- In this time of ever-deepening turmoil in the world,
as unseen forces conspire to perpetrate harm--setting one nation against
another--there is a growing sense of need for someone to save us from the
doom that now seems to face the world. When I was a kid, if anyone had
asked who the person might have been who could do that, I would have told
them Superman. This was the man you wanted if you needed to battle injustice
and tyranny and bring down the "bad guys." But today in America,
where our Constitution sees daily threats to the vitality of its religious
foundations, and often our own leaders have become the bad guys, what could
Superman even do? Against daily fraud in politics and religion, against
the scourge of sexual liberties on the net, in magazines, and on TV; against
the growing deficit (the moral one as well as the financial one), and the
sense that our government is not telling us the truth about anything anymore,
not even the Man of Steel has the nerves of steel to handle such a mess.
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- In many ways, Superman still stands for the ideals America
has begun to forget: truth and justice. And just what is the American Way?
Truth and justice were the American way . . . once. But with Judas-style
lawyers "selling out the truth" every day for their thirty pieces
of silver; and with the recent strides towards making America more like
Sodom and Gomorrah--thus knocking the wind out of the Christian basis of
our Republic--the truth has begun to become a scarce commodity. Where there
is no truth, justice must then inalterably fail.
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- A Republic like America, unlike true democracy, is founded
on unalterable Truth, an unwavering high standard of governance for mankind,
which in our case was the Bible. But when we start anesthetizing the Bible
out of our schools, media, social gatherings, and daily life, then our
legs are cut out from under us; with no legs, how can we stand? When even
our own former President is caught "lying down" on the job, what
can his Nation stand for? America is falling, and there is only one man
who can catch us now, and that man is Jesus, God in the flesh, our Saviour
and Redeemer. If we as a Nation humbled ourselves and repented, turning
aside from recent ways, then this doom could be avoided. Will it? It's
doubtful. The machinery of the System which Satan has orchestrated will
not easily let go of what 'he" has worked so hard to get to this point.
I fear it is impossible, for even in the Bible it says all these things
must come to pass before the Time of the End comes and Jesus returns. I
say only this: the Truth cannot be accepted when it will not be heard by
the masses; simultaneously, "the Lie" is embraced, for it is
the way of man, the default we are all born into. Soon thereafter, God's
judgments will begin to present themselves upon a falling Nation.
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- Seventy years ago, an unlikely man named Hitler was named
Chancellor of Germany. He built his evil Empire (or "Reich")
on lies and deceit, and in just six short years, changed the laws of his
country to allow him to legally commit genocide and various other human
rights atrocities. Hitler's own doctors believed they were doing the right
thing,, the moral thing, given their belief (handed down from Hitler's
regime) that Jewish people were somehow inferior to their Aryan neighbors.
Any Christian knows we are all of us equally inferior without Christ as
our covering! Upon Hitler's foundation of lies and perversions, he administered
the most unjust tyranny and evil upon humanity that has ever been seen,
thus far. One more such regime remains before Christ's return, and its
time is near. In order to prepare the masses to accept a man of the Antichrist's
qualities, they must first be pre-introduced to him in various guises and
forms until they are comfortable with him.
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- 1934. Enter in the first superhero with "magical"
powers: Superman. (Actually, the Phantom was the first superhero but he
was just an above-average human: no powers.)
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- It was during the rising persecution of Jews in 1934
that two Jews themselves, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, created Superman,
a man (they called their "Super Jew") of moral integrity who
used his "gifts" only for the good of humanity. There are few
other superheroes as loved and admired as Superman, who has inspired millions
of fans throughout the years with his moral strength and "supernatural"
abilities. Although Superman's fantastic powers themselves change"according
to Bob Hughes of Amazing Heroes #96, June 1, 1986, he states that "it
becomes clear that there is approximately one substantially different version
of the Man of Steel for each decade of his existence""the moral
dignity and character of Superman has remained the same. Without doubt,
then, Superman is known to be trustworthy and reliable, in contrast with
our leaders today who--as the movie The American President so eloquently
puts its--[seem to want to change their identity] "with each new poll
found in the morning's paper."
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- But who is Superman, really? What is the secret of his
staying power in our media, and in our hearts and minds? For the last 11
years, there has been at least one TV show dedicated to some aspect of
his life, from kids, cartoons to a romantic-style show for adults in Lois
and Clark, to his exciting antics (a show for the whole family) as a teen
on a farm in the town of Smallville; before that, 3 major films; before
that, TV shows all the way back into the 50's, and comic books since 1933!
