A local cafe always writes little motivational messages on the coffee cup lids and today mine read ‘keep swimming’. For some reason the message made me think about the David Foster Wallace speech entitled ‘This is Water’. The speech centres on a parable of two young fish swimming along when an old fish asks them ‘How’s the water?’ and the young fishes look at each other and ask ‘what the hell is water?’. Ultimately the parable gives us the message that so many of us swim through life without ever thinking about what’s immediately surrounding us. In my former life as an atheist, the words from this speech formed one of the key gospels that I lived by. I reread the whole thing today and it was really interesting to reflect on it - considering the parts that I now agree with and the parts where I’ve now converged significantly from DFW’s position. Interestingly, the speech does delve into faith and worship and whilst DFW is absolutely correct that we all worship something (echoing Jesus’ words in Luke 16:13), the mistake that he has made is the tendency to see the belief in God as a philosophical position rather than a direct personal relationship. This is a similar theme that you can see in others who I was viewed as my gospel writers like Hunter S Thompson whose position on living a meaningful life boils down to the idea that you are your own god and create your own reality, or Ernest Hemingway who declared that all thinking men are atheists. It appears that both Foster Wallace and Hemingway spent some period of time exploring the Catholic Church and its doctrine, but ultimately rejected its teachings and essentially threw out the baby (Jesus) with the bathwater (the false churches). I believe that all three men were genuinely interested in seeking the true meaning of our existence, but when they correctly dismissed the deceptive doctrine of false teachers they ended up in the only remaining position that an intellectually honest seeker of truth can arrive at - existentialism.
Existentialism is the belief that ultimately our existence is totally meaningless, therefore it is up to us to create our own meaning and sense of purpose that we will live our lives by. If we live on a billions of years old spinning ball thats a speck of dust in an endless solar system, created through an ongoing series of random scientific mutations that led single cell organisms to evolve into apes, neanderthals and humans, then a man who is truly honest with himself must become some form of an existentialist. Sure we can go along with the Bible, Buddhism, Islam, New Age or any other belief system - but at the end of the day they’re all just a philosophical system of choice that helps us to create meaning in an ultimately meaningless existence. Most people give lip service to the question of our existence - they suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune rather than taking arms against a sea of troubles. Or as Hunter S Thompson put it - they float with the tide rather than swimming for a goal. Thompson, Foster Wallace and Hemingway were all cerebral men, not content to float with the tide on the question of our existence, but all deceived on the nature of the water that surrounds us by the powers that be. So how did they end up? DFW hanged himself on the back porch of his house. Thompson and Hemingway ended their own lives with a bullet in the head. Sadly, these events aren’t the end of their troubles and only ended their mortal lives, because their spiritual deaths are going to be with them for all of eternity. We’ve all been greatly deceived on the nature of our water - the world around us. So I’m writing this post for the DFW’s, Thompsons and Hemingways who are still alive today, but non-believers in our risen Lord Jesus Christ because of some delusion or another that they have been deceived by. As I write that last comment, I do think about Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians - And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. I know that many people will prefer to continue believing in the lies of our existence because that enables them to remain the god of their own world, but I also know that there’s non-believers today who will come to Christ but have been separated from Him because of the deception that they’ve been subjected to for all of their lives.
