The issue of leaders who fail to acknowledge Jesus as Lord, or the Trinity, came up.
The obvious example being Vox Day, who has claimed to not believe in the Trinity, and who is right in the middle of a great deal of what we see going on in the world today.
He has a logically-structured argument in an old blog post, which starts with a very specific definition of the Trinity:
"1. The Trinity is God as three divine persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three persons are distinct yet coexist in unity, and are co-equal, co-eternal and consubstantial. These three divine persons are combined in one being we call God."
He then proceeds to argue that since God is omniscient (which he does not believe either), then Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not God.
I personally doubt that the nature of God is very comprehensible to us. What Jesus said was that blasphemy against the Son would be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit would not be--see Matthew 12 and Mark 3. Which strongly implies that the Holy Spirit is God.
It seems to me that the Temple layout reflects the three Persons: the Holy of Holies God the Father, the inner area where priests made sacrifices Jesus the Lamb--and also the High Priest as Hebrews tells us, and the outer areas the Holy Spirit.
At the "cleansing of the Temple" (Matthew 21, Mark 11, Luke 19, John 2), it was the animal dealers and moneychangers that Jesus went after. I've been told they were in the court of the Gentiles. Jesus did not go after the priests or the high priest at that time, and did not enter the Holy of Holies at that time either.
Christ's actions there fit the pattern of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit being unforgivable sin--it is not only opposition to God, but also it severely hinders the spiritual progress of others. That is what Jesus dealt with first.
We are in a spiritual war, as Vox Day has also said. Maybe he has been able to get this far without much help from the Holy Spirit. I have not; there have been critical points where specific direction and help were given to me.
A smaller example: People at church reminded me earlier this week of Ephesians 2, where God the Father, Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are all mentioned.
I happened to read about the Gadarene swine in Mark 3 this morning before coming across this piece, which mentions it.
David Clements mentions Michael Cocchini. A quick internet search tells me that they've worked together before, and that a different Michael Cocchini--and a Susan Clements--went fatally missing in the Smoky Mountains. At separate times.
Feels like a rabbit hole.
Much like Jonathan Cahn connects the major demons of ancient Israel to today's United States, Clements says that the spirits of the Nephilim are here and active.
https://joehoft.com/attorney-david-clements-mkultras-shadow-a-demonic-war-for-humanitys-mind/
A couple months ago, I put a piece of paper on the fridge--our Scammer Prayer List. We were often getting multiple scam calls per day, and while probably none of them told us their real name, God stills knows who they are and where they live, and He surely has something better for them to do all day than bother people like us.
Two names went onto the list, and these scammers were duly prayed for--they still are--and suddenly the number of scam calls dropped, by a lot. The list still has only two names on it.
The Bible says that "the gates of hell" will not prevail against Christ's Church.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
