Janine Jansma

Life long resident of the beautiful
State of Michigan
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The Truth Shall Make Us Free
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🚨‼️Everybody has a Jesus. The Muslim has a prophet named Jesus. The Jehovah’s Witness has an angel called Jesus. The Mormon has a spirit brother named Jesus. The liberal has a social reformer named Jesus. The devil does not mind you having a Jesus, as long as it is “another Jesus” who cannot save you.

The King James Bible refuses every reduction: “the Word was God,” “all things were made by him,” and “God was manifest in the flesh.” If your Jesus had a beginning, he belongs to the creation and needs a Creator himself. The carpenter of Nazareth did not begin in Bethlehem; He built the universe before Bethlehem existed.

The identity of Christ is not a theological side issue for scholars to rearrange between coffee breaks. A created being cannot bear an infinite debt, forgive sins committed against God, receive the worship of heaven, or purchase the Church with God’s “own blood.” A smaller Jesus always produces a smaller cross, and a smaller cross cannot save a sinner.

Jesus Christ is not merely like God, close to God, sent by God, or promoted by God. He is God manifest in the flesh, the great “I AM,” the Lord of glory, and the King before whom every knee will bow. You may bow before Him now as Saviour or later as Judge, but every knee is going down.

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🚨‼️Jesus Christ did not tell Nicodemus to become more religious. That would have been like telling a graveyard to plant more flowers. Nicodemus already had education, position, ancestry, morality, ceremony, and enough religious vocabulary to make the average modern preacher sound like he had just enrolled in Sunday school. Yet Christ looked straight through the polished exterior and said, “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).

“That which is born of the flesh is flesh” (John 3:6). Educated flesh is still flesh. Baptized flesh is still flesh. Reformed flesh is still flesh. Put it in a choir robe, give it a Bible, teach it to say “Amen,” and place its name on seventeen church rolls, it still possesses no spiritual life. Religion can improve the wardrobe of the old man, but it cannot change his ancestry.

The new birth is not turning over a new leaf; it is receiving a new life. It is not Adam cleaned up, dressed up, and coached into Christian behavior. It is a believing sinner quickened by God, placed into Jesus Christ, and made a new creature by the Holy Ghost. Heaven does not renovate the corpse. Heaven opens the grave.

The first birth came through your mother and placed you in Adam’s dying family. The second birth comes from God and places you in Christ’s everlasting family. That is why the matter cannot be settled by ancestry, baptism, membership, sincerity, or good intentions. A man born only once will die twice; the man born twice can never be touched by the second death.

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🚨‼️Every gate in the Bible asks one question that modern religion spends a lifetime trying to dodge: Are you inside or outside? Not educated or uneducated. Not denominational or non-denominational. Not emotional or calm. Not “spiritual” or “traditional.” Inside or outside.

Eden had a gate, and sin put man on the wrong side of it. That flaming sword was not there because God needed better landscaping. It was there because man had fallen, access was lost, and no sinner was going to stroll back into life with fig leaves, excuses, and self-esteem.

From Genesis to Revelation, the gates keep preaching. City gates judge. Temple gates warn. Death has gates. Hell has gates. Jerusalem has gates. New Jerusalem has gates. And every one of them keeps separating what man wants to blend together: clean from unclean, truth from lies, life from death, Christ from every counterfeit entrance.

Then Jesus Christ stands in John 10:9 and says, “I am the door.” There it is. The whole trail ends in a Person. Not Mary. Not Rome. Not sacraments. Not law-keeping. Not church membership. Not self-improvement. Christ. Enter by Him, or stay outside with all the religious traffic headed for the wrong gate.

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🚨‼️This chart explains biblical justice as righteous judgment grounded in God’s truth rather than emotion, favoritism, political pressure, or public opinion. Using clear KJV Scriptures, Bible examples, warnings, and practical applications, it contrasts God’s impartial standard with corrupt human judgment and shows how justice and mercy meet perfectly at Calvary. True justice uses honest scales, respects no person above righteousness, protects good, punishes evil, and bows to what God has said.

