in 1 Corinthians 10:23-27, “All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify. Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being. Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience’ sake; for “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.” If any of those who do not believe invites you to dinner, and you desire to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience’ sake.”

 Paul just can not seem to shut up, in Colossians 2:13-16, “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:”

Really Paul? We can't be judged by not keeping the sabbath days? Should we disregard Exodus 20:8, “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Jesus said that, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”

Paul says in Romans 3:27 “Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.” 

Who is right about the law of faith? Paul who claims to have a vision just like Joesph Smith and Mohammed? Or James who actually knew Jesus and was Jesus' brother and a true Apostle?

James says in James 2:24, “Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.”

Paul you can fool some people that hold to the power and authority of the whore (Revelation 17) that gives you power, but you can not fool the people who meditate on the word day and night and knows the trickery of Satan.

Strange Flesh

Interracial Relationships

“Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” ~Jude 1:7

If you do not have the King James Version, then you do not have these words. Other Bibles written in the 20^th century have become politically correct and have omitted the words of “strange flesh”.

The word Strange is define as relating to, or characteristic of another country. It can also be defined as not native to or naturally belonging in place: of external origin, kind or character. The word flesh means human being.

Over the years, many have come to the conclusion that the “strange flesh” was describing homosexuals. Through my studies of the word, I have found out that the original Greek word “strange” means “heteros”. Heteros as in heterosexual. This passage is not at all about homosexuals, but about heterosexuals. With the Greek all this means a heterosexual human being from an external origin.

Interracial marriage or dating is a topic that is highly controversial. It's a topic that I feel needs to be discussed. No one seems to ever reference the verse of Jude 1:7 because American society has almost pushed this verse out of existence.

Interracial dating and marriage in today's American society has become one of the abominational norms in the American society. Within the white circles and among the black circles, the thought of interracial relationships is still very taboo. It becoming more acceptable, Hollywood forces it down our throats in their movies, TV show and commercials. Numbing and dumbing down the population at large.

The 2010 census noted the highest number of interracial marriages in America's history, noting a 28 per cent jump over the past decade. One out of every 10 married straight couples identified as different races, which shows an increase from seven per cent in the 2000 census data. Greater social acceptance of the unions and demographic shifts throughout the country are thought to be the two largest contributing factors to the increase.

America is a one of a kind country of the world that comes to interracial relationships. All other foreign countries do not have this problem. But is it a Problem? The problems seems to be the offspring of such unions. These mulatto children are not accepted by either race. They are most times outcast from their extended families.

Mulatto Children with their non-acceptance in society also have some underling problems. One is that a mulatto child who needs a bone marrow transplant is hung out to dry. It is impossible for them to find a matching bone marrow donor. Not even from the parents.

Through the Bible, God frowns upon such unions. He forbid the Israelites to intermarry among other races. If God was for it, then why did not He make everyone the same race to begin with? Why are we allowed to un-perfect His perfect creation?

Another reason is if I were too bring home a Nubian Princess to my parents, they would not approve. Which brings us to the Ten Commandments of Honor your father and mother. If I continued to date this Nubian Princess against my parents request, I would be breaking one of the Ten Commandments.

When it comes to following the Bible and there is a gray area, such as Interracial relationships, tattoos or other subjects that does not have a clear understanding, I do not do it. I do what I know is 100% right.

Interracial relationships are another product of the “False Apostle Paul”. MostChristians will say that it's okay for anyone to date and be married as long as they are both Christians regardless of race. This is simple not true and this truth will be a hard pill to swallow for many.

And the Saga continues, Paul leading us further and further away from the truth of our Heavenly Father.

Edolatry

Catholics Come Home Video

Edolatry

The Catholic come home commercial mentions that they brought us the College and University system. So we need to look at this system more closely also.

If someone has a Law degree from Harvard and one has a high school diploma, which one do you hold as higher esteemed in society? Of course the one who holds a degree from Harvard.

In the Untied States we worship many Gods. Education is one of the many gods and having a good education and having a degree from a prestigious institution is worth more than money itself.

We instill in our children the importance of getting good grades before they even start school. We are more concerned that our children get a good education than we are about them living for the Lord and living a Godly life.

We go to great lengths for knowledge. We save money for a lifetime to be able to send our children and grandchildren to college and universities. Most families can not save money for education of their children and it's easy to go into debt with easy to get college loans, hoping you will be able to find a good paying job after college.

These colleges and universities teach our children secular values. Your child may have been in church their entire life and may have memorized many bible verses.

When they enter into these colleges and universities, if they are found out to be a christian, they are often ridiculed by their professors and peers. They are told how dumb they are for believing in a fairytale. Only then will many question their faith because we are programmed to believe people who have a degree are smarter.

Men love to praise themselves and wear their degrees like a badge of honor. Framing them and hanging them on walls for all who to see. They put titles before and after their names to let people know that they are to be respected.

Education is a form of evolution. Men like to be able to set themselves apart from the animal kingdom. Simply because we are the most intelligent animal in the animal kingdom and the most intelligent person will be worshiped as the highest type of evolved animal. Everyone wants to be intelligent and wants their offspring to be even more intelligent. Education is what makes us human and separates us from the animals.

