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“A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."
- George Bernard Shaw -
Today we will look at the myth of the “star of David” and its pagan roots. The Star of David is the primary modern emblem of the Jewish religion. Legend has it that the emblem was used by the Biblical King David (hence the name 'Magen David,' or shield of David). In reality, it was not associated specifically with the faith until the middle ages, when it began to appear on flags, tombstones, and synagogue decorations. It is probably not coincidental that the symbol was important to the flourishing kabbalistic tradition of the same time period. Kabbalistically, the hexagram symbolizes the six directions of space, the divine union of male and female energy, and the four elements.
A hexagram is a six pointed star composed of two overlapped triangles, found in use by a number of faiths and cultures. In Ritual Magick, the hexagon is called the Seal of Solomon, and represents Divine Union, being composed of a female, watery triangle, and a male, fiery triangle. The traditional elemental triangles of earth, air, water, and fire are derived from the seal.
In the Hindu religion, the hexagram is called the Shatkona, and is equivalent to the symbolism in ritual magick. The Shatkona is the combination of the Shiva kona (trikona, triangle), the symbol of the God Shiva, representing the element of fire, and the Shakti kona, representing the element of water. Together, they represent the union of male and female, and the heart chakra.
According to the late Danish semiotician S.T. Achen, the Muslims refer to Y as Solomon's seal, whereas E. Zehren points out that the sign on Solomon's seal was a pentagram. The hexagram is frequently used in the magic formulas in the old book of witchcraft, The Key of Solomon.
The alchemists of the Middle Ages used Y first and foremost as a general symbol representing the art of alchemy and secondly as a sign for combinations of s, water and r, fire. Combined these two triangles formed the symbol for fire water, the essence or spiritus of wine: alcohol.
The hexagram also appears along with multiple Freemason and Illuminati symbols on the U.S. one dollar bill. It can be seen made by the cluster of thirteen stars above the eagle on the Great Seal.
This article has barely scratched the surface of the subject, so I strongly encourage everyone to check out the following websites. Knowledge is power for the people.
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http://www.helpingmormons.org/six_pointed_star.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram
http://www.jewfaq.org/kabbalah.htm
http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/bldefsmagen.htm
http://www.libertytothecaptives.net/tim_lahaye.html
http://www.geocities.com/theawakeningnews/Religion-Great_Seal_Dollar_Bill.html
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| “My Throat Is an Open Grave”
-- Demon Hunter –
We lay face down in pale solitude
To save face, we pull our walls in front of you
To the same place where we danced in front of you
We fell from grace and watched the hope fall from your face
This isn’t me I used to say
All the love was so gone
It feels good to be alive
I’ve been dead for so long
And all those broken promises
I can’t face, afraid if someone notices, I lose my place
Fractured, broken, paralyzed
I need some space, tear me open, analyze
This isn’t me I used to say
All the love was so gone
It feels good to be alive
I’ve been dead for so long
Wake up screaming, I’m awake and dreaming
And I won’t stop breathing until my heart stops beating
This isn’t me I used to say
All the love was so gone
It feels good to be alive
I’ve been dead for so long
For how many of us, does this describe our “relationship” with our God? How many of us feel alone and lifeless, desperate to scream out but afraid of what people will think or say? How many of us will actually allow God to tear us open and analyze honestly what is inside of us? When will we get real with God? When will we join the revolution?
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| “Many people have supposed God’s sovereignty to be some thing very different from what it is. They have supposed it to be such an arbitrary disposal of events, and particularly of the gift of his Spirit, as precluded a rational employment of means for promoting a revival of religion. But there is no evidence from the Bible that God exercises any such sovereignty as that. There are no facts to prove it. But every thing goes to show that God has connected means with the end through all the departments of his government – in nature and in grace. There is no natural event in which his own agency is not concerned. He has not built the creation like a vast machine that will go on alone without his further care. He has not retired from the universe, to let it work for itself. This is mere atheism. He exercises a universal superintendence and control. And yet every event in nature has been brought about by means. He neither administers providence nor grace with that sort of sovereignty that dispenses with the use of means. There is no more sovereignty in one than in the other.