All media forms are saturated with him, there is something of Superman
for all ages and inclinations of interest, and even a new feature film
scheduled in the next few years. Listen, when you see this much presentation
of any character or personae on TV or movies, it's usually for other reasons
in addition to mere ratings or box-office numbers. This goes way beyond
that! Television and movies are the great conditioners of the minds of
the masses. So if we love Superman, then Superman is what we will watch.
And if we will watch him, he is also the perfect instrument to carry with
him subtle messages and agendas to condition us to the coming New World
Order we will soon face.
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- Seeing this, you have to begin to ask a question: why
would the entertainment industry"which is owned by rich and powerful
entities and members in the Freemasons and Illuminati who in varying ways
now control our country (and world)"want to condition us to acceptance
of one man with god-like powers who promises to use them only for good?
We see this exact same theme happening all too often now, and in greater
perversity than ever before. In 2003's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,
a 6-member team of former historic evildoers and villains are recruited
to save the world from . . um. . (you guessed it!): even greater evildoers
and villains! It's not about the evil powers they wield, it's about how
they use those powers for good, right? In 2004, we will see another movie
called Hellboy, in which a demonic being"and his dark cohorts"use
their own evil and demonic "gifts" to fight off . . . even more
sinister demons and beasts in order to save the world. Yeah, didn't see
that one coming! Also in 2004, we see a movie called Van Helsing about
a man with special [occultic] abilities who enlists the help of other people
with fantastic powers to take down all of the classic horror monsters such
as Dracula, the Mummy, and the Werewolf, using "magical" gifts
to help save the world. The theme is recycled at every venue in today's
media: a being with extraordinary powers uses his gifts to save the world,
despite the fact that the gifts he uses are born from below, of Satan,
who seduces us daily with dreams that we can be the masters of our own
destiny, that we can be our own gods.
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- But Superman is a really good guy, you say, how do you
figure he's bad for us, like in obvious stories where "good"
demons fight off "bad" demons in order to "save the world"?
Superman's not like them, you say, he's a hero, a national treasure who's
been with us from the beginning of media itself! Well, maybe, but someone
you like gets a lot closer to you and deeper into your life than someone
you know to avoid, doesn't he? Once he's got a door into your heart, its
easy visit you with each new hidden agenda, to confuse you, to slowly change
your loyalties without your awareness. So let's take a deeper look at Superman,
and see if we can't find some surprising twists in this story.
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- In the beginning, in 1933, Siegel and Shuster wrote Superman
as a bald villain, and while liking the story, decided Superman would be
better as a good guy. (Young Lex Luthor in TV's Smallville is now the bald
villain-to-be.) According to Noell Wolfgram Evans, "It's comic book
legend that during one fitfully hot summer night in 1934, Joe Siegel had
a vision,. It was on this night that he conceived of the Superman character
as we know him." Instead of a villain, he was now a hero. Again, the
evildoers we know of are the ones we can avoid, but those we believe to
be our friends can actually do the most harm if their intentions aren't
innocent. I doubt that Siegel and Shuster wrote Superman with anything
but the best of intentions, in fact they even re-designed the story during
the making of the Superman 1 with Christopher Reeves to make him more like
Christ. (If you have time, this link: www.hollywoodjesus.com/superman.htm
shows how the story in Superman 1 closely mirrors, with subtle and hidden
references, Biblical history of the Christ Event.) But as with anything
good in this world, if Satan can warp it to his advantage, he certainly
will. And over time, the story of Superman has changed subtly to reflect
agendas and attitudes needed to condition minds towards acceptance of the
Antichrist. So where did Superman come in and open the door to change,
to an acceptance of the occult?
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- During the era Superman was born in, conservatism was
at an all time high and his wholesome values were fairly well accepted
parents and their children. Due to his good nature and the morals he represented,
parents were okay with their children reading it, often reading it themselves.
Flying is one of man's most basic dreams, most deeply-rooted desires, to
fly unaided and never need fear falling. It was the easiest power to give
Superman that people would accept because they so greatly desired it, and
yet it did not seem inherently evil. Believe it or not, this was a major
victory for the evil one. Tying occult powers to a good figure opened a
door for elements of the occult to begin to creep in to people's lives.
Believing in occultic supernatural powers was then okay because it was
no longer recognized in that form. It was okay to root for our hero, given
the context that his evil-based powers were only to be used in the pursuit
of "good". Then, whatever fantastic powers someone might possess
was okay as long as they were used for good. This is considered "white
magic," known by Christians as merely another form of Satanism, giving
man his "own power" for use in good works for the benefit of
humanity. But Ephesians 2:8 states"For it is by grace you have been
saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--9not
by works, so that no one can boast."