Christians worship education more than most others. They hold preachers with degrees from theological seminaries higher than a person who is blessed by god. These seminary universities, men teach men. Men are fallible and they teach out of the text books of other fallible men. Most of the time they teach the doctrines of the whore, the catholic church without knowing the deceptive qualities that have been passed down for two thousand years and has been intertwined with the original meanings of Jesus Christ.

Most believe that someone with a four year degree has more knowledge of the Bible than someone who reads the bible everyday for seventy-five years. People need to learn how to interpret the bible. Which this is true in some cases. Some of the teachings in the Bible are as plain as black and white. More on this later.

Some pastors attend seminary for the wrong reasons. They want to get paid for their college education. What organizations have the most money to pay? It's the Church. Big Houses and fancy cars, especially if you land a job in one of the mega churches of today. Some just love to be called Pastor, they want to be trusted. We do trust them because of their degrees from institutions of higher education.

It does not matter which denomination you belong to, the truth is most worship this false god of education. As parents we are all too eager to see our children graduate from these secular and/or Christian universities. In reality we should want to see our children have a childlike faith in Jesus.

Through my years in the church, I have seen people conducting and finalizing business deals on Sundays at the Church. I have seen churches in trouble financially, having to cut the pay of the Pastor and the pastor gets mad and leaves for a church who can pay him his worth. An educated person thinks,“Well I paid the sacrifice and spent all these years in school and I deserve to get paid.”

I have often seen children, some in my very own family, who attend a Christian school all their life and enter into the institutions of higher education and emerge from these universities as godless and as atheist with their new found intelligence. They have reasoned away god and some believe they are smarter than God himself.

With a degree, people think they are somebody. Some of these “somebodies” that I have met through my life, do not have a bit of common sense and lack the wisdom to apply their educational knowledge. Engineers are the worst, they have the book smarts and they lack in the ability to apply the principals. But you can not tell them any different because they have paid the price with their journey of higher education and have a degree. Even the wisest eighty year old man can not tell a twenty-two year old what's right from wrong. But not in all cases, there are some educated people who are wise in their years and seek advise. Those wise ones often advance faster in their chosen career fields.

For those Christian parents who send their children to institutions of higher education, rather it be secular or Christian are almost ensuring that their children turn out confused with weaker or counterfeit faith.

But some leaders of the Church will tell the lesser ones that they are not smart enough to understand what God is saying in the Bible and you need someone with a degree in theology to help you understand the hidden meaning about the passage and you do not understand the audience in whichit is was originally spoken to or you do not understand to events surrounding the Biblical passage or it's history. I say this is nonsense! God speaks to everyone differently with different messages in order to achieve His ultimate Will. You just have to know God's voice and recognize when He is speaking to you.

Jesus teaches us somethings are hidden from the wise and educated. In Luke 10:21-22 Jesus says, “In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.”

What are these things that God has hidden from the wise and intelligent? How do we know if the Son has revealed these things only to the well educated theological masters? It reminds me of today's Church as the pharisees and sadducees of old.

It was the matter of interpretation that brought me to where I am today. The matter of and manner of interpretation, over the years, raised some very serious questions. The matter of interpretation was different from Church to Church and Pastor to Pastor. Which one was right? When each had it's own interpretation. So I set out on a journey for truth.

These masters of interpretation dumb down their flocks. Most of their flock will not dare question the teachings of these earthly educated masters. They will not read their bibles for themselves.They just go with the flow and feel good about themselves because they attended church.

Why does God delight in us “simpletons” that have childlike faith in his son? He is looking for meek, humbled and servants with pure hearts. Jesus said to the Pharisees in Luke 16:15, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.”

A degree is highly esteemed among men and not with Jesus. We worship the people who hold Bachelors and Doctorate degrees.

Ask a pastor, why did you go to seminary or college in order to become a pastor? Most will say they had a “calling from God”. Then ask, if you needed to go to an institution of higher learning to become a preacher. Some answers will amaze you.

This education system is not new. In the early days of the university system, only the wealthy could afford higher education for themselves and their children. Only in today's times has education became the norm and almost anyone can go to the colleges and universities and obtain degrees. It's so common today that we do not give a second thought about it.

Before the later half of the Twentieth Century, most families worked farms and was lucky to attend school or even make it past grade school. Children had to stay home to work on the family farms to just make a living and survive. Education was not really needed. The top priorities were farming, cooking, sewing, washing clothes, hunting and the basics to get by in this life.

The bible even speaks of this on the end times in the Book of Daniel 12:4, “many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”

Today we run to and fro to obtain knowledge. We travel at great links in order to obtain knowledge. We often travel out of state or out of the country to attend a university that teaches knowledge of one thing or another.

If this was not such a problem, then why did God mention it to Daniel? Maybe because higher education teaches us to rely on our self more than to rely on God.

God in Genesis 2:17 told Adam and Eve, “of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

Knowledge is something that makes people aware of other things than that of the Godly things.

Is education worth more than your placement in eternity? It's a hard choice. You can have both. It's what you do with your knowledge that's important. Are you advancing the Will of God or the things of the devil?

Paul Rejected