<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Exposing the Enemy]]></title><description><![CDATA[And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. - Ephesians 5:11]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XiIG!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7fa0a43-22e4-400d-8658-672e54524c06_4939x3704.jpeg</url><title>Exposing the Enemy</title><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:53:50 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[exposingtheenemy@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[exposingtheenemy@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[exposingtheenemy@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[exposingtheenemy@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Launching to Latin America]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is how I support my family.]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/launching-to-latin-america</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/launching-to-latin-america</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:01:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e6380ba-8ca7-46ae-835b-7fab520738b4_480x600.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While some people have a 9-to-5 job to provide for their families, I provide for my family in two ways: ghostwriting and publishing my own books. The pen name Will Colt is where I publish my Western novels. In Spanish, my books go under the pen name Wm Howard, with my wife, Sandra Ardila, as translator. While this launch is primarily focused on two books, I have four others that will be following behind them. Two of them are Christian books. If you can help me with this launch, I would certainly appreciate it.</p><p>For more information:</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://willcoltwesterns.substack.com/p/launching-into-latin-america-i-need&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;CLICK HERE&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/willcoltwesterns.substack.com/p/launching-into-latin-america-i-need"><span>CLICK HERE</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Quit]]></title><description><![CDATA[By a Weary Witness]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/i-quit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/i-quit</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:16:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LbnP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc32d2e4c-2c48-4d54-a6d4-2abc832cf401_612x428.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>I am writing this to say: </span></p><h3><strong><span>I QUIT!</span></strong></h3><p><span>I quit trying to force open eyes that the god of this age has blinded. I quit straining my voice to be heard over the deafening noise of lies fed by leaders, media, and systems designed to keep souls asleep. My heart is heavy, my ears are tired, and I can no longer carry the weight of a world that refuses to wake up.</span></p><p><span>I suppose I&#8217;m in good company, because this is the ancient cry of the prophet.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LbnP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc32d2e4c-2c48-4d54-a6d4-2abc832cf401_612x428.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LbnP!, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/w_424, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h1><strong><span>The Precedent of the Prophets</span></strong></h1><p><span>You are not failing God by feeling exhausted. Elijah, after calling down fire from heaven and seeing the greatest revival of his time, ran into the wilderness when threatened by one woman. He sat under a broom tree and prayed to die, saying, </span><strong><span>&#8220;It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers&#8221;</span></strong><span> (1 Kings 19:4).</span></p><p><span>Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, wanted to quit because his message was mocked daily. He said, </span><strong><span>&#8220;I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,&#8221;</span></strong><span> yet the Word was like a fire shut up in his bones (Jeremiah 20:9). Even Moses and Jonah asked God to take their lives when the burden of the people became too great.</span></p><p><span>Their weariness was not a lack of faith; it was the natural response of a conscious soul living in an unconscious world.</span></p><p><span>Let me get straight to the point. I really don&#8217;t feel like I can relate to anyone in this world any longer. There are no conversations that do not somehow lead to the blindness of those who refuse to see that the TRUTH is a person, not some relative knowledge base.</span></p><p><span>Even when attempting to communicate with &#8220;Christians,&#8221; I find such a dullness of conscience and ignorance of the PERSON of Christ, not the religion, that I feel completely isolated.</span></p><p><span>Essentially, I am roundly ignored wherever I go and in whatever work I do.</span></p><p><span>So, I QUIT.</span></p><h1><strong><span>What &#8220;Quitting&#8221; Really Means</span></strong></h1><p><span>When I say &#8220;I quit,&#8221; I do not mean I am abandoning Jesus, the Creator and Absolute Truth. I am quitting the </span><strong><span>striving</span></strong><span> that belongs only to Him.</span></p><ol><li><p><strong><span>I Quit Trying to Be the Holy Spirit:</span></strong><span> I cannot convince, convict, or convert. That is the job of the Creator who formed every heart. I release the responsibility for their response.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>I Quit Arguing with Darkness:</span></strong><span> You cannot argue someone out of a lie they didn&#8217;t think themselves into. I will no longer waste my breath debating reality with those committed to the illusion.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>I Quit Carrying the Burden Alone:</span></strong><span> The weight of the world was never mine to hold. Jesus said, &#8220;Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest&#8221; (Matthew 11:28). I am finally accepting that invitation.</span></p></li></ol><h1><strong><span>The Shift from Striving to Resting</span></strong></h1><p><span>To &#8220;quit&#8221; in this sense is actually an act of deep trust. It is admitting that </span><strong><span>He alone has all knowledge and truth within Himself</span></strong><span>. If He is the Absolute, then He is capable of sustaining His own creation without my anxiety.</span></p><ul><li><p><strong><span>My new role is not to fix, but to abide.</span></strong></p></li><li><p><strong><span>My new strategy is not to persuade, but to pray.</span></strong></p></li><li><p><strong><span>My new goal is not success, but faithfulness.</span></strong></p></li></ul><h1><strong><span>A Call to the Weary</span></strong></h1><p><span>If you too are weary of striving and your heart is breaking under the weight of a sleeping world, </span></p><h3><strong><span>shake the dust off your feet</span></strong><span> (Matthew 10:14). </span></h3><p><span>You have delivered your soul. You have spoken the truth. The results are not yours to manufacture.</span></p><p><span>Stop trying to wake the dead with your own strength. Only the Creator can breathe life into dry bones. Rest in Him. Let the silence of your &#8220;quitting&#8221; become the space where He speaks.</span></p><h3><strong><span>From this day forward:</span></strong></h3><h3><strong><span>I quit striving. </span></strong></h3><h3><strong><span>I start resting.</span></strong></h3>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Echoes Across Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parallels Between 19th-Century Dispossession and 21st-Century Elitism]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/echoes-across-time</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/echoes-across-time</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:30:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGeT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39efa1d7-2581-413c-8863-d4b5f80a9b8e_400x300.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>How does </span><em><span>The Arrow and the Setting Sun</span></em><span>, a historical biographical fiction novel, relate to exposing the enemies in our time?</span></p><p><span>This is not simply a historical account of an event that took place 150 years ago; it&#8217;s a cautionary tale, reminding us that the dynamics of power, the mechanisms of dispossession, and the silencing of dissent are not relics of the past, but enduring challenges that continue to shape our world.</span></p><h1><strong><span>A Lens of Discernment</span></strong></h1><p><span>&#8220;The Arrow and the Setting Sun,&#8221; a novel deeply rooted in the tragic 19th-century displacement of the Ute Nation, offers a lens of discernment for examining the dynamics of power and control operating in the 21st century. While separated by time and circumstance, the narrative&#8217;s core themes include: disenfranchisement, the imposition of singular narratives, manipulation of language, and the erosion of self-determination. These themes resonate powerfully with contemporary events, most notably the global Ponzi scheme, the COVID-19 scamdemic, which gave way to the broader rise of concentrated power in the hands of global elites as well as the more recent displacement of the Palestinian people by the combined forces of the US and Israel. The story of Ouray isn&#8217;t simply about historical injustice; it&#8217;s about the enduring mechanisms by which dominant forces justify and enact control over vulnerable populations.</span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h1><strong><span>Denial of Agency</span></strong></h1><p><span>At the heart of both scenarios lies the denial of agency. The Ute were subjected to treaties, inherently unequal agreements, designed to legitimize the seizure of their ancestral lands. This mirrors the experience of many during the recent scamdemic, where policies like lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine requirements were implemented while silencing public debate, effectively curtailing personal freedoms. Those who questioned these measures were quickly marginalized, labeled as &#8220;anti-vaxxers,&#8221;  &#8220;conspiracy theorists,&#8221; or &#8220;spreaders of misinformation,&#8221; silencing dissent and creating a climate of fear that became the order of the day. Similarly, the Ute Nation was denied control over the land of their ancestors, and individuals found their bodily autonomy and everyday choices dictated by external forces.</span></p><h1><strong><span>A Singular Narrative</span></strong></h1><p><span>Control over the destiny of the Tabaguache (literally, people of the sun) was facilitated by the imposition of a singular, relentlessly promoted narrative. The U.S. government historically framed the Ute Nation as obstacles to progress, justifying their dispossession through racist and dehumanizing rhetoric. During the scamdemic, a similar tactic unfolded: a carefully curated scientific consensus was weaponized to suppress alternative viewpoints, early treatment options, and legitimate concerns regarding long-term effects. Social media platforms actively censored dissenting voices, and mainstream media reinforced the dominant narrative, creating an echo chamber where critical thinking was discouraged. Both instances demonstrate the power of language to shape perception and legitimize actions that would otherwise be considered unjust.</span></p><p><span>For a more recent example, consider the ongoing displacement of Palestinians. For decades, pointing out documented instances of home demolitions, land confiscations, and restrictions on movement in the West Bank and the genocide taking place in Gaza have been met with accusations of anti-Semitism. Terms like &#8220;occupied territory&#8221; are often contested, and highlighting the disparity in power between Israel and the Palestinian Authority frequently results in accusations of bias. Reports from human rights organizations detailing civilian casualties during conflicts are often dismissed or downplayed, and legitimate grievances are frequently framed as &#8220;security concerns.&#8221; This creates a chilling effect on closing down any legitimate discussion, effectively silencing Palestinian voices and shielding certain policies from scrutiny, mirroring how narratives were constructed to justify the taking of Ute lands 150 years ago.</span></p><h1><strong><span>Language Manipulation</span></strong></h1><p><span>The manipulation of language is a crucial connective thread. The treaties signed by Ouray were often riddled with ambiguity and ultimately broken, demonstrating the power of words to deceive. The language surrounding the scamdemic: &#8220;public health emergency,&#8221; &#8220;two weeks to flatten the curve,&#8221; &#8220;the new normal,&#8221; safe and effective,&#8221; etc., were used to normalize unprecedented restrictions on liberty and frame compliance as a civic duty. Shifting definitions, such as the changing criteria for what constitutes a &#8220;vaccine,&#8221; further eroded trust and demonstrated the malleability of truth in the service of a specific agenda.</span></p><h1><strong><span>A Critical Difference</span></strong></h1><p><span>While these situations are quite similar in so many ways, a critical distinction separates the plight of the Tabeguache from our contemporary experiences. The Ute were </span><em><span>victims</span></em><span> of an imposed will, subjected to a power imbalance they were largely unable to overcome because they were people on the outside of the mechanism. The same argument can be made for Palestinians, who also lack a voice. Today, a significant factor fueling the concentration of power in the hands of global elites stems from a degree of willing complicity. Unlike the Ute, many in the modern world actively support, or passively accept, policies that erode their own freedoms.</span></p><p><span>This acceptance is often rooted in a misplaced faith in charismatic leaders who present themselves as possessing unique insight, a &#8220;God-given mandate&#8221; to solve global problems. This echoes the fervor surrounding the concept of Manifest Destiny, which justified the displacement of &#8220;pagan&#8221; Indigenous peoples as a divinely ordained mission. The &#8220;greater Israel&#8221; justification of Palestinian displacement is Israel&#8217;s version of Manifest Destiny. This blind faith, coupled with apathy and a preference for comfortable narratives, allows global leaders to consolidate power and pursue agendas that often prioritize profit and control over genuine well-being. The ease with which populations cede control over their privacy, finances, and even their health, in the name of security or convenience, fuels the very mechanisms replicating the patterns of historical dispossession.</span></p><h1><strong><span>What Can You Learn from The Arrow and the Setting Sun?</span></strong></h1><p><span>&#8220;The Arrow and the Setting Sun&#8221; serves as a stark reminder that the mechanisms of control may evolve, but the underlying principles remain the same. The story will awaken you to the destructive nature of unquestioning obedience, the dangers of centralized power, and the vital importance of protecting individual autonomy and critical thinking. It is a call to recognize the echoes of the past in the present and to actively resist any attempt to impose a singular vision upon a diverse and complex world. We must learn from the fate of Ouray and the Tabeguache people to ensure we are not, unwittingly, contributing to a new empire based on the same foundations of exploitation and control.</span></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/echoes-across-time?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/echoes-across-time?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/echoes-across-time?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><h1><strong><span>Book Promotion</span></strong></h1><p><span>Many will ignore this part, believing it has no place in the subject of this blog. However, ignoring it ignores me and delegitimizes my voice. I DO NOT ASK FOR DONATIONS, and I do not hide my content behind a paywall. So, if you wish to support my voice as someone who exposes the enemy, do so by purchasing a copy of this book.</span></p><p><span>There is another element at play in The Arrow and the Setting Sun:</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.&#8221; - Matthew 5:9</span></p><p><span>Ouray was a peacemaker. He stood firm against his own people&#8217;s desire to fight and chose words and reason as his weapons. Historical sources suggest that he was a believer and follower of Christ. 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Its themes communicate something much deeper than the tragic tale of the displacement of the Tabeguache people who ultimately turned over the entire state of Colorado. If you want to feel the agony of a people being displaced beyond their control, this book is for you. Get your copy here: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2F21D87"><span>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2F21D87</span></a></p><p><span>Your Support Is Greatly Appreciated. May God bless you abundantly.</span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! 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I intend to do more with it in the coming months, so please bear with me.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>I NEVER ask for donations or pledges and I NEVER put what I write behind a pay wall.</p><p>WHY?</p><p>Because I believe the truth should be freely available to anyone who want to seek it out.</p><p>HOWEVER, I do not post as often as I would like because I have to be about the business of making a living. Marketing my books robs hours I could be using for a higher purpose.</p><p>I am a novelist who writes CLEAN Westerns and historical novels of the American frontier, trying to survive in a world that DEMANDS vampires, witches and smut.</p><p>So, if you would like to support me, buy my novels. I currently have seven available; two standalones and five in a series. I am working on releasing a new children&#8217;s series in the vein of Hank the Cowdog. Not only does this help me directly, but helps my brand of CLEAN, thought provoking books to become more visible.</p><p><a href="https://willcolt.com">Go to Will Colt Westerns for more information.</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RDiF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd9ba8d82-9129-4c2e-bb3b-231822eaf7d0_760x762.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RDiF!, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/w_424, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd9ba8d82-9129-4c2e-bb3b-231822eaf7d0_760x762.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RDiF!, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd9ba8d82-9129-4c2e-bb3b-231822eaf7d0_760x762.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p></p><p>I truly appreciate your support in every way. If you aren&#8217;t able to support me with money, share my work with friends, family and neighbors. Share my links in your social media or email them to your friends.</p><p>May God bless you and your family in every way.</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Bil</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed Are the Peacemakers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do modern believers model Christ's teaching from the Sermon on the Mount?]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/blessed-are-the-peacemakers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/blessed-are-the-peacemakers</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:56:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PhRZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5863c6ab-34f0-4e13-b2bb-d561ad025bd3_300x424.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>As I was researching and writing my most recent novel, </span><em><span>The Arrow and the Setting Sun</span></em><span>, something struck me in a powerful way. I want to share it with you, but first, allow me to provide some background.