The Mysterious & Impenetrable Wooing in the New Age Converts
By the Watchman, Dana G Smith

Keywords: Kabbala, Kabbalah, mysticism, Gods, knowledge, new age, Jesus Christ, LORD, God, Yeshua HaMassiach

Laying the Foundation amidst the Esoteric

The Esoteric, which is obscure, mysterious, arcane, cryptic, impenetrable and also brings to man that which he could not touch before, is what man seeks many times today. It is the chance to find out about the secret mysteries of life. It is that forbidden knowledge, as in the Garden of Eden when the serpent first approaches Eve with the promise of ‘being as Gods, knowing good and evil’. It is that mysterious, many times which draws men, like it did Eve. Even in the times of the Apostles, there were those who had come out from among the Apostles, and did so, leaving them behind and becoming teachers of a new esoteric Jesus.

1 John 2:18  ¶Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
19  They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

These new teachers, were made manifest, plainly revealing that although they had come out from among the believers and the Apostles, their doctrine clearly revealed they were not one of them. In this, the Apostle John warned the early church. Of these, we find those he writes about called “antichrists”. That which is ‘anti or opposite’ of Christ was the characteristic of these teachers. Doctrines that clearly showed they denied who Jesus Christ was.

Esoteric religion is not anything new. Man today, especially, bored with religions and man made organized systems of religious thought seeks and is attracted to new mysterious powers. We see this attraction in the malls today with the young people who openly follow various satanic, gothic, and new age cults. In these groups, they find new power, new thinking, and are promised the arcane and cryptic, that which was impenetrable now is open to them. They are led to believe all the religious and regular systems of beliefs are the old ways. That they now can enter into a new exciting avenue of power which is open to them. Of course, this is not the case. The argument is as old as the chief deceiver himself, Satan, or in the light of deception, he is ‘Lucifer the light bearer’.

The Apostle Paul found the new faith at Galatia troublesome. For in the time he had left, a new esoteric religious thought had entered. For the Apostle wrote immediately to confront the threat called ‘Gnosticism’. The first thing the teachers did was to implant doubt as to the doctrine and salvation to which Paul had delivered to them. In this the attack was simple, Paul was not an authorized Apostle, and he had forgotten to follow the law.

Judaizing teachers had persuaded the Galatians that Paul had taught them the new religion imperfectly, and at second hand; that the founder of their church himself possessed only a deputed commission, the seal of truth and authority being in the apostles at Jerusalem. [Jamieson, Faussett, Brown]

Galatians 1:6  ¶I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7  Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8  But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9  As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

It is in this treatise, one of the pointedly blunt discussions of the gospel laid out. We find that indeed, there are angels and others [men or false teachers] who appear as the ‘angels of light’ bringing fresh revelation truth to the souls of men. Many times we have seen this as men who claim to have seen angels, Gabriel or Michael the archangel, or even God himself and found the truth. This truth then is brought to the forefront of society and in powers of light, from Lucifer; they bring deception to men and women everywhere. The Apostle Paul crucifies the notion that there is another gospel, even if it is brought by an angel or some man. He reveals that indeed there is not another gospel, but there will be attempts to bring such a message to men.

It is here that the Apostle lays out the defense of the gospel in the first course of business by re-enforcing the true gospel he taught and the ‘other gospel’ that had come to replace what he had taught them. He tells them pointedly that ‘even if an angel from heaven preaches any other gospel to you than that which you received, let him [the angel or anyone else] be accursed. He then repeats this by saying that if ‘any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.’ Here we find the Apostle repeating the fact of ‘let him be accursed, i.e. - the person will be under a curse & declared to be evil, anathema, and facing divine punishment. This then reveals what our number one objective should be! This is to stay in the bounds of God given, delivered salvation. This is done only through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who was first prophesied to come by the Prophets, fulfilled by Christ when he came. He then delivered the gospel to the Apostles, who then gave it to the world. Here let it again be mentioned, there are other ‘gospels, other Jesus’, other means of salvation; all given by seemingly divine means. These other gospels are but a tool of the ‘antichrist and the new age movement’ driven by Lucifer himself to bring a tare into the harvest field of the LORD. But in the end, there is only one gospel, true to the Father, who sent his son Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMassiach. It is this gospel, which Paul, Peter, John, and the other Apostles delivered to us. That is why there is only one truly God given, divine mandated gospel of Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMassiach. This is and was the only one delivered by the Lord himself to his church.

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