To separate the wheat from the chaff right off the bat, I’m going to start by asking some questions about what the average person would consider to be the most ludicrous topic they could imagine - the shape of the earth. NASA and the ‘science community’ tells us that we are a globe, spinning at 1,670 kph, and orbiting the sun which is 150 million kilometres away at 107,000 kph. I believed this nonsense for most of my life and how could we not? We all grew up in classrooms with the globe earth on the wall, learning about all these far away galaxies and planets hurtling through an endless place called space. I believed it just like everyone else, but had I ever actually questioned it or looked into it myself - of course not! Today, I believe that the most probable explanation of our earth is that we live on a flat plain with a local sun and moon which moves around us. There’s a couple of other popular theories that I don’t dismiss either - one that we’re a hollow earth and another that we’re a globe, but a geocentric one. Now I don’t just believe this with blind faith because the Bible tells me so, I believe it because it’s what is confirmed by my own eyes, experiences and discernment. I remember writing to someone about conspiracy theories as recently as a couple of years ago and saying that they are often dismissed by grouping theories with ridiculous ones like flat earth that no one except lunatics actually believe in - so if you’ve just read my last few sentences and think I’ve lost my mind then don’t worry, as my response was exactly the same as yours. I don’t intend to convince you that the earth is flat (nor of any of the other delusions that I’ll speak about next), I just want to get you thinking about these topics and evoke the sensation within that makes you wonder what if. So here’s some questions to think about. Why, in 70 odd years of ‘space travel’ do we not have a single image of the ‘globe’ that we live on (they’re all CGI, even NASA officially admits this)? What proof have you ever seen, either mathematically or with your own observation, that we live on a globe? If one of the laws of nature is that water always finds it level, how is it so that it curves on the 70% of the planet that is covered by water? How does a pressurised system (earth) exist next to a vacuum (space) without a container? Most people who end up believing in a flat earth cosmology start off by trying to prove to flat earthers that we live on a globe, but in the process of researching the topic for the first time in their lives realise the lie for themselves. If you go through this process for yourself, you might not end up believing in a flat earth (maybe you end up on hollow earth or geocentric globe), but you will realise that the heliocentric globe model is nothing more than ancient kabbalistic mystery religion masquerading as science. When you do realise that the whole space narrative is a lie, you can listen to these people who call themselves cosmologists talking about the assumptions they rely on to prove their theories and wonder how you ever fell for it in the first place? A good place to start with this lie if you want to investigate this whole topic further is to search for the image of the Tesla that Elon Musk has supposedly put into orbit (try keeping a straight face while you do this).
I am undetermined on geocentric globe or flat earth (though I lean to the latter), but contend that we live within a contained firmament with the space above us that is actually the heavens and dwelling place of God. Mankind has never left the earth and returned - all those rockets they shoot off the coast of Florida land in the Bermuda Triangle (which non-coincidentally became a thing the same year that ‘space flight’ commenced). Everything we know about space is a lie and therefore so is the delusion of aliens living in other galaxies, or asteroids that are scheduled to destroy the earth at some particular date in the future. The earth is the centre of the universe and all things are focused on us - which explains our perfect climate, seasons and overall existence. Each night we have the opportunity to look up at the stars and planets which occupy the heavenly realm and marvel at the beauty of God’s creation- The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork (Ps. 19:1).
The next delusion is the age of our earth. Like space, there has been a coordinated effort to convince us that we are millions or billions of years old, but also like space this contention relies on what you will realise to be utterly ludicrous assumptions. The billions of years history is a necessary requirement for their models that tell us we had a big bang, where everything was created out of nothing, then cells went through a series of evolutions that eventually led to some distant ancestor of humans a couple of million years ago who lived among these ancient things called dinosaurs, with homo sapiens emerging from that species a few hundred thousand years ago. These homo sapiens roamed around in caves, never really doing anything or recording any of their history until about 6,000 years ago when they first decided to get active. From that time on they remained fairly caveman like for another 5,800 years and only in the last two centuries did they actually start to do much, culminating in our current information age from about 70 years ago where we finally decided after all those years to start using our brains. I hope that when you read this version of our creation above you can see the ridiculousness of what we have been led to believe and may seek to look into some of these assumptions just a little bit more than you previously have. Please don’t take this sarcasm in our beliefs as me being smarter or more informed than you - up until not all that long ago I fawned over books like Sapiens and A Short History of Nearly Everything which I once took as being fact, but now realise are nothing more than pseudoscience propaganda. Again, some questions that you might wish to seek the answers on if you want to prove the theories that have been accepted as fact. What empirical evidence exists that shows one type of organism evolving into another type of organism (hint, there is none)? Has a science experiment ever proved that something can be created from nothing? If one species evolved into another type of species through a series of gradual changes, how did the process look when a species is ‘half evolved’ from another (eg a fish with an apes head, but that still breathes through its gills)? What methods do the scientific community use to prove any form of life beyond around 4,000 BC? Why did our ancestors live for so long before finally starting to do things 6,000 years ago? How many dinosaurs supposedly roamed the earth and if that number is true, why do we not find evidence of them everywhere? How many complete dinosaur skeletons have ever been found, or have they only ever found individual bones which have been meshed together to ‘create’ dinosaurs? Why did mankind only start believing in dinosaurs less than two centuries ago? Start to look into these questions with a level of skepticism and discernment and you too might find yourself listening to evolutionists talk about their theories and realise that just like cosmologists, these people have established concrete positions based on the most ludicrous of core assumptions. For what it’s worth, I believe that the earth was created approximately 7,500 years ago by our Creator as the Book of Genesis describes it. Man was created in the image of God at that same time, given dominion over all things (Gen. 1:26-28) and called to be stewards of the land that we dwell upon. Evolution, dinosaurs, big bang, neanderthals and cavemen eras are just more Mystery Babylon pseudoscience constructs that have been created to put doubt into the creation account given to us in Genesis.
