In the Internet era, everything is connected, the network security situation is becoming more and more severe, security is the cornerstone of the enterprise, risk control plays a “police” role in the enterprise, using various technologies and means to protect the interests of users in the enterprise from infringement.
Risk control decision-making is the entrance to the risk control middle office, providing business risk scenario event access, visual orchestration of complex decision-making, rich feature variables and scene recognition services and other functions. Compared with the traditional risk control engine that requires development background and algorithm background to be used, the decision engine described in this article does not require development background or even algorithm modeling background after it is built, and can be configured and applied to business decision-making as a pure strategy operation to fight against black production in real time.
Risk events correspond to a risk area, which is a concrete abstraction of a specific business event area to facilitate the use of adversarial rules in the field of policy operator management.
For example, if you want to prevent and control fission marketing scenarios, such as sharing the current content to the circle of friends can get a beautiful gift of 88 yuan, then the risk field can be roughly divided into initiating sharing (initiation frequency/cheating), accepting sharing (fan/group/frequency), and receiving rewards after sharing (frequency/group/attribution group), and each step corresponds to different risk characteristics and requires proprietary strategy deployment prevention and control.
As above, after full communication between the risk control team personnel and the business team personnel, they have roughly known the risk points of the business game, that is, they can clearly divide the “risk events”. So how to efficiently and stably manage the risk confrontation strategy in the current field is a major challenge for risk control research and development.
In order to combat the black industry, strategic operators need to change the prevention and control methods at every moment, and the timeliness should be high, that is, they expect to take effect immediately. So how can production changes be safely and efficiently deployed online? In order to iterate quickly, the early team used XML schema changes, the advantage is high extensibility, the disadvantages are obvious: only research and development can replace the policy personnel to modify the decision flow configuration, the policy personnel do not understand or dare not move the XML “code” at all.
With the expansion of the team, with the addition of professional UED and front-end development partners, we can support us to work vision and operation, refer to the industry’s BPMN 2.0 workflow design specifications, convert the boring and complex XML code into the decision flow orchestration configuration mode, greatly increase the confrontational efficiency of the strategy operation personnel, and also liberate the back-end R & D personnel, no longer have to cut the XML code and worry about mistakes.
The “policy node” is the most important node in the decision-making process, and there are a large number of rules associated with the fight against black industry, which involves how the rules work together and how the decision results are output. In the process of confrontation with the black industry, the ancestors summed up a set of models to quickly deploy the rules, maximize the effect of the fight against the black industry, and at the same time will not “manslaughter” good users.
The strategy is divided into two modes: scorecard and worst-case match, and I’ll show you in detail how each mode works and where it fits.
The scorecard here does not refer to the data model scorecard, but to the expert scorecard, in layman’s terms, according to the experience of experts, the score is weighted by different rules for hitting, and if the final score hits the rejection interval segment, it needs to be rejected. This kind of model, for the early lack of user “black label”, directly rely on expert experience, is a good choice.
Scorecards are a probabilistic problem, and the darker the user hits the rule, the more points they get, which indicates the higher the risk. For example, in order to combat risk control, the black industry will find a large number of proxy IP or modify GPS positioning to disrupt the risk control system detection, and there are also “cat pools” and other devices to provide a large number of hand numbers. However, at present, many normal users have 2 mobile phones, and because of work reasons, frequent and multi-place flights, that is, the geographical location is constantly changing, then the scoring rules formulated by the strategist are as follows:
The scoring ranges are as follows
As you can see, normal users will only hit 0, and users with multiple devices (2 to 3) will basically score 20 and won’t be disturbed. Even if normal users travel frequently to various cities directly, they will not say that one second is in Shanghai, the next second is in Guangzhou, and there is still a trace of fighting against black production!
The “worst match” is somewhat similar to anyMatch in the stream processing concept, where any rule is rejected as soon as any rule hits. The rules contained in this model are very certain and must be interpretable, and if hit, it is basically conclusive to reject the request. For example, if the same device both initiates and accepts the invitation, which is a fandom fraud and obviously does not comply with the rules of the activity, it can be rejected immediately.
