How Dialectics Shape Our World

Our title, How Dialectics Shape Our World. We could call it a lesson in Hegelian dialectics, but we'll get to Hegel later. Is there a philosophical system behind the seeming contradictions that permeate our world? Or are world events merely the result of helter-skelter decisions that make men make along the way, so that Satan's objective to be worshipped just sort of happens?

Or does Satan have a grand master plan and strategies for deceiving the nations into worshipping him? And do you think he openly reveals his plan? Or does he try to keep it hidden while trying to make it appear good? Are we to believe that he will achieve his goals of becoming the object of worship by time and chance or by accident? Of course, it says in Revelation 13.8 that everyone whose names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life will worship the beast system. And despite what the Bible clearly reveals concerning the deceitful nature of Satan the devil, we have people who believe that Satan will achieve his goals out in the open and sort of by chance or by accident, sort of as a normal course of events. So let's note a few key passages of Scripture about cover-up and deception. First of all, let's turn to Ezekiel 13, verse 9. Ezekiel 13, verse 9. And on the way there, let me just quote a couple of scriptures. As you know, it says in Genesis 3.1, now that old serpent, of course I'm paraphrasing, the serpent was more settled than any beast of the field, meaning he was deceitful and did his deceiving to a large degree through subtlety and deceit. So in Ezekiel 13, verse 9, and my hand shall be upon the prophet that see vanity and divine lies. They shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel. Those who claim to be prophets, who claim that the world is getting better and better, who claim that peace prosperity is just around the corner, here's what God says, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God. Behold, even because they have seduced my people, saying, peace, and there was no peace, and one built up a wall, and others dobbed it with untempered mortar. Say unto them which dobbed it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall, there shall be an overshadowing showers, and you, O great hailstone, shall fall, and stormy wind shall rend it. Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be set unto you. Where is the dobbing with you have dobbed it. So you try to make it look like everything is fine, everything goes on, all things continue, as from the beginning, and you continue to whitewash the wall and dob it with untempered mortar. Now forward a few pages there in Ezekiel to Ezekiel 22 and verse 22.

Ezekiel 22 and verse 22, and as silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst thereof, and you shall know that I the Lord have poured out my fury upon you, and the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, say unto her, you are the land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation.

There is! This is the word of God, it's not my word. There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion, rendering the prey they have devoured souls, they have taken the treasure and precious things, they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

So we see in the Bible that things are not always the way they appear to be. We tend to live our lives as if we were oblivious much of the time to what shapes our world.

Of course, Satan is behind it, it clearly says in 1 Peter 5 verse 8, that Satan walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he made of our. And to some degree, the world, especially the western world, is in a state of denial. Perhaps they're waking up now, who knows? We really don't want to hear about the real world. We want to hear smooth things, just as Isaiah prophesied. That would be the cage.

Look at Isaiah 30 now. In Isaiah chapter 30, I think we'll begin in verse 8. In Isaiah 30 verse 8, now go write it before them in a table, and note it in a book that it may be for the time to come, forever and ever, that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord, which say to the seers, see not, and to the prophets, prophesy not unto us, write things, speak unto us, move things, prophesy deceits.

Make it look like everything is all right. We don't want to hear the reality of the day. And you see the contrast between certain news sources, and it's very difficult to get accurate news. And more and more you hear about fake news. There was an article in the past day or so about fake news on YouTube, how YouTube is trying to cleanse its channels of fake news. We're living in one of the most dramatic historical periods in human history.

The events that are unfolding before our eyes will be the subject matter of history books in the near future. Satan is the god of this world. He is the master of deception. He even transforms himself into an angel of light in order to deceive. In other words, he feigns to be good. He feigns to be the great liberator. While promising them liberty, they become slaves of Satan the devil. So we're living in one of the most dramatic periods in human history. The events that are unfolding before our eyes are events that will be long remembered in the annals of human history. We are in a very precarious transitional period in human history.

I believe that the main reason that the beast power kills the two witnesses is because they are revealing to the peoples of the world the truth about the great deceivers who are deceiving them, claiming to be god when in fact they are motivated and energized with Satan the devil. With the advent of the internet and information becoming democratized, more and more information available to the average person, you hear more and more about conspiracies and cover-ups. The corporate capitalists think, the think tanks, the intellectuals, the politicians are more and more alarmed by the charge of conspiracy in many areas.