As I’ve stated, I don’t wish that anyone would believe what I’ve described as our water in which we dwell, but I also warn against believing the words of other mere men with blind faith as much of the world does to this very day. Investigate these topics with your own discernment and see where you land. The best question that one can ponder is the question of why we would have been lied to about the nature of our existence. The simple answer is that these lies are designed to separate creation from their Creator by putting doubt in not just what they are told (The Bible), but also what they see with their own eyes (eg the Heavens vs a billions year old galaxy). The more complicated answer is that it’s a coordinated effort the bring the whole world under the spells of the Mystery Babylon religion - the religion that was the foundation of the last of three rebellions against God in the Book of Genesis. In the years after the flood, mankind came together and said let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth (Gen 11.4) in attempt to become as gods themselves. This tower was the Tower of Babel, the headquarters of the ancient mystery religion that carried the secrets of our world. The LORD responded by confounding their language and scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth (Gen. 11:7-8) and from that day onwards until today, Mystery Babylon lived on with symbology and secret societies being the key tool that has been used to continue it.
If you've read this far, getting past flat earth and a sub 10,000 year old earth, then I may as well add another key point regarding Mystery Babylon. Early on in the creation account, Genesis 6:4 casually drops in the message that there were Giants in the earth in those days and that the daughters of men bare children to the sons of God. Many Christians aren't even aware of this verse, or they've looked over it without thinking too much about it, but the ramifications of it are significant. Ultimately what we're told here is that a class of fallen angels (spiritual beings) rebelled against God and created offspring with mankind - creating a hybrid race. This plot line quickly gets very deep and very spiritual, forcing us into a topic that many would prefer to ignore but if we accept it then it explains a whole lot of what is otherwise unexplainable. The construction of structures like the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, Pantheon and Easter Island (all with deep Mystery Babylon symbolism) make a lot more sense if we accept that giants with spiritual powers built them. This rebellion preceded the Tower of Babel event, but what we can deduce from the plot line is that this bloodline of fallen angel human hybrids lived on, passing down the same secrets that were of the tree of good and evil from Genesis 3:5. Paul references those who hold these secrets as the principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph. 6:12). We also know that unto this very day the world is ruled by these same forces - the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience (Eph. 2:2).