“And yet some people are terribly alarmed at all direct efforts to promote a revival, and they cry out, ‘You are trying to get up a revival in your own strength. Take care, you are interfering with the sovereignty of God. Better keep along in the usual course, and let God give a revival when he thinks it is best. God is a sovereign, and it is very wrong for you to attempt to get up a revival, just because you think a revival is needed.’ This is just such preaching as the devil wants. And men cannot do the devil’s work more effectually than by preaching up the sovereignty of God, as a reason why we should not put forth efforts to produce a revival.”
Excerpt from pp.19-20 of Charles G. Finney’s Book, Lectures on Revivals of Religion.
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| “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come
salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the
power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
~ Revelation 12:10-11 ~
Benjamin Lueck’s Personal Testimony
-- Extremely Brief Synopsis --
I was born a warrior. My earliest memories from childhood are filled with dreams of things normal children don’t dream about. My earliest memories are ones of drifting to sleep with the spoken Word of God emanating from the speakers of the stereo system. My earliest memories are ones of giving my life over to the rule of my King and receiving the baptism of the Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. My earliest memories are Scriptures of Power being burned into my heart as I practiced my grammar and reading skills with my Bible. My earliest memories are encounters with satan and various principalities in visible form as they would wake me up in the middle of the night to attempt to frighten me. My earliest memories are from before my sixth birthday. I was born a warrior.
Having been raised in the church and taught how to read with my King James Bible, by the time I was six years old I had already received God’s gift of salvation, experienced the gift of the Holy Spirit and was fully aware of the Power that was available to me. Having pure, unadulterated childlike faith, I had no fears. Nothing and no one intimidated me. On a regular basis, I would receive visits from satan or one of his lesser warlords. They would attempt to scare me with a display of their power and impress me the tangible aura of demonic power surrounding them. But they could never touch me -- they were forced to posture and glare from right outside my bedroom window. After some time of enduring this, I expressed frustration to my parents and they revealed to me the power of the Name of Christ Jesus in rebuking satan and his forces of darkness. That night, I was visited yet again in the middle of the night by the dark lord and was instantly awakened by the tangible aura of his evil presence. Recalling the simple promises of Scripture, I pointed my finger straight at satan and commanded him to leave in Jesus’ Name and never return. He faded back into the dark night and I have not seen him since then.
When I was twelve years old, I had already been prophesied over multiple times and was thoroughly convinced I was a “prophetic lightning rod” that somehow always attracted the attention of the man of God. Desiring to keep a low profile, I began to train for operations of the audio/visual equipment in the church. Shortly after I began training, the head audio/visual engineer moved to a different state for his work and I was promoted to head engineer. During this period of time, I was also asked to become the assistant youth pastor and co-worship leader of the youth group I was attending. Having already volunteered for a couple years with the nursery ministry and children’s ministry, and having been studying the Bible in its original Greek and Hebrew with the aid of concordances and dictionaries for several years, I believed myself to be capable enough to serve the Lord in this capacity.
The following year on my thirteenth birthday, I had an experience with God Almighty where He tangibly pressed the tips of His fingers into the palms of my hands and imparted a healing anointing to me. As I progressed through high school, I continued to work at Christian summer camps as a counselor and was blessed with the opportunity to lead many children and young people to salvation and to impart the Holy Spirit to them until I became a junior in high school. Through the leading of the Holy Spirit and the encouragement I received from a few different Hell Fighter Ministries conferences, I started a Bible study at my school once a week during lunch period. By the time I entered my senior year, the original group of four or five people had grown to over thirty regular attendees and we were meeting all five days of the school week and experiencing regular miracles and the tangible presence of God, with peers getting “slain in the Spirit” on a regular basis. This continued throughout the school year with multiple gifts of the Spirit being manifested in the group: prophecy, healing, ministry to fellow students, discernment, revelation of Scripture, etc.
After graduating, I went to college where I aligned myself with other individuals who had spent the last several years in intensive spiritual warfare and intercession. We formed a core group of intercessors on campus and began to battle the occult element in the city we were living in. Throughout this entire training period, I went head to head against hundreds of demons manifested in physical form, demon-possessed people, witches, warlocks, vampires and werewolves. All of these I have witnessed with my own two eyes, just as I have seen with my own eyes multiple angels and forces of Heaven. So, it would be impossible to convince me that these do not exist and operate extensively around us every day.