And we see corruption and crime of various sorts and cover-ups and deceits and things going on in secret, some of which are in the news on a daily basis. What does the word of God say about a cover-up? Of course, Revelation 12.9 says that that old serpent, Satan the devil, is deceiving the whole world. Things that used to be considered in the domain of conspiracy are now openly discussed. For example, organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, back in the 1970s and early 80s, I gave sermons about the CFR, about the Trilateral Commission, about the global economy, about the world community, about the New World Order.

And people thought, perhaps you're going overboard with that. Now it's open, openly talked about CFR, Trilateral Commission, Globalism, World Government, New World Order. And one of the main jobs of media is to whitewash that. And make it look like it is in the best interest of humanity. How do I know this? Absolutely. Because the scriptures are very clear, and probably most people in here could quote 2 Corinthians 4 for, that Satan is the God of this present evil world. As you know, in the temptation of Christ, recorded in Matthew chapter 4, he offered Christ the kingdoms of this world. So are we really aware of Satan's strategies? Are we ignorant of his devices? I hope not.

But some approach life and the world as if all things continue as from the beginning, and as if Satan is not a factor in world events. One of the things that you're seeing on the internet is more and more censorship. China and other nations are already seriously limiting access to certain internet sites. We're seeing more and more censorship by social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Of course, YouTube is not altogether a platform for social media.

It's also entertainment as well. But they are taking down channels, articles that deal with support for what they call right-wing politics, or things that have to do with saying things that are against the current liberal progressive agenda.

They're censoring messages that do not support the progressive liberal agenda. So you need to, and must, understand that the great epics of world history were to a large degree shaped by the prevailing philosophy of the day. If you look at the history of Israel and Judah, when a good king, in other words, a good philosophy based on the word of God prevailed, then the nation prospered and was at peace. When a bad king came in with a demonic type of philosophy, the nation would fall. I mean, history is replete with the rise and fall of nations. The pre-flood world was destroyed by a philosophical system of licentious wickedness that permeated the earth, motivated by Satan the devil and his ages. Look at Genesis 6 and verse 5. Genesis 6 and verse 5 provides us with a witness to that effect, the word of God. Genesis 6-5, and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it says in the Gospels that it was, as it was, in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the end of this age. So we see that Satan and the demons were behind that which was going on in the pre-flood world. Let's also look at 1 Peter 3 and verse 18 with regard to this, where we have the witness here, the apostle Peter, of an action that Jesus Christ took during that time in 1 Peter 3 and 18. 1 Peter 3 verse 18, for Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened made alive by the Spirit. And we know in several places it says that God raised Jesus from the dead by the Spirit, by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometimes were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing. 120 years there that Noah was on the scene preaching righteousness, and God was very patient during that time, wherein few, that is eight souls, were saved by water. Of course, this is basically the only reference that you get here where God went and preached Christ, the one who became Christ, went and preached to those spirits in prison when the ark was preparing, wherein few souls, that is eight, were saved. The like figure whereon to even baptism does now also save us. So there are two aspects of baptism, of course, that of putting you under the water, symbolizing that you are dead to the old man, that you are going to keep the old man buried, putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And just as Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, you are raised from the water you gave a baptism to live a resurrected life, a new life. The philosophical views of Aristotle and Plato influenced the culture of the western world for centuries.

In fact, to a large degree, the Catholic Church adopted Aristotle's view of the order of the cosmos as official doctrine. Thomas Aquinas, who's called Saint Thomas Aquinas, theorized that the universe is heliocentric. In other words, the sun is the center of the universe, and to believe otherwise was labeled as heresy, and a lot of people were put to death. Eventually, the irrefutable evidence of the physical world, to a large degree brought about by the invention of the telescope, caused the church to change its doctrine, but a lot of men died. Men like Galileo recounted, they say at the last moment, but under his breath whispered, whatever he whispered, it's that went against the Catholic Church, he knew that the sun was not the center of the universe. Giordano Bruno came along and showed with the aid of the telescope and discovered that the sun was the center of the solar system, and the earth revolved around the sun. They were threatened with death at the stake for holding such a view. Yes, the philosophical view, the worldview of those in leadership, play a large role with regard to how people view the world.

There will be men and women in the Church of God who will be persecuted because they dare to stand for the truth instead of the traditions of men, legends, and fables. We are going to proclaim that which is true, hopefully with every last breath that is within us. Note, once again, 2 Timothy 4, in verse 1, over and over I say, two convicting agents, the Spirit of God and the Word of God.

