Key precept: How Satan fathers his children.
Every one of these posts is the product of ongoing current study during which I make myself available to the Holy Spirit to guide me into new understanding. Not automatic writing. A true teacher-student relationship, where I set my own opinions aside, set aside time to study, come prepared with the text and tools, and listen to the Holy Spirit speaking to me.
I experience this like a mental nudge, bringing to mind the Bible passages pertinent to the topic at hand. As any good teacher does, the Holy Spirit builds an ever higher edifice of understanding on a foundation of existing knowledge, which in his case is the written word of God. I’m not given “new revelation.” A pattern develops connecting existing written revelation as the Holy Spirit brings to mind the word I’ve already hidden in my heart – memorized – and meditated upon. The rest of the process is a “connect the dots” picture fully revealing what had previously been a confused jumble of disconnected bits of information. Just like police detective work.
One example of the process of being guided by the Holy Spirit is the unraveling of the conundrum that came to my mind one day.
How does Satan father the Antichrist and yet remain free?
To understand why this is a conundrum, you have to be up to speed on the various options of angelic fatherhood.
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