</span></p><p><span>I grew up in the mountains of Colorado, in the very land where Ouray and the Tabeguache Ute lived. It is a vast and beautiful land full of plenty but also extremely harsh, especially in winter. Looking to and depending on the provision of a gracious creator was a foregone necessity. Our way of life slowly deteriorated under the ongoing suppression of land use laws, environmental activism and economic pressure. Essentially, things you cannot really fight against. I watched our way of life slowly being erased before it finally disappeared in the late nineteen nineties.</span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h2>Manifest Destiny</h2><p><span>Last fall, I was thinking about </span><em><strong><span>Manifest Destiny</span></strong></em><span>, especially as it relates to Israel&#8217;s actions in Gaza and the West Bank. Modern Israel&#8217;s claim invokes historical, religious, and security narratives, emphasizing a return to an ancestral homeland. This bears a resemblance to </span><em><strong><span>Manifest Destiny</span></strong></em><span>, a 19th-century American belief in a divinely ordained right to expand across North America.</span></p><p><span>Both concepts share a powerful narrative of destiny and a unique claim to territory, justifying settlement and control. Both ideologies undeniably resulted in significant displacement and protracted conflict with existing populations who had their own prior claims and presence in the land. They also ignore the finished work of Jesus Christ, dragging &#8220;Christians&#8221; back into reapplying the Conquest of Canaan, which was an isolated, God-ordained event in history, not a mandate for our age, the Age of Grace.</span></p><p><span>With that in the back of my mind, I entered the </span><em><strong><span>Historical Novel Society&#8217;s First Chapters Literary Competition</span></strong></em><span> with a biographical historical fiction piece on Chief Ouray. Rules of the contest prevented me from sharing anything regarding my entry until May of this year, so I set it on the shelf with the opening chapters and an outline.</span></p><p><span>When I returned to writing The Arrow and the Setting Sun in May, I was struggling with the concept of fully surrendering to Christ. Essentially, I was still not turning over certain areas of my life in full surrender to Christ. At some point in my struggle, the Holy Spirit led me to the Sermon on the Mount as a model for surrender. I&#8217;ll share that at a later time because I developed a fascinating understanding of how Christ&#8217;s three-chapter sermon is a call to surrender.</span></p><p><span>When I was deep into the writing and research of The Arrow and the Setting Sun, it suddenly hit me that Chief Ouray, a man who was supposedly a pagan, indigenous leader, perfectly modeled the ideology of Matthew 5:3-9, aka the Beatitudes. Please bear with me as I share what I discovered.</span></p><p></p><h2><span>The Quiet Strength of Peacemakers: Chief Ouray and the Beatitudes</span></h2><p><span>In the annals of history, certain figures stand out not for their military might or their capacity for conquest, but for their profound commitment to peace and their embodiment of quiet strength. Chief Ouray, a principal leader of the Ute people in the 19th century, was one such figure. Sometimes referred to as &#8220;The Ute Moses,&#8221; Ouray navigated an intensely challenging era, choosing diplomacy and negotiation over war. He consistently advocated for his people through intelligence, patience, and a deep-seated humility. His life, dedicated to peacemaking, offers a striking parallel to Christ&#8217;s wisdom in the Sermon on the Mount, particularly Matthew 5:3-9, commonly known as the Beatitudes.</span></p><p></p><p></p><h2><span>Chief Ouray: A Legacy Forged in Humility and Peacemaking</span></h2><p><span>Chief Ouray inherited leadership during a tumultuous period marked by the relentless westward expansion of the United States driven by the ideology of Manifest Destiny. While many indigenous leaders chose armed resistance against overwhelming odds, a path often leading to tragic outcomes, Ouray uniquely pursued a different strategy. He understood the changing landscape and the immense power disparity, recognizing that the best hope for his people lay in negotiation, even when it meant painful compromises (he eventually gave up the entire state of Colorado).</span></p><p><span>His approach was far from passive. Ouray was a shrewd negotiator, fluent in English and Spanish, making him an invaluable bridge between his people and the U.S. government. He traveled to Washington, D.C., multiple times, enduring cultural differences and political machinations, all in an effort to secure a future for his people. While he demonstrated immense courage with his own people calling him a traitor, the humility required to sit at the table with those who held the power to dispossess his people, and the unwavering commitment to a peaceful resolution was a significant burden. His life was a testament to the belief that peace, even imperfect peace, was preferable to continued conflict and annihilation.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PhRZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5863c6ab-34f0-4e13-b2bb-d561ad025bd3_300x424.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PhRZ!, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/w_424, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5863c6ab-34f0-4e13-b2bb-d561ad025bd3_300x424.webp 424w, 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These are radical concepts in our modern world, and we tend to ignore them as a profound spiritual teaching rather than something we ought to practice in our daily living, but let&#8217;s get back to Ouray.</span></p><p><span>When we compare Ouray&#8217;s leadership with these spiritual principles, a profound connection emerges:</span></p><ul><li><p><span>&#8220;Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.&#8221; (v.3): Ouray recognized the vulnerability of his people and the limits of their power against an encroaching nation. This &#8220;poverty in spirit&#8221; wasn&#8217;t a lack of spirit, but a realistic assessment of their situation, leading him to seek non-violent solutions rather than futile confrontation. Consider Matthew 5:23-26.</span></p></li><li><p><span>&#8220;Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.&#8221; (v.4): Ouray undoubtedly mourned the loss of ancestral lands and the erosion of Ute traditions. Yet, in his steadfast commitment to securing a future, there was a profound hope for comfort and eventual restoration for his people, even if it came in a new form.</span></p></li><li><p><span>&#8220;Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.&#8221; (v.5): This Beatitude resonates deeply with Ouray. He did not seek to violently assert dominance but operated with a quiet, persistent strength. His &#8220;meekness&#8221; was not weakness, but a strategic humility that aimed to preserve a portion of what was rightfully his people&#8217;s, ensuring their continued existence on the land.</span></p></li><li><p><span>&#8220;Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.&#8221; (v.6): Ouray relentlessly pursued what he believed was right for his people, even in the face of systemic injustice. His negotiations, often frustrating and imperfect, were driven by a hunger for a just outcome, for recognition of the rights of his people, and for a path forward built on integrity.</span></p></li><li><p><span>&#8220;Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.&#8221; (v.7): Engaging with a government that often showed little mercy, Ouray himself extended a form of mercy by always seeking negotiation over retribution. His willingness to build trust, however fragile, was an act of profound compassion.</span></p></li><li><p><span>&#8220;Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.&#8221; (v.8): Ouray&#8217;s motivation was consistently for the welfare and survival of his people. His intentions were clear and unwavering, free from personal ambition or vengeance, purely focused on their enduring good.</span></p></li><li><p><span>&#8220;Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God.&#8221; (v.9): This is Ouray&#8217;s defining characteristic. He was the quintessential peacemaker, actively mediating, building bridges, and preventing further bloodshed. His tireless efforts in an era of conflict truly embody the spirit of this Beatitude, marking him as a leader whose legacy is one of reconciliation and human dignity.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><h2><span>An Enduring Message</span></h2><p><span>Chief Ouray&#8217;s life offers a powerful, historical illustration of the principles articulated in Matthew 5:3-9. His humility in the face of overwhelming power, his unwavering commitment to diplomacy, and his profound capacity for peacemaking demonstrate that true strength often lies not in aggression, but in wisdom, patience, and compassion. In a world still grappling with conflict, the wisdom of Chief Ouray and the timeless truths of the Beatitudes remind us that the path of humility and peace is not just a spiritual ideal, but a powerful, practical strategy for survival, justice, and lasting well-being.</span></p><p></p><h2><span>But There&#8217;s More</span></h2><p><span>I was dumbfounded by the fact that a pagan so expertly modeled Christlikeness when so many in our modern &#8220;Christians&#8221; are among the most vocal war hawks, not only advocating for Israel&#8217;s expansionism but DEMANDING that we help fund it.</span></p><p><strong><span>Does that BOTHER you?</span></strong></p><p><span>Where are the Beatitudes of Christ in those who claim to be His followers?</span></p><p><span>How can a &#8220;pagan Indian&#8221; more expertly demonstrate them than men who are supposed to have great biblical understanding?</span></p><p><span>So, I did some more digging. Ouray, at a very young age, after his mother died giving birth to a younger brother, was taken to Taos, New Mexico, where he was raised by Franciscan friars. There is not much written about his time there. We know that he learned English and Spanish while he was there. I think that there is a very good chance that he was exposed to the Beatitudes and returned to them at some point later.</span></p><p></p><h3>Ouray the Warrior Became Ouray the Peacemaker</h3><p><span>Ouray was a fierce hunter and warrior, feared by other indigenous people, but something changed in him, maybe after his son was taken by the Lakota while the Tabeguache were hunting buffalo on Colorado&#8217;s Eastern plains, sometime in about 1862. It&#8217;s only speculation. By 1868, when Ouray was 35-years-old, he had already taken on the attitude of a peacemaker because he negotiated turning over the land of the Tabeguache east of the Continental Divide, giving up one of their most sacred mountains, Pike&#8217;s Peak.</span></p><p><span>The pattern after that first concession remained the same throughout his life, and he was still trying to broker peace on behalf of the Southern Ute Nations, not his own people, when he died of Bright&#8217;s Disease at age 47.</span></p><p></p><h3><span>Was Ouray a Believer?</span></h3><p><span>Then, I found another jewel of history, hidden as most things of its kind are hidden. It turns out that in his last several years, Ouray had become a devout Methodist. That doesn&#8217;t mean a lot in our day and age, but Ouray died in 1880. In the 1870s, Methodists were known for a dedication to temperance and moral discipline, which included methodical study of the scriptures, and evangelical worship.</span></p><p><span>No one can determine whether another person is &#8220;born again,&#8221; though the scriptures teach us that we will be known by our fruit. Did Ouray model the principles of Christ&#8217;s sermon because he was following the example of His Lord?</span></p><p></p><h2><span>How Does This Apply to Today?</span></h2><p><span>The United States, in 2026, just like it was in the mid-1800s, is being led by false teaching and false teachers. Our participation in Israel&#8217;s Manifest Destiny is </span><strong><span>CONTRARY</span></strong><span> to the teachings of our Lord. Maybe it requires the example of a &#8220;pagan Indian&#8221; to get American &#8220;Christians&#8221; back to their </span><em><strong><span>FIRST LOVE</span></strong></em><span> (Rev. 2:4).</span></p><p><em><span>The Arrow and the Setting Sun</span></em><span> demonstrates the heart of a peacemaker. If you want to be stirred into standing among the Sons of God (Matt. 5:9), consider picking up a copy today. Besides delivering a profound message, it helps support my family.</span></p><p></p><p><em><strong><a href="https://willcolt.com/books/the-arrow-and-the-setting-sun"><span>The Arrow and the Setting Sun</span></a></strong></em><span>: Available August 3rd, 2026. 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It begi&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">7 months ago &#183; 3 likes &#183; Steven Ben-Nun</div></a></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exposing the Christian Zionist Lie]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have been following Steven for almost a decade.]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/exposing-the-christian-zionist-lie</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/exposing-the-christian-zionist-lie</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:23:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XiIG!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7fa0a43-22e4-400d-8658-672e54524c06_4939x3704.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been following Steven for almost a decade. As I was beginning to question the Darby-Scofield narrative, he helped provide support to what I was discovering from the scriptures. This post is an excellent summary for those still lost in the Christian Zionist lie or questioning it.</p><p>&lt;div class=&#8221;substack-post-embed&#8221;&gt;&lt;p lang=&#8221;en&#8221;&gt;Was Israel the Fulfilment of Isaiah 66:8 by Steven Ben-Nun&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Nation Born in a Day&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a data-post-link href=/__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/&amp;#8221;https://stevenbennun.substack.com/p/was-israel-the-fulfilment-of-isaiah&amp;#8221;%3ERead on Substack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;script async src=/__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/&amp;#8221;https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js&amp;#8221; charset=&#8221;utf-8&#8221;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vaccines Are a Tool of the Enemy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Still on the fence about vaccines?]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/vaccines-are-a-tool-of-the-enemy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/vaccines-are-a-tool-of-the-enemy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:17:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XiIG!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7fa0a43-22e4-400d-8658-672e54524c06_4939x3704.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Still on the fence about vaccines? This article from Dr. Mercola&#8217;s website should help clear things up.</p><p><a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/12/12/why-have-vaccines-become-a-religion.aspx">Why Have Vaccines Become a Religion?</a></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failed Link for Reflections of Glory]]></title><description><![CDATA[I think I jumped the gun, sharing the link in the last post.]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/failed-link-for-reflections-of-glory</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/failed-link-for-reflections-of-glory</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:07:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/45dd73b7-238b-4751-9bc0-f0e6d02adcb1_384x576.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think I jumped the gun, sharing the link in the last post. It wasn&#8217;t quite ready.</p><p>It is now working&#8230;</p><p><a href="https://books2read.com/u/3Jkq8g">Reflections of Glory</a></p><p>Thank you for your support.</p><p>Bil</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luciferian One World Order]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Side Note Related to A Return to Babel: End-Game of the Enemy]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/luciferian-one-world-order</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/luciferian-one-world-order</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:07:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XiIG!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7fa0a43-22e4-400d-8658-672e54524c06_4939x3704.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Though this article is a few years old, it clearly shows the connection between the UN&#8217;s One World Order and its connection to the occult. If you have read my publications titled, <a href="/__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/the-tower-foundation-the-occult-and?r=1e0ghs">The Tower Foundation: The Occult and Witchcraft</a> and <a href="/__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/the-tower-foundation-two-major-philosophical?r=1e0ghs">The Tower Foundation: Two Major Philosophies Influencing Our Modern World</a>, you will already have plenty of background into what is really going on here.</p><p>The following article from Lioness of Judah dated December 9, 2021 may fill in the gaps for some. Rather than copy and post the article, here is the link: </p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:45240130,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-occult-is-the-spiritual-foundation&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:581065,&quot;embedding_publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Exposing The Darkness&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6aa43cb8-445d-4fbd-95f6-3321418fae95_249x249.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Occult is The Spiritual Foundation of The United Nations. The Stage Is Set For The Coming One World Government Under One World Leader.&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;\&quot;The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. It's purpose is to destroy the United States.\&quot; (John E. 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The Stage Is Set For The Coming One World Government Under One World Leader.</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">"The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. It's purpose is to destroy the United States." (John E. Rankin, a U.S. Congressman&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">5 years ago &#183; 629 likes &#183; 133 comments &#183; Lioness of Judah Ministry</div></a></div><p>Please understand that I do not fully endorse Lioness of Judah and her views, but we are making connections to the same world events coming from alternative points of view.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building the Tower: Tools of the Enemy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part 6 of A Return to Babel: End-Game of the Enemy]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/building-the-tower-tools-of-the-enemy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/building-the-tower-tools-of-the-enemy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:00:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df3b3480-73f9-4e8f-8258-2909f874ff44_1024x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this publication, I&#8217;m going to begin exposing how we are being deceived. It is a planned deception. </p><p>To build something, you must have tools and materials. So, the logical place to begin to understand how the Enemy is building his new Tower of Babel is to have an understanding of the tools he uses.</p><p>I first started waking up to what was taking place in our world in 2015 when I heard a new term for the first time: &#8220;fake news.