[Scott Jensen @drscottjensen]

I smell a rat. The guy with all the answers had no answers. He’s got money and arrogance and he’s abusing the fifth amendment. And he’s telling Americans to go to hell.

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🚨‼️There is a counterfeit Christianity abroad today that thinks silence is spirituality, retreat is wisdom, and cowardice is charity. It quotes, “Let both grow together until the harvest,” as though Jesus commanded His people to sit cross-legged on the fence while wolves chew through the flock. But Christ said, “the field is the world” (Matthew 13:38); He was forbidding His servants from physically uprooting the wicked before judgment, not forbidding believers from exposing lies before they poison souls. Paul did not tell the church to smile at error until the Rapture. He said to “mark them” and “avoid them” (Romans 16:17), “rebuke them sharply” (Titus 1:13), reject the heretic after the first and second admonition, and have “no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11). The Christian who uses the wheat and tares to excuse silence has not found a doctrine of peace; he has found a biblical-looking blanket under which to hide his fear.

Jesus never promised that truth would keep the room comfortable. He said, “I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Matthew 10:34). That sword is not carnal violence; it is truth dividing light from darkness, Christ from counterfeit, gospel from religion, and the word of God from the traditions of men. The same Lord who said, “Blessed are the peacemakers,” overturned tables, called religious leaders serpents, warned of hell, and exposed hypocrisy in public. Biblical peace is never purchased by signing a nonaggression pact with error. Elijah did not hold a respectful interfaith breakfast with Baal’s prophets. Paul did not tell the Galatians that another gospel was a valuable alternative perspective. John the Baptist did not whisper about Herod’s adultery in case somebody thought his tone divisive. Truth does not become hateful because a liar dislikes hearing it, and cowardice does not become love because it speaks softly.

Christ called us the salt of the earth, but salt that never leaves the shaker preserves nothing, cleanses nothing, and stings nothing. Put salt into a deep wound and the flesh objects, but the sting is not proof the salt is cruel; it is proof the wound is real. We are also the light of the world, yet modern Christians keep the flashlight in the closet because darkness has complained about the glare. Jesus warned against putting a candle under a bushel. He did not say, “Let your light remain politely dim so nobody feels judged.” Light exposes what darkness was hiding. Salt resists corruption. A watchman warns. A shepherd strikes at wolves. A soldier stands. The church was not left here to decorate the battlefield, keep the pews warm, and wait quietly for evacuation; it was left here to preach, contend, warn, reprove, rescue, and hold forth the word of life until the Captain returns.

So no, we will not sit on the fence until the resurrection while cults recruit families, false prophets rewrite Christ, and another gospel carries souls toward judgment. We will not uproot people, persecute them, threaten them, or answer obscenity with obscenity, but we will expose the doctrine, name the error, open the Bible, and refuse to let religious counterfeits pass unchallenged merely because their defenders prefer peace without truth. We are commanded to “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3), not politely observe its replacement. A Christian who never offends error has probably never confronted it; a light that never exposes darkness is either covered or extinguished; and salt that never stings a wound has stayed safely in the shaker. We are not here to wait silently for the harvest. We are here to stand in the field with the sword of the Spirit, the light of Scripture, and enough salt in our preaching to make corruption know the church is still alive.

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Mind Unveiled Just Unveiled the Serpent: The Occult Lie Behind “The Bible Unveiled”

Introduction

After watching the latest video from Mind Unveiled, released three days ago under the title “The Bible Unveiled,” I owe everyone a direct and honest apology. I have respected this channel’s research in the past. I have recommended some of its material because it occasionally brought forward facts, historical connections, and difficult questions that deserved examination. I never agreed with everything presented, but I believed there was value in watching a researcher gather evidence and challenge official narratives. That confidence has now been shattered. This latest production is not merely a poorly researched Bible study, an eccentric interpretation, or an honest outsider asking innocent questions. It is a calculated assault upon the character of God, the authority of Scripture, the truthfulness of the Lord Jesus Christ, the biblical account of creation, and the plain identification of the serpent as a liar and deceiver. I am genuinely disappointed that I ever directed anyone toward this account without issuing a stronger warning. When a man begins suggesting that God lied while the serpent told the truth, the time for polite compliments about his production quality is over. “Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar” (Romans 3:4).

