Vicarius Filii Dei

Cloven tongues of fire.¹

Vicarius Filii Dei (Latin: Vicar, one assuming the authority and jurisdiction, of the Son of God), there is but One, the "Spirit of Truth," not of "flesh and blood":

"And I [Jesus] will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you" John 14:16-17).

"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 14:26).

"When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come"(cf. John 16:13).

Jesus Christ warned in the most solemn terms "Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation" (Mark 3:29).

Such is the case of every "flesh and blood" Vicar of the Son of God, i.e., every "imposter" of the "Spirit of Truth"!



¹By Oscar - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4913082

Calvinism 101

Farel, Calvin, Beza, and Knox, Reformation Wall Geneva.¹

"Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." (cf. Matthew 7:14).

The natural, ordinary, commonsense meaning of words is not sufficient for sustaining the doctrines of Calvinism. Words of key phrases must be defined in partisan fashion or the doctrine evanesces. In the following verses regarding atonement (allegedly affirming the tenet of Limited Atonement), Calvinism takes the unjustified liberty of defining the word "many" to mean the elect only. 

Isaiah 53:12 “… and he bare the sin of many….”

Matthew 20:28: “… the Son of man came… to give his life a ransom for many.”

Matthew 26:28: “… For this is my blood… which is shed for many….”

Hebrews 9:28: “… Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many…”

By defining many to mean the elect only, Calvinism offers a classic example of eisegesis (forcing the text to fit a preconceived system of theology).

Calvinism, as well as the tenet of Limited Atonement, “stands or falls” on the premise that all five-points of Calvinism affirm: “Christ died for the elect only”! However, Scripture consistently states the “contrary” and, unlike Calvinism’s rendition, states it explicitly: He died not for ours sins only, “but also for the sins of the whole world.”

Isaiah 53:6: “… and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

John 1:29: “… Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”

John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

1 Timothy 2:6: “Who gave himself a ransom for all....”

1 Timothy 4:10: “… we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all….”

Hebrews 2:9: “…that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.”

1 John 4:14: “… the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.”

And if these words of the “disciple whom Jesus loved" are not literal, do words mean anything?

1 John 2:2: “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”

Calvinism 101:

If the word is "many," then the meaning is few (cf. Matthew 7:14).
If the word is "whosoever," then it must mean only the elect.
If the word is "world," then it can’t mean the whole world.
And if the word is "all," then all doesn't mean all at all!

During his Grand Jury testimony, regarding the Lewinsky affair, President Bill Clinton, attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable, reasoned: "… It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.” However, as children of light, we must be gravely aware of the consequence of twisting Scripture as the “… unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction” (2 Peter 3:16).

Calvin in his later years appeared to suffer that malady so common to Calvinists, i.e., doubts concerning salvation. And for good reason: Calvinism teaches a salvation based on confession, repentance, and calling on the Lord, but the "Bondage of the Will” presupposition relegates redemption to nothing more than the “luck of the draw.” 

So how is one to know if he was one of the elect? Calvinist R. T. Kendall writes: “nearly all of the Puritan ‘divines’ went through great doubt and despair on their deathbeds as they realized their lives did not give perfect evidence that they were elect.” If works are a Calvinist’s only assurance of personal salvation, it is an implausible assurance:

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 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… (Matthew 7:21-23).

Yet, whosoever believes that "whosoever" means whosoever is at peace; "perfect love casteth out fear."

John 3:15: “… whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

Acts 10:43: “… whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.”

Romans 10:13: “… whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Calvin in his later years appears to have relinquished his doctrine of Limited Atonement: “And He said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many” (Mark 14:24). Although, Calvinism still affirms that "many" in this verse refers to the elect, John Calvin in contrary commentary attests:

… by the word 'many' he means not a part of the world only, but the whole human race… (John Calvin, Rev. William Pringle, English Translation, Harmony of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Vol. 3, emphasis added).

