Monday, March 09, 2009

The Feast Of Purim Tied To The Tribulation And Great Tribulation!

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The Feast of Purim commemorates the amazing story of Esther in the Old Testament’s Book of Esther. The Feast of Purim was added to the Jewish religious calendar during the time of Israel’s exile in Babylonia. Purim commemorates the victory of the exiled Jews over their enemies through the courage of Hadassah, the beautiful Jewish virgin who became Esther, the Queen of Persia. Through her petition to King Ahasuerus, the Jews were able to successfully defend themselves against their foreign enemies in Persia.

Purim is celebrated in late winter - usually in March. On the Jewish Lunar Calendar, this celebration of the Jew’s victory over their enemies is always during the Full Moon on the 14th day of the 12th lunar month called Adar - one day after the Jews protected themselves successfully against their enemies on the 13th of Adar.

Interestingly, Purim is exactly one month before the Full Moon celebration of Passover. The decree to annihilate the Jews was made by Haman the day before the previous Passover, on the 13th of the first month of Nisan. Though Haman ostensibly gave the enemies of the Jews in Persia nearly a year to prepare for their slaughter of the Jews, he also gave the Jews the same amount of time to seek God’s help in providing a solution to their plight.

Amazingly, these dates seem to speak prophetically in regard to my hypothesis that the 12 Millenniums consisting of the Six Great Days of Creation, and the Six Great Days of Men’s Works are to be followed by a 13th Millennium ruled by Christ, and then by a 14th perfect Age that will be everlasting. It is important to note here that not all evil will be averted during Yahshua’s earthly reign until the very end of that time, when Satan will finally be cast into the Lake of Fire forever:

“Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations… Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They… surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came… out of heaven and devoured them. The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire… where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented… forever and ever.” - Revelation 20:7-10 (NKJ)
This passage of Scripture is telling us that Yahshua’s long sought-after Millennial Reign will not be the end of evil on the Earth! How else could Satan still be around to tempt and deceive men, and raise a wicked army as large as “the sand of the sea” that will need to be destroyed? Instead, it will be a time when no demons, or fallen angels will be around until the very end of that Age, when the last evil tares will be weeded out from among the good wheat in the Master’s earthly garden. Therefore, the 13th day of Adar in Esther’s day was a prefiguration of the end of the Thirteenth Great Day, when Yahshua will wipe out every last trace of evil on the Earth with fire.

Recounting the Esther story, many other parallels and types can illuminate our understanding of events in the future. The story begins with King Ahasuerus throwing a banquet. Interestingly, the Bible’s Book of Ezra identifies this same King Ahasuerus by the name of Cyrus, who was also known as Xerxes, or alternatively as Artaxerxes by the Greeks. At this time, the king asks his wife Queen Vashti to come to the banquet hall. But Vashti is haughty, and apparently refuses to be put on display (perhaps because she feels underrated - like a prize mare instead of a desirable woman) (Esther 1:10-12). Interestingly, there are seven eunuchs, and seven princes who serve the king, and are his closest confidantes (Esther 1:10,14). The seven eunuchs go to fetch Queen Vashti into the king’s presence, but she refuses to come - in apparent mimicry of the Israelites who refused to go up to the top of the mountain with Moses to meet with Yahweh face to face (Exodus 20:19). It is therefore the seven princes who help the king to decide the disobedient woman’s fate as a defiant wife and queen.

This leads to Vashti’s banishment, and begins the quest to find a more deserving (i.e. humble) queen for the king. At this time, all the loveliest maidens in the kingdom are brought to the palace to be beautified over many months, after which they will be allowed to spend only one night with the king. If they please him, they will be considered for the position of queen, but if they do not, they will spend the rest of their days in a harem as unwed concubines who serve the Queen. These concubines serve as an image of the Gentile nations that will surround Jerusalem in Yahshua’s Millennial Kingdom, but will be kept at a distance from Yahshua’s Throne until they repent fully, and submit to Him.

Now, among the maidens taken from their home to become concubines, there was a lovely Jewish girl named Hadassah, who takes the name of Esther to hide her Jewish identity. Since Hadassah was a Jewess who had spent all her prior life as an orphan under the care of her loving Jewish Uncle Mordecai, it is odd that she was chosen for this role. Since Mordecai was a distinguished judge in service to the king, Hadassah surely would not have had to endure the fate of becoming a concubine unless she wanted to! This implies that Hadassah voluntarily chose this role.

Already we can see archetypes emerging in the story, with the King of Persia representing Yahweh God in His fatherly and kingly roles, while Queen Vashti signifies the Israelites that became yoked under the Law, overly proud of their privileged status with Yahweh, disdainful of all outsiders, and unwilling to extend God’s salvation to them through love, forgiveness, mercy and acceptance. In juxtaposition, we find Mordecai, a type of Christ who is the loving caretaker of Esther, and the mediator between his people and Esther, who has the ear of the king.

Meanwhile, Esther serves as a prefiguration of the True Church. For example, when Esther is taken to the palace, she leaves the ordinary world around her, and enters a separate place of unimaginable wealth and beauty. It therefore likely felt as if she had left the mundane earthly realm of her peers altogether to serve a grand role in a loftier place. In this respect, Esther’s fate prefigures the Rapture of the True Church, when all faithful believers will be taken up to Heaven to serve as the wife and Queen of the King of kings.

Due to these obvious analogies, it seems likely that the seven eunuchs and princes who serve the Persian king represent the Seven Churches of Revelation. For example, the seven eunuchs and seven princes seem directly tied to the following Scripture:

“The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.” - Revelation 1:20 (NKJ)
The seven angels in this verse can be directly connected to the seven eunuchs of King Ahasuerus’ court, while the seven lampstands, or churches are easily equated with the seven princes who serve the same king! Though these seven churches currently exist in the world, they will one day also serve their Messiah and King in Heaven as the faithful virgin attendants of the Bride of Christ.

Further on in the story, we find that Esther - who wisely chooses to hide her identity, and listen to the eunuch Hegai - pleases King Ahasuerus so well, and is so beautiful to behold that she is soon desired above all the other women in the king’s harem, and thus becomes the new Queen of Persia. This suggests that Esther not only pleases the king physically, but that her real love for him sets her apart from all the other women he knows.