The video presents itself as an open-minded investigation, repeatedly assuring the audience that the creator is merely asking questions, following a river, observing signs, and inviting collaborative inquiry. But there is nothing neutral about the direction in which that river flows. It flows directly into occultism, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, astrology, sacred-feminine theology, serpent-seed doctrine, attacks upon the King James Bible, and the ancient lie that forbidden knowledge will open man’s eyes and make him divine. The narrator says he is not presenting a Gnostic interpretation while reconstructing almost the entire Gnostic framework: the biblical Creator becomes a restrictive and deceptive ruler, the serpent becomes an illuminated insider, Eve becomes the recipient of liberating knowledge, the fall becomes an initiation, and institutional Christianity becomes the villain that buried the deeper truth. Denying the label does not change the substance. A bottle containing poison does not become harmless because the manufacturer writes “spring water” on the label. “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers” (Titus 1:10), and the most dangerous deceiver is not the one who announces himself with horns and a pitchfork, but the one who speaks softly about love, curiosity, hidden wisdom, awakening, remembrance, signs, rivers, flowers, and an unveiled mind.

The devil has always worked by offering breadcrumbs of truth that lead into a bakery full of lies. He will admit that religious institutions have been corrupt. He will acknowledge that secret societies exist. He will point out that numbers occur throughout Scripture, that the biblical firmament is not the modern heliocentric fantasy, that early artwork contains symbolism, that Bible translations differ, and that modern Christianity has often neglected serious study. Then, once the audience has followed him through enough true or partly true observations, he introduces the venom: Christianity is secretly Masonic, the Bible is an occult codebook, the seven spirits are planetary rulers, Elohim are lesser gods, the waters are a divine mother, God deceived Adam, the serpent told the truth, Eve underwent an initiation, Cain may be the serpent’s child, and the suppression of a feminine deity is the hidden operating secret of Scripture. That is not unveiling the Bible. That is veiling the Bible beneath pagan mythology. That is not the mind of Christ. “But we have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16), and the mind of Christ does not accuse His Father of lying, exalt the serpent as an initiator, or replace the

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The Devil’s Favorite Bible Verse: “Judge Not” – Ripped from Context and Weaponized Against Truth

Introduction

There may not be a verse in the Bible more abused by sinners, compromisers, hypocrites, false teachers, cowards, worldlings, and religious rebels than Matthew 7:1: “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” It is the one verse people who hate the Bible suddenly become experts on. They do not know John 3:3, Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, Hebrews 9:22, Acts 16:31, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, or Revelation 20:15, but they know “judge not.” They may not know where it is, who said it, what the context is, or what the rest of the chapter says, but they can throw it like a rock at any Bible believer who dares to call sin what God called it. A drunkard will quote it. A fornicator will quote it. A false teacher will quote it. A backslider will quote it. A liberal preacher will quote it. A religious hypocrite will quote it. A rebel who has not opened a Bible in ten years will suddenly become a King James expositor when somebody says, “The Bible calls that sin.”

The devil loves “judge not” when it is ripped from context because it becomes a shield for sin instead of a warning against hypocrisy. The Lord Jesus did not give Matthew 7:1 so sinners could silence every preacher, rebuke every warning, muzzle every watchman, and make discernment illegal. He gave it to expose hypocritical, self-righteous judgment that condemns another man while hiding the same kind of sin in one’s own life. The very same passage says to first cast the beam out of thine own eye, “and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.” Notice that: after the beam is removed, there is still a mote to deal with. The Lord did not forbid all judgment. He forbade hypocritical judgment. He did not say, “Leave the mote alone forever.” He said get your own eye right so you can see clearly enough to help your brother. That is the context the devil hopes nobody reads.