And Calvin's "Last Will and Testament, April 25, 1564" affirms that the Sovereign Redeemer’s blood was shed for the entire human race:

… that I suppliantly beg of Him, that He may be pleased so to wash and purify me in the blood which my Sovereign Redeemer has shed for the sins of the human race… (John Calvin, as cited in: Schaff, Philip, History of the Christian Church, Volume VIII: Modern Christianity, The Swiss Reformation, 1889; emphasis added).

¹By Ruth Nguyen at Vietnamese Wikipedia - Transferred from vi.wikipedia to Commons by Vinhtantran., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5204369

A Mystery

The final facet of the mystery of His will.¹

"We speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the world unto our glory" (1Co 2:7).

Please share my "nascent" understanding of what Paul refers to as "mystery" mystērion; a derivative of muo (to shut the mouth). English translations frequently fail to convey Paul's precise intent in using the transliteration "mystērion," which is "that which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed". Therefore, "the mystery" Paul in the "fullness of times" revealed is no longer a mystery, nor should it be considered mysterious.

Paul's epistles refer to a number of explicit mysteries, yet there is a consonance, suggesting that even in their distinctiveness they are "one," even as a brilliant-cut diamond has many facets, so do the mysteries of Paul's epistles, i.e., all being facets of His comprehensive "will" spanning this "dispensation of the grace of God."

The story of the "mysteries" in Paul's epistles begin where we are told that "by revelation He made known" unto Paul "the mystery" "which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy [New Testament] apostles and prophets by the Spirit" (cf. Eph 3:3-5).

The first facet, to which all others appear subordinate, is the "the mystery of his will," i.e., the "will of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." "That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth" in our Lord Jesus Christ (cf. Eph 1:9-10).

Or as John Nelson Darby so eloquently observed: "It is a marvellous purpose of God which, uniting redeemed ones to Christ in heaven as a body to its head, gave them a place in heaven. For, although we are journeying on the earth, and although we are the habitation of God by the Spirit on the earth, yet in the mind of God our place is in heaven."

The gathering "together in one all things in Christ" infers "the mystery of Christ... That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel whereof... [Paul] "was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God" (cf. Eph 3:4-7).

Before this mystery, Jews were a "chosen" people "above all people... upon the face of the earth." Today the Jew and Gentile are "one" in the Body of Christ. However, after the "final" mystery, all things will be as before. 

The mystery of the gospel: 

"Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching [(proclamation)] of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which hath been kept in silence through times eternal, but now is manifested, and by the [New Testament] Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith" (Rom 16:25-26).

The mystery of the blindness of Israel:

"For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob" (Rom 11:25-26).

"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn" (Zec 12:9-10).

The "great" mystery, personal, intimate, and ever lovely, concerns Christ and the church.

"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church" (Eph 5:25-32). 


The mystery of "Christ in you":

Scripture frequently dwells on the phrase "in Christ," but only rarely mentions the indwelling of Christ!

"Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Col 1:26-27).

The mystery of iniquity:

"For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way"(2Th 2:7).

Today Satin's surrogate "Messiah" is drawing ever closer to the threshold of "that Day" when the restraint of the Holy Spirit will be removed and the mystery of lawlessness will be revealed, but not before the "final" mystery!

"We shall not all sleep" is "the final mystery"!

"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (1Co 15:51-52).

At the "last trump" the Holy Spirit "will be taken out of the way," the dispensation of grace and the Church on earth will be no more, and "we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (1Th 4:17).



On the edge of a cliff or on the brow of a hill I have felt the wind from a placid pristine plain or the ocean below caress my face, then ever so gently fall into it and be caught up into the air as the wind filled the wings of my glider. It is the most exhilarating telluric sensation ever to be experienced. Yet, in that moment when we shall be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air will defy any fathomable earthly comparison!

The Quicking

Are you ready?

