As the Days of Noah
The Flaming Sword Newsletter
By John Torell
September 2000
For many years I have been thinking and praying to God to show me more about the end times. Since I entered the ministry in 1967, I have preached many sermons and taught on this subject. As most of you know, when we read the Bible we see a truth and the next time we read that same passage, the Lord shows us a new revelation.
As Matthew and Luke recorded the teaching on the end times by Jesus, there are two things that stand out, which recently caught my attention, “AS THE DAYS OF NOAH” and “AS THE DAYS OF LOT.” In this newsletter I want to share with you what God has shown me after many years of asking.
AS THE DAYS OF NOAH . . .
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Jesus is telling us here and in Luke 17:26-27 that the conditions on the earth prior to the coming of Jesus Christ will be the same as they were when Noah lived on the earth prior to the flood.
Having read the sixth chapter of Genesis hundreds of times, I was aware of two things: fallen angels had sexual intercourse with women, creating a half demonic half human offspring, and evil was extensive once these hybrids had been born.
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Two apostles of Jesus Christ spoke on the subject, Peter, which is recorded in II Peter 2:4-5, and the apostle Jude recorded in his epistle, verses 6 and 14-15. If you check out what Peter and Jude wrote, Bible commentaries will tell you that they were quoting from the writings of Enoch.
Once I found this out, I wanted to find out what more Enoch had to say about this subject. Being a strict fundamentalist when it comes to the Bible, I was uneasy to go outside of the Bible. But since Jesus talked about it and two of his apostles quoted from the book of Enoch, I decided to find out more about this.
Here is what I discovered. Among the Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1948, were fragments from the book of Enoch. These have been copied and distributed in archeological circles and to those examining the Scriptures. This dates these fragments to around 200 B.C., which means that Jesus and His apostles had access to this writing. A complete writing of the books of Enoch had been preserved by the Coptic church in Egypt and had been translated into English. There is another version of the books of Enoch, called the “Slavic version,” but this is not a literal translation and thus less reliable.
When I began to search in my library, I discovered that for about 17 years I had in my possession a scholastic work on the books of Enoch and I had never opened the book. I decided to make this one of my research projects during the two weeks that my wife and I took off from the ministry. As I started to read the books of Enoch I was more than astonished, I was shocked. Regardless what the scholars were saying about the authenticity of the books, archeology had proved to us that the fragments existing today date back 2,200 years and there is no way that the people living at that time period could have discussed events like genetic engineering or cloning. The knowledge must date back to the time of Enoch.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
One of the offenses that Satan’s fallen angels committed prior to the Flood, was the TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY. When I attended seminary I had to take a number of classes in archeology. One of the things my professor pointed out was that the standard of living and technology were more advanced before the flood than after. I could never get an answer for why this was so, and for years I have been thinking about it. Here is what I have come to understand.
1. If there would be a global nuclear war today on the earth, the survivors would be bombed back to the stone age. If all our laboratories, factories and technical schools would be lost, the survivors would not be able to rebuild for years to come. The original writings and tools to build the equipment, which we are using today to produce machinery and computers would be lost, and very few people would have knowledge of how to reproduce them. When the flood took place, it destroyed much of the equipment and writings and the people who were skilled in production were killed in the flood.
2. After Adam and Eve fell into sin, the Bible tells us that God taught them how to take care of the Garden of Eden, in other words, agriculture. But the Bible does not tell us that God taught them technical skills. Someone else must have shown them manufacturing procedures. The books of Enoch give us the answer, FALLEN ANGELS BROUGHT IN THEIR SUPERIOR TECHNOLOGY and showed the people how to locate ore in the mountains which contained gold, silver, iron, copper, zink, etc. Then the fallen angels showed them how to mine, bring the ore out and crush it, then how to build furnaces where the ore was melted, refined and mixed together so that they were able to produce steel, bronze and other alloys.
This entire program would require knowledge on how to build furnaces that could be heated to over 2000 degrees Celsius. The mining operation itself would require skill and equipment to operate in hard rock, and chemistry to know how to mix metals to get the proper hardness, etc. Since I worked in a cast iron foundry in my youth, I know that it takes very special tools, equipment and the correct mixture of sand, to make the molds, not to mention the equipment that will hold the super heated metal, which at this temperature is liquid.