Meanwhile, a drama begins to unfold outside the palace between Mordecai, and the king’s chancellor, or Vizier Haman, who hates Mordecai because he will not bow down to him like the other people do. In fact, Haman hates all the Jews for following Mordecai, who will not bow to anyone with an Amalekite heritage, as the Amalekites are the sworn enemies of Israel.

Interestingly, Haman is identified as an Agagite, which means he was a descendent of the Amalekite king called Agag (Esther 3:1; 1 Samuel 15:8). Agag may have been a descendent of the Anakim, who descended from the Nephilim, who serve as the Seed of the Serpent, or Satan in prophecy (Genesis 3:15). This is why the prophet Samuel later mercilessly hacked Agag to pieces when Saul disobeyed God and spared Agag’s life (1 Samuel 15:32-33). Sadly, in sparing Agag’s life, Saul also must have spared at least one of Agag’s genetically tainted children. Later, the descendents of Agag gave birth to Haman - a prefiguration of the Antichrist of antichrists who will rule during the Great Tribulation. Eerily, Haman has ten sons who eventually perish along with him (Esther 9:12-13). These ten sons may be a prefiguration of the ten horns or kings that will give their power to the Antichrist, which are spoken of in Daniel and Revelation (Daniel 7:24; Rev. 13:1). They may also allude to the unrepentant wicked that will be found among the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel in this Last Day.

Now, Haman plots to destroy the Jews by coaxing King Ahasuerus to give Haman the authority to pass a royal edict allowing all the enemies of Israel to rise up in arms against them on the 13th day of Adar (Esther 3:5-10). When Mordecai learns of this plot, he dresses in sackcloth and mourns. Later, Esther finds out about Haman’s plot from Mordecai, but is hesitant to go to the king because it is against the king’s law for anyone to approach him without his permission. But Mordecai warns Esther that she will likely perish anyway if she does not help her people (Esther 4:14).

Interestingly, Mordecai, the good Jew and hero of this story shares his heroic role with his niece Esther, who is a prefiguration of Israel as found in the True Church. For example, just as many people now in the True Church did to survive, Esther divorced herself from her Israelite heritage, and concealed it by eating unclean foods in the harem, worshipping God on the same days that the Persians worshipped their many gods, and by sleeping with a Gentile who was initially not even her husband. In this way, Esther ensures her survival and acceptance among the heathens she must live and work with. But, in Esther’s willingness to forsake her heritage, there is also the implication that she truly desires to please the king, and has secretly fallen in love with him. In this way, Esther and her seven choice maid servants (Esther 2:9) prefigure the True Church, which - despite its Gentile veneer - is Jewish at heart, loves God, and desires to please Him above all else.

In Mordecai, we see an honorable man who loves King Ahasuerus in a different way than Esther. He loves the king by being faithful in his duties within the king’s empire, and in his promise to protect, and honor the king, and care for his people. Mordecai shows his exemplary character when he overhears two of the king’s eunuchs plotting to assassinate the king. Interestingly, instead of going to the king himself, Mordecai tells Esther of this plot, and allows Esther to alert King Ahasuerus about it, though she gives Mordecai the credit (Esther 2:21-22). This places Esther and Mordecai in an even higher regard with the king.

After being gloriously successful in her subterfuge, and placed in a position of extreme favor as the Queen of Persia, and as the dearest love of King Ahasuerus, Esther is called to tell the truth about her Jewishness, and risk everything she has worked so hard to establish and maintain. This happens when Mordecai learns of Haman’s plot to destroy all the Jews in Persia. At this time, he again goes to Esther instead of the king, and asks her to plead the case of her unjustly condemned people before the king. To do so, Esther must swallow her fear, and go before the king without a formal summons, which is forbidden and is punishable by death. In this way, Esther behaves as those who are saved, who can go before the King of kings without fear of reprisal because the King loves them, and they love the King, despite their sins.

While the Jews fast and pray on her behalf, Esther goes to King Ahasuerus and is granted his mercy. Then, Esther cunningly invites the evil Haman and King Ahasuerus to her palace apartments to share a banquet for two days in a row. However, after they drink wine together on the second day, Esther reveals that she is a Jewess, and tells how Haman has plotted to destroy the Jews. Note here how Esther shares a banquet with the good King Ahasuerus and the evil Haman for two days. This echoes the 2000-year period allotted for the Church Age, which closed in the year 2000. In fact, we are now in the Last Day, and Yahshua is coming soon! Despite this, however, God has granted mankind an additional 10-year period for His Grace to be carried out in history, and then the seven-year period of God’s Tribulation Wrath will come before Christ’s Millennial Kingdom becomes a reality. The prophecies that foretold this period are discussed at length in Book Four, “The Language of God in Prophecy.”

Now, because Mordecai alerts Esther of the plot to kill the king, and then later asks her to appeal to the king to save her people from certain destruction, these two related people share an interesting allegorical role that reveals a startling truth. This is the fact that there are two spiritual houses of Israel, as can be seen allegorically in the behavior of one avowed Jew, and one heathenized Jewess. These are the House of Judah, and the House of Israel, or Ephraim. Both of these houses are filled with believers in the same God, and both see a need for a Messiah, though those in the House of Judah are Jews and Messianics seeking an earthly and spiritual kingdom, while those in Israel/Ephraim are Gentiles and faithful Lost Israelites seeking the heavenly kingdom within. 

(Article Continues After Character Chart Below)...

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Characters in Esther and Their 
Allegorical Prophetic Connection
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King Ahasuerus/Xerxes: Yahweh and Yahshua as King of kings

Haman the Agagite: Antichrist - Satan - Azazel - Anakim

Mordecai the Jew: Judah Ruled By The Spirit - Yahshua as Messiah

Queen Vashti: Israel ruled by the flesh and the Mosaic Law

Esther/Hadassah her seven choice maid servants:
Hidden Israel ruled by the Holy Spirit; the True Church

Eunuchs Hegai, Shaashgaz, and Hathach:
The Holy Spirit as the motherly aspect of our Triune Father God

The seven eunuchs and seven princes (Esther 1:10-14):
The seven angels and seven churches of Revelation, Chapters 1-3

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In the roles of Mordecai and Esther, several truths that pertain to the Church Age emerge, especially during the End Times. First of all, in Mordecai we allegorically see Yahshua’s Spirit alerting His beloved children of impending danger, and then we see God the Father providing a means of escape for them. Secondly, on an even deeper scale, we can see that Mordecai and Esther represent the Two House Church, or congregation consisting of Judah (as Mordecai) and Ephraim (as Esther). Furthermore, we can see that these two Houses are being called to work together. In fact, one day soon they will be forced to unite, and help one another during one of the darkest moments in human history - the time of the Great Tribulation. That time is very near, and “The Language of God” Book Series is a product of God’s Spirit moving to unite these warring factions of Christ’s invisible Kingdom, and to prepare them to fight the coming battle against the Antichrist.