Choose the worst matching mode to be cautious, it is the condensation of expert experience, must be in the production environment many times verified, recall and accuracy rate is high, there will be no “manslaughter” situation, otherwise it will encounter a large number of customers who have been rejected by mistake, serious and even hinder business development, brand value is greatly damaged.
The policy is an abstraction of a certain risk point in the current risk scenario, for example, in the invitation risk scenario, there can be device policy, mobile phone number policy, group policy, etc., and the policy package is a rule, responsible for managing the life cycle of the rule.
Rules are the smallest “atomic” units in the risk control decision flow, and the composition of rules is as follows:
Example: In a device policy package, the following rule is included: All logged-in devices have a deduplication greater than or equal to 4, which is compared as follows
A single rule hit may be more intrusive to the user, at this time it is necessary to combine rule determination, that is, rule groups, rule groups can be arranged with or evaluated logic: meet all, meet one, customize, where custom supports complex conditional expressions 1 || (2 && 3) || 4, to meet the needs of different rule combinations.
“List nodes” are an important function in the decision flow and one of the most dangerous defensive actions.
Why do I need a list? Suppose you are a black account, if there is no list, every time you need to execute a decision flow, which is a great waste of computing and cost, then at this time in order to improve performance and cost considerations, directly mark you black, at this time in the decision flow entrance to arrange a new list node, you can simply understand that this is a large “cache” module, then the blackened user will directly refuse, and do not need to run down the decision flow, the same reason, judged to be a high value and low risk good users, you can also directly whiten, immediately passed, no need to wait Only truly pure new users or “swinging” customers need to run the decision flow to judge the risk.
Black and white list is simple and rough is very easy to use, simple and rough means that it is easy to have problems, a careless will put themselves “pit to death”, a random addition of blacklist data may directly infringe on most of the normal users, the same way, the random addition of the white list may directly open the door for malicious users.
So how did these lists come about?
Extract from historical malicious data, device, mobile phone number, IP, etc. At the same time, combined with third-party partners, we will build a blacklist library (after all, people have been precipitating for a long time).
The simplest and most brutal means is to look at the value and risk of the four quadrants, high-value low-risk users must be our target customers (non-absolute, can also be disguised), at this time can be directly whitened to this part of the user.
The list must be time-sensitive, and there must be barriers within the list, which can be understood as domain isolation, how to understand? That is, this user is bad in the current scene, but it is good in other scenarios, then it is only necessary to isolate and block in the current segment. Timeliness is to solve the kind of black production that knows how to raise a number, or at the beginning disguised as a high-value black user, the risk control program needs to regularly sort out and recalculate which users can add white and black, so that the reward and punishment are clear, try not to be wronged, do not spoil anyone.
The decision flow graph needs “branch nodes” to divert the flow, the data nodes (start, list, and policy nodes are all data nodes) are responsible for spitting out the calculated data, and after the branch nodes get the data, according to the conditional expression, diversion to the corresponding subsequent nodes.
After the decision flow reaches the branch node, it executes the conditional expressions according to the condition on the branch, and as long as one of the conditions is satisfied, it is executed downward.
Fork & Join is a high-level concept node in decision flow orchestration, the decision flow is actually a huge DAG (directed acyclic graph), if each path is synchronized to execute again, too time-consuming, the business side left the risk control decision time will not exceed 200ms, but risk control involves a large number of calculations and I/O operations, at this time you can configure the Fork/Join node concurrent execution process reassembly and shorten the path time.
Decision flow performance optimization is very challenging, this is just a small optimization point, limited by space, the follow-up will open a specific introduction to performance optimization.