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- According to the Bible, you can't earn salvation, it
is a gift, rendering useless all the good deeds of mankind (toward the
goal of attaining Heaven, they are still beneficial to Man, however!) You
can't win Heaven by being a "good" witch against evil ones; all
magic is forbidden by God, it is a tool of the Devil. White magic is just
as evil, in fact it is a greater disservice because people consider it
harmless and learn to accept it, whereas they fear black magic and avoid
those who practice it. Whether you choose to see this or not, the door
the occult was opened when"as a Nation"we embraced Superman's
fantastic powers. Unbolted by a man of peace,, this Trojan horse was accepted,
and henceforth never again shut out of our hearts and minds.
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- Soon, all manners of superheroes and villains flooded
out like demons from a portal out of Hell, saturating our minds, making
all of these fantasy elements perfectly okay and even normal due to their
increasing quantity. Today, the line between fantasy and reality is so
marred it's unrecognizable anymore, with many movies including real history
in their fantastic storyline to blur the line between fiction and fantasy.
Roland and Emmerich do this to great effect in their movies, such as Independence
Day. Also, their Godzilla fused events such as the World Trade Center bombing
with Godzilla's own terrible devastation. Real-life talk show hosts like
Jay Leno often appear in movies pretending to make jokes about the events
happening in the movies as if they were really happening in our world,
too. Their upcoming movie "The Day After" will reveal the devastation
that will soon come due to the Biblical Judgments, such as earthquakes,
floods, and natural disasters, followed by a call to Martial Law in America,
but will attribute these events to environmental poisoning and global warming,
further blurring the line between reality and future promised events spoken
of in Revelation. Few children seeing all of these muddied pictures can
make sense of anything, and those of the new generations are so overwhelmed
they don't even want to try anymore. Everything is confusing and jumbled,
why not just go have "fun" and forget about learning Truth?
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- To continue, Superman was given a new name, his "birth"
name, Kal-El. In Hebrew, the word "El" means "God."
For example, a common word such as angel, (ang el) means "messenger
of God" while "Immanuel" means "God with us."
Thus, Kal-El ("Kal" short for the Germanic name Karl, which was
derived from a Germanic word meaning "man") means Man-God. There
has only ever been one person who has been both a man and God at the same
time, and that was Jesus Christ. Is there a connection here in their choice
to use this name? Let's recap to this point, and see.
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- The idea for Superman was conceived in a vision, and
visions can be arranged by Satan just as easily as those from God. Then
this story, once merely about a powerful [alien] being who uses his powers
for good to help all of humanity, it is adapted for the big screen to present
Superman as a Christ-like figure, with the events of his life mirroring
the Christ Event. Before we continue, here are some selected examples (selected
for brevity) of this, as quoted from Text by Anton Karl Kozlovic:
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- 2: Divine Diaspora: Superman was an alien immigrant who
was forced to leave his starry home (i.e., a threatened Krypton) to find
a new life amongst strangers in a strange land (i.e., Earth). Likewise,
Jesus left his celestial home in the heavens to come to the Earth realm
to live claiming: "I am the living bread which came down from heaven"
(John 6:51).
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- 4: Divine Signature Signs: After his starship crash-landed
in a field, baby Kal-El (Aaron Sholinski) emerged totally naked (symbolic
of birth and purity) from its womb-like cave within a rural setting (analogous
to Jesus, manger and stable birthplace). At one point his small arms were
outstretched in a cruciform posture. This is the unmistakable signature
sign of Jesus Christ, the crucified Messiah.
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- 8: The Mystical Age: Jesus was thirty when he started
his messianic mission on Earth (Luke 3:23), having previously lived a low-key
life in relative rural obscurity in Nazareth. Similarly, Clark Kent left
his rural low-key life in Smallville and walked into the Fortress of Solitude
as a troubled eighteen-year-old teenager. Twelve years later, at age thirty,
he flew out of his protective isolation as Superman.
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- 9: Shared Life Patterns: Both Superman and Jesus had
earthly family ties, both had heavenly origins, both heroes were raised
incognito on Earth, both were of "royal" blood, both righted
wrongs, both acted as saviours, both displayed incredible powers, both
performed miracles, both had normal lives and mundane day jobs.
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- 12: Divine Mission: Jor-El told Superman that his job
was to help right the wrongs of a troubled Earth and in effect assist their
evolution as a species. Similarly, Jesus was an off-world visitor who came
to Earth to right cosmic wrongs with a God-inspired message of love that
we should all emulate (Eph. 5:2) so that humanity could also evolve as
God's chosen people.
