The Last Days Volume 6
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The Last Days Volume 6 Joseph A. Cortes TeachingFaith Ministries The Last Days: Volume 6 Table of Contents Page Chapter One : The Moon God 1 Chapter Two : Tracing the Crescent Moon Symbol 14 Chapter Three : The Moon God Repackaged 25 Chapter Four : Satan’s Plan “A” 38 Chapter Five : It’s a Family Affair 49 Chapter Six : God Keeps His Covenant 56 Chapter Seven : Called the Land of Canaan 67 Chapter Eight : The Moon God in Scripture 77 Chapter Nine : Truth Suppressors 98 Chapter Ten : City of the Moon God 107 Chapter Eleven : Cush = Chaos 125 1 The Moon God Open your Bible to I Kings 18:20. For those of you who have been a Christian for any length of time, you have probably heard one or more messages on I Kings Chapters 17-19. Of course it starts with 17 where Elijah warns Ahab of a drought. Further along in that chapter Elijah meets a widow and he raises the widow’s son. Then in chapter 18 Elijah confronts Ahab again. Ahab was a wicked king and he had a wicked queen, Jezebel. I’m not going to review the history behind those two individuals. Let’s just call them evil and wicked because that is what they were. I’m not going to stay on these verses very long because I’m going to go to what most don’t know about where Islam came from and the history. Nearly everyone believes Islam was invented and established in approximately the 600’s by Mohammed after he supposedly received from God through Gabriel principles and holy scripture which was subsequently called the Koran. That is when most think the religion was established and is what they have been led to believe, but it cannot be further from the truth. In this teaching, we will review some of that information, information from historians and archeologists that has been there a while, but yet, so many are still in the dark about where Islam started and how long it has been around. It has been around for millenniums. You heard me right, millenniums. I Kings 18:20, “So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. [21] And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions?” Two thoughts. What thoughts? Thoughts regarding who the true God is. How long halt ye between two opinions: how long are you going to flip-flop between the two and serving the one that is convenient to you at the time because of your wants, your needs and desires, and your opinion of what God should do for you? “How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD [Yahweh] be God , follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.” Remember that word Baal. Most of the Christians that I come across recognize Baal as just a certain type of god of the Old Testament that the children of Israel kept falling for. It comes with many different names. It can be defined in many different ways. It’s kind of the root where all false gods come from including the moon god, Allah, as I will show you. I Kings 18:21, “if the LORD be God , follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. [22] Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.” I feel that way sometimes. I know I’m not the only one, but there are times that I feel that way and especially in the Christian world. What do they not see? What Gospel, what New Testament are they preaching from? I scratch my head daily trying to figure out why they cannot see it. Or, do they, but they don’t want to break away from the establishment? In some cases, it might just be too profitable for them to break away. 2 “How long halt ye between two opinions?” In other words, you are going to have to choose one side or the other: you are either going to serve the true God or you are going to serve baal. Nothing has changed from this day. In fact, I can take you further back in biblical history but I decided to start with Elijah. Nothing has changed since this was proclaimed. You are going to have to choose one side or the other. Now I believe we don’t choose Jesus, He chooses us. His Spirit draws you and you do have the choice to respond to it. Very few in history can actually say they had no choice, Jeremiah being one of them. But those are few and very far between and you do have the choice to take that nudge of the Spirit and see Jesus, seek Jesus and pursue Jesus Christ, your new master now, as a servant of His. I’m not going to go into how that is done in this message, but you can find that in the archives under the Salvation messages. What I am saying though is you are going to have to make a choice of one or the other. You might say, “Well, I don’t really serve a god or believe in a god.” You just made a choice. You are serving a non-god. That has become your god whether you realize it or not. Now I know there are many different religions throughout the ages. You have been led to believe they are religions, but there have only been two religions. I really hate to use the word religions because I don’t believe neither Judaism nor Christianity is really a religion. Christianity is a way, a way that provides the truth to lead us to eternal life given by none other than Jesus Christ. They were called The Way in early New Testament days. But the battle between two has been there even before the Mosaic Law was established or before Moses was around. It goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden actually, when man decided to choose the Serpent and what the Serpent was saying instead of God and what God had already instilled in man through the communication that He had with Adam. Adam rebelled. Eve rebelled. But this battle between the two religions (that is what we will call them for now) goes back millenniums. You may be asking, “What about Buddhism and Hinduism?” Those aren’t religions. You have been led to believe those are religions because that is how people identify them, but they aren’t religions. In fact, one of the things I want to do is go through all these so-called religions and prove to you and share with you what they are and how they compare to Christianity. Buddhism and Hinduism are man-made philosophies, principles of life. In fact, in Hinduism you have to go through so many reincarnations until you get to a certain level, what they call the pathway, so you don’t have to go through any more of these reincarnations because you are now complete. Not only is it a philosophy, but it is a way-out-there philosophy. Buddhism is not that far behind. Hare Krishnas are just an adaptation of Hinduism in a lighter form. I’m not even going to go into the cults that stream from Christianity. They’re not religions. They’re man-made doctrines and philosophies that came on the scene much later in history, and if you really want to know the truth, at the end of the age of history as we are going to know it. They haven’t been around that long. But Islam in all its forms has been around for millenniums. Christianity has been around for 2000 years. It’s an extension from Judaism, which is why you hear the term Judeo-Christian. We are Christians who believe a Jew is our savior. Messianic Jews are Jews that believe Jesus Christ is the savior. Judaism doesn’t believe that. They believe He existed but He was not the savior, not the messiah they were looking for. They were looking for a messiah that would bring them deliverance through might and power in the physical sense, where they would have victory over their physical enemies in the here and now 2000 years ago. Most of those belief systems are philosophies. Some may say, “Well, you can say the same thing about Christianity.” Jesus existed. There is enough historical proof about that. “Well, so did Buddha.” Yes, but he didn’t claim he was a god. He didn’t claim that believing in him would provide salvation. The Hindu 3 faith doesn’t provide that either. Now Islam believes in Jesus too as an historical figure, but only as a prophet and a prophet at a lesser level than Mohammed, and, Jesus will someday in the future be Mohammed’s assistant. And of course, those of you listening to me understand Judaism and Christianity. But back in Elijah’s day the choice was clear; either serve and follow Baal or serve the Lord God and follow Him. That is what the battle has been for several millenniums. You might be asking, “What does this have to do with Islam?” It has a lot to do with it because the moon god streamed out of the Baal worship and continued in the direction of leading individuals to serve and follow a false god.