The Inscrutable Question: Satanic Academy’s School of Antagonism; Grace vs. the Cosmic System of Didactics; Resultant Historical Trends
		4)	Degeneracy: This course leads the pupil down a path of decadence that is expressed either by legalism or antinomianism.  No matter which path is taken the pupil becomes a useful tool for demonic manipulation.  An example is terrorism.  In the Arab world terrorism is driven by a religious zeal that seeks to destroy all opponents of Islam by any means necessary including murder.  The mantra, “There is no law but Allah’s,” becomes a satanic rationale to disobey all laws that are not beneficial to the Islamic cause.  In the United States there is a legalistic terrorist organization called the Sierra Club.  It takes on a façade of protecting the earth and its furry creatures but its proponents are not bashful about destroying peoples’ lives in the process.  They do this by law if possible and by eco terrorism if necessary.
		5)	Religion: This is a graduate level course in which the cadet is indoctrinated into the various expressions of demon influence in the field of the metaphysical.  It includes cults, religions, denominations, ideologies, and humanistic philosophies.  There is a course available to the liking of any student.
	6)	Evil: This is post-graduate work in the Satanic Academy in which the satanic lieutenant is indoctrinated into what we might call “sophisticated cosmic warfare.”  Believers who hold a doctor’s degree from the School of Antagonism die the sin unto death.  Unbelievers who hold a doctor’s degree from the School of Antagonism become politicians.
	8-	In the Divine Academy, believers utilize the grace system to advance in the sophisticated spiritual life and become effective witnesses for the Prosecution in the appeal trial.
	9-	It should be noted that Lucifer has a head start in recruitment into his system of didactics since all Homo sapiens are born into his Satanic Academy.
	10-	The Scripture distinguishes between the cadets of these academies.  Those who matriculate in the Divine Academy are the subject of:

Hebrews 5:13 -	Every believer who is restricted only to milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness since he is a babe [ a plebe in the Academy ].
v. 14 - But solid food [ advanced doctrine ] belongs to the mature [ upperclassmen ], who because of practice [ development of the three spiritual skills ] have their perceptive senses well-trained to discern between human good and evil [ sophisticated spiritual life ].
	11-	The characteristics of cadets enrolled in the Satanic Academy are described in many verses of Scripture:
Matthew 6:23 -	“If your eye is evil, the entire body is full of darkness [ cosmic thinking ].”
Matthew 15:19 - “Out of the stream of consciousness comes evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.”
Isaiah 13:11 - I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity.  I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud and abase the haughtiness of the ruthless.
2 Timothy 3:1 -	Now you must know this doctrine, that in the last days [ at the end of the Church Age or the Tribulation; or before the destruction of a nation under the fifth cycle of discipline; or the sin unto death for an individual believer ] hard times [ disaster as a result of rejection of God ] will be imminent.
v. 2 - For believers [ who matriculate in the Satanic Academy ] will be lovers of self, lovers of money [ monetary reversionism ], boastful, arrogant [ majoring in the school of arrogance ], slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,
v. 3 - unloving [ no reciprocal love motivation toward God or impersonal love for all mankind ], implacable [ as a result of bitterness ], malicious adversary [ di£boloj, diabolos: “devil”: adversary; witness for the defense in the appeal trial of Satan ], without self-control, brutal, haters of good [ majoring in the school of antagonism ], 
v. 4 - resulting in behavior that is treacherous, thoughtless, conceited; lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2 Timothy 3:5 -  holding to an external, superficial form of the spiritual life but having denied its power.  Consequently, avoid such persons as these [ reversionistic believers ].
	12-	In determining which academy he might enroll, the believer must decide on which system of didactics he wants the faculty to utilize.  The Divine Academy’s faculty only uses grace while the Satanic Academy’s uses only cosmic devices such as those mentioned in:
Colossians 2:8 - [XTL]  See to it that no one takes you prisoner through the agency of philosophical propaganda and deceitful lies, according to the standards of the traditions of men and according to the standards of the elements of the world [ kÒsmoj, kosmos ], and not according to the standards of Christ.
	13-	It is because of the fact that human good and evil are permitted to continue as issues in the Invisible War that these two academies function in the Church Age.
	14-	Two principles regarding the Church Age lead us to a conclusion regarding our discernment of historical events: (1) there are no biblical prophecies that are revealed in the Church Age or that are to be fulfilled in the Church Age except its terminal event, the rapture, and (2) the two Academies will continue their efforts to recruit and educate their cadets until the rapture occurs with each experiencing periods of success and failure.
	15-	These periods of success and failure are reflected in the historical trends that occur during the Church Age.  We do not evaluate Church-Age history—past, current, or future—on the basis of prophecy. 
	16-	Instead, we observe the undulations of the Zeitgeist and determine whether our client nation is experiencing uptrends or downtrends.
	17-	When a majority of believers are enrolled in the Satanic Academy of Cosmic Didactics then its historical trend is downward.
	18-	When a majority of believers are enrolled in the Divine Academy of Grace Didactics then its historical trend is upward.
19-	Therefore, as goes the believer, so goes the client nation.  As believers advance in the Word of God the Pivot enlarges.  But when the advance is stalled and many deviate from the plan, the Pivot shrinks.
20-	Thus the uptrends of history are the result of maximum production of divine good by the Pivot in a client nation.  The downtrends of history are the result of the increased production of human good by believers who never make the spiritual advance or who have spun off from the Pivot because of reversionism.
21-	To appreciate these principles related to historical trends you must have clarity regarding the terms “client nation” and “Pivot.”