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- 14: Evil Tempting Good: Like the biblical Satan did to
Jesus (Matt. 4:8-9), Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) in S1 tempted Superman with
an (indirect) offer of a worldly kingdom. Superman refused, just as Jesus
refused the Devil's offer (Matthew 4:10).
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- To add to the last point here, David Bruce of HollywoodJesus.com
claims more so that, "Lex Luthor, ([which] sounds like: Lucifer) lives
underground"the mistaken traditional location of Satan." So,
if Lex Luthor is supposed to represent Satan, shouldn't Superman then represent
Christ after all? Not necessarily. The reason is complex, and requires
me introduce some apparent irrelevancy into the Superman discussion, but
in the end you should see that it is in fact very relevant. David Bay and
Pastor Ronald Riffe of www.cuttingedge.org"who write about time-of-the-end
prophecy concerning the rise of the Antichrist and related topics"write
the following important observations:
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- ". . . We are going to show you that this country
has really had only a one-party system for most of the 20th century and
that this one-party system has been masquerading as a two-party system,
Republican and Democrat. This massive, and most clever deception, has been
worked out to achieve two major goals:
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- 1. To make it seem to people that we are really free
and that our vote does count;
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- 2. To actually move the entire country gradually into
the socialist, globalist, government and Fascist economy called the New
World Order.
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- To begin demonstrating this fact to you, we want to introduce
you to an Illuminist German professor by the name of Hegel. In 1823, Hegel
proposed a formula by which values and attitudes of a person or a nation
could be gradually, almost invisibly changed, without that person or nation
having any idea what was happening. When Hegel proposed this system, the
concept took hold within the Academic circles of Europe, Great Britain,
and the United States. And, it has been the guiding principle of our top
leaders of most of the 20th Century history.
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- Hegel's concept has become known as Hegelian Doctrine,
also known as the Dialectic Process. Briefly, this doctrine states the
occult belief that all of nature is either positive or negative. Hegel
postulated that when a Thesis force comes into existence, an opposite system
called Antithesis is soon aroused into existence. Since these systems are
opposite, they will not see eye-to-eye, so they will begin to battle one
another. If this battling does not result in the destruction of one side
or the other, soon the constant battling will result in a different system
that is neither Thesis nor Antithesis, but is a brand new system altogether,
Synthesis.
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- "The argument I would then propose from this "THESIS
X ANTITHESIS = SYNTHESIS" theory is that the Antichrist must then
be the synthesis of both Christ (thesis) and Satan (antithesis). This is
the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing, a hybrid of seeming godliness
and morality mixed with a monstrous inner evil. To understand why Satan
would desire to blend himself with God to create this synthesized false
shell, one need only remember the lesson of the Trojan horse. If it appears
good on the outside, we accept it into ourselves. But who knows what devious
intent lies within, waiting to emerge when we are defenseless in order
to conquer us? To grasp this concept even further, let's take a quick look
at the characteristics of the Antichrist. According to Thomas Road Baptist
Church's website, in an article entitled "Satan's Superman" they
write:
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- "From the very beginning of the Christian era, believers
[have been] convinced that a world ruler would eventually come on the scene
who was the embodiment of Satan. The book of Revelation (chapters 12-13)
presents an "unholy trinity" that aligns Satan (vs. Father),
Antichrist (vs. Son), and False Prophet (vs. Holy Spirit). [Superman 1
starts out with an unholy trinity being imprisoned for their crimes and
cast out of heaven, or Krypton, as Satan and his minions were.] Thus, the
real power behind the Antichrist is Satan. The "father of lies"
is the perpetrator of the human manifestation of the world's greatest liar
and the source of the lie that will condemn multitudes under divine judgment
(II Thessalonians 2:11).
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- . . . "Perhaps the most telling of his [the Antichrist's]
characteristics is depicted in Daniel 11:21, which tells us that he will
come to power and "seize it through intrigue" (flatteries,"
KJV). Here is a master of deception, empowered by the "father of lies"[or
Satan]. Many believe he will be Satan incarnate-thus his miraculous recovery
in Revelation 13:3. [He will be killed, but will rise from death again,
like Christ. Likewise, Superman was killed in January of 1993 and later
resurrected in October of 1993, which led to rebirth of his popularity
from then until the present].A simple survey of the characteristics of
the Antichrist confirms the idea that he is both a false Christ (pseudo-christos)
and against Christ (antichristos). He masquerades as an angel of light
only to plunge the world into spiritual darkness. Like Satan, he is a destroyer,
not a builder. Promising peace, he pushes the world into war. In every
conceivable way, he is just like Satan who indwells and empowers him."