WHAT DID THE FALLEN ANGELS TEACH THEM TO DO WITH THE METALS?
The technology given to mankind was used to teach them how to produce swords, knives, shields and breast plates which were then used by evil men banding together to make war and to conquer and kill.
This gives me understanding in how Satan worked then and now. Let us look at just one Bible verse here:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
From the time of Noah to this day, governments have been financing research to produce better and more efficient weapons of war. Every king, emperor or dictator pushed the skilled people in his nation to come up with new weapons or improve old ones, so that they could be employed in war and kill the enemy faster and in greater numbers. In the United States it is known as the “Military Industrial Complex.” Improvements for civilian use came as a byproduct.
KNOW THIS: Satan and his demons love war, they possess the people on both sides of the war, and then they play out their murderous desires. While the soldiers and the civilians are either killed or wounded, suffering greatly, the demons suffer no pain, to them it is A GREAT CHESS GAME they can play without feeling any pain. And when they have destroyed some nations or run out of soldiers, they wait for a new generation of men to be born and start all over again.
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
Back in the 1980’s I fought against the ungodly game of Dungeons and Dragons which was sweeping the world. This event was just before personal computers were going to come forth. People playing this game would become totally obsessed with it; many would commit suicide if their character in the game was killed. This game took the players back to the dark ages where battles were fought with swords, axes and knives mixed with occultism, where spells and magic would tip the scale in a battle.
After reading the books of Enoch, I know exactly who inspired Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, in 1973, to create the mind game of Dungeons and Dragons.
Since the game requires that the players be very good readers and able to think and draw conclusions, they began marketing this new game to students in Colleges. This game was not going to be used by the masses of people since it required a high IQ and disciplined study habits.
In 1975 the two men incorporated their business and became known as “TSR” (Tactical Studies Rules). Shortly after this Dave Arneson left the corporation and was replaced with Brian Blume. In 1980, the company grossed an income of $20 million and in 1981 their income had reached around $60 million. Several large expensive handbooks were produced. I have four of them in my possession, given to me by people who we helped to get out of this mind controlling game. Instead of Dungeons and Dragons a better name for this game would be “Swords & Sorcery.”
THE PERSONAL COMPUTER
In 1981 International Business Machines (IBM) introduced its first personal computer (PC) called “IBM PC.” The first PC was very small in memory, capacity and speed compared to what is available today, but it was the beginning of the production of PC’s on a large commercial scale.
As the computers became faster, more powerful and less expensive, the game industry entered the market. The sophisticated game of Dungeons and Dragons was now reproduced in smaller less complicated versions, and then introduced to the children who had their own PC’s. The rest is history! Millions of young people today are glued to their screens, playing out the satanic killing games which are a mix of high technology, war, sex and sorcery. The television industry is not lagging behind, most of the cartoons produced for children are a mixture of male/female gods, witchcraft, space travel and most of all MURDERS WITH GREAT VIOLENCE.
WHAT IS THE RESULT ?
The so called New Age movement has swelled its ranks into great numbers, where people like Shirley McLain and other “famous” movie stars are leading people to hell with their teaching on sorcery, reincarnation and the belief in male and female gods interacting with people on the earth. John Travolta, Tom Cruise and many other well known movie actors/actresses have joined the extremely occult Church of Scientology which is teaching religion mixed with technology and the supernatural.
To the millions of people following these “new” old religions of the demonic world, Jesus Christ and the Bible are out and are being replaced with the so called “gods and goddesses,” JUST LIKE THE DAYS OF NOAH!
Look around you and see with your own eyes what is happening to the generation below 30 years of age. Women and girls from the rich, educated and wealthy to the ones running on the streets are now en masse’ tattooing their bodies. These are not innocent symbols they are engraving on their bodies, but deeply steeped in witchcraft and sorcery, many of them placed close to their sexual organs or their breasts. Men and boys are just as involved in this as the women.
