Today’s culture habitually works to rid themselves of the presence of God.

1 Samuel 6:1-12

Click for a description of the mark of the beast.
Click for a description of the image of the beast.

Part 1…Ark of God and the chest of golden tumors and golden rats.
Part 2….Ark of God and the chest of golden tumors and golden rats.
Part 3…This post.
Part 4….Ark of God and the chest of golden tumors and golden rats.
Part 5….Ark of God and the chest of golden tumors and golden rats.

• Global culture seeks for a remedy to the presence of God.
• Global culture fills the presence of God with gold rats and tumors.
• Global culture does not want to appear oppressive to the presence of God.
• Global culture watches which road the presence of God and golden tumors and rats go down.
• Global culture follows the presence of God up to the border of His Holy place.

Global culture seeks for a remedy to the presence of God. “Now the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months. And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we should send it to its place.” 1 Samuel 6:1-2

The Ark of the Lord, also known as the Ark of the Covenant, symbolizes the presence of God. The Ark of the Lord is part of the “scarlet cord” pointing to Jesus Christ as the one who opens the way into the presence of God. By His death on the Cross, our Lord Jesus atoned for sin, and through Him we are now given access to God and given the Holy Spirit. The presence of God is with us as we are made the house of the Holy Spirit.

The Philistines were not believers in the living God, but served the false god, Dagon. The Ark of God, the presence of the living God, was a curse to the Philistine’s god which caused Dagon to fall which broke the head and hands into pieces. After that, the Philistines sought for ways to get rid of the presence of God, but the Ark of God was like a hot potato in the unbeliever’s hands. No one wanted the presence of God to be with them. Now, they are seeking advice from their false priests on what to do with the Ark of God, they want the presence of God to be gone from them.

The leaders of today’s culture, which is a global culture, want nothing to do with the presence of God, which includes Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit as the Trinity of God. The presence of God in us, through Jesus Christ, is destructive to the false god that wants to live within us by giving us what to think, feel, say, and do. This present world system cannot exist when the presence of God has precedence within the heart and soul of people. Today’s culture wants to do away with belief in God, to annul the necessity for the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ, and to suppress the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Global culture fills the presence of God with gold rats and gold tumors. “So they said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty; but by all means return it to Him with a trespass offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why His hand is not removed from you.” Then they said, “What is the trespass offering which we shall return to Him?” They answered, “Five golden tumors and five golden rats, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines. For the same plague was on all of you and on your lords. Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your rats that ravage the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will lighten His hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.” 1 Samuel 6:3-5

The purpose of a trespass offering was to make amends with someone when a wrong was done and reparations needed to be made. The priests of the false god Dagon devised a way for ridding themselves of the Ark of God, which symbolizes the presence of God. They decided to send it away from them, but not empty, but to return it to God with a trespass offering. The priests said that they should glorify God after doing so and promised that healing would come as a result.

The trespass offering that the priests of the false god suggested to give was a ludicrous gift that insulted the presence of God. In the spirit of atonement and goodwill of the those following their false god, they decided to make amends by offering to the presence of God five golden tumors and five golden rats. After that, they would give glory to God and hope that He would be pleased and have pity on their false god, Dagon, and to their whole land.

Today’s culture uses churchy and humanitarian sounding words to come across as being reconciliatory and friendly to those who live in the presence of God through Jesus Christ. In reality, their kind offerings amount to filling our body, the house of the Holy Spirit, with golden tumors and rats. That is their corrupted purpose for asking for forgiveness, to solicit sympathy for their false god and their culture. When their reconciliatory offerings are made, they rejoice as if giving glory to God. They want to rid themselves of the presence of God within us so they can make us the home of their false god, the entity that gives people what to think, feel, do, and say. “For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.” Romans 16:18

When Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus Christ to have Him crucified, he used a cordial and harmless kiss, which is exactly the tactic of the masses of today’s culture, “And while He was still speaking, behold, a multitude; and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to Jesus to kiss Him. But Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?” Luke 22:47-48

Global culture does not want to appear oppressive to the presence of God. “Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He did mighty things among them, did they not let the people go, that they might depart? ” 1 Samuel 6:6

The priests of the false god, Dagon, advised the leaders of the people not to harden their hearts like the Pharaoh and the Egyptians did. The leaders of today’s culture, on a local, state, national, and global level are advising the same thing. In fact, that is what all the talk is about doing away with the hard attitudes of hate speech, hate crimes, hostile attitudes, etc. That also includes doing away with the religious “dogma” of one religion considering itself to be the only way into the presence of God. In other words, by honoring all religions as equal, the value of God as creator of this world is undermined, and the worship of the creature prevails. They, “…exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” Romans 1:25

The only thing today’s culture wants regarding the presence of God in Jesus Christ is their departure from this world. They want to see a mass exodus of Christianity in the same way that the Israelites exited Egypt. The way they are causing the exodus of Christianity from this world is not by hardness, but by wearing the fig leaf of humanism as clothing for the entity giving people what to do, say, think, and feel. Today’s culture lifts themselves up as being the people of love, support, goodwill, and harmony, but have declared the word of God and Christianity to be bigoted, hateful, intolerant, unloving, and the enemy of humanity.

Humanism is “...an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.”

