Chapter 3—Strange Flesh
False gods include anything—or anyone—in whom we put our trust that is not the true God of this land, Jesus Christ. Historically almost all societies were destroyed because of false beliefs and damning ideologies attributed to their gods. “They provoked Me to wrath with their idols and strange vanities” (Jeremiah 8:19, Douay-Rheims).
They aroused [God’s] jealousy by their abominations, and by their idols they provoked him to anger. They sacrifice before the idols of the demons in which there is no substance, idols which they had not known. They were new idols which had been created since then.
Once pagan ideals are actively promoted and government sponsored, sexual immorality, confusion of gender, and disregard for life become an unofficial religion, creating a nation of strange flesh.
The return of Baal . . . came via a spirit of openness and a call to embrace new ideas and ways. But his entrance would ultimately result in the progressive closing of the nation’s openness to God. Every step the nation took to accept ‘the new morality’ would be matched by an equal and opposite step toward the rejection of God and His ways.
What was once seen as the source of virtue and freedom and joy was now viewed as a hindrance, a restraint, an oppression. As Baal had been cast out of the Jewish world and then, by the gospel, out of Western civilization, he would now work to cast God out of America.
A State of Confusion
Whenever strange gods are present, there is disorder and confusion. Confusion, ‘to fade away’ (H1101), is a sign of pending destruction. Idolaters are warned, “The Lord will send on you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him” (Deuteronomy 28:20, NIV). The true God of this world is a God of order, and, having cast Him aside, the world today is one of confusion.
Behold, mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion. (D&C 132:8)
All were created in God’s image but most become strange flesh as truth is turned upside down and evil is the norm. “You are headed for trouble! You say wrong is right, darkness is light, and bitter is sweet” (Isaiah 5:20, CEV). Satan, who thinks he is “the god of this world,” easily deceives us by appearing as an “angel of light” (2 Corinthians 4:4, 11:14). Evil comes in various degrees and packages, all prettily wrapped to entice us. As a nation gets further from God, there is less need to cover up or disguise evil until evil is clearly displayed in the open—and celebrated. Jesus spoke of “unclean spirits” that, once cast out, will eventually return to their host, bringing more spirits the next time. “And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That will be the experience of this evil generation” (Matthew 12:43–45, NLT).
When personal or national values are altered or questioned, people tend to desperately seek new answers and solutions. This fuels interest in counterfeits. In spite of numerous Biblical warnings to avoid it, magic and the occult are increasing in prevalence. Witchcraft, priestcraft, wizardry, Wicca, soothsayers, Neo-paganism, channelers, magic, and psychic service industries like astrologers, mediums, and aura, tarot card, or palm readers have ties to demonism. A 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Study estimates the same number of pagans or Wiccans as those who attend Presbyterian churches. #WitchTok videos got over 30 billion TikTok views. Sorcery and witchcraft-filled interest surged dramatically as the Harry Potter series enthralled adults and children worldwide—its Wizarding World fantasy media franchise alone amassing $34.5 billion revenue since its 1997 debut. The Bible warns of those with “familiar spirits” who commune with or summons the dead. Merriam-Websters defines a familiar spirit simply as a “spirit or demon that serves or prompts an individual,” making it far more prevalent than we realize.
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. (1 Timothy 4:1, NIV)
Demons are the devil’s angels (Matthew 25:41). “Seducing spirits and doctrines of devils” (1 Timothy 4:1) are subtle, seductive, and seditious. Once “that ancient serpent called the devil or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels,” the real war began (Revelation 12:9, NLT). We can't walk up to our covenants while following a sinister serpent, so we are warned:
Wo to the inhabiters of the earth . . . for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. (Revelation 12:12)
“Because of the hardness of their hearts the land was cursed . . . There were sorceries, and witchcrafts, and magics; and the power of the evil one was wrought upon all the face of the land” (Mormon 1:17, 19). Satan rarely strikes hard and fast first. He works by degrees and his patience is impressive. Demonism is found in strange things, including the transgender movement. Not too long ago alternate lifestyles did not have public support and gender ‘confusion’ was rare. The idea that two women could legally marry, or that men could be ‘pregnant,’ or young children would be exposed to vile sexuality in school or on TV was considered ridiculous and impossible. So what changed?
In 1987, a devious campaign to “overhaul straight America” was successfully implemented. Its authors admit that by ‘overhauling’ they mean ‘subverting’ America in a subversion–perversion–conversion plan. “We mean conversion of the average American’s emotions, mind, and will through a planned psychological attack in the form of propaganda.” Six phases in their “blueprint for transforming the social values of straight America” were to (1) talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as possible; (2) portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers; (3) give protectors a just case; (4) make gays look good; (5) make the victimizers look bad and ‘vilified’; and (6) solicit funds. Sympathizers should ‘muddy the moral waters’ by ‘raising theological objections’ and ‘undermin[ing] the moral authority of homophobic churches by portraying them as antiquated backwaters, badly out of step with the times and with the latest findings of psychology’.” Then “set the mightier draw of science and public opinion. Such an unholy alliance has worked well against churches before.”
After this 1987 plan rolled out, ‘love is love, just accept it’ was the message of the 1990s. Once some compromise was tolerated, it rapidly became a slippery slope. The next decade brought demands for equality then hostility if one dared exercise his fundamental rights by not supporting their agenda. Opposers were labeled ‘haters,’ although warning about consequences of destructive sin can be a loving response. Then in 2015, the US Supreme Court legalized same sex marriage nationwide.
Marriage, as the covenant of man and woman, was struck down on June 26, 2015—the same exact date that the Defense of Marriage Act was overturned in 2013, the same exact date that homosexuality was legalized in 2003, and the same exact date that Stonewall was sealed in 1969 [which was] the same date on the ancient calendar appointed for the casting of the spell to cause ‘a man to love a man’.
On December 13, 2022, Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, which fully recognized same-sex unions. This act “repeals and replaces provisions that define, for purposes of federal law, marriage as between a man and a woman, and spouse as a person of the opposite sex” and gives provisions to recognize any marriage that is valid under state law. This law permits “the Department of Justice to bring a civil action and establishes a private right of action for violations.” Unfortunately,
This is what lawmakers [finally] can agree on: casting aside tradition and scripture, trampling religious liberty, and promoting homosexuality—which God defines as sin—as virtuous . . . Lawmakers presumptuously redefining marriage is but one instance of the broad efforts to wrest from God the authority to define what is right and what is sin.
Some religious leaders are just as guilty. In 2023, Pope Francis shocked many by offering blessings for same-sex couples, bringing protest from clergy worldwide who saw the blasphemy. Other major religions are quickly moving toward tolerance of sin. “Oh, god of pronouns, we give praise to . . . the great they, the incarnate he and she, the god of trans-being,” prayed a Presbyterian preacher. Another identified God as “a drag queen and trans-man and genderfluid.” A Catholic art exhibit declared, “God is trans.” To redefine morality, modify God’s doctrines that protect the sanctity of marriage and family, or support legalization of same-sex marriage is the work of false prophets or teachers.