Stability is a cliché, not to mention a risk control system that can master the “life and death” encyclopedia. Risk control on the stability of the system construction is higher than the implementation of the strategy, that is, the bottom strategy is through, without affecting the normal user experience, allowing a part of the black users to go in, we can have a variety of means to fish out the black household after the event to ban (provided that the offline response is fast enough, the system is good enough, the black production itself is very efficient).
The business leaves no more than 200 ms for risk control strategy execution, and risk control handles a large amount of computational logic in just 200 ms, which is contrary.
Risk control is one of the few systems I have seen that will really use concurrency to “fly up”, in order to save time, a large number of parallel computing with timeout design, to space for time thinking to the extreme, calculate in advance and put there, wait for the decision to directly calculate memory. The most difficult thing for risk control research and development is to consider whether the current implementation can not be higher than the timeout time, which has greater technical challenges.
The on-line of the strategy is a “high-risk” action, if the operation of the offline analysis error, then may lead to the production of a large number of good users are intercepted, resulting in a large number of customer complaints, this loss is heavy, so the decision flow at the beginning of the design should consider the new version of grayscale online and other functions of support, can be in accordance with 0-100 traffic gradually put volume, the loss is minimized.
When there is a production problem, give priority to observing what production changes are currently there, and if it is a decision flow change, you need to support the version rollback function to ensure that the problem can be restored in the first time.
For large promotions or large traffic bursts in, it is necessary to limit the flow/fuse function according to the specific risk scenario, and develop a set of anti-collapse modes with reference to the industry’s open source sentinel to ensure the stability of the system.
Monitoring is a cliché, but it’s really important! Imagine if you do not monitor the rejection results of decisions in a certain scenario, in case a large number of rejections are caused by a change on the line, the user cannot go down normally, and it is terrible to think!
The decision engine is the brain of risk control, risk control can efficiently fight against the black industry, and the decision engine is the façade.
At present, the decision engine is configured and orchestrated, and it is trying to build an intelligent and automated direction to help business personnel better deploy rules and improve efficiency. At the same time, we are also thinking about how to make the business fast, “unaware”, or try to minimize intrusion (low-cost) access to risk control, which is also a challenge. Black production is also human, they are also evolving in confrontation, there will be more and more new means to challenge the barriers of risk control and safety, there is a long way to go!
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Whether you believe in God or not, this is a must-read message!!!
Throughout time, we can see how we have been slowly conditioned to come to this point where we are on the verge of a cashless society. Did you know that the Bible foretold of this event almost 2,000 years ago?
In Revelation 13:16-18, we read,
“He (the false prophet who decieves many by his miracles) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.”
Referring to the last generation, this could only be speaking of a cashless society. Why? Revelation 13:17 tells us that we cannot buy or sell unless we receive the mark of the beast. If physical money was still in use, we could buy or sell with one another without receiving the mark. This would contradict scripture that states we need the mark to buy or sell!
These verses could not be referring to something purely spiritual as scripture references two physical locations (our right hand or forehead) stating the mark will be on one “OR” the other. If this mark was purely spiritual, it would indicate only in one place.
This is where it really starts to come together. It is shocking how accurate the Bible is concerning the implatnable RFID microchip. These are notes from a man named Carl Sanders who worked with a team of engineers to help develop this RFID chip
“Carl Sanders sat in seventeen New World Order meetings with heads-of-state officials such as Henry Kissinger and Bob Gates of the C.I.A. to discuss plans on how to bring about this one-world system. The government commissioned Carl Sanders to design a microchip for identifying and controlling the peoples of the world—a microchip that could be inserted under the skin with a hypodermic needle (a quick, convenient method that would be gradually accepted by society).
Carl Sanders, with a team of engineers behind him, with U.S. grant monies supplied by tax dollars, took on this project and designed a microchip that is powered by a lithium battery, rechargeable through the temperature changes in our skin. Without the knowledge of the Bible (Brother Sanders was not a Christian at the time), these engineers spent one-and-a-half-million dollars doing research on the best and most convenient place to have the microchip inserted.