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- It is the Antichrist (a synthesis of God and Satan) who
pretends to uphold morality and goodness while simultaneously plotting
on the inside--like Satan--its total enslavement and subjucation to his
will. Isn't a little interesting that when Friederich Nietzsche composed
his most counter-Christian theory about what a supposedly free-willed human
is supposed to be like, he named it the "Superman?" Read here
Anna Knowles' description of Nietzsche's depiction of that Superman, which
is probably the most actual depiction of what the Antichrist will actually
be like as a person:
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- "Superman, according to Nietzsche has reached a
state of being where he is no longer affected by 'pity, suffering, tolerence
of the weak, the power of the soul over the body, the belief in an afterlife,
the corruption of modern values (http://www.marilyn-manson.com/overman.htm
)Nietzsche's Overman: Blueprint for the Antichrist Superstar**).' Superman
is constantly changing and in a state of rebirth and growth. He determines
what is good and what is evil, not allowing religion or society to determine
these things for him. The Superman finds his happiness in this way. He
uses a reason that is independent of the modern values of society or religion.
He determines his own values. This creation of his own values gives him
joy, and in order for the Superman to cope with a changing world, the Superman
must constantly change. This constant state of change is a constant source
of joy, leaving little or no room for suffering. The Superman does not
believe in an afterlife or the power of the soul over the body because
he does not believe in religion and has no proof of an afterlife or a God.
Therefore, he makes the most out of this life, not depending on a reward
in Heaven or a punishment in Hell for what he has done on Earth. The Superman
does not pity or tolerate the weak. He feels that human compassion is the
greatest weakness of all because it allows the weak to restrict the growth
of the strong."
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- These characteristics are exactly what Hitler followed
in his own quest for world domination. He often quoted Nietzsche in his
speeches, teaching the masses to live by these flawed beliefs, conforming
their minds towards obedience to a hidden agenda of euthenasia, or "ethnic
cleansing" as it's called today. Meanings are disguised beneath pretty
words, and labels are changed secretely to mold old laws to new standards
without the people even being aware that it is happening, as it is happening
again today under the Bush regime (see the www.cuttingedge.org for more
on this if you don't believe me, go to the New Articles section.) In Superman,
I've found that this desire to embed meanings and change labels is no different.
Two notable things have come to my attention regarding these:
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- 1) First, Superman's real (alien) father is named Jor-El.
"Jor" comes from the Greek name Georgios which was derived from
the Greek word georgos meaning "farmer, earthworker", itself
derived from the elements "ge" or "earth" Thus, Jor-El
literally means Earth-God.
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- 2) Second, in the new TV series Smallville, the storyline
has once again changed concerning Superman's destiny. In this new version,
more modernized for the coming New World Order, Jor-El tells Clark Kent
that his destiny is to "rule the world" and "conquer the
human race," which is a direct 180-degree turn from Siegel and Shuster's
original storyline! His real alien father, who is now long dead, has passed
on the destiny written in his namesake (Earth-God) to his only begotten
son (Man-God). His new destiny: to conquer and rule the Earth. Of course
for now in the show, Clark refused that calling, trusting in the moral
uprightness of his foster parent's teachings and did the right thing, preserving
for the moment Superman's original image, but with a subtext of real concern
for the future.
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- Why do the media attempt to dangle their agendas out
in front of our eyes like vain children as if all of us were all asleep?
This is about conditioning minds. People don't always accept what they
haven't first been pre-introduced to! The first time something is heard,
it is rejected until it can be scrutinized. In order for an idea to be
accepted, it first has to be heard many times until we,re sick of hearing
it, or until it almost feels as if we,re making the decision to believe
something of our own free will. Agenda elements of the coming New World
Order are frequently presented in today's media.
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- For a great example of this, you could fast forward through
most of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones to the council scene where an unwitting,
half-asleep, brain-dead Gungen named Jar-Jar Binks stands before the Council
of the Republic, a meeting very similar to one at the United Nations building.
Left in this foolish creature's charge is the sovereignty of an entire
planet's political clout, and he has just been convinced by Senator Palpatine
to vote "no contest" in regards to a charge of failed leadership
of the current Chancellor of the Republic (or U.N.) Immediately after the
decision to impeach the current Chancellor is reached, a new Chancellor
is needed, and Palpatine is surprised (yeah, right) to be nominated, accepting
the position post-haste. He then promises "to lay down the powers"
he has been given "once the threat to the Republic has been abated."
The threat is a group of separatists (those who won't join the Republic's
United-Nations style government) because they don't like some of its shady
financial practices.
