Friday, February 7, 2025

Living in the Daze of Deception by Jack Hibbs Chapter 5 Notes

 Chapter 5

Dazed by Deceptions within the Church

-At the cross, Christ paid the penalty for you sin

Romans 1:16

 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.”


Amusing the Church to Death

–apostates never experience saving faith

-apostates act like a believer on the outside but inwardly remain in a state of unbelief


Hosea 14:4

“I will heal their waywardness

    and love them freely,

    for my anger has turned away from them.”


Revelation 2:5

“Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.”


Luke 8:13

“Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away.”


-scripture teaches these apostates will even perform miracles, but will depart from identifying with Jesus Christ because they have never been born again


Matthew 7:22-23

Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’”


-they will be known by their fruits

Matthew 7:20

“Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”


1 John 2:19

“They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.”


-scripture warns of apostasy or a “falling away” before Christ’s return

-this refers to pastors and teachers who marry secular ideologies to Scripture 


2 Thessalonians 2:3

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.”


Jude 12

These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.”


-apostates put on a good show but offer no spiritual refreshment so churches die from hunger and thirst

-apostates operate within churches so watch what defines your church

-the Bible states that churches must adhere to scripture-both Old and New Testaments

-God’s Word doesn’t need human help, power, or intervention

-God never strives to be relevant to the culture

***God’s Words versus culture

***the word gospel implies repentance 

-apostates avoid messages on the issue of sin and call to repentance 

-Today we are in an epidemic of carnality

***Many churches are described as the church in Laodicea in the book of Revelation

-Jesus describes the church as lukewarm

-they have lost their values, convictions, and purpose so the result is to trust in own effort and self-power

-they had elevated themselves arrogantly to rely on their own effort

-they have a superior approach  to ministry

-no Biblical truth, but move toward socially acceptable state of easy believism (feel good-no hard work in changing behaviors (sin) to surrender to Jesus death on the cross (repentance)

-churches today have little or nothing to do with godliness


Replacements in the Church

A different Interpretation

-removing the true authority of Biblical scripture

-colleges, universities, seminaries teach the Bible through literary devices

-teachings disparage the authority of Scripture

-makes Scripture trivial, fun, storylike, and interchangeable with world culture

****Woke: modern term that refers to the progressive political ideology based on perceived social justices and prejudices regarding race, gender, and sexual orientation

-churches that identify as woke that they listen to the world more than the Holy Spirit

***My people have forgotten me


Jeremiah 18:15

“Yet my people have forgotten me;

    they burn incense to worthless idols,

which made them stumble in their ways,

    in the ancient paths.

They made them walk in byways,

    on roads not built up.”


-the church is being deceived by pastors who have manipulated God’s Word


Matthew 5: 17-18

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.”


-churches are teaching there is no need for the Old Testament or Genesis as they are just symbolic prophecy

Timothy 3:16 warns that “All Scripture  is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”

-warning that emotionally appealing ideas is rooted in Marxism


1 Timothy 3:15

if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.”


A Different View of Israel

-what Satan cannot destroy, he seeks to distort or replace 

-deception within the church today is that the church has replaced Israel

Replacement Theory

-also known as covenant theology, fulfillment theology, expansion theology, and restoration theology

-Israel will not be replaced-they are God’s chosen people


Lie:

-Jews rejected Jesus Christ as Messiah at His first coming, God,in turn, rejected them entirely

-must rid Jews to insert Islamist agenda

-erroneous biblical interpretation has created a history of atrocities done in the name of Jesus Christ against the Jewish people


Truth:

-God’s promises to the Jewish people are powerful and eternal

-God gave clear warnings to Israel that if they reject I'm they will be judged according to their ways


Deuteronomy 

Ch. 28-Blessings for Obedience 


-replacement theory pushes boycotts, divestment, and sanctions to promote antisemitism

-replacement theory plays right in the hands of the Islamist agenda

-false doctrine that wants to eliminate Israel's right to exist 

-rejects prophetic portions of the Old Testament and the veracity of Jesus’ promise to fulfill

-Israel must be back in their land before Christ’s second coming-they are there today