Guess what? These researchers found that the forehead and the back of the hand (the two places the Bible says the mark will go) are not just the most convenient places, but are also the only viable places for rapid, consistent temperature changes in the skin to recharge the lithium battery. The microchip is approximately seven millimeters in length, .75 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a grain of rice. It is capable of storing pages upon pages of information about you. All your general history, work history, crime record, health history, and financial data can be stored on this chip.
Brother Sanders believes that this microchip, which he regretfully helped design, is the “mark” spoken about in Revelation 13:16–18. The original Greek word for “mark” is “charagma,” which means a “scratch or etching.” It is also interesting to note that the number 666 is actually a word in the original Greek. The word is “chi xi stigma,” with the last part, “stigma,” also meaning “to stick or prick.” Carl believes this is referring to a hypodermic needle when they poke into the skin to inject the microchip.”
Mr. Sanders asked a doctor what would happen if the lithium contained within the RFID microchip leaked into the body. The doctor replied by saying a terrible sore would appear in that location. This is what the book of Revelation says:
“And the first (angel) went, and poured out his vial on the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore on the men which had the mark of the beast, and on them which worshipped his image” (Revelation 16:2).
You can read more about it here–and to also understand the mystery behind the number 666: https://2ruth.org/rfid-mark-of-the-beast-666-revealed/
The third angel’s warning in Revelation 14:9-11 states,
“Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, ‘If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.'”
Who is Barack Obama, and why is he still in the public scene?
So what’s in the name? The meaning of someone’s name can say a lot about a person. God throughout history has given names to people that have a specific meaning tied to their lives. How about the name Barack Obama? Let us take a look at what may be hiding beneath the surface.
Jesus says in Luke 10:18, “…I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”
The Hebrew Strongs word (H1299) for “lightning”: “bârâq” (baw-rawk)
In Isaiah chapter 14, verse 14, we read about Lucifer (Satan) saying in his heart:
“I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.”
In the verses in Isaiah that refer directly to Lucifer, several times it mentions him falling from the heights or the heavens. The Hebrew word for the heights or heavens used here is Hebrew Strongs 1116: “bamah”–Pronounced (bam-maw’)
In Hebrew, the letter “Waw” or “Vav” is often transliterated as a “U” or “O,” and it is primarily used as a conjunction to join concepts together. So to join in Hebrew poetry the concept of lightning (Baraq) and a high place like heaven or the heights of heaven (Bam-Maw), the letter “U” or “O” would be used. So, Baraq “O” Bam-Maw or Baraq “U” Bam-Maw in Hebrew poetry similar to the style written in Isaiah, would translate literally to “Lightning from the heights.” The word “Satan” in Hebrew is a direct translation, therefore “Satan.”
So when Jesus told His disciples in Luke 10:18 that He beheld Satan fall like lightning from heaven, if this were to be spoken by a Jewish Rabbi today influenced by the poetry in the book of Isaiah, he would say these words in Hebrew–the words of Jesus in Luke 10:18 as, And I saw Satan as Baraq O Bam-Maw.
The names of both of Obama’s daughters are Malia and Natasha. If we were to write those names backward (the devil does things in reverse) we would get “ailam ahsatan”. Now if we remove the letters that spell “Alah” (Allah being the false god of Islam), we get “I am Satan”. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Obama’s campaign logo when he ran in 2008 was a sun over the horizon in the west, with the landscape as the flag of the United States. In Islam, they have their own messiah that they are waiting for called the 12th Imam, or the Mahdi (the Antichrist of the Bible), and one prophecy concerning this man’s appearance is the sun rising in the west.
“Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people— saying with a loud voice, ‘Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.'” (Revelation 14:6-7)
Why have the word’s of Jesus in His Gospel accounts regarding His death, burial, and resurrection, been translated into over 3,000 languages, and nothing comes close? The same God who formed the heavens and earth that draws all people to Him through His creation, likewise has sent His Word to the ends of the earth so that we may come to personally know Him to be saved in spirit and in truth through His Son Jesus Christ.