After legalizing same-sex marriage, more transgender alphabet variants followed (LGBT>>>+), as did the new use of personal pronouns to match one’s gender mood of the moment. Some began to ‘identify’ as animals or fictitious creatures. A growing number are greatly offended if someone doesn’t call them by their self-chosen, science-defying pronouns. A meme says it best: “I didn’t misgender you. You misgendered you, and I refused to play along.” That some individuals are using they/them/we/us pronouns is concerning, as is this: “One in four LGBT youth use gender-neutral pronouns. This movement is even inventing new pronouns. One of the most popular is ‘fae, faer, faeself.’ Fae is essentially a pagan word for demon or spirit. These transgender people want others to refer to them as demons.” In the Bible, demons refer to themselves as they/them/we/us. When Jesus cast demons out of a man, their name was “Legion,” meaning ‘many.’ (Mark 5:2–12).
A ‘multiplicity system’ refers to the group within the body itself. The system might consist of two people or it might consist of 200. These multiples, as they call themselves, see themselves as healthy and empowered . . . even normal. Multiples want everyone in their system to be seen as people. Not fragments, alters, or personalities, but distinct individuals who happen to be inhabiting the same physical body.
Previously known as multiple personality disorder, today’s dissociative identity disorder (DiD) has acquired quite a following. “One video of a ‘system’ switching between personalities, and the follow-up discussion, got 100 million views. “Why does everyone have DiD all of a sudden? said one ‘host’ of a DiD system of 12.” The accompanying seizures, amnesia, fits, or attempted suicides are truly scary.
Accounts of demon-possession are found in the Bible and other historic accounts. “If behind the gods of the ancient world were spirits, we would expect the signs of demonization to manifest in those cultures that worshipped and served the gods—the signs of possession. And that is exactly what we find.” To deny demon possession exists in modern times requires believing that evil does not exist. Demonic possession often results from choices. Being under the control of mind-altering substances, dabbling in the occult, viewing demonic-themed media or video games, or engaging in darkness, including pornography, can open the door to possession even if we are unaware. Paul urged, “I do not want you to participate with demons” (1 Corinthians 10:20, NLT).
In just three years, the severely debt-ridden US government spent $4.1 billion of taxpayer money on global LGBT initiatives, including to schools. Utah County proudly offers online marriage licenses to anyone, anywhere in the world—without even having to be a Utah resident or US citizen. In other words, same-sex marriages that may be banned in some countries can be ‘performed’ online via Zoom and legally recognized here, thanks to Utah. Maybe we shouldn’t be too surprised since Salt Lake City recently was named “one of America’s queerest cities.”
In addition to Advocate’s 2016 ranking, a 2015 Gallup survey found Salt Lake City had the seventh highest LGBT population in the U.S. Two years earlier, the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law said Salt Lake City had the nation’s highest percentage of same-sex parents.
Currently, most of Salt Lake City’s City Council identifies as LGBTQ. And Utah as a whole ranked third in the nation for its proportion of same-sex couples, according to 2020 census data. Salt Lake City was also the second in the U.S. to designate a Harvey Milk Boulevard, named for California’s first openly gay elected public official.
What does the Q (queer) in LGBTQ mean? “Many may not realize the Q from the acronym stands for an even more extreme theory that defends pedophilia, incest, and bestiality, and advocates for a complete destruction of traditional sexual norms . . . Queer theorists embrace the idea that sexual consent laws should be eradicated for all children, even infants.” Queer theory, where “normal is oppressive,” has “hijacked the gay rights movement” to push its own agenda which “doesn’t believe in limits on sexual behavior.” That translates to ‘anything goes.’ Social media, like “Instagram connects pedophiles and guides them to content sellers via recommendation systems,” the Wall Street Journal reports, while former Twitter Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth “has bragged openly about his interests in pedophilia and pornography for years.”
How is this confusion and sin any different than “Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh,” who “are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire” (Jude 1:7)? Sodom’s strange flesh is described as a group of men who "called to Lot, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them” (Genesis 19:5, NIV). Sodom is the root of sodomy. God said, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22), but many civilizations disregard this commandment.
An ancient Egyptian text from 1800 b.c. records that "men desired to give birth” at that time too. At the time of Sennacherib, “Emasculation of men and their evocation as women was recognized.” Jacob’s son Naphtali warned his offspring that “the Gentiles changed their order, having gone astray” because of deceptive spirits. Sodom, like the Watchers, “changed the order of its nature” which brought the globally destructive flood (Testament of Naphtali 3:3–5). Leviticus Rabbah 18:13 reveals that Noah’s generation “had sunk so low morally that . . . they wrote out formal marriage contracts for sodomy and buggery.” In other words, same-sex marriage was legalized not long before the Flood destroyed the world.
It is alarming that each of these civilizations was repeatedly warned by God’s most faithful, but instead of returning to God, people rejected and ridiculed His servants. All ultimately suffered utter destruction: Legal same-sex and perverse marriages at the time of the flood (Noah); Sodom and Gomorrah’s annihilation (Abraham); Sennacherib’s Assyrian capitol was Nineveh (Jonah), which repented for a short time before it too was destroyed. It was also a problem in ancient Israel (Isaiah) that bore repeating in ancient writings in the Americas (Nephi & Lehi).
For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah is fallen because their tongues and their doings have been against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory. The show of their countenance doth witness against them, and doth declare their sin to be even as Sodom and they cannot hide it. Wo unto their souls, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves! (Isaiah 3:8–9, cf 2 Nephi 13:8–9)
All were repeatedly warned of coming judgments. We cannot “presume to be on the side of Noah when we live the law of the people of Cain.” Yet today we have again fanatically embraced transgenderism, which includes transsexuality, cross-dressing, and ‘reassigning’ physical identity by hormone treatment, radical surgeries, or castration—including on minors, sometimes without parental knowledge or consent.
Enoch, who saw the last days, said, “You will see many things upon the earth. For men will put on adornments as women and fair colors” (1 Enoch 98:1–2). God’s position is clear: “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God” (Deuteronomy 22:5).
In contrast the sorceress Ishtar said, “I am a woman and I am an exuberant young man.” A Sumerian hymn says Ishtar was so influential that she could “turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man, to change one into the other.” She “deprived” women of husbands by promoting feminist liberation while “grind[ing] away from men’s manliness” by replacing men’s weapons with a “distaff and the mirror.” As tribute to Ishtar, musicians and crowds threw parades known for “the bending of gender . . . Men dressed as women, women dressed as men, each dressed as both, male priests parading as women and cultic women acting as men. They were public pageants and spectacles of the transgendered, the cross-dressed, the homosexual, the intersexual, the cross-gendered.”