&#8221; I knew that new term would be misused to label anything that did not agree with the mainstream media narrative. It wasn&#8217;t really new. The term before it was &#8220;conspiracy theory&#8221; and those who countered the mainstream narrative were labeled &#8220;conspiracy theorists.&#8221;</p><p>For perspective, do you realize that to the Jewish religious system of His day, Jesus was &#8220;fake news&#8221;? From the point of view of the Jewish leadership, He was a spreader of misinformation and disinformation, terms you probably recognize. Essentially, He did not fit into the version of the narrative used by the Jewish leaders.</p><p>Though the prophets of the Old Testament described Him in perfect detail, He was not their version of the Messiah. Why? Because they were not errant believers of God&#8217;s word. Instead, they were conspirators building their own version of the Messiah in the image they had formed (breaking the second commandment by the way).</p><p>You understand how the &#8220;fake news&#8221; Christ was viewed by the Jewish leadership in the same way as those who disagree with the mainstream narrative are today":</p><p><em><strong>Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. And the Jews marveled, saying, &#8220;How does this Man know letters, having never studied?&#8221; - John 7:14-15</strong></em></p><p>In essence, he wasn&#8217;t one of their authorities, educated in their system, so he could not possibly be an EXPERT. As we go deeper into this study, think about how the mainstream narrative always has its own, officially recognized experts regardless of if there are others who have superior expertise.</p><p>The system the Jewish leadership had created was built upon their own satanic version and interpretation of God&#8217;s covenant, which has been clearly portrayed in the preceding publications in the series A Return to Babel: End-Game of the Enemy.</p><p>This labeling and name-calling are well out of hand in modern society and used to prevent people from looking for ANY alternative truth to what is fed to them by the &#8220;proper authorities.&#8221;</p><p>Former CIA Director William Casey laid things out pretty clearly when he said, &#8220;We shall know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American people believes is false.&#8221;</p><p>If you wonder just how pervasive the disinformation program is, read what CIA ex-Director William Colby observed back in 2011 in an interview with <a href="https://x.com/joerogan/status/24216025755033600?lang=en">Joe Rogan</a>: &#8220;The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.&#8221;</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h2>The Truth Behind the Labels</h2><p>An editorial on <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2021.1917364">Taylor and Francis by David Coady</a> provides a great deal of insight into the term &#8220;conspiracy theory&#8221;. He opens by saying, &#8220;Ever since the term &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217; was first popularized by the philosopher Sir Karl Popper in the 1950s, conspiracy theories have had a bad reputation. To call a theory &#8216;a conspiracy theory&#8217; is to imply that it is false, and that the people who believe it or who would like to investigate it (i.e. &#8216;conspiracy theorists&#8217;) are irrational. Conspiracy theories are widely held to be not only false and the products of irrationality, but also to be particularly harmful&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>Coady goes on to explain how the term is used to silence objections to the ruling narrative. &#8220;Although the term &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217; lacks any fixed definition, it does serve a fixed function. Its function, like that of the word &#8216;heresy&#8217; in medieval Europe, is to stigmatize people with beliefs which conflict with officially sanctioned or orthodox beliefs of the time and place in question.&#8221;</p><p>The terms fake news, misinformation and disinformation have been added under the heading of conspiracy theory in order to cast the net over a broader range of targets. In essence, as Coady explained above, these terms are used to blanketly discredit those who are in opposition to whatever the ruling powers determine to be the norm.</p><p>In our day, they are being used to silence the many alternative voices that have gained greater access to the public narrative. These alternative voices have risen out of the fact that people have come to recognize that the mainstream media (MSM) reports and interprets events from only one &#8220;authorized&#8221; point of view.</p><p>Alternative voices have always existed in every form of media in the last century and beyond. When I did research in High School, I had to learn how to choose the right sources of information for whatever project I was working on. I had to do it the old-fashioned way with periodicals (fortunately on microfilm or microfiche) or by physically opening a book. Because it was time consuming, I learned to read through the garbage more quickly in order to save myself time.</p><p>Nothing has changed. When I do research online, I have to sort through the garbage to find authoritative sources whether MSM or alternative sources. I spend a great deal of time reading professional journals for work. I have found that MSM sources are not only biased but also vague in their quest to &#8220;inform.&#8221; This is something I first discovered in 1985.</p><p>Why do we need someone to tell us what is &#8220;real news&#8221; and what is &#8220;fake news&#8221;? </p><p>Why do we need governmental authorities to step in and control misinformation and disinformation? </p><p>Somehow, we survived conspiracy theories, fake news and disinformation before, but now, we need someone to tell us what we should believe.</p><p>Does that bother you? </p><p>It should, because he who controls the information you have access to controls how you think. He who controls how you think controls your behavior.</p><p></p><h2>Fear</h2><p>In the introduction to the series, I went into great detail about how the Enemy uses fear to control people; put them in bondage. It is among his favorite tools and has been used with increasingly more success over the last one hundred or so years as the capacity to get the message to massive numbers of people has increased.</p><p>Let&#8217;s tie this to what we just discussed. You are probably afraid to listen to alternative sources of truth because those sources are increasingly labeled as fake news, conspiracy theories, disinformation, misinformation and mal-information. If you start to listen and believe those things, then you must certainly be one of those conspiracy theorist nuts, right?</p><p>Do you see how the fear of being labeled can keep you from seeing the truth?</p><p>This has been so expertly accomplished that many of the people you know would never even consider reading this book and if they knew that you are reading it, they would instantly start to think of you as being a few cards short of a full deck.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the problem. If you or they continue down the same path, what will become of your Christian faith and the guidance you receive from God&#8217;s Word when the Bible is wholly dismissed as &#8220;fake news&#8221; or defamed in some other way, such as being antisemitic. The rumblings of that day are arriving like a thunderstorm rolling toward us.</p><p>It really doesn&#8217;t matter which side of an issue you&#8217;re on; the Enemy can use fear against you. For example, you can be afraid of the liberals ushering in communism or afraid of conservatives ushering in fascism, you can be afraid of COVID or afraid of the COVID vaccine, you can be afraid of climate change or afraid of geoengineering, you can be afraid of the Russians taking over the world or of nuclear war.</p><p>These are examples of orchestrated fears that grip us in our modern age. How were they orchestrated? To understand that, it is necessary to take a look at what is known as Mass Formation Psychosis.</p><p>&#8220;Mass formation psychosis is when a large part of a society focuses its attention to a leader(s) or a series of events and their attention focuses on one small point or issue,&#8221; says <a href="https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/90470/what-is-mass-formation-psychosis">Southern Wealth Fund Institute</a>. I chose to use this as a source rather than a psychology journal because this source does not have a dog in the hunt, so it is reporting from an objective position.</p><p>Among the key characteristics of this phenomena is that the people identify their leadership as the only ones who can solve a particular problem or issue, so they will follow that leader(s) regardless of the information or data presented.</p><p>There are four key components needed to achieve a mass formation psychosis: lack of social bonds or decoupling of societal connections, lack of ability to make sense out of things, free-floating anxiety, and free-floating psychological discontent.</p><p>Let&#8217;s contrast this to brainwashing, which is, according to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/brainwashing">Encyclopedia Britannica</a>, &#8220;is a systematic effort to persuade nonbelievers to accept a certain allegiance, command, or doctrine. A colloquial term, it is more generally applied to any technique designed to manipulate human thought or action against the desire, will, or knowledge of the individual.&#8221;</p><p>The only thing that typically distinguishes mass formation psychosis from brainwashing is that brainwashing asserts control over an individual&#8217;s physical environment while mass formation psychosis focuses mostly on mental and emotional control.</p><p>Here is an example of how this works. How did the Nazi&#8217;s convince good, rational, Lutherans to support Hitler&#8217;s war, and the extermination of the Jews and other individuals deemed &#8220;deplorable&#8221; by them?</p><p>By establishing themselves as the ONLY ones who could solve the economic and social problems of a nation that was in extremely difficult times after World War I and a devastating depression.</p><p>They set up specialized training for the youth. They limited the information available to the people to just a few specific sources. They encouraged people to rat out their neighbors if they spoke contrary to the powers that be.</p><p>The limited or controlled information available to the general public in Nazi Germany caused them to lack the ability to make sense out of things. At the same time, there was a very real anxiety and fear that the German way of life was at stake if they did not conform to what they were being told was the only way to preserve Germany.</p><p>Their free-floating psychological discontent led good people to act irrationally and do things they would never have done without being under the manipulation of Hitler and the Nazis.</p><p></p><h2>From a Twisting of the Facts to Bold-Faced Lies</h2><p>Anyone familiar with the scriptures will recognize how Satan used these two techniques in his temptation of Jesus. It is the same tactic he used in the garden, twisting what God had commanded in order to deceive Eve. In both cases, the Enemy uses a more clever twisting of facts when it suits his purpose and uses a bold-faced lie when he encounters ignorance.</p><p>Let me make a bold statement before we continue. In spite of the use of the term &#8220;fact check,&#8221; nobody really fact checks anything. What is usually done by &#8220;fact checkers&#8221; is a form of censorship in which a certain viewpoint is reinforced while the other is demonized.</p><p>The MSM monopoly described by William Casey in 2011 has made it extremely difficult for any form of true fact checking.</p><p>In reality, I saw this coming in 1985. Though not fully understanding it, I was beginning to catch on to the slow, deliberate reforming of the societal connections that were identified by Americans up through World War II. Even by that time, they had already been so significantly eroded that they were barely recognizable to older generations.</p><p>One of the best examples I can provide is the television series All in the Family. The message delivered was that the two older members of the family (Archie and Edith) were nuts and the two younger members of the family (Gloria and Michael) were open-minded and progressive.</p><p>Archie Bunker was cast as a religious bigot, expressing what the writers of the series considered as outdated ideology, thus causing viewers to think of him as the antagonist. Edith was cast as a dim-whit that was obligated to follow her husband, but somehow recognized that Gloria and Michael were moving in the right direction.</p><p>The Jefferson&#8217;s spin-off of this dealt with the injustices of racial tensions. All were working toward disconnecting viewers from what the producers considered outdated ideologies to &#8220;modern thinking.&#8221;</p><p>This has taken place via television since Leave It to Beaver and the Dick Van Dyke Show (though you&#8217;ll note that Laura and Dick slept in separate beds whenever there was a bedroom scene), as television producers slowly chipped away at ideologies and moral values that they deemed out-of-date. </p><p>In our modern age, things have gone so far in the other direction that those who still believe in traditional values and try to communicate them to others are bigots and conspiracy theory nuts.</p><p></p><h2>Scrying Mirrors</h2><p>While we are on the subject of television, I think it is important for us to understand what we&#8217;re actually looking at, the original purpose for the device and those objects that were developed out of the television, namely computer monitors and smart phones.</p><p>You probably haven&#8217;t heard the term lately, but it was extremely common in the early years of television. Various commentators on television always referred to &#8220;the magic of television.&#8221; Since you now have an understanding of what that term really means, it is easy to recognize what is really behind the production and use of the television, which has had an enormous impact as the primary tool for the Mass Formation Psychosis that has a worldwide reach.</p><p>You&#8217;re probably wondering why I called this section scrying mirrors if I&#8217;m going to talk about television. I&#8217;ll tell you in a minute, but before I do, I want to clarify what a scrying mirror is.</p><p>According to the Encyclopedia Britanica, scrying or crystal gazing involves &#8220;divination of distant or future events based on visions seen in a ball of rock crystal. Divination based on an analysis of reflections in water, on polished metal, or on precious stones was practiced by early humans, who probably interpreted these phenomena as a vision of the spirit world.&#8221;</p><p>The practice of scrying became widespread by the 5th century and condemned by the medieval Christian church as the work of the devil as well it should have been since it is the practice of divination strictly forbidden in the Bible.</p><p>The messages or visions that offer personal guidance, prophecy, revelation, or inspiration arise from within the object used for scrying.</p><p>In the initial schematic drawings that became the television (literally a vision from a distance), the device was labeled as a scrying mirror. If you reread the definition above, you will see what the intended purpose of the device was. In reality, it did become a way to see visions from a distance, which were broadcast (like a spell) to the receiver.</p><p>Though the television viewer does not receive paranormal or supernatural messages they do receive the message that was designed to be sent to the receiver. In other words, someone on the other end of your television is creating the vision you see. Obviously, the manner in which you receive it plays a role in how it is used.</p><p>The point I want you to understand is that the enemy, seizing on the desire of men to practice divination, provided the technology for a television, and then began to use it as a propaganda tool to break down traditional values at breakneck speed.</p><p>From the television became the computer monitor, which initially, displayed the input and processed data of the user, but with the arrival of the worldwide web, media content could arrive on your computer monitor from somewhere else and that content under the control of the sender. This quickly amplified the pace by which the Enemy could spread his deception.</p><p>Not content for people to only have access to his false information once in a while, the Enemy gave someone the idea for the Smartphone, putting this tiny scrying mirror in the hands of everyone. In combination, he gave us social media to communicate with each other and others in order to draw us in and keep us trapped.</p><p>Can these devices be used for good purposes. Yes, but I want you to be aware of their roots and the danger of complete dependence on them as a source of truth. These are among the tools used by the Enemy in the construction of his new Tower of Babel. You understand better as we continue.</p><p></p><h2>Hiding Things in Plain Sight</h2><p>For those who practice witchcraft, their spell has greater power if they cast it in plain sight and in such a way that their ignorant target invites their magic to them. Let&#8217;s pull the definition of magic from part 4 forward to examine it more closely:</p><p>&#8220;A practice that works <strong>to harness invisible forces to influence events, effect change in material conditions or present the illusion of change</strong>.</p><p>In most cases within Western popular culture magic is associated with acts of conjuring and sleight of hand for entertainment. As a part of occult practices, magic is used to acquire knowledge, power, love, or wealth, to heal or prevent illness, to guarantee success in an endeavour, harm an enemy, acquire information, to induce spiritual transformation, <strong>to deceive or trick someone, or to entertain</strong>.</p><p>Basically, <strong>magic is used to deceive</strong>, making use of spells, incantations or charms as well as symbolic numbers (numerology and gematria) thought to have innate power, natural or man-made material objects, and ritual actions.</p><p>A talisman, amulet or charm used in magic may be constructed from various herbs, animal parts, gemstones, sacred objects, or other items <strong>thought to be potent within themselves or empowered by incantations or rituals</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>Note that in the Encyclopedia Britannica definition, magic is dismissed as entertainment. In essence, in our modern society we are being deceived by magic and also being deceived by what magic is.</p><p>Essentially, magic isn&#8217;t satanic, it&#8217;s just fun and games to entertain us.</p><p>What is the purpose of entertainment?</p><p>You have probably never asked yourself this question because it is so commonplace in our modern society that we often mistake it for a God-given right or privilege. However, I challenge you to find the suggestion of entertainment or leisure as a gift of God in the scriptures.</p><p>Does that automatically mean that it&#8217;s a bad thing? Not necessarily, but if it replaces our service to the Lord, it becomes a stumbling block.</p><p>Back to the question, what is the purpose of entertainment?</p><p>Here is how the <a href="https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/Entertainment">Synonym</a> defines entertainment:</p><p><em>Entertainment</em> and <em>recreation</em> imply thought and mental occupation, though in an agreeable, refreshing way; they are therefore words of a high order. <em>Entertainment</em>, apart from its special senses of a public performance or a social party, and predominantly even there, is used of somewhat mirthful mental delight; <em>recreation</em> may, and usually does, combine the mental with the physical. <em>Amusement</em> and <em>pastime</em> are nearly equivalent, the latter probably the lighter word; many slight things may be <em>pastimes</em> which we should hardly dignify by the name of <em>amusements</em>.