yuck.

Well it's interesting how messing around searching for things on the internet can lead you down paths you never thought you'd end up on... so this morning I opened up Google... and I noticed they had the option to search on their index from 2001 as part of their 10th company anniversary "celebration" I guess. So I did I search on organic thinking that might have been a not-so-popular thing 7 years ago... which led me to the Organic Consumers Association (www.organicconsumer.com) website... which led me to their recent newsletter and a video on You Tube of a segment of a "documentary" called Zeitgeist (which means "spirit of the age"). In this segment, the history of the Federal Reserve Bank is detailed. It piqued my interest, as I (unfortunately) tend to be sucker for conspiracy theories and tend to believe many of them. What I didn't know was that there was a "rest" to this movie. Unknowingly, I told Jason about it and thought we should watch it as it probably contained some interesting information and angles on our current economic situation even though it came out in 2007.

The movie starts out with some dude talking basically about how people won't live in the now so they have to live in the future or the past or something like that. The next thing I know, I am listening to some dude try to completely discredit Christ and say that Jesus is another one of the "Suns of God" (note the spelling of the word SUN) who follows the same basic life and legacy of all other "suns of god" and that the Bible is totally plagiarized from manuscripts that predate it and that Jesus' person is also a repeat of "saviors" that have come before him on many different points and details of his life. It also states that the story of Jesus is none other than an age old theme set against a back drop of astrology. The movie explains it but I won't go into detail here.

To top it off it then goes on the explain the history of the Federal Reserve, how 911was an inside job and how all wars are started to profit the central banks and line the pockets of the bankers themselves, and how the income tax is to pay back the interest on all the loans from the Federal Reserve Bank...

I stopped watching at this point.

At this moment I feel so yuck. I feel slimed, like I need to go pray and read the Word and get clean and re-focused. I feel so helpless and vulnerable; unable to protect my children from this world and the future. So interesting that this morning we were praying for the Lord to really lead and guide us with His wisdom when it comes to the upcoming elections, that the enemy so cunningly come to confuse. Of course he does.

Now I know in my own mind and of the research I have done on my own on the historical/archaological proof of Jesus outside of Biblical sources that there is enough in what I know to completely discredit their claims of Jesus not even having existed, which is just ridiculous. But what concerns me is all the people sitting on the fence who might watch this film. The enemy is a deceiver and he is really ramping up his efforts as of late. It is blatant and overt redirection of people looking for truth away from Jesus, and the attack is specifically to discredit him and the deity of Christ.

The part about this that sucks the most is that for those of us that believe to the very fibers of our being, we KNOW Jesus not only exists but for many of us IS our very life. We experience his presence on a daily basis, we communicate with him, we relate to him. We've gotten past the theology and details and why we should believe to knowing he is real because we experience him. It reminds me of the last chapter of "The Case for Christ" by Lee Stroebel. Lee set out on a journey to disprove the deity of Christ yet in the end found that he could not, and so was challenged to take th final step to experience him - which he did and now is one of the foremost apologists for the layman. So, back to the part that sucks - some people may never get there to experience him and that scares and saddens me. It makes me want to ramp up on all my apologetics and truly be to every man an answer. But man, there is so much to learn.

I did a quick search on Bible Gateway on the spirit of the age and this scripture came up - and I think it is so appropriate. It speaks about those mysteries that we cannot even speak about - the things of God where deep calls to deep. I love this passage of Scripture because it brings out in me that "YEAH MAN" about the Spirit... it's awesome.

1 Corinthians 2
1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.

Wisdom From the Spirit
6We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him"[b]— 10but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.[c] 14The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
16"For who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him?"[d] But we have the mind of Christ.

Now if Shiloh would just go to sleep already!