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David’s Heir		13-07-14-B.ES13-51 /

David’s Heir: Cosmic Two Anthropocentric Speculation: Ideologies that Promote the Lie & Denounce Christianity, 2 John 9; John 3:12; Cosmic Two Evil: Lucifer’s Cosmos Diabolicus; Satan’s Strategy to “be like the Most High”; He Is the Ruler of the World, John 12:31; the Attempt at Global Government: Babel, Gen 11:1–9; Warnings to Be Alert for Evil: Rom 12:21; 2 Tim 3:13; 2:25–26Heb 5:13–14; & 3 John 11
1.	Pseudo-intellectual arrogance of Cosmic One tries to syncretize Christianity with either science or philosophy.
2.	Anthropocentric academic speculation seeks to replace Christianity with humanistic dogma.
3.	In the field of academics, many areas of study are irreconcilable with Christianity,
4.	The individual is forced to make a choice between the two.  Example: Cosmic hype will choose evolution over creationism.
5.	Academic speculation will choose any anthropocentric explanation for man’s purpose in life if it does not require recognition of Christianity.
6.	As a result, humanism has become the state religion of client nation USA and existentialism is the source of its doctrine.
7.	Scripture addressing this stage of Cosmic Two include:
2 John 9 -	Everyone who transgresses the boundaries and in so doing develops a knowledge which is inconsistent with the teaching of Christ, does not have fellowship with God.  The one who persists in doctrine, this same one has fellowship with both the Father and the Son.
John 3:12 -	I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things.  (ctl)
9.	Evil: Lucifer’s system, characterized by Lewis Sperry Chafer as cosmos diabolicus, which strives to create a man-made millennium by imposing human viewpoint over divine viewpoint.
1.	Evil is the plan of Satan by which he seeks to administer his rulership of this world.
2.	Evil is the embodiment of all that Lucifer attempts to do in his age-old endeavors to “be like the Most High” (Isaiah 14:14).
3.	Evil involves every attempt to solve the problems of this world through human viewpoint, human good, and human works.
4.	Evil is the insidious plan and policy of Satan as ruler of this world (John 12:31) to achieve social, political, and economic reform apart from the integrity of God.
5.	His agenda was revealed in his initial attempt to divorce man from any relationship with God through globalism.
6.	His strategy for accomplishing this is brought to light by the events associated with the tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1–9:
7.	There the world’s population at that time was monolingual and had settled on a plain in the “land of Shinar \shī'‑när\.”

“The name given, in the earliest Hebrew records, to Babylonia, later called Babel, or land of Babel.  In Genesis 11:2 Shinar is described as the land of the plain where migrants from the East settled, and founded Babel, the city and its great tower” (T. G. Pinches, “Shinar,” in The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, gen. ed. James Orr [Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1956], 4:2771).

8.	This excerpt provides a summary of the problems caused by this prototype effort in collectivism:
In what the Lord would later designate as “babel,” this single-language population set out to build a spectacular center of world unification.  Man, through his own ability and concerted effort, presumed to build a “tower whose top will reach into heaven” (Genesis 11:4).  (p. 56)
The grace of God and the Savior were left out of this ‘monument to man.’  Satan and his fallen angels cheered, well aware that this counterfeit utopia or secular ‘one-worldism’ could only serve to obliterate freedom, volition, and all restraints on the sin nature.  Man was reflecting Satan’s cosmic system in this project.  He was trying to reach God through his own works, exclusive of the grace of God.  
When human accomplishments obscure the reality of man’s need for God, the result is always evil.  At Babel, the result could only be anarchy and the ultimate destruction of the human race.  (pp. 56–57)
God intervened and restrained man’s capacity for self-destruction.  Divine judgment confused the language of the people.  The building of the tower was halted, since the ability to communicate with one another had been removed (Genesis 11:5–9).  God’s judgment upon this one-world government was a clear warning against any form of international rule and a ringing endorsement for the concept of the national entity.  In a world dominated by the sin nature, power vested in a unified international body apart from God would always degenerate into ironclad totalitarianism.  (p. 57)

R. B. Thieme, Jr., The Angelic Conflict (Houston: R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries, 2012), 56–57.

9.	The following expanded translations document the ongoing conflict between the plan of God and the plan of Lucifer:
10.	The title of Lucifer’s plan is “evil” while the plan of God is called “the good”:
Romans 12:21 -	Stop being conquered by evil but conquer evil by means of the good.
11.	Once a person enters the cosmic systems, the longer he stays the more evil he becomes:
2 Timothy 3:13 -	But evil men, even imposters, will advance to more and more evil, and they will do it through deceiving others, they also being deceived.
12.	Divine discipline is designed to motivate the cosmic believer to extract himself from evil:
2 Timothy 2:25 -	God exercises discipline toward those who are in opposition so that perhaps He may give them a change of mind for the purpose of achieving a full knowledge of truth,
v. 26 -	and that they should come to their senses and be delivered from the devil’s trap, having been held captive by him in order to do his will.
13.	Although all personal sin was imputed to Christ and judged at the cross, both human good and evil remain as the antagonists of the angelic conflict:
Hebrews 5:13 -	Everyone existing on milk is ignorant of the doctrines pertaining to righteousness, because he is an immature believer.
v. 14 -	But advanced doctrine belongs to the mature believer, the one who through self-discipline keeps on having their perceptive faculties well-trained with reference to discernment between good and evil.
14.	The believer’s attitude toward the Word of God is reflected by his attitude toward life:
3 John 11 -	Fellow believer, do not be imitators of evil, but be imitators of the good.  The one doing the good is from God; the one doing the evil has not seen God.

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