</p><p>I could have just answered the question, but I wanted you to see this verbose definition first. </p><p>The purpose of entertainment it to amuse (provide interesting and enjoyable occupation for you) you or distract you. Here Oxford Languages provides a definition that truly provides the purpose behind entertainment:</p><ul><li><p>divert (attention) from something</p></li><li><p>divert one's attention from something unpleasant by doing something different or more pleasurable</p></li><li><p>archaic: perplex and bewilder</p></li></ul><p>This definition leads to a couple of questions, like:</p><ul><li><p>From what do those who are entertaining me want to divert my attention?</p></li><li><p>What unpleasant thing is being covered up?</p></li></ul><p>It is the archaic definition that really gets to the definition of distract, and I would suggest, provides the purpose behind entertainment.</p><p>In my opinion, entertainment from the Enemy&#8217;s perspective was designed to perplex and bewilder us, even to the point of hiding the meaning in several verbose layers of definitions.</p><p>Essentially, behind what is shown to us in plain sight is the &#8220;magic of television&#8221; or the true spell that is being &#8220;broadcast&#8221; over us by the Enemy. It is used to weaken, perplex and bewilder us into believing a false narrative and making us fearful. In both cases, the end result is bondage.</p><p></p><h2>The Failsafe Business Model</h2><p>Imagine being able to have such complete control over people&#8217;s minds that you can sell them whatever you desire.</p><p>For example, my stepson makes and sells empanadas (fried meat/potato turnovers). His business model involves producing a product that satisfies the craving Colombians have for empanadas, using the best ingredients available, and at a reasonable price. He informs people of this using various means of advertising, including some free samples in the beginning. After three years, he is well-established as having the best empanadas in town.</p><p>This is the business plan for most honest businesses, right? It is an honest way of doing business, but it is far from failsafe. </p><p>For his business model to be failsafe, he would have to convince the public that without his empanadas they would suffer some very unpleasant circumstances, including death.</p><p>This would only be possible if he was able to use the tools we have already discussed to achieve a state of Mass Formation Psychosis.</p><p>These tools are being applied as the failsafe business model of the Enemy in order to build the modern Tower of Babel, and they are clearly at work in what I&#8217;m going to term the Six Structures of Deception, which will be the topics discussed in the next six publications of the series A Return to Babel: End-Game of the Enemy.</p><ul><li><p>Climate Change</p></li><li><p>Health</p></li><li><p>Socioeconomic Instability</p></li><li><p>Gender and Sexuality</p></li><li><p>Artificial Intelligence</p></li><li><p>The Alien Deception</p></li></ul><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tower Foundation: Two Major Philosophical Influences of Our Modern World]]></title><description><![CDATA[An understanding of why the world thinks the way it does. Part 5 in A Return to Babel: The End-Game of the Enemy]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/the-tower-foundation-two-major-philosophical</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/the-tower-foundation-two-major-philosophical</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:00:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/190e63e7-c2b5-4dff-80ab-31721e847c4a_1024x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. - Colossians 2:8-10</strong></em></p><p>There are many philosophical systems that have influenced our modern world. An entire book could be written on them alone. However, for simplicity&#8217;s sake, there are two that are painfully obvious in helping to frame the Great Deception of our time.</p><p>Both are connected to the occult and have their roots in ancient mythologies and religious cults via Gnosticism.</p><h2>Hegelian Philosophy and Hermetism</h2><p>Hegelian philosophy could rightly be labeled as an anti-philosophy, because Hegel claims to have arrived at Absolute Knowledge, which he identifies with wisdom. This is contrary to the traditional understanding of philosophy, the love of the ongoing pursuit of wisdom rather than the obtaining of it. His claim is consistent with those of the Hermetic tradition that claims to be in possession of the &#8220;secret knowledge&#8221; of the laws of nature and how to manipulate them through magic (remember this from our definition of occult).</p><p>To understand the roots of Hegelian Philosophy, we need to identify its roots. This requires taking a look at the mystic philosophy of Jakob Bohme (1575-1624) who &#8220;had a religious experience within the period of a quarter hour wherein he gained an empirical and speculative insight that helped him to resolve the tensions of his age. The strain between medieval and Renaissance cosmologies (dealing with the order of the universe), the perennial problem of evil, the collapse of feudal hierarchies, and the political and religious bifurcation of the time found resolution in B&#246;hme&#8217;s rediscovery, as he said, of the dialectical principle that &#8216;in Yes and No all things consist.&#8217;&#8221; - <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jakob-Bohme">Encyclopedia Britannica</a></p><p>Bohme twisted the words of Luther&#8217;s Smaller Catechism, &#8220;we shall fear and love God,&#8221; into a dialect principle. Influenced by Hermetism, Bohme delved in speculative alchemy and mysticism in the shaping of his philosophical concepts, using alchemical terms to describe both his nature mysticism and his subjective experiences. In reaction to accusations related to his Calvinism (Reformed views), chiliasm (belief in the 1,000-year reign of God&#8217;s people at the end of history), and rabid sectarianism, Bohme wrote a series of devotional tracts that linked nature mysticism with devotional fervor.</p><p>In <em>The Great Mystery</em>, Bohme attempted to explain the creation of the universe using the alchemical elements of sulfur, salt and mercury in an attempt to join Renaissance mysticism with Christianity. His other major work <em>On the Election of Grace</em>, Bohme turned to dialectic principles to reconcile the problems of predestination and free will.</p><p>Bohme is among the most quoted philosophers in Hegel&#8217;s writings. In <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/magee.htm">Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition</a>, Glen Magee points this out as he presents his argument that Hegel was a Hermetic thinker, saying &#8220;Hegel accords him considerable space in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy &#8212; more space, in fact, than he devotes to many significant mainstream thinkers in the philosophic tradition.&#8221;</p><p>Magee goes on to explain that Hegel&#8217;s writings contain numerous Hermetic elements, &#8220;a Masonic subtext of &#8220;initiation mysticism&#8221; in the <em>Phenomenology of Spirit</em>; a Boehmean subtext to the Phenomenology&#8217;s famous preface; a Kabbalistic-Boehmean-Lullian influence on the Logic; alchemical-Paracelsian elements in the Philosophy of Nature; an influence of Kabbalistic and Joachimite millennialism on Hegel&#8217;s doctrine of Objective Spirit and theory of world history; alchemical and Rosicrucian images in the Philosophy of Right; an influence of the Hermetic tradition of pansophia on the system as a whole; an endorsement of the Hermetic belief in philosophia perennis; and the use of perennial Hermetic symbolic forms (such as the triangle, the circle, and the square) as structural, architectonic devices.&#8221;</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p>When you consider the Hermetic roots of Hegelian Philosophy, you begin to unravel the occult ideology behind the philisophical concept for which Hegel is best known: the Hegelian Dialectic.</p><p>Briefly, the Hegelian Dialectic refers to the particular dialectical method of argument employed by the 19th Century German philosopher, G.W.F. Hegel, which, like other &#8220;dialectical&#8221; methods, relies on a contradictory process between opposing arguments.</p><p>To make things simple, a dialectic includes the proposal of a thesis or an argument that, <strong>in and of itself generates</strong> a counterargument, or antithesis. As the evidence of the thesis and antithesis are thoroughly examined, those examining the arguments arrive at synthesis, essentially a compromise of the two. The synthesis, then becomes a new thesis, continuing the process in an endless spiral.</p><p>Our modern culture calls this science and we are told to &#8220;trust the science,&#8221; but let&#8217;s examine this for a moment. Can the synthesis or the compromising of two opposing arguments produce truth?</p><p>If both arguments are false, then how can the synthesis of the two produce truth?</p><p>You may have heard someone say, &#8220;Two wrongs don&#8217;t make a right.&#8221; This statement would not support Hegel&#8217;s view of the dialectic which constantly produces new truth in an endless cycle.</p><p><em>Note: It is interesting that in cases where a specific bit of propaganda is being championed, the antithesis (labeled as fake news, misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theory) is never allowed to be a part of the dialectic process.</em></p><p>This approach is rooted in Bohme&#8217;s mixing of alchemy and mysticism. The same problem of mixing arose in the early church as the Judaizers attempted to mix the Jewish religion with Christianity, the Gnostics mixed mysticism with Christianity, and Nicolaitans mixed Paganism, Judaism and Christianity. The synthesis generated philosophies continue to be heretical teachings in the modern church that are largely ignored by the majority of individuals who confess Christ.</p><p>What&#8217;s the problem with the dialectic approach?</p><p>It&#8217;s really pretty simple. If we label truth as white and false as black, we can come to a compromise or synthesis that produces gray. This idea works with the dialectic approach.</p><p>However, if we label truth as light and false as darkness, there is no synthesis, because where light is present, there is no darkness, and where darkness is total there is no light.</p><p>Consequently, the principles of the dialectice do not apply to all things, therefore, the process is incapable of delivering the truth than painting white and black stripes on a horse make it a zebra.</p><p>God&#8217;s Word, especially the first chapter of John, can help clear up this problem.</p><p>Unlike philosophy (the love of wisdom), God&#8217;s Word (Jesus), who created all things,  is absolute Truth (Jesus). It exists as Light (Jesus). Where Truth is absent, you have irnorance and falsehood (darkness). In contrast, falsehood (darkness) cannot exist where there is Truth (Light). &#8220;The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it.&#8221;</p><p>This may appear to be straining at a gnat, but this is a very basic principle of God&#8217;s Word that is ESSENTIAL to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which you confess.</p><p>However, this is not what we are taught in school and this is also not what is being taught by our modern Christian religion. In short, we have been brainwashed into accepting Bohme&#8217;s Christian Theosophy.</p><p>Hegel&#8217;s dialectic as a decendent of Hermeticism is a deceptive bit of magic straight out of occultism that is used to trap us in a continuing state of striving for something that cannot be obtained. There is never a clear answer to anything, only a synthesis of the opinions of experts and new truth continues to be invented.</p><p>This is how our modern world works and this is how they are programming artificial intelligence systems to &#8220;think&#8221;. </p><p>Let&#8217;s turn our attention to Theosophy, the other major contributor to modern thinking.</p><p></p><h2>Theosophy and the Cabbalah</h2><p>Looking at the word &#8220;theosophy&#8221; gives us a clue as to what it means. If the Greek word sophy means wisdom and theo means God, then Theosophy is &#8220;the wisdom of God.&#8221; The claim of this philosophical system is that a knowledge of God may be achieved through spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations.</p><p>According to its defining terms, it is basically a philosophical system built out of Gnosticism or Mysticism.</p><p>Do you understand why Bohme&#8217;s philosophy was labeled Christian Theosophy? </p><p>In Theosophy, you are dealing with arriving at conclusions about God or knowledge of God through some sort of subjective experience, which is mysticism. Mysticism is essentially Hermeticism.</p><p>The Cabbalah itself is the basis of Theosophy; in the Encyclopaedia Judaica, under the entry "Theosophy," it merely says, see Cabbalah. The Cabbalah took shape as a definite system, a secret Sophia or body of knowledge, after the fall of Jerusalem.</p><p>Theosophy is essentially a repackaging (the new and improved version) of the Cabbalah with a sugary coating that makes it easier to swallow. So, what is it?</p><p>Founded by occultists Madame H. P. Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott in 1875, the Theosophical Society adopted a philosophy that combined Zionist Gnosticism, mysticism and spiritualism (with strong influences from Buddhist and Hindu thought) with metaphysics (existence, objects, space, time, change, and causation). The Society was conceived as a "brotherhood" that promoted unity. The Society was also concerned with preparing the world for the coming of the &#8220;World Teacher&#8221; whenever he arrives on Earth.</p><p>Here is what the Prospectus of the Theosophical Society published in 1878 says broken into its various parts with my comments as to their meaning added to them in parenthesis.</p><p><em>The Theosophical Society influences its fellows to acquire an intimate knowledge of natural law, especially its occult manifestations.</em> (hidden meanings or occult)</p><p><em>As the highest development, physically and spiritually, on earth, of the Creative Cause, man should aim to solve the mystery of his being.</em> (the lie of evolution)</p><p><em>He is the procreator of his species, physically, and having inherited the nature of the unknown but palpable Cause of his own creation, must possess in his inner, psychical self, this creative power in lesser degree.</em> (we have an innate, secret knowledge and power)</p><p><em>He should, therefore, study to develop his latent powers, and inform himself respecting the laws of magnetism, electricity and all other forms of force, whether of the seen or unseen universes.</em> (Are not magnetism and electricity critical elements in the development of television and internet? Do you see Satan&#8217;s spiritual objective? Do you see how forcing or manipulating others into your way of thinking is a part of this work as well?)</p><p><em>The Society teaches and expects its fellows to personally exemplify the highest morality and religious aspiration; [in the following ways] to oppose the materialism of science and every form of dogmatic theology, especially the Christian, which the Chiefs of the Society regard as particularly pernicious;</em> (the Christian is a major threat to achieving the objective)</p><p><em>to make known among Western nations the long-suppressed facts about Oriental religious philosophies, their ethics, chronology, esoterism, symbolism;</em> (Sort of like &#8220;you won&#8217;t die, you&#8217;ll just be like God?&#8221;)</p><p><em>to counteract, as far as possible, the efforts of missionaries to delude the so-called "Heathen" and "Pagans" as to the real origin and dogmas of Christianity and the practical effects of the latter upon public and private character in so-called civilized countries;</em></p><p><em>to disseminate a knowledge of the sublime teachings of that pure esoteric system of the archaic period, which are mirrored in the oldest Vedas, and in the philosophy of Gautama Buddha, Zoroaster and Confucius; finally, and chiefly, to aid in the institution of a Brotherhood of Humanity, wherein all good and pure men, of every race, shall recognize each other as the equal effects</em> (upon this planet) <em>of one Uncreated, Universal, Infinite, and Everlasting Cause.</em></p><p>How many of these objectives have been checked off in the past 146 years?</p><p>The society's philosophy is and continues to be rooted in the Cabbalistic teachings of the Jewish Talmud from which much of witchcraft and sorcery are also drawn. Blavatsky and Olcott openly rejected the teachings of Jesus Christ and Christianity, calling them <strong>a stain on the growth and development of an enlightened world</strong>. (Look back at the section on What Modern Jews Truly Believe in the last publication.)</p><p>The works of the Theosophical Society were adopted by occultist Alice Bailey whose writings had a profound impact on the establishment of the United Nations. Here is a sample of some of her writings so that you can fully understand the influence of Theosophy on her as well as more closely draw the connection between the occult and the establishment of the United Nations.</p><p>&#8220;<em>You have been told that this force [referring to Shamballah] has&#8211;during this century&#8211;made its first direct impact upon humanity; heretofore, it reached mankind in the three worlds after being stepped down and modified by transit through the great planetary centre to which we give the name of the Hierarchy. This direct impact will again take place in 1975, and also in the year 2000, but the risks will then not be so great as in the first impact, owing to the spiritual growth of mankind. Each time this energy strikes into the human consciousness some fuller aspect of the divine plan appears. It is the energy which brings about synthesis, which holds all things within the circle of the divine love.</em></p><p><em>Since its impact during the past few years, human thinking has been more concerned with the production of unity and the attainment of synthesis in all human relations than ever before, and one result of this energy has been the forming of the United Nations.&#8221; - Alice Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, p. 716</em></p><p>Essentially, secret, unseen forces or energies are guiding mankind toward a higher level of spiritual enlightenment achieved through UNITY. Take a closer look at how she describes this energy.</p><p>&#8220;<em>This energy (Shamballa) lies behind the world crisis of the moment . . . It is the Will of God to produce certain radical and momentous changes in the consciousness of the race which will completely alter man's attitude to life and his grasp of the spiritual, esoteric and subjective essentials of living. It is this force, in conjunction with second ray force, which will bring about that tremendous crisis, the initiation of the race into the Mystery of the Ages.&#8221; - Alice Bailey, The Destiny of the Nations, page 13</em></p><p>World Crisis of the Moment? Has anything like this occurred, say within the last four or five years, the last year, the last month or two, the last week or two? How convenient that the entire world can arrive at a point where we can be united by Shamballa through a crisis. </p><p><em>Note: Remember what I told you about the role of fear in the introduction to The Tower of Babel: End-Game of the Enemy.</em></p><p>Let&#8217;s continue to explore her writings. Keep in mind that Alice is writing during World War II, the World Crisis of that time, so you get an understanding of the true objective in this next quote.