The Bible commands judgment, discernment, rebuke, correction, testing, proving, marking, avoiding, trying spirits, reproving works of darkness, judging righteous judgment, and separating truth from error. The same Saviour who said “Judge not” also said in John 7:24, “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” The same New Testament that warns against hypocritical judgment tells believers to “prove all things,” “try the spirits,” “mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine,” “reprove, rebuke, exhort,” and “earnestly contend for the faith.” So the issue is not whether judgment exists. The issue is what kind of judgment God forbids and what kind He commands. The devil’s favorite trick is to take the verse that condemns hypocritical judgment and use it to condemn righteous judgment. That is not Bible interpretation. That is satanic vandalism.

Chapter One: “Judge Not” Has a Context

Matthew 7:1 is not a loose slogan floating in the air for sinners to grab whenever conviction comes near them. It sits in a context. The Lord Jesus says, “Judge not, that ye be not judged,” then immediately explains the danger: “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.” Then He exposes a man with a beam in his own eye trying to remove a mote from his brother’s eye. The issue is not all judgment; the issue is hypocritical judgment. A man with a beam in his eye is not wrong because motes are acceptable. He is wrong because he is blind, self-righteous, and hypocritical while pretending to correct someone else. The Lord calls him “thou hypocrite.” That is the key word the “judge not” crowd usually forgets.

If Matthew 7 forbids all judgment, then Jesus contradicts Himself only a few verses later, because He says in Matthew 7:6, “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine.” How can a man obey that command without making a judgment? He must discern what is holy, who are dogs, what

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🚨‼️This chart exposes Satan’s old lie: “You deserve better.” From Eden to modern self-esteem religion, the devil teaches man to question God, exalt self, resent truth, and reject mercy. The Bible answer is clear: we do not deserve better, we need grace, the cross, the blood, and salvation through Jesus Christ.

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Love Him Or Face Him

Key Passage: 1 Corinthians 16:22

“If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.” (1 Corinthians 16:22)

Introduction

There is no neutral ground with the Lord Jesus Christ. A man may pretend there is, religion may offer him a padded chair between faith and unbelief, and the world may flatter him into thinking he can admire Jesus from a safe distance without bowing to Him, but the Bible gives him no such refuge. Paul closes 1 Corinthians with one of the sharpest statements in all his epistles: “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.” That is not a suggestion. That is not a soft closing thought. That is not a preacher trying to be polite at the end of a difficult letter. That is an apostolic line drawn through the whole human race. Love Him or face Him. Receive Him now in grace, or meet Him later in judgment. Kiss the Son now, or tremble when the Son appears. The Christ men ignore will not remain safely hidden behind church language, religious rituals, academic theories, sentimental songs, or denominational identities. He is the Lord Jesus Christ, and He is coming.

Paul has spent sixteen chapters dealing with a church loaded with problems. Corinth had divisions, carnality, fornication, lawsuits, disorder at the Lord’s supper, abuse of liberty, confusion about spiritual gifts, and resurrection error. Yet when Paul reaches the end, he does not say the final test is how gifted a man is, how eloquent he is, how religious he sounds, how much he gives, how often he attends, how many arguments he can win, or how many Bible terms he can repeat. He says, “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ.” The issue is Christ Himself. A man can love church life and not love Christ. A man can love theology and not love Christ. A man can love prophecy charts and not love Christ. A man can love religious controversy and not love Christ. A man can love the respectability of morality and not love Christ. Paul drags every man out from behind his hiding place and puts him before the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That is why this verse is so terrifying and so necessary. It does not let men play games with Christ. It does not let cold religion pretend it is alive. It does not let a man hide behind sacraments, ceremonies, philosophy, family tradition, good works, religious education, church membership, preacher admiration, or denominational loyalty. The question is plain: do you love the Lord Jesus Christ? Not a Jesus you invented. Not a soft religious symbol. Not a wafer. Not a created being. Not a social reformer. Not a mystical feeling. Not a denominational mascot. The Lord Jesus Christ of Scripture — crucified, buried, risen, glorified, and coming again. If any man love not Him, the sentence is “Anathema Maranatha.” Accursed. The Lord cometh. Love Him or face Him.