Global culture watches which road the presence of God and golden tumors and rats go down. “Now therefore, make a new cart, take two milk cows which have never been yoked, and hitch the cows to the cart; and take their calves home, away from them. Then take the ark of the Lord and set it on the cart; and put the articles of gold which you are returning to Him as a trespass offering in a chest by its side. Then send it away, and let it go. And watch: if it goes up the road to its own territory, to Beth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we shall know that it is not His hand that struck us—it happened to us by chance.” 1 Samuel 6:7-9

This verse is revealing a test to see which road the cart with cows pulling it would take. On the cart was the Ark of God and beside that was a chest with five golden tumors and five golden rats on the inside. Would the cows pull the cart up the road towards the territory where the Ark of the Covenant belonged, or go some other road? The priests of the false god would interpret the chosen road as a sign. If the cart was pulled into the territory where the Ark of God belonged, then they would know that God is the one who did evil to them by striking them with tumors and destruction. If the cart was pulled onto another road, then they would interpret it as just a chance happening that the tumors and destruction came on them.

The sparkle of a newly made cart with two docile milk cows pulling it would present an appearance of Godliness, peace, and humility. This Godliness can come through living for Jesus Christ or just be an appearance of Godliness without knowing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our soul and spirit is the cart, and there we carry the Ark of the Covenant [relating to living for Jesus Christ] and the chest that is filled with the golden tumors and golden rats [relating to our carnal side]. The cart of our soul is propelled forward by the milk we are being nourished by. Are we being nourished by the milk of the presence of God [through Jesus Christ] to pull us towards the road that He intends for us to be on? Or are we being nourished by the milk [nourishing the carnal side] of the entity that gives us what to think, feel, do, and say and causes us to veer from the road where the territory of the presence of God is?

Going down the one road in the newly made cart, that favors the Ark of God, and being nourished with the milk of the presence of God, leads to being born again in the Spirit and being a new person in Jesus Christ, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 This is the narrow road that leads to life. “…as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby…” 1 Peter 2:2 This is the road where we believe in God, acknowledge the need for the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ, and embrace the presence of the holy Spirit.

Veering down the other road in the newly made cart, that favors the territory of the carnal chest of the golden tumors and golden rats, and being nourished with the milk of the entity that has power over physiology, leads to a form of Godliness but denying the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, “...having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” 2 Timothy 3:5 These are those whose house, the human body, is filled with the golden tumors and golden rats. Instead of choosing to be a house filled with the presence of God, they choose to be infilled with the entity that gives them what to feel, think, say, and do. This entity enables the image of the beast to speak and live through people in every city around the world. They choose the broad road. These are the masses around the world that are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

The masses of people around the world are of the opinion that the events happening in this world are merely by chance. They believe that the collective will of the masses of the global culture is the remedy to what ills this world. They especially scoff at the belief in the coming of Jesus Christ, “…knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 2 Peter 3-4

Global warming is evidence that things have not remained the same since the prophecies of the Bible and the events of this world are not by chance. Despite the global culture believing that global warming is by chance, nothing to do with what God is doing, global warming has been warned about for over 2000 years. The remedy is not through the collective force of human effort, but is a sign that God gives to us that we must reconcile with Him by the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ, “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” Revelation 16:8-9

God is the one doing a “great evil” to the world government and its global culture, it is not by chance. The stronger the United Nations becomes as the one world government, the stronger the heat of global warming becomes. On the inside, the masses of the global culture are filled with the golden tumors and golden rats that are being unleashed onto the world. For a list of the Seven Plagues click here. There are also the events of the Seven Trumpets listed in Revelation 8, 9, and 11. Then, the Day of the Lord approaches and our Lord Jesus Christ is returning.

Global culture follows the presence of God up to the border of His Holy place. “Then the men did so; they took two milk cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. And they set the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the chest with the gold rats and the images of their tumors. Then the cows headed straight for the road to Beth Shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right hand or the left. And the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.” 1 Samuel 6:10-12

The milk cows that were pulling the new cart with the Ark of God and chest of the golden tumors and golden rats headed straight for the road to Beth Shemesh. This was known to be the home territory where the Ark of God belonged. This was a sign to the people of the false god, Dagon, that the hand of God was truly behind the “great evil” that came against them with tumors and destruction.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we head straight to the road that leads us into the presence of God through Jesus Christ. That is the road on which the Ark of the Covenant is seen, and that covenant is, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 We do not veer on the road where the chest of the golden tumors and golden rats belong, which is the carnal road that leads to death and eternal hell. “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” Matthew 7:13-14

On the road to where the Ark of God belongs, the two milk cows were lowing as they went. Lowing is a deep, guttural, long and drawn-out sound when communicating with each other and can be heard from a distance. It often denotes distress. Mooing is a more high-pitched sound when cows call out to each other or expressing their feelings. Considering that the milk cows were separated from their calves and having to haul the Ark of God and the chest of golden tumors and golden rats, they were certainly in much distress.

The followers of Jesus Christ are like the lowing milk cows in their distress. We are in distress because the births that would be born through Jesus Christ are being extinguished, as described in Revelation 12. We are also in distress because in today’s world we have to bear the weight of the carnal flesh as the entity with power over physiology enflames the desires of the flesh. This entity has the power to give people carnal thoughts and carnal feelings to manipulate words and behaviors that are not our intention to say and do. The road to eternal life is definitely narrow and difficult as few are able to find it. Even so, we do not veer to the left or right in our belief in and devotion to God through Jesus Christ.

Those of today’s culture are watching to see which road individuals are going down. They want to know if we are we going down the road that leads into the presence of God through Jesus Christ. Or are we going down the road that leads to the entity that gives people what to think, feel, do, and say through the physiology of our carnality. One thing for sure, those who dedicate their body to the entity giving them what to feel and think will not cross the border into the presence of God that makes people the house of the Holy Spirit.

---

“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11