</p><p>&#8220;<em>Only a chosen aristocracy should be permitted the privilege of education and of rule. The masses of the people are no more than cattle and exist only to be slaves of the superior race. War is to men what childbirth is to women. War is a natural process and therefore eternally right. All sources of supply must be controlled by Germany, and consequently even those nations at present neutral must be brought under the German sphere of influence. The totalitarian powers will dominate the economic system of the world and control all imports and exports. The standard of living in both hemispheres will be lowered; everything will be related to the good of Germany, and no other nation will be considered. Christian teaching and Christian ethics must necessarily be eliminated, because Germany regards Christianity and its divine Founder as effeminate and weak, as emphasizing the softer qualities of human nature, and as responsible for the decadence of all nations, except Germany. Christianity must also be overthrown because it is based on Jewish sources; the rule of Christ must come to an end, because only the rule of force is right.</em></p><p>&#8220;<em>In the world order of the Axis powers, the individual has no rights; he has no freedom except in so far as he serves the state; there will be no liberty of thought or conscience, all issues will be decided by the state, and the private citizen will have no right to an opinion. Men will be drafted like slaves into the service of the state.&#8221; - Alice Bailey, The Externalization Of The Hierarchy, page 101</em></p><p>Here is a newsflash, the Aristocracy has been chosen, and you are not part of it. At the time, Theosophists believed that the Nazi power grab was the best course for mankind. It failed because God raised up the allied nations to stop it, demonstrating that Shamballah is not as &#8220;all powerful&#8221; as Bailey believed. Read a little bit more of what the Enemy has placed in the minds of those who serve him.</p><p>&#8220;<em>An Avatar, or a Christ, comes forth for two reasons: one, the inscrutable and unknown Cause prompts Him so to do, and the other is the demand or the invocation of humanity itself. </em>(Do you see the dialectic principle at play here?)<em> An Avatar is consequently a spiritual event, coming to us to bring about great changes or major restorations, to inaugurate a new civilization or to restore the "ancient landmarks" and lead men nearer to the divine. They have been defined as "extraordinary men who from time to time appear to change the face of the world and inaugurate a new era in the destinies of humanity." They come in times of crisis; They frequently create crises in order to bring to an end the old and undesirable and make way for new and more suitable forms for the evolving life of God immanent in Nature. They come when evil is rampant. For this reason, if for no other, an Avatar may be looked for today. The necessary stage is set for the reappearance of the Christ.&#8221; - Alice Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ</em></p><p>Does it bother anyone else that an Avatar is placed on the same level as Christ-likeness? Think about what was communicated in the Avatar movie. What about websites that ask you to create an Avatar for yourself in your profile? What is the objective? </p><p><em>Note: It is my opinion that what we cannot see is global leaders doing their best to bring about the &#8220;appearance&#8221; of Christ&#8217;s return, which I will discuss in a publication in the future. Jesus warned us not to be deceived by those who say Christ is here or there. You will definitely KNOW when Christ shows up.</em></p><p>Jewish rabbi&#8217;s already claim to be in contact with the Messiah. The Talmud requires (so they can line up their prophesies) a major war with Persia. Israel has been picking a fight with Iran (Persia) for years and it looks like the Talmudic rabbi&#8217;s finally have their war. </p><p>You can see that there is an esoteric, Luciferian, anti-Christ spirit behind Alice Bailey&#8217;s writings. This comes as no surprise as she claimed to channel an &#8220;ascended master&#8221; (otherwise known as a demon) she called Djwhal Khul. </p><p>Incidently, she also claims to have asked this &#8220;messenger&#8221; about Jesus. Djwhal Khul told her that Jesus was among the ascended masters with special powers sent to teach men how to ascend to greater enlightenment and the powers (miracles) they can do when they achieve supreme enlightenment or oneness.</p><p>Do you understand why John made it clear that we should test the spirits in 1 John 4:1-3?</p><p><em><strong>Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.</strong></em></p><p></p><h2>The World Zionist Organization Connection to Theosophy</h2><p>In addition to the influences of the Cabbalah, Theosophy is connected to Zionism in another way, which becomes evident in the historical events leading up to UN Resolution 181 in 1947, establishing a new homeland for the Jews.</p><p>In the late 1870s, Jewish philanthropists from the Montefiores and Rothschild families, <strong>who also conveniently established the modern global banking system</strong>, responded to the persecution of Jews in Eastern Europe by sponsoring agricultural settlements for Russian Jews in Palestine.</p><p>Through their efforts, a movement began in the late 19th century that led to the establishment of the World Zionist Organization in 1897. The stated goal of the WZO <strong>was to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law</strong>.</p><p>This led to the Balfour Declaration in the British Parliament in 1917, which announced its support for establishing a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. Palestone was essentially under British control at the end of the First World War following  the Hussein-McMahon correspondence (1915 and 1916), in which certain commitments were made to the Arab Nations in return for their support against the Ottomans.</p><p>Until the end of World War II and the establishment of the United Nations, the Zionists found it impossible to establish a Jewish homeland.</p><p>Thanks to the Theosophical Society and the wealthy Zionists (including the Rothschilds who control banking and the Rockefellers who control oil and gas), who were influential is setting up the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the nations of the world came together to establish the United Nations in 1945.</p><p>In collaboration with the United Nations, Palestine, became the new homeland of the Zionists who called themselves Jews. They called their state Israel and called the six-pointed star of Renpham the Star of David.</p><p><em>Note: Since the unification of the nations who were dispersed at Babel and Israel's return to Palestine were acts of rebellion against God, any argument that it was God's will for &#8220;Israel&#8221; to return to her homeland is erroneous.</em></p><p>What were these vain philosophies linked to mythology, satanic occult practices and witchcraft leading us to? The short answer, <strong>Strong Delusion</strong> while the Enemy builds his new Tower of Babel.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tower Foundation: The Occult and Witchcraft ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part 4 in A Return to Babel: The End-Game of the Enemy]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/the-tower-foundation-the-occult-and</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/the-tower-foundation-the-occult-and</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:01:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/39a9ab2c-7798-44d8-8f35-e2d53df0a40c_1024x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>[Attention: Before reading this publication, it is recommended that you read the three publications before it.]</h4><p>We&#8217;ve been conditioned to believe that the Israelites and Jews are good Old Testament bible believing people who follow the commandments issued by God in the Pentateuch (first five books of the bible), right?</p><p>We&#8217;ve been taught that Jews are the errant cousins of Christians who just haven&#8217;t been able to accept Jesus. Isn&#8217;t that what evangelical pastors are teaching in our churches? Don&#8217;t we define our Christian heritage as &#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221;? How can I possibly say that the occult, witchcraft and satanic worship have Jewish roots?</p><p>Consider these statements:</p><ul><li><p>But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, &#8220;Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? - Matthew 3:7</p></li><li><p>Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. - Matthew 12:34</p></li><li><p>Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? - Matthew 23:33</p></li></ul><p>Were these statements by John the Baptist and Jesus nothing more than insults or were they exposing the true roots of the religious leaders of their day? Were they not saying the same thing that Stephen told them, but going back further in history to the beginning?</p><p>Who was it that tempted Eve in the garden? What form did Satan take as the tempter? Both John and Jesus connect the religious leaders to their lineage.</p><p>Does it sound like John and Jesus saw the Jewish leaders as errant bible believing brothers? What are they really? More to the point. Why do we believe that today&#8217;s Jewish leaders are any different than the ones addressed by Jesus?</p><p>We discussed many of these things in Part 3 of The Towever of Babel: End-Game of the Enemy called The Tower Foundation: The Mythology of the Zionists.</p><p>The Christian religion has taken things a step further, saying that today&#8217;s Jewish leaders are, once again, God&#8217;s chosen people, and they are allowed to do whatever they please in that role. This is at the very heart of the Great Deception we are living and it is time for the true People of God to wake up and see it.</p><p>This deception and others like it lead individuals who confess Christ to take part in magic and witchcraft in their religious ceremonies, traditions and religious behaviors. Brothers and sisters, wake up and understand the wickedness that surrounds you so we can stand firm against it!</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h2>The Witchcraft of Solomon</h2><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord and did not fully follow the Lord, as did his father David. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. So, the Lord became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the Lord had commanded. Therefore, the Lord said to Solomon, &#8216;Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.&#8221; 1 Kings 11:6-11</strong></em></p><p>What so completely disgusted God that He took the throne away from Solomon? He was participating in the idol worship with his foreign wives. In the scripture above, Chemosh and Molech are mentioned. These two gods are linked to Chiun, the Hebrew for the god Rhemphan, and all of them are associated with Cronus of the Greeks and Saturn of the Romans. Often referred to as Baal, which is the Hebrew word for Lord. (You might consider focusing on using the actual name of Jesus instead of the more generic Lord from now on.)</p><p>As we mentioned before, there is always a sexual connection to mythology, including Jewish mythology. Consequently there are female representations of or consorts of these gods known by the name of Astarte or Ashteroth (Isis, Ishtar, Aphrodite, Venus). Do you see the word &#8220;star&#8221; in the name Astarte? That&#8217;s because Astarte means star.</p><p>Through his pagan wives, Solomon was led away from God by the feminine counterpart of Chemosh and Molech. Are you beginning to see the picture?</p><p>Gnostic writings from the 1st and 2nd century claim that Solomon controlled 72 demons and used them as slaves under the authority of his seal (the hexagram or six-sided star) and using various sigils (symbols). Did he? We don&#8217;t know and it really doesn&#8217;t matter. The fact is that occultists believe that he did and they use them as a part of their practices.</p><p>The bible talks about the magicians of Egypt being able to duplicate the staff turning into a serpent and some of the other plagues God sent upon them. Magic was included in the practices of the Egyptian religious system. Their system was brought out of Egypt with the Israelites, leading to the worship of the Golden Calf at Sinai (Exodus 32). The practices of magic were also brought with them and connected to the star symbol referred to by Amos and Stephen.</p><p>Before we move forward, it is necessary to define the various terms associated with the occult and magic.</p><p></p><h2>Defining the Occult and Magic</h2><p>The occult and magic are broad terms with many different categories. It is necessary to have a basic understanding of some of these categories as all are designed to deceive and all play a role in the Great Deception we are experiencing in our time.</p><p>Keep the following definitions in mind as you continue to read the publications in this substack and refer back to them often for a fuller understanding of the role they play. You will begin to realize that we have been thoroughly trained to practice many of these occult practices, especially in organized Christianity.</p><p>Though you could probably learn as much as you need to know about these things from watching Disney movies, we will use the Encyclopedia Britannica to provide brief definitions of the terms. Pay special attention to the highlighted phrases as you consider each definition.</p><p></p><h3>Occult</h3><p>Theories and practices related to a belief, knowledge and use of supernatural forces or beings, typically magical or divinatory.</p><p>Occult practices center around the presumed ability of the practitioner <strong>to manipulate natural laws for personal benefit or on behalf of another</strong>. In Western culture, occultism is usually recognized as an ancient &#8220;secret philosophy&#8221; derived ultimately from Hellenistic magic and alchemy or from Jewish mysticism.</p><p>The principal Hellenistic source is the Corpus Hermeticum (Hermetic texts), which is described in the writings of Hermes Trismegistos, relating to astrology, occult sciences and spiritual regeneration.</p><p>The Jewish element, the Cabbalah (the doctrine of a secret mystical interpretation of the Torah), was linked with the Hermetic texts during the Renaissance, resulting in the <strong>Hermetic-Cabbalistic</strong> tradition that incorporates both the theory and magical practice, known as <strong>Hermetism</strong>.</p><p><em>Note: Hermetism shows up in the philisophy of Hegel who had a significant impact on the ideology of our modern world, especially on global leaders. We will explore this in a later post.</em></p><p></p><h3>Magic</h3><p>A practice that works <strong>to harness invisible forces to influence events, effect change in material conditions, or present the illusion of change</strong>.</p><p>In most cases within Western popular culture magic is associated with acts of conjuring and sleight of hand for entertainment. As a part of occult practices, magic is used to acquire knowledge, power, love, or wealth, to heal or prevent illness, to guarantee success in an endeavour, harm an enemy, acquire information, to induce spiritual transformation, <strong>to deceive or trick someone, or to entertain</strong>.</p><p>Basically, <strong>magic is used to deceive</strong>, making use of spells, incantations or charms as well as symbolic numbers (numerology and gematria) thought to have innate power, natural or man-made material objects, and ritual actions.</p><p>A talisman, amulet or charm used in magic may be constructed from various herbs, animal parts, gemstones, sacred objects, or other items <strong>thought to be potent within themselves or empowered by incantations or rituals</strong>.</p><p><em>Note: The repetition of the Lord&#8217;s Prayer, Ave Maria, the Gloria Patria and other recitations are a form of incantations that are typically used to harness invisible forces or give power to idols, amulets or charms. These are not practices of piety, but the use of magic. The vain repetition of certain choruses in Christian worship songs is designed to accomplish a similar purpose.</em></p><p></p><h3>Witchcraft</h3><p>The exercise or <strong>invocation of supernatural powers to control people or events</strong> with practices that typically involve sorcery or magic is known as witchcraft. The etymology of the word denotes an individual who is skilled (craft) at sorcery (wicca).</p><p>The three principal connotations associated with witchcraft include the practice of magic or sorcery, the beliefs associated with the Western witch hunts of the 14th to the 18th century and varieties of the modern movement called Wicca, or &#8220;wikka.&#8221;</p><p>Essentially, <strong>witchcraft is the use of the various forms of occultism in order to control the natural order of events and circumstances in the practitioner's favor</strong>.</p><p></p><h3>Sorcery</h3><p>A sorcerer, magician or witch <strong>attempts to influence the surrounding world through occult (hidden) means instead of those that are open and observable</strong>.</p><p>Practitioners of sorcery use various means to achieve their goals, such as: incantations, divination and oracles, amulets and charms, potions or salves, and dolls (think voodoo) or other figures to represent their enemies or the object upon which their spell is cast.</p><p></p><h3>Alchemy</h3><p>Alchemy is a form of witchcraft. It is usually mocked in modern culture as being associated with trying to transform base metals such as lead or copper into silver or gold, deemed impossible by science. </p><p>Another aim of this practice was in seeking a cure for disease (pharmakea) and a way of extending life.</p><p>Astrology and chemistry come together under the name of alchemy. Both are interested in d<strong>iscovering the relationship of man to the cosmos and to exploit that relationship to his benefit</strong>. Both are pursued in the belief that the processes human beings witness in heaven and on earth manifest the will of the Creator and will provide the key to the Creator&#8217;s intentions.</p><p>A key word in understanding alchemy is transmutation. <strong>Transmutations include chemical changes, physiological changes such as passing from sickness to health, a transformation from old age to youth, or passing from an earthly to a supernatural existence</strong>.</p><p><em>Note: Alchemy is at the root of the concept of vaccination. Through vaccination, you are injecting an alchemic potion in the belief that you will be protected from some disease in the future. According to retired pharma research and development executive <a href="/__u/lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/mind-blowing-revelation-why-its-impossible">Sasha Latypova</a>, you really cannot vaccinate against anything and the industry has known that for more than a hundred years. Even if you could, do you really believe we can dictate to God what health issues He can and cannot bring into our lives? Think about it.</em></p><p></p><h3>Divination</h3><p>The practice of <strong>determining the hidden significance or cause of an event or foretelling the future, by various natural, psychological, and other techniques is known as divination</strong>. It is most often associated with an attempt to determine the will of the gods.</p><p>Common forms of divination in Western culture include the use of horoscopes, astrology, crystal gazing, crystal balls, tarot cards and the Ouija board.</p><p><em>Note: Many misguided believers use prophecy as a type of divination, hoping to find certain keys within the scriptures, signs in the sky, various events as tools of predicting the future. Those who name names and dates or lay out intricate prophecy events calendars are actually practicing divination.</em></p><p><em>Let&#8217;s be very clear and very careful about this sort of thing. Here is one of the clearest messages from the mouth of Jesus regarding this. In Acts 1:6-7, Jesus&#8217; disciples asked Him if He was going to restore the kingdom of Israel at that time. His response was clear. &#8220;<strong>It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father put in His own authority.</strong>&#8221;</em></p><p><em>This echoes His words in Matthew 24:36. Brothers and sisters, forgive me for shouting, but the message has to sink in... <strong>IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW</strong>. Stop trying to &#8220;divine&#8221; or predict future events, because it is a form of witchcraft.