So Paul writing to the young evangelist Timothy, 2 Timothy 4, verse 1, he writes, I charge you therefore before God in the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom. Preach the word, be instant, end season, out of season. Reprove, in this word, reprove, elancho. Christ used this in this word in John 16, verses 7 and 8, when it says, when the Spirit has come it will convict you of sin and judgment and righteousness. Reprove, elancho, convict, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and doctrine, teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables.

So what about our time? What is the prevailing philosophy of the day that has wrought the kind of world we live in? Of course, there's not just one, there are many, but one of the prevailing ones is what we're going to focus on right now. This philosophy says we must tolerate all the various lifestyles and belief systems that are extent.

Those who propagate it say we are tired of divisions, we just want to get along and live our lives in peace. Their solution is to erase any absolute laws of morality.

Now let's notice in 1 John chapter 2, if we want to get the card ahead of the horse, as they say. Now here's one of the great acid tests, as they say, regarding whether or not a person is in the faith. 1 John chapter 2 and verse 4, he that says, I know him and keeps not his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But who so keeps his word in him verily is the love of God perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him, he that says he abides in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked. Today the great commandment of the day is you shall not be intolerant politicians who are not politically correct are by and large doomed for failure. There may be a few little pockets here and there in which people are able to rise to local offices or whatever, but on the national scene it would be very rare. And of course we're seeing a big play out of that right now with the person who's in the White House, not to say that his character is pure at all, but what is taking place. If there is no God and no revelation from God, what are we left with? We are left to human reason and human opinion.

And the way it's going now is my opinion, whomever my is, whomever's opinion it is, is just as good, they would say, as anybody else. There are two scriptures, it's repeated twice in the book of Proverbs. I used to hear these quoted quite often in sermons in the church. Let's go there Proverbs 14 verse 12. Proverbs 14 verse 12. There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. And that scripture is repeated again in the book of Proverbs. Proverbs a way that seems right in Proverbs 16 verse 25. The prophet Jeremiah in Jeremiah 17.9 succinctly describes the human heart apart from God. The human heart is desperately wicked. Who can know it? People do not want people, they don't want to hear from people who are devoted to their principles. They want to hear from people who will compromise and work toward unity based on diversity. Now that's a paradox within itself. Unity, apart from truth, is no unity at all. Man can enforce unity, but only the Spirit of God and the Word of God can bind us together in true unity. The greatest shift in my lifetime, and I've lived longer than most of you in here, there are a few exceptions.

The greatest shift, I believe, maybe since the pre-flood world, maybe there have been other periods, but the greatest moral shift for sure in my lifetime is going on right now, right before our eyes. One of the examples, the sanctity of marriage between male and female.

So marriage to the same sex is now sanctioned. They have taken dead aim at the Word of God and used every ploy they can to discredit the Bible and those who believe it and strive to live by it. We note the increase in the acceptance of the LGBTQ agenda, coupled with various forms of aberrant sexual behavior. The fewer now that a new Supreme Court justice that Judge Kavanaugh might be confirmed in the Senate, so the liberal progressives have taken aim at him because he might be the deciding vote that would overturn Roe v. Wade. An abortion would become illegal in the nation. They would probably have some caveats, certain situations and cases. Then there is the sexual revolution that's going on, been going on for decades, especially beginning in the 60s with the hippie movement and the Make Love Not War slogan that you saw. This sexual revolution permeates media, movies, television, print media, and it is the hook for most advertisements.

Sex is Hollywood's cash cow. Take blatant sex, innuendo, nudity, sexual scenes out of media. They would be challenged to present that which, like the gifts of the spirit, what are the gifts of the spirit supposed to do? They're supposed to edify, exhort, and comfort. Imagine movies that edify, exhorts, and comforts instead of teaching one to lust. The ever-increasing drug problem with recreational and medicinal marijuana being legalized in several states. I guess I won't tell Mr. Jacobat my brother's trip down the Oregon coastline last week, in which Oregon is one of those states.

They stopped at several small towns along the way, driving along the Oregon coastline. And what they saw was not that edifying. It was not that comforting. It troubled the psyche.

No nation or civilization has ever survived gross immorality. Books could be written, have been, but few of them reveal to you what is really behind the chaos and confusion that runs rampant through all the world's institutions at this critical juncture of human history. But virtually none of them really expose Satan's strategies.