Jesus stands alone among the other religions that say to rightly weigh the scales of good and evil and to make sure you have done more good than bad in this life. Is this how we conduct ourselves justly in a court of law? Bearing the image of God, is this how we project this image into reality?
Our good works cannot save us. If we step before a judge, being guilty of a crime, the judge will not judge us by the good that we have done, but rather by the crimes we have committed. If we as fallen humanity, created in God’s image, pose this type of justice, how much more a perfect, righteous, and Holy God?
God has brought down His moral laws through the 10 commandments given to Moses at Mt. Siani. These laws were not given so we may be justified, but rather that we may see the need for a savior. They are the mirror of God’s character of what He has put in each and every one of us, with our conscious bearing witness that we know that it is wrong to steal, lie, dishonor our parents, murder, and so forth.
We can try and follow the moral laws of the 10 commandments, but we will never catch up to them to be justified before a Holy God. That same word of the law given to Moses became flesh about 2,000 years ago in the body of Jesus Christ. He came to be our justification by fulfilling the law, living a sinless perfect life that only God could fulfill.
The gap between us and the law can never be reconciled by our own merit, but the arm of Jesus is stretched out by the grace and mercy of God. And if we are to grab on, through faith in Him, He will pull us up being the one to justify us. As in the court of law, if someone steps in and pays our fine, even though we are guilty, the judge can do what is legal and just and let us go free. That is what Jesus did almost 2,000 years ago on the cross. It was a legal transaction being fulfilled in the spiritual realm by the shedding of His blood.
For God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 18:23). This is why in Isaiah chapter 53, where it speaks of the coming Messiah and His soul being a sacrifice for our sins, why it says it pleased God to crush His only begotten Son.
This is because the wrath that we deserve was justified by being poured out upon His Son. If that wrath was poured out on us, we would all perish to hell forever. God created a way of escape by pouring it out on His Son whose soul could not be left in Hades but was raised and seated at the right hand of God in power.
So now when we put on the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:14), God no longer sees the person who deserves His wrath, but rather the glorious image of His perfect Son dwelling in us, justifying us as if we received the wrath we deserve, making a way of escape from the curse of death–now being conformed into the image of the heavenly man in a new nature, and no longer in the image of the fallen man Adam.
Now what we must do is repent and put our trust and faith in the savior, confessing and forsaking our sins, and to receive His Holy Spirit that we may be born again (for Jesus says we must be born again to enter the Kingdom of God–John chapter 3). This is not just head knowledge of believing in Jesus, but rather receiving His words, taking them to heart, so that we may truly be transformed into the image of God. Where we no longer live to practice sin, but rather turn from our sins and practice righteousness through faith in Him in obedience to His Word by reading the Bible.
Our works cannot save us, but they can condemn us; it is not that we earn our way into everlasting life, but that we obey our Lord Jesus Christ:
“And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.” (Hebrews 5:9)
“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ And He said to me, ‘Write, for these words are true and faithful.’
And He said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.'” (Revelation 21:1-8).
Whether you believe in God or not, this is a must-read message!!!
Throughout time, we can see how we have been slowly conditioned to come to this point where we are on the verge of a cashless society. Did you know that the Bible foretold of this event almost 2,000 years ago?
In Revelation 13:16-18, we read,
“He (the false prophet who decieves many by his miracles) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.”
Referring to the last generation, this could only be speaking of a cashless society. Why? Revelation 13:17 tells us that we cannot buy or sell unless we receive the mark of the beast. If physical money was still in use, we could buy or sell with one another without receiving the mark. This would contradict scripture that states we need the mark to buy or sell!
These verses could not be referring to something purely spiritual as scripture references two physical locations (our right hand or forehead) stating the mark will be on one “OR” the other. If this mark was purely spiritual, it would indicate only in one place.