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- Wait a minute, you say, isn't America a Republic? And
didn't the Republic in Star Wars later become the "Empire" (called
a "Reich" in German.)? And wasn't a man named Hitler crowned
Chancellor of Germany's 3rd Reich, much like Palpatine was named Chancellor
of the Republic? And didn't Hitler name his most elite and loyal troops
"Storm Troopers?" Wait a minute, weren't there also Storm Troopers
in the Star Wars movies used as the evil military force of the Empire?
And didn't this Chancellor in Star Wars, who always seemed kind and helpful
on the surface, then take on enormous powers as he embraced the dark side
and began hunting down rebels and separatists who were the heroes of movies
4, 5, and 6? And isn't this almost exactly how the Antichrist gains control
of the world in Revelation, through peace. . . until halfway through a
period known as the Tribulation where he goes evil and begins killing Christians
and Jews? So if America is a Republic, will it too become an Empire? It
seems to be reaching that way now, at times. Will it later fall to the
dark side and begin hunting down rebels and "separatists" such
as those in the Christian faith who refuse to take the Mark of the Beast
and join the New World Order? Could these movies be in some way based on
prophecy and used to prepare our minds to a possible future that awaits
us? Why would those orchestrating what we see want to give away the real-world
plot before we,ve even gotten there? The answer is conditioning. We have
to hear it first, and many times, before our resistance to it is destroyed
and we finally accept "our fate."
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- Here are some observations I find interesting:
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- Richard Donner, the director of Superman 1, had just
completed filming The Omen (1976) which was a dark movie about the Antichrist.
Just a coincidence they chose him?
- According to an article in Plume, 2001, p. 2, "Donner
initially disowned Superman's religious origins. Presumably because of
duress: I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando
as God and his son was Jesus...we had Scotland Yard, the FBI, and the LAPD
looking in to them. I literally had people saying that my blood would run
in the streets for doing that,."
- Supposition: Any time you have a Superhero, you must
have villains to challenge him. You cannot have a Superhero who has no
way to be super, or you have a dead story. Thus it can be argued
- that with the good guys come the bad ones, too. The good
guys may defeat their villains, but the evil ones are allowed to roam around
in our minds, seducing the innocent with their bad ways and tempting others
to follow. Moreover, the job of every new artist is to try and outdo whatever
has come before him. The door then creeps open ever more, in slow degrees,
until it's all the way open. Those of us who are not paying attention become
the proverbial frog in the water that is cooked by slowly turning up the
temperature.
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- On the surface, Superman is a hero and a friend to the
just and the weak. If there were no heaven or hell, no Jesus or Satan,
Superman would be the man we all would need to defeat the enemies of tyranny,
truth, and justice, and protect and defend liberty. That is why Satan has
worked so hard to convince you he doesn't exist, that there is no heaven
or hell. Superman is the man Satan wants you to be ready to accept when
the world goes into the state of planned crisis he's pre-orchestrated so
that we'll all need a Saviour. Satan's Superman, the Antichrist, will arise
to answer that need. Superman's moral side masked his occult powers and
we foolishly accepted him. He is the image of a future "man of peace,"
a man that will arise to save us all from impending doom, and will appear
to do so successfully, in the guise of a friend to those who accept him.
The Antichrist is the synthesis of both God and Satan, combined with the
best bits of each (as Man would reckon it) to fool the world and to allow
Satan one moment in all of time to pretend he is God.
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- If there are ten paths, and only one leads to Heaven
(that way is Christ), then Satan has spent all his time convincing you
that only the other nine are true and that this one is the only one that's
false. Why wouldn't all ways be true, in such a misguided tolerance-based/acceptance
belief system? And as for Truth, how can nine different ways be true, unless
all the Truth is whittled down to fit the needs of each person? If you
take anything away from perfect Truth, it ceases to be perfect. Anything
that has to be molded to fit your irregularities is neither rigid nor unyielding,
as is God's unchanging Word. A system that embraces any belief makes each
person their own god, which is precisely what Satanism advocates: "Do
whatever thou will do." The best answer is whatever you choose ("as
long as it's not Christianity," he'd sneer). But best for whom: you
or Satan?)
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- Superman, then, is ultimately a stepping stone for the
long, slow, gradual introduction of the Antichrist. Behind his great smile
and his morals, Superman long ago unwittingly opened the door to occult
superhuman power into our daily lives and began making it acceptable. Remember,
once the door is open a little, over time, the door is flung wide open.