Sadly, a large portion of this united Two House Church will be on Earth to fight that coming battle to its conclusion. They will be on Earth because they are left behind in the Rapture. Of the billions of avowed Christians in the world today, perhaps only a few hundred million faithful believers have set themselves apart from the apostate churches, and will be spared the plagues of that terrible time via the Rapture (Rev. 3:10; 4:1-2). Nonetheless, this event will serve to awaken many apostates from their sinful slumber. These Tribulation Saints will fight the Antichrist, many will be martyred, and all of them will be resurrected into Christ’s glorious conquering army at Armageddon (Rev. 19:11-15).

Interestingly, after the Rapture, the Jews living in Israel will be like the small portion of Jews who faithfully returned to the Promised Land before the events in Esther, even though doing so meant forsaking their property and high standing in Persia, and instead enduring privation and toil in Israel in order to do God’s Will. Likewise, many Jews had to leave everything they had behind in order to move to Israel, and build a new life for themselves far from their exilic homes among the Gentiles.

This exploration of the allegorical messages in Esther reveals that Esther actually is a prophetic book with a message that was to remain hidden until this era, which is just before the time of Jacob’s Trouble that it defines, and the subsequent coming of the King of kings that it promises. This coming of Yahshua as King can be seen in the triumphant figure of Mordecai, who is dressed with the colors, and regalia of the coming princely Messiah:

“So Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, with a great crown of gold and a garment of fine linen and purple; and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.” - Esther 8:15 (NKJ)
Just as Yahshua is depicted in a blue thread among the white ones making up the tassels on a prayer shawl, or Tallit, Mordecai is first dressed in blue and white like an Israelite priest and Persian prince, and then has purple and gold draped over this to show his elevation to the status of Vizier of the king. As the new Vizier, Mordecai took the place of the evil Haman, just as Christ will one day take the place now unlawfully held by Satan as the evil ruler of this dark world.

Indeed, our current world is full of lovers of pleasure like the Jews who stayed in Persia, rather than lovers of God like the faithful remnant of Jews who returned to Israel to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple. They therefore will be left behind to fight the battle against the Antichrist. Sadly, however, unlike the victorious Jews who suffered few losses from their battle with their enemies in ancient Persia, the Tribulation Saints will almost lose this coming modern war, and will suffer greatly until Christ intervenes with His army of angels and saints, and saves the day with His “glorious appearing” (Titus 2:11-13).


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Friday, February 20, 2009

The Sinister Origins of the
Nephilim Giants or Reptilians


Author's Foreword from the Upcoming Book:
"The Language of God in History"

Copyright 2007-2009
By Helena Lehman


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The following article consists of the actual Author's Foreword from my new book “The Language of God in History,” which contains hundreds of pages of exciting information about the Watchers, or Annunaki, and the Nephilim, or Giants that were on the Earth prior to the Great Flood। It serves as an exciting introduction to one of the most interesting books in “The Language of God” Book Series। I hope you enjoy reading it, and I welcome your feedback about it.


“The Language of God in History” was written for two major reasons. First, it is an educated Christian response to the virulent anti-biblical attitudes among world secular academia, New Agers, and Neo-Pagans. Secondly, it is in response to the many alien conspiracy advocates and Darwinists who use author Zechariah Sitchin’s corrupted research surrounding the Watchers (i.e. Sitchin’s Annunaki) and their Nephilim “offspring” to support Evolution, and to suggest that modern human beings, or Homo-Sapiens are the by-product of alien genetic manipulation.

This manipulation of apes or Neanderthals by the fallen angels (a.k.a. the Watchers, or Annunaki) or their Nephilim offspring (a.k.a. giants or reptilians) supposedly resulted in the development of Homo sapiens, which Sitchin claims were created to be a quasi-intelligent slave race geared to serve the Watchers and Nephilim prior to the Great Flood. However, though humanity was subjugated by the Nephilim both before and after the Flood, the Bible teaches that mankind was created as a unique and fully developed animal species long before the Watchers came down to Earth. The fallen among the Watchers did, however, use genetic engineering to create the Pre-Flood Nephilim - some of whom somehow survived the Flood to produce the Post-Flood Anakim and Rephaim giants in an almost successful attempt to corrupt and destroy all life on Earth.

Some conspiracy theorists also believe in the Gap Theory, which supposes that another creation and destruction of the Earth by water occurred in an imagined gap of omission between the first two sentences of the Book of Genesis. The theory goes that the Watchers or Annunaki were the first beings to inhabit the Earth, which was subsequently completely destroyed by a worldwide flood. This imagined flood would date to approximately 8,000 years before Noah’s Flood in 2347 BC. This argument is often used by Evolution-touting Christians to support their belief in Darwin’s theories, as the Gap Theory allows them to add as many imagined years as they want to biblical chronologies so that it will coincide with current evolutionary thinking.

Nonetheless, the Gap Theory is totally against the teaching of the Bible, and is misleading millions of people into believing falsehoods about the past that have absolutely no basis in fact. For example, many conspiracy theorists who accept the Gap Theory also believe that mankind is the product of genetic manipulation with Watcher, and/or Nephilim genetic material. However, the Bible tells us that God created mankind in His image, not in the image of a subhuman ape, or genetically-engineered Nephilim monster!

In fact, the writer of Genesis specifically stated that God saved Noah because he “was perfect in his generations” and “the earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence” (Genesis 6:9-11). He made this statement to clarify that both Noah and his sons were still perfectly human - with no Nephilim blood mixed in! In short, they were the only people who had not become genetically corrupted, and violently unstable.

Humanity had sunken so low from genetic corruption by the time of Noah that they had inherited the Nephilim penchant for perpetual violence and bloodlust. As evidenced in the Book of 1 Enoch and the Book of Jasher, the Watchers succeeded in corrupting nearly all divinely-created life forms by mixing the genes of animals, birds and reptiles together in a multitude of ways to create a seemingly endless array of hybrid Nephilim monsters. Furthermore, these mutant creatures had no compulsion to follow God’s laws, and therefore became grossly wicked.