This is where it really starts to come together. It is shocking how accurate the Bible is concerning the implatnable RFID microchip. These are notes from a man named Carl Sanders who worked with a team of engineers to help develop this RFID chip
“Carl Sanders sat in seventeen New World Order meetings with heads-of-state officials such as Henry Kissinger and Bob Gates of the C.I.A. to discuss plans on how to bring about this one-world system. The government commissioned Carl Sanders to design a microchip for identifying and controlling the peoples of the world—a microchip that could be inserted under the skin with a hypodermic needle (a quick, convenient method that would be gradually accepted by society).
Carl Sanders, with a team of engineers behind him, with U.S. grant monies supplied by tax dollars, took on this project and designed a microchip that is powered by a lithium battery, rechargeable through the temperature changes in our skin. Without the knowledge of the Bible (Brother Sanders was not a Christian at the time), these engineers spent one-and-a-half-million dollars doing research on the best and most convenient place to have the microchip inserted.
Guess what? These researchers found that the forehead and the back of the hand (the two places the Bible says the mark will go) are not just the most convenient places, but are also the only viable places for rapid, consistent temperature changes in the skin to recharge the lithium battery. The microchip is approximately seven millimeters in length, .75 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a grain of rice. It is capable of storing pages upon pages of information about you. All your general history, work history, crime record, health history, and financial data can be stored on this chip.
Brother Sanders believes that this microchip, which he regretfully helped design, is the “mark” spoken about in Revelation 13:16–18. The original Greek word for “mark” is “charagma,” which means a “scratch or etching.” It is also interesting to note that the number 666 is actually a word in the original Greek. The word is “chi xi stigma,” with the last part, “stigma,” also meaning “to stick or prick.” Carl believes this is referring to a hypodermic needle when they poke into the skin to inject the microchip.”
Mr. Sanders asked a doctor what would happen if the lithium contained within the RFID microchip leaked into the body. The doctor replied by saying a terrible sore would appear in that location. This is what the book of Revelation says:
“And the first (angel) went, and poured out his vial on the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore on the men which had the mark of the beast, and on them which worshipped his image” (Revelation 16:2).
You can read more about it here–and to also understand the mystery behind the number 666: https://2ruth.org/rfid-mark-of-the-beast-666-revealed/
The third angel’s warning in Revelation 14:9-11 states,
“Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, ‘If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.'”
Who is Barack Obama, and why is he still in the public scene?
So what’s in the name? The meaning of someone’s name can say a lot about a person. God throughout history has given names to people that have a specific meaning tied to their lives. How about the name Barack Obama? Let us take a look at what may be hiding beneath the surface.
Jesus says in Luke 10:18, “…I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”
The Hebrew Strongs word (H1299) for “lightning”: “bârâq” (baw-rawk)
In Isaiah chapter 14, verse 14, we read about Lucifer (Satan) saying in his heart:
“I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.”
In the verses in Isaiah that refer directly to Lucifer, several times it mentions him falling from the heights or the heavens. The Hebrew word for the heights or heavens used here is Hebrew Strongs 1116: “bamah”–Pronounced (bam-maw’)
In Hebrew, the letter “Waw” or “Vav” is often transliterated as a “U” or “O,” and it is primarily used as a conjunction to join concepts together. So to join in Hebrew poetry the concept of lightning (Baraq) and a high place like heaven or the heights of heaven (Bam-Maw), the letter “U” or “O” would be used. So, Baraq “O” Bam-Maw or Baraq “U” Bam-Maw in Hebrew poetry similar to the style written in Isaiah, would translate literally to “Lightning from the heights.” The word “Satan” in Hebrew is a direct translation, therefore “Satan.”
So when Jesus told His disciples in Luke 10:18 that He beheld Satan fall like lightning from heaven, if this were to be spoken by a Jewish Rabbi today influenced by the poetry in the book of Isaiah, he would say these words in Hebrew–the words of Jesus in Luke 10:18 as, And I saw Satan as Baraq O Bam-Maw.