So are you familiar with the term dialectics? Remember we said we're going to talk about how dialectics are shaping our world. We have given a brief description of where the world is going and where it is. Dialectics comes from the Greek word dialogue, which means to debate or to, if you want to say, argue. A dialogue takes place when two people or two sides offer points, counterpoints, in a discussion. That is what the prophet Isaiah and the apostle Paul did with skeptics in their day, but there was a great difference, which we shall note. But let's first of all read what Isaiah says, Isaiah 1.18. Isaiah, of course, in the first chapter, he highlights so many of the sins of Israel of the day. And when you read the first six chapters of Isaiah, it is very much akin to reading today's newspaper. And Isaiah 1.18, "'Come now and let us reason together.'" So let's have a dialogue. Let's talk back in two, says the Lord. "'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. And though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.'" How can that be? Well, apart from the Word of God and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, your sins cannot be remitted. Now let's go to Acts 17, where the apostle Paul writes something akin to that, what we just read in Isaiah 1.18, Acts 17.1. Now when they had passed through Phibilis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews, and Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures. He reasoned with them. There was a dialogue. They went back into opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead, and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. So he convinced them through the Scriptures. He did a similar thing in chapter 18, verse 1. After these things, Paul departed from Athens. Of course, he had a dialogue with those in Athens. And he came to Corinth and found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, and his wife Priscilla, because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome and came unto them. So this thing of getting rid of those who oppose you obviously is not a new thing, and much like sinuousness was taking place in Rome.

And because he was of the same craft that his Apollos and Paul were tentmakers, he abode with them and wrought for by their occupation. They were tentmakers. And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. So there is a place for dialogue, a place for reasoning based on the Scripture. Their reasoning was from the Word of God, the absolute truth.

Now how has a process of dialectics been used to cause doubt and confusion in the midst of humankind, that kind of world that we described in the first 25 minutes?

History and philosophy books will tell you that the laws of dialectics were already worked out in detail before the German philosopher, George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, came on the scene. Hegel was born 1770, died in 1830.

Hegel is credited with systematizing the principles of the dialectical method, and applying them to human history, and specifically, government. And Karl Marx and Engels, when they came along, used Hegel's dialectics in their formulating communism in the writing of the book Das Kapital.

However, as we shall see, Satan used the dialectic method in deceiving Eve in the Garden of Eden.

So what is the dialectical method? Well, we've already said, but we'll review. The Hegelian dialectic method is often summarized in terms of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.

The thesis might be an idea or a historical movement. An idea is presented that contains within itself incompleteness, incompleteness that gives rise to an opposing view, which is called the antithesis. The result of the conflict is that a third point of view arises called a synthesis. So you take the thesis, the antithesis, and as they debate and argue, they finally come to an agreement, and it's not necessarily an agreement, but a synthesis that the majority accepts. And so the synthesis carries the day as it were. So the synthesis overcomes the conflict by reconciling so-called higher level arguments.

And this synthesis becomes a new thesis that generates another antithesis, giving rise to a new synthesis. And in such a fashion, the process of intellectual or historical development is continually generated. So let's see how it worked in the Garden of Eden. Let's go to Genesis 2 and verse 16. In Genesis 2 verse 16, God instructs Adam and Eve here. Genesis 2 and verse 16, the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it, for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. So that's the thesis. The thesis is, look to God for the knowledge of getting evil. If you don't, you're going to die.

Now in chapter 3, an antithesis develops, headed by Satan the devil. Chapter 3 verse 1, Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God made, and he said unto the woman, Yea, as God said, well, Satan must have been listening to the instruction to Adam and Eve. As God said, you shall not eat of the tree of the garden, every tree of the garden. I mean, is he going to hold any tree back from you?

I mean, that's not liberty. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but at the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat a bit, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die. Oh, he's deceiving you. He's kidding you. So here's an antithesis. God says, Don't eat, you're going to die. Satan says, You can eat, you won't die. Now verse 5, Satan continues with his argument, For God knows that in the day you eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods. Now, a lot of preachers misuse that phrase, You shall be as gods. What is meant by that is, you will take on the prerogative of God as defined by the next phrase which says, or clause, knowing good and evil. In other words, God knows good and evil. You can know it too. Just eat of that tree. So the antithesis is here. God says, Satan says. Now, the woman synthesizes, and when the woman saw the tree was good for food, that was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be declared to make one wise. So all of the three things that's mentioned in John chapter 2, 1 John chapter 2, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. All of these are wrapped up. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. So what's wrong with this? Let's eat it. So she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her, and he did eat, and the eyes of them were both were open, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed chick leaves together and made themselves aprons. So the new synthesis is humankind is free to choose for themselves whatever is right, whatever is wrong. The philosophy, and it is much ballyhooed in elite philosophical circles today, it's existentialism that you are free to choose. You are your own essence designer. You can become whatever you want to become. Nobody has a right to tell you what you can do. Of course, there are many logical fallacies in this. I brought this up one time in a counseling class when I was doing doctoral work at East Texas State University, now University of A&M at Commerce.

