Scripture Reference:
Deuteronomy 18:10-13, "There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or daughter to pass through fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD; and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God." - King James Version.
"Biblical confirmation tells us there were Twelve (the number of God's perfection) disciples until Judas, had fallen away and betrayed Jesus Christ, leaving Eleven. Peter took spiritual note of Christ's divine plan for Twelve disciples and Matthias was brought into the fold to restore God's Holy, perfect order (Acts 1).
Those who fall into the disordered temptation of seeking guidance by way of signs and wonders, 11:11 divination prompts, are taking the path of Judas, betraying Jesus Christ, who has forewarned all humanity not to do so (Deuteronomy 18). Studies of the number Eleven in accordance with the Bible confirm it to be God's judgement number, mentioned 24 times in the Bible. If you add the number 2 + 4, as those caught away and into numerology divination and deception usually do, you will find this equals the number Six - 6, man's weakness, the manifestation of sin, and the evil's of Satan, the number 666, beast - Anti-Christ - (Revelation 13:8; 17:4).
11:11 TOUTING DOORWAY CONVERTS WHO ARE PROCLAIMED CHRISTIANS ARE BEING DIABOLICALLY DECEIVED:
Tim writes, "I am a tongues speaking Christian, who has been sent the number 11 as a confirmation of God's plan for my life. I did not ask for the 11:11 - 1:11 sign post to show up in my life. But God has used the number 11 confirming a profound and personal prophetic word of meaning for my life. I am an intercessory prayer warrior and have been spirit filled since the 1970's. God has also sent other numerical signs my way, such as finding pennies (1 cent) on the ground everywhere I go, affirming He will take care of my financial problems. Do you not see that God is doing a new work in these last days? Confirming His will and presence in ways that serve to provide a sense of peace and confirmation that He is ever near? It seems to me, you are placing God in a Box, and not allowing His spirit to flow freely within your life. God can and does use numbers, as His word confirms."
When I read Tim's words I was not surprised that a Christian would place meaning behind the 11:11 time prompts, for there are many Christians who have, and will continue to be deceived.
"God Cannot Be Placed Within A Box Because God Is The Box!" - Synthia Esther
God is the box. And the box He has confirmed He is in, "is His holy word." - John 1:1. If you do not accept this fact, you are in denial and rebellion, giving way to ad hominem arguments. God is calling a remnant of saints who will once again up-hold His banner of truth, proclaiming His word as the final authority.
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO AFFIRM, IDOLIZE, AND ARE GUIDED BY 11:11 SIGNS AND WONDERS DOORWAYS. THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE gOD OF THIS WORLD.
"There will always be temptation that shows up within our lives. The temptation grows stronger ever still, as we open the doorway to such leanings. God warns us to stay away from the occult, divination, observer of times... Deuteronomy 18:10-22."
Temptation in this life is a given, however, it is yielding to temptation that is a sin. Yielding to temptation by "seeking" other worldly signs and wonders, is not of God.
As I can attest to, I know it can be very comforting to know God could, would, and does, provide us with confirmation through providential synchronicity and personal evidence that He is near. If you happened across this website do you not think God directed you here? - Romans 8:28
However, seeking guidance from outside the word of God is lofty idol worship. Isaiah 2:17-18, "And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. And the idols He shall utterly abolish."
We are instructed within God's word to seek His will, word, and ways, not our own. When God works through signs and wonders, "one does not have to add conjecture, or attach symbolic meaning, as God himself has provided all meaning to sustain us in the light, within His Holy word." II Corinthians 10:3-6 "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh; (For weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled." God Himself confirms what is and ever will be, always leading His children back to His word as their final authority and guide (John 1:1).
God has given us the revelation of Himself through His word, in order to make the word and its mystery known. However, we as humans are limited in the scope and reason upon which we can understand, as the Apostle Paul has written, "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known." - 1 Cor. 13:12
A weblog commentator named Brian wrote:
"The whole God-in-a-box argument is really an argument to remove the truth and authority of scripture. If God isn't Who He says He is, His attributes are not what He claims they are, and His will isn't what He revealed it to be, how do I, being a finite, little, and evil thing, have any way at all to know anything about God other than brilliant intellect and power as evidenced by the creation itself? And even then, am I putting God in a box? ... This is purely and simply an attack on Sola Scriptura."
If after reading and reviewing the sacredpursuit.org website, you are still seeking, affirming, desiring to hear, or attract other worldly signs, following after such wonders and manifestations. I warn you to see the waves of a coming tsunami of deception. For in the end, God will confirm tis better to walk by faith, than by sight (2 Cor. 5:7). For God truly is the only way, the only truth, and the only light. He is the Box. The Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
“He who begins by seeking God within himself may end up by confusing himself as God” - B. B. Warfild, Biblical and Theological Studies, Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1952.