</em></p><p></p><h3>Necromancy</h3><p>Necromancy uses <strong>communication with the dead to obtain insight into the future or to accomplish some otherwise impossible task</strong>.</p><p>Practitioners are often skilled magicians who use a consecrated circle in some desolate spot to protect themselves from the anger of the spirits of the dead.</p><p>This is based on the idea that corpses who died a premature or violent death are thought to retain some measure of unused vitality. Consequently, parts of corpses are used as ingredients or charms in the practice of witchcraft.</p><p></p><h3>Sacrifice</h3><p>A sacrifice is a religious rite in which an object is offered to a divinity in order to establish, maintain or restore a right relationship between the practitioner and restore the sacred order.</p><p>Outside of its practice outlined in Exodus and the Levitical Law, the practice refers to a cultic act in which objects were set apart or consecrated and offered to a god or some other supernatural power. In the ancient religious practice of animal sacrifice, the sacrifice was burned on the altar, and then consumed by those making the sacrifice.</p><h4><em>Attention: Though used for a specific purpose and under strict guidelines in the Old Testament Covenant, sacrifice is no longer used by God&#8217;s people because Christ was the ultimate sacrifice and this religious rite is no longer necessary. <strong>ANY sacrifice since the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is AN ABOMINATION TO GOD because it contradicts the finished work of the Lamb of God</strong>.</em></h4><p></p><h2>All Magic Is Linked to Cabbalistic Occult Practices</h2><p>For our purposes, it is necessary that you understand the basic concepts behind these various forms of Cabbalistic occult practices and how they connect to the sins of Solomon that cost him the blessing of God on his house and lineage.</p><p>These hidden practices were taking place in the shadows by the religious leaders confronted by Jesus. He called down His Father&#8217;s judgment upon them in Matthew 23:23-34:</p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men&#8217;s bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say, &#8216;If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.&#8217;</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers&#8217; guilt. Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>Jesus is not hurling insults. He is pronouncing God&#8217;s judgment on the nation of Israel. Let&#8217;s zero in on one specific judgment:</p><p><em><strong>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men&#8217;s bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.</strong></em></p><p>True to deception&#8217;s form, the outside of the things we see appear to be good, beautiful and righteous, but the magic and sorcery hidden in them lead you to death, the primary occupation of Satan. Keep this judgement in mind when you see the deceptions that I will reveal in the publications that follow.</p><p>Like their counterparts of 2000 years ago, today&#8217;s Zionists have managed to put a &#8220;pretty face&#8221; on the cabbalistic wickedness hidden beneath and it has been swallowed hook, line and sinker by their leaders and followers in modern Christianity.</p><p>As we move forward, understand that the Seal of Solomon is at the core of occult practices that developed out of the Cabbalistic interpretations of the Torah and its mythology, was coupled with Greek Hermetism, and then slowly developed into its modern form.</p><p></p><h2>Conclusion</h2><p>Brothers and sisters, you need to run as far and fast as you can away from the enormous deception that today&#8217;s Zionists are God&#8217;s chosen people. Jesus clearly demonstrated that they are not and even names them as the Synagogue of Satan in Revelation 2:9:</p><p><em><strong>I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.</strong></em></p><p>This verse begs the question &#8220;Who is a real Jew?&#8221;</p><p>Let&#8217;s define the term first, because in reality, it was initially attached only to members of the tribe of Judah. The term gradually began to include all Israelite decedents, regardless of their tribe. It&#8217;s connotation came to designate those who are &#8220;God&#8217;s chosen people&#8221;.</p><p>In contrast to the common belief that the Zionists in Israel are God&#8217;s chosen people is Romans 2:28-29, which defines who is a Jew and what it means to be a real Jew:</p><p><em><strong>For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.</strong></em></p><p>God&#8217;s true, chosen people are those who follow Jesus the Holy Lamb of God, the perfect and last sacrifice for our sins and the one who dwells within us as promised in Jeremiah 31:33-34:</p><p><em><strong>But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, &#8216;Know the Lord,&#8217; for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.</strong></em></p><p>This is as clear as it gets, folks! However, if you need more, consider what Peter wrote in 1 Peter 2:4-10:</p><p><em><strong>Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Behold, I lay in Zion</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>A chief cornerstone, elect, precious,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient,</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>The stone which the builders rejected</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Has become the chief cornerstone,&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>and</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>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; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.</strong></em></p><p>Brothers and sisters, we are the ONLY Temple of God being built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ. Whatever structure they build in Jerusalem in the future and call &#8220;The Temple of God&#8221; will be an ABOMINATION to God and an affront to the finished work of the true Messiah, Jesus.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tower Foundation: The Mythology of the Zionists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part 3 in A Return to Babel: The End-Game of the Enemy]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/the-tower-foundation-the-mythology</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/the-tower-foundation-the-mythology</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 17:02:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/34ac7971-48c7-4b3d-89b2-3d453ccb387d_1024x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><strong>[Attention: Before reading this post, you are advised to read the two publications before it.]</strong></h4><p><em><strong>Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:</strong></em></p><p>&#8216;<em><strong>Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>O house of Israel?</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And the star of your god Remphan,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Images which you made to worship;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And I will carry you away beyond Babylon. - Acts 7:42-43</strong></em></p><p>Before he was stoned to death, Stephen quoted the above scripture from the prophet Amos in the Lord&#8217;s accusation against the stiff-necked religious leaders who had arrested him and were questioning him. I want to draw your attention to a particular line in the accusation regarding &#8220;the star of your god Remphan.&#8221;In this accusation, Stephen is tracing the rebellion of the religious leaders of his day back to Egypt.</p><p>Whether called the star of Remphan or Chiun (the name used by Amos) the star referred to is either a pentagram or a hexagram. Each are used in different ways within occult practices, but both connected to the Greek god Saturn. We all recognize the pentagram as a satanic symbol, but the hexagram as a satanic symbol has been slipped past us through slight of hand.</p><p>Where do we see the hexagram? It&#8217;s on a very prominent flag. It is often referred to as the &#8220;star of David.&#8221; Therein lies a major deception you&#8217;ve been led to believe. In reality, the hexagram was used as the Seal of Solomon. The hexagram is a satanic, occult symbol with its roots in ancient Egypt and can be linked to the Egyptian god Remphan  as well as the Roman god Saturn.</p><p>The hexagram forms a hexagon in its center. From a hexagon, you can connect the lines in a way that form a three-dimensional cube. Where do we see cubes in connection with religious ritual? Primarily in two places:</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/schools/asset/tefillin/#:~:text=%27Tefillin%27%20is%20the%20name%20given,called%20prayer%20boxes%20or%20phylacteries.">The Tefillin of the Jews</a> - &#8220; are usually made out of black leather. Tefillin always come in pairs, as one is worn on the head and one on the arm wrapping down to the hand. The leather straps are used to help tie them on and are wrapped in a special traditional way. Tefillin are worn only during prayer, and are traditionally worn by adult Jewish males.&#8221;</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/introduction-cultures-religions-apah/islam-apah/a/the-kaaba#:~:text=The%20Kaaba%2C%20meaning%20cube%20in,the%20holiest%20shrine%20in%20Islam.">The Kaaba (cube in Arabic) at Mecca</a> - &#8220;pilgrims gather in the courtyard of the Masjid al-Haram around the Kaaba. They then circumambulate (tawaf in Arabic) or walk around the Kaaba, during which they hope to kiss and touch the Black Stone (al-Hajar al-Aswad), embedded in the eastern corner of the Kaaba.&#8221;</p></li></ul><p>There is a significant amount of cube symbolism portrayed in our modern culture as well. For sake of time, I won&#8217;t go into this further. Instead, I will refer you to <a href="https://www.nicholson1968.com/nicholson1968s-post/saturn-worshipthe-black-cube">Nicholson1968</a> who does an astounding job of exposing cube symbolism and cube worship.</p><p>Let&#8217;s return our focus to the hexagram.</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/significance-sacred-seal-solomon-and-its-symbols-005401">Ancient Origins</a>, &#8220;The Seal of Solomon (known also as the Ring of Solomon) is believed to be a signet ring that belonged to King Solomon of Israel. This ring is thought by some to have magical powers, and it originates in Jewish tradition. Nevertheless, the Seal of Solomon can also be found in later Islamic and Western occultism, as both of these adopted it from Jewish tradition. As a symbol, the Seal of Solomon is still in use today, and one of its simplest depictions is either as a pentagram or as a hexagram, the latter being similar to the Star of David.&#8221;</p><p>We&#8217;re getting a little bit ahead of ourselves here, because this is more closely related to the roots of magic in Judaism rather than Jewish Mythology. We&#8217;ll take a closer look at that in a moment, but first, let&#8217;s take a look at Jewish Mythology.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h2>Mythology of the Jews</h2><p>The various mythologies and religious practices we discussed in the previous chapter were assimilated by Israel as they continued in idolatry and are included in their own mythology in the Talmudic texts, mostly the Book of Zohar and the Cabbalah.</p><p>Again, I&#8217;ll be scratching the surface of what is contained in these bastardizations of God&#8217;s word, but if you really want to dig into these things on a deeper level I recommend <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Curse-Canaan-Eustace-Clarence-Mullins/dp/1910220337">The Curse of Canaan</a> by Eustace Mullins, from which much of what is discussed in this chapter was taken. I do not agree with all of the conclusions drawn in this book, but the research in relation to Jewish mythology and its impact on Western culture is quite valuable.</p><p>From the viewpoint of the Book of Zohar, sexual relations between humans and the Nephlim was a liberating practice. Talmudists celebrate the temptation of Eve by the serpent as the beginning point of mankind&#8217;s enlightenment.</p><p>Through the serpent, who seduced Eve, mankind was no longer trapped in slavery to a ruthless slave master, God. This seduction was sexual in nature and led to the conception of Cain. Because this is how the Zohar portrays the enlightenment of mankind, occult ceremonies typically include some kind of substance to numb the senses (drugs), incantations that express their hatred of God and various types of bizarre sexual elements.</p><p>If its not bad enough to twist the biblical facts of the temptation and fall of man, the Cabbalah claims that Lilith, defined as a female demon vampire, had intercourse with Adam and produced demons as part of the cosmic design. (Zohar Bereshit 73b., 53 et seq.)</p><p>Many cabbalistic legends identify Lilith as Adam&#8217;s first wife, claiming that she was God&#8217;s first attempt to provide a wife for Adam, and that He formed her out of mud and filth. Evidently, because of her overwhelming pride, she refused to let him lie on top of her (she is the patroness of lesbianism for this reason).</p><p>Lilith left Adam and fled to the shores of the Red Sea, where she indulged in her sexual fantasies with demons. She became known as the chief of Jewish demonesses who was said to prey on newly born children and to suck the blood from men who were sleeping alone; the &#8220;night hag&#8221; referred to in Isaiah 34:14.</p><p>The legend continues that because of the unfortunate result of His first attempt, God had to go with plan B, which involved using a rib from Adam to form Eve.</p><p>Eve became known as &#8220;haw wah,&#8221;(Mother of All the Living) as well as &#8220;the Serpent Mother&#8221; because of her later &#8220;relationship&#8221; with Satan. The Prince of Darkness had a number of disguises, but when he incarnated sexual desire, as he did for Eve, he always appeared as a serpent. This idea lends support to the concept of the Mother of God or Queen of Heaven title assigned to Mary.</p><p>Now, do you understand why the Madonna and child make me want to vomit?</p><p></p><h2>What Modern Zionists Really Believe</h2><p>As Christians living in ignorance, we typically believe that the Jews are just wayward brothers who only read the Old Testament. In reality, they follow a religious system that has no foundation in God&#8217;s Word whatsoever, which is why Jesus so boldly called them out in John 8:37-47:</p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>I know that you are Abraham&#8217;s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>They answered and said to Him, &#8220;Abraham is our father.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Jesus said to them, &#8220;If you were Abraham&#8217;s children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. You do the deeds of your father.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Then they said to Him, &#8220;We were not born of fornication; we have one Father&#8212;God.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Jesus said to them, &#8220;If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears God&#8217;s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>Brothers and sisters, do not be deceived into believing that the Jews believe and follow the Old Testament. If they did, then they would recognize Jesus as the Messiah, but they do not. If you take a look at 1 John 2:18-22, you&#8217;ll understand who they really are.</p><p><em><strong>Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. - 1 John 2:22</strong></em></p><p>Talmudic Jews and Zionists are antichrists. They follow a religious system that has its roots in the mythology we just discussed. Jesus had the conversation cited above so that you would understand who they really are and what they really believe.</p><p>Talmud means &#8220;teaching&#8221; in Hebrew. Though the beliefs were already passed down from generation to generation among Israelites, they were mostly an oral law, further developed during the Babylonian captivity, on up to the time of Christ and further into the second century A.D. They were essentially classified as the Mishnah (older part) and the Gemara (commentary on the law). </p><p>These oral traditions and commentaries first appeared in print in 1520, when Daniel Bomberg published them in Venice. Why were they not written before that time? They were a part of the &#8220;secret knowledge&#8221; of the Gnostics. It wasn&#8217;t meant for the common Jew or anyone else to be privy to what was included in the teachings.</p><p>The reason they were finally published was to prevent the complete annihilation of Judaism from the continent of Europe as Jews were being forced out of England, France, Germany and Portugal by the beginning of the 16th century. At the same time, pressure to expel them from Papal States (like Italy) was beginning to increase.</p><p>Because of its origins in Babylon, demonology is prevalent throughout the text of the Talmud, <strong>referring to the Demiurge, or Chief Demon, as the Creator of the Universe</strong>. In the second century B.C., the Mishnah taught  that two things should never be revealed to the public, or the uninitiated: the work of creation, and the work of the chariot (meaning the esoteric operations, the &#8220;Divine Throne&#8221;).</p><p>Do you understand why Jesus called them whitewashed tombs in Matthew 23:27? They had a pious outward appearance, but the secrets they kept behind the scenes were the wicked teachings based on their mythology. This is why Jesus calls them out on numerous occasions, even promising that their secrets will be brought out into the open in Luke 12:1-3.</p><p>By 1280 A.D., Talmudic traditions included teaching included in the Zohar, or Book of Splendour, known as the Cabal (tradition). There were two primary teachings included: generation, or fertility rites, and the precept that <strong>Israel alone is to possess the future world.</strong></p><p>The Zohar&#8217;s precepts are derived from the Sefer Yetsirah, or Book of Creation from third century Babylon. The ten Sephiroth were established on the belief that the universe derives from the ten numbers and two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It is significant to note that this later developed into the twenty-two trumps of Tarot, or the twenty-two Paths which lead to Sephotorth.</p><p>Sephotorth was developed in response to the problems caused by Christianity, which threw the entire stream of life out of balance. In this ideology, Satanism will achieve its final triumph over the Church and Christianity, which will end &#8220;dualism&#8221; or the struggle between good and evil. This is somewhat simplistic, but forms the basic premise of the Cabala as well as Freemasonry.</p><p>Included in the Sephotorth are anti-life precepts in active opposition against technology, urban life, industrialism, and the cultural achievements of humanity. The objective is to return the earth to its pre-Adamic state, when man was not yet civilized. This will &#8220;restore&#8221; pre-Adamic man, so that Adamite man, as a creation of God, is no longer an obstacle to Satan and his rule over this world.</p><p><em>Note: In addition to providing an explanation for inexplicable massacres, wars, and human devastation by various &#8220;pandemics,&#8221; these anti-life concepts contribute to geoengineering, &#8220;climate change&#8221;advocacy and the enforcement of global sustainability proposals.</em></p><p>For Orthodox Jews who follow Talmudic teachings, the Feast of Tabernacles is a hopeful celebration of the period when the Jews will triumph over all the peoples of the world. &#8220;That is why during this feast we seize the loulab (the palm, willow, myrtle and citron each of which correspond to the four letters of the sacred name I H V H) and carry it as a trophy to show that we have conquered all the other people of the world.&#8221; (Toldoth Noah 63b).