Sadly, because the Nephilim were cunning and powerful, mankind gradually succumbed to their evil ways, and became genetically corrupted with their genes through sexual unions that produced mutant hybrid children. The resultant mutant humanoid races were as disdainful of God’s laws, and as evil and violent as their Nephilim forbears. This is why God grieved that He had created mankind, and wanted to destroy all life on the Earth (Genesis 6:5-7). Thankfully, there were still some pure animals and plants among every species on Earth just before Noah’s Flood, or no animals would have been allowed to board the Ark.

Nonetheless, God’s plan to completely destroy the Nephilim scourge in the Great Flood was somehow thwarted. This is why God chose Abraham and the Israelites. Yahweh wanted to raise up a purely human army of believers who would trust their one true Creator God for the help they needed to defeat their inhuman enemies. As will be shown in Chapter Eight of this book, the Israelites were chosen by God to kill all the Nephilim or Giants who had survived the Flood. They were ordered to do so because these evil alien beings had conquered the Sethites who originally lived in Canaan until shortly after Abraham’s time. Furthermore, they had expressly done so to prevent Abraham’s descendents from taking the Promised Land that God had promised them.

As explained in the Book of Jasher, Melchizedek, the king of Salem, was none other than Shem. As Noah’s and God’s favored son, Shem was the leading patriarch of the Shemite (i.e. Semitic) clans, and he resided in Canaan, which was to one day become known as Israel. Furthermore, the city of Salem that Melchizedek governed over was in the location of the future city of Jerusalem. This is why Melchizedek honored Abraham, and vise versa. They both must have been divinely informed of God’s plan for Abraham’s offspring to one day inhabit Canaan forever. In addition, they both likely secretly knew that God had a plan to destroy the Giants, which required these mutants to invade Canaan.

Per God’s plan, the Nephilim were provoked by their hatred of God’s chosen people to invade Canaan to annihilate and subjugate the human populace, and then settle there - thus ensuring that most of the Giants would eventually be gathered into one place after the Flood. This made it much easier for Abraham’s descendents to destroy the Nephilim, and reclaim their stolen land for Yahweh. Assuming this explains partly why Shem didn’t simply give the land to his eleventh generation grandson Abraham at that time that they were introduced to each other, since Abraham was the heir to God’s promises to Shem.

The true conspiracy behind all the problems in the Middle East today is that this information is plainly recorded in the Bible and Book of 1 Enoch, but pastors have either been taught not to teach about this, or refuse to do so. Yet this Nephilim conspiracy to destroy mankind is partly behind the hatred of the sons of Ishmael for the sons of Isaac. It is also exacerbated by the jealousy and sibling rivalry between Ishmael and Isaac, which has never been resolved.

To further complicate the situation, the Nephilim-tainted Philistines of ancient times have metamorphosed into the Palestinian people of today. Just as the Anakim, Amorites, Amalekites, and Philistines were Israel’s bitterest enemies, their modern counterparts hate and desire to provoke and/or kill all the spiritual (i.e. Christian) and literal (i.e. Jewish) descendents of Abraham living in Israel, and throughout the world.

Because ten of the twelve Israelite spies who were sent into Canaan to scout their defenses were afraid of these Nephilim giants, God forced the Israelites to wander in the Sinai for forty years (See Numbers, Ch.13 & 14). This served as a blessing in disguise, since - during their wilderness wanderings - the Israelites became physically fit, hardened warriors that were ready to fight their most fearsome enemies.

Subsequently, when the Israelites returned to Canaan, they had lost their slave mindset and - even more importantly - had learned to trust God. As a result of their new-found faith in Yahweh’s power, they had virtually no trouble defeating most of the Philistines, Giants, Anakim and Rephaim in Canaan, and winning the Promised Land for Yahweh. As will be shown in this book and Book Four, however, the bloodline of the Nephilim was sadly not fully extinguished, and can be associated with some of the aristocratic and noble bloodlines in Europe, Great Britain and the Middle-East today.

This book - and the series it is a part of - was written to reveal many of the truths about the One True God and His Creation that the Nephilim, fallen angels, and the pagans who followed them have mocked, perverted, hid, or otherwise tried to destroy since the dawn of time. For this reason, though this book has been written to stand alone, it is meant to be read in conjunction with the other books in the series, and is most beneficial when viewed as part of the set. However, if you do not have access to these books, you can still gain much from this single volume in the series. As you continue to read, may Yahweh bless you on your spiritual journey into the secrets of the past.

--- Helena Lehman, March 17th, 2008

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Friday, January 30, 2009

Was The Original Sin A Sexual One?

“The Serpent Tempts Eve”
An Original Drawing By Helena Lehman


NOTE: This article was derived from the book:
“The Language of God in History”
Copyright © 2008-2009 by Helena Lehman
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NOTE: This Article was Revised and Updated on June 7th, 2013 

Among the apocryphal literature and Jewish Midrash that have survived to modern times, there are a few Judeo-Christian writings that suggest that Eve did not eat a literal fruit when she sinned, but transgressed against God and Adam by engaging in forbidden sexual encounters with the “Serpent” guise of the fallen angel Azazel or Satan in the Garden of Eden. As a result, there is a growing body of people who believe that Eve sinned by having unauthorized sex with the Serpent. Even more oddly, some people believe that this serpent was a reptilian humanoid that either was Azazel’s true form, or that this reptilian was possessed by the spirit of the fallen angel Azazel, also known as Lucifer or the Devil. Finally, some people think that this reptilian being was the biological father of Eve’s firstborn son Cain. Therefore, by this warped hypothesis, Eve became the first human woman to sleep with a fallen angel and also the first to be transformed into an evil demoness or siren that is known today by the name of Lilith.

By this reasoning, Eve’s son Cain would not have been fully human but a hybrid Nephilim monster that hated mankind as much as his father the Devil! In this way, Eve supposedly gave birth to the literal “seed of the Serpent” mentioned in Genesis 3:15 - the one that God promised would eventually be defeated by the Seed of the “Woman” or Holy Spirit, whose “Seed” is Yahshua. However, though a Nephilim seed of the Serpent was eventually born by a human woman, it was not by an innocent and sweet maiden named Eve. Instead, as is shown in Chapter Five of The Language of God in History,” the first woman to literally sleep with Satan was most likely a brazen, fallen temptress named Naamah, the gorgeous but evil daughter of Lamech the Cainite!