¹By Greg Lundeenhttp://web.archive.org/web/20041001073356/http://www.srh.noaa.gov/elp/swww/v8n1/Chaparral%20Supercell%202.JPG si c'est une photo personnelle, sinon le lien vers la page internet d'où elle vient, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=435701

Pesach moon

The Expedient

Le Palais des Nations, le Mausolée de la Paix.¹

Had a sense of Déjà vu last night — high noon on January, 17, 1991, as we sat at the round table in our conference room a Senior engineer in our GPS & inertial-guidance group broke the silence "once we sever their communications network, it is like severing the head of a snake, it will thrash about for awhile and then it will die."

The conference room soon went dark with the opening salvo of Desert Storm projected on an unfurled screen from the nose cone of an "on course" Tomahawk cruise missile half a world away — the first operational deployment of the munition.

It negotiated the contours of the convoluted desert terrain with precision, just meters below radar detection. As it sought out and descended into valleys, gradient variants of gray transcended into the darkness of the moonless night, with a chromatic aberrant tint of green. After, five minutes or so — a building, and for an instant a "brilliant" white 4-pane window and then nothing — we left the darkness without a word.

Before the January, 17, 1991 salvo, George H. W. Bush challenged a joint session of Congress regarding his overriding international objective: "A new partnership of nations has begun, and we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective— New World Order —can emerge... and today that New World is struggling to be born."

A few days before last night's Tomahawk salvo, Senator John McCain, challenged a conference at the de facto capital of the European Union (Brussels), lamenting to the transatlantic think tank,: In a " New World Order under enormous strain [and in] the titanic struggle with forces of radicalism… we can't stand by and lament, we've got to be involved."

The day President Trump ordered the strike on Syria "coincidentally " was the 100th anniversary of America's entry into World War One. On that day in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson in a "War" Message to a special session of Congress pled for the U.S. to enter "the war to end all wars" to "vindicate principles of Peace and Justice."

When that bloody worldwide conflict ended in November of 1918, Wilson complicit with the international zeitgeist proposed the expediency of a "New World Order," and at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference worked to consummate the Société des Nations (League of Nations) to enforce it. However, when Wilson's expedient for "Peace," the "New World Order" inaugurated another "war to end all wars," this time the bloodiest conflict of in the history of the world, the League of Nations was declared null and void, and Le Palais des Nations (The Palace of Nations), became le Mausolée de la Paix (the Mausoleum of Peace).

The "New World Order" has ever been "at hand" as chronicled in the "Book of Beginnings," in the “Table of Nations” it is written “Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth. He was a mighty hunter before [against] the LORD... The beginning of his kingdom was Babel [Babylon]… in the land of Shinar [Iraq].” And they said, contrary to the command of God, "let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Over four millennium later, the expedient "New World Order" rebuilding of Babel continues under the pretext of "peace and security," but on the Day it is complete "they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief" (cf. 1Th 5:3).




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The Snowden Chronicles

Paradise Lost, Gustave Doré

"They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate, With dreadful forces thronged, and fiery arms Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way."

Paradise Lost, Book XII.









“At some point, the [Obama] administration weaponized the NSA’s legitimate monitoring of communications of foreign officials to stay one step ahead of domestic political opponents” (Lee Smith, Tablet, April 5, 2017).

Some years ago, the Snowden Chronicles revealed that Obama was the "unmerited" recipient of the capability to globally monitor connectivity and store without bandwidth constraint the constituent text, voice, video, and GPS coordinates of every transaction initiated on the "Omnipresent" confluence of cell phone, internet, and ubiquitous network servers; the archived data to be processed by algorithms yet to be imagined. Such has been the propensity of mankind for Omniscience, albeit a synthetic Omniscience.

"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:4-5).

However, Omniscience is more than just knowing, 'Scientia Potentia Est' i.e., “Knowledge is Power”, the ultimate power that comes from knowing the "thoughts and intents of the heart" of every cyber-connected soul on earth, a power that Obama misappropriated, a power that even the serpent never had until that day!

The Great Commission