Mystery Babylon is an intensely complex topic and many others have researched it far deeper than I have, so if you wish to learn more then I encourage you to seek out the content yourself, but I will provide a summary on how I believe it has manifested in the world since the days of Christ. Mystery Babylon was and is a rebellion against God, therefore it focused on the destruction of key elements of God’s plan - first warring against the Children of Israel, attempting to kill the newborn Messiah when King Herod sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under (Mat. 2:16) and finally crucifying Jesus on the cross. However in doing so, they unknowingly helped to perfectly fulfil God’s plan for redemption - none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory (1 Cor. 2:8). The resurrection of Christ was the victory, it is why Christ’s final words were it is finished, and Mystery Babylon became aware of this too. Now in the days since Christ we live in an era where the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time (Rev. 12:12). Mystery Babylon knows that it has been defeated by God and that eternal damnation awaits it, therefore all that it wants to achieve before that point is to destroy as many souls as it can and bring them with it. The manifestation of Mystery Babylon when Christ was crucified was the Roman Empire, and that empire persecuted the early Church in the centuries that followed. In the 4th Century, having failed to stop the spread of the Gospels, the Roman Empire attempted a far more successful tactic by transforming itself into what became the Roman Catholic Church. Rather than directly persecuting believers, they would impersonate Jesus Christ and hide their Mystery Babylon religion within it. Theres few better examples in the modern world of Mystery Babylon symbology than what you will find in Catholicism, and in particular its Vatican headquarters. They literally turned the Pantheon (Temple of the gods) into a Catholic Church they renamed in honour of their false god Mary. Roman Catholicism has completed one of Babylon’s most important delusions - they’ve not only deceived the billions within it who have looked for Christ but been tricked into worshipping something else, but they’ve created a wicked religion that many non-believers have looked at and correctly avoided but have unfortunately yolked Jesus Christ and the Gospels in with it.
I don’t know this and it’s just my feeling, but I believe we’re living through the final iteration of Mystery Babylon which is what John may have been writing about in Revelation 16:19 when the great city was divided into three parts. Those three parts could be the three city states that run the world - The Vatican, Washington DC and the City of London. The final iteration of the final beast kingdom with the three components controlling all of the worlds spirituality (Vatican), military (Washington) and finance (City of London). All the hallmarks of Mystery Babylon symbology are right in front of our faces with these three places - serpents, dragons, obelisks, pyramids, sun worship, the all seeing eye and so on and so on. The power structure is far more complex than this simple explanation and not only do the multitude of secret societies and brotherhoods (Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Jesuits, Club of Rome, Chatham House etc) carry out much of the groundwork, but those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan (Rev. 2:9) are also deeply involved with their seize of the Holy city Jerusalem. One doesn’t need to look much further than the national flag or the supreme court buildings to see just how rife Mystery Babylon symbology is there too. The rulers of the darkness of this world deceive those who realise that wicked people run everything into the subtle deception that it is all about power and money - that’s why we get these obvious villains like Bill Gates or Zuckerberg, who are ultimately nothing more than mere pawns in the system. So long as people fight against the greed of ‘big pharma’ or the central bankers, the enemy is able to hide the true nature of the deeply spiritual battle that is at play in each living persons own hearts. As DFW so rightly told us, we all worship something - it’s either one of the many constructs of the Devil like power, money, status, false gods (including that we are god within), or we worship the Lord Jesus Christ who defeated the Devil on the cross so that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life (Joh. 3:15). So long as we don’t realise this choice, the Devil has us right where he wants us.
The beast knows that the end is nigh, and so we live in the time of the denouement where he has gone about deceiving the whole world about the nature of our existence and all those who believe in the lie will perish with him. We are all so utterly deceived on what the hell is water that we have become totally detached from the one who created us, but if we want to find that Creator then it is on us to peel back the layers on what the water that surrounds us actually is. It’s not that I don’t think one can find Christ without knowing the true nature of our world, but I do think that it certainly helps. Ultimately, the decision rests with each individual to decide who they want to believe - the principalities of Mystery Babylon, or YHVH. None of us will be without excuse on the basis that we didn’t know. I usually just include a verse or two of Scripture here and there to emphasis my points, but given both the importance of this topic and the brilliance in which Paul addresses this exact point in his letter to the Romans, I am going to close this piece with the following 15 verse passage (Rom. 1:18-32) and leave you to decide what you want to do next.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Excellent article Luke.
You've travelled quite a road to get to where you are today, Luke. You must be incredibly grateful, despite all the sorrows, as I am for my road. I think the two wicked sisters (the House of Judah and the House of Israel) have gathered themselves together with the fallen church (the third part of the end-time wickedness) for the final abomination, in which this Age of Grace ends, just as Noah closed the door of the ark.