Last days

-church will face God’s wrath during the tribulation


Titus 2:13

“while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,”


Daniel 9: 24-27

-Daniel describes God’s prophetic plan for the nation of Israel

-the prophetic time clock prophecy began with King Artaxerxes Longimanus’s command on March 5, 444 BC to restore and rebuild Jerusalem

-each one week period represents seven years, so decree to the Messiah’s time would be 483 years

-the calculation based on the Babylonian calendar of 360 days rather than our modern 365 day calendar

-the 483 years come to a total of 173,880 days with brings us to AD 33

-the exact day Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey on Palm Sunday


Matthew 21: 1-9

Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King

-rides on a donkey and large crowds laid down palm fronds down to welcome their King

-”Hosanna to the Son of David”


Daniel 9:2

“In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.”


-foretold that the Messiah would be cut off for a capital offense April 6, AD 33


Daniel 9:26

“After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.”


-afterward, Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed which they were in AD 70

-this still leaves Israel with on seven year period of time yet to be fulfilled

-prophetic time clock has been paused until Daniel’s final seventh week-the tribulation period

-God’s promise to the nation of Israel of a future week remains to be fulfilled literally

-Christians should carefully read the entire Bible and study Jewish history 

-read what the Bible says about Israel’s creation and destiny

-read to discover that God is not done with the nation of Israel or the Jewish people

-prophetic revelations of the Old Testament are so clear that they frustrate those who refuse to believe God’s great commitment to Israel in the last days


Different Design for Men and Women

-God’s design for men and women has been the accepted standard since the beginning of time

2 landmark decisions 

-1973, United States Supreme Court ruled in the case of Roe vs. Wade that women have the right to abort-to terminate-their unborn children

-1973, American Psychiatric Association no longer designated homosexuality  as a mental disorder 

-reshaped the culture and the church


God’s design for men and women, husband and wife, and family:

Genesis 1:27-28

So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”


-created in God’s image we are uniquely designed to mirror His moral likeness 

-He gave us the ability to think, create, reason, experience, and enjoy things that neither animals nor angels know of

-He made us to fulfill His plan “be fruitful and multiply” (Gen. 1:28)

-the family unit is one of God’s ordained methods for ensuring that His Word and His will permeate society


Malachi 2:15

Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.[a] So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.”


Create strong, healthy, and lasting families

-God’s principles for biblical masculinity

-Jesus modeled manhood

-Jesus modeled being a servant leader

-Nothing was beneath Jesus

-Biblical masculinity means being a man of strength and sensitivity, firm yet tender

-Biblical masculinity honors the Word of God 


Biblical Masculinity:

-Christian men should not be trying to fit into the culture on how to dress, live, and act

-Worldliness lends itself to the castration of manhood

-Biblical men should love his family as Jesus loves the church

-Biblical men set aside selfish and any destructive personal issues

Ephesians 5: 26

“to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word,”


Biblical Femininity:

-it is a sad day when a woman cannot or will not define what she is

-Christianity vs. Paganism = how women are treated


Genesis 2:20

So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.”


-God speaks tenderness regarding Eve and her descendants (she was formed from the rib closest to man’s heart)

-God calls for women to be honored and held in high esteem

-Pagan religions degrade, abuse and suppress women

-God made man and woman differently but equal in worth

-women are apt to be more tender, diplomatic, and persuasive 

***equal worth on equity worth

-God’s design gifts qualities to men and to women which we should not delegate that task to the world

-church’s should not be silent in matters of God’ creation of man and woman, gender confusion, gender ideology, or the erasure of women over trans (no to pregnant person, birthing person, etc)


Raise the warning flag:

-too many have distorted or watered down the Word of God-conviction has been washed out of it

-Believers should be raising the warning flag of the return of Jesus Christ


Chronicles 12:32

from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do—200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command;”


Luke 12:35

“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning,”


Hebrews 12:1

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,”


-Prepare your minds for Action

-Peter uses gird your loins so not weighed down or held back but be prepared for the fight/battle


1 Peter 1:13

“Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.”


