Ancestral Knowledge

January 11, 2010

I received this word:

“Ancestral knowledge: That which is fading and ready to pass away.”

I reflected on the overspreading of Satan’s knowledge over the whole world and how it was sown within the soil of each heart and how each generation kept the vine growing and spreading. The prejudice of the heart works with the knowledge mankind inherited from Satan. It is NOT our true history. And in this hour, as God brings forth His mighty troop, this knowledge is ready to fad and pass away. Praise God!

WHAT IS FALSE KNOWLEDGE

When we say “Satan’s knowledge” we are not speaking of satanic religions and rituals, we are talking about how the god of this world uses every day knowledge to counsel the heart. God uses His (good) knowledge to counsel the heart in righteousness and Satan uses his (false) knowledge of everyday life to counsel the heart in iniquity (to remain separate from God).

Satan’s influence (the spirit of antichrist) can be seen in the world by the presence of false knowledge. We take in the knowledge of this world from the day we are born and are taught to use knowledge to discover the world around us and explore who we are. It was God’s desire that we be given knowledge to tell us who He is and how to properly serve Him and know Him. We would then know the purpose of life and understand our part in God’s plan.

False knowledge works by promise. Satan uses promise as bait on the hook of knowledge. He joins a promise to the knowledge of this world that if we apply ourselves to education, stock market, the arts, sports, literature, apothecary, career, military might, politics, philanthropy, green peace, or the religions of the world, that we can find ourselves, we can be all we can be, we can find peace, joy, and happiness; that we can learn to be better people, and that in bettering ourselves we can better the world.

Fallen angels taught man the medicinal properties of herbs and flowers and how to use them for releasing pent-up energy, irritability, frustration, or trauma that can inhibit self-expression. Thus replacing their tethering to God for their well being by their tethering them to their knowledge for their well being.

We are told to have a “dream” and then to go out and achieve that dream. We are told that all dreams are important and some, even though they take a lifetime to complete, once realized, leaves a profound mark in the world
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We know that knowledge needs experience to validate what we have discovered. Experience helps us to accept knowledge as truth. People accept as “truth” those things that agree with their personal experience of life and promises to further their aspiration: “It works with my aspiration! It must be truth!”
Satan is making promise to your inclinations. He knows that the knowledge of this world uses the raw material of the signature of the soul for self expression, the drive of the God-Code for self perfection, the drive of the moral code for self righteousness, and fruits of iniquity to identify who we are, to measure reality, and find our self worth.

As we discover things about the world around us and gain experience we begin to develop a philosophic view about life: what is important, what is not important, who is important and why; how we should think, how we should feel, why we think and feel the way we do; how change takes place, how the world is shaped, and how to better shape the world in the future. We determine reality by what we discover.

We can see how knowledge is used to support our imagination about ourselves and our desire to dream and achieve. You might be thinking that it is healthy to have a dream and set goals for ourselves. It is not the survival of the flesh that is false, but the philosophy that Satan creates with it and how he cleverly creates a faith model (form of religion and tradition) from it.

False knowledge produces a witness (agreement) with the signature, God-Code, moral code, and fruits of iniquity. We can find many truths and strengths that become very tightly woven together, which people then learn to accept and prize. This is the tradition of man. This is the witness of man that the Bible talks about (1Jn.5:9).

Satan uses knowledge as a power to sympathize with our need for fulfillment. But God created us for Himself and we cannot find fulfillment in anything that is less than Him.

The knowledge of this world does not tether us to God, it tethers us to Satan. By false knowledge Satan keeps our tethering to him strong.

We should carry the testimony of God in our conscience, but by false knowledge we carry the testimony of the flesh.

We must reciprocate the perfect match of His likeness; we must reciprocate what He is. False knowledge refuses the entrance of grace for reciprocation.
Jesus is supposed to be the city of refuge, but by false knowledge there are many cities of refuge: education, politics, social services, humanities, science…

God said that we are to be perfect as he is perfect, but by false knowledge people pursue a holiness that never comes to fruition.

As we can see, the knowledge of this world competes with God. God created us to reciprocate to Him, but the knowledge of the world is used for reciprocation, robbing the heart of faith as it replaces the eternal work of God with temporal things.

God promised that He would give substance to the soul: fruit, virtue, glory, and the honor of God, filling the soul with heavenly food. False knowledge promises substance for the soul: the honor of man, the pride of life, the spoils of war, leaving the soul void.

False knowledge promises power, but the Spirit of God does not rest upon it.
False knowledge promises to keep you in rhythm with the world, but the soul needs to be in rhythm with God.

The soul draws upon false knowledge for confidence to orient oneself mentally and emotionally. Just like when you are in a foreign city, walking around town for the first time, you take notice of certain signs, shops, and other prominent landmarks to help you become familiar with your new environment. The more you walk around town the more you grow in confidence that you know how to find your way around.

People also grow in confident in how they use the knowledge of this world. They are constantly looking for the things that confirm that they are on the right path. But man is building confidence in a lie, thinking that he can achieve what his heart desires and progress in things that do not join him to God.
We must know that false knowledge is a barrier to grace. When a person builds confidence with the knowledge of the world and other people reinforce the building with the bricks of their flattery, they do not see that they stand in slippery places.

People also have the mistaken idea that God thinks as they do and that God stands in favor of their aspirations, and the grace of God has to work to break down these barriers.

As we can see, the truth one embraces becomes the prejudice of the soul and this is how the knowledge of this world obscures faith. All one sees is the prejudice of one’s own thinking.

False knowledge is the mindset of “resolve”. Instead of coming into covenant with God, people use knowledge to resolve their issues.

False knowledge says that reality can be measured by your experience in the kingdom of darkness, that truth can be validated by what you discern to be true about your fallen nature. False knowledge teaches you to live indifferent to God.

But there is no profit for the soul in false knowledge. Although you can project much with the imagination, the soul will not find rest nor peace in the knowledge of the world.

The knowledge of this world is a facet of the flesh; it is a part of who you are. It is the perception you gained from experience. When God begins to circumcise the soul He begins to change the way you think; He gives you new knowledge and a new perception.

Ministers in the False Religious System are not in covenant with God and therefore do not have the knowledge of Christ to build faith and so cannot measure faith to Jesus Christ. As a result they are not experiencing the fulness of Christ and so the gospel they preach is not focused on Christ, it is still focused on death: Loss, loneliness, guilt, shame, time, vanity, vexation, frustration, confusion, sin.

When they preach, they draw from the flesh (the knowledge of this world) to try to resolve the issues of death that they see played out all around them. They preach the mindset of “resolve” to bring order to chaos. And as they set about the task of setting order to confusion, they are constantly looking for the things that confirm that they are on the right path. People are busy all day confirming each other. Now we can see how the knowledge of the world is used for reciprocation, robbing the heart of faith.

We can also understand what it means to preach by the rhythm of the world (the flesh). When you understand the rhythm of the flesh you can see how easy it is for Satan to make promise to the inclination of the flesh. Promises are made to man’s basic instincts with his signature, the God-Code, the moral code, and fruits of iniquity. That is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, that is the gospel of the flesh.

Yours in Christ,
Chief Teacher Maria vonAnderseck
Second 8th Week Apostolic Institute of Theology