Now, before we begin destroying the erroneous premise that Satan fathered Cain via Eve, let me make it clear that, though allegorical meanings are frequently implied in Scripture, their literal meaning must also be taken into consideration and understood so that any allegorical messages hidden there are not misconstrued. The story of Adam and Eve in the Garden is one such case, and since Genesis literally forms the foundation of the Judeo-Christian faith, we must be extra careful not to read anything into it that is not meant!

Secondly, though the Garden of Eden was a real garden that was filled with literal fruit-bearing trees, they have an allegorical meaning that is defined by Scripture. The allegorical meanings are therefore not simply to be interpreted in any way by our imaginations. For example, the Tree of Life was a literal tree that also has a scriptural connection to Yahshua as our spiritual sustenance and the Giver of everlasting life. This is also conveyed by the rite of Communion, where Yahshua is pictured as the Bread of Life, the True Vine, the New Wine, and the Living Water. The Tree of Life is also a symbol of the Cross of Christ, whereby a dead man hung on a dead tree secured the promise of everlasting life for all living things and became the source of new life and redemption for all Creation! Therefore, the Tree of Life ideally represents one’s deep and abiding love for Yahweh God, His Son and His Spirit as well as one’s obedience to God.

Thirdly, like the Tree of Life, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was a literal tree that bore fruit that was pleasing to the eye. But just as the Tree of Life signified one’s love for and obedience to God, the Tree of Knowledge signified the rebellion against God epitomized in the person of Satan, who spiritually twisted and then physically possessed a once wise and beautiful Serpent in order to deceive Eve. Therefore, the Tree of Knowledge could not offer light or wisdom but only darkness, error and death through the act of rebellion against God.

Now, scholars that argue that Eve became Lilith and slept with the Devil argue that the “fruit” in the Garden of Eden was supposed to be an allegorical reference to sexual acts, and the “trees” allegorically represented people. But if this is the true allegorical meaning, then when Eve said she could eat the fruit from almost any tree in the Garden of Eden, she was indicating that she could have sex with anyone she wanted! But could God truly have meant this? Since one of the Ten Commandments is “do not commit adultery,” it is logical to assume that God meant no such thing! Let’s read the passages in question here:
“Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God (Yahweh Elohim) had made. And he said to the woman, ‘Has God indeed said, “You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” And the woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, “You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.”’ Then the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food… and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked…’” - Genesis 3:1-7 (NKJ)
Now, if these passages are interpreted the way proponents of the Eve as Lilith hypothesis maintain, they would be suggesting that Eve could promiscuously have sex with anyone she wanted to have it with except the crafty Serpent, who was represented by the Tree of Knowledge! Furthermore, since the Tree of Life in the Garden allegorically represented Christ, and Eve could eat from that tree, then this passage would be saying that Eve could have sex with Yahshua too, and this is not only heretical, but ludicrous!

In addition, since Adam ate from the same fruit as Eve and that fruit was supposedly the act of sex, this line of reasoning can only lead to one totally absurd conclusion: that Adam also had sex with the Serpent when he ate the forbidden fruit! Unfortunately, this conclusion is so far-fetched that it doesn’t even bear consideration - especially since it can be rationally concluded and scripturally proven that Adam was desperately in love with Eve, was originally sinless and like Yahshua in character, and was not deceived like Eve. Furthermore, thinking that the Original Sin was sexual in nature is patently heretical, since it attempts to discredit the idea that any transgression against God is sinful.

The idea that Eve sinned sexually with the fallen angel Azazel in the guise of a Serpent and had Cain by him is not only reprehensible, but seems illogical when examined rationally. First of all, Adam and Eve were perfectly innocent before they fell into sin. As a result, neither Eve nor Adam struggled with feelings of lust. Furthermore, if Eve had sinned in such a way toward Adam, his righteous anger toward her would have been reason enough for him to reject her! This also makes no sense since it is likely that Adam only ate the fruit Eve ate because he could not bear to be separated from her for eternity. This could not have been the case, however, if Adam was consumed by anger over Eve’s betrayal.

Remember that the Apostle Paul declared that Adam was not deceived, but only Eve (1 Timothy 2:14). This means that - before biting the forbidden fruit - Adam unquestionably knew that Azazel had lied to Eve, but he loved Eve too much to spend eternity without her! So Adam ate the fruit out of a desire not to lose Eve. Indeed, Adam loved Eve so much that he was completely willing to suffer and die for her, and hence it was the first Adam who set the pattern for the Messiah who was to come and reverse Adam’s folly! This is why Yahshua was called the “Second Man” and the “Last Adam” by the Apostle Paul:
“And so it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being.’ The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.” - 1 Corinthians 15:45-47 (NKJ)
This Scripture teaches us that, though Adam’s love for Eve caused him to sin against God and bring death and despair into the world, Yahshua’s love for us caused Him to glorify God the Father, obey Him, and bring abundant life and hope into the world:

“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” - John 10:10 (NKJ)
In the preceding Scripture, Azazel or Lucifer is the thief who brought us the agony of death through his desire to kill us all, while Yahshua is the life-giver who gives life so abundantly when we love Him that it springs up into resurrection and everlasting life:
“Jesus (Yahshua) answered and said to her, ‘Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.’” - John 4:14 (NKJ)
Besides showing us how Christ came to undo the damage that Adam had done by loving Eve more than he loved God the Father or His preincarnate Son and Spirit, Scripture makes it perfectly clear that Adam was the biological father of Cain:
“Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, ‘I have acquired a man from the LORD (Yahweh).’” - Genesis 4:1 (NKJ)
Thus, the Bible confirms that Cain was “a man,” not a Nephilim or reptilian, and Adam was Cain’s true father. However, many cite the fact that Cain behaved differently than Adam did by killing Abel as proof that Azazel fathered Cain - thus turning Cain into a Nephilim! However, they are too blind to see that Adam brought death to all mankind through his foolishness. Nonetheless, just as Adam was manipulated by Satan’s cunning when he chose to follow Eve into rebellion rather than lose her, Cain’s jealousy allowed Satan to manipulate him into killing Abel. However, to be fair to Adam, we need to remember that Eve literally shared Adam’s flesh, bone and spirit. Therefore, due to Azazel’s overwhelming hatred of Adam and Eve and all their future children, no other human couple has even known the perfect love and intimacy that this first married couple only had a brief chance to share.