Inspired messages that contradict God's word are not from God (John 1:1). To be wise according to God is to put His word into practice (Matthew 7:24). You have to know the fruit of God's word in order to differentiate His wise truth from deceptive erroneous error (John 15).
Matthew 7:15-16, “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. (16) By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?”
GOD HAS SET BEFORE US - LIFE AND DEATH, BLESSINGS AND CURSES
"This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him. For the Lord is your life...," (Deuteronomy 30:19-20). "But the present heavens and earth by His word are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men." - 2nd Peter 3:7
Foundational Scripture:
2nd Peter 1:1-11
"Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours: Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. 'Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
'For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge, and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.'"
By Synthia Esther
The righteousness of God is linked to the knowledge of God. Rightousness comes first with knowledge being a by product. One cannot expect any real revelation from God apart from holiness. The holiness we seek and impart opens the doorway to all understanding of God's will, word, and ways. These are the treasures of God. The doorway we must first embark upon begins as we learn to love righteousness and hate lawlessness (Hebrews 1:9). Such is the pathway to life or death, heaven or hell.
"Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: 'Because you people have brought to mind your guilt by your open rebellion, revealing your sins in all that you do - because you have done this, you will be taken captive,'" (Ezekiel 21:24). Ezekiel was an aristocratic priest of Jerusalem, who, along with many others, was carried captive to Babylon. His message to the people of Israel was one of repentence, returning to the Lord. Only then could they ever hope to return to Jerusalem. They were following the pagan practice of sacrificing their children to idols. They did not deem their helpless, innocent child was a precious gift from God. For all children are God's gift (Psalm 127:3). Likewise is the sin of abortion. Death by choice of a child in the womb is not God's will.
HIGHER KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, AND UNDERSTANDING
When we seek the pure righteousness of God, we enter into a realm of higher knowledge, wisdom, and understanding (Proverbs chapters 2,3,4, 8). When we regard iniquity in our hearts, the Lord will not hear us (Psalm 66:18). The higher realms of knowledge begin with living a higher call to purity, holiness, and sacification. There is no other road. There is no other way. The realms of occult and gnostic knowledge are man made concepts of hidden truths, coming forth from the doctrine of Demons.
Satan's realm of temptation is devised to bring the practitioner of metaphysical secret knowledge into a deep dark pit. The depths of which are divious and souly destructive. When one walks the paths and opens doorways toward esoteric enlightenment, the core of such other worldly revelation seperates and divides the seat of your soul. With doorways open, there is no room for God's Holy Spirit of truth. "For no man can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other." (Matthew 6:24).
THE SEAT OF THE SOUL
The seat of your soul contains your mind, will, and emotions. What a person thinks within the mind, develops the mind and will to link up with your souls intention. If you seek the path of sin, you reap in due course what the emotional seat of your soul desires. In contrast, if you seek God's Holy Word (Bible), you link up to the higher truths that will set your spirit free to learn the mystery of God's love, as His Holy Spirit imparts. In simplistic terms, "What you seek you will find. What you seed, you feed," - Synthia Esther
ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY
To know God is to love Him. To love Him, a profound desire yeilds a longing that Christ should increase and the ego-self decrease. This becomes the mantra of our soul's intention, yeilding an abundance of new growth and fruit in the quest for ever higher spiritual progress (John 3:30). Smith Wigglesworth writes of a revelation he received from God ("Smith Wigglesworth Devotional," Whitaker House Publishing). This revelation concerned the willful act of Adam and Eve's sin, by which they were turned out of the Garden for their disobedience. As such they were unable to partake of the Tree of Life, for the cherubim with flaming sword kept them away from the Tree.
THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH
Wigglesworth explains, "When I was baptized, I saw that I had begun to eat of this Tree of Life, and I saw that the flaming sword surrounded it. It was there to keep the Devil away. How marvelously He keeps us so that the Wicked One cannot touch us. I see a place in God where Satan cannot come. We are "hidden with Christ in God" (Col. 3:3). He invites us all to come and share this wonderful hidden place. We dwell "in the secret place of the Most High" and "abide under the shadow of the Almighty," (Psalm 91:1).
CHOOSE LIFE
"Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun," (Psalm 37:5-6). That which you choose is always based on your souls freewill intention. "This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him. For the Lord is your life...," (Deuteronomy 30:19-20). Make your election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall back into the depths of sin, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.