</p><p>Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon are key elements in exalting the Jews to their rightful position as rulers of the world. Consequently, the Hexapla (six-pointed star), or Seal of Solomon, <strong>esteemed as a male number</strong> (remember there is always a sexual element in this stuff) are essential, symbolic elements in Zionism as well as Freemasonry. Essentially, the objective of Freemasonry is a reconstruction of Solomon&#8217;s Temple, so it is closely tied into the activities and objectives of Zionists.</p><p>The Cabbalah itself is the basis for Theosophy, which we&#8217;ll examine in a later post. It took shape as a definite system, a secret Sophia (body of knowledge), after the fall of Jerusalem, relying heavily on numerology and incantations. Hebrew gematria is a code which is based upon the practice of numerology, which is used as a tool of divination or for interpreting the secret meanings of the Torah.</p><p><em>Note: There are many modern day false prophets who use gematria as a form of divination in order to predict such things as: William/Charles/Harry being &#8220;the antichrist&#8221; or the date for Christ&#8217;s return.</em></p><p>The chants and incantations that come out of the Cabala include the Key of Solomon, which gives the formula for summoning Lucifer, who is symbolized as a blazing star. Out of this blazing star comes the rainbow. Both of these symbols are important in the magic and witchcraft practiced by Zionists and Freemasons.</p><p>Freemasonry symbols displayed in plain sight are not what they seem. For instance, the &#8220;Eye of Providence&#8221; or &#8220;All-Seeing Eye&#8221;, seen hovering above the pyramid on the US dollar, is actually the Eye of Horus, which is the anus, signifying our homosexual commitment to the ruling class.</p><p>The Book of Zohar, based on the ten Sephiroth, or divine emanations, and twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet comprising the names of God were a part of the curriculum used by teachers of the Cabbalah throughout Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries as Jews were being expelled from numerous countries and may have been justification for their expulsion.</p><p>Neoplatonism, a dominant school of philosophy during the Renaissance, combined hermetic writings with Gnosticism, organized against the background of the Kabbalah. This philosophy emphasized internal illumination (a precept which led directly to the development of the Illuminati cult in Germany), ecstasy, and the correlation of mysticism and nationalism. Its attraction to adherents was the offer of the &#8220;liberation of self&#8221; through mystical experience.</p><p>This &#8220;experiential&#8221; philosophy entered into Christianity down through the ages and became extremely prevalent within the church in the 1960s and 1970s, hiding within what were considered Evangelically Conservative and Fundamentalist congregations by the 1980s, motivating my friend and teacher Dr. Arthur Johnson to address the dangers of mysticism in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Misguided-Exposing-Dangers-Mysticism/dp/080245643X">Faith Misguided: Exposing the Dangers of Mysticism</a>. Dr. Johnson&#8217;s warnings were widely ignored, so today&#8217;s church has been swallowed up by the false doctrines associated with experiential philosophy. We will further examine how this infiltration took place in a later post.</p><p></p><h2>Conclusion</h2><p>Though we have made a cursory pass over Jewish mythology and the belief systems of modern Jews, it is easy to recognize that there is a connection between the occult in relation to Solomon&#8217;s key as well as how Jewish Gnosticism has impacted our culture for more than 2000 years, slowly working its way into the customs, ceremonies, rituals and religion of Christianity like a serpent slithering through the grass.</p><p>Just as Stephen called out the Jews for following their false gods, this and the writing that follow should provide a sober examination of the customs and believes we have been conditioned to accept as cornerstones of our faith.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tower Foundation: Mythology and Magic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part 2 in A Return to Babel: The End-Game of the Enemy]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/the-tower-foundation-mythology-and</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/the-tower-foundation-mythology-and</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:00:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5b57c769-08c8-4506-928a-e37943899b08_1024x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>[Attention: Before reading this post, it is recommended that you read the post before it.]</h4><p>Our examination of how the Enemy is drawing the world back to Babel will begin with an examination of mysticism and magic which are rooted in ancient mythologies dating back to Nimrod.</p><p>The majority of people in our modern world are ignorant of mythology and magic, which are &#8220;unfruitful works of darkness&#8221; that guide a wide range of ceremonies, traditions and religious practices, including those practiced by both Catholic and Protestant congregations. </p><p>This subject is far more extensive than I will be able to deal with in the next few posts, but I hope what you learn will provide a wake up call, encourage you to examine the world around you and begin to discern what sorts of modern day norms have their roots in mythology and magic.</p><p>Let me warn you that this will be very uncomfortable because it will challenge many of the traditions that you hold dear, even what you have come to believe are foundations of your faith. In reality, they are deceptions of the Enemy that have crept in to your family, congregation and the Christian religion as a whole.</p><p>As a very blunt forewarning, many of you are practicing or participating in witchcraft in complete ignorance. As long as you continue in it, you will be at risk of being further deceived.</p><p></p><h2>The Roots of Mythology</h2><p><em><strong>You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. - John 8:44</strong></em></p><p>The mythologies we are about to discuss are lies from the pit of hell, but they help explain the belief system that poisoned Israel and all of mankind since the beginning. Before we expose them, we need to establish a biblical perspective of where these myths were born.</p><p>Genesis 6:1-2 says:</p><p><em><strong>Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.</strong></em></p><p>We must clarify that in every case in the Old Testament when the phrase &#8220;son of God&#8221; is used, it is referring to an angel. For example, Hagar saw an &#8220;angel of God&#8221; in Genesis 17 and 20. The Hebrew word in these encounters is the same as the one used in Genesis 6. Also, in Daniel 3, Nebuchadnezzar saw an angel in the furnace with the three young men.</p><p>Genesis 6 is telling us about Satan and the angels who rebelled with him being cast out of heaven (Isaiah 14) who took wives among the daughters of men. These were rebellious angels working with Satan on the earth.</p><p>These sexual relationships introduced the rebellious practices of these fallen angels (Nephlim) to mankind. It was because of the wickedness produced by these marriages that God sent the flood to destroy them. These illicit and rebellious sexual elements continue to show up in the mythologies we&#8217;re about to discuss, are common in all occult practices.</p><p>Here is what God tells us in Genesis 6:9:</p><p><em><strong>This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.</strong></em></p><p>Noah was perfect in his generations, which means that his ancestors did not mingle their seed with the Nephlim. Noah was not in rebellion against God, he walked with God.</p><p>The flood was meant to purify the human race because it had become polluted with interbreeding with the Nephlim, which produced giants (Nephalim) and caused their thoughts to be constantly on wickedness. Take note of the different spelling of Nephlim, which are fallen angels, and Nephalim which are their offspring. These are consistent with the original Hebrew text which uses similar yet slightly different spellings for each.</p><p>These Nephalim, &#8220;mighty men who were of old, men of renown&#8221; (Genesis 6:4) are referred to as the sons of the gods within the cultures that tell their stories after the flood. They are the foundation of the two ancient mythologies and occult practices of Canaan.</p><p>This massive root system cannot be covered in detail in a single chapter, but we can reveal just enough of them to demonstrate how their mythologies influenced the religious and occult practices of Israel.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h2>Babylonian Mythology</h2><p>Genesis 9 is not explicit in what occurred in order for Noah to curse Canaan (a son of Ham). Non-canonical sources (<a href="https://chasingalion.com/giants-return/">found here</a>) suggest that Ham had sexual relations with a non-pure woman who bore Canaan or that his wife was not pure. From the text of the bible, we know that Noah cursed Canaan (the son of Ham) for Ham&#8217;s sin, declaring that he would forever be a servant to Shem and Japheth.</p><p>The curse was so powerful that God later forbid intermarriage with the Canaanites who had begun to intermingle with the ungodly beings once more, producing the Nephalim that are encountered by Joshua during the conquest of Canaan and by David as he finished the job. We need not explore this further, because our focus needs to be on Cush, another son of Ham.</p><p><em>Note: For ongoing research on this topic, let me refer you to Hebrew language expert <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@StevenBenDeNoon">Stephen Ben_Nun</a> who is very adept at defining biblical terms from the original Hebrew text. He also has incredible insight into who Nimrod was and his ongoing purpose throughout the ages.</em></p><p>The bible tells us that Cush begot Nimrod who &#8220;was a mighty hunter before God.&#8221; The translation of the Hebrew is questionable in most versions. The correct translations more accurately describe him as being a man of renown (used in the description of giants in Genesis 6:4). Essentially, Nimrod was a Nephalim not a Nephlim and he was <em>against</em> God or <em>rebellious</em> toward God. The second part of the description of Nimrod plays out within the context of the recounting of the events at Babel in Genesis 11.</p><p>Our attention needs to turn to the mythology that surrounds Nimrod, because many of the occult rituals practiced by the Canaanites, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans as well as the Talumdic Zionists and other occult practitioners today have their origin in this mythology and those that were built upon it.</p><p>Here is the basic story of Nimrod. According to the historian Eusebius, Semiramis was the wife of Nimrod. During an adulterous affair, Semiramis became pregnant. About the same time, Nimrod died a violent and untimely death. To hide her misdeed and in order to retain her power and influence, she publicly declared that upon his death Nimrod had been resurrected as the sun god. As the sun-god, Nimrod used his rays to miraculously inseminate Semiramis with a child.</p><p>The child, divinely conceived, was named Tammuz (a name you will see in Ezekiel 8:14), who she claimed to be the reincarnated Nimrod. Various traditions celebrate Semiramis as a daughter of a goddess, also miraculously conceived, with mermaid-like features, having the head of a woman and the body of a fish. Think of the fish-like hats of the Pope and Cardinals.</p><p>Nimrod was also known in ancient history by the names of Marduk, Bel, and Merodach. His importance in the history of Babylon caused Babylon to be known as the Land of Nimrod. Consequently, Babylon (Babylonian Empire) as well as Nineveh (Assyrian Empire), and the false god, Nimrod should become inseparable in your mind when the scriptures mention either of these two cities are concepts and histories connected to them.</p><p><em>Note: If you take a close look at the Roman Catholic version of Mary and Jesus, you will see that the narrative is the same, but the names were changed. Tammuz or Nimrod II was born on December 25th, known as the High Sabbath of Babylon, associated with the return of the sun of the winter solstice. For Jesus to have been born on December 25th is not even close to biblical, but most believers have accepted it as the truth. Essentially, we have allowed a tradition of the Roman church to influence Protestant traditions.</em></p><p>I am repulsed by the image of Madonna and child because I know where it really comes from. In the Catholic version, Mary was also miraculously conceived, adding to her title as Queen of Heaven and Mother of God. Consequently, the rituals and worship of Mary are actually Babylonian as is the symbolic representations of the Madonna and child. This is Semiramis with Tammuz or Nimrod II. Also, pay attention to the &#8220;Queen of Pop,&#8221; called Madonna. You have to be suspicious about her motivations and objectives. </p><p>It is also necessary to understand that the legendary symbol for Nimrod is &#8220;X&#8221; and always denotes witchcraft. Do those of you with accounts on X understand what is being said here? Xmas is the celebration of the feast of Nimrod. Double X is betrayal, as in &#8220;to double-cross,&#8221; which literally means to give yourself over to Satan. What then, does triple X really mean? Be awake! Things like this are all around us.</p><p>The Jewish Historian Josephus records that &#8220;Ham's black grandson, Nimrod, was beheaded by Shem.&#8221; Other historical accounts add that Shem cut Nimrod's body into pieces and sent the pieces to the pagan temples of Babylon as a warning to the priests that their sex orgies and child sacrifices would result in a similar judgment.</p><p>&#8220;Their hideous ceremonies went underground. The smoke from their altars of human blood was seen no more,&#8221; according to Kitto (Palestinian historian). He further notes that the priests took the pieces of Nimrod as relics to their secret meeting places, which were hidden in &#8220;groves&#8221; and &#8220;shrines.&#8221;</p><p>If we believe these historical accounts, it was for fear of Shem that the forbidden orgies associated with the worship of Nimrod and Tammuz no longer took place in the light of day. Their meetings were bounded with secret rites, which no one outside of their order was permitted to know, on pain of death. In other words, the rituals became occult (hidden).</p><p></p><h2>Egyptian Mythology</h2><p>The fate of Nimrod survives in the myth of Osiris and his sister Isis in Egypt, which should come as no surprise because the offspring of Cush and his brother Mizriam became what we call the Egyptians. The tale becomes a bit more elaborate, which you will note from the following, watered-down, summary provided by the <a href="https://www.laits.utexas.edu/cairo/teachers/osiris.pdf">University of Texas at Austin</a>:</p><p><em>From Geb, the earth god, and Nut, the sky goddess came four children: Osiris, Isis, Set and Nepthys. Osiris was the oldest and so became king of Egypt, and he married his sister Isis. Osiris was a good king and commanded the respect of all who lived on the earth and the gods who dwelled in the netherworld.</em></p><p><em>However, Set was always jealous of Osiris, because he did not command the respect of those on earth or those in the netherworld. One day, Set transformed himself into a vicious monster and attacked Osiris, killing him. Set then cut Osiris into pieces and distributed them throughout the length and breadth of Egypt.</em></p><p><em>With Osiris dead, Set became king of Egypt, with his sister Nepthys as his wife. Nepthys, however, felt sorry for her sister Isis, who wept endlessly over her lost husband. Isis, who had great magical powers, decided to find her husband and bring him back to life long enough so that they could have a child. Together with Nepthys, Isis roamed the country, collecting the pieces of her husband&#8217;s body and reassembling them. Once she completed this task, she breathed the breath of life into his body and resurrected him. They were together again, and Isis became pregnant soon after. Osiris was able to descend into the underworld, where he became the lord of that domain.</em></p><p><em>The child born to Isis was named Horus, the hawk-god.</em></p><p>Not mentioned in this watered-down version, the Egyptian legend that Osiris' brother Set (Shem) dissected him into fourteen pieces. Isis gathered up the pieces, but the most important part, the phallus, was missing (allegedly a crab had eaten it). Isis made a substitute phallus out of wood, and thus restored her brother, mated with him and produced Horus.</p><p>Like the Greeks, the Egyptians developed an extensive mythological system from which other cultures borrowed in order to form their own pantheon. According to Tim Chester&#8217;s book <a href="https://www.thegoodbook.com/exodus-for-you-1">Exodus for You</a>, each of the ten plagues pronounced by God upon Egypt were designed to demonstrate His power and authority above each of the deities of Egyptian mythology.</p><p>When they left Egypt, the Israelites brought some of the gods and religious beliefs, including Renpham (we&#8217;ll discuss later) out of Egypt with them, but apart from Joseph, they did not intermarry with the Egyptians because of the strict social-status laws of Egypt. Essentially, the bloodlines, which had been tainted by the sons of Israel who married Canaanite women, were purified during their time in Egypt.</p><p></p><h2>The Cult of Canaan</h2><p>The Canaanite god Baal (Osiris) and his consort Ashtoreth (Isis), whose rites were closely connected to Egyptian mythology, were worshiped as fertility gods.</p><p>Joseph Kastein in his book <a href="https://www.abebooks.com/9781931541268/History-Destiny-Jews-Kastein-Josef-1931541264/plp">The History of the Jews</a>, says, &#8220;the Canaanitish cults were closely connected with the soil and expressive of the forces of nature, particularly the force of fertilization .... This force or divinity, was called Baal .... Whenever any question arose Involving their existence as a nation, they knew only one God, and recognized but one idea-the theocracy.&#8221;</p><p>You&#8217;ll recall that Bel was one of the names used in reference to Nimrod. Bel, which means Lord, was the title for Meradoch and was transliterated as Baal. What Kastein does not reveal in his book is that the fertility cults of Canaan were based on obscene sexual rites involving Baal and his &#8220;queen of heaven,&#8221; Ashtoreth.</p><p>Early 20th century Irish archeologist R. A. Stewart Macalister tells of large piles of images and plaques of Ashtoreth with rudely exaggerated sex organs, designed to stimulate sexual acts. Ashtoreth images found in many areas of the Canaanite influence emphasize over-sized breasts, sensuous smiles, heavily accented eyes, and nudity, according to Henry H. Halley&#8217;s bible commentaries.</p><p>Consider what the bible says in Ezekiel 16:26 (KJV):</p><p><em><strong>Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, &#8220;great of flesh&#8221;; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.</strong></em></p><p>The highlighted phrase &#8220;great of flesh&#8221; is not referring to them having obese bodies, but to the oversized genitalia associated with the fertility rites of Baal worship as described in Macalister&#8217;s archaeological excavations.</p><p>Throughout the Old Testament, God issued numerous orders that other tribes should not intermarry with the Canaanites. Abraham sent a servant to bring back a wife for Isaac from among his own country in Genesis 24.</p><p>Isaac passed the order on to Jacob in Genesis 28:1:</p><p><em><strong>Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, &#8220;You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women.&#8221; </strong></em></p><p>Esau had already married two Canaanite women before this order was given by Isaac and they<em><strong> &#8220;were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.&#8221; - Genesis 26:35</strong></em></p><p>Again God issued the command to Moses in Deuteronomy 7:2-5:</p><p><em><strong>When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations (all of Canaanite origin or of the lineage of Ham) greater and mightier than you, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.