Chapter One

The Whole World Stands Under “If Any Man”

Paul begins with “If any man,” and that phrase is wide enough to catch every soul alive. It does not say, “If any pagan.” It does not say, “If any atheist.” It does not say, “If any obvious criminal.” It says, “If any man.” That includes the religious man, the respectable man, the churchgoing man, the moral man, the preacher, the professor, the ritualist, the scholar, the skeptic, the rebel, the hypocrite, the nominal believer, and the man who has spent his whole life around Christian vocabulary without ever having a heart for the Saviour. Paul does not give anyone a side door. Any man means any man.

That phrase also kills the pride of religious privilege. The Jew cannot hide behind Abraham. The Gentile cannot hide behind ignorance. The church member cannot hide behind attendance. The sacramental man cannot hide behind a ceremony. The moral man cannot hide behind his reputation. The scholar cannot hide behind his degrees. The preacher cannot hide behind his pulpit. The Catholic cannot hide behind Rome, the Protestant cannot hide

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Tucker and his guest don’t even understand why Christ died on the cross or what it means.

Christ died for our sins. “No one takes my life from me,” Jesus said, “I lay it down of my own accord” (John 10:18).

So the whole “who killed Jesus” debate is already wrong before it starts. You can’t murder a man who chose to die. Treating the cross like a crime scene isn’t defending Christ. It’s insulting Him.

Turning the most deliberate act of love in history into a body in a ditch is not understanding what sin is, what His sacrifice was or His character is.

“The LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6).

All.

No ethnicity.

No faction.

Everyone.

There is nothing more radically inclusive than Christianity.

The right response to the cross from believers is not to point fingers but get on your hands and knees and thank Him.

[Barry Cunningham @barrycunningham]

Watch President Trump DESTROY this media clown and then tell me if you don't conclude that it's nearing the end for the whole diseased, democrat machine!

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🚨‼️This chart shows that Cain’s cry in Genesis 4:13 was not the cry of a truly repentant man, but of a man overwhelmed by what sin had cost him. It lays out the full context of his fall, contrasts worldly sorrow with godly sorrow, and shows that a person can be crushed by judgment, loss, and consequence while still never plainly confessing that the sin itself was wicked before God. In other words, it helps your followers see the difference between self-pity and real repentance, and why emotional pain alone is not proof that a heart has truly bowed before the Lord.

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🚨‼️They tell you Christianity is about being nice, being kind, being positive, being uplifting, being inclusive, and being community-minded. The devil does not mind any of that language so long as nobody mentions the blood. The moment you start preaching the blood of Jesus Christ, the whole room changes. Why? Because the blood tells the truth. It tells the truth about your sin, the truth about God’s holiness, the truth about Calvary, and the truth about the fact that salvation was not purchased with good intentions. It was purchased with death.

The world wants a bloodless Savior because it wants a bloodless gospel, and it wants a bloodless gospel because it wants a God who never judges sin. But the Bible will not give them that god. From Abel’s blood crying from the ground to the blood of the Lamb in Revelation, Scripture keeps saying the same thing: sin costs life. That is why the modern church can talk about purpose for an hour, healing for an hour, and your destiny for an hour, but if you preach the blood for five minutes, suddenly you are “too much.” Too much for who? Too much for a generation that wants Heaven without a cross.

Take away the blood, and you do not improve Christianity. You expose that you never understood it. You can keep the choir, the sermon, the building, the podcast, the small groups, the coffee bar, the leadership books, and the polished branding. But if the blood is gone, the power is gone. If the blood is gone, the gospel is gone. If the blood is gone, you are not left with a better version of Christianity. You are left with baptized humanism wearing a suit and holding a Bible it no longer believes.