All the professor was into non-directive counseling. You can't tell a person anything that's absolute. You guide him and say, have you thought about trying this? They said, for example, I know a friend that if he doesn't get a certain drug that is derived from marijuana, he will die. Oh, I said, how do you know? Has he tried it? And there was silence for the space of a minute or two, because he spoke in absolute terms. So this existentialism, choosing for yourself, is what pervades the world today. We see in this event here in the Garden of Eden the elements of the dialectic method, the thesis, God's thesis, antithesis, Satan's antithesis. Then we see the synthesis by Adam and Eve. As a result, they were cast out of the garden, and to this very day humankind is going his own way. Humankind is free to choose for themselves what is good and what is evil. So the philosophy of the day existentialism was born in the Garden of Eden, and has been the prevailing philosophy of the ages. And it introduced the battle of the ages. Of course, that was probably introduced when Satan deceived a third of the angels into following him. So that ancient philosophy of existentialism is now reaching its zenith as humankind proclaims liberty on the one hand, and on the other hand, enslaves himself, herself, and the clutches of a liar and a murderer. Satan the devil, the god of this present evil age. The article that I'm about to read is titled Diaprex, and it's this article that brought this forcefully to my mind about eight or ten years ago. At that time, somewhere around 2009 or 2010, I sent this, I believe, to the church leadership. I didn't hear anything back.

Diaprex is a word coined by Dean Kocher. Okay, Diaprex. We're going to D-I-A-P-R-A-X. You can guess what that means already. Dean Kocher, G-O-T-C-H-E-R, founder of the Institute for Authority Research. Kocher, a traveler of the United States, has given him 1,000 live presentations to Christians explaining the wicked technique of diaprex that is surreptitiously destroying our families, our government, and even our Christian churches. I don't agree with every word in here, but I'm reading it. After reading and digesting 600-plus social psychology books, Kocher joined the word dialectic. I'm sorry, Kocher joined the word dialectic and the word praxis to create the term diaprex. Dialectic is a philosophical term that describes the use of dialogue to resolve conflict between opposing ideas or opinions. The word praxis simply means to practice. Therefore, diaprexic is the practice of dialectics. These terms are derived from the ungodly 18th century philosophical model that is known as the Hegelian dialectic, named after the German philosopher George Wilhelm Hegel.

This worldview has now completely enveloped the world. In its simplest form, the diaprex system is a process whereby the entire world will eventually dialogue until they reach a consensus. The three-part formula consists of three essential components, thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Simply put, a thesis is combined with the opposing view, the antithesis, and the result then after the dialogue is called the synthesis.

He then gives the example there in the Garden of Eden that we have just covered.

As various doctrinal approaches to Christianity vie for preeminence, while posing as interpretive systems, they ultimately put forward the antithesis. As Christians seek to maintain their relationships with churches, family, friends, government, they slowly erode from their previously firm stance on the pure fact of God's Word in order to preserve the relationship. Thus, each person is eventually processed, and a synthesis is reached. More and more people throughout the land compromise. I read an article the past few days in which now churches are going into bars and trying to evangelize in bars. They've tried so many different things. I'm quoting reading here now from him. Virtually all organizational structures are presently moving in the spirit of diaprax. Every city council, county board of commissioners, courthouse, many church boards, and corporate enterprise is deeply enmeshed in the process. In this fashion, previously Protestant organizations that were staunchly anti-Catholic or papist are now embracing the heresy of Rome. Previously conservative Christian groups are slowly allowing women to become pastors, and virtually all of the old mainline denominations have now gone that route. I've told about the church my brother attends, the Presbyterian pastor. They have three pastors, a Baptist, a Presbyterian, and a Methodist. The Presbyterian minister is a woman allowing women to become pastors, homosexuals to be married in the church, and firm doctrines such as the virgin birth to be liberally spiritualized. Bibles such as the NIV are being translated by a system known as dynamic equivalency, which is built on the process of the diaprax, a translational dialogue to consensus. On the political front, the once great American republic is diapraxing itself into totalitarian police state and falling in line with the one world United Nations government that the scripture declares will arise in the last day. After dialoguing to consensus on the subject of security versus freedom, the public has moved from the absolute governance of the Bill of Rights, the thesis, and forfeited personal freedom, the synthesis, because the compromise is necessary in order for the government to protect us, the threat to our security being the antithesis. Of course, the Second Amendment is still in effect, and the government has not confiscated all the guns. So you know the battle after a school shooting, there is a great debate of thesis, antithesis, and some laws have been passed, which I think are common sense, laws who want to give the public a gun with a magazine that can fire how many rounds by the touch of a finger. I don't know.