In 1970, activists marched to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots, where the gay rights movement took a stand through violent riots in New York City. “As planned, the parade would be repeated every summer as an annual observance. With each passing year, more marches would be held in more cities across America and then around the world. They would be called Gay Liberation Marches, then Gay Pride Parades, then simply Pride Parades.” Parade founders originally wanted them to be called Gay Power, but ended up calling it Gay Pride. How interesting that Ishtar’s ancient hymns acknowledge this theme, addressing her as “the impetuous lady, proud among the Anuna gods . . . full of pride.”
Ishtar’s cult anciently observed a month-long festival, parade, and rites in what is today's equivalent month of June. In 1999, President Bill Clinton designated the entire month of June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. And in 2011, Obama expanded it to LGBT month. Thousands of influential retailers, brands, restaurants, manufacturers, and more now proudly promote the rainbow/pride in June (sometimes longer!) to show support for this movement away from God.
Pride comes before a fall. Ancient cities found this out. Tolerance for sin defies the true God, who cannot permit immorality, apathy, greed, and strange liberal ideologies to continue forever. When people willfully choose evil, God must act. “I will break the pride of your power” (Leviticus 26:19). God saved only a few righteous from “the flood upon the world of the ungodly”like He did while “turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemn[ing] them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly” (2 Peter 2:4–6). Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for “going after strange flesh” (Jude 1:7).
Strange flesh separates from faith, originates from self, caters to the “natural man,” and is not transformed by God (G4561, Helps™ Word Studies). “The natural man is an enemy to God . . . and will be forever and ever unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit” (Mosiah 3:19).
Bullinger also links strange flesh to fallen angels, corrupt ordinances, and modified doctrines—all of which prevent us from attaining godliness. Without godliness, there is no eternal life.
In the ordinances thereof, the power of godliness is manifest. And without the ordinances thereof, and the authority of the priesthood, the power of godliness is not manifest unto men in the flesh; for without this no man can see the face of God, even the Father, and live. (D&C 84:20–22)
Participating in ordinances is not enough. Many who made an oath “kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law; and forgot his works and his wonders.” Choosing what is profane over the holy, catering to natural desires, and being “not estranged” from lustful desires provokes God (Psalm 78:10–11, 30). Their “crown of pride” (Isaiah 28:1, 3) opposes the legitimate “crowns of glory” (D&C 109:76) that come from righteousness and ratified ordinances. Most believe they are holy, even spiritual kings, but God cannot acknowledge them as such.
They call themselves of the holy city, but they do not stay themselves upon the God of Israel. (1 Nephi 20:2)
No land, church, city, or people has immunity. In 1868, it was prophesied that “after a while the Gentiles will gather by the thousands to this place and Salt Lake City will be classed among the wicked cities of the world.” It’s especially concerning since “most members of the Church” are Gentiles. In his 2024 address, Gov. Cox said “that for Utah to remain the best place to live in the country, [Utahns] must follow this one admonition: ‘Stay weird’!” He “outlined why he thinks his native land is so strange . . . and explained why these differences make Utah an example” to follow. Not only is weird a synonym of ‘strange’ but a dictionary defines weird as ‘witchcraft’ and witchcraft as ‘having intercourse with the devil.’
Utah has been backsliding since its pioneers arrived. One of Brigham Young’s sons performed in drag under the stage name Madam Pattirini, having such “a convincing falsetto [that] many in the audience did not realize it was Young.” Each generation has drifted further from what God intended so today Utah is one of the nation’s leaders for gender dysphoria, having an alarming 193% increase since 2018.
In August 1999, God sent clear warning as an extremely rare and deadly F2 tornado ripped through downtown Salt Lake City for 14 minutes, causing $170 million in damages and striking some of Utah’s most scandalous places. Its first casualty was its first touchpoint—destroying the Sun, Salt Lake’s most popular gay bar. Its last touchpoint was Memory Grove, a secluded park that doubled as a homosexual hangout. Visible damage came to the Delta Center, home of Utah Jazz; the Wyndham, a hotel known for adulterous trysts; the UN-supporting Salt Palace’s temporary exhibition space; the under-construction 1.4 million sq ft LDS Conference Center; the LDS church office building, and the Salt Lake Temple. Both Utah’s capitol building (the site of increasingly-liberal legislative action) and Memory Grove park had “nearly all of the trees” torn out. The National Weather Service said Utah’s historic F2 was “the first major tornado to occur in a large urban area’s downtown district and strike buildings of nearly 500 ft tall.” A tornado destroyed the Tower of Babel too.
A few years earlier, a deadly 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck Northridge, Chatsworth, and Canoga Park, California—“which are home to nearly all of the $3 billion US soft and hard-core porn-video industries. Every one of the primary porn studios and distributors, a total of around 70, suffered damage. The headquarters of the largest, VCA Pictures, collapsed, destroying equipment and master copies of several films. Actors are backing away from the X-rated industry, says an executive of World Modeling . . . It’s put the fear of God into them.” But it didn’t last long.
Defiance and immorality have increased exponentially since. When we fail to repent and return to what God established, we cannot expect His protection. Paul details how society reached their degenerate point:
Godlessness and wickedness of people who suppress the truth by their wickedness [rules] . . . For although they knew [of] God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator . . . Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind so that they do what ought not to be done. (Romans 1:18, 21, 25–27, NIV)
A “depraved mind” comes from choosing sin while forgetting God, from refusing repentance while choosing immorality, from loving lies while rejecting truth. Depravity not only prohibits us from spiritual gifts necessary to discern well, it encourages sin and the invention of new ways to sin.
Strange Taste
Another way to create strange flesh is through tainting and modifying food that God created for mankind’s health and happiness. Having rejected the meat of His gospel, there is prepared “for them meat of a strange taste” by which they “will be made partakers of a strange taste” (Wisdom of Solomon 16:2–3).
The US and Singapore are the only countries bold enough to approve controversial, untested, unregulated, potentially unsafe lab-grown meat for human consumption. In contrast, countries like Italy wisely banned synthetic foods out of concern for the safety and health of its citizens. This so-called meat “is created in a lab through a five-step process in which stem cells from an animal are replicated and grown in a series of bioreactors before being blended with additives to create a more realistic texture.” Still hungry? Tyson Foods, a major supplier for many brands and restaurants, partnered with WEF-backed food maker Protix “to make bug food” for human consumption. Canada, Germany, and Australia among others are heavily promoting insect-laced snacks.