That is why the blood still matters, and that is why real Bible believers will never stop preaching it. The blood is not a side doctrine. It is the line the world hates because it destroys pride. It tells the church member he is as lost as the drunk if he is outside Christ. It tells the moral man his decency cannot save him. It tells the sinner there is one way in and one way only. And that is exactly why the blood of Jesus Christ is still the most hated truth in religion and the most precious truth in the Book of God.

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🚨‼️This chart lays out the case that the modern “alien” narrative may be a rebranded cover story for something the Bible already warned us about: the sons of God, the Nephilim, forbidden knowledge, and end-time deception.

From Admiral Byrd’s strange comments about unexplored land beyond the South Pole to Genesis 6, Jude, 2 Peter, and Revelation, the chart shows why Bible believers should not let Hollywood, NASA, or government disclosure define the supernatural. The Bible got there first.

[USA Deanna @Dianeoldfart]

It's going to take years to bring Michigan back after these three girl bosses were in charge, years.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

This is rough to watch. It made me tear up.

This is why I support President Trump taking out the Islamic republic. The Iranian people are being m*rdered. M*rdered over protesting for freedom.

Today it's them. Tomorrow, their soldiers that came in undetected through the biden administration can hurt Americans. Islam is taking over the UK.

This is not ok. Self-preservation, folks.

[J @JayTC53]

Charlie Kirk's last warning to America.

"Wokeism or Marxism combined with Islamism to destroy what we call the American way of life"

Just going to leave this here for the Tucker Carlsons & Cenk Uygurs of the world.

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The Dragon in the Deep: Leviathan, the Crooked Serpent, and the Devil Beneath the Waters

Introduction

There are some passages in the King James Bible that modern Christianity tiptoes around like a housewife walking past a snake in the kitchen. They do not know what to do with them, so they tame them, rename them, allegorize them, footnote them, or hand them over to scholars who have spent thirty years in Hebrew only to come out believing less Bible than a child in Sunday school. Leviathan is one of those passages. You open Job 41 and you are not dealing with a crocodile. You are not dealing with a hippopotamus. You are not dealing with some overgrown lizard sunning himself on a riverbank while Job takes zoology notes. You are staring at one of the strangest, darkest, most terrifying descriptions of the devil in the entire Bible. The chapter ends by saying, “he is a king over all the children of pride” (Job 41:34). That is not a reptile. That is not a zoo exhibit. That is not something a fellow with a spear and a camera crew wrestles down for television. That is spiritual royalty in rebellion against God, and the Holy Ghost tells you exactly what kind of king he is.

The Bible calls him “leviathan the piercing serpent,” “leviathan that crooked serpent,” and “the dragon that is in the sea” (Isaiah 27:1). That one verse ought to settle the question for any man who believes the Book. He is a serpent. He is crooked. He is a dragon. He is connected with the sea. Then you go to Revelation 12 and find “a great red dragon” with heads and horns, and the passage identifies him as “that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan” (Revelation 12:3, 9). Now if a man cannot put Isaiah 27, Job 41, Psalm 74, and Revelation 12 together, he does not have a Bible problem. He has a heart problem. God did not hide the thing from simple believers. He hid it from proud men who think the Bible needs their permission before it can mean what it says.

Now there are parts of this subject where a Bible believer has to walk carefully. Leviathan is definitely the devil. That is not the weak part. Leviathan as a dragon, serpent, watery creature, and ruler of pride is not the weak part. The Bible says those things. The deeper questions begin when you deal with Psalm 74:14, where God breaks “the heads of leviathan in pieces” and gives him “to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.” That is strange. That is not ordinary Sunday school material. That verse drags you into manna, the wilderness, the deep, the waters above, the waters below, the firmament, Revelation 12, Israel’s future flight, and the devil’s connection with the realm modern Christianity barely believes exists. This essay will not pretend to answer every mystery with a neat little bow. But it will take the King James Bible seriously, compare Scripture with Scripture, and show that the devil is not merely a cartoon demon in red pajamas. He is the crooked serpent, the dragon in the sea, the king over pride, and the ancient enemy moving in a world far stranger than modern man wants to admit.