1 Peter 1: 15-16

 “But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;  for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”


-distorted water-downed word of God leads to lack of conviction

***pray to be strengthened against emotionally based theology

***pray to revive the lost art of critical thinking and scrutinize everything against the Word of truth



Living in the Daze of Deception by Jack Hibbs Chapter 4 Notes

 Chapter 4

Dazed by Doctrines of Demons

-Paul warned Timothy that the last days would be times of great deception

-Paul called them “doctrines of demons”


1 Timothy 4:1

“The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.”


-Greek word Didaskalia is the word “doctrine” meaning information imparted by a teacher coupled with their authority to instruct 

-His instruction on the path we should take is straight, and yes, it is narrow


Matthew 7:14

“But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”


-His path guarantees protection an promise His ways offer pleasantness and peach

Proverbs 3:17

“Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace.”


-when we accept the authority of the wrong teacher we head down a path paved with deception and lies

-the devil’s doctrines lure us away from God


Doctrine in Difficult Days

-last days will be perilous times will come


2 Timothy 3:1

“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.”


-the word “know” is a command, not a suggestion

-Greek Language: “perilous” times will be a global phenomenon

-the word “perilous” brings out the idea of stressed on every front and from every angle

-it means to push hard against another object

-Paul’s personal experiences made him keenly aware of the danger of continual stress


The World is Shifting

-every person has a worldview: beliefs that form the foundation of how they see life and their understanding of right and wrong, good and bad, acceptable and unacceptable-in a word–morality


The Church is Shifting

-Christians  need to be able to answer questions about their doctrinal beliefs, the conclusions are disheartening

-religion has cut themselves off from the anchor of the great doctrines of the Bible

-no real understanding of the Biblical doctrines regarding the nature of God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Spirit

-In America, Christianity has fallen victim to those who are supposed to be custodians

-Pulpits are filled with preachers, pastors, and prophets, we now have traders and marketeer of religion who promote anything and everything in the name of Christ

Ex. Black Lives Matter and feminism have become the doctrines of the bedrock of the Word of God

-they care more about social justice than God’s judgment and the gospel that saves mankind from it

-weak, ineffective churches are of little value in the world in which God has placed them

-they have no ability to fight against the destructive doctrines that threaten those whom they claim to care about 

-compromise in various pulpits is forcing many to depart from these mainstream denominations to find their source of spiritual strength and disciples in churches and small groups that are faithful to God’s Word 

-the world is dazed by deception, vigilance is needed 

****we need to pay attention to the signs that will expose the enemy’s hidden agendas 


Doctrines Fit for a Modern World

-Satan is wily

-subversion is the undermining of the power and authority of an established system or institution

-subversive practices take hold

-subversive activities that undermine a country’s foundation are spreading into all areas of society


Progressivism in Education

-Satan has covertly operated for decades in education under the guise of progressivism

-progressivism’s subversive doctrines have been entrenched on college and university campuses

-reformation of society that leaves God out of the picture 

-Puritans: valued the ability to read and interpret Scripture

1947: Old Deluder Satan Act laid the foundation of  the creation of public schools

Enlightened culture: no need for the Bible nor the need for the 10 commandments in our classrooms

-today, we have a higher level of ignorance 

-today, no moral guidance or spiritual truths


Judges 17: 6

“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.”


-teachers, librarians, and administrators are circumventing parental authority 

-parents are told to cede control of their children’s lives because educators know best

-an individual or group wants to relieve parents of their responsibility God has given them, you know that a demonic doctrine is behind it

-government and campuses have influence of progressive doctrines 

-stoking imagined inequalities to magnifying real problems, society is now filled with volatile issues

-discord and misinformation are robbing us of civility and tolerance


God’s design:

-parents are to be the primary source of influence in a child’s life 


Social Media

-the dark side of emotional addiction

-has done more to usher in a crippling dependency upon the approval of others than anything else in human history to date

-it consumes our thought life in a perpetual, nonstop thinking about self which is now accepted as normal

-it has engulfed our children 

-teens are conditioned to care about and respond to how absolute strangers view their media posts