The Antichrist will possess many superhuman powers. He will claim to want
to use them to benefit mankind. With technology, he may even claim to possess
the secrets to great health and immortality and be willing to share them
with those who willingly join him. He will be able to call down fire in
full view of men. He will die and be resurrected. He will be able to skillfully
negotiate any political circumstance to his benefit, being the first man
in the history of the Middle East to conclude a true and semi-lasting peace
settlement with Israel (3.5 years out of a promised 7.) He will be high
in the Freemasonry order, and a "white magic" user of highest
expertise. He will claim to want to use his gifts for the good of all mankind;
he will eschew peace, and pretend to be extremely conservative and moral,
much like Superman. And, very importantly, he will seem likeable on the
surface, too, like Clark Kent.
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- Because so many shows will have, by then, conditioned
us to this being a reliable and true experience in life, that those who
practice magic for the side of "good" will use it for the benefit
of all, we will readily accept this man. He will claim to be God, and the
masses will obey him as if he were.
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- Once long ago, the Jews were looking for a political
leader in Jesus, who then instead confessed that His "kingdom is not
of this world." Because He did not appear to them to be the heroic
conqueror and King of Jews they had been prophesied in the Old Testament,
they refused to accept Him. He was not the warrior king they wanted, but
a man of peace. The irony is they will soon accept a false Christ who will
pretend to be a man of peace, but in truth will be a warrior king, bent
on Earthly enslavement and destruction. This isn't a guess, it's prophesied
in Revelation!
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- If you love Superman as much as I did growing up, then
it will be hard to hear what this article is saying about the way he has
been, is being, used. I loved Superman growing up, and reveled in his fantastic
powers myself. As a story for entertainment value, it is as vastly imaginative
as it is fun to contemplate. But . . . we can't let our enjoyment of something
overwhelm our understanding of real Truth or we risk embracing The Lie.
God is the only real Superhero, for He came to Earth on our behalf and
used His powers never to help himself, but only others, and ultimately
refrained from using His powers even to save Himself torture on the cross.
In a blink of an eye, He could have rescued Himself, but he practiced the
same self disclipine He's asked us to exhibit ourselves.
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- Before I wrap things up, let me pose a conundrum to you.
So far, Superman has always stood for: "Truth, Justice, and the American
Way." Well, what exactly is the American Way, any more? This is a
vastly different society than it was in 1933, where conservatism and moral
duty was held in high regard and Jesus was still esteemed in schools and
in daily public life; before the rebellion of the rock era, or the promiscuous
"free love" era of the 60's and 70's, before the rise of occult
film, before the Internet and anything they can imagine but we wish
they hadn't pornography; before the dawn of the general malaise and
apathy of the majority of Americans anesthetized by the evils of modern-day
society, and the perverted uses of time gathered from God's untold blessings
for our nation. So . . . what will happen to Superman if the American Way"due
to this new casting off, of the cords between Man and God spoken of in
Psalm 2"soon becomes a place of no truth and no justice, as it is
slowly moving towards today? America might once have had the free will
to lay claim to even having a "way," but today "our"
way is the way our leaders have now trained us to follow; bearing a dumbed-down
obedience our government's compulsory schools have purposely manufactured
in us; with a blind allegience which focuses more on feelings and emotions
than real intellect and reasoning.
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- My guess is that the real, and moral, Superman of 1933
will soon have to relocate to somewhere . . . more appropriate, if any
such place exists. For Superman these days, America just won't cut it anymore.
However, for Satan's Superman, the new version re-written with a destiny
to conquer the human race, America the Empire is--today--rapidly becoming
just the right place to foment such a nightmare.
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- Please email any respectful (whether positive or negative)
comments to: kingofstorms77@hotmail.com
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- References:
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- Anton Karl Kozlovic:
- http://www.24framespersecond.com/writings/writing.php?writing=supermanjesus
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- Anna Knowles:
- http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/great/projects/Knowles.htm
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- http://www.behindthename.com/
(For the meaning of the names of "Jor" and "Kal")
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- Thomas Road Baptist Church:
- http://www.trbc.org/sermons/20011104.html
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- http://me.essortment.com/supermanhistory_ryql.htm
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- **http://www.marilyn-manson.com/overman.htm
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- http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/superman.htm
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- Amazing Heroes #96, June 1, 1986.
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- http://www.tvtome.com/Smallville/
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- http://www.biblegateway.com/
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- http://www.cuttingedge.org/
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- http://www.crossroad.to/
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- Comment
From Red Walker
4-2-4
Dear Sir: I have read further into your article: <quote
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- Tying occult powers to a good figure opened a door for
elements of the occult to begin to creep in to people's lives. Believing
in occultic supernatural powers was then okay because it was no longer
recognized in that form. It was okay to root for our hero, given the context
that his evil-based powers were only to be used in the pursuit of "good".