The names of both of Obama’s daughters are Malia and Natasha. If we were to write those names backward (the devil does things in reverse) we would get “ailam ahsatan”. Now if we remove the letters that spell “Alah” (Allah being the false god of Islam), we get “I am Satan”. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Obama’s campaign logo when he ran in 2008 was a sun over the horizon in the west, with the landscape as the flag of the United States. In Islam, they have their own messiah that they are waiting for called the 12th Imam, or the Mahdi (the Antichrist of the Bible), and one prophecy concerning this man’s appearance is the sun rising in the west.
“Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people— saying with a loud voice, ‘Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.'” (Revelation 14:6-7)
Why have the word’s of Jesus in His Gospel accounts regarding His death, burial, and resurrection, been translated into over 3,000 languages, and nothing comes close? The same God who formed the heavens and earth that draws all people to Him through His creation, likewise has sent His Word to the ends of the earth so that we may come to personally know Him to be saved in spirit and in truth through His Son Jesus Christ.
Jesus stands alone among the other religions that say to rightly weigh the scales of good and evil and to make sure you have done more good than bad in this life. Is this how we conduct ourselves justly in a court of law? Bearing the image of God, is this how we project this image into reality?
Our good works cannot save us. If we step before a judge, being guilty of a crime, the judge will not judge us by the good that we have done, but rather by the crimes we have committed. If we as fallen humanity, created in God’s image, pose this type of justice, how much more a perfect, righteous, and Holy God?
God has brought down His moral laws through the 10 commandments given to Moses at Mt. Siani. These laws were not given so we may be justified, but rather that we may see the need for a savior. They are the mirror of God’s character of what He has put in each and every one of us, with our conscious bearing witness that we know that it is wrong to steal, lie, dishonor our parents, murder, and so forth.
We can try and follow the moral laws of the 10 commandments, but we will never catch up to them to be justified before a Holy God. That same word of the law given to Moses became flesh about 2,000 years ago in the body of Jesus Christ. He came to be our justification by fulfilling the law, living a sinless perfect life that only God could fulfill.
The gap between us and the law can never be reconciled by our own merit, but the arm of Jesus is stretched out by the grace and mercy of God. And if we are to grab on, through faith in Him, He will pull us up being the one to justify us. As in the court of law, if someone steps in and pays our fine, even though we are guilty, the judge can do what is legal and just and let us go free. That is what Jesus did almost 2,000 years ago on the cross. It was a legal transaction being fulfilled in the spiritual realm by the shedding of His blood.
For God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 18:23). This is why in Isaiah chapter 53, where it speaks of the coming Messiah and His soul being a sacrifice for our sins, why it says it pleased God to crush His only begotten Son.
This is because the wrath that we deserve was justified by being poured out upon His Son. If that wrath was poured out on us, we would all perish to hell forever. God created a way of escape by pouring it out on His Son whose soul could not be left in Hades but was raised and seated at the right hand of God in power.
So now when we put on the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:14), God no longer sees the person who deserves His wrath, but rather the glorious image of His perfect Son dwelling in us, justifying us as if we received the wrath we deserve, making a way of escape from the curse of death–now being conformed into the image of the heavenly man in a new nature, and no longer in the image of the fallen man Adam.
Now what we must do is repent and put our trust and faith in the savior, confessing and forsaking our sins, and to receive His Holy Spirit that we may be born again (for Jesus says we must be born again to enter the Kingdom of God–John chapter 3). This is not just head knowledge of believing in Jesus, but rather receiving His words, taking them to heart, so that we may truly be transformed into the image of God. Where we no longer live to practice sin, but rather turn from our sins and practice righteousness through faith in Him in obedience to His Word by reading the Bible.
Our works cannot save us, but they can condemn us; it is not that we earn our way into everlasting life, but that we obey our Lord Jesus Christ:
“And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.” (Hebrews 5:9)
“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ And He said to me, ‘Write, for these words are true and faithful.’
And He said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.'” (Revelation 21:1-8).