If you buy ‘real’ meat, there still is no guarantee. In 2021, scientists examined tuna in Subway sandwiches and found “no amplifiable tuna DNA present.” The lab offered only two reasons why tuna wasn’t found: “One, it’s so heavily processed that whatever we could pull out, we couldn’t make an identification . . . or we got some and there’s just nothing there that’s tuna.” If you are fortunate enough to get real meat, be cautious since meat from animals vaccinated with mRNA gene therapy technology has made its way into the US food supply. “Researchers have found that mRNA and its coded virus could pass to humans who consume dairy or meat products from an mRNA-injected animal.”
Other strange things for our flesh are pesticides. Regularly sprayed on most produce, they irritate the skin and eyes, are carcinogenic, and negatively affect nervous and endocrine systems. Monsanto, owner of RoundUp weedkiller, has been repeatedly sued for continued use of banned chemicals in their products. Harmful preservatives are used liberally, and it’s shocking how many contaminants and pollutants are found in our water supply. And then there are toxic chem-trails filling our skies.
God said the land should produce living creatures and vegetation “according to their kind” (Genesis 1:22, 11), but thanks to scientific ‘advancements,’ crops have become genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). “Their DNA [is] manipulated in a variety of ways to increase their yield, to insert materials into them that will kill natural pests, or to increase their resistance to herbicides . . . Somewhere around 80% of processed foods the average consumer eats contain them.” It’s not just plants. “Transgenic pigs and sheep have been genetically altered for more rapid growth and meat production by producing higher levels of growth hormone. Pigs are genetically altered to produce higher levels of omega-3. Goats have been genetically modified to express human lysozyme in their milk.” GMO side effects include allergic reactions, increased production of toxins, and reduced nutritional value, not to mention toxins are released in the soil, pest resistance, or disruption of biodiversity.
In order to increase profits and cut costs, about 90% of US cattle are given steroid hormones to make them grow faster, increase muscle, and produce leaner meat. Over 30% of cows are injected with bovine growth hormone from recombinant DNA technology (rbGH) to increase milk production, which caused “a 50% increase in the risk of lameness, 25%+ increase in udder infections, and serious animal reproductive problems, such as infertility, cystic ovaries, fetal loss, or birth defects.” All 27 countries of the EU, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia banned the use of rbGH for human consumption, but the US did not.
Today the industry is unregulated, and when companies say their foods are safe, their views are unquestioned . . . Agribusiness giants allow nothing to interfere with profits, safety is off the table, and all negative information is quashed. As a result, their studies are substandard, adverse findings are hidden, and they typically ‘fail to investigate the impacts of GMO food on gut function, liver function, kidney function, the immune system, endocrine system, blood composition, allergic response, effects on the unborn, the potential to cause cancer, or impacts on gut bacteria.’ . . . GMOs also pose other health risks. When a transgene functions in a new cell, it may produce different proteins than the ones intended.
Altering DNA has significant risks. “The transfer of genetic materials to non-GMO plants transforms them from what they originally were to what amounts to a new GMO plant. ‘Pure’ seeds that farmers have grown for millennia are being wiped out.” Is this the same for humans?
Changing the genetic materials within [plants or animals] is a sin, and a very serious one at that. Yet that is just what is being done today. God has ordained that the various plants and animals are unique in their DNA and should remain so. Sadly, scientists and corporations are now trying to undo those bounds set by the Lord . . . [Each] was created uniquely and expected to remain so, multiplying after its own kind. God designed this as a good thing and, as we learned from the destruction of Noah’s day, saw the mixing of genetic materials between different creatures as something worthy of death and destruction. In God’s eyes, genetic modification of His creatures is a capital offense.
“All things . . . [are] made for the benefit and use of man” (D&C 59:18) and God’s glory. Enoch asked his oppressors, “From where do you have good things to eat and drink and be satisfied?” then answer: “From all the good things that the Lord, the Most High, has abundantly provided upon the earth” (1 Enoch 98:11). It is “our privilege and our duty to . . . . make use of [what God created] without sinning against him . . . It must be enjoyed without the spirit of covetousness and selfishness.”
But when this counsel is ignored, great wickedness causes severe consequences for our health and bodies.
Data, Deception, and DNA
Strange flesh is also found with body modification, including extreme piercings, scarification, vanity-driven cosmetic surgery, and tattoos. For at least 5,200 years permanent body markings or modifications have been a dark fascination in many cultures. It’s rare to find men or women today who have not participated in some form of it.
Historically tattoos were seen on prisoners, street gangs, or slaves—a branding showing to whom they belonged. Archaeologists have found tattoos on bodies thousands of years old, it being an ancient pagan practice to mourn the dead or honor their gods. While originally one or two tattoos was sufficient, an increasing number are becoming addicted to the point that their skin is almost completely covered. It is an act discouraged in scripture: “You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord” (Leviticus 19:28, ESV).
Instead of using ink, ancient Canaanites and some tribal nations engage in more extreme ritual actions like scarification, including branding, slashing, or gashing skin. Jezebel’s priests of Baal slashed themselves to seek their god’s favor. Body modification can “denote a very spiritual ceremony that does (often unknowingly) serve other gods. It most certainly doesn’t honor the one true God, Jesus Christ.” Wikipedia lists neck rings, eyeball tattoos or implants, transdermal implants, nullification of body parts, tongue splitting, foot binding, ear shaping, tooth filing, scarification, and genital procedures as options. Some implant devilish horns under their skull. Most surprising are those who have multiple surgical enhancements to transform themselves into ‘animals’—cats, leopards, lizards, and more. These bizarre actions estrange us from God. They “exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles” (Romans 1:23, Berean).
“What better way is there for Satan to hide what he’s doing other than in plain sight? With the approval, acceptance, and promotion of tattoos and body modifications, now they are not only acceptable, but cool and edgy for [even] the modern and ‘tuned-in’ Christian.”
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world. (1 John 2:16)
Having worked for decades in the business, a tattoo artist is certain that altered state of consciousness needed to mitigate pain in these procedures easily opens the gate to demonic influence or possession, and that “much of the evil is in the bloody process of creating the tattoo . . . The blood inside humans is the closest thing that Satan can get to an ‘in place of’ power to draw from,” since ‘the life of the flesh is in the blood’ (Leviticus 17:11), “hence the need for blood to be involved in . . . Satanic, Luciferian, and occult practices, including witchcraft.”
“Tattooing is an invasive procedure done with a solid vibrating needle” that goes four layers deep, “causing a wound and sufficient inflammation to ‘prime’ the immune system.” The FDA “does not regulate the toxic inks we put under our skin,” many of which have heavy metals and were “originally intended for use in writing and printer inks as well as automobile paints.” By calling their ingredients proprietary “trade secrets,” companies are exempt from disclosing exactly what is being injected. “Close to 40% of organic colorants used in permanent tattoos in Europe are not even approved for use on the skin as a cosmetic ingredient.” Because it’s not FDA regulated, any chemical can be used, “including those known to be mutagenic,” which means it alters DNA.