Then, whatever fantastic powers someone might possess was okay as long
as they were used for good. This is considered "white magic,"
known by Christians as merely another form of Satanism, giving man his
"own power" for use in good works for the benefit of humanity.
But Ephesians 2:8 states"For it is by grace you have been saved, through
faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works,
so that no one can boast."
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- </quote
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- You are on shaky theological ground with that reasoning.
Most wizards do not claim that occult powers can save souls, and so the
passage from Ephesians is irrelevant. The wizards will claim that their
powers merely work uncommon events, such as levitation or the like.
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- If you condemn all occult powers, you will have trouble
explaining away 1 Corinthians 12:1-11. That passage concerns gifts of the
spirit and is commonly quoted by anyone who claims that their unusual abilities
are given by the Holy Spirit.
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- Furthermore, you will have even more difficulty explaining
away the Gospels, in particular Mark 16:17-18, which specifically promises
that those who believe will cast out spirits, speak new tongues, pick up
serpents, drink poison without injury, and heal the sick by laying hands
upon them. These powers cannot be described as normal. They might be described
as paranormal. Certainly the Romans of the time would have regarded them
as "occult."
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- If you have obtained your Doctorate in Divinity, you
might have rote explanations for the passages I have mentioned. If you
have not obtained your Doctorate of Divinity, you might find that you possess
the necessary motivation to do so.
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- If you claim to have some Christian Scriptural basis
for ascribing all "occult" activities to the Devil, you will
have to explain why signs of the Holy Spirit, worked by those who believe,
are *not* "occult." I do not doubt that you can construct some
theology by which you can convince yourself. However, many Christian congregations
consider that paranormal events involving Christians are to be classified
as "gifts of the Holy Spirit" and not any kind of forbidden magic.
I think you will need to make your arguments much more persuasive before
you can convince such audiences.
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- Thank you.
Red Walker
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- Reply From CE
- Mr. Walker,
- thanks for your many comments regarding my article.
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- You have claimed some of my points are invalid but
even though you make a good argument, I do feel it is grossly
out of context with what the scriptures say regarding spiritual gifts
and casting spells, as witches and sorcerers do. The point of my
Ephesians addition was to make a point that divine gifts come not from
ourselves but from God; any gifts which do not come from God are of
the Devil. You say I cannot condemn all occult powers, but I say all occult
powers are evil, while those gifts given by God are good and to be used for
God's Will.
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- In your call for a Doctorate of Divinity, also, you seek
to humble me, but it is humility that cautions me now that men needing
authority through titles are sometimes slaves to a system of obedience.
For men fashion titles to control other men, and to keep lesser men--or
poorer men since Doctorates take cash--held down. I hope in
your case it was intended to improve the quality of my argument, and I
accept that version in good faith toward you. Not everyone needs
a doctorate to understand the Bible if God's spirit is with them,
so let the Bible be the authority as it always is (whether we choose to
accept it or not). What does it say concerning divine gifts and occultic
powers?:
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- "1 Corinthians 12: 1Now about spiritual gifts, brothers,
I do not want you to be ignorant. 2You know that when you were pagans,
somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3Therefore
I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus
be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except
by the Holy Spirit. 4There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6There are different
kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men. 7Now to
each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
8To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another
the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9to another faith
by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10to
another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing
between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and
to still another the interpretation of tongues. 11All these are the work
of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines."
(Emphasis added.)
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- By what authority comes the will to choose which
powers pagans and sorcerers wish to practice? God
bestows only "gifts" and gifts are things which are given, not
self ordained. But occult powers are not something God would give,
thus they must be self-assumed powers. If God does not give
the power to "levitate" as you said is commonly used by users
of the occult, from what other source but Satan can such power come? Let
us consider what God says about sources:
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- "1 Corinthians 10:18Consider the people of Israel:
Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? 19Do I mean
then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol is
anything? 20No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not
to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21You cannot
drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a
part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons. 22Are we trying
to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he?"
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- And of occult powers . . . . ?
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- "Deuteronomy 18: 10 Let no one be found among
you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination
or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells,
or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. 12 Anyone who
does these things is detestable to the LORD , and because of these detestable
practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you."
(Emphasis added.)
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- "Galatians 5: 16So I say, live by the Spirit, and
you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17For the sinful
nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary
to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you
do not do what you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not
under law. 19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality,
impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy,
fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness,
orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live
like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against
such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified
the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the
Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited,
provoking and envying each other."
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- Thanks again for your interesting assertion, and for
your time. May you be blessed.
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- --CE.
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