This process works in literally thousands of environments and is now running at full speed. Interestingly enough, the American People's Encyclopedia states that diaprax can come to rest only at the apex of a hierarchical system. Its early 20th century fruits were communism, and fascism. This is the mechanism for the ultimate hierarchy system, which the Bible tells us will be ruled by the globalist elite, whether inevitable, antichrist, the synthesis at the top of the political pyramid that is presently being constructed. And he goes on, you get the flavor of it. As I said, I wouldn't agree with everything that is written here, but you get the flavor of where this is going. So we see this example of Eve and the Bible, and so there are many, almost any situation that you want to talk about. So many of the news channels, you take Fox News, you have one person here, this is his position, the other person, this is his position, they debate, then Fox says, you do your own synthesis. We report, you decide.

Dialectics is a method of thinking and interpreting the world of both nature and all societal institutions, including religious organizations. It's a way of looking at the universe, which asserts the axiom that everything is in constant, in a constant state and flux. It's fluid, it's moving. The thesis might be an ideal historical movement. Such an idea of movement contains within itself in completeness that gives rise to opposition, or an antithesis, a conflicting idea or movement. For example, the abortion issue on the one hand, pro-life. On the other hand, the right to choose. So there is a conflict, and this conflict was raging for quite a while. Then, as a result of the conflict, a third point of view arises, a synthesis which overcomes the conflict by reconciling a called higher level into play, and the U.S. Congress passed a law which the Supreme Court upheld. Well, I said it wrong. Congress didn't necessarily pass the law, but it went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court upheld the Roe v. Wade, and abortion in effect became the law of the land. So the synthesis becomes a new thesis that generates another antithesis. And so we see this going on again and again. At the present time, you see contradictions raging over the many grave issues that trouble the peoples of the world. You see pro-life versus freedom of choice. You see heterosexual versus homosexual. You see liberal versus conservative. You see legalized or not legalized marijuana or other drugs, intervening the affairs of other nations or remain neutral, open borders or past laws that regulate immigration. And we could ask ourselves, are all of these contradictions just time and chance, or is there something greater behind it? Of course, Satan wants to destroy a plan of God. He wants to destroy each one of us. So in our daily lives, diaprax works this way. You have an opinion about X, Y, or Z, how it should be done. I have an opinion on X, Y, Z, how it should be done. We get together, we discuss our opinions, and come to a solution. In some cases, it can be very beneficial. Each party is willing to compromise in order that a solution might be arrived at that benefits both parties. But the problem is when those who are coming together are not guided by the Word of God. We should be guided by the eternal truths, the Word of God, and come to an agreement that is in harmony with the Word of God.

Yes, we should come together and discuss things, but the discussion should center on what God's will is. When Isaiah writes what he writes in Isaiah 1.18, when the Apostle Paul writes what he writes in Acts 17 and 18, it is based on the Word of God. So, brethren, today we have introduced a method that can lead to truth or gross deception. We see the fruits of what it has wrought in the world apart from God. So, we must be careful that we make sure that the premise that we reason from is based on the will and the Word of God. The will and the Word of God will stand the test of time. Let's look at Psalm 119, verse 89.

Psalm 119, verse 89.

Psalm 119, verse 89.

Forever, O Lord, your Word is settled in heaven. Forever, your Word is settled in heaven. Now, let's go to 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 23. See, we have, as Peter writes also earlier in this, he writes later in 2 Peter 1, that we have a sure Word of prophecy. We have a sure Word of God. We are set free from fear, ignorance, superstition, and the dogmas of man. When we engage in dioprax, we can engage from the absolute Word of God, the truth. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. In 1 Peter 1, verse 23. Being born again, or begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which lives and abides forever.

Now, there are movements. Of course, some people talk about, well, you've got to move with the culture. But the Word of God lives and abides forever. Hebrews 13, 8 says, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. What was wrong in the Garden of Eden is wrong today. What was right in the Garden of Eden is right today. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is the flower of grass. The grass withers, the flower thereof fades away or falls away. But the Word of the Eternal endures forever.

And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you. Brother, let's believe it and let's practice it.