Chapter 1: Leviathan Is Not a Crocodile, Unless Crocodiles Became Kings Over Pride

The first thing that must be settled is simple: Job 41 is not primarily about an ordinary animal. The chapter opens with the question, “Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?” (Job 41:1). That sounds aquatic. The passage speaks of hooks, barbed irons, fish spears, scales, the deep, and a creature that makes the sea like a pot of ointment. But then the text quickly moves beyond anything ordinary. “None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?” (Job 41:10). God is using Leviathan to humble Job, but He is not merely saying, “Job, look at this big animal.” He is showing Job a spiritual monster that exposes the pride of man. The end of the chapter gives the interpretation: “Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. He

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Behold, the Man Is Become as One of Us - The Terrible Knowledge of a Fallen Mind

Key Passage: Genesis 3:22

Introduction

There are some verses in the Bible that men quote lightly because they do not feel the weight of what is actually being said. Genesis 3:22 is one of them. “And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.” A modern reader, drunk on the devil’s old sales pitch, might hear that and think man has been elevated, enlarged, enlightened, and improved. But that is not what happened in Eden. Man did gain a kind of knowledge, but it was not holy enlargement. It was not divine purity. It was not noble ascent. It was corrupted awareness. It was the knowledge of good and evil gained, not by standing above evil in righteousness, but by falling into evil in transgression. That makes all the difference. Man did not become godlike in holiness. He became guilty in consciousness.

That is why this verse is so severe. It exposes the whole lie of the serpent. Satan promised opened eyes, and Adam and Eve got them. He promised knowledge, and they got it. He implied a kind of godlike awakening, and in a twisted sense, they entered a new realm of awareness. But what kind of awareness was it? Not the clear, serene, undefiled knowledge of a holy God. It was the miserable, inwardly stained knowledge of creatures who now knew good by memory and evil by participation. Before the fall, they knew goodness in innocence. After the fall, they knew evil in guilt. That is not advancement. That is ruin. That is what the modern world still cannot seem to understand. It keeps treating transgression like enlightenment and corruption like growth. But Genesis 3:22 stands there like a sword and says otherwise.

This is one of the most urgent truths for the hour we are living in. The age worships knowledge. It worships exposure, experience, experimentation, boundary-breaking, and self-discovery. It tells people they become deeper, wiser, and more complete by tasting what God forbade. It glorifies the fall as if corruption were maturation. But the Bible says man’s great problem is not a lack of forbidden knowledge. It is the possession of forbidden knowledge in a corrupt condition. Fallen man now knows too much in the wrong way. He knows evil by stain, shame, appetite, memory, and guilt. So this essay must deal with that terrible knowledge, the false enlightenment of the fallen mind, and the profound difference between innocent understanding and guilty consciousness. Man did become something after disobedience, but not what the serpent advertised. He became mentally enlarged in the worst possible way - aware, but ruined.

Chapter 1: The Serpent Promised Enlightenment Through Disobedience

The road to Genesis 3:22 begins with Satan’s pitch in Genesis 3:5. “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” That is the original sales pitch of rebellion. The devil does not present sin first as filth. He presents it as awakening. He markets disobedience as enlightenment. He does not begin by saying, “You will be ashamed, afraid, hiding, cursed, and dying.” He says, in effect, “You will be expanded. You will be initiated. You will be upgraded.” That is how temptation still works. It wraps transgression in the language of deeper perception.

This is why the devil’s lie has such staying power. It appeals to human pride. Men do not only want pleasure. They want elevated self-consciousness. They want to believe that by stepping outside God’s word they are becoming more than they were. That is why sin is often defended as discovery, freedom, authenticity, or the breaking of childish restraints. The serpent offered Eve something that sounded like maturity. He made obedience sound like limitation and rebellion sound like enlargement. Hell has never found a better sales strategy. It is still using it in classrooms, entertainment,