In reality, the suggestion that Eve could so easily be tempted into sinning against Adam completely defies the nature of how perfectly matched Adam and Eve were. You see, Eve was Adam’s perfect soul mate. As soul mates, their bond of intimacy and love was stronger than anything we can possibly imagine in our fallen condition. In fact, anyone who professes to have a soul mate could not know what this truly means unless they were Adam or Eve, who were sinless in the beginning and likewise shared the radiant Shekinah Glory of God. Indeed, because Eve was formed from Adam’s rib, they even shared almost identical DNA!

Though some might argue that Eve did not have the baptism of the Spirit to give her the ability to resist temptation, there is good reason to believe that Adam and Eve were both indwelled by God’s Spirit before they fell. However, their initial covering with the Spirit of God which clothed them with the Shekinah Glory or Light of God in the Garden of Eden was conditional on their good behavior. They needed to remain obedient to God to keep that Spirit covering of light and truth to do the good works that God ordained for them to do. In contrast, humanity’s New Covenant with Christ offers unconditional salvation and communion with God and an irrevocable baptism with the Holy Spirit to anyone who loves and accepts Christ, asks for His mercy and forgiveness, and sincerely asks and wants to become like Him.

Adam and Eve’s possession of the Holy Spirit before their fall into sin is inferred because the first human couple were unaware of their nakedness before they sinned, but clearly could see that they were naked after they sinned. Now, many argue that this was a sign that Eve’s disobedience gave mankind intelligence and the ability to reason. However, if Adam and Eve were created in God’s image, they would already have had God’s sentience, wisdom and Spirit! As a result, there was nothing good that they did not already possess. They knew God’s total goodness and perfection and shared in it because they were filled with His Spirit and clothed with His Shekinah at the moment that they were created! They did not need to earn the right to share in God’s Glory or dominion over all Creation as we do, but they nonetheless could lose it as a consequence of disobedience to God.

Sadly, when Adam and Eve sinned by being disobedient, later events in the Book of Genesis make it clear that they and all their descendents lost the perfect knowledge and discernment that God had given them through His Spirit. At the moment Adam and Eve fell, they lost the Shekinah that had clothed them with beautiful, radiant light. As a result, they quickly discovered the unpleasant emotions associated with nakedness, shame, and guilt. Indeed, Eve would have seen Adam’s shock at her nakedness as she offered him the fruit, and she would have soon known that what Satan had given her was not the truth or the uplifting and empowering knowledge of godhood, but a terrible lie. Eve thus gained the horrible knowledge of sin and its destructive spiritual, emotional, and physical consequences.

How sad it is that so many of Eve’s progeny still seek the godhood that she could never achieve without Yah’s miraculous intervention. Yet, therein lies the reason why the Two House Church of Judah and Ephraim are to marry Yahshua as His Bride! Through Christ, all born-again believers shall finally gain Eve’s desire to be like God - but through obedience rather than rebellion!

Based on these reasons, it is highly likely that Eve actually did eat the fruit of a real tree when she sinned, just as the Bible states, and no allegorical meaning was intended. Though Eve may have been mesmerized by the beauty of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and by the persuasiveness of the Serpent’s speech, her overwhelming love for Adam and her emotional connection to him would have been strong enough to keep her from entering into any sexual sin with someone else - angelic or not.

Nonetheless, Satan was extremely cunning and knew exactly how to cajole Eve into sin. First, from the biblical narrative, it is apparent that the Serpent approached Eve when Adam was not nearby. There is, however, no suggestion that Adam and Eve were angry at each other, and this was highly unlikely anyway because they were so perfectly matched and totally sinless at the time. So, while Eve worked in the garden that God had given the first human couple to tend, a clever Serpent approached Eve that she never had reason to fear before. This Serpent, who knew how to communicate with Eve (possibly on a telepathic level), was no doubt possessed by Azazel or Satan. Hidden in this guise, Azazel began to fill Eve’s mind with enormous doubt and suspicion against her heavenly Father, and made it clear that the only way she would be able to satisfy her curiosity and find out if God had lied to her would be to disobey God.

Note that the Serpent did not beguile Eve with promises of sensual pleasure as would be expected if he was attempting to have sex with her. Instead, Azazel used the Serpent to tempt Eve by fomenting a greedy desire within her for knowledge and godhood:
“The serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’” - Gen. 3:4-5 (NKJ)
It was therefore not sexual sin, but Eve’s pride and greed for greatness that caused her to sin, and to thereby lose her Shekinah Glory covering. Incidentally, pride and greed are also what caused Lucifer or Azazel to sin against Yahweh, so he was merely reutilizing the same arguments with Eve that he had used to rationalize his own decision to rebel against God in the first place!

When Adam saw the terrible result of Eve’s folly through her nakedness, he realized that Eve was now mortal and sinful, and because light and darkness cannot dwell together, they would be separated forever unless he chose to follow her into sin. Adam also knew that the moment he took a bite of that fruit, he would suffer the same fate as Eve, and would lose the Shekinah that had clothed him and Eve with light. But he chose to do it anyway out of love for Eve. Thus, they both lost the Holy Spirit and the Shekinah that covered them at the moment they sinned, and they suddenly knew the pain of evil emotions like guilt, shame, fear, loss, and blame for the first time - not to mention the physical pain that would come when they were expelled from the Garden.

After her fall from grace, Eve likely no longer felt kindly toward the Serpent, but extreme loathing. Perhaps she even felt hatred toward another living thing for the first time in her life. Indeed, Adam and Eve would have known soon enough that Azazel was the real culprit behind the Serpent’s cunning, and they both likely communicated their enormous anger toward the Serpent for allowing Azazel to deceive them when they sinfully passed their own blame onto him for their fall.

For the preceding reasons, it is likely that Eve was smitten by the beguiling Serpent’s overwhelming charm, scintillating erudition, and mesmerizing speech to take a bite of a real fruit she should not have eaten, and then was subsequently ashamed and repentant. After all, Eve would have known immediately after losing her Shekinah Glory covering that the Serpent had lied to her, and this would have become even more apparent when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden and were forced to toil and labor for their food in a suddenly hostile environment.