Coming from an intensive environment like that, and returning to live with my parents, I found I was surrounded by fake “Christians” and hypocrites who continually espoused a powerful and holy God while displaying an emasculated version of Christ. I was so disgusted by it and discouraged that I could find no one to sharpen myself against, that I turned my back on the church. In my eyes, they were not following the Lord I knew anyways, so disassociating myself from them seemed like a self-preservation measure. Little by little, my passion and convictions began to fade and I soon found myself passionately living for the very lord I had been fighting against.
But God is faithful and brought me back from the edge of death and hell to serve Him. Since then, I have been blessed by God to have an acceleration of spiritual growth and revelation knowledge of the Word of God. This acceleration has made innumerable “older and wiser” individuals uncomfortable and caused them to feel threatened. So, I have become more guarded and cautious about whom I share the wisdom and insight God has bestowed upon me.
Currently, God is using a few of the multiple gifts and anointings He has poured upon me. I have been humbled with the opportunity to lead the music ministry for the youth department at New Life Church and blessed to be a part of the outreaches the church is involved in. The Spirit of the Lord is currently ordaining the writing of three different books, although they are not progressing as quickly as I would like. But they must be His Words only, so once again I must suppress my excitement and trust His timing.
Right now, I find myself in a preparation season. God has many lessons to teach me before He takes my wife and I on the road to act in an evangelistic capacity as He has spoken to us. I continue to submit to authority, defend the Word of God from misinterpretation and false doctrine, study spiritual warfare, and seek the mind of the Lord. I must continue to train because I was born for a time such as this; I was born a warrior.
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The following is an excerpt from a book being written by Benjamin and a fellow warrior, David. If the subject matter of this book appeals to you, or you wish to further discuss this topic, email Benjamin at KingdomSamurai@gmail.com to do so. If you desire more information about this matter, I can also be contacted at the above email address as well.
Introduction to the Christian Bushido
“If you are like us, then you are exhausted with hearing about the Christian man being described as a weak, pacifistic eunuch who can do nothing except sit in a place of worship and help plan the stagnant church activities to follow in the coming year. You understand its importance, but you feel there is something much more out there… you sense a battle raging within your soul and yet you are told to stand defenseless against the coming attack. Stand by and take it on the other cheek. Well my brothers, we are here to tell you of something else; we are here to tell you that your instincts are very well founded indeed, that there are more to our duties than just helping “within” the collective church assembly. What if we were to tell you that for some of us, our particular mission is deep reconnaissance behind enemy lines? And for others it is combat on a plain which most “normal” men never see? Would you believe us if we told you that if we were to fall, that is, fail to hold the lines, that our churches would be helpless in the coming and present attacks? It is true, just as I Corinthians 12 tells us, we are one body and we all serve one Lord, but our functions are all of equal worth and just as vital for the body to survive. For all of us to participate, is essential; but for all of us to sit in a bureaucratic conference room makes no sense. We need both, warriors and bureaucrats, not just cookie cutter Christians. {We need the technical support of bureaucrats, we need the wall of protection our church provides, and we need most importantly the love that they offer us. But they need us as well my brothers}
We few, are not a glorious bunch of marauders whom get the glory of the nation rejoicing at our victories on the battlefield, but are rather an unrecognized legion of faceless warriors to those in our church. Much like a clandestine operative, both his personal victories as well as the collective victories of the church change a world, but that world doesn’t even realize their existence. This is the way of the Bushido; this is the way of the warrior.
This book is for few select Christian men; it is a book of codes, of honor, and of principles. There are no immoveable “morals” found within these pages, no absolutes. Only a minute vapor of those powerful and yet subtle bonds that hold together a very tightly knit and thinly spread group of warriors.
If you are reading this for pleasure, or curiosity then I recommend that you place it back on the shelf; if you think that perhaps what I have described could possibly or maybe be you, then this is not for you either. If you think that this is a title that you wish to obtain, then you will merely be a “Hollywooder” who aspires to be something that he is not. You are either born with this or you are not. In fact, this book was probably only written for a select handful of individuals, and more probably only written for ourselves and a few of our men. It is not our wish for it to become a bestseller, nor to influence the world – we merely write this to ease both our hearts and the hearts of perhaps a few floundering warriors among you. If that person is you, then we hope that this book reaches your hands in particular. Also know that we do understand where you are. Believe it or not, we have been there, and perhaps in a way we still are.”
The Christian Bushido. “Introduction”, written by David Barsotti and Benjamin Lueck, © 2005. All Rights Reserved.
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