-it is an effective tool for Satan because it causes a person to be highly vulnerable to the opinions and critiques of others

-results in significant damage to children’s psychological and spiritual development

-adults are not immune to the deliberating fear of others that social media’s self-centered, self-absorbed thinking breeds

-results in a narcissistic, domineering lifestyle

-people elevate themselves as the center of their universe finding it necessary to control others to maintain that number one spot

-the craving for absolute power control over others like a dictator

-uses fear tactics like socialism, Marxism, communism, and totalitarians

-tyrants thrive on intimidation

-heightened state of fear keep people in bondage

-purpose of the doctrines of demons


Spirituality

-unbelief of atheism is the doctrine of demons 

-atheism is a hopeless worldview 

-unbelief severely limits their view to the point of blindness

-they cannot see the deep spiritual meaning and design of life which makes them unable to see God

-unbelief is Satan’s attempt to get people believing in anything other than the God of the Bible

-Old Testament warns humanity has a propensity to worship anything other than God

-every person believes in something and/or theology

-God = Self, Climate Change, Science, etc…


Sexuality

-explosion of aberrant sexuality that the Bible warned would occur in the last days 

-perversion and deviant sexual thinking 

-eliminating Genesis: God created man and woman

-sexuality is given by God not only to celebrate but to honor

-Satan has perverted sexuality and redefined it in his plot to destroy what God called good 

-this is happening at an unprecedented rate on a global scale = doctrines of demons 


Science

-alternatives to biological humans 

-great deception among the nations and peoples of the world


Matthew 24: 24. 29-30

“For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.”


“Immediately after the distress of those days

“‘the sun will be darkened,
    and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
    and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.”


-science refuses to recount God’s creation

-they are looking to a way out of having to face the eternal God, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End


Revelation 22:13

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

Doctrine is a Matter of Life and Death


-you can’t be just close to being in sound doctrine

-Satan is smart 

-he wants to get people to deviate just enough in their thinking to keep them off course 


Why God Cares:

-doctrines that pervert the truth about God’s nature, character, and intentions never exist in a vacuum 

-God makes it clear that if a prophet delivered false messages will be held accountable with a punishment of death

-false doctrine leads people astray and when fully embraced it condemns them to hell

-it is not God’s intention for humans to occupy the corridors of hell

-battlefield: Satan against humanity versus the love of God for them

Ex. story of Elijah & the altar

-450 pagan gods verses Elijah’ God


1 Kings 18: 24

 “Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord. The god who answers by fire—he is God.”


-Baal prophets built an altar, laid a sacrifice, danced, called out, and even cut themselves for their gods to burn up the sacrifice but all the received is a deafening silence

-Elijah built an altar, laid a sacrifice, doused the sacrifice and altar with water 3 times so the water filled up the trenches surrounding the altar, then he called on the one true God. His presence came down and consumed the burnt offering. The fire was so hot that is the sacrifice, wood, and stones burnt into dust. 

-Elijah then commanded the false prophets  to seized to be executed 

-the false prophets were held accountable for delivering false messages so punishment was death


Deuteronomy chapters 13-19

-describe God’s exacting standards of prophets 

Ch. 13 Worshiping Other Gods 

Ch. 14 Clean and Unclean Food

Ch. 15 the Year of Canceling Debts

Ch. 16 The Passover 


Face the Wind:

-God’s love is strong enough to take you through the hardest trials and the toughest temptations

Satan’s Scheme

-any force coming against us to try to break our relationship from His perfect love 

-God’s perfect love is greater than any force that comes against us


John 4: 18

“The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”


John 4: 1

“Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—”


-John begins by addressing you: beloved

-Beloved is in your Bible because you are a His child, dearly loved, designated for His affection and special favor

-Beloved is a term of endearment so full of tender meaning that we humans can’t even comprehend

-Beloved reveals the depth of God’s love 


Romans 8: 38-39

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,  neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”


-Jude 21 tells believers to keep yourselves in the love of God 

 “keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.”


John 15: 9-11

****Bible = Love Letter to you and me 

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.  If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.  I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.”