</strong></em></p><p>This passage was meant as part of a command for God&#8217;s people to separate themselves from the Canaanite cults. To what end? To keep them pure and holy (separate), something we should remember that He has called the disciples of Jesus to do as well.</p><p>Just as was discussed in the opening portion of this section, the rituals and idolatry of the Canaanite cults included a ritualistic sexual element. The temples of Baal were dedicated to both male and female prostitution, which is why you read the following from Jeremiah 3:6: </p><p><em><strong>The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: &#8220;Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p></p><h2>The Gnostics Kept Occult Practices Alive</h2><p>The secret knowledge of the &#8220;mystery religions&#8221; we&#8217;ve been discussing infiltrated the early church and took root in what became the Roman Catholic Church, especially in connection with the Roman Emperor Constantine.</p><p>Satanic practices, which include the occult and witchcraft, throughout the world can be traced in an unbroken line directly back to Gnosticism (from gnosis or knowing). Gnosis refers to knowing the secrets of the Mysteries, that is, the place where the relics are hidden, the pieces of Nimrod's body.</p><p>The Gnostics, or the Knowing Ones, who knew the secrets of the cults of Babylon, Egypt and Canaan continued the rituals, even mingling their poisonous mysticism into the teachings of early Christianity. Paul fights against the lies of Christian-Gnosticism and Gnostic Judaism in some of his letters (I Corinthians, Galatians, and Colossians) and John is working to counter it in all three of his epistles.</p><p>In addition, today&#8217;s Freemasons recognize Nimrod as one of its founders. The "G" which is prominently featured in Masonic symbols indicates not only its origins in Gnosticism, but also &#8220;Generation,&#8221; that is, the fertility rites of the sex cult of Baal and Ashtoreth.</p><p>To touch on the connection between fertility rites and the sex cult of Baal with Masonry, it can be noted that in Masonic symbolism, the rainbow appears as the sacred depiction of Lucifer, the Light Bearer, and it indicates his Brightness.</p><p><em>Note: What is the symbol of the LGBTQ+? You cannot ignore these symbols or dismiss them. They are connected to other, deeper occult rituals and rites and they are warning signs flashing in front of our faces if we will take the time to recognize them for what they really are.</em></p><p>The roots of the occult are found in the mythologies of these early civilizations connected to Canaan and Nimrod. Because of their rebellion and disobedience to God&#8217;s commands, the rites and rituals of these religions were assimilated into the Jewish religion.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Return to Babel: The End-Game of the Enemy]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Introduction to why we must expose the enemy.]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/a-return-to-babel-the-end-game-of</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/a-return-to-babel-the-end-game-of</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:00:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/53294d80-7983-4ff4-b8d7-0d37d32bbbff_912x1144.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 1985, thanks to a professor and friend, Dr. Arthur Johnson (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Misguided-Exposing-Dangers-Mysticism/dp/080245643X">Faith Misguided: Exposing the Dangers of Mysticism</a>), I began studying how various forms of media had been manipulating our thinking in a specific direction. The manipulation was so systematic that it had to be a controlled effort. The problem I ran into was who was doing it and how.</p><p>As a twenty-year-old university student studying international law and diplomacy, it seemed obvious that the United Nations had to be leading the deception in some way. I was a subscriber to the UN Chronicles for several years, so I had access to what was being discussed by the UN outside the typical media channels. Because the UN appeared to be weak and rather disorganized as a true center of political power at the time, I could not make the connection. Perhaps I was unaware of or did not fully understand what I was reading. However, something in my gut, an overall feeling of darkness and deception was pervasive as I read various articles in the publication.</p><p>Various life experiences, studies, training and research over the thirty-year span that followed helped to develop a knowledge foundation that was leading me closer to an understanding of the roots of what I had already observed.</p><p>I think I heard the term &#8220;fake news&#8221; in 2015. I don&#8217;t know if it was around before then, but that&#8217;s when I saw it begin to surface. I knew its purpose the moment I heard it. Like the terms &#8220;conspiracy theory&#8221; and &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221;, used for decades to discredit any individual who did not hold to the accepted public narrative, I knew that &#8220;fake news&#8221; would be used in the same way.</p><p>Hearing that term reawakened my suspicions about how various forms of media had been manipulating our thinking in a specific direction. It was then that I began to narrow down who was directing the effort and how.</p><p></p><h2>The Role of Fear</h2><p><em><strong>&#8220;We have nothing to fear but fear itself.&#8221; - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>&#8220;Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy.&#8221; - Star Trek the Next Generation (1987)</strong></em></p><p>Noble sounding phrases, one from the realm of reality and the other from the realm of science fiction. Are they relevant to our lives today? I would argue that they have never been more relevant.</p><p>We are conditioned to be afraid almost from the moment we leave the womb, certainly by the time we engage in conscious thought and begin to be able to judge between good and bad. I remember being afraid of LSD when I was a kid in elementary school. You&#8217;re probably wondering why a kid in elementary school would be afraid of LSD.</p><p>At some point, whether I heard it from my parents or from the news, I learned that people were making stickers for little kids and mixing LSD into the glue of the stickers. If it was the type you licked before sticking, like a stamp (for the younger generations, that is what we used to put on a letter to mail it to someone), then you would ingest the LSD from licking it, but if it was a peel and stick, then you would get the LSD through your skin. This was a hoax in the 1970s that was repeated in the 1980s and 1990s.</p><p>I was taught to be afraid to talk to strangers and to get into a car with a stranger. I was afraid to touch a hot stove. I was afraid to stick my finger in an electrical outlet (a fear I learned from experience). These were and are healthy fears, even the unreal threat of LSD stickers. Why? Because they caused me to recognize that there are certain things in life that can harm you.</p><p>Biblically, we are told to fear and to not fear, which could cause confusion, except for the fact that God clearly classifies what, actually who, we should fear and what we should not fear. Here are a couple of examples:</p><ul><li><p>Proverbs 1:7 - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.</p></li><li><p>Proverbs 1:33 - But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil.</p></li><li><p>Proverbs 9:10 - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.</p></li><li><p>Proverbs 29:25 - The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.</p></li><li><p>Daniel 10:19 - And he said, &#8220;O man greatly beloved, fear not! Peace be to you; be strong, yes, be strong!&#8221; So when he spoke to me I was strengthened, and said, &#8220;Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.&#8221;</p></li><li><p>Luke 1:73-75 - The oath which He swore to our father Abraham: To grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.</p></li><li><p>Luke 12:5 - But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!</p></li><li><p>Luke 12:32 (a personal favorite) - Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father&#8217;s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.</p></li></ul><p>There are more than 450 references to fear in the scriptures. In most cases, we are told to fear God if we are practicing wickedness or fear God, which is synonymous with respecting God. In other cases, we are told to have no fear because we are walking in His will.</p><p>I began this work with these scriptures because I know that some will accuse me of fear mongering as they read this book and because fear is among the most powerful tools used by the enemy to manipulate us into submitting to his will.</p><p>In essence, it is necessary to understand that properly placed fear, like what is described in the Biblical references above, is a good thing, but misplaced fear reveals spiritual weakness.</p><p>Look at what the Apostle Paul says in Romans 8:15. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, &#8220;Abba, Father. Here is how he concludes chapter 8:</p><p><em><strong>For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</strong></em></p><h2>The Spirit of Bondage</h2><p>If you refer to the passage from Romans 8:15, you will have an understanding of how the Enemy uses fear against us. Fear is Satan&#8217;s go-to weapon for either bringing us into bondage or keeping us there. This is why David (the first 9 chapters of Proverbs are advice to his son), the angel Michael, Jesus and Paul, along with every writer of the bible, instruct us about properly placed fear.</p><p>What are some of the fears that the Enemy uses against us?</p><ul><li><p>Fear of poor health and/or death.</p></li><li><p>Fear of not practicing our religion properly.</p></li><li><p>Fear of the unknown.</p></li><li><p>Fear of things that are not real (like the LSD stickers).</p></li><li><p>Fear of being a failure.</p></li><li><p>Fear of losing someone we love.</p></li><li><p>Irrational fears, such as various types of phobias.</p></li><li><p>Fear of demons, paranormal entities, witchcraft, etc.</p></li><li><p>Fear of losing control.</p></li></ul><p>If you are a follower of Jesus, the Holy Lamb of God, you should have no fear of any of these things. If you do, then you need to buttress your faith with God&#8217;s Word. If you live in fear, then you need to carefully consider Paul&#8217;s questions in Romans 8:31-36:</p><p><em><strong>What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God&#8217;s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?</strong></em></p><p>What does our discussion of fear have to do with the topic introduced in the title?</p><p>Consider Genesis 11:4:</p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>Do you see the fear in that statement? &#8220;Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth,&#8221; is a statement of fear. A fear of not being in charge of one&#8217;s own destiny. </p><p>I suggest that this is the most basic fear in the wicked heart of humanity. In fact, I am willing to bet that you, even as a follower of Jesus Christ, harbor this fear.</p><p>If you do, confess it and repent of it because it is a negation of your faith and causes you to be unstable. I&#8217;ll let James explain:</p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.&#8221; - James 1:6-8</strong></em></p><p>Walk in the counsel of God&#8217;s Word, understanding that if you are in Christ Jesus, you are never to be bound by the fears the Enemy tries to stir up in you.</p><p></p><h2>Deception</h2><p>In addition to fear, the Enemy uses deception to keep us from seeing what he is doing. Seeing through the calculated deception of the Enemy requires spiritual eyes; eyes of discernment. Modern culture and the church, which is walking hand in hand with modern culture, is so enamored with the enchantments of the Enemy that their spiritual eyes don&#8217;t work.</p><p>Without spiritual eyes, the Enemy has swallowed us up in such a way that those who point out the truth are ridiculed as &#8220;conspiracy theorists,&#8221; &#8220;tin-foil hat wearers,&#8221; &#8220;nut cases.&#8221; Though the actual language was different, this is how the religious leaders and political leaders spoke of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and all the prophets God sent to them to warn them.</p><p>I can clearly say, along with Amos, that I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet. However, God has opened my spiritual eyes in order to show me the deception of the Enemy. Consequently, I will be labeled as one of the above derogatory terms.</p><p>Why?</p><p>Conditioning. You and I have been conditioned since birth to see things the way the Enemy wants us to see them. It was not easy to reverse course against the norms and traditions of my culture and religion, but the evidence of the Enemy&#8217;s deception is so overwhelming that to do otherwise would be to disobey my Master.</p><p>So, this is your opportunity to mark me off as a nut case and ignore everything I said. Toss the things I say into the cistern and ignore them if you&#8217;re so inclined. However, let those who love the truth open their eyes and ears, because what I will be writing about is the deception that has swallowed us up.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Exposing the Enemy! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><h2>The Tower of Babel</h2><p>In essence, the Tower of Babel was an attempt to unite humanity in order to usurp God&#8217;s authority. Look at the passage of scripture again. Where was it they wanted the top of the tower to be? In the heavens as a challenge to God. Is that clearly stated in the mission statement of the people of the Plain of Shinar? No, but it was certainly a challenge to God&#8217;s authority because of His response:</p><p><em><strong>But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, &#8220;Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another&#8217;s speech.&#8221; So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. - Genesis 11:5-9</strong></em></p><p>The People of the Plain of Shinar, probably led by Nimrod and his wife Semiramis, were conspiring against God. I think it is necessary to note that there is a badly translated word in the description of Nimrod in Genesis 10:9 in just about every translation of the scriptures, which says, &#8220;He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.&#8221; The Hebrew word typically translated as &#8220;mighty&#8221; can also be translated as giant or tyrant, (H1368; gibbor). The word typically translated as &#8220;before&#8221; can also mean against or up against. I am pointing this out because you may be misled into thinking that Nimrod was nothing more than a great hunter in the eyes of the Lord. In fact, he was very much in rebellion against the Lord. I&#8217;ll explain this in greater detail as we discuss the roots of mythology and magic in subsequent posts.</p><p>For now, I want to move forward with the focus on our theme with a look at Psalm 2, which speaks to the spirit of the rebellion of Babel:</p><p><em><strong>Why do the nations rage,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And the people plot a vain thing?</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>The kings of the earth set themselves,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And the rulers take counsel together,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Let us break Their bonds in pieces</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And cast away Their cords from us.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>The Lord shall hold them in derision.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And distress them in His deep displeasure:</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Yet I have set My King</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>On My holy hill of Zion.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>I will declare the decree:</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>The Lord has said to Me,</strong></em></p><p>&#8216;<em><strong>You are My Son,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Today I have begotten You.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Ask of Me, and I will give You</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>The nations for Your inheritance,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And the ends of the earth for Your possession.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>You shall break them with a rod of iron;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>You shall dash them to pieces like a potter&#8217;s vessel.&#8217;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Now therefore, be wise, O kings;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Be instructed, you judges of the earth.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Serve the Lord with fear,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And rejoice with trembling.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And you perish in the way,</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>When His wrath is kindled but a little.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.</strong></em></p><p>The language of this passage of scripture is quite clear. The desire of the nations of the world, who are under the leadership of the Enemy is to usurp God&#8217;s authority in order to cast off their chains. In reality, it is the Evil One who has them in bondage, but they have bought into the lie that they can come together, conspire against God and be delivered or &#8220;make a name for themselves lest they be scattered over the entire earth.&#8221;</p><p>To be sure, Satan has been at work, doing his very best to bring the nations back together and to unite them to rebuild the Tower of Babel since God scattered the people on the Plain of Shinar. That is the Enemy&#8217;s end-game. Those who understand the spiritual battle that is being played out in today&#8217;s world will not be deceived by either the tactics or the slow, gradual centralization of power that has been taking place for about 150 years.</p><p>My objective is not to convince you that I am some great prophet laying out a new end-times theory, but an expose of how Satan is using fear and the institutions of men to consolidate his power in a select few who serve him faithfully and are doing his bidding.</p><p>Ultimately, these world leaders are working toward bringing forth a new Nimrod, if you will. A Nimrod who is a mighty tyrant in rebellion against God. This is the Man of Sin, the Beast, or if you prefer the Anti-Christ.</p><p>I will not be identifying people as &#8220;the Anti-Christ&#8221; or laying out any sort of time table of coming events. Instead, my purpose is in obedience to Ephesians 5:8-11 as well as equip those who are true followers of Jesus Christ to do the same:</p><p><em><strong>For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.</strong></em></p><p>My prayer is that our Lord Jesus Christ will grant you the understanding and discernment to recognize the Enemy and his wickedness in this world so that you might stand fast against him in the Power of the Might of our Lord Jesus.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming soon]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is Exposing the Enemy.]]></description><link>https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/coming-soon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/p/coming-soon</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William (Bil) Howard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:08:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XiIG!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7fa0a43-22e4-400d-8658-672e54524c06_4939x3704.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is Exposing the Enemy.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/exposingtheenemy.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>