Nonetheless, because they were totally cut off from God’s guidance after being cast out of Eden, Adam and Eve continued to sin and - whether or not they desired it - they were both eventually worshipped as deities - as will be shown later in this book. As a result, the Serpent’s prediction that Eve would be like God when she discovered evil proved true - but only in the most twisted and basest sense. As the first father and mother of all the living, Adam and Eve were unique among human beings, and even though it was sinful to worship them or turn them into idols, they were eventually seen as deities whether they liked it or not.

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Note: With the exception of the Bible verses, the written material in this article is copyrighted by Helena Lehman of the Pillar of Enoch Ministry through the Copyright Office of the United States of America. Therefore this article may not be used in whole or in part in any paid commercial, digital, electronic, or printed publication without permission from the author. 
All the Scriptures used in this excerpt were taken from the PC Study Bible: New King James Version copyrighted by Thomas Nelson Publishers in the USA, 1982

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Celestial Forebodings and Ominous Signs in the Heavens for the New Year

By Helena Lehman

On December 31st, 2008, prompted by a question sent to me in an e-mail, I decided to take a look at the sky in my Starry Night program - and I was truly surprised! The person who wrote to me was right. There is quite a show going on in the heavens tonight.

In actuality, however, the show started early this morning with the bright planet Saturn, which represents God’s Sabbath Rest in the Millennial Kingdom of Christ. Saturn is directly between the constellations Virgo and Leo - the beginning and end of the ancient Zodiac. These signs are memorialized in the Great Sphinx, which represents Christ as “the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last” (Rev. 22:13). Leo also signifies Christ as the Lion of Judah, who - someday soon - will reign on the Earth for a thousand years of peace and prosperity in a world restored to its Eden-like perfection.

These signs alone are interesting, but don’t mean much in regard to God’s heavenly prophetic timeline until the other signs are noted in relation to it, and this is when the sky had a more intriguing message. First, before sunrise, Mars - the planet denoting war, bloodshed, and sacrifice - was visible near to the junction between Sagittarius and Scorpio. Sagittarius represents Christ as the dual-natured God-Man and Archer whose arrow will pierce the heart of that old Serpent Satan, which is depicted by Scorpio and by Serpens - that giant Serpent writhing in the arms of the messianic Mighty Man constellation Ophiuchus, which is just above Scorpio.

A bit later, the Sun, which signifies God the Father as the source of all light, warmth and wisdom rose in Sagittarius, the sign that also signifies Christ battling Satan through His redeeming sacrifice for our sins on the Cross. Then, after the Sun sets tonight, this show in the sky gets even more interesting - and increasingly more foreboding.

First - low in the southwestern sky - two pairs of celestial bodies in conjunction with each other will appear. The pair closest to the horizon will be Mercury the Angelic (Enochian) Messenger planet and Jupiter the Messiah planet at the juncture between Sagittarius and Capricorn. These two signs signify godly ideas but also hint at the genetic corruption that was going on prior to the Flood via the fallen angels called Watchers and the Nephilim Giants.

For example, Capricorn depicts the death of all terrestrial life during the Great Flood of Noah, when the Nephilim and all other earthly life was virtually wiped out due to their wickedness and genetic corruption. The conjunction of Mercury and Jupiter between Capricorn and Sagittarius therefore suggests that Christ the Messiah is planning to bring war and bloodshed to the Earth due to the violence and corruption of humanity, which - at this time in history - is approaching the level it was prior to the Flood. Could this also be a warning that mankind’s genetic tampering with food crops and domesticated animals will soon be punished by another devastating act of God?

The second pair in conjunction tonight will be sitting at the juncture between Aquarius, signifying both God’s anger and wrath in the Great Flood and His love and provision through the Holy Spirit. This pair consists of Venus - the planet signifying spiritual illumination, and the Moon - representing utter sinfulness when it is new or redemption and purity when it is full. Tonight the Moon will be a slim waxing crescent with Venus just below it, and - if the sky is clear - this pair will be clearly visible, along with Jupiter nearer to the horizon.

This crescent Moon and the bright star Venus in conjunction evoke the symbol of Islam, and suggest that there may be great trouble brewing in the Middle East that will erupt into a full-scale war soon. Ominously, there is a skirmish that just began between Israel and Gaza right now, and this could become a much bigger problem rapidly - considering the hatred of the Anti-Semitic and Anti-Christian Islamic Terrorists currently surrounding Israel on all sides.

Meanwhile, troops are amassing at the border between India and Pakistan as tensions arising from the November 2008 wounding of over 300 and the torture, mutilation and slaughter of 173 people by Pakistani Terrorists in Mumbai mounts to a heated frenzy. If a war starts between these two countries, it could leave Pakistan’s Afghan border extremely vulnerable, and this may allow Al Qaida terrorists hiding in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan more freedom to advance their terrorist agenda in 2009.

Then there is the 2008 economic collapse and financial crisis that has had repercussions around the world with many losing their massive fortunes, their homes and their businesses, and many other people now unemployed and hungry. No one knows how or when this current worldwide Depression will lift, and no one knows how the USA is going to pay back its ever more massive debt load.

Emphasizing the coming wrath of God that is really evident in the sky this evening, two other planets that are tied to Noah and the Great Flood will be in Aquarius tonight. These are the gas giants Uranus - a planet connected to Noah in myth, and Neptune - the planet named after the Roman god of the sea!

Needless to say, after seeing what I saw in the heavens today, I hope Yahshua will forgive me for being lax in my observations lately! I have been busy finishing a fascinating look at ancient history through the lens of Scripture and the Gospel in the Stars, and I was sidetracked by all the amazing things the Holy Spirit has been showing me as I write. I can’t wait to share my newest book: “The Language of God in History” with the world! Check out its contents and pre-order a copy today at the Pillar of Enoch Ministry Web Site

In the meantime, for more information about what the Bible and Gospel in the Stars are predicting for us in the near future, check out my other books and the many free articles and downloads at my web site. I also have quite a few interesting articles published at the American Chronicles news site. For more background about what might happen in the near future, check out my articles there about the Prophecy in Psalm 108, the Perseus Prophecy article, and my 2012 Anti-Peace Sign articles.

I hope I’m wrong in my dire warnings for 2009, but only the future will tell. While we wait, let me take this opportunity to wish all those reading this a Happy New Year!

God bless America!