Add to this the piercing of ears, noses, navels, eyebrows, eyelids, tongues and sometimes just the skin, where you will find all kinds of rings strapped to their bodies. The pressure on the young people today is to be with the “in crowd.” They have to scar their bodies and receive marks. I believe that the generation living today is being conditioned by demons to have their bodies mutilated, so when the “Mark of the Beast” comes to the earth, people will embrace this as just another “fad” sweeping the world. The Devil is very clever and for thousands of years he has been leading people to hell. Look at this passage from the Bible:
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;. . . I Timothy 4:1-2
I urge all believers in Christ to set aside some time and check out all of the children’s computer games being sold. Then watch the so called “cartoons” produced by the TV industry for the children and to your horror, if you do not already know it, you will find that violence, torture, murder, death, wars, sourcery are mixed in with lots of scantily clad women flaunting their sexual appetites to be subdued by some man/demon, immoral god and goddesses doing as they please using their supernatural powers.
Our children are in mass acting out the unceasing appetite of violence and sexual gratification at the rock concerts with the “mosh pits,” or at the “rave parties,” where they seduce themselves with drugs, particularly the drug “ecstasy.”
ABORTION
The Devil knows that when men and women unleash themselves in sexual permissiveness, women are going to become pregnant. So the fallen angels, prior to the flood, taught the people how to murder their unborn babies, by “smashing the embryo” in the womb, without killing the woman. The more I read in the books of Enoch, the more my eyes were opened to what is happening all around us. It is truly LIKE THE DAYS OF NOAH, as Jesus warned us it would be.
AS CHRISTIANS, WHAT ARE WE TO DO?
It has now become very clear to me, that as a Christian I must have the same kind of power that the believers had during the time of the Book of Acts. Demonic powers cannot be defeated with church activities, Bible reading and powerless prayers. Believers in Christ MUST BE BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT and operate with the GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AS RECORDED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. But many Christians are living in “denial;” they do not want to face the truth. Others do not want the Baptism of the Holy Spirit because then they will have to change their life style.
I believe that the Christians who are trying to walk in their own strength rather than the strength of the Lord, will be defeated and tossed to the side as war casualties. Already the hospitals and prisons are full of Christians that the Devil over powered.
A NEW RELEASE
The Holy Spirit laid upon my heart to produce a teaching on this subject. During our rest period, I read from the Bible, read the books of Enoch and wrote down extensive notes. Once I came home, I started to write a manuscript and then announced to the church I pastor (Resurrection Life of Jesus Church) that I would speak on this subject at a special seminar for church members only. Since this was a new subject for me, I wanted to speak it first to my own people, hear their feedback and work out any bugs in my teaching. The result was a powerful presentation through the Holy Spirit, that we recorded on audio cassette.
I have spoken briefly on this subject on the radio during the month of September, and I am now offering you the same thing that I have been offering on the radio. For a special love gift of $20.00 to this ministry, we will send you a copy of my manuscript and a copy of the 90 minute audio cassette, but only by your specific request. At this seminar, I not only went through the books of Enoch, but also spoke on the technology transfer that took place in 1947, when fallen angels transferred technology to the American Government, that brought the United States from the “stone age technology” of computers to the level at which we are now. What would have taken a hundred years to develop, was developed in less than 30 years. Without the transistors, integrated circuits, microchips, fiber optics, lasers, etc. the current technical level would not exist.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
In closing, there are two scripture references that I want to share with you. One is from the Old Testament; the other is what Jesus spoke:
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
God tells us in II Corinthians 10:3-6, that our weapons are not carnal (physical) but spiritual. In order to fight a battle, the soldier must first know:
- Who is the enemy?
- Where is the battle taking place?
- What kind of weapons is the enemy using?
- Who is on my side?
- What kind of weapons are available to me with which to fight this battle?
Since the Bible tells us that a Christian cannot sit out this war (I Peter 5:8), it becomes very clear that either the Christian will join the army of God and fight, or be overcome and defeated. In this new release on the subject of “As The Days of Noah,” I am bringing out information about Satan and his fallen angels, what they have done and what they are doing now.
In great detail you will learn why things are happening in the world as they are today. We already have much material on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the weapons that God has given us. In the future I will release more teaching on how to live and fight as we move closer and closer to the time the Bible calls “The Tribulation.”
But this is a start. By being informed, we can begin to protect our children in our homes and also stop Satan from making any further inroads into our churches. This is my first goal, to establish a defense line around our homes and churches. Once we have been able to secure this, we will then move on the offensive and start attacking Satan and his demons in their own territory.
Only God can make this possible and also give courage to the Christians to stand up and fight. Are you going to be a fighting soldier for Christ or a casualty who has to be nursed back to life?
He that has an ear let him hear!
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