Satan around the TULIP

Gainsaying and maligning a beautiful & wonderful Bible doctrine

By Prophet Jacob R. Blandford

"And no man taketh this honour unto himself,

but he that is called of God, as was Aaron."

(Heb. 5:4)

"Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world." (Acts 15:18)

In these last days of apostasy before Christ’s Coming Satan has managed to get God’s people to HATE one of the clearest doctrines taught in the Bible.  And to HATE anyone who believes it.  Some of these men that HATE predestination or election so much that they tell their followers that those Christians who believe in Reformed theology and Sovereignty (Matt. 28:18 KJV) adhere to the most damnable doctrine there is and people who believe TULIP should be avoided and segregated… Their ancestors must be racists or something!  Or better they are so delusional that when they see a TULIP they see Satan wrapped around.  You’re seeing things man! Calvinism is true, it is not demonic! Quote, "...by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." (2 Pet. 2:2) And "But these speak evil of those things which they know not" (Jude 10).  To be honest, I'm not sure you can be "valiant for the truth" (Jer. 9:3) and reject and despise the truth of predestination.

"Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled." (Titus 1:15)

The word “elect” is found 17 times in the Bible, “election” 6 times, “called” 624 times, “chosen” 123, “predestinate” 2 times, and “predestinated” 2 times.

In the Old Testament Israel was an “elect” or chosen nation.  They had corporal election.  In the New Testament Christians are “chosen” and receive a personal individual election.  Scriptures on “Election” and “Predestination” in the New Testament are found in the Scofield Study Subject Index on pages 1705 and 1721 of the Scofield Study Bible III KJV Oxford.  Summary notes are found at 1 Peter 1:20, 1 Peter 5:13, and Ephesians 1:11.  So yes, the author of the original and greatest fundamental Christian study Bible, C.I. Scofield, believed in election.  King James VI & I and his translators were staunch Calvinists.  Martin Luther and of course John Calvin believed in election, so did most of the Reformers.  The ‘prince of preachers’ Charles Spurgeon believed TULIP.  Why do evangelicals feel like they can villainize the Christian men that gave them the Bible and preserved the New Testament faith!  Apostle Paul, the teacher of the church age, was a 5-point Calvinist! (Read the Pauline Epistles!)  And by the way, many educated and intelligent Christians today still believe the points of Calvinism… We just aren’t loud mouths who go around damning anyone who doesn’t believe EXACTLY like we do!  Dr. Miles Smith, who wrote the prefatory material for the 1611 Holy Bible, strongly upheld the Calvin faith.  The very first thing he wrote in "The Translators To The Reader" was "THE BEST THINGS HAVE BEEN CALUMNIATED".  Like the way our 'beloved brethren' criticize Calvin's doctrines; and also sounds alot like another prophecy Dr. Smith gave, "...since things of this quality have ever been subject to the censures of ill meaning and discontented persons, it may receive approbation and patronage from so learned and judicious a Prince as Your Highness is, whose allowance and acceptance of our labors shall more honor and encourage us, than all the calumniations and hard interpretations of other men shall dismay us. So that if, on the one side, we shall be traduced by Popish persons at home or abroad, who therefore will malign us, because we are poor instruments to make God's holy Truth to be yet more and more known unto the people, whom they desire still to keep in ignorance and darkness; or if, on the other side, we shall be maligned by self-conceited Brethren, who run their own ways, and give liking unto nothing, but what is framed by themselves, and hammered on their anvil;" (Epistle Dedicatory).

Here are some New Testament Scriptures that teach election:

• “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” (John 15:16, 19)
• “Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
  To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Rom. 1:6-7)
• “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
  Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
  What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
  Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.” (Rom. 8:28-33)
• “Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
  Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
  That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
  For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
  And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
  (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
  It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
  As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
  What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
  For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
  So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
  For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
  Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
  What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
  And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
  Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?” (Rom. 9:6-24)
• “What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded” (Rom. 11:7)
• “Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:” (1 Cor. 1:2, 9, 27-28)
• “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” (Eph. 1:4-5, 11)
• “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;” (Col. 3:12)
• “Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.” (1 Thess. 1:4)
• “But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
  Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2 Thess. 2:13-14)
• “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,” (2 Tim. 1:9)
• “No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” (2 Tim. 2:4)
• “Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.” (2 Tim. 2:10)
• “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.” (1 Pet. 1:2)
• “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:” (1 Pet. 2:9)
• “Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:” (Jude 1)
• “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.” (Rev. 17:8, 14)

Look them up and believe the Holy Spirit instead of resisting him!