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Twilight’s Vampires and Werewolves: The Nephilim Connection


Excerpted from the copyrighted, soon-to-be-released book: “The Language of God in History,” Book 3 in Helena Lehman’s Language of God Book Series.


For years, trend-savvy move producers and authors who are now multi-millionaires have known that people often find a twisted form of sensual pleasure when courting death and terror in their fantasies, and many have a dark occult fascination with horror. Creatures of the night such as vampires and werewolves court people with their sinister allure, raising their blood pleasure and giving them an adrenaline high that is almost sexual and orgasmic in its intensity for some. But this sort of pleasure is sinful, and those who love Christ are called not only to reject it, but to expose it for the evil that it is:

“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful… to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible… This is why it is said: ‘Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” - Ephesians 5:11-14 (NIV)

Those who are truly spiritually awake and have the light of Christ within them tend to be highly sensitive, and to find no pleasure in watching people being deceived, tortured, and/or murdered in highly grotesque ways by the living dead or the damned. For someone such as myself who has always been aware of the spiritual darkness and light within the invisible spirit world around me, this is especially true. For me, there is nothing more terrifying than watching a horror movie filled with dark demonic beings that find animalistic pleasure raping or eating people, cutting or ripping them into pieces, or drinking their blood until they die or are transformed into another demonic creature of darkness.

Though few people realize it, this sort of entertainment invokes terror in me because I know that it accurately depicts the dark desires of demons that continually lust after human flesh and blood. Furthermore, I know that these unseen demonic entities are actually the spirits of the Nephilim, alien beings that hate mankind with an intense passion, and that once inhabited the Earth before the Flood. At that time, the Nephilim vied for the control of the Earth, and desired to destroy every human being that was not mesmerized into submission and sexual sin by their dark, exotic and sensual allure.

Rather than be seduced into sexual promiscuity or terrified to death by these demonic spirits, I cling tightly to Yahshua my Messiah, whose love and Spirit save me from succumbing to the perverse sensuality, darkness and terror that so many foolhardy people seem to crave. I find no delight in being terrified, or in courting evil and sensuality instead of the pure and untainted intimacy with Yahweh God that we can all experience when we love the light of Yahshua (Jesus) more than the darkness that He alone can save us from. As the Apostle Peter said:

“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” - 1 Peter 2:9 (NKJ)

But, if Yahshua’s light is so marvelous, why are many among those who profess to love Him finding pleasure in dark entertainment? What I find most alarming about this is the absolute rejection of Yahshua’s light and love that these people are giving into every time they watch a horror movie or read a paranormal romance or romantic thriller. They either do not realize or do not care that they are courting Hell and the Devil when they allow their minds to be tantalized with darkness, for all of those who are saved are called to reject Satan’s darkness in favor of God’s light. As the Apostle Paul said:

“The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ (Yahshua Ha Mashiach), and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” - Romans 13:12-14 (NKJ)

If we desire to be citizens in Christ’s Kingdom of light and love, we cannot find lustful pleasure in viewing the glorification of evil and darkness, or seeing it as an acceptable form of entertainment. Nonetheless, many professing Messianics and Christians see nothing wrong with viewing horror movies or occultic thrillers. They see these things as entertainment and think that there is nothing abnormal in experiencing the emotional distortions, adrenaline rush and sensory overload provided by these venues, even though they are contrary to what Christ expects from His followers. As Yahshua said:

“Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.” - John 3:20-21 (NIV)

What is even more alarming to me is the overwhelming popularity of modern romance novels featuring a hero or heroine that is a vampire. It boggles my mind to know that many women and teen girls (and, with the advent of the “Twilight” books and movies, men and teen boys too) are fascinated with dark romances that feature a liberated, unscrupulous, or immoral woman who is seduced into a sensual liaison with a male vampire. Even though these unlikely vampire heroes are often tormented souls who would rather perish than suck the blood out of living humans to live forever, the dictates of the dark fantasy realms these vampires inhabit insist that they are beyond redemption and - despite their tragic desire - could never be transformed into beings of light. In other words, these creatures of darkness can perish as easily in sunlight as they inevitably and irrevocably would in Yahweh God’s illuminating and holy presence.

Nonetheless, with increasing frequency, even supposedly good Christian women and teens often find sick pleasure in fantasizing about falling in love with a supernaturally powerful being that is forever separated from God’s love and light, and could easily destroy them. But, instead of heeding the prompting of their conscience (i.e. the Holy Spirit), many hapless people unwisely succumb to the dark sensuality and lust that these beings seduce them with. Then they fall even further into error when they imagine that their love might somehow miraculously transform these creatures of darkness into beings of light. They do not realize that they are toying with an impossible fantasy, for as the Bible says:

“For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? …As God has said: ‘I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.’ Therefore ‘Come out from among them and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.” - 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (NKJ)

If God calls us to be like Christ, who resisted the Devil or Belial and exposed evil with God’s light rather than try to love or cajole demons into the Kingdom of Heaven, how can any of us think for a moment that we can redeem the unredeemable, or save the damned? There is not one instance in Scripture where Yahshua offered a demon salvation or where any demon acted even remotely interested in accepting salvation! How then can we entertain the thought that we are capable of doing what even Christ could not do? For this reason, it is absolutely foolhardy to believe that a demon can be won over to love Christ or to live in fellowship with Him or His Body, the Church.

Since we have been called to walk in the light of Christ and to flee from evil, it follows that we cannot entertain darkness, or seek sensual pleasure in the dark arms of demons. Those like myself who are saved and aware of the spirit world know that every demon is the spirit of a Nephilim, and no demon or Nephilim ever asked to be forgiven by Christ because they are incapable of true repentance and therefore are beyond redemption. It’s time for believers to wake up and realize that any love of paranormal paramours and the demonic divas who court them is a dangerous re-visitation of the dark sensuality that gripped the entire world before the Flood. Though few acknowledge it, this same love of physical pleasure eventually caused every human being that wasn’t killed by the Nephilim to succumb to sin and to lust after their strange flesh. As a result, these people were not only physically destroyed but spiritually cursed with a fate worse than death, for this is what being totally separated from God’s love and light forever truly will be.


NOTES:

All Scriptures taken from the PC Study Bible: New King James Version or New International Version of the Bible.

This material is copyrighted and may not be used in any paid digital, electronic, or printed publication without permission from author Helena Lehman.