What some may not consider is that the skin breaking, blood-shedding process of tattooing or body modification is “very similar to the practices of ancient demon religions” and potentially “can alter DNA” because it is “the perfect delivery system for introducing materials into the human body.” A seasoned tattoo artist observed, “Microinjection used in DNA delivery to cells in laboratories has uncanny resemblance to the modern tattoo machine.”
Tattoos are being considered as a method of vaccination since it allows DNA to enter more cells. Technology to imbed vaccination history under the skin with “microneedles embedded in a Band-Aid-like device” is being tested. Not knowing exactly what is inside experimental shots is risky because manufacturers are not required to reveal their ingredients, and some were rushed into production without human testing. The massive spike in deaths and injuries reported on VARS website after experimental mRNA shots rolled out recently is extremely concerning.
Some medical professionals believe it resembles “gene therapy” more than vaccination. Dr. Peter McCullough declared there is “no evidence that our bodies can get rid of vaccine mRNA” once it’s injected. Years after its rollout, manufacturer Moderna’s scientists report that mRNA vaccines carry toxicity risks. mRNA technology inventor Dr. Robert Malone said the report “downplayed the range of risks that have been linked to the mRNA-based vaccines and may be . . . a form of misdirection [that] involves people offering some information to obscure or prevent the discovery of other information.”
Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has confirmed that fragments of DNA have been detected in Covid mRNA shots . . . When foreign DNA integrates with human DNA, it can disrupt the delicate balance of our genetic structure. This may result in chromosomal instability, a condition linked to various health issues, including genetic mutations and an increased risk of cancer. The long-term effects of DNA integration are largely unknown, but they could have far-reaching consequences on our health and well-being.
Research found the Covid vaccine gene can integrate into human cancer cells. Are DNA-modifying vaccines the solution or a trap? According to WEF spokesman Harari, the Covid crisis was their prime opportunity to take greater biological and political control of the people. We must understand the antichrist agenda of these globalist organizations. He said,
The thing they will remember from the Covid crisis is [that] this is the moment when everything went digital . . . And this was the moment when everything became monitored [and] that we agreed to be surveilled all the time.
The Covid crisis was the “opportunity that in normal times people would never agree to,” that merged medicine, data, and technology to control mankind. “People could look back in 100 years and identify the coronavirus epidemic as the moment when a new regime of surveillance took over, especially surveillance under the skin, which I think is maybe the most important development of the 21st century—this ability to hack human beings, to go under the skin, collect biometric data, analyze it and understand people better than they understand themselves.” Corporations and “governments want to know not just where we go or who we meet. Above all, they want to know what is happening under our skin.”
When a world lives in fear not faith, it’s easy to take their freedom and liberty. It’s also easy to ignite the masses to vilify those who refuse their sinister agenda. The problem is, once people submit to letting others (including government) dictate medical decisions, it’s difficult to stop them from controlling other personal decisions. What is to stop them from demanding blood or organ donation, genetic modification, sterilization, or worse, especially if they gain financially from it?
Many are rightfully concerned about the heavy push for global mRNA vaccines that alter DNA. Japan just approved a “new self-replicating sa-mRNA vaccine for mass production.” China developed a “liquid robot that can penetrate the hardest-to-reach-places, divide into parts, and then merge into one . . . exactly like the graphene oxide that was found in [Covid] vaccines.” Elitist tech-mogul Bill Gates pushes for gene-editing and celebrates that the latest vaccines can alter recipients’ genetic code. Gates’ company, Microsoft, patented a sinister technology that uses implanted chips with sensors that monitor body and brain activity. It promises to reward compliant humans with crypto currency payments when they perform assigned activities. The goal is to reprogram people spiritually, mentally, and biologically. A social media comment by Julie Briggs said it best,
I will never understand the blasphemy of insinuating God didn’t know what He was doing when He created our bodies and immune systems and all the microbiome of the universe . . . and needed vaccines to save us from His mistakes.
Why would we put faith in those who deny God, seek gain and power, fight against liberties, and want to eradicate much of the population? “Faith has been wanting, not only among the heathen, but in professed Christendom also.” Speaking “on science and the practice of medicine,” Joseph hoped “to persuade the Saints to trust in God when sick, and not in an arm of flesh, and live by faith and not by medicine, or poison.” “Wo be unto him that hearkeneth unto the precepts of men and denieth the power of God” (2 Nephi 28:26).
The symbol of the medical community is a caduceus, which has cockatrice wings. Called a ‘horned viper,’ it is a very poisonous serpent. “They hatch cockatrice’s eggs, and weave the spider’s web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper” (Isaiah 59:5). The Bible warns that “all nations were deceived by your pharmakeia” (Revelation 18:23)—the same root as pharmacy. Its Greek means sorcery or witchcraft, suggesting drugs or poison—and doctors make billions off it.
A Peruvian academic and technology expert believes, “The Covid-19 pandemic was manufactured by the world’s elites as part of a plan to globally advance ‘transhumanism’—the literal fusion of human beings with technology in an attempt to alter human nature itself and create a superhuman being and an ‘earthly paradise’.” This stuff is “no longer the stuff of science fiction,” he warns . . . it’s here.
Transhumanism
Once godlessness and confusion prevail, the masses are prepared for Satan’s most diabolical plan of all—transhumanism—modifying the very DNA of life that God designed to exalt the willing into a form that is no longer in His image and likeness. “We are the offspring of God. We ought not to think that the Godhead is . . . graven by art and man’s device” (Acts 17:29). Transhumanists not only seek to play God, they rob Him of His glory in their attempt to overthrow His rightful kingdom.
In 1971 TIME magazine revealed the new direction in its “The New Genetics: Man into Superman” special section.
Evolutionist Julian Huxley explains transhumanism:
The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself . . . in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve . . . The human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence as different from ours as ours is from that Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.
He also wrote that “an equally drastic reorganization of our pattern of religious thought is now becoming necessary—from a god-centered to an evolutionary-centered pattern.”
Part science, part faith, and part philosophy, the essence of transhumanism is radical life extension and life expansion. Evolution took humanity this far, the thinking goes, and only technology will take us further. Transhumanism views sickness, aging, and death as unnecessary hindrances that we have the right and responsibility to overcome . . . Transhumanism is now developing strong roots in Silicon Valley.
It is worth repeating that WEF’s senior advisor admits “the most interesting place in the world today in religious terms is Silicon Valley. This is where the new religions that will take over the world are being formulated.” Silicon Valley is the center of “completely new religions” that offer “everything that the old religions promised—happiness and justice and even eternal life—but here on earth with the help of technology and not after death with the help of some supernatural being.”
The “dream and goal” of transhumanists was that “in 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever” without God and His pesky religion. Their goal is “a world where drugs and ‘enhancements’ make our brains operate differently, where arms and legs may be bionic, and where we might even operate as robotic ‘avatars’ controlled by” an exterior source.
This destructive movement cannot be successful without promoting globalist, socialist, transgender, climate, and liberal ideologies. Evil hates that we are created in God’s image so altering our genetics to taint, corrupt, transfigure, and dominate God’s crowning creation is Satan’s ultimate desire. By prospering the people while pushing evolution, atheism, sexual revolution, family discord, transgenderism, medical submission, DNA sampling, technological dependence, and the need for artificial intelligence, the path to transhumanism is set.
If previously God was in the center of events, we humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls. We are now hackable animals . . . By hacking organisms, elites may gain the power to re-engineer the future of life itself.
In the 2013 Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics Inc. case, the US Supreme Court ruled that one cannot patent DNA because it was “a product of nature.” But they also ruled that if a genome was changed by cDNA, which is synthesized from mRNA, then the genome could be patented. If humans become patentable, what does that mean for rights and freedom? They tell us: “There is a possibility of real biological gaps opening and Homo sapiens splitting into different biological castes or even different species. It’s not even clear that there will be any jobs for most humans. All these different biochemical algorithms, nothing is left. There is no individual . . . These biochemical algorithms that make up an organism are not free. There is no such thing as freedom.”
Another problem is that some scientists, tech engineers, or elites look at humans as computers, not people—and they have taken it upon themselves to make sure humans get the updates they want them to have.
Our genes are essentially little software programs that evolved . . . Consider how often you update the software on your computers. Yet the software in our bodies has not been updated for millennia and is now obsolete. [We must] work to actively reprogram your outdated system.
Don’t be fooled thinking it’s a minor system update they want to do:
We are really upgrading humans into gods. We are acquiring, for instance, the power to re-engineer life.
While civilization has been busy chasing wealth and indulging in life’s comforts, this sinister plan has firmly taken root. Google’s director of engineering Raymond Kurzeil explained that coming out “younger on biological aging tests” was bridge one. Bridge two is “the biotechnology revolution, where we can reprogram biology . . . Bridge three is to go beyond biology, to the nanotechnology revolution.”
Do any globalists have your best interest in mind? Bill Gates wants vaccines and healthcare to lower the population. Apple CEO Tim Cook implied support for exterminating life on earth by carbon control/climate change in a 2023 ad. The carbon-scare craze is not a real threat and most scientists know it. The UN does too because “neither they nor their COP28 cohorts offered scientific justification for their hackneyed proposals. They couldn’t; there isn’t any . . . Scientists call [carbon] the ‘gas of life’ that has a minuscule effect on earth’s temperature.” Princeton’s Dr. William Hopper admits, “doubling CO2 has virtually no effect on warming,” and instead, “it will have a very beneficial effect on crop yields.”
Is this one of our many “inherited lies” (D&C 123:7)? Given that nano-structured carbon-based materials are so important to the nanotechnological revolution, we should ask if recent government-funded carbon capture contraptions and bizarre ‘carbon taxes’ are being pushed to support the nanotech agenda under the guise of carbon-climate issues.
Nano-robots can be programmed “to rebuild older cells into younger copies on a regular basis, thereby the human body could become immortal,” but there is a price to pay. Some scientists found that nanoparticles can damage DNA even at a distance. “Nanoparticles of metal can damage the DNA inside cells even if there is no direct contact between them.”
Forms of eugenics (beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population) have existed for millennia for various reasons including selective breeding, infanticide against children with birth defects, forced sterilization, marriage prohibitions, or most famously, Nazi Germany’s actions during World War II which, defendants at the Nuremberg trials alarmingly claimed, bore “little difference” to the US’s own eugenics programs at the time.
Not only can we manipulate, replicate, and regenerate DNA, but scientists can also “add genes to a creature to alter its body” like the GloFish. “More recently, South Korean scientists have altered cat DNA to create florescent cats. Cloning is also seen with animals. Sheep have been successfully cloned for some time, with the first cat cloned in 2003 and the first dog a few years later.” Humans are the real target. Be warned, for “the way leading to destruction is not usually accompanied by a huge neon sign that identifies it as ‘the way of death’.”
A subject rarely publicized is the push to create artificial wombs, which theoretically “offers the unethical a process for growing entire armies of cloned ‘people’ who can be owned from conception until they are sent to the grave, conditioned as the ‘owner’ wishes, and used for whatever purpose comes to mind.” Additionally, experiments with human embryos being placed in animal uteruses and carried to birth are being conducted.
The name of the first book of the Bible—Genesis, from the same root as genetics—details God’s creations, all of which are commanded to be patterned “according to its kind.” Only then “God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:21). To be created in His image is reason alone to praise Him.
Tech tycoon Bill Gates says “it would be a ‘tragedy’ to pass up a controversial, revolutionary gene-editing technology” like CRISPR, which allows scientists to edit DNA so undesirable genes can be swapped or eliminated according to preference. Researchers are altering DNA to make it regenerate and repair itself instead of replicating what they consider to be ‘genetic mistakes.’ They consider aging as a disease, and claim “the first person to live to 1,000 [years old] might be 60 already.”
Globalist transhumanists have higher aspirations than a Tower of Babel—they want to colonize the moon, solar system, and stars. This would require “siphoning off atmospheres, disassembling asteroids (and perhaps entire planets) to build new places for human beings to live,” spurning God’s decree that earth has room “enough and to spare” (D&C 104:17).
The lines between man and machine are blurring with rapid technological advancements—it’s a quest for immortality the easy way. “The melding of human and machine might make us immortal—and might make a bundle [of money] for an ingenious few.” One (of many) problems with this line of thinking is that AI systems, when they become more intelligent than humans, may resist being contained. “The more time I spend with AI makers and their work, the sooner” one scientist realized, that when it gets here “its makers will discover it’s not what they had meant to create.”
WEF founder Klaus Schwab acknowledges that we are entering a 4th industrial revolution built on artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, augmented reality, virtual reality, gene editing, and more. It is
characterized by a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres . . . The revolutions occurring in biotechnology and AI, which are redefining what it means to be human . . . will compel us to redefine our moral and ethical boundaries.
[It] will change not only what we do but also who we are. It will affect our identity and all the issues associated with it: our sense of privacy, our notions of ownership, our consumption patterns, the time we devote to work and leisure . . . and sooner than we think it may lead to human augmentation.
God commands, “Thou shalt make no images, or any likeness of anything in heaven or earth . . . thou shalt not serve them” (Exodus 20:4). It is alarming that “those who make them will become like them, everyone who trusts in them” (Psalm 115:8).
Machines and devices have infiltrated our world. Modern society has a tragic but “increasingly intimate relationship to technology; it’s about the smart phones we bring to bed and . . . wear to work. But there is also a lot of truth to the idea that people might fall in love with the ever more intelligent machines that they spend a greater amount of time with each day. For many of the psychologists, social scientists, and experts in artificial intelligence who study this kind of relationship, it’s not a matter of if, but when.”
Devices like Kindle that connect to facial recognition software and internal biometric sensors can “know the biological impact of every sentence you read” so well that “by the time you finish the book, the algorithm knows exactly who you are, what is your personality type, and how to press your emotional buttons.” Relying on AI for answers or information will increase “until you lose the ability to make decisions” and think for yourself, having “outsourced the human mind to algorithms . . . The merger of infotech and AI with biotech” will be superior to man. They boast that “the main products of the 21st century economy will not be textiles and vehicles and weapons, they will be bodies and brains and minds. We are learning how to produce and engineer and manufacture them” already, and “we are learning how to create cyborgs, which are beings that combine organic with inorganic parts . . . It will be the greatest revolution in biology since the very beginning of life 4 billion years ago.” If they get their way, “Earth will be populated or even dominated by entities that are not organic. That they don’t breathe. They don’t have emotions, like the potential of AI is much, much bigger than any historical revolution. It’s really a biological revolution.”
Don’t be fooled that ultra-elites are concerned about your future or well-being. Spokesperson Harari says “transform[ation] into a new type of divine, immortal human with complete power over life and death . . . is restricted to the very wealthy” only. Somehow they see their evil plan as merciful because they think “we are programmed to be dissatisfied,” in spite of God declaring “man is [created] that he might have joy” (2 Nephi 2:25). Society’s “fictions” of “religion, money, and the idea of fundamental human rights” are flawed, he says, but “in the last few centuries humans [are] becoming more powerful and they no longer need the crutches of the Gods,” or so they think. They severely underestimate God. Since we are created in God’s image, if we change what He created, at what point do we become something different?
[Western civilization] had now created the most powerful of idols. And the present generation, more than any other, now served its own creation, its new master, the techne of its own hands.
“Their land is also full of idols. They worship the works of their own hands” (Isaiah 2:8) and believe “every man fared in this life according to the management of the creature; therefore every man prospered according to his genius, and that every man conquered according to his strength; and whatsoever a man did was no crime” (Alma 30:17).
All religions promise a form of ‘heaven.’ Transhumanists call theirs The Singularity. Science theologian John McTernan explains, “Singularity: the merging of man’s biological thinking and existence with technology to the point there is no distinction between human and machine. The two key concepts . . . [are] merging of the human body with mechanical technology and the creation of artificial intelligence.” Singularity is a physics term “used to describe the position where a black hole starts changing the fabric of time and space so profoundly that the common laws of physics no longer apply.” It is a “good time when mankind will become free of disease, dreams become reality, and individuals can live forever with bodies that last a thousand years, after which individuals can duplicate themselves.” But “in physics a real black hole is hellish, ripping apart anything close to it and spewing out deadly radiation in its wake.”
It’s interesting how these primarily-atheistic scientists spurn God, yet their plan for Singularity and other aspects mimic His plan and creations in many ways—and they embrace it with religious fervor. Atheism and evolution are essential components to duping people, because if you truly believe in heaven you won’t need their radical upgrades and life extension promises. They define evolution as “a process of creating patterns of increasing order,” which is exactly God’s work—yet they avoid and deny Him. “Where some see a divine hand, others see their own hands.” The end goal again mimics God: “Ultimately the entire universe will become saturated with our intelligence . . . this is the ultimate destiny of the Singularity and of the universe.”
Mixing with the world always brings disaster. They’re promising visions, happiness, justice, and eternal life through their own religion, one that will eternally estrange us from God. Like Nimrod (from a root meaning ‘to rebel’), some today seek to “ascend to heaven and place our own gods there and serve them . . . and God knew all their works, and all their evil thoughts, and he saw the city and the tower which they were building.” They “did not return to the Lord” but “continued in wickedness and teaching wickedness to the sons of men” (Jasher 9:26, 11:7). “The Lord saw it and it displeased him” (Isaiah 59:15). Mankind is “the workmanship of mine own hands, and I gave unto them their knowledge . . . [and] agency,” but man chose darkness over light. “Among all the workmanship of mine hands there has not been so great wickedness” (Moses 7:32, 36).
Darkness covereth the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the people, and all flesh has become corrupt before my face. (D&C 112:23)
The commandment is to “worship the Lord your God and serve Him only” (Luke 4:8) but some of His own creations hate Him. They cross the line: “This is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be impossible for them” (Genesis 11:6, NASB). They worship their own supposed power and creations. Trans-humanism is a transition phase that leads to the ultimate goal: post-humanism, the utter destruction of God's crowning creation. Proponents of these false religions
[say] in th[eir] heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God . . . I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell. (Isaiah 14:13–15, cf 2 Nephi 24:13–15)
“They thought to emancipate themselves from dependence on God through their technological know-how,” and “they act as if they were like the Lord” (1 Enoch 68:4). Transhumanists fail to acknowledge that death will eventually come to all, regardless of how profound their technology or how modified our bodies and DNA become.
These grievous sins strike at the basic building blocks of biology. They are humanity’s willful rejection of, and rebellion against, creation in the image and likeness of the true and living God. “Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear” (Isaiah 59:1–2).
And thus we see the end of him who perverteth the ways of the Lord; and thus we see that the devil will not support his children at the last day, but doth speedily drag them down to hell. (Alma 30:60)
Our Body as a Temple
DNA is the center of so much lately. So important is our cellular fingerprint that a world’s leading investment firm Blackstone paid $4.7 billion to gain 75% ownership in Utah’s ancestry.com, which had obtained millions of DNA samples from unsuspecting people who were curious about their genealogical backgrounds. Other corporations, like HSBC bank, openly advertise that “your DNA will be your data.” The link to DNA and data is literal. Recently Harvard scientists were able to store 700 TB of data into a single gram of DNA.
Satan has a deep seated jealousy and hatred for everyone and everything that is made in God's image, so he tempts us to modify and pollute our bodies and souls so they no longer match what God created. We must not fall for it—databases, electricity, wealth, digital currency, genetic modification, corporate titles, real estate holdings, smart devices, welfare programs, social connections, or technology cannot ever save you. Instead of building a house of God and a city which has eternal foundations, are we choosing to dwell among Babylon’s techno-religions and cities without foundation?
Our DNA is hardly a haphazard result of chance or evolution. Instead, it “is a very ordered system that resembles language—arguably just what we’d expect if we were formed by the Creator of the universe, made in the image of God.” So why does DNA seem to be the ultimate focus of these emerging works of darkness? Satan first encouraged men to build the Tower of Babel—a temple—to defy and reach heaven. Now he is attempting to usurp heaven through the temple of our bodies.
Early Jewish and Christian traditions report that Nimrod it was who built the Tower of Babel, the first pagan temple, in an attempt to contact heaven; it was he who challenged the priesthood of Abraham; it was he who built the first city, founded the first state, organized the first army, ruling the world by force; he challenged God to an archery contest and, when he thought he had won, claimed to be no less than God’s successor. The interesting thing is that all his activities center around the temple, whose rites and whose priesthood he boldly attempts to seize for himself.
Knowing that Satan desperately wants our souls, God's name is found in our DNA, the blueprint of life. DNA describes who we are, records where we came from, and allows what we can become. Because we are made in God's image, our DNA is a divine fingerprint and signature of our Creator—and a target for the dark side.
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. (1 Corinthians 6:19–20, ESV)
A fascinating video from The King Is Coming explores the answer, which will be quoted at times below. Every strand of human DNA is marked with God’s name through sulfide bonds that hold two helical strands together. These bonds occur after the 10th, 5th, 6th, and 5th pairs of nucleotides. Mapping it to corresponding numerical values of Hebrew alphabet characters gives us Yod Hey Vav Hey—YHVH or Yahweh (H3068), the sacred name of God as revealed to Moses. YHVH means ‘he was, he is, he will be’ or alternately, the Eternal One. I am who I am. He is who He was created to be—and so should we, so we must protect our DNA.
This means that God’s name is on, and in, every chromosome and cell in our bodies, made in His image and bearing His name. His divine mark is a sign of authentication, the signature of our Creator, the living God.
It is no wonder that Satan and his minions seek to destroy our DNA. By injecting loaded mRNA into cells, one can sneak fragments of foreign enemy DNA through the carefully guarded nuclear walls and unload their contents into the scroll of DNA that God created for each individual. To insert a counterfeit into God’s original masterpiece through various gene-altering or mRNA processes is sabotage. It not only can erase God’s sacred name from the DNA when bond sequences are modified, but instructions are changed to tell the body to make enemy spike proteins once spliced. It is a cleverly engineered coup on a worldwide scale to throw off God’s rulership of His creations. Besides Satan, who is behind this plot?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us. (Psalm 2:2–3)
“Band” means bond or restraint, as in they break carefully ordered sulfide bonds that bear His name and cast away “their cords,” which in Hebrew means an entwined rope—just like DNA. The narrator explains that these tyrants seek “to hijack His creation, destroy His image, remove His signature, and transform the human body into a genetically modified, part human, part computer [being] which can be controlled externally. Sounds like science fiction, but tragically, it is the truth. Satan hates all who are made in God’s image.”
By luring us into all types of sin, Satan defiles our bodies and pollutes our spirits to accomplish his greatest ambition—“to sit as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth as if he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4). Our body is meant to become a temple where God’s spirit can dwell—but instead it is competing with innovative technologies that can only enslave, transform, and condemn us.
Would you graffiti a physical temple? Would you pollute it with harmful substances or inject it with poisons? Would you turn it into a machine? or use it for any other purpose than what God intended? If so, it is defiled. Our body is a temple not built with hands. We are to “present [our] bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God” (Romans 12:1) but Satan’s diabolical plan defiles and pollutes human body-temples through his enticing dangerous innovations.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are . . . therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. (1 Corinthians 3:16–17, 6:20)
Satan’s forces leave physical temples in ruins and desolation just as he wants to leave the spiritual temple of your body. “The abomination which causes desolation” comes to the holy place of a temple (Mark 13:14)—which includes our bodies. “The enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary” and entered in the midst of God’s holy place. “They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them . . . They have defiled the dwelling place of your name” (Psalm 74:3, 8, KJV, 74:7, NIV). “He who gives the [crown] to the wicked one of the sanctuary” will be consumed and destroyed.
Transhumanist goals are set up by godless “servants of corruption” (2 Peter 2:19) who want to overpower and destroy everything that bears God’s name so He cannot be worshipped and they can take His throne.
Let no man deceive you by any means [for there will] come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:3–4)
A falling away, apostasia (G647), is to separate, a writing of divorce. “How significant that a fragment of DNA writing is what separates or breaks asunder the record of God’s name in the human DNA.” Not many would allow this level of desecration willingly, which is why God so often warns of high levels of deception so powerful that “all nations were deceived by [the] sorcery” (Revelation 18:23, ESV). Remember, sorcery is pharmakia (G5331), meaning use of medicine or drugs. We must not only vigilantly watch for Satan’s spiritual and political attacks, but also his medical and pharmaceutical deceptions too. “Powerful delusions” come among us “so that they believe the lie” (2 Thessalonians 2:11, Berean).
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work . . . and Christ suffereth [Satan] to work until the time is fulfilled that he shall be taken out of the way. And then shall the wicked one be revealed.
Yea, the Lord, even Jesus, whose coming is not until after there cometh a falling away by the working of Satan . . . because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2:7–12, JST)
Literally translated, strong delusion is the energy of error. God said it is “the thing I hate” (Revelation 2:15). He “hates the deeds of the Nicolaitans and them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans” (Revelation 2:6, 15). What is this doctrine? Nicolaitans “attempted to effect a compromise with the established usages of the Greco-Roman society, permeated with luxury and tainted with idolatry.” God confirmed these false doctrines and deeds exist today as He rebuked believers for associating with a Nicolaitane band (D&C 117:11), a secret combination.
O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths. (Isaiah 3:12)
Satan and his dark forces want to remove then replace God’s name—the ultimate plagiarism. “There will be no rest” for “anyone who receives the mark of its name” (Revelation 14:11, NIV). We must not succumb to any form of evil by those who want to overthrow God and His creations by desolating the holy places, including our bodies. We must protect our divine DNA, bodies, and spirits.
“Those who alienate [estrange] themselves from the Creator find a ready diversion in images of the creature. The wicked “exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise!” (Romans 1:25, Berean). God explains the great importance of keeping our body as He designed it.
Every man whose spirit receiveth not the light is under condemnation. For man is spirit. The elements are eternal, and spirit and element [when] inseparably connected receive a fulness of joy; and when separated, man cannot receive a fulness of joy. The elements are the tabernacle of God; yea, man is the tabernacle of God, even temples, and whatsoever temple is defiled, God shall destroy that temple. (D&C 93:32–35)
Having God’s spirit makes us a holy temple with holy flesh. Strange flesh is ruled by a spirit that is not of God. Discerning what is “righteous from the wicked” (D&C 101:95) prepares us for “my strange act that I may pour my spirit upon all flesh” (D&C 95:4), making holy temples for His spirit to dwell.
What agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said, I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters. (2 Corinthians